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While there's plenty of news to report this week, I can't say that any of these films gets me very excited but hopefully some of these will do the trick for you!
Tom Six will start the filming of the third Human Centipede movie in May this year. This time they are promising a 500+ human centipede and that a big american celebrity will take a part of the film. More interesting than that however is that Dieter Laser is back. He played the evil doctor in the first one, but apparently he and Laurence R. Harvey, who was the centipede creator in the second film, will both take on completely new roles in this third film. Source: Fangoria.
Shock Till You Drop could reveal that our very own Tommy Wirkola has finished a script for Dead Snow 2 and is interested in getting it made. It's sad that no norwegian media has mentioned anything about it, since the film did do quite well in this country, but oh well. Hopefully things go as planned and production starts next winter. Wirkola is currently awaiting release for his first American production called Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, scheduled to drop in theatres later this month in the US and early february for us Norwegians.
STYD has also posted the new trailer for The Last Exorcism 2. The trailer is very uneven and I'm not sold on the film after feeling cold about the first one. It does seem that this one will skip the found footage element, which is probably for the best. The film will hit theaters in America on the 1st of March.
Bloody Disgusting has both pictures and a trailer for the upcoming Troma movie Doomsday Country. It looks like it is a horror anthology and will feature aliens, zombies and vampires. The film is being released on February 12th.
According to Fangoria, a new Stephen King miniseries called Under The Dome will premiere on CBS in June this year. This new miniseries is based on King's 2009 book and it is (of course) set in Maine where a force field seals the town off from the outside world. The series then focus on the relationship between the mainers who starts to turn on each other. I'm sure we'll hear more details about it before its premiere on June 24.
Dread Central has reported that a nine minute long teaser video has been released on the net for The Devil's Carnival: Episode 2. I still haven't seen the first one or even Repo! The Genetic Opera yet, but I did notice that this sequel will have one of my favorite rappers, Tech N9ne, in the film.
Dread Central has also posted some information regarding a genre entry at Slamdance 2013 called Jug Face. What caught my eye was the poster for it, it's quite an original one.
Bloody Disgusting has posted a trailer for the upcoming German horror film Cannibal Diner. The trailer shows some hot women getting lost and then attacked by someone or something. It looks like the film will have some nudity and Germans are never stuck up when it comes to gore either, but I honestly can't say this film looks very good. The main girl however does look gorgeous. The film is supposed to be released later this year.
Fantasm – a documentary about horror fan devotion, and the events that keep them devoted. That's the description of a new documentary that are in the works from creator Kyle Kuchta. The documentary will focus on horror fan community and the conventions that take place all over the world. Check out Dread Central for more details on this interesting project.
As reported in last week's article, a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre film will be made after the success of Texas Chainsaw 3D. There has been some conflicting reports about the new movie, called Texas Chainsaw 4 by some (4? How does that even make sense?). Millennium Films was quick to announce that they want to make a new one, while the rights owners Carl Mazzacone and Mark Burg has announced that there has been no plans to set a new Chainsaw film in motion yet. Yeah… I'm sure we'll see a new film within the next two years, regardless of what these guys are saying today.
The trailer of the week is Htr2b Transformation, posted by Dread Central. It's not a particularly great trailer, but the film is from Turkey so that alone makes it interesting in my book. The weirdly titled film is directed by Osman Evre Tolga and seems to be some sort of home invasion film. It will hit the american festival market later this year.

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BFD3 Library for Kontakt: Kits 2 & 3 + Percussion Pieces
These are the last 2 kits of the BFD3 Factory Content.
Kit 3 follows the same structure as Kits 1 & 4. As for Kit 2, each sample provided by fxpansion consists of 16 channels. Which means for the Mic I called Room Far, we have both stereo (2 channels) and mono (5 channels). When converting this Kit, I had 4 options, 3 of them would not require any script changes:
Option 1: Provide only the mono channels for Room Far
Option 2: Provide only the stereo channels for Room Far
Option 3: Mix the stereo channel with the 5 mono channels (i.e convert the 5 mono channels into stereo and mix them with the stereo samples) .
Option 4: Change the script and provide an extra mic (I called it Amb Mono) and use the stereo channels for the Room Far and the mono ones for the new mic.
To provide the best results, one would choose Option 4 and that's what I did. So I modified both my program used for converting the BFD3 samples into multi files and the Kontakt script to support a fifth Mic.
I have also added one small feature which I hope would help those who like to route Mics to different output channels.
Kit 2: 3.4 GB. Kit 3: 4.3 GB. Percussion Pieces: 228 MB Continuar leyendo "BFD3 Library for Kontakt: Kits 2 & 3 + Percussion Pieces SAMPLES"


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Post Reference: WSP SDO 1
Fixed term, one year contract to be based in Waterford City.
Fixed term, one year contract to be based in Waterford City.
Please send Cover Letter and Curriculum Vitae by email or post to:
Ref: WSP SDO 1,
The Sports Co-ordinator, Waterford Sports Partnership,
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Closing date for receipt of applications:
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At a minimum, candidates must demonstrate in their application that they possess all of the essential elements applicable in the person specification. Waterford Sports Partnership will then decide to interview only those applicants who appear from the information available, to be the most suitable, in terms of experience, qualifications and other requirements of the post.
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Until Johnny Manziel did it, no one had ever won the Heisman Trophy in their first year of U.S. college football.
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That was in 2012. Had he stayed in school, Manziel would have just finished his senior season at Texas A&M. Instead, he appears to be finished with the Cleveland Browns, with that organization releasing a statement on Tuesday that was effectively a post-dated dismissal.
New Browns vice-president Sashi Brown expressed "disappointment" in Manziel, this after another off-field incident at a Texas bar on the weekend, and said his status with the team would be addressed "when permitted by league rules."
With player movement frozen during the playoffs, the Browns could release Manziel as early as next week, but it's believed they will wait until March to do so for salary cap reasons. And so, that it is it for Manziel, for now. Once the most exciting player in college, he becomes just the latest player on a much longer list, the ever-growing roster of first-round draft busts.
It is another example of the mystifying nature of the quarterback position, where all of the NFL's vast wealth, and a good deal of its collective effort, can somehow never quite suss out who will be a good pro and who will not. But the Manziel case feels even more indicative of something else, and it's a wonder that stories like his don't happen more often: the kid who just wasn't ready for the job requirements of a professional athlete.
Manziel's time in Cleveland was so unremarkable on the field — eight starts over two seasons, some flashes of great promise but on the whole a perfectly ordinary body of work — that the electric nature of his college play has faded from memory. Clouded further by all of his off-field problems, Manziel might not even draw much interest from other teams when the Browns eventually part ways with him.
But, here were his numbers in that Heisman season of 2012: 3,706 passing yards, 26 touchdown passes, and nine interceptions. Also: 1,410 rushing yards, and another 21 touchdowns on the ground. And so, 5,116 total yards, and 47 touchdowns, all of it accomplished in the competitive blast furnace of the Southeastern Conference.
Two years earlier, Cam Newton won the Heisman for a different SEC team. He totalled 4,327 yards in the air and on the ground, with 50 touchdowns. Newton, you might have heard, has gone on to do OK for himself.
There are the basic football reasons for the subsequent differences between the two: Newton is five inches taller and 50 pounds heavier, which allows him to do things that Manziel simply cannot. And then there is all the rest of it. Newton was criticized in some corners for having an attitude problem coming out of school; he was a me-first player in a team-first league. But Manziel's sad trajectory underscores that there are attitude problems, and then there are attitude problems. If Manziel was simply a showoff, and he was that, he'd probably be fine. Manziel, though, appeared wholly unsuited to being an NFL quarterback, and long before he joined the Cleveland Browns.
In the summer of 2013, before his sophomore season at Texas A&M, an ESPN magazine profile told the story of someone who had struggled to adjust to his sudden fame, who had problems with alcohol and anger, and who, barely out of his teens, was flying around the country to hang out with celebrities and sit courtside at NBA games. (His family was Texas-oil rich; his dad bought him a Mercedes so he wouldn't be tempted to accept one from a friendly A&M booster.)
The father, Paul Manziel, gave the author an eerily prescient quote about his son's behaviour. "It could come unravelled," he said. "And when it does, it's gonna be bad. Real bad."
Manziel held it together for another college season — more than 4,800 total yards, 46 touchdowns, and fifth in the Heisman voting — but he never stopped being the kid who liked to party. He had been arrested in a post-bar fight before his first year at school, and the university required him to spend several weeks in alcohol counselling even as he was writing the Johnny Football legend. He admitted himself to a treatment centre after his rookie season in Cleveland, spending 10 weeks there, and insisted that his second year with the Browns would be better.
It was worse. He was passed over for the starting job by journeyman Josh McCown. He was caught partying in Texas during the Browns' bye week, then lied about it. With McCown hurt and Cleveland going nowhere, he was named the starter for the team's final four games. It was a last chance to grow up. He was electric in a December win over Kansas City, but was already back in bars, and being filmed back in bars. He was put under concussion protocol — he took a big hit against the Chiefs — but was late for a team meeting and didn't show up for treatment before the season's final game. Even the Browns didn't know where he was.
Last weekend, police were called to an apartment in Fort Worth, Tex., for a disturbance involving Manziel and a woman. Details are vague, but it seems to have been enough for the Browns.
He had every chance to succeed, but Manziel couldn't keep himself out of trouble. But he's hardly the first person to make stupid decisions in his early 20s. Richard Sherman, the Seattle cornerback, defended Manziel after the Seahawks beat the Browns in December. He's not killing anyone, Sherman said. "He's being young."
The thing is, he was good enough to get away with it in college. As his father said of his freshman year in that ESPN profile: "Ate Skittles, drank beer, won the Heisman."
Three years later, not much has changed.
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Just got home this morning and saw Flight Control was released today @ .99. Also like thread title states, Nova HD 2 and Shrek Kart both are .99 today.
Gameloft and EA have both made lots of their games available @ .99 across other platforms. Looks like Gameloft didn't forget about us.


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Fluid Power 2: Industrial Hydraulics
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I started my MBA journey in September 2014. Like most people about to give up a huge chunk of their personal time, I researched various internet publications and used my personal and professional network to size up the challenge at hand. From my research it was clear that commencing a part-time MBA course would be a fine balancing act between work, personal life and study, however the benefits of successfully completing the degree would outweigh all of the sacrifices made along the way. I guess I didn't anticipate how quickly some of those benefits could be realised, so here is my story of how starting an MBA course has benefited me in the last 6 months.
For nearly eight years I've been working for one of the UK's largest financial institutions. Over seven out of those eight years were spent on working with syndicated loan clients. Although I enjoyed a steady career progression in the type of work I was doing, I also knew that my interests and strengths lay in change management and this was where I wanted my career to be. In November 2014, two months into my MBA course, I finally got my dream job; I became part of the Strategic Planning and Reporting team in my company's Change Management division. I suppose it is difficult to asses to what extent the 'MBA student' annotation in my CV helped me to get the job, however I can quite confidently say that the MBA learning of the last six months has already paid dividends in my every day work.
I find that the best part of studying an MBA at Strathclyde is the ease with which you are able to apply various management concepts to your every day work. All subjects I've completed so far gave me a good theoretical grounding but more importantly they made me think of real life examples of how management theories work in practice. Case studies have been an integral part of each course I've completed so far; I have been constantly encouraged to go beyond the theory and into the analysis of the surrounding business environment. I strongly believe that this approach is what truly makes Strathclyde "a place of useful learning".
Another integral part of studying an MBA at Strathclyde is group work. Until last year I've never completed an academic group assignment. Now, having worked on a few, I see them as extremely useful not only in achieving academic goals but also developing a wide range of transferable skills. A part-time MBA course gives you an opportunity to meet and work with other professionals from variety of roles and industries. Working with those professionals helps you further develop your influencing and listening skills, increase your self awareness and it gives you a great sense of achievement once you've completed a piece of work. It can be challenging to work with a group of highly driven and sometimes strong minded individuals but in the end I always come to appreciate the power of collaborative working and enjoy results of a team effort.
I have no doubts that the next two and a half years will continue to challenge me on both professional and personal level. However, having gone through the first six months of the course, I certainly look forward to that challenge. For anyone who is thinking about doing a part-time MBA I would say; go for it! You will be able to see the benefits of the course very early on, you will meet some fantastic people and you will probably never look back.


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Historical Fiction
August 13, 2014
In I, Horatio, Donald Tortorice has aimed for a high mark: to write the first "personal" account of Lord Nelson. It is personal in the sense that the book retells Nelson's life from his perspective, a first person recollection of the events that made up his illustrious career.
The story begins in 1805, on the deck of HMS Victory in the calm before the storm that was the Battle of Trafalgar. This sets the scene for Nelson's recollection of his career as a naval officer, taking the reader to numerous locations where Nelson developed as a man and as a naval leader. From the Caribbean to Corsica, Tenerife to the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, the Battles of the Nile, Copenhagen, and ultimately Trafalgar, Tortorice does a marvelous job of placing the reader in Lord Nelson's shoes at those battles.
If you enjoy historical fiction, then this is your best bet when it comes to the life of Lord Nelson. For my part, I struggle to get into historical fiction, so I naturally struggled to place myself fully in Nelson's shoes here. That being said, I appreciated the author's ample use of firsthand, primary source material throughout the book. Such material is what I normally look for in a work of history, so to see it so generously used in a work of historical fiction was surprising. It does hamper the flow of the narrative, but it is a strong connection to the real people and how they thought, the words they used, and so forth.
Ultimately, I enjoyed the book but my personal misgivings about historical fiction crept to the fore and kept me from being fully immersed in the narrative and story that was Nelson's life. I daresay that if you have more fondness for historical fiction than I do, however, you may fully enjoy this groundbreaking work of historical fiction. It is also a good stepping-off point for any reader who has little exposure to Nelson's life and exploits, as it does a good job of conveying details in a more readable fashion than would a tome of pure history. Three stars for me, but I've occasionally been told that I am incorrigible.


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Through Dunmaglass wind farm we will provide £188,100 every year to nominated community organisations for investment in community and charitable projects.
An initial payment of £1.6 million has been provided, split equally between the three benefitting community council areas.
The fund is for the benefit of the following community council areas:
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Over the lifetime of the fund, over £14m will be invested in local projects.
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October 19, 2016 – Rally Cycling is proud to announce the addition of Canadian Matteo Dal-Cin for the 2017 season. One of the strongest riders in North America, Dal-Cin had a breakout 2016 season with overall victory at the Redlands Bicycle Classic and several top finishes at the Tour of the Gila and GP de Saguenay. Known for his strength and finishing speed, Rally Cycling looks for Dal-Cin to be a major factor in races throughout the season.
2016 Redlands Bicycle Classic Champion Adds Strength and Speed to 2017 Team
Dal-Cin has been in the saddle since he was young, thanks to his parents who are both avid cyclists. Dal-Cin started racing as junior, but split his time between the bike, hockey and soccer. It wasn't until he reached U-23 racing that he focused solely on cycling. The result of his dedication was an end to a construction job and a move to the professional ranks with the Canadian based Silber team.
A strong all-around rider, Dal-Cin will give Rally Cycling more options during some of the toughest races in North America. From field sprints to general classification, Dal-Cin has shown that he is a factor regardless of race type, conditions or terrain. For the 2017 season he will look to build on his tremendous 2016 results and sets his sights on Europe and the high ranked events on the UCI America Tour.
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A WOMAN asked no questions when an associate dropped off drugs at her home and hid them, claiming she had no idea what they were, a court heard.
Victoria Walker's home in Brick Garth, Easington Lane, was raided by police, on June 4, who found Subutex tablets, as well as her own cannabis.
Walker, 25, told officers someone had dropped the tablets at her house and she wrapped them up in several layers of plastic, latex and tissue paper.
Walker admitted possession of drugs of Class B and C when she appeared before Sunderland magistrates.
Tony Southwick, defending, said: "This person had attended the house and he had left these items. She wrapped them up and put them inside a cup, up a height and out of harm's way.
"When the police came and said they were looking for drugs, the only thing she could think of was some cannabis. Then they found the tablets.
"They were old items, effectively lying around the house. She is now pregnant and will not get into that situation again."
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URBANA – Lisa Boyce always has picked up on things pretty easily. She's always had a talent for seeing something once and almost immediately knowing how to conquer it.
The Urbana University High School junior began her swimming career at 3 and was in the pool competitively – and winning – at 5. That's about a year after her early entry into grade school. She tested out of a year of high school at Uni High, meaning the 14-year-old will start college (hopefully at UC Berkeley) at 16.
Fine finish for Boyce
EVANSTON — Lisa Boyce's first season as a high school swimmer ended in impressive fashion.
Boyce, the Urbana University High junior who competed for the Illineks for the first time this fall, finished fifth Saturday in the 100-yard backstroke at the state swimming and diving meet.
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EVANSTON – Until this season, Urbana University High junior Lisa Boyce had never competed for her high school team.
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DANVILLE – On a landmark day for Danville High School, Mamie Hobbs and Champaign Central stole the show at the Big 12 Conference girls' swimming and diving meet Saturday.
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AJN's January issue is now available on our Web site. Here's a selection of what not to miss.
Complications after cardiac repair. Nurses often encounter patients with complications that occurred years after congenital heart defect (CHD) repair. Yet many patients whose CHD was repaired in childhood have not had regular follow-up. Our CE feature, "Long-Term Outcomes After Repair of Congenital Heart Defects: Part 1," the first in a two-part series, reviews six congenital heart defects, their repairs, and common long-term outcomes, as well as implications for nurses in both cardiac and noncardiac settings. This CE feature offers 2.5 CE credits to those who take the test that follows the article.
To further explore the topic, listen to a podcast interview with the author (this and other free podcasts are accessible via the Behind the Article podcasts page on our Web site, in our iPad app, or on iTunes). A video of an atrial septal defect device placement is also available in the iPad edition of this article.
Obesity interventions. Patients with obesity often face stigma and bias, even from the nurses who care for them. "The Obesity Epidemic, Part 2: Nursing Assessment and Intervention," the second article in a two-part series, presents a theoretical framework to guide nursing assessment of patients with obesity and their families and reviews the most common lifestyle, pharmacologic, and surgical interventions. This CE feature offers 2.5 CE credits to those who take the test that follows the article.
Are you ready for retirement? Nurses might be retiring later than ever, but are they planning for it? "Preparing for Retirement in Uncertain Times" shows nurses how to optimize their future financial security before leaving the workforce.
Essentials for clinical instructors. "Fostering Clinical Reasoning in Nursing Students," the third article in our Teaching for Practice series on the roles of adjunct clinical faculty and preceptors, describes the importance of developing clinical reasoning skills and how instructors can help students learn them.
Reducing readmissions. While most public discussion about the Affordable Care Act has focused on providing health care coverage for uninsured Americans, the legislation also aims to improve health care quality while reducing costs. One way to achieve this is to reduce hospital readmissions. "Reducing Hospital Readmissions," an article in our Quality Counts column, describes the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program and the implications of this program for nurses.
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
A Day of Insane Music featuring, among others, The California Guitar Trio
Paul Richards
Hideyo Moriya
Bert Lams
From the Planet Crimson forum board:
Paul's latest Twitter post: (Note from our author: That would be @CGTPaul over at Twitter world)
So much fun playing with Eric and Julie Slick in PA last night. They are amazing! Driving to Northampton for the show tonight.
"No surprise there. You all know (or should know) what a CGT performance is like by now, so there's no need to repeat the usual stuff. I'll just add that (as with anything they do), the addition of the Slick siblings takes it into another dimension ENTIRELY. We got to hear several new tunes last night, which was a treat in itself, but there was something special about hearing them this way. "Cathedral Peak" is the kind of tune that coasts on a bouncing rhythmic groove, so it's only natural that a rhythm section would make the perfect addition. "In the Middle of Nowhere in the Middle of Texas" was great at conveying that dusty-desert feeling, even before Eric added some brilliantly placed rattlesnake rattles. "Andromeda" - already my favorite of their new songs, and now in serious contention for my favorite ever - was truly otherworldly. And that goes just as much for "Echoes," which was made even more effective by a trippy animated backdrop of stars that wouldn't have been out of place at a real Pink Floyd laser show. Tyler made better use of the visual elements than I've ever seen before with shifting effects timed to complement the songs, plus well-chosen synaesthetic backgrounds: green & blue for the aquamarine stuff, yellow for the surf moments, deep red for "Larks' Tongues II," etc.
Yes, that's right, "Larks' II." When Robin (tease that she usually is) mentioned something about them playing a Crimson song the other day, I'd thought of something from the dual-guitar era - 3PP, "Discipline" or the like. But of course they couldn't do the obvious thing. I should have realized that such a rhythmic track would have been perfect for this lineup. Paul really raised those neck hairs with the eastern-tinged-violin solo, and Bert anchored it all with the most dirty heavy sludge tone I've ever heard from an acoustic guitar. Meanwhile there was nobody to do the Jamie Muir allsorts coloring, but Eric came damn close with all kinds of little cymbal skitters (all in the middle of a bass-drums rendition that would have done Wetton & Bruford proud). Bert said they'd love to have the Slicks play on the CD when it's recorded this summer, so let's hope it happens. It'll really be something special."
In case you do not believe the person who wrote this review, a man who obviously reads my blog and I saw him at the show (How Come You Didn't Come Over and Say Hi? Ha ha - I know, it was late, the place was mobbed, etc. etc.)...here's the CGT/Slick version of Larks' Tongue in Aspic Part 2 to which he refers:
Oh man, as you can see, I have a new widget and now I know how to post songs...this is just too cool.
As promised, here are some shots from the show last night, including soundcheck:
The next two photos were taken during the grand finale, an unbelievable cover of Pink Floyd's Echoes and of course also the title of CGT's latest CD, which you can purchase right here, and now I can't resist posting the version Julie and Eric did with them last night:
How amazing was that? I think it's a safe bet to say that the CD of this performance will be in daily rotation at Casa Slick for a very long time. Last night was such a high I can't even begin to tell you.
But let me backtrack here and tell you about the entire day.
Eric broke the news to me that even though his show at NEARfest with Oblivion Sun wasn't until 1:30, we had to be at the venue by 9:00 a.m at the very latest for sound check because the first band went on at 11:00 a.m. And yikes, on a sunny day the venue was an hour and a half from our house, but in a monsoon like it was that morning, we were looking at more like two hours. In other words, we had to leave at dawn knowing he had two shows twenty miles and eight hours apart.
So Eric loaded the drums into the car and away we drove into the pouring rain on the Pennsylvania turnpike, where some moron in an SUV zoomed by going 95 miles an hour but not before he tried to cut us off, causing Eric to have no choice but to swerve big time to avoid a collision at which time his drums came tumbling forward along with a sliding box of his drum hardware weighing, oh, about five hundred pounds, and yeah, you guessed it, the entire left side of my body was the lucky recipient. We were so shaken, though, that pain was secondary. We just sat on the shoulder of the road for a few minutes, trembling at our brush with death.
So we get to Nearfest and please, I mean this in the nicest possible way, it is really "Nerdfest" and trust me, don't take offense to this remark because I am the world's biggest music nerd, too, but anyway, even the guitarist/vocalist of Oblivion Sun stood in front of the mic and cracked a joke (while the bassist changed a string which snapped after the first song) which went like this: "Why do seventy year old women love Nearfest?" Answer: "Because it's the only day they can clean out their basements."
Get it? Here's a photo of the crowd...
I seriously believe the reason for the mature audience is because of the stupid label prog rock. Anyone who loves quality music, anyone who KNOWS music, would have been thrilled by this three day festival. But I guess the word "prog" has a stigma...and then I ended up hearing that this fest has been around forever and the same people go every year, so maybe that explains the lack of youth, too. One funny thing, though. There's an indoor parking garage adjacent to the auditorium (it's part of Lehigh University) where the event is held, and that's where fans tailgate. Yep. Parking the car was an experience...tons of people in the indoor lot sitting on lawn chairs, and then, the funniest thing ever, a big bad police officer who came through on foot like the gestapo knocking on car windows.
"What are you doing in there? You smoking weed?"
Erm, no. They were caught eating chocolate or jelly donuts maybe, but smoking weed...nope, didn't smell any. But they did have beer with their donuts.
Mmm...donuts and beer...
See? I really am a nerd, too. No worries.
Anyway, a very cool moment -- Gary Green of Gentle Giant, who is a big Adrian Belew fan and has seen Eric in concert a couple of times, came out and introduced the band.
And the band itself:
Excellent band, very creative, and nope, not going to use the word progressive. The crowd screamed for an encore at 3:10 and I hyperventilated, knowing that Eric had to be 20 miles away by 4:00 p.m. for sound check for the California Guitar Trio, but it all went well and despite the continuing monsoon we got there ASAP, and oddly enough, met up with Julie and her significant other, Matt, who arrived from downtown Philadelphia at exactly the same time.
As I said, the CGT show was beyond incredible; I adore the Sellersville Theater, and all I can say is, if you are anywhere even remotely nearby, please come out and see Eric, Julie, and Adrian on August 26 where they will be performing "e".
By the time we left the Sellersville Theater, it was past midnight, another hour's drive home, and I don't think I was ever more exhausted in my life, but there was one person far more tired than I was: Eric. The poor boy played two shows and Eric being Eric, practiced non-stop in between, so he was toast.
And that was my day of insane music. I am sure some more California Guitar Trio and Oblivion Sun reviews will pop up shortly and when they do, I'll add them in.
Thanks again to CGT for inviting Julie and Eric to join them on stage. It was a brilliant evening.
5 comments:
- genott said...
ha! Yep, it would have been fun to harass you for more info on the Eric/Mystery Crim project or something, but it didn't seem worth butting in for when you were already talking to someone... 'specially since the mistress had to get home to be up at an unGODly hour in the morning.
Regardless, I knew I wasn't the only one that felt like that show went to another planet. I don't usually see how they (both the siblings and the Trio) can get any better than before, but somehow every time they prove me wrong.
- lightconstruction said...
Sounds like it was an eventful day.
A few of the events could have been left out and I am sure it would have made it a less stressful beginning to the day.
But when all was said and done it sounds like the day went very well.
Thanks for posting those snippets of the live CGT + Slicks I look forward to hearing that when I get home tonight.
- Hugues said...
Paul posted a link to this wonderful review on fb. Thanks Robin, you bet the CGT is something special.
- RobinSlick said...
Geno, I have not been able to stop listening to this CD. I have it on all day/night long. I was so happy to see you there and thank you so much for your wonderful comments.
Mike, I'm sure you loved them and I just put up a You Tube I think you'll really enjoy.
Hugues, I know~ I am Facebook challenged but I figured at least some of it out and really loved seeing that. And yes, they are amazing. One year ago tomorrow we were in Canada. I want to be there again in the worst way!
- cerdiver said...
Hey Robin:
It was great to meet you in Sellersville. It was a great show and a real treat to hear Julie and Eric join in the wonderful CGT sounds. I've uploaded all but one or two of the songs they performed in to YouTube. Here it the link to my page - enjoy! I sure did!


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I am so very excited to tell you that our Portland / Seattle trip has been booked! This trip has been in the works for so long now. When I graduated college, I began to read about the Pacific Northwest in travel magazines and became obsessed with the idea of living there. I have a feeling I am going to fall in love! I have heard such great recommendations and have learned about some great places we need to check out. If you have any suggestions, I would love to hear them.
Oregon Places I Would Love to Visit:
Cannon Beach (Read about it here on Alicia's blog)
Washington Places I Would Love to Visit:
Space Needle (A Tourist Must!)
I am now taking bets on how many photos I will return with. (For reference, I took 3,000+ on our roadtrip two summers ago)


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Amazon announced on its earnings call last Thursday that it plans to raise the price of its Amazon Prime service by between $20 and $40, or 25-50%, in the near future. The reason given was that the service launched back in February 2005 at $79, and the price hasn't risen since, despite rising transportation and fuel costs. But I'm skeptical of that reasoning and I suspect the price hike is really about all the free stuff Amazon gives away with Prime beyond free shipping. Below, I'll explain why.
Trends in shipping costs
Much of Amazon's business is a black box – we have no idea how many Prime subscribers it has, how many Kindles it sells, what it makes from or charges for digital vs. physical media and so on. But shipping is actually one of the few things Amazon is pretty transparent about: each quarter, it reports total shipping costs, total shipping revenues (including some of its revenues from Prime), and the difference between the two. As such, we can calculate what percentage of Amazon's total shipping costs were covered by shipping revenues, as shown below:
In its early history, Amazon made a profit on shipping – just over 20% in 1997 and 1998. But it soon realized that discounting shipping (a) removed one of the biggest competitive disadvantages it suffered against brick and mortar retails and (b) therefore was a very cost-effective form of marketing. Interestingly, over time, the net cost of shipping has come to very closely mirror actual marketing spend, even though it is not reported as such:
Put another way, Amazon spends roughly half its marketing budget on traditional forms of marketing, and the other half on discounted shipping, principally free super-saver shipping and Prime. By the time Prime launched in 2005, only about two thirds of shipping costs were paid by customers, and following the launch of Prime, the proportion paid for directly by customers had dropped to around 40%. During this time, shipping costs as a percentage of revenues actually fell through 2009, though net shipping costs rose through 2011:
Fuel costs haven't risen for the last three years
Interestingly, though, none of these lines closely mirrors what happened with fuel costs during this period. For a view of long-term fuel costs we can easily look at two major businesses which are closely tied to Amazon's: FedEx and UPS. Their fuel costs as a percentage of overall expenses are shown in the chart below:
These fuel costs were heavily affected by overall gas prices, which rose steadily until summer 2008, and then dropped significantly over the following months as the financial crisis kicked in, then rose again before plateauing and even dropping slightly in the last couple of years. As a percentage of total costs, fuel costs are similar today to what they were in 2008 for these two companies. As such, almost all the increase in fuel costs happened in the early years of Prime, making an argument for raising the price of Prime based now on fuel costs spurious at best.
Giving away Instant Video is the real problem
So what has happened that makes Prime less cost-effective today than it was? The answer is all the content that Amazon has added to the Prime subscription, starting in 2011 with Prime Instant Video and the Kindle Lending Library. We're back in black box territory here, but that there is a business that looks a lot like Prime Instant Video in the form of Netflix's US streaming business. It has over 30 million subscribers, whereas Prime likely has about 50% fewer, and possibly even slightly less in the US, but these businesses should have fairly similar costs. Since Netflix is a public company, and explicitly breaks out its US streaming business, we have a decent proxy for Prime Instant Video. The scale of the business is roughly similar, and the selection of content is also fairly similar, so the economics ought also to be comparable. Below is a chart showing Netflix's number of paid US streaming subscribers against its cost of revenue per subscriber, which is essentially the cost of acquiring and delivering streaming video to those subscribers:
The cost of revenue per subscriber is dropping slightly, but it's remained in the $64-69 range even as subscriber numbers have risen from just under 24 million to almost 32 million. As such, it's likely that any business in the range of 10-20 million subscribers with a similar catalog of content would have a cost per subscriber in the $60-80 per year range.
How does this affect the economics of Prime? Firstly, the annual cost of providing Prime Instant Video probably runs at somewhere around the annual price for a Prime membership. If unlimited streaming video were the only thing Prime members received for their $79, it would be a pretty good deal, and likely slightly profitable for Amazon. But of course, Amazon was already losing money on Prime shipping even before it added Instant Video to the proposition, as we saw above, so throwing in Instant Video just took it much further into the red.
But the second problem with Instant Video is that it breaks Amazon's oft-stated principle of aligning customers' interests with its own. As things stand, the more customers ship, and the more video they watch, the higher the costs for Amazon. As long as Prime only covered shipping, the cost could be seen as a marketing expense, because by definition every item shipped was an item sold, which generated profits elsewhere in the business. But every video watched purely incurs cost, while not stimulating any additional revenue-generating behavior at all. Adding Instant Video to Prime broke this positive relationship Amazon generally strives to maintain, and it – and not rising fuel and transportation costs – is the real problem with Prime.
The solution to the Prime problem
One way of looking at the problem is that Amazon simply made a mistake when it decided to bundle Instant Video into Prime for free back in 2011. The price of Prime was set almost at random from the beginning 1 so it's almost a miracle that it worked as well as it did for so long. But the time for a price hike would have been early on in the history of Prime Instant Video, when the company started using video as a bribe to bring in customers who weren't sold on free two-day shipping alone.
At this point, though, the solution is two-fold. First, split the current Prime service into two parts, shipping and instant video, selling each at $79 or possibly slightly less, but continuing to offer a bundle of both for the new price between $99 and $119. Secondly, offer monthly payment options, at least for the streaming service, to reduce the barrier to entry. Regardless, many of Amazon's Prime subscribers will balk at paying an increased fee for the service, and even if they pay they'll grumble. And the number who only use either shipping or streaming is relatively small. Most people I've spoken to over the last few days who use Prime bought it for the shipping and saw video as a bonus. CIRP's research suggests 81% of Prime members use the streaming video service, so disentangling it wouldn't be straightforward.
Ultimately, Amazon's Prime problem is a cautionary tale about taking cross-subsidization too far. Cross-subsidization has been a mainstay of successful consumer technology companies for years: Apple has used its hardware to cross-subsidize software, Google uses advertising to cross-subsidize Android and other products, carriers use service revenue to subsidize devices, and so on. Amazon started by subsidizing shipping, and added subsidized 3G wireless connectivity with the Kindle, but may simply have gone too far with Instant Video. Cross-subsidization clearly works in this business, but this is a warning that it works best with internal rather than external costs, and pricing the core offering is key. If you price it too low, it's awfully hard to go up later, as Amazon is about to find out.
- There are several interesting insights into the debut of Prime, including the pricing of Prime, in Brad Stone's book The Everything Store: "Selecting the fee for the service was a challenge; there were no clear financial models because no one knew how many customers would join or how joining would affect their purchasing habits. The group considered several prices, including $ 49 and $ 99. Bezos decided on $ 79 per year, saying it needed to be large enough to matter to consumers but small enough that they would be willing to try it out. "It was never about the seventy-nine dollars. It was really about changing people's mentality so they wouldn't shop anywhere else," says [Vijay] Ravindran [then head of Amazon's ordering systems]… In many ways, the introduction of Amazon Prime was an act of faith. The company had little concrete idea how the program would affect orders or customers' likelihood to shop in other categories beyond media. If each expedited shipment cost the company $8, and if a shipping-club member placed twenty orders a year, it would cost the company $160 in shipping, far above the $79 fee. The service was expensive to run, and there was no clear way to break even. "We made this decision even though every single financial analysis said we were completely crazy to give two-day shipping for free," says Diego Piacentini [Senior Vice President, Worldwide Retail and Marketing]" ↩


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Environmental Enforcement Networks
Concepts, Implementation and Effectiveness
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Chapter 15: North American working group on environmental enforcement and compliance cooperation: moving from capacity building to operational activities
Deborah Kopsick and Susan Elizabeth Bromm
The main goal of North American Free Trade Agreement is to facilitate trade among Canada, Mexico and the United States. During the negotiation of the treaty, there were concerns expressed that increased competition would lead to a 'race to the bottom', with pollution-generating companies seeking areas with the lowest wages and the lowest environmental protection requirements. Environmental organizations in the United States launched a campaign to have environmental protection included in the treaty and the North American Free Trade Agreement was only put into force after a trilateral agreement to protect the environment was included. Bromm (2011) provides a detailed account of the development and negotiation of the NAFTA and the environmental side agreement.
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The Meeker Southern (MSN) is a shortline railroad that connects Meeker Junction (Pullayup) WA, with an industrial park in McMillan, WA. The line is approximately 5 miles long.
Here is a series of digital stills that I took while following the MSN to the end of the line. It was a partially sunny Saturday morning and I was surprised to find Byron operating the railroad this day. It was a slow leisurely pace and I had a lot of fun taking these pictures. #211 and the caboose are shown at the South end of the wye.
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Overview: With the second Left 4 Dead safely in the hands of gamers, it's sure bet that Valve will be moving on to the next big thing. Based solely on the evidence that Valve has released a new episode once every two years since the original Half-Life 2 was first released in 2004, we're hopeful that Episode 3 will find its way onto our hard drives at some point this year. We don't know much about it, but we do know that the company recently hosted a focus group to better understand sign language. Whether this is research for the story or a new gameplay concept remains to be seen.
Why It's Hot: There's really no wrong answer to this question. Valve's one of the best developers around, has created an industry-standard digital publishing model, and owns the rights to one of gaming's most beloved properties. A better question would be "Why aren't people even more excited?" After the rather amazing cliffhangers at the end of the previous episode, it's tough not knowing what happens next to Dog, Alyx and Gordon. We're hopeful that the sequel will move things further along and tie up some of the loose ends that have been left dangling. - Steve Butts
Overview: We all remember the racing circuit part of the first Mafia, right? Such an incredible game with great writing, a powerful story and characters, stylish third-person gunplay, unmatched atmosphere and thematic cohesion, stunning visuals (at the time), and then you got to that damn racing circuit and it all came crumbling down. Then you got past it and it was like a clear sunrise after a hurricane. With the sequel, it's February in 1945 in Empire City, and you'll follow along with a decade in the life of mobster Vito. Like before, Mafia II will be an open world game mixed in with story-focused missions that mix third-person combat with driving sequences.
Why it's Hot: Open world third-person action games aren't as rare as they once were, which means Mafia II's got more competition to outclass if it really wants to stand out from the crowd. Anyone who played the original, like myself, is greatly looking forward to 2K Czech's game, as I'm hoping for the same mix of strong characterization, a well-presented story, and excellent attention to detail as it relates to the time period in which the game is set. The way the characters are clothed, the design and sound of the vehicles on the street, the soundtrack, and the overall feel of the world will hopefully contribute to making this an entertaining experience that's matched by a sense of authenticity most games don't even bother to try for. We'll see. - Charles Onyett
Overview: With the possible exception of StarCraft II, there's nothing in the entire catalog that's as popular as Mass Effect 2. BioWare's long-awaited second chapter in the sci-fi RPG trilogy delivers in every area. The story is amazing, the combat is thrilling, the characters are compelling and the adventures are consistently engaging. Nearly everything that we loved about the first game has been improved here, which would be more than enough to justify its place on our list. But BioWare goes one better by building in so many layers of meaning from the first game that you simply have to keep playing in order to find out what happens next.
Why It's Hot: Much virtual ink has already been spilled trying to capture the essence of this "dark second act" in the Mass Effect storyline, so we won't even bother to highlight the context or the multi-layered consequences here. Instead, we'll just say that this is one of those games that transcend genres and settings. People who don't normally play RPGs or like science fiction still find themselves drawn deep into this game. Now, if you also happen to like sci-fi RPGs, well, Mass Effect 2 is probably already in your hot, little hands. - Steve Butts
Overview: Based on the novel by Russian author Dmitriy Glukhovskiy, Metro 2033 is set in a future world where humanity has almost been destroyed by incredibly high levels of radiation. The few remaining survivors camp out in the Moscow subway system, constantly besieged by threats from mutated creatures roaming the countryside. Players explore this devastated wasteland, hoping to reach the stronghold of Polis before the monsters destroy the settlements. Only your skill with makeshift weapons and scavenged gear will help you survive long enough to potentially rescue humanity.
Why it's Hot: Metro 2033 feels like a mix of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Fallout 3, but with added time pressure. As a young man forced to leave the only society he's ever known to save humanity, you're propelled into an irradiated wasteland that is incredibly harsh, unforgiving and brutal. What has been shown so far, such as the reliance on gas masks, adds an extra level of pressure as you try to survive the hazards on your way to Polis. - Jeff Haynes
Overview: The Total War expansion packs have always favored invaders. From the Mongols, to the Vikings, to the Barbarians, the series has leveraged some of the most prominent bogeymen from across human history. Napoleon himself was one of the most infamous imperialists the world has known, so he makes a great subject for this extension of the Total War franchise. Much like the Alexander expansion to Rome, Napoleon is tightly focused on the glorious career of a single commander and follows his exploits in a series of mini-campaigns from his early days in Italy to his final defeat at Waterloo.
Why It's Hot: Total War has always been one of our favorite strategy series owing to it's unparalleled combat that combines a cinematic "you are there" presentation with historically appropriate tactics and battlefield conditions. While the clash of knights and legions is hard to top, the unique spectacle of 18th century warfare in Empire is brilliantly presented. Napoleon is virtually synonymous with that era, so it's great to see him finally take center stage in the expansion. Best of all, the story-driven nature of the new campaigns promises to bring a new level of focus and involvement to the entire affair. - Steve Butts


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This is the first in a new series for our blog that we are calling Q&A. Here we will highlight designers and companies that are innovative, inspiring and just too damn cool!
I have the privilege of meeting WOVNS founder, Dena Molnar, at the Martha Stewart's American Made event shortly after she was awarded the title Toyota Maker, recognized for driving innovation in their industry. I introduced myself and just had to know more about the company. Via the WOVNS website, you can have your design custom-woven (not printed) into luxury fabric. Oh, and they started by doing a Kickstarter campaign!
A more detailed description from their website:
"WOVNS is the first platform of its kind, a San Francisco/Maui based company that is a textile studio and technology platform, giving designers access to the means of textile production.
Working with US textile manufacturers, we have developed a patent pending system for jacquard looms that enables textile production in quantities as small as a single yard. Customers simply access our selection of colors and qualities, apply them to their own designs, and submit for purchase / production. In addition, our platform promotes independent designers through the WOVNS Collection, a curated fabric and product collection that offers royalties to contributors on every yard sold. We proudly offer this collection to the design community."
Dena was so humble and inspiring, Below is our Q&A with Dena and her co-founder and twin sister Chelsea. We hope it inspires you as well. Below, you can read about my experience with creating my own custom fabric and see the results. I could not be more pleased.
Q. How did you come up with the idea of WOVNS?
A. Our professional backgrounds are in the fields of textiles and architecture; the motivation for WOVNS has its roots in our experiences working for the NYC design industry.
We both greatly valued our industry experiences. Coming from the textile and (interior) architecture industries, we've seen textile development from both the manufacturer and end-user perspective. We recognized that there was a need for small scale production and WOVNS gives us the chance to reimagine this relationship between producer and consumer.
My industry experience focused on technical textile development and manufacturing logistics, while Chelsea's experience emphasized material specification and interfacing with clients. At the Harvard GSD, I researched the ways in which changes in technology allow for a tighter coupling between digital design and manufacturing. With WOVNS, we're combining this rapid prototyping approach, prevalent in architecture and industrial design, with the textile industry to provide users access to Jacquard weaving.
Q. There are several print to order sites, usually printing on polyester. You make something much more special. In offering this unique product of custom woven material, how did you conquer the technical side of the business from customer upload to final product?
A. Unlike digital printing, weaving integrates a design into the very construction of the fabric, yielding a textile rich in both color and texture. In other words, the design is not topical; it is inherent to the material.
This has implications for how one's digital design gets re-created as fabric. In digital printing, the translation of colors from one's file to printed cloth is direct. In weaving, the colors in your digital design each get translated into woven structures. The interlacing of warp (vertical) and weft (horizontal) threads, plus the ratio of warps to wefts appearing on the surface, create an appearance that approximates the colors in one's graphic.
Communicating this difference to customers has posed some challenges. To start, we have aimed to provide a graphics based experience through the offering of "color palettes", whereby a graphical color option corresponds to a woven result, and we have plans to continue to improve that user experience. For example, we are building tools will allows users to simulate the color and texture that will result from their graphical color choices.
Perhaps the largest challenge, and the one that we are most proud to have over-come, is in the area of manufacturing logistics. Until know, Jacquard weaving, has been cost prohibitive for independent designers and small business due to large MOQs (minimum order requirements). To solve this, we looked at all of the parameters and constraints of Jacquard weaving, in oder to arrive at solution. The result is a patent pending file aggregation system that both allows independent production with just 1 yard minimums while satisfying manufacturer demand. for volume.
Q. Is there a lot of hand-holding and back and forth with the customer on getting their fabric made?
A. WOVNS, at its core, is a technology platform with a very human customer service experience. For launch, we've offered tutorials to help artist and designers get started with using WOVNS qualities and color palettes. For 2017, we are building out web based design tools to make it even easier to design through the WOVNS platform. That said, we've found that customers like to know that someone is there to help make sure that their file is production ready, and we do just that. We pride ourselves on our commitment to working with everyone from fine artists with an aversion to software all the way to technologists that are coding their own patterns.
Q. What's the coolest thing you've seen made with a customers custom WOVN fabric?
A. With WOVNS, there is technically no limit to a design's height. Coupling this capability with Talma (one of our qualities, which as a full width repeat), we've seem some completely engineered designs without repeating elements, which is pretty cool. Some of the applications have also been exciting to see. We've seen designers weave in darts and cut lines directly into the material for apparel (cut and sew) application. We've also seen designers weave content for graphic design, art exhibitions and museums. Seeing the results has confirmed the magnitude of talent out there that has just not had access to the woven medium until now.
Q. Congratulations on your award from Toyota as their Maker Of The Year! How did your relationship form with Toyota? Will you be doing more work with them?
A. Martha Stewart Living and Toyota contacted us and asked if we were interested in partnering; we were thrilled at the opportunity. They have given us a platform in which to tell our story to an expanded maker audience. Yes, we are talking about future possibilities for a continued partnership. We think developing an interior upholstery for one of Toyota's vehicles would be a very exciting project.
Q. We ask you to Dream Big with this question, where do you see yourself in 5 years?
A. What is amazing about the WOVNS platform is the ease with which we are able to scale the production of Jacquard weaving. While we are currently building the infrastructure to make it easier for artists and designers to create their own fabrics, the platform also lends itself to large scale projects for architecture and interiors, as well as retail partnerships. We see ourselves growing in this area in the coming years.
Philosophically, WOVNS is a technology minded company, and we will continue to explore ways in which to innovate. We see the potential for integrating technology into woven fabric for wearable applications. Weaving in capacitive yarns for touch sensing capability or graphics for image recognition are just some examples of areas we are exploring.
Q. What can we expect to see in the future from WOVNS?
A. You can definitely expect to see expanded qualities and color palettes, including all an all natural quality such cotton, linen, and wool and palettes with rich color and high contrast. In the near term, we're focused on improving the platform to make it easier for people to design their own woven fabric. Think custom design tools and lots of step-by-step video tutorials.
Of course I wanted to have one of my designs woven into fabric and I did just that! I hand painted a design of beads, manipulated the design digitally to repeat as a pattern, and colorized the file according to the site specs. WOVNS offers video tutorials on this process on their site to make your part easier. I LOVE my fabric and as I launch new ventures in textile design under the brand Ed Roth Design, WOVNS has helped me materialize my creative vision.
WOVNS will be in NYC for the ICFF in May 2017! Be sure to check them out if you attend.


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I have and quite a few years ago, I started doing something to make sure I wouldn't forget the hilarious things my kids have said. I wanted to tell you in case you'd like to start recording your own Isms.
I created Isms for each of my kids. Any time my kids would say something absolutely unforgettable, cute, or funny, I would jot it down in my planner. I created a folder on my computer for each kid. I used their name with a hyphen and -isms. So I have a folder called Gracie-isms for my little girl. In the folder are several word documents with a date and title.
Here's an example:
Window teeth
August 2009
Gracie lost her 2 front teeth and when she was talking to Grandma on the phone, she said, "Grandma, when I close my teeth, I have a window."
Isn't that priceless? And I had forgot all about that until I opened her folder. I laugh and smile at all the wonderful Gracie-isms that marked special moments where I was grateful to be there with my little girl, listening in to her world.
This idea doesn't have to be just for kids. You could jot down a nice thing someone said to you today, the title of a song that brought tears to your eyes, the taste of that delicious homemade ice cream.
I hope this idea might help you to record and remember those moments. I'll end this post with another Gracie-ism that made me smile.
July 11, 2008
We definitely live in a world of technology. Today my kids were eating peas out of the garden and my five-year-old said, "You have to open the iPod to get the peas out."
What do you do to remember those unforgettable moments?


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Mayor Rahm Emanuel is headed to a politically risky runoff election in April after failing to reach the 50% benchmark he needed to clinch a second term Tuesday night.
Emanuel conceded he would fall short.
"We have come a long way and we have a little further to go," he told supporters at a union hall.
He said he had moved Chicago in the right direction. "But we have to be honest," he said. "We have a lot more work to do."
With 83.7% of precincts reporting, Emanuel had 45.5% to 33.9% for challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, a Cook County commissioner. The two will campaign for six more weeks, and Chicago voters will get their final say on April 7.
Some Emanuel supporters booed the mention of Garcia's name, but Emanuel rebuked them. "No, no. He's a good man," Emanuel said.
Emanuel, who was President Obama's chief of staff until leaving to run for mayor, used a multimillion-dollar campaign war chest to try to rebuild his image and rebound from widespread voter disenchantment. Being forced into a runoff represents a personal and political setback, given his massive fundraising advantage against a field of far lesser-known opponents.
The low enthusiasm of the mayoral campaign was symbolized by what city election officials said was low voter turnout, on a day that was cold with occasional bouts of snow. City projections estimated the turnout would be comparable to the record low of 33% in 2007, when then-Mayor Richard M. Daley won his sixth and final term.
An April runoff between the top two finishers could sharply change the political dynamics. Anti-Emanuel voters could coalesce around Garcia, who also could go back to campaign donors and argue he's got momentum. While a stream of ads and Emanuel fundraising are expected to continue, the runoff also puts more pressure on the mayor to engage Garcia one-on-one, rather than largely dismissing the field of challengers as Emanuel did during five debates.
Emanuel amassed a campaign fund of more than $16 million, with nearly half of that dedicated to 16 broadcast television ads that aimed to shave off the sharp edge of the mayor's persona as well as criticisms over school closings, crime and neighborhood economic development that marked his first four years.
Garcia, a former alderman and state lawmaker, was a late entry into the race. He won the Chicago Teachers Union's endorsement after its president, Karen Lewis, ended a potential bid for mayor after being diagnosed with brain cancer.
The next mayor, inaugurated in May, faces a series of severe economic challenges ahead.
The city must find $550 million more to put into police and fire pensions by year's end — and Emanuel did not rule out a boost in city property taxes to cover the cost after using a 911 emergency phone tax hike last year to increase payments into other city pension funds.
Additionally, organized labor has sued the city over agreements that Emanuel had made with some city unions in an effort to reduce Chicago's pension liability.
The next mayor also faces the prospect of continuing city budget shortfalls as new Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner has proposed a state budget that would take $135 million in income tax money away from Chicago.