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Lemon Meringue Pie
Lemon Meringue Pie
Crispy yielding meringue with a tart lemony filling and light buttery crumbly pastry combine to make this the queen of summer desserts. This show-stopping pudding is a perfect dessert to enjoy as a beautifully light Springtime treat after Sunday lunch and to enjoy throughout the Spring and Summer.
For the pastry case:
200g butter
200g plain flour
75g cornflour
50g icing sugar
1 egg
2 tbs water
For the lemon filling:
6 eggs
140g caster sugar
Juice of 4 lemons
175ml double cream
For the meringue topping
4 egg whites
225g caster sugar
Large mixing bowl or food processor
Measuring spoons
Kitchen scales
Baking beans
Greaseproof paper
Rolling pin
25cm Tala Performance Bakeware fluted flan dish
Medium size mixing bowl
Measuring jug
Rubber spatula
Mini palette knife
1. Fit the food processor with a multi-purpose chopping blade before adding flour, cornflour and icing sugar to the bowl. Blitz briefly, then add the butter, blitzing again to a fine, sand-like consistency. Mix again, adding the egg and water until the mixture comes together when pinched. Turn out the dough, roll into a ball, wrap in cling film and chill for at least an hour.
2. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius (356 Fahrenheit). Sprinkle the work surface with flour and roll out the dough to a thickness of about 3 to 4mm. Line the flan dish with the pastry, allowing a generous overhang, as the pastry shrinks in the oven. Place a large circle of greaseproof paper over the pastry, fill with baking beans and bake for 15 minutes.
3. Allow the case to cool slightly before carefully removing the baking beans and paper, then return to the oven for 5 minutes to crisp up further. When the pastry case is done, remove from the oven and turn the heat down to 140 degrees Celsius (284 Fahrenheit).
4. Meanwhile prepare the lemon filling by whisking eggs and sugar followed by the lemon juice and finally the double cream. Carefully transfer the mixture into the pastry case and return to the oven until just set – this takes around 25 minutes. Take care not to over-cook the mixture.
5. When the pie has just 15 minutes left in the oven, get started on the meringue. Take four egg whites and beat until they form stiff peaks. (A hand-held electric beater really makes life easier for this job.) Gradually add the caster sugar, a dessert spoon at a time until the mixture is glossy.
6. Remove the pie from the oven and turn the heat up to 170 degrees Celsius (338 Fahrenheit).
7. Spoon the meringue over the lemon filling and use a palette knife to create picturesque whirls and peaks over the surface of the pie. Return to the oven for another 20 minutes, keeping an eye on the pie for the last few minutes ready to whisk it out if it starts to catch.
The pastry can be made by hand if you don't have a food processor. Rub butter and flour together using finger tips, and try not to let the mixture get too warm.
Save time by using bottled lemon juice, instead of squeezing the lemons by hand.
You will need 200ml of juice. You can also use ready-separated egg white from a carton – reckon on 2 tablespoons for each egg.
The pastry base can be prepared the day before, or even made ahead and frozen if you want to get organised.
Wrap the baked case in cling film before freezing.


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Purpose and Structure - Over 500 scholars globally will gather to present papers and engage in progressive discussion on the Linguistic Anthropology, Language and Society, and related fields, of The Mediterranean and Europe. The COMELA is fully Non-Profit, where all publishing with the JOMELA (its scholarly journal) is free, as the COMELA refuses to implement a pay to publish system. The COMELA sources funding/grants to assist people in impeded economic positions, who require funding to access the COMELA Conference, and display strong ability in their work. COMELA proceedings will be indexed with SCOPUS and will contribute to ranked and cited publications for all those accepted to present, as well as publishing papers in Top Tier Journal Publication Special Issues.
Location - American University of Greece, Athens, Greece
Date - September 2-5, 2020
Calling all Actors, Designers, and Creatives—to participate in a staged reading of
Directed by Rob Groves
Friday, January 3, 2020
SCS/AIA Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
The Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance's annual tradition of staged readings at the annual general meeting will continue this year with a production of an engaging example of Classical reception, Robert Montgomery Bird's 1831 retelling of the Spartacus story, The Gladiator!
I have always been a proponent of reading outside of one's own field. We are all pressed for time, of course, and keeping up with the scholarship in our own areas of expertise is itself a constant challenge. But reading outside of our traditional areas of study is one of those intellectual activities in which even a little goes a long way towards exposing us to real and imagined worlds that can allow us to better reconstruct the ancient Mediterranean.
As an ancient Mediterranean historian, I have gained most from my reading in (loosely) adjacent historical fields, especially early China and early modern Europe. I have also benefitted from exploring research in social-scientific disciplines with which history is in ongoing dialogue, especially sociology and cultural anthropology. My reading in these fields could hardly be called systematic, but it doesn't matter. The time spent reading outside of ancient Mediterranean history almost always repays the reader by presenting new questions, new approaches, and new ways to think about familiar material.
However, today I want to explore something a little different: how my ideas about the Roman Empire, my research and teaching focus, have been shaped by creative literature—an essential tool, I have found, for facilitating the leaps of historical imagination necessary for an empathetic (if ultimately incomplete) understanding of a world so alien from our own.
Classical Representations in Popular Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
Area Chair: Benjamin S. Haller (email@example.com)
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2019
Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 41st annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation's largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/
Classical Representations in Popular Culture
Papers on any aspect of Greek, Roman, or Mediterranean antiquity in contemporary or popular culture are eligible for consideration.
Classical Representations welcomes submissions on a broader range of topics including:
Call for Lightning Papers: Classics and Civic Activism
Joint AIA/SCS workshop, January 2–5, 2020, Washington, D.C.
Organizers: Yurie Hong (Gustavus Adolphus College), Marina Haworth (North Hennepin Community College), Amit Shilo (UC, Santa Barbara), T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University)
Classicists at all levels have knowledge, experience, skills, and contacts that can usefully contribute to civic activism outside of academia proper. The Classics & Social Justice Affiliated Group has organized a workshop on the subject of Classics and Civic Activism for the upcoming AIA/SCS meeting. We invite proposals for a lightning round on outward-facing activism in which presenters will spend 3 minutes sharing their own experiences and making recommendations. These presentations will become integral to discussions among participants during the following breakout sessions.
The lightning round is the second of three parts of the workshop:
1) Three featured presenters from Indivisible, the National Humanities Alliance, and the American Federation of Teachers will offer guidance in community organizing, engaging with representatives, and other advocacy work, specifically focusing on how academics and educators can combine their skills and expertise with activism.
Blog: Anti-Catholicism, Classical Curriculum, and the Beginnings of Latin Drama in the United States
The United States was more than a century old before it saw its first play staged in Latin. What follows is a story about its producers' struggle for recognition and the external factors that doomed it to obscurity. Beyond a footnote in theatrical history, the 1877 production of a Jesuit Latin play at Boston College offers a glimpse into the fraught politics of education in the United States in the late 19th century, the origins of the modern college elective, and a form of Classical curriculum that might have been—if an ugly fight in Boston had turned out differently.
In April of 1894, Harvard's production of its first Latin play had set Boston buzzing. The event even rated a couple columns in the New York Times, which remarked:
Latin plays have been given in this country and in England, but never with the careful study of detail bestowed upon the Phormio of Terence, to be produced by Harvard students in Sanders Theatre this week… Educators from all parts of the country are expected to witness the production.
Seneca 2020. International Conference
What more can we say about Seneca?
The Centre for Classical Studies of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon is organizing an International Conference on Seneca to promote and encourage a critical reflection on the permanence of themes, values, perspectives and representations of Seneca's works in Western literature and culture.
The Conference will take place between 14-17 December 2020, and, through the interdisciplinary debate of the contribution given by the experiences of researchers from different fields of study, it aims:
- to think of how Seneca became one of the most prominent figures in Western culture;
- to consider, examine and reflect on our current knowledge about Seneca, his life and works;
- to explore new study angles and what remains to be said about Seneca in the Twenty-First Century, in light of the renewed interest shown in his works.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
António Pedro Mesquita (University of Lisbon)
Alessandro Schiesaro (University of Manchester)
Catharine Edwards (University of Cambridge)
Gareth David Williams (Columbia University)
Chiara Torre (University of Milan)
Jesús Luque Moreno (University of Granada)
José Pedro Serra (University of Lisbon)
"Performing Texts"
Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song
6th Open Conference, July 1-5, 2020, Spetses, Greece
Gregory Nagy (Classics, Harvard University) announces the 6th Open Conference, which is organized by Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC (CHS DC) on behalf of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song. The organization of the Conference will be administratively and logistically supported by Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece (CHS Greece).
The conference will take place on the island of Spetses in Greece from July 1 to July 5, 2020. The topic of the conference is "Performing Texts."
Justin Slocum Bailey will give a two-day series of workshops, BRINGING LATIN TO LIFE IN THE CLASSROOM, in Syracuse on Sept. 20-21, hosted by SU and generously supported by Binghamton University, Le Moyne College, The Humanities Corridor (and others).
Justin will help explore new and interactive techniques of Latin instruction. His pedagogy has proved to be very fruitful on all levels of Latin language classrooms (high school, college, etc.). Please consider attending and help spread the word.
Registration is $40 for one day, $75 for both: this will help cover a at least the lunches and refreshments. Students can attend for free. If the fee is an impediment to participation, we can offer a reduction.
Tina Chronopoulos (firstname.lastname@example.com) and I will be happy to learn if you want to attend and to hear any suggestions.
The Getty Scholars Program at the Villa for the 2020/2021 term will focus on the ancient cultures of the Levant and their relations with the classical world. Lying on the eastern seaboard of the Mediterranean, the Levant was a crucial crossroads between the classical world of Greece and Rome and the kingdoms of the Near East. Home to the ancient peoples of Phoenicia, Ugarit, Canaan, Philistia, Jordan, Israel, and Judah, this region participated in a vibrant Bronze-Age network of trade that flourished for many centuries until a combination of warfare, migration and famine around 1200 BCE destroyed these palace societies.


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The 1GB size is right. FAT formatted, fast and ready to share. $70 price OK...metal versions go for $20 - $40 more. Skip the overpriced software if you can.
PROS: Tiny, Fast, Convenient and 1 Gigabyte of storage. FREE software available.
CONS: Included software costly, the plastic "tips" on USB connector get lost, flimsy molded plastic construction.
San Disk Mini-Cruzer 1GB
This was going to be a "mini" review because there isn't much to tell you about this matchbox-sized USB 2.0 flash drive that isn't already obvious. Then, we discovered a lot of FREE software programs designed for flash drives. Interested? Read on!
- Size...it's very small...allows use of nearby ports
- Weight...nothing!
- Portable...carries files between PC's and Mac's
- 3 plastic "caps" supplied to protect the USB plug
- Lanyard comes with retail package
- Software programs included to encrypt, backup and synchronize files
- Cost: $70 at Costco...that's 7 cents a megabyte.
(at $260, the 4GB version is still 6.5 cents a megabyte)
As noted below, if you have files larger than 1GB to transfer, it's probably just as easy...and cheaper...to use a laptop drive in an external case. 60GB of storage in that format will cost around $100.00 The 4GB version will inevitably fall in price significantly.
The Concept
They've been called Pen Drives, Thumb Drives and Flash Drives. They are basically a memory module in a convenient housing that plugs right into the USB 1.1 or 2.0 port on your desktop or laptop computer.
The concept is to be able to quickly store files and unplug the device, plug it into another computer and share the files on that computer.
But as you'll see below, that concept is changing with the larger drives, enabling you to run so-called "Portable Apps" on compatible systems.
While you might have stored a compressed version of your favorite e-mail client to load and install on another computer, the larger drives enable you to just run a portable version of that right from the USB Flash Drive and still have adequate storage for moving files.
A Windows computer sees the Cruzer Mini a second or two after you plug it into the USB port. Note: While these work on Windows98SE, they are designed for more recent versions of Windows. With 98SE you will need to load drivers on the computer to make it work.
Using the Cruzer Mini
Plug it in. A green light (your color may vary) shines to show the card is getting power from the USB port.
The device should be automatically recognized as a removable drive and you can select various actions from a list. The default is to open the folder, which is the root of the drive and shows all of the folders and files contained within it.
Get in the habit of shutting down all open folders, files or programs
running on the Mini Cruzer and using the "Remove Hardware Safely"
procedure. It's the best way.
You can drag and drop (move) files from your laptop/desktop onto the Cruzer Mini or vice-versa to accomplish your goals, or use Copy and Paste.
Supplied Software (Not Free)
SanDisk provides three software programs already stored on the disk. You still have a Gigabyte of room. (No, that's not 1,000 Megabytes...it's more like 970MB. There are more than a billion bytes.)
PocketCache Trial software of a $20 program that will automatically repeat tasks like backing up a certain directory. Also enables you to create a "snapshot" of files that will preserve them at the time the snapshot was taken.
CruzerSync Trial software of a $60 program that will "synchronize" files. That is, when a file has been updated, the updates will be saved on your Cruzer Mini. If you are updating a directory, it will only change those files that have changed since the last time you performed synchronization.
CruzerLock2 Trial software of a program that can cost anywhere from $30 to $100 to keep your data safe from prying eyes.
I'm not going to argue that some of you may have data that is much, much more valuable than mine. But I think it a little absurd to pay $70 for a drive and then pay a hundred dollars or more for programs that are largely available free on the internet.
Frankly, I found the CruzerSync software to be less intuitive and user-friendly than easy back-it-up which I downloaded free. Synchronization works. Scheduled backups, too.
You can also use the handy links on the Menu to the right in order to select and download software. All links are to free programs.
More Software!
For most of us, Drag and Drop or Cut and Paste will be the preferred methods. ezback-it-up's ability to synchornize directories is also nice when you want to bring along multiple files that may have changed.
If you want continuous backups of a directory (every 20 minutes to 6 hours) and/or the power to ZIP those files automatically to save space, check out Back2zip
Microsoft has gotten into the act with the USB Flash Drive Manager that works on XP systems ONLY.
- Copy files and label USB Flash Drives
- Backup and restore contents of Flash Drive(s)
- Make flashdrive "Autorun" when inserted in USB Port
- Manage library of saved backups
- Wireless Network Setup - no more searching for WEP keys?
Users are not as enthused as they might be. This "Manager" needs some updates. If you restore a drive image using the manager, it won't autorun anything because that autorun.ini file is contained in a folder with the name you gave the drive. (In other words, instead of restoring the root directory needed to autorun anything, it placed it inside a folder called "MyCruzer" or whatever you named the backup.) Just copy and paste "autorun.ini" back into the root.
If you're always needing to configure new computers for an existing network, you can save the image of the flash drive enabled as a network setup disk. Warning: That overwrites whatever you had in "autorun.ini" with the network setup wizard!
Google "USB Flash Drive Manager" + Microsoft
You'll find a link to Microsoft's "Download" pages specific to the program.
While you're out at the Microsoft Dowloads pages, you may also want to check out "SyncToy" It's version 1.0 software as of this writing but it seemed to work fine on my system. Again, it's Windows XP ONLY. You will be required to do a version check, to ensure your Windows XP installation is genuine.
SyncToy is specifically designed to handle high volumes of photo files. But it works on any two directories...apparently unlimited subdirectories...and you can add multiple "pairs" to a Synchronization operation. You can also "de-select" subdirectories in either of the paired directories.
Portable Applications
The applications that work best on these flash drives are called portable apps because they don't depend on the drive letter assignments and have all their files stored locally.
Moreover, a true "Portable App should eliminate all unnecessary writes to the USB drive to minimize wear and prolong the life of the flash drive.
Here's a link to a site with specifically modified applications that won't leave files behind on computers you use...
Portable Firefox (Web Browser)
Portable Thunderbird (E-Mail Client)
Portable Sunbird (Calendar)
iFTP (Small FTP client)
...and audio tools etc. for use on a flash drive.
Don't pay $40 for a custom e-mail client -- Thunderbird has already
been customized for use on a flash drive!
Get Portable Mozilla Apps Here...
One "must have" application is a menu system that will call your applications from relative paths...so it works on any computer you happen to plug your USB Flash Drive into:
PStart (Portable Start) has some other nice features, like the ability to search all files on your USB flash drive for a string of text. You can also save notes about programs, files and profiles you have stored.
You can find a huge directory (60+) of FREE portable applications at "The Portable Freeware Collection." Another site that has a selection of Portable Apps is "Stand Alone."
Standalone Applications
Expect to see a lot more of these applications being modified for use on the larger flash drives.
The Cruzer Mini 1GB Flash Drive works as promised. That's about all the room I need for fast file transfers. In fact, I really like the speed of this thing! It's great for moving documents, photos, even entire programs.
Rating: 3 gears out of 5
Why only 3 gears? It's price, performance and included features don't make this model stand out in the crowd. It does work very well, but other versions are more rugged (more expensive, too.) The removable "caps" that go over the USB plug get lost...tethering them would have prevented that.
The lanyard that comes with it is a bit tricky to get installed. (Hint: slide the waxed cord into one of the holes at the end of the Mini and use the tip of a bent paperclip to pull the loop through the other hole. Then, just pass the detachable plastic connector through that loop and pull it tight.)
The price point for flash drives now seems to have hit the 1GB mark.
This little baby is the equivalent of 500 floppy drives or more. It's convenience is remarkable.


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Jared's most recent book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, discusses how societies have managed to just crumble away, sometimes without warning, and shows how the lessons of history can surely repeat themselves on modern societies. A fantastic speaker, Diamond has given us the chance to explore similar issues in this one-off Ideas Lecture, and at $16.50 a ticket, this is a must see event. Book now because it's going to sell out incredibly quickly. There are only 800 seats and as soon as this gets advertised it will go in a moment.
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According to a Naïve Realist about perception 'the phenomenal character of [a veridical visual experience] is its property of acquainting the subject with [the elements of the material world that the subject is looking at]' [16]. That is, the naïve realist claims that in veridical perception we are directly related to the objects and their properties that we perceive, which themselves 'shape' what our perceptual experience of them is like. Despite providing an intuitive, straightforward account of perceptual experience [1.3], and having anti-skeptical advantages over indirect realist accounts of perception [1.4], naive realism is often dismissed as uninformative about the nature of the perceptual relation: how do the objects and properties that we are acquainted with determine the phenomenal character of perceptual experience?
More significantly, naïve realism is generally taken to be unable to give a good account of non-veridical perception. The possibility of hallucination and illusion commit the naïve realist to a disjunctive theory of the phenomenal character of perceptual experience: in these cases the phenomenal character of experience can be indistinguishable from a veridical case but because the material world is not as it appears to be, by definition, this cannot be explained in terms of the objects and properties perceived themselves shaping what the experience is like. Yet, if this phenomenal character can be sufficiently explained independently of the elements of the world themselves in the non-veridical case, why think that they are necessary to explain phenomenal character in the veridical case: how can the naïve realist avoid having their account of veridical perception 'screened-off', or made redundant by the explanation of non-veridical perception?
Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion is William Fish's admirable attempt to answer these questions for a naïve realist account of perception. After first giving a precise formulation of the view, offering initial motivations for it, and clarifying the challenges an adequate version must overcome, Fish tackles these problems in turn. In his account of veridical perception he invokes a distinction between the presentational character of a visual experience, 'constituted by the seen objects and their properties' [50] and the phenomenal character of that experience, 'its property of acquainting the subject with the elements of the presentational character' [50]. This distinction allows Fish to explain how different perceivers seeing the same scene can nonetheless have experiences that differ in phenomenal character: it is the way in which a perceiver is acquainted with the presentational character of a scene that determines what her experience is like, and this, the phenomenal character of the experience, is partly dependent on her perspective on the scene, the acuity and idiosyncrasies of her visual system, the amount of attention she is paying, and her conceptual resources [75]. In this way the world can be intimately involved in, but not fully determinative of, veridical perceptual experience.
In contrast, because the world is not involved in a hallucinatory experience at all, Fish argues that hallucinations do not have phenomenal character at all: they do not acquaint a subject with some presentational character. Rather, he claims that in hallucination we merely believe that we are having an experience with a certain phenomenal character. Hallucinations are mental events, perhaps caused by various kinds of psychological abnormalities, that produce 'the same cognitive effects in the hallucinatory that a veridical perception of a certain kind would have produced in a rational subject' with the same overall background beliefs and conceptual resources [114]. Hence, to the hallucinator the experience is indiscriminable from that kind of veridical experience because, as part of it, she has the (false) belief that she is having a certain phenomenal experience. This is, in effect, an eliminativist theory of the phenomenal character of hallucination [93], but a theory that accounts for the indiscriminability of hallucination without screening-off the world-involving account of veridical perception.
Perhaps the most novel part of Fish's view is his account of illusion, and in this respect disjunctivism is something of a misnomer. He treats veridical perception and hallucination as poles of a continuum along which different kinds of illusion can be placed: in an illusion a subject is acquainted with certain presentational properties of the viewed scene, so her experience does have phenomenal character, but the cognitive effects of her experience differ in some significant ways from those that would normally be produced in a similar rational subject being acquainted with those presentational properties. Hence, her beliefs about what her experience is like do not accurately describe its phenomenal character. For instance, when someone sees a coiled rope as a snake her experience successfully acquaints her with the brown-ness, coiled-ness, and under-a-log-ness of the rope but also causes her to have certain mistaken beliefs, such as that she sees scales, and that she is seeing a snake [167-170]. So unlike in hallucination the illusory experience does have phenomenal character, but unlike in veridical perception, the higher cognitive effects of the experience are significantly different from those caused by a veridical perception, and include certain characteristic false beliefs. In this way Fish can avoid categorizing illusion as completely different from hallucination, thereby creating another screening-off problem from whatever account he gives, but also avoid categorizing it as just like hallucination which, with his error theory of the phenomenal character of hallucination and the prevalence of common, e.g. perceptual, illusions, would suggest that it is only in extremely rare cases that we actually have experiences with phenomenal character.
What is most impressive about the book is Fish's precision, clarity, and straightforwardness. He draws useful distinctions, for example between phenomenal character and presentational character that helps to show the range of possible versions of naïve realism, and his presentations of the arguments from hallucination and illusion show the exact, and different, problems each kind of experience raises for the naïve realist, as well making clearer the kinds of response available. Further, he is refreshingly open about the difficulty of these challenges, the plausibility of various responses, and the strength of his favoured account. I would highly recommend the book to those working in philosophy of perception but also to students due to its clarity and easily accessible style.
Of course, this does not mean that Fish's argument is wholly convincing. A naïve realist has to reject what Fish calls 'the local supervenience principle', the view that particular neural activity is sufficient for an experience to have a particular phenomenal character [118]. If this is true then the screening-off problem becomes almost unavoidable for the naïve realist. Fish acknowledges the wide-spread acceptance of the principle but argues that neither the thought experiments nor the empirical evidence commonly taken to support it actually does so: he argues that the former merely assumes the principle whereas the latter is either inconclusive or irrelevant to the issue [120-140]. He takes this to put the naïve realist on a par with an indirect realist who appeals to local supervenience with respect to explaining phenomenal character such that the views should then be judged according to which gives the better explanation [140]. As you might expect, he takes his naïve realist account to be superior here. Fish might be right about the status of the local supervenience principle but he seems mistaken about the argumentative position. Importantly, his naïve realism is an error theory of the phenomenal character of hallucination: it claims that things are not as they appear to be, and posits wide-spread false beliefs. As such it is reasonable to think it carries an extra burden compared with an indirect realism that appeals to local supervenience to try to explain how things are as they appear to be. Moreover, the kind of explanation available to the naïve realist seems unsatisfactory: at risk of raising the screening-off problem she cannot propose some uniform explanation of the error but often has to appeal to idiosyncratic cognitive abnormalities. So Fish is unable to meet the explanatory demands on his account. Nonetheless, it is a valuable attempt.
© 2009 David Wall
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Gathering medical records, a common chore for civil litigation paralegals, can be a time-consuming, cumbersome and multifaceted task. But electronically obtaining them (usually in Portable Document Format) reduces time spent handling paper documents, freeing the paralegal to work on other important assignments. Plus, several online specialty services that electronically obtain and provide medical records offer free subscriptions, charge only a nominal fee in addition to the cost of obtaining the records and offer extra services - often making them more cost-effective.
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Besides the tedious reproduction and distribution of records, other considerations come into play in dealing with hard copy medical records, such as bates numbering, indexing, and summarizing. These tasks require handling and rehandling the records, which often are voluminous. Electronically gathering medical records can simplify all of these tasks. For example, you can save e-records to your local computer or network server, to a disk or to a CD for ease of retrieval and distribution. Whenever the need arises, simply print as many copies as you need directly to your local or network printer without getting up from your desk, or save a few trees by distributing the records by e-mail. Another timesaver is electronically Bates numbering imaged medical records - performed by the records retrieval service or done yourself after you receive the e-records.
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When it's that "time of the month", chocolate is a guilty pleasure that most women crave. But maybe they should - chocolate is the ultimate comfort food and now a new product gives those undergoing PMS even more reason to indulge.
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Homemade Lemon Curd
An easy recipe for Homemade Lemon Curd- whip up this classic filling in just a few minutes, and be wowed by the bright, tangy citrus flavor and the buttery richness. Delicious on scones, or as a filling for tarts or cakes, and it makes a great homemade gift too!
Happy Friday everyone! Before I dive into the post I just want to ask a quick favor. I've got a chance to be on the Today Show!
They're looking for fresh culinary talent and I've tossed my hat into the ring. As you probably already know, I've done a bunch of appearances on my local Fox station, and this is my chance to take it to the next level! Do I have the chops to be on national tv? I sure hope so! You can help me get there by voting me up. Just click here to see my entry page, and right at the top left corner there's a little speech bubble. Just click it to cast your vote! I'm so grateful for it!
And now that that's out of the way, let's get on with the good stuff.
Lemon curd, baby. Am I right? Is it not like the best thing ever? I love it so much, I don't know what's wrong with me that it's taken this long to finally post a recipe.
If you've never had it before, boy are you in for a treat. So lemony, so bright, and zingy. It's perfect on scones or biscuits, layered in a trifle or tart, or even just eaten straight from the jar with a spoon. I may or may not have done that. A few times. Ok a lot!
The best thing about this recipe, in my opinion, is the richness. It's got the most incredible satiny texture. The butteriness lingers on your tongue, carrying with it all that floral, citrusy flavor. It's to-die-for! I just can't get enough of this stuff!
The second best thing about it is how easy it is to make. It's basically a dump and stir situation, with a little bit of heat added to tighten things up. Just put all the ingredients in a bowl and set it over a pot of simmering water. Whisk it every now and then, until all the butter melts and it gets hot. You'll notice it gets thicker, almost the consistency of yogurt. It will thicken even more as it cools in the fridge.
You will love having a jar of this around. Especially at this time of year, when fresh berries are coming into season. There's just so many things you can do with it. I'll be showing you several over the coming weeks.
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An easy recipe for Homemade Lemon Curd- whip up this classic filling in just a few minutes, and be wowed by the bright, tangy citrus flavor and the buttery richness. Delicious on scones, or as a filling for tarts or cakes, and it makes a great homemade gift too!
- 3 large eggs
- 3 egg yolks
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup lemon juice (juice of 2 lemons)
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter (1 stick), cut into small pieces
Place the eggs, yolks, sugar, and lemon juice in a medium mixing bowl and whisk to combine.
Place the bowl over a pot of simmering water, and add the butter.
Cook, whisking continuously, until thickened. The mixture should be about the consistency of yogurt.
Place a fine mesh strainer over a heat-safe bowl, and pour the mixture through.
Press waxed paper or plastic wrap directly onto the surface of the curd, to prevent a skin from forming. Refrigerate. Lemon curd will continue to thicken as it chills.


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Virtual Reality has come to be known as the future of gaming, multimedia, education or just about any other field you can possibly think of where tech can be involved. Google Cardboard being the most affordable and easiest way to experience VR has begun shaping up with many other VR headsets launching from various leading smartphone makers and maturing with many more apps and games being developed for it. One of the most recent advancements made in the world of VR is Social VR by Oculus. Realizing the potential of this technology, I thought I too can try developing a game using Google Cardboard's SDK and Unity 3D engine and surprisingly it is not as hard as it seems. Here's a preview of the Android VR game I developed using the above-mentioned tools and you can download my game from the Play Store by clicking over here:-
To create this kind of a game, you'll need to know how to use Unity 3D and I have already created a tutorial series on it so do check it out if you haven't already. Links to follow this tutorial are below and you can watch the video attached even below to know how to put all of these together.
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Fine Art (BA Honours)
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BA (Honours)
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Course duration:
4 Years (8 semesters)
Admission Requirements:
For admission to a programme, standard applicants must
- score the necessary CAO points and
- meet the minimum entry requirements
Leaving Certificate in six subjects i.e. H5 in two subjects, and O6/H7 in four other subjects
The six subjects must include English or Irish.There is no specific Mathematics requirement. Grade F2 or higher in Foundation Level Mathematics is recognised as one of the subjects. A Portfolio is part of the admission requirement.
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Please note the CAO closing date is 1st February, late application will not be accepted.
A special points system operates for admission to CR 220. This involves aggregating the points scored for the Leaving Certificate and for the Portfolio. Points are awarded out of 600 using the normal CAO points system applied to six subjects. A further 600 points are available for the Portfolio, making a total of 1200 maximum. A minimum of 240 (40%) points must be obtained in the Portfolio Assessment in order for an applicant to be eligible for the course.
You will receive your portfolio results by the end of March by post. This letter will tell you if you have achieved the necessary portfolio grade for a conditional offer. This offer of a place on the course is dependent on you meeting the minimum academic entry requirements through your Leaving Certificate, FETAC Award or other.
Leaving Cert Subjects:
Helpful subject is Art.
Course summary
Situated in Cork City centre, the Department of Fine Art & Applied Art is a stimulating and dynamic environment in which to study, welcoming students to become part of a vibrant arts community.
CIT Crawford College of Art & Design
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what is fine art?
Fine Art is the making and study of visual art. It educates and prepares students to become artists and to develop professional careers that are aligned to the making of art. The course allows students to work across all fine art media with excellent facilities for painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, digital media, and 3D processes.
About the course
CR220 Course Location: CIT Crawford College of Art & Design, Department of Fine Art & Applied Art.
The BA (Hons) in Fine Art is a studio-based course with an emphasis on individual creative development. Students are introduced to the skills and philosophies of the practicing artist. The course supports the development of studio practice enabling students to position their artwork in terms of art history and contemporary critical thought. Students can choose from a wide range of media including: painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, digital media, sound, print, performance, and/or drawing, and will be trained in the processes and facilities available in the College's excellently equipped workshops.
Fine Art offers very varied career paths. The course aims to instil individualism and independence preparing students for active careers in the visual arts or for further study to Master's degree level.
First year at a glance
The first year of study introduces students to Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Print, Photography and the range of media used in visual arts practice through skills development workshops. The academic lectures & seminars teach the histories and contemporary theories that inform art-making.
Students undertake modules: Introduction to Art Processes, Drawing, 3D Elements, Fine Art Studio practice, and Art History. Teaching is delivered through workshops, lectures, group seminars, tutorials, and peer and independent learning.
Further Studies
Suitably qualified Honours Degree graduates are eligible to apply for admission to
- Professional Master of Education (Art and Design)
- Master of Arts in Art & Process
- MA in Public Relations with New Media
- MA in E-learning Design and Development
- MA by Research
- PhD
Graduates who have also completed a foundation level course in Art Therapy are eligible to apply for admission to
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a late application facility?
It is very important to note that the option of 'change of mind' before 1 July does not apply to restricted access courses such as CR220. You can change the order of your CAO choices but you cannot add on this course if you haven't listed it already on your choices before the 1 February.
I might like to go on an Erasmus programme, is this possible with this course?
Yes, we have links with many European colleges and facilitate students to exchange on Erasmus programmes annually.
Is there any written exam?
There are no sit-down exams. However, there are many academic modules where assessment is in essay, report, seminar paper/thesis format.
Does the College provide all the materials for coursework?
We have stores in the College providing papers, canvas, paint, clay, inks etc. where students can purchase materials.
Is there specialism within this course e.g. Fine Art Print?
This programme offers students the opportunity to work across a range of media or specialise in their chosen media. All Fine Art students study and work together which encourages greater peer interaction. We do not separate students into media specialised class groups.
Graduate Profiles
Rachel Doolin
College may be tough at times, but the real world is tougher. Enjoy your time in studio because it really is precious, experiment loads and don't take yourself too seriously."
David Upton
"The skills of research and writing are some ofthe most essential to becoming a professional artist or curator. My studies at the CIT CCAD taught me to hone these skills and to later successfully secure funding to travel, research, and produce exhibitions. Curation has become an integral part of my art practice.
The term I spent at The Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest while taking part in the Erasmus student exchange programme proved to be one of my most valuable experiences, building international friendships and giving my art practice perspective. Since graduation I have found the support and advice offered by the college to be invaluable. My time at the CIT CCAD gave me the tools to navigate a competitive cultural landscape."
Kate O'Brien
"In the CIT CCAD you have the freedom to move between different departments and use the facilities across a variety of media. Photography was my main area of study.
Apart from the practical skills that I learned in CIT CCAD, e.g. video editing, photography,and screen-printing, the college helped me to approach things from different angles. This is really useful, not just in artistic practice but in all areas of your career; to have a creative approach to problem solving and to come up with creative solutions. That has really stood to me in every area of my life."
Kate completed her MFA in Contemporary Art Photography in Edinburgh and currently works as a freelance photographer in Dublin.
Full details of the modules on these programmes of study are available by clicking the following links:
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Art
Graduates may develop careers as practicing artists or professional careers in education, art institutions, independent curation, arts administration, and arts management. Many students also continue to the Higher Diploma and/or Masters level to progress their career.
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Uppingham's vision for sport is to create an environment where all pupils can achieve success in sport from engagement and participation through to competition and performance.
The School encourages boys and girls to take part in and enjoy all the many sports we offer, catering for all abilities and talents. We believe that encouraging pupils to understand that personal fitness is essential as part of a healthy lifestyle is an important part of the education pupils receive at Uppingham and pupils partake in a structured sports programme with specialised staff (who follow our agreed principles of coaching three afternoons a week.
The School has an enviable number of playing fields, covering some 65 acres, and a superb new Sports Centre. Dependent on the season these grounds can accommodate many different sports. In the autumn term, for example, you would see nine rugby, five hockey and two lacrosse pitches in use. There are also three Astroturf hockey/tennis surfaces, plus Savannah and hard court tennis courts, netball courts, fives courts, a shooting range, climbing wall and an historic 1st XI cricket pitch.
The Uppingham School Sports Centre (USSC) opened in September 2010. This fantastic facility houses a large six-court sports hall, six-lane 25m swimming pool, gymnasium, glass-backed squash courts, two dance studios, 53-station fitness studio and a hospitality suite.
After the pupils' first year, those in the A and B teams are expected to choose a major sport, other pupils, however, can choose from a variety of options such as: aerobics; badminton; basketball; girls' cricket; cycling; dance; fencing; football; girls' football; golf; lacrosse; rounders; girls' rugby; sailing; shooting; squash, swimming and volleyball.
Representing the School in a number of sports is an important part of the School's ethos, and Uppingham is very proud of its success on the sports field. The coaching staff help all pupils to take full advantage of the facilities and to develop their interests, providing opportunities for the advancement of all abilities as well as nurturing elite performers. Above all, everyone contributes and school-wide support for Uppingham teams makes sport at Uppingham very special.
Competitions are organised at School and House level in all age groups so that team and House spirit is developed. Within many of the sports that Uppingham offer there are also opportunities to participate in county, regional and national tournaments.
Sports tours follow a two-yearly cycle and there is one major sport tour each year for boys and girls. They represent a wonderful opportunity for all involved. Some will gain most from the chance to develop their individual talents and skills, for others it is team development where they gain most enjoyment.
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Just last week Alison blogged about her OPI Axxium manicure, which lasted as long as it promised (I examined). But what you may not know is that it's not the only no-chip, long-wear miracle nail polish out there! I too, hate, hate, hate chips on my nails. I remove almost immediately when they start chipping, meaning my polish basically lasts for two days. I type all day, plus do dishes by hand, so I was super excited when I had the chance to get my nails done with Shellac — a hybrid nail colour created by CND (Creative Nail Design). Similar to OPI's Axxium, Shellac promises a 14-day wear and uses a UV ray lamp to dry the polish (you have to dry in-between coats too).
On Tuesday I headed out to Ritual salon in Toronto to get Shellac'd and see if it was really as fabulous as promised. There are currently 12 colours in the lineup, and the polishes are hypo-allergenic, and free of formaldehyde, tolunene or DBP. I choose the bright pink Hot Chilis, and also loved the soft pink Romantique, which is 100% bridal perfect. You'll also be pleased to know French mani works with Shellac too!
Erin, my manicurist did a perfect job, and on Day 4 (Friday), I still don't have a single chip. The process is just like a regular manicure – base coat, colour, top coat — so no buffing, filling or drilling required. Another thing I love about this process is how fast it dries. After the top coat is applied, you put your hands under the lamp for 2 minutes and that's it. 100% dry. The only thing that's a bit of a pain is that you can't remove the polish yourself. You have to return to have it removed (which also costs about $10). It doesn't take long though (less than 10 minutes), using an acetone remover wrap. Cost-wise you're looking at about 50-100% more than the cost of a regular manicure or pedicure, but considering it's staying power, I'd say it's worth it.
Not only is this great for your wedding day, but think about the honeymoon too! I don't know about you, but I've travelled with nail polish (to do touch-ups) and have had broken bottles in my beauty bag. No fun. So now you can enjoy two-full weeks under the sun with perfect nails.
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Is this the end of what's become one of the biggest buyout battles of the young century?
Probably. Vornado Realty Trust announced on Wednesday morning it has dropped its bid for Equity Office Properties, the nation's largest office landlord. Blackstone looks poised to win what's been a months-long slog of one-upmanship.
UPDATE: And now the drama is officially over. Blackstone's $23 Billion cash buy-out has been approved by the EOP shareholders, and Vornado's fight is over.
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Pale Blue Dot Energy was established to take action on climate change. We believe that there are opportunities created by the low carbon energy transition, for those who can bring together an understanding of emerging technologies, future markets and are willing to innovate.
In the energy market things are changing very fast, for users and energy providers. New dynamics such as energy storage, hydrogen and smart technology are changing the way we think about energy. The cost of low carbon energy for electricity, heat and transport is falling fast.
The energy system is in revolution. Resources are becoming more scarce and Circular Economy thinking, seeking out opportunities for re-use are becoming more common. Waste is a cost, but waste products have value. Precipitating a change of culture to consider re-use, understanding the cross sector re-use opportunities and linking them with innovative thinking will create new breakthroughs.
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The Birth of Children- Life's Rewarding Treasure
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Life is such a wonderful treasure with the finding out about the expectancy of a baby. Some females feel like they know ahead of time that they are expecting, while others are surprised. Lately, more females are doing home pregnancy testing. But the unique experiences of before, during and after birth represent some of the most rewarding treasures in life that takes place after birth!
- The First Pregnancy
- The Positive Test
- The First Three Months
- Is It A Girl or A Boy?
- What Do I Do If I Know the Sex of the Baby?
- Life Changes Before Birth
- Preparations for Baby's Arrival
- International Naming Ceremonies
- Baby Showers- Baby Gifts
- Hospital or Midwifery Birth!
- Happy Birth Day!
- Traveling Home- Mom, Baby and All!
- Children Are the Reward of Family Life!
- Have A Beautiful Baby Life!
The First Pregnancy
Many still wonder today how is it that such a miracle could ever occur for once in a lifetime? The birth of Baby Jesus was amazing from it's form of conception. Mary was the first virgin to conceive and deliver a child in biblical days. There were many questions by others including her husband who wondered about this amazement. The baby was born in a manger, delivered and wrapped in swaddling clothes.
Today babies are conceived and born through the interrelatedness between a male and a female. However, today there are other approaches that are being used to provide families who desire children to still be a part of the birthing process. Most babies are on a nine-month track to birth, with some at variant birth days.
The Positive Test
Each day throughout the world, females are finding out that they have tested positively for pregnancy. There are many reactions upon finding out the news. So many people speak of planned and unplanned pregnancies. Some women discuss the issue of a planned pregnancy based on timing and various procedures. Yet many share that the child was certainly not planned. However, planned or not planned, decisions are made about being able to go through a full term pregnancy with hopes of having a healthy baby. Sometimes others make different decisions based on their personal opinions and life experiences. Regardless, pregnancy is still well accepted and respected throughout the world. In different parts of the world, the number of pregnancies vary from family to family and also culture to culture. There are some societies that request a limited number of children per family as a means of population control. In other parts of the world, HIV, Aids infected mothers and babies are often separated for life's care and health reasons. Earthly tragedies such as hurricanes and earthquakes have also become separation experiences for many babies and families. Yet the births of children continue. There are some cultures that vary in the significance of female and male infants.
The First Three Months
Research has proven that the first three months after conception are critical in the growth and development of the fetus. It is highly recommended that the mother-to-be take extra care of herself during this stage. It is highly recommended that healthy foods are eaten and healthy lifestyles are practiced.
Many of the babies vital organs and developmental prenatal milestones are acknowledged. This is a significant time for the baby to experience a positive environment of the family.
In some cultures, mothers begin talking to their babies, reading to them and teaching them with the sensory touch of letters, numbers, shapes and words. Of course singing with the baby during this period in the child's life as practiced by some mothers-to-be can be beneficial.
Is It A Girl or A Boy?
After the news of the expectancy of a child, families all over the world begin to wonder whether it is a girl or a boy. For some, the sex of the child can signal a time of importance, while for some, the sex of the child does not matter.
With all four of my children, the doctors did not risk trying to tell me the sex of the children. Strangely my babies would position themselves in hidden positions on the days of the ultra-sound. There were some more advanced tests that I could have taken to get a closer view of the sex of the baby, but I found them unnecessary, especially since I would have to go to a nearby town. Today, they seem to have more accurate tests to provide families with sex-identity information.
My husband was kind of old fashion, too. He just believed that it would just be wonderful to rejoice over what the baby is at birth. It was kind of fun trying to guess the sex of each one. My daughter who was the first born, was so active that I just knew she was a football player-to be. But I was certainly wrong on that one. But she came into the world as curious and eager as ever. Those traits and characteristics remain with her today.
I dared not guess until I got to the fourth child. Well, I had two boys after my daughter. So as the fourth one was to arrive, somehow I was convinced in my mind that this one would be a girl for sure. Then for some mothers-to-be, many of the elder women in the community declared that they could predict the sex of the child. They had many ways of predicting, especially the way the mother "carried" the baby. So if the baby seemed to be high up in the mother's stomach, it would be of a certain sex. Or if it looked like the baby was traveling lower, it could be of another sex. With one of my children, they thought they could hear two heartbeats- twins? Oh my- could that be possible?
Well my mom had twin brothers and sisters on her side of the family, which meant that they were my aunts and uncles. So according to some family information, that was close enough for this type of birth to occur.
What Do I Do If I Know the Sex of the Baby?
I did not know the sex of any of my children prior to their birth. As I said earlier, there are certain thoughts that can dominate and control one's mind as to what the possibilities are. With my fourth, so many people told me it was going to be a girl. So I started believing this myself. Then as I began to think about names, only girl names came to mind. But the lasting touch was the night when I went into labor, arrived at the hospital and the nurse told me we have a special, beautiful room for you! Of course everything in this room was pink! So now, I was convinced it was a girl and they just didn't tell me. So when the baby was born and the doctor said, "It's a boy." I must admit I was very shocked- why? because I had convinced myself that it was a girl. Thus, convincing one self of a sex can be very defeating if it is not real.
Some families know right away today what the sex of the baby is. Therefore they begin planning everything based around that information provided to them. Well I guess the information that they receive is more convincing and accurate than my own perceived information.
Life Changes Before Birth
There are often changes that occur before the birth of the baby. For some, decisions have to be made about employment, careers, lifestyles, where to live, whether there is a need for additional space for the family and many other issues.
One important task that many parents-to-be are faced with, especially if there are other children in the family, is who will take care of the other children when mom goes to the hospital to deliver.
This is a very special time when grandparents, other relatives and friends may step in to give a lending hand. Sometimes this may entail family members and/or friends traveling across states or countries to arrive for the special occasion. Often this is a time to give the mother, family changes and preparation time. The adjustments for the whole family when a new baby arrives can be overwhelming. So the extra help can prove to be beneficial.
The more preparations made for the changes before birth can decrease some of the family stress. Such was the case for me as a pre-school-kindergarten teacher. We had to find the best substitute teacher for the children. I had to begin to prepare the children for the fact that I would be leaving for six to eight weeks. And of course, all proper paper work for family/maternity leave had to be in place.
Preparations for Baby's Arrival
Now we were often told that the closer it got to the due date, that every mother-to-be should have a bag packed at all times. For a mother is often given a prospective due date, but everyone is prepared for the possibilities of change. A baby is known to arrive when it gets ready- true or not?
Mothers are also beginning to have an outfit for baby to wear from the hospital, a receiving blanket, pampers, wipes and other needed items to be used upon baby's arrival.
Having a newborn car seat is also critical, since this is the law. Hospitals often will not allow the mother to leave without one. Some families are fortunate enough to have a separate room for the newborn. If so, it is often prepared for the arrival of the child.
International Naming Ceremonies
Choosing names can be a very important part of this entire process. All over the world, babies are named in many different ways and by many different people. In the United States, children are often named based on the interest in or creation of a name. My husband thought of the name for my daughter, but he asked me to do the spelling.One son had both parts of his dad's first and middle names. Because his cousins begged and pleaded for his name to be Corey, I gave in to them. Now why they felt that we needed a Corey in the family was beyond me.
Then our last son, had a very interesting experience. As I stated earlier, I was prepared with all girl names. Wow, I thought I had chosen some of the most beautiful ones at that. My husband said to me, "If it is a boy, he will be named after this famous African American baseball player." I looked at him on several occasions because I thought it was the craziest thing I had ever heard. I also thought it was the craziest name I had ever heard. I had convinced myself anyhow that I wouldn't be needing the name.
I still laugh today because I would go to school and laugh telling the other teachers that we all had better pray that this was a girl because my husband had chosen a crazy name for the baby if he was a boy.
Now, again I ended up spelling the name. He only told me that the baseball player's name was something like Hal Lanier. Well since I had never heard of him, I just made up the spelling the best way that I could.
So when it was a boy, his name became HaLanier Jamaal. I gave him the middle name. Surprisingly when I went back to work, one of the older male teachers knew exactly who this baseball player was. Then I met three more older men who also knew of the player from the early 1950s, I think. So then I gave my husband much more respect for this wonderful name that I had made so much fun of.
Oh, my next to the last baby boy's name selection was easy. I had been doing some research and following Dr.Jawanza Kunjuf's work on African American children. So I made up in mind that it would be cool to name my son, "Jawanza." Then I took his daddy's middle name and added an extra ending to it. LeeRenzo! There- that one was settled.
I also had some beautiful girl names also- but didn't need them.
In some parts of the world, the babies are not given a name anywhere from 10 to 30 days. This is so that families could study the characteristics of the baby before choosing a name. Often important family members or elders help choose the baby's name. Some are based on tradition- such as girls are named after grandmothers, boys named after grandfathers, fathers or uncles. Then there are various ceremonies held to acknowledge the birth of the baby! Relatives and friends come from near and far.
In the United States, baby christening is an important ceremony. It is not necessarily a naming ceremony as in other parts of the world, but more of wishing a blessing and a life of hope and longevity for the baby! The baby is usually dressed in all white.
Baby Showers- Baby Gifts
Baby showers are very popular, many before the birth of the baby. This is a special time dedicated to the mother-to-be for friends and loved ones to bring gifts to help with the preparation of the arrival of the baby.
These are well attended and often a time of fun for all who attended. These events are filled with food, games, prizes for the attendees, lots of gifts for the baby and often gifts for the mother-to-be.
Now, with more families knowing the sex of the baby, attendees often feel better prepared with the gifts that they bring. However colors like yellow and green still remain as neutral colors that could be appropriate for girls and boys.
During this time, the well-wishers often sign up to take turns making sure that the baby and family will have what they need, especially the first month after birth. My colleagues started a tradition of each of us signing up to prepare or order a meal for the family for the first three weeks after the birth of the baby. Again, this allows the parents to focus more on their newborn baby.
Oh well, the father is usually not involved in the baby shower. But his friends bring gifts too- but after the birth of the baby, many men bring cigars, real or imitation as a sign of congratulations to the father. This has been a long-standing tradition.
Hospital or Midwifery Birth!
My sister-in-law received her Master's Degree in Midwifery. At first I wondered why would she do that? I asked her and it was very important. She explained to me that in the State of South Carolina as in so many other states that there were so many rural areas with no doctors, no hospitals or medical facilities. Some women would have to travel, thirty, forty or fifty miles in order to go to the nearest doctor or hospital. So many of the midwives were trained to work side-by-side with the doctors and in many cases if there were no complications with the pregnancy or anticipated delivery, they could help with the birth of the child. Then I began to read more about this. Then realized how many women shared this story of lack of health care nearby. In other parts of the world, midwives are key people in the birth and delivery of babies.
But all in all in the United States, most babies are being delivered in hospitals, by trained medical personnel. In some other parts of the world, hospital deliveries are not as prevalent. Most importantly, is to make sure trained people are helping with the delivery of the babies.
The decision of the place of birth is usually up to the families. In some cities and states, the mother-to-be may have to travel to a nearby town because of insurance and designated places of birth for low-income families. Some states feel that this is prejudicial and have fought to have it changed.
Happy Birth Day!
Now the day that the baby comes into this world is designated as the child's birthday.
It is very important that this is recorded on record as the beginning of life for this new birth. The child's birth records are recorded and in a short time that child will also receive a social security number that he or she will keep for the rest of their lives.
In some cultures, birthdays are not recognized per se. However the day that every child came to life should always be cherished and remembered. So in some cultures the family showers the children with love and gifts throughout the year, so there is no need to single out or focus on just one designated day to say, "Happy Birthday."
So children all over the world still love the universal song:
Happy Birthday Song
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you.
How old are you?
How old are you?
How old are you?
I am 1 day old
I am 1 day old.
I am 1 day old.
I am 1 day old.
Traveling Home- Mom, Baby and All!
It's time to travel! Get ready, get all packed up with all of the specialties from the hospital! Make sure the baby's badge matches with the mother's. Make sure the right baby goes with the right mother.
All instructions about breastfeeding or bottle feeding! Make sure that recheck time is arranged and any special instructions for arrival at home. Time for last minute questions!
Car seat, strapped in, blankie, cap for head, and all of the extras to have a comfortable ride home.
Oh, and don't forget the weather- that makes a difference in what and how baby travels to and from the hospital. Oh yes, and take extra good care of mommy too- she is tired and had a long travel journey just bringing baby into the world!
Safe traveling home!
Children Are the Reward of Family Life!
Yes, the old African Proverb describes it all. "Children are the reward of life." That means that they are special, they are blessed and they must be cherished by all. They are special gifts from God. It is very important that we take extra good care of them.
We are expected to be their guardian angels. As children depend on us and respect us the wiser to help in their assurance of a bright life-
So, yes, we must cherish, love and care for them. We must take on the responsibility of teaching them and teaching them with care. I can still remember one of the first prayers I learned as a child:
Child's Prayer
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take!
Have A Beautiful Baby Life!
As we strive to help in better understanding and learning more about what babies know, and how they develop- we've got a great task ahead of us!
There are some things that we already know that prior to the babies speaking their first words and utterances of sounds, they become very active learners. They come into the world looking all around. They come into the world looking for those familiar faces and listening for those secure voices. Babies explore, learn, and communicate from the first hours of life. They look to us to help them learn the words for objects, actions, and people. We have an obligation to help a baby's language and speech development. We are also responsible for reading and singing with them while providing them with a positive and supportive environment.
Let's help the babies have a beautiful, baby life! Welcome baby!


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Do you KU?
If you do, whether as a reader or a writer, then I bet you've heard of the best thing since dark roast coffee - KENP. It stands for Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count and it's the way Amazon now measures page reads by Kindle Unlimited Subscribers. Beginning July 1st, writers with books enrolled in Amazon's Kindle Unlimited program will not be paid per borrow, they'll be paid per page read, meaning, per page as pages are counted by Amazon. It's created a whole new obsession for writers.
Beginning in the wee hours of July 1st, KU authors were huddled over their keyboards with their screen locked on the Amazon KDP reports page, clicking one key, just one key. Y'all know what that was, right? Refresh... refresh... refresh.
Yes, my creditors and I are most interested in seeing those page reads rack up. We don't know what the Zon will pay per page. It will be a rolling target like the old pay per borrow system. But what we do know is that our payout will be based on pages read. So, like I said, the goons... err, bill collectors... and I have a very vested interest in seeing those KENP numbers rise. But I've got a secret that I keep from the goons. I'm gonna share it with you, but you've got to promise not to tell them, okay?
I'm really most excited by the new KENP system because now I can see that readers are READING my books. It's why I write, after all. I can tell my stories to myself in my head where I see them play out on my inner movie screen. And after I get to the happy ending of one tale, I can begin to tell myself another. I think we all do that, to some extent, don't we? Perhaps not, and it's uniquely a "writer's thing." I wouldn't know for sure, having only ever lived in my head. But I choose to believe that many people create stories for their own inner consumption. What makes a writer is that some of the inner tale tellers aren't satisfied unless they share their stories with other people.
I'm one of those people driven by a rather terrifying need to share my stories. And it is terrifying. Although the wee, small sane part of me knows that not everyone shares my devotion to over-the-top love stories that are bigger than life, the bad reviews (all writers get them) used to hurt a lot. The only way to survive the process, for me, has been to stop reading reviews altogether. Oh, I'm not perfect, so once in a while I'll take a quick, quick glance at the top two or three reviews on my "Mary Anne Graham" and "Olivia Outlaw" author central pages at Amazon, but by and large, I've learned not to do that.
KENP gives me the carrot without the stick. I can check and see the pages read adding up and feel a bright, shiny, inner glow. And I can do it without dreading the people too sane to enjoy a crazy duck lady's stories. It's all the good with none of the bad and there are very, very few things in life like that. The only problem with KENP is that it's addictive - surely getting that wild rush from seeing that readers are reading my stories beats any drug ever manufactured legally or illegally. So yes, I admit it -- I'm Kookoo for KENP.
As addictions go, it's not a bad one to have. This one makes me some money and gives me some happiness. There's only one thing that would make KENP even better and that's seeing the numbers rise higher, and higher and higher. It would let me know that more and more and more people are reading my work.
If you're a Kindle Unlimited (KU) subscriber - and really, everyone should be - then here's your new mission --- READ. Yes, read more. Read a lot. Read every page ever written by Mary Anne Graham and Olivia Outlaw. And once you have, then you Tweet and Facebook and blog about how everyone else should do the same.
It's time for KU subscribers to realize what VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE they are and to understand that they need to cease doing all the things limiting their reading. I mean, if you're a Big Enough VIP to be a KU Subscriber then you have more important things to do than go to work, go to school, study, cook meals, clean your house or do laundry.
If you're a KU Subscriber then you're a READER and readers should be READING. Just print off a copy of this blog post and give it to your boss, your spouse, your kids, your boyfriend or girlfriend or your professor. They'll understand that you're a reader who has found his or her destiny.
And I only have one thing left to say to you. Why are you still here? Go - read, read... and then, read some more.


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And the Lipstick and Style Oscar Goes to…
by indiaautry
From best dressed to hottest arm candy, see my top picks below!
Best Makeup with a Black Dress
Most of the Oscaritas in black paired their dark dress with neutral makeup, but (leg jokes aside!) Angelina Jolie did it right. She wore a orangy-red lipstick to brighten up her look and keep the dark-colored dress from washing out her face. Rose Byrne, from "Bridesmaids," could have used a bright fuscia lipstick to make her pretty face pop.
Best Ponytail
You don't normally associate ponytails with uber formal events, but Sandra Bullock's high, tight, and sleek pony does the job. And that's not the only thing looking high, tight, and sleek! Her classy Marchesa dress is fitted in the hip area for a surprising sexiness.
Gwenyth Paltrow, though she looked like an absolutely gorgeous tall glass of milk in her white dress and cape, sported a ponytail that was a little too loose and low for my taste.
Best Hair
Surprised it's a guy? Don't be. I absolutely love this guy, especially with long locks.
Best Dressed Man
Best Yeah-I-Know-I'm-Going-to-Win Dress
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep decided to dress like Oscar last night and ended up taking him home. She won for her leading actress role in "Iron Lady," portraying former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. By wearing the gold Lanvin dress, she showed the same gusto you would have expected from the Iron Lady herself. A few of the past 10 Best Actress winners have worn gold dresses, and last night the trend continued.
Best Dress that Grows on You
Emma Stone
Best Plus-Sized Dress
Melissa McCarthy
Bridesmaids' tomboyish Melissa McCarthy looked great all dolled up without wearing a structured dress to try to corset herself. She wore a glamorous updo and flowly chiffon in a nude color with fancy silver detail. She wasn't quite as classy in her pre-recorded skit with the always capable host, Billy Crystal, where she tried the same leg-in-the-air seduction technique she used in the movie.
Best Arm Candy
with Octavia Spencer
Octavia Spencer, who gave an tearful speech when she won Best Supporting Actress for her role in "The Help," wore a beautifully fitting white embroidered dress and a hunk on her arm. The only thing missing? I would have liked to have seen a plum color on her lips to brighten her face.
Most Transformed
Viola Davis
Viola Davis looked totally different from the character she was nominated for playing. She was absolutely stunning in a bright emerald dress that showed off her toned body. It was great to see Viola looking glamorous, since she is not often cast in roles that show what a beautiful woman she is. I hope she sports her natural hair more often, rather than the black wigs she normally wears. The copper color complements her skin tone well, and the short 'do makes her face stand out.
Most Elegant
Jessica Chastain
Best Dressed
Michelle Williams
I have a new idol! Michelle Williams was the absolute belle of the ball with this carefully designed gown with a sheer back, perfectly placed pleats and peplum, and silver bow detail on the right side at the waist. The commentators had trouble determining the color of the dress, and and eventually settled on coral.
Whatever it is, its brightness nicely contrasts her fair skin and hair. She's a woman after my own heart, matching her makeup (peachy-pink, an innocent color I love) to her dress. Her naked ears and pixie cut create another intriguing juxtaposition – boyish against the feminine gown.
Most Missed
Ryan Gosling
3 great movies this year and 0 nominations? Booooo. 'Nuff said.
My Oscar's Look


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Invasive Species Information Node (ISIN) partners at the USGS Southeast Ecological Science Center in Gainesville, Florida, developers of the Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) database, track the distribution of introduced aquatic organisms across the United States. In May 2004, the program developed an Alert System to notify registered users of new introductions as part of a national early detection/rapid response system. Users register to receive alerts based on geographic or taxonomic criteria. At the September 2010 meeting of the NBII Invasive Species Working Group, NAS manager and NBII partner Pam Fuller summarized the NAS alert system's users and alerts by geography, taxonomy, year, alert level, and source of information. To sign up for the NAS Alert System, visit the NAS web site.
(Photo: Black and White Tegu (Tupinambis merianae), courtesy of http://nas.er.usgs.gov/)