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Definition of dupion in English:
dupionLine breaks: du¦pion
Pronunciation: /ˈdjuːpɪən /
(also silk dupion)
noun[mass noun]
1A rough slubbed silk fabric woven from the threads of double cocoons.
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- Other fabrics used include Khadi blended with modal, Lycra blended with dupion or raw silk, a finer version of Noil silk, which reduces the piling effect of a fabric which otherwise drapes well.
early 19th century (in the sense 'double cocoon'): from French doupion, from Italian doppione, from doppio 'double'.
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TORONTO - Toronto Raptors forward Terrence Ross will get to show off his aerial moves during the NBA all-star weekend.
The rookie -- who goes by the Twitter handle @T--DotFlight31 -- has been selected to participate in the Sprite Slam Dunk competition in Houston.
"Thanks to all the fans who created this movement, an got me in to dunk contest... .RossShallDunk .SpriteSlam," tweeted Ross after the announcement Thursday.
Ross is the fifth Raptors player to take part of the high-flying competition, joining Vince Carter (2000), Tracy McGrady (2000), Jamario Moon (2008) and current teammate DeMar DeRozan (2010 and 2011).
This year's event on Feb. 16 will pit Eastern Conference players versus Western Conference players in a two-round competition. The highest scoring East competitor and the highest scoring West competitor will compete head-to-head to determine the champion.
The East's entry includes Ross, the Indiana Pacers' Gerald Green and the New York Knicks' James White. The trio will be pitted against defending champion Jeremy Evans of the Utah Jazz, along with the Los Angeles Clippers' Eric Bledsoe and the Denver Nuggets' Kenneth Faried.
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A lot of people died on television in 2013. Maybe the number of small-screen fatalities are always this high but it sure seems like the past year went above and beyond in the death department. Big series offing two, three even four major characters was commonplace. No one is safe, especially on cable. Here are ten shows that featured some of the year's most memorable and/or shocking losses.
With Christmas just barely in the rearview and the new year upon us, nows a good time to look back on what people were watching over the last year, or in the case of this latest compilation, what TV shows people were pirating most in 2013. As it happens, Game of Thrones has once again topped the list.
Still debating whether or not to shell out hundreds of dollars to purchase the Dexter: The Complete Series Collection Blu-ray set? Well, hang onto your wallets, as theres a far more affordable way to binge-watch all eight seasons of Showtimes serial killer drama, thanks to Netflix. The first four seasons of the series are set to arrive on Netflix streaming later this week, while the other four seasons will be made available in January.
Both Breaking Bad and Dexter developed loyal followings during the tenure of their respective runs, but while Breaking Bad went out with a bang, Dexter went out with more of a whimper. Many fans were disappointed with the last episode of Showtimes subscription cable series and over the weekend, producer John Goldwyn spoke out about the finale, explaining why Dexter ended how it did.
The storm we were promised arrived in time for Dexter's series finale ("Remember the Monsters") in an episode that proved to be about on par with this season, which is to say, unfortunately, somewhat disappointing, especially when we consider some of the high points of the series.
The last episode of Dexter will air this Sunday night, and those of us who've stuck with the series through thick and thin can only hope that the series finale will measure up to some of the show's better episodes. The penultimate episode left off with Dexter headed to the airport to leave with Miami with Hannah, but the above clip indicates that he won't be going anywhere just yet.
The end is here! Or it will be this Sunday night. Dexter left off with a pretty major cliffhanger last night -- Spoilers if you haven't seen "Monkey in the Box" yet! -- and based on the preview for next week's series finale, "Remember the Monsters?," it looks like Dexter won't be skipping down before checking in on Deb. And he seems to feel some remorse about leaving Saxon alive. Will Deb being shot be a life-lesson for Dexter about walking away from a kill?
It took forever for tonight's episode of Dexter to get there, but it did eventually get there. "Monkey in the Box," the series' penultimate episode, left us with a proper cliffhanger as the series finale looms closer. If you haven't seen the episode yet, consider yourself spoiler-warned from this point forward!
With just two episodes left for Dexter, what will "Monkey in the Box" have to offer? A choice, for one thing. Oftentimes, by the time we get to the end of a season of Dexter, the lead character has his target locked and it's just a matter of how he'll take them down, but this time around, it seems Dexter has the opportunity to walk away. Will he take it? The preview for "Monkey in the Box" hints that a storm is coming, both literally and figuratively.
There are just two episodes left and then it's all over for Dexter, for better or worse. Who will make it out of this series alive? Last night's episode eliminated one name from that list, and the new preview teases danger for other characters, thanks in large part to the presence of Oliver Saxon.
If there's a lesson to be learned from tonight's episode of Dexter, it's that exercise is dangerous. Just ask Harrison or that cyclist who became the victim of road rage. Then again, sitting down isn't and enjoying some tea may be hazardous to a person's wellbeing too, so maybe there's no winning for anyone on this series. Spoilers if you haven't seen tonight's episode of Dexter ("Goodbye Miami")!
With just three episodes left of Dexter, it may be safe to say that no one is safe. In fact, the preview for this Sunday night's episode, titled "Good-bye Miami" hints at what could be major devastation. Is the teaser just teasing us? Or is that shot of Dexter clutching a bloody figure after the Oliver Saxon tells Dexter he wants to show him something an indication that something major is coming? And the sight of Saxon presumably sawing into someone, is that a trick?
The clock is running out on Dexter, and with just three episodes left, Showtime has released an intense new trailer for what's ahead for the series, not only in next Sunday night's episode, but in the two that follow. Read no further if you're not caught up on Dexter through last night's "Make Your Own Kind of Music"!
Just when I think I have this mystery with Evelyn Vogel all figured out, more information comes in to tell me that I'm wrong. Or am I? Even after what we learned tonight, I still don't trust her. Tonight's episode managed to squeeze in some extremely relevant history about Charlotte Rampling's character, which offers what appears to be some major set-up for whatever's to come next.
Things seemed to be going a little too well for Dexter and his friends during last night's episode. We should have anticipated a shocker-ending, and we got one. With just four episodes to go in the series, we're left to wonder how this story's going to wrap up.
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Cartoonist Dan Perkins reflects on 25 years of 'This Modern World'
A veteran of the alt-weekly publishing world, Perkins has a unique perspective on how the industry has changed over the years. "I think the short answer is, alt-weekly cartoonists — and there's maybe a dozen of us working right now — are truly an endangered species. We came into a certain ecosystem and set our own rhythms around that ecosystem," he says. "Obviously, between the financial crash in 2008, and the ongoing influence of the Internet, that's been a more tenuous ground. I'm profoundly grateful to the papers that still run cartoons like mine, but it's an era of entropy. We're all kind of just hanging on. I'm not the only content creator ever to point out the fact that it's tricky to figure out how to make a living online. It's ironic, because [thanks to the Internet], my reach as a cartoonist has never been greater." (His semi-joking advice to young cartoonists: "Marry someone with tenure.")
For his Cartoon Art Museum gig, he'll be sharing the spotlight with a special guest: one of San Francisco's famed Doggie Diner heads. "To me, the Doggie Diner heads represent my San Francisco. They represent the San Francisco of artists and pranksters. I have a real affection for them. Sometimes, when I have a dream sequence and I need to convey something strange and surreal, I'll have a Doggie Diner head say a few words, floating in the background." *
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You could get turned down for your 'preapproved' credit card, and you might get a lower interest rate if you shop around on your own.
Opening the mail to find a "preapproved" offer on a credit card can feel like being welcomed into an exclusive club with lots of benefits. In reality, you may not even make the membership list.
As the economy rebounds, credit-card solicitations are on the rise—direct-mail pitches increased by 18.5% in the first quarter of 2013 over the previous quarter, according to the Mintel Group.
And preapproval offers are a major part of the industry's marketing arsenal, says Casey Bond of GoBankingRates.com, which tracks the credit-card industry. A recent study by that company found that including the word "preapproval" in a pitch could increase the response rate by 77%.
But while "preapproval" implies exclusivity, it doesn't have anything to do with the quality of the card's benefits, says Ben Woolsey, director of consumer research for CreditCards.com. In fact, some preapproved cards have rates far higher than the current average of 15%.
What's more, being a candidate doesn't make you a winner: Odysseas Papadimitriou of CardHub.com, another site that tracks the industry, says the rejection rate for preselected applicants can reach 30%, even among relatively affluent borrowers.
A variety of factors contribute to those "Sorry, no card" decisions, including having a relatively high ratio of debt to income or a spotty employment history. In other words, a high-powered, well-compensated executive can be turned away for recently taking out a jumbo mortgage. Also, when a card issuer makes a preapproval offer, says Papadimitriou, it is typically doing so on the basis of one credit report, so information held by other credit agencies may weigh against the applicant.
Since the act of applying for credit itself can negatively affect a credit score, borrowers are better off if they aren't swayed by a preapproval offer, say consumer experts. That is particularly true if a major purchase—like a home or car—is in an applicant's near future. "My rule of thumb is to hold off [on card applications] for six months if you need the best credit score possible," says Papadimitriou.
The good news, for borrowers who want or need new credit cards, is that some of the offers filling their mailboxes are becoming more competitive. The average interest rate on cards for those with excellent credit dropped by 1.69 percentage points, to 12.79%, in the first quarter of the year.
Even if an attractive preapproval offer shows up in the mail, however, consumer experts note that the same offer—or a better one—may be found on card comparison websites like Bankaholic, CompareCards.com, or CardHub.com. On top of that, the websites make it easier to sort through myriad cards—rather than combing through one printed solicitation after another.
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The original story of the little mermaid is that she must kill the prince in order to be human, and in the end, she loves him too much and kills herself instead.
The artwork is too great not to reblog.
Ok, ok - important expansion: she only has to kill the Prince because the deal was if he fell in love with her she could be human forever, and he didn't. By which I mean, he was a good person and genuinely nice to her, but he didn't fall in love. He fell in love with someone else, also perfectly nice - not the seawitch in disguise, fu Disney. The Mermaid is told she can only return to the sea now if she kills the Prince. She goes into the room where he and his lover lie sleeping and they look so beautiful and happy together that she can't do it.
That's why she kills herself. And because it was a noble act she returns to sea as foam.
One moral of the story was that women shouldn't fundamentally change who they are for love of a man, and in theory Han Christian Anderson wrote it for a ballerina with whom he fell in love. She was marrying someone else who wouldn't let her dance.
Important note: he actually wrote the story for another man whom he had fallen in love with (not a woman) who was disgusted by his homosexuality and refused Anderson's confessions of love. Anderson then wrote him this story.
You see, I love the Disney movies and all that, and I know they are supposed to be for children, but I hate the way they have completely changed the original story lines when they are actually really deep and beautiful tales
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Despite what Cricinfo says the Sixers aren't quite through yet. Lions and Mumbai can theoretically win all their remaining games and go 3-1 with a better NRR.
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Lol. Smith saws off Sachin at the knees.
Village running; was always the striker's call.
Ha, never underestimate the leg-side full bunger. Smith finds the only boundary rider.
French in real trouble tho. Sidearse and Ashraf both broken down.
No result due to rain.
So if Lions beat Yorkshire at the weekend Dopey Dhoni and the Mumbai muppets will both be on the plane with KKR.
As an Englishman I say come on Lions.
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Gotta feel sorry for the evil IPL franchise, they probably already had enough runs against the Tykes line-up.
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Correct me if I'm wrong... but I seem to recall Crabb bad mouthing Starceh when he debuted for Australia.
Tastin' it old skool style now.
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tbf, starc really did put in some sucky performances at the start of last season. i assume it would have been based on that.
i just assumed you meant tests
starc probably didn't deserve his international debut either but we probably had 27 bowlers injured so w/ever
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New Publications- January, 2007
This anthology has 27 of the band's popular titles arranged for piano, guitar and voice. The songs contained in this 152-page collection come from the five classic Wilco studio albums: A.M., Being There, Summerteeth, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born. The Wilco Songbook is the first time the band's tunes have been available in print form and includes such hits as Box Full of Letters, Casino Queen, The Lonely 1, Via Chicago, Jesus, etc., I'm the Man Who Loves You and Hummingbird.
Carl Fischer • VF14 • $24.95
Everything in Transit
Andrew McMahon's solo project, Jack's Mannequin, now has a matching folio from Carl Fischer. Having established a devoted Internet following after the release of this autobiographical concept album, Andrew and the Jack's Mannequin band are pushing into the mainstream. McMahon's work is known for being tuneful, gritty, and insightful and projected by a soaring voice and beautiful keyboard work. The tunes from the album are: Holiday from Real, The Mixed Tape, Bruised, I'm Ready, La La Lie, Dark Blue, Miss Delaney, Kill the Messenger, Rescued, MFEO Pt. 1: Made for Each Other, MFEO Pt. 2: You Can Breathe and Into the Airwaves.
Carl Fischer • VF16 • $19.95
Drumming out of the Shadows:
Drumming Out of the Shadows covers three Shadows Fall albums and contains exclusive interviews, note-for-note transcriptions of the drum parts of 15 Shadows Fall songs – personally edited by Bittner, diagrams of drum setups, personal memories from the studio, a special section of double bass drum exercises and photos from Bittner's private collection. The supplemental CD is the entire The War Within album, which won the 2005 Modern Drummer Readers Poll Award for Best Recorded Performance, taken from the band's original master, but with the drum parts taken out so the listener can have the unique experience of playing with the band. This type of CD accompaniment is a "first" in the print music industry.
Carl Fischer • WF67 • $24.95
The Collective Contemporary Styles Series
The material in The Collective Contemporary Styles Series represents many years of work on the part of many talented Collective faculty members, who have had the experience of playing and teaching these styles to literally thousands of young rhythm-section musicians over the last thirty years. This series is the fruit of their labor and talent with the information presented in a manner that is easy to grasp. Each book in this collection contains: historical references and background, useful information and explanations about the styles, notated musical examples of each approach, detailed points about "feel", important performance tips, extensive Discographies and Bibliographies, biographies of each author and demonstration performances and play-along tracks on accompaniment CDs.
Celebrating the launch of the new "VandoJazz" line, the Vandoren Company and Carl Fischer have teamed up with ten of the finest jazz saxophonists in the world who use and endorse the Vandoren products to produce a one-of-a-kind etude and exercise book in honor of this special event. Each of these saxophone masters shares their inner secrets on how to play the saxophone with special emphasis on improvisation. This eclectic collection covers a variety of styles as well as etudes to improve improvisation, technique, lyricism and overall musicianship on the saxophone. This is a one-of-a-kind and a once-in-a-lifetime collection. No serious student or teacher of jazz saxophone should be without this innovative book.
Carl Fischer • WF67 • $24.95
Sonata in B minor
Franz Liszt's Sonata in B minor, a masterpiece of piano literature, is offered here for the first time in a challenging version for solo violin. Attempting to liberate the solo-violin medium, this transcription of a large-scale sonata in one movement exploits numerous instrumental possibilities in order to create a distinctive sound world, including: melodic independence of the four strings, wide-range polyphony, unusual use of harmonics and a fugue in pizzicato. Sivan's transcription of this piece is a valuable addition of a substantial nineteenth-century Romantic work to the solo violin repertoire.
Carl Fischer • B3426 • $19.95
Sappho Songs
Sappho's poetry was adapted for use as text for this song cycle and is drawn from Sappho: A New Translation. Hagen composed this piece in 2004 and its first performance was by the ensemble Seraphim, which took place on September 23, 2005 at the Phoenix Concert Series of the Church of Saint Matthew and Saint Timothy in New York City.
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Spiced Pear Upside-Down Cake Recipe
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 large pears, peeled and sliced
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup molasses
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup warm water
- Ice cream, optional
- Pour melted butter into a 9-in. square baking pan; sprinkle with nuts and brown sugar. Arrange pears over nuts.
- In a large bowl, cream softened butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and molasses. Combine the flour, ginger, cinnamon, salt, baking powder and baking soda; add to creamed mixture alternately with water, beating well after each addition.
- Spread batter over pears. Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before inverting onto a serving plate. Serve warm with ice cream if desired. Yield: 9 servings.
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Delicious pear cake and easy to make!
I made this exactly as written except I left the nuts out (personal choice). My husband loved it. I agree with a previous review that I think I'll use another pear next time.
I made this cake exactly as directed and while I really liked it, I didn't love it. I think the name is deceptive because to me it tasted like a plain gingerbread cake with just a hint of pear flavor. Perhaps I should have added more pears. I was very impressed with how well the cake came out of the pan (I used a non-stick pan). It looked beautiful...I only wish the taste matched the beauty of it.
Yum! This cake is delicious warm out of the oven and at room temperature. It has a wonderful blend of spices. One of my friends who tasted it asked if there were graham crackers in it.
I made this last night; it's delicious & great to celebrate the fall. The only thing I would do differently is add a little more of the topping (nuts, butter, sugar) because some can stick to the pan & I will make it in a 13"x9" dish & add a little more to the recipe because the cake went fast with several people in the house; leaving some to want more. **Could use apples instead of pears also**


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Riffing off of Howie's post, Bill Spohn and I have been discussing Kitchen Aid Mixers lately. He just bought one and is in the process of amassing attachments, one of which he had sent to my house because the seller wouldn't ship to Canada. I emailed Bill yesterday to let him know the package had arrived but I didn't look in the box until he suggested I do so and maybe try it out. What he got was an attachment I didn't even know they made, called Pasta Press--essentially, an extruder for making stuff like rigatoni.
Well, you just can't dangle something like that in front of me and not expect action. And entirely coincidentally, it arrived on a day in which I planned to make pasta anyway, albeit ravioli--an Asian take, making a five-spice flavored filling out of leftover roast duck and a sauce from a pink szechuan peppercorn consomme I would make from the bones. So, new plan: a duck and noodle soup with green onions, chili oil, bamboo and shredded duck tossed with a bit of oil, fresh minced garlic and salt so that it would oven-fry crispy like the Mexican pork dish carnitas.
Bill's set came with several dies of which I chose 'large elbow macaroni', and which turned out to be more like rigatoni, especially once cooked, which was completely fine. It also came with an instruction book that provided a recipe for a basic pasta that would work well in the machine. I followed the recipe exactly, or so I thought, except to add an extra egg yolk since I had extra that had just been separated from the whites which were needed for the clarifying raft in the consomme. That would only make the dough stronger, I reasoned, not a bad thing.
So I got the first batch ready to go through the machine--little walnut sized balls, a little army of them ready to march into the hopper. The dough was pretty soft, I thought, but oh well, that only seemed to affirm my umbrage over the recipe suggesting that I first use the mixing paddle, then switch to the dough hook, and then remove the dough and knead additionally by hand. My comment to Bob went something like, "KNEAD BY HAND? This is why God invented dough hooks, so that princesses like me don't have to knead by hand!" I had no intention of going through with that step, and felt pretty self-righteous that I didn't need to after all. Harrumph.
So in went a ball of dough, followed shortly by another, with Bob and I arguing about how to hold the pusher device. That is, he didn't like the direction I was holding it in and thought it should be 180 degrees the other way, which I pointed out would require left-handed operation where "everything in the world is made for right-handers, so this has to be right!". He clearly didn't agree since he was absolutely correct that the u-shape of the flat part on the bottom end of it matched the u-shape of the hopper when the pusher was turned around to the left, but wimpered back into his corner since I obviously had no intention of doing this any other way.
After what seemed like way too long, so long that we went back to the book to verify the speed recommended, reluctantly came forth the new-borns. That attached themselves to each other immediately. And were inseparable, not to mention flat in that there was no structural strength to hold that hollow opening open. We stared at our creation in disbelief. Our newborns needed noodle neo-natal intensive care. I was ready to cry and Bob was speechless, obviously due to his inability to come up with a way of blaming this on me holding the pusher backwards.
And then I had a moment. "Where's the measuring cup I was using for the flour?," I asked. Bob had been manning the cleanup station, so he went over there and rummaged around, finally holding up the little black cup with the green number on the handle. "1/2". F word! That was the problem. I hadn't put 3 1/2 cups of flour into the dough but only half that, presuming I was using a one cup measure! So back to almost square one. I put the dough I had back in the mixing bowl along with the semolina flour I'd dusted the first couple noodles with and added another cup of flour to the bowl. I didn't presume that replacing exactly the amount of flour not added originally would be the precise route back to success if in fact the dough could be remade at all, especially since I'd now introduced semolina, but took an incremental approach adding both water and flour until I had a very stiff but workable dough that felt right for the purpose.
In the meantime Bob disassembled Bill's Pasta Press and surgically removed all the gooey dough that had stuck to everything like wallpaper paste. And I do mean surgical--it took needles to get it out of the die and Bob thought he was going to have to cook the augur to get it to release. After quite some effort, we were ready to go again and the Rev. 2 dough slid nicely through the hopper, made noodles, and didn't stick to anything.
So here's what they looked like. I was a little disappointed in the ragged edges the swinging wire cutter produces, but it's entirely possible that a good batch of dough vs. the coarser rescue batch I was working with would cut cleaner. And you do have to work that cutter fast or you inadvertently create a set of Spaghetti-O's on every return swing.
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LEWISTON, Idaho -- A Lewiston man was taken into custody Tuesday after being indicted by a grand jury for several charges including rape.
Nez Perce County Deputies arrested Tyrel J. Smolinski, 21, Tuesday morning at his Lewiston home for lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor under 16 and rape.
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The Tea Party movement is showing signs of a resurgence following the revelation that the IRS targeted groups and other politically conservative organizations for the past several years.
A recent poll shows Americans have a more favorable opinion of the less-government, anti-tax groups. And one of the biggest groups in the grassroots movement told FoxNews.com this weekend that fundraising and donations have increased since news of the IRS targeting broke earlier this month.
However, one of the biggest remaining questions is whether the Tea Party can take the momentum in the 2014 elections.
The movement started in 2009 as a reaction to the federal government's multibillion-dollar bank bailouts in the recession and played a major role in the 2010 midterm elections by backing conservative candidates who helped Republicans take control of the House. However, critics during the 2012 election cycle repeatedly argued the movement had become less relevant.
"We're definitely seeing a spike in both interest and contributions," Sal Russo, co-founder of the California-based Tea Party Express, told Fox on Saturday.
Though Americans responded with anger and disappointment over the news that such groups seeking tax-exempt status were targeted in 2011 and 2012 for additional IRS vetting, Russo said Tea Party members also feel vindicated and energized.
"They knew spending was out of control and their (political opponents) would stop at nothing," Russo said.
Russo made his comments one day after a Rasmussen Reports poll showed 44 percent of likely U.S. voters now have a favorable opinion of the Tea Party, 14 percentage points higher than in January and just 7 points below the record high of 51 percent in April 2009.
In addition, the percentage of voters who had an unfavorable opinion of the movement was down 5 points from earlier this year, to 44 percent.
The May 21-22 phone survey of 1,100 likely voters by the conservative-leaning polling firm also found 18 percent had a very favorable opinion while 25 percent had a very unfavorable one. The margin of error was 3 percentage points.
Company President Scott Rasmussen told Fox on Sunday the poll showed Tea Party support among Republicans surged from 61 to 80 percent.
Such a change could impact the internal struggles within the party, particularly between the Republican-controlled House's conservative caucus and the more moderate chamber leadership.
However, Rasmussen thinks the IRS targeting has the potential to thrust the Tea Party into the 2014 elections and that the scandal might have a bigger impact on Democrats.
"This and some of the other recent stories really cut into the heart of President Obama's agenda, which is faith in government," he said. "And his health-care plan is tied to the IRS. The large question is will the Democrats' brand remain tainted."
Russo was enthusiastic about 2014, saying he was working this weekend on potential races. But he was uncertain about how long the scandal might remain in the voters' consciousness.
"It's too early to tell," he said. "But a lot of people are looking at the Tea Party right now."
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TUCSON, Ariz. – The University of Arizona baseball program drew more than 100,000 fans to its games in 2013 and ranked among the national leaders in attendance for the second consecutive season.
A total of 103,877 patrons passed through the gates this year at Hi Corbett Field, a figure ranked No. 14 nationally out of 298 Division I programs. Over the 38 home games, the Wildcats averaged 2,733 per game, which checked in No. 21 across the country.
The inaugural season of Wildcat baseball at Hi Corbett Field drew 105,131 fans to 40 games in 2012 – the second-most in school history. Arizona finished No. 19 nationally in total attendance and No. 26 with a per-game clip of 2,628.
Invigorated by the move to Hi Corbett Field prior to the start of last season, Arizona has reemerged as one of the premier college baseball game-day environments in the nation. The historic ballpark located in the heart of midtown Tucson has been the site of numerous thrilling wins and large crowds the last two years.
Arizona has won nearly 75-percent of its home games with a 58-20 record at its new home. Included was an undefeated postseason in 2012 when the Wildcats hosted an NCAA Regional for the first time in 20 years.
After sweeping the competition before a weekend total of 12,578, the school hosted an NCAA Super Regional for the first time ever and ultimately advanced to the College World Series and won the program's fourth national championship.
The home crowds have proven to be difference-makers late in ballgames. The Wildcats have a dozen last at-back victories in the friendly confines of Hi Corbett Field, including an even six in each of the last two seasons.
Wildcat ballgames have drawn more than 3,000 spectators on 21 occasions at Hi Corbett Field, including five turnouts of more than 5,000. Three of those five crowds have been for games against rival Arizona State, with the other two 5,000-plus contests being an NCAA Regional game a year ago and the 2013 Opening Day back on Feb. 15.
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Got a question on rule clarification, comments on rule enforcements or some memorable NHL stories? Kerry Fraser wants to answer your emails at email@example.com!
Hey Kerry,
As a Sens fan, I've watched about as much poor officiating as I can take. Tuesday night's debacle in the Sens/Bruins game has put me over the edge. Dan O'Rourke has for a third time in the past three weeks, directly affected the outcome of a Sens game with his obvious bias. My concern, now that it has become so apparent, is what if any recourse does the Sens organization have to get to the bottom of this? Does the league fine or suspend officials that can be shown to be unprofessional in their work? Can the team request that a problem official be removed from the crews that are to do their remaining games? I would love to hear your take on this, because this situation is getting out of hand. Having watched most games over the past three seasons, I can't understand how the Sens are consistently the highest penalized team in the league. It is bordering on the ridiculous.
Jamie in Ottawa
As an Ottawa Senators fan, I watch practically every game and the refereeing in Senators games is blatantly one-sided. I am not one to whine and feel like the world is against the team I cheer for, but the penalty differential facts are there and from what I've seen, I am losing respect for officials, no offense. There is always talk about bringing in more digitized officiating and I used to be against it, however the officiating this year in the NHL and against Ottawa particularly, seems to be "game-altering", which is certainly not what we want. Chris Phillips was called for covering the puck in the crease which led to a penalty shot for the opponent. He clearly slid the puck to Anderson and did not cover his hand over the puck. Another example is the referee calling Erik Karlsson a "diver". First of all, this is completely unprofessional, and second, Karlsson has one diving call in his career (far from being labeled as a diver)
There needs to be more action taken against officials and "poor acts of officiating". This game is a game, but many people's lives depend on the successes and failures of their respective careers and referees can have a huge impact on that. Anytime the officiating takes away from the "fair and true fate" of the outcome, then I consider it deemed "poor officiating" and action should be taken. I am by no means suggesting that officiating is "rigged" or "fixed", however I think it would be naive to think that referees don't have biases towards or against certain players and teams. Players and even coaches get punished for their actions in a game, so why not officials? What makes referees above the game? There needs to be some form of "challenge system" or a "video official" which can correct any calls or missed calls during the course of a game. This would make for a more accurate and precise game and who wouldn't want that? What are your thoughts, Kerry?
Greg Pierce in Fredericton, NB
Curious after watching the Boston vs. Ottawa game about how officiating is reviewed by the league during the season. IMHO, the penalties that the Sens received were no doubt penalties, but what struck me after the game and from what I can see struck the Sens coach as well is the perceived non-calls against the Bruins throughout the game. Coincidentally it was the same official that called one of the Sens players a diver!
So my question is not about each non-call and why it was/was not a penalty, my question is what does the NHL do in regards to officiating in all games throughout the year? Do officials get questioned on why or why not a call was made, how they handled certain situations? In other words are they held accountable for their actions in efforts to improve the level of officiating? What happens when there is simply no explanation for a call?
Peter in Ottawa
Hi Kerry,
Seriously, how is it that a team is nearly a whole game minus when it comes to power play minutes for and against? As a Sens fan, you've got to wonder what is going on. Is the league fixing games? Are the refs unprofessional and taking their personal feelings out on a team?
I'm talking about a game against the Bruins where the Sens have four penalty kills and the Bruins have none. I'm talking about the road trip west where it could easily be argued that we saw a single ref cause them to lose two games in a row. I'm talking about the lopsided plus/minus for penalties throughout the year. I'm talking about blatant head shots against Alfredsson that went unpunished.
I've seen games over the years when the Sens have had all the power plays and have been embarrassed. There is no way one team in a single game should be given three, four, five power plays in a game and the other team gets none. There is no way a single team should be down by that many minutes in penalties for or against.
There has got to be something going on in the NHL. If I had the money of Melnyk, I'd offer to pay any fine MacLean can get for screaming at the league/refs for the blatant bias. As I only have the money that I have, I will probably stop watching NHL altogether as if a fix isn't in, then the quality of the refereeing is disgusting. Can you honestly say you can watch the broadcast (let alone what isn't shown outside the camera angle) and say the Bruins didn't deserve a penalty or that any team should have such a lopsided plus minus in penalties?
Tim from Ottawa
An open response to ALL fans that think referees display bias against teams and individual players:
A very serious accusation of bias is being made by Ottawa Senators fans in each of the above questions against the officials and in particular referee, Dan O'Rourke. This largely stems from a game in Anaheim when Sens coach Paul McLean reported that referee O'Rouke allegedly told him that Eric Karlsson was a "diver".
While I dealt with that incident at length in a previous column, it appears the perception created from this incident has become reality for many Ottawa fans and perhaps even the players and team management. Let me attempt to set the record straight.
Over my many years as a professional referee, I have been cussed at in the most vile language imaginable by players and coaches, spat upon (one time directly into my open mouth from close range by a player in the IHL), physically attacked, had a helmet thrown at me by Theo Fleury, a stick launched like a javelin off the LA Kings bench by then coach Tom Webster, ducked a water bottle thrown at my head by Wings captain Reed Larson and countless pucks that 'not so accidentally' came in my direction. None of these things infuriated me more than being called a "cheater" (biased) or "gutless (coward)!"
Those highly offensive terms questioned my integrity, which I held above all else, in addition to my manhood and courage. When accused of either, I responded immediately with a misconduct penalty in addition to anything else that was allowed within the rules.
When your questions centered on the integrity of the officiating staff or any particular referee, I took it very seriously. I watched the entire Boston-Ottawa game from start to finish. I closely observed the game, making honest and objective notes no differently than the NHL Officiating Department would do if such claims were initiated by a team for investigation. (NHL teams do make requests of the Officiating Department to review particular calls or a referee's performance that they deem unsatisfactory. This request is usually by the team general manager to the Sr. VP of Officiating - presently Terry Gregson. A review and full report is then issued to the team general manager.)
This not "Fraser sticking up for the officials once again," as some of you have claimed. Remember my premise and promise to you in crafting this article is threefold -"Honesty, Fairness and Opinionated!"
As such, there have been times when my honest assessment has not agreed with the officials. Trust me, at times such as this, I have not endeared myself to my former colleagues. I accept their disappointment (most often disdain) as the price I must pay for being objective and honest in my new role.
In the following review of the game, I find absolutely no evidence of bias on the part of the officiating crew in either the penalties that were assessed or their judgment on non-calls.
If there was in fact a bias against the Ottawa team by the referee, the outcome and judgment demonstrated on the following plays would have been much different. This is what I observed:
First Period:
9:50 Good non-call; Brad Marchand (Ott) breaks in on goal and is pursued by an Ottawa defenceman. Marchand toe-picks and falls but complains he was fouled. Contact did not cause Marchand to fall.
9:51 Minor penalty instead of penalty shot; Sergei Gonchar (Ott) is assessed a hooking minor for taking down Marchand after receiving a quick breakaway pass. Gonchar hooks from a position behind Marchand and a penalty shot could easily have been awarded instead of a minor. (Chara scores on PP)
12:58 *Missed Call; Ott Gonchar strikes and takes down David Krejci (Bos) with a hard slash to the legs. Referee Martell turning/avoiding player contact in the corner near the play. Back ref, O'Rourke does not impose himself as back referee to make the call against Ottawa from a long distance away.
17:30 Good non-call; Joe Corvo (Bos) steps up and delivers a hard, clean, open-ice body check on Kyle Turris (Ott) at the centre red line. Ref O'Rourke looked on and correctly ruled no penalty on the play.
Second Period:
8:41 *Missed Call; Milan Lucic (Bos) steps up late and boards Eric Condra inside the blue line. The puck was being battled for up the wall and referee O'Rourke was focused on the puck action and would not have seen the hit delivered by Lucic from his obstructed view. Back referee responsibility. **This was the only infraction in the game that I would have called against Boston. This one was missed!
15:37 *Non call/Missed call; Nick Foligno (Ott) does a wide cut path with skates and trips Peverley. Could have very easily been deemed a trip - referee O'Rourke viewed the play from close proximity and chose otherwise. No penalty to Ottawa assessed.
Third Period:
00:46 Obvious trip called; Erik Karlsson trips Tyler Seguin on break toward the Ottawa goal.
5:20 Good non call; Sergei Gonchar (Ott) clamps on stick of Milan Lucis (Bos) in the corner and in clear view of referee O'Rourke. Gonchar does a 'catch and release' of the stick. Referee O'Rourke does not overreact and correctly allows play to continue without assessing a holding the stick penalty to Gonchar.
7:56 Diving Non Call on Chris Neil (Ott); Shortly after Dennis Seidenberg scored the fourth and ultimate game-winning goal with a centre ice slapshot, Ottawa attempted to draw a power play. Chris Kelly delivered a light, short cross-check shove to the upper arm of Chris Neil as the two players converged at center ice. Neil threw himself to the ice in an obvious embellishment attempt to draw a penalty. This is likely a case where the scrutiny referee O'Rourke might be enduring from the Karlsson diving report resulted in a non-call to Chris Neil. Given the pressure any referee would feel following a highly publicized incident, he would not look to provoke or draw further attention by making a call of this nature; warranted or otherwise. If referee O'Rourke held bias or contempt for the Ottawa Senators, this was a call he could step up and make ultimately rubbing salt in a fresh wound. That is not the case, folks!
12:50 Non call on Ottawa; Nick Foligno stabs at the puck and gets mostly the leg of Adam McQuaid (Bos) but a little puck. Referee O'Rourke was close by and deemed it not to be a penalty to the Ottawa player, likely given the fact that some contact with the puck was made.
17:12 Tripping Penalty to Ottawa: Nick Foligno used his active stick to take a bad penalty deep in the attacking zone when he pushed the leg of Rich Peverley while he was turning with the puck. The leg pressure caused Peverley to trip and fall. Even though Foligno complained, this was a penalty.
19:56 Aggressive Cross-Check Penalty; Jason Spezza let his frustration get the better of him and delivered a hard cross-check to the back of Johnny Boychuk. Obvious penalty but one that counts in the stats as number of penalties assessed to the Ottawa Senators.
In the final review of the officiating in this game, there is just one Bruins penalty that went uncalled/undetected (Lucic boarding). On the other side of the tally sheet, I observed five plays committed by the Ottawa players that could very well have been deemed penalties to support your theory of bias. (Gonchar slash, Foligno skate trip, Gonchar stick hold, Neil dive, Foligno trip on McQuaid). There were several good non-calls in this game for both sides where the referees utilized good judgment and did not overreact. In answer to your questions as to how one team (Ottawa) could receive multiple penalty calls against while the Bruins were not deemed guilty of any, I offer you the same answer I gave to coach Bob Hartley one night in Colorado. Hartley informed me that his Colorado Avalanche had just taken their fifth penalty in a row while the other team had none. I responded to Bob that while math was never my best subject, if they were to commit the next infraction, it would make No. 6.
I have had games where one team received all the penalties and their opponents none. Referees do not act as accountants to balance the books. It is not their job to make sure each team receives an equal number of penalties by the end of the game.
This conspiracy theory has gotten way out of hand. Mistakes are made in a game and they most often result from a deficient sight line when ruling on a play, just like the penalty shot that was called in error against Chris Phillips. Please believe me when I tell you they are honest mistakes. Each official takes his responsibility to uphold the integrity of the game very seriously.
Please swear at me but don't call me (or my former colleagues) "cheaters" (biased) or "gutless." There is no place for either in a striped jersey.
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Ask the Readers: What will you give up this month to save $250?
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Welcome to February! In early January, we asked people what are their savings goals this year. But reading El Nerdo's post on Tuesday made me think about how focusing on a short-term goal could help us achieve a long-term goal. So we've come up a series of challenges to help us achieve some goals this year.
Here's the February challenge for our GRS community: What will you give up for just one month to save $250?
We're talking about GRS Tenet No. 3: To build wealth, you must spend less than you earn. So let's get some practice. Psychologically, it's probably easier to cut back for a month than for a year (or forever), so don't shoot for the moon here. As J.D. mentioned in that post, "Thrift has limits." Use this month to see where you are on your saving spectrum. Have you already "trimmed all the fat"? Or can you identify some lifestyle creep?
We're not talking about committing to an extreme ramen diet or adopting the ultimate cheapskate lifestyle. But there are plenty of places to start. In the past, J.D. and other contributors have discussed canceling cable TV service as a way to save money. Could you do that for a month? Or maybe you could scale back on the cable services you currently buy.
How about carpooling? Calculate how much you could save on gas each day if you shared a ride with a colleague who drives by your house on the way to work. Yes, you should chip in for the gas your colleague spends, but it would still be less than you'd pay if you drove alone. (I won't suggest riding a bike to work in February…)
And of course there are dozens of ways to save on food: Make a pact not to eat out all month. Bring your lunch to work every day. Make a hearty soup or stew and freeze it in portions so you've got something in the freezer when you don't have the time (or motivation) to cook some nights.
Tell us what you will do to save $250 this month. At the end of the month, send us a reader story about your attempt. Who knows – a temporary change could become a habit that will save you money so you can achieve your long-term goal faster.
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I think probably cheaper or cook-at-home dates (leave the kids with a babysitter and rush back home!), and convincing my parents to come visit us rather than us going to visit them (they're motivated to come visit for the grandkids) — we don't own a car, so the car rental, gas, pit stops, etc. for one trip out to them could easily hit close to the target.
I was planning on a no-shopping Lent (starts 2/13, not so great for Valentine's Day) and seeing how far that took us.
Then my eldest decided to get married, so we are deep in wedding planning/spending, although this will not be an extravagant wedding by any means. And the car broke. And the basement developed a need for serious and immediate repair. And the youngest is finding that working her own way through college without help is not working.
So it looks like we will actually be spending considerably more, both in Lent and beyond. I think that this is a good idea, but the wrong year.
We're going to Disneyland and Legoland this month, so…
I did save a lot on travel arrangements by searching out the best deals and everything is paid for in advance, which also saved some money.
I don't think you have to save EXACTLY $250/month. This is an exercise to see if you can review your budget for any leaks. February is a good month to attempt change since it is a short month.
My goal is to bring lunch to work every day in February. This will save me less than $250 but at least it is something.
Previously, I've done a kind of shopping fast for February. This year, I'm trying to go to a cash diet for all food/groceries/misc each week.
I think if you're just beginning your journey to save money, it might be easier to find $250 to save. Once you're already living a fairly frugal lifestyle, that gets to be a pretty big challenge.
Can we live on less? Probably. In a real crunch, we'd have to, but there comes a point where extreme saving becomes stingy instead of thrifty and wise.
I'll go for the ideas suggested of choosing my own level to squeeze a couple of more dollars out of the outbound cash flow and call it good.
Funny, I just wrote an article that I am publishing next week about this subject. I find there are not that many things I am willing to give up for anything. This is something to consider to succeed in a budget or diet.
Since I don't have cable, I've never heard of that Cheapskates show. Eww…those extremes are too extreme.
I have already planned to eat a lot of food from my freezer and pantry stockpile. Just running out of space to store food. This should reduce my grocery bill for this month. I try to bring my lunch everyday, but have been slipping. So I am going to have to plan better to eliminate all lunch buying.
I had to stop drinking wine while I was taking some medication. Now I am going to see if I can cut out my weekend wine drinking for a month.
I've been focusing on making a little more money while i'm waiting for the bus or just watching tv with some iphone apps.
$250 it's maybe too much for me as I am already doing a lot to cut off expenses, but I think I could save about $100 on food expenses and electricity.
This month I will eat all that I've got in my freezer and as the weather is a little bit more warmer, that will cut down on electricity bill.
I have no place to cut $250 from my budget, but I am going to sell some things on ebay to make more money to save!
Hi – I agree that $250 may not be a doable number for some (perhaps most) folks who take the time to read blogs like GRS. It's already a self-selected group interested in saving, frugality, and other associated topics. However, the piece is valuable in that it may get readers thinking about what amounts could be saved, regardless of the specific amount.
Why not ride a bike to work in February? In much of the country, there's no excuse. And if they can do it in Iceland, all Americans could do it at least some days!
Creating a plan to reduce my expenses for the entire year is more manageable than reducing a large amount for one month. Having incurred more than $10K in expenses in 2 months required drastic measures.
I recently went from a monthly cell phone plan to a prepaid trac phone. $200+ savings a year. Cut my cable for a savings of $400 a year. I am practicing mindful spending. For the first time in many years, I'm actually on budget for January. February will be VERY lean. I will rely on gift cards and credit card cash back/credits to get me through the month. If you have determination and drive there is nothing you can't do once when you put your mind to it.
I love it! I'm not super frugal. I try, but I'm definitely going out more than I should. For instance, I got take away tonight and though the food will last a while, it was $31! I don't have a kitchen until my house is finished and am in a long term hotel deal with no stove. I can't make my own Indian food or many other protein filled healthy options. I can still probably save $250 this month with better food planning alone! Perhaps April will be my no spend month.
There's a big difference between $31 dinner and eating in. Without a stove, you can make Ceviche, or guacamole…
I will not drive this month and will give up dairy.
Also, no coffee at all. That adds up
I dunno. Coffee made at home or brought from home in a thermos for office working, is pretty cheap. OTOH, coffee purchased, even at McDonalds and especially at Starbucks, is expensive.
I will actually just drink water using a collapsible water bottle that I refill at different sinks. I don't have a coffee machine.
Dairy alternatives can be brutal on the budget, just to warn you! It can be tricky to get enough calcium otherwise. Even margarine is off limits for me — unless it's vegan — because it contains milk protein.
Mind you, doing all of my own cooking and baking helps off-set the cost — and eating out is so difficult I rarely do it. Hooray for food blogs!
That makes a lot of sense. Milk is easy enough to get out of the way; it's the cheese that shows up in all sorts of foods, but I can prevent this just by cooking my own food. As for calcium, thankfully both broccoli and spinach have plenty of it, and both are very cheap.
I don't know if I can save any additional money in February. In order to save 50% of my income, my budgeted spending is pretty tight to begin with.
Since February is a winter month I usually just stay home. I hate cold. If I was going to save money in summer months I would have to cancel my weekend day trips around the area. Which I don't think would be very good for my mental health.
Thank God February is a short month.
I already gave up beef last year, I bring my lunch to work everyday, I got a parttime job on weekends. I have to get my cholesterol down under 200, so I've already given up certain foods. Let's see, what else can I punish myself with.
I will use up all the petfood I have stocked up and not go down the pet food aisle.
I will ignore the magazine renewal letters, even if they are offering me a year for $5.
I will not read any of the Sunday flyers.
I'll think twice about the great stuff at the Tuesday thrift shop before I buy any of it.
I don't know if I'll save $250, but we'll see!
I just thought up a way to get a good chunk of the way toward it — I offered to host a Super Bowl party rather than going to one this year and everyone is bringing the snacks and drinks they want. Of course, hosting and cleaning have a "cost," but this is money I would have spent in previous years.
This is the perfect time for this challenge! 2013 is the year I am paying off all of my credit cards and all of the money I save will go towards this goal. In order to save/earn $250.00 (or more) in the month of February I am going to:
1. Reduce my food budget by using the envelope method. I will set aside $75.00 per week for groceries and eating out. If there is any money left at the end of the week I will use it to make an impulse payment to 1 of 3 remaining credit cards that I am paying off using the debt snowball method. Since I spent over $600 on dining out and groceries last month this should save at $300.00 or more. I plan on bringing my lunch to work at least 3 days each week and I am about to reduce my grocery bill by reactivating my coupon cutting shears. I used them frequently and to good effect when my now adult children were young. Though I buy mostly produce I should be able to reduce my other grocery expenses somewhat.
2. I earned $55.00 for doing a focus group on February 1st and I will apply that towards my savings/debt reduction. I hope to qualify for 1 or more focus groups each month but I will count those chicken when they hatch.
3. I called my cable company this month and was able to shave $24.00 per month off of my bill for the next 12 months.
As I implement this strategy I should be able to save at least $400 in February and because it is not too restrictive I plan to keep this up in one form or another throughout 2013 or at least until my credit cards are all paid off!! What a happy day that will be!
Depending on your cable/internet company you can put your cable or internet subscription on hold for a couple months. Optimum(Bresnan) will let you do it for 3 months I think. This is mostly used by our snowbirds(people who move to Arizona or Florida for the winter). I did it when I got a teaching job for the summer in China. I didn't have to pay for hooking it up again, just had to give them the specific dates I was gone.I don't know what they would have charged me if I hadn't turned it back on. It was definitely worth the call to ask for me.
I batch cook and buy vegetables for pasta sauce and chili (2 staples around here) when they are on sale and chop and freeze them so that I am ready to do make some huge batches when I have the time and all the ingredients.
I have 5 pounds of sale onions roasting in the oven now and they will go in the freezer when they are cool.
I agree with the posters that say some of us need to up our income. That is my goal because my expenses have been slashed.
I try to incorporate a lot of tofu into my diet to cut costs, not just because it's much cheaper than meat, but because it keeps longer and is sold in packs that contain just two servings or so. If sealed and refrigerated, tofu is good for nearly a year, so I wait for it to go on sale and buy it by the dozens.
I'm so grateful that I got a slight promotion at work and I am able to save a bit more because of it. I've decided that I'm just going to pretend as if I didn't get a raise and tuck away the extra earnings as savings. As soon as I am eligible, I will also set up a 401k and try to contribute as much as I am able. For the new year I've decided to actively take control of my finances and I'm really appreciative of all the things I've learned so far from this website. Thanks!
I'm not sure these efforts will result in $250 of savings but:
1. Becoming one with my crockpot. I made a darn fine roast this week.
2. Fixing things. Stuff that doesn't work drives me nuts. I am getting out my glue gun to put rubber backing on some rugs, weatherstripping some gaps, shoes are at the cobblers.
3. I ordered 2 new kitchen appliances to be delivered sometime later in the month. They're replacing barely functioning, loud, unattractive, inefficient appliances. I'm taking advantage of a period of no interest to purchase them, and I am super excited to have them.
Well, I gave myself a $1300/mo paycut last month, so (a) I know it's doable but (b) there isn't any room now. My salary is half grant, half paid by my employer, and I've decided to stretch out my activity to a second year…thus the pay cut. What went:
a) after school childcare for my elementary aged kids. They were only going 3 days/week to make it easier on my WAH husband and to help them make friends in a new school. We've figured out a playdate exchange that helps, and the kids just have to be quiet when he's on conference calls.
b) reduced eating out, reduced the kids' college savings, stopped adding to our car saving acct (we've got enough to buy one new car or two used ones), started grocery shopping at Aldi's (and discovered some swaps that are ok and some we can't tolerate), etc.
So the fat is gone, but it's worth the lifestyle change!
Also, how about checking your insurance rates? We did that a couple of years ago, and saved $800/yr by switching. That's $75/mo and no change in quality of life. How about checking your credit card statements carefully to see if there are any subscriptions that you don't use anymore? I found a newspaper subscription ($9/mo) and a kids site we don't use anymore ($15/mo). There is $100/mo without sacrificing anything.
I'm also trying to plan meals around what we have and intentionally using leftovers instead of going to the store.
Jane: Actually, finance is all about math. Economics gets into value… Maybe you can say that finance isn't all about short-term math? Wasting water definitely could have a long-term cost.