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Yard Work In The Rain
Gotta do it. Don't want to. Sigh.
"Tick-tock, Ms. X! Tick-tock!"
It's off to the shower for me. I took more time than I should making breakfast, though very little of it was actual work: Eggs Pomodoro, a can of crushed tomatoes, assorted spices ("Italian seasoning" with plenty of basil, a little cilantro, chives, freeze-dried onion, celery seed, pepper, and some paprika on the eggs) and a small can of mushrooms that wanted used up, graced by three eggs and some Spanish cheese. Get the sauce hot, pat some little hollows into which you crack the eggs, sprinkle them with little bits of cheese, cover and ignore until they're as poached as you prefer.*
Tamara wandered through the kitchen half-awake, blinked at the stuff simmering away and allowed as how she'd pass: "That's too complicated to eat this early in the morning!"
A good point; indeed, I used up most of my early-morning cleverness eating mine and now here you are, left with another food post. The politicians will have to snark one another this morning -- but they do love it so.
* As an evening meal, fresh onions, mushrooms and perhaps a bit of meat in the sauce elevate this to something that goes quite comfortably with salad and garlic bread.
Oh, the Clumsy Snark! The Sneering!
Senator Cruz has gone and got himself a Veep and the little men inside my TeeVee are nearly wetting themselves in their eagerness to be wicked about it. One reporter called it an "arranged marriage" between Ms. Fiorina and the Senator.
I've made no secret that I don't like any of the front-runners, or the next rank, or-- you get the picture. But for pity's sake, it's a pretty reasonable political move; I'm not a big fan of Ms. Fiorina (I liked Hewlett-Packard; I have my doubts about Agilent) but she made a creditable run for the big prize and is no less-qualified for second place than Senator Cruz is for the Presidency. (Neither one is especially qualified, if you ask me, a trait they share with Mr. Trump, Secretary Clinton and Senator Sanders -- but why ask me? Ain't you got an Internet and a mind of your own?)
Can't they just report the facts?
...No. They can't. Especially when it's the GOP.
I feel sorry for the Republican candidates, who never get a break from the lamestream media. If pity were votes, they'd be shoo-in; but I don't think that's a viable way to pick a Chief Executive, no more than the, "Vote for me even if you don't like my platform, because I can win," strategy three of the four front-runners are presently employing. (Or do Senators Sanders and Cruz no longer qualify as "front-runners?" Depends on who you ask.) What exactly do you win when you vote for a candidate whose positions you find repugnant?
That's Sorted
Not settled. No, I would not say "settled," possibly not ever. But there is an agreed-upon Care Plan for my mom, she's got an in-room helper 24/7 (and the offspring are dropping in at random times throughout 24/7) until they can get her moved opposite the nurse's station, they're checking daily for skin damage (she's got a neck collar and a long removeable cast on her left hand and forearm and can't move much: you need to keep watch) and they are well aware that we're watching them. Physical Therapy knows exactly what her range of motion/weight bearing limits are and to be gentle and always have at least two people helping her when she's moving. (This has been a problem; the PT people, well-intentioned as they are, really try to get patients moving and stretching; which is great if you don't have a cracked hip, broken fingers, broken vertebra, etc.) And we belive we have all of her medical orders posted on both forms the place uses.
Yeah, "both," and 'splain me that? Or at least why it's a separate entry process? One's her actual chart, listing all medical orders, medications,observations, etc. including history, to which access is restricted to upper-level nursing types and on up; the other is a summary of active orders and meds, available to all staff via touchscreens in the halls and some pad-type wireless devices. There are good reasons for limiting access to the first one, but the second one is -- or should be! -- just the currently-applicable parts of the first, possibly plus notes. They're both nothing but glorified spreadsheets and getting the current parts of the chart onto the widely-available version should be a trivial bit of software. Discrepancies between the two can be dangerous, especially since the chart is the primary document and where new information is first entered. Be that as it may, it's not my job -- what my siblings and I can make our job is comparing the two, preferable with nurses looking over our shoulders, and make sure nothing gets overlooked.
Labels: Fretting
So Of Course
...The hospital sent Mom back to the home ahead of schedule. She's stable and they have done all that can be done.
So I'm off to an early-morning meeting at this (IMO) ill-managed retirement center. This is the meeting where we write our contact numbers on the wall of her room with a Sharpie. Most recent word is Mom will have a helper in her room 24/7 while she's healing up, and gets moved to a room across from the nurse's station ASAP.
Still not a lot of trust on my side of table. Gee, what a surprise.
Labels: eediots, Fretting
Because Meetings Are So Useful
Especially without a lawyer present. Had a sit-down with my family and various brass at Mom's retirement home yesterday, right down to the (not so long on the job) Chief of Nursing. There were promises that the guilty were being disciplined and heads would roll, etc., etc. Also "education" would be addressed. --What, stuff like the most basic of basic First Aid? Seriously, staff's weak on that? What are they, custodian's in nurse's scrubs?*
Don't know about heads but my eyes were. It was all "the floggings will continue until morale improves," with little to no understanding that these incidents -- and other, lesser, failings -- are only happening on nights and weekends. They're indicative of a profoundly alienated (and probably insufficient) staff, especially at the lowest levels: they don't see managers unless they screw up and get yelled at, written up or worse and, in the way of nights & weekends everywhere, they figure if they do the very minimum (or fake it), then that's just that much less to screw up and chewed out about.
This is one thing if you're stamping out cheap plastic widgets down to The Plant or stocking shelves at BiggieMart; it's a very different thing if your work product and client base is elderly, fragile, vulnerable human beings.
I don't want my Mom to go back there, especially to their "rehab" (almost-a-hospital-looking) wing. But she chose the place, her only surviving sister is there, too, and during days and evenings, you couldn't ask for better. Outside those hours, it's another matter. Even at the hospital she's in at present, doctors and paper-pushers are looking at her injuries and asking, "You're sure you want to go back there when we release you?"
An important element here is that Mom's as all-there as you or me. She's not strong, she's physically fragile, but she know what's going on. She decides for herself.
I'll tell you what, in the early days of my retirement, I intend to take up high-risk adventures, because when I imagine myself in Mom's position, there will be nobody to act as my advocate -- and I am not convinced my sibs and I are advocating effectively enough with three of us and a couple of well-adult nieces who just happen to be nurses (one's a Nurse-Practitioner!) to advise. I think -- I hope -- we can get Mom decent care, even in the off hours, but it's going to be a struggle, and I don't think the management of that retirement home is going to be much use. They don't see nature of the problem and it has somehow failed to register that there are more jobs for nurses and aides than there are qualified workers: push 'em too hard and they just go elsewhere.
Oh, the administrators and managers running scared right now -- they should be; this would be a great story for the evening news and an even better lawsuit; I'm sure a little digging would turn up plenty more incidents happening to other patients and when you walk into court with a line-up like that.... Well! There are other considerations, though: run a line-up of vulnerable seniors through days and weeks, possibly months of a trial? Let defense attorneys pick their testimony to bits? And having sued one facility, where are you going to put them that won't see them as ticking bombs instead of people in need of decent care?
I have no answers.
* See, this is why people tell me I'm harsh and unfeeling -- which as near as I can figure, means I won't pretend bullshit is reality. Hey, that's my Mom, the closest I had to an ally in an unhappy childhood. Tell it to the Marines.
Posting may be light.
Mom's been in the "hospital-lite" wing of her retirement home for the last few weeks, recovering from pneumonia. Getting her strength back is a long, hard slog but she's been making steady progress. Still pretty weak. Saturday, Mom was feeling a bit better, and called me. We had a nice chat.
Not too long after we rang off, she decided to move from her fancy hospital bed to the powered wheelchair. That's a good thing; she was just about bedfast for awhile. She rang for help and waited.
She sat herself up on the edge of the bed and rang again.
Mom is, as readers will have noticed, as independent and proud as a new mama cat. She had been talking to me about needing to practice "transfers," the tricky art of moving from bed to wheelchair, from wheelchair to plain chair, and had she not just sat up by herself? She had. The chair was close, and were the wheels not locked?
--I don't know. Mom's memory cuts out as she grasps the chair. What we do know is that her sister found her on the floor of her room some time later, with a nasty cut on her forehead and a purple-green set of broken fingers on her left hand, pinky, ring and social, all three of the minor players. Something had gone very wrong with the transfer.
The retirement home rendered ineffective first aid (mostly wrapping her head in gauze) and, as near as I can tell, faffed about waiting for the sole and only Nurse-Practicioner on duty to show up and make a decision. They didn't call family members, despite all three of us being available; I'm on 24-hour call and my two sibs are never far from their telephones. Fat lot of good that did!
My aunt called my sister, my sister called the retirement home, and would you not know it, "they were just about to call" her. Over an hour had elapsed since Mom was found; possibly two since it happened. Upon arrival, the "highly trained staff" had still not called 911. They told her even the ambulance would take a half-hour to get there. Funny, it arrived 10 - 15 minutes after my sister called.
EMS up that way is run by the fire department and they're serious about it; on finding a elderly person having fallen, she was in a neck stabilizer and on a backboard first thing.
Ambulance, nearest hospital, ER; stitches (rather a lot of them), temporary cast, a head-to-toe check and then Medical Imaging. ER Doc wasn't so happy with what he saw; after a chat with his more-than-peers, Mom was whisked off to the Level One Trauma Center hospital a few miles away, where they did more imaging.
She'd cracked two vertebra, the very first two. She'd broken some facial bones. And those well-meaning nitwits nurses and helpers at the retirement center had wrapped her head in gauze, moving her head and neck in the process.
'Scuse me while I take a moment to seethe. Okay, it was a deep cut, and if you thought nothing bled like a scalp wound, try it while on blood thinners. "Stop the bleeding" is high on the list when rendering first aid. But so is "don't move a suspected neck injury," and an elderly person face-planting off a hospital bed is pretty much textbook neck injury territory. They can't ram even one of their "highly trained staff" through a 90-day-wonder not-quite paramedic course? The tuition is tax-deductible! (Cripes, forget that, could they not hire a few former Boy and/or Girl Scouts?)
Mom's surprisingly chipper, set up with a long (and removable, oh, this fine future) support cast for her fingers, with a fancy neck collar, the aforementioned stitches, etc. etc. etc. But she's down to one hand for the short term, and she's not going to be doing any fancy dance steps for the next three months.
Posting here may be light. My sibs and I have got a retirement-home management to browbeat, at minimum. --There are pretty strict limits on what nurses at the various levels of qualification can and cannot do (it's way worse than Girl Scouts or Freemasons, worse than the military, and you can thank our litigious society for much of it); but this crew flunked basic First Aid and followed up by flunking basic Call The Family. If they can't call 9-1-1 on their own hook, well, the workaround is to call me or my siblings and either we'll call, or we will authorize them calling in our stead; and if the place they shirk for wants a signed okay in the files for CYA, they can have that, too.
This is Strike Two, the second time Mom's had a problem and not received timely or proper response. Weekends appear to a very weak link; weekends and slackers trying to avoid actually dealing with what's right in front of them. I can't fix them, but I can hold their bosses feet to the fire and I will.
Meantime, Mom needs visited. And sometimes help eating. At least she's right-handed and the broken fingers are on her left hand, but it's cold, cold comfort for a nasty set of preventable injuries.
Labels: Fretting, Mommy why do the police drink?, things that should not go bang
Will It Hash?
Yes. Yes, it will.
This is quite tasty. Leftover flank steak, fried potato, a little green onion, red bell pepper. I fried an egg for on top but I ate it all immediately afterward, so you'll just have to imagine the egg. A little cheese would gone well, too.
I Have Grilled The Flank Steak
Oh. My. Heavens. It's glorious! Hardwood charcoal (and some of the rosemary twigs I have been saving), the usual simple salt and pepper beforehand, plus a quick working-over with the tenderizing hammer, not too vigorously. Popped it on the grill for five-six minutes a side, applied a little Irish butter to each side's first hot turn up, and let it sit a few minutes after I took it off the grill.
The result is tender, flavorful, a bit like brisket with a lovely smokey flavor.
Served with a baked potato and simple salad -- arugula, red bell pepper, tomato, green onions, black olives and a garlic mushroom that needed et.
And tomorrow, I'll be finding out if flank steak hash might be a thing.
G'Mornin'
Hunh? Yeah, 'm up. Gotta mow the lawn. Gotta go to the market -- the Farmer's Market.
While I Am Smashing The Toaster To Smitherernies, Enjoy This Ultralight Ornithopter
It's relaxing to think of a rubber-band-powered ornithopter, a device so lightweght it seems to swim through air as heavy as soup.
I can almost forget the rage and horror: My toaster has betrayed me for the last time. It has developed an unnatural hunger for Pop-Tarts; it's sad enough I can only find the one flavor without frosting, sadder still that it's not blueberry -- alas, Babylon! Alas, vaccinium corymbosum! -- and saddest of all that the toaster merrily pops up a pair of 'em with enough force that one leaps out of the bottom support (which is, I swear it, barbed), falls past it and jams in the crumbs at the bottom and the heating element at the side. Being a Pop-Tart, it's got less structural integrity than wet tissue paper, so every attempt to free it results in more and more hot, sugared filling being smeared into unreachable corners, nooks and crannies. That evil machine has got to go! (It's a brand that gets rave reviews, too. Yeah, well, maybe.)
Labels: Geekery, marvels of science, things that should not go bang
Aspirational Federal Wallpaper
I'm sure you've heard by now -- Andy Jackson will be riding on the back of the $20 bill, having been induced to give up his seat to Ms. Harriet Tubman (or as Iowahawk Twittered, "Founder of the Democratic party replaced by gun-toting Republican"). Personally, I wish they'd kicked him clean off; I don't much care for Jackson. A brave man, a skilled commander of troops but a bit unhinged, it seems to me, by the time he won the Presidency, and with a history of loathing and ill-treatment of Native American Indians* that cannot be justified. Oh, Woodrow Wilson was worse, far worse, and FDR made a huge dent in the proper functioning of the Fed'ral Gummint, but Andrew Jackson was a hateful guy, and reveled in it.
Be that as it may (or may, in your opinion, not) that's not what I'm hear to talk about. Looking up the design of the new twenty (one spoof version has her pointing away from the viewer and onward with a revolver in her left hand while beckoning the onlooker to follow with her right hand, an image I totally support, a great big finger in the eye to racists, sexists and those who would disarm citizens), I discovered some of the earliest modern Federal notes, 1896 gen-u-ine Silver Certificates rather than "trust-me" FRNs, with the best set of themes I have yet seen on money:
The $1 bill shows History Instructing Youth -- in the functioning of the Federal Government. "Youth" looks to be of grade-school age. What's a Mutant Ninja Turtle or a Skywalker against James Madison? The flip side gives us not merely George Washington but Martha Washington as well, in engravings of equal size and gravitas; remind me again how real women never, ever showed up on Federal paper money 'til last Wednesday?
The bills get better from there: the $2 (dammit, we need more twos!), as Treasury puts it, "uses classical themes and allegory to portray Science Presenting Steam and Electricity to Industry and Commerce." Steam and Electricity being promising-looking kids, Industry and Commerce are young mothers, and Science is a slightly more mature woman. (Oh, those sexist 19th-Centry menfolk and their disregard of the value and influence of women!)
If that's not sufficiently technopositive, the $5 gives us "Electricity Presenting Light To The World," in a Classical tableau with sufficient artsy nekkidness that the T-men blushingly demur sharing it. One short websearch later, I find you can buy it as a poster, you lecher. Even the flip side (which Nanny Fed.Gov does share), with a double-bill of Phil Sheridan and Grover Cleveland Ulysses S. Grant,† has a stylized Ms. Electrical Illumination of 1896 at the center!
Now that right there is Money With A Message, and for once, it's not, "We sure used to be hot stuff." I'd sure like to see more in that line today. Where's the Private Rocketry series of 2016? The Pocket Computing 2010 bills? ...Oh, right, that geek stuff's not all that exciting anymore, I guess. And the Energy Independence Through Fracking 2007 FRNs would be just too, too controversial....
At least we got Harriet Tubman!
* This, like my phrase "The Civil War Between The States," is meant to please no one while stifling side-issue debate over terminology: you got your preferred wording plus some extra, so sit down and shaddup.
† Thanks to Fuzzy for the correction on the $5!.
Labels: eediots, it's Art okay?, marvels of government, marvels of history
Election 2016: The Rough Beast Is Smelly, Too
Indianapolis will get smeared with a little Trumpening today, over to the State Fairgroundss, where the mighty boor will honk and bleat, fresh from his triumph in New York state.
I've made no secret of not being impressed with the candidates and as the pool has narrowed, I am even less so. Mr. Trump is a clod in a bespoke suit; I'd call him a gangster if I didn't harbor suspicions la Cosa Nostra finds him appallingly crude, too.
On the other side, his old friend Ms. Secretary Clinton came out on top, too, with the gleam of madness in her eyes and a blood-thirst worthy of a Disney villainess.
Of all the possible pairings among the four frontrunners, I think this one is the worst -- a brute and a vindictive madwoman, both extremely polarizing. Hillary Clinton knows the levers of power far too well and Donald Trump, much as I might wish Congress will loathe him (or his take on the job of POTUS) as cordially as they would Bernie Sanders, I suspect he's much too typical of the banksters and captains of industry who butter the Congressthings bread -- or their feet, if they get out of line. Both candidates have preposterously high negatives and neither bodes well for the country, if you ask me.
The also-rans, interestingly enough, strike me as less vicious and perhaps only a cynic would speculate that was why they came in second. Ted Cruz certainly plays sincere but to my eye and ear continues to have a whiff of Elmer Gantry -- or perhaps Pat Buttram as "Mr. Haney" from Green Acres. He has the charm of being an Congressional insider who never quite got inside and who would keep that howling mob-in-office howling and likely not doing much. And then there's Senator Sanders, who manages to radiate the precise kind of left-wing avuncularity of that friendly, happy-go-lucky draft-dodging uncle to whom you were warned to never, ever mention the name "Nixon," lest he fly into a three-hour rant. He, too, would keep Congress busily engaged in internal debate and we could count on hearty mutual dislike between the two branches with even some hope of it being bipartisan.
But from where I sit, what all four have in common is they've got no business in the Oval Office. Senator Cruz comes closest to showing some understanding of what the job actually entails -- which is probably why he's got the least chance of attaining it. The other three appear positive they're actually running for God-Emperor and will rule by decree, the Constitution being just some old bunkum only geeks and fools bother to read and no sane person would attempt to apply.
Got plenty of popcorn right here next to my Libertarian straight-ticket ballot for the general election. Y'all can vote for whoever you like and chide me for refusing to pick a possible winner but I'll bedamned if I'll vote for any of these four. The winner's going to spend four years beating up on civil liberties and the economy and at the end, why, we'll look back on the crash of 2008 with bittersweet nostalgia for the Good Old Days.
Labels: eediots, Essays, marvels of politics
Beef Stroganoff: It's What's For Dinner
I kept noticing "skirt steak" at the grocer's. Never had it but it's priced like-- well, steak; it must pretty good.
Found myself hungry for beef stroganoff this morning (this is what comes of listening to Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kije Suite!) and it seemed me that skirt steak would do nicely in it.
Stopped off at the market on the way home. Alas, no green onions, no spring onions; I made do with leeks and fresh chives. Skirt steak they had, and good brown mushrooms, golden German egg noodles, beef stock, a little whipping cream (I'm not a huge fan of sour cream, though I made sure to buy some for Tam), and I had the spices and flour.
Used the shortcut for thickening (flour the meat, cook it, set aside; when you add it back in and then pour broth over, stir and the sauce will thicken wonderfully. Um, keep stirring as it comes to boil. This is like making gravy). I added an Anaheim pepper and in hindsight, I do not think adding one Serrano would have been out of order -- I made enough for four or five people and the cream would have smoothed out the heat.
The quick version is, oh yes! Skirt steak works very well in stroganoff.
N.B.: some of Scandinavian countries make a version with sausage instead of beef. This is worth considering. Kielbasa? Chorizo?
Labels: Food, The Phonohnograph
Cat Food Of Irony
About a week ago, I started feeding Tam's cat Random Numbers "Rannie" Wu special food for kitties with sensitive stomachs. At first, it seemed to help but it has been increasingly obvious that while she likes it, she cannot keep it down. It gives her more trouble than the "senior cat" formula we had been feeding her.
So it's back to the old folk's food for Miss Rannie, starting tonight. Maybe I should try buying her feeder mice if that doesn't work!
Breakfast Omelette
The ingredients looked good and I think they worked well:
Mild Italian sausage, shiitake mushrooms, a little Manchego and Iberico cheese. The eggs were fortified with crushed tortilla chips. Tasty!
Some Notes On "Some Notes On The Apparent Passage Of Time"
First off, I ain't planning on goin' away; I blog mostly to amuse myself. If it entertains others as well, that's great -- but if I was doing this for the egoboo, I'd've run plain out, screaming, a long time back.
Second, I was feeling the cold breeze of Time on the back of my neck. This happens more and more as the years add up, they tell me.
Third, you're all special, one way or another. Blue ribbon or short-bus? That's between you and yourself!
* * * I am presently relaxing in the warm -- okay, slightly sweaty -- glow of having done my taxes. Can't find hide nor hair of 2014s, though I know I did 'em. So this year got printed out and put in a nice file folder with all the preceding years, way back to the time I made up for (mumblety-mumble) years of owing the Feds money that I could only pay back by letting them eat every refund. (Memo to self: owning rental property is probably not for me, unless I get a whole lof ot help filing tax returns.) About a decade after that mess, I came into a big lump of overtime and squared up with IRS and their Hoosier kid-sister agency, and have since striven to avoid further problems, mostly by being too small to be worth squashing.
Later today, Decisions: mow the lawn or go for a nice late lunch at Public Greens?
Labels: marvels of government, marvels of marvelousness, the wonderfulness of you
Some Notes On The Apparent Passage Of Time
It's strange -- any more, Winter seems to last forever, but years flip by like a cinematic cliche. So much has changed, so much stays the same.
When I started blogging, The Truth Laid Bear blogging ecosystem was kind of fading; Technorati was a going enterprise and Sitemeter was hot. Over the years, Technorati turned its attention elsewhere, or maybe just off, and Sitemeter eventually decided that loading obtrusive adware was the way to monetize. Tam moved to StatCounter and I followed soon after.
At one time, I looked at the numbers daily. Any more, every few weeks is often enough.
There's a definite downward trend. I don't pay the five bucks a month to save stats forever, so I only have about a year, but it's got a slope. Eventually, it'll be like it was back in the beginning, just me and some web-crawlers from search engines, maybe a friend stopping by every so often.
Things have a natural cycle and blogging is on the downside. While Twitter seems to be fading, other short-form social media (Facebook, mostly) are still growing. This is the way of things.
Trash day, taxes, Internet bill: no time.
A Prank That Bites Twice
First, one person got pranked. Then a whole lot of broadcast stations. And the second bite may get expensive. By now, you've seen this video:
Yes, it's a funny, mean joke. But a few seconds in, when the hoax really starts, there's a sound that comes over the radio: a buzz like an old-fashioned modem, right before the fake CDC announcement of a "mysterious virus."
It is a kind of "modem." That's either an EAS tone* or a close copy and in either event, radio and TV stations aren't supposed to put it on the air unless there's a real emergency. Yes, even for a funny joke that we all know is a joke; the Feds figure when you hear those distinctive sounds, you should be minded to pay attention and the weekly tests are all the "crying wolf" the system needs.
Put the tones on the air outside of tests or the real thing, and you'll be facing a fine; such fines run to the millions of dollars. "Good Morning America" ran the tones yesterday while sharing this prank, and so did lots of other radio and TV stations. ("Today," on a competing network, edited them out. That network was already fined over this sort of thing a few years ago, in connection with their ads for some "end-of-civilization" TV movie.)
Picture the FCC with a radar gun hiding behind a billboard along the highway as a long line of speeders come into sight. $$$$, bye-bye!
And that's how a prank bites twice.
* Technically, it's AFSK, "audio frequency-shift keying," a way of encoding ASCII text that is used by EAS to carry emergency messages. The normal format is three long chirps followed by three short ones. Every radio and TV station in the U.S. has a widget that can read these messages and pass them along; they monitor two or more other stations over the air, plus an Internet-delivered feed. In various forms, it's been around since the Cold War. Recently, FEMA (possibly looking for something they can get some respect for) has gotten very serious about making the system work for more than just bad weather. To their credit, they actually have been knocking off the rust and finding -- and patching! -- the weak spots, something FCC was always loathe to do.
Labels: eediots, Geekery, marvels of government
...I'd write a long post, but I promised the cats I would swap out their water fountain for a freshly-cleaned one and I'm at least a day late already!
The water around here is very hard, so the little running-water dishes have to be cleaned several times a year.
ETA: Out of four "Drinkwell" cat-waterers (two old style saved for parts, two recent ones) we appear to have exactly one lid for the filter compartment. How does this happen? I don't know.
Keep On Keaton On
I embedded The Railrodder yesterday. The National Film Board of Canada shot a "making of" film during the production and it's a fascinating look at the man at work, almost the only glimpse we have of what went into his incredible stunts. Buster Keaton Rides Again is a little under an hour long and well worth your time.
--Look closely and you'll see the director occasionally taken aback by the audacity of some of the physical gags proposed by the then 69-year-old actor.
Labels: Cinema, it's Art okay?
Spent nearly half the day yesterday with a friend from online, passing through town with a new -- and remarkably arcane -- find. (A U. S. Army railcar, the kind of little motorized gadget seen in The Railrodder, only Army-austere, without even a motor housing.) (The Railrodder? Oh, this:
Ah, that Buster Keaton!)
Given the number of hobbies we have in common -- science fiction, amateur radio, old technology, shooting, aviation -- we talked and talked, and enjoyed a lovely brunch at Public Greens. A nice way to spend a chilly day! (Also, he had me sign a couple of copies of my book. Perhaps some day I'll be bored by that. But not yet.)
Saturday, I visited the range...
Shot at 21 feet, about a hundred rounds of .22
A couple of antique stores...
The base of this tiny, working toy will cover the palm of your hand. From the 1920s or '30s.
And visited my Mom. She's still recovering from her bout of pneumonia, doing a bit better every day. I had found a gift for her while shopping, a tiny brass poodle, a "pet" she can have nearby that doesn't need to be walked or fed.
Spent the rest of that day housecleaning. Mom is a good influence on me.
We do have nice skies during this unseasonable weather.
Labels: Food, Geekery, I work on a starship
Because Art Has Hazards
In Broad Ripple and SoBro, the city has had to install special fire hydrants in case the Surrealism gets out of control:
At least that's my theory, and I'm sticking to it.
It's A Spring Weekend, Hooray!
...It's below freezing. And it's snowing off and on. Whatever happened to Global Warming?
Labels: marvels of politics, marvels of science, or not
Life On The Mississippi
I'm reading this Mark Twain book for the first time. In my younger days, I read Science Fiction almost exclusively, with only the occasional mystery for leavening -- Sherlock Holmes and later, Travis McGee. I was fortunate to encounter Heinlein and Sturgeon, Clarke and Asimov and Cyril Kornbluth and other non-hacks early on, so it was well-written SF; but I missed some books and Life On The Mississippi is one I should have read earlier. I suppose after childhood encounters with Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, I thought of his work as kid stuff, but I've known better for decades. (The essay Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, for example.)
Life... reads a bit like SF; Twain was chronicling a way of life and a line of work that was unfamiliar to most readers and rapidly waning even as he put pen to paper, so he's obliged to provide a great deal of background. His eye for character, scene and story is unmatched, his turn of phase deftly snarky* -- but the prose he employs...! It may be from Twain that many of us picked up a taste for the em-dash and semicolon, and from whom we learned to drop in a comma any time we felt the need to draw a breath. Modern (and very smooth) styles -- Kim Stanley Robinson, for example, as "clean" a pen as you'll find -- tend to be sparing of the less-common marks of punctuation and rather less conversational; even Twain's fellow (if a generation or two later) Missourian, Robert A. Heinlein, was not so fond of the conversational style as Samuel Langhorne Clemens. I think we owe him much for that; at a time when "good" writing aped classical languages and aspired to stilted formality, Mark Twain loosened his tie, sat down, put his feet up and had a chat with the reader.
Not quite halfway through the book at present. At this point, Twain is taking a sentimental trip downriver on one of the few remaining steamboats, twenty-odd years after his time piloting. By then, well after the Civil War Between The States, the modern Mississippi was already taking shape; tugboats with their long lines of barges had replaced steamboats for serious cargo hauling; the railroads were in ascendance and growing. A few steamboats still plied their trade, carrying passengers and minor freight from one river town to another, and pilots still told tall tales, looking out at the vast river from their high, glassed-in pilot-houses, reading reefs and shoals in the motion of the water and steering accordingly.
* Describing the span of years that elapsed between LaSalle's early exploration of the mighty river and the beginning of "anything like a regular and active commerce" upon it, Twain tells us, "...seven sovereigns had occupied the throne of England, America had become an independent nation, Louis XIV. and Louis XV. had rotted and died..." In that order? Ouch!
Sunday-Go-To-Meetin' Asparagus
One of the local grocers occasionally offers "Sunday Asparagus," four small bundles of baby asparagus, each neatly wrapped in slices of prosciutto.* I love the idea but I always seemed to be noticing it only when there were one or two left and those a but long in the tooth.
I was looking for something quick-ish last night (it's Tam's regular Game Night online) and lo! there the stuff was, and freshly-made, too. Seven minutes in the microwave (alongside seasoned quartered potatoes) and my-oh-my, it's tasty! I think something Hollandaise-ish in the way of sauce is traditional; I put a dab of horseradish on mine instead and it worked nicely.
This would be easy enough to make (and cheaper, too) when tender, early asparagus is available. Prosciutto will stick to itself fairly well (if yours won't, use a toothpick). Prep time would take longer but not by much. The flavors go well together.
* Which is how you say "really good ham" in Italian.
"Your Political Ideas Would Never Work"
The title is an assertion often made -- and it's true! Each one of us has some mental map, vague or detailed, of how the world would be run if only it were just our own individual self making the decisions.
But politics -- government -- doesn't happen in a vacuum. Even in a universe full of clones of James Madison or Supreme Glorious Leader Kim Il Whoever, the clone who has to muck out the sewers is going to have a markedly different experience -- and hence different opinions and expectations -- from the clone managing the power utility. It's a group effort and never as neat and organized as the charts and graphs and bureaus of departments with nicely-labelled office doors make it look: even in the most repressive of police states, there's an element of consensus and if everyone but El Supremo and his loyal circle suddenly stood up and said, "To hell with this, I'm gonna go do my own thing," the regime wouldn't last out the day. I practice, it never happens like that; there are always enough assorted True Believers, timid followers, pragmatic opportunists working the system and so on that instead of thirty million happy, free-thinking "Gands" out of an Eric Frank Russell story, you get the Spanish Civil war.
Society, culture, the arena or flowerpot where politics happens,* is a group effort -- an indirect group effort, made up of all the opinions and decisions of you and everyone around you. It's not just what you do in the voting booth, in Congresses and Parliaments and Party Conferences. And though it is frequently presented as an all-or-nothing proposition, it rarely really is. In the U.S., in recent memory, both of the parties have been foolish enough to muse about "permanent majorities" during times when they have held both the Legislative and Executive branches. Yeah, don't get too comfy. Majorities end; parties fade: just ask the Whigs.
So when I foolishly let myself get drawn into a debate with a critic of anarchism on Facebook (it's not all a wretched hive of scum and villainy, though one is never very far from sight there), we kept colliding over an issue that doesn't really exist: the guy kept saying, "If you get what you want, it would actually be a hell on Earth, red in tooth and claw, neighbor against neighbor--"† Okay, say he's right (he isn't) -- so what? I'm not going to get what I want. If I am really, really lucky, over the course of my life I may see the scope and power of government in the United States shrink a tiny bit.
We're all vectors; we have a direction and a magnitude. We contribute to the resultant overall vector of our culture -- we can't not do so. Given the small influence any one of us has, there is no reason not to be true to your inner compass to the full extent possible without initiating force or committing fraud.
* If you're using the flowerpot metaphor, it's reader's choice whether politics is the flower -- or the fertilizer.
† He even had well-poisoning. And the lack of mutually-agreeable medium of exchange. There may have been lepers. It was enough to make a hog weep, really.
Labels: marvels of government, marvels of history, marvels of politics
Summertime, And The Weather Is Freezy...
Okay, it's not Summer yet, but it is Spring. It's also 26°F. Oh, joy. They tell me it'll kill the pollen and the fleas. Alas, candidates for public office are undeterred. We need a keep-away spray for 'em.
It's Offcially Morel Season -- And Just Chilly Enough For Stew
Tam and I stopped in at Locally Grown Gardens yesterday and they had four big baskets of morel mushrooms in their cooler! Naturally,we bought a bag of them and last night, I fried 'em in a little light olive oil and served them alongside home-made oxtail stew. This was a happy combination; the delicate falvor of the morels went nicely with the hearty stew.
Oxtail stew itself is not difficult to make, though you do need time and a plain stewpot -- don't use non-stick. Around here, it's sold on the bone in 2 to 3-inch sections, the larger of which are nearly cubical. Start with one or two of them (or several smaller ones), salted, peppered and browned on all sides in a very little oil, then add water (or beef broth if you're in a hurry) to about half-cover, deglaze, cover and simmer. Don't boil it. After awhile -- maybe a half-hour for the quick version and a couple of hours or more for the slow version -- add a can of crushed tomatoes, liquid and all. This should cover the meat. Now you can chop and saute half an onion and some carrots (etc -- a cubed turnip or a little cabbage wouldn't hurt and neither would a pepper-of-choice) and celery if you'd like (I didn't have any -- I used celery seed to add a similar flavor). Cut up a potato or two in half-inch chunks and add that. Then saute the other half of the onion and a large fresh tomato with basil and whatever other spices appeal to you (maybe a little rosemary and sage?) and once the onion has gone translucent, add it to the stewpot. You can "lean" the recipe depending on the spices you add; lots of cultures make oxtail dishes and they all have their own take on what works. (Search engines are your friend -- IIRC, my version is very loosely based on a Spanish version.)
By now, the oxtail has been cooking at least an hour and you can fish it out, let it cool a bit, and begin snipping meat from the bone with kitchen shears-- it's a convoluted shape and there's really a lot of meat on it. (The longer the oxtail cooks, the easier to get the meat off the bone.) Just snip away as much as you can over the pot and drop the bone back in. Let it simmer some more -- twenty minutes, a half-hour -- and trim more meat from the bone. Continue at least until the potato is cooked and the aroma is driving you mad. Salt and pepper to taste. Leave the bone simmering as long as the soup is cooking, it's got lots of flavor. Serve with good crackers or crusty bread.
* You can "stretch" it with a little stew beef and/or sausage, which takes less cooking time, but you want oxtail to be at least a third or more of the total amount of meat by weight before cooking, so that good, rich taste isn't lost.I'm a big fan of frying a little sausage separately (so the fat can be drained) and adding it to soups.
I Slept!
Went back to the doctor yesterday. He prescribed a different antibiotic and a much stronger cough syrup. Yeah, cough syrup. I didn't think too much of it at the time. After all, it's mostly treating a symptom. Being of a technical mindset, I know in my bones that you want to go after the root causes.
Ahem. Perhaps this is not the entirety of treatment.
The fancy snake-oil has already made a difference. A big difference. The last few weeks, I have been remembering dreams much more than usual. In hindsight, that's a sure sign of not getting deep sleep. I took some of the hydrocodone-containing cough syrup last night and slept like a log. I feel much better this morning.
The doctor said I might not have been sleeping too well and that the stuff would help; I took it for the usual rah-rah talk. Guess again!
Lungs Still Not Clear
Sheesh. I'm still coughing. Productively.
I remain convinced that the phrase, "What's all this, then?" and its various regional permutations is the single most powerful weapon in the policeman's arsenal.
Labels: babysitting, marvels of government
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It's Offcially Morel Season -- And Just Chilly Eno...


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Elizabeth Ann Russell (born 22 May 1994) is an English cricketer who currently plays for Warwickshire, Central Sparks and Northern Superchargers. She plays as a right-arm medium bowler.

Early life
Russell was born on 22 May 1994 in Solihull, West Midlands.

Domestic career
Russell made her county debut in 2008, for Warwickshire against Lancashire. In her first season she was her side's joint-leading wicket-taker, with 8 wickets including 4/32 taken against Surrey. In 2010, she took 15 wickets at an average of 20.53 in the County Championship, the most for her side. In both the 2012 and 2013 County Championships, Russell took 12 wickets, and in 2013 she took her maiden county five-wicket haul, with 5/13 against Essex. Two years later, against the same opponents, she took her first Twenty20 five-wicket haul, 5/19. In 2016 she hit her maiden county half-century, scoring 51 against Somerset.

Russell had a strong season in 2017, as she took 10 wickets at an average of 7.50 in the County Championship and 9 wickets at an average of 10.66 in the Twenty20 Cup. In 2019, she again took 10 wickets in the County Championship, as well as helping her side to the Division 1 title in the Twenty20 Cup. Russell took five wickets at an average of 31.50 in the 2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup.

In 2020, Russell played for Central Sparks in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. She appeared in 5 matches, taking 6 wickets at an average of 29.00. Her best performance came in the Sparks' victory over Northern Diamonds, where she took 4/28. She took 4 wickets for her side in the 2021 Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as appearing once in the 2021 Charlotte Edwards Cup. She also signed for Northern Superchargers in The Hundred as a temporary replacement for Helen Fenby due to illness. She played 7 matches for the side, taking two wickets. She played seven matches for Central Sparks in 2022, across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, taking eight wickets. She also played one match for Northern Superchargers in The Hundred.

References

External links

1994 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Solihull
Warwickshire women cricketers
Central Sparks cricketers
Northern Superchargers cricketers

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Man Has Sinking Titanic Tattooed on His Back
By Spooky onSeptember 5th, 2011 Category: Funny, News
Titanic enthusiast Steve Hide, from Southampton, England, had his entire back tattooed with the faithful moment the iconic ship sank into the Atlantic, in April of 1912.
45-year-old Steve has always been interested in the history of the Titanic, and since he's also a big fan of tattoos, he figured a full-back ink-job of the Titanic sinking would be a great way of remembering it. Work on the stunning piece began five years ago, in a tattoo parlor in Eastbourne, and since then Steve spent around 40 hours in various tattoo shops getting his back inked. When he first got the idea, in 2006, he wanted to have it done for the 100th anniversary, and used books and pictures of the Titanic sinking in order to have a realistic replica tattooed on his back.
Woman Gets Full-Back Twilight Tattoo
By Spooky onJanuary 10th, 2011 Category: News, WTF
Cathy Ward, a 49-year-old die-hard fan of the Twilight franchise, got a full-back tattoo of the main characters, to show appreciation for helping her lose weight.
That's right, Twilight actually helped someone lose weight, which is kind of ironic, because watching movies and reading books doesn't exactly strike me as an active lifestyle. But in Cathy's case, the interest in the vampire saga kept her away from stuffing her face all the time and helped her shed 14 dress sizes in just six months. All it took was for her to watch the first movie in the series, and she was hooked. She went out and bought all the books and DVDs, and dedicated most of her spare time to Twilight.
After losing the weight, Cathy wanted a permanent reminder that it was all thanks to the Twilight saga, so she got a small tattoo, which eventually turned into a full-back artwork. She spent 22 hours in the tattoo artist's chair and paid over $3,000 for the custom Twilight work of art. But money was never an issue for Cathy Ward, because, as she sees it, she could have spent her money eating and drinking, instead she chose to do it on something she's passionate about.
While many people would say she has more than enough ink covering her body, this Twilight fan says she's not about to stop here. Cathy plans to cover her entire torso and arms with Twilight-inspired tattoos, hopefully before she celebrates her 50th birthday. A big fan of Robert Pattinson, she wants to get a tattoo of his character, Edward Cullen, on her abdomen.
Cathy Ward hopes to, one day, meet the cast of Twilight, so she can show them her impressive body art.
Russian Man Tries to Sell Childhood Painting for $2.3 Million

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Matthew Lane
To rein in Big Pharma over high drug prices, start with patent reform
Bipartisan proposals represent a rare bright spot in a divided Congress
Abuse of the patent system by brand-name drug manufacturers is exacerbating the financial burden faced by American patients for their prescription drugs, Lane writes. (George Frey/Getty Images file photo)
OPINION — With the Senate impeachment trial kicking off and partisan tensions running high on several fronts, Americans might be forgiven for thinking that Congress has lost the ability to find common ground. But lately, and despite the proverbial odds, there is a new bipartisan consensus forming on an issue of incredible importance to millions of Americans: prescription drug pricing. Specifically, reforming the U.S. patent system to end abusive practices that are directly contributing to high drug prices.
Across the country, Americans are struggling under the weight of skyrocketing prescription drug costs. It is no secret that affording medicines and treatments is an incredible burden for too many families. On average, Americans are paying considerably more than citizens of other high-income countries for the same exact prescription drugs.
Mary C. Curtis
Cory Booker bows out, Ben Carson backs off fair housing and issues of race recede in America
Latest Democratic debate was notable for what was not mentioned
With Cory Booker leaving the Democratic presidential race, following the exits of Kamala Harris and Julián Castro, issues of justice and inequality could get short shrift on the campaign trail, Curtis writes. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)
OPINION — It doesn't take a candidate of color on a debate stage to raise issues of justice and inequality. But that has been the way it has worked out, mostly.
For example, it was exhilarating for many when then-candidate Julián Castro said in a Democratic debate, "Police violence is also gun violence," while naming Atatiana Jefferson, killed in her Fort Worth, Texas, home by a police officer who shot through the window without identifying himself. Castro's words were an acknowledgment of the lived experiences of many in America. He has since dropped out of the race, as has California Sen. Kamala Harris, who chided her party for taking the support of black women for granted.
Kate Ackley
Super PACs after 10 years: Often maligned but heavily used
Democrats may slam Citizens United, but they benefit from the PACs the decision unleashed
A man demonstrates against super PACs in front of the Supreme Court in January 2012 to mark the second anniversary of the Citizens United decision, which contributed to the rise of super PACs. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)
The reelection campaign of Rep. Angie Craig, a first-term Minnesota Democrat, kicked off 2020 with an email plea to supporters: "We've got to overturn Citizens United."
Noting the 10 years since the pivotal Jan. 21, 2010, Supreme Court decision, which helped spur along super PACs, the Craig campaign urged people to show their allegiance to the cause by providing their email addresses. Later, would-be donors were asked to chip in money for her campaign, even just $15.
Michael Macagnone
Reapportionment could force a Rhode Island showdown
Smallest state projected to lose a House seat after 2020
Rhode Island Reps. David Cicilline, left, and Jim Langevin may have to duke it in a primary in 2022 with their state projected to lose a seat after the next census. (Tom Williams/Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photos)
This year's census will likely prompt a political showdown between longtime members of Congress in the nation's smallest state.
An analysis based on Census Bureau population projections has Rhode Island losing its second congressional seat in 2022, one of 10 states that could lose representation in Congress. The projections show a tight margin for the last few congressional seats, according to an analysis from Election Data Services. The Ocean State stands 14,000 residents shy of the seat, or about 1 percent of its population.
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When science fiction becomes environmental fact, it might be time to worry
Storylines from 'The Twilight Zone' are now playing out in real time
A bushfire burns in the town of Moruya, New South Wales, Australia, on Sunday. As the country burns, many of its leaders remain unmoved on the science behind climate change, insisting Australia does not need to cut its carbon emissions, Curtis writes. (Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images)
OPINION — How did you spend your holiday? If you're like me, one guilty pleasure was devouring TV marathons, designed to offer relief from the stresses of the season. Reliable favorites include back-to-back episodes of "The Twilight Zone" and, on Turner Classic Movies, one whole day devoted to science fiction, imaginings both cautionary and consoling of what the future holds for our world.
But usual escapes didn't quite work this year, not when fact is scarier than anything "Twilight Zone" creator Rod Serling might have dreamed up, though the serious Serling who introduced each episode of his iconic series, all furrowed brow and cigarette in hand, did signal he suspected what was coming if mankind didn't shape up.
California governor declines to call a special election to replace Duncan Hunter
Gavin Newsom's decision means 50th District seat will remain vacant until 2021
California Rep. Duncan Hunter is resigning Jan. 13 and his seat will remain vacant until 2021. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday he would not call a special election to replace Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter, who is resigning next week after pleading guilty to misusing campaign funds.
"The governor's office received Rep. Hunter's resignation letter. Based on the timing of the resignation, a special election will not be called," Newsom spokeswoman Vicky Waters said.
David Winston
Reflexive anti-Trumpism, AOC's shrink-the-tent strategy will cost Democrats in November
Republicans now have an opportunity to build a broader, winning coalition
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's assertion that her party "can be too big of a tent" is the perfect gift for Republicans to kick off the new year, Winston writes. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)
OPINION — For those of you who read this column regularly, you've heard me often urge Republicans to put their focus on building a broader majority coalition through a more positive political strategy. It's the best path to electoral victory instead of relying heavily on negative campaigns.
But watching the Democrats over the last few weeks lurch from impeachment to progressive economics to armchair quarterbacking the president's decision to take out one of the world's worst actors has left me scratching my head. When it comes to their almost complete reliance on harsh and personal attacks against Donald Trump and the GOP, I find myself asking, "What are they thinking?"
Andrew Siddons
Success of tobacco age change will depend on state efforts
E-cigarette popularity adds complication to drive to address youth tobacco use
Some states that already had "tobacco 21" laws in place saw drops in cigarette smoking rates among young people, but e-cigarette use increased. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images file photo)
The legal age for cigarettes, nicotine vaping products and other tobacco is now 21 across the country after Congress changed the age last month — but progress in reducing youth vaping will depend on states to ensure that underage sales are halted.
While many states and localities adopted laws to raise the tobacco sales age to 21 in recent years, it's unclear how effective they've been so far. Experts caution that raising the age nationally won't be the only thing needed to address the high youth tobacco use rate ushered in by the popularity of e-cigarettes.
Who is Kelly Loeffler?
New Georgia senator is educated, young for the Senate and most importantly, rich
New Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler's teamis prepared to spend $20 million of her own money for the 2020 cycle alone. (Marcus Ingram/Getty Images file photo)
OPINION — When Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp appointed Kelly Loeffler to fill the Senate seat of the beloved-but-ailing Sen. Johnny Isakson, a single headline said it all, repeated many times over. "Who is Kelly Loeffler?" the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, the local NBC affiliate, and Atlanta's NPR station asked almost in unison.
Loeffler, 49, was such an unknown outside of Republican fundraising circles that even longtime political reporters struggled with the pronunciation of her last name. Was it LOFF-ler or LOW-fler? (Neither. It's LEFF-ler.)
Jason Dick
Picture perfect: CQ Roll Call photographers explain their favorite images of 2019
Political Theater Podcast, Episode 105
Jon Stewart, former host of The Daily Show, smiles as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks by at the Ohio Clock Corridor in the Capitol on Tuesday, July 23, 2019. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
From Jon Stewart's smirk to an Elizabeth Warren scrum at the Iowa State Fair to the frenzy surrounding former presidential aide Hope Hicks, CQ Roll Call photographers Tom Williams, Bill Clark and Caroline Brehman are crashing this episode of Political Theater to explain their favorite images of 2019, how they got them and what goes into getting the shot they need.
It's not entirely fair — seeing as how they take about 100,000 images during the year and have to whittle that down to about 10,000 that they file for editorial use — to ask them to pick just one.


Обряд (Obriad), meaning 'Ritual,' is the fourth release from Tyt i Tam. A concept album that explores ancient rituals with impassioned honesty in a contemporary context.
The 3rd release by Ukrainian folk-rockers Tyt i Tam.
The 2nd release by Ukrainian folk-rockers Tyt i Tam.
The 1st release by Ukrainian folk-rockers Tyt i Tam.
Carissa Klopoushak, violin, and Graham Pritchard, guitar, play jazz standards, arrangements, and original tunes. Inspired by the collaborations of Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt.
Performed violin, sopilka (a traditional wooden Ukrainian flute), guitar, and auxiliary percussion on the six newly-recorded songs on the album.


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Callahan Recalls Time With Garrett & O-Line
Nick Eatman
DallasCowboys.com Staff Writer / Senior Manager, Digital Media
While there will be plenty of speculation over the future of a certain head coach during Sunday's game, which could be his last with the team, the same could be said on the opposing sideline as well.
Ironically enough, Redskins head coach Bill Callahan, who was named interim coach earlier this year when the team fired Jay Gruden, is rather familiar with the home side as well.
Callahan was the offensive line coach and running game coordinator for three years under Jason Garrett from 2012-14.
While Garrett is the final year of his contract and could be coaching his last game with the team, Callahan's future is also up in the air as the Redskins are just 3-12 entering the final game of the season.
Callahan and his team likely won't be scoreboard watching, albeit for possible draft positioning. Meanwhile, the Cowboys will have an interest in the Eagles-Giants game that will be playing at the same time in New York. A Giants win, coupled with the Cowboys beating Washington would give Dallas the NFC East title and a spot in the playoffs.
On Tuesday, Callahan spoke to reporters from the Dallas-Fort Worth media in a scheduled conference call. He spoke about not only his time under Jason Garrett, who was just in his second full season as head coach when Callahan joined the staff.
"I have a lot of respect for Jason," Callahan said. "I think he was tremendously well-organized. He was a really good communicator with the players.his messages were always spot-on with the opponents we were playing. He was very demanding as a staff member as to what he wanted. He demanded precision."
Callahan also had a front-row seat when the Cowboys were building this offensive line. He coached Tyron Smith in his second year and was on the staff that drafted both Travis Frederick and Zack Martin. And he still gets to keep tabs on those guys, even when he's just watching film for his own team.
"There's so much crossover film within the division so i get to eyeball those guys a lot with the common opponents that we're playing," Callahan said. "We see their film and what they're featuring. I've continually watched them grow and mature and excel at their positions. I'm glad for Travis that he's having a good year. I was concerned when he got ill and he overcame his obstacles. I've had a lot of lines in that time, but that line itself was one of the hardest working groups that I've ever been around."
Don't miss your chance to see the Cowboys take on the Redskins at AT&T Stadium for the final regular season home game on December 29th. Get your tickets now!


THE hinterland brings together many areas - residential and rural.
Community members gather in towns ranging from Imbil to Woodford.
Being part of the community is important, as is having a good relationships with your neighbours.
After speaking with many hinterland residents, it seems everyone has different experiences with neighbours that are good, bad and sometimes annoying.
One resident who has had a not-so-good experience with their neighbour has had myriad issues from arguments over using the shared driveway to reverse cars in tight situations, to complaints about pets and unnecessary calls to emergency services.
Other residents have had walls of plants such as bamboo planted to block their views.
It is common courtesy to be good to your neighbour - especially those who live rurally, as you just never know when you might need a helping hand in times of bushfires or other local crises.
Here's some tips on being a good neighbour: consider your neighbour's lifestyle, control your dog, practise parking etiquette, alert your neighbour to parties, keep your yard and garden tidy, control your bonfire, barbecue or backyard fire.
If something pops up, talk to your neighbour first before taking it further.
WITH the heat over the past few weeks, many Hinterland residents have been taking advantage of the waterfalls and local swimming areas.
Imbil Deer Park is a good spot to enjoy a day trip and swim in the nearby creeks.
The water is idyllic with refreshing temperatures able to cool the heels off the hottest of folk.
For those of us who enjoy water sports, Borumba Dam is a top spot to cool down and take the jetski or go freshwater fishing.
KENILWORTH Cheese Factory is a great spot to pop into if you're enjoying a drive through the Hinterland.
A wonderful selection of cheeses and yoghurts are provided to sample.
The cheese varieties are amazing, with smoked cheese, garlic and chilli being among the favourites.
Easter Saturday will showcase the cheeses with a food and wine festival. More information will be provided closer to the date.
A BIG congratulations goes to Maleny Dairy for winning the ultimate milk champion for its Farmers Choice full cream milk in the 2017 Australian Grand Dairy Awards.
The milk is supplied by nine farms locally and the award is a huge achievement.
Good work to everyone involved and thanks to our moo moo milk providers.
It just goes to show that we really do live in a wonderful part of the world.


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Over the last month or two, I have had numerous conversations amongst trans woman friends, and quite a few inquiries from other trans-identified and trans-aware folks, about the rather high profile "kerfuffle" (as the excellent Roz Kaveney referred to it in a recent tweet) that has taken place within trans female/feminine spectrum circles recently. I rather vaguely allude to the situation in my recent blogpost a few thoughts on drag, trans women, and subversivism. Other folks have written about it, but my personal favorite synopsis thus far is Jen Richards's recent piece. As with any kerfuffle, I wouldn't be surprised if the principal actors at the center of this story disagree with certain aspects of this particular review. But Richards explores many of the issues regarding community, difference, and consensus (or the lack thereof) that have been on my mind lately. The thing that I appreciate most about the piece is that Richards puts herself into the shoes of others, not to be presumptive or to replace their viewpoints with her own, but rather to try to understand where they are coming from. It was a refreshing change of pace from the this-camp-is-evil/oppressive/censoring/humorless/hurtful versus this-camp-is-righteous/oppressed/human/less-pretentious/more-like-you-dear-readers dichotomy that has formed the backbone of most descriptions of this kerfuffle thus far.
For decades (and still to this day), radical feminists have argued that drag is an inherently conservative phenomenon in that it reinforces the patriarchy. Twenty years ago, queer theorists retorted that drag was inherently subversive, in that it deconstructed binary notions of gender. Interestingly, what both of these very different feminist camps shared was a belief that transsexuality was inherently conservative, assimilationist, and reinforced the gender system.
I just thought that this was worth pointing out in the wake of arguments that have been playing out on the Internets lately between some trans women who suggest that trans women who don't appreciate drag are conservative and assimilationist, and other trans women who suggest that drag (and the trans women who appreciate it) is conservative and assimilationist. I am not linking to any pieces here, as this post is not intended to be a "call out" of individuals. Rather, I feel the need to point out the subversivist nature of these arguments, and how they happen over and over again in feminist, queer, and progressive circles.
So I *finally* got around to updating my webpage Debunking Psychological Diagnoses and Theories about Transsexual and Transgender People today. It includes PDF links to my article The Case Against Autogynephilia, a recently published article on the DSM expansion of Transvestic Disorder, and two still-somewhat-newish pieces about how the "Fetish Concept" hurts both trans folks and our partners.


Torontonians are shaken "to our core" by the Syrian refugee crisis, says a recommendation that the city form a special team and earmark more than $1 million for resettlement efforts.
"This crisis is not simply a Syrian or European issue, it is a humanitarian issue that requires all of us to open our homes and borders," states a recommendation to Mayor John Tory's executive committee sparked by Councillor Joe Cressy's request to city staff for options to help the refugees.
How about not turning these refugees who are mostly men of combat age lose in Canada. We could pay extra money to screen, arm and train men and women of combat age off Canadian soil and send them back to the fold to fight ISIS as swamps of refugees who cant assimilate will only add to our major diversity problem in Canada. How will Syrians resist the invasion from Islamic terrorism if we accept all their vibrant youth seeking a better economic future on our social welfare into our country who will be needed desperately to fight for their homelands and rebuild them.
If we must take refugees lets only take a limited number of Christan Syrians or ethnic Armenians living their. No Muslims should be permitted as their alien culture is not compatible with a Western democracy.
1/4 of the migrants we see invading Europe are not even from Syria and over 72% are males.
Bringing these refugees to white nations will do nothing to help their cause and will decrease our capabilities to help anyone as the refugees will place heavy burdens on our resources and water down our political influence rather quick.


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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
January 23, 2013 by James Jay Edwards
Synopsis: After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches…their past.
Release Date: January 25, 2013 MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genre(s): Action, Thriller
For the uninitiated, the story of Hansel and Gretel is a Brothers Grimm fairy tale about a couple of children who are abandoned in the woods and come across a gingerbread house that is occupied by a witch who captures them, and they escape by pushing her into her oven before she can cook and eat them. The new revisionist fairy tale movie Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters picks up right there; Hansel (Jeremy Renner from The Avengers) and Gretel (The Disappearance of Alice Creed's Gemma Arterton) become celebrities, famous for their witch killing and, with a huge chip on their shoulders, travel the land getting paid to rid towns of their witch problems. Their latest job finds them summoned to a frantic town led by Mayor Engleman (Rainer Bock from Inglourious Basterds) and Sheriff Berringer (Fargo's Peter Stormare), where children are being kidnapped by an evil witch. Hansel and Gretel know that they must act fast because the legendary Blood Moon is approaching, and that's the period when witches can do the most harm to humans. The mercenaries pick up a few allies along the way: an aspiring witch killer named Ben (Project X's Thomas Mann), a young woman accused of witchcraft named Mina (Pihla Viitala from Hellsinki), and a massive but friendly troll named Edward (motion captured by Friday the 13th's Derek Mears and voiced by experienced voiceover actor Robin Atkin Downes from How to Train Your Dragon). The group must do battle with the evil witch Muriel (X-Men's Famke Janssen) and her minions in order to rescue the children of the town.
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is not as bad as it sounds. In fact, it's very entertaining. Director Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow), who wrote the script along with newcomer D.W. Harper, takes the formulaic plot and revs it full of action and adventure. The story is fairly straightforward, getting from point A to point B economically while saving the twists and turns for the climactic ending. There's not a whole lot of character development, and the little bit that does occur is predictable and typical, but Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is not a character driven film; it's a popcorn film, and an effective one at that.
Not surprisingly, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters falls into the same vein as Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. It's an absurd, exploitation concept that succeeds in its execution. It's a triumph of spectacle over substance; the fun is more in the journey than in the destination. The visual effects are slick (especially Edward the troll, who is one of the coolest characters in the film – think Gollum meets The Hulk), the acting is serviceable, and the script is paced well enough to not drag. At the end of the day, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is what it is, and pretends to be nothing more.
Action Sequences
Between The Avengers and The Bourne Legacy, Jeremy Renner has established a solid niche as an action hero, and he is right at home in Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. Gemma Arteron is no stranger to the genre herself, having been in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Clash of the Titans. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is almost non-stop action, barely giving the viewer time to breathe. Some of the fight scenes suffer from the cinematography; they are shot a bit too close for the audience to see what's really going on, especially in the IMAX setting. Nevertheless, the action segments are expertly paced and very well edited (thanks to film editor Jim Page, who also worked on Disturbia and I Am Number Four). The painstaking choreography combined with the slick production value make the action scenes the real high points in Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.
Scary Factor
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is not a horror movie; it's an action/adventure/fantasy film. As such, it's not incredibly scary. Still, audiences should not be fooled by its fairy tale roots; it is in no way, shape, or form intended for children. The imagery is disturbing and frightening in the same way as the imagery in other revisionist fairy tales like Snow White and the Huntsman and Red Riding Hood. The stories are brutal and the heroes have a lot of blood on their hands, with no apologies given. Although Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters won't inspire any nightmares among horror fans, it definitely earns its R rating.
Director(s): Tommy Wirkola
Screenwriter(s): Tommy WirkolaDante Harper
Cast: Jeremy Renner (Hansel)Gemma Arterton (Gretel)Famke Janssen (Muriel) Derek Mears (Edward)
Editor(s): Jim Page
Cinematographer: Michael Bonvillain
Music Score: Atli Orvarsson
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France is the world's most-visited tourist destination, and one of its most popular areas is its wine region, which is characterised by rolling hills graced by vineyards and cosy villages. While most visitors to the country fly into Paris, traffic to regional airports like Bordeaux Mérignac Airport (BOD) is steadily increasing.
The airport is small and efficient, saving passengers much of the hassle and queues that have become synonymous with Paris' sprawling Charles de Gaulle International Airport. There are almost hourly flights to Bordeaux Airport from Paris, and daily flights to nearly all other French airports. Moreover, it's possible to fly almost anywhere in Europe from Bordeaux, including weekly services to prime destinations such as London, Prague, Geneva, Madrid, Amsterdam, Lisbon and Milan. Another significant attraction of Bordeaux Airport is The Parfumerie Aéroboutique. This is a great place to do some last-minute gift-shopping for loved ones back home. The Aéroboutique stocks luxurious French cosmetics like L'Occitane skin care products and Terner accessories and jewellery.
The airport is located eight miles (13km) west of Bordeaux.
Getting to the city
There are regular bus services to the city centre taking about 30-45 minutes. Taxis are available outside the airport.
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Car hire firms Avis, Budget, Europcar and Hertz, among others, operate from the airport.
Airport Taxis
Taxis are available outside the Arrivals area.
A short covered walkway links the two main terminals/halls. The third low-cost Billi terminal is within walking distance.
Airport facilities include a number of bars, shops and restaurants, as well as travel agencies and tour operators. ATMs and bureaux de change are also available. The airport has good facilities for disabled passengers; those with special needs are advised to let their airline know in advance.
There are express, short-term and long-term parking options available at Bordeaux Airport. Parking lot P1 is located within easy walking distance of the terminal building; P4 is the most cost-effective for long-term parking. There is a free shuttle service linking outlying P4 to the terminal building.
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Free wifi is available at the airport.
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After Life series two on the way
Thursday, March 28th, 2019 10:52am
Ricky Gervais has confirmed that he is in the process of writing series two of After Life, praising the response from Netflix viewers, who have shared their enjoyment of the show.
The first six episodes of the comic's latest TV show premiered on the online streaming site last month - and has received acclaim from critics and fans alike.
Taking to his Twitter page earlier today, 57-year-old Ricky wrote: "Thanks again for all the love for #AfterLife.
"I have never had a reaction like this. The reviews have been great but the response from viewers has been f***ing amazing.
"And that means so much more to me. You are the best fans in the world.
"Oh, and I've started writing series 2."
Ricky wrote, directed, and starred in After Life, where her plays a local newspaper employee, Tony, who spirals into depression and becomes suicidal following the death of his wife.
To cope with his grief, Tony becomes rude and destructive - with the actor previously explaining that his character "turns into a psychopath so that he doesn't feel pain anymore".
Ricky added to Variety: "He's really deeply in pain, this is a wounded animal.
"He gets drunk every night, he tries heroin, he tries being nasty, he tries therapy, but he just wants to feel better."
The star also spoke out about wanting to make a second series of the show, telling The Daily Star Sunday: "I always give things a good conclusion in case I die, and that's the case with After Life.
"But now I've thought about it, I would really like to do another series.
"I've got an idea of where it can go. The second series of anything you do is always better, usually because you know the actors."
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