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That is right! After 3 years the much anticipated short KARATE NINJA will be released on JUNE 21! That is one year to the day we released OUT COME THE WOLVES.
Originally intended as a proof-of-concept for a potential feature film numerous delays in editing and sound production resulted in Karate Ninja being shelved as we worked on other stuff. But after JESUS GARCIA did a such an incredible job on OCTW we dusted it off and he finished it.
We have waited 3 years so what is one more week?
Some more great footage from Karate Ninja Development
Karate Ninja compilation of test footage from Versus Films on Vimeo.
Some time ago we had the pleasure develop a short clip from the film while doing some test runs with a good camera. As you can see here, we pieced together this clip with some previous practice footage.
Behind the scenes
Hey folks! We've been real busy getting the trailer put together. Here's some nice shots from behind the scenes during the shoot. Stay tuned for more updates including the finished trailer!
Amy Spencer of Action Figure costumes preparing Joshua Vinyard for some serious ninja action.
Director W.John Daley consulting with our director of photography Russell Sherman
W John Daley doing some directing


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Mar 09 2009
Day 379: The Trouble with Six Beds
It wasn't until some recent guests (our first real group of visitors) left The Lodge a couple of weeks ago that I realized how much work it would be to have a real, full-time bed-and-breakfast. Our guests were as neat as they could be, and left very little clean-up that needed to be done. All I needed to do was do a quick touch-up to the bathrooms…and wash the sheets and make all the beds.
Sounded easy. But washing and drying sheets and remaking six beds is no small job. I don't live in The Lodge, so it's not something I can just do gradually throughout the day as I go about my daily routine. I've also got plenty going on around my own house, though, so I can't exactly spend an entire day at The Lodge waiting for sheets to go through laundry cycles.
I also don't have a staff or crew to do it for me.
So I had to come up with a system.
The system involves a practice that will be somewhat controversial. A practice I learned from my mother-in-law.
A practice that might make a few of you balk.
It might make some of you say "I do that, too!"
And a few of you will say "Please pass the Velveeta." If you do, you're in the wrong section. Please click on The Pioneer Woman Cooks at your earliest convenience.
Here's what I do.
I wash the sheets of one bed (along with towels from that bedroom's bathroom). Then I remove the sheets from the washing machine. Then I put them on the bed while they're still damp. I make sure to smooth out the sheets as I'm putting them on the bed. Short of hanging them on the line and/or ironing them, putting sheets on the bed while they're still damp, I've found, is the best way to get them smooth and delicious-looking.
Sometimes I put them in the dryer for five minutes to heat them up a little bit. But usually, I don't. But the key is, I don't tuck in the sheets while they're damp; I just let them hang loose.
Then…I leave The Lodge, go home, and get on with my life, allowing the sheets to air dry naturally.
Keep in mind that the spin cycle gets all the excess water out of the sheets, so they're never damp enough to impart any dampness at all to the mattress pad below OR to the wood on the bed frame.
(That was for those of you who are feeling very uncomfortable and forlorn at the thought of putting damp sheets on a bed.)
Then I come back whenever I can—later that evening or even the next day. And I throw another set of sheets into the washing machine. While they're washing, I finish making the first bed—the one I earlier that day or the day before. The sheets are dry, smooth, and lovely.
As soon as the spin cycle ends, I remove the sheets from the washer, put them on the bed…and leave.
Then, when I come back later or the next day, I throw in another set of sheets and finish making THIS bed. And so on…and so on…and so on. This way, I never have one huge day I have to carve out of my life in order to get all the beds back together.
So the system, in a nutshell, is this:
Go to the Lodge.
Throw a set of sheets into the washing machine.
While they're washing, finish making the bed that I washed previously.
Remove sheets from washing machine.
Place them on the bed, smoothing them out and allowing them to hang loose.
Leave and get on with my life.
Repeat as my life permits, starting from the top.
I had to come up with some kinds of system. Because the other day when I realized I had to wash the sheets and make six beds in addition to the ones already in my own house, I considered moving to a small apartment somewhere. Somewhere in a city. Somewhere by myself.
Somewhere near Starbucks.
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Jenny-Jenny On Monday, March 9 at 1:41 pm
Come on people. She lives in a place where the sheets will dry and damp sheets really do make a very nice fresh bed. Wash hot and let dry completely before putting on the top layers. Another set would be nice to have around just in case. But I stick by PW…put them on damp, you'll never get into a crisper, fresher nicer bed. Ask Larry how to make a bed. http://larryvperkins.blogspot.com/2008/12/i-made-bed-this-morning.html
Cheryl in WI On Monday, March 9 at 1:43 pm
Great idea! I hope your washer can handle up to 10 sheets at a time like mine can! (I've never done this – but that's what the manufacturer said way back in the day….of course that WAS the Maytag Neptune – which is the model that bankrupted Maytag… so maybe not!)
Isabelle On Monday, March 9 at 1:43 pm
Mmmmm… not sure it would work around here (Quebec), not in Summer. And what happens if you have new comers the same day ? I prefer to have a second set of sheets… And the smell of sheets dried on line is just the best !
Kathleen On Monday, March 9 at 1:47 pm
I'm amazed at the before and after photos. I never would have thought of that! Of course, living in FL, unless the a/c is on, we have HUMIDITY and if I spread anything out damp, it would continue to be damp forever. What I miss is being able to hang sheets out on a line. Darn birds and their berry meals!
Cate On Monday, March 9 at 1:49 pm
I'm back — you need to run this as a 'poll'!!
Oklahoma's humidity must be different from the Ohio Valley area…. Any B&B or condo I've ever stayed at has asked that we strip the beds. Maybe not start the washer, but drop them there..
MrsTee On Monday, March 9 at 2:11 pm
I have never, ever in my life thought of doing that with sheets. But, you can bet your sweet bippy I'm gonna try it now!
Laurie in VA On Monday, March 9 at 2:23 pm
Ok I think some of you need to "chillax" as the kids say . . .ironing sheets . . .really . . isn't that so out dated . . .so 1950s housewife. At my house as long as they are clean who cares about a wrinkle here or a wrinkle there. It's not like they don't get messed up as soon as you squirm around in them.
Shirley On Monday, March 9 at 2:26 pm
I would invest in an extra set of sheets for each room and allow the people who are leaving to strip and remake the beds. Then I'd wash the dirty sheets at my leisure. But then I'm lazy that way.
nonegiven On Monday, March 9 at 2:27 pm
I would throw a comforter over each bed to keep the dust off the mattress then hand a fresh set of folded sheets to guests when they come.
Joy On Monday, March 9 at 2:31 pm
Sounds like a spiffy idea, however it would only work in a drier area (hence, mildew is gross). I'm with the other big spenders – buy 3 sets of sheets for each bed!
Anonymous On Monday, March 9 at 2:45 pm
What the heck are you talking about? She used " you're" correctly! I think YOU'RE the one who's dumber than a doornail!
Karin On Monday, March 9 at 2:57 pm
Please ignore the previous entry by me. It was just a mistake.
This is a great idea for rainy days, or when it's too cold outside to hang sheets on the line. Having the heat on would certainly prevent any mildewy problems and you would still have that feeling of crispy sheets. I love crispy sheets.
Gretel On Monday, March 9 at 2:58 pm
Time to make your life easier! Buy a second set for every bed. When guests leave, part of the deal for allowing them to stay at the lodge is that they change the bed before they depart. Before you start thinking it's rude to your guests, remember that they've had a fabulous stay at the lodge and you do NOT have help! It works, and I've never had anyone complain. You can wash the dirty sheets at your leisure. Good luck!
Anna On Monday, March 9 at 2:59 pm
To me it sounds like mold waiting to happen…but I did make flank steak sauce from the marinade like you do (yum!) and I am still alive to write it, so you may have another point here
Lori in Michigan On Monday, March 9 at 3:04 pm
I kind of like the idea of it as far as being able to get on with your day, but it can be very humid where I live and it wouldn't work for me here, and are you washing the sheets in hot water? I would be worried about bacteria, sorry just where my brain goes….
Jill B. On Monday, March 9 at 3:12 pm
Unless it's been asked, why can't the kids help make the beds and I agree with at least another set of sheets for each bed. Wet sheets on a bed, don't think so.
Abby On Monday, March 9 at 3:15 pm
I think that idea is brillant! The sheets are always wrinkled when they come out of the dryer fully dry anyways.
I so think that having a extra set of sheets is a bad idea. I mean, then you have to fold and store them…yuck! No one in my house has a second set of sheets. Just get um washed, and get it over with!
Miss M.J. Ma'am On Monday, March 9 at 3:19 pm
WOW, a sheet controversy…….do what ever makes your skirt fly up!!! Or how about having Mike come over and do them???!!
Deputy's Wife On Monday, March 9 at 3:19 pm
You know, if I remember correctly from your pictures, I think your washing machine will hold at least two sets of sheets. Mine does and it is the same set as yours. Then you can knock out two beds in one day!
Emily On Monday, March 9 at 3:20 pm
Yay Starbucks! I work there so I'm slightly biased, but hey, they're good. Good luck with your sheets. I can't imagine doing all those sheets. Very high degree of ew.
wunderwoman On Monday, March 9 at 3:23 pm
I am sorry but this would NEVER work for me, I cannot bring myself to put wet sheets on the beds, therefore I have oodles of extra sheets;)
Danielle Michelle On Monday, March 9 at 3:29 pm
OMG Ree – you should hire me to be your B & B keeper! I'm thinking of needing a major change in where I live! I can cook, clean, teach and start a good saddle horse – AND I'm in love with where y'all live! lol
Kassidy On Monday, March 9 at 3:32 pm
Your oldest girl can drive, can't she? If she can, I nominate her for a shift or two of your sheet blanket bingo at the Lodge; I mean, what's the point of having kids if you can't put them to work?
MamaGeph On Monday, March 9 at 3:38 pm
HA! If I tried that up here in the Pacific Northwest, I would put the lightly damp sheets on the bed and come back later to find them covered with moss, lichen, and small tree sprouts. Stuff just GROWS here.
Ah, sometimes I miss the arid Colorado climate of my youth…
CottageGirl On Monday, March 9 at 3:40 pm
That is a plan…
May I ask a question? … Maybe I missed something…
Why do you have dimples at the foot of the mattress
Susan On Monday, March 9 at 3:41 pm
Well..I'd just strip the beds, take all the sheets home with me and wash, dry and fold them as time permits. Then the next time I had company, I'd take them (and some helpers) back to the lodge and make the beds. Less running back and forth that way.
Karen On Monday, March 9 at 3:42 pm
Did you say that you wash the towels with the sheets? Doesn't that make little pills on the sheets so that it feels like you are sleeping on sand? Maybe that happens in the drying part of the process. But I always wash sheets with sheets…towels with towels.
Lizzie On Monday, March 9 at 3:47 pm
I was amazed at how dry everything felt coming out of my new front loading washing machine. It really whips the water right out of stuff in the spin cycle. I don't think anything bad is happening to your bed by doing it your way, I just think it would be a heck of a lot easier to just buy more sheets. To each his own though
Linda Sue On Monday, March 9 at 3:53 pm
so theory would be- you cannot have all 6 beds refilled for 6 days? not much money in a B&B with that rate of turnover. We had one with about 10 beds – and a total of 30 sets of sheets – one clean, one on the bed and one in the laundry – pretty much all the time. It is a killer lifestyle unless you have a LOT of family who need jobs or are OCD about laundry. After owning a B&B – we never stay in them – too much empathy! The wet sheet thing would probably work in your part of the world, North Texas can be way too damp – but like some of the others – if your MIL gave you this idea it has the Good Housekeeping Seal fersure
ashleyrenkes On Monday, March 9 at 3:55 pm
A lot of plush top beds have a dimpled/quilted look. It's the sign of a snuggly bed!!!
cara Fitzgerald On Monday, March 9 at 3:56 pm
OK, we have this issue at a family cabin that we share.. Have you ever considered having 12 sets of sheets? I know it sounds frivolous, but it sure saves some serious time.. We don't have a washer and dryer at the cabin due to septic problems around a lake, but what we do have is a two sets of everything. That way we just load it out and bring the fresh in. But if the wet works for you, do it for heaven sakes..:-)
DoubleH On Monday, March 9 at 3:59 pm
I agree with everyone that you really need a second set. If not for changing the sheets after someone visits, but more importantly if there's an accident or something and you need to change the sheets quickly.
My mom has a policy at her house when a guest is responsible for making their bed everyday and when you leave you are responsible for changing the sheets.
I think everyone would understand that you are busy and this would really help you out.
A Martha Stewart idea for the set in the closet. Fold everything and place it inside one of the pillowcases, that way the full set is together and you don't have to search for the top sheet or the second pillowcase.
In my house I have to have two sets of sheets, my cat knows she isn't suppose to sleep on the sheets, so if bed is stripped and she can't lay on it she will meow at me until I remedy the situation.
repmogirl On Monday, March 9 at 4:03 pm
Seriously? That fancy schmancy washer and dryer will only do one set of sheets at a time? I would have thought it would have done at least 3 sets…
For what you spent furnishing the lodge I would have fogrone some tchochkies & bought two sets of sheets for every bed
denise karis On Monday, March 9 at 4:08 pm
That DID make me really uncomfortable… I'll have to accept that in my brain before I try it
RV Goddess On Monday, March 9 at 4:09 pm
I think should have installed two washer and two dryers when you designed the lodge.
Innkeeper Seely On Monday, March 9 at 4:10 pm
It must be some wicked plot to get MM to take the kids to the farm because you "have to" stay home and do laundry
Interesting solution but really too inefficient if you really want to run a B&B. It would not work here – the salt air is too damp for things to dry before mildew sets up. Some days we have to remake eight beds (plus cleaning the rooms) in four hours.
To each his own though. I would hate dragging the laundry out for a full week. I can't believe you can't put more in that washer. I have a smaller model and can do 3 queen sets or 2 king sets per load. .
sir chimpy On Monday, March 9 at 4:13 pm
I like ScratchDaddy's idea.
I have to admit that I have recently found myself fantasizing (is that a word?…doesn't look right) about living alone in my third floor walkup in the city again (with, yes, a starbucks 1/2 block over).
I find that these fantasies are most frequent late at night after cleaning up the clutter from my very messy family, on the weekends as I try to demolish mt. laundry, and in the middle of the day as I race home to pick up the little guy from daycare before I get tagged for picking him up too late again.
Sherry Coleman On Monday, March 9 at 4:19 pm
That's an interesting idea and intriguing enough that I think I'll have to try it at least once. The weather is hot and dry enough around Dallas to make it work most of the time. For the lodge, though–I have to agree with the folks who suggest that perhaps your guests would be willing to make the beds with fresh linens as they leave. My niece has a lakehouse, and that's what we do for her. It's a small enough task to do in return for her hospitality and no one minds. I would mind a lot more thinking about her having to go around and make up all those beds after we're gone!
Annie G On Monday, March 9 at 4:20 pm
Doesn't seem like you're saving time…just energy by not using your dryer. You're still making multiple trips back to get them all done. I say let your oldest earn some extra money by doing the sheets and towels after the gustes leave.
Anne On Monday, March 9 at 4:36 pm
While your waiting to acrue a second set of sheets for each bed which I do as well as second bath rugs etc. I would hope to see you challenge to three at a time wash three, dry three and make three. Then the task is not over head for a week. Plus it is much more friendly to the planet However I love the idea of letting them dry on the bed.
celina On Monday, March 9 at 4:43 pm
I like the idea from #339-,but buying more sheets sounds like fun…kinda like the motto you can never have too many dish towels!
Most of all I think we gals like to gab don't we even about sheets!
Happy Washing Ree-Celina in Montana
Dori On Monday, March 9 at 4:48 pm
My parents ran a B&B plus had 4 vacation rentals, before they retired. They had at least 3-4 sets of sheets per bed, so the turn around time was minimal if they had back to back guests.
Melissa Chehy On Monday, March 9 at 4:51 pm
I LOVE IT! What a fantastic way to get things done without wasting your whole day at the Lodge! I'm never drying my sheets again.
cordylia On Monday, March 9 at 4:51 pm
Happy is the woman who finds her own system. You seem to have found your laundry Lodge niche! For moi, I'd gather those sheets and towels, swoop down on the local laundromat, armed with my daydreams, newest mag issues, a good read, or my phone, and enjoy an hour of leisure while my laundry, including my home's laundry, all get swirled and swished at once fell swoop. And that, having an hour of my own sweet 60 minutes and an hour of accomplishing all that laundry, would make me happy indeed! Have fun with the lodge; it looks beautiful!
Shelley On Monday, March 9 at 4:59 pm
We do the two-sets-of-sheets-per-bed at our beach house. That way, if we need to get home quickly and don't have time to wait for the ANCIENT washing machine there to finish, we can wash them at home and bring them back on our next trip. Easy squeezy.
Tamra On Monday, March 9 at 5:00 pm
I need one of those washers! Mine are WAY too damp after a cycle.
Rebel On Monday, March 9 at 5:12 pm
I know there is more expense involved but if you had a spare set of sheets for each bed you could strip them all, make 'em and take the dirty ones back home and wash at your leisure. It still seems like a lot of running back and forth washin' and makin' 'em up the way you're doin'. Livin' in good ole Green House Missouri, I don't think I'd dare put even a slightly damp sheet on a bed. I have a Fisher Paykel washer and when you take clothes out of it after they're washed they don't even feel slightly damp, they feel dry but I know there's some moisture in there somewhere and run everything through the dryer for a few minutes, it is soooo easy for mildew to form and over time I would think your mattress pads would get sour smellin'.
Julie On Monday, March 9 at 5:27 pm
Great idea. You mean you wash sheets?
Cynthia On Monday, March 9 at 5:27 pm
Huh. Never thought of that. I am willing and able to try that.
Kathy On Monday, March 9 at 5:28 pm
I say buy some back-up sheet sets, or task the punks to do this task!!! : )
Cheryl On Monday, March 9 at 5:29 pm
Whenever we stay at our boss's cabin, he leaves out a set of clean sheets and towels. We take off the dirty and put on the new before we leave. He takes care of the old.
April On Monday, March 9 at 5:29 pm
REALLY???? That works???? I would be worried about them getting musty, but my bedroom is kind of cold and dark. It looks like the ones at the lodge are nice and sunny and airy. I'm impressed with your ingenuity!
Pam Howard On Monday, March 9 at 5:33 pm
I've never done that with sheets, but when I wash my curtains, I often rehang them damp. It works great with lace, voile, and most cotton blends…anthing to avoid ironing.
Janet On Monday, March 9 at 5:38 pm
That's a fabulous idea! I was worried though, I thought you were gonna say you turned 'em inside out or upside down and use them again. Now THAT would have been shiver worthy…
notmuchofacook On Monday, March 9 at 5:39 pm
I'm going to try this little household tip. I will have to put the sheets in the dryer for a little bit, since I don't have a front loader. I would love to hang my sheets on a line outside, but we simply don't have the space. I love crisp sheets–but not enough to iron them. And Ree, I think you're playing with us. We know you can wash several sheets in the brand spanking gorgeous new washer.
Kimmy G On Monday, March 9 at 5:43 pm
My heat skipped a beat when I read B&B… My next vacation with the girls flashed before my eyes – staying in the Lodge, taking pictures, fraternizing with the livestock, meeting you, never leaving. Hmm…maybe the B&B is not such a good idea for you, but I sure loved it while it lasted!
Kathy On Monday, March 9 at 5:43 pm
We have stayed at some very nice B&B's and they always have a set of clean sheets ready to be put on the bed lying at the foot of the bed. They throw the bedspread over the bed and when you go in you make your own bed. That way you know everything is clean and fresh. When we go to regular hotels I always take my own sheets and towels and change the bed when we get there. You just never know who or what has been on those sheets. Save yourself some time girl, get a second set for your beds and have the guests make their own bed. Trust me I think they would prefer it!
joanne On Monday, March 9 at 5:48 pm
PLEASE please, buy an extra set of sheets for each bed. Wash the sheets separate from the towels and they will dry faster.
Theresa in Alberta On Monday, March 9 at 5:49 pm
I will have to try that trick! the new front loaders spin so fast that sheets are almost "dry" when you pull'em out.
or you could buy a 2nd set of sheets for all of the beds
kate On Monday, March 9 at 6:03 pm
I could never do that. My kids like to crawl all over the beds while I make them (they think they're helping… except the 2 year old, she just thinks it's dang fun) and it would be just my luck that they'd have dirty hands and feet and I'd end up having to re-wash everything. Plus… I'm lazy about laundry, I wash and dry it, but I don't bring it upstairs to be put away or put on the beds until it's time to start getting ready for bed. (My kids help put away their own laundry, so that's not a huge issue, it's just getting it folded and UP the stairs between all the other chores that takes me all day.)
becca On Monday, March 9 at 6:28 pm
I'm going to say a couple things that have already been said and another I don't think has yet…
I was taught to remove sheets from a bed after I'm a guest somewhere. So I'm on board with that, except that I'm not sure I'd ever ask anyone to do that. And I do keep an extra pairs of sheets, but I have winter (flannel) and summer sheets instead, so that's a totally different reason to have extra sheets.
What I don't really get is leaving sheets on the bed between guests. I did this ONCE and when I went to air out the sheets before guests came (I'm so glad I did that!!) there was a spider that had made a home between the sheets, and the bug carcasses that go with that. Yikes!! I guess some people do more pest spraying than I do, but I usually don't need to spray as long as I have MY system of keeping things tidy.
So in between guests I leave the clean sheets folded in the closet, and the comforter pulled over the mattress and pillows to keep dust from collecting. When guests come over I put clean sheets on the bed and the comforter gets aired out while I'm doing that.
I didn't know so many people kept beds made up all the time!
Anonymous On Monday, March 9 at 6:30 pm
I am going to bite the next person who suggests (like they are the first ones to have thought of it) that Ree should buy another set of sheets. It is just SHEETS people, she did not suggest putting a baby in the washing machine.
sherrie On Monday, March 9 at 6:32 pm
Hmmm… this would be such a wonderful idea if it wasnt for germs and dustmites. I am a big fan of simplifying life being a homeschooling mother of 4 myself, and although I do not have to make 6 additional beds, I would go with the buying extra sheets solution. If you would read about all the awful things in bed sheets and how only the dryer kills all said things I think you might have to agree… (I dont have a particular source but I'm sure if you googled you'd find it, and I am NOT a germaphobe or anything close to it, but used bed sheets from someone other than myself is just SCARY!) Luv your blog!! ~S
sherrie On Monday, March 9 at 6:34 pm
so i think now I will be bitten by the person in comment 362, but I didnt read all the comments before posting, it was my initial thought to your post. perhaps all your readers should chip in for extra sheets since we all seem to be in agreement?
Debbie -- Angleton, TX On Monday, March 9 at 6:35 pm
I am all about saving time and figuring out short cuts, but you sure couldn't do that here along the Gulf coast… we fight a constant battle with mold and mildew with our outrageously high humidity. Envy your trick.
Michelle in SF On Monday, March 9 at 6:39 pm
# 171 – LOL! "Asshat" I love it!!
Seriously, chillax people.
Don't do it if you don't like it…no big deal.
Thanks tho for the tip about storing the extra sheets under the mattress – great idea!
Janet On Monday, March 9 at 6:41 pm
I gotta tell you – I am the worst housekeeper in the world, but even I would not put "damp" sheets right out of the washer on the bed. I think you are going to regret this one!
Nancy in Texas On Monday, March 9 at 6:44 pm
We have 4 guest rooms one of which has a pair of twin beds for a total of 5 beds for guests. Each bed has a second set of sheets and I immediately remake the beds with clean sheets when I strip the dirty off. Tidy up the room and adjoining bath then move to the next room. That way I enter and leave each room once… no backtracking.
Connie Carroll On Monday, March 9 at 6:47 pm
I would buy extra sheet sets (SORRY) I would be afraid of mold growing even from slightly damp sheets.
Debkb On Monday, March 9 at 6:47 pm
Umm, buy an extra set of sheets for each bed!
lynn On Monday, March 9 at 6:49 pm
Well, at least you have a system!
We have several guest rooms in our monastery (yes, you are welcome anytime!) and we just have lots of sheet sets. That way we can remake a bed as soon as one guest leaves and wash the sheets when we have time. It seems a little easier than your method – but whatever works!
Lucy On Monday, March 9 at 6:56 pm
Soooo…you CAN have a B&B as long you only book guests every other week. Since it will take you a week to make all the beds again. Just an observation.
ang On Monday, March 9 at 6:59 pm
Wouldn't it just be easier to buy two sets of sheets per room?
Jane On Monday, March 9 at 7:07 pm
Have your guest bring there own damn sheets and the problems solved!!! Yawn…..
Kara On Monday, March 9 at 7:08 pm
I just bought some Frette bedding (which is really yummy) that suggested folding sheets while they are damp to get the crisp lines in them and letting them dry that way. So I have 2 sets and that's what I do with them to keep the fresh sheets wrinkle free. Thought the fitted sheets are never quite right, at least they stretch out over the bed.
Suzy On Monday, March 9 at 7:30 pm
I've heard that front load washers do an exceptionally good job at removing the excess water, even more so if you do 2 spin cycles. I, however, still have a top loader. I cannot imagine putting wet sheets from MY lousy washer, on a bed! lol
Marie On Monday, March 9 at 7:31 pm
I am a Quality Analyst who audits processes.
Sorry to say this makes very little sense to me. I echo what many others have said….extra sheets are needed and washing -and drying, more than one set at a time at your house. When guests leave they should start one load of laundry at the lodge that you can help process while you are there. The rest of the load should happen back at your house. Good luck!
Leah On Monday, March 9 at 7:40 pm
I like the idea. Mom always put clean sheets on a bed right before guests came but we don't have company that often so I'm stumped with what to do. She taught me to store sets in the jumbo ziploc bags but the problem they're wrinkled when they come out. Maybe I'm just a delinquent at folding those silly fitted sheets.
Great idea.
the domestic fringe On Monday, March 9 at 7:49 pm
I'm glad this works for you, but I don't know….
I don't think my sheets would ever really dry and I hate the smell of mildew, you know?
I wish I lived in a dry climate.
Amy On Monday, March 9 at 7:49 pm
Ree – NO NO NO NO NO!! Two words: MOLD and MILDEW. Don't do it. It's ICKY to put wet sheets on a bed. ICK!! I love you for every other idea in your head…just NOT this one.
Marilyn On Monday, March 9 at 8:08 pm
ewwwwwww! ick! gross, gross, gross!
I live in a fairly dry/arid climate and wouldn't even dream of doing this. Having grown up in the South (Arkansas) I don't see how this is feasible.
Furthermore, you need at least a spare set of sheets for each bed anyway. What if a guest spills coffee on the sheets? What if a guest has some sort of leakage of bodily fluids in the bed? You cannot expect them to wait while the sheets dry on the bed. Love ya' and all…but hate this idea.
emma in Ft. Worth On Monday, March 9 at 8:10 pm
INFLAMMATORY issue here! Who'd a thought it??? If I get to spend a night at the Lodge, I will bring my OWN sheets AND towels – so you won't have the problem! Damp sheets make me sorta want to sneeze in anticipation of mold…
You didn't ask – but 2 sets per bedroom, teach the kids to make beds, wash them AT the Lodge on cooking days.
Debbie On Monday, March 9 at 8:10 pm
I'm with #271!
What a fun read!
Jodi On Monday, March 9 at 8:22 pm
Spare sheets are a must – get a black light and check out the craziness on the sheets after about six months of doing this…HAHAHA – Please use that fab dryer of yours…Put two loads of sheets at a time into washer.
Joan On Monday, March 9 at 8:22 pm
I have two or more sets of sheets for every bed at our "guest house"…and the color-coded extra sets are stored in the closet of each room. Towels are also color-coded…and hung on rack on door of each bedroom. Usually guests take that as a hint to make up the beds with clean sheets…and take the dirty ones downstairs to the laundry room. Thankfully.
Judie On Monday, March 9 at 8:24 pm
Genious! I'm so doing that…. tomorrow.
Cindy On Monday, March 9 at 8:25 pm
I couldn't do that here in FL. Too humid.
Sally On Monday, March 9 at 8:26 pm
You're on to something – I've done that here, and it works great as long as they're only slighly damp. I don't know how you keep up with it all, but you seem to have routine and it works.
cecelia On Monday, March 9 at 8:33 pm
hmm…I have never thought of that before. I must consider. You do have a huge schedule though…maybe an extra for the beds? You could just get a few sets extra at a time.
Heidi On Monday, March 9 at 8:34 pm
I never would have thought to put them on damp. That's neat that it works so well!
And I checked out your link–that's so fun that Southern Living came by to do a story about your food. I have to admit, it stressed me out watching them stress out over every detail. I don't think I would enjoy that kind of photography, but I'm glad they can do it so well!
amy On Monday, March 9 at 8:40 pm
Well, someone deleted or something, because the person I called an asshat is now #107 instead of #105…. sorry Janice, I wasn't referring to you!
livinonthecrowrock On Monday, March 9 at 8:51 pm
I dunno, Ree. This idea makes me somewhat squeamish. And I am no squeamish person. But, if it works for you and your mattresses don't get all mildewy and stuff, what they heck? I agree about the humidity factor- here in the Chesapeake Bay region, it's ALL ABOUT THE HUMIDITY!
I can't HANDLE the humidity! And that's why I want to move to AZ, NM, WY, or ID. But- I'll probably die humid.
debbie On Monday, March 9 at 8:53 pm
Elizabeth On Monday, March 9 at 9:08 pm
1) buy maximum capacity, heavy-duty laundry equipment.
2) Hire me to be your B&B Manager
3) I own a day spa, so I have LOTS of laundry experience, and
4) Bonus to you! You could offer guests spa treatments!
gail pritz On Monday, March 9 at 9:16 pm
ypu can get good quality sheets at fairly reasonable prices at tj maxx if you have one in your area. Queen size 500 thread count and up at 39.99 and king at 49.99. you don't have to buy at once. i could not be bothered taking that long to do sheets. we have extras at our beach house and with the humidity your system would not work. but it does sound interesting.
St. Fairsted Farm On Monday, March 9 at 9:30 pm
I'm sorry I find #107's comment funnier than hell! Sugar! If the worst I do in a day is make a grammatical error, I'm doing good or should that be fine? Anyway, I commend you on the bed sheet theory but I've been schooled "old school" and sheets go out on the line.
Suzanne On Monday, March 9 at 9:35 pm
Tumbling in the dryer makes my sheets softer than if I air dry them. Does putting them on the bed damp, let them dry stiff and scratchy? (or is it my cheap sheets)
4funboys On Monday, March 9 at 9:45 pm
ahhhh… it's called HOMESCHOOLING>>>>>
child #1 … do this bed…
child#2… do this one… etc…
til they're all done (imperfect as they may be… b.c. I'll cover it up with the imperfect comforters later.
yep… that way I can finish that romance novel I'm working on reading in PW's site… when she gets to finishing the next chapter of course! ha
Michelle On Monday, March 9 at 9:48 pm
We use this method of making the beds in the summertime. During the summer there are nights when it is still 90 degrees when it's time to hit the sack. I live out west so we have low humidity and this is a great wat to cool off. It's so cool and refreshing after a warm shower to slide into your chilled sheets. Turn the ceiling fan on if it's super hot out a personal wind chill factor to occur in your bedroom in the middle of July! It works.
Sarah On Monday, March 9 at 9:50 pm
You could move to an apartment…but then you'd have to haul your laundry down to the basement to do. At least you'd be by yourself, though. Taking laundry down 3 flights of stairs being 8 months pregnant with 3 year old potty training twins (you think you have sheets to do…)
It's not pretty.


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What ever happened to the prosecutor subpoena for th nj.com poster who claimed to have first hand knowledge of the case?
Funny how the SL decided to never follow that up, did the guy even get contacted?
LOL!!! The mayor of Summit calling someone clueless? That is irony for you huh?
While people may leave, the politicians really don't give a crap because in order to leave, you have to find some other sucker to buy your house and take over the taxes.
The government has a hand in this as well. All these "Free Trade Agreements" pave the way for jobs to moved overseas. Remember folks, whenever you hear about "globalization" or the "global economy", all that means is a redistribution of wealth, our wealth to the rest of the world. This is all government backed and approved.
BEFootball, this isn't about a "legitimate relationship", this is about pervert style inappropriate touching.
Did you read the article?
How is it you see fit to defend a kid toucher pervert?
You are mistaken. Franklin allowed the lawsuit to proceed, hold them accountable. These towns/counties operate like clandestine organizations and scoff at the common man trying to do nothing more than asking for 100% legitimate information. This is TAXPAYER money, not their money.
Someone has to keep an eye out for the little guy.
Excellent question, nobody leaves those types of jobs voluntarily.
All the "people laws" are knee jerk reactions that politicians use to manipulate the public and the victims for their own benefit. They rarely do any good and are full of loopholes.
Please, don't let facts or common sense get in the way of these knuckleheads rants.
Now the ridiculous closings are starting make sense, The state is going to charge all this back to FEMA and make a killing at the residents cost. Obama is a joke.
Great job shutting down the states infrastructure over 24 hours ahead of a storm that isn't supposed to make landfall until Sunday. No reason to stop flights at noon today other than to strand tens of thousands of people for no reason.
I hope nobody needed to pick up their parents in the hundreds of retirement villages at the jersey shore after work Friday. This is ridiculous.
Of course. But realize that common sense is never taken into consideration when any religious concern is at hand.
Basking Ridge resident Syed Siddiq needs to do a little research on what religious freedom really means. Nobody is blocking anyones religious freedom, anyone if free to practice any religion they want. Religious freedom does now give any group the right to transform any property they want into anything they want - like a full time school and retail store, as their plan states.
Its digesting the way they throw out the religious persecution card at the drop of a hat.
Biggest fraud going. These clandestine elections need to be moved to the November elections along with all other elections.
Remember, the state ignored the BILLIONS of theft, incompetence, and graft at the School Construction Authority.
If they want to actually make a difference, wrap that one up.
Thats the best we can hope for. Chances are they are snitching like crazy right now.
These clowns will likely get a slap on the wrist, and PTI.
Remember, this isn't some isolated incident this is the norm. They should check out the turnpike authority, Port Authorities, and county government for even more shenanigans.
They WILL NOT go to prison. They will get a very light slap on the wrist and likely end up in pre trial intervention. They may even retire and collect their pensions.
Pure and total nonsense. The power grab failed and now they are seeking to steal more money from the taxpayers via plan B. Short Term maintenance, long term maintenance, physical impact?
You worried the floor tiles will wear out faster? Come on, cut the crap already and cut some of those administrative salaries.
Christie is overlooking the Turnpike/Parkway authority and the Raritan Valley Sewage Commission.
If he wants the shock of his life, he needs to look at the family tree that is Union County freeholders and every job at the county level.
Ugh, enough already. Legalize it and stop the nonsense.
People are smoking pot anyway, all kinds of people from all ages and walks of life, right here in Jersey.
Pot is easier to get than booze for most kids.


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A very British coup
I speak not of Gordon Brown's parting shot in the 2010 election – his pledge to resign to facilitate a deal between the Liberal Democrats and Labour – but of the extraordinary reaction by the Tory press to the news today.
If Brown thought he had endured the worst the assembled frothing, tweeded, spluttering, luv-a-duck rent-a-mob of assembled gobshites and nutcases had to throw at him, he was wrong.
Throughout the last couple of weeks, and through various twists and turns, one thing has become clear. The assembled weight of the media has been thrown well and truly behind Cameron and the Tories to almost unimaginable proportions.
The Tory press today suggested that no less than a coup was being perpetrated right under the noses of British subjects, and appears to be calling for its own in return.
What else to make of the claims that Brown is perpetuating a 'sordid' coup; or that Clegg has behaved 'treacherously'?
Yesterday, says the Mail, was a 'squalid day for democracy'. Inside, Richard Littlejohn railed against 'nothing less than an attempted coup', a 'cynical putsch' and a 'naked power grab'.
He went on to state that Brown might as well have 'ordered the tanks to roll down Whitehall and train their guns on the meeting of the Parliamentary Conservative Party'.
If he pulls off a Lib-Lab coalition, 'democracy as we have known it in Britain will be shattered – possibly beyond repair'.
Astonishingly, Littlejohn even dares to have a pop at the 'desperate Labour propaganda sheets', while taking a pot-shot at the 'the State broadcaster, the BBC' for broadcasting lies about the Conservative party, the true hallmark of all swivel-eyed columnists.
To my mind, all of this goes well beyond anything the Tory press has managed before. The sheer brass neck, the hypocrisy, and the deliberate ignorance of parliamentary process. The right-wing press seems to have lost its grasp of the facts at hand.
The electoral system that they all back has produced a hung parliament, the mess that is responsible for all this back-room chicanery, but they want to keep it. (Note to Kay Burley: People did not 'vote for a hung parliament').
Brown, constitutionally, has the first right to try and form government, but allowed Clegg and Cameron to have the first shot at it, despite the resulting power vacuum.
The Conservative Party did not win the election. Combined, the Labour-Lib Dem share of the vote dwarfs the Tory share of the vote. Combined, Lib-Lab seats would eclipse Tory seats.
British politics in the 20th century is littered with unelected Prime Ministers, mostly Tory, as would be the case under a new Labour leader in a progressive coalition.
This is how hung parliaments work, this is how our electoral system works, this is how the constitution works. This is how politics works.
I'm personally dubious that a Lib-Lab coalition is the right result to come out of this election, but I'm not clear on what is the right result. No-one, to my mind, has a mandate. There is no victor.
But a Lib-Lab coalition would be perfectly constitutional and perfectly reasonable. It would be no more of a coup than a minority Tory government or a Lib-Con coalition, which is to say that it would be none at all.
The irony is, in complaining about Brown's final act constituting nothing more than a 'coup'- with all the talk about 'treachery' and 'sordid' politicking – the right-wing press appears to be calling for nothing less itself.
In a more fractious political, social or economic landscape, the language and tone deployed by tabloid editors and columnists across London screaming for Brown's head could be explosive – and horribly irresponsible.
As it is, despite all the promises that the markets would not tolerate a hung parliament and that people would be burned to death on the streets, subsequently proved to be baseless, the press just looks like a spoiled child denied its way.
Brown may be affording himself a smile.
Election Day front pages: A predictable roll-call of shame
As if there were ever any doubt. Today's front pages from the right-wing newspapers manage to stretch credulity, taste, truth and decency.
It's in every newspaper editor's best interests to pick a winning candidate, to maintain the assumption that newspapers are important in deciding the outcome of elections. The option is to buck against that trend to my going off-kilter, like the Guardian this time around, or dig in with sheer bloody-mindedness, like the Daily Mirror.
As expected, there's the usual roll call of shame from the right-wing tabloids – ranging from the sheer brass neck and wrong-headedness of the Sun's Obama rip of Cameron to the implication on the front of the Daily Mail that not voting for David Cameron will mean people being burned to death on the streets of the UK.
The Sun's is by far the most noteworthy, because whoever greenlit that one – presumably bizarre/Bizarre man Dominic Mohan, currently, baffling the editor – has got it so wrong it beggars belief.
Why? Because very few Sun readers will get the reference. Because even the staunchest Tory will not believe the an ideology-free zone like Cameron will really bring anything new to the table. Because the whole thing is an insult to politics, to design, to typography, to paper. It's truly abysmal.
I expected a typical Sun piece of crap, like Brown's face in a haggis and GORDON CLOWN wirtten across the top. The sort of childish rubbish we're apparently all expected to think is hilarious. But the Sun wrongfooted me, by being even worse.
The Mail's is more insidious, and says much more about the paper's relationship with its readership. There's a clear insinuation that unless Cameron gets a strong enough mandate and starts cutting the deficit we'll all be going to Hell in a handbasket, which uses a picture of someone actually on fire to try and frighten people into following its line. Which pretty much sums up the Mail.
The Express is more prosaic, ramming its message into the sheep-like minds of its readers. Vote Cameron, Brown a disaster, hung parliament a disaster. It's only a surprise there's no mention of cancer or Diana in there somewhere. It can barely be thought of as a newspaper any more.
The Telegraph dutifully falls into line with the Tory 'hope over fear' nonsense.
The Times is, on the face of it, restrained. There's even quite a good cartoon, and the whole thing smacks of gravitas. But we all know that the editorial line of the Times is fatally compromised.
The truth is, they're all compromised. By the lines forced on them by proprietors, by the need to pander to readerships, by the need to achieve a pay-off on back-room deals with media moguls.
This election has been the worst I can remember as far as the right-wing press goes, through their naked partisanship and by neglecting their greater roles as educators and informers.
Things have come to such a head that popular protests against the press were held a week ago. Laura Oliver, on Journalism.co.uk argues that new media may need to fill the objective void left by a partisan media.
The Guardian and Indie have chosen a meek 'need for PR' line, which will probably serve well to split the vote. Only the Mirror has come out with any fire in its belly, with a picture of Cameron in his Bullingdon attire.
I think it's a powerful front page, and there will be some interesting discussions as to where the rights to that image may lie in the future – public domain, public interest? – but it's still the old tribal drum-beat.
I suppose that an editorial line borne of ideology isn't really as offensive as one for naked commercial gain, but looking at the selection of paper this morning I just felt depressed.
Depressed that it's come to this; depressed for the parlous state of journalism in the UK; depressed at the hate and fear-mongering.
The 2010 general election: A willfully stupid, mendacious and depressing election.
Wot will win the 2010 election?
There's been something awful about this election, beyond the stuff that's usually awful about elections.
Alongside how utterly hopeless the media at large have been in actually reporting the issues – as opposed to some things David Cameron has said, some suits Nick Clegg has worn and some mistakes Gordon Brown has made – there's been the most naked display of vested interests for nearly 20 years.
The likes of The Mail and The Express adopt frothingly bigoted political lines because it's what helps them sell papers, and it reflects the unpleasant ideologies of their respective owners.
The Torygraph backs the Conservatives because it's read mainly by retired Brigadiers who remember the Boer War. The Star… well, who gives a flying one what the Star thinks eh?
As for The Sun and The Times, well, they back whoever proprietor Rupert Murdoch tells them to back, based on various deals with whichever party he reckons will win the election and deliver the goods.
This time around it's barely even a secret that Murdoch, or rather his son James, wants to open a new front against the BBC, and has promised David Cameron his backing in exchange for crippling the Beeb.
The Sun always makes a big deal of wanting to look like its support is the deciding factor in an election campaign, but in reality Murdoch backs whoever he calculates is most likely to win.
In years gone by, back to 1997 and throughout the 80s, this was fairly easy to predict. The only recent blip was 1992, where the Sun pulled out all of the stops to virtually suggest that Neil Kinnock was insane.
'It's The Sun Wot Won It,' gloated the Scum, so we know who to thanks for the following five years of the dross from John Major's crumbling government.
'92 is an election regularly debated by students of psephology – a smart word for voting behaviour – because all the polls suggested that Labour would win. Could it have been the rabidly hostile Tory press than won it for Major? Tough to say, but I've never been in doubt as to the potential power of the media in politics.
One need only look at the last 18 months of absolute slating Gordon Brown – like Major, a decent man – has endured from the Sun, Mail and Telegraph; the results of which are that most people in the country now despise him without actually knowing why.
Anyway, 2010 should provide another clue as to the power of the media in elections because, having backed Cameron, the Murdoch press now faces the possibility of their man not actually winning. What will that do for the Sun's habit of picking a winner? Or Murdoch's latest ambitions?
The palpable desperation emanating from the front pages of the Sun recently has been almost pitiful, culminating in today's risible front cover where Simon F'in Cowell appears to give his support to Cameron.
Delve inside the paper (if you can bear to) and you'll find article after article telling us how much Sun readers love Cameron, and how a hung parliament will mean that Britain will fall into a volcano. Except, that's not what Sun readers voting in polls on the online version have been saying.
Malcolm Coles has shown as much with some number-crunching on Sun polls, which show that its readers believe that Clegg won the third debate; Sun readers aren't fussed about a hung parliament; and that a poll apparently showing Mums to be swinging behind Cameron shows nothing of the sort.
The Sun has gone into Cameron overdrive, barely stopping short of suggesting that WebCameron's cock is bigger than Brown's and Clegg's put together, and offering a kind of non-stop tabloid blowjob to the Photoshopped Tory leader.
The rise of Clegg has also sent shivers down the spine at News International, so a full-scale assault was subsequently launched on the Lib Dems.
Unlike the US, where Fox News is basically a propaganda arm for the lunatic US right wing, the UK broadcast media is bound by strict rules of impartiality. Bad news for Murdoch Junior, who wants to extend Sky into a kind of Death Star of the media.
But this election campaign has brought the first whispers that Sky's news coverage has not appeared to be quite as straight down the line as it should. And David Cameron has appeared to suggest that broadcasting regulations may need an overhaul. What can it all mean?
People have told me that Murdoch Senior is actually fairly left-of-centre, as far as his personal politics are concerned. What's more he's fairly friendly with Brown, and hit it off big style with Tony.
But Murdoch doesn't let politics get in the way of business, and having been persuaded by son James to back Cameron, has had to throw the combined News International weight behind Cameron and the Tories.
What will happen? For the first time since 1992 I have no idea, as far as the election goes. As for the press, it's been fascinating to see the Sun frantically attempting to shore up its man, knowing that its reputation is at stake. Indeed, the FT suggests that the Sun's backing for Cameron has had the opposite effect.
A defeat for Cameron may mean that the rise of multimedia and the web has neutered the power of the papers in this regard, and with it the power of print media barons.
A win could open up a new front in partisan media, via Sky News and the humbling of the BBC, because Murdoch's help won't come without strings. Then, maybe, it won't be the Sun wot wins it in the future, but the Sky.
That TV leader debate reporting in full
After the rollercoaster thrill ride of three men disagreeing with each other and an off-camera man occasionally shouting, I've compiled this exhaustive list of newspaper and website coverage taking place both during the debate and over the next 24 hours.
• Debate clearly won by Gordon Brown, David Cameron or Nick Clegg
• Tiresome analysis of clothes worn by three candidates
• Article on Richard Nixon / JFK Presidential debate
• Infographic making inexplicable use of shapes in three primary colours
• Daily Mail picture of Gordon Brown looking sweaty
• Analysis of various 'blunders' by three party leaders
• Composite images of three leaders with mouths open
• Tiresome 'Have Your Say' section with numbingly tedious and/or ill-informed user-generated content
• Hopelessly unfunny sketch by Simon Hoggart/Rod Liddle/Amanda Platell
• Shit Sun mock-up of Gordon Brown looking like Compo from Last of the Summer Wine
• Dull profile of Alistair Stewart
• Live blog from short-straw reporter in pub in Hartlepool
• Millions of links to Twitter feeds churning out pointless quotes
• C4 blog by Jon Snow's tie on what Brown, Cameron and Clegg were drinking backstage
• Swing-o-meter-style mock-up based on how many times each man says 'change'.
• Live panel quizzed throughout debate consisting of white-van driving racist, muesli-eating hippie and boring middle-aged woman
• Plaintive whinge from Alex Salmond, live from reactor building in Dounreay
Now with added Clegg!
It's a week later, and I deliberately spent the night cycling, editing photos and watching cricket. Anything really to avoid the dreaded leader's debate and the ensuing media volcanic ash torrent of drivel. If you did too, here's what you missed.
• Lots of articles and reports about end of two-party hegemony
• Right-wing press fall in line to paint Clegg as nutter/shirker/gay/gyppo/foreigner-loving liberal who is, quite possibly, a maniac
• Some of the broadcast media inexplicably start reporting rumours they've heard about Nick Clegg from hostile briefings
• Someone from Keane backs Nick Clegg
• Lib Dem supporters wonder how much further ahead they'd be with Charles Kennedy
• DPS Observer interview with Vince Cable called 'The man who would be King', trailed with front page lead headlined 'Cable to bring City to heel'
• Marina Hyde writes shit sketch about how she fancies Vince Cable. Called The Cable Guy.
• Sue Malone writes poisonous article about Miriam González Durántez's wardrobe
• Scratchy radio interview with Paddy Ashdown, saying how great Clegg is, and what a bastard Tony Blair is
• The Sun mocks up a shit photo of Nick Clegg heading down a hill in a tin bath.
When the public interest and media interest coincide
It was with no sense of satisfaction today that I scanned the morning's front pages to a sea of blurry Jon Venables shots, but it was proof that the tabloids are scenting blood over the man's return to prison.
The Mirror reports that Venables has been returned to prison for fighting at work and that he has been struggling with drug use for some time – shamefully for a Labour paper relegating the death of Michael Foot to a masthead boxout – and apparently breaking the worldwide injunction that prohibits any reporting on Venables or Robert Thompson.
The details, vague though they are, are clearly sufficient to allow dozens of people to confidently guess Venables' assumed identity – which obviously poses significant problems for Venables, the probation service, the police, prisons, the Ministry of Justice and dozens of other auxiliary services.
This is presumably why Jack Straw was so determined not to allow this to come to light. At best, Venables requires a whole new identity and cover story somewhere else in the country, or spends the rest of his life in prison with a round-the-clock guard. Or, more simply, someone murders him.
I've been considering how the public interest has been served by these revelations coming to light. In what way are we enlightened, I wonder. What's the benefit to society in these details being brought to light?
It's fascinating trying to watch the newspapers maintain some sort of moral high ground on this issue while exploiting the grief of Denise Fergus to sell some more papers.
In today's Sun, we're told of the 'Bulger Case Outrage'? What 'outrage' is that exactly? The manufactured outrage of tabloid editors denied the opportunity to make another meal of a genuine human tragedy?
It's an unfortunate – or is fortunate? – coincidence that the outing of criminals as part of serving the greater good dovetails so smoothly with the media imperative to sell copy.
Who's to say what the real reason behind the Venables muck-raking is? Every newspaper editor will point to the former, explain that it is a duty of the media to reassure society. Whichever way you paint it I can't see the moral justification in the howls of anger over the government's refusal to cave in to the papers.
But it won't stop here – this story has legs now, and we all like to know how a story ends. I'll save you the bother of actually buying these papers.
In a few days time, following a tidal wave on unrelenting pressure from the papers, reflected and intensified by other mainstream media, spread far and wide by social media, which will in turn be re-reported by the tabloids, people will start coming forward with stories to sell.
Some time next week one of the papers – probably the Sun – will get recent pictures of Venables and decide, on balance, that the legal risk is worth taking, arguing that to do so is in the public interest. Then the rest will follow suit.
The public interest will have been served. Paper sales and website traffic will increase accordingly. Some hack will win a self-congratulatory 'Scoop of the Year' award.
It remains to be seen what happens to Venables. At best, a life of looking over his shoulder. At worst… well, we know the worst.
I genuinely wonder if, at any point, those in the media demanding to know these details have ever thought beyond the scope of 'public interest' and considered the high stakes of this game. That convenient public interest defence can cover a multitude of sins.
The Sun drops Labour, but there are wider issues at stake
Idiot comic The Sun has unsurprisingly switched its allegiance to the Conservatives, having declared that the Labour government has 'lost its way'.
This supposed revelation is as unsurprising as its timing – immediately following Gordon Brown's rallying cry to the Labour faithful at the Labour conference.
In a clear lie the Sun's political editor, George Pascoe-Watson, stated that the announcement was not scheduled to cause maximum political damage. That's absurd in itself, but also because no-one really believes a lowly tabloid political editor would be allowed to make a decision like this.
The clear originator is Rupert Murdoch, who can spot a trend when he sees one. Psephologists have long argued about the impact the media has one voting behaviour. To my mind it once did, but I don't think that anything as explicit as people obeying newspapers on election days rings true any more. Class dealignment, party dealignment, paper dealignment.
Murdoch probably knows that, which is why he's unwilling to lose face by backing Labour – a long shot at best – at the next election. That way the idea that the Sun is the prime mover in an election victory can be maintained.
In doing so Murdoch can also leverage his fearsome media arsenal against David Cameron if he so chooses. Murmurs from the Tories regarding the BBC will not have gone unnoticed, and Murdoch can probably rub his hands in glee at the prospect of another chunk of media real estate becoming available to News International.
This raises the prospect of a British Fox News, based on the American version that delights in spouting bigotry in every form. Such broadcast channels are currently outlawed in the UK, but Cameron has already indicated that he wouldn't obstruct them as Prime Minister.
It's here that I think the media still has a strong influence on thinking and behaviors, the insidious drip-drip that may not explicitly back politicians or parties, but steadily reinforces right-wing values by broadcasting ignorance, fear and intolerance.
Couple that to a neutered BBC and a media landscape that could also be missing the Indie and the Observer by next year and it's a grim prospect for a healthy Fourth Estate.
I don't know why people like James Murdoch, and his father before him, are invited to give MacTaggart lectures – it's not as if anyone is going to hear anything they didn't expect to.
Rather like a left-winger reaching vicariously for a Sun or Express in a hotel lobby room to experience the frisson of outrage, or Mary Whitehouse reaching for a Razzle, the Edinburgh media scrum seems to take great delight in a bout of extended self-flagellation.
Well, half of them do. As we already know the other half have it in for the BBC for a variety of corporate, ideological or score-settling issues.
It's easy to see why. As digital platforms have rolled out, the BBC has kept pace. In 20 years it's gone from under ten national radio and TV channels to a vast multimedia empire. And it's likely to continue growing – that is, essentially, its remit – at least as far as its news coverage is concerned.
This threatens a lot of people, myself included to a degree, as it raises a number of questions about the reach of the BBC and its effect on the journalism and media market. How can news platforms make money from their news services when the Beeb does it all for free?
There's an important issue to be addressed there but this growing, if fairly limited, base of unease about the expansion of the BBC has been recently used by a number of critics to take a pot-shot at the organisation.
Much of these can be tracked down to self-interest. Other media groups such as the Guardian Media Group, Associated Newspapers and News International have their own interests to safeguard. They often post fairly wild attacks on the Beeb for its 'land-grab' expansion – a subtly pejorative term that has been reinforced again and again.
James Murdoch used it at the weekend, along with the following references and terms:
[The UK is] it's the Addams family of world media
The land grab is spear-headed by the BBC. The scale and scope of its current activities and future ambitions is chilling.
state-sponsored journalism
state-sponsored news
[On the one hand] authoritarianism: endless intervention, regulation and control.
[For them] the abolition of media boundaries is a trumpet call to expansion: to do more, regulate more, control more.
Sixty years ago George Orwell published 1984. Its message is more relevant now than ever.
As Orwell foretold, to let the state enjoy a near-monopoly of information is to guarantee manipulation and distortion.
It's a rather faux-intellectual sixth-form style diatribe against regulation in all of its forms and the Beeb and Ofcom in particular. It flirts with some important points, but all of this is lost in the hyperbole and off-kilter references.
There's a rather bizarre passage that compares the BBC to creationism, which then segues into another half-witted metaphor about bananas and the redundancy of regulation. This, naturally leads to 'state-sponsored news' – a deliberately misleading titbit thrown to the kind of right-wing loons who think the NHS is trying to kill them.
The message is clear – not only does regulation not work, it's actively evil. What the world needs is unfettered free-market capitalism, in broadcasting as well as banking (although, of course, Murdoch didn't mention Sky's utter domination of pretty much ever significant sporting event in the UK following the government's craven deregulation of that market).
Thankfully on hand to take Murdoch to task over this untimely assertion over free markets was BBC credit crunch boffin Robert Peston, who pointed out that deregulation in economic sectors recently landed us with the worst recession in 80 years.
Murdoch's attack reminds me of the smear politics of the American right – beginning a discourse with an attack so hysterical and out-there that it drags the tone and battleground of the following debate in the attacker's favour.
Murdoch's attack will launch a new broadside against the organisation, and I doubt it's a coincidence that there's a general election next year, during which Gordon Brown and WebCameron will be hoping for some help from the Sun.
So, gear up for some serious Auntie bashing from the usual suspects over the next few weeks, indeed the next year.
Gear up for free-marketeers pushing the monopoly line; hand-wringing articles from The Grauniad about how a pay-for-content platform can work while the Beeb is offering it for free; and ideological attacks from various lunatics seizing on Murdoch's provocative (and deliberate) accusations about state-sponsored news and Orwellian organisations.
The death-by-1000-cuts assault has begun. Yes they've been much more sober and considered than Murdoch's, but a variety of big beasts have decided that now is the time to voice their opinions that the BBC would be much better if 'slimmed down' and focussed on 'core values'.
This is the start of a concerted effort to neuter the Beeb as a commercial threat, designed to cripple it as a news and broadcasting organisation.
The BBC has a big part to play in organising its own defence, and needs to come out fighting, reminding people of its value and important role in British culture. And it also needs to drop its bums-on-seats approach that has led to the arms race with ITV and SKy over big events, big-name signings and stupid paychecks.
But it also needs to address issues pertaining to its use of the licence fee to fund operations that clash with existing commercial ones and re-orientating itself in the digital world in a way that does not impinge unnecessarily on private enterprise.
Those supporting the Beeb need only look to how successful social media was in correcting and combatting slurs about the NHS. Despite their faults, I love the NHS, and I love the BBC too.
• Full MacTaggart text here: http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/comment/james-murdochs-mactaggart-speech/5004990.article


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Briskets are incredible-perhaps the most flavorful of all cuts-if cooked at low temperatures for a long time. A tightly covered cooking container is a must, or frequent basting on the grill as moist heat methods are always used. We use a very large Dutch oven. You can also place the brisket in a glass baking dish and cover tightly with aluminum foil (be careful to not allow the foil to touch the meat). We have cooked briskets for as long as 9-12 hours to allow full breakdown of all of the structure of the meat. If protected from drying, the longer the better, as a wonderful blend of flavors occurs when cooking for a long time. We recommend searing the brisket first. This can be done on high heat on the grill, in a heavy fry pan or Dutch oven on the stovetop, or by placing in a 500 degree oven for 15 minutes. Sear until the outside is well-browned, but don't cook the meat. The actual cooking of the brisket should be done at low temperatures.
If you don't have 9 hours, you can cook briskets at higher temperatures for shorter time. We will cook short-term briskets at 300-350 for 3 hours, checking moisture in the Dutch, and adding water or wine if necessary to prevent drying. Most of the recipes given below describe the fast way to cook the brisket. All can be adapted to longer slow cooking.
On the grill, cook a brisket very slowly, turning about every 15 minutes, and basting as it cooks. A good grilled brisket might take 3 hours (minimum) or more to cook We recommend basting often to prevent the grilled meat from drying out. Some folks will grill it for as much as 8 or 9 hours, wrapped in foil to preserve moisture and adding moisturizers like dark beer.
Brisket should be cut across the grain on an angle. They are excellent served cold on sandwiches, too!
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This brisket is rich, and somewhat sweet, but not cloyingly so. The dish is best made ahead a day or two, so is perfect for an informal midweek company dinner or a family dish on a busy night.
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2 1/2 to 3-pound beef brisket
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Cook onions and garlic over low heat in a large Dutch oven until golden; remove and set aside. Brown brisket on all sides, then return onions to Dutch. Add water, salt and pepper. Bring to boil, then reduce heat and simmer on low for 2-2 1/2 hours. Add sweet potatoes and fruit. Cover tightly and simmer another 20-30 minutes until sweet potatoes are just tender (dont overcook if you intend to reheat on another day; the sweet potatoes will get mushy). Remove brisket and thinly slice it across the grain. Layer the slices in a shallow casserole, then sweet potatoes and fruit on top. Skim any fat, then puree the pan juices until smooth. Pour over the fruit and sweet potatoes, cover tightly with plastic wrap and and refrigerate overnight. Reheat the covered casserole the following day at 300°F for 45 minutes.
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In a large Dutch oven, lay brisket, onion, garlic, cloves, and enough water to just cover. Bring to a boil, then immediately reduce heat to a low simmer. Simmer gently for 3-4 hours. Drain brisket and refrigerate in a covered dish until the next day. For glaze, combine apple jelly, wine, mustard, green onions, salt, pepper and curry powder in small saucepan and heat gently until jelly melts. Place brisket in shallow roasting pan, brush with glaze and roast in slow oven (225 degrees) about 1 hour, basting about every 15 minutes with. Broil for a few minutes at the end to slightly caramelize glaze. Place on a heated serving platter and allow to rest for 15 minutes. Slice thinly across the grain. Brisket also may be cooked on charcoal grill for 30 minutes, basting often with glaze.


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Spin Spectrometer
The Spin Spectrometer is a unique device which is capable of measuring
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energy on an event-by-event basis. This 4-pi
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Each crystal of the Spin Spectrometer is 178 mm from the target and covers about 1.34% of the total solid angle. Stable performance is best obtained at count rates below 20k per detector. Each detector is enclosed in an aluminum can and is 178 mm thick. The average energy resolution ranges from 8.6% at 662 keV to 6.3% at 1332 keV. Typical time resolution is 2.1 ns at FWHM. More detail concerning the response and performance of the Spin Spectrometer can be found in the reference below.
In addition to the standard operational mode, up to 20 of the NaI(Tl) detectors may be replaced with Compton-suppressed Ge(Li) detectors. Other auxiliary detectors which have been used in conjunction with this array include X-ray detectors, neutron counters, barium fluoride detectors, and several different charged particle detectors. The reaction chamber at the center of the array has an inner diameter of 32 cm and is equipped with 4 access ports and internal hardware for supporting auxiliary detectors. Particle detectors which have been used in the past include silicon telescopes, a 4-pi plastic phoswich array, a 4-pi CsI(Tl) array, and parallel plate avalanche counters.
The energy calibrations of the array are automated and accomplished using some subset of the following gamma-ray sources; Se-75, Cs-137, Bi-207, Co-60, Y-88, and Na-24. A typical calibration is 5 keV/channel which gives 10 MeV full range (2048 channel ADC). Response calibrations are also automated and take into account the detector efficiencies, detector-to-detector scattering, coincidence summing in each element, and pulses from neutrons and/or high energy protons. Neutrons are identified using a time-of-flight technique as a function of detected energy. The Spin Spectrometer operates best when some auxiliary device determines the time of the event, but algorithms exist which can be used to determine the time of an event from the distribution of the triggering times in the NaI(Tl) detectors when the number of detected gamma-rays is at least three. Due to changes in computer platforms, some automated features discussed above, may not be currently available.
ReferenceThe Spin Spectrometer: Design, Instrumentation, and Response Characteristics of a 4π Gamma-Ray Multidetector System. M. Jääskel äinen, et al., NIM 204 (1983) 385-405.
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To celebrate let's read about Pirates today. Here are some suggestions:
- Pirates! by Celia Rees
- Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy by L.A. Meyer
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman
- Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson
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- The Pirates! series by Gideon Defoe
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Vertical louvers provide ventilation to contents. Full-length door stiffeners add rigidity and deaden sound when opening/closing. Padlock hasp on door for security. Number plates for locker provide order and identification. Multiple rows of lockers can be ganged with standard nuts and bolts (not included). Configure with optional locker base (Sold Separately). Six compartment lockers.
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