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Release Year: 1989
Country: Germany, Russia, France
Starring: Edward Zentara, Aleksandr Filippenko, Hugues Quester, Anne Gautier, Christine Kaufmann, Andrei Boltnev, Pierre Clementi, Mikhail Gluzsky, Elgudzha Burduli, Birgit Doll, Werner Herzog
Screenplay: Jean-Claude Carriere
Director: Peter Fleischmann
In November of 1989, The Berlin Wall — perhaps the most potent symbol of the Cold War other than Ivan Drago — became a minor speed bump as the physical, social, and political barriers separating West and East Germany collapsed. As Germans began streaming back and forth across the once imposing border, the entirety of the Soviet-era Iron Curtain began to crumble as well, and before anyone knew what was happening, the world had changed. In the ensuing weeks and months, East and West German were reunited into a single country, the Berlin Wall was demolished, and the Soviet Union ceased to be while the satellites that had once comprised it became new countries. It was a heady mix of joy, terror, confusion, elation, and ambivalence that I remember well.
I was seventeen, a senior in high school, dating an exchange student from West Berlin. When the news started rolling in that morning, it was in fits and starts, and no one could believe what they were hearing, this being in a time before cell phones, the Web, and other current forms of communication that allow pretty much anyone to post photos, video, and news instantly. In most ways I was simply along for the ride, at least compared to her, but it's still an emotional turning point in history for me, however removed physically I may have been from the ecstatic Germans taking to that fucking wall with sledgehammers and David Hasselhoff (and from the United States to Germany — no. No matter how much time passes, we will not drop the Hasselhoff joke).
In 1989, before the dust had settled, before anyone even really knew what the future held in store, a group of filmmakers from France teamed up with a group of filmmakers from West Germany and the Soviet Union — two countries that wouldn't even exist by the time their work was finished — to make an ambitious, batty, corny sci-fi fantasy film called Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein, known (well, not really known at all) in English as Hard to be a God, that ended up being a telling reflection of the upheaval and anxiety that permeated east and west Europe during the final days of the 1980s.
We find ourselves on yet another of those distant planets that looks vaguely like medieval Earth with some Dungeons & Dragons stuff thrown in. Through the blighted but dramatic landscape (the movie was filmed in The Ukraine and parts of Soviet Asia) rides a man, Rumata (Polish actor Edward Zentara), who looks like he's on his way to a costume party dressed as some zany version of Christophe Lambert in Highlander. Actually, he's on his way to an even more lavish affair — the court of a loony king (Pierre Clementi, flailing about wildly and going way over the top, as people playing crazy sci-fi rulers usually do) who sort of half-assedly rules over a grubby, maze-like city of cliff dwellings and mud huts. The real power in the city, as is frequently the case, actually lies with the king's advisor and chief of the secret police, the cadaverous Reba (Aleksandr Filippenko, and if this movie had ever been remade in the United States, it would have been criminal not to put Michael Ironside in this role). Rumata has little interest in local political intrigue, however, and is merely in town to find a merchant who owes him some money.
Or so Rumata says. Reba grows suspicious of Rumata when local records show that a nobleman by the same name was reported dead by fever some months back. The wily vizer dismisses it to Rumata as a record keeping error, but obviously suspicions have been ignited. Rumata meets up with the merchant, Mita (crazy ol' director Werner Herzog in a cameo!), and we soon learn that Reba's suspicions are well founded. Rumata and Mita are actually Anton and Richard, two observers from an orbiting spaceship of future Earthlings conducting an anthropological study of the planet and its sundry primitive societies and questionable decisions as pertains to hairstyles (thank god that wasn't Anton's real hair). Mita, however, has gone native and decided that he wants to help foster a revolution against the corrupt and abusive tyranny. No sooner has he explained this to Rumata/Anton than the revolution is on. Too bad Mita chose to enlist the aid of Reba, who uses the uprising as an opportunity to slaughter civilians and clean out most of his political adversaries, leaving himself more or less in charge, given that the king's primary function in the government seems to be to swoon and suffer from the vapors.
Anton manages to con his way out of being associated with Mita's failed rebellion, but the powers that be on the orbiting ship insist that he take Mita's place until a suitable replacement scout can be prepped and dispatched. Anton does the best he can to fit in, but his admiration for the would-be inventors, artists, and scientists laboring under the yoke of a brutal regime that loves nothing so much as slaughtering potentially intelligent people ("God gave men a tongue so they could lick boots, not so they could speak their mind") means that before too long, he, too is feeling pangs of regret at being merely an observer. When Reba's campaign of oppression and anti-intellectualism escalates into wholesale slaughter, the man from space can no longer contain himself to just standing on the sidelines.
In many ways, Hard to be a God is a goofy movie — not so least of these ways being the terrible wigs and the inability of Germans and Soviets to resist accompanying space scenes with blasts of bombastic prog rock. But the movie is trying so hard, and is so full of ideas (in an era where American science fiction cinema was becoming increasingly shallow and action-oriented) and challenging questions that whatever 1980s-tinged stylistic quirks it may possess are easily dismissed. This is science fiction as speculative fiction, when it was used as a way to address modern quandaries and puzzle out potential pitfalls and solutions. It is, in fact, very much like an episode of Star Trek (the original series or Next Generation — take your pick) — with all the ham-handedness that implies — only with more grime, more blood, and more full frontal male nudity (the best we ever got from Picard was chest-revealing bedwear).
The ambitiousness of the story is largely attributable to the source material, a novel called Trudno byt Bogom authored by the Soviet sci-fi writing team of Arkadiy and Boris Strugatskiy, best known in the west for writing the novel that eventually became Andrey Tarkovskiy's Stalker. I guess Stalker isn't terribly well-known in the United States, but it's at least available here. Tarkovskiy is sort of the Soviet sci-fi equivalent of Satyajit Ray. Based on domestic video releases (at least until more recently), you'd think Ray was the only film maker in all of India. Similarly, it was a long time before you could find any Soviet or other Eastern European sci-fi other than Tarkovskiy's Stalker and Solaris.
But we're not here to talk about Andrey Tarkovskiy. The point is that Arkadiy and Boris Strugatskiy excelled at writing complex and challenging science fiction novels that were adapted into equally complex and challenging science fiction films. But where as Stalker is exceptionally deliberate and slow in its pacing, Hard to be a God has much more of a pulp adventure sensibility about it. It's the Strugatskiys filtered through Astounding Tales, or maybe more accurately, Metal Hurlant (the French sci-fi magazine that, when imported into America, became Heavy Metal). It's science fiction that doesn't eschew tackling philosophical issues, but at the same time, also shows affection for the fantastic adventure and action that was popular in sci-fi and fantasy at the time.
The most striking aspect of the plot is its stance on totalitarianism and anti-intellectualism. In the world of Hard to be a God's medieval potentates, there is no greater danger to their authority than a literate population. Communism, I think, has always had a contentious relationship with intellectuals. In the Soviet Union and East Germany (among other places), intellectuals were often harried and hounded, imprisoned or executed, while in the west, pro-Communist sympathies were often attributed to academics and the intelligentsia. In both cases, however, there is a depressing demonization of free thought and intelligence. This aspect of Hard to be a God, particularly, remains biting even today, living as we do in the midst of another anti-intelligence hysteria where politicians and pundits go to great lengths to marginalize intelligence, encourage stupidity, and cast "the average American" as a clueless, paranoid dip shit — with "clueless, paranoid dip shit" actually being considered a compliment. It's a stunning illustration of the old Subgenius adage, "Act like a dumbshit and they'll treat you like an equal."
For most of the film's running time, Anton is a sympathetic observer. The more active heroes of the story are a wandering scientist named Budach (Andrei Boltnev), who has pioneered advances in medicine and astronomy, and a simple weaponsmith named Hauk (Mikhail Gluzsky), who (with Mita's assistance) has invented the world's first printing press. Hauk, in particular, is an interesting hero. He's not a rebel. He's not a firebrand. He's not even really looking to overthrow the government. He is just an inventor who has made something he thinks could help advance society, but Reba recognizes the press as being far more dangerous than any of the actual weapons that hang in Hauk's workshop. His STASI-like organization of goons and spies spends far less time worrying about fighters with swords, and much more time worrying about farmers and yokels teaching themselves to read and write. Revolutions don't happen because a bunch of revolutionaries get together in a rented room and make speeches at each other, after all. They happen because normal, everyday people can no longer suppress the feeling that something is wrong with society, that the way things are is not the way things should be. The firebrands can, as the name implies, be the spark, but the movement ultimately lies with the Hauks of the world, those regular Joes who can no longer deny that things simply aren't right.
Even more vocal in his dissent is a pan flute playing poet named Suren (Hughes Quester, which itself sounds like a science fiction name), who likes to rile up crowds with his anti-government performance art. It's a good thing he moonlights as a revolutionary, because his pan flute playing is simply terrible. Although it's not as overt as the movie's stance on anti-intellectualism, Hard to be a God also encourages the viewer to think about the issue of cause and effect. Suren, for example, riles up crowds who are then summarily slaughtered by guards. He tends to stir shit up then make an escape, leaving his listeners to pay the price in blood and suffering. Does Suren bear responsibility for these deaths?
Similarly, Anton is (initially) an observer, but the arrival of his people's ship — which caused a brilliant flash in the night sky observable with the naked eye — is one of the very occurrences that has ushered in the era of religious fanaticism and paranoia. What responsibility do the "aliens" bear for inadvertently causing the very situation they claim not to be interfering in? Ultimately, at least Suren becomes a rebel leader, fighting and suffering alongside the people he incites. If the locals are totalitarian Eastern Europe on the brink of revolution, are the future humans hovering on the sidelines (or in orbit, as the case may be) the United States, partially responsible for what's happening while not exactly wanting to take an active part in the process? Hell, could they even make a difference if they did try?
While the situation on the planet comes to a boil, things are changing on the space station, too as Anton goes through his crisis of conscience. The observers who see events in real time through Anton's eyes find themselves increasingly conflicted over the mission. Particularly moved is Anton's primary observer (Birgit Doll), who begins not only to fear for Anton, but to empathize as he does with the plight of the locals. As this unfolds, another of the movie's philosophical musings makes itself known, this time regarding the ubiquity of images of suffering, and how all-encompassing media focusing on images of violence can cause us to lose our ability to sympathize with others. From this approach, the futuristic observers are like journalists covering a war zone, and it reminded me of a story I once heard told by a photographer working in Serbia during the war. Fighting had flared up near where he was, so he was out doing his job as a photojournalist. At some point, he comes across a girl who has been shot and is obviously going to die. In one sense, the moral quandary of what to do is dismissed — there is no saving her, even if the photojournalist had any medical training. So he takes her photo, and as he's snapping the photo, she does indeed die.
At first, the photojournalist (I really wish I could remember who told this story) tells himself what reporters often tell themselves (and I'm not saying that in a judgmental or accusing fashion — my degree is in journalism after all): that her death will serve a purpose, that the photo of this suffering young woman might convince people that this madness has to end. And then he realizes that while he was taking the photo, that woman was watching herself die in the reflection on his lens. His commitment to the image, to making it mean something, had clouded his empathy for the person in front of him, and in that moment, he forced her to bear witness to her own last breath. In situations like that, what is the right thing to do? Is there a right thing to do? Similarly, do Anton and the observers in space has a moral obligation to help the people they witness suffering? Can they help? Or will their contribution make no difference, perhaps make things worse?
Hard to be a God doles out questions, but not always answers. After all, part of the problem with hard questions is that they are hard questions. It's folly to think that an answer is necessarily on hand to be served up. When the city's revolution finally comes to a boil, the aftermath leaves us with the same ambivalence as was undoubtedly gripping Europe in the late days of the Berlin Wall — or for a more recent example, the revolutions that are occurring in places like Egypt and Libya. Sci-fi films are often heavy-handed and sometimes clumsy with their messages, but it's always fun when they at least attempt to have a message. Hard to be a God's approach to speculation is slightly clunky, but it's also impressive and admirable. It's earnest to the point of being cornball, but man alive do I ever appreciate that. And I appreciate the fact that it was made partially in the Soviet Union, sporting a message that could be seen as very much anti Soviet Union.
I don't like to stray too far into politics in film reviews — not because I don't think they're worth discussing, and not because I don't have strong feelings about myriad political and social topics. I just don't think that a website review with a comments section lends itself well to more serious conversations. Such subjects are best left for face to face situations, though comments are still better than people who try to debate politics via Twitter. Still, it's difficult to do anything more than a very cursory review of a movie like this without delving into politics. Whether you agree or disagree with what's being put forth, I think it's important that we always have at least a portion of science fiction's output dedicated to tackling social and political issues, even if it does so clumsily or with with naivety.
Hard to be a God also doesn't hesitate to take aim at religion (and anyone who can disentangle religion from politics is a more organized person than I am). The movie casts, at the very least, a very skeptical eye toward organized religion, which is portrayed as ultimately being little more than just one more tool the powerful use to subjugate the masses. In an opening narration, outlaw scholar and scientist Budach muses on how mankind can be so bold as to think they can recognize God, given that our eyesight is so poor. Religious fervor is used by Reba to keep the masses ignorant and fearful, and thus much easier for him to control. At the same time, I get the sense that Reba's own religious fervor is genuine, rather than merely being a useful tool for manipulation.
Anyway, I don't want to stray any further into religion, either, but once again, it's a shallow reading of the film not to address it. for the most part, I'm sympathetic to the film's assertions about religion — though I also freely admit that said assertions are being viewed through my own subjective lens as an atheist. I don't really have any strong feelings about someone believing in God, or gods, or whatever they chose. Personal choice is personal choice. What I hate is the exploitation of people's religious beliefs in the name of promoting narrow mindedness, ignorance, fear, and hate. Reba stokes religious fear to suppress scientific experimentation, the spread of literacy, and the tendency of people to question authority. Once again, I wish the events in Hard to be a God didn't resonate with me as effectively as they do, but here we are, in the midst of a renaissance when it comes to sleazy politicians using religious fear to manipulate people. For a while, I assumed that these politicians were simply spewing whatever crap they thought would gain them approval points, and while I still don't entirely doubt that, I also have started thinking that, like Reba, a lot of them actually believe the insane bullshit they're spouting.
As I mentioned earlier, what sets Hard to be a God apart from Stalker is that it dishes out lofty speculation and questions and tackles religion and politics but doesn't skimp on the action. The first half of the movie is packed with scenes of Reba's thugs pillaging towns and villages in true sword and sorcery film fashion, with Anton occasionally stepping in to martial arts the hell out of the goons. The second half of the film, though, is taken over by the revolution, and it is here that director Peter Fleischmann really pulls out all the stops. Reba reveals that his thugs were really just cannon fodder for the would-be rebels and calls in a force of warrior-monks to truly lay down the law, Dark Ages style. His theocratic reign is even more out of control in its brutality than his secret police ever allowed him to be.
Anton finally reaches his breaking point, and with the help of Suren, a baron cut from the hard drinkin', hard fightin', always a-bellowin' cloth of Brian Blessed, and a god damned Riptide helicopter (glad to see future people still use helicopters), Anton rebels against his own people to help the rebellion. Fleishmann then delivers a finale full of shouting, beheading, kung fu-ing, and guys in robes extending their hands up toward yon heavens. The resolution of hostilities, however, is hardly tidy, and an uncertain melancholy tinges whatever hope has been given to the people by the end of things.
And then the power ballad starts up. These people did let David Hasselhoff sing atop the Berlin Wall, after all.
I really liked this movie a lot. It takes a few missteps, though not all are necessarily the fault of the film makers — though they bear full responsibility for having seen those wigs the costume department brought to the shoot and thought, "Yes, let's go with those!" The dubbing, for instance, is pretty bad in spots, but anyone who' watched a multi-national European production is already used to this. There's the problem of extras who never seem as engaged in the events around them as they probably should be, which is a symptom of many movies that feature a lot of extras getting blown up, staging revolutions, and getting chased by space highlander in a helicopter. And then there's a the cultural gap that makes slaughtering an animal on screen OK for one group of people but not necessarily OK for me, even though the animal was likely eaten, and even though I eat meat (which, incidentally, Anton and the future humans find revolting).
The script is also pretty ham-fisted in spots — but it's also incredibly sincere, I think, and that salvages a lot. Plus, hammy though it may be, it's a pretty well-spun sci-fi yarn, with a good balance of philosophy and action. As Anton/Rumata, icy-eyed Edward Zentara is at first a blend of happy-go-lucky and stand-offish, but he's an actor with good charisma so one quickly sympathizes with him. As his character becomes increasingly conflicted over the morality of being an "impartial observer," Zentara makes it easy to relate to the man who's technology could, presumably, change the course of history — or simply screw things up even worse. Aleksandr Filippenko's turn as the sinister Reba nimbly walks that thin line between restrained menace and cartoonish villainy, while Pierre Clementi shows no such restraint as the ineffectual, bonkers king. That man flops and wails and flaps his hands with reckless abandon, all while wearing a silver-blue mane of crimped hair that might go down in history as the worst wig of all time.
The women get somewhat lost in the proceedings — a frequent problem in science fiction, and one that even Hard to be a God's interesting multi-cultural pedigree can't escape. Most of the women are symbols at best, things that inspire men to action. And naturally, just about all of them want to throw themselves at Anton. Only Anton's native maid Kyra (stunning Anne Gautier) and his space-based observer Anka (Birgit Doll) receive any sort of real character development. Kyra comes out as the more moving of the two, if only because she's in more immediate danger, and Anka is supposed to be part of a emotionally controlled advanced race who spend most of the day staring blankly at video monitors. One assumes that the future humans have achieved gender equality, but ultimately, gender politics are one of the few issues into which Hard to be a God doesn't delve. If nothing else, however, at least the movie has full frontal nudity equality.
For whatever foibles this sort of heart-on-the-sleeve science fiction may possess, I really wish we got more of it these days. Hard to be a God is exciting and sad, thought-provoking and, well, not exactly action packed, but there's plenty of action. It tries really hard to be meaningful — not important, mind you, but meaningful, and there's a difference. Hard to be a God is too pulpy to feel like a movie obsessed with its own importance. And there are a lot of pretty meaningless movies that think of themselves as being important, and I'll take meaningful pulp over self-indulgent importance any day. If you're a fan of old(ish) sci-fi, terrible wigs, heavy-handed but well-meaning philosophical musings, dudes in robes shouting and killing each other with swords and lasers, or just wondered what an episode of Star Trek would look like with more beheadings and spurting blood, Hard to be a God is a thoroughly entertaining time at the movies.


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Mkrasic needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 9 designs submitted by 3 freelance designers.
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It is not our intent for the designer to brainstorm in any significant manner with respect to descriptions of our business model. We can fill in the blanks afterwards.

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Ken Pringle could be driving his Jaguar. But the senior elected official in Belmar, N.J., mostly chooses to silently cruise town roads at 25 miles per hour – top speed for his all-electric "Mayor-mobile."
That's what kids in his tiny, oceanside borough dubbed Mayor Pringle's bulbous "neighborhood electric vehicle" or NEV after he bought it on eBay for $5,000 in 2004.
Way back then, gas was just $2 a gallon and only a couple of dozen states allowed NEVs on state roads where the speed limit was under 35 miles per hour. But now, with gas hovering around $4 a gallon, more states are moving to allow them and Pringle's NEV predilection looks prophetic.
That's right: In America, land of the muscle car, the hot new way to strut your stuff on the road is gliding in electric near-silence at 25 miles per hour. From Belmar to Lincoln, Calif., the big car buzz is all about down-shifting to the slow lane.
At least 40 states have now passed laws to permit NEVs to operate on many state roads with more working on new regulations. Meanwhile, some 40,000 NEVs are operating nationwide, says the Electric-Drive Transportation Association. Kentucky and Massachusetts are considering regulations to permit low-speed vehicles (LSVs) on state roads. LSV is a federal designation that includes NEVs, and also some gas-powered vehicles.
Federal standards established for LSVs in 1998 set equipment requirements and operating standards. What separates NEVs from golf carts, for instance, includes minimum vehicle speed of 20 miles per hour and a top speed of 25 m.p.h. They must have windshield wipers, headlights, taillights, and turn signals, to name just a few differences.
State laws vary. In New Jersey, Pringle successfully lobbied the state to allow LSVs in 2004. Rhode Island and West Virginia permit them on roads posted at 25 miles per hour. Kansas allows them on roads up to 40 m.p.h. and Montana up to 45.
Seizing on their growing popularity, leading manufacturers, like Global Electric Motorcar (GEM), a Chrysler subsidiary, are ramping up production. So is Toronto-based Zenn Motor Company, whose NEV looks more like a regular car than a golf cart. Its sales have jumped 68 percent over the same period last year. Tomberlin and Miles Electric Vehicles have also seen sales surge.
"The biggest increase we're seeing is due to gas prices going up and people seeing our vehicles as a way to significantly cut costs," says Kara Saltness, marketing manager for Miles Electric Vehicles in Santa Monica, Calif.
Neighborhood electric vehicles can have a range of up to 50 miles per charge, which costs about $1. But things are even better for NEV owners in Lincoln, Calif.
In 2006, Lincoln passed laws that led to special signage ("You are entering a neighborhood electric vehicle-friendly community") and NEV lanes. Residents of the gated communities who lobbied for the laws can easily cruise downtown. It's common to see mall parking lots with charging stations, where retailers pay to top off NEV batteries for free. Studies put the number of NEVs operating in Lincoln at about 600 – and growing.
David Honeywell, an engineering manager at a local tech company, was one of the first NEV drivers in Lincoln. He joined in the gated communities' fight for NEV access to roads. Once the laws passed, he hit the roads. But he had an unusual problem.
"I was getting stopped by people all the time, saying 'What is it?' " he says. So he created a website – www.lincolnev.com – and printed it on cards that he hands out, "just so I could get some shopping done."
Mr. Honeywell was irked by naysayers' claims that NEV advocates were just exchanging tailpipe emissions for even dirtier smoke stack emissions from power plants. So he studied the issue, crunching numbers he has had verified by experts on the California Air Resources Board.
He found that an NEV charged in California, where clean-air standards are tougher on power plants, is more than six-times cleaner than a gas vehicle when it comes to carbon-dioxide emissions and many times that for nitrous oxide. When charged at an average location in the US, NEVs still produce three times less carbon dioxide.
Even so, long suffering electric-car purists often look with disdain on NEVs. Bob Rice, president of the New England Electric Auto Association, calls NEVs "training wheels for real electric cars." They give full-blown electric cars that operate at highway speeds a bad name by slowing up gas-powered vehicles, he says.
Others call them "glorified golf carts."
But not Tom Akins, a retired teacher in Cañon City, Colo., who bought a used GEM just over two years ago and has put 3,600 miles on it. Five days a week, he drives his 12-mile route for errands, only having to use his gas-powered pickup truck once a week – mainly to keep it running well and take trips out of town.
It's true, he says, that sometimes faster vehicles will ride his bumper. But he and others say good sense and common courtesy prevails – and most NEV owners know when to pull to the side of the road to let others pass.
NEVs are curious, fun, and green. But will the concept last?
Guy Peeters is used to getting odd glances at what he drives. In his gated community of Brooksville, Fla., about 40 miles north of Tampa, people are used to seeing golf carts on the streets. But they are agog over his Tomberlin "neighborhood electric vehicle," or NEV, with its tall roof, bright red frame, lights, and wipers.
"People are kind of surprised by it," Mr. Peeters says. "I did have some problems getting it registered, too. They looked at me like I was from outer space and didn't realize that state law permits them. Mine was one of the first they had seen."
With gasoline hovering around $4 a gallon, NEV popularity has increased across the United States. But some analysts are less confident about their future. Plug-in hybrid vehicles, due to arrive on the market in a few years, will travel at highway speeds on electric power for 40 miles or so – and even farther when a gas-powered engine kicks in. That may deflate today's soaring demand for low-speed NEVs.
"We're seeing more interest now in all electric and alternative-fuel vehicles as gas prices increase – that's natural," says Bruce Harrison, an automotive analyst at Global Insight, a Lexington, Mass., market-research firm. "We're not sure NEVs will be doing too much after plug-in electrics arrive."
Still, Ian Clifford, founder and CEO of Zenn Motor Company of Toronto, says consumers are adopting a utilitarian approach that buys the "right tool for the right job" and will buy a low-speed vehicle for in-town shopping and a higher-speed hybrid for highway commuting and longer trips.
"This [NEV] is a class of vehicle that is not going away," he writes in an e-mail response to a Monitor inquiry. "For the consumer who never uses the freeway, they will be able to not 'over-buy' their transportation needs."
The mayor of Belmar., N.J., Ken Pringle, says the vehicles are just plain fun to drive. He organizes his travel week around his own Global Electric Motorcars NEV and has gotten his town to buy NEVs to save on fuel and maintenance. Belmar's costly gas-powered scooters previously used by parking enforcement officers and the recreation department have been replaced by NEVs.
"I've found that I tend to stay closer to home because I want to use my NEV so much and it's the most fun way to go," Mayor Pringle says. "But I don't have any doors on it, and sometimes when we're going out to eat and it's windy out, my wife puts her foot down, and we have to take the car."


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I generally don't do reviews of products–mainly because nobody sends me anything to review. If I'm interested in something, I have to go out and buy it and pay full retail.
And that's exactly what I did with the Kala Hutch Hutchinson Signature Limited Edition uBass. I went out and bought one so I could not only review it here, but play it and enjoy it as I have my Mahogany uBass.
I first noticed the Double H (as I like to call it) in a video of Bakithi Kumalo at the Kala booth at the Winter NAMM 2011 show. It was hanging on the wall behind him. What caught my eye was the distinctive "slash" soundhole. I instantly fell in love with its looks. So I emailed Mike Upton at Kala and asked what it was, if it was available and how much it cost. I received a reply from Joy stating that it was a limited production signature model and that they had just sold their last two models to a retailer (who just happened to be near me). So I emailed the retailer and told them that Kala was sending them two Double Hs and to reserve one for me. The retailer confirmed that they were indeed on their way and put one aside for me.
Nearly two weeks of anticipation later, it finally shows up at my doorstep. I drag the box in, rip it open, unzip the gig bag–and there it is. The Double H in all its glory. I knew I would not be disappointed. And I wasn't.
After letting the Double H warm up for a few hours (it traveled from Sunny California, to the cold and very snowy East Coast) I tuned it up and started plucking away. It sounded and felt great.
Since I already owned a Mahogany uBass for about six months or so, I sort of knew what
to expect from the Double H. The biggest surprise for me was that there were few differences between the Double H and the Mahogany. Since it is a signature model I was expecting something radically different. But I guess you really can't improve on perfection, only tweak it a bit here and there. They both are made of Mahogany (with the Double H having a Spruce top glued on). They are exactly the same dimensions and 21″ scale. The strings, bridge, saddles and end pin/input sockets are the same. They both use the same pickup under the bridge.
But that's not to say the Double H and the Mahogany are exactly alike. They are not.
The Mahogany uses Hipshot licensed tuners (which are marked, not surprisingly, "Hipshot Licensed"). The tuners on the Double H are not marked. They look like Hipshot tuners, but I can't tell for sure if they are. I suspect they are.
The neck, back and sides on both uBasses are Mahogany. The Mahogany has a Rosewood fingerboard. The Double H has what looks to be a thin piece of Ebony. They both have the same "roadkill" Road Toad Music frog inlay on the headstock and the Kala logo.
The biggest difference between the two models–besides the Spruce top on the Double H–is the cutaway that gives you easy access to the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th frets. The fingerboard on the Double H is angled at the bottom. On the Mahogany it has a straight bottom edge.
The first thing you notice about the Double H–and what first got me interested in it–is the distinctive "slotted" soundhole. Where the Mahogany has a traditional round soundhole, the Double H has four thin, angled slots. Together with the single cutaway, the Double H easily stands out from a crowd.
The next thing you notice is that the body is bound on both front and back. The purfling is a very nice black/white binding. The Mahogany doesn't have any binding.
The Mahogany uBass is sold with a Deluxe Hard Case (actually semi-hard case) and the Double H comes with a Deluxe gig bag. While the bag is very well padded and has a nice large pocket, I would have liked to see it come with the Deluxe case instead of the bag.
My biggest complaint about the Mahogany uBass (yes, I actually had a complaint about it) has been addressed with the Double H–and hopefully all uBass models going forward.
On the Mahogany model, the rear "control plate" which allows access to the string ends. is screwed on. So if you want to change your strings, or tighten the input jack (as I had to) you have to take four small screws out of this tiny wood panel in the back. It's not very
convenient. It's secure, but a pain to have to find a small enough screwdriver to open the panel. Also, the panel fits very tightly and you need to wedge a small screwdriver between the panel and the body to pry it open. Do this a few times and you're just asking for a chip in the thin body wood. Luckily, you don't have to change strings very often, so you are not opening and closing the panel that often.
On the Double H, the panel is held on by four small magnets at the corners of the opening. It also has "U•BASS" written on the panel (a nice touch). And there's a small finger slot at the bottom that makes it easy to pry off the panel. This, in my opinion, is a vast improvement over the screws. It's much easier to open and there's no chance of chipping or scratching the body of the uBass. As I said, this is a big improvement and should be standard on all models.
I've read that some people complain that the wood panel on the Mahogany uBass looks like it was cut from a different piece of wood than the body and as a result doesn't match the grain pattern on the body. This is true, it doesn't match. But it doesn't bother me. On the Double H, it still doesn't match, but at least they used a piece that is as close a match as possible.
OK, so how does it sound? In a word–awesome!
The Mahogany uBass has a nice, mellow, deep sound. Very reminiscent of an upright bass. The Double H, since it has a Spruce top, is a bit "brighter." It is still a mellow sounding instrument, but the Spruce gives it a bit more "mids" than the Mahogany. It's a subtle difference. But you can hear it.
Acoustically, the Mahogany is louder, most likely because the soundhole is open. The Double H is a bit quieter, probably because the slots are very thin and the open surface area is smaller.
While there is a subtle difference in sound between the two models, there's not enough to make one more distinctive than the other. Their looks are where that makes a difference, not their sound. They play exactly the same. They sound similar. But the Double H is just so much more cool looking. And, since it's a Limited Edition Signature model, I suspect there won't be a whole lot of them produced.
Joy at Kala told me there was a lot of interest in them at NAMM. So maybe Kala will put it into wider production. For now, there are some of them floating around out there. Check with your local music retailer. They retail for about $450 with the padded gig bag.
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1/2 cup chili sauce
1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
1 tablespoon sake
1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
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1 tablespoon chile paste (Sambal Oelek)
1 tablespoon grated ginger
1 tablespon grated garlic
1 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon liquid smoke
1 teaspoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground star anise
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"Last year's harvest made it nearly impossible for many to properly fertilize their fields," Fernandez says. Every fall, producers who apply N worry that if they wait too long for temperatures to drop sufficiently, soils might become too wet to do the application. While the window of opportunity is small, it's important to exercise good judgment to realize the benefit of such application."
Nitrogen management is important because this nutrient is both one of the most expensive inputs in today's farming operations and one that can pose environmental concerns. Whether producers think of cost, environmental implications or both, no one can afford poor N management.
"Being smart about N use can pay large dividends," Fernandez says.
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Knowing when to apply N is key. Wait until soil temperatures at the 4-in. depth are below 50° F. Temperature impacts the activity of soil organisms that can mediate conversions of ammonium to nitrate.
Fernandez says it's critical to understand that although the rate of nitrification is significantly reduced when soil temperature is below 50°, microbial activity continues until temperatures are below freezing. In order to minimize risk, don't apply N before the third week of October in central Illinois – or the second week in northern Illinois, even if air temperatures are getting cooler.
In addition, do not use nitrogen or nitrogen with a nitrification inhibitor if you live south of Illinois Route 16 or if soils are prone to leaching, he adds.
Anhydrous ammonia is a preferred N source for fall application because it has a slower nitrification rate than other sources. Once it's applied in the soil, ammonia reacts quickly with soil water and is converted to ammonium. Use a nitrification inhibitor with anhydrous ammonia applications. The nitrification inhibitors are chemicals that inhibit the activity of bacteria responsible for the first step in the process of nitrification, Fernandez says.
"Proper use of these inhibitors will reduce the rate of nitrification, thus maintaining for a longer period a great proportion of the applied nitrogen in the ammonium form," he says.
Fernandez recommends ammonium sulfate because it works well for no-tillfields where broadcast applications are preferred. It can also be applied on frozen ground as long as the slope of the field is less than 5% and the potential for surface water runoff is very low.
Urea should not be used in the fall because it has been shown to be less effective than fall-applied anhydrous ammonia. Urea converts to ammonia and then to ammonium within a few days of application, causing greater risk of losses before nutrient uptake by the crop the following spring.
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In addition, there has been a renewed interest in using manure, poultry litter and other organic fertilizer forms to supply not only N, but also phosphorus (P) and potassium. Before applying, be sure to analyze the source for nutrient content. Typically, if these sources are applied to meet the nitrogen needs of the crop, an overapplication of P will result. For this reason, the rate of application should typically be based to meet the crop's P requirements rather than the N requirements for the year of application. Another possibility is to apply N requirements for the year, but remember that there is sufficient P for a few years.
If using animal manure, Fernandez cautions producers to make sure it is incorporated into the soil, and follow the time of application guidelines discussed for commercial nitrogen management.
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Determining the most economically optimal N rate can be done using an N rate calculator. Keep in mind this does not account for carryover N, he adds. With this year's wet spring, it's unlikely that much N will be carried over. Consider applying only a portion of the total nitrogen needed in the fall and the rest in the spring.
"Because more acres are planted to cornfollowing corn, there is increased interest in corn residuemanagement," Fernandez says. "Don't apply N to increase residue breakdown. Research has shown no benefit in this."
When making N application decisions, consider the risks and benefits of fall N application. Overall, research on N application timing has shown that application in the spring, close to the time of rapid N uptake, maximizes yield because there is less chance for leaching or denitrification. However, late-fall application of some N sources is adequate, especially for medium- to fine-textured soils where cold winter temperatures prevail and early springs are not excessively wet and warm.
"If you don't like taking big risks, but a fall application makes sense, it may be better to apply part of the N in the fall and wait until spring to apply the rest," Fernandez says. "This approach is like buying an insurance policy. It gives peace of mind but costs money, and you can never be certain whether the investment will pay off."


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Hogs: With a week and a half of weather-related slaughter issues, we have some problems with market-ready numbers. Over the next two weeks, we will have to run an extra hog or two through the line. This will keep cash hogs, and therefore futures, on weak footing.
Additionally, keep in mind China has given us what could be called an ultimatum. Without a ractopamine-free verification in place by Friday, they have threatened to stop buying U.S. pork. This is a problem as U.S. negotiators have not received clear clarification about what type of verification they would need.
Additionally, U.S. officials may not want to do this verification program for just one or two countries. Certainly, before the sequester problem on Friday, they won't have time to fully tackle this issue. For now, stay neutral to bearish. It is likely a deal will be made and some of this lost pricing will be given back in the coming weeks ...Rich Nelson
Cattle: Feedlots are getting a better grasp on the effects of the early week blizzard. The news is not good. We noted last night that this blizzard not only will cause weight gains to suffer but could actually cause a clear net loss for the week. We are hearing of more instances of the latter showing up. This market now has the job of revising weight expectations and therefore revising its pricing.
For economy news we still have Thursday's GDP report to get through. Friday marks the sequester cuts. Our current bias is that no government official in their right mind would authorize a general 15-day furlough for the one-third of meat inspection employees that will be affected.
With that in mind, let's look at the next real issue in the cattle market: market-ready supplies. As we get into March, we will start seeing numbers dry up. That comes from those low July-October placement levels. We are going to with a more conservative way to be slightly long this market. We will have a base position of long futures but also sell a 132 April call…Rich Nelson


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Monday, May 10, 2010
MOM Chicken: Mandarin Orange Marmalade Chicken (gluten free, too)
Sometimes, the best recipes are the simplest ones. Especially when you discover them without too much forethought. Take today's recipe. With just a couple pantry staple ingredients, regular ol' chicken becomes something really special. Even better the entire meal was on the table in less than 30 minutes. Works for moi!
White Onion, halved, sliced thin (you dont' want to use a sweet onion here)
1 tablespoon Olive oil
Chicken breasts cut into thin strips
Seasoned salt
Olive oil
Worcestershire sauce
Butter pat
Butter pat (again)
Heat oil in a fry pan. Add the onions, and fry them until crispy. You are going for texture as well as flavor here. Keep warm. In a large saute pan, heat oil over med high heat.
Season the chicken strips with seasoned salt or your favorite seasoning. Add to the pan, and saute until golden. Add a butter pat to the pan and spinkle with couple shakes Worcestershire sauce.
Meanwhile, heat the marmalade in microwave until melted. You don't need very much, I used about 1/4 cup for 5 servings. Once heated, stir in a butter pat, and pour over chicken in pan. It will bubble up deliciously. Be sure to stir up all the browned bits that are in the pan. The end result is a glaze/sauce that is out of this world good. Simple, yes. Good, absolutely! Sprinkle with the crispy onions, and serve immediately.
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14 comments:
- Bellini Valli said...
I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day!!!!! It had to be with quick and delicious dishes like this.
- May 10, 2010 at 3:32 PM
- Pam said...
What a great chicken recipe. Hope you had a great Mother's Day!
- May 10, 2010 at 7:46 PM
- Manggy said...
I wasn't going to harp on you! Well, unless fawning over this dish that's right up my flavor alley harping. Happy mother's day!! :)
- May 11, 2010 at 12:15 AM
- grace said...
i certainly wouldn't dream of berating you for splurging on some gorgeous marmalade! and what a terrific use for it--i'm always game for some sweet-savory action. :)
- May 11, 2010 at 3:19 AM
- Cathy said...
Oh my, does this look good. This is my kind of meal, quick and flavor packed. Hope your Mother's Day was a happy one.
- May 11, 2010 at 5:14 AM
- Mickle in NZ said...
Oh my - this IS good. I made it for my dinner tonight using sliced chicken thigh and some of my dear Dad's homemade lime marmalade.
Was so delicious I phoned my Folks to rave about it, and then emailed the recipe link to them, and to sister in the UK and to gluten-free friend up in Alberta.
A super scrummy Mother's day gem - many thanks, dear Paula,
Michelle and Zebbycat, xxx and snorey purrrrumbles
- May 11, 2010 at 6:34 AM
- Marjie said...
This looks wonderful; I love the chicken/orange combo! I don't think too hard about my carbon footprint when it comes to food, because there are some things that just can't come from next door, and this marmalade would prove it! Mother's Day hugs to you!
- May 11, 2010 at 8:36 AM
- The Blonde Duck said...
I hope you had a great mother's day!
- May 11, 2010 at 9:53 AM
- Pam said...
This is my kind of dish! And I know, I try to buy local whenever I can, but you know, sometimes you can't, or you don't. It's like when I try to not buy anything from China, but darn them and their cute dishes.
- May 11, 2010 at 10:47 AM
- DayPhoto said...
Oh, yummm. I was trying to figure something out for supper and here it is!!!!
Happy Mother's Day to you, also!
- May 11, 2010 at 1:16 PM
It looks SOOOO good, I'll be filing this one. I like my own marmalade but French might be better, more exotic ant any rate.
- May 11, 2010 at 3:42 PM
- Robynn's Ravings said...
Hey, you know what? I say buy local when you can but we are also one world and people in other countries need to eat and be supported, too!!! So you are thinking locally and acting globally. And is the fact that I'm gonna MAKE this recipe from someone in a whole nuther state gonna ban me from my crunchy associations? Well, I hope not but if it does, I'll just enjoy it while I look 'em in the eyeball and chew. :)
- May 12, 2010 at 6:16 PM
- Julie said...
It looks very gouda!!
- May 15, 2010 at 9:41 AM
- Jan said...
I once made chicken with a marmalade sauce, and it ended up like sticky toffee chicken. %-( Yours looks so much nicer.
- June 17, 2010 at 8:15 PM


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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's dominant services sector posted meager growth in October, which may be just enough for the economy as a whole to avoid contraction in the last three months of 2012.
However, public borrowing figures also released on Friday showed that finance minister George Osborne has a lot of catching up to do to meet updated forecasts published earlier this month given the poor economic outlook.
The Office for National Statistics said services output grew 0.1 percent on the month in October, recovering from a 0.6 percent drop in September.
However, this is far behind the 1.2 percent growth that the sector enjoyed in the third quarter, which helped drive an overall 0.9 percent expansion in the economy as a whole in the three months to the end of September.
"It's not a great number but it is positive and it is better than the decline that had been expected," Ross Walker, an economist at Royal Bank of Scotland, said about October's services number.
"On the basis of all the published data it looks like the fourth quarter will be broadly flat, rather than negative."
Revised ONS figures published on Friday confirmed that third-quarter gross domestic product growth was the strongest since the third quarter of 2007. But much of that reflected a one-off boost from the London Olympics and a rebound from the second quarter when an extra public holiday dented output.
GDP in the third quarter was unchanged on the year, a small revision from the fall that the ONS had previously estimated.
The Bank of England and the government's forecasting body, the Office for Budget Responsibility, have both said a small quarterly contraction in the fourth quarter is likely.
Britain suffered its second recession since the financial crisis between late 2011 and mid-2012, and overall has recovered much more slowly since 2009 than most other big economies.
The BoE and other forecasters expect little in the way of a pick-up in the immediate future, given the weak global economy, government spending cuts and relatively high inflation.
"The economy faces a difficult-looking 2013 and we suspect it will only manage to eke out growth of 1.1 percent," said Howard Archer, economist at IHS Global Insight.
Recent ONS data has shown contraction in the retail and industrial sectors in the first part of the fourth quarter, though construction - which has been a major drag on GDP - appears to be stabilizing.
A GfK consumer confidence survey released earlier on Friday showed an unexpectedly sharp fall in morale.
Friday's GDP figures showed that the household savings ratio rose to 7.7 percent, its highest since the third quarter of 2009, suggesting an unwillingness to spend and a desire to pay down debts.
One bright spot was third-quarter current account data, which showed Britain's deficit with the rest of the world narrowed more than expected to 12.8 billion pounds, equivalent to 3.3 percent of GDP, from 17.4 billion in the second quarter.
But Britain's government borrowed more than expected in November as government spending rose while a weak economy meant tax receipts fell compared to a year earlier.
Public sector net borrowing excluding financial sector interventions - the government's preferred measure - rose last month to 17.5 billion pounds from 16.3 billion in November 2011.
This was above economists' average forecast for 16.0 billion pounds and took borrowing in the fiscal year to date to 92.7 billion pounds, excluding the transfer of Royal Mail pension assets, up from 84.4 billion at the same point in 2011.
The OBR forecast earlier this month that the borrowing measure would reach 108.5 billion pounds this financial year, equivalent to 6.9 percent of GDP.
To meet this forecast, the deficit would have to fall 10.8 percent on the year, but so far in 2012, it is 9.9 percent higher than last year.
When the government came to power in 2010, it planned to largely eliminate the budget deficit by 2015 with spending cuts and tax rises. But a weak economy has since forced it to extend austerity until 2018.
Reporting by David Milliken and Olesya Dmitracova; Editing by Ruth Pitchford


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Detroit Experiences Panik Attack in Lightning Traverse City Win
Panik wakes up from his game one slumber.
Jarsolav Janus stopped 40 of 43 shots in regulation and overtime before stopping 14 of 16 shooters in the marathon penalty shot session for the win.
First Period
TB - Panik (Wright, Zahn) 4:23
DET - Coetzee (Tatar) 5:56
Second Period
TB - Tyrell (Marks) 3:09
TB - Wright (Connolly) 7:26
Third Period
DET - Tatar (PP) (Macek, Ferraro) 2:46
DET - Parkes (Raedeke) 3:27
TB - Panik, Panik, Butcher
DET - Smith, Ferraro
Richard Panik had a goal and scored two of the Lightning's three goals in the shootout. The Lightning's unlikely hero was tournament tryout and former Canucks draft pick Matt Butcher. Dana Tyrell also emerged to score his first goal of the tournament.
Two games in, Brett Connolly and James Wright are tied with several others for second in the tournament in scoring with 3 points each.
The Lightning will face Dallas' prospects in the final game of the round robin phase. They may end up facing 2010 first round pick Jack Campbell in the process, with the stakes being a spot in the knock-out round.
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The Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) a scarce, aerobatic woodland bird of prey
A large woodland bird of prey that can be difficult to see, apart from in winter and spring when it can more easily be spotted performing it's 'sky dance', when both males and females display to each other.
Goshawks are comparable in size to Buzzards and females may even be a little larger. Whilst the Goshawk is longer in the body with a longer tail than the Buzzard, its wingspan is actually shorter. Adults vary in colour between the sexes, with the female being slate grey above with a barred chest whilst the male is more blue in colouration. Juveniles are brown above and coarsely streaked brown below. Both males and females have a orange eye with a white supercilium (stripe) above the eye.
Goshawks are often confused with Sparrowhawks even though they are markedly bigger (especially the females), this may partly be due to the similarity in shape and the unlikelihood of be able to compare birds directly.
Length: Male 48-56cm; Wingspan: 93-105mm. Female 58-64cm; Wingspan: 108-127cm
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Goshawks reappeared in the 1960's, partly due to deliberate reintroductions, but also from accidental introductions when escapees from falconers added to the population. The population has grown steadily and may be increasing although sightings are difficult to confirm, the birds are secretive and hard to find and birdwatchers unwilling to give away information on the location of these magnificent but still persecuted birds.
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Prefers forests and open woodlands with open areas and rides – can be seen in these areas if close to farmland where pigeons are common.
The Goshawk is widespread but scarce, breeding across central England, the Peak District, the Pennines, East Anglia, Wales and southern Scotland.
Builds nests of loose twigs and leaves in the forked branches of trees, usually 15-20m up. Builds fresh nests each year although they will re-use the foundations of nests from previous years. Has a single brood of 3-4 eggs; breeds from 2 years old with a typical lifespan of around 7 years.
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Romney took some criticism of his own in one testy exchange. He was questioned about his Massachusetts health-care plan, which one woman in the crowd pressed him to admit was a failure. The questioner continued speaking over Romney as he first tried to respond, saying he put "Obamacare" into place in Massachusetts, and that he made Masschusetts the most expensive state for health care.
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Romney laughed as he responded. "It won't happen to me! It won't happen to me! I'm already old! I'm 64," he said to applause, adding: "I could live here!"
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Thursday, December 9, 2010
5 comments:
- Rachel Hauser said...
that does suck! Sorry to hear it. On the upside, you may get more done sans camera!
- December 9, 2010 at 7:00 AM
- Susan said...
I felt this way about not having one for almost a year up until just before Juliana was born. I totally get it.
However, I learned that while I felt like I was missing out on things, what I was really missing out on was the moments when I so regularly said to myself, "Oh! I can hardly wait to post this on the blog... La la la...", not on the actual moments themselves. I know you know about being present. But as someone who has, I also know it's easy to forget, as well. But it does stink, when you have a blog, not to be able to blog about something you'd like to.
Love you!
P.S. I'd send you a camera for Christmas if I could!
- December 9, 2010 at 12:31 PM
- Jenn Grigoryev said...
You're right Susan, I usually am more about being in the moment than capturing it, but it really is sad to miss one of those once-in-a-childhood moments the kids have, especially Malcolm. Last night he had burrito wrapped himself in a HUGE blanket and was laying under the couch watching TV...it was so cute but I'll probably forget it ever happened. Sigh.
- December 9, 2010 at 3:11 PM
- rachel.lyn said...
tell Art you want one for christmas.
- December 10, 2010 at 6:02 AM
- Jenn Grigoryev said...
Yeah, that doesn't work in our family. There are no wishlists or subtle hint dropping when it comes to Christmas. You just get what you get. Ha ha.
- December 10, 2010 at 9:55 AM