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Why Starting Over on a WIP Isn't Exactly a Bad Thing
Amy lurks within the forested mountains of Arizona. When she isn't reading or writing creepy stories, she enjoys cooking, crafting, and playing games across many platforms. She is the author of Daughters Unto Devils (Harlequin Teen 2015) and The Women In The Walls (Harlequin Teen 2016).
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Yup, wrote the first draft in 3rd, then rewrote it in first.ReplyDeleteReplies
I swore I learned from my first rewrite from 3rd to first, and I'm essentially doing it again in a different story changing from first person present to first person past tense. Why I do this to myself, I don't know. I hope with time comes experience and wisdom!Delete
My contemporary historical Bildungsroman was started over from scratch last November, reconstructing what I could from memory, after losing the first of the two files the discontinued first draft to some kind of disk bug 16.5 years prior. Upon having it miraculously resurrected some months after finishing the second first draft, I was so glad I'd had to start from scratch.ReplyDelete
It was no wonder I always got a very creepy, depressing feeling when remembering that supposedly long-lost first version, since it's like a Grimm's fairytale on acid, with excessive purple prose, obnoxious moral preachiness and pontificating, essentially telling the reader to feel sorry for the MC, and a rather childish, black and white view of the world. There was no way I could've even halfway salvaged that mess. At least I remembered the names and the approximate starting ages of the characters, and the general outline. Since I was no longer beholden to working with the original from 1993-94, I was able to take the characters and storylines in much more mature, interesting, multi-faceted directions.
- Jen ZemanFebruary 6, 2012 at 12:19 PM
Yep! I'm now on the third version of my story. I'm going with "third times the charm" motto...ReplyDelete
I've written two completed novels and had to start over on both of them. More than once. The book I just sent to my agent last night had two fresh starts. I threw out 30,000 words, then another 30,000. It happens. Sometimes that's the only way you figure out what the story is, and I'm ok with it. No one said writing was easy! ;)ReplyDeleteReplies
I love this comment because it happened to me. I threw out the same amount of words the first time and rewrote it during a NaNoWriMo. Then I worked on it for half a year, sent it to a particularly harsh beta reader (on purpose) who tore it apart. I threw about 60,000 words away and rewrote it again at another NaNo. Very different plotline and way more interesting.Delete
Perfect time to come across this. I'm at 50,000 in novel #3, and something feels a little sour. I might work things out, but if I have to start again at zero--looking at it like this--doesn't seem like a failure.ReplyDelete
I've done this already once with a WIP and now I'm wondering if I need to do it again. Haven't made the commitment yet though, starting a new project instead.ReplyDelete
I'm not scared to do it, I love starting over actually, that's my problem. I want to make sure I'm restarting because it needs it, not because I can't see the minor fix it could need instead.
I've had good experience with starting over. I wrote a novel three years ago, trunked it, wrote two more, then rewrote the first one in a completely different way and was much happier with the story. And since I already knew the characters inside out, it came a lot... not easier, but a lot more naturally.ReplyDelete
I'm working on a project right now that is on its third beginning. The first time I began it, I wrote it with a certain character in the story as the protaganist. I had the hardest time with it... I backed up and rewrote character sketches, and realized that I was wrong. Character A wasn't the center of the story... it was Character B. So, I frogged the whole thing and started over from Character B's perspective. I wrote it that way for a long while, but it still was slow-going... something wasn't quite right. I put it away. Something still wasn't right, but I wasn't sure what it was.ReplyDelete
I took it back out recently with intent to start again, but I knew my first fix hadn't done it. So before I did anything with it, I re-outlined the whole thing and turned it over in my head a LOT. Eventually, I came to the decision that neither one was the center. It was the conflict between them that was the center, and that everything spun off of that conflict... If I was to tell the story correctly, I needed to keep BOTH characters center.
And that has been the spark I needed. I scrapped the entire bit of Take 2 I'd written and started over AGAIN. This time, it's flying out, which as been great. It's right this time... and I never could have gotten to this point if I hadn't been willing to start over. Umm, twice. :)Replies
That's so tough! I have a story in the drawer that is essentially your same experience. I really want to go back to it when I complete something else that actually works. :) I guess it's a matter of perspective on whether it's a waste. You can always learn from editing.Delete
I've never started over, probably because I look at it as a daunting task. I do admire people who can scrap what they started with and start afresh.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 6, 2012 at 1:12 PM
I'm seriously considering starting over, as I've tried and tried to fix things in editing, and I keep ending up with an even bigger mess than before. I would love for someone to give me a good shot of courage to start a brand new file... :)ReplyDelete
Yep. I was so excited about my WIP but writing it became...a chore. It didn't sound right, didn't feel right at all. I ended up hating everything I wrote. So I stopped. Reevaluated. Started over. It was sad, but I ended up using small bits of what I originally wrote, and felt SO MUCH better with how it came out in the end.ReplyDelete
Gaah! Loved reading all of these. I can definitely relate to that feeling where working on the book begins to feel like a chore...that's usually the best sign that *something* needs to be renewed!ReplyDelete
I've started over, re-worked, re-wrote so many times I've lost count. Seriously. The biggest problem for me right now is finishing the damn thing. Which doesn't seem to be happening because I'm such a perfectionist, I can't help but edit, edit, edit all the way and I can't get to the end cos I'm busy editing!ReplyDelete
Yep. I deleted 35K on my current project and started with a blank page with no regrets. Now that I'm revising it, I couldn't be happier with the decision. Those deleted words were not wasted, but were an exploration of story and character. When I started over I had a much better understanding or who and what.ReplyDelete
I'm planning on doing this with a project I started almost 2 years ago. I've never fully finished it and I think it's because there are just too many things that went wrong with it that manually going through it won't do. I'll probably keep or reword some of the stuff I've already written because I think some of it is awesome, but for the most part everything will be new. I'm also going to create an outline for it, which I didn't do in the first place, so along the way I don't get lost. It sucks that after two years I realize this, but it's probably for the best.ReplyDelete
Can I tell you that just reading the title of this blog post made my heart skip a beat? ;) I'm starting over right now, actually. It's daunting but often necessary.ReplyDelete
I've worked on a Wip in third person from two perspectives then started again in first for one character. Kind of an experiment, but worth trying.ReplyDelete
My biggest problem is that, after I do start my WIP over, I'm too afraid to start again. I don't want to write another draft that I'll have to scrap. So I freeze.ReplyDelete
I had done this. While writing my 3rd draft, I found that it was not as good as the 2nd one. When I got to a certain point, I decided enough was enough. I aborted the attempt, did some outlining and brainstorming, and went to writing it in sections.ReplyDelete
Maybe I should outline more often.
I'm following some of the outlining tips from K.M.Weiland's book, in the hopes of making some of my previous writing and rewriting mistakes. Fingers crossed!ReplyDelete
Absolutely -- I started one manuscript 3 times before I finally got it right. (Turns out the MC had a younger brother I didn't know about, who turned out to be pivotal to the whole story. You'd think he could have told me sooner!)ReplyDelete
Definitely. I've actually re-written the same manuscript 3 times now, but each time it got better, which is the blessing of doing it again and again (even though the rest of it is a pain in the ass!). I'm actually changing it - again - this time from 3rd person to 1st person as I still don't feel I'm quite there yet. And I think it's because the voice still isn't as genuine as I would like it to be. Here's to writing!ReplyDelete
That happened with my first novel. It started off in one voice and then shifted about four and a half chapters in. I wrote to the end in the second voice, 80,000 words. During the first edit I realized how absolutely heinous it was and then trunked it but the idea wouldn't die. So a couple years later I've started rewriting it, nearly from scratch, with a complete reworking of the characters, the world, the plot, everything. And I think it's better for it.ReplyDelete
I wrote my trilogy in one go then realized my first book was all wrong. I restarted it from scratch. It was totally worth it though. It made the other two books so much stronger.ReplyDelete
The joys of writing :)
I wrote an entire first draft, started editing it, but couldn't get past the second chapter. Then I realized, DUH! I needed to rework the entire plot. The new version feels much stronger and has been coming along much quicker. It wasn't a fast process though. From the first seeds of, "Maybe I should start over" to actually chucking that first draft spanned almost 6 months. Big time case of denial.ReplyDelete
My first book went from third person multiple POV to first person. From cozy to edgy and back to cozy. I'm giving it one more revision to try and sort out all the wrongness because I love the plot and premise. But my execution seems to be consistently missing the mark.ReplyDelete
I did learn how to spot trouble and delete/rewrite much quicker though. The book may never see daylight, but it taught me how to write the next one and revise it more confidently.
I'm afraid that this very thing might happen to me... soon. I am so STUCK on a niggling plot point at the moment and I'm almost afraid to have the answer come to me because it might mean some major re-writing! But, as you said, if that's what has to happen, then so be it. It'll all be worth it in the end. Right? ...Right?!?ReplyDelete
Happening right now! Got 2/3rds of the way through the first draft and had to stop. I'd been making things up as I went along, but the story couldn't work that way anymore - it needed a lot more thought put into it. So I've been brainstorming like mad the last month, and now with a tweaked main character, new major characters, and the world and magic almost perfected, I'm ready to tackle the story once more from the beginning!ReplyDelete
I spent over three years writing and revising and polishing my novel, then I realized it wasn't working and I had to start over. I'm probably going to keep some of the important elements the same. I just screwed the pooch on the execution. I finished the first chapter of the new version in the wee hours of this morning.ReplyDelete
I completely agree with this post. Last may I was writing my third novel and having my own mini NaNoWriMo, trying to get 50k in a month. About fifteen thousand words in I realized it wasn't working, I didn't understand my world and characters enough. Still, I needed to get that 50k, so I kept pushing. At about 20k, I finally stopped. I went back, cut out about 10k, and rewrote the other half of what I had written. I didn't end up making 50k that month, but what I did write (probably around 35k) is stuff I'm really proud of and that won't require excessive revision when I go back.ReplyDelete
I have hand-written two completely different drafts of my current WIP, and am now at work on the third (and I hope the final one). On the one hand, I know it's inefficient-- my mom keeps tactfully saying things like, "Well, once you get your process down you might not have to do so many drafts." On the other hand, I feel like there's a lot more depth and meaning to what I'm writing now than there was the first time I explored these ideas. We'll see!ReplyDelete
Holy crow I just blogged about this last week. I've been world-building and crafting the first novel in a fantasy series for over four years now. I was so far done with my final draft that I was prepping it for release. But then a lot of my critique readers showed disinterest in what took place in THIS story though they loved the world. I came to the realization that I started my series in the wrong place. I should be starting with "book 4" instead of where I've been starting all along. The good news is I can take this finished work and dissect it for use in later chunks, so its not as if anything's wasted. Bad news is that I'm staring at a blank page again after feeling so close to completion. I feel wonderfully confident about this decision and its really good for the overall vision of the series. Its just that right now its a slightly bitter pill to swallow...ReplyDelete
Anyways, thanks so much for the post and thanks for letting me commiserate. :)
Major revisions for me are part of the process. I hate it sometimes. I still want the work to flow out of me in perfect form, but I realize that's just a fantasy and writing a good story is more about perspiration than inspiration.ReplyDelete
My WIP is a complete rewrite of a polished MS I wrote for my thesis in college. By the time the revisions were finished, I didn't like my story any more. I threw out tons of characters (except for three, one of which has changed personalities). The plot has changed completely. The tone, the voice, the style, almost everything. But I could not have gotten to this WIP without writing that first one. So I have no complaints.ReplyDelete
Thank you for the awesome response to my post, guys! I am *so* happy I decided to write about the topic, it's always nice to know that you aren't alone in the twisted hack-job process. <3 <3ReplyDelete
Oh yes. Current project? Written entirely in third person. Then I realized that not only did it need major plot/character/pacing facelifts, it also needed to be in first person. CUE REWRITE. I definitely consider it a positive experience, though. I actually wasn't all that upset that I had to start over. It was more like a YES, I KNOW WHAT'S WRONG AND NOW I CAN FIX IT moment. And the rewrite ended up still needing tweaking (of course), but the bulk of it was solid. No major restructures.ReplyDelete
Your timing with this post is entirely perfect :) I just started a 4th draft of my novel that I've been writing for nearly 4 years. Everyone's been teasing me about it, saying that I just can't write a novel because I'm a perfectionist, but all 13 chapters I had of the last draft were horrendous. Not plot. No point. Telling, not showing. WRONG tense. Poor characterization.ReplyDelete
This new draft provides a new hope. I've learned a LOT since the last draft and I'm going to go for it full force in this next draft. :)
Great post! Starting over's tough, but it can have a big payoff. I did a few drafts of a manuscript with a shifting point of view between two protagonists before I realized things weren't working. I took some time to just work on short stories for a while and to read a ton about writing. Now, I've not had to write everything over, but I've cut back to one protagonist and ended up taking the plot in some new directions. It's the same basic idea that sparked the story, but it's more complex now.ReplyDelete
I say all this because it's important not to see previous drafts as wasted time. Each draft teaches you something, something you had to learn sometime if you want to write. When you know it's time to start over or make major rewrites, think about how much more skilled you'll be as a writer when it's done.
Great post. I'm at the point where I know I have to start over. First draft: 90,000 words. Rewrote it completely, now on third draft, 74,000 words. I know it has to go. Started an outline in Freemind. Went back to trying to make it fly. Sit staring at the screen. I know it sucks. It has to go. I gotta start over. Tomorrow. Now, wine.ReplyDelete


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…I could not rationalize suicide. As much as I wanted out, as much as I was done and wanted a break from my reality, I knew it didn't make sense. I believe when life is over it's a fade to black and nothing more. I wasn't going to get the break I needed; it was better for me to stay and work through it.
…The pain of my father's death is so raw, but I know he is gone. He was here and now he's not. He hasn't gone anywhere else, he's just ceased to be. The rawness lets me see how the idea of heaven is comforting, but reason makes me wonder how people ever enjoy sex if their loved ones are looking down upon them all the time.
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Because I'm an atheist I stopped taking the pills that would have killed me. Even in the midst of all my pain I was able to realize that I needed to unlock the bathroom door and tell my boyfriend to call an ambulance. Because I'm an atheist, I didn't believe in some heavenly after-life that would be better than this one. I believed that if I continued I would be gone forever. I'm finally getting help for my severe depressive disorder.
Because I'm an atheist I know now that my disorder was not due to lack of faith or prayer, as I had been told by Christian counselors in my youth. I know now that my disorder is due to brain chemistry and unresolved familial/personal issues.
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OK, sort of a newbie question but here goes. This is both a question and a request for advice on how to play first to second level spellcasters. I will focus on the Magic-User for the sake of example.
It is not stated outright, but I guess implied, that a Magic-User needs a full day to study for spells. Is this correct? If so, then imagine a first-level Magic-User with just one spell, going on an adventure. Does this mean that basically, the Magic-User can cast that one spell in the course of the adventure, and then basically hides for the rest of it (since they can't really fight)?
That doesn't sound TOO bad if you are playing in a long-term campaign. Hopefully, the Magic-User will become more powerful through experience, eclipsing even the Fighters, and all that hiding will have been an investment. But what if you are playing a one-off event (let's say at a con) with a first-level Magic-User? Do you basically cast one spell in the course of the game and then kind of hang out?
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With this recent cold snap (sorry, I mean Polar Vortex) having brought colder temperatures to much of the country, I have seen renewed debates online about the proper way to warm-up your vehicle in cold weather. There appear to be two sides to this debate - both of which make reasonable arguments:
1. Let the car warm up BEFORE driving. The reason being that engine oil becomes thick at cold temperatures and does not do a good job of lubricating the engine. Therefore driving the vehicle in this state creates extra heat, friction and wear-and-tear on engine components. In addition, other systems can be affected. For example, it is possible to blow out a power steering line if you drive off immediately in particularly cold weather without allowing the system to warm up.
2. Give the car 15-30 seconds for oil to start flowing, then DRIVE the car to help it warm up more quickly. Of course this does not mean you should go WOT and pin the tachometer. However, gentle driving helps that thick oil flow better, and gets it warmed up much more quickly. The argument here being that the increase in wear-and-tear you experience by revving an engine with cold oil is more than offset by the fact that the oil gets up to temperature faster, and therefore starts protecting the engine much more quickly.
Both arguments make sense. My quick Googling always seems to find more people favoring the second argument. I even went through the User Manual in my car (1998 Subaru Outback) and the only snippets of information I found are the following:
In the section describing the engine temperature gauge:
"We recommend that you drive moderately until the pointer of the temperature gauge reaches near the middle of the range. Engine operation is optimum with the engine coolant at this temperature range and high revving operation when the engine is not warmed up enough should be avoided."
In the section describing the steps for starting the vehicle:
6. Confirm that all warning and indicator lights have gone out after the engine has started. The fuel injection system automatically lowers the idle speed as the engine warms up. While the engine is warming up, make sure that the selector lever is at the "P" or "N" position and that the parking brake is applied
In the section giving tips for winter driving:
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The user manual at no point actually references a specific time-frame for which you should allow the vehicle to warm up (or a certain temperature gauge reading), nor does it explicitly state "let the vehicle warm up before driving." It only states things you should do (do not leave the vehicle in gear, and, in the winter, check that the controls all work) while the vehicle warms up.
I am interested in starting a debate on this subject and seeing what the Jalop community thinks, and how they warm up their own vehicles!
EDIT: I suppose I should add that my personal view leans towards the second option. Also, in this debate we should exclude warming up the vehicle on days when you just want to get into a warm car. That is irrelevant to which is better for the car - sometimes you just don't feel like being cold!


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Far too often, home buyers will go with attorneys they know or are recommended by friends, regardless of said attorney's specific area of expertise. A real estate attorney can help you draft a covenant that will restrict how the new owner can develop the land, or make sure that you are granted an easement to pass through the land to access a public road or another part of your property. Not only do they help clarify the process involved in buying and selling a home, but a real estate lawyer is there to make sure your interests are protected in the transaction.
By choosing an experienced real estate lawyer, you can be confident that should any problems arise during the transaction, he or she will have dealt with them before. If you feel more comfortable working with a lawyer that comes with a referral, consider speaking with your real estate agent or your mortgage broker. Some law firms hand off the initial work on cases to a junior attorney, a paralegal or someone knowledgeable about the law, but not necessarily to a licensed attorney.
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Miss things like getting an appraisal, allowing home inspections and more have resulted in many deals being forced to start over. The real estate attorney can let you know if it is worth it or not to try and force a deal to go through or to sue and recover some money for the time while your home was off the market. A real estate attorney in Orange Park, Florida 32073 can assist you with many aspects of the real estate transaction. In some states, however, only a lawyer is allowed to prepare the home purchase documents, perform a title search, and close the deal.
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Do I have to go through a Orange Park, Florida lawyer to close on a house?
But when it comes to the biggest purchase you'll likely ever make, it's smart to have an Clay County, Florida Attorney For Real Estate Purchase, ready to field any legal issues that might crop up. When purchasing a home, it's a good idea to engage the services of a real estate attorney. Whether it is their first home or their fifth, it is critical that they consult with a real estate attorney to advise them through process. As with any other trade, attorneys have different backgrounds, experience, and qualifications.
You hire an attorney for the same reason you have insurance- you have it in place before to back you up in the event things go wrong. Real estate attorneys are trained to foresee many of the possible pitfalls and address those concerns so that they are resolved before they become a problem, helping their client to the best of their ability, making the process easier to navigate for all parties involved. You're now the owner of the home and on the hook for several thousand dollars in old tax debt, and you risk possible foreclosure.
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The lawyer in Orange Park, Florida, who should be involved early on in the home-buying process, will act on behalf of both you and your mortgage lender to close the real estate and mortgage transactions. Anytime you require the services of a professional, it is in your best interest to speak to a variety of individuals actively involved in the industry. Many experts suggest discussing with your lawyer the approximate amount you can expect to pay so that you can budget ahead of time.


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Monthly Markets Review- November 2015
A look back at markets in November 2015 when global equities were lacklustre and attention remained focused on central banks.
- Global equity markets were lacklustre in November with MSCI World returning -0.5% (in US dollars). Focus remained on the prospect of a US rate rise and strengthening of the US dollar was a feature of the month.
- US equities rose slightly as banks were supported by the likelihood of higher interest rates, and therefore higher net interest margins. Higher yielding sectors such as telecoms and utilities recorded losses.
- Eurozone equities outperformed other regions, supported by expectations that the European Central Bank would announce further monetary policy easing in December.
- Emerging markets lagged their developed counterparts as the stronger US dollar weighed on emerging market currencies. Renewed commodity price weakness had a negative impact on several markets.
- In fixed income markets, the diverging outlook for monetary policy saw US sovereign yields rise while those in the eurozone declined.


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The piece you want to change will simply change look with the purchase. A new piece of gear is not created. Its just like reforging, except instead of changing stats the look changes. And there is an undo button, just like reforging. Its a single piece of gear, it looks normal or transmogrified into something else.
Also, those with Corrupted Ashbringer will be the single most epic looking players. A full tier 3 set with Corrupted Ashbringer will be the single most badass looking ppl. I wonder how many of those old school naxx raiders kept all nine pieces of their tier....if they even got all nine.


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With the leisure time of summer almost at hand, it's always a good idea to think about what books you might want to get to idle away the time on the porch swing or to carry along to the camp on the lake. Here are a few titles that offer projects to factor into one's knitting, crocheting and sewing roster when the cool days of fall roll around again:
— "500 Fun Little Toys" by Nguyen Le is packed with projects and project variations to knit, crochet, sew and felt. This is a book of a handy size — approximately 6 inches square, which makes it portable enough to take along on a vacation.
The book includes a section that features suggestions for materials to use for the projects and instructions for the various techniques used. It also includes tips and tricks to ensure the projects will turn out correctly.
The book sections are: First Toys, Animals and Creatures, Play Food, Dolls, Costumes, Everyday Objects and Games and Fitness.
Look for a sewn fabric birds mobile, a needle felted ball, a fabric rabbit and dinosaur, a needle felt bear, a grasshopper sewn of felt, a sewn banana and bacon and eggs, a knit mermaid, a superhero cape, a knit and felt tic-tac-toe game, and a fabric pin the tail on the donkey game.
— "500 Crochet: Fun Designs for Blocks, Triangles, Circles and Hearts" by Hannah Elgie and Kath Webber is also a small 6-inch-square book packed much to offer crocheters of all levels of skill. This is not is project book, per se. It gives information on crochet techniques, equipment, yarn, stitches and pattern reading. It also includes tips and hints. Instructions for each motif is given in print and as a chart.
Learn to crochet five-pointed stars, leaves or tiny hearts and string them together to form a garland. Craft small round doilies to serve as coasters, or crochet small flowers to stitch to a favorite winter scarf or hat.
Learn to crochet in the round or back and forth. Make variations of the good old granny square in cotton yarn and stitch them together to make a placemat, or craft them in wool or other animal fiber and sew them together to make a baby afghan.
Both of the "500" books are products of Sellers Publishing Inc. located in South Portland, and part of the company's 500 Series of books that also cover cooking.
— "Crochet Cool: Fun Designs for Kids Ages 1 to 6" by Tanya Bernard is another offering from Sellers Publishing. The designs in this book call for Cascade yarn — cotton, wool, alpaca or cotton-silk blend — and are crocheted using a size G, H or I hook.
The Spring Tunic Dress in cotton-silk features a granny square bodice and a ripple stitch skirt. The Daisy Brimmed Hat in pale blue cotton is embellished with a big white flower. The Ruffle Cardigan in off-white alpaca yarn features trumpet sleeves. And the Skater's Sweater designed for a lively boy is done in alpaca yarn sports sleeves of wide stripes in two shades of brown.
Each pattern specifies whether it is for beginner, intermediate or advanced level crocheters.
Each project has up-close, color photographs illustrating a particular technique, and how-to.
For information about these books, inquire at your local bookstore or public library, or go to sellerspublishing.com.
The inaugural meeting of the new Cranky Pants Machine and Sewing Club will take place at 6 p.m. Friday, May 17, at The Cotton Cupboard Quilt Shop on Broadway. The club will meet the third Friday of each month.
The club is for those who want to learn or share techniques of using vintage foot- and hand-powered sewing machines.
Call Ardeana Hamlin at 990-8153 or email email@example.com. Don't forget to visit her blog at byhand.bangordailynews.com.
Add a few craft books to your vacation plans
With the leisure time of summer almost at hand, it's always a good idea to think about what books you might want to get to idle away the time on the porch swing or to carry along to the camp on the lake. Here are a few titles that offer projects to factor into one's knitting, crocheting and sewing roster when the cool days of fall roll around again:


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A friend of mine points out that if you do:
perl -pi.bak -e 's/foo/bar/' somefile
when "somefile" is actually a symlink, perl does just what the docs say it will do:
It does this by renaming the input file, opening the output file by the original name, and selecting that output file as the default for print() statements. The extension, if supplied, is used to modify the name of the old file to make a backup copy [...]
Which results in a new symlink "somefile.bak" pointing to the unchanged real file, and a new, changed regular file "somefile" with the changes.
In many cases, following the symlink would be the desired behavior (even if it leaves the correct location of the .bak file ambiguous). Is there a simple way to do this other than testing for symlinks in a wrapper and handling the case appropriately?
sed does the same thing, for what that's worth.)


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- Jorge‑Fernandez Garcia, EIT Health Director of Innovation, and John Collins, Chief Operating Officer of CIMIT, discuss approaches that can lead to successful healthcare innovation.
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- PhotoniCare's TOMi Scope uses near-infrared light waves to provide 3D views beyond the ear drum into the middle ear, allowing physicians to visualize and better diagnose middle ear infections.
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Almost everyone loves sex, some of us more than others.
And, yes, "everyone" includes some girlfriends and your wife, which you definitely want to please in the bedroom.
Nonetheless, some men struggle to get their partner where they want to be in the bedroom.
It's okay It happens, and it's perfectly normal not to admire sex; most people do not.
Although you may never be extraordinary in the bedroom, you can still improve your appearance in the bedroom if you take this tip (directly from the woman's mouth) into consideration:
Foreplay Not Optional
Good. Maybe foreplay is optional; However, there are many people who are not regularly involved in it and still have at least half the sex life that is worth it.
However, there are many people, women, who view foreplay as an important part of their experience in the bedroom, and many of these women expect their male partners to appreciate as much as they do.
So why do women have attachments such as foreplay?
In fact, there are several reasons, the most important being that sex becomes uncomfortable and sometimes really painful when a woman is not properly prepared for her.
"Prep" in this case refers to the steps necessary to ensure that your partner's vagina is adequately lubricated prior to penetration.
There are, of course, many ways to get things done, and foreplay certainly makes the job easier and less awkward.
The simplest action is to buy some kind of vaginal lubricant and apply it to her.
Do not, however, only mechanically apply it to him no territory; You have to make that process the same as raising it. In other words, use your fingers as effectively as possible (eg strokes) to make them comfortable and ready for what's to come.
You can also skip the lubricant altogether and go to the "natural" route. That is, you can rely on your partner's vagina to lubricate herself in response to her passion.
This route clearly assumes that your partner has no problems with vaginal dryness. If he happens to have a problem with this, you'll want to use this lubricant.
However, just as you can not mechanically approach the task of applying the lubricant, you also can not get away while taking the "natural" route. You also have to work for it a bit more.
Some couples embellish their foreplay by playing roles and talking dirty to each other, but if you do not like those things, there are many other routes you can take.
Be creative. Your partner will thank you for it.
Porn is not from the question
While many sources suggest that women are not interested in pornography, men stand to lose little by simply asking for their partner.
Besides, there are some pornographic women there. Many of them, it turns out, just happen to be ashamed of the habit.
In fact, some of them do not even want their colleagues to know that they are in it.
Regardless of whether your partner is embarrassed or not, at least you should at least run the idea out of him.
If you want to bring pornography to your bedroom, you need to be careful in your use; You should not just insert the video into your DVD player and turn on the television.
To be fair, this type of error is expected because men are very dependent on visual stimulation during sex.
Women, on the other hand, are entirely different animals; They are more responsive to touch, sound, and smell.
It is said, why not use porn to strengthen the fun, other senses can afford it?
In other words, play pornography, but mute, and when you both come in, give it your own voice.
Very little can be more erotic than replacing groans and groans of actors in the video with your own.
Even if you have to choose not to mute the video, moans and groans are still highly recommended. After all, your female partner will want to hear you moan in her ear.
Women love to be touched … anywhere
As stated earlier, visual stimuli do not excite women like other types of stimuli.
Although they are not very responsive to vision, they are very sensitive to touch.
And, unfortunately, many of them feel that their male partners are not trying to touch any part of them except their vagina.
But do not get me wrong. Women want you to touch their vagina; they just want you to touch the remaining 99% of their body as well.
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Life is wondrous, my friends. How can we not be elated to have the privilege of experiencing this astonishing planet and all the marvels that it contains? Perhaps you aren't sure? It's fine. Behold, the spiral hot dog. Spellbound.
It only requires hotdogs, a knife and a long drill bit. Pleasure and joy was never so easy to obtain. Follow the instructions at [Instructables via Walyou]


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The VAT registration number (also called VAT no. or VAT ID) confirms your company status. Please enter the VAT ID in order to take full advantage of myEGGER.
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Well, the early estimate was 12 – 18 inches. But Wednesday night snows of 2 inches/hour brought the total to 18-22 inches of fresh powder. Temperatures Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be in the 20's and 30's. Perfect skiing conditions! Perfect Nordic conditions! Perfect snowshoeing conditions! (You need snowshoes in this snow!)
Come! Three incentives in addition to perfect Vermont skiing conditions:
- 1.) The Stone Hill Ski & Stay package provides lodging discounts (Sun – Thur) of 20% and lift discounts of 15%.
- 2.) 8% off all lodging all days of the week for the rest of March. (Celebrating Trip Advisor's 2014 pick as eighth best Inn/B&B in the U.S.)
- 3.) Get creative – 20% off during the week and 8% off on the weekend! Hmmmm!
Stone Hill Inn. Perfect for winter sports.


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How to remain a poverty reduction champion: Overcoming Cabo Verde's challenges
Few countries can match Cabo Verde's development progress over the past quarter of a century. Its Gross National Income per capita (GNI) grew six-fold. Extreme poverty fell by two-thirds from 30% in 2001 (when poverty measurement began) to 10% in 2015 (see first chart) which translates into an annual poverty reduction rate of 3.6%, outperforming any other African country during this period. Non-monetary poverty also dropped fast (see second chart). In many ways, Cabo Verde is a development star, and these achievements were made despite the disadvantage it faces as a small island economy in the middle of the Atlantic. Read more
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- Enjoy a culturally enriching experience and learn the secrets of a mythical luxury object: perfume
- Discover one of the largest collections of perfume objects in the world, including artefacts from 3000 years ago
- Immerse yourself in a truly French art-de-vivre
- Challenge your nose during an olfactive test
Musée du Parfum Fragonard
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Explore the world of the museum's curators, Maison Fragonard, family-run parfumery from Grasse since 1926.
Fragonard has chosen to retain the spirit of this place steeped in history, which was once a theatre and then a velodrome for the elegant ladies of Paris! From the raw materials of perfume making to the profession of perfume maker, the Museum reveals the secrets of perfume making, as well as a magnificent collection of precious perfume bottles from antiquity to the present day. Plunge into the atmosphere of a late 19th-century perfume factory. You will discover the world of perfume through a scenography combining distillery and other manufacturing machinery, ancient objects, archive photos and video images of today. At the beginning of your visit, the Fragonard Perfume Museum is pleased to give you an exclusive creation for this experience: a large fabric pouch, as a souvenir of Paris.
New - temporary exhibition each quarter, Maison Fragonard offers an olfactory exhibition on various themes related to the world of perfume.
What is included?
- Live guide in French or English, available roughly every 20 minutes (in Spanish and German according to availability only)
- A 30 minutes guided visit of the Museum
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Chris has won many gold medals at regional swimming meets. He has participated in CARIFTA, CISC, and CCCAN. At twelve, Chris won five gold medals at CCCAN.
He is the Bahamian record holder in the senior boys 100m Backstroke.
Chris attends Florida State University. He has helped the Seminoles to a second lace finish at the conference championships. He has also made the finals in several events and has won first place in the relay.
He qualified for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games in both the 100m Backstroke with a time of 58.39 and the 100m Butterfly with a time of 55.79.
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October 1, 2003 Neal Stephenson was at Book People in Austin, TX, where he signed copies of his latest book "Quicksilver", the first book in "The Baroque Cycle" trilogy, and answered audience's questions. Below is an approximate transcript of his talk. Due to the poor quality of the tape recording it was hard to pick out the exact words that were said, so I can't guarantee the accuracy of either audience's questions or Neal Stephenson's answers. The places I couldn't hear I paraphrased the best I could.
One of the most remarkable things about this interview is that Neal Stephenson introduced the audience to the word "steampunk" and had to assure them he didn't make it up. Who could have guessed that in a few years steampunk jewelry will be sold at Walmart!
Other curious bits from the interview: the pronunciation of the Qwghlm islands, and Neal Stephenson's reading tastes (actually you may regret finding out about that one). Also, a very interesting observation of what we mean by "technology".
On March 7, 2005 Brian Greene, a string theorist and author of "The Elegant Universe" and "The Fabric of The Cosmos", gave an interview at a Barnes & Noble in Austin. He was interviewed by Jeff Salomon from Austin-American Statesman and took questions from the audience.
The topics involved: What kind of experiments can possibly verify string theory? How and why would you look for astronomical evidence of strings? Would it make sense to look for confirmation of string theory in the possible violations of the Second Law of Thermodynamics? What is Brian Greene's own interpretation of quantum entanglement? What does it mean that space and time are not fundamental? In what sense is space-time analogous to temperature? What's next for physics after TOE? Will there be anything left to do, or will science come to an end? And, umm... does Brian Greene feel a need to reconcile psychic phenomena with the unified physical theory?
The talk also revealed some things you would not immediately think of Brian Greene. By his own admission, he finds physics hard and visualisation helps him enormously to understand physics concepts. That's one reason why he never condescends to his audience. (Another may be that he is simply a nice person.) Also, did you know that Brian Greene's books can cause people to quit drinking and start reading?
Note: I could not hear everything that was said or write it down verbatim, so I paraphrased some places the best I could. Most of them are in angle brackets.
Lifelogging is an emerging trend of recording every, or nearly every moment of your life. A simple example of lifelogging would be wearing a video recorder that would record continuous video and audio of everything you see and do. Ted Chiang used this example to speculate about how lifelogging would change our society. At the end he answered the audience's questions and engaged in a discussion regarding some points, such as: would lifelogging encourage us to craft our lives as stories, and thus become better people? Doesn't forgetting play a big role in getting over a trauma? Doesn't forgetting go a long way towards forgiving? What if your memories are hacked? Who has control over shared memories?
Panelists: Ted Chiang, Louise Marley, Michael A. Stackpole, W. J. Williams, Janine Ellen Young (moderator)
What it was supposed to be about (synopsis from the program book): When do "scientific" worldview elements move a concept out of fantasy? Systematic magic, planetary bodies, rudimentary experimentation, the cusp of alchemy into chemistry...
What it was really about
First, the panelists admitted they didn't really understand the topic of the panel as stated in the program book. They didn't get much mileage out of "scientific worldview elements moving a concept out of fantasy". After addressing the distinction between technology and magic, and Ted Chiang stating why he believes Clarke's famous adage is incorrect, the panelists quickly became mired in the age-old debate of what is science fiction, and what is fantasy. Oh no, not again, you say! Well, this discussion wasn't quite like beating a dead horse. I heard some interesting insights.
A lot of western fantasy writers prefer magic to be systematic, i.e. to have laws, rules, constraints. An arbitrary magic, where everything is possible or impossible, depending on whether it is convenient for the author, they don't find very interesting. But does systematizing magic move it closer to science? Not necessarily.
Traditionally it's thought that it's the presence or absence of scientific / technological elements -- the so-called furniture -- that causes most people to view a certain story as science fiction or fantasy. But actually, the worldview expressed in a story may be more relevant. (Though apparently there are no universal criteria how to determine the genre a particular story belongs to, because some people in the audience disagreed over which genre certain books belonged to.)
Participants: Kage Baker, David Hartwell (Interviewer)
Topic: One of her editors gets our Guest of Honor to talk.
Kage Baker was the oldest girl of seven kids; she started writing at age 9. Some of her earliest memories was changing diapers for smaller kids; when her biological clock started ticking, she decided "been there, done that" and never looked back, never felt like she missed out on anything by not having children.
Participants: Vernor Vinge, John Gibbons (interviewer)
Vernor Vinge talked about how he got started writing science fiction, about numerical parametrization of group minds, about some characters in "Deepness in the Sky", and, of course, his brainchild -- the concept of Singularity, the ways it could happen, and what current research might lead to it.
Texas Book Festival took place October 29 - 30, 2005 in Austin, TX, and featured some well known authors like Lemony Snicket and Salman Rushdie. I went to see Salman Rushdie being interviewed by Evan Smith.
Among the topics touched upon at the interview there was the inevitable topic of what Rushdie euphemistically referred to as the publicity agency from Tehran", writerly quirks (where do characters' names come from?), which parts of his books are autobiographical; in the Q&A session he gave an advice to an ex-Muslim woman who said her life would be in danger if she publishes a book on Al Qaeda she has written; what could be done to help Americans understand Muslim world, and vice versa; literary criticism summed up in a word "jump", and other things.
Slipstream is literature that has fantastic elements that nevertheless can't be characterized as science fiction, fantasy or horror. It is the literature of the fantastic that's left after you remove the defining characteristics of those three genres. The negative space.
Synopsis from ArmadilloCon program book. A plethora of new markets for what we used to call slipstream has blossomed over the past two years, with all sorts of new monikers like "The New Fabulists," "Interstitial Arts," and "Ambient Fiction" -- Conjunctions 39, Sweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (with a new volume appearing in the fall), Polyphony, Album Zutique, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and so on. What distinguishes the work appearing in these journals from more conventional SF, fantasy, and mainstream fiction? Has slipstream finally arrived as a genre in its own right?
Panelists: Chris Nakashima-Brown (moderator), Lawrence Person, Mikal Trimm, Rick Klaw
Two of Sharon's closest friends, authors Kay Kenyon and Louise Marley, ask her about her life and her work. How does she manage to find time for writing while having a full time job? How many "trunk books" she wrote until she got published? Why are mothers so terrible in her books? And many other questions.
Following the ArmadilloCon tradition, toastmaster K. D. Wentworth gave a humorous speech. She addressed the audience as a fourth grade schoolteacher, which she actually was for the most of her working life. She chastised SF fandom for forgetting their geeky, eccentric roots and becoming too mainstream. Then she and several other guests performed "The Fan Eye for a Mundane Guy" makeover (modeled after a then-popular television show "Queer Eye for a Straight Guy" on a guy they picked from the audience.
Note: My transcription of this speech is not completely accurate since I had to work off of a poor quality tape recording.
Pictures from ArmadilloCon 2004 can be found in my photo gallery.


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1/2 pound rigatoni
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 links hot Italian sausage
6 ounces ricotta cheese
black pepper
Parmigiano Reggiano cheese
How to make the Rigatoni alla pastora:
Calabrian shepherds make this rustic pasta with fresh ricotta, sausage, and fresh herbs. Whisk ricotta with a fork and thin it with hot pasta water to turn it into a sauce; grooved rigatoni help the sauce stick to the pasta.
Peel the sausage, break it up and put it into a pan. Pour in half a glass of water, cover and cook. Once the sausage has lost its fat, filter the liquid, keeping the pieces of sausage for another dish.
Push the ricotta through a sieve, allowing it to fall into a large mixing bowl. Next, mixing continuously, add the sausage sauce, season with plenty of pepper and only a little salt.
Boil the rigatoni pasta in plenty of salted water, drain, but not completely, and transfer to the mixing bowl containing the ricotta.
Add a generous quantity of grated pecorino cheese and mix up all the ingredients together well.
Serve immediately while still hot.
Serves 4
Regional recipe from Calabria
The most important, consulted, and enjoyed Italian cookbook of all time, from the woman who introduced Americans to a whole new world of Italian food.
Essentials of Italian Cooking is a culinary bible for anyone looking to master the art of Italian cooking, bringing together Marcella Hazan's most beloved books, The Classic Italian Cook Book and More Classic Italian Cooking, in a single volume, updated and expanded with new entries and 50 new recipes. Designed as a basic manual for cooks of all levels of expertise—from beginners to accomplished professionals—it offers both an accessible and comprehensive guide to techniques and ingredients and a collection of the most delicious recipes from the Italian repertoire. As home cooks who have used Marcella's classic books for years (and whose copies are now splattered and worn) know, there is no one more gifted at teaching us just what we need to know about the taste and texture of a dish and how to achieve it, and there is no one more passionate and inspiring about authentic Italian food.
Since the publication of her first book, The Classic Italian Cookbook, more than 20 years ago, Marcella Hazan has been hailed as the queen of Italian cooking in America. Marcella, whose name conjures up a splendid world of food for the devoted millions who love her books and attend her cooking classes, is back again with her finest book yet, Marcella Cucina. Filled with the passion and personality of its author, it is a book not only of fine food and its careful preparation but of personal reminiscences and penetrating commentary about the sensual pleasure of food and its place in our lives.
In vivid introductory essays and seductive headnotes, the narrative of an extraordinary culinary life unfolds. With each memory of a trip, a meal or a flavor, we are treated to the perspective of a great cook and teacher--one who believes that the finest Italian cooking is found in the home. In Marcella Cucina, she focuses on regional cooking, turning her sharp eye to every area of Italy and offering a rich array of flavors and textures from cities and villages alike. Best of all, Marcella cooks at your side with easy-to-follow instructions and lavish full-color photographs that teach you her techniques--from preparing homemade pasta to cleaning artichokes--and allow you flawlessly to re-create her magic in your own kitchen.
From the inimitable woman who popularized Italian cuisine in America, Marcella Hazan's simple and elegant manual on how to shop for the best ingredients and prepare the most delicious meals is a must-have for every home cook.
When Marcella Hazan died in 2013, the world mourned the passing of the "Godmother of Italian cooking." But her legacy lives on, through her cookbooks and recipes, and in the handwritten notebooks filled with her thoughts on how to select the best ingredients—Ingredienti. Her husband and longtime collaborator Victor has translated and transcribed these vignettes on how to buy and what to do with the fresh produce used in Italian cooking, the elements of an essential pantry, and salumi.
Before you know how to cook, you must know how to shop. From Artichokes to Zucchini, Anchovies to Ziti, Ingredienti offers succinct and compelling advice on how to choose vegetables, pasta, olive oil, Parmigiano Reggiano, prosciutto, and all of the key elements of Marcella's classic meals. Organic isn't necessarily best, boxed pasta can be better than fresh. Marcella's authoritative wisdom and surprising tips will change the way you cook. Her clear, practical guidance in acquiring the components of good cooking is helpful wherever you choose to shop—in supermarkets, farmers' markets, specialty food stores, or online.
Based on sixty years of almost daily visits to the market to choose the ingredients of that day's meal, Ingredienti is a life's work, distilled—an expression of Marcella's judgments, advice, and suggestions. Uncomplicated and precise, this volume will be essential to home cooks eager to produce meals in the same delicious style Marcella was the first to introduce to America.
The author of "The Classic Italian Cookbook" shares the sources of her recipes and the ideas behind flavor harmonies and presents recipes for hundreds of specialties of Italian family cooking, from soups and pastas to gelati desserts
As a child in America, Giuliano Hazan's mother, Marcella, packed him meatballs with potatoes and peas, veal stew with mushrooms, and other homemade dishes for lunch—dishes that in no way resembled the peanut butter sandwiches his classmates enjoyed. And so began his appreciation of great food. Hazan Family Favorites celebrates delicious recipes from the Hazan family, prepared just as Giuliano prepares them for his own family today. Here are 85 recipes for every course in the Italian meal, including Appetizers, Soups, Pastas and Rice, Meats and Seafood, and Sides and Desserts. With recipes from Swiss Chard Tortelloni to Strawberry Gelato to everything in between, Hazan Family Favorites offers an intimate look at this iconic family and their most beloved recipes.
Praise for Hazan Family Favorites:
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Marcella Hazan is acclaimed for her trailblazing cookbooks, but first and foremost she is a teacher. From cooking classes held in her small New York City apartment kitchen in the 1960s to the avidly sought after Master Classes she led in her beautiful Venice home, Marcella has been the authoritative guide to Italian cooking.
This much-anticipated follow-up to Marcella Cucina offers 100 new tantalizing recipes that bring Marcella's warm, conversational, and illuminating teachings into home kitchens everywhere. The legendary author and cooking teacher shares invaluable lessons in Italian cooking, including mastering traditional techniques, selecting and using ingredients, and planning and preparing complete Italian menus. Drawing on her unique ability to present each recipe as a narrative with subplots, characters, and rich history, Marcella demonstrates just how many delicious new stories she still has to tell.
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"Let me invite you on a journey with me from my childhood ..." beckons Lidia Bastianich, hostess of the national public television series Lidia's Italian Table. And what an incredible journey it proves to be.
Lidia's Italian Table is overflowing with glorious Italian food, highlighted by Lidia's personal collection of recipes accumulated since her childhood in Istria, located in northern Italy on the Adriatic Sea. Hearty and heartwarming Italian fare is what Lidia understands best, and each chapter of this gorgeous cookbook is infused with Lidia's warm memories of a lifetime of eating and cooking Italian style.
Since good Italian food is based on good ingredients, Lidia includes an eloquent discourse on those products that are the cornerstones of Italian cuisine: olives (and their green-golden oil), Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, salt, porcini mushrooms, truffles, tomato paste, and hot peppers. She also explains the importance of regional wines and grappa (in flavors from honey to dried fig) in the Italian food experience. Her recipes are filled with these Italian delicacies--Fennel, Olive, and Citrus Salad; Tagliatelle with Porcini Mushroom Sauce; Seared Rabbit Loin over Arugula with Truffle Dressing; Asparagus Gratin with Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese-, and Zabaglione with Barolo Wine.
Lidia explores every corner of Italian cuisine: from fresh and dry pasta to gnocchi and risotto to game and shellfish, all of which Lidia transforms into exceptional Italian dishes. But that is only the beginning. There are Italian soups to savor, like hearty minestre, bread-enriched zuppe, and the light and flavorful brodi. Polenta's delicious versatility is revealed through Polenta, Gorgonzola, and Savoy Cabbage Torte and White Creamy Polenta with Fresh Plums.
And Lidia's luscious dolci, or desserts, invite your indulgence with Sweet Crepes with Chocolate Walnut Filling, Blueberry-Apricot Frangipane Tart, and Soft Ice Cream with Hazelnuts.
Lidia attributes her passion and appreciation for Italian food to her family. Lidia's Italian Table is filled with stories of learning to make Easter bread with her Grandma Rosa in the town's communal oven; touching and smelling her way through the food markets of Trieste with her great-aunt Zia Nina; fishing for calamari with her uncle Zio Milio; and collecting briny mussels and sea urchins along the Istrian coastline with her cousins.
This gastronomic adventure is more than just a cookbook: It is an exploration into the heart of Italian cuisine.
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In her hit Food Network show Everyday Italian, Giada De Laurentiis shows you how to cook delicious, beautiful food in a flash. And here, in her long-awaited first book, she does the same—helps you put a fabulous dinner on the table tonight, for friends or just for the kids, with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of flavor. She makes it all look easy, because it is.
Everyday Italian is true to its title: the fresh, simple recipes are incredibly quick and accessible, and also utterly mouth-watering—perfect for everyday cooking. And the book is focused on the real-life considerations of what you actually have in your refrigerator and pantry (no mail-order ingredients here) and what you're in the mood for—whether a simply sauced pasta or a hearty family-friendly roast, these great recipes cover every contingency. So, for example, you'll find dishes that you can make solely from pantry ingredients, or those that transform lowly leftovers into exquisite entrées (including brilliant ideas for leftover pasta), and those that satisfy your yearning to have something sweet baking in the oven. There are 7 ways to make red sauce more interesting, 6 different preparations of the classic cutlet, 5 perfect pestos, 4 creative uses for prosciutto, 3 variations on basic polenta, 2 great steaks, and 1 sublime chocolate tiramisù—plus 100 other recipes that turn everyday ingredients into speedy but special dinners.
What's more, Everyday Italian is organized according to what type of food you want tonight—whether a soul-warming stew for Sunday supper, a quick sauté for a weeknight, or a baked pasta for potluck. These categories will help you figure out what to cook in an instant, with such choices as fresh-from-the-pantry appetizers, sauceless pastas, everyday roasts, and stuffed vegetables—whatever you're in the mood for, you'll be able to find a simple, delicious recipe for it here. That's the beauty of Italian home cooking, and that's what Giada De Laurentiis offers here—the essential recipes to make a great Italian dinner. Tonight.
Learn to make pasta from New York Times bestselling author and Food Network star Giada De Laurentiis!
For Giada De Laurentiis, pasta has always been one of the great pleasures of the table: it's healthy and delicious; it can be light and delicate or rich and hearty; it's readily available and easy to prepare—everything you want in a meal. And nothing satisfies a craving for Italian food quite like it! In Everyday Pasta, Giada invites you to share her love of this versatile staple with more than a hundred brand-new recipes for pasta dishes, as well as for complementary sauces, salads, and sides tempting enough to bring the whole family to the dinner table.
Without forgetting about the classics we all love, Giada makes the most of the many varieties of pasta available to create recipes that combine familiar flavors in exciting new ways.
Although most of these dishes are all-in-one meals in themselves, Giada also supplies recipes for her favorite appetizers, side dishes, and salads to round them out.
Whether you're looking for a simple summer supper that makes the most of seasonal vegetables or seeking comfort in a pasta bowl on a cold winter' s night, Everyday Pasta offers just the thing, including:
• Tuna, Green Bean, and Orzo Salad
• Crab Salad
• Napoleans with Fresh Pasta
• Roman-Style Fettuccini with Chicken
• Baked Pastina Casserole
• Tagliatelle with Short Ribs Ragou
• Spaghetti with Eggplant, Butternut Squash, and Shrimp
Easy to prepare and endlessly versatile, pasta makes a wonderful quick supper when time is short but easily becomes an elegant meal when the occasion requires. In Everyday Pasta, Giada shows you how, with a few basic ingredients from the fridge and the pantry, you're never more than minutes away from a delicious pasta dinner.
The only comprehensive book, in English or Italian, to cover the entire range of Italian baking, from breadsticks and cornetti to focaccia, tarts, cakes, and pastries. This latest edition, updated for a new generation of home bakers, has added four-color photography throughout, plus new recipes, ingredients and equipment sections, source guides, and weights.
Carol Field introduces artisanal doughs and techniques used by generations of Italian bakers. Every city and hill town has its own unique baking traditions, and Field spent more than two years traversing Italy to capture the regional and local specialties, adapting them through rigorous testing in her own kitchen.
Field's authentic recipes are a revelation for anyone seeking the true Italian experience. Here's a chance to make golden Altamura bread from Puglia, chewy porous loaves from Como, rosemary bread sprinkled with coarse sea salt, dark ryes from the north, simple breads studded with toasted walnuts, succulent fig bread, and Sicilian loaves topped with sesame seeds.
One of the most revered baking books of all time, The Italian Baker is a landmark work that continues to be a must-have for every serious baker.
Winner of the International Association of Culinary Professionals Award for best baking book Named to the James Beard Baker's Dozen list of thirteen indispensable baking books of all time
"The quintessential cookbook." – USA TodayThe Silver Spoon, the most influential and bestselling Italian cookbook of the last 50 years, is now available in a new updated and revised edition. This bible of authentic Italian home cooking features over 2,000 revised recipes and is illustrated with 400 brand new, full‐color photographs. A comprehensive and lively book, its uniquely stylish and user‐friendly format makes it accessible and a pleasure to read. The new updated edition features new introductory material covering such topics as how to compose a traditional Italian meal, typical food traditions of the different regions, and how to set an Italian table. It also contains a new section of menus by celebrity chefs cooking traditional Italian food including Mario Batali, Lidia Bastianich, Tony Mantuano, and Rich Torrisi and Mario Carbone.
Il Cucchiaio d'Argento was originally published in Italy in 1950 by the famous Italian design and architectural magazine Domus, and became an instant classic. A select group of cooking experts were commissioned to collect hundreds of traditional Italian home cooking recipes and make them available for the first time to a wider modern audience. In the process, they updated ingredients, quantities and methods to suit contemporary tastes and customs, at the same time preserving the memory of ancient recipes for future generations.
Divided into eleven color‐coded chapters by course, The Silver Spoon is a feat of design as well as content. Chapters include: Sauces, Marinades and Flavored Butters, Antipasti, Appetizers and Pizzas, First Courses, Eggs, Vegetles, Fish and Shellfish, Meat, Poultry, Game, Cheese, and Desserts. It covers everything from coveted authentic sauces and marinades to irresistible dishes such as Penne Rigate with Artichokes, Ricotta and Spinach Gnocchi, Tuscan Minestrone, Meatballs in Brandy, Bresaola with Corn Salad, Pizza Napoletana, Fried Mozzarella Sandwiches and Carpaccio Cipriani.
An updated edition of the classic guide to northern Italian cookery features more than two hundred recipes that represent the best in authentic Italian cuisine, including Minestrone Soup, Tagliatelle Bolognese Style, Buschetta with Fresh Tomatoes and Basil, and Roasted Leg of Lamb with Garlic and Rosemary. Original.
This collection of recipes introduces the cuisine of Liguria. The nutritional balance of the diet includes an abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables, fish and seafood, low fat cheeses, grains, nuts, olive oil, wine and fragrant herbs.


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It's just my opinion folks, and you can take this with a grain of salt… but I'm going to call this right now — This is what I think ACTUALLY HAPPENED:
A) Charlie went on another bender, was in one too many newspapers and CBS/Warner Bros approached him and said look, we're going to fire you if you don't do something about this.
B) Charlie responds, I'm not ready to quit yet give me another few months and I will be.
C) CBS/WB (Network from here on out) says No way you are fired.
D) Charlie says (using his Warlock Brain) what if I have a very public blow out. The ratings are dipping a little, how long are we really going to be able to keep this up? Let's make this work for us. I'll do a public blow out, smoke as much meth and crack as I want, claim I'm in my own rehab, we'll fake a piss test on national television to blow people's minds… and we'll let that generate a TON of press for the show. At the climax, when everyone is ready to say "Damn I'm tired of this sheen shit on TV" you guys come in and make a statement "CHARLIE YOU ARE FIRED".
That will make it sit in the news for another month while people wonder who is going to replace me… at that point I'll start coming around slowly, talk about going out of my mind, bring the sympathy vote slowly in my way. I'll let the press see me struggle through rehab, I'll do the whole dog and pony show, hell you can even take my kids, so people feel really bad… then I'll slowly rehab over the summer, you write in Rob Lowe or that idiot from Full House as my long lost friend from college or something and I'll be back just in time for the middle of the season.
Everyone will be so on my side by then because I'll milk it for all it's worth and really do the poor me, I was such an idiot routine that EVERYONE on the planet will tune in when they hear that I'm coming back to the show with my new… salary (2.5m per episode). By then we will get my kids back, and I won't go back to doing drugs again until the ratings dip double digits. We got a deal? America is filled with trolls and sheep anyway, they love a good tiger dance.
E) Network says well let's give it a shot, if you can draw enough attention you have a deal.
Then… in the background… someone yelled…. ACTION!!! ROLL TAPE. Charlie went to town…


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Q: Why are my goldfish changing colors? – Emily in New York
A: Whether you have a traditional goldfish in your pond or one of the many fancy varieties, you may notice their colors change over time – don't worry. It doesn't necessarily mean your fish have some sort of disease! In most cases, it's normal for goldfish to change color. So before you start dumping antibiotics in your pond, first consider these possibilities:
Goldfish naturally change color as they age. Though most do so during their first year or two of life, others change throughout their lifetime. Fish experts have identified two different types of color changes in fish: physiological and morphological.
Physiological changes occur when the pigments in the cells either spread out, which makes the colors more pronounced, or when the pigment clusters in the center, which makes the colors more muted. Morphological changes occur when the actual number of pigments in the cells increase or decrease. An example of a morphological change is when a black goldfish starts to turn orange or a young goldfish loses its black markings as it ages. In this case, as the fish matures, it's losing its black pigment cells.
How and when their colors change really depends upon their individual genetic makeup. Inexpensive goldfish whose parents are unknown can change in unpredictable ways, while expensive show-quality fish will be a bit more predictable.
Color-Enhancing Foods
Certain types of food, like Pond Logic® Growth & Color Fish Food, can accentuate subdued colors in goldfish, too. Sometimes, a dull orange goldfish can be made a deeper shade of red with these specially formulated diets, which contain natural color-enhancing supplements like spirulina, beta glucan, vitamin E and vitamin C.
Keep in mind, however, that some of these color-enhancers may affect other colors, too. White areas on calico orandas, for instance, may take on an orange hue – which may not be the look you're going for.
Illness, Poor Water Quality
If your goldfish's color becomes very dull or it starts to become inactive, that could be a sign of illness or poor water quality. Use a test kit, like the Pond Master Test Kit, to check your water quality, including your pH, ammonia and nitrite levels. Then, if necessary, add a broad-spectrum medication, like Pond Care's Melafix or Pimafix, to treat parasites or bacterial infections your fish may have.
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'Tasting Menu' review: Not a recipe for success
Tasting Menu
Comedy-drama. Directed and co-written by Roger Gual. With Vicenta N'Dongo, Jan Cornet, Claudia Bassols, Andrew Tarbet, Fionnula Flanagan, Stephen Rea. In Catalan, English, Spanish and Japanese, with English subtitles. (PG-13, 85 minutes.)
The Spanish comedy-drama "Tasting Menu" is set in an ultra-exclusive culinary temple, but it's more the equivalent of a chain restaurant. Miserly on food porn but not on prefab characters, it's well short of a cinematic feast.
Clearly inspired by the 2011 closing of elBulli, the Catalonian citadel of molecular gastronomy, "Tasting Menu" is set on the final night of a starkly minimalist coastal restaurant. The chef, a world-famous goddess of cookery named Mar (Vicenta N'Dongo), is exhausted, but plans to go out with a once-in-a-lifetime feast - snail caviar, anyone?
We watch the handful of well-connected guests arrive from all parts of the world and interact with each other and the staff. Some of the diners are mildly funny, some are insufferable and most are all-too-familiar character types.
A surgeon (Jan Cornet) has some awkward moments with his estranged wife (Claudia Bassols), a famous novelist; then her ultra-aggressive New York publisher shows up with more than professional intentions. Two suave Japanese businessmen are saddled with a twit of a female guide who endlessly embarrasses them.
A couple of familiar faces enliven the proceedings. Stephen Rea portrays a haughty solo diner with a super-refined palate. Less happily, Fionnula Flanagan plays an elderly countess who brings her late husband's ashes to dinner with her. Yes, it's that kind of movie.
None of the conflicts, misunderstandings and moments of (intended) poignancy are compelling, because the characters are timeworn and one-dimensional. Attempting to breathe some life into the plot, director Roger Gual arranges an unsurprising surprise (one of the guests is not who he or she seems) and introduces an off-the-wall boating mishap that interrupts the dinner.
N'Dongo offers an appealing turn, and Andrew Tarbet gives an amusing portrayal of the imperious maitre d' who has big plans for the chef.
A film like this should tease your taste buds with images of culinary exotica - this is the kind of food a mad scientist might cook up in a lab. But "Tasting Menu" largely falls short in that regard, though it ends with a parade of intriguing dishes over the closing credits.
In short, this particular souffle is both over-baked and under-seasoned.
Walter Addiego is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com


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People in the house has swollen sores on their faces and arms consistent with "meth bugs," investigators said.
A disconnected 9-1-1 call led Volusia County deputies to a Deltona home where they found a meth lab and "meth bugs," people with swollen sores all over their faces, Sheriff's Office reports show.
Deputies also found 52 ounces of meth oil, arrest reports said.
Kyle Tuton, 29, is charged with possession of methamphetamine with intent to manufacture and sell, and trafficking. His wife, Leah Morgan, 27, faces three "drug offenses," jail records show.
Sheriff's investigators said the amount of methamphetamine found in the home was not for personal use, the report said.
Deputies went to 3499 Monument Drive in Deltona on Saturday at 1:57 p.m. after someone called 9-1-1 and left the line open and dispatchers heard someone threatening a person with a knife. When deputies arrived at the home they met Tuton, who said he and his wife were arguing over the fact that his wife believed he no longer found her attractive, deputies said.
But because of the nature of the call, deputies asked if someone else was in the house. When Morgan led deputies inside to her bedroom to find her identification, they saw four other people in the home.
"All parties inside the residence had swollen sores on their faces and arms which are consistent with "meth bugs," investigators wrote in their reports. The others in the house were not charged.
A search of the house revealed a meth lab containing lithium batteries, drain cleaners, Coleman fuel and the meth oil, investigators said.
Tuton and Morgan were being held Monday at the Volusia County Branch Jail, Tuton on $151,000 bail and Morgan on $13,000.


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