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Monday, August 29, 2011

General Economics

Bloomberg | Consumer Spending Rises in July, Beats Forecast
Consumer spending climbed more than forecast in July as Americans dipped into savings to buy cars and cool their homes, showing the biggest part of the economy is holding up.
WSJ | Mousetraps, Maybe, but Can You Build a Better Paper Clip?
U.S. Manufacturers Churn Out Billions Each Year; Hoping a New Model Clicks.
Bloomberg | Treasuries Decline as Personal Spending Rises in July More Than Forecast
Treasuries fell as stocks advanced after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said last week that the U.S. economy isn’t weak enough to warrant immediate additional stimulus, sapping demand for a refuge.
WSJ | Labor Economist to Fill Key Post
If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Krueger, a labor economist, is likely to provide a voice inside the administration for more-aggressive government action to bring down unemployment and, particularly, to address long-term joblessness.
Market Watch | Republican on need for government role in housing
To maintain the 30-year fixed rate mortgage and to allow the housing finance system, and economy, to recover, the government needs to provide a guarantee for mortgages, according to Republican Representative John Campbell.
National Journal | Can Dow Chemical’s CEO Sell Obama-esque Manufacturing Vision?
Last January, Andrew Liveris, the CEO of Dow Chemical, published a book called Make it in America that laid out a path for the United States to reclaim its onetime manufacturing dominance. The book details an ambitious agenda to set U.S. manufacturing back on a course for success, arguing that if the country cedes production of all the high-tech gadgets it produces.
Roll Call | RSC Looks to Advance ‘Growth’ Agenda, Mend Fences
Republican insiders say they expect the effort to include a mash-up of tax and regulatory moves that could include an attempt to restrict the federal government’s ability to regulate oil and gas drilling and a long-term repatriation tax holiday, among other elements.

Econ Comments
WSJ | An Entrepreneurial Fix for the U.S. Economy
Several reforms can make it faster and easier for new business startups.
NYT | Does America Need Manufacturing?
For decades, the federal government has generally resisted throwing its weight —and its money — behind particular industries. If the market was killing manufacturing jobs, it was pointless to fight it. The government wasn’t in the business of picking winners.
WSJ | An EPA Moratorium
Obama has the power to delay new rules that will shut down 8% of all U.S. power generation.
Washington Times | DREVNA: Cutting rules would spark economic growth
Obama should block EPA from restraining creation of energy jobs.
Bloomberg | Failing at Innovation? Bank on It
There's less entrepreneurship today than 20 years ago. Chris Farrell blames the rush for a fast buck.
Washington Times | GHEI: A Capitol crash course
Congress needs remedial instruction in basic economic principles.

Political Calculations | The Changing Distribution of Adjusted Gross Income for U.S. Households
If you had to guess, what adjusted gross income range would you say had the biggest gains in the number of households included within that range during the years from 1996 through 2009? Here are the choices:
Cato @ Liberty | Hurricane Irene as Economic Stimulus
No matter how many times economists debunk the broken window fallacy, not a natural disaster goes by that journalists don’t try to cheer us up by saying “at least it will stimulate economic growth.”
Heritage Foundation | Want Stimulus? Reduce Regulation
If President Obama needs to find 20 regulations to kill that would spur economic growth, then one need to look further than the Diane Katz report that identifies the biggest job destroying culprits: Dodd-Frank, ObamaCare and the global warming crusade of the EPA.
Minyanville | Key Indicators Suggest Fall Rally Is Coming
When the Pressure Factor indicator is deeply oversold -- as it is now -- the odds of a sharp rebound dramatically increase.

RCM: Wells Fargo | Weekly Economic & Financial Commentary
The Economy Continues to Grow at a Snail’s Pace.
AEI | What Drives Gas Prices: Cartels, Speculators, or Supply and Demand?
The public is unhappy with these high gas prices, and politicians are scrambling to find ways to reduce the pain--or, failing that, to publicly shoot the messenger by investigating, penalizing, or punitively taxing oil companies. This Outlook explores the true causes of oil price fluctuation and explains how policymakers can help lower gasoline prices.

Health Care

National Journal | U.S. Obesity Rates to Soar, Researchers Report
But good policy can bend the curve, a second study in Friday's Lancet says.
National Journal | How Medicare Managed Care Could Save Money
Medicare’s managed-care plans may be able to help the federal government cut costs, researchers said, by encouraging patients to have more appropriate, cost-effective courses of treatment than traditional plans.

Econ Comments
AEI | Better Prices--Through Competitive Bidding--Can Help Solve Medicare's Fiscal Crisis
Medicare faces a severe fiscal crisis and one reason is that it pays too much for the Medicare entitlement benefit. There is a way to fix the Medicare program without raising taxes: use market-like arrangements to set prices for both the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) program and for private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans.

Market Watch | Low rates good — and bad — for consumers
Borrowers breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Federal Reserve said earlier this month that it would hold interest rates at rock bottom for the next two years. But savers were far from happy.
Bloomberg | Dollar Cheap in Purchasing Power as Investors See Shelter
The greenback has appreciated 1.2 percent in August against a basket of the developed world’s nine most-traded exchange rates, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That compares with a decline of 14 percent in the world’s reserve currency from this time last year through July.

Econ Comments
Financial Times | A lost chance to jolt ailing America
It would be best if the Fed could be explicit about its reasoning. Unfortunately the unannounced inflation target that is said to guide the Fed’s actions does not easily justify the required new stimulus.
Market Watch | Fed’s Bullard sees no need for easing
Economic conditions are not at the point now where the Federal Reserve should ease monetary policy further, James Bullard, the president of the St. Louis Fed.

Minyanville | Hopes for Further Fed Easing in September Reignites Speculation
Last week's Jackson Hole speech didn't do much to assuage investor fears.

NBER | Stories of the Twentieth Century for the Twenty-First
A discrete-choice panel analysis using 1973-2010 data suggests that domestic credit expansion and real currency appreciation have been the most robust and significant predictors of financial crises, regardless of whether a country is emerging or advanced.

Econ Comments
Forbes | Warren Buffett And The Other Anti-Rich Capitalists
Ignoring the fact that 47% of U.S. households pay no federal income taxes, he decried the fact that Washington taxes investors’ capital gains at 15%, below the top rate of 35% on “ordinary” income.
Cato Institute | How Property Taxes and the 'Curley Effect' Are Killing Baltimore
The city's main streets will be closed so that IndyCar racers can compete in the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix. Much more than prize money is at stake.

CNN Money | Obama praises Georgia jobs training program
Participants don't get paid, but they do get to keep their jobless benefits and receive a stipend of up to $240 for transportation and other expenses.
CNN Money | Part-time workers: More fine with no full-time job
Since hitting a peak of 9.5 million last September, the number of part-time workers who tell the Labor Department they are doing so for economic reasons rather than personal reasons has dropped to 8.4 million in July.

Washington Times | Pentagon mulls ways to make major cuts
The Pentagon is considering a range of options to meet a bipartisan call to greatly reduce defense spending in what is a “perfect storm” rocking the military’s once-plump budget plans.
National Journal | Where Is Congress With Appropriations?
This is true in any calendar year, given that the federal government's fiscal year begins October 1, but may be especially pertinent this year with the new congressional super committee scheduled to meet.

Econ Comments
WSJ | A Short Primer on the National Debt
With a return to 1990s growth rates, the debt-to-GDP ratio could drop to 56.7%, about where it was in 2000, in just one decade.


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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

General Economics

USA Today | Gas prices likely to rise after Isaac
"We're definitely going to see a bump," says Brian Milne of energy tracker Telvent DTN. "We're going to get into the $3.80s at minimum and it could go higher, depending on how quickly things are resolved."
Bloomberg | Consumer Confidence in U.S. Declines by Most Since October
Confidence among U.S. consumers fell in August by the most in 10 months as households grew more pessimistic about their employment prospects and the economic outlook.
CNN Money | Home prices signal recovery may be here
A sharp boost in home prices during the spring could signal a recovery in the long-suffering U.S. housing market, according to an industry report issued Tuesday.
Fox Business | Crop Insurance Losses From Drought Could Reach $20B
The drought that left farmland in the U.S. barren and ravaged crop production may add up to total crop insurance losses of more than $13 billion, disaster modeler AIR Worldwide said on Tuesday.

Econ Comments & Analysis
WSJ | The Return of Welfare as We Used to Know It
There are many ways to aid the poor. Ending work rules isn't one of them.
Cato Institute | The Impact of Charter Schools on Public and Private School Enrollments
The flow of private-school students into charters has important fiscal implications for districts and states. When charters draw students from private schools, demands for tax revenue increase.
Washington Times | FEULNER: Teachers unions’ pressure is failing
School choice is passing the test.

Marginal Revolution | A look at U.S. income growth
“A provocative “exercise in subtraction” suggests that future growth in consumption per capita for the bottom 99 percent of the income distribution could fall below 0.5 percent per year for an extended period of decades.”
Heritage Foundation | Want Cheaper Gasoline? Waive Regulations
Even as the summer travel season is winding down, drivers have certainly noticed that gas prices are marching back up. Since the law of supply and demand hasn’t yet been repealed (or even suspended by executive order) the answer seems simple enough: increase the amount of gasoline available.
Cato @ Liberty | One of Many Ways the SEC Contributed to the Financial Crisis
I was recently reminded that in its infinite wisdom, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) actually sued banks as the housing bubble was building for putting aside too much money to coverage potential loan losses.
WSJ: Real Time Economics | GDP Per Capita Unlikely to Get Back to Pre-Recession Level Until 2013
What has happened to the economy over the past five years is grim enough. When you look at it in the context of a growing population, it is even grimmer.

Health Care

Econ Comments & Analysis
RCM | The U.S. Needs a Vigorous Medicare Debate
Medicare is in trouble. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's new cost estimates for Medicare, released last week in its new update to its Budget and Economic Outlook, raise projected Medicare spending by $136 billion over the next decade due to lower than expected productivity and higher than expected costs for goods and services.

Heritage Foundation | How Obamacare Robs Medicare and Hurts Seniors
Obamacare cuts $716 billion from Medicare over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and uses these “savings” from Medicare to fund other entitlement expansions mandated by Obamacare.

Bloomberg | ECB Said to Urge Weaker Basel Liquidity Rule on Crisis Risks
The European Central Bank is pushing global banking regulators to relax a draft liquidity rule so that lenders can use some asset-backed securities and loans to businesses in a buffer they must hold against a possible credit squeeze, according to three people familiar with the talks.
Market Watch | Euro-zone money-supply growth accelerates in July
Money supply across the 17 nations that share the euro grew faster than expected in July, data from the European Central Bank showed Tuesday. M3, the broadest measure of money supply, expanded at an annual rate of 3.8% in July, accelerating from 3.2% in June. Economists had forecast a 3.3% annual increase.

Econ Comments & Analysis
Forbes | The Top Ten Reasons That You Should Support the "Gold Commission"
What has gone largely unreported are ten reasons the American people should support the creation of a “gold commission.”

WSJ: Real Time Economics | Fed Economists Play Down Effect of Cutting Interest on Excess Reserves
Lowering the interest rate the Federal Reserve pays on excess reserves wouldn’t have a meaningful effect on the overall money supply, two economists argued in a Federal Reserve Bank of New York blog post Monday.
Economics One | Which Simple Rule for Monetary Policy?
The discussion of "Simple Rules for Monetary Policy" at last week’s FOMC meeting is a promising sign of a desire by some to return to a more rules-based policy.

WSJ | Industry Seeks Tax Fix
Lower and Simpler Rates Should Be Washington's Priority, Manufacturers Say.

Tax Foundation | Monday Map: State and Local Tax Deductions
Today's Monday Map focuses on the deduction of state and local income or sales taxes from federal taxable income.

Econ Comments & Analysis
Heritage Foundation | Unelected Unions: Why Workers Should Be Allowed to Choose Their Representatives
Unions negotiate workers’ terms of pay, promotion, layoff, and retirement; union members may not bargain for themselves. However, very few union members voted for this representation.

AEIdeas | 4 charts that show the U.S. labor market is a long, long way from being back to normal
"U.S. labor markets have recovered 4 million of the nearly 9 million net job losses from the early 2008 peak. …"

WSJ | Catalonia to Seek Aid From Madrid
The regional government in Catalonia said Tuesday it will ask for around €5 billion ($6.27 billion) in financial assistance from the central government, as the country's economic recession deepened in the second quarter and outflows from bank deposits hit a record high.
Bloomberg | Spanish Recession Deepens as Austerity Damps Outlook: Economy
Spain’s recession worsened in the second quarter as the government’s austerity push to reduce the euro area’s third-biggest budget deficit and a slump in consumer spending offset growth in exports.
Politico | $8 billion surprise grist for new spending fight the surprise of many, the agency now says it represents an $8 billion increase from what it calculates the current rate of discretionary spending, $1.039 trillion.

Econ Comments & Analysis
Bloomberg | Social Security’s Woes Are Worse Than You Think
On both left and right, the politicians and the experts are saying the U.S. needs to fix Medicare -- and have made fixing Social Security an afterthought.
Heritage Foundation | How Arms Controllers Would Reach a Budget Agreement
America is never going to fix its structural fiscal problems until we recognize that we face a political science problem more than an economic policy problem.
CNN Money | Where's all that government spending really going?
So where are the new trillions in spending really going? To find out, let's start with the total increase in outlays.

Political Calculations | The Recession And Social Security Disability
Picking up on recent comments by Russ Roberts on the changes in the disability rolls over time, we thought we might revisit Social Security's data on the number of disabled workers collecting disability benefits for the years corresponding to the Great Recession.
NRO: The Corner | More Evidence That Spending Cuts Are the Best Way to Shrink Our Debt
As I have explained in the past, increasing taxes on rich people is unlikely to address concerns about income inequality.
Keith Hennessey | The “insufficient detail” critique of the Ryan budget
Dr. Orszag’s principal critique is that the Ryan budget is short on details.

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Brooke Mueller and Charlie Sheen: Why Won’t She Leave Him?

The facts are straightforward: on Christmas Day, Charlie Sheen’s wife, Brooke Mueller, called 911, frantic that a switchblade-armed Sheen had threatened her. Police arrested Sheen, then released him after he posted an $8500 bond.

And then, yesterday, their lawyer told US Weekly that the couple were happily back together: “They’re very much in love, and they want to try to work it out. I think they had a really bad day, which is probably an understatement, but they need their privacy and they need some time.”

Three letters: WTF?

But as baffling as the story seems to be, science can offer an explanation.

The incident called to mind a similar case from earlier this year, when top diva Rihanna was forced cancel an appearance at the Grammy Awards after a beating by her then-boyfriend, Chris Brown. Despite visible bruises, the pop diva seemed unwilling to blame her partner for her injuries, and the two were back together three weeks later. (Eventually they broke up.)

Such behavior is difficult to understand because many of us continue to view domestic violence as a straightforward crime, in which one party commits a hostile act against another. This is the model, for instance, underlying the 1991 movie Sleeping with the Enemy, in which Julia Roberts is virtually held hostage by a violent, tyrannical partner and can only escape by faking her own death.

In fact, researchers say, the dynamic is much more complicated than that. Dr. Eila Perkis, a researcher at the University of Haifa in Israel, recently conducted an investigation into cases of domestic violence. She was intrigued by the fact that, outside of the relationship, perpetrators tend to lead normal, law-abiding lives. Since they were obviously capable of controlling themselves in other social settings, she wanted to discover why they repeatedly gave in to violent impulses in the context of their romantic partnerships.

In analyzing the cases she looked at, Perkis divided the incidents of violence into four categories: verbal aggression; threats of physical aggression; moderate physical aggression; and severe physical aggression. According to a press release issued by the university,

“These four levels follow one another in an escalating sequence; someone who uses verbal violence might well move on over time to threatening physical attack, and from there it is only downhill towards acting on the threat,” [Perkis explains]…

The researcher found that acting on each type of violence is calculated, such that the violence constitutes a tool for solving conflict between the partners. “Neither of the couple sits down and plans when he or she will swear or lash out at the other, but there is a sort of silent agreement standing between the two on what limits of violent behavior are ‘ok’, where the red line is drawn, and where behavior beyond that could be dangerous,” she explains. She adds that when speaking of one-sided physical violence, most often carried out by men, the violent side understands that for a slap, say, he will not pay a very heavy price, but for harsher violence that is not included in the ‘normative’ dynamic between them, he might well have to pay a higher price and will therefore keep himself from such behavior. “A ‘heavy price’ could be the partner’s leaving or reporting the incident to the police or the workplace. As such, it can be said that violent behavior is not the result of loss of control and both sides are aware of where the red line is drawn, even if such an agreement has never been spoken between them,” she says.

The uncomfortable implication of Perkis’ work is that domestic violence is not a one-way act of aggression, but a dangerous and dysfunctional tango in which each party plays an active role.  This characterization might seem offensive to some – a classic case of “blaming the victim” – but placing some responsibility in the hands of the abused party at least helps explain behavior that is otherwise hard to fathom. While calling 911 to report a partner’s attack might seem like an irreparable  crisis to most of us, for someone enmeshed in an abusive relationship it might seem like another step in the ongoing pas de deux — not so much a crisis, in the cold clear light of the morning after, but just another “bad day.”


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Monday, October 26, 2009

Time for some photos, I think

I've finally managed to take some photos of the projects I'm working on. I'll start with the oldest. I don't know if I've shown you this mini-scarf I made a while ago? I got a single skein of Noro Silk Garden from Ulrika a couple of weeks ago, and just knitted it up as a triangle scarf as big as it would get. I wear it with a circular scarf needle, and I think it looks pretty good for being my very first knit without a pattern!

I thought I would ask Thomas to take a photo of me wearing the green bolero cardigan I'm knitting from the top down, but he went over to my sister's boyfriend to play x-box before I had a chance. So you'll have to be satisfied with a picture of it sitting on the sofa. This is it:

Isn't Hobbe cute helping me modelling it?! The bottom photo just shows the neato increases I made for the arms. Don't they look like raglan decreases? I think I told you that I ran out of the yarn before I finished it, so it's still lacking an arm. But I've ordered two more skeins that should arrive here this week, I hope. And I really LOVE the buttons, they look great with the green yarn I think.

I've also felted the main part of the needle storage unit I've knitted in Drops Eskimo yarn. I felted it a little bit too long, so it's a bit stiff, but I can live with that. I think it looks rather good anyhow. I'm going to knit tow cabled stripes and sew them on to hold the needles later on, I just have to decide which yarn to use for this. I actually have some Eskimo yarn leftovers, maybe I'll just use that.

I've also begun a winter scarf for myself in the absolutely lovely Eco Alpaca from Viking of Norway yarns. I LOVE this yarn, I sort of wish I could afford to make all my bulky projects in this. Although it only comes in natural colours so far, and maybe that would be a bit dull in the long run. But the scarf is turning out great though, it's just stockinette stitch with borders in horisontal ribbing so it won't curl up too much. I love the off-white and nougat colours together, and I think it will look great with my dark brown winter coat. I'm thinking of adding some fringes to it when I've finished as well, I'll see if I have enough yarn though.

And finally I'm knitting a pair of burgundy cabled gloves for myself. These are the ones I told you about that I actually began in an alpaca yarn but ripped up because they looked horrible. I wish I had taken photos of them in the pink yarn for you to see, but I forgot. But in this yanr, which has wool and silk in it (I don't remember the percentages, and I can't be bothered to find the lable just now...), which makes the cables pop a lot better. It's a little bit hard to see in the photos, but they look pretty good now.

Palm side:

Back of hand:

I also promised to show you photos of the finished Ishbel scarf, so here it is:

It is one of my absolute favourite finished objects, although I think that the blocking is coming a bit undone as the yarn has 25 % nylon in it... I don't mind though, I guess I'll just have to block it again some time. I love the yarn, as I guess I've told you several times before. I'm thinking I might make another scarf from the other two skeins I have, but a larger one. I have the pattern for a Pacific Island scarf that might do it. I'll think about it.

I'm also itching to start the Lettuce Coat that is in the Custom Knit book by Wendy Bernard. I LOVE that book, there are just so many patterns in it that I want to make, but I think I like this the most. I bougth 10 skeins of a 100 % wool yarn called Sarek, from Marks & Kattens, that will look great in this coat. I've made a swatch and made sure that the weight will work too, so I just have to finish something else first. I really don't like to have too many projects going at a time, as I can't seem to chose which to work on! But I think I'll finish the striped scarf soon, as the yarn is very chunky and knits up very fast, and then I'll cast on for something lace-y I think. I bougth the pattern for the Heere Be Dragons sjawl a while ago, and I have the perfect yarn for it too, so maybe I'll give that one a go. It looks crazy difficult though, so maybe I'll practice some first on some easier project...

Oh, and I have to tell you about this past weekend! We had a game night here, where we and some friends of ours played boardgames (well, the boys played some tv-games too) for the whole evening. We began with a game called Ticket to Ride, where you build railroads all over USA. It was so much fun! We played in pairs, because it would have been too messy with 6 different players, and my sister and I came in second, right after Anna and Sandra. The boys, Thomas and Mattias, finished last :) Then Alan and Marcus showed up, and the boys migrated to the TV to play Brütal Legend, the new Heavy Metal game with Jack Black (which is actually a really good game, even though I'm not exactly as metal as my husband...), and us girls proceeded to play several rounds of Once Upon a Time, a card game where you make up fairy tales as you go along. It was such a great night, I really needed some fun! And I think that maybe my anti-depressants are starting to work too. Hopefully.

Now I'm going to clean the kitchen, and then sleep.

/ Jenny

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Another long week

I've been a little slow on posting on the blog, but I thought I would write a little today. I decided to make something from my four skeins of Löve Symfoni yarn, the green and brown 100 % merino wool I bougth at the sewing festival supercheap.

I thought I would try to make a small cardigan/bolero from the directions on the Tant Kofta blog, from the top down. I found that I was one skein short, so it still only has one arm, but otherwise it was a really fast knit. If I'd had the final skein I think I would have finished it today. I haven't gotten around to taking any photos of it yet, but I promise I'll show it when it's finished. I'll order more of the yarn as soon as I getmy paycheck, which should be due tomorrow.

I also cast on for the Kingdom Gloves from, in my pink Drops Alpaca yarn... This turned out to be a disastrous match! The cables looked awful, I think it was because the yarn was a bit too fuzzy. So I ripped them out, and tonight I will start them again with my Zitron Nobelsse yarn that has 70 % merino / 30 % silk in it instead. I did a little swatch yesterday evening, and it looked so much better! I have found another glove pattern at Garnstudio that I will probably make from the alpaca yarn instead.

I've also started to ponder over what I'll make from my super bulky Eco Alpaca from Viking yarns? I want to make it into a nice, thick winter scarf for myself, but I'm not sure what pattern I should use? I have two skeins in different colours (one white, one nougat), so I'm thinking some sort of stripes.

Other than knitting, I haven't done much this week. My depression has come roaring back after I quit my pills, so this Tuesday I went to the doctors. She didn't think that this was just my body trying to get used to not having anti-depressants in it, so she suggested that I start taking them again. Which I've done, but it can take up to a month before they start giving the desired effect... So I've worked a lot from home, and cried a lot as well. Hopefully I'll feel better soon, I'm just so tired of feeling like this! I'm also going to get some counceling this fall, which I also hope will help. Depressions suck!

Yesterday I had a fun afternoon anyhow, me and Anna went on a mini shopping-spree (we bought some buttons for a sweater for me and a hat for Anna), and looked at some lovely yarns. And afterwards we went to a knitting café and just chatted some. It is so nice to have friends to talk to, and Anna is really great! It's so funny, because we've only known each other for like a month, but we get along so great already! I guess we just have a lot of stuff in common.

Now I'll try to read some more about macrofages and granulomas, as I'm trying to write a summary for my co-superwisor so that we can decide what projects I'm going to start working on. Yey!

I'll try to take some pictures of my WIPs and of the very nice buttons I bought til next time!

/ Jenny

Saturday, October 17, 2009

I'm on fire!

I've been having a cold for most of this week, and worked from home to avoid giving it to my co-workers as well. Which means I've gotten a lot of knitting done too (as I've actually been a bit sick I don't feel guilty about knitting during the day :). So I've finished my Ishbel scarf! It's really beautiful, and is blocking right now.

I thought that I would use almost two whole skeins of the Kunstgarn, but I actually didn't even use up one whole skein. I guess I've knitted on very small needles (2 mm) for the yarn. The scarf is about 120 cm wide, which is a bit small, but I will use it as a scarf and not a shawl, so it suits me fine. I just wonder what I'll make with my other two skeins of this wonderful yarn? I guess I've told you before, but this is my new favourite yarn! I thought I had become somewhat of a yarn snob, and not liking acrylics anymore, but this yarn I love. It has 75 % superwash wool, and 25 % nylon, and I don't care at all! I love it.

I guess I have to start a new project tonight too. I'm not really sure what it will be, but probably a pair of gloves of mittens for me. It is starting to get really cold here now, with frost during the nights, and I could really need some new gloves. I have some gorgeous pink Alpaca yarn that I've been planning to make gloves from, so I guess this might be the next thing for me. I also bought one of Charlene Schurch's sock books, and I really have to make myself some beautiful socks soon, too. I also have some more shawls planned, which I might also start some time soon. Or a really thick and chunky winter scarf for myself? I'll have to think about this for a while, I think!

/ Jenny

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

The thick socks are finally finished!

Yes, it's true! I began knitting ont them in august, and just found them boring, and the yarn was no super-hit either. But yesterday Anna came here and had lunch (for three hours!), and we knitted for a while. I picked them up, and yesterday evening I finally finished them! I can't believe it took me so long, especially as they knit up superfast with that bulky yarn. I think I'm going to give them to my grandmother in November, as she turns 70 then.

Me wearing the finished socks
The socks from the backside
The socks from the front side

Today I had planned to go to a knitting café, but I'm really coming down with a cold. My nose is runny, I think I might have a fever, and my whole body aches a bit. Granted, I was at aerobics yesterday, but I don't think it's training ache. So I'm staying home tonight instead, just drinking tea and watching crappy TV. Actually, right now it's amazing TV: One of the swedish channels is sending reruns of my alltime favourite TV-show, American Dreams. I just love that series, and I was so sad to see it cancelled after only three seasons! The first season was released on DVD, which I of course own, but the two following seasons were not, so I only have them recorded from the swedish TV airings. When this episode is done I think I'll watch some Buffy (which is another series I own the whole box of! I love it!).

I thought I would also tell you about the zombie-book I read a while ago, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Let me tell you: It really stunk! I generally like zombie-lit, but I just couldn't get over the rest of the story. I've actually never read any Jane Austen before, and I can promise I never will either. That was not my cup of tea! Right now I'm re-reading Robert Silverberg's Majipoor aga, a sci-fi/fantasy series of books, and I think they are so-so. I can hardly wait until November, when a new Stephen King comes out. He is another of my all-time favourite authors, I use to tell folks that I would probably marry him if he promised to always write for me... The Dark Tower books are probably the best I've ever read!

I think I'll leave you with a final book recomendation: Max Brooks' World War Z. It is probably also one of the best books I've ever read, and I think almost anyone would appreciate it, even if you don't normally like zombie-lit. It's a series of interviews with survivors from the great zombie war, and I think it might almost just as well have been about surviviors from Vietnam or WWII. It's just so amazing and beautifully written, and I can't wait until he writes something else!

Now American Dreams is over, so I have to get up and change discs in the DVD player! Buffy is the shit!

/ Jenny

Monday, October 12, 2009

The LOOONG weekend is over!

I've not gotten much knitting done this weekend, and I really don't know why! I haven't really done anything else either, just slouched around. Anna had a last minute change of plans, so we didn't get to hang out this Friday (which wasn't her fault, and we're going to do it some other time this week), and I just couldn't seem to get anything done the whole weekend. I don't know if I told you, but I quit my anti-depressants two weeks ago. And I'm not sure if that's the cause, but I've been feeling a bit down these past few days. It could also have to do witht he fact that Thomas is out of town for two weeks (well, only one week left now), and I really don't like to be alone that much.

At least I went shopping, although mostly for groceries, yesterday. I managed to pick up a yarn storage bag as well, at IKEA. It's clear plastic with a zipper on top, and it can hold all of my yarn and more! Yes, this gives me another excuse to shop for some more... :) But, seriously, I weighed the bag with my yarn in it, and I actually own 7 kg of yarn! That's a lot in my book! I'm actually going on a yarn diet until at least new year! I have to knit up some of what I have at home until then, and I only have two exceptions as to what I'm allowed to buy: The first is if I can get my hands on some more Kunstgarn (which I actually already know I will, Annas friend has bought some for me in Stockholm!). The second is if I can find a white contrast yarn to go with my 10 skeins of KnitPicks Main Line yarn. I looked at KnitPicks' website, and I kind of think that they are discontinuing this brand. Which is typical, seeing as I've just made an american connection who will order the yarn for me and ship it here (as KnitPicks doesn't ship overseas)! But maybe I can convince Thomas that I need to buy something else from them, to console myself...

I've been doing some comics reading over the weekend, and I just have to recommend a new (to me) comics: Preacher! It's so incredibly dark and yummy, and I really love the main character, Jesse Custer (note the initials...). If you like Marvel comics like Sandman (which is my all-time favourite comic), you'll definitely love this one! I'm also currently reading the Dark Tower comics and The Stand comics, based on the Stephen King books, and The Walking Dead, which is of course a zombie comic. I can't believe that a few years ago I only read Donald Duck comics (which I still do, I love Carl Barks' and Don Rosa's Donald and Scrooge series)! My eyes have really been opened up to a whole new world since I started reading Gaiman's Sandman. Neil Gaiman is my writer God, by the way. I've even had a dream once where I met him in a bar, and he told me that if I wanted to be a writer I should just quit my job and get on with it! Talk about a muse! I've been writing fiction since I was about 12 year old, mostly crap, but it's been a dream of mine ever since I learned to read, to become a writer. Ever since I started the University, I haven't had any time to actually do some fictional writing, but I have a few ideas that I would like to try out. Maybe if I become unemployed after March?

Now my lunch break is almost over, so I better get back to work!

/ Jenny

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

New project started

This weekend was really great! Me and my husband went to a spa in Vadstena, a town about 3 miles from Linköping, and it was so relaxing! They had saunas, a hot-tub, and a very nice relaxation section where you could just hang around in your robe and eat fruit and drink juice. I also got a hot stone massage on Sunday morning, where the massage therapist used hot lava stone to rub my body for an hour. It was just amazingly comfortable, and I'm definitely going to do that again some time. On Saturday night we also got a four-course dinner which was absolutely fabulous! We sort of rolled back to our room afterwards, we were just so stuffed. I didn't get any good photos, especially since I really don't want to show you any photos of me in a bikini :)

You remember the knitting contest I told you about last time? Well, we didn't win, the team with the grey and white birds won (which I think was right, their contribution was the best), but we got a consolation prize anyhow: We each got a skein of Plassard Spirale yarn, which is a novelty yarn that you can make spiral scarfs from. I think I'll make a thin scarf from it and give it as a gift to someone. I wonder who would want it? I'll have to think about that.

Today I've been to a knitting café with Linköping Knitters again, and it was so much fun! I got a demonstration of magic loop, which is a method I've never tried myself before. I think I might give up dpns alltogether! It is such a smart method, I wonder who came up with it? I also made plans with Anna, so on Friday we're going to hang out and make some dinner and drink some wine (wow, that sounds like a date... I wonder what our husbands/boyfriends would say about that?). That will be so much fun! Thomas went to Borås this Monday, to build his video-game exhibition there, so he will be gone for two weeks. So I'm all alone with Hobbe now, which is ok. I miss Thomas, but it's nice to be alone sometimes too.

And finally, I've started a new project! I grew a bit tired of the thick socks, so they're hibernating for a while. I started my first Ishbel yesterday, a small scarf that I'm making in my new favourite yarn: Kunstgarn from Hjertegarn. It's a Danish single-ply yarn in 75 % superwash wool / 25 % Nylon, in a lot of colours. The colour repeats are very long, and I think they will make a nice effect in a scarf. I'll try to take some photos of it tomorrow, so you get to see the awsomeness of this yarn for yourselves

/ Jenny

Friday, October 02, 2009

Knitting contest

I had planned to update on Wednesday this week, but things got in the way. That day, 30/9, it was a year since my darling cat Gizmo died, and although the day didn't turn out as horrible as I had imagined, it was still a kind of difficult day for me. I've thought a lot about him this week, and I really miss him a lot! He was the sweetest cat in the world, and he left a large hole in my heart. Thank God I have Hobbe still, he is the snuggliest cat I've ever met (even though he is incrediby shy to strangers - when my parent visit he sits under the bed or in the wardrobe until they've left), and I can't imagine my life without a cat! Hobbe is an asymptomatic carrier of the virus that killed Gizmo, FIP (Feline infectious peritonitis), and as long as he has it we don't want to get another cat and risk him getting the disease as well. Hopefully Hobbe will be negative for the virus soon!

Today I participated in a knitting contest with a literary theme, at Garnverket. It was so much fun! We got a handout with 4 descriptions of four different swedish books, and then had two hours to knit something related to one of the books. The books were "Men who hate women" by Stieg Larsson, "Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey through Sweden" by Selma Lagerlöf, "Pippi Longstocking" by Astrid Lindgren and "The Emigrants" by Vilhelm Moberg. We chose The Nils Holgersson book by Selma Lagerlöf, which is a story made for swedish geography students, and tells the tale of a boy named Nils Holgersson who gets shrunken by the house gnome as a punishment for being naugthy to animals. He then joins a flock of geese on their travel through Sweden, from south to north, and the readers follow him through all the landscapes, thereby learning the geography of the country.

Me and Anna made a team, and we decided to knit a Sweden. Sweden is a very long and thin country, so we knitted that form, and made the two largest lakes in a blue contrast yarn. We also made some birds and a small Nils that we attached, as well as a swedish flag. It turned out pretty great, if I may say so myself! This is Anna, holding our tiny Sweden (the whole photo looks a little bit yellow, but that's because I didn't want to use the flash: with flash, everything turned so ghastly pale that Anna looked kind of like a zombie...)!

We were only three teams that participated, and I think one of the others will win, as they had a very artistic take on the same Nils Holgersson story. They had crocheted triangles, symbolizing a flock of flying geese, and on the white one (which is a tame goose that runs away with Nils, and carries him on his bach throughout the journey) they made a very tiny Nils Holgersson doll. It looked like a finished piece of art!

The third team made a version of Pippi Longstockin's clothes, which also looked very pretty. One member of this team is a grafitti knitting artist, and she actually taught her team member to knit for the first time as they competed! I was so impressed by this, and they managed to finish in time too.

The winners will be announced tomorrow, and Anna thought that she might have time to go then. Me and Thomas are finally going to the spa this weekend, as we didn't manage to get away two weeks ago, as we had originally planned. It makes no real difference if we win or not, it was just so much fun to participate!

This week I've actually managed to finish a knitting object as well! I present to you: My winter sock!

It's hard to capture the cable pattern in this hysterical yarn (Red Heart Damaris, 50 % superwash wool, 50 % acrylic), but it actually turned out pretty good. I've only finished the first, and I've knitted about 5 cm on the cuff of the second one, but as the yarn is very thick and chunky, I imagine the second sock will be finished next week. If I don't cast on for something else as well. I think the next thing I knit will be some gloves for me, I have some pink Drops Alpaca that I think will look great as mittens!

I got my knitting books this week as well! I bought the Creepy crochet book by Christen Haden, Custom Knits by Wendy Bernard, More Sensational Knitted Socks by Charlene Schurch, and Fitted Knits by Stefanie Japel. I think I'll start with some socks, as I have a lot of gorgeous sock yarn, but I also have a cardigan in mind from the Custom Knits book that I'll make from my 10 skeins of Marks & Kattens Sarek 100 % wool yarn.

I also bought a fiction book when I ordered the knitting books. Seeing as both me and Thomas loves horror films and zombie literature, I really couldn't resist this: "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". I haven't actually read the original, as I really don't like chick-lit, but this will be fun!

Wow, I've knitted a lot this week! On wednesday there was a knitting café with Linköping Knitters, which was so much fun! Then Anna and I decided to visit Garnverket together on thursday, as they've just switched owners (Congratulations, Maja!), and we wanted to check out the new interior design (and squeeze some yarns as well, of course). We ended up staying there for about two hours, just knitting and chattering away! It's just so much fun to hang out with Anna, even though we've just met we both feel that we get along exceptionally well. We've decided to hang out next week as well, especially since Thomas is leaving for Borås on Monday with his exhibition. He will stay in Borås for two weeks, building the exhibition at one of the museums there. So I guess I'll be a little lonely, thank God I have my knitting to keep me occupied!

I'll be back after the weekend with a report on the spa!

/ Jenny


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September 01, 2016

Red Wine Sauce for Steaks | Easy

There is a french bistro (Aixois, for locals) we frequent that serves Steak Frites with an amazing red wine sauce.  The sauce spills over the steak and soaks into the fries.  Pure delight.  I make the same simple red sauce at home and Mike ohs and ahs, but it really couldn't be easier to make.

I think most are daunted by making sauces, but they are so simple.  For this sauce, I seared the steaks in this saute pan, then transferred them to a baking sheet to finish in the oven.  I added red wine to the hot pan after the steaks were removed (called deglazing) and scraped the bits from the bottom.  Then, I added a bit of cream and butter to give it body.  It reduced for about 5 minutes.  So simple, but impressive.

We served it with steaks and baked potatoes on Sunday, but will definitely do Truffle Fries (this easy recipe is from frozen fries!) next time... just dreaming of those fries sopping up the wine sauce.

The Best (and Easiest)
Red Wine Sauce
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makes 2/3 cup, 4 small servings

SteaksSea Salt
Olive Oil
1 cup of red wine
2 tablespoons of heavy cream
2 tablespoons of butter

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Coat steaks in sea salt and olive oil.  Heat saute pan until warm, then add a drizzle of olive oil (1 tablespoon).  Sear steaks in a oil over high heat, 3 minutes on each side.  Remove the steaks.

Place in a warm oven until steak temp reads 125 on a meat thermometer.  This will very greatly on how thick the steaks are.  I usually go for 3-5 minutes, then take a temp.  Very large steaks can take up to 15 minutes.

To make the sauce, pour 1 cup (or more!) of red wine in the hot skillet.  Set heat to medium and deglaze the pan with a wooden spoon, scraping all of the bits into the wine.  Add cream and butter.  Let the sauce bubble and reduce for 5 minutes or more until desired consistency is reached.

Feel free to add more cream for a creamier sauce.  You can also at Thyme, Rosemary, Cracked Pepper or Dijon Mustard for great variations.

See more details on how we like to do Sunday Family Dinners, here >

For more details on Searing Steaks, visit this post I wrote years ago - one of my most popular posts of all time... boy that saute pan looks a lot cleaner 5 years ago : )

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 Mamie's Cottage | Jerry and Ben's Holiday Cottages
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Mamie's Cottage

Mamie’s is a traditional and cosy cottage to return to after a day out in the Dales. Built in 1675 the cottage has been carefully renovated to retain its character and sense of history. Enter into a useful stone flagged boot room with space for drying walking gear. This leads into the cosy beamed sitting room with comfortable sofas, freesat television with DVD and a wood burning stove. The kitchen looks onto your private garden and contains an electric oven and hob, small fridge, dishwasher and microwave. The sunny dining room looks out over our grounds and has superb views over Hebden beck and up to the moors: a wild-life lover’s heaven – you might never leave the breakfast table!
The three bedrooms are upstairs: A single room (plus space for cot), a pretty double room (5ft bed) and a larger room with original fireplace and 6ft large double bed (space for cot). The main bathroom with bath, wc and basin is upstairs. There is also a downstairs shower room with wc and basin.

  • Change over day Friday: arrive after 3pm and leave by 10am
  • Wood burner – first basket of logs and kindling supplied
  • All bed linen and towels provided
  • Iron, ironing board, hairdryers and basic household supplies provided
  • Selection of walking books and guides
  • No smoking inside the cottage
  • Parents of toddlers: ground floor has 2 levels with one step up on to each
  • Private car park shared with our 2 other cottages
  • Weekends available all year outside of school holiday times
  • Oil-fired central heating and constant hot water
  • Kitchen basics supplied: s&p, tea, sugar, milk
  • Wifi, TV, dvd and radio
  • No pets allowed in Mamie’s at any time
  • High chair, travel cot and small basket of toys in the cottage
  • Washing machine in separate laundry room
  • Young children will need supervision in gardens and grounds

Details for Mamie's Cottage.     Please email Fiona for your exact dates and prices
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“Our first visit to this lovely cottage – it’s certainly got the wow factor. The wildlife watching is fabulous. Thank-you Fiona for a lovely, comfortable and hidden gem. We look forward to returning.” Pam and Martin, March 2015

“We brought our family here for our wedding weekend – and what a fabulous place! Safe to say we were very comfortable and didn’t want for anything. Thank you we have enjoyed every second!” Elisha and Martyn, March 2015

“This is our first stay here, having walked past many times. It really is a wonderful cottage and we cannot fault it at all. It is so pretty and well equipped with amazing views – we have spent many hours watching all the wildlife and the lovely beck.” Jane and Les, May 2015

“What a lovely few days we have spent at this beautiful cottage, the best one we have stayed in by far. We have been coming to Yorkshire for 9 years but this cottage is special and what wonderful views. We really want to come again. Thank-you Fiona and family for everything here.” Wendy and Terry, September 2015


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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

The Good, the Vlad and the Ugly

(Dedicated to E Muraskin, Purveyor of PR)

Back in the days of the Cold War, he would have been the man dangling James Bond over a pool of hungry sharks. Today, he drives Formula One race cars, rides a Harley Davidson motorcycle, fights forest fires, saves tigers, plays the piano and croons to audiences at children’s benefits. Is this the same Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin who worked as a ruthless KGB agent, was associated with many shady business dealings and is thought—but not proven—to secretly hold more wealth than any other man in Russia? Is it possible that this Bond villain has turned a new leaf?

Putin lives dangerously, riding his Harley without a helmet.

Who knew, in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) back in 1952 that little Vlad would grow up to rule Russia. Not bad for the son of a naval man who worked for the forerunner of the KGB and a mother who worked in a factory. Before Vlad grew up and made good, the only claim to fame his family had was that his grandfather was the cook for Lenin, and later, for Stalin. While Vlad is no longer President of the Russian Federation, due to term limits, he is still considered by many to be the most powerful man in Russia. These days, I guess you could call him the man behind the scenes.

At some point, ambition gives way to wanting to develop a legacy. So if you’ve directly or indirectly been associated with kidnapping, murder, corruption and other not-so-great stuff for many years, how do you clean up your image? Why through the miracle of public relations, of course!

If anyone can create revisionist history, then someone at the head of a communist propaganda machine should be able to make it happen. And the general public's lack of attention span is there to help him out. His “gotta-love-me” photo opts have included driving a Formula One race car to speeds of 240 kph (dare-devil Vlad), fighting for the endangered species of the world (environmentally conscious Vlad) and performing for charities (humanitarian Vlad). Perhaps in recognition of this media-darling coup, in 2007, Time magazine named Putin Person of the Year.

Despite that honor, I think that I, and many other women, first noticed a more human and accessible Putin during his fishing trip in 2009. That is when news outlets worldwide pictured our man stripped down to his waist, fishing pole in hand. There he stood, as nature intended, revealing previously undivulged biceps and washboard abs that would have easily qualified for the cover of any romance novel. Hubba, hubba.

Russians thought so, too. So they released a plastic model of the half-naked Putin tugging on his fishing line. This was a sexier, outdoorsman Vlad, but was he more accessible? President George Bush thought so, years earlier in 2001, when he said that looking into Vlad’s deep blue eyes left him with “a sense of Putin’s soul.” How many women would have liked to have shared that experience?

Vlad-gone-fishing plastic model.

More recently, a kinder and gentler Vlad came to the rescue with endangered felines. He won the heart of many environmentalists including celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio when he attended the International Tiger Conservation Forum which met in his hometown of St. Petersburg. There, he professed his love of the natural world and sense of immediacy for preserving it, making many climate-change believers and Sierra Club advocates weak in the knees. Ah, Vlad.

Just the other day, I saw a video of Putin playing the piano and singing at a children’s cancer charity benefit in Russia. It was attended by many U.S. celebrities such as Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Paul Anka, Sharon Stone, Kevin Costner and Mickey Rourke, as well as European actors Alain Delon, Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel. As he sang a questionable rendition of Fats Domino’s Blueberry Hill in thickly accented English, they all smiled adoringly at him. What better international press endorsement?

In real life, Vlad is married to Lyudmila, a former flight attendant and language teacher. They have two daughters who are in their twenties and a black Labrador Retriever named Koni. The family accommodatingly stays out of the limelight, so we can get a better view of Vlad. And speaking for the female half of the world, I am looking forward to seeing what more Prime Minister Putin will reveal in the future. Maybe he could don a towel, step into a shower and do a follow-up campaign for Old Spice aftershave. “Hay-lo, leddies, eem Vlad, hur tuday to tock to yew abot Old Speece….”

Ahhhhhh, sweet détente….

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Friday, March 28, 2014

Organic Matcha Green Tea Powder by Kiss Me Organics Review

Disclosure: I got this product as part of an advertorial.
I never did drink tea. Well except for the Boba Milk Tea which I buy at least twice a week. I mean of course it's sweet and those tapioca balls are to die for. :)

Moving on, since I don't really drink the traditional bagged tea, I grabbed the opportunity to try the Organic Matcha Green Tea by Kiss Me Organics because of two things: (1) It's in powder form. (2) I've heard a lot of good things about Matcha Green Tea.

Kiss Me Organics sent me a bag of Organic Matcha Green Tea and I read in the packaging that the suggested serving size is just 1/2 to 1 teaspoon a day. I also found out that there are a lot of benefits from drinking Matcha Green Tea. According to Kiss Me Organics, here are some of the few benefits of drinking Matcha Green Tea:

Matcha provides 4 to 6 hours of mild steady energy as it acts as both a stimulant and a relaxant. This is ideal for focusing on whatever the day throws your way.

Consuming matcha green tea can increase thermogenesis (the body's own rate of burning calories) from a normal 8%-10% of daily energy expenditure, to between 35% and 43% of daily energy expediture.

Scientists have discovered that Matcha Green Tea helps protect the skin from harmful UVrays, while improving blood flow and oxygen levels lifting the overall quality of the skin.

Antioxidants are essential as you age to boost your body's natural defenses against oxidation. Researchers have found that a high level of dietary antioxidants can prevent many age-related diseases.

I opened the bag of Matcha Green Tea they sent me. I like that it's packed nicely and in a good quality bag which can't be opened/torn easily. I immediately sniffed inside the bag and the matcha green tea powder smelled rich and nice.

The matcha green tea powder is very fine. It's like a green-colored confectioner's sugar. :) I used half a teaspoon of the Kiss Me Organics Matcha Green Tea Powder and mixed it with 8-oz. of warm milk. I was surprised by the taste because although I didn't put any sugar in my matcha green tea drink, it tasted good and has this super subtle sweet taste. I expected it to taste a bit bitter (because it's tea) but I didn't taste any bitterness on my drink.

I do have to get used to the natural "tea" taste but considering I love boba milk tea, I'm sure I will get used to the taste of the matcha green tea as well. I am going to try this over ice as well. I'll cook my own boba (as soon as I've bought some) and try to make my version of the matcha green milk tea with boba.

There is also a recipe ebook included with every purchase of the Kiss Me Organics - Organic Matcha Green Tea sent via email. :)

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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

September Budget

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Sweatshirt - $15.26 from H&M
Sneakers - $12 from Walmart
Purse - $12.81 from Target
Dress - $14.97 from Old Navy
Shoes - $26.94 from Old Navy

Shirt - $9.99 from Old Navy
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Fake Toms (I wasn’t sure what else to call them!) - $5.87 from Walmart
Total = $97.84
It’s time for another months budget recap. I feel like I’ve been treating it less like a budget and more like just a review what I decided to buy that month. I think I’m ok with that, but I’m still trying to stay close to the $75 per month I had originally targeted. Clearly that didn’t happen this month though!
I used our trip to San Francisco as an excuse to buy both pairs of shoes from Walmart, the H&M sweatshirt, and the purse. Did I need all of those items? No probably not, but the comfortable shoes were perfect for all the walking we did, the sweatshirt was the perfect layer and I wore it most days we were out there, and the purse was just the right size for everything I needed to carry with me.
The trip to Old Navy happened because I wanted another pair of dressy flats and really like the way the pair from Old Navy fit that I found as part of May's budget. They just feel more supportive than all the other inexpensive flats I've collected (mostly from Target) over the years. The gray/silver pair I found are perfect, and I thought the shirt and dress were good enough deals that they both needed to come home with me too!
Linking up with Fran for Budgeting Bloggers...

  1. I really like the ON flats too. They are so comfortable for the $$.

  2. I really like the ON flats too. They are so comfortable for the $$.

  3. I love those Old Navy Flats as I said and want them for myself, are they comfy? I also want that Teal/Cobalt Dress. My favorite things you got besides the Flats, are the Tennis Shoes & that amazing Gray Sweat-shirt (love it).


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Saturday, April 3, 2010

Day 230 (Peepshi)

One of my facebook buddies posted a hilarious link for "peepshi" the other day, and I thought this would be a wonderful activity for Easter. Peepshi is, of course, sushi made with peeps. Because the flavor profiles of seaweed, soy sauce and wasabi does not really go very well with peeps, the instructions call for Rice Krispies Treats instead of rice and Fruit Roll-Ups instead of sheets of seaweed. It goes on to say that peeps are "sassy enough on their own," and do not require substitutes for wasabi and/or ginger. I think pre-packaged Rice Krispies Treats are foul, so I made some from scratch. I don't really understand the concept of buying something prepackaged that takes literally 5 minutes to make and tastes much, much, much better when homemade.

Anyway, the results are in the picture above. There's something incredibly sick, twisted and wrong, yet immensely satisfying about mutilating peeps to make sushi. Until next time, may all of your cooking adventures be soft, sticky, sweet and unnaturally colored. Happy Easter!

  1. charles, this is is how much i love you.

    i have two packages of frozen lumpia wrappers, imported from the philippines, purchased at the seafood city in eagle rock.

    have you heard of "peep jousting"? you should look it up on youtube, and then we should try it... i have a bunch of peeps in my apartment!!

    love to you! happy easter! see you monday!

  2. this is sick. you are a sick, sick man. peeps /= raw fish! also hilarious.
    -Katie Buck

  3. ROTFLOL!!!(...and apparently typing.)

  4. This is funny and scary and sad and hi-lar-ious! If you have a microwave you never want to use again, you can blow them up. Or, you can just strap them to firecrackers and send them into oblivion. Does anyone actually *EAT* peeps? I think that that would be oh, so unoriginal.

  5. The peepshi actually taste pretty good! The rice krispies treats are homemade, and those are ALWAYS good, and the fruit roll-ups add a tasty zip.


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Introduction to JIIS

The Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems (JIIS, pISSN 2288-4866, eISSN 2288-4882), which commenced publication in January 1995, is a high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by KIISS (Korea Intelligent Information System Society). The goal of the JIIS is to share the most state-of-the-art research in the field of intelligent IT and its applications to business domain. In specific, JIIS covers all the topics including A.I.(artificial intelligence) techniques, business applications of intelligent IT as well as behavioral issues on the use of intelligent IT.

The official title of the journal is 'Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems' and the ISO abbreviated title is 'J Intell Inform Syst'. The JIIS is quarterly and publishes at the last day of March, June, September, and December each year. The URL of the Journal's Website is http://www.jiisonline.org, where full text is available. This journal was supported by the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies Grant funded by the Korean Government.

JIIS is financially supported by :

JIIS is indexed and abstracted in :

According to the 2014 KJCR(Korea Journal Citation Reports), JIIS is ranked as 48th among 698 Korean major journals of science and technology. It also ranked as 3rd among 42 journals in Computer Science & Information domain.

Impact Factor:
2yrs (Rank)
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3yrs (Rank)
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ZIF: 2yrs
ZIF: 3yrs
ZIF: 5yrs
0.816 (48)
0.696 (49)
0.550 (54)
(Source: 2014 Korean Journal Citation Reports, http://ksci.kisti.re.kr/)

Aims & Scope

JIIS endeavors to promote research on artificial intelligence and business. The journal has aimed to exchange scientific and technological achievements by enhancing relevant research and journal readership. It seeks and focuses upon novel and original management techniques and the applications of information technology solutions that are designed to address complex problems prevalent in enterprise and industry.

The scope of interests of the JIIS includes, but is not limited to, the following

  • [Business Applications of Intelligent IT]
  • Information Systems Application
  • u-Commerce
  • Collaborative Systems

  • [Intelligent IT]
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Web Service / Semantic Technology

  • [Management of Intelligent IT]
  • Adoption of Intelligent IT
  • Valuation of Intelligent IT
  • Case Studies

Information for Subscribers

To subscribe the JIIS, you need to join KIISS(Korea Intelligent Information Systems Society). The fee for the professional membership is KRW 300,000 (payment in lump sum) or KRW 30,000 per year, and the fee for the student membership is KRW 20,000 per year. The fee for the institutional membership is KRW 1,000,000 (payment in lump sum) or KRW 150,000 per year. To join KIISS membership, please visit www.kiiss.or.kr.

If you have any questions, please send them to Manuscript Editor(journal@kiiss.or.kr) or Manager(E-mail. office@kiiss.or.kr, Tel. +82-2-3295-0997, Office. Ewha-Shinsegae Hall Rm. B105, 52 Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03760, Republic of Korea).


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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Finding Old Magazine and Newspaper Articles (and More!)

Many of us have grown lazy, spoiled by the vastness of Google. If Google can't find it, we generally quit the search. We fail to take advantage of other information tools at our disposal, even though lots of the best data are squirreled away in proprietary databases unavailable to web search.

For example, we've all searched for magazine and newspaper articles online and found them to be unavailable. You might resort to pricey Lexus searches, or else traipse to the library, but there's another option. Many (most? all?) libraries offer cardholders use of vast online databases archiving full text magazine and newspaper articles. Just enter your library card barcode number in your browser, even from your home computer. It's amazing.

I doubt that more than 1% of library card holders avail themselves of this content. For an eye-opening afternoon, surf to your library's home page and drill down to the links for online reference (you'll likely need to type in your library card number). And don't stop with the magazine/newspaper article offerings. You'll almost surely find access to other highly useful databases, as well.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that the issue comes to my mind because I just scored, in all of three minutes of searching, all three of the wonderful articles mentioned in this Slate article on the late great David Foster Wallace, after spending 30 minutes fruitlessly looking for them on the Web. By the way, some other good Wallace articles are linked to in this New Yorker article.

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Sunday, November 25, 2012

I Want to Know the Lord

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
John 6:64

Do you know Him as your Lord and Saviour? Do you know Him as your Lord and Saviour? Do you want to? The scripture says that if we believe in our heart that Jesus is risen from the dead and confess with our mouth that He is Lord we will be
saved. Bow your heads and let's pray. I don't know what God has been saying to you today. He may have convicted you that you've been believing a lie. You may have been drawn into a false teaching and
you're angry or feeling guilty. Remember that God forgives us of our sin when we confess.

Maybe you've never known Jesus as your Lord and Saviour and the Spirit of God has been convicting you of your sin, your lack of righteousness, a right relationship with God, and the eternal judgment that awaits you if you reject Jesus. You've become convinced by the Spirit's work in you that you need to confess Jesus as God and Lord and to ask for and receive His forgiveness. You know that you need to repent, turn from your sins and receive the gift of God, Jesus, as your Lord and Saviour.

If you are willing to receive Jesus into your life now, you can invite Him in by prayer. You can follow along as I pray.

Dear Lord, Jesus, I believe You are God and died to forgive me of my
sins. I know I have sinned. I ask you to forgive me. I turn from my
sins and I receive You as my Lord and Saviour. I believe that you have
risen from the dead. I ask that you fill me with Your Spirit to work in
me that I might live my life for you for the rest of my life. In Jesus
name, amen.

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Call or stop by to check out our current offerings.  We offer a variety of class options, including Throwing, Handbuilding, and various 2 day workshops.

Grab a friend and come learn about pottery.  Please stop by the store, email us or call for details.

Beginning and Intermediates welcome.

What to Expect

Classes are adjusted to your learning needs. If you are a beginner or experienced, instruction is provided for your level. Our classes are a mix of levels of students, which encourages a cooperative learning environment.

Beginners: We provide a walk-through tour to acquaint you with our studio. The first day of class there will be a throwing demo and clean up process instruction prior to your first class. It will help familiarize you with our studio and what you can expect to learn your first day.  Most students complete 5 to 10 items during the 8 week session.

Intermediate: If you have done pottery before, we may place you in the Intermediate category.  If you are a intermediate potter you can join our mixed classes for $125. You will be responsible for clay and firing fees.

At this time, we regret that we are unable to accept students less than 15 years of age, although we do reserve the right to make exceptions.

Remember that pottery is a process—patience and perseverance are helpful. The difficult part is getting over that initial muscle memory process. If you are patient, have fun with learning, and keep trying, you’ll enjoy pottery for a lifetime.

JMACS PotteryClass Information and Costs

  • An eight-week Throwing class for new students is $165.00, with everything included. Intermediate students pay $125 plus firing and clay fees.  If you have questions about which level you are, please feel free to ask.
  • An 8-week Handbuilding class is $199 and includes $40 of firing fees.
  • Tuition is to be paid before class starts.
  • A $25 deposit is required to hold your spot.
  • Students also get free studio time during regular store hours for the 8-week session.
  • Beginner Throwing class includes glazes and firing of up to 20 items (equivalent to 6″x6″x6″ items). Extra firing fees will apply for more than 20 items.
  • Please wear appropriate clothing (it’s messy), and bring a towel. Trim your fingernails and tie back long hair.
  • Students at the end of the session can finish up their items in progress (i.e., trimming, glazing and firing) at a cost of $5 an hour for studio time.

Three students is the minimum number to have class. Classes will proceed unless minimum is not met.

We realize that sometimes you may have to miss a class. You may be able to make up your missed time by joining another class as long as space is available, only within the current session.

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In the event that a class is canceled, students will have the option of transferring to another class or having their registration fee refunded. A $25 cancellation processing fee will be withheld for dropping a class or rescheduling less than 2 weeks before the first day of class. No refunds or credits will be given for missed classes or class withdrawals after the class session has begun.


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Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists Job Description / Duty Sample And Functions

Operate Resonance Imaging (MRI) pictures. Monitor patient security and comfort . Might render gadolinium contrast dosage intravenously. On reviewing stand MRI methods are, explained by may interview individual, and location patient. May enter the computer data such as patient heritage, alignment specified, biological region to become scanned, and location of admittance.

Job Skills Requirement
  • Affix physiological tracking leads to suffereris hand, torso, waistline, or other parts of the body.
  • Adjust magnet resonance imaging (MRI) unit or peripheral hardware.
  • Conduct screening interview of people to identify contraindications, for example ferrous materials valves that are prosthetic pacemakers .
  • Produce backup copies of photos by relocating graphics from computer to workstation or storage media.
  • Build or otherwise make picture data of magnetic resonance photographs.
  • Explain magnet resonance imaging (MRI) methods to individuals, distributors that are individual, or household members.
  • Insert intravenously contrast colors, such as for instance gadolinium contrast, with setting of practice in accordance.
  • Check photos regarding excellent, utilizing camera and magnetic resonance protection devices.
  • Perform Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners.
  • If desired, to ensure appropriate location immobilization units being, attached by place sufferers on hold.
  • Supply earplugs or headsets to individuals to boost ease and lower sounds that is distressing.
  • Pick circles or appropriate imaging strategies to make pictures that are necessary.
  • Troubleshoot complex concerns linked to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reader or peripheral products, including watches or circles.
  • Inventories that are conduct to steadfastly keep up stock of materials that are medical.
  • Advise healthcare team or learners in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) procedures or equipment procedure.
  • Function optical methods to recapture powerful magnet resonance imaging (MRI) photographs, for example practical brain-imaging, real-time body motion-tracking, or musculoskeletal composition and flight visualization.
  • Demand sedatives or additional drugs from doctors for individuals with panic or claustrophobia.
  • Consider brief records that are medical from patients.
  • Check magnet resonance imaging (MRI) tools to make certain proper operating and efficiency in accordance with requirements.
  • Create notices to summarize evaluating processes or outcomes regarding doctors or different medical experts or reports.
  • Link biological contributes to biological purchase handle (PAC) products.
  • Position and protected little, moveable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) readers on body part to become imaged, such as arm, knee, or go.
  • Plan meetings regarding investigation matters or clients that are clinical.

Task Actions Need
  • Reading Comprehension-Understanding composed paragraphs and sentences in work-related papers.
  • Active Listening-To what other people say providing whole attention, taking time to recognize the factors being manufactured, inquiring questions as ideal, and not stifling at occasions that are improper.
  • Publishing-Communicating efficiently in writing not as inappropriate for the requirements of the market.
  • Chatting-Speaking with others to mention information successfully.
  • Math-Using math to fix issues.
  • Science-Employing techniques and technological regulations to fix problems.
  • Criticalthinking-Using logic and thought to spot the benefits and flaws of alternate options, results or methods to issues.
  • Active Learning-Understanding the significance of new information for both future and present problem-solving decision-making and.
  • Learning Strategies-Picking and using educationORtutorial strategies and processes befitting the problem educating or when studying things that are new.
  • Monitoring-OverseeingPERDiscovering performance of agencies, additional persons, or oneself consider remedial action or to create enhancements.
  • Social Perceptiveness-Being aware of othersA responses and knowing why they behave because they do.
  • Dexterity-
  • Persuasion-Persuading others to change habits or their intellects.
  • Discussion-Taking others together and attempting to reconcile variances.
  • Instructing-Instructing others HOWTO take action.
  • Company Orientation-Earnestly trying to find strategies to help people.
  • Complex Problem-Solving-Identifying complex difficulties and reviewing relevant data implement options and to produce and evaluate selections.
  • Businesses Research-Studying requirements and product requirements to create a style.
  • Engineering Design-Having devices or generating and technology to assist user requires.
  • Tools Selection-Determining tools and equipment’s kind needed to execute a work.
  • Installment-Installing applications, machines, wires, or equipment to satisfy requirements.
  • Programming-Writing computer programs for different applications.
  • Function Tracking-Observing calls, gauges, or different indications to be sure an equipment is performing effectively.
  • Operations and Control-Managing procedures of methods or devices.
  • Maintenance-Executing routine maintenance on tools and deciding when.
  • Troubleshooting-Determining factors behind errors that are operating and deciding what to do about it.
  • Repairing-Repairing devices or models using the equipment that are desired.
  • Quality-Control Evaluation-Doing assessments and tests of items, solutions, or operations to evaluate quality or functionality.
  • View and Decisionmaking-Considering benefits and the comparable costs of possible activities to choose the most suitable one.
  • Analysis-Determining how a program should work and how changes in the setting, operations, as well as problems can impact outcomes.
  • Methods Analysis-Determining procedures or signs of system performance and also in accordance with the ambitions of the system, appropriate or the actions needed to strengthen performance.
  • Timemanagement-Controlling the moment of others and one’s own occasion.
  • Administration of Money-Identifying how income is likely to be expended to have the work done, and sales regarding these expenditures.
  • Management of Product Resources-Observing and acquiring to the correct use of features, equipment, and materials needed to do particular operate.
  • Administration of Employees Resources-Creating, pushing, and leading folks because they operate, identifying the best people for your job.
Education Requirement Knowledge Requirement
  • Affiliate’s Stage (or additional 2-yr diploma)
  • Several School Courses
  • More than 1 yr, upto 2 years and including,
Occupation Authority Skills Qualification
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Job Description

MaidPro is immediately hiring professional house cleaners! This position comes with paid travel time, training, and travel expenses!  Monthly bonus opportunities, client tips, and steady hours are just some of the great things about working at MaidPro.No nights, weekends optional!

Skills / Requirements

  • Likes to clean (No cleaning experience required!)
  • Hard working and reliable
  • Likes making customers happy
  • Comfortable driving your own vehicle to and from cleans
  • Available Monday through Friday 8:30am-5:00pm
  • Willing and able to work in homes that have pets
  • Must be able to lift up to 25 lbs as needed

Important Notes

  • Bilingual English and Spanish a plus
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States
  • Must be willing to submit to a Criminal Background Check


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How Fox News is Helping Barack Obama's Re-Election Bid

Jonathan Freedland wrote an article for the Guardian that makes a lot of sense to me.

Because Fox has put off the best Republican candidates, Barack Obama will be much less vulnerable at the election

Whoever wrote the political rulebook needs to start rewriting it. It used to be an iron maxim that voters' most vital organ was neither their head nor their heart, but their wallet. If they were suffering economically, they'd throw the incumbents out. Yet in Britain a coalition presiding over barely-there growth, rising unemployment and forecasts of gloom stretching to the horizon is holding steady in the opinion polls, while in the US Barack Obama is mired in horrible numbers – except for the ones showing him beating all-comers in the election now less than 11 months away. Even though the US economy is slumped in the doldrums, some of the country's shrewdest commentators make a serious case that Obama could be heading for a landslide victory in 2012. How to explain such a turnaround? In the United States, at least, there is one compellingly simple, two-word answer: Fox News. I think he's 100% correct. Worth the read.