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Need for Tweed Dog Sweater
Lion Brand® Wool-Ease
Thick & Quick
Pattern Number: 60539
SKILL LEVEL: Easy (Level 2)
SIZE: Small, Medium, Large, 1X
Finished Chest 18 (22, 26, 30) in. [45.5 (56, 66, 76) cm] around widest point Finished Length 12 (17, 20, 24) in. [30.5 (43, 51, 61) cm]
Note: Pattern is written for smallest size with changes for larger sizes in parentheses. When only one number is given, it applies to all sizes. To follow pattern more easily, circle all numbers pertaining to your size before beginning.
CORRECTIONS: (applied Jul 9, 2013)
FINISHING Note: If possible, try sweater on dog before completely sewing side seams. Adjust placement and size of leg openings as needed.The above is only a summary of corrections; the corrected pattern text is below (if free) or shipped upon completion of order (if purchased)
640-413 Wool-Ease Thick & Quick Yarn: Lumberjack Red
Black and red twist
Quantity needed: 1 Skeins
Estimated Price: $ 0.00
Alternative Quantity: (1, 2, 3)
Lion Brand Knitting Needles- Size 13 [9 mm]
Quantity needed: 1
Estimated Price: $ 5.95
Lion Brand Large-Eye Blunt Needles (Set of 6)
Quantity needed: 1
Estimated Price: $ 3.59
8 sts + 16 rows = 4 in. [10 cm] in garter st (k every row). When you match the gauge in a pattern, your project will be the size specified in the pattern and the materials specified in the pattern will be sufficient. The needle or hook size called for in the pattern is based on what the designer used, but it is not unusual for gauge to vary from person to person. If it takes you fewer stitches and rows to make your swatch, try using a smaller size hook or needles; if more stitches and rows, try a larger size hook or needles. Making a Gauge Swatch
Exact gauges is not imporant to this project.
BACK Cast on 25 (31, 37, 43) sts.
Work in garter st until piece measures 7 (12, 14, 16) in.
[18 (30.5, 35.5, 40.5) cm] from beg, end with a WS row.
Dec Row (RS): K 1, k2tog, k to last 3 sts, k2tog, k 1 – 23 (29, 35, 41) sts.
K 3 rows.
Rep Dec Row every 4th row 4 (4, 5, 7) more times – 15 (21, 25, 27) sts.Bind off.
UNDERPIECE Cast on 11 (13, 15, 17) sts.
Work in garter st until piece measures 4 1/2 (7 1/4, 10 1/4, 10 3/4) in.
[11.5 (18.5, 26, 27.5) cm] from beg, end with a WS row.
Dec Row (RS): K 1, k2tog, k to last 3 sts, k2tog, k 1 – 9 (11, 13, 15) sts.
K 4 rows.
Rep Dec Row every 5th row 2 (3, 4, 5) more times – 5 sts.Bind off.
Note: If possible, try sweater on dog before completely sewing side seams.
Adjust placement and size of leg openings as needed.
Sew sides of Underpiece to Back, leaving 2 (2 1/2, 3, 3 1/2) in.
[5 (6.5, 7.5, 9) cm] open on each side for legs.
beg = begin(s)(ning)
dec = decreas(e)(s)(ing)
k = knit
k2tog = knit 2 together
rep = repeat(s)(ing)
RS = right side
st(s) = stitch(es)
WS = wrong side
Every effort has been made to have the knitting and crochet instructions accurate and complete. We cannot be responsible for variance of individual knitters and crocheters, human errors, or typographical mistakes.
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Iowa Medicaid Office
Below is the contact information for the Medicaid office in Iowa. They can assist you with questions or concerns about the Iowa Medicaid program, including the eligibility requirements and Medicaid enrollment in Iowa. You can view their site online at http://dhs.iowa.gov/ime. To find out if you are eligible for this program, Iowa Medicaid eligibility.
Medicaid Office Location
- Iowa Department of Human Services
Hoover State Office Building 5th Floor
Des Moines, IA 50319
Medicaid Office Phone Number
- The phone number to call the Iowa Medicaid office is 800-338-8366 or in state call 515-256-4606.
Medicaid Online
- To view the website for Iowa Medicaid online, click here.


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In this issue of Quaker Action, you will find many stories of how we work with communities struggling for economic security and how we support people in developing their own means to sustain themselves and overcome injustice.
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Tor Weekly News — January 8th, 2014Posted January 8th, 2014 by lunar
Welcome to the first issue for the year 2014 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what is happening in the impressive Tor community. The tor-news mailing list has reached a thousand subscribers. Thanks for following us!
Tor at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress
The Chaos Computer Club held its thirtieth congress in Hamburg, Germany during the days and nights of December 26th-30th. The congress had over 9,000 participants. The topic of pervasive surveillance was more present than ever, and Tor was a common answer to many questions.
"We are living in interesting times" was the subtitle of Jacob Appelbaum
and Roger Dingledine's talk for this year. Their tour of what happened to Tor in the past years and more importantly in the past months was seen by more than 3,000 attendees in Hamburg and a couple more from the live stream and recordings. Later on, Sophie Bayerlein had decorated a wall with her visual summary of the talk.
The talk was quickly followed by a "How to help Tor?" workshop. Lunar reported "an overwhelming success as more than 200 people showed up. We were not prepared for helping so many folks waiting to learn how they can help Tor. It still created interesting discussions, I believe, and I hope we will find ways to interact more with the larger community in the upcoming weeks, especially concerning outreach to the general public."
Earlier the same day, a meetup of Tor relay operators was held. The small room was packed with at least 60-70 attendees. Several relay operator organizations reported on their progress: DFRI, Frënn vun der Ënn, Icetor, Noisetor, Nos oignons, Swiss Privacy Foundation and Zwiebelfreunde. Many of these projects did not exist last year, and new organizations are still being created, like The Torrorists who also gave a quick status update. Nikita Borisov gave a quick presentation of the traceroute research experiment and encouraged more operators to run the test script. Several operators of important relays and directory authorities also assisted the session. Let's hope everyone shared the same feelings as Jason from Icetor: "It was really excellent meeting all of you and great for my morale to see all the people understanding and working towards common goals. Perhaps it's just due to my remoteness, but I rarely get to discuss projects like this at such an intricate level."
On the lightning talks front, Kai Engert presented DetecTor (slides, video at 1:56:25), David Fifield covered the basics of Tor pluggable transports, and Michael Zeltner introduced tor2tcp (video at 1:41:00). Some OnionCat developers have also been spotted in the corridors.
The Chaos Communication Congress is one of the rare events where an impressive number of members of the Tor community have a chance to interact. Let's hope it has been a fruitful time for everyone!
Tor website needs your help!
One of the outcomes of the "How to help Tor?" session at the 30C3 was that there were quite some people interested in helping the Tor project with its website. In order to foster anyone's participation, a larger call for help has been sent.
It starts by acknowledging that "Tor has shifted in the recent years from being a project prominently used by researchers, developers, and security experts to the wider audience of anyone concerned about their privacy". As its primary audience shifted, "it is again time for important changes" to the website structure and design.
As one can read in the call or browse through the website related tickets, it's going to be a challenging task. A new mailing list has been created to coordinate the efforts. Join if you want to help!
Monthly status reports for December 2013
The wave of regular monthly reports from Tor project members for the month of December has begun. Philipp Winter released his report first, followed by reports from Pearl Crescent, Sherief Alaa, Colin C., Damian Johnson, Tor's help desk, Lunar, Karsten Loesing, Matt Pagan, Georg Koppen, Ximin Luo, Nick Mathewson, and Nicolas Vigier.
Miscellaneous news
Anthony G. Basile released version 20131230 of Tor-ramdisk — a uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server — with an updated Linux kernel and Tor 0.2.4.20.
Gregory Maxwell started discussion on how to improve Hidden Services key management: "It would be preferable if it were possible to have a HS master key which was kept _offline_ which could be use to authorize use for some time period and/or revoke usage." As Nick Mathewson pointed out, the timing is right and such issues have a chance to be addressed with the current redesign process (see proposal 220 and proposal 224).
The Tails team has announced: "The MAC address spoofing feature is ready for testing. This feature prevents geographical tracking of your network devices (and by extension, you) by randomizing their MAC addresses." Testing on a variety of hardware is now needed, give it a try!
The next Tails contributor online meeting will be held January 9th on the IRC channel #tails-dev (OFTC) at 21:00 UTC.
The "test/rjb-migration" branch has been merged into the Tails development tree. It should now be fairly straightforward to run the automated test suite on a Debian Wheezy system.
The Tor Project's website has gained another new mirror, thanks PW!
Johannes Fürmann asked the relay operators community to review a short documentation on how to run multiple Tor processes on one host.
Some users have been tricked into downloading malware from the Torzip.com domain. Action is on-going to shutdown the domain. In the meantime, watch out!
Tor help desk roundup
Multiple people have now asked the help desk for support using the Tor Browser on Windows RT. Windows RT is a new edition of Windows 8.1 designed for ARM devices like the Microsoft Surface. There is no supported way of using Tor on Microsoft RT.
Many people have been emailing the help desk to ask how to get a new identity or set up a relay now that Vidalia is no longer included in the Tor Browser package. Vidalia is still available as a standalone package. More information on the transition away from Vidalia can be found on the Tor Browser 3 FAQ wiki page.
This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Lunar, Matt Pagan, dope457, Sandeep, weasel, rey, murb and nicoo.
Want to continue reading TWN? Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteers to watch the Tor community and report important news. Please see the project page, write down your name and subscribe to the team mailing list if you want to get involved!
Tor website needs your help!Posted January 5th, 2014 by lunar
Tor started more than eleven years ago. The project website has gone through three major revisions in that time. It looks like it's again time for important changes.
Tor has shifted in the recent years from being a project prominently used by researchers, developers, and security experts to the wider audience of anyone concerned about their privacy. Tor's user base continues to grow. While this is a very good news for the anonymity of every Tor user, we need to make information that matters more accessible and better structured. The support team already receive close to 30 new requests every day, and it would be a better experience for newcomers, users, and journalists to directly find their answers.
Creating the ideal website for Tor is not an easy task. We have very diverse audiences with very diverse expectations. We need to gather information from different sources. Some pages should be multi-lingual. As outdated information could endanger our users, it should be easy to keep up-to-date. Our users deserve beautiful, clear, and comprehensive graphics to allow everyone to quickly understand Tor better. We've had some starting discussions, but we're very much in need of your help.
Up to the challenge? Do you want to help improving a website visited everyday by millions of people looking for protection against surveillance? Then feel free to join the website team mailing list. We need usability experts, technical writers, designers, code wizards of the modern web, static website generator experts, documentalists… Join us and help!
Tor Weekly News — December 25th, 2013Posted December 25th, 2013 by lunar
Welcome to the 26th issue of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what is happening in the Tor community.
The 3.x series of the Tor Browser Bundle is now stable
After more than a year of work, Mike Perry has officially blessed the 3.5 release of the Tor Browser Bundle as the new stable release. Improving on the previous stable series, it features a deterministic build system for distributed trust, a new integrated interface to interact with Tor and all the improvements from Tor 0.2.4.
Users of the previous 2.x series might be a little disoriented by the user interface changes. David Fifield, Matt Pagan and others have been compiling the most frequent questions heard after the switch. Until the integrated browser interface catches up, new Vidalia bundles are now available for those who need them. Erinn Clark is ironing out the remaining integration issues.
With the discontinuation of Firefox 17 ESR, the new release had to be pushed to users to avoid exposing them to security holes. Firefox 24 ESR, on which the Tor Browser is now based, should be supported by Mozilla for approximately one year. This will leave our browser hackers some time to focus more on user experience improvements, test automation, and better resistance to fingerprinting issues.
Several tutorials, videos, and bits of documentation might now in one way or another be out-of-date in many places. Please help report them or, even better, write up some updated versions.
This release is quite a milestone for the project. Update and enjoy!
The Tor Project now accepts donation in Bitcoin
As is often pointed out in the press, the majority of the Tor Project's financial support comes from US government-linked organizations. In the ongoing effort to offer as many possible ways for individuals and organizations to give help to the project, Bitcoin donations are now being accepted.
As Roger Dingledine wrote in a subsequent comment: "We really need to get some funding for core Tor development, and especially for improving Tor's anonymity, because none of our current funders care enough about the anonymity side of Tor. Outreach and blocking-resistance are great topics, but we can't let the anonymity part rot."
Head over to the donations page to learn more about how to chip in with Bitcoins or other currencies.
Tor 0.2.4.20 is out
The first update to the new stable branch of Tor has been released on December 23rd. It fixes an issue that would create more preemptive circuits than actually need, and a security issue related to poor random number generation.
The latter affects "users who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set 'HardwareAccel 1' in their torrc file, 3) have 'Sandy Bridge' or 'Ivy Bridge' Intel processors, and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones."
The source code is already available from the usual location. Update packages and bundles should be ready soon.
Tor events at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress
The Chaos Computer Club will be holding its 30th Congress in Hamburg between the 27th and the 30th of December, and as usual there are a number of Tor-related talks and events scheduled.
Following their session on the Tor ecosystem at 29c3, Tor Project members Roger Dingledine and Jacob Appelbaum will be giving a talk entitled "The Tor Network: We're living in interesting times", in which they discuss the Project's work over the last few years, with special reference to "major cryptographic upgrades in the Tor network, interesting academic papers in attacking the Tor network, major high profile users breaking news about the network itself, discussions about funding, FBI/NSA exploitation of Tor Browser users, botnet related load on the Tor network, and other important topics".
Their talk will be followed by a discussion involving everyone interested in helping Tor at the NoisySquare assembly. The Tor ecosystem is now made up of more than forty different projects, and there are sure to be ways you can help. Bring your skills and your energy!
Torservers.net will be holding a meeting of Tor relay operators and organizations, featuring "quick presentations on recent and future activities around Torservers.net", to be followed by the official members' meeting of the German Torservers.net partner organization, Zwiebelfreunde e.V.
#youbroketheinternet will hold a session on the future of crypto routing backends: "Even the IETF is now considering that Onion Routing should be a fundamental capability of the Internet. How would that look in practice?"
If you are attending the Congress, feel free to come along and participate in these sessions; if not, you should be able to catch up with the talks online.
Miscellaneous news
Anthony G. Basile released version 20131216 of Tor-ramdisk, a "uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in an environment that maximizes security and privacy." This new release is the first to ship the 0.2.4 branch of Tor.
For those who like hazardous experiments, intrigeri sent a call for testing an experimental Tails image with preliminary UEFI support — users of Apple hardware should be particularly interested. anonym also announced that test images from the MAC spoofing branch were available.
Nick Mathewson sent his now-monthly review of the status of Tor's proposals. Karsten Loesing followed-up by commenting on several of those related to the directory protocol. Have a look, you might also be able to move things forward!
Many thanks to John Sweeney of otivpn.com, Jeremy J. Olson of EPRCI, and les.net for running mirrors of the Tor Project website.
Karsten Loesing has been experimenting with replacementsfor the "fast exits" graphs that would convey a better feeling of the network growth. He also deployed a new visualization for the fraction of connections used uni-/bidirectionally.
Tor help desk roundup
Multiple users have now emailed the help desk regarding a particular type of "ransomware" that encrypts the hard drive of Windows computers and won't give users the decryption key until a payment is made. Victims of this malware have emailed the help desk because the ransomware message includes a link to a tor hidden service site. Malware victims wanted to know how to install the Tor Browser, or thought the Tor Project was the source of the malware.
The Tor Project does not make malware; in the past Tor developers have worked with anti-virus developers to help stop other types of malware. Users affected might find useful information in the guide assembled by BleepingComputer.com. If you have not been affected, the story might be a good reminder to think about your backups.
This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Lunar, harmony, Matt Pagan and dope457.
Want to continue reading TWN? Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteers to watch the Tor community and report important news. Please see the project page, write down your name and subscribe to the team mailing list if you want to get involved!
Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 is releasedPosted December 18th, 2013 by mikeperry
Update 12/20: Test builds of Pluggable Transport bundles are now available. See inline and see the FAQ link for more details.
The 2.x stable series of the Tor Browser Bundle has officially been deprecated, and all users are encouraged to upgrade to the 3.5 series.
Packages are now available from the Tor download page as well as the Tor Package archive.
For now, the Pluggable Transports-capable TBB is still a separate package, maintained by David Fifield. Download them here: https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/pt-bundle/3.5-pt20131217/. We hope to have combined packages available in a beta soon.
For people already using TBB 3.5rc1, the changes are not substantial, and are included below.
However, for users of TBB 2.x and 3.0, this release includes important security updates to Firefox. All users are strongly encouraged to update immediately, as we will not be making further releases in the 2.x or 3.0 series.
The complete changelog for the 3.x series describes the changes since 2.x.
The set of changes since the 3.5rc1 release is:
- All Platforms
- Update Tor to 0.2.4.19
- Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.4.2
- Bug 10382: Fix a Tor Launcher hang on TBB exit
- Update Torbutton to 126.96.36.199
- Misc: Switch update download URL back to download-easy
Tor Weekly News — December 18th, 2013Posted December 18th, 2013 by lunar
Welcome to the twenty-fifth issue of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what is happening in the ever-updating Tor community.
Tor 0.2.4.19 is out
After more than a year in the making, Roger Dingledine announced the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.4 series, as well as the dedication of this series to the memory of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013).
Tor 0.2.4 boasts a large number of major new features, among them a new circuit handshake, improved link encryption, a flexible approach to the queueing of circuit creation requests, and the use of "directory guards" to defend against client-enumeration attacks. You can consult the full changelog in Roger's announcement, and download the source code from the website.
As no code changes have been made since the previous release candidate, there is no reasons for users of tor 0.2.4.18-rc to upgrade in a hurry.
Tor Browser Bundle 3.5rc1 is out
Mike Perry announced the first release candidate in the Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 series, and strongly encouraged users to update in anticipation of the imminent end-of-life of both the 2.x stable and 3.0 series, following Mozilla's deprecation of Firefox 17 ESR, on which both are based.
This release also includes a number of important security updates, alongside various bugfixes and usability improvements; for this reason as well, users should upgrade as soon as possible.
Tails 0.22 is out
Tails saw its 35th release on December 11th. It incorporates many major and minor improvements and bugfixes, and opens up the new incremental-upgrade feature for beta-testing.
As this is the first release to feature a browser based on the Firefox 24 ESR series, some small inconveniences found their way in. Have a look at the known issues before giving it a go.
Nevertheless, it fixes several important security issues, so it is recommended that all users upgrade as soon as possible.
Torservers.net awarded $250,000 grant
The Torservers.net team announced that they have received a $250,000 organizational grant, to be spread over two years, from the Digital Defenders Partnership, which in its own words was "established to provide rapid response to threats to internet freedom."
With this grant, wrote Moritz Bartl, "participating Torservers organizations will be able to sustain at least 3 Gbit/s of exit traffic, and 2000 fast and up-to-date bridges."
In order to make the most efficient use of this significant contribution to the Tor network while maintaining its diversity, wrote Moritz, "we need to find seven more organizations that are willing to rent servers for a period of at least 2 years", adding that "we really want to avoid having organizations run both high bandwidth exit relays and a larger number of Tor bridges: An operator should not see both traffic entering the Tor network and traffic leaving the Tor network" .
For this reason, he called for groups interested in supporting the Tor network to get in contact, in order to discuss how they can best set up and maintain Tor services. The first such partnership will be with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting's Cyber Arabs group.
If you represent an organization that could make this much-needed contribution to the Tor network, please contact the Torservers.net team, or join them at the Tor relay operators meetup during the upcoming Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg.
Miscellaneous news
The Tails team reported on the vast amount of activity that occurred during November 2013. Coming up in the next few Tails releases are an updated I2P, a new clock applet with configurable timezone, better localization, incremental upgrades, safer persistence, MAC spoofing…
meejah announced the release of txtorcon 0.8.2, and warned users that they should upgrade if they use that program's TCP4HiddenServiceEndpoint feature, in order to fix a bug that allows listening on hosts other than 127.0.0.1.
Kevin P Dyer announced the 0.2.2 release of fteproxy, which "includes the removal of gmpy as a dependency, additional documentation to explain the significance of language theoretical algorithms, and bounds checking of the input/output of our (un)ranking algorithms"; this hot on the heels of 0.2.1, in which he "focused on breaking away from heavyweight dependencies: OpenFST and boost".
Mike Perry shared his thoughts regarding the presence of the Tor Browser Bundle in centralized repositories such as the Apple App Store or Google Play, and the possibilities for attack that these stores open up.
Ondrej Mikle warned users of Enterprise Linux 5 that Tor RPM packages will no longer be built for their platform, owing to an "increasing number of required workarounds".
Karsten Loesing published a summary of the past, present and the future of the Tor Metrics project, which he maintains, offering some context for the various changes that have recently been announced.
Lunar sent reports from the Tor help desk for October and November.
Jacob Appelbaum recapped his work over the last few months — from June to December — in a slew of reports (June, July, August, September, October, November, December).
Tor help desk roundup
Occasionally users who need the Pluggable Transports Tor Browser Bundle will download the Vidalia Bridge Bundle instead, which is less useful for users trying to circumvent state censorship. The Vidalia Bridge Bundle is only available for Windows and is configured by default to turn the client machine into a bridge. None of the Vidalia Bundles are designed to use Pluggable Transports.
This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by harmony, Lunar, dope457, and Matt Pagan.
Want to continue reading TWN? Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteers to watch the Tor community and report important news. Please see the project page, write down your name and subscribe to the team mailing list if you want to get involved!
Announcement: The Tor Project is now accepting Bitcoin DonationsPosted December 17th, 2013 by phobos
Over the past year, we have received many requests for us to accept bitcoin donations. After careful consideration and research, we are thrilled to announce that effective today The Tor Project is accepting bitcoin donations. In partnership with Bitpay, bitcoins can easily and directly be donated to support Tor's ongoing mission of being the global resource for privacy technology advocacy, research and education in the ongoing pursuit of freedom of speech, privacy rights online, and censorship circumvention. Check out our donations page now. Bitcoin donations received by The Tor Project will be converted directly to US Dollars.
Our decision to accept bitcoins has been well thought out and researched from a financial accounting perspective with an eye on passing our required annual A-133 audit. We believe we are the first US 501(c)3 non-profit organization to test acceptance of bitcoins and attempt to pass the US Government A-133 Audit Standard. Our 2013 audit results, along with our past financial documents, will be made available on our website once complete in 2014.
The Tor Project is also proud to be in the company of other visible non-profit organizations accepting bitcoins including EFF and Wordpress.
Why is this important? The Tor Project needs your donations to continue our mission and to keep the Tor suite of technologies ahead with the growing threats to privacy and anonymity around the world. Your donation made TODAY, through bitcoin, Paypal, Amazon Payments, Givv.org, checks, money orders or bank transfers, will provide greater security and privacy for millions around the world who use Tor every day.
Help us continue our mission!
Tor Browser Bundle 3.5rc1 ReleasedPosted December 12th, 2013 by mikeperry
The first release candidate in the 3.5 series of the Tor Browser Bundle is now available from the Tor Package Archive:
This release includes important security updates to Firefox.
Moreover, the Firefox 17esr release series has been deprecated by Mozilla. This means the imminent end of life for our 2.x and 3.0 bundle series. All 3.0 users are strongly encourage to update immediately, as we will not be making further releases in that series. If this release candidate survives the next few days without issue, this release candidate will be declared stable, and we will officially deprecate the current stable 2.x Tor Browser Bundles and declare their versions out of date as well.
Here is the complete changelog:
- All Platforms
- Update Firefox to 24.2.0esr
- Update NoScript to 188.8.131.52
- Update HTTPS-Everywhere to 3.4.4tbb (special TBB tag)
- Tag includes a patch to handle enabling/disabling Mixed Content Blocking
- Bug 5060: Disable health report service
- Bug 10367: Disable prompting about health report and Mozilla Sync
- Misc Prefs: Disable HTTPS-Everywhere first-run tooltips
- Misc Prefs: Disable layer acceleration to avoid crashes on Windows
- Misc Prefs: Disable Mixed Content Blocker pending backport of Mozilla Bug 878890
- Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.4.1
- Bug 10147: Adblock Plus interferes w/Tor Launcher dialog
- Bug 10201: FF ESR 24 hangs during exit on Mac OS
- Bug 9984: Support running Tor Launcher from InstantBird
- Misc: Support browser directory location API changes in Firefox 24
- Update Torbutton to 184.108.40.206
- Bug 10352: Clear FF24 Private Browsing Mode data during New Identity
- Bug 8167: Update cache isolation for FF24 API changes
- Bug 10201: FF ESR 24 hangs during exit on Mac OS
- Bug 10078: Properly clear crypto tokens during New Identity on FF24
- Bug 9454: Support changes to Private Browsing Mode and plugin APIs in FF24
- Linux
- Bug 10213; Use LD_LIBRARY_PATH (fixes launch issues on old Linux distros)
Tails 0.22 is outPosted December 11th, 2013 by tails
Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 0.22, is out.
All users must upgrade as soon as possible: this release fixes numerous security issues.
Download it now but first, please consider testing the incremental upgrade.
- Security fixes
- Upgrade to Iceweasel 24.2.0esr that fixes a few serious security issues.
- Stop migrating persistence configuration and access rights. Instead, disable all persistence configuration files if the mountpoint has wrong access rights.
- Upgrade to NSS 3.15.3 that fixes a few serious security issues affecting the browser.
- Major improvements
- Switch to Iceweasel 24.2.0esr and Torbutton 1.6.5.
- Incremental upgrades are ready for beta-testing.
- Bugfixes
- Fix Vidalia startup.
- Disable DPMS screen blanking.
- Fix checking of the persistent volume"s ACL.
- Sanitize more IP and MAC addresses in bug reports.
- Do not fail USB upgrade when the "tmp" directory exists on the destination device.
- Minor improvements
- Clearer warning when deleting the persistent volume.
- Use IBus instead of SCIM.
- Always list optimal keyboard layout in the greeter.
- Fix on-the-fly translation of the greeter in various languages.
- Update I2P to 0.9.8.1 and rework its configuration.
See the online Changelog for technical details.
Known issues
- The Unsafe Browser cannot connect to the Internet (ticket #6479). This can be workaround"ed by setting
falseon the about:config web page.
- Keyboard shortcuts use QWERTY mapping instead of AZERTY on French keyboard (ticket #6478). This may impact other keyboard layouts as well.
- TorBrowser takes too long to shutdown (ticket #6480).
- TorBrowser proposes to share the microphone with websites (ticket #6481).
- htpdate uses a different User-Agent than the Tor Browser (ticket #6477).
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The Texas Rangers (56-37) travel to Angel Stadium of Anaheim to face the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (51-44) in a game between the AL West's top two teams.
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Recurring Role
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Final Score:
Texas Rangers 4
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 7
Matt Harrison: There were a lot of pressure at-bats, with guys on base pretty much every inning. They were swinging the bats tonight, and I was just trying to minimize the damage as much as possible and keep the game close.
(on coming off the disabled list, where he was for the first time in his 10-year career)
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Skip to comments.Fried Chicken Recipe
Posted on 07/30/2005 4:08:04 PM PDT by Randy Larsen
Looking for good fried chicken recipes.
Paging our uber chef.
copycat recipes on the net??? KFC and Popeyes recipes are on there.
I hope you get some responses. I don't have a consistent recipe I use, and I need a good one. I kind of make it up as I go, but lots of paprika, salt and pepper seem to be my favorite additives.
I'll have four fried chickens and a coke.
Bump to find later cuz once you get one....I'll be over, post haste to SAMPLE it!
Carlo? I know you've been pinged once. But hey.
I like using part pancake batter and flour. My ex seemed to like it..he gained weight when we dated.
First catch chicken, I have gotten past this yet.
Now make two separate bowls of flour, paprika, thyme, oregano, black pepper, and Lawry's Seasoned Salt. Toss your fryer pieces into the first bowl of flour. From there, dip them in your mixture of eggs and milk. Then place them in your last bowl of flour. Fry until golden brown.
This is Tre's Slap Yo Mama fried chicken. Of course, I would have marinated the chicken first. Oh, save some grease for your gravy.
OHH! Bookmarking for the responses!
this is my recipe.
It requires a pressure cooker.
soak your chicken overnight in buttermilk. I like to add hotsauce to mine.
Mix together 3 cups of flour 3 tablespoons of salt, 1 tablespoon of pepper, 1 tablespoon of accent, 1 tablespoon of celery salt, 1 tablespoon of cayenne, 1 tablespoon of paprika, 1 tablespoon of garlic powder, 1 tablespoon of onion powder.
dredge chicken in flour and let it air dry on a rack for about 5 minutes.
heat oil in pressure cooker(i prefer peanut) until its NO hotter than 300 degrees and only fill the pressure cooker until its a third full, as frying with a pressure cooker can be dangerous make sure you have a fire extinguisher handy.
Place chicken in cooker and seal the pressure cooker. Chicken should take only 8-12 minutes. Depressurize by letting the steam stop or by letting cold water run over it. NEVER just de-seal it when steam is still escaping(personal exprience)
Best tasting chicken, guaranteed.
Got this one from DU.
Fried Chicken
Get large block of tofu and one large free range chicken- male, female or transgender OK. Fry tofu in pan till mainly edible. Eat tofu, reserving half for later. Place chicken in large paper bag. Smoke a joint, exhaling smoke into bag with chicken. When joint is finished, remove fried chicken from bag and eat remaining tofu to cure munchies. Attend Hate Bush rally with chicken.
Try Knotts Berry Farm's Chicken dinner. Best I ever had. I have no idea how they do it.
Good one. Now all I need is a pressure cooker.
and a lot more here copycat.cdkitchen.com
1 cup coarsely crushed POST TOASTIES Corn Flakes
1 Tbsp. flour
1 cup pancake mix
salt and pepper to taste
1/2 cup of parm cheese
1 tsp. seasoned salt
1 egg white
6 pieces bone-in chicken, such as breasts, thighs and legs, skinned
PREHEAT oven to 400°F. Combine cereal, flour, pancake mix, salt, pepper, parm cheese and seasoned salt in a shallow dish or pie plate. Beat egg white with 1 Tbsp. water in a shallow bowl. Dip meaty side of each chicken piece in egg white mixture, then in cereal mixture.
PLACE chicken, coating sides up, on baking sheet; spray lightly with cooking spray.
BAKE 40 min. or until chicken is golden brown and cooked through.
Is that a pan fry or a deep fry? Or does it matter? :-)
I've done it in a pressure cooker as well...it's excellent
Thanks for the Idea its right down the street I was married there and had the chicken for our reception awesome chicken and rasalberry pie
Add Paprika, Sage and Black Pepper to taste. Bake, not fry.
Just reading that makes me want to slap my mama. Just kidding. But that sounds really tasty.
Wow!, That recipe reminds me of my younger days!
Just curious. How many requests have there been for a section on FR for FReeper's Recipes?
Whatever recipe you use.. Soaking the chicken overnight in buttermilk will make it awesome. I always buy whole chickens and cut them up myself. I also use a cast iron frying pan... everything else is secondary and done to taste.. But it's that buttermilk that makes it oh so good.
I agree, i have pan fried, baked deep fried but pressure frying is the way to go for me.
Damn! That sounds GOOD.
Try soaking them in yogurt, it works really well too.
Indian style.
Randy, reading aft_lizard's recipe, aft_lizard must either have been the cook at the Clayton Cafe or kidnapped her:
Clayton Cafe
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(706) 782-5438
Hours: 6:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Saturday.
Serves chicken daily.
The Clayton Cafe soaks their chicken breasts in buttermilk and uses a pressure cooker. The result: chicken that is absolutely GBD and crunchy on the outside, and steamy tender on the inside.
Your recipe looks good. I've never used a pressure cooker though.. Looks like I'll have to pick one up...
OMG! You've found a way to mix pancakes and fried chicken??? Will you marry me? :D
That is sooooo bad! ;-)
LOL actually I modified it from a supposably KFC knock-off recipe but all they had was salt pepper and accent and they didnt soak it buttermilk. I tweaked the seasonings and of course added the buttermilk with hotsauce. I also lowered the temp as the seasonings get into the meat better that way, a higher temp will make it crunchier but it loses a little glavor in the process.
RjayneJ used to have link on her website but she passed awhile back and I havent' been able to find it since.
Ayone know where it went?
It's not my own recipe, as I blatantly stole it from Alton Brown. Forgive me for my lack of originality in the realm of fried chicken :)
| For the Chicken Curried Dijon Sauce
2 oz Grape seed oil
3/4 lbs chicken wings, roughly chopped with a cleaver
5 cl garlic, peeled and smashed
5 ea shallots
2 ea Oranges, cut in half
2 oz sherry
2 cups white wine
1 pinch saffron
2 tsp peppercorns
| 5 sprigs tarragon, fresh, cut into large pieces
1 Tbsp curry powder
1 Tbsp turmeric
salt and pepper to taste
2 Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp flour
2 cups Chicken stock
3 Tbsp Dijon mustard (tarragon infused Dijon also works quite well)
1 cup heavy cream
1. Heat the grape seed oil in a large casserole sauce-pan and add the chicken wings. Brown them over medium high heat until nicely colored. Add in the garlic and shallots and continue to cook until they have browned up a bit too. Deglaze pan with white wine and sherry and squeeze the juice from orange halves and leave in pan. Add, curry, turmeric, saffron, peppercorns tarragon, salt, and pepper. Mix well and cover. Continue to cook on low heat for about 15 minutes while you prepare the other flavorings for the sauce.
2. In a separate saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter. With a wooden spoon stir in flour to make a light colored roux. Continue stirring until the taste of flour is cooked out, for about 10 minutes. Cook the roux over a low enough flame to keep it from coloring; it should remain a pale white. To avoid lumps continue stirring and slowly pour in the chicken stock. Add mustard and stir until thoroughly combined. Add heavy cream and continue stirring. Once mixture is smooth pour into saucepan with chicken bones and let simmer for a half an hour to let flavors blend. Strain the sauce through a fine sieve, firmly pressing on any solids to extract all flavor.
excuse my bad grammar and spelling.
AB is my patron saint....
He'd DIE for that chicken!! Thank YOU!
I could see where yogurt would work.. add some tang too... thanks...
I think I'm going to check amazon.com for a pressure cooker.
thank you all for your great recipes!
FR Rocks!
Keep it simple.
I buy packages of chicken legs and place them all on a large cookie sheet - upon which I have already place a piece of "Release" foil.
Then I sprinkle on McCormick's Meat Tenderizer - Seasoned - on both sides of the legs. Then I put the pan of legs in a 325 oven to bake for about 20 minutes - turn the legs over and cook for another 15-20 minutes. They are YUM!!
If you're watching the waistline - just remove the skin before cooking and put the tenderizer directly onto the chicken. I like it both ways.
No fuss, no muss and you can warm them in the microwave the next day.
Try Carlo3b. Last I heard he was selling them. Plus, I think it was on Amazon, but can't remember the complete name.
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REVEALED: Stand-Up Row Behind No10 Strategy Guru's Exit to California
Byline: Simon Walters POLITICAL EDITOR
DAVID CAMERON'S outgoing strategy guru had a stand-up row with the Prime Minister and his top civil servant over the Coalition's 'lack of direction,' it was revealed last night.
The men clashed at Chequers when Steve Hilton demanded more power over policies at No 10.
Mr Cameron blocked the bid after Britain's top mandarin, Jeremy Heywood - who was appointed Cabinet Secretary in January - threatened to resign in protest.
The Prime Minister told a bruised Mr Hilton to 'calm down' and agreed to Mr Heywood's demand to give control of No 10's policy unit to another Whitehall official.
The decision enraged Mr Hilton's wife Rachel Whetstone, herself a former No 10 aide and now a senior executive at Google's HQ in Palo Alto, California. She told a friend: 'Everyone has ganged up on Steve. I want him here with me.'
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He fell out with Mr Heywood after calling for Britain to ignore EU work regulations to boost the economy.In a No 10 showdown, Mr Heywood sided with officials from Vince Cable's Business Department who were opposed to the idea.
According to witnesses, Mr Hilton said: 'We should ignore EU rules.'
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Mr Hilton had similar clashes with Mr Cameron's chief of staff, former EU bureaucrat Edward Llewellyn, who disagreed with his insistence that Britain would be better off out of the EU.
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Mr Hilton had also argued about strategy with Mr Cameron's former head of communications, Andy Coulson, before he quit in January 2011. …


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I arrived in Baalbek a few days after Israeli troops had fought a gun battle here with Hezbollah. Baalbek has been Hezbollah's headquarters since Iranian revolutionary guards came here to train militant Shiites. In 1984, Hezbollah embarked on a much-publicised kidnapping campaign. Famous hostages included the Englishman Terry Waite, the local CIA chief William Buckley, AP bureau chief Terry Anderson and Irish university lecturer, Brian Keenan, who wrote a best-selling book about his years in captivity, entitled "An Evil Cradling". It is believed that the two Israeli soldiers captured recently, are still being held here in Baalbeck and that the Israeli attack on the local hospital was a failed attempt to rescue them.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, I was the only foreigner in the town. I saw several buildings that had been destroyed by Israeli bombs, but everyday life continued much as usual. In the high street I got my haircut at the local barber's. In a souvenir shop, just outside the temple entrance, an attractive lady shopkeeper was selling yellow and green Hezbollah flags and T-shirts, as well as cassettes and DVDs of Hassan Nasrallah's speeches, all at knockdown prices, as I was her only customer that day.
In ancient times Baalbek was known as Heliopolis (the City of the Sun) and at various stages in history the temples here have been used for all sorts of worship, including sacred prostitution and human sacrifices, I found this description in the Lonely Planet Guide. It is taken from a tablet at Ugarit, describing Anath, the sister of Baal, one of the Gods worshipped at Baalbek:
She "waded up to the knees, up to the neck in human blood. Human heads lay at her feet, human hands flew over her like locusts. she tied the hands of her victims as ornaments on her back, their hands she tied upon her belt. When she was satisfied she washed her hands in human blood."
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enjoy your page very much, i like the ruins!!!! you are most welcome for birthday greetings, ian :)
This is so interesting. I am waiting for peace to breake so I can visit this amazing place :-(
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I have not used the 3D feature before and was trying to set it up for the first time. I go into the nvidia control panel and enable the stereoscopic 3D, using the 3D setup wizard. The display gets a little fuzzy but it won't let me adjust the 3D depth in the control panel afterwards. I set the resolution to 1920x1080 and 24 HZ refresh rate like the wizard told me to at the end.
My projector is set on auto 3D, which I think automatically turns the 3D feature on the projector on when it detects a 3D source.
Just to be clear, the output from my desktop has to be 3D, and the projector has to be in 3D mode as well right?
I tried playing batman arkham city but I couldn't tell if it was 3D. The desktop and some videos I played did not display in 3D.
I was wondering if there was something I had to do. I adjusted the 3D depth on the projector, but even then, some of the videos and the game were not in 3D like I expected.
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Definition of feckless in English:
- But when we actually get on TV, we are relatively feckless and ineffective.
- I don't think it's because Glasgow people are particularly feckless.
- Their shared affection for the warmhearted, feckless Martin is a further bond between them.
fecklessly adverb
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- Therefore, we need men and women in both parties who understand its gravity and who, whatever they think of the tactics or the domestic agendas of their rivals, will not fecklessly cut and run if they reach the White House.
- Jenkins then goes on to discredit younger consumers as fecklessly fickle.
- The major common factor with people who make resolutions is that the vast majority break them within hours or days of making them, yet will fecklessly resolve again in similar fashion the same time next year.
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- To the extent that I thought about it at all - and no-one should underestimate the capacity for fecklessness of the 18-year old - I'd more or less accepted that if I got drafted, I'd go along.
- He said: 'The accusations from the finance world are often that a bad debt is a result of fecklessness on the part of the borrower.'
- Then they call their opponents nasty names, cut dirty deals, and violate constitutional rules all to escape the mess they themselves created by their own weird combination of vanity and fecklessness.
Late 16th century: from Scots and northern English dialect feck (from effeck, variant of effect) + -less.
effect from Late Middle English:
Effect 'result, consequence' from Latin effectus, from efficere 'accomplish, work out', formed from ex- 'out, thoroughly' and facere 'do'. Its negative is defect (Late Middle English), while deficit (late 18th century) is from Latin deficit 'it is lacking', from the verb deficere. The Latin word was used formerly in inventories to record what was missing. Feckless (late 16th century) 'lacking in efficiency or vitality' is based on Scots and northern English dialect feck, a shortening of effeck, a variant of effect.
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Thursday, October 1, 2015
Orange Sherbet
Surely I've lived through several lifetimes since I was last here. That was when summer was in all her glory, tomatoes were ripening, pools were filled with noisy, splashing kids and we had plans for a lot of nothing to fill our days.
In the past two months we've driven 7300 miles back and forth across the country; had three groups of visitors in Idaho; two family reunions; moved my mother into a memory care facility and cleaned out her apartment; and two days ago I had my long-awaited cornea transplant.
I'm one of those sappy people who can watch a re-run of Price is Right, and when they announce the winner and she cries, I cry. I cry happy tears, sad tears, and everything in between. What I don't do is not cry.
But since my brother died unexpectedly back in late January, I've been operating in an emotionally clogged 'make-it-happen' mode. No time to fall apart, to consider and grieve, just deal with whatever is in front of you and keep on going.
There were a few moments, over those past six months, that I knew if I started, I'd just flat fall apart and that wasn't going to help anyone right then. This summer, with all of her living kids fully realizing the shape our mother was in, and me being her medical and financial power of attorney, we stepped everything up. We kept meals and housekeepers and family checking on her as much as possible, knowing every day she was less safe where she was. Finally, on the birthday of my brother who just died, she walked out of her little apartment, and into the nursing home without a word of complaint. Rather, she said she was happy to know there were people there to take care of her.
Everyone's life has a handful of pivot points, or at least moments that, when they happen, you know. You will never forget them.
When I finally got to visit Mom at the facility where she is living, she'd been there over a week. I walked down the hall toward where her room was supposed to be. Saw a group of old ladies sitting around in a circle, singing and clapping their hands, while somewhere off to the side a man was singing and playing a banjo. One gray haired head caught my attention and I knew it was her. That moment, seeing my mother sitting there. Knowing this little area is now her world, and it is exactly what she needs to feel safe. Seeing that she doesn't wear a watch because she doesn't need to, she doesn't have a purse anymore. She wears slippers. A hard moment that I will not forget.
She, on the other hand, was just happy to see my face, and jumped up to hug me. She introduced me to all her new friends. Then we sat outside, in the little garden area and talked about how she was doing. Was she happy? Did she like it there? Was the food okay? It is the first time in a year she hasn't been agitated or stressed when we talked. Her hair is combed, and someone helped her dress. She is eating three times a day. She has someone to eat meals with. Church comes to her, and they take her on drives in the mountains. There is a puppy dog named Ginger that comes for daily visits.
After being concerned for a couple of years, and worried sick for the past six months, I know she's finally okay. She's content. She's well-cared for. I also know whenever those years were, that she was the mother and I, the daughter, and she was concerned about me - they are gone. Forever.
Hugging her to me, feeling how tiny she has become, and knowing I don't know when I'll see her again; not being sure she will remember me when I do - it took my breath away to try to say goodbye. Still I held in tears because nobody would have been blessed by a flood of them down the hall right that minute.
I came home to Texas, and cried at the drop of a hat, over just about anything anyone said to me. I greeted everyone I know with, "I'm a bit of a wreck." "I need time to put myself back together." As I cried.
Then two days ago I had a cornea transplant - apparently a very common eye surgery, but pretty major for me. It looks and feels major. Cub Sweetheart has done a wonderful job of caring for me, tender and attentive. Trying to anticipate every need I might have, he asked me what I might like from the grocery store, I only added one thing to the list - 'please bring me some orange sherbet.' That's what my mother always gave me when I was sick. It's unimaginable to me that one would be sick, and expected to recover, without a tub of it in the freezer.
This afternoon my oldest daughter, in the middle of moving day for her family of six, called me. She said, "I only have five minutes, but I need to know that you are okay." I was amazed that she even remembered to check on me, as much as she has going on. Four kids to get to bed within a few hours and the beds are on the truck. Where is the toilet paper? Clothes for tomorrow? The dog? The hamster? Yet she called to check on her mom.
Oh, this mothering thing - this unexplainable, twisting and curving - full of looping back, overlapping, covering where the other one used to, and the longing we all have, sometimes, for a cold bowl of orange sherbet.
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Dad's 90th birthday bash photos
We looked forward to it for so long, had a blast, then I didn't post a single photo.
Without further ado, here's a smattering of our fun three or so days in bustling Goodland, Kansas.
Family trickled in, and the ones who got there early were blessed with some one-on-one time with Grandpa Chester.
It was such a great time, having about 75 people there to let him know how loved he is. The day ended with a county fair, complete with rides, country singing and dancing, corn dogs, and great fireworks.
Worth every mile we all made to be there.
Without further ado, here's a smattering of our fun three or so days in bustling Goodland, Kansas.
Family trickled in, and the ones who got there early were blessed with some one-on-one time with Grandpa Chester.
|Our grown up son, with his son, and Grandpa. It'd been over 15 years since they'd seen each other.
|D2 thought Grandpa Chester's golf cart was way cool. I think it's way cool that at 90 he plays golf 3-5 x a week.
|It wouldn't be a trip to Goodland without checking out his garden. At 90 he hand hoes it, impressive!
|these are the photos that are dear to my heart.
|Checking out Grandpa's tamed ducks, who live on hole 9.
|Birthday boy - he was a good sport to wear anything we gave him.
|My uncle, his twin brother separated by 15 years. I hadn't seen him in 50 years.
|Mom was celebrating her 82nd birthday that day, so she got her own cake.
|Lots of family came in, enduring crazy heat, fussy babies, etc. to celebrate his big day.
|Not great photos but all I got!
|These two cousins are separated by 27 days, and their baby girls are pretty close in age too.
|They've known each other for 69 years, it was sweet to see them together reminiscing.
Worth every mile we all made to be there.
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Life Interrupted
Saturday, August 8, 2015
Angry with Elizabeth Zimmerman
It's been awhile since I've been here; rather than 'lazy, hazy days of summer', July flew by, a hot blur of family, friends, ice cream and grilling. Fun, albeit tiring, niceness.
August is moving at more of an ooze, as it should. Every day we accomplish something, but not enough to call it work. Days topping out at 75 to 80 degrees are hard not to love, especially if they involve limearitas (my new favorite thing) with chips and salsa on someone's patio.
We'll be here in northern Idaho til mid September, then point the minivan towards Texas, which is now over 100 every day, and likely will still be stubbornly holding onto upper 90's when we pull into the driveway. She doesn't let go of summer easily. Along the 2000 miles of way, we'll drive through Colorado for another family reunion, then I'll stay behind for doctor checkups with my mom. They'll be challenging, and possibly frustrating, but a sad necessity we're thinking. Cub Sweetheart and Lily will continue on the way home alone, and I'll catch up with them via plane, a week or so later.
Which brings me to being angry.
This stage of life, where my mother pivots between denying and being completely ignorant of her situation, is hard. Harder than I think I would have thought it would be, if I'd seen it coming, which I didn't. Somehow I didn't expect this. Being raised by a mother who, for as long as I can remember, preferred writing a poem to cooking tuna casserole or doing laundry, made it hard to see that she was losing grip with daily life. When they don't use the stove anyway it's hard to see that they don't remember how.
Humor is needed. Lightness. Mental gymnastics with something other than keeping track of her dropping weight, having protein drinks shipped to her, going through a verbal game of charades every time we talk, as we struggle to find the words to communicate - what she's trying to tell me, what I'm trying to understand or get across to her. I'm sad for her. I'm sad for me.
So I'm going to relearn to knit. Rather than put my head in the sand (which many days calls my name hard) I'm going to occupy it, at least sometimes, with other things. Perhaps those times when everything in me wants to punch a wall or hang up the phone or sit down and have a good cry. Being a firm lover of new year's resolutions, I made one in January to improve my knitting skills. After over five years of knitting I'm pretty much still where I was soon after I began. I moved beyond making scarves for everyone I knew; there have been caps and a few baby sweaters, a toy or two. My one pair of socks that took about 200 hours. So I've got some knitting under my belt, but everything ends up a bit much for even non-perfectionist me to bear.
When I first learned to knit, which I did NOT want to do, it made me so angry Cub Sweetheart kept asking me, 'why do you do that? It makes you SO angry?' In my defense that was after I'd started and ripped out the same sweater SEVENTEEN times.
Something about the mental gymnastics grabs me, the trying to get my brain around something that does not come easily. Sort of like algebra, but with yarn.
I could pick up another knitting project, work my way through it, but I'd likely end up with a lumpy, uneven garment or more likely, an unraveled ball of yarn that was intended to be a garment. Instead I've decided to do the Julia and Julia thing. Instead of cooking through an old cookbook on a small stove in a smaller apartment, I'm going to work my way through Elizabeth Zimmerman's 'Knitting Workshop'. One chapter and one project at a time. No promises that I'll ever hit 'master knitter' but I might come out at the end of the book still sane. That's far more valuable than any fancy-schmancy sweater out there.
Ms. Zimmerman's book, and lessons, starts with winding a ball of yarn. Which I'm actually not that great at. It tends to make me grit my teeth and mutter under my breath, not always nice words. I think this would be same as Julie pulling her pots and pans out of the cupboard, and possibly purchasing measuring cups.
I'll be back in a few days, maybe, with a ball of yarn, and words regarding the lovely art of knitting. Once in awhile, when life gets too much, when it feels like my hair is on fire, I might dribble on about Alzheimers and dementia and caregiving; hopefully you'll hear more from me about dropping stitches or life or how I feel about capital punishment or the upcoming election process and why it has anything to do with Donald Trump's horrid hair. All with a humorous slant, of course, because life is way too short, or long - depending on how you look at it, to do otherwise.
Off to grab pointed needles!
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
'I have a problem'......
|Daddy in his garden patch
He starts by telling me a cousin I haven't seen in 50 years died yesterday, Pedro who was about the age of my older brother, Gary. Pedro who was a lot like Gary, and died of the same thing Gary did this past February.
As Daddy put it, they were both 'wild as a briar patch hare'. Ten years from now I'm going to want to remember all those sayings Daddy had, so today I grab a pad of paper and jot it down. And I smile for maybe the first time today.
|Baking Snickerdoodles with Daddy in his little kitchen. Please ignore bra rolls...
We talk a bit, then he says, "Beverly, I have a problem." It's been one of those mornings when I can feel the tears just behind the surface, pressing to get out, but if they start they might not stop, so I hold onto them. Frustrations with my mother, whose world is spinning out of control faster every day, have started my morning off tough. So I'm not at all sure I can handle hearing about yet another problem, especially if someone is counting on me to fix it.
'Okay, what's wrong?' I ask, not really wanting to hear.
'Well, I've got gallons of beets sitting here in my kitchen and I can't find whole allspice. I've been to Walmart, and the spice store here in town, and nobody has any. I need the whole allspice to can my beets, and they're already picked, so I wondered if you can get them on that Amazon?'
Oh Daddy! Thank you, thank you, thank you that at 90 years old your only pressing problem is whole allspice. And that you are clear enough to remember Amazon, even though you don't own a computer.
And thank you, whoever invented Amazon, that for $9.62 I was able to ship him a pound of whole allspice, scheduled to be delivered in two days to the edge of Kansas.
And yes, Daddy, you can pay me back in a jar of beets. That would be absolutely perfect.
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Family Gatherings
We're not the kind of family that draws together very often. Mostly for funerals, sad to say. Once in awhile for a wedding, or a big birthday, but mostly for funerals.
But Daddy is turning 90 this year, and that's a big deal in anybody's book. So we're coming in from all corners, to make a honkin' big deal of this one, for him.
I've been working on a memorabilia book, based on a journal he filled out for me 12 years ago. Sidenote: do it now, have those older members of your family write down their memories. You'll want to know later, to share the stories. I'm so glad I even thought to do this awhile back. I took the book to the printer and had 20 copies made, for him, for us kids, for grandkids, and a few extras for him to hand out as he pleases.
Here are a handful of photos from his life's journey book:
|This man - Jessie Calvin Boaz,
|This was taken in 1965, the one family vacation we ever went on, to Estes Park, Colorado.
|My parents on our Colorado vacation. I love how young they look here.
|Daddy worked a lot of jobs, often more than one at a time, but the one he did for the most years, the one he retired from was as a mailman. I don't even know how many times he was bitten by dogs.
|The four boys who survived to adulthood. One died from pneumonia when he was 4 years old.
|My Dad and his big sister, Jessie Mae. He said they fought like cats and dogs when she bossed him around.
|My father and his brother, Dorman. He was 20 and Dorman was 22.
|Here they are many years later. Both have / had a life-long love of gardening.
|My father and his second wife, Mary. They were married 12 years before she died of cancer.
|The second family Mary gave my father. Dad still lives in Kansas with his step-daughter, Sharon and her gang, all nearby.
|Dad started playing golf in his mid-50's, and still, at 90 years old, plays 18 holes 3 days a week.
|Dad and Mom when they remarried about 12 years ago. Sadly, they didn't stay married, but they did remain life-long friends.
So we've got big doings planned. An open house for family and all the friends Daddy has made in the years he's lived in his small town in Kansas. Then we'll all head to the fairgrounds for a carnival, watermelon eating contest, a country band, and finally fireworks. It happens to be Mom's 82nd birthday that day, so we'll have two birthday cakes to celebrate both of them.
Daddy will be seeing his one surviving brother, who he hasn't seen in a good number of years; also grandchildren he hasn't seen in two decades, and he'll meet for the first time many spouses of grandkids and great-grandkids he's been sending birthday cards to for years and years. All in all we are so excited to have this day to celebrate a remarkable man, one whose only goal in life was to have all six of his children graduate from high school, own his home and be able to pay his bills.
Well done, Daddy. You make us awfully proud.
I'll be back in a few days with photos from our big day of celebrating.
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Mass. researcher says he has ID'd 7 MIAs from WWII
SUITLAND, Md. A private researcher who has labored for years to identify the remains of U.S. service members declared missing in action during World War II says he has matched seven MIAs with the remains of unknowns and he expects to match as many as 19 more within a week.
Ted Darcy's list of five Marines and two sailors missing since the 1944 Battle of Saipan may not sound long. But his announcement Tuesday - the 66th anniversary of the battle's opening day - was remarkable, considering the military's average of confirming 72 such matches annually from all U.S. wars.
Darcy, a retired Marine Corps gunnery sergeant from Fall River, Mass., has helped bring home three WWII MIAs since 1991 from burial sites in the Philippines, Hawaii and Newport, R.I. Now he is accelerating his work using computerized databases filled with information he painstakingly entered from two sets of government documents: those containing physical descriptions of MIAs and those containing autopsies of slain service members buried as unknowns.
He hands over his findings to the military, which then tries to verify his work.
It sounds simple, but the identifications are the fruit of 20 years' labor by Darcy, who says he's determined to bring home thousands of missing WWII fighters.
"If I can bring home 4,500 American MIAs, I'll be a happy camper," he said in a recent interview at the Washington National Records Center, a federal repository in Suitland, just east of the nation's capital.
Soft-spoken, with a thatch of curly, salt-and-pepper hair, Darcy, 59, runs a business, WFI Research Group, that digs up details of decades-old battles for other WWII researchers at $50 an hour. But he doesn't charge MIAs' families to find their loved ones, usually buried anonymously in distant cemeteries under white marble crosses inscribed, "Here rests in honored glory a comrade in arms known but to God."
The Associated Press isn't naming those identified by Darcy unless they have been officially confirmed.
There are nearly 88,000 American MIAs, including 78,000 from WWII, according to the Pentagon's Defense Prisoner of War-Missing Personnel Office. Darcy says he has located the remains of nearly 9,000 unidentified WWII fighters, and he hopes to put names to at least half of them.
He forwards his findings to the military's Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, or JPAC, at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. The unit, charged with recovering the remains of missing service members, includes forensic anthropologists, archaeologists and other experts who scientifically verify the identities of those they find themselves or locate through information provided by others.
The process can include DNA analysis - something Darcy doesn't do - and can take months or years, said Maj. Ramon Osorio, of JPAC.
The military appreciates tips from people like Darcy, said Larry Greer, spokesman for the Pentagon's POW-MIA office.
"It's not always correct, but that's OK," Greer said. "We don't want to turn our back on an occasional hit or two that might give us a leg up on zeroing in on a particular case."
Darcy, impatient with bureaucracy and what he perceives as military indifference to WWII cases, aims to put more cases in the pipeline. The Battle of Saipan is the first test of his computer-matching abilities. With 70 unknowns and 141 MIAs, it is among the smallest of 29 battles he plans to analyze.
He began with Saipan because he had already gathered information about the battle while working to successfully identify Lt. Woodie Lackland McVay Jr., a Navy pilot from Mobile, Ala., who was shot down over the Pacific island on Feb. 22, 1944. The military verified the match in May 2009, nearly three years after Darcy first contacted McVay's family.


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The Wanted and One Direction beef may have quieted down on Twitter, but that doesn't mean that it's over quite yet. When the soon-to-be reality stars of The Wanted stopped by "Chelsea Lately," they weighed in on the current state of affairs between the boy bands.
"We don't listen to their music," Jay McGuiness said of One Direction. Host Chelsea Handler bluntly asked if the guys hated 1D, to which Siva Kaneswaran added, "Hate is a strong word."
But, it was Max George who had the lengthiest explanation about what exactly has transpired between the two bands, who have frequently traded barbs on Twitter in the months since their feud first made headlines. It kicked off last November when George and 1D's Zayn Malik got into a heated debate, insulting one another (the word chlamydia was mentioned during the initial back-and-forth) on the site.
"There seems to be an issue," George said, with Siva pointing specifically to him. "It's not just me. It's mainly me, but it's not all me. I think there's a few questions that need to be asked of them, of a couple of them. I'm suspicious of one of his reasons."
Wondering who or what exactly George might be referring to? Well, so was a perplexed McGuiness. He said, "I'm a bit confused now, actually."
While George never went into specifics, he did get the last word on the matter: "No, I think it's him that's confused one of those guys. But they're all right. Definitely a couple of them are really sound and the others are… all right."
Fans might get the inside scoop on the feud very soon. This Sunday, not only will reality TV lovers be "Keeping Up With The Kardashians," but they will also get an inside look at what it's like to be in the boy band with "The Wanted Life." The show follows the guys as they embark on life in the City of Angels and launch the next phase of their career, including the release of their latest single "Walks Like Rihanna."
"I think, hopefully, people will see there's a bit of heart as well," McGuiness said about the series. "There's a lot of it, and it sounds pretty stupid to say, a lot of love here between each other. I'm happy that was shown."
However, there's also some partying. McGuiness revealed that he and George "prowled a little" when it came to dating in Los Angeles, while their groupmates had their girlfriends in town. He added, "To see yourself slowly get really drunk, it's never nice, and especially in HD. You look terrible. It's never good."