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Dinner Tonight: Chicken Cutlets with Creamy Parmesan Dressing Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
I've been cooking a lot of chicken lately—legs and breasts and roasting them whole—because it's versatile and pretty economical, especially if you buy a whole chicken and learn to cut it up yourself. This time I tackled chicken breast with a little help from Tyler Florence's latest cookbook Family Meal. In order to coax as much flavor out of the breast while keeping it as juicy as possible, he relies on a meat mallet and a classic bread-crumb coating: The mallet ensures the breasts are uniformly thick so that they're cooked evenly all the way through, and the flour, egg, and panko bread crumb coating help create a golden crust.
However, the real story here might be the accompanying dressing. It's a kind of play on Caesar (featuring egg yolks, anchovies, and Parmesan cheese) that's garlicky, bright from the lemon juice, and a little bit thick thanks to the egg yolk. It coats the greens beautifully, but I also couldn't help spooning a little on my chicken like a gravy.
- Yield:4
- Active time: 25
- Total time:35
- 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, about 1 1/2 pounds
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- kosher salt and black pepper to taste
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 cup panko bread crumbs
- Neutral oil for frying, such as peanut
- 4 anchovy fillets
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 clove garlic, smashed
- Juice of 2 lemons
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan
- 4 ounces salad greens
Place chicken breasts between two pieces of plastic wrap and gently pound to uniform 1/2-inch thickness.
Put flour, eggs, and panko on three separate plates. Season flour with salt and pepper. Dredge chicken in flour, then egg, then panko, being sure to thoroughly shake off excess between each stage. Place breaded cutlets on a plate and transfer to refrigerator for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, combine anchovies, egg yolks, garlic, and lemon juice in blender or food processor and pulse until smooth, about 30 seconds. With machine running, add olive oil in steady stream until thick, creamy, and emulsified. Transfer to bowl and whisk in Parmesan, then season to taste with salt and pepper.
Heat 1 cup oil over high heat in 12-inch skillet until shimmering, then lay cutlets in skillet, working in batches to avoid overcrowding if necessary. Cook until golden brown and cooked through, 5 to 7 minutes per side. Center of breast should register 155°F on instant read thermometer. Drain on paper towels, transfer to plates, and top with the greens tossed in dressing. Serve immediately.
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Legend Martial Arts
We have two members in our company: a male brazilian jiu jitsu blackbelt who is a seasoned professsional mma fighter and a female amateur muay thai fighter who is leaving a career as an attorney. We are both 30 years old. Our hope is to grow the gym slowly, build a solid student base and expand into mma fight promotions in the next 1-3 years. We are both taking a financial risk as well as changing our lives significantly to start the gym, but we could not be happier or more excited about the possibilities that lay before us.
Both of us have extensive sports coaching backgrounds and want to continue teaching athletes of all levels. We believe that the best way to learn a discipline is to teach it and we both intend to continue training and fighting in our own right in addition to running the gym.
Our company personality is young and bold - both of us are covered in tattoos and own rescued pit bulls. Brazilian culture is important to us, as one member of the company was raised in Brazil. We strive to provide a positive experience for everyone who walks through the gym doors, whether they are a pro-fighter, a middle-aged mother of three or an eight year old child. We want our company identity to reflect who we are as people but not to the point of being intimidating or off-putting. We want the gym to be a place where all people feel welcome and important.
Our gym is located in south Florida where there are already many mma gyms. However, there are no gyms in a 10-12 miles radius of us. The gyms that are nearby are focused primarily on children's programs or karate. Because we are located on the coast, this is a body-conscious market.
There are several colleges within 10 miles of the gym which we plan on targeting. We want to take advantage of the 17-22 year olds who are local to the area. We will offer conditioning programs for college athletes, as well as cardio kickboxing for women, weekend conditioning bootcamps for fighters as well as those looking for a great workout and, of course, brazilian jiu jitsu, boxing, muay thai and mma classes. There will be classes available for all levels of skill, experience and fitness.
There are several churches and schools close to the gym that we want to target. This is a different market than the colleges - the cardio boxing and bootcamps will likely appeal to mothers and other adults who want to improve their fitness but there are also a lot of children in the area. We want to implement an after-school program to teach kids martial arts basics in a fun environment and give them something productive to do after school instead of sitting at home on the couch. It's important that our identity does not turn these people off from the gym. They are more conservative than the college crowd.
The logo needs to be clean, bold and easily identifiable. It will be on all of the gym clothing, fight gear, marketing materials, etc., so we want it to function as an emblem. We want it to be circular, with "legend martial arts" written clearly. We envisioned the gym name being written along the outside of the circle but are definitely open to other ideas. We are also open to different font choices.
Color-wise, we want to incorporate royal blue because it's the primary color inside the gym. Other colors are up to you - one of us is american and one is brazilian, so a play on both countries, either through color or image, would be cool.
Inside the circle, we are open to anything you envision. It could be the gym initials ("LMA") in some form or it could be some sort of fight imagery. One idea that we had was to put silhouette images of a mauy thai fighter and a jiu jitsu practioner inside the circle. That's just one idea - we are truly open to anything and are really excited to see what people design for us. Thanks!
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I've uploaded an adaptation of the Christmas poem "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" on Weasyl. (No relation to the Rankin/Bass special or the GoodTimes film) I've worked on it from November 2017 to May 2018, and I posted it here when I first registered in June. Not to get ahead of myself, but I think I've written a wonderful expansion of a classic work. But I feel kinda lonely when I don't get constructive criticism or praise. So, if there's anyone, and I mean ANYONE here who has the time, I'd like a critique or two to see if this story is either just as great as I believe or somewhat lacking for one reason or another.
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I was 14 years old.
It ended up being performed as the opening of our student-written show in May, with voices fading in and out, my friends reciting my words, and all of it somehow meant so much more because we had all been together on that day. I've lost touch with many of you, but I still hear your inflection, your voices, when I read this again.
I post it every year; it feels almost like a pilgrimage now, returning to those thoughts and those unknowns. This is who I was, and I will not forget.
That day was such a weird day. It almost even seems like a dream, although I know it was real. That's the scary part -- it was real.
As I walked into third period Chorus, my teacher seemed very distressed. She snapped at us to sit down and watch the television. She said that the World Trade Center had been attacked, and so had the Pentagon. Attacked -- such a foreign word to me, to all Americans, that it must have been a joke.
But for the next hour, as all of us watched the terror unfolding live before our eyes, we discovered that the carnage couldn't have been more of a reality. Craning our necks to see the television, we heard the voice of a reporter describing what she saw inside a public school near the Twin Towers. There was no loud talking today, no laughing, and no smiling. And amidst the tears and soft whispers going on around me, I heard my teacher go, "Oh my God," and we turned to see one of the towers begin to collapse.
Soon we heard that a plane had crashed in Pennsylvania, but it hadn't hit anything. My friend was saying that since it seemed that they were heading South-- whoever "they" may be, we didn't know yet-- they would hit us next. There were rumors about the Mall of America in Minnesota being bombed, and a car bomb in front of the State Department in Washington, DC. Students were being sent to the counselors' office right and left, and panic seemed to ensue as we continued to watch, seeing the second tower come down, knowing that all of the people in that monstrous, grand building were dying. We didn't know what was happening, who had committed these horrendous crimes, and what they were planning to do next. All the security that I had felt only fifty minutes before had collapsed with the towers, and now seemed to be lying in the rubble of what would soon be known as "Ground Zero."
The bell rang, and it was a terribly surreal feeling to be walking through the halls like usual, but knowing that something horrific and shocking had happened, something that had changed the lives of all the people walking around me. My friend was talking about her aunts who live on Long Island-- she hoped they were okay, and she was so nervous. I remember saying, "I will be so pissed off if anyone is laughing about this."
We got to fourth period Health, and our teacher said that America had been very, very lucky up until now. This happens every day in other parts of the world, he reminded us, and we are just getting a taste of what they experience. Instead of having class, we went back down to the chorus room to watch the television. I couldn't stand it. After asking permission, I fled to the counselors' office. As I walked in, I heard teachers talking. One said that Israeli troops had surrounded Jerusalem and would not let anyone get out, in case the people responsible were from there. My heart filled up, knowing that other nations were willing to help us; maybe some good will come out of this terrible thing, I thought.
I was ushered into a meeting room where a few other girls from my class were, with one of the counselors. Some were crying, and I can't really remember exactly what I did in there. If I spoke, or if I just sat there, it's gone. But afterwards, the counselor led me into her office, privately. I told her about how scary the situation was, and how I was nervous about more attacks coming. She said that her husband had told her that all airplanes had been grounded and that the only aircrafts in the sky at the moment were those of the Air Force. While that made me feel a little more comfortable, I was still very uneasy. We talked through all of fourth period, which made me relieved, since I hardly wanted to go back to that television that had brought me so much fear.
My fifth period teacher was in the office when I came out, and we walked to her class together. Ironically, this was the day that we took our test on the American government. During lunch, people kept being called out of the cafeteria to be checked out by their parents. The security guards had their walkie-talkies and I remember thinking that they were going to announce another attack or something. Inside this room, everything seemed fine, but outside, everything was extremely wrong.
When I got to sixth period, I asked my teacher if I could call my mother, to tell her that my Drama club meeting was canceled for the day, due to "everything." Even though I tried her cell phone, she didn't answer, and as I was walking out of the front office, in she came, my brother in tow. She asked me if I'd like to go home, and I said yes. I went and gathered my things from French, and left with her.
At home, I was trying to forget about everything that had happened, so I actually took a nap. Listening to one of my favorite CDs, I tried to block out everything, but it was still there, still fresh.
That night, I watched President Bush address the nation. I was afraid he'd declare war on someone or a country, but he didn't. My parents said that was because he didn't know who to declare war on in the first place. I don't remember anything else from that night. I just felt different: vulnerable and unprotected, just like everyone else in America at that moment in time, I guess.
It's been
Eleven. Years.
since this happened.
We have lived one day at a time, because we never know what will come next. And even if we are scared or uneasy at times, we are all survivors.
This is my song, O God of all the nations
a song of peace for lands afar and mine.
This is my home, the country where my heart is;
here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine;
but other hearts in other lands are beating
with hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.
My country's skies are bluer than the ocean,
and sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine;
but other lands have sunlight too, and clover,
and skies are everywhere as blue as mine.
O hear my song, thou God of all the nations,
a song of peace for their land and for mine.


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By Jonny Gerow
The Corsair RM750 is fully modular and optimized for silence and high efficiency. It's built with low-noise capacitors and transformers, and Zero RPM Fan Mode ensures that the fan doesn't even spin until the power supply is under heavy load. And with a fan that's custom-designed for low noise operation, it's whisper-quiet even when it's pushed hard.
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A Moscow judge has sentenced a former police officer to 11 years in prison and fined him 3 million rubles (about $100,000) for his part in the 2006 murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, who prosecutors claimed helped to track Politkovskaya's movements and provided the triggerman with a gun, had struck a plea bargain that qualified him for a reduced sentence in exchange for his cooperation.
Politkovskaya's family opposed the deal, which allowed Pavlyuchenkov to admit his guilt without testifying, on the grounds that it would not help find the masterminds of the killing.
The alleged triggerman and four other defendants will be tried separately.
Politkovskaya, a sharp critic of Kremlin policies in Chechnya, was gunned down in her apartment building on Oct. 7, 2006.


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"Two and a Half Men" Replaces Sheen with Ashton in New Promo Pic
The first publicity shot of CBS's new "Two and a Half Men" has been released today, and it's eerily familiar…
Turns out the showrunners basically took the same old poster, replaced Sheen with Ashton, and switched the colored bow-tie.
The new show premieres September 19th, which is the same day that Sheen's Comedy Central Roast will air. Rumors have it that Sheen's Charlie Harper will be killed off and Kutcher will buy Charlie's home.
Priest Accidentally Forgets To Turn Off Filters Before Live Streaming Mass
The internet is having a field day with the innocent mistake of biblical proportions.
With new social distancing guidelines, many churches have closed to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. And while that doesn't justify all the wine you've been chugging during your self quarantine, it does have many people practicing their faith from their homes. One Italian priest was just trying to recite a little prayer for his followers when he accidentally left a filter feature on during the broadcast! In the clip the priest is digitally adorned with a space helmet, workout gear, a fedora and sunglasses and more.
Social media went nuts for the video, which has now gone viral. One comment reads "He just doubled his holy power." Another reads "Father, Son and Holy Influencer." One commenter couldn't resist a good pun and said the video is having a "Mass effect."
Enjoy your daily blessing and take a look at the funny video below!
Priest in Italy live streams mass, activates filters by mistake from r/funny
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Danny DeVito Passionately Urges New Yorkers To Stay Home…And Twitter Agrees!
For the love of Danny DeVito, stay home!
The world is in a dark place right now and I am not sure how much more bad news we can handle. That's why when I saw Danny DeVito's name trending on Twitter I froze. Our great nation could very well crumble if anything bad was to happen to such an icon right now. With extreme trepidation I clicked on the social media link and was relieved to see that good ol' Danny boy is just strumming up hype because he is passionately urging New Yorkers to stay home.
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, Governor Andrew Cuomo has been driving New Yorkers to stay home and has taken every precaution short of shutting the state down completely to help prevent the virus from spreading. Because New Yorkers can be hard headed, it doesn't hurt to have some famous friends reiterate your message. Big names like Lala Anthony, Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller have all made appearances on Cuomo's social media pleading with New Yorker's to heed the governors warning. Only one celebrity was able to make it to Twitter's trending page however and that was none other than Danny DeVito. DeVito's message is simple…stay home! In the two minute video, DeVito reminds fans that it's not just up to the elderly to isolate themselves. "Young people can get it and they can transmit it to old people and the next thing you know – I'm out of there" says the actor. We must save him!
Twitter went into a frenzy with many users agreeing that we need to stay home for Danny. One user wrote "When Danny speaks, I listen." Another passionately wrote "If you idiots kill Danny DeVito I SWEAR TO GOD." One promoted DeVito from the icon status I previously awarded him and said "WE GOTTA PROTECT WORLD TREASURE DANNY DeVITO."
Take a look at the video below and for the love of the newly minted national treasure, stay home!
Danny DeVito wants you to stay home and save lives.#NewYorkStateStrongerTogether @DannyDeVito pic.twitter.com/7V8yXbqHwB
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) March 22, 2020
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VIDEO: Clever Family Recreates Disneyland's 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' Ride During Quarantine
One resourceful family has turned their quarantine into the happiest staycation on earth.
What do you do when the happiest place on earth is forced to close its doors? Bring that Disney magic home and turn your house into a theme-park ride of course. After Disneyland closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, one family had to rethink their travel plans. Twitter user, @Brooke_disney, shared how she and her family recreated the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in their own home…complete with ingenious props, costumes and pirate accents!
The family divided up the responsibilities with some acting as the ride's animatronic robots and others playing eager park-goers. Social media went nuts for this brilliant idea with one user commenting "No lines and you saved $100 per person – well done." Another was impressed by the attention to detail and said "I was screaming at the screen going under the FOOT." The post has already been viewed over 800k times!
Well shiver me timbers if this isn't the cutest way to spend a day stuck inside with your family. Take a look at the brilliantly done video below!
Yo ho yo ho a quarantine's life for me! My family's Disneyland Staycation! #Disneyland #PiratesoftheCaribbean #SocialDistancing pic.twitter.com/0VCKnuhOeY
— Brooke (@Brookie_disney) March 20, 2020
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blackcatwhitecat brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 71 Designs von 8 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Elegant, simple, eye catching and feminine logo, watermark and business card design needed for my new wedding photography business. Please make a logo that's easily recognizable, classy and will stand test of time. [edited description on 4/24 11am PST]
The logo design will be used on the main website and easily adapted for a business card. (If you can show case the business card, that'd be great). The watermark design should be simple and identifies my photography business.
Here are the cats that inspired by business name (you don't need to incorporate them but I want to give you some more background info)
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The first thing to decide when implementing your persistence layer is which classes are to be persisted. If you need to persist a field/property then you must mark that class as persistable. In JPA there are three types of persistable classes.
Let's take a sample class (Hotel) as an example We can define a class as persistable using either annotations in the class, or XML metadata.
To achieve the above aim with XML metadata, we do this
<entity class="org.datanucleus.test.Hotel"> ... </entity>
Alternatively, using JPA Annotations, like this
@Entity public class Hotel { ... }
In the above example we have marked the class as an entity. We could equally have marked it as mapped-superclass (using annotation @MappedSuperclass, or XML element <mapped-superclass>) or as embeddable (using annotation @Embeddable, or XML element <embeddable>).
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With JPA you cannot access public fields of classes. DataNucleus allows an extension to permit this, but such classes need special enhancement. To allow this you need to
You perform the annotation of the class as follows
@PersistenceAware public class MyClassThatAccessesPublicFields { ... }
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Montessori education information from a Montessori teacher and Mom. Personal art work and journal entries about my life as a busy Mom of three sons ranging in age from 7 years to 21 years. My hope: To create a place where parenting questions can be answered and conversations as well as ideas shared.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Celebrating Seuss!
In celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday this past week, we grew as a community. It was very sweet to over-hear comments like, "I have that book at home!" and "You do? So do I!" said with excitement and joy over the connection to a friend.
Children develop independence by first separating from their parent to their teacher, then from the teacher to a peer/friend...this natural progression is not always an easy task for all to do. The work of the preschool teacher is to nurture friendships between the children. When was the last time you shared with a parent, about who their child plays with at school? Suggesting play-dates is a great way to foster preschool friendships. Some parents will ask but other parents may be shy or may not feel comfortable asking.
Happy Reading everyone! ~MM
5 comments:
- Unknown said...
Tks very much for post:
I like it and hope that you continue posting.
Let me show other source that may be good for community.
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- March 11, 2012 at 5:29 AM
- L said...
Great site - very inspiring. I'm also creating a site about working with twins at home - http://medoit.org/ - I'm not a Montessori teacher myself, but I am looking around for sites like yours to learn from!
- March 18, 2012 at 2:34 AM
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- March 29, 2012 at 4:35 AM
- ocmontessori said...
Good post. Nice photos. Thanks for sharing. Am working to create a Montessori Education Blog, you have a nice theme here :)
- March 29, 2012 at 4:37 AM
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This looks like a great event to have for kids! I remember that as a child I loved Dr. Seuss. I think it's a great approach to use Montessori to teach children. It seems to be very effective, and would be very fun especially with things such as Dr. Seuss! http://www.nicholasmontessorischool.com
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Mandriva is a merger of the Mandrake and the Conectiva distro. Though, it seems like the company is in heavy losses and cannot hold up anymore. Mandriva is also well knows for filing a bankruptcy protection earlier. This time though, it is simply giving up for good.
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I have no idea. Where is it? If you mean the Learning Centre that is.
I think I spelled it correctly. There seems a lot of instructional videos on there but not much of a social aspect. I was looking for a forum, so decided to ask on here if anyone on here uses it.
Plainly speaking I'm shy and forgot to explain myself better. I realize I need help with my book and wanted to get someone here to friend me or tell me I posted an incorrect link.
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Ah, right. There's 100s if not 1000s of resources for writers on line. But do beware of ones that attempt to lead you in to buying 'help' or even towards expensive publishing services. The latter you can get here for free. The actual publishing that is. But you can also get tons of free advice on Lulu and not only within the forums.
As a general rule, we on this forum are quite helpful and seldom overly brutal. If you'd care to post a bit of a story, we will certainly comment, and some of the comments will be useful.
Okay, Here's an excerpt from my book. ""Latest" version. Clicky.
If I may...
Before I say anything else, it is a proper story with a proper progression of correct English sentences, and we don't always see that, so thank you very much. There is a lot that could work well in the tale as it sits, though I would suggest that you review a few points...
The grass dances in the warm breeze in celebration, back lit by the waning light of an afternoon sun.
I found this opening somewhat dissonant. For the grass to be back lit, we must be looking towards the sun, presumably from a very low angle. Also, it is "afternoon" which to me, with no other information, would seem to be... Two? Three? Four? But a moment later, it's dusk. Okay, you did say "waning light" but to me that suggests darkening towards evening, even twilight.
Maybe I'm too OCD on this point, but it seems tough to get a time fix here.
Today is special.
After a long drought, the thirst is finally quenched with the blood of a dove.
Quenching a thirst with the blood of a dove strongly suggests either some very dark evil, or else a sacrificial ritual of some sort. It's making the story much darker in tone than the prior sentences made it. It's early evening, and BAM! BLOOD SACRIFICE, DUDE!
If it were me, I would lay a bit of groundwork before jumping into the blood of a dove. Perhaps either more description of the otherwise peaceful and bucolic scenery, for greater contrast, or else a sense of foreboding that leads into the ominous thirst-quenching, for foreshadowing. Something about the growing darkness, the lengthening of shadows, the slow fading of the light... And then, the ominous declaration: That this day, doves shall die.
Two young boys walk at dusk. One is dressed in black with a black cape while the other is in white with a rainbow cape of many colors. The boy in black raises a hand to the air and points at something in the distance as it happens. Equally sharp-eyed, the boy in white sees it as well.It tends to bother me -- and perhaps this is just me -- when a story begins in the present tense. It does tell us the scene -- that two boys are walking by a field of tall grasses at dusk -- but it doesn't give us a place to engage in the story. We are too far removed, too distant, too remote.
First two boys walk. Then we hear how they're dressed. Then one of them points. The other also sees it. This is not capturing the imagination of the reader. The final sentence of the paragraph actually grates on me a bit. I very much dislike sentences that begin with a dependent clause. What if you made that paragraph read more like this:
The two boys walked along the narrow lane. One, dressed all in black, swaggered boldly, his black cape snapping to and fro in the slight breeze. The other, dressed in white, drew his multicolored cape closer around him, as if to block the falling night. The boy in black, with a sidelong glance at his little brother, pointed a narrow finger at the sky. The boy in white, equally sharp-eyed, had seen it also.
I've covered roughly the same points of exposition, with only one more line of text, but this paragraph, in the past tense, tends to introduce the characters. Later, when we see them squabbling over their grandfather's reprimands, we will already have a foreknowledge of their personalities. In the last line, I've taken the dependent clause from the front of the sentence and parked it in the middle. This gives it better verbal balance.
If you apply these sorts of principles throughout the story -- going to past tense, drawing the "camera" in a bit tighter, and introducing ideas slowly, with a gradual transition -- in my opinion, you'd have something better and more engaging.
It is always a good idea to ask yourself, "What, in my story, will engage with the reader?"
I realize that this is a rough draft, and miles to go before you sleep, and miles to go before you sleep*, but those are some points to consider...
I hope that helps.
* Allusion is made to Robert Frost, "On Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
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Examples of things that need a more gradual and more natural introduction: The agling* grandfather centaur; the goddess wrapped in a snake; the interplay between the eagle, the dove, and the raven; the smaller boy's power to resurrect the dead...
Also, you may wish to fact-check eagle behaviors. In my experience, when raptors are high in the air, lesser birds hide themselves away, lest they become lunch. I believe that the eagle's reaction to a dove or a raven, either one, would be to dive on them and snatch them in his talons before carrying them to a convenient place for an uninterrupted meal. I could be wrong, but it bears checking.
* I found myself pronouncing this "Aggling" (rhyming with haggling) instead of, as I assume you intended, "Aige-ling," that is, one who is aged. I might instead call him an elder, a white-hair, El Viejo, Grandad, Pops, patriarch, pater, paterfamilias, begetter, ancestor, old man, snow-mane, aged one.
Just a thought. Hope it helps.
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Okay. Good then. Trying to be helpful.
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I think that the new sample is a big improvement. It is easier to connect to the story, though the opening could still use a bit of fleshing-in. In general, the story seems more as if it is happening in front of us, as opposed to being told to us.
A big step forward, imho.
"A curtain was lifted, revealing a mockup of a beach." -- the entire remainder of the story would be impossible on a stage of any kind. When the reader is locked into a what-the-heck moment -- are we on a stage or in the ocean? -- they will break out of the story, and probably put it down.
"Bleach was embarrassed to see that she was completely naked." Okay, who the heck is Bleach? Is he the sailor? Or is he a member of the audience, watching the stage-show? Again, if the reader can't understand the ground-rules, he won't keep reading.
Once it goes, it's a passable tale. It needs fleshing out and clarification -- lots of clarification. It's downright murky. I had to read it twice to understand that the sailor, despite being able to make love to a mermaid under water (itself logistically improbable) was most likely drowned.
Why the mermen would be glad not to have shared his fate is unclear, since they presumably can breathe underwater. Color me baffled.
I see. So that post was not spam but a link to further text to do with a posting from months ago. It's not something I would expect to see on a blog site. Oh well.
sorry, Kevin.
What mermen, Skoob_ym? It was watched by sailors.
To clarify, yes this is from a blog where I'm sharing some material from fiction as it might not be read otherwise.
Here's an earlier scene introducing the circus barker.
It would be read in this forum if you pasted some in this forum ...
It would be read in this forum if you pasted some in this forum ...
facsmth said:sorry, Kevin.
What mermen, Skoob_ym? It was watched by sailors.
To clarify, yes this is from a blog where I'm sharing some material from fiction as it might not be read otherwise.
Here's an earlier scene introducing the circus barker.
I misread "menfolk" as "merfolk."
Nonetheless, lacking context, merfolk (i.e. mermen and merwomen) is as likely a reading as any other. What I'm getting at here is that the passage is very rough.
Just Kevin said:It would be read in this forum if you pasted some in this forum ...
Okay, Skoob. I was worried that many of my previous editing attempts were done on the beginning of the story rather than on much of the unchanged middle chapters.
Either that or I slashed out material completely & removed it without revision for whatever reasons...
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Ron Miller said:"The fat man was shouting/ laughing/ singing in a boastful voice that was loud enough to be heard but at the same time pleasant to listen to. He was having a dialogue with a rather large woman in red dress who held a baby wrapped in blue (that signified it was a boy) and was an old woman, presumably her mother."
Huh? The first thing I thought was that the baby was an old woman who was the mother of the large woman.
"The fat man was shouting/ laughing/ singing
Is this multiple choice? Is the reader expected to cross two out? Whatever choice is made will affect the meaning greatly. You need to expand on that sentence and be less lazy with it.
in a boastful voice that was loud enough to be heard , but at the same time pleasant to listen to. He was having a dialogue
Not as such because he was also laughing and singing.
with a rather large woman in a red dress
Was the man or the woman wearing the dress?
who held a baby wrapped in blue (that signified it was a boy (not if it was in Victorian times where boys wore pink and girls blue ).) and was an old woman, presumably her mother."
Really, this all proves that just because something makes sense to the writer does not mean it makes sense, or the same thing, to the reader.
Sorry again. I seem to be submitting the worst material for perusal while thinking I liked it.
Let's try this! 593 words. What age do you think the girl should be? Adult content. Some nudity. I don't know if it's NSFW or not.
Amy's Miracle
She loved him. She knew it was foolish, since he didn't truly love her. She had loved both of them for so long. They were different. Completely unlike any two people she'd ever met. And this was why she loved them.
She herself is far too ordinary. Others may have commented on how her beauty, but they would call just about anything beautiful. To her, it was a hollow word. As a girl, she had once cavorted in a mound of fertilizer because she had believed that it would magically expedite her growth much like that of plants; for which a farmer relative of hers had named it "miraculous". It wasn't until afterward that she had realized that the word "fertilizer" was actually synonymous with "horse shit." From this day, Amy never trusted anything anyone ever said. If a pile of animal feces could be a called a "miracle," then the word "beautiful" can also be a euphemism for ugliness.
She had the misfortune of living in a city of lies. She had been born here and could see no means of her own to leave. Yet, they had been born elsewhere, in the outside world! Together they may conceive of a way to escape.
She had failed in her attempt to "persuade" his brother to take her. Take her from here. She had approached him once, just after midnight.
She knew what others would only guess: he prowls at night. She could never remember seeing him during the day. She couldn't quite say that if she had seen him, that she would have been capable of recognizing him because she never had the chance to see much of his face.
Yet, because of the fact that he was even out at all during the night was indication enough of who he was. She was also sure --- were it someone else --- then they would not have left their home without the aid of lantern.
She had snuck out of her house wearing only a flimsy nightgown and had carried no light. Even though it was cold out, the nightgown was drenched in a sweat of anticipation so that it clung to her uncomfortably.
She decided to take it off and as she pulled it over her head, she smelled him even before she had heard the ghostly flap of that cape he wore.
At first, she had been afraid of that sound. It reminded her of window that had been left open at night; a window through which the wind might blow and rustle a curtain. A window through which something else far more sinister might crawl through...
Yet, she had not run because her first sign of his passage had not been that sound, it had been his smell.
It was the fact that he actually smelled, really. She was sure that he bathed; yet the smell which had wafted through her nostrils and electrified her brain with excitement had not been a smell which a body could naturally produce.
What she had smelled was most assuredly blood. She finally extricated herself from the sodden garment and had carelessly rolled it up into a ball and threw it behind her into the bushes where it would stay forever for all she cared.
When she was rid of it, her last shreds of modestly and the fear which it produced was gone. She at first held her arms across her breasts for a moment, and then let them fall seductively to her sides with her hands on her hips. She was ready.
Let's try this! 593 words. What age do you think the girl should be? Adult content. Some nudity.
I did not read it. It's your story so you should decide what age she should be.
I have no idea what that is.


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What type of leather does TOMS™ use for insoles?
We use pig suede for our Alpargatas core collection and seasonal core colors for men and women.
How do sizes compare between US/CA, UK and EU?
Mens Sizing Chart in US/CA cm UK EU 9.4 6 24 5 38 9.6 6.5 24.5 5.5 38.5 9.8 7 25 6 39 10 7.5 25.5 6.5 40 10.2 8 26 7 40.5 10.4 8.5 26.5 7.5 41 10.6 9 27 8 42 10.8 9.5 27.5 8.5 42.5 11 10 28 9 43 11.2 10.5 28.5 9.5 43.5 11.4 11 29 10 44 11.6 11.5 29.5 10.5 44.5 11.8 12 30 11 45 12 13 30.5 12 46 12.4 14 31.5 13 47.5 12.6 15 32 14 48.5 12.8 16 32.5 15 50 13 17 33 16 51 Womens Sizing Chart in US/CA cm UK EU 8.7 5 22 3 35.5 8.9 5.5 22.5 3.5 36 9.1 6 23 4 36.5 9.3 6.5 23.5 4.5 37 9.4 7 24 5 37.5 9.6 7.5 24.5 5.5 38 9.8 8 25 6 38.5 10 8.5 25.5 6.5 39 10.2 9 26 7 40 10.4 9.5 26.5 7.5 41 10.6 10 27 8 42 11 11 28 9 42.5 11.4 12 29 10 43.5 Youth Sizing Chart in US/CA cm UK EU 7.1 12 18 11 30 7.3 12.5 18.5 11.5 30.5 7.5 13 19 12 31 7.7 13.5 19.5 12.5 31.5 7.9 1 20 13 32.5 8.1 1.5 20.5 13.5 33 8.3 2 21 1 34 8.5 2.5 21.5 1.5 34.5 8.7 3 22 2 35 8.9 3.5 22.5 2.5 35.5 9.1 4 23 3 36 9.3 4.5 23.5 3.5 36.5 9.4 5 24 4 37 9.6 5.5 24.5 4.5 37.5 9.8 6 25 5 38
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Tiny TOMS® Sizing Chart in US/CA cm UK EU 3.1 1 8 0.5 16 3.5 2 9 1.5 17.5 3.9 3 10 2 18.5 4.3 4 11 3 19.5 4.7 5 12 4 21 5.1 6 13 5 22 5.5 7 14 6 23.5 5.9 8 15 7 24.5 6.3 9 16 8 26 6.7 10 17 9 27 6.9 11 17.5 10 28.5
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How was TOMS™ started?
TOMS™ was founded in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie, who was inspired by a trip to Argentina where he saw extreme poverty and health conditions, as well as children walking without shoes. TOMS™ was founded on a simple premise: With every pair purchased, TOMS™ gives a pair of new shoes to a child in need. One for One™.
Is TOMS™ a non-profit organization?
TOMS™ is a for-profit company with giving at its core. With our One for One™ mission, TOMS™ transforms our customers into benefactors, which allows us to grow truly sustainable giving efforts rather than depending on fundraising for support. This model has enabled us to give more shoes at a rapid rate and created thousands of customer-philanthropists along the way.
Who is Tom?
There is no Tom. Our name comes from the abbreviation of "Shoes for Tomorrow". The original idea was - for every pair purchased today, a new pair of shoes will be given tomorrow. This is how the One for One™ Movement was born.
How does TOMS™ give the matched pairs?
With every pair you purchase, TOMS™ will give a pair of new shoes to a child in need. One for One™. Using the purchasing power of individuals to benefit the greater good is what we're all about.
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