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When it comes to when and where to write, everyone is different. Maya Angelou starts early and works in hotel rooms with bare walls, Truman Capote claimed he could only write when in bed, horizontal, and Vladimir Nabokov scribbled on index cards for entire nights. Some authors hold themselves to 10 pages per day no matter what (Stephen King), while others force out 500 words a day (Ernest Hemingway). Despite these differences in approach, many writers share one commonality: a routine. As competitive athletes, writers don't show up for practice when they feel like it. They commit to a schedule and stick with it. Yes, some days will be good, and some days will be bad, but in order to improve one has to keep going.
To be clear there's no "right" routine, only what works best for you. So what is that? Well, first off, what do you want to achieve? Are you hoping to finish a 100,000-word novel in 12 months? Or complete a short story in 60 days? Once you know, write your objective down and put it in a place where you're sure to see it every day. A constant reminder will hopefully spur you forward.
Now that you know what you want to achieve, what's next?
- Friends, family, and work will get in the way, if you let 'em. Don't. Review your schedule and find a few times a week where you can allot at least an hour of writing time. Put it in your calendar (even set up a reminder 1 hour in advance) or tack up a note in a prominent place on the fridge or by your desk. Make sure everyone knows they cannot bother you unless there is an emergency.
- You have your big objective in place, but what do you want to accomplish in each session? Whether it's word count or page(s), commit to a measurable goal during your writing time.
- Test out the best place to work. Maybe it's not at home at your desk, but instead at a coffee shop, your friend's living room table, or in Maya Angelou's case, a hotel room. Wherever it is, make note of where you feel most inspired.
- Turn off your Internet connection and while you're at it, leave your phone in another room. This is your time not to be distracted and trust me, Twitter, Facebook, and People.com will try to lure you in. The worst thing you can do is Google a writer you know or admire who is about to publish his or her first, third, or eighth book. This time is about you, not you versus someone else.
- Don't be too hard on yourself. As I mentioned earlier, everyone has bad days. Anne Lamott wrote an entire book about the moments of despair, and the fleeting glimmers of good, in Bird By Bird (if you haven't read yet, you should) that are part of being a writer. If you just can't eke out even a sentence about your current project, describe your surroundings, write a scene from a work not yet started, or re-write the ending of your favorite TV show. Just WORK and reward yourself (ice cream!) afterwards.
- Keep a log of your writing. Perhaps this is "business-y" but once you see your victories add up, sitting down to write will feel a whole lot more plausible. So jot down the date and your word count or number of pages and reflect on what you've accomplished once a week or month.
Like anything routine (ie. general hygiene, washing the dishes, etc.) it becomes somewhat second nature after a while. Explains author Kristiana Gregory, "Since it's now a long-time habit, a day without writing makes me feel naked."
So, Lulu authors, now it's your turn to tell us what your routine looks like in the comments section below.
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This morning President Obama signed an executive order establishing a new, bipartisan "National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform" and made it clear that the commission would be welcome to suggest tax increases as part of their recommended policy mix for deficit reduction. And just a little later this morning, a desperate man crashed his small plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, because he was outraged about his high tax burden. (Read his suicide note here.)
On the commission, here is budget director Peter Orszag's blog post, and as CNN's Jeanne Sahadi explains:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — President Obama issued an executive order on Thursday that formally creates a bipartisan fiscal commission, a first step to forcing painful decisions needed to get the U.S. debt load under control.
Raising taxes, cutting spending and reforming Medicare and Social Security are all fair game, and thought to be impossible without the backing of both Republicans and Democrats."Everything's on the table. That's how this thing is going to work," the president said immediately after signing the order.
The commission must deliver a report to the president by Dec. 1 that makes recommendations for bringing annual deficits to no more than 3% of the size of the economy [by 2015]…
The commission will also be expected to suggest ways to permanently lower the country's total debt…
The president formally named the two co-chairmen he has chosen for the commission: Alan Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming, and Erskine Bowles, a Democrat who served as White House chief of staff under President Clinton.
He said the two men "are taking on the impossible: they're going to try to restore reason to the fiscal debate."…
Deficit hawks say that the country cannot adequately address the looming fiscal shortfalls without addressing both taxes and spending.
The presidentially-appointed commission might not be as "toothy" as a Congressionally-legislated commission, but (again, from the CNN story):
…there is a chance that recommendations from the presidential commission will be given serious consideration. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., have given their assurances — in writing — that they will bring the group's recommendations to the floor for procedural votes before the end of the year. The House will only take them up, however, if they pass the Senate first.
Voting for the commission's recommendations will likely be a tough pill for both parties. But the idea behind a bipartisan panel is that it can give political cover to lawmakers since no recommendation can be made unless it has the support of 14 of the 18 commissioners.
Matt Miller has it right to emphasize that the toughest obstacle to establishing fiscal sustainability isn't in figuring out the right economic policies, but rather in having the political will to see them through (emphasis added):
The good news from the Clinton experience is that the chronicle of debt foretold in Obama's budget is perfectly consistent with a return to fiscal sanity much sooner. The bad news is that our bipartisan blend of fiscal dishonesty and political calculation has reached the point where it's hard to know who will spark the debate we need about the real choices America faces.
Republicans act as if near-term deficits are a bad thing, when in fact the flood of spending both from the stimulus and the Federal Reserve's creative liquidity injections brought the economy back from the brink. The new Republican "it" boy on fiscal policy, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, indulges in the mathematical and political fantasy that we can keep taxes at their historic level of 19 percent of GDP while doubling the number of people on Social Security and Medicare.
Democrats, meanwhile, are boxed in by Obama's unsustainable pledge not to raise taxes on Americans earning less than $250,000 — a policy that only "works" if we think we can borrow all the cash for the baby boomers' retirement from China. Nor will Democrats explain to their liberal base that trimming Social Security benefits for better-off retirees will be a progressive way to fund better teachers for poor children in the era of permanent fiscal pressure ahead.
It's such a surreal moment that admissions of cowardice somehow pass for evidence of fiscal rectitude. Whatever its merits — and let's all wish it well — the very need for Obama's new fiscal commission amounts to an extraordinary confession.
"We refuse to risk our hold on power," our leaders are essentially telling us, "by coming clean on our own about the tax increases and spending cuts we know are needed to pass a sound nation to our children." Thus "political leadership" becomes an oxymoron. Odds are we'll fix the budget once enough of us show our leaders it's safe to do what needs to be done…
The late Paul Tsongas, one of the co-founders of the Concord Coalition, said at Concord's birth in 1992 that:
"We are better than what we are being asked to be by our leaders."
Now, we who work at today's Concord Coalition must still hold some degree of optimism on the being "better" part (or else why would we keep doing what we do); see our participation on this joint statement (with two other organizations) on the fiscal commission. But I have to admit that (the motive for) today's plane crash in Austin, and the result of two recent polls on the willingness of Americans to make the tough choices to reduce the deficit, do challenge that optimism. First, a Rasmussen poll (discussed in further detail by Eric Kleefeld of Talking Points Memo) suggests that many Americans (particularly Republicans) would rather have budget deficits and tax cuts than a balanced budget with higher taxes. (Never mind that there's no such thing as a "free" tax cut and that deficit-financed tax cuts just turn into much larger required tax increases in the future.) Additionally, a New York Times/CBS News poll that was cited in yesterday's NYTimes article by Jackie Calmes told us that Americans believe Bush Administration policies are to blame for the large deficits but that they're not willing to reduce the deficit by cutting health care or education or (even) military spending. One question Jackie did not report on was the following (#39): "The Obama administration has proposed letting the tax cuts passed in 2001 expire for households earning about $250,000 a year or more. This would increase federal income taxes for those people. Do you think this proposal is a good idea or a bad idea?" The responses: 62% said "good idea," 31% said "bad idea," and 7% said "don't know." But that is not surprising, because far more than 62% of the people are being asked about a tax increase on someone else.
So the question about the tax increase on the rich is not a very helpful one, because the response only reflects the perception suggested by the first (tongue-in-cheek) comment in the story about the Rasmussen poll:
I favor balancing the budget by raising everyone's taxes but mine. I also want a magic pony.
All this empirical evidence on how much Americans understand the deficit (not very well) and what they want to do about it (nothing themselves, if they can help it) tells me that the first thing the President's fiscal commission needs to do is to start getting out there and talking with real Americans, educating them about why we even need to worry about the budget deficit, and asking them about the (hard) choices they're willing to make (or not). Once Americans better understand how deficits adversely affect the economy and hence impose broadly distributed costs on society, the question that needs to be asked is not just about the kind of broad-impact spending cuts and narrow-impact (only on the rich) tax increases people would be willing to see, but whether they'd be willing to see higher taxes as part of a deficit-reduction package, even if those taxes are their own. More specifically, if the President's commission quickly comes to the realization that not raising taxes on households under $250,000 is NOT an option, would a majority of Americans still say "yes" to the survey question on the 2001 tax cuts if the income floor were struck from it?
Are we Americans indeed better than our leaders have (thus far) asked us to be?
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FIRST, the leader in advocacy and support for those affected with ichthyosis, is officially forming a group of young individuals that will address the most relevant issues and concerns, faced by those between the ages of 18 to 30. Whether it is job searching, dating or even finding the type of make-up that works best with your skin condition, our young adults with ichthyosis (also known as YAWI), will be bringing you tips, advice, events and online resources to help you through one of the most transitional times of your life. At the moment, the group is small in numbers and there's plenty of opportunity to get involved.
Today, we invited FIRST member Greg LiCalzi, a YAWI himself and the originator of the YAWI concept, to offer you a little more insight about this exciting new chapter for FIRST…
Hello FIRST readers! I would like to introduce myself. My name is Greg LiCalzi. I am a 31 year guy with lamellar ichthyosis, and I am proud to lead a new group at FIRST focused on young adults with ichthyosis. I live in New York City with my wife and four month old daughter, Colette. I have struggled with ichthyosis my entire life and feel privileged that FIRST has given me this opportunity to help start this amazing group. I think we can really help each other out.
"Young Adults With Ichthyosis," what a mouthful! From now on, let's just call ourselves YAWI.
Who is a YAWI?
A YAWI is someone with ichthyosis between the ages of 18 – 30. This is an important age when you are making many vital decisions in your life. During these years, many folks are dealing with the highs and lows of leaving high school, moving on to college, finding their first job, dating, marriage and ultimately starting a family!
So much going on – not to mention a little skin condition called ichthyosis! It is not easy and sometimes you need support from others who really know what you're going through. That's where YAWI comes in.
What is the Group?
This group will serve as a support network for all YAWI. We hope to be with you during the good times, the bad times and all those in between. Collectively, we have mountains of advice, experience and information.
But ichthyosis, as you know, is rare. Not too many people have it and without some sort of database, finding a fellow YAWI is like finding a needle in a haystack. I live in New York City, home to over 8 million people. Of those 8 million people, 40 people have lamellar ichthyosis. Forty people! One out of 200,000! I consider myself social BUT it will take me a long time to meet 200,000 people.
Our hope is to keep a database including the following:
- Name
- Age
- Location
- Type of Ichthyosis
- Contact Information
This database will serve as a central source of communication between YAWI. It will be a private list monitored by me and YAWI Group leadership. No one will have access to this list. With this database, we can set up connections. For example:
- Hold YAWI breakouts at the family conference and regional meetings
- Depending on locations of those that join, arrange get-togethers in convenient geographic areas
- Plan conference calls on specific topics (i.e., starting college, job interviews, dating, etc.)
- Develop content for YAWI blog, newsletter column and other YAWI communications
- Create a closed Facebook group to talk and exchange ideas, share concerns
I lived the first 29 years of my life without meeting someone else affected with ichthyosis, so I think it is important to make connections with others who know EXACTLY what you are going through.
What does the future hold?
My hope is that you share your information with us and become involved. This is a tough disease. I have been LIVING with it for 31 years. We all LIVE with it. If you don't have it, you will never understand the emotional and physical drain that it can be. This YAWI group will allow us to talk to people first hand who are also living with ichthyosis. I hope the YAWI group can allow us to help others and be helped by others.
This is awesome and I want to be involved!
The YAWI group is forming right now. Get in on the ground floor and help jumpstart our future. You'll find more information and a sign-up form on our YAWI web page.
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From the beloved and bestselling memoirist comes a funny and affecting look at making the most of our friendships in an age of isolation. With her inimitable wit and disarming warmth, Julie Klam shares with us her experiences, advice, and insight in Friendkeeping, a candid, hilarious look at some of the most meaningful and enjoyable relationships in our lives: our friendships.
After her bestselling You Had Me at Woof, about relationships with dogs, Klam now turns her attention to human relationships to great effect. She examines everything—from the curious world of online friendship to the intersection of friendship and motherhood. She even explores how to hang on to our friendships in the toughest circumstances: when schadenfreude rears its ugly head or when we don't like our friend's mate.
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- Create a seminar series or brown bag lunches on specific topics. Share expertise and figure out ways to work together.
- Do "show and tell," allowing web managers to showcase things that are working well or things they have in the works. But don't just talk at each other. Work together. Could you adopt common methods for organizing content or helping customers who get stuck on a task that crosses agencies? The more we do things alike, the easier it is for customers to use all our sites. Could you work together to come up with better sequences of related content, so customers can move between agencies seamlessly?
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- Include managers of other delivery channels – call centers, correspondence units, publications, in-person customer support. Figure out how you can work together to make customer service seamless and effective, no matter how customers interact with the agencies.
2. Set up local or regional conference calls to supplement or follow-up on the Government Web Managers Forum calls. Focus on opportunities for collaboration. How can you work across agencies to share resources or conduct training or measure customer behavior when a task cuts across agency boundaries?
3. Use the Government Web Managers Forum listserv to kick around ideas. Don't just look for best practices – look for ways to collaborate together to solve problems and improve customer service. Think big.
4. Get involved in one of the Sub-Councils of the Federal Web Managers Council. Collaborate with your peers to come up with tools and resources everyone can use.
5. Use Ning or GovLoop or LinkedIn or Go to Meeting or any number of technology tools to set up task groups around particular issues or initiatives.
Be creative. And whatever you do, share the experiences and outcomes of your collaborations with your colleagues, through the Government Web Managers Forum. Success begets success, so let others know how you're working together to improve customer service.
Collaboration is so important. Why? Customers judge all of us by their experience with any of us, so we need to work together to make sure all government websites (and other delivery channels) are as good as they can be. GSA has done an outstanding job providing leadership and support for collaboration among the government web management community, and they'll continue to fill that role. But you (yes, YOU) must step it up, too. Show some spunk. Be a leader. Find ways you can cause collaboration that will improve government customer service.
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KIEV (Reuters) - The United States has offered Ukraine a new $50 million aid package to help with economic and political reform, the White House said on Tuesday during a visit to Kiev by Vice President Joe Biden.
It also offered an additional $8 million in non-lethal military aid, including radios and vehicles, according to a statement issued by Biden's staff in Kiev.
Small in terms of Ukraine's needs and in relation to the $1 billion loan guarantee already signed with Washington, the package, along with Biden's visit, was a clear show of support for the new authorities following the overthrow of the Kremlin-backed president and continuing confrontation with Russia.
"The United States is committed to ensuring that Ukrainians alone are able to determine their country's future without intimidation or coercion from outside forces," it said.
Saying Washington was ready to provide further assistance after a presidential election on May 25, it said $11.4 million of the package would support the integrity of that vote.
U.S. experts would also work on reducing Ukraine's dependence on Russian gas and in fighting corruption.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason; Writing by Alastair Macdonald; Editing by Richard Balmforth)


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...how would I get the air out in the first place if itch has a rubber ring around it?
And I guess the thinnest possible would be the easiest to pump, but how small do you think is practical?
Yeah I thought perhaps of rubber spacers spread conviently throughout the glass to help keep it from shattering


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So why are there so few women in technical jobs? Is it that they aren't being advanced at the same rate as the men? Or is it that there are so few women entering the technology sector? If it is the latter, then isn't it time women stop letting men take these high paying job when women can do them just as well as any man. Let's get more women to join the technology workforce.
From: Huffington Post.com
As the U.S. technology sector has boomed, women and minorities have largely been left behind. This is what's clear in the wake of recent disclosures on workforce demographics from a handful of tech companies.
On June 25, Facebook became the latest tech giant to publicly release its demographic data, which indicated that men represent nearly 70 percent of all global employees. Worse yet, of the 31 percent of women in the company, a mere 15 percent work in jobs that are actually technical. (Women hold 47 percent of non-technical jobs.) When it comes to the top of the pyramid, although Facebook boasts COO Sheryl Sandberg, more than three-quarters of senior-level jobs (77 percent) globally are held by men. Among these senior-level executives in the U.S., nearly three-quarters (74 percent) are white, leaving just a quarter of the pie for everyone else (19 percent are Asian, 4 percent Hispanic, 2 percent black, and 1 percent two or more races#.Yahoo released a similar report two weeks ago, revealing that although the tech company is among the few with a female CEO, less than a quarter #23 percent) of people in VP roles or higher are women. Yahoo's figures match Facebook's exactly when it comes to percentage of women globally in technical jobs: while women comprise nearly 40 percent of global employees, disappointing 15 percent have jobs related to technology. Yahoo has a higher percentage of non-white workers than Facebook (50 percent) — but most (39 percent) are Asian, with Hispanic (4 percent), black (2 percent), and those of more than one race (4 percent) still sorely underrepresented.
Similarly, Google's first diversity report, published at the end of May, showed that men account for 70 percent of the global headcount and 83 percent of the tech staff. Women occupy only 21 percent of leadership positions, and 17 percent of tech jobs at the company. While these numbers are incrementally higher than Yahoo's or Facebook's, it's notable that Google has no female executive officers, and only one woman on its senior leadership team. Google's workforce is 61 percent white.
While these and other tech companies (including LinkedIn) have a long way to go in improving their track record on diversity, these disclosures demonstrate a first step of commitment toward accountability and future change. The fact that Facebook, Yahoo, Google and LinkedIn have chosen to submit this information to the general public puts pressure on other tech companies to do the same. The message behind these actions is that keeping this problem a secret is not the solution. Tech companies can no longer hide from the glaring reality that they are still largely male and white — especially when it comes to the top positions and (in most cases) the tech jobs.
Working closely with a number of tech companies, SHAMBAUGH Leadership has seen that several important interconnections need to be addressed in parallel within an organization to effect change in this area. Here are a few thoughts that reflect important steps for organizations and leaders to take:
via The Genie Is Out of the Bottle for Silicon Valley: Lack of Diversity | Rebecca Shambaugh.


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I love a three day weekend and did a bunch of cooking and have lots for tasty (an healthy!) things to share in the next few days. For now, here's a simple side to start your week off with.
Accordion potatoes get there name from the cute little cuts you're going to make in them. I think they look more like plump grubs but maybe forget I said that. (I really wanted these to go with a spicy aioli but just couldn't get it right.) Consider adding chopped rosemary, thyme or garlic to the recipe if you like.
Roasted Accordion Potatoes
2 lbs small potatoes, washed and dried
heavy drizzle olive oil
s + p
Heat oven to 375 degrees. Thinly slice potatoes about three quarters of the way through. Toss with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Transfer to pan and bake 40 minutes until soft inside and crispy outside.


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Yep, here's another tutorial for you this time using my latest Halloween kit "Off To Spooksville." This tag was a lot of fun to make especially because the kit is a fun kit as well. I hope you try it out! Any whoo you can find this along with my other tutorials HERE
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VANCOUVER, BC – The Sounders FC had the best record in the 2011 MLS Reserve Division. It looked as though 2012 would start the same way as the Sounders took a 1-0 lead in stoppage time against the Vancouver Whitecaps FC in the first reserve game of the year for both sides at the University of British Columbia's Thunderbird Stadium.
But a stoppage time header from Vancouver's Carlyle Mitchell wiped out those thoughts and Seattle settled for the 1-1 draw.
"I thought we played well until the last 30 seconds of the game," said Sounders FC assistant coach Ezra Hendrickson, who handles coaching duties for the reserve league. "We didn't take care of the lead and we gave up some balls that we should have kept and we got punished."
The Sounders controlled most of the play in the first half and had their best chance when Andy Rose slid in on a ball across the goal mouth by Alex Caskey in the 37th minute, but the ball barely eluded him and the teams went into halftime scoreless.
Vancouver started the second half in control, but the Sounders quickly regained their composure and took the game back.
Then in the 72nd minute, Caskey gave the Sounders the lead. Sounders FC U18 forward Dominique Dismuke got the ball to Leo Gonzalez overlapping into the box. The Vancouver defense clamped down on Gonzalez, but the ball fell to Caskey, who knocked in a thunderous shot to put Seattle up 1-0.
Seattle held that lead until the closing moments of the match, even holding off a pair of good efforts from Vancouver.
Then in stoppage time, Mitchell got on the end of a cross from Omar Salgado and hammered the header for the equalizer. Salgado retrieved a ball that was headed clear by Jeff Parke, then chipped a left-footed cross in from the left side, finding Mitchell streaking to the middle of the box, heading it back into the top left corner.
"Hopefully the guys can learn from this that you don't ever let your foot off the gas," Hendrickson said. "We didn't make use of our chances and we ended up with a 1-1 game that quite easily could have been three points for us."
Sounders FC – Alex Caskey 72.
Whitecaps FC – Carlyle Mitchell (Omar Salgado) 91+.
Sounders FC – Daniel Steres (caution) 36; Leo Gonzalez (caution) 69.
Whitecaps FC – None.
Sounders FC – Bryan Meredith, Ian Lange, Daniel Steres, Jeff Parke, Leo Gonzalez, Michael Seamon (Dominique Dismuke 70), Andy Rose, Servando Carrasco, Christian Sivebaek, Sammy Ochoa, Alex Caskey (Sean Morris 74).
Whitecaps FC – Brad Knighton, Greg Klazura, Michael Boxall, Carlyle Mitchell, Jordan Harvey (Sam Adekugbe 46), Ben Fisk, Floyd Franks (Ben McKendry 53), Gershon Koffie, Kassin Essa (Carlos Marques 72), Omar Salgado, Long Tan.


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a. Descriptor used for any type of food, notably pig, that has been cooked using the kalua cooking method. n. Traditional Hawaiian cooking method.
Kālua is a traditional Hawaiian cooking method that utilizes an imu, a type of underground oven. The word kālua, which literally means "to cook in an underground oven", may also be used to describe the food cooked in this manner, such as kālua pig or kālua turkey, which are commonly served at luau feasts. Luau, in Hawaiian is actually the name of the taro leaf, which when young and small is cooked like spinach. The traditional luau was eaten on the floor over lauhala (leaves of the hala tree were weaved together) mats.
Traditionally, a fire using 'Iliahi (sandalwood) is built in a dirt pit called the imu. The pit is usually about 6 feet (1.8 m) long, 4 feet (1.2 m) wide and 3 ft (90 cm) deep. Rocks are then placed in the pit to retain cooking heat long after the flames have burned down. Once the rocks have become extremely hot, the hole is lined with traditional vegetation, such as banana leaves. The meat to be cooked is salted, stuffed with more hot rocks, then wrapped with ti and banana leaves. To maintain even heating and to retain the meat's natural moisture, the meat is covered with wet burlap, then with a layer of sand or soil. The meat is then left to cook in the pit for six to seven hours, absorbing smoke and steam from the koa wood and banana leaves. When the meat is fully cooked, it is removed from the imu and shredded. This is done to allow the melted fat to mix with the meat to help maintain its uniform consistency and flavor.
Kālua pig is a main tourist attraction at many luaus, though it is sometimes made using a gas or electric stove with artificial mesquite or kiawe wood liquid smoke. Other tourist businesses substitute the use of rocks and leaves or use an imu pao, an above ground variation of the imu. The term "Kalua pork" has been used by famous Hawaiian cook Sam Choy to describe pork shoulder butt which is rubbed with sea salt, wrapped in ti leaves, and slowly cooked in oven using liquid mesquite smoke rather than an imu.
At one time, standards enforced by the United States Department of Agriculture prevented traditional kalua pig from being sold commercially except in Hawaii.
Usage examples of "kalua".
A satellite-watching station on an island named Kalua was the first to receive them, though nobody heard the first four or five minutes.


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Floral 'Love Blooms' Menu Cards
100 x 240 mm flat card
Your cards will be printed onto the highest quality cardstock. The following options are available:
- White Smooth - This heavyweight (310gsm) cardstock has a smooth matte finish and produces vibrant colours and crisp text. It's environmentally friendly (certified by the Forest Stewardship Council) and has a thickness of 340 microns.
- White Textured Cotton - This heavyweight (310gsm) matte cardstock is made from 100% cotton and produces vibrant colours and crisp text. It has a traditional watercolour look and feel and a luxurious thickness of 595 microns.
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We can print the names of your guests on your Menus! To add Guest Name Printing to your order please click here.
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All invitations, cards and signage are digitally printed. Any textures featured in the designs (such as gold foil, wood, marble etc) are high resolution images or digital effects.
The design can be customised with colours from the palette below. If you can't find the colours you like you're welcome to provide your own colour scheme by emailing images to email@example.com.
When selecting colours please keep in mind that light coloured text will work best on a dark coloured background and vice versa.
We make every effort to match the colours shown on the website to the colours on the printed products you receive, however, please keep in mind that there will be a slight variation between the screen colours and printed colours.
We offer very fast turnaround times on orders. The average turnaround time is 7 business days (excluding delivery), however this will vary depending on how many changes are requested and how promptly you respond to correspondence.
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Preventive Healthcare for Your Cat
Preventive care for your cat — just like for you — is more cost-effective than crisis care, and easier on both your pet and your bank account in the long run. The following lists give you some preventive-care guidelines.
Talk to your veterinarian to find out what is best for your pet.
Kitten veterinary care
Initial exam and feline leukemia test within 48 hours of adoption and prior to introduction to other cats.
Three combination vaccinations at three- to four-week intervals, starting at the age of six to nine weeks. Feline leukemia vaccination after initial testing, two vaccinations three to four weeks apart. Rabies vaccination at 16 weeks, or as required by law.
Wormings as prescribed by your veterinarian, at two- to three-week intervals or until fecal test is clear.
Spaying or neutering, as early as eight weeks as recommended by your veterinarian.
Adult veterinary care
Annual examination, which may include chemical profile and urinalysis, especially for older pets and prior to procedures requiring anesthesia.
Combination vaccination, annually, as recommended by your veterinarian. Rabies vaccination as recommended by your veterinarian or as required by local law.
Dental cleaning and scaling under anesthesia, as recommended by your veterinarian.
Adult home care
Brush teeth three times weekly.
Trim nails monthly.
Regular grooming; bathing as required.
Weekly home exam, including checking for lumps, bumps, injuries, and weight loss.


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Yes, tomorrow night's First Friday event at our Monte Bello Estate is indeed going to be a special affair; after all, a rare three-vintage vertical of the already-elusive Carmichael doth not row down thy river very often …
(For more about this special vertical tasting opportunity, please click here)
But that ain't all the tasting that's fit to pour!
We'll also be sharing a very new, VERY elusive offering: the new vintage of our Mikulaco Chardonnay! 2011, to be exact …
2011 Ridge Vineyards Mikulaco Chardonnay
Not unlike the Yeti, many have heard its name, know its legend, ponder its existence. Few claim to have seen it, many have been confounded in their search. For some, a dream haunter, for others, a waking passion.
But for now, for all, for you.
2011 Chardonnay Mikulaco
100% Chardonnay
Winemaker Tasting Notes
Tart citrus fruits, green apple, lean, briny/sea salt & mineral. A perfect for pairing with hog island oysters and a baguette.
~The Mikulaco family came to Monte Bello in the late 1930s, and planted a small vineyard in 1982. Ridge began farming it in the mid-nineties, limiting crop yields to improve quality. Unusually cold weather in 2011 gripped the vineyard, delaying bud-break and bloom by a month; harvest was on October 17. Wholecluster pressed, the juice was sent to barrel for natural yeast primary fermentation. In spring, during malolactic, the barrels were stirred once a week. When blind-tasted with our estate parcels, the wine's unique vineyard character was evident. Showing wonderfully scented cool-climate fruit and firm acid, the Mikulaco chardonnay will be at its best over the next three to five years. EB (9/12)~
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Fabric Letters How To
There is something about personalized items that just pulls you in. If strolling along in a store I see a cute little item with initials on them I simply feel compelled to go examine the S option. When I was a wee lass I always had to search out my name in every corny shop that sold light up keychains or mini license plates, didn't you? Even as a grown up I still adore the fabric covered alphabet letters that have popped up everywhere, and stayed! But I have never bit the bullet and bought one because I've always thought "I can make that." So here we go, a step by step tutorial on how I made eclectic fabric letters inspired by The Company Store and Anthropologie of course.
1) Purchase your basic letter. I choose the 8" paper mache style from Joann Fabrics because it is rather blocky and more conducive to wrapping fabric around than a flat wooden one. They go for $3 each. I bought two, one for me and one for boyfriend.
2) Choose three fun fabrics. While at the store I picked a few quarter flats for $2 to mix in with some scraps I had at home.
3) Cut out your first fabric by loosely tracing around the letter leaving about 3/4" to spare. Do NOT cut out the tiny centers or gaps yet, wait until you have added fluff and tacked things down around it to ensure the fluff is secure and the hole is in the right place.
4) Tack down one side by using hot glue on the side of the letter, not the face.5) Begin filling with fluff and tack down. This is the trickiest part. Depending on your letter there are going to be complicated areas that need to be addressed first. In this case, I realized that I needed to tack down the fabric and fluff around the gap first to avoid too loose or too tight fabric later.
6) Continue stuffing and gluing, going from one side gradually over to the other to avoid unevenness.
*Tip: When going around corners or curves, cut the excess edge into wide fringe so that it can overlap and fold smoothly over complex areas. I used that technique to deal with the tight gap in the middle, first cutting into it, making the fringe and gluing to the inner sides.
7) Repeat on opposite face. Remember that some letters are not reversible, unlike this "A". So when working with those letters (such as my "S") be conscientious of what fabric you want on the front.
8) Measure side width and cut long a long strip of thick paper. I used watercolor paper but card stock or the like works too. This is going to wrapped in your side fabric and glued around the sides to cover the messy bits of the front and back. It is ok if you do not have paper long enough to go around the letter in one piece (I didn't), but try to end the strips on a corner so that the "seam" isn't as noticeable.
9) Cut and glue fabric around strip, by lightly spreading tacky glue not hot glue.
10) Wrap covered strips around letter, scoring at corners and figuring out the best places for "seams".
11) Then glue on strips!
*Tip: Don't forget the insides! But making the covered strips for tiny inner walls is tricky. I measured and cut my paper a couple times before wrapping with fabric to make a great fit.
12) Voilà! Its beautiful!
It was a touch and go process, and let me tell you, that curvy "S" was a pain, but in the end I am really happy with my letters!


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NORRISTOWN – An attempt to smuggle 270 pounds of medical marijuana to Montgomery County for illegal purposes was thwarted by state police and has landed an Arizona man behind bars.
Ralph V. Garcia, 56, of Tucson, was sentenced in county court to 2½ to 5 years in a state correctional facility after he pleaded guilty to felony charges of possession with intent to deliver marijuana, dealing in proceeds of unlawful activities and conspiracy in connection with a March 2011 incident during which state police seized the marijuana when it arrived in Plymouth.
President Judge William J. Furber Jr., who accepted a plea agreement in the case, also ordered Garcia to complete five years' probation, meaning Garcia will be under court supervision for 10 years.
'This was a large-scale drug operation. It was the diversion of what we would call medical marijuana from Arizona and California, that being marijuana that is legally possessed and grown in those states for medical treatment. We've now found the trend that individuals who legally can possess or grow medical marijuana in states that have lawfully allowed it find they can make more money off of it selling it in states where it's illegal,' said Pennsylvania Chief Deputy Attorney General Andrew M. Rongaus, who prosecuted the case.
Garcia, authorities alleged, possessed a medical marijuana identification card out of California showing he was a patient legally permitted to possess marijuana.
'This being high-grade medical marijuana goes for anywhere from $3,000 to $5,000 a pound on the street, so we're talking about a substantial amount of money from the profit of the sale,' added Rongaus, alleging the plan was to distribute the marijuana in the Philadelphia region for a profit.
Areyan Babylove Esquivel, 32, of Marina Del Ray, Calif., a female companion of Garcia, was sentenced to 11 months already served to one year in jail, to be followed by two years' probation, after she pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of receipt of a controlled substance in commerce in connection with the incident. She was represented by defense lawyer Jodie Griffis.
Defense lawyer Henry Hilles III, who represented Garcia, said Garcia pleaded guilty to the felony charges and wanted to spare Esquivel any felony convictions.
'He strongly believes that he bears more responsibility for this than the co-defendant and he feels strongly that he is doing the right thing by entering into this plea agreement,' Hilles said. 'He is admitting to his role in facilitating the transportation of marijuana from Arizona to Montgomery County.'
With the charges, state authorities alleged Garcia was the mastermind of the operation who arranged the shipment and a driver to transport the marijuana from Arizona to Pennsylvania. Under the scheme, Garcia, accompanied by Esquivel, then traveled to Montgomery County to take possession of the marijuana, authorities alleged.
On March 25, 2011, authorities in Kansas stopped a Chevy Silverado truck, operated by an unidentified man and bearing a Nevada license plate, for erratic driving. A search of the vehicle led to the recovery of about 270 pounds of marijuana concealed within a hidden compartment of the vehicle, according to a criminal complaint.
The driver of the truck agreed to cooperate with authorities and 'related that he was transporting the drug load to a subject in Philadelphia area and is to be paid approximately $20,000 for services rendered,' Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Jennifer A. Ruhl wrote in the criminal complaint.
The driver, accompanied by Kansas authorities, transported the drug load to Pennsylvania as planned and Pennsylvania State Police joined the investigation. A controlled delivery operation was conducted on a parking lot in the 2200 block of Chemical Road in Plymouth, during which the 270 pounds of marijuana was delivered, intercepted by police and Garcia and Esquivel were taken into police custody, court papers indicate.
'It's clear Mr. Garcia was giving directions as to where the meeting place was going to be, where they were going to meet to exchange the drugs,' Rongaus said.
The judge said Garcia is eligible for the state's Recidivism Risk Reduction Incentive program, which will allow him to reduce his minimum sentence to 22½ months if he successfully completes required prison treatment programs.
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Hello, I'm new here. Looks like there is some great information on this website.
I used to collect baseball cards back in my pre-teen years. I was cleaning out some old boxes and came across this glove I had. I actually remember using this glove to play catch with the neighborhood kids a couple of times.
Anyway I was curious if it is possible to identify the date range or who the maker is? There are no marks on the button that I can see. Somewhere I have a similar right handed glove but the leather is a lighter tan color.
Thanks & I'm looking forward to learning more from everyone here.