tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13462161676581682562024-03-15T21:09:49.102-04:00The Random Lifehilarychloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16618011602803245718noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1346216167658168256.post-26783233316503843082012-03-06T16:57:00.000-05:002012-03-06T16:57:53.375-05:00Babies part 3<b>Gestational DIABETES</b><br />
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So I went to the appointments and got tested for gestational diabetes. If you have never had this before it is a blood test. They tell you to fast the night before. This means that you do not eat after 9pm( you can have black coffee and water) and most likely you get a very early appointment in the opening hours. You go in and do you pee and charts etc. Then you get to drink this awful tasting stuff called Glucola. It comes in three or more flavors. They had coke, sprite, fruit punch and orange "soda" flavors at my OBGYN. If you want to know what it tastes like - leave your soda to get flat and then make it the consistency of maple syrup. It is like the fountain drinks syrup bags from restaurants. It is not a pleasurable taste. You have to drink it in 5 minutes. At this point you are free to go back in to the lobby. You are not allowed anything to drink or eat while do this test or you fail and have to retake it. You are not allowed to walk around or leave the building , so ladies if you have kids leave them at the sitter's and if you can't bring lots of entertainment. Reading material from your home is best otherwise you'll end reading those old magazines with clipped out coupons on the last page of the article you are interested in finishing. Then you wait your hour and go have your blood taken. Even though a diabetic can check their sugar with one drop they take vials of it. If your levels are 135 to 140ish they make you take the 3 hour test. They usually give you the results by mail or phone in a couple of days of your test.<br />
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If you failed the first test then you take a 3 hour test. This means you fast the same as the one hour. You go in the same. The difference is when come in they take your fasting blood sample. Then you drink a larger bottle of Glucola. You then sit in the lobby for an hour , go get pricked. Sit again for another hour, do your blood again. Once more another hour and get pricked for your last time. After that you are free to go. They call you and tell you the results.<br />
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Most will fail the one hour test because they make money form it. If your levels are under 140 you do no need to go for the 3 hour. If your levels are over 140 then you will take the 3 hour. If you fail the 3 hour , which is unlikely for you too because only 4-7 % women have gestational diabetes, then you have to start a diet and etc. When they call you about your test on the first test ASK them what your levels are exactly, they do no give them to you unless you ask. They do not give them to you on the 3 hour unless you ask.<br />
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<b>The FAIL Diet</b><br />
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So say you are like me and you fail the diabetes test. Which I expected to fail anyways because I already had one child with the same thing. You call and they call back and forth until they get you an appointment with a dietician. My dietician was really sweet, I hope you have one that way too. So what they tell you is carbs are the devil, Just because it says <b>sugar free</b> it does not matter, it has to be low in carbs (nice money maker for people who don't know eh) exercise more ( if you are overweight and your doctor says you can), and try not to break the diet. You get a nice little monitor and some strips and some lancets (needles). The dietician should show you how to operate your new little toy and give you pamphlets on everything. My diet is as follows<br />
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breakfast - 30<br />
snack -15<br />
lunch-60<br />
snack-15<br />
super-60<br />
snack-30<br />
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You check your sugar levels first thing in the morning. Then two hours after each meal/snack. You record everything you eat for the first week. Then you record your times and levels on a different sheet for the OB. After the first week you only record your times and levels until the end of pregnancy. If you are diabetic, you feel thirsty all the time, you hunger for carbs, but you can't have them. Your wounds are slow to heal. Your weight goes up and down, you urinate all the time. This is with type 2 , some ladies have to take insulin shots if the diet doesn't work. Some ladies have to take a diabetes pill. If the diet controls your sugar then you wont have to take anything. My problem was I was eating too many fruits and vegetables out of proportions. Like a banana is 28 carbs by itself, I didn't think it was a big deal since I was eating fruit. Fruit and vegetables can raise your sugar as bad as ice cream and cookies. Breads and pastas are evil. <br />
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There are foods that are carb free and help you out. Then there are some low carb ones that are great too. Some of these are<br />
meat-0<br />
cheese-0<br />
tea-0<br />
coffee-0<br />
eggs-0<br />
sf jello-0<br />
garden salads- usually about 3 per serving (without the goodies and dressing)<br />
cottage cheese- 3 per serv<br />
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There are more. They should you a book and it has fast food in it as well. You can also Google the restaurants nutritional information, call them or ask for a guide when you go through the drive thru or inside the store. It's best to call ahead or do the internet way since most people don't ask and it takes them forever to find one. For me milk was raising my sugar beyond belief. I stopped drinking milk and switched to cheese and soy milk and yogurt for my calcium intake. It isn't the end of eating what you want - its just here and there and sucks at first. Once you get into it it's not that bad. Walking helps you lower your after meals significantly.<br />
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So I called the doctor about taking cinnamon chromium vitamins. I read online this was a way to lower your blood sugar, the ob said there is no studies proving it works, or studies showing it might be harmful , so best not to take it. He's been practicing longer than I have been alive so he's pretty experienced and well carried. I didn't take the vitamins, but I did try a little cinnamon in the diet and it has helped. I read you could take ACV- apple cider vinegar, I have not tired this but it works well when you are not pregnant for stomach related problems. I read green and decaf coffee work, this i tried, no fast results, so as time goes along it might prove otherwise. <br />
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<b>THE BIG APPOINTMENT</b><br />
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The next appointment I had was the big one. I got to see if I get a little princess or another little prince. You go into your appointment as usual. I took my 3 year old so that he could see his new "sibling". Big mistake. They made us wait forever and went past his nap time which caused a cranky ruckus. When we got into the room he kept trying to touch all the equipment and was really loud when told NO. The lady came in and go her price scanner looking ultrasound scanner. I am glad she didn't use the horse one. It's not a drop drawers visit so little guy and my husband were invited into the room. She scans and takes measurements and makes sure it has all the limbs and heart size etc it should.<b> IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW THE SEX OF YOUR BABY,</b> TELL HER BEFORE SHE BEGINS. She will say it at some point and if it's a boy sometimes you can see it before, if you are like me they look like little alien pictures. I wanted to know so she told me I am having a little girl! My son who was with us during this touching moment started crying in a jealous manner because it actually "hit him" that we were not making this up and that is going to be competition. She asked him if he wanted a brother or sister and he screamed JESUS, which made her jaw drop. As we were all teared up and for all different reasons the nurse concludes and you get a few print outs of the event. The last time I went I got to get a DVD of my son, this time I got a few postcard size photos of my daughter, I asked if there was a reason , the hospital and degraded expensive equipment. So don't expect the same thing as last time you had a kid. I carried a rw- dvd in my pocket book for nothing. <br />
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Now I have regular appointment, I just go pee in a cup and get pamphlets and the doctor asks me questions and that's it. So far, nothing new has changed or came about.hilarychloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16618011602803245718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1346216167658168256.post-12938954864588572692011-11-29T20:18:00.001-05:002011-11-29T20:19:41.736-05:00Babies part 2Today was the second appointment. I had to get a pap smear, A scan, a breast exam and pee cup test. So this visit was bottoms and tops off. At least I remembered to shave my legs this time lol. At first i had to go in and pee in a cup and I am not talented at this art. I always get my hand wet and get very nervous and aggravated. So after you slide the sample in the little door, you go and wait for a few minutes. I was taken back and told to get naked. So then you get naked and you get a few peices of cloth that you "drape" over over you. Its basically a bib and large dinner napkin. So they checked my breasts and that seemed good. Then he stuck the cold duck bills in and took his samples. His nurse stuck a ball with cold jelly scanner to find a heartbeat. They like to press it hard and sometimes you will jump because it hurts a little and feels like crap. Then I had an awful thing happen. NO HEARTBEAT!! <br />
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"don't panic or worry" she says. OMG no heartbeat and you tell me not worry I am devestated. So she brings in a belly scanner and there it was a heartbeat phewwww... sighs of relief. The baby was just really active and never settled down. We barely got a clear picture. I finally got to see what every mother wants to see a beautiful head and feet and arms. It crossed its little legs for the picture. Unlike my son who thrusted himself in the camera every chance he got. So I heard a wives tale that this leg crossing is the girl being shy. I have no idea , but I guess that time will tell. <br />
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So i got cleaned up then they tell me they need some blood so I went to he lab part of the building and got 6 vials of blood taken. I did this very well but needed to sit down after i left the building because I got sick and a little light headed. They were rushing to get me out of there today because it started snowing here. It looked like it was going to be bad, but it didn't stick , fine with me I got all this done in one hour. <br />
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I got a list of meds that I can take while pregnant.<br />
I think they should give this list at first sign, but here it is so you can see in case you forgot or haven't gotten your letter yet:<br />
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They say not to take meds until you are 12 weeks preg- but in moderation these are okay:<br />
Tylenol regular or extra strength, actifed or sudafed cold, robotussin, tums, rolaids, mylanta, milk of magnesia, citrucel, metamucil, preparation H, tucks<br />
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On the second page It tells you the others you can have: (some are listed twice)<br />
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Calcium supplement-Tums calcium for life- bone health<br />
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Headache/fever-Tylenol 2 tabs every 4 hours as needed<br />
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Colds, stuffy head use children doses-Actifed, Sudafed tablets, dimetapp, Tylenol Cold and sinus, <br />
Mucinex, Ocean mist nose drops, Saline nasal spray<br />
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Cough use children's doses-Robotussin liquid, Benylin<br />
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Sleep Aide-Tylenol PM<br />
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Heartburn, gas, sour stomach-Tums, Riopan liquid or tablets, Zantac, Prilosec, Maalox, Mylanta tablets<br />
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Constipation-Citrucel (powder or caplet), Colace, Senakot, Surfak, Doxidon (stool softner)<br />
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Diarrhea-Immodium, Kaopectate, Citrucel (only 4 ounces of water, or call for an RX if needed)<br />
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Nausea/ Vomiting-Emetrol, Vitamin B6, Ginger Capsule or call for an RX if needed.<br />
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Rash- Benadryl or Benadryl cream, Hydrocortisone Cream<br />
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Yeast- Monistat<br />
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Paniful Urination- Start with large amount of water or cranberry juice. Avoid carbonated and sugar beverages. Call your doctor.<br />
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Call the Doc if you have a med that's not listed that says safe. Better safe than sorry.<br />
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Things not to do while Prego:<br />
- x-rays<br />
- meds until 12 weeks<br />
- that your doctors all of them even dentist know your knocked up<br />
- changing kitty litter- parasites live in the cat poop<br />
-partially cooked meat - now medium rare etc (toxoplasmosis)<br />
- Lifting heavy weights- nothing over 25 pounds<br />
-contact sports - swimming and walking are best<br />
- dental work unitl 12 weeks at least<br />
-dying you hair<br />
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You get asked for an hiv scan this time. and a down syndrome test. I say no to any needles poking the baby. Blood tests are okay with me, but I am not going to stick a needle toward the babies head. It seems to me that a 20% chance of sticking the baby in the head or elsewhere with a needle to obtain fluid is better than the chance that it is DS than making it DS with the needle. No thank you. After you deny it the Doc says well most parents do. I knew a couple that had this done when I was a kid. The child had no eyes. I asked why the baby had no eyeballs (being a kid and having no tact) then the mom said she had the needle test done and they hit his eyes. I remembered how hapy that baby was , but how sad people looked at him. I vowed no needles in my baby's face. If the baby needs special care than God made it that way- I'll love my child no matter problems it has. <br />
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You get screened for diabetes soon. about 26- 28 weeks blugh. This test sucks if you fail the first part. The second part is drinking this syrupy soda and NOT puking. It makes you so sick its like maple syrup thick and tastes like a foul orange soda. You have to keep it down or do it again. I got blood tested every hour for 3 hours with nothing to do in between time and no eating. Just water. <br />
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You get Rh blood screening around this time too, if negative you get a shot called Rhogam - that's supposed to prevent antibody formation that might harm the baby.<br />
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at 35 weeks you get swabbed for Strep culture- this is taken vaginall and rectaclly. This bacteria grows in your GI tract. You get special intructions and you have to wear a special IV when you deliver the babe. <br />
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They tell you that average weight gain is 25 to 30 pounds.<br />
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You can have sex still. If you have probelms before with preterm labor or bleeding stop having sex. Call your doctor if you bleed. <br />
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They should give you childbirth classes at this time as well.<br />
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You need to call your insurance 4 weeks before due date. Some require earlier notices, best to call ahead and find out then be left behind. 30 weeks is best.hilarychloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16618011602803245718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1346216167658168256.post-48177153494478724832011-10-23T00:45:00.001-04:002011-10-23T00:47:20.605-04:00Babies! Part 1<u><strong>Babies</strong></u><br />
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Here I am pregnant again and have some fun things to do if you are pregnant and good sites to go to if you are lost the first time around. <br />
<strong><u>Fun things</u></strong> <br />
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<a href="http://www.morphthing.com/">Morphthing</a> this is a hilarious site , but you can morph you and a celeb to see what baby might look like. Mine came out pretty close to my first son. So hopefully this is close to a reality for you , if you have a spouse or significant other or bf or "the sperm donor" (whatever you wanna call him) that looks like a celeb than this is great. <br />
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<strong><u>Naming the baby!</u></strong><br />
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Having another child is great, but what to name him or her? The first was easy because I named him after his father which was his wish and we agreed the second child would be mine to name! It is really hard because I want the perfect name and I am an etymology freak. So I have researched names over and over and even have books, but the Internet provides most of the same answers as the books anymore and its about 15.99 cheaper.<br />
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My fave sites are these two <a href="http://www.thinkbabynames.com/">thinkbabynames.com</a> and <a href="http://www.babynames.com/">babynames</a>. These both have great resources but turn your volume off on babynames they have annoying ads running screaming and shouting while you are trying to concentrate. I believe in the destiny of a name i mentioned in a previous blog so if you think so too these sites help out a WHOLE lot.<br />
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<strong><u>How is the baby's growth and what to expect?</u></strong><br />
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<a href="http://content.revolutionhealth.com/contentimages/nr551775.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="http://content.revolutionhealth.com/contentimages/nr551775.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="http://www.pregnology.com/faralong.php">Pregnology.com</a> has a great website for showing you what your little disc or bean looks like before it starts getting all the normal baby features. You can even test you ovulation here if you need to or just play around it. Its nice to know exactly how far along you are. I must say I skipped 2 months period before I even got impregnated so my dates were way off even at the doctor's office. They thought I was 11 weeks and I was really 5.5 weeks. We found out through our first ultrasound or as I like to call it "the horse" I will try to find a picture of the first scan you get which is vaginal (it isn't that comfortable)<br />
It is wiggled around by the scanner person and if this is your first time doing a pregnancy this should be the last time but it is a dropped drawer visit. First time and second time to me this thing felt like a period cramp. You don't even get a dinner first! This is supposed to be at 11 weeks or near that and you get to hear the heart beat and takes pictures of you little bean wiggling around. It makes for for the cold jelly lube on the condomed equipment. <br />
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First thing after you pee on the stick you have to get yourself to a doctor. You want to find an OBGYN not just <span style="background-color: white;">gynecologist. because If you Doctor is an obstetrician as well than he or she will know your file and all your do and dont's before you even go into labor. They also have the information for you that you need to know. Like what not to eat and don't smoke etc. I suggest doing your research before you even walk in, I mean who wants a crappy doc right? Well this is how I found out pretty accurate results. I googled the building (ex. crab street obgyn) then it should list who works there under the address etc. Then I went to this website where real people give real surveys of the docs you have. <a href="http://www.healthgrades.com/">http://www.healthgrades.com/</a>. You can type in their name and see what real people give them on a star basis survey. This is pretty accurate according to my obgyns in the past. </span><br />
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Expect to fill 100 papers. Everything from how many sexual partners you have had to chicken pox was asked on my paperwork. Most places have an online database and they give you a site and a password. Some still do the old fill it out and check yes or no. Mine was both since I had one babe before the digital conversion and one after. So I had to fill out my medical history twice!<br />
If you don't want your mom or spouse etc knowing your history don't take them on the first visit. This is where you fill out your autobiography in file form.<br />
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After this they check your weight height and blood pressure. Then you get the wheel. Figure out when your last period was before you go. It is usually the first question they ask you. If you don't know try you best to get close. If you are going for a baby it's to just make a mark on the calendar to help you remember. They base your ovulation on this but the prenology site above can tell you as well. The wheel is just a paper calculator of your dates when to do an appointment etc. I asked my doctor to print me off a copy of it and he did! (More scrap book material)<br />
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Each time you expect weight and BP to be taken. And don't wear embarrassing underwear because they surprise you with the drop drawer visits. I felt kind of bad one time having a thong laying in the chair but the doc didn't seem to care lol. My husband went to all my first baby's appointments and teases me about everything there. I suggest if you can to have them or someone you trust around in the room with you , not only for safety but also to break tension. Just<br />
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<a href="http://www.revolutionhealth.com/articles/transvaginal-ultrasound/zm2593">http://www.revolutionhealth.com/articles/transvaginal-ultrasound/zm2593</a>hilarychloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16618011602803245718noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1346216167658168256.post-26829002014618708232011-08-18T14:20:00.000-04:002011-08-18T14:20:04.250-04:00The Third Brake Light - 92 CapriceOk so I got pulled over the other day for not having a third high mount brake light. So this is a tutorial on how to fix it. <br />
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First you need to go to the store and purchase a light. I went to Advance Auto and they will look it up for you if you cannot remember but the number is a 2057. So the guy wouldn't help me install it even after I asked him, so rather than pay a mechanic and arm and a leg to install a light I figured I would do it myself. The light cost me about 3 dollars. Can you imagine paying a mechanic a bill too along with 3 bucks, me neither....<br />
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I searched online and could not find any more information on it so I took a video which I am going to try to post on youtube or something , never posted a video before but this will help people so it is for a good cause. <br />
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<ul><li>Park your car pop open the trunk. You don't need any tools.</li>
<li>Find the socket under the top of the trunk (looks like base of a bulb holder in a house light, black)</li>
<li>Turn the socket to the LEFT and pull down.</li>
<li>Push the bulb IN, turn to the LEFT and pull out (similar to child proof lid concept)</li>
<li>Reverse the steps with a new bulb.</li>
</ul>It really is this simple. I got these instructions form my car manual which happened to find afterwards. <br />
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So there it is and you test the brake so you will need a person to see to if it worked or maybe do a mirror trick. That's it, no ticket. <br />
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Random Link: <a href="http://www.justanswer.com/chevy/3dh8i-horn-relay-located-1992-chevy-caprice-cl.html">1992-chevy-caprice horn relay diagram (under dash)</a>hilarychloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16618011602803245718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1346216167658168256.post-31527599375726818072011-07-11T21:45:00.000-04:002011-07-11T21:45:01.306-04:00Jigsaw PuzzlesI<span style="color: black;"> love jigsaw puzzles and thought I would do a blog about them since they have taken most of my time up now. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black;">What is a jigsaw puzzle?</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;">A <b>jigsaw puzzle</b> is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of numerous small, often oddly shaped, interlocking and tessellating pieces. Each piece usually has a small part of a picture on it; when complete, a jigsaw puzzle produces a complete picture. In some cases more advanced types have appeared on the market, such as spherical jigsaws and puzzles showing optical illusions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Jigsaw puzzles were originally created by painting a picture on a flat, rectangular piece of wood, and then cutting that picture into small pieces with a jigsaw, hence the name. John Spilsbury, a London mapmaker and engraver, is credited with commercialising jigsaw puzzles around 1760. Jigsaw puzzles have since come to be made primarily on cardboard.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">During recent years a range of jigsaw puzzle accessories including boards, cases, frames and roll-up mats has become available that are designed to assist jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts. Some jigsaw enthusiasts suggest that it is unethical (against the rules) to look at the picture on the box while working on the puzzle, but most people find it to be perfectly normal to look at the box.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black;">What is a jigsaw?</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;">A <b>jigsaw</b> is a tool used for cutting arbitrary curves, such as stenciled designs or other custom shapes, into a piece of wood, metal, or other material. It can be used in a more artistic fashion than other saws, which typically cut in straight lines only. In this way, it is similar to the rasp and the chisel. Although a jigsaw can be used to cut arbitrary patterns, making a straight cut freehand is difficult even with a guide.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Traditional jigsaws are hand saws, consisting of a handle attached to a small, thin blade. The first jigsaw puzzles were made using this kind of unpowered saw. More modern jigsaws are power tools, made up of an electric motor and a reciprocating saw blade. A Jigsaw may also be referred to, by some manufacturers, as a "bayonet saw".</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">The first powered jigsaw was created in 1946 when Albert Kaufmann, an engineer of Scintilla AG company in St. Niklaus, Switzerland, replaced the needle on his wife's sewing machine with a saw blade</span><br />
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<strong>Construction of Jigsaw puzzles today</strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Most modern jigsaw puzzles are made out of cardboard, since they are easier and cheaper to mass produce than the original wooden models. An enlarged photograph or printed reproduction of a painting or other two-dimensional artwork is glued onto the cardboard before cutting. This board is then fed into a press. The press forces a set of hardened steel blades of the desired shape through the board until it is fully cut. This procedure is similar to making shaped cookies with a cookie cutter. The forces involved, however, are tremendously greater and a typical 1000-piece puzzle will require a press which can generate upwards of 700 tons of force</span> to push the knives of the puzzle die through the board. A puzzle die comprises a flat board, often made from plywood, which has slots cut or burned in the same shape as the knives that will be used. These knives are set into the slots and covered in a compressible material, typically foam rubber, the function of which is the ejection of the cut puzzle pieces.<br />
New technology has enabled laser-cutting of wooden jigsaw puzzles, which is a growing segment of the high-end jigsaw puzzle market<br />
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So really they are Laser puzzles. I have purchased a few that are soy ink and recycled paper. <br />
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<strong>Puzzle facts:</strong><br />
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Jigsaw puzzles typically come in 300-piece, 500-piece, 750-piece, and 1,000-piece sizes, however the largest commercial puzzle has 32,256 pieces and spans 544 cm by 192 cm<br />
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The most common layout for a thousand-piece puzzle is 38 pieces by 27 pieces, for a total count of 1,026 pieces<br />
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<span style="color: black;">There are also three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles. Many of these are made of wood or styrofoam and require the puzzle to be solved in a certain order; some pieces will not fit in if others are already in place. Also common are <i>puzzle boxes:</i> simple three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles with a small drawer or box in the center for storage.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Another type of jigsaw puzzle, which is considered a 3-D puzzle, is a puzzle globe. However like a 2-D puzzle, a globe puzzle is often made of cardboard and the assembled pieces form a single layer. But mainly like a 3-D puzzle, the final form is a three-dimensional shape. Most globe puzzles have designs representing spherical shapes such as the Earth, the Moon, and historical globes of the Earth.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">The uniform-shaped fully interlocking puzzles are the most difficult, because the differences in shapes between pieces can be very subtle.</span><br />
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More recently, technology such as computer controlled laser and water-jet cutting machines have been used to give a much wider range of interlocking designs in wood and other materials. These methods, however, have the undesirable effect of removing a small amount of material giving a loose fit with the adjoining pieces.<br />
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Strategies:<br />
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The most commonly-used approach to building a puzzle is to start by separating the edges from the inside pieces. Once the edges are connected it is easier to move inward. For those new to puzzles, it is recommended to choose one consisting of multiple areas with contrasting designs and colors. This enables the narrowing down of potential portions of the puzzle where a particular piece will fit.<br />
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Another approach is to sort the pieces by color, and work on one color at a time. When working large areas with the same color (such as the sky in many landscape puzzles), shape is important. All the <span style="color: black;">pieces of a particular color can be laid in a grid and tried against other pieces in the grid.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Many large jigsaw puzzles have redundancy in their cut pattern. Many have 180° rotational symmetry around their centre point. Puzzles of 1000 pieces also usually involve a smaller cut pattern that is repeated 4 or 6 times over the whole jigsaw, and that smaller cut pattern usually also has 180° rotational symmetry, so a particular shape may appear 8 or 12 times in the puzzle (although with truncation for edge pieces). It is possible to identify the presence of these symmetries or repetitions relatively early in the process of completing the edge frame. When redundancy is identified, it is possible to use already solved parts of the puzzle to identify the exact shapes of pieces required to complete other sections, greatly simplifying the search.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black;">According to the Alzheimer Society of Canada, doing jigsaw puzzles is one of many activities </span><span style="color: black;">that can help keep the brain active and may contribute to reducing the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.</span></strong><br />
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<strong>Jigsaw Puzzle stories:</strong><br />
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<h3 class="module_subtitle">A story of love and dedication.</h3><h3 class="module_subtitle">Ted Howard's Love Letter Jigsaw Puzzle Takes 15 Years To Solve!</h3><!--INFOLINKS_ON--><br />
<div class="write_module"> <a href="http://i3.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/250/draft_lens2073868module10458190photo_1216089203torn3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" class="write_image" id="moduleImage10458190" src="http://i3.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/250/draft_lens2073868module10458190photo_1216089203torn3.jpg" /></a>Finally, more than 15 years later, a husband has reconstructed the love letters he sent to his wife. Mollie Howard shredded the letters that Ted Howard wrote into more than 2,000 pieces after she caught someone else reading them.<br />
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In 1993, Mr. Howard began rebuilding the letters. (A real puzzle if ever there was one!) He spent five hours per month for 15 years working this puzzle.<br />
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Mr. Howard said, "I still miss Mollie terribly but having the memories helps me through. The letters brought back so many good times."<br />
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He is writing a book with the stories contained in the letters so that they will not be forgotten and it will be called, A Week At Stanton. He wrote the letters as he travelled throughout Europe as a farmhand in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and Holland in the late 1940s and early 1950s.<br />
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"It was love at first sight. No two ways about it. I was at a village feast (fair) and this girl jumped off the carousel and came careering into me. It turned out to be Mollie. That was July 19th, 1948."<br />
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They married in 1955 when Mollie was 18 and Ted was 23 and went on to have three children and six grandchildren. Those grandchildren will be lucky to have this romantic story in <span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook0w0" style="color: darkgreen; font-color: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">print</span> -- maybe one of those letters should be made into an actual jigsaw puzzle. </div><div class="write_module"> </div><div class="write_module">OK so that's not an actual jigsaw story, but romantic enough to post!</div><div class="write_module"> </div><div class="write_module"><strong>Gemberly Tan-Cagalingan Solves The World's Largest Puzzle</strong></div><div class="write_module"><strong></strong> </div><div class="write_module"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MRPNJ4?ie=UTF8&tag=treasubybrend-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000MRPNJ4" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/f9/c8/4edd9833e7a0bc9ccb883110.L.jpg" /></a><strong><u><span style="color: #1a67b8;">Life, The Greatest Puzzle</span></u></strong> was created especially by Royce B. McClure of New Zealand. Mr. McClure has had over a hundred puzzles published. To create this one, he used his years of experience in designing puzzles. He strived to make sure that the challenge of this puzzle was equivalent to the pleasure it gave.<br />
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If you thought that solving jigsaw puzzles was child's play, think again! At 24,000 pieces, this puzzle was no easy task! However, it was not a match for Filipino Gemberly Tan-Cagalingan. She earned the title of The First Asian who finished the largest jigsaw puzzle in the world.<br />
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Her completion time for Life, The World's Largest Puzzle was 233 hours and 5 minutes.</div><div class="write_module"> </div><div class="write_module">Easy Ways To Increase Your Intelligence<h3 class="module_subtitle">Jigsaw Puzzles boost intelligence</h3><div class="write_module">Genes account for 80 percent of your IQ and education follows. Take continuing education courses. <span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook2w0" style="color: darkgreen; font-color: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Learn</span> one new thing every day! Hobbies such as reading, crossword puzzles logic puzzles and (you guessed it) JIGSAW PUZZLES are all excellent. So whenever you are working that jigsaw puzzle, you are increasing your intelligence!</div><div class="write_module"> </div><div class="write_module">Jigsaw Puzzle Solving Style Reveals Your Personality<h3 class="module_subtitle">Jigsaw style - are you hoarder, border obsessive or opportunist?</h3><!--INFOLINKS_ON--><div class="write_module"> <a href="http://i2.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/250/draft_lens2073868module10561608photo_1216643094university_of_bath_jigsaw_puzzle_study.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" class="write_image" id="moduleImage10561608" src="http://i2.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/250/draft_lens2073868module10561608photo_1216643094university_of_bath_jigsaw_puzzle_study.jpg" /></a>Have you ever experienced 'jigsaw rage?' Researchers at the <span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook3w0" style="color: darkgreen; font-color: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">University</span> of Bath studied this issue and discovered that people have different approaches to puzzling and that, when there are two different approaches, there can be trouble.<br />
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What sort of trouble you say? Well how about when your brother hides the last piece in order to be the winner? How about when your spouse does not allow you to touch 'her' part of the puzzle. How about when you withhold the extra pieces and refuse to allow your partner to touch them?</div><div class="write_module"><br />
University of Bath researchers used jigsaw puzzlers to study how people collaborate. They had individuals work on a 120-piece jigsaw puzzle, either alone or in a group.<br />
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They discovered categories of puzzlers including hoarders, border obsessives and opportunists.<br />
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Hoarders will shield parts of the finished puzzles or hide the picture on the lid from others.<br />
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Opportunists sort piles by criteria. They use different ways to solve the puzzle - from the top to the bottom, from a major part of the picture, etc. Opportunists did better when completing a puzzle alone.<br />
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Puzzlers altered their approach when they were asked to work in a group, especially if the person they worked with was of a different personality style.<br />
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The strategy you use to solve your puzzle likely is indicative of your personality and level of skill although in a lesser way than the extremes shown during puzzle solving.</div><div class="write_module"> </div><div class="write_module">I would be an opportunist and my partner in puzzles (my hubby) is a border obsessive.</div><div class="write_module"> </div><div class="write_module"> </div><div class="write_module"><br />
President George Bush's Favorite Jigsaw Puzzles<h3 class="module_subtitle">Artwork by British painter Howard Robinson</h3><!--INFOLINKS_ON--><div class="write_module"> <a href="http://i1.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/250/draft_lens2073868module10595796photo_1216817899miss_beazley_and_barney.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" class="write_image" id="moduleImage10595796" src="http://i1.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/250/draft_lens2073868module10595796photo_1216817899miss_beazley_and_barney.jpg" /></a>President George Bush is apparently a fan of jigsaw puzzles. His puzzle of choice? Puzzles depicting the artwork of British painter Howard Robinson.<br />
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He enjoys Mr. Robinson's puzzles so much that First Lady Laura Bush had Mr. Robinson paint the President's dogs, Miss Beazley and Barney, for his 60th <span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook4w0" style="color: darkgreen; font-color: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">birthday</span>.<br />
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Mr. Robinson explained, "never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that the President of the United States of America would be sitting in Camp David doing one of my puzzles."<br />
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<span style="color: #1a67b8;"> </span></u></b></a>The Presidential Pets 550 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle By White Mountain<h3 class="module_subtitle">The puzzle that was commissioned by Laura Bush for George Bush's 60th birthday featuring their dogs.</h3><div class="module_subtitle"><br />
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</div><div class="module_subtitle">Celebrate German Jigsaw Puzzle Day on September 28th . Town of Ravensburg (think Ravensburger puzzles) claims the world's largest puzzle!</div><div class="module_subtitle"><br />
</div><div class="module_subtitle">This year, the townsfolk in Ravensburg joined together to put together the world's largest jigsaw puzzle with more than one million pieces! 15,000 people participated assembling 1,141,800 pieces in five hours. They would up covering a 6,500 squre foot or 600 square meter piece of town square. 4,000 smaller puzzles were assembled and then joined to create this very large puzzle</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh112/bcw-l2/?action=view&current=ravensburgerpuzzle3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="212" src="http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh112/bcw-l2/ravensburgerpuzzle3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="module_subtitle">The claim has been submitted to the Guiness Book of World Records but has not been approved yet. (October 2, 2008.)</div><div class="module_subtitle"><br />
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</div><div class="module_subtitle">You can throw it back in the box, or glue it with puzzle glue. Then frame it and hang it on the wall for everyone to see. </div><div class="module_subtitle"><br />
</div><div class="module_subtitle">I glued a few puzzles and decided to try a different glue. I do NOT recommend it , it is worth getting the 2- 4 dollar bottle of glue. The others made my puzzle faded in color and gummy like, not to mention the others went everywhere. I used regular puzzle glue to revive this bad choice , but I almost wasted a couple hours of work on nonsense bargaining. What can I say I like to buy cheap. </div><div class="module_subtitle"><br />
</div><div class="module_subtitle">Some come with an applicator , I was doing one with my husband and used a pan scraper on mine. It did wonderful (Don't use one that's dirty of course).</div><div class="module_subtitle"><br />
</div><div class="module_subtitle"><strong>Some factories do not suggest gluing the metallic puzzle</strong><strong> at all.</strong></div><div class="module_subtitle"><br />
</div><div class="module_subtitle">People suggest using the drop sheets of plastic to glue your puzzle. I bought a 50 cent poster board for mine. I figured if it glued to it it would make it sturdy, but it came right off. The newspapers stuck to them though. </div><div class="module_subtitle"><br />
</div><div class="module_subtitle">I have seen some wood frames for about 15 dollars form major puzzle sites, but I have seen poster sides as well. I think these are much more cheaper and easier, depending on where you buy them. </div><div class="module_subtitle"><br />
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</div><div class="module_subtitle"><a href="http://www.squidoo.com/jigsawpuzzles3">Jigsaw puzzle stories</a></div><div class="module_subtitle"><a href="http://www.worldslargestpuzzle.com/">worlds largest puzzle</a></div><div class="module_subtitle"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw_puzzle">wiki/Jigsaw_puzzle</a></div><div class="module_subtitle"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw_(power_tool)">wiki/Jigsaw_(power_tool)</a></div><div class="module_subtitle"><a href="http://www.puzzlewarehouse.com/page/index.cfm?cid=126">How to glue your puzzle</a></div><div class="module_subtitle"><a href="http://www.jigsawgenie.com/PosterFrame.html">Poster Frames for puzzles</a></div><div class="module_subtitle"><a href="http://www.puzzlehistory.com/">puzzlehistory.com</a></div><div class="module_subtitle"><a href="http://www.puzzlewarehouse.com/">puzzlewarehouse.com</a></div><div class="module_subtitle"><a href="http://www.jigzone.com/">jigzone.com</a></div><div class="module_subtitle"><a href="http://www.bitsandpieces.com/category.asp_Q_c_E_22_A_1000-piece-jigsaws">bitsandpieces.com</a></div><div class="module_subtitle"><br />
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I have seen them at Starbucks and thought Oh I want one , but I need a gf alternative. So i looked up some recipes and made my own. I am not sure where these came from , I have seen many different people say they were the first, Whatever or whoever they came from , I am glad. It's is a new cute food fad and something to do.<br />
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This is how I made <strong>organic gf cake pops</strong>.<br />
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Box of GF cake mix ( I used Betty Crocker )<br />
Water, butter, 3 eggs<br />
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Pamela's vanilla frosting mix- any gf frosting mix will do as long as it is light and fluffy<br />
vegetable shortening, water<br />
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lollipop sticks (found at craft stores or walmart , Wilton's etc or even online-- some have substituted Popsicle)<br />
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nice rubber spatula<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Hundreds_and_thousands.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" i$="true" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Hundreds_and_thousands.jpg" width="200" /></a>decorations , like sprinkles or jimmies, hundreds and thousands, whatever you want to put on it.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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Bake the cake according to the directions on the box or make your own scratch cake. I tried to make mine a little on the dry side , you don't want a really moist cake. After cake is done let it cool off and set it aside. Make your frosting and set it aside. Take the cooled cake and blend the cake in the food processor until the pieces are a little bigger than sand. Blend the cake crumbs and the frosting very slowly until the cake is a play dough consistency. Use an ice cream scoop or your hands to make balls or cake shape and set on the wax paper that is one the cookie sheet. Put in the freezer for a few hours to stiffen them up. When they are ready take them out and melt a little bit of the chocolate in the microwave or stove- a very small amount. Stick the stick in the chocolate and stick it securely in the cake ball. Do each one in the chocolate then the stick , if you put the all sticks in the chocolate it will cool off too fast. You do this so this stick will be secure when you turn them upside down and cake balls don't roll off. Place these back into the freezer. When they are cooled off and secure then melt the rest of the chocolate and dip the cake balls into the chocolate, drip over the bowl until the chocolate is not running. When it cools off a bit place sprinkles or decor on the ball and set it like a lollipop in the Styrofoam or if using a cardboard box a few holes need to be made in it to hold the cake pops. Let these cool and dry. After dried you can add lollipop wrappers or ribbons to the sticks , whatever you want too add at the end. Additionally, you can mold the cake balls into shapes like skulls for Halloween or mini cupcakes for a cute idea. These take a while to make over all because you go back and forth , but they are great for parties. <br />
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You don't have to stop at cake pops , you can do this with brownies, cheesecake or cookiedough , or even pies on sticks. <br />
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<strong>Links:</strong><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprinkles">/wiki/Sprinkles</a><br />
<a href="http://www.weddingbee.com/2009/04/21/making-the-cupcake-pops/">wedding bee - reese bottom pops</a><br />
<a href="http://thecircledot.com/blog/?p=493">hello kitty pops</a><br />
<a href="http://cutestfood.com/">Cutest Food .com - the best place to look at cute foods</a><br />
<a href="http://cake-in-a-cup.tumblr.com/post/4117010831/these-cake-pops-are-beyond-cute">cake pop image</a><br />
<a href="http://www.bakerella.com/category/pops-bites/cake-pops/">bakerella</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80PCMoL2xrM">youtube how to make cake pops</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq6Fz-N2Iu4">Youtube video - no oven/stove cake pops</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkiwe2xL_PA">Cheesecake pops</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsipXbUTmws">pie on a stick</a><br />
<a href="http://sasugar808.blogspot.com/2011/03/erin-go-bragh.html">sasugar808 erin-go-bragh</a><br />
Random bookmark: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsmVnN3pzFI&feature=related">Time to say goodbye - lyrics</a>hilarychloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16618011602803245718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1346216167658168256.post-47845167291451515832011-06-15T20:29:00.000-04:002011-06-15T20:29:58.091-04:00Eggrolls<strong>How to make your own egg rolls</strong><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://sp.life123.com/bm.pix/easy-egg-roll-recipe.s600x600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="http://sp.life123.com/bm.pix/easy-egg-roll-recipe.s600x600.jpg" t8="true" width="200" /></a><span style="color: black;">An egg roll is made by wrapping a combination of chopped vegetables (often mostly cabbage), meat, and sometimes noodles, in a sheet of dough, dipping the dough in egg or an egg wash, then deep frying it. It can be closed or open ended.</span></div><span style="color: black;">When compared with its cousin, the spring roll, the egg roll is generally larger, has a thicker, puffier skin, is crunchier, and has more filling. However, the terms "spring roll" and "egg roll" are often used somewhat interchangeably. The egg roll dough is wheat-based while the spring roll is sometimes rice-based.</span><br />
Some varieties are made with sesame seeds or other flavorings/toppings, such as chocolate, cream, or strawberry. The term may also be used to refer to another modern Asian breakfast cuisine that mixes the western omelet with thin egg roll wrappers.<br />
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<strong>How to make one,</strong><br />
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<strong>The pastry:</strong><br />
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<span class="ingredient"><span class="amount">2 teaspoons</span> <span class="name">salt</span></span><br />
<span class="ingredient"><span class="amount">2 </span><span class="name">eggs</span></span><br />
<span class="ingredient"><span class="amount">1 cup</span> ice <span class="name">water</span></span><br />
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Place salt and four in a bowl. Make a well in the center and add the eggs and the water. Stir the well until all the flour is mixed into a dough. Plop out on a table and knead with your hands. Use extra flour so the dough does not stick to the surface. Allow dough to rest for half an hour.<br />
Divide the dough into quarters. Dust your pastry board with cornstarch and roll out until each dough is a 11 by 14 triangle. Wrap and freeze remaining dough if you want to save it.<br />
This recipe is a variation by Angela Naymor, link will be below.<br />
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This is a good time to get your deep fryer going, you can bake egg rolls. Preheat oven to 425.<br />
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Now that you have made your wraps you are ready for some ingredients.<br />
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Note: You can buy <em>egg roll wraps</em> in most grocery stores , usually in the produce section , next to tofu and that kind of stuff. Wonton wraps are usually smaller and you do not get enough ingredients in them.<br />
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<strong>Egg Roll Filling:</strong><br />
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Cabbage and meat are pretty much the staples , other than that you can add what you like.<br />
I use <em>chicken</em> in mine. <br />
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You can follow other recipes for vegetables to use . I use a <strong>bag of Cole slaw</strong>, the salad kind. It has your cabbage and carrots already thinly sliced and ready to go. <br />
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Once the cabbge is a little wilted looking that is when I pull it from the heat and set it aside. You want to have your pastries made into squares. I place about 1/3 cup of my cabbage chicken mix on it and wrap it up. Some people seal with flour paste , but I use a drop of water or egg to seal the outside. <br />
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I know most people do not know how to wrap an eggroll so here is a great video for doing it. <br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Abqjo5A7rI">Expert village Egg roll wrapping</a><br />
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It looks hard at first, but once you get it it's like riding a bike, unless you never learned. <br />
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Some people brush egg on the outside of the roll, I don't see a difference in flavor it seals it better and makes it that golden crispy color. Mostly a preference.<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://thecookmobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ban5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="170" src="http://thecookmobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ban5.jpg" t8="true" width="200" /></a>The great thing about making you own egg rolls is you can be creative with them. Use shrimp or use terriyaki, whatever you want to put in your egg rolls. I have used only <strong>banana and brown sugar</strong> before, topped with vanilla icecream. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><a href="http://thecookmobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ban5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />
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That's it simple and tasty. <br />
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<a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Egg-Rolls">Wiki/Make-Egg-Rolls</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.ifood.tv/network/rice_paper_spring_roll">rice_paper_spring_roll</a></div><div style="text-align: right;"></div>hilarychloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16618011602803245718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1346216167658168256.post-61589997092544509432011-06-14T23:12:00.050-04:002011-06-14T23:42:21.983-04:00Wine without the cheese<em>From the book: <span style="color: #a64d79;">The Wine Companion and Record Book</span></em><br />
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Tannin-<br />
<div class="pseg"><div class="ds-single">Any of various compounds, including tannic acid, that occur naturally in the bark and fruit of various plants, especially the nutgalls, certain oaks, and sumac. Tannins are polyphenols, and form yellowish to light brown amorphous masses that can be powdery, flaky, or spongy. They are used in photography, dyeing, in tanning leather, in clarifying wine and beer, and as an astringent in medicine. Tannins are also an important ingredient in tea.</div><div class="ds-single"></div><div class="ds-single">Dry-Not sweet as a result of the decomposition of sugar during fermentation. Used of wines.</div><div class="ds-single"></div><div class="ds-single">vat-A large vessel, such as a tub, cistern, or barrel, used to hold or store liquids.</div><div class="ds-single"></div><div class="ds-single">fermentation- The anaerobic conversion of sugar to carbon dioxide and alcohol by yeast.</div></div><br />
Decanter- stoppered bottle, usually of glass, into which a drink, such as wine, is poured for serving<br />
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<strong>What is wine?</strong><br />
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<strong>Types of wine</strong><br />
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<strong>Red</strong> wines come from black or purple grapes that are fermented with their skins and stalks. It draws its color from its skin. The skin also provides tannin, which is a taste enhancer and preservative and natural pesticide. Most red wines are fermented until most of all the sugar is gone leaving them with a dry taste.<br />
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<strong>Rose</strong> wine are made from fermenting black grapes. The stalks are not used and the juice is separated when disired pinkness is achieved. Alternatives is red and white grapes together.<br />
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<strong>White</strong> wines are made form white grapes, green or black. All grape juice is intially colorless. When black grapes are used the juice is removed form the skins. When white grapes are used, the skins are left in the juice for a while. Sweet wines are resulted from the fermentation being stopped before all the sugar is converted.<br />
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Cabernet Sauvignon- blackcurrant - fruity flavor<br />
Gamay- does not keep well, light<br />
Grenache- light and fruity, keeps well<br />
Merlot- plum, damson, fruity <br />
Nebbiolo- soft mellow prune<br />
Syrah/Shiraz- heavy, raspberry, keeps well<br />
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White:<br />
Chardonay- dry , keeps well, melon, pineapple<br />
Chenin Blanc- medium to dry sweet, apple, keeps well<br />
Gewurtz-Traminer- spicy, dry to slight sweet, does not keep well, tropical fruit like lychee<br />
Muller-Thurgau- new varieties, flowery soft<br />
Muscat- Dry from Alsace, sweet elsewhere, high in alcohol<br />
Riesling- medium to dry, desert wine, keeps well, peach and apricot<br />
Sauvignon Blanc- Dry , aromatic, gooseberry<br />
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Food selection:<br />
There are many foods listed , but you will have to read the book for the full foods list. I am only lsiting a few. <br />
Soups- Marsala, sherry, or Madeira<br />
Pasta creamy- dry crisp wine <br />
pasta meat- medium red<br />
pizza- light to medium red, chianti<br />
quiche- white alsace<br />
fish- white fish , grilled or poached- light dry white, chardonnay<br />
salmon- white burgandy<br />
Red meat- medium- bodied red, californian zinfandel<br />
lamb- light or medium bodied red, cabernet sauvignon<br />
chicken- medium bodied dry white, rose or light red<br />
turkey- spicy white, dry rose or light red<br />
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Storing your wine:<br />
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Ideally wine should be stored in a cellar with a northerly aspect free from vibrations, draughts, odours, and dampness. The temperature should be 55 f or 12.5 c. Wines should be stored on their sides so that the cork remains intact. This keeps it expanded and prevernts air form entering the wine. White and rose wines need to be stored in the coolest position, nearest the ground. Whatever you do, make sure your wines are out of the sunlight and away form heat sources , heat will rapidly damage the wine.<br />
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Serving your wine:<br />
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Glasses: Wine galsses should be stemmed. The bowl should havea narrow top and a wide braod base, to concentrate aromas. Glasses should be washed in plain hot water and dried with a clean cloth. A fresh glass should be used with each wine served.<br />
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Temperature allows the wine a chance to be is greatest.<br />
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Light sweet wines- 41-43 f- 4 hours +<br />
sparkling-41-43f- 4+<br />
light dry wines-48-50-2<br />
sparkling red-50-54-1.5<br />
medium-bodied whites-50-54-1.5<br />
full sweet whites-46-50-2<br />
light reds-50-54-1.5<br />
full dry whites-54-57-1<br />
medium reds-57-61-0<br />
full-bodied red wines-59-64-0<br />
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Add salt and ice to a bucket to speed the chill of wines. Champange and sparling white and rose wines need to be in a wine bucket containg ice and water to the bottles neck. Red wine is fine but if it is too chilled use a decanter that has been warmed by water.<br />
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Glasses should be filled at 2/3 of the way, and replenish when 2/3 empty. When pouring the wine rest the neck of the bottle over the glass and twist the bottle as it is taken away to prevent drips.<br />
Decanting the wine is used to give the wine's sediment a rest at the bottom. It improves appearence and allows the wine to breathe. This should take about 2 days for the sediment to decanter. To see if the sediment is coming out of the bottle use a lit candle in behind the wine bottle's neck.<br />
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My favorite is a dry Champagne, but thats me.<br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">In moderation, a </span><span style="color: #a64d79;">glass or two of wine</span><span style="color: #a64d79;"> can help your heart, prevent cancer and more.</span><br />
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Resveratrol is the component in wine that works as a powerful antioxidant, and the one that scientists and medical professionals are currently studying. Unfortunately, you would need to get a very high dose of wine – practically gallons – to get a high enough dose of resveratrol. Sadly, drinking that much alcohol <span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">is harmful to your health, however, there are recent studies that say moderate wine consumption for women may be healthy for the heart. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #0b0000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Women Wine Drinkers Have Fewer Kidney Stones. Moderate wine consumption cuts stroke risk. Moderate Alcohol Consumption Protects Against Atherosclerosis. Cohort Studies From Around the World Link Moderation to Longevity. As early as 1980, the Honolulu Heart Study reported that moderate alcohol consumption was associated with a 50% reduction in the rate of coronary heart disease. </span></span> <br />
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Random bookmark: <a href="http://www.zamzar.com/">zamzar</a>hilarychloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16618011602803245718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1346216167658168256.post-64232920935819851472011-06-13T23:47:00.069-04:002011-06-14T00:19:39.460-04:00What's in a name?<strong>What is a name?</strong><br />
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<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.techpin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/cool-names.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://www.techpin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/cool-names.jpg" t8="true" width="200" /></a></div><span style="color: black;">A name is a word or term used for identification. Names can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. A </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Personal_name" title="Personal name"><span style="color: black;">personal name</span></a><span style="color: black;"> identifies a <i>specific</i> unique and identifiable individual person, and may or may not include a </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Middle_name" title="Middle name"><span style="color: black;">middle name</span></a><span style="color: black;">. The name of a specific entity is sometimes called a </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Proper_name" title="Proper name"><span style="color: black;">proper name</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (although that term has a philosophical meaning also) and is a </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Proper_noun" title="Proper noun"><span style="color: black;">proper noun</span></a><span style="color: black;">. Other nouns are sometimes, more loosely, called names; an older term for them, now </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Obsolete" title="Obsolete"><span style="color: black;">obsolete</span></a><span style="color: black;">, is "general names".</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">The word "name" comes from Old English <i>nama</i>; akin to </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Old_High_German" title="Old High German"><span style="color: black;">Old High German</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (OHG) and </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit"><span style="color: black;">Sanskrit</span></a><span style="color: black;"> <i>namo</i>, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Latin" title="Latin"><span style="color: black;">Latin</span></a><span style="color: black;"> <i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Roman_naming_conventions" title="Roman naming conventions">nomen</a></i>, and </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language"><span style="color: black;">Greek</span></a><span style="color: black;"> <i>ὄνομα</i> (<i>onoma</i>),<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></sup>possibly from the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language" title="Proto-Indo-European language"><span style="color: black;">Proto-Indo-European language</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (PIE): *nomn</span><br />
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<strong>Given name or First name </strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;">A <b>given name</b> is a </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Personal_name" title="Personal name"><span style="color: black;">personal name</span></a><span style="color: black;"> that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Family_name" title="Family name"><span style="color: black;">family name</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (surname). A given name is purposefully <i>given</i>, usually by a child's parents at or near birth, in contrast to an inherited one such as a family name. Given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner in informal situations. In more formal situations the surname is used instead, unless it is necessary to distinguish between people with the same surname. </span><br />
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<strong>Surname or Last name</strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;">A <b>surname</b> is a name added to a </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Given_name" title="Given name"><span style="color: black;">given name</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and is part of a </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Personal_name" title="Personal name"><span style="color: black;">personal name</span></a><span style="color: black;">. In many cases, a surname is a </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Family_name" title="Family name"><span style="color: black;">family name</span></a><span style="color: black;">; the family-name meaning of "surname" first appeared in the west in 1375.Many dictionaries define "surname" as a </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Synonym" title="Synonym"><span style="color: black;">synonym</span></a><span style="color: black;"> of "family name". In most Western countries, it is commonly called "last name", with the notable exception of </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary"><span style="color: black;">Hungary</span></a><span style="color: black;">, where, just like in Japan, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka"><span style="color: black;">Sri Lanka</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and in many other </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/East_Asia" title="East Asia"><span style="color: black;">East Asian</span></a><span style="color: black;"> countries, the family name is placed <i>before</i> a person's given name</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>Names for names</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><u>Person-</u></span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Anthroponym" title="Anthroponym"><span style="color: black;">Anthroponym</span></a><br />
<span style="color: black;"><u>Place-</u></span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Toponym" title="Toponym"><span style="color: black;">Toponym</span></a><br />
<span style="color: black;"><u>Body of water- </u></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Hydronym" title="Hydronym"><span style="color: black;">Hydronym</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Ethnic_group" title="Ethnic group"><span style="color: black;">Ethnic group</span></a><span style="color: black;"><u>-</u></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Ethnonym" title="Ethnonym"><span style="color: black;">Ethnonym</span></a><br />
<span style="color: black;"><u>Item named after a person-</u></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Eponym" title="Eponym"><span style="color: black;">Eponym</span></a><br />
<span style="color: black;"><u>False name- </u></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym"><span style="color: black;">pseudonym</span></a><br />
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There are many types of names , but I would like to talk about Human names for themselves.<br />
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<strong>So who was the first to have a name?</strong> <br />
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Well most people would answer <em>Adam</em>, it depends on who you ask now days. That would make <em>Eve</em> the first female name.Some say it is <em>Gilgamesh</em> from the epic of Gilgamesh, a giant from Mesopotamia. It is uncertain what the first name was most likely due to the fact that it was in oral traditions and not written. I believe it is <em>Adam</em>, so that's what I am going with today.<br />
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<strong>Why have a name?</strong><br />
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People use names to call out someone specific. We have names to hold records of our deeds good and bad. Some people use it to show commitment to a person as in marriage. Religion plays a part in names quite a bit. To show ethnicity is another reason we have names, we like to show our heritage and places we are from and still live today. We name our children to show our likeness through the child by giving them a name they can be proud of, but sometimes this is not the case. Many people change change their name they are given. It is also used to show gender from a distance, example people will assume Jennifer is a female on a resume. <br />
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<strong>Is it illegal to have no name at all?</strong><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.strikepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/identity_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.strikepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/identity_1.jpg" t8="true" width="200" /></a><strong></strong></div><span style="color: black;">In the </span><a href="http://maps.howstuffworks.com/maps-of-united-states.htm"><span style="color: black;">United States</span></a><span style="color: black;">, going without a name is not inherently illegal. Police won't arrest you for not having a name. But you can't legally identify yourself without one, which would make things difficult for you. For instance, you need a legal name on a birth certificate or </span><a href="http://money.howstuffworks.com/social-security.htm"><span style="color: black;">social security</span></a><span style="color: black;"> card to obtain a driver's license or</span><a href="http://travel.howstuffworks.com/passport.htm"><span style="color: black;"> passport</span></a><span style="color: black;">, open a </span><a href="http://money.howstuffworks.com/bank.htm"><span style="color: black;">bank</span></a><span style="color: black;"> account and get a job. </span><br />
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<strong>This is not the same for children...</strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;">In the </span><a href="http://maps.howstuffworks.com/maps-of-united-states.htm"><span style="color: black;">United States</span></a><span style="color: black;">, no matter where a woman gives birth, she is legally obligated at some point to report it to the appropriate government entity, usually a department of health and human services or vital records. That entails filling out a first and last name for the child. How long the mother has to fill out that birth certificate varies by state. The law does not necessarily require them to complete that information at the time of birth. In fact, the parents of U.S. </span><a href="http://history.howstuffworks.com/ancient-greece/first-olympics.htm"><span style="color: black;">Olympic</span></a><span style="color: black;"> gold medalist skier Picabo Street didn't name her at all. She simply chose it <span style="color: black;">herself when she was 3 years old, having been called Baby Girl until then. Although naming customs for babies differ across the world, all countries have some sort of vital records collection, whether centrally or locally controlled. In fact, Article 7 of the </span><a href="http://people.howstuffworks.com/united-nations.htm"><span style="color: black;">United Nations</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Convention on the Rights of a Child states that all children have a "right from birth to a name"</span> .</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>Can I name my kid whatever I want? </strong></span><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.techpin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/cool-names-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.techpin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/cool-names-4.jpg" t8="true" width="178" /></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://maps.howstuffworks.com/maps-of-new-zealand.htm"><span style="color: black;">New Zealand</span></a><span style="color: black;"> government revoked Pat and Sheena Watson's name selection for their son. The offender? 4Real. Like the United States, </span><a href="http://maps.howstuffworks.com/maps-of-australia.htm"><span style="color: black;">Australia</span></a><span style="color: black;"> does not allow the presence of numerals in legal names. </span><a href="http://maps.howstuffworks.com/maps-of-germany.htm"><span style="color: black;">German</span></a><span style="color: black;"> <span style="color: black;">parents must follow stricter standards enforced by the local registration office, called the Standesamt. They must select a moniker that reflects the baby's sex and will not incite ridicule for the child. In </span><a href="http://maps.howstuffworks.com/maps-of-zambia.htm"><span style="color: black;">Zambia</span></a></span><span style="color: black;">, boys and girls are expected to change their names at puberty and may go through several names during their lives</span></span><span style="color: black;">. I went to school with a girl who had to have an American last name even though she was Native American, her mother had to give her a surname. Thus Native Americans having very common last names or surnames that resemble a first name or very popular surname at the time. The number one surname for Native Americans today is <em>Smith</em>.</span></div><br />
<strong>So does a Crazy name affect my child later on in life?</strong><br />
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In spite of customs and regulations, research has shown that baby's names do not dramatically affect their success as adults. Instead, <span style="color: black;">according to a study published in the book "Freakonomics," name choices reflect more on the parents than on the children . For example, in the U.S., Misty and Joey correlated to parents with lower education levels while Dov and Lucienne came from more educated groups. Likewise, a socially undesirable name does not foreshadow a lackluster future for the person. </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Nevertheless, for the three babies reportedly named <strong>ESPN</strong> after the sports </span><a href="http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/tv.htm"><span style="color: black;">television</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;">In reality many <span style="font-family: inherit;">people are prejudice of names. Resumes will get thrown in the trash for having heavily ethnic names. It is really sad and is not fair, but it happens all the time. People will judge the type of person and </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">decisions that person makes by their name. Historically, individuals possessing a Hispanic sounding surname could</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> subject them to different treatment and more recently, after 9/11, having a middle-eastern sounding name can raise an eyebrow. But a recent study out of the <place style="background-image: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x;" tabindex="0" w:st="on"><placetype w:st="on">University</placetype> of <placename w:st="on">Florida</placename></place> demonstrated </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">that black students with certain exotic sounding names are often overlooked by gifted school programs because of </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">their names. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Whether this is an issue of racial prejudice or socio-economic class bias, the actual impacts of this cultural phenomenon as stated in the research are very real. David Figlio went on to say, "Such boys and girls suffer in terms of the quality of attention and instruction they get in the classroom because teachers expect less from children with names that sound like they were given by parents with lower education levels, and these lower expectations become a self-fulfilling prophecy." Is it right , absolutely not, but it has been going on since Biblical times. For example, The prayer of <strong>Jabez</strong> states " that I may not cause pain" his name means <em>pain</em> and he was associated with it. <strong>Moses'</strong> name means plucked form the river, and later on in his life he parted a sea, not exactly prejudice for Moses but some people believe in a destiny shaped by a name. People judging you before they know you in life can certainly shape your life , as in a job you miss or someone you might have otherwise fell in love with one day. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">In the Book of Proverbs, 22:1, it states that “<em>a good name is to be chosen rather than great riches</em>.” What does this mean? Many biblical names have both literal and spiritual meanings, and for many parents, a biblical baby name is believed to bestow the spiritual gifts on a baby, for their entire life.</span></span></span><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Can my name shape my destiny? </strong></span></span></span><br />
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<div class="bodybigger">Since ancient times, people have believed that your name can shape your destiny. But can it? And if so, can knowing the hidden power of a name help parents pick a “better” name for their baby?</div><div class="bodybigger">Several distinct schools of thought hold strong beliefs about the significance, and power, behind your name. There is the “psychological” camp, the “religious/spiritual” camp, the “sound” camp, and the “mystical” camp. All four overlap in many ways, but there are real differences between them.</div><div class="bodybigger">The psychological school, which has some interesting research to back up its claims, holds that your name subtly influences how people see you, and this affects how they treat you. In turn, this influences your self-image and self-esteem, starting as a small child. In its simplest form, a child with a “weird’ name, such as Elmer, may be continuously teased in school, and this will hurt Elmer’s self-image and future development. By contrast, “Alexander,”<span style="color: black;"> named after the great emperor, may be empowered by his name, because other people unconsciously respond to him with a certain level of respect. </span></div><div class="bodybigger" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: black;"> Robert Needlman, MD, has written an interesting discussion of this </span><a class="name" href="http://www.drspock.com/article/0,1510,6024,00.html"><span style="color: black;">psychological approach.</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The research implies that boys with unusual first names tend to display more emotional disturbances than boys with more traditional names. But, as Dr. Needlman points out, it is important not to overstate the case. Are the boys in question more troubled because of their names, or because of the parental support structure which gave them strange names in the first place? Nonetheless, there are many instances where “desirable” names are shown to lead to greater success. A </span><a class="name" href="http://knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewArticle&id=1336"><span style="color: black;">recent report</span></a><span style="color: black;"> from the School of Business at Arizona State University shows that the names of top CEOs in Phoenix come from a disproportionately small group of names, implying that certain names are more likely to lead to greater success</span>. The three most successful names in the study group were Robert, John, and Steve. The big question, of course, is why?<br />
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<strong>Is having a popular name bad?</strong><br />
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First, the advantages of having a common name. In the Internet age, we can, for the first time, be "Googled." That is to say, that other people, including potential employers, can simply type your name into a search engine and potential he find information about us. Of course the information they find could be good, but it could be embarrassing to. For example, you really want a future employer to see the blog posts in which you discuss how much you hate working? Or what about the picture someone posts on Facebook that makes you look drunk? All of these risks are diminished if you have a common name. Just try searching online for a person named John Smith. Good luck finding the exact individual you are looking for. People with very common names are insulated from the risks of being found online. Basically, a common name makes you anonymous in today's tech world. That anonymity can be valuable. But of course it also has its downside. People with common names, while difficult to find, are also easily confused with others. It might be difficult for a potential employer to find you with a search engine. But it is possible for them to find someone else and think that it is you. That type of mistake would be okay if the person sharing your name or Nobel laureates, but not okay if he or she were a convicted felon. <br />
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An author with a common name writes this:<br />
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<center class="ad_unit" style="text-align: left;"><em>bizarre experience due to my common name. I was trying to reenter the United States by car. At the border a federal agent swept my passport and then asked me to step out of my vehicle. He had me put my hands in the air, and when I turned around I saw that there were numerous security agents with guns pointed at me. After spending some time handcuffed in a cell, I learned that I had been confused with another person of the same name who robbed a bank recently. "It's a common name," they explained. Although the mistake was obviously rectified, all of this happened in front of my family, and was traumatic for us all.- Tapscott ( pen name)</em></center><center class="ad_unit" style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
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</center></div><span style="color: blue;">Random Fact:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.lingualogue.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/dolphin-kiss2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="http://www.lingualogue.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/dolphin-kiss2.jpg" t8="true" width="200" /></a><span style="color: blue;"><br />
The use of personal names is not unique to humans. </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Dolphin" title="Dolphin"><span style="color: blue;">Dolphins</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> also use symbolic names, as has been shown by recent research. Individual dolphins have individual whistles, to which they will respond even when there is no other information to clarify which dolphin is being referred to at the moment.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.babynamesgarden.com/nameasdestiny.aspx">name as destiny</a></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5592324/the_pros_and_cons_of_having_a_common_pg2.html?cat=15">common_name, tapscott</a></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.lingualogue.com/blog/tag/dolphin-body-language/">dolphin-body-language</a></span><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name">/wiki/Name</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Given_name">/wiki/Given_name</a><br />
<a href="http://www.techpin.com/">http://www.techpin.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname">/wiki/Surname</a><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh">/wiki/Gilgamesh</a></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://southernsizzleromance.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/moondays-heroic-hunk-the-fall-of-man/">the-fall-of-man/</a></span><br />
<a href="http://48horasweb.com/protect-your-identity">protect-your-identity</a><br />
<a href="http://www.howstuffworks.com/no-name.htm">no-name</a><br />
<a href="http://oser.state.wi.us/pgsub_detail.asp?linksubcat2id=464&linksubcatid=847&linkcatid=352&linkid=27">name prejudice</a><br />
<a href="http://names.mongabay.com/data/indians.html">Native surnames</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Proverbs">Book_of_Proverbs</a><br />
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<span style="color: black;">So do you hate your name or love it? Pro and cons? </span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Historical_migration"><strong>Migration</strong></span></div><span style="color: black;">As calico cats are not a breed, but a color pattern on the fur which occurs in a non-predictive manner, there is no true historical background concerning calico cats. However, the existence of patches in calico cats was traced to a certain degree by Neil Todd in a study determining the migration of domesticated cats along trade routes in Europe and Northern Africa. The proportion of cats having the orange </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Mutation" title="Mutation"><span style="color: black;">mutant gene</span></a><span style="color: black;"> found in calicoes was traced to the port cities along the Mediterranean in France and Italy, originating from Egypt.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">The beginning of serious study of calico cats seems to have occurred around 1948 when </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Murray_L._Barr" title="Murray L. Barr"><span style="color: black;">Murray Barr</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and his graduate student E.G. Bertram noticed dark, drumstick-shaped masses inside the nuclei of nerve cells of female cats, but not in male cats. These dark masses became known as </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Barr_body" title="Barr body"><span style="color: black;">Barr bodies</span></a><span style="color: black;">. In 1959, Japanese cell biologist Susumo Ohno determined the Barr bodies were </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/X_chromosome" title="X chromosome"><span style="color: black;">X chromosomes</span></a><span style="color: black;">. In 1960, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Mary_F._Lyon" title="Mary F. Lyon"><span style="color: black;">Mary Lyon</span></a><span style="color: black;"> proposed the concept of </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/X_inactivation" title="X inactivation"><span style="color: black;">X-inactivation</span></a><span style="color: black;">, that one chromosome inside a female </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Mammal" title="Mammal"><span style="color: black;">mammal</span></a><span style="color: black;"> shuts off. Although study has continued and deepened, these were the major contributors in the discovery of X inactivation in the early days.</span><br />
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<strong>So is there a male calico?</strong><br />
<span style="color: black;">Calico cats are almost always female because the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/X_chromosome" title="X chromosome"><span style="color: black;">X chromosome</span></a><span style="color: black;"> determines the color of the cat and a female cat has two X chromosomes. A common male cat has one X and one Y chromosome. Since the Y chromosome does not have any color genes, there is no chance he could have both orange and non-orange together. One main exception to this is when, in rare cases, a male has XXY chromosomes, in which case the male could have tortoiseshell or calico markings. Most male calico or tortoiseshell cats are<em> </em></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Sterility_(physiology)" title="Sterility (physiology)"><span style="color: black;"><em>sterile</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> due to the abnormality of carrying two X chromosomes.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">In the case of a calico cat, the feline’s parents passed on different versions of X chromosomes genes related to coat color. The color of calico or </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Tortoiseshell_cat" title="Tortoiseshell cat"><span style="color: black;">tortoiseshell cats</span></a><span style="color: black;"> is determined by the X chromosome(s). </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Tortoiseshell and calico cats are almost always female because of X chromosome inactivation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">As Sue Hubble stated in her book <i>Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering before We Knew about Genes</i>, "The mutation that gives male cats a ginger-colored coat and females ginger, tortoiseshell, or calico coats produced a particularly telling map. The orange mutant</span> gene is found only on the X, or female, chromosome. As with humans, female cats have paired sex chromosomes, XX, and male cats have XY sex chromosomes. The female cat, therefore, can have the orange mutant gene on one X chromosome and the genes for a black or white coat on the other, and those can affect or modify the orange mutant gene. If that is the case, those several genes will be expressed in a blotchy coat of the tortoiseshell or calico kind. But the male, with his single X<span style="color: black;"> chromosome, has only one of that particular coat-color gene: he can be not-ginger or he can be ginger (although some </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Modifier_gene" title="Modifier gene"><span style="color: black;">modifier genes</span></a><span style="color: black;"> can add a bit of white here and there), but unless he has a chromosomal abnormality he cannot be a calico cat."</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"> The process is further complicated because the female carries 2 X chromosomes while the male has only 1. So in mammals, one of the two X chromosomes in females gets inactivated. This is why calico cats are virtually always female - one X chromosome carries the gold color and the other X chromosome carries the black color. If the gold chromosome is shut off, the fur is black. If the black is shut off, the fur is gold. A male could carry either the black or the gold chromosome, but not both since</span> he's XY. So in males, there is no second X chromosome to shut off.<br />
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<strong>So how do people pay for these rare cats?</strong><br />
In truth a lot find their way to homeless shelters. Some people claim they can sell them for a 1000 dollars, but this depends on the buyer you find. Most people will not pay over the normal price for a male domestic cat. It just happens to be a rare event in the chimeric genes of a cat. The male calico is always sterile, if someone claims to have a kitten by a male calico it will most likely be mosaic and not calico. The cat is pricless to the owner as always.<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Cats of this coloration are believed to bring </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Luck" title="Luck"><span style="color: #bf9000;">good luck</span></a><span style="color: #bf9000;"> in the folklore of many cultures.<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></sup> In the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/United_States" title="United States"><span style="color: #bf9000;">United States</span></a><span style="color: #bf9000;">, these are sometimes referred to as <i>money cats</i>. The Japanese <i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Maneki_Neko" title="Maneki Neko">Maneki Neko</a></i> figurine is almost always a calico cat.</span></div><br />
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</div><div style="border: currentColor; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.kraftrecipes.com/assets/recipe_images/Quick_Cherry_Cheesecake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="http://www.kraftrecipes.com/assets/recipe_images/Quick_Cherry_Cheesecake.jpg" t8="true" width="200" /></a>The best show that ever was made to me is the Golden Girls. Even men watch it when they think no one is watching them or if there is a woman watching it and they pretend that they don't want to watch. It's about 4 women that are in their 50s and one elderly woman. Dorothy , Rose, Blanche, and Sophia are there names. Sofia and Dorothy are Sicilian and lived in Brooklyn for a while. Rose is a Scandinavian from Minnesota. Blanche is a southern belle. They live together in a house in Miami, Florida. It is a wonderful comedy that had topics that were a little too avaunt Gard for the eighties. Most of the episodes contain a <a href="http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/quick-cherry-cheesecake-106854.aspx">Cheesecake</a> , a wonderful thing for a woman. </div><div style="border: currentColor; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border: currentColor; text-align: left;">Whenever you are feeling blue or have something bothering you, it is a great show to watch. There is an episode that everyone can relate too, and there are so many little quips that is wonderful to watch. They introduce things into the comedy and use the publicity to make you think about topics that you wouldn't normally think about until you are older.</div><div style="border: currentColor; text-align: left;"><br />
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<tr class="odd"><td class="primary_photo"></td><td class="name"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0037735/"><span style="color: #136cb2;">Bea Arthur</span></a> </td><td class="ellipsis">... </td><td class="character"><div><a href="http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027609/"><span style="color: #136cb2;">Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak</span></a> (180 episodes, 1985-1992) </div></td></tr>
<tr class="even"><td class="primary_photo"></td><td class="name"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924508/"><span style="color: #136cb2;">Betty White</span></a> </td><td class="ellipsis">... </td><td class="character"><div><a href="http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027610/"><span style="color: #136cb2;">Rose Nylund</span></a> (180 episodes, 1985-1992) </div></td></tr>
<tr class="odd"><td class="primary_photo"></td><td class="name"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001516/"><span style="color: #136cb2;">Rue McClanahan</span></a> </td><td class="ellipsis">... </td><td class="character"><div><a href="http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027601/"><span style="color: #136cb2;">Blanche Devereaux</span></a> (180 episodes, 1985-1992) </div></td></tr>
<tr class="even"><td class="primary_photo"></td><td class="name"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001268/"><span style="color: #136cb2;">Estelle Getty</span></a> </td><td class="ellipsis">... </td><td class="character"><div><a href="http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027611/"><span style="color: #136cb2;">Sophia Petrillo</span></a> (180 episodes, 1985-1992) </div></td></tr>
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</div><div style="border: currentColor; text-align: left;">Storyline:</div>The Golden Girls is based on the lives and interactions of four older women whom have all been divorced/widowed, and are now roommates. Dorothy's main goal during the series is to find a companion she can relate to while her mother Sophia adds her comical outlook and frequents "Picture This" stories. Rose's St. Olaf-ness makes her a little corny but lovable. One thing that changes nearly every episode is whom Blanche is courting. <em class="nobr">Written by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/search/title?plot_author=John%20W.%20Hale&view=simple&sort=alpha"><span style="color: #136cb2;">John W. Hale</span></a></em> <br />
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<div id="swiki.2.1.4"><div id="swiki.2.1.4.view"><div class="section"><h3><span id="swiki.2.1.4.1">Why did the show end when it was still getting respectable ratings? </span></h3><h3>The show ended because Bea Arthur announced that she was leaving at the end of the seventh season. The ratings had slipped (from 10th place in the 1990-1991 season to 30th in the 1991-1992 season), partly because NBC moved it from 9:00 PM to 8:00 PM, but the show was still making money. </h3><br />
All seven seasons are available on DVD. They are distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment<br />
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<h3><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name=".2.1.11"><span id="swiki.2.1.11.1">Why are there so many inconsistencies in the girls' back stories? </span></a></h3><div class="display"><div id="swiki.2.1.11.2">There are two main reasons for the inconsistencies throughout the series. The main reason is that there were two writing teams throughout the course of the series: one for the first three seasons, and another for the final four seasons, and some of the writers had not watched the show before joining the writing team. So they simply missed something from the previous episodes. Another is that, rarely, writers would decide to ignore a piece of information for the sake of comedy. For example, if a joke that contradicted history was funny, they'd leave the joke in. In the pre-Internet days, all shows tended to have more continuity errors, but The Golden Girls was particularly prone to them, largely because of the mostly verbal nature of the humor. Many of the funny lines made reference to family members or the characters' pasts; these were often forgotten in later episodes. But with the advent of DVD and the Internet many of these mistakes are noticed and discussed at length, but it must be taken with a grain of salt due to the age of the show. </div><br />
<div id="swiki.2.1.3"><div id="swiki.2.1.3.view"><div class="section"><h3><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name=".2.1.3"><span id="swiki.2.1.3.1">Were the cast members of the show the first choices? </span></a></h3></div></div><div class="display"><div id="swiki.2.1.3.2">Yes and no. Bea Arthur was not the first choice to play Dorothy (although the character of Dorothy was described in the script as a "Bea Arthur type"); Lee Grant was considered for the role, but she didn't want to play someone old enough to have grandchildren. Rue McClanahan was originally intended to play Rose (a variation of the dimwitted Vivian she played on "Maude"), and Betty White was to play Blanche (a variation of the vampish Sue Ann Nivens she played on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"), but the director suggested that each one read for the other's part. </div><br />
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<div id="swiki.2.1.5.view"><div class="section"><h3><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name=".2.1.5"><span id="swiki.2.1.5.1">Is there a real St. Olaf, Minnesota? </span></a></h3><h3>No, but there is a liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota known as St. Olaf College. There is also a St. Olaf Township that's located in Otter Tail County, Minnesota</h3><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">- The Stats </div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">44% of victims are under age 18</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">80% are under age 30</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">9.6% of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career.</div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: black;">In </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/North_America" title="North America"><span style="color: black;">North America</span></a><span style="color: black;">, for example, approximately 15% to 25% of women and 5% to 15% of men were sexually abused when they were children</span></div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Every 2 minutes someone is sexually assaulted in the USA, that's about 213, 000 counting the ones who told.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">60% of victims never report what happened</div></div>this means 15/16 rapists will never spend a day in jail - for rape that is<br />
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2/3 of the assaults committed are by someone the victim knows<br />
38% are a friend and or acquaintance<br />
Two-thirds of sex offenders in prisons victimized a child<br />
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Research has estimated 10–15% of the general population as having at least one such sexual contact, with less than 2% involving intercourse or attempted intercourse.<br />
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It is estimated that<strong> 1 in 3</strong> women are sexually abused in their lifetime and <strong>1 in 7</strong> for men.<br />
<strong>17.7 million American women</strong> have been victims of attempted or completed rape<br />
<strong>9 of every 10</strong> rape victims were female in 2003<br />
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While about <strong>80% of all victims are white,</strong> minorities are somewhat more likely to be <strong>attacked.</strong><br />
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<strong>MEN </strong>: About <strong>3% of American men</strong> — or <strong>1 in 33 </strong>— have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime<br />
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15% of sexual assault and rape victims are <strong>under age 12.</strong><br />
<ul><li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">29% are age 12-17.</li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">44% are under age 18.</li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">80% are under age 30.</li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">12-34 are the highest risk years.</li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Girls ages 16-19 are 4 times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault.</li>
</ul><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong>7% of girls in grades 5-8</strong> and 12% of girls in grades 9-12 said they had been sexually abused</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">3% of boys grades 5-8 and 5% of boys in grades 9-12 said they had been sexually abused</div><br />
<strong><span style="color: red;">93%</span> of juvenile</strong> sexual assault victims know their attacker. <br />
<ul><li>34.2% of attackers were family members.</li>
<li>58.7% were acquaintances.</li>
<li>Only 7% of the perpetrators were strangers to the victim</li>
</ul>So now we see all these alarming stats with millions of people, so why is no one talking about it?<br />
A serious topic that no one seems to want to speak about. First of all what is it?<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><b>Sexual abuse</b>, also referred to as molestation, is the forcing of undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another. When that force is immediate, of short duration, or infrequent, it is called </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Sexual_assault" title="Sexual assault"><span style="color: black;">sexual assault</span></a><span style="color: black;">. The offender is referred to as a sexual abuser or (often </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Pejorative" title="Pejorative"><span style="color: black;">pejoratively</span></a><span style="color: black;">) molester. The term also covers <i>any</i> behavior by <i>any</i> adult towards a child to stimulate either the adult or child sexually. When the victim is younger than the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Age_of_consent" title="Age of consent"><span style="color: black;">age of consent</span></a><span style="color: black;">, it is referred to as <b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse" title="Child sexual abuse"><span style="color: black;">child sexual abuse</span></a></b></span><span style="color: black;">.</span><br />
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There are many types of sexual abuse, including:<br />
<ul><li><span style="color: black;">Non-consensual, forced physical </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Sexual_behavior" title="Sexual behavior"><span style="color: black;">sexual behavior</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Rape" title="Rape"><span style="color: black;">rape</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Sexual_assault" title="Sexual assault"><span style="color: black;">sexual assault</span></a><span style="color: black;">).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Unwanted touching, either of a child or an adult.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Sexual kissing, fondling, exposure of genitalia, and </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Voyeurism" title="Voyeurism"><span style="color: black;">voyeurism</span></a><span style="color: black;">, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Exhibitionism" title="Exhibitionism"><span style="color: black;">exhibitionism</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and up to </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Sexual_assault" title="Sexual assault"><span style="color: black;">sexual assault</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Exposing a child to pornography.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Saying sexually suggestive statements towards a child (</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Child_molestation" title="Child molestation"><span style="color: black;">child molestation</span></a><span style="color: black;">).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Also applies unconsential verbal sexual demands towards an adult.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">The use of a </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Position_of_trust" title="Position of trust"><span style="color: black;">position of trust</span></a><span style="color: black;"> to compel otherwise unwanted sexual activity without physical force (or can lead to attempted rape or sexual assault).</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Incest" title="Incest"><span style="color: black;">Incest</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (see also </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Sexual_deviancy" title="Sexual deviancy"><span style="color: black;">sexual deviancy</span></a><span style="color: black;">).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Certain forms of </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Sexual_harassment" title="Sexual harassment"><span style="color: black;">sexual harassment</span></a></li>
<li><strong>Spousal sexual abuse</strong> is a form of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Domestic_violence" title="Domestic violence"><span style="color: #0645ad;">domestic violence</span></a>. When the abuse involves forced sex, it may constitute <a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Rape" title="Rape"><span style="color: #0645ad;">rape</span></a> upon the other spouse, depending on the jurisdiction, and may also constitute an assault</li>
</ul><span style="color: black;"><strong>Incest</strong> is </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Sexual_intercourse" title="Sexual intercourse"><span style="color: black;">sexual intercourse</span></a><span style="color: black;"> between close </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Kinship" title="Kinship"><span style="color: black;">relatives</span></a><span style="color: black;"> that is illegal in the jurisdiction where it takes place and/or is socially </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Incest_taboo" title="Incest taboo"><span style="color: black;">taboo</span></a><span style="color: black;">. The type of sexual activity and the nature of the relationship between people that constitutes a breach of law or social taboo vary with culture and jurisdiction. Some societies consider incest to include only those who live in the same </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Household" title="Household"><span style="color: black;">household</span></a><span style="color: black;">, or who belong to the same </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Clan" title="Clan"><span style="color: black;">clan</span></a><span style="color: black;"> or </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Lineage_(anthropology)" title="Lineage (anthropology)"><span style="color: black;">lineage</span></a><span style="color: black;">; other societies consider it to include "blood relatives"; other societies further include those related by </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Adoption" title="Adoption"><span style="color: black;">adoption</span></a><span style="color: black;"> or </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Marriage" title="Marriage"><span style="color: black;">marriage</span></a>- this is for adult incest by the way.<br />
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<span style="color: black;">Incest between adults and those under the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Age_of_majority" title="Age of majority"><span style="color: black;">age of majority</span></a><span style="color: black;"> or </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Age_of_consent" title="Age of consent"><span style="color: black;">age of consent</span></a><span style="color: black;"> is considered a form of </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse" title="Child sexual abuse"><span style="color: black;">child sexual abuse</span></a>.<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>Child sexual abuse</strong> is a form of </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Child_abuse" title="Child abuse"><span style="color: black;">child abuse</span></a><span style="color: black;"> in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation.Forms of child sexual abuse include asking or pressuring a child to engage in sexual activities (regardless of the outcome), </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Indecent_exposure" title="Indecent exposure"><span style="color: black;">indecent exposure</span></a><span style="color: black;"> of the genitals to a child, displaying </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Pornography" title="Pornography"><span style="color: black;">pornography</span></a><span style="color: black;"> to a child, actual </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Human_sexual_behavior" title="Human sexual behavior"><span style="color: black;">sexual contact</span></a><span style="color: black;"> against a child, physical contact with the child's genitals (except in certain non-sexual contexts such as a medical exam), viewing of the child's genitalia for the purpose of sexual gratification, or using a child to produce </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Child_pornography" title="Child pornography"><span style="color: black;">child pornography</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: red;">So this is the definition, but how do I know if what happened is sexual abuse? What if no touching happened or nothing that I could prove </span><span style="color: red;">outright?</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">C<strong>overt incest</strong> : (also known as <b>emotional incest</b> or <b>psychic incest</b>) is used by some mental health professionals to describe a relationship between parents and children that is sexualized and expects a child to fulfill adult emotional roles, though without actual </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Incest" title="Incest"><span style="color: black;">incest</span></a><span style="color: black;">. Proponents of the concept describe the relationships as harmful and one-sided, and similar to a relationship between adult </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Sexual_partner" title="Sexual partner"><span style="color: black;">sexual partners</span></a><span style="color: black;">, but without the type of physical contact that would be considered </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse" title="Child sexual abuse"><span style="color: black;">child sexual abuse</span></a><span style="color: black;">. Its effects are described as similar to, though less severe than, that of actual incest. The concept has been criticized as an overly broad set of criteria that excessively expands the definition of child sexual abuse. </span><br />
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OK let's give examples:<br />
Sexual abuse : Man is touching a woman on the butt or vagina at work.<br />
Incest: A brother forces another brother to have sex.<br />
Child sexual abuse: <span style="background-color: white;">fondling</span><br />
Covert incest: Having the son stay home form school to listen to mommy's problems, replacing the partner with the child.<br />
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Most people do not even know what covert incest is and some people do not realize they are victim of it even yet.<br />
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OK so we know what it is and how often it happens , but what now?<br />
Well let's talk about the side effects if you don't get help...<br />
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<h4>What does it do?</h4><h4>Victims of sexual assault are:</h4><strong>3 times</strong> more likely to suffer from depression.</li><br />
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<strong>6 times</strong> more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.<br />
<strong>13 times</strong> more likely to abuse alcohol. <br />
<strong>26 times</strong> more likely to abuse drugs.<br />
<strong>4 times</strong> more likely to contemplate suicide.<br />
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The effects of sexual abuse extend far beyond childhood. Sexual abuse robs children of their childhood and creates a loss of trust, feelings of guilt and self-abusive behavior. It can lead to antisocial behavior, avoidance, depression, identity confusion, loss of self esteem and other serious emotional problems. It can also lead to difficulty with intimate relationships later in life. The sexual victimization of children is ethically and morally wrong. Amnesia for abuse memories, E<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Eating_disorders" title="Eating disorders"><span style="color: black;">ating disorder</span></a><span style="color: black;">s, developing capacities for trust, intimacy, agency and sexuality, poor </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Self-esteem" title="Self-esteem"><span style="color: black;">self-esteem</span></a><span style="color: black;">, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder" title="Dissociative identity disorder"><span style="color: black;">dissociative</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Anxiety_disorder" title="Anxiety disorder"><span style="color: black;">anxiety disorders</span></a><span style="color: black;">; general psychological distress and disorders such as </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Somatization" title="Somatization"><span style="color: black;">somatization</span></a><span style="color: black;">, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Neurosis" title="Neurosis"><span style="color: black;">neurosis</span></a><span style="color: black;">, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Chronic_pain" title="Chronic pain"><span style="color: black;">chronic pain</span></a><span style="color: black;">,<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></sup>sexualized <span style="color: black;">behavior. school/learning problems, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Self-destructive_behaviour" title="Self-destructive behaviour"><span style="color: black;">self-destructive behaviour</span></a><span style="color: black;">, </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Animal_cruelty" title="Animal cruelty"><span style="color: black;">animal cruelty</span></a><span style="color: black;">, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Crime" title="Crime"><span style="color: black;">crime</span></a><span style="color: black;"> in adulthood and </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Suicide" title="Suicide"><span style="color: black;">suicide</span></a></span><span style="color: black;">. Long term negative effects on development leading to repeated or additional victimization in adulthood are also associated with child sexual abuse. In covert incest, an affected individual can experience distress in their personal relationships and sexual relationships in particular. As long as disclosure continues to be a problem for young victims, then fear, suffering, and psychological distress will, like the secret, remain with the victim. </span>These are the most common side effects and mostly vague as to things like shop<span style="background-color: white;">lifting</span> and having dirty thoughts of the attack , leading to more guilt. When interviewed, convicted (non-family) child molesters say that they chose quiet kids, children who had fewer adults supporting them or whose parents were preoccupied elsewhere. In other words, children who wouldn’t tell, or who had no adult they trusted to tell.<br />
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<strong>So this is long term but what do we look for right now?</strong><br />
<span style="color: black;">Child sexual abuse may cause infections and </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Sexually_transmitted_disease" title="Sexually transmitted disease"><span style="color: black;">sexually transmitted diseases</span></a><span style="color: black;">.<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></sup>Depending on the age of the child, due to a lack of sufficient </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Vaginal_fluid" title="Vaginal fluid"><span style="color: black;">vaginal fluid</span></a><span style="color: black;">, chances of infections are higher. </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Vaginitis" title="Vaginitis"><span style="color: black;">Vaginitis</span></a><span style="color: black;"> has also been reported.</span><br />
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Children who are sexually abused may exhibit behavioral changes, based on their age.<br />
Children up to age 3 may exhibit:<br />
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<li>Failure to thrive</li>
</ul>Children ages 2 to 9 may exhibit:<br />
<ul><li>Fear of particular people, places or activities</li>
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<li>Victimization of others</li>
<li>Excessive masturbation</li>
<li>Feelings of shame or guilt</li>
<li>Nightmares or sleep disturbances</li>
<li>Withdrawal from family or friends</li>
<li>Fear of attack recurring</li>
<li>Eating disturbances</li>
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<ul><li>Depression</li>
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<li>Poor school performance</li>
<li>Promiscuity</li>
<li>Substance abuse</li>
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<li>Running away from home</li>
<li>Fear of attack recurring</li>
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<li>Early pregnancy or marriage</li>
<li>Suicidal gestures</li>
<li>Anger about being forced into situation beyond one’s control</li>
<li>Pseudo-mature behaviors</li>
</ul>Overall sexually abused children may also develop the following: <br />
<ul type="disc"><li><span style="color: black;">unusual interest in or avoidance of all things of a sexual nature </span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/childrens_sleep_problems"><span style="color: black;">sleep problems</span></a><span style="color: black;"> or nightmares </span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/the_depressed_child"><span style="color: black;">depression</span></a><span style="color: black;"> or withdrawal from friends or family </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">seductiveness </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">statements that their bodies are dirty or damaged, or fear that there is something wrong with them in the genital area </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">refusal to go to school </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">delinquency/</span><a href="http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/conduct_disorder"><span style="color: black;">conduct problems</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">secretiveness </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">aspects of sexual molestation in drawings, games, fantasies </span></li>
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</ul>So you know what to look for or can identify? What do you do if a child tells you this is going on?<br />
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<a href="http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/usermanuals/sexabuse/sexabusec.cfm">What to look for medically like UTI</a><br />
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<strong>Support child abuse victims.</strong> Children need to know that they can speak openly to a trusted adult and that they will be <span style="color: red;">believed</span>. Children who are victims of sexual abuse should always be reassured that <span style="color: red;">they are not responsible for what has happened to them</span>. Offer encouragement for victims by supporting organizations that help victims of incest or by simply reassuring victims of sexual abuse that they should not feel shame or guilt. It is important to understand that troubled families can be helped and that everyone can play a part in the process. Help make others aware of sexual abuse by arranging for knowledgeable guest speakers to present to your organizations or groups. Encourage your local school board to establish programs to educate both teachers and students about the problem.<br />
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<strong>Report, report, report!!!</strong> If you suspect sexual abuse and believe a child to be in imminent danger, report it to the local child protective services agency (often called “social services” or “human services”) in your county or state. Professionals who work with children are required by law to report reasonable suspicion of abuse or neglect. Furthermore, in 20 states, citizens who suspect abuse or neglect are required to report it. “Reasonable suspicion” based on objective evidence, which could be firsthand observation or statements made by a parent or child, is all that is needed to report. Remember that you may be the <span style="color: red;">only </span>person in a position to help a child who is being sexually abused.<br />
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<ol><li>If the abuse was recent and you have reason to believe there has been physical harm to the child or any physical evidence of the abuse, please take the child to the nearest hospital. Do not wait and don’t let the child change clothes or shower first. Explain to them that having physical evidence of what was done to them can be very helpful to the police, especially if the case goes to trial. Most hospitals have social workers and other trained professionals who will help the child emotionally as well as medical staff trained to take physical evidence in these types of cases. One warning: Please request that someone specifically trained in this process do the physical exam. These exams are emotionally difficult for the child, and unfortunately we have seen untrained medical staff further traumatize sexually abused kids by not knowing what they are doing.</li>
<li>If you believe the child is in ANY danger from the abuser, take the child to your nearest police station. DO NOT WAIT. Although any police officer will assist you, many local police precincts now have a specially trained unit to handle crimes against children. Call your local police station and ask if there is a Sex Crimes or Crimes Against Children Unit. If so, arrange to have yourself and the child met at the Police Station by a member of this unit.</li>
<li>If you are a<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/nnote_to_professionals.html"><span style="color: black;">mandated reporter</span></a><span style="color: black;"> or anyone besides a parent of the child, either do one of the above, or call your state’s Child Protective Services office. Click below for a State by State directory of Phone Numbers to use to Report Suspected Abuse.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">If you’d like someone to talk to and to help you report the abuse, call ChildHelp. Our partner organization, ChildHelp is a national organization that provides crisis assistance and other counseling and referral services. The </span><a href="http://www.childhelp.org/get_help"><span style="color: black;">Childhelp<u>®</u> National Child Abuse Hotline</span></a><span style="color: black;"> is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with professional crisis counselors. All calls are anonymous. Contact them at 1-800-4-A-CHILD. (1-800-422-4453)</span></li>
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There are lots of reasons why kids sometimes don’t tell a grown-up when they have been molested. Sometimes the kid loves the person who is abusing them. Then it can be confusing to know the right thing to do. Some kids think what happened was somehow their fault.Sometimes kids are scared to tell because the person abusing them has threatened to hurt the kid or the kids’ family. But no matter why kids think they should NOT tell, the truth is: YOU NEED TO TELL AN ADULT IF YOU ARE BEING SEXUALLY ABUSED!<br />
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I was too ashamed to tell anyone. I thought no one would believe me.” <br />
“I thought it happened to me because I had done something bad.” <br />
“My dad told me that he had to be my first in order for me to be a grown person. He always told me he did the things he did because he loved me. Then he said that I was not to tell anyone. He told me that he'd give me anything I wanted if I didn’t tell anyone.”<br />
“I thought they’d be mad that I hadn’t told them when it happened.”<br />
“Jay used threats to keep me in line so I wouldn't tell on him. He would slap me when I started to cry, and tell me he'd do it again much harder if I didn't shut up. Often times he would pull out knives and threaten to hurt me, so I kept quiet and did as I was told.”<br />
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These are all things that adults use to make you not want to tell along with loving that person. This person who did this is sick and needs help. If you keep it in , they can't get better.<br />
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You have to tell when what is happening is scaring or hurting you at all. If one person doesn't believe you, tell someone else. Keep telling until someone listens. I know it's painful to tell, but what you're living with is far worse.<br />
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<strong>Who to tell?</strong><br />
A Friend.<br />
Maybe you have a teacher or guidance counselor at school who you feel comfortable talking to. Or maybe its a friend’s mom?Think about this: which grownup do you feel MOST comfortable talking to? Who do you talk to when things are bothering you? If you can’t think of any grownup you trust, then the best choice is to call the ChildHelp Hotline. The Hotline people are friends of ours who are used to talking to kids who are being abused. Their number is <strong>1-800-4-A-CHILD</strong>. If you don’t have a grownup you trust, this is probably the best way to get the abuse stopped.<br />
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For kids who have been sexually abused: <strong>it's not your fault</strong>. You must not keep it a secret no matter how long ago it happened. It won't go away by itself. Tell someone. It's a heavy burden to carry alone. I wish I had been able to tell my family and friends earlier. If I had told someone right away, I could have gotten help. I wouldn’t have felt like no one could understand what I was going through, and I needed to know that I wasn’t alone. Finally, I realized it wasn’t going to work to try to fix everything on my own. I decided it was time to take the burden off my shoulders.<br />
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This is probably the hardest part. Once you pick the grown-up, just take a deep breath and tell them straight out. We know this part is scary, but it will be easier for you if you just tell them exactly what is happening. Don’t just hint at it. They may not get it. Say something like “Ms. Smith, I need to tell you what my Uncle Charlie did to me last night.” Or “Mom, you know how I never want to stay with that babysitter? Well I need to tell you why.”<br />
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It’s also a good idea to tell that grown-up about this website <a href="http://justtell.org/">Help</a> and ask them to come read the part for adults. If you tell a grown-up and they don’t believe you, or don’t help you, <span style="color: red;">DON’T BE DISCOURAGED</span>. PLEASE tell another grown-up. If you tell a grown-up in your family and they don’t help you, then tell a teacher or your school nurse or your principal. Or you can always call the hotline 1-800-4-A-CHILD.<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://cache0.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/medium/9780/7573/9780757315879.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://cache0.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/medium/9780/7573/9780757315879.jpg" t8="true" width="186" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong>Books</strong>- <span style="color: blue;">blue</span> is for younger readers</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Covert incest - Silently Seduced </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Your child</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span id="btAsinTitle">Getting Through the Day: Strategies for Adults Hurt as Children </span><br />
<span id="btAsinTitle">I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse</span><br />
<span id="btAsinTitle">Victims No Longer: Men Recovering from Incest and Other Sexual Child Abuse </span><br />
<span id="btAsinTitle">Psychological Trauma and the Adult Survivor: Theory, Therapy, and Transformation, (Brunner/Mazel Psychosocial Stress Series, No. 21</span><br />
<span id="btAsinTitle"><span style="color: blue;">The Right Touch: A Read-Aloud Story to Help Prevent Child Sexual Abuse </span></span><br />
<span id="btAsinTitle"><span style="color: blue;">Your Body Belongs to You</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: blue;"><span id="btAsinTitle">Not in Room 204: Breaking the Silence of Abuse </span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span id="btAsinTitle"><span style="color: blue;">Sarah's Waterfall: A Healing Story about Sexual Abuse</span> </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: blue;"><span id="btAsinTitle">Something Happened and I'm Scared to Tell: A Book for Young Victims of Abuse </span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The bottom line is that <strong>you are not alone</strong>, and never will be. Don't give up stay and fight for those that can't. Give thanks that is over and use your misfortunate to educate others. You don't have to take abuse from anyone, it is not worth the life you loose over it. What does not kill you , will only make you stronger. </div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Please do not abort the child , there is adoption and God can give gifts through the most painful situations.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090318/as-pakistan-rape-victim-marries/images/3906c3db-4fea-4c1a-87a7-0f1fae9da0d0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="134" src="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090318/as-pakistan-rape-victim-marries/images/3906c3db-4fea-4c1a-87a7-0f1fae9da0d0.jpg" t8="true" width="200" /></a>The term <i><strong>survivor</strong></i> is sometimes used for a living victim, even of usually non-fatal harm, to honor and empower the strength of an individual to heal, in particular a living victim of sexual abuse or assault. If I am a survivor then why do I feel so bad? Everyday is a battle, learn how to occupy your mind form these thoughts, seek help, and love anyways. Take it one day at a time. Some will be bad, but others are worth living for afterall how do you know until you try? There are book on how to figure things out. Call a friend or relative. A good book and some icecream works too.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="background-color: white;">Links for help and information:</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse">What is sexual abuse?</a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest">What is incest?</a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/sexual-assault-victims">Who are the victims?</a></div><a href="http://www.americanhumane.org/children/stop-child-abuse/fact-sheets/child-sexual-abuse.html">Stop child abuse</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse">What is child sexual abuse?</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_incest">What is emotional abuse or covert incest?</a><br />
<a href="http://www.privatefamilymatter.com/sexual/sexual-abuse-examples">graphic- Abuse examples</a><br />
<a href="http://justtell.org/8-12/welcome.html">justtell.org</a><br />
<a href="http://aacap.org/page.ww?name=Child+Sexual+Abuse&section=Facts+for+Families">Facts for families</a><br />
<a href="http://undermuchgrace.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html">Replacement quiz- covert</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-smToUcC-pw">angelman syndrome- a mom's gift out of a bad thing</a><br />
<a href="http://www.eslbee.com/why_women_should_not_have_an_abortion.htm">an_abortion</a><br />
<a href="http://anzemscience8b.blogspot.com/2011/04/abortion.html">This is what abortion does to the one person who will love you no matter what you do- graphic</a><br />
<a href="http://hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Monitor-and-Protect-Your-Kids-Activities-On-The-Internet">-Protect-Your-Kids-Activities-On-The-Internet</a><br />
<a href="http://goodnewsdaily.net/christian-author-produces-riptides-on-male-sexual-abuse/">abuse on men in church</a><br />
<a href="http://www.cityofblaine.com/index.aspx?NID=177">city of blaine</a><br />
<a href="http://www.criminalrecords.info/three-boys-charged-in-sex-assault-on-autistic-girl/">3 boys one girl</a><br />
<a href="http://www.topnews.in/forty-cent-women-germany-victims-abuse-study-281854">abuse-study</a><br />
<a href="http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/usermanuals/sexabuse/sexabusec.cfm">UTI and other findings on your child's body</a><br />
<a href="http://trendsupdates.com/mukhtar-mai-gang-rape-survivor-women%E2%80%99s-rights-activist-woman-of-the-year/">mukhtar-mai-gang-rape-survivor</a><br />
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Random bookmark: <a href="http://www.torrid.com/torrid/Homepage.jsp">Torrid</a>hilarychloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16618011602803245718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1346216167658168256.post-90395635764511840282011-06-07T12:36:00.010-04:002011-06-07T23:17:17.157-04:00Soap Suds<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.gizmos-and-gadgets.net/wp-content/plugins/blog/images/mountain-dew-xbox-soap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://www.gizmos-and-gadgets.net/wp-content/plugins/blog/images/mountain-dew-xbox-soap.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Well I have been reading about making soap and there are many ways to do it. I am a swineophobic so I try not to use the animal fats and lards, which left me with glycerin and I am not that fond of olive oil so I ended up making my own soaps. I like them , they are pretty and it's a fun project. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong>Warning:</strong> This heats up the house =)</div>I did soap making on a summer day and it was scorching. Now I am starting out and bought some easy soaps before I try the big soaps so I will list these and talk about them a little bit. <br />
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mica - this coloring agent-<a href="http://www.brambleberry.com/Colorants-C181.aspx">Mica</a><br />
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Melt and pour soap :<a href="http://www.brambleberry.com/Bases-Melt-Pour--C151.aspx">Melt n Pour</a><br />
This is a soap which basically you buy the base that is already made reheat it and add your goodies. <br />
It is very easy, very quick and easy clean up. You can use a double boiler, or the microwave. For the microwave you put the base in a microwave safe container and place in the microwave at 30 second intervals, it needs to be covered so i laid a napkin over the top of a measuring cup I had.<br />
This is when you add your essential oils and or herb puree. It shouldn't look cloudy at this point.<br />
This is when you add your food coloring and/or mica. Don't use a lot of coloring because when you go to wash your hands you don't want to look like a smurf or any other color you choose. Pour the soap into your molds and use rubbing alcohol to get rid of bubbles. To do this I get a little spray bottle from the dollar store and spray the alcohol on the top. ( whatever is left of the alcohol mix with water and use for a TV or monitor cleaner)With melt and pour soap you wait a few hours and you are good to go. I bought my soap off of amazon for a better deal , but eBay and other websites sell them. Here is a great link to show what you do with melt and pour-<a href="http://www.teachsoap.com/mp.html">Teachsoap</a> and <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/335074/fruit-and-herb-soaps-how-to">Martha's Soap</a>. I used Martha's recipe with glycerin and it came out great. By the way, you can get all veggie glycerin that does not contain any animal fats. I got this on amazon too.<br />
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Cold Process Lye Soap:<br />
Goggles , long sleeves, and gloves are your best friend here. <strong>Add lye to water, do NOT add water to lye.</strong> This is very important as it will heat up and get out of control. When adding lye to water use very small amounts and stir than add it again and stir. Don't breathe fumes. Allow the mixture to cool to 110 f. best to do this on a porch or something if you don't have a well ventilated place. Add your oils together and melt. Get the oils to 110 f or 5 degrees within lye. Add the oils to the lye water and stir vigorously until you get a trace. Stirring by hand may take an hour to trace by the way , best to use a stick mixer. Trace will look like a thin pudding. Pour the soap into molds and wait about 3 to 5 days. After the 3- 5 days pop the soap out and allow it to cure for 4-6 weeks before you use it. This is a good project for November to make soap for Christmas gifts. Here are some of the oils to use.<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><b>Beginner 4.5 pound Soap Recipe - makes just under 4.5 lbs of soap</b>16oz Canola Oil<br />
16oz Coconut Oil<br />
16oz Palm Oil<br />
6.9oz Lye (5% superfatted)<br />
15.8oz Water</span><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.teachsoap.com/easycpsoap.html">Cold soap</a> - good directions here</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I seen a video on YouTube where the lady added milk to her lye, </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">like goats milk etc and she had it in an ice tray frozen. I wondered why and found out that if you do not freeze the milk when you add it to the lye it becomes very very hot and dangerous , so to reduce danger you freeze the milk. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Fizzy Bombs:<a href="http://www.monkeysee.com/play/15809-science-project-holiday-gifts-fizzy-bath-bombs">Monkeysee</a></div> 1 cup baking soda<br />
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.geekologie.com/2008/02/29/super-mario-bath-bombs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="113" src="http://www.geekologie.com/2008/02/29/super-mario-bath-bombs.jpg" t8="true" width="200" /></a></div>1/2 cup of light oil - like baby oil, you can use corn if you have to <br />
1 cup of citric acid - this must be pure citric acid, do not use the type for canning at the store or you will have jelly in your tub, I buy it online<br />
1/2 cup cornstarch<br />
extract of your choice or essential oil- about a teaspoon but mostly to you liking<br />
and food coloring<br />
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Add all of your dry ingredients into a bowl and mix around. Add your food coloring to you oil and your scent. Add wet to dry ingredients. Stir with a spoon first then you can use your fingers after it soaks in a bit , this prevents tye dye funky hands. This makes a great science project. The monkey see link above tell you how to explain for the kid's science fair. You can mush the mixture into ball or you put a little toy inside and press it around it, use a cookie cutter or whatever you want to do. Let these dry about 2 to 3 hours , overnight is best. For a variant add Epsom salts and you get bath salts. I wrapped mine in little cellophane pieces or a zip lock bag, once i put them into a glass jar. Easy simple and takes about 12 minutes. I used gloves to mush my mix into balls cause the citric acid is rough to me where I am sensitive to oranges and citric.When I took a bath though it wasn't harmful to me at all as it is diluted in water.<br />
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Castile-<br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castile_soap">Castile</a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castile_soap">Castile Recipe</a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://blog.craftzine.com/soap_cupcakes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://blog.craftzine.com/soap_cupcakes.jpg" t8="true" width="152" /></a>Soap Cupcakes!!!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong>Big Warning: Do not eat off the utensils and tools you use to make lye soap, not sure about the others.</strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I am sure there are more ways to do soap these are just a few that I have found. Now on the herb puree i mentioned earlier I used coconut because it is a natural antibacterial. Grapefruit is good for acne. You can google what herbs are good. In the cold soaps I have read that not all herbs and things comply with the soap so be careful you do not want to waste a batch. Here are some soap making links that are helpful </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0CB4osn6Zk">Soap Cupcakes video</a></div><a href="http://www.brambleberry.com/">Brambleberry</a>- supplies<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Soap-Expressions-Clear-Gycerine-Base/dp/B0014L7CSC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1307463405&sr=8-3">Glycerin</a><br />
<a href="http://www.soapnuts.com/wofmp.html">Soapnuts - info for melt and pour</a><br />
<a href="http://www.adailycupoffaith.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/cold-process-soap.jpg">adailycupoffaith</a><br />
<a href="http://www.geekologie.com/2008/02/super-mario-bath-bombs-are-fiz.php">geekologie</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/10/how-to_soap_cupcakes.html">soap cupcakes</a><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-CSB-76BC-SmartStick-200-Watt-Immersion/dp/B000EGA6QI">What's a stick mixer?</a><br />
<a href="http://www.gizmos-and-gadgets.net/finally-mountain-dew-scented-xbox-360-soap/">mountain-dew-scented-xbox-360-soap</a><br />
<a href="http://www.mountainroseherbs.com/index2.html">Mountain rose herbs</a><br />
<a href="http://www.americanspice.com/">American spice - citric acid</a><br />
<a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Homemade-Shampoo/step5/DE-FLAKE/">Homemade-Shampoo</a><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Beginner 6.5 pound Soap Recipe - makes just over 6.5 lbs of soap</b>5oz Canola Oil<br />
5oz Castor Oil<br />
32oz Coconut Oil<br />
32oz Palm Oil<br />
11 oz Lye (5% superfatted)<br />
24.4 oz Water</span><br />
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Random Boomark :<a href="http://steep.it/">Steep</a></div>hilarychloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16618011602803245718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1346216167658168256.post-34033061707570401552011-06-07T01:01:00.000-04:002011-06-07T01:01:27.894-04:00Gluten Free Eating<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.neighborhoodnotes.com/uploads/images/Gluten-Free-PDX_New-Seasons06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.neighborhoodnotes.com/uploads/images/Gluten-Free-PDX_New-Seasons06.jpg" t8="true" width="400" /></a></div><li>1 out of every 133 Americans (about 3 million people) has CD.</li><br />
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<li class=" hover">97% of Americans estimated to have CD are not diagnosed.</li><br />
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</div><div class=" hover">Isn't this alot of people? Well I have recently found out I have an allergy to wheat. It is not fun. I love bread and pasta. I married to a half Italian I imagine you guess how much of this stuff we ate. </div><div class=" hover">Not all hope is lost though. I found some interesting articles here and there. I have a health food store that helps with buying gluten free products. </div><div class=" hover">Just found out that oatmeal is gluten free but contamination occurs and that is what causes oatmeal to be dangerous. yeah imagine that , contamination like chicken to beef! crazy huh?!</div><div class=" hover">Here are some great website for gluten free eaters. It is a life change in feelings by the way. I felt sluggish tired and sad a lot, after eating gluten free i have more energy and I feel overall better. Make sure to take your vitamins though!</div><div class=" hover"><br />
</div><div class=" hover"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">Cookies and things do turn out different, but overall i was surprised at the taste. It is not that much different at all</span></div><ul><li><div class=" hover"><span class="blsp-spelling-error"></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error">GF</span> foods are, on average, 242% more expensive then their non-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">GF</span> counterparts</div></li>
<li><div class=" hover">There are currently 0 drugs available to treat CD</div></li>
</ul><div class=" hover"><a href="http://celiac-disease.com/facts-statistics-about-celiac-disease/">Celiac disease</a></div><div class=" hover"><a href="http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Using-Alternative-Flours/Detail.aspx">Food Alternatives- great feedback</a></div><div class=" hover"><a href="http://hanunyahssweetcreations.blogspot.com/2010/12/make-your-own-gf-flour-it-can-be.html">Hanunyah's- this girl has great recipes that are GF</a></div><div class=" hover"><a href="http://www.healthyindulgences.net/2009/05/healthy-chocolate-cake-with-secret.html">Chocolate cake that is Gf and diabetic friendly</a></div><div class=" hover"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten-free_diet">What is it? Gluten Free</a></div><div class=" hover"><a href="http://www.glutenfree.com/">Foods to buy and try</a></div><div class=" hover"><a href="http://celiacdisease.about.com/od/cookingglutenfree/a/crosscontaminat.htm">Gluten Contamination</a></div><div class=" hover"><a href="http://www.gicare.com/diets/gluten-free.aspx">What to eat and what not, great info here</a></div><div class=" hover"><br />
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</div><div class=" hover">Walmart has some brands of Betty crocker that are GF. Bob's red mill is really good, I get it at Kroger's grocery store. These are mainly what i eat now and have tried. We have a little town so not much to choose from.</div><div class=" hover"><br />
</div><div class=" hover">I am going to post my latest recipe that I made I adpated this from Martha Stewert's Easter egg recipe , it was really too sweet I suggest using half splenda or maybe less sugar . </div><div class=" hover"><br />
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</div><ul><li><div class="ingredient first" sizcache="24" sizset="43">4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for surface-- I used brown rice flour and I didn't use any surface flour</div></li>
</ul><div class="item-list" sizcache="24" sizset="43"><ul class="content-multigroup-group-ingredient" sizcache="24" sizset="43"><li class="ingredient">1 teaspoon baking powder</li>
<li class="ingredient">1/2 teaspoon coarse salt</li>
<li class="ingredient">2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature</li>
<li class="ingredient">2 cups granulated sugar-- I suggest less sugar more splenda or alternative</li>
<li class="ingredient">2 large eggs</li>
<li class="ingredient">2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract</li>
</ul></div><div class="ingredient">So when you mix the dry and mix the wet then add them together it is a bit runny. the batter will "pour" into your cookie sheet. I baked it anyways. 325 Degrees if you are wondering. At the end i seen that that the cookie was brown on the bottom but a little runny on top , so I broiled it at 500 degrees until both sides were slightly golden brown. Take them out and let them cool a little bit and then cut them into squares. Now when i made this like I said it was really too sweet , so my hubby slapped some peanut butter on it and it became very tasty and less sweet. My toddler loved them.</div><div class="ingredient"><br />
</div><div class="ingredient">Careful to read your labels, I found that store bought icing in the cheap brands had gluten but Pillsbury didn't. At least there is a big label that says </div><div class="ingredient"><strong>MAY CONTAIN : WHEAT , SOY </strong></div><div class="ingredient">That makes it easier to find<strong> </strong>quicker too.</div><div class="ingredient"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/01/adhd-shirt-logo-lg.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/01/adhd-shirt-logo-lg.gif" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><div class="ingredient">Ever wonder why so many kids have ADHD and things now, check this out ! <a href="http://www.adhdawareness.com/control-ADHD-with-diet.html">ADHD</a> and <a href="http://whattofeedyourkids.blogspot.com/2008/07/gluten-and-adhd.html">Adhd mother</a></div><div class="ingredient">I noticed a big improvement in my toddler's terrible twos. He wasn't wanting to pay attention and was aggravated at learning. He never sat still ( still doesn't , but better) and would tantrum a lot. I changed to GF and he wants to learn and knows his numbers to 5 in a matter of two weeks. He is still an active little boy but he more calm and can pay attention to things I am saying easier. He started memorizing songs and singing them aloud instead of looking around and running back and forth. I noticed this in two weeks. </div><div class="ingredient"><br />
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</div><div class="ingredient">I started loosing weight and my diabetic sugar has been lowered a lot. I feel like I don't have the flu everyday , and I don't crack snap and pop when I get up. I noticed that I am slimmer in my face but I noticed that instead of lossing fat I am also building more muscle tone. I lost about a pound a day for a few weeks. </div><div class="ingredient"><br />
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</div><div class="ingredient">This is all I have right now for gluten free living. I will add more if I find anything else.</div><div class="ingredient"><br />
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</div><div class="ingredient">Here is my random bookmarked link</div><div class="ingredient"><a href="http://www.supernanny.com/Advice/-/Your-toddler/-/Development-and-learning/Time~out-for-tantrums.aspx">Tantrums =(</a></div>hilarychloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16618011602803245718noreply@blogger.com0