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5 Hot New Titles for January

5 Hot New Titles for January

Check out these five popular adult titles that have hit the shelves this month. Check out more new titles through the booklist New January 2018 Books You'll Want to Read and our recent arrivals page.

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

It isn't paranoia if it's really happening in
The Woman in the Window, by A.J. Finn.
Anna Fox lives alone. She is a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies, and spying on her neighbors. Then, the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, and their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble—and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this gripping Hitchcockian thriller, no one and nothing is what it seems. (catalog summary)

The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks

In the vein of The Girl on the Train comes the next intense psychological thriller:
The Wife Between Us, by Greer Hendricks.
You will assume you are listening to a story about a jealous ex-wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement—a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle. But, assume nothing. Twisted and deliciously chilling, The Wife Between Us exposes the secret complexities of an enviable marriage—and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love. Listen for the truth between the lies. (catalog summary)

The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin
A novel of friendship between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends in
The Girls in the Picture, by Melanie Benjamin
It is 1914, and 25-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently as an artist. But the word on everyone's lips these days is "flickers"—the silent moving pictures enthralling theatergoers. In this fledgling industry, Frances finds her true calling: writing stories for the wondrous new medium. She also makes the acquaintance of actress Mary Pickford, whose signature golden curls and lively spirit have earned her the title "America's Sweetheart." The two ambitious young women hit it off instantly, their kinship fomented by their mutual fever to create, to move audiences to a frenzy, to start a revolution. But their ambitions are challenged by both the men around them and the limitations imposed on their gender—and their astronomical success could come at a price. (catalog summary)

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? Find out in
The Immortalists, by Chloe Benjamin.
It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day he or she will die. The Gold children—four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness—sneak out to hear their fortunes. The prophecies inform their next five decades. A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists examines the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds. (catalog summary)

The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
Read about a love story and a journey through music in
The Music Shop, by Rachel Joyce.
It's 1988. The CD has arrived. Sales of the shiny new disks are soaring on high streets in cities across Britain. Meanwhile, down a dead-end street, Frank's music shop stands small and brightly lit, jam-packed with records of every kind. It attracts the lonely, the sleepless, the adrift. There is room for everyone. Frank has a gift for finding his customers the music they need. Into this shop arrives Ilse Brauchmann—practical, brave, well-heeled. Frank falls for this curious woman who always dresses in green. But Ilse's reasons for visiting the shop are not what they seem. Frank's passion for Ilse seems as misguided as his determination to save vinyl. How can a man so in tune with other people's needs be so incapable of helping himself? And, what will it take to show he loves her? (catalog summary)


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How to Use Packaging to Increase Sales

Your product’s packaging is the first thing that a customer sees when they interact with your product. Poor packaging leads to a poor first impression before the customer has even had the opportunity to use your product. The opposite is also true for packaging that is professional and unique; the packaging leaves a great impression. Packaging that is appealing can lead to customers inspecting and wanting to use your product.

Your Brand
According to Get Busy Media, it takes around seven seconds for anything to make a first impression. In this brief moment, you will want to identify your brand and what it has to offer. You do not need to put a lot of words to identify your brand, but the words that you use should be very descriptive of your brand.

Most people enjoy opening a package for the first time. Aside from joy, your packaging should generate a feeling in a customer, and this feeling will become associated with your brand. Happy, colorful, images on your packaging will create the image that your brand is a joyful brand. Dark, simple, images may signify that your brand is more serious or more grassroots.

Your packaging should err on the side of simplicity, rather than complexity. A customer will not be able to register complex materials within the short time frame that your brand has to make its impression. You should utilize designs that are bold and easy to read.

Aside from the design, your packaging should be simple for a customer to use. You will need to identify your target customer and design your packaging around their lifestyles. A brand that creates products for customers who are constantly on the go, for example, should not use complicated packaging that needs scissors or a bottle opener.

What makes your brand’s packaging stand out from the packaging of your competitors? If you imagine walking through a grocery store aisle that is full of items, it is very easy to miss products that all look the same. The only products that you will really see, and want to know more about, are the products that have interesting packaging that differs from the packaging of the other brands. According to Packaging Digest, uniquely designed packaging can create instant recognition of a brand, and in turn will also create authority for the brand.

The proper packaging for your brand will be both simple for your customer to use and very appealing to potential customers. Through research of your competitors’ packaging you will know if your packaging needs improvement. With great packaging, your brand will be able to improve its value to customers in addition to its revenue.

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Monday, May 11, 2015

360 Mall food court to be Upgraded

The 360 Mall, Kuwait’s iconic shopping mall owned by Tamdeen Shopping Centers, is to completely transform its existing food court on the 3rd level to provide an enhanced F&B offering to surpass customer expectations and create a new international dining destination for the country.The redevelopment of the Food Lounge, valued at a massive KD 2 million, will take place in three phases so that food outlets remain operational for mall customers to enjoy their dining experience at existing outlets.

Shavak Srivastava Board Member, Tamdeen Shopping Centers Company, said: “Customers in Kuwait are discerning and have great expectations for their dining experience, be it casual or gourmet dining. We have researched our mall’s customer preferences, studied them in depth and are now ready to redefine the entire food lounge to make it ‘the place to dine in’ in Kuwait.”After the redevelopment, the total F&B area will increase to about 2,600 sqm including dedicated and common seating with the number of outlets increasing to 26. The new F&B experience will see the number of gourmet restaurants double to six; two brand new cafes and 18 casual dining outlets. The total gross leasable area of the F&B outlets within the redefined Food Lounge will be 1,900 sqm.

Some of the major features in the remodeling will be a new garden-themed court with lush vertical gardens and a 10-meter waterfall. A simulated sky ceiling will provide diners with a natural outdoor feel. The area will also provide garden and water views with abundant Alfresco dining with organic finishes.“We will create two distinct dining destinations within the entire food lounge area. A new Garden Court will be built as an extension to the current Sky Lounge and the existing Food Lounge near the cinemas will be transformed. While customers will have a new landscape in the Garden Court, they will also experience a new soundscape because of the waterfalls for serenity of their dining experience,” explained Srivastava.

The highlight of the reinvented Food Lounge will be a dramatic reflective ceiling which will add depth and sparkle to the area. The outlets will be housed within timber canopies and the seating area experience will be extended to the F&B outlets too. The designs also allow for a contemporary open-styled retail look & feel with natural finishes to ensure that fresh food is always served.Within the Garden Court sculptural screens will be built to add a sense of privacy for families. The court will also have a pergola garden ceiling over the Al-Fresco dining area with stone hedges and greenery along the pathways.

“We strongly believe that we are led by our customer choices. 360 MALL has always redefined these choices by pioneering concepts that are unique to Kuwait and also providing a home for innovative Kuwaiti F&B concepts. Our global F&B brands will be delighted with this new experience as much as we are confident our customers will be,” commented Srivastava.

Phase 1 of the redevelopment will be completed in September 2015 while phase 2 will see completion in March 2016, followed by the last phase in October 2016.

I was there a couple of days ago, I rarely go there after being trapped in the parking structure for over an hour. It was Friday around 6 pm which is a rough time to go traffic wise. I almost gave up until I noticed there was an extended parking lot outside with a cart that transports you to the door if you can catch it. We went to the food court to eat and ran into a wall and only a few restaurants left open so we had to choose Ruby Tuesday's as there were only a couple fast food places.

After reading this article I see why there are so many walls up. Perhaps 360 Mall is trying their best to keep up with the Avenues?

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“I Am Number 4” Movie Review

     I suppose whether or not “I Am Number 4” becomes a franchise will depend on audiences and their craving for a more Science Fiction version of the “Twilight” series.  Director D. J. Caruso does a fine job with the material given, but the nifty action sequences in the third act don’t make up for the cheesy cliched high school drama one must endure to get to the good stuff.  I know there are people out there who thrive on this type of entertainment, but I can’t say I’m one of them. Unfortunately, my mind kept drawing comparisons to last years terrible “The Last Airbender” rather than conjuring up thoughts of better films.

     New comer Alex Pettyfer plays John, an alien from another planet.  He and his guardian, Henry, played by Timothy Olyphant move from town to town inventing a new identity for themselves in order to throw off their adversaries, the Mogadorians.  As the film begins, we learn there are 8 others like John and the Mogadorians are successful in killing the third guy thus giving us the title “I Am Number 4”, referring to John being the 4th out of nine of these alien beings living under cover somewhere on earth.  It’s never really explained why the Mogadorians have to kill these kids in order of their numbers.  Why not go off  Number 8 now and then come back to Number 4?

     After settling in a small Ohio town, John is off to high school where he has a problem following the advice of Henry and laying low.  There are the jocks, bullies, and the standard kid who always gets picked on.  Then there is an immediate love interest, so you can look forward to about 80 minutes of this before you ever get anything featured in the film’s trailer which depicts the film as a straight up action movie.  During this time, John also begins to figure out the special powers he has and begins to use them when it becomes necessary which is usually against the high school bullies.  That’ll teach them!

     Of course its easy to forget these are aliens, so something funny kept coming to mind while watching this forgettable film.  Both the good guys and the bad guys are from another planet which presumably has technology that far exceeds ours.  Why then do the bumbling Mogadorians get around in a convoy of black Dodge Chargers and where did they come by these vehicles?  Did they steal them?  They are armed with all sorts of futuristic weaponry and are clearly not of this earth in appearance, yet this is how they go from place to place and no one notices.  Did I mention the back of their convoy has a giant black semi truck that houses two large reptilian type creatures?  Since they move from state to state looking for Number 4, hasn’t the various law enforcement entities noticed these guys?  Even more silly, they stop at a local grocery store and buy up their entire stock of turkeys and then go to the parking lot and use them to feed their two beasts!!

     Also of note is Henry and John’s Apple computer set up complete with an IMac, Macbook Pro, and IPhones.  They use these devices to help them conceal their identities as they move from town to town and help them wipe photos off the internet when someone happens to photograph John.  Again, my question is where are all the cool alien gadgets.  All Henry has is a useless glowing blue knife to help defend against the well armed Mogadorians.  Why are they using Apple products when they should have access to better stuff?  Even the ghetto aliens in “District 9” had the use of their own technology and used our parts to build items they would need and were able to escape by using it!!

     Bottom line on this one is its full of holes and owes any of its better moments to much better films (Starman, The Matrix, The Terminator Films).  I don’t see this moving on to the inevitable sequel and if it does, I would advise all to skip it because I really don’t care what happens to Number 4 or Number 5 for that matter and I doubt you will either. GRADE: D


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Link Building Guide for International SEO Practices

The growing necessity to enter international market has prompted entrepreneurs to develop multilingual websites for their specific target customers. From a tiny needle to clothes or books, everything can now be sold online. But research evidence shows that the web users prefer to direct their searches in their own native language. This can also be witnessed by the increasing numbers of non-English search queries on the internet. This trend resulted in the rapid growth and demand for international SEO practices, especially by the hi-end global brands. There are number of global brands that operate multilingual websites for their target markets around the world. The global websites list is dominated by premium brands such as Coca Cola, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and so on. Studies show that the average number of languages that is supported by these websites is now 23. It was just 11 languages in the year 2005. With the vast increase of international market, the most popular brands like these, also switched to adopting multilingual or internal SEO services.

“International SEO strategies or methodologies build upon the existing local SEO strategies by deploying similar tactics albeit in the target language or target country”Need to Conquer New / International Markets

● If your internal (domestic) market is not assuring an increase from your previous business volume, then the natural and profitable gateway is to conquer new markets, i.e. international markets.

● As a business entrepreneur, your motivations would definitely be fueled by expanding your business reach. But as a consequence of the current economic crisis, you might not be achieving your target, as of now. Thus, it is advisable to engage in a globalized market.

Attention-Grabbing Queries

Before implementing the international SEO strategies, the queries that interest the entrepreneurs to the maximum extent are:

● How do the search engines treat the issues associated with multi-lingual sites and multi-countries?

● How can a company come in, attack, and finally conquer the foreign market?

Listed below are the solutions to the queries related to the nature of International SEO and how these practices really work:-

1- Country Code Top-Level Domains

According to a survey, using Country Code Top-Level Domains (ccTlds) is a reliable way to reach out to a wider audience as well as boost website ranking. While using these domains, make sure that you have already developed websites for the target country that links to your pages and domain. For example, if you are targeting India, then make sure that all the websites with the domain ‘.in’ are providing you backlinks. If your SEO campaign is targeting multiple countries, then Country Code Top-Level Domains can surely help you.

2- Sub-Carpet Domains

Sub-Carpet Domains can also be an ideal choice for your firm, if you target a general language market, like Spanish but not a specific country, like Mexico.

Amazon uses Country Code Top-Level Domains, while apple uses Sub-Carpet Domains, as the needs of both the firms are different from each other. Thus, go beyond your regular SEO practices while choosing between these options.

3- The Local IP Issue

This is the most classical issues witnessed while adopting internal SEO tactics. If you are using a ‘content delivery network’, make sure to examine where the servers are located and check whether one or more of the servers are in or close to the targeted countries. This is basically not directly related to SEO, but to the Page Speed issue. Page loading time determines the success of your SEO practices (website ranking).

You can utilize a proxy local IP from your own server. Hosting solutions can be a real pain in certain countries; therefore many companies host their clients’ sites in servers that are located in another country. Create separate sitemaps.xml files, if you choose the sub-folder option.

4- Translation

If you wish to build quality links via International SEO, then the first problem you might encounter, is translating the website content into the target country language. To accomplish this, you should always trust a reliable translation agency that is experienced enough to deliver quality results for multilingual websites. Make sure that your translator is bilingual, for translating both the source and target language.

Never go for automated translation services, such as ‘Google translate’, as they may not discover that some countries possess certain peculiarities in dialect expressions.

For proper optimization, as per the foreign target language, provide the translator with a detailed list of appropriate keywords by which they will:

● Translate the website content according to the target language and culture
● Utilize them in the translations for increased website ranking

5- Link Building, Inbound Marketing and International SEO

Now, when your site is completely optimized, it is the time to market and advertize your product/service and employ ways to escalate your website ranking. If these activities cost you more, then you can hire a dedicated SEO expert for your specific optimization needs. Once you have localized the website content, you must also localize your content marketing activities to promote your site.

Modern-day link building is not just mere dofollow comments, directory submissions or forum signatures. It has emerged as a sophisticated art that uses content marketing as its fuel and social media as its reliable ally.

Thus, building links for international SEO has some technicalities, but you need to use them if you wish to target a foreign country and enter into the global market. If your budget and other resources do not allow you to conduct such activities in-house, then you should trust a leading manual link building agency for your specific requirements. To accomplish International SEO Practices effectively, LinkBuildingCorp is truly a brand name that can assist you in reaching out to multilingual audience.

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about 3 years ago
Pietta & Palmetto percussion revolvers......
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Up for sale are two black powder percussion revolvers.
First is a Palmetto replica of an 1847 Colt Walker in .44 caliber, un-fired condition, with powder flask.
Gold lettering "TEXAS RANGER" on left side of barrel and a gold star in front of the cylinder.
It also has an engraved scene on the cylinder.
This gun originally was sold in a presentation box with the powder flask and a Texas Ranger lawman star.
I have only the gun and powder flask, unfortunately.
Next is a Pietta replica of a Colt 1861 Sheriff, .36 caliber, brass frame with a 5 1/2 inch barrel in un-fired condition.
The guns are being sold for my neighbor who is liquidating stuff for an old friend of his that has gone to a rest home.
The monies are going to the old man.
I have some other miscellaneous black powder things that can go to sweeten things
if the buyer finds them useful.
Those are .445 and .451 balls.
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2015 Ducati Diavel Carbon

about 1 year ago
2015 Ducati Diavel Carbon
Available on
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Redwood Shitty

2015 Ducati Diavel Carbon
18K miles
Have transferable unlimited-miles extended warranty until 2022
Cosmetic mods:
- rear CF hugger
- CF chain guard
- EVOtech tail tidy
- Racefit Titanium exhaust
- Includes rear passenger cover (carbon)
Comfort mods:
- Puig sports screen
- Heated gear hookup
Suspension mods:
- Rear Nitron shock
- Front shocks rebuilt by Catalyst Reaction
Haven't had any issues with the bike, just the fuel sensor was replaced under warranty. This has been by far the most reliable bike I have owned and has taken me around California and neighboring states without issue. There are absolutely no problems with it, although there are a few minor scrapes on the rear tail tidy from carrying luggage. I will probably repaint it or you could always just install the original Ducati rear grab handle, included with the sale. I have all service records from this bike & it is due for the Desmo service soon. Tires are Michelin Pilot Power 3s and are in good shape.
This is an absolutely amazing bike to ride, all day comfort & excellent ergonomics. Easy to split on, easy to ride for 8 hours straight. Color TFT display, 3 riding modes, traction control, ABS, lap timers, and all the other things you'd expect from a premium Ducati. I have paid a lot of $$$ to make the suspension flawless as well.
All original stock parts are included.
I am selling it because my living situation has changed and I cannot keep it garaged any more.
I will consider a trade for a beater bike with ABS + cash on top.
I owe some money on it, so we can either do the transaction at Motor Cafe (you pay the fee for that, they also can get you financing on the bike), or we can go to my bank and I will ship Ducati the check to get the title mailed directly to you.
I will try to take some better pics soon as well, but you get the idea. Marchesini wheels & everything carbon fiber. Looks and sounds flawless!

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Let me just get this right out of the way and explain something about the Korean dong. Did you just giggle? I’m sure you did. She said dong. Yes, yes she did. It’s not the first time, and I promise you it will not be the last.

In the West, in primarily English-speaking countries I presume, the word dong often inspires perfectly normal adults to dissolve into a puddle of juvenile snickering. It’s right up there with pecker, wiener, bum and my personal favorite, underpants. Oh yes, it was a glorious afternoon at the age of six when a friend and I discovered the hilarity that ensues with the incessant repetition of the word underpants. Interestingly, at the age of 32, underpants was re-discovered as the ace up one’s sleeve during a particularly lively game of Madlibs in Durango, Colorado. Trust me. Underpants is plural noun gold.

In Korea, dong means neighborhood. So you can imagine it comes up a lot in conversation. In fact, some of the best conversations involve dongs. It even finds its way onto TV. But the truth is, dong is not all that funny when actually spoken in Korean. This isn’t dong as in song or bong. The “o” is long, like know or go. And the “d” is nearly a “t” when spoken. So you see that it tends to lose its fart joke appeal in everyday conversation. It really only looks good on paper.

In my final days in Korea, I am trying to see some of the places I’ve had yet to explore; some new dongs, if you will. Last week, Youngdoo took me to Tongui-dong, a sophisticated neighborhood near the President’s house, not the sort of place one makes dong jokes. The area has been sprouting galleries, bookshops, cafés and design shops in the last few years, and even has the recent addition of a new Japanese-inspired guesthouse, where we were given a personal tour by the owner. We went to a photo exhibit, visited an art installation akin to a haunted house, and spent a few hours sipping drinks over design magazines at MK2 Café. It hardly felt like we were in Korea, and at many times it might have easily been mistaken for any dong in New York or London. A dong where no one giggles when you say dong.

Or underpants.

11 Responses to “Tongui-dong”

  1. BF says:

    it’s the end of the day, so i am having trouble coming up with dong jokes for you. damn.

    but i will say this: these photos are ace. the waving woman and the guy in the museum, especially – but the pile of mags, too, and those chairs (i want one).

    this dong looks good
    (aaand, there you go).

  2. Arliss says:

    Tongui-dong is awesome! Perfect for days when Insadong just doesn’t cut it.

  3. jodi says:

    who knew a dong could be so photogenic?

  4. Megan says:

    There was a long dong conversation on flickr a couple years ago, and it still is one of my favorite flickr moments.

    I like that waving woman, too.

  5. Tim says:

    I dont have a dong joke. But I did giggle right off the bat.

    Love the first photo.

  6. claire says:

    stephanie! i love love love that exhibit shot. LOVE. happy lasts you. x

  7. claire says:

    see, i was so taken with it i forgot all mention of dongs.

  8. JustBob says:

    I like “fart joke appeal”. I could put that to good use. The 동 photos are sweet.

  9. Astrid says:

    Such great shots.

    Here is some Norwegian language with fart appeal. In Norwegian speed bumps are called fartshumper. How about that?!

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Lolwana, P, Rabe, E, Madiba, M, (2018) Who accesses adult education and where do they progress to? An exploratory tracer study in community education and training.

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The provision of adult education in South Africa has changed over time. In the 1970s it was meant to cater for the upgrading
of teachers, and the 1990s saw the provision of adult literacy programmes. In 2016, The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) established a community education and training (CET) institution to cater for the millions of adults and youths who were in need of further education but were not able to enter universities or technical and vocational education and training. This exploratory study is aimed at understanding adult learners, so as to establish a system that will deepen the institutional capacity of the CET colleges, as well as establish better and more effective policies for this sector. The study shows that South African CET students fit the profile of international community college enrolees. Building a credible CET college in the future will require continuous review of both general and skills programmes in order to make them acceptable parts of the whole school system, affording the students better career prospects. Since it is in society’s best interest to build a stronger workforce, governments and institutions should share the responsibility of the students’ success.

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Until recently they punish the theft of intellectual property rights (plagiarism, subjective value: soft facts). But what about the subjective values of your company? What about the abilities (talents), skills, and performance: know how and know do? According to our tax law, the 20-year expertise of an employee is worth nothing but every stool has a tax advantage first. We remember! The open sub-system man consists of the areas: response quality (WQ) = Action quality (HQ) + emotional quality (EQ) + think quality (IQ) the EU area specifically promotes knowledge accounting (IQ). Today, we can look at each companies than the sum of its employees plus X. Then we have the nature (individuality, USP) a company. The essence (image, business climate, brand and product attractiveness; Corporate image, corporate design, corporate communication, etc.) is the competition factor and the Supreme trait in the value chains.

You all know it by E.g. the auto suppliers. A car is more than a collection of material. The result is called such as premium or luxury and lies on the edge of normal pricing of supply and demand ( Compulsories and freestyle ). Each company is known in the voltage of: customers, global demand markets, Arbeit-(GELD-)Geber nature: sustainability employees: global labor markets competitors, suppliers: global supply markets inter national and trans-cultural public we know cause the emotions jeder(s) KundIn(en) for sale. Problem solution knowledge is an easily comparable objective standard such as the price and the quantity. Neural marketing proves that such as the mark and the design layout and purchase emotionalisierend Act which is so far not measured, compared and accounted for. With my solution concept (biology and oekonomie.de) you can orient better the voltage inside your company. These soft facts can be accounted for today: customers additional benefits, customer loyalty and fulfilment of customer expectations (after issue) staff motivation, staff-corporate-bond, operating air service performance – product benefits (core competence, USP) soft skills: skills, skills, performance (E.g. service, complaints, innovation, delivery) In the constantly more effectively globalized competition decide the mass and individual products and services in world markets of buyers (since 1960, before market) about the company success in inpatient, outpatient and Internet markets. Here, it becomes increasingly important to its true systemic value, (soft facts and hard facts, quality and quantity) to know. The balance sheet value of the cybernetic worlds of goods is determined by the systemic values of the values worlds! So you should be balanced also. Such as a 60 year old employee in pension, she should be off not only their locker key, but also their expertise. And in the balance of their departure as a loss should can be accounted for. Should successful staff recruitment be… punished for theft? Be accounted for consumption of natural resources with the nature-sustainability in the future but definitely should. ERGO: Our accounting law must be modernized and adapted to the evolution!

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Study On Behalf Of The Federal Ministry Of Consumer:

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The financial planning Office Niklas & Lehmann informed on the essential aspects of independent asset management and investment advice on a pure fee basis. According to a new study commissioned by the Federal Ministry for consumer protection, German investors annually lose Berlin – between 20 and 30 billion euros by false and Commission-driven advice. The current financial market crisis has revealed again these deficits: \”too often the confidence of investors in the Council by financial intermediaries will be disappointed, for example if, under the guise of competence and seriousness sold unsuitable investments as a secure investment for the retirement\”, said German consumer Minister Aigner on December 22 in Berlin. \”That is not acceptable. \”The interests of consumers should be at the forefront – and not reaching business-internal sales goals by banks or other Commission-oriented financial institutions.\” To test and improve the distribution structures of financial products the Federal Ministry has therefore the study requirements Financial intermediaries more, better quality decisions\”at the research and consulting firm Evers and Jung in order given. The results now contain valuable information and insights about existing protection gaps.

As one of the Central conclusions and recommendations formulated the study: quality issues in the financial intermediation are the most efficient way to resolve if resolves the conflict of interest advice versus product sales. Ideally, the consumer buys a neutral advice and then converts the results with other providers. \”In other countries a such so-called honorary consulting is already significantly more common than in Germany.\” exactly this pure ‘ honorary Consulting we offer our customers since more than two years. \”explains Ulf Niklas, Managing Director and general partner of financial planning Office Niklas & Lehmann oHG in Berlin-Grunewald and Berlin-Mitte. As one of the first pure honorary consultant on the German market at all, we therefore welcome the Results of the new study very. It shows that we have gone the right way from the outset.

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5 Try to show their strengths, but don’t let ligeramente alluded to its weaknesses or any limitation which it deems to have. If you would like to know more then you should visit Intel. 6. It is important that you demonstrate that you know to listen to but don’t be re-paros to ask questions. 7. Let employers drive the interview, do not talk too but don’t overdo it nor the silence so that it is not required the employer to start information. 8.

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During the first face-to-face waters overflowed and my small River clean enough so that the rest of the waters were flowing with more smoothness and entered fresh water and sweet to his cause. Currently I am aware that in the first semesters the information that you gave us, the arrangement of materials, the way they are taught especially during the face-to-face, is masterful, me destructivo enormous, I felt like steel in tempering process; at some point we were discussing things that advocating the mental work and when I was ready to enter fully into the we continued with the internalization or with land seen on concrete facts of life itself, it was a go and come from one eye to another, from outside inward, or conversely, that there was no more than live itschemes were not used and they could not see clearly. The first lessons for my are still invaluable are which expose the development of science and the formation of the mecanicista-cientificista vision, as I understood it, I grasp from there and has been the tip of Hank to start the order internally and externally, the accumulation of knowledge and experiences brought the tangled began to settle and I got full on it, initially, I wanted to do it from the head, it was not possible, I had to release. The first half was more difficult that the second, in fact the second half already had released a lot thought as element from where he saw the experience where I was, the semi-annual meetings consolidated this attitude, for the second face-to-face meeting of the second semester, the conflict and suffering had decreased by 80%, the degree of understanding of holismcompared with the home it was considerably larger and work with myself was taking a beautiful cause, even I felt eager to communicate to all my discoveries and understanding, however when he spoke individually with some friends on the subject gave me realize that I was not yet possible to communicate with clarity regarding relations intra and interpersonal as well as with the environment began to be more soft and fluid; I still had in my haste and great mental activity, but was more open and willing to experience and the equanimity he was in me, this State was very important because at end of this period I stay without employment, which gave me the opportunity to realize a great yearning: release one of the most Andean addictions in my life, however gave me dread; enters a very strong and deep, personal work thanks to the order, still emerging which had achieved by labour at the mastery and equanimity that it gave me, I left afloat with more speed, clarity and strength than I had expected, the process was almost all the third semester, this time I maintained constantly inward, in deep introspection, self-examination, self-observation and internal work, – body emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual-constant and conscious, twenty-four hours a day and that more that a decision was a need deep being, which was very supported by labour in the mastery with which also realized that the spirit always acts in our lives with these activities and advances I realize the importance and profound work had given me a work of meditation that I was building, apparently without a guide, in working with my emotions and attachments. Elon Musk has many thoughts on the issue.

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Model Presentation

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Autohaus Sporer Weinheim presents you impresses new exhibition hall Weinheim – her klarlinigen chic and it has the glass by the appealing views of the mountain road in the North: the new exhibition hall for Renault and Nissan at the dealership Sporer in Weinheim Lutzelsachsen on the B-3. Last weekend the family business opened its new building, to the undisturbed assessments of new cars, which invites two brands with lots of space and comfortable ambience. An opening party for the whole family with discount promotions, bouncy castle and Club raffle provided the right framework for the inauguration. Many visitors came to the dealership on both days and celebrated with. The construction of the building took optimal presentation half a year, and it paid off. 30 Vehicles, from each brand 15 pieces, find their place in sales around 1 000 m, building.

The floor is divided in half in black and white tiles, the colors associated with the manufacturers. So the models are on the White half of the halls Nissan, on the black by Renault. An underground car park with 40 parking spaces for the delivery of vehicles provides extra space. You heard much recognition for the new exhibition building and the decision for the additional brands on the weekend, Sales Manager and Managing Director Werner Sporer rejoiced. The new Hall was contributing to the better presentation of the vehicles. So easily all vehicle doors can be opened and the new cars coming through the generous exhibition space well visually with the application. Sales Manager Michael Sporer stressed that the dealership Sanchez with the new building represents a contemporary appearance for the brands and would like to arouse enthusiasm among customers.

Our personal service will be in the foreground”, so Michael Sporer. For adults and children in bright sunshine and summery temperatures stayed the visitors after a tour of the new facility on the grounds, enjoyed eating or tested the car brands with test drives. The children came with the jumping Castle and face painting also at their own expense. “TSG Lutzelsachsen winner weight obtained the Association action was a great success”, Michael Sporer was pleased with the response. In promotion for clubs, every member counts”was there, the highest weight of individual members of the Association, which locally have weigh themselves, to achieve. 13 Teams took part, they came from Weinheim and its local parts, Birkenau and nieder Liebersbach, Viernheim. Won the TSG Lutzelsachsen 14 525 kg weight. Chairman Rainer Muller took to thank the considerable profits: free use of the seven-seater Nissan Evalia including taxes and insurance for a year. The TSV Birkenau was pleased with his second place finish on an ESSO voucher worth 500 euros, as well as the Weinheim lane Horn, the runners-up must fill up for 200 euros. Investment with a future”before the official opening it was Managing Director Werner Sporer of the completion of the new Exhibition Hall not take together with employees, involved construction craftsmen, to celebrate representatives from politics and economy as well as the participating car brands in an opening evening of the new Hall. “” Work to increase”, to secure employment for all”and to ensure satisfaction for us”, which got his with the construction of the new Hall taken above, Werner Sporer said in his speech. He sees as an investment with a future”the investment in the new building. Text: mk

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Excellent Business Center

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The Cologne contemporary Office solutions provider, excellent business center, continues its growth in cooperation with German real estate industry Cologne, February 2013 (LR) – the past year has shown once again, excellent business center at the far top is on the tenant wish list of top Office real estate specialists. The Cologne provider of flexible Office solutions is particularly interested in high-quality landmark real estate landlord. In the last few years were such leases, real estate in 1a layers and covered with high-quality facilities. “Diverse additional benefits for landlord makes the difference primarily appreciate the landlord due to the diverse additional benefits for their real estate”, so Dr. Andre helf, Managing Director of excellent business center, to the attractiveness of his business for the real estate industry. From point of view of the lessor, in particular a wide range of meeting rooms contributes to this additional benefit.

Operators and other Tenant book these rooms for their meetings and save as areas and expensive Conference Management. Also good for landlords: often, companies use an Office for an interim period in the to obtain excellent business center to then larger areas in the same building. Business Center as a pulse generator is excellent especially for Office buildings, because of the Cologne company’s customers quickly to life in the real estate. Ultimately many rental companies and operating companies appreciate the services of excellent business center, so in particular the reception service. Excellent business center wants to continue excellent healthy growth business center real estate search also in the new fiscal year. Already from summer of the year, the next site opening is planned with the Leo in the Munich’s Leopoldstrasse. Thanks to the good relations with the MOMENI Projektentwicklung GmbH, the Cologne business centre could add provider this real estate highlight their portfolio. Andreas Gladisch, “Managing Director of MOMENI, for the rental of the Rhinelander: we see the opening of excellent business center in the Leo’s very opposed and would be pleased to be able to win this successful company in future projects as a tenant”. More through excellent business center planned locations are in the new airport Berlin Brandenburg and the Munich Maximilianstrasse 35 a. The step to neighboring countries such as Austria, Switzerland and Benelux is also intended. Are there more to be built in the next few years excellent sites business center.

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IPad Sweepstakes On Behalf Of 100 Days Countdown

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Soon, the countdown for the establishment of a new Division starts at Artvera in Berlin the Berlin-based company, the artvera GmbH & co. KG, as successful mail order service provider builds a new Division. Click Intel to learn more. For more than two years artvera working on a new concept that will set standards across the industry. The idea then arose by chance. The extensive planning are completed, is now realized. “If we have, at the time set a new trend in our industry to sell, drop shipping we are today facing a much larger dimension”, according to Managing Director Detlef Winkelewski.

“It is not the development of a new product, but the realization of a new business idea. The impact of the sector-neutral and revolutionary idea are not yet clear. This has been confirmed by various institutions. If it is now normal to buy on the Internet, there will be a new sales method in the near future. Today, many companies only see your future in the Internet.

We will make this way of thinking on its head and thus promote the retail industry. The concept starts in Berlin Kantstrasse and gradually being expanded nationwide. First prospective buyers have already signed. Media interest is very large by the event to report.” The 100 days countdown begins on May 24, 2010 and ends on the 1.9.2010. According to the motto, and at the same Internet address is reported to gradually more and more about the concept. Now, you can see preliminary evidence and participate in the speculation “about the great mystery”. The large-scale campaign is accompanied with 2 sweepstakes. In the 1st contest “Blogging”, bloggers and webmasters will be prompted to report on the great mystery. Anyone who writes a post about the action and link on and register, iPads participates in the raffle of a brand new Apple worth EUR 499. Naturally, the odds of winning in this type of competition is quite high. Be in the 2nd contest “Tagging” Visitors to the site prompted a tip to give, which wrapped object located on the home page. This tip is stored as a single term on the page and displayed in a tag cloud. The most common tips appear thicker and fatter than term. It is a draw of all participants of this competition, independent of the tip. 3 x, there is Apple iTunes gift cards over 50, 25 and EUR 15 to win. The winners will be notified from the 1.9.2010. Contact: artvera GmbH & co. KG Kant road 116 D-10627 Berlin phone: 030 / 31 51 74 3-0 fax: 030 / 31 51 74 3-9 E-Mail: info at soon Let’s go los.com Internet: artvera GmbH & co. KG local court Charlottenburg HRA 42086 B personally liable partner: artvera Beteiligungs GmbH, Berlin, Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 116621 B Managing Director: Detlef Winkelewski

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Really Simple Syndication

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Companies can obtain a good effect since the blogosphere has the reputation of being a place of interaction reasonable, polite, helpful and above all, personal. Companies which can for example take the culture of the environment can help to assign the same features to their products and services. Despite the benefits, as any other website’s business, it is important that content is properly planned and designed. Even with the informal nature of many blogs, it is important to remember that they still reflect the company image, either positively or negatively. The blog must reflect the values and objectives of the company, as well as be a reflection of the efforts of global marketing of the same. Read more from Elon Musk to gain a more clear picture of the situation.

Blogging is relatively simple, but to make it properly takes effort and learning. There are several blogs devoted to teach people what to do and what not to do blogs. The easiest way, by spend time reading blogs is supposed to become familiar with blogs. Like any web page there are a number of things to keep in mind. Tests, tests and more tests are important to ensure that the blog meets the business objectives. The tone of the blogs can be more subtle to detect than standard web sites, requiring frequent adjustments to look good. (As opposed to Vikas Kapoor).

Prepare in advance for a much higher level of publishing content, in comparison with a normal web site. To be effective, blogs regularly, even daily, need infusions of fresh content to maintain its relevance and keep the attention of the visitors. Just as with a standard website, you note the legal questions, notices, notifications, copyright or other issues relevant to the company. The informal blogs, as well as the highest volume of updates can create compliance problems if not carefully controlled. Finally, once a company decides to invest in blogs, there great ways to spread the word about the new blog. For the best results of marketing, it is essential to actively promote their business blogs through search of blogs and Directory sites. The promotion and presentations must be consistent with their products, services or the theme of the blog, in order to be more effective. Promotion of the blog can be almost automatically to create and promote the Really Simple Syndication (RSS), related to the blog… It is essential for the volume of traffic from a blog, to make effective use of keywords or phrases. The blog of if have enough he contended, so that it must be secured properly choose keywords, so that the traffic originated are people interested in your blog, products and services. In short, a blog is an excellent way to promote a business. A series of advantages can be obtained when performing a good business plan and will take measures to properly promote your new blog.

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The Senior Director

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The compensation Plan of the Agel comp plan Agel is binary hybrid while it unites features of a rupture and matrix compensation plan. To begin in Agel you must choose between the Executive package and the personal package. Intel often says this. This company pays in 10 different ways. Below you can see some of them:-bonus for sales to the retail. Click Mark Bertolini to learn more. To buy at wholesale and sell at retail prices prices, a payout of up to 20% can be obtained. -Quick start bonus.

When a dealer register a new person gets a bonus of $200 if the latter has acquired the Executive package or $35 if you have chosen the personal package. -Volume of team bonus. This bond corresponds to the binary behavior of the compensation plan. You get 10% of benefits regarding the volume of Group of the shorter leg. -Matching bonus. He is obtained between 25% to 50% Commission on volume of equipment of all persons that enter a Distributor.

You can reach a depth of up to 7 levels. -Executive bonus. This bonus gives you a portion of 3% of the total volume of the company up to a volume of 40,000 in the Parthian shorter. -Bonus for business expenses. Once a distributor qualifies for Senior Director (40,000 volume in his shorter leg and 2 personally sponsored directors), receives a bonus for business expenses. -Bonus car. When you get the rank of Senior Director is received an additional bonus for a new car for free. -Holiday bonus. The Senior Director and upper ranges are invited to the annual Conference of Agel leadership. The author is a NetWorker committed to teach their knowledge of MLM (Network Marketing) to all those who wish to improve their performance in this industry. You can access full article Agel independent study and of course different sponsorship 3.0 and the Marketing of attraction information.

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Kaiserliche Werft

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For the first time can be working holiday”in 1888 at the Leipzig book printing C. G. Naumann prove. Until 1900, there was leave arrangements only at 70 80 companies which were located primarily in the printing industry. These were mainly small and medium-sized businesses, which was often special relations between Executive and workforce. Workers leave was often granted from special occasions, such as such as anniversaries. Holidays were usually not regularly and were granted at sole discretion of the company. A total 10,000 workers in the German Empire had before 1900 little more than 9000 some form of annual leave entitlement, representing a total share of 0.7 percent.

In addition, was workers holiday alone a welfare institution of the entrepreneur and was used often purely functional, as a means of reward, discipline and binding of the workers to the company. A legal claim was nowhere. This changed in 1900, as the industries in which workers an annual leave has been granted, the Trade-Union Moreover particularly well-organized brewery industry. In the scheme of annual leave in a collective agreement found in 1903 for the first time. The example made school and subsequently fixed holidays in this industry has been collectively agreed and fixed a matter of course.

Thus the holiday no longer be strictly by the goodwill and the arbitrariness of the company owner was different as this had been used previously in the printing industry in the brewery industry, depending on. The collective agreement set workers holiday but became the actual breakthrough in the contracts of the State workers. The first were the Wurttemberg railway in 1899 receiving holiday by ministerial available. After the introduction of working holiday in mines, cabins and salt pans of the Kaiserliche Werft and the Royal Porcelain Manufactory of holiday idea for Imperial, State and municipality workers prevailed definitively until 1908. Even if holiday for workers for this of course not meant to test a luxury, but often from visiting in the surrounding hotel Environment was, at the time of the year 1910 finally conclude is that about 50 percent of the workers in the brewery and mill industry and almost 35% of the workers in the printing industry was granted leave. Also the idea of the workers holiday prevailed even when the State workers. In contrast, workers holiday but was largely unknown in some industries, such as for example the private mining, machine-building industry, textile and clothing industry. Was nevertheless granted an annual recreation leisure, this was still a welfare institution of the entrepreneur. Robin Brunold

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NCAL Announces Addition of Assisted Living Measures in LTC Trend Tracker at Convention

Lindsay Schwartz

Before hundreds of assisted living professionals, the National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) today announced an expanded national effort to demonstrate the profession’s commitment to quality care through data. NCAL added four new assisted living measures to its online data collection tool LTC Trend Tracker: hospital admissions, hospital readmissions, the off-label use of antipsychotic medications, and occupancy rates.

“We know our assisted living communities are providing high quality care, but in today’s health care environment, we need to be able to demonstrate it,” said NCAL Executive Director Scott Tittle. “NCAL is proud to grow our assisted living footprint in LTC Trend Tracker to help providers better understand how they’re doing, share that with other health care partners and consumers, and hopefully, get recognized for their amazing work.”

The four additional measures bring the total to six for assisted living providers in LTC Trend Tracker. Reports currently exist regarding staffing (calculating turnover and retention) and customer satisfaction. Today’s announcement now gives NCAL member organizations the ability to track their progress on all of the NCAL Quality Initiative goals within one tool.

“What sets LTC Trend Tracker apart from other data collection platforms is that our measures are clearly defined, so that everyone is comparing apples to apples,” said NCAL Senior Director of Workforce & Quality Improvement Programs Lindsay Schwartz, Ph.D. “This allows any assisted living organization to instantly see how they’re doing in relation to their peers in their state, region, or the entire nation.”

The announcement comes during the association’s 10th annual NCAL Day. The day-long, educational event precedes the 67th Annual American Health Care Association (AHCA) and NCAL Convention & Expo held through October 19 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center.

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Ecstatic Singing and The Divine Romance – February Events 2012 – with slideshow

On February 11th, Louix sang with Pranam at our Ecstatic Singing event held at Prema Drala Ashram. This was our first public event of 2012, and it was wonderful to see many people we had not seen in almost two months. Pranam played a lively set which included songs such as “By Thy Grace,” “Shivaya Pranananda,” “Benedictus,” and a new song “Ganapataye.”  A few hours before the event, the world had just found out that Whitney Houston had passed away. Louix ended the evening with a moment of silence and prayers in her honor and expressed gratitude for this angel who blessed us with her beautiful voice and music. He then dedicated the song “Hosannah” to her as we sang together. Following are some photos we would like to share with you:

 On Monday the 13th of February, we also celebrated The Divine Romance, a holy day consecrated by Louix to honor and celebrate the courtship with The Beloved of your soul. We gathered at the ashram, which was beautifully decorated with bouquets of flowers in various shades of violet. Brahmananda spoke a heartfelt opening prayer and led us into a guided meditation.  We were then invited to take an inner journey by invoking and merging with The Beloved of our soul. The evening continued with a few devotional songs led by Pranam. Chocolate dipped strawberries were offered as Prasad to conclude and bless this uplifting event hosted by Brahmananda and Sylvia.

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So, what's next?

I finished knitting my wrap last night. I'm so relieved to have it finished. I have to wash and block it today. I'll have to get it laid out earlier rather than later because it's a rainy day here and I want to make sure it's dry for its debut tomorrow evening.

My washing machine is fixed too. That means I can wash the new clothes that I'm going to be wearing tomorrow. I don't like the way new clothes feel before they are laundered. I'll take pictures of the finished wrap tomorrow before we go out to dinner. I'm somewhat self conscious about doing this but I'm planning on having DH take pictures of me modeling the wrap. We'll see if those plans come to fruition.

Two days ago when we were sitting at the dinner table I commented that I was almost finished with my wrap and I needed to start thinking about my next project. I asked who wanted me to make something for them. All three kids yelled "Me!" A few days before that, while we were sorting through the winter clothes I came across a cute little hat I made for K. It didn't take long to make. I used an alpaca/wool yarn for the hat and added a cute, fluffy brim. She rips it off her head any time I try to get her to model it. She says it's itchy. She also can't stand the wool poncho I made A many years ago. I'm beginning to think K is sensitive to wool (ya think?!) So I'm on a mission to make her a cotton sweater that she'll love to wear.

To this end I placed an order with Knitpicks. I selected some of K's favorite colors of Shine yarn (Violet, Butter, Orchid and Grass.) I spent a little time yesterday playing with my graphing program and this is what I came up with...

The hearts down the front are supposed to represent the buttons (I already have these!) and the short stripes are supposed to look like a ribbed button band.

J needed a haircut. Summer's coming and he'll be doing some swimming so we decided to get the hair cutter out and buzz him. We made a pitstop midway through the haircut. Here he is with his cool mohawk. The blue tongue is compliments of a blueberry Rita's water ice.

J with a cool mohawk and a blue tongue

J on the soccer field with completed haircut

I know that I'm not objective but I think J is an incredibly good looking kid!

grumperina said...

Cute sweater design! Love the colors!

anmiryam said...

Happy anniversary! I can't wait to see the pics of the wrap and your new fancy togs.

Great design for K's sweater, what yarn do you think you'll make it in?

Anonymous said...

I think he is a good looker too! And so is the sweater which I am sure will adorn the adorable K with just the right style.


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Sunday, June 26, 2005

Siren Song

I find that I'm more of a one-project-at-a-time person. That's not to say that I complete each project before moving on to the next. What I mean is that I generally focus on one project at a time. If I hit a bump or a lull in a project I will generally put it aside and start something new. I rarely go back to the old projects. I have a boatload of unfinished projects. I'm trying my darnedest to not let that happen to K's heart flower sweater. The mis-shappen sleave cap may be the end of her sweater. As I'm considering my next move on the sweater I'm being tempted by the lure of new projects.

Purple and Pink, Pink and Purple! The Soy Silk I bought to make a top for A has been singing a siren's song. I'm itching to cast on for a top down top. I'm going to use Grumperina's Tivoli T pattern as a starting point. I have a few moderations in mind to adjust it for a different gauge and to make it more suitable for A's girlish figure. (It really is girlish - she's 9!)

I have been experiencing lace envy. I joined the Summer of Lace group and I'm reading about the lace that so many others are knitting. I love knitting lace. It's an obsession I picked up about a decade ago. Right now I have no lace projects going. Last month I finished my Lattice Lace Wrap. I'm thinking about knitting another one without the beads (or maybe just putting beads on the edges.) I also got Myrna Stahman's book on Faroese shawls and seamen's scarves. I've been looking at the shawls with their unique shaping. I would also like to knit some lace scarves for teachers' gifts this year. I need to start early if I really want to get 4 of them done by Christmas.

Mmmm! Qiviut!I have a special skein of yarn in my stash. It's been in my stash for more years than I'd care to admit. It's 300 yds of Qiviut. It's incredibly soft. I understand that it's amazingly warm. I'm starting to feel the pressure of owning and not using such luxury. I really want to find an appropriate use for this skein. What's a girl to do? I'll have to think on that one a bit more.

I was a good girl today. In spite of my "love 'em or leave 'em" attitude towards my knitting projects I picked up TWO old projects today. We took the kids to see Herbie Fully Loaded (a cute movie!) and I really didn't want to be tempted by the popcorn. I brought the Shapely Tank I started a long time ago to try to keep my hands busy. I got a couple of rows done but I still managed to eat some popcorn. Ultimately, I had to stop knitting because I dropped a stitch and couldn't find it in the dark. I know that the picture makes it look like I am knitting this top in the round but I'm not. This is just the front that I'm knitting back and forth. I stopped about 10 stitches into a row. This is a free pattern from Joan McGowan-Michaels at White Lies Designs.

I also knit a few rounds on the toe up socks I started around Easter. I knit most of what's already done while waiting for my kids to take their swimming lessons this spring. I put them aside when I got so passionately involved with K's heart flower sweater. I need to hurry up and finish this sock because I will probably use these needles for my Sockapal2za socks. Speaking of which, I'm still no closer to picking out the yarn I will use for my sock pal's socks. If you want to take a look at the choices they are here. Feel free to weigh in with an opinion.

Jan said...

Don't you love that Myrna Stahman book? I hear she has a new book in the works, and I can't wait until it comes out. A lace smoke ring might be nice for the quivet, or a moebius scarf. I am sure whatever you decide to make with it, it is going to be a delight to knit with.

Anonymous said...

Hello, Lou.

I am your evil Sockapal2za secret pal, at last making my presence known! And I am going to make you the most wicked socks you've ever seen...

Just a warning.

Evil Cackle.

Teresa C said...

I find that sometimes when I move onto the next project it clears my mind to a solution for the abandoned one. Maybe?

Jenn said...

The silk sock yarn is so nice! I would love to do something out of qiviut. I found a kit to make a lace bookmark out of it, I just need to order it.

anmiryam said...

You asked for opinions, so who am I to hesitate (except that I've been so lax with blog reading that I'm more than a week late...). So, I would vote for lace socks in one the hand dyed colorways you did yourself. Comfy and unique -- what sock pal could ask for more?


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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Yarn Diets

I've been reading all over blogland that people are going on yarn diets. There even seems to be some kind of "along" for this. It makes me nervous. I don't judge anyone who decides to go on a yarn diet. I did it a couple of years ago. I REALLY did it. A whole year with no new yarn, no purchases, no gifts, no nothin'! I'm proud of it too. My concern is with the number of dieters and my concern is a selfish one. With so many people not supporting the fiber industry aren't some of the new sources going to dry up?

I've been revelling in the increase in popularity of knitting over the last few years. I've been tickled by all the new magazines, yarn manufacturers, designers and designs that have come along with the increase in knitting popularity. I feel like so many more people "get" me now. When I knit in public passers by are likely to say "I'm making a sweater for myself" or "My friend is teaching me to knit" or "I know someone that's a knitter." A few years ago if anyone even recognized my knitting as something harmless the best comment I could hope for was "My grandma used to crochet."

It's just that I can't get away from the ecconomics of it all. Supply and demand. If the demand slows down the supply is going with it. If yarn manufacturer's don't sell their yarn they can't pay their bills and they go out of business. I don't think the big companies will have any problems. It's the little guys that I'm worried about. It's the hand dyers, the small organic fiber farms, and specialty growers that will suffer, the people that offer the truly unique stuff.

I understand the pressure of having an overwhelming stash. When every room in your home hides or flaunts the object of our obsession, when you're at a loss for where to store the new purchase, when you don't know exactly how much yarn you own and you're afraid to try to figure it out, when you hide recently purchased, dk weight, pink merino from your significant other because s/he might ask why you couldn't use the dk weight, rose merino that's already in stash. I understand. Really, I understand. Yarn dieting isn't the only way to deal with this. There are other ways to address this problem.

Let's explore the weight loss analogy. If we want to lose weight we need to take in fewer calories than we expend. Theoretically, we don't have to diet to lose weight. We can eat the same as always and just exercise more. The same holds true for stash. You can reduce your stash by knitting more. If you are already knitting every spare moment of the day this may not work for you. However, most knitters can find a few more minutes each day to knit. Knit in the bathroom, knit in bed, knit while you're talking on the phone, knit while reading. This approach may require that you start a few more projects. You need an epic project to knit when you have the time to devote your attention to the lace or cable or shaping that is taking place. You need a mindless project to knit while watching TV, attending meetings, talking on the phone, reading, helping kids with homework or reading blogs and a small, portable project (socks, hat, scarf, babywear, etc) to accompany you when you are out of the house - waiting in line, waiting for kids, eating lunch in the office, waiting for the bus, riding in the car, bus, train or plane.

Already knitting at your max? Think about your intake. Step up the quality of what you're taking in. Take in a smaller quantity of the good stuff and use it more efficiently. Instead of buying a whole sweaters worth of the cheap yarn. Buy enough cashmere to make a pair of mittens, gloves, a scarf, belt, cowl or hat (a portable project!)

Okay, so you say you're already knitting every second of every day and you just can't squeeze one more ball of yarn into your house, car, office or storage unit? Be a responsible knitter and teach at least two other people to knit. Share your excitement and enthusiasm. Get them well and truly hooked so they can do your part to support the yarn industry!

Jen said...

I looked at the LJ along for this concept and there were flash/stash photos. It was interesting. I'm trying to knit from my stash but I'm still buying yarn. I've just changed the way I buy yarn. I no longer will buy 2 skeins of something just cause. Either its for a specific project, sock yarn or in sweater amounts. Which is funny since I've knit exactly one sweater;)

Lisa T said...

Good rationale! I'll have to share this one with hubby!

Theresa said...

Personally I don't think it will hit any of the fiber businesses at long do most people stay on food diets?! LOL Most people do not have willpower. Also most people doing this have exceptions like sock yarn and gifts don't count. I'm doing this because I have to...$$$ and space. We have 5 of us in 900 square feet and I just need to knit up or sell what I have so that my family has room to exist! Gee for some reason it's more important to take care of my kids than to horde yarn! LOL The one way I got around it though is that I'm in an exchange...I got to shop for her instead! That gave me my fix! :o)

Theresa said...

Oh, btw, the fingerless gloves are very warm outside, except naturally your exposed fingertips. I have not made the fingerless mitts yet to see if there is a difference. They are kind of fun to knit and gratifying because they are finished quickly.

HoJo said...

As a lyso, I've had many folks ask me if I'm nervous or upset about all the knit from the stash. Here's my theory - if you knit from your stash eventually you will need yarn again or you'll need yarn to go with your stash as you knit it or you'll just need that 1 special skein. So, knit from your stash, knit from the store, but just knit! I agree with your teach others to knit, they'll need to build a stash. Take a class to learn a new technique or to get that project done. Thanks for all the other suggestions, it is good to know that there are those that are looking out for the health of the industry.

kimberly said...

I agree with you too. I knit and buy how and what I want and not because everyone else is knitting from stash. Those ladies will probably fall of the wagen sooner or later and buy more yarn. I agree-you should do it all in reasonable proportions and then you won't explode.
My stash is rather big, it's huge if you count my fabric too, and I live in a little tiny apartment with my two little kids and husband. That's ok as long as I have my sanity and can add to my stash. I'm one of those who buys with a project in mind, it just may or may not ever get done, although it usually gets done a while later than planned but that's ok too.
I hope you understand what I'm trying to say because it's really early here and I'm a bit groggy still. I agree with you absolutely. Knit and buy on!
OH and my 3rd graders are learning to knit this week if the yarn gets here in time. :)


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