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The 1940's
The 1940's represent one of the most difficult moments for the review.
The conclusion of the Second World War divides the decade in two. Before 1938 political pressures distorted and ruined the festival. With the advent of the conflict the situation degenerated to such a point that the editions of 1940, 1941 and 1942, subsequently are considered as if they did not happen because they were carried out in places far away from Lido of Venice. In addition, few countries participated and there was an absolute monopoly of institutions and directors that were members of the Rome-Berlin axis. Although this climate is more propagandistic than artistic, the festival hosted strong Italian stars like Alida Valli, Assia Noris and Fosco Giachetti.
After this sad digression, the festival resumes full speed in 1946 until the end of the war, but the screenings are carried out at the San Marco cinema, because the Cinema Palace is appropriated by the Allied Powers. The new director, Elio Zorzi, wants to restore the freedom and internationalism that made the festival such a success; something that was utterly destroyed during the previous war years. For the first time, the 1946 edition is held in the month of September, in accordance to an agreement with the newly-born Cannes Film Festival, which had just held its first review in the spring of '46.
Characterizing this new journey are very important films of neo-realism, one of the most significant movements in the history of Italian film, such as Paisà (Paisan) (1946) by Roberto Rossellini, Il sole sorge ancora (Outcry) (1946) by Aldo Vergano, Caccia tragica (The Tragic Pursuit) (1947) by Giuseppe De Santis, Senza pietà (Without Pity) (1948) by Alberto Lattuada and La terra trema (The Earth Trembles) (1948) by Luchino Visconti; although their value and public success are undisputed, these works do not get the critical acclaim they so richly deserve.
The festival plays host to great international directors: Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, Fritz Lang, John Huston, Claude Autant-Lara, David Lean, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean Cocteau, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, as well as Jean Renoir, Julien Duvivier, Marcel Carné.
With the return of normalcy, Venice once again becomes a great icon of the film world, with noted stars Rita Hayworth, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland, but the true star is actress Anna Magnani from Rome, who is awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her excellent interpretation in Luigi Zampa's film L'onorevole Angelina (Angelina, Member of Parliament) in 1947.
In 1947 the festival is held at the Ducal Palace, a most magnificent backdrop for hosting a record 90 thousand participants. Surely it can be considered one of the greatest editions in the history of the festival. It sees the return to Lido of Venice of works from the USSR, which are screened side-by-side with those of "popular democracies". Czechoslovakia's debut wins first prize thanks to the film Siréna by film-maker Karel Stekly. 1947 also sees the restoration of the International Jury to give out the International Award of the Venice Film Festival.
In 1949, under the direction of the newly-appointed Antonio Petrucci, the festival returns to the Cinema Palace in Lido of Venice. The Golden Lion of San Marco for Best Film is instituted and is awarded for the first time to Manon by Henri-Georges Clouzot. This year also marks the debut of Jacques Tati with Jour de fête (Holiday).


text: Imagine the airport with no security. No metal detectors. No TSA guards. No luggage searches. Boarding an airliner with a firearm could be as easy as putting a pistol in your pocket and taking your seat. That's the way it was in the United States in the early 1970s when an epidemic of airline "skyjackings" dominated the news. Hijackers' motives ranged from political to financial. Their destinations spanned North America, Europe and Asia and quite often included the island nation of Cuba. The hijackings took place against a backdrop of dramatic social change and the Vietnam War. Three decades before the 9/11 attacks, these airline bandits triggered a chain of events leading to the modern airline security we enjoy – and suffer – today. Author Brendan Koerner details the most fascinating of these dangerous high-altitude confrontations in his book, "The Skies Belong to Us." CNN: How did the idea hit you? Brendan Koerner: In October 2009 I was reading the Metro Section of the New York Times and there was a little item about this man named Louis Armando Pena Soltren who'd been a Puerto Rican nationalist, and he lived in the Bronx in the '60s. And he and two of his comrades in 1968 hijacked a plane from New York to Cuba. He actually spent the next 41 years living in Havana. And then suddenly in 2009 he decided to come back to the US voluntarily. And so this piece was about the fact that he had been arrested the second he stepped off the plane at JFK. I was always vaguely familiar with the fact that planes had once been hijacked to Cuba, but I really didn't know much about that era in aviation. It was a little bit before my time. So I started looking into this time period. And I was just blown away by how common hijacking was in America at that time. I was particularly intrigued by this one story. I was looking at names of people who had done this and it was pretty much all males, people with pretty obvious political motives. And there was this one name that leapt out at me. It was a young woman named Catherine Marie Kerkow, from a small town in Oregon, who had done this. And I really become interested in her case. And that became something that took me down a four-year journey – a four-year research and writing path. CNN: How old are you? And do you remember hearing about any of these hijacking stories in the news when you were a child? Koerner: I'm 37. The only hijacking story I really remember vividly from being a child was in the 1980s, there was a pretty famous TWA hijacking in the Middle East, I believe in Beirut. I was born after this hijacking epidemic, which pretty much ended in early 1973. So it definitely predates me. CNN: If the Nixon administration hadn't clamped down and if 9/11 hadn't happened, do you think skyjackings would still be going on today? Koerner: Ultimately the solution to it was a pretty prosaic one, in that after putting up with all these hijackings for so many years, they made a decision to finally compel all travelers to pass through metal detectors and have their carry-on luggage searched. And pretty much immediately after instituting that regulation, skyjackings dwindled to almost zero. So it was a pretty simple fix, and one that had been resisted for a long time because they didn't want to inconvenience travelers. The airlines in particular were really terrified that their customers wouldn't fly anymore because they didn't want to be treated like criminal suspects just because they were flying. So they resisted very public calls for them to do this for many, many years. Would this still be going on today? It's hard for me to fathom that we wouldn't have done something about this eventually. I think that they eventually put in those regulations when it became obvious that planes could be used as weapons of mass destruction. There's an incident in November '72 which I discuss in the book, when a Southern Airways flight was hijacked and the hijackers threatened to crash it into a nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, unless they were given $10 million. And that was really the straw that broke the camel's back. It became obvious that if that had happened there would have been a tremendous loss of life and destruction. So it wasn't just a matter of, "Well, let's give in to people and everyone will be safe." It became too risky at that point. CNN: Your book describes the tipping point in the history of aviation travel where travelers have gone from being treated as welcome guests to – for some – feeling like they're being treated as potential criminals. Koerner: That's exactly right. It's interesting that the fear of the airlines was that people would not fly anymore or they would lose a large percentage of their customer base. People would choose to drive instead of fly because they didn't want to put up with this intrusion. But interestingly, when the dawn of the screening was covered in early 1973, pretty much universally people were in favor of it, because they recognized how dangerous the skyjacking epidemic had become. I talk in the book a little bit about these reporters swarming these airports on the day they launched universal screening and hoping they would catch some kind of conflict or disgruntled fliers. But pretty much to a man and to a woman, people welcomed the new security because they recognized – especially in light of what had happened in 1972 with all the craziness – that this was a necessary step. CNN: Can you share some personal details about your research process and maybe some unique experiences or surprises you ran into along the way? Koerner: One thing that's interesting for me is, I travel a lot as a journalist, but I've never really paid much attention to airline personnel on the planes and the lives of pilots and flight attendants. And that really became something I became very deeply immersed in. With this project I was trying to track down flight attendants and pilots who had been on this hijacked flight which is the focus of the book – Western Airlines Flight 701. I traveled all over the country talking to people who'd been on the flight to get their recollections of it. Most interestingly, I actually tracked down one of the hijackers. He was living in San Diego. And I found him and it took me a while – he was difficult to find. I couldn't get a phone number. I eventually just got an address for him through a series of happy accidents. I sent him a letter and a copy of my first book and he was kind enough to respond. And that was a tremendous experience and a tremendous boost for the book, to get his recollections and memories and details that only he had. CNN: Was that Roger Holder? Koerner: Yes, it is. CNN: Based on what you knew about the hijacking and based on the man you met – how do you think he has changed? Koerner: You have to keep in mind that he did this act when he was quite young. He was 22 years old when he hijacked this plane, and he'd served four tours in Vietnam. I think the combination of youth and the difficulties associated with his military service and maybe some other factors – maybe some psychological factors – made him an angry person. And he lashed out. He acted out in a pretty extreme, spectacular kind of way with this hijacking. I think age and experience changes everybody. And the man I met was a very thoughtful, very calm, incredibly charismatic person. It was really a joy to sit down with him. At the same time I could see him struggling to come to terms with what he'd done and what his role in history was. For him, he had pretty fond memories of a lot of aspects of this. Not so much causing people terror or consternation – but the experience that came afterwards with his travels and being in the public spotlight was something that weighed heavily on him and he thought about quite a bit. CNN: So why don't we know what happened to his co-hijacker Cathy Kerkow? Koerner: That's the million dollar question in the book. I don't want to give too much away, but certainly the last time that she connected with Roger, she said she was going to Switzerland for a brief trip with friends. Based on information I have, I believe she tried to carve out a new identity – that she decided that this was her chance to gain a new life. They were waiting around to be put on trial in France for hijacking and she didn't know how that was going to turn out. Her relationship with Roger had come to an end – at least romantically. And I felt that she sensed that this was her opportunity to move beyond all this – to move beyond the folly of her youth. CNN: When you were writing the book were you sensitive to glorifying the anti-hero aspect of Holder's and Krekow's story? I've seen them compared to the notorious 1930s bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde. Koerner: I think you need to approach these kinds of stories with empathy for everyone involved. At the same time you do have to be judgmental to some extent and recognize that their actions caused a lot of people a lot of pain. And I know for a fact that they're aware of that. It's a deeply human story, and all humans have their pluses and minuses, so I think that should come through in all the characters in this book. CNN: You write about Holder's anger about prosecutors' treatment of political activist Angela Davis. During your research did you reach out to Davis? Koerner: I didn't, because from what I understand she doesn't like talking about the past, and she never met any of these characters. I did reach out to some other people who wouldn't go on the record with me, for example (Black Panther Party leader Eldridge Cleaver's widow) Kathleen Cleaver, who I know was an eyewitness to these events. CNN: Could you describe Fidel Castro's Hijacker House? And how and why did Cuba set itself apart during all of this? Koerner: A lot of people were hijacking planes to Cuba in the '60s. A lot of hijackers, I think, thought they would be greeted as heroes when they arrived in Havana. But it was actually quite the opposite. Fidel Castro had no patience for these crazy Americans coming with planes with their various motives. So as an American you basically faced one of two fates when you went to Havana with a stolen plane. One, you would be put in a South Havana dormitory called Hijacker House, where you were given about 16 square feet of living space with a cot, and they give you 40 pesos a month, (and) you kind of have to fend for yourself. It was a really awful life. And if the government really didn't like you – for example, if you were violent on board the plane or if you robbed any of the passengers – they would actually send you to these gulags in the south of the country where you would harvest sugar cane. And the conditions there were just absolutely nightmarish. There was a hijacker named Anthony Bryant who wrote a memoir after spending about 11 and a half years in prison in Cuba for taking a plane. The details he has in that book are just really shocking about the treatment of prisoners there. CNN: If I traveled to Cuba today, would I see any remnants of that time when Cuba was a hijacker destination? Koerner: Well, you certainly would, because there are still some hijackers living there. Most came back, but there actually are still a few who decided stay there. Some of them make their living as tour guides, or translators or fixers for journalists. There are still people there who went there in the '60s or '70s and never came back. CNN: Who was Capt. Eugene Vaughn? Koerner: Eugene Vaughn was a Pan Am 747 captain, and he was running a route from San Francisco to Saigon with stops in Honolulu and Manila and Guam, I believe. On the way to Southeast Asia, one of Vaughn's passengers was a South Vietnamese native who had just graduated from the University of Washington and was on the way home. He decided to hijack the plane and take it to Hanoi to protest the bombing of North Vietnam. They land in Saigon and the captain went back and basically tackled this hijacker. Another of the passengers was an ex-cop from San Francisco. Vaughn knew the ex-cop was armed and Vaughn had him shoot the hijacker to death. The captain then literally picked up this hijacker and took his body to the rear exit of the plane and threw the corpse onto the tarmac. He said he did it because he was so offended that this guy, who would challenge his command, would remain on his plane – even while dead. He just had to get him off the plane. When he returned back to the US, a lot of people hailed Vaughn as a hero, because this was a moment in America during the skyjacking epidemic when the public was really through with it. They were really finished. It was no longer quaint or funny when people were hijacked. There were actually deaths involved and there was a lot of terror going on. That was kind of a turning point in the epidemic when it became clear the public wouldn't put up with this anymore. CNN: What takeaways can you offer modern-day travelers based on what you've learned while writing this book? Koerner: When you're going through security – and we all have our complaints about what the TSA is doing, and certainly a lot of those complaints are valid – but I think we need perspective about what life was like when we had no security, or very poor security. There are reasons why things are the way they are. And we can certainly have debates about the efficacy of certain techniques and tactics. But I think we also have this other perspective. There was a time when there was no security and we had this awful, awful crisis. And I think it would be even worse today if we stripped away a lot of security.

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NEW YORK — Daily workouts at 6 a.m.? Not bad, Paul Ryan. But there's another influential political figure who's apparently often finished with hers by then: Michelle Obama.
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Especially during the school year, the first lady gets up at 4:30 a.m. or 5 a.m. to work out before her kids wake up, she told iVillage, the women's website where she is serving as a guest editor this week, with a theme of "Rev Up Your Back-to-School Routine."
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"Barack and I work out every day," the first lady told the site in an interview to appear online this week. "I usually get to the gym before he does. But he is usually there either in the middle of my workout or right at the end. And we're watching `SportsCenter' and we're catching up. That's why I know so much about sports … and you start having an opinion about (New York Jets quarterbacks Tim) Tebow and Mark Sanchez."
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If she's on the road, Mrs. Obama often brings a jump rope, she adds. "If I don't have a rope or space, I might do a 30-minute routine that includes a minute of jumping jacks alternating with a minute of push-ups, then some sit-ups. You take a 30-second break and do it again."
The first lady also tells the site what her family's food weaknesses are.
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For Malia, it's juice: Her mom has suggested she cut back by drinking water or mixing it with seltzer. And for Barack, it's chips with salsa and guacamole – or nuts, like peanuts, almonds and pecans. "He kind of shakes them in one hand and creates, like, a little dispenser with his index finger where he can just pop them in his mouth. And I kind of imitate him when he does that. But he's a nut guy. That's what he's munching on all the time."
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As for the first lady? "French fries, which is good because you can't just have french fries around, so that's helpful," she says. "But if there are french fries in the vicinity, I'm done. It's over."
The first lady is the first of a series of planned guest editors at iVillage, which is part of NBCUniversal.
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Glen Baldridge's "This Way" is on view in his solo show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery on New York's Lower East Side. He shot the source image using a camera set up in the forest, with a motion detector designed to trigger the shutter when anything passed by. Instead of bagging big game, however, Baldridge's camera went off at the merest fall of a leaf or shift of a branch, capturing the quotidian emptiness of the natural world. Baldridge then printed his banal shots onto large sheets of handmade paper, using a complicated process of resists and powdered graphite. It's as though his lush artistic media are being asked to restore the romantic essence that is never really there in nature – or only gets there with some human help.
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Even as they posed tough questions about government flexibility on overhauling low-performing schools and the disadvantages of having to compete for federal dollars, the states' top education officials Tuesday expressed general support for how the Obama administration aims to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
"I think we're off to a very compatible start," said Joseph Morton, Alabama's state superintendent at the annual legislative conference of the Council of Chief State School Officers. "When we get down to details is when we'll know for sure how compatible we are."
In an 11-page policy statement it released Tuesday afternoon, CCSSO outlined several broad principles, as well as more finely honed recommendations for how the ESEA, now known as the No Child Left Behind Act, law ought to be rewritten. The overarching theme is that the states, not the federal government, ought to be taking the lead on setting education policy.
The Council of Chief State School Officers released an 11-page document that outlines broad principles and makes specific legislative recommendations to Congress on how to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It calls for a reauthorized law to:
• Encourage states to develop new policy models in assessment, accountability, supports and interventions, and teacher effectiveness
• Establish broader categories of funding and give states flexibility to consolidate and coordinate programs
• Increase investments in research, evaluation, and spreading of best practices
• Base accountability primarily on school improvement and student progress over time
• Make the state longitudinal data systems competitive grant program a formula program
• Create a new literacy initiative formula program that spans birth through graduation
SOURCE: Council of Chief State School Officers
The council calls for a new ESEA that "sets goals and criteria in core policy areas but encourages sound state policy innovation," and, more specifically, suggests that states "be encouraged to develop and submit new policy models in assessment, accountability, supports and interventions, teacher effectiveness, etc."
Among the other 18 specific recommendations, the council asks for "broader buckets of funding streams" that would allow states to consolidate programs as they see fit and, in particular, break down barriers between early childhood, K-12, and higher education programs. It also calls for more federal investment in research and evaluation, as well as spreading knowledge about effective practices across the states and for shifting the state longitudinal data systems competitive grant program to a formula program.
But in a Tuesday meeting with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the chiefs weren't focused only on the details of reauthorizing the ESEA. They also offered specific recommendations—and made specific requests—in a wide-ranging, hourlong session.
Among the topics: the $4 billion Race to the Top competition, states' momentum toward adoption of common academic standards, and the challenges for rural states in turning around their lowest-performing schools through methods mandated as a condition of receiving billions of dollars in Title I school improvement grants.
The needs of rural states prompted especially lively discussion. "The frontier is really where we are," said Denise Juneau, Montana's state superintendent. "We are more rural than rural."
Ms. Juneau emphasized that even the so-called transformation model, which is less drastic than the three other turnaround models that the U.S. Department of Education has said are acceptable, won't work in her state because the approach requires the principals to be replaced. The five schools that Montana has identified as the lowest-performing are all located on isolated American Indian reservations she said.
Even if those districts could find strong principals to replace the existing ones, Ms. Juneau said, there are more fundamental challenges, such as where they would stay.
"We lack housing," she told the secretary. "If we want to get a turnaround specialist in these places, we may not even be able to buy a double-wide trailer for them."
But Mr. Duncan would not concede that rural states can't use the transformation model successfully, telling Ms. Juneau that Montana and others were selling themselves "a little bit short."
He said the Education Department is trying to help by giving rural states a competitive advantage in applying for some of the $650 million in Investing in Innovation, or i3, stimulus grants, and stressed that "we are going to fund, not where there's a capacity to write a grant, but where there's a capacity to help kids."
The secretary also said that Montana would be receiving roughly $10 million in school improvement money for the five schools it identified as low-performing. "Think about the resources you will have for those five schools," he said.
Seeking Flexibility
Patricia I. Wright, the state superintendent in Virginia, asked the secretary if the department would offer the same sort of flexibility on how states develop new assessments as it has offered on the adoption of new common academic standards.
In its ESEA blueprint unveiled March 13, the Obama administration said that state officials could adopt either the common core standards—the initiative led by the National Governors Association and the CCSSO—or devise their own "college- and career-ready standards" in partnership with colleges and universities in their states.
"I am very pleased to see that you have acknowledged that college- and career-ready [standards] can come about in different ways," Ms. Wright said. "We'd like to see the same flexibility on assessments."
Mr. Morton, the Alabama chief, provided one of the livelier exchanges when he asked Mr. Duncan to spell out, explicitly, the importance of having a charter school law in order to win a piece of Race to the Top money. Alabama does not have a charter law, and lawmakers there recently rejected a bill that Mr. Morton and Gov. Bob Riley fought hard to pass.
Mr. Morton recalled the secretary saying at a meeting at the Hunt Institute in North Carolina that states without charter laws, "need not apply" for Race to the Top. Then, last week, the Alabama Education Association sent out a letter saying that Mr. Duncan told union leaders in a private meeting that he didn't care about charter schools, according to the Alabama chief.
"Do we have to have charter schools?" Mr. Morton asked. "We tried, we failed. I don't want to start a race 8 percent behind the other states," he said, referring to the 40 points out of a total of 500 that states can garner in Race to the Top if their policies are deemed to be friendly to charter schools.
Mr. Duncan acknowledged that states without charter laws are at a competitive disadvantage, but, as he usually does, insisted that his message on charter schools has not changed.
"I don't support charter schools, I support good charter schools," he said. "There are communities in Alabama that need better options."
In an earlier session on the administration's proposed fiscal 2011 budget for education with Roberto Rodriquez, from the White House's Domestic Policy Council, and Robert Gordon, from the Office of Management and Budget, Mark K. McQuillan, Connecticut's education commissioner, said he believes that Race to the Top could end up resulting in "bad policy."
By competing at least twice for Race to the Top money—and possibly a third time should Congress approve the Obama administration's proposal to include $1.35 billion for another round in the fiscal 2011 budget—states must expend political capital and financial resources that are in short supply, he said.
"If you are going to sit and push states in this direction with no results, I think this is potentially bad policy," Mr. McQuillan said. "You could be taking state agencies through this process three or four times with no outcome."
Mr. Rodriguez told the chiefs that "it is not lost on us the amount of energy, political capital, human capital, and financial capital" that the states have invested in competing for a piece of the prize.


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Chris Davis hit a two-run homer after replacing an injured Manny Machado, and the AL East-leading Baltimore Orioles beat the Yankees 11-3 Monday night to drop New York a season-high seven games out of first place.
After Davis put the Orioles ahead in the fifth inning, Nelson Cruz connected with a man on in the seventh and Jonathan Schoop added a three-run shot in the eighth to turn the game into a rout. Cruz now has 31 homers, tied for the major league lead with rookie Jose Abreu of the White Sox.
Machado, a 2013 All-Star third baseman, sprained his right knee in the second inning while hitting a broken-bat grounder to shortstop. He dropped on his back in the batter's box and needed help getting off the field.
Machado will be re-examined Tuesday to determine the severity of the injury and whether a stint on the disabled list is necessary.


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When we last left the world of "The Walking Dead," "the group," as the characters so love to call themselves, was down by two main men: Dale (Jeffrey DeMunn), dead at the paws of a walker, and Shane (Jon Bernthal) who shed his mortal coil with the help of onetime best friend Rick (Andrew Lincoln). Fear the living, indeed.
Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies), meanwhile, found she was pregnant; Glenn and Maggie (Steven Yeun and Lauren Cohan) found each other and Andrea (Laurie Holden) had found herself -- just before she got left behind and then rescued by the amazing Michonne (Danai Gurira).
What will happen now, besides, you know, a whole lotta head shots? Let's get to it with a recap of the third-season premiere!
What We Learned
A man's home is his prison: Lori is now set to pop and she still, of course, doesn't know whose baby she carries. Even worse, the group is hard up for food, and there are just as many zombies as ever. They discover a real nice prison, though, and Rick declares it "perfect" for the group's next home. Even better? Looks like the entire gang, even Carol (Melissa McBride), has become a pretty crack shot. They take out a whole bunch of walkers, and things are lookin' mighty fine. You know. For a prison yard.
Now these are some sexy undead killers!
Machete kills! Looks like Michonne is still as deadly as ever with that wicked blade. Andrea is sick, though, and Michonne agrees not to leave her behind.
Love blooms in the darndest places: Awww. Glenn and Maggie are still tight. Carl (Chandler Riggs) might have a crush on Beth. (Emily Kinney). The only couple that may be on the rocks is Lori and Rick; the latter is cold and distant. Lori also worries about the fate of her unborn -- what if it's totally born a zombie!?!?!? -- but Hershel (Scott Greene) agrees to do whatever needs to be done if either the child or Lori meets a bad end.
You can serve a life sentence twice: Now all everybody has to do is clear out the prison proper using, um, hand-to-hand combat, and Rick'll be satisfied. Part of the group is pinned down by prisoners who appear, ahem, immune to lethal injection, and Hershel gets bitten. Rick performs an emergency amputation just as -- lo! We discover a group of inmates who appear to be alive!
"Something goes wrong, you could be the last man standing." -- Rick Grimes
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What Will Happen When We Find Alien Life?
No one knows when, or even if, we will discover alien life in the universe or what it might look like. But that hasn't stopped those who are looking from planning on that eventuality, as I discovered when reporting "Ready for Contact," one of the stories in Smithsonian's new special issue, Mysteries of the Universe. These scientists have a plan, and it involves telling everyone about their research and any discovery. "I think there's a big misconception in the public that somehow this is all a cloak-and-dagger operation, and it's not," Arizona State University astrobiologist Paul Davies told me. "People are quite open about what they are doing."
But what will happen after such an announcement is a true mystery. How will the media react, and the public? Will there be mayhem, or will we just yawn? The recent discovery of bacteria that can apparently use arsenic in place of phosphorus, however, has provided an interesting glimpse of what a discovery of alien life portends.
Our story starts on November 29, when NASA announced a December 2 press conference "to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life." Almost immediately rumors began to swirl that NASA might have discovered extraterrestrial life itself. The frenzy reached such a point that I even received a press release from a betting web site about the odds they were giving on just what NASA's finding might be. (They placed a 33 percent chance on the discovery of a life form on Mars and a 16 percent chance that NASA would announce that Area 51 had been used for alien studies.) Meanwhile, those of us with embargoed access to the Science study NASA was referring to just groaned—we knew the rumors were all wrong but couldn't say a thing.
After all that, the actual announcement, though interesting, seemed somewhat of a letdown.
But things heated up again shortly thereafter as scientists and bloggers began criticizing the research. One microbiologist summarized the paper as "lots of flim-flam, but very little reliable information." They questioned whether the paper was worthy of being published, especially in so prestigious a journal as Science, while others defended the peer review process. And the arguing continues.
If this had been a discovery of alien life, we could probably expect a similar progression of events, only everything would by hyped by a factor of a hundred, at least. Davies, who is associated with the SETI program, which searches for radio signals of alien life, told me, "if there's a ghost of a chance that a particular radio source is going to turn out to be ET messaging us, the media will be all over it right away." More rumors, more crazy press releases, maybe CNN reporters camped on the scientists' doorsteps. Davies imagines there would be mayhem among the general public, too, with the observatory that made the discovery hounded by people, their computers besieged by hackers. "You could imagine police cordons and even riot police," he said. Who knows how religious leaders would react? And the scientific community would pick apart any discovery, as they are now doing with the arsenic paper.
Scientists in a series of workshops in the early 1990s attempted to determine the social implications of a SETI discovery. "It depends" seems to be their ultimate answer. But people would likely fall into one of two camps, as they have done in the past and do now. The catastrophists predict that the discovery of alien life will result in the end of humanity as we know it, or at least the end of our current culture. But for the "millennial enthusiasts," as the group named them, "the gloom of the doomsayers is more than offset by the rapture," they wrote. They see revelations of how to cure cancer, solve the energy crisis or win world peace.
A lot of this would depend on the nature of any discovery, of course. Single-celled life on Mars certainly warrants a different reaction than a message from an intelligent extraterrestrial or a spaceship landing on the White House lawn. In any case, there would be some level of freaking out from the media and, possibly, the public, as the arsenic study has shown.
But for many of us, I think our response would be somewhere in the middle. The discovery of life outside of Earth, while interesting, would hardly negate the need to go to work and earn money, to visit with friends and family, to eat quality chocolate, to do all the things we do every day. That doesn't mean that the search for extraterrestrial life isn't important or won't ever have some impact on the average person. But it won't change us any more than we're changing already.


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Campiello hotel Splendid Venice
Sunday 15 February @ 5 p.m.
Celebrate Single's Day (in italy St Faustino, patron of singles) with dances, drinks and new friends.
This event is held in the campiello (small square) of the hotel Splendid Venice. The guests will enjoy cocktails and finger food while the Dance Master and his partner will show the basic steps of period dances. Live music from a trio of the orchestra will be played.
Dress Code: costume
If you need a costume visit the Atelier Tiepolo
Full program of the Venice Carnival in Costume™ 2015: www.meetingeurope.com
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In a unique move this month the Sierra Club and Sierra Student Coalition are making moves into college basketbal fandom by sponsoring games with two of the top teams in the nation. The Sierra Club Clean Energy Match-Ups Jan 12 at Indiana University (vs. Minnesota) and Jan 17 at the University of Kentucky (vs. Arkansas) will featuer Sierra Club giveaways, signs, logos, radios spots and presentations.
"We hope to get more Hoosier basketball fans involved in making Indiana a leader off the court by retiring the coal plant on campus and replacing it with clean energy solutions. Moving off coal will mean cleaner air and a healthier campus that Hoosier fans can be really proud of," said Megan Anderson a senior at Indiana University and President of Coal-Free IU which has been campaigning to move IU beyond coal for nearly three years.
The idea behind the games is to connect fans with the idea that athletes and all students will perform better if they have cleaner air to breathe. Both Indiana and Kentucky operate dirty coal plants right on campus. At IU the campus plant is the largest single source of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide pollution in the county.
"I grew up in rural Kentucky as a Wildcats basketball fan and now as a student I'm working to make sure UK is a real leader by investing in clean energy that will create good jobs here in Kentucky, boost our economy and mean healthier air and water for everyone," said Patrick Johnson a senior at the University of Kentucky and leader of Greenthumb, the campus group working to move UK off coal on campus. "I couldn't be more excited to see two things so important to me come together with the Sierra Club Clean Energy Match-Up here in Kentucky."
In addition to the games the Sierra Club is running full-page newspaper ads and local students are hosting campaign actions incluuding a major petition delivery at IU where leaders will present the more than 5,000 petitions collected since the campaign launched in 2009 to IU President Michael McRobbie.
The games have already earned significant coverage in both Kentucky and Bloomington, IN. Here's just a few of the clips so far:
Lexington Herald-Leader (front page!): Sierra Club sponsoring Kentucky basketball game
Indiana Daily Student: Coal Free IU Launches Week of Action
Kentucky Kernel: Sierra Club sponosoring UK-Arkansas Game
See the full press release here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=224123.0


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When searching Spotlight, certain Address Book contacts are listed twice. I have confirmed that I do not have two entries in Address Book for those individuals.
The problem is that one of the entries returned by Spotlight will open Address Book but not take me to the selected contact. The other Spotlight entry does work correctly and take me to the selected contact.
I have tried the following to no avail:
- Rebuilt Spotlight
- Deleted the following two files:
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/MailRecents-v4.abcdmr
Any thoughts on the culprit and solution?


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I'm not going to say much about Thunderf00t's plunge into probable illegality, because it's been said better elsewhere. I'm having a difficult time thinking in anything other than expletives, and have since I discovered that little shit hacked our email list after being tossed out on his ear. I know he has a penchant for flouting copyright, but apparently, there are no depths to which he will not sink in order to satisfy a grudge. It borders on stalking. When I encounter asshats like him, my thoughts tend to trend towards words of roughly four letters. Especially when they've placed people I love and respect at real risk of physical harm.
In other words, it would be impossible for me to write a measured post.
Other people have managed more coherent pieces on the subject.
Ed Brayton's statement sums up things nicely. Start here if you have no idea what's going on.
Natalie Reed explains why what he's done places some of us at risk of real-world harm, and why people like him drive good people out of the movement. If you read no other post, read this one.
Ashley Miller describes how his loathesome exploits have sickened those who were staying on the sidelines.
Zinnia Jones discusses the right to private spaces, free of eavesdropping asshats, and tells us about what the asshat has already done with some of the information he stole.
Stephanie Zvan describes the difference between a whistleblower and Thunderf00t. This is a useful post to bookmark for those times when folks may be tempted to view him as some sort of freedom fighter.
Jason Thibeault explains how Thunderf00t hacked our system. Combined with the fact he's now crowing about it (no, I'm not going to link his ass: if you want to see it, either find the link in another post on FtB or Google it), this should satisfy those uber-skeptics who believe nothing without twelve dozen lines of evidence. If not, they're a lost cause, and I will no more weep for their departure than I did Thunderf00t's.
JT has a moving post up on what it's like when a personal hero turns out to be a complete asshole.
Jen McCreight explains why those of us at no obvious risk are outraged. Her final paragraph sums it up nicely.
Al Stefanelli takes Thunderf00t to task directly.
PZ pulls no punches (you didn't expect him to, right?) and is curating links.
There's nothing much I can add to this discussion. I simply wish to make it clear that I think he's a loathsome little shit, lest my silence be taken for indifference or approval. It doesn't matter how angry he is that we decided he was better off our network than on. No amount of personal butthurt justifies what he's done.
That said, I shall waste no more time over him. I have better things to do than watch an asshat dig himself deeper holes. I will be there for the people he's placed at risk, and I will happily cooperate with law enforcement if it turns out they take an interest in his doings. I will make it clear to any and all people who wish me to attend conferences that my attendance is dependent upon his not being there. But he gets no more posts. I don't like wasting my time with scum.
(Before you comment: read the policy thoroughly. Keep in mind that this is not a public forum, I am in the midst of quitting smoking, I have no damned patience left, and I'm not interested in letting people split hairs and excuse his behavior in my comments section. We will not be discussing possible legal recourse, as that is a discussion to have with lawyers. If any of the foregoing has diminished your desire to comment, that's very likely for the best. Come back for one of the happier posts.)


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Registration number 20081022B
This certifies that the heraldic arms of the Power et alia Y-DNA Project: R1b Haplogroup John Power Senior are registered as an original design and are described by the blazon below
POWER et al, through Familytreedna, was created back in late 2002 to help participants to bypass the brick walls found in genealogy. The history of the name POWER has evolved since 1066AD but actually begun as far back as 500-600AD when the Saxon chased the Celts out of Briton, into Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. At this time there were two waves of them sailed over to Brittany, France. They became known as the Bretons (Britons) to the French. In 911AD a Viking longship sailed into Rouen, France. Charles the Simple gave them the land above where they landed, provided they become Christians, and protected the coast line. They agreed to this and became known as the Normans. By 923AD some of them had moved down into Brittany and become neighbours of the Bretons. In 1066AD the Duke of Normandy, William, came down into Brittany looking for men to join his Army. In the district of Poher, the Normans said they would go with their Duke. The Bretons there said they too would go with him, in the hope of getting their land back from the Saxon. When their Company was assembled William decided to call them (Normans and Bretons) de la POHER. In 1400AD the de la was dropped and in 1550AD the name POHER became POWER. POWER et al Project has, in excess of, 70 odd participants and it has been discovered we have two different haplogroups. The Bretons (R1 haplogroup) and the Normans (I1a haplogroup). There are four different branches of the I1a...and possibly later on a fifth one from England. It is considered that these four branches come from the four brothers who accompanied Henry II to Ireland in 1177AD. In the R1 group there are, at present, 5 named branches.
It is envisaged that the shield for each of these groups with be the basic POWER DNA Project design: Argent a chief indented Sable, each with a different charge. This is to differentiate the groups.
Warren Claude Owen Power
Organization, Original, US, P


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Men in Black 3 a Pale Reminder of First Film
- Christian Hamaker Contributing Film and Culture Writer
- Updated Apr 30, 2013
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Rating: PG-13 (for sci-fi action violence, and brief suggestive content)
Genre: Action, Sequel
Run Time: 106 min.
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Actors: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Emma Thompson, Michael Stulbargh, Bill Hader
Fifteen years ago, Men in Black hit the screens to rave reviews. A poorly received sequel, Men in Black 2, emerged in 2002. It's taken 10 years—an eternity in today's Hollywood—to come up with Men in Black 3. Is it worth the wait? Not really. Should those who fondly remember Men in Black settle for this lackluster chapter in the franchise? No. But in today's summer-movie culture, where the bar is being ever lowered, Men in Black 3 may be enough for audiences who judge it against Men in Black 2 and other dreadful sequels.
Not nearly as funny or entertaining as the first film, or of some of stars Will Smith (Seven Pounds) and Tommy Lee Jones' (Captain America: The First Avenger) other performances, Men in Black 3 might barely pass muster if you're desperate to revisit their franchise characters, Agent J and Agent K. They're still policing alien life here on earth, "neutralizing" anyone who witnesses something they shouldn't have seen, and trying to deal with each other's eccentricities.
This time they're focused on Boris the Animal (the always amusing Jemaine Clement, Rio), who breaks out of the lunar prison to which he's been relegated since Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) sent him there decades earlier. The clash between the two of them resulted in the loss of Boris' arm, but Boris has a plan to get the arm back: He'll go back in time and prevent the injury from occurring by killing Agent K. The film's visit to the past includes an enjoyable performance by Josh Brolin (True Grit) as the young Agent K, but as good as Brolin is, the lack of Jones' presence in the film is a net loss for the franchise. By the time Jones reappears, you could be forgiven for wondering just how much he was paid for so little screen time.
Agent J (Will Smith), who is on-screen throughout Men in Black 3, gets more fawning treatment from director Barry Sonnenfeld. That's a good thing for lovers of Sonnenfeld's wild camerawork, as when the director executes an overhead zoom that rushes toward Smith from above, then pivots and lands just in front of the star's face. It's a completely unnecessary shot that's nevertheless a lot of fun. If only credited scripter Etan Cohen (who wrote the riotous, much funnier Tropic Thunder) and his team of contributing writers, including David Koepp, could have matched Sonnenfeld's energy. I can't remember a single gag from Men in Black 3, which ought to have delivered at least a few well-timed one-liners for the reliable Smith. Instead, the dialogue just ambles along, as Agent J and Agent K plot to go back in time and confront Boris once again.
The script does offer up a couple of provocative lines, voiced by the weary, crusty Agent K: "Don't ask something you don't want to know the answer to," and, "Do you know what the most destructive force in the universe is? Regret." But the movie is too cluttered with characters to explore any thematic issues in sufficient depth. For instance, there's Griffin (Michael Stuhlbarg, Hugo), a bizarre character who has the ability to see all future possibilities (except for the possibility that viewers might find him more annoying than amusing). Also, a small role for Nicole Sherzinger early in the film leads nowhere fast, as her character abruptly disappears.
It's unfortunate that Men in Black 3 doesn't take the time to wrestle with any philosophical questions. It concentrates most of its energy on some surprisingly good special effects that, while gross in spots, are often more entertaining than the dialogue. A poignant ending is one of the film's only surprises, but it's hard to care much about the characters' personal losses and relationships when the film is most interested in standard summer-movie action.
Better is what the film shows of Sonnenfeld's filmmaking chops. Sonnenfeld, who started his film career as the cinematographer on the Coen Brothers' Blood Simple, Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing, unleashes some of the visual flair he showed in those films and earlier directorial efforts like The Addams Family and Get Shorty. The string of duds that followed—Wild Wild West, Big Trouble and the aforementioned Men in Black 2—was long enough to make one despair that Sonnenfeld would ever recover the joie de vivre he had shown behind the camera.
Then came ABC's Pushing Daisies, for which Sonnenfeld served as executive producer and sometime director. A macabre, humorous story about a pie-maker who investigates murders, the program was never a big hit. But in the brief time it aired, Pushing Daisies showed signs that Sonnenfeld's flair for memorable visual touches was alive and well. The TV series seemed to rejuvenate Sonnenfeld, who brings his trademark visual flourishes back to the big screen in Men in Black 3. (He even "borrows" the fall-from-a-tall-building effect from the Coen Brothers' The Hudsucker Proxy—the first Coen film to be shot by someone other than Sonnenfeld [Roger Deakins, in the case of Hudsucker]).
With Men in Black 3, the franchise reverses its own fall from great heights that occurred with Men in Black 2. But it's not a sharp enough reversal to justify further chapters (or the higher ticket prices for 3D, which is, as is often the case with today's movies, superfluous). It's time for everyone involved—in front of, and behind the camera—to find more stimulating outlets for their talents.
- Language/Profanity: "Oh, God"; "da-n"; "hell"; "bull-it"; "balls"; "nasty a-s piece of s-it"; "pissed off"; "Christ's sakes"; "big a-s"; "pimp slapping the shizznet"; "screw off"; "sick bas-ard."
- Alcohol/Smoking/Drugs: None.
- Sex/Nudity: A French kiss with a long tongue; verbal reference to "the Viagrans."
- Violence/Crime: Alien kills guards; open flesh wounds; guards and others sucked through a hole in a wall; eyeballs in soup; futuristic guns fired, and aliens explode; alien beaten in the head with a pan, another impaled; alien innards removed; characters fall from great heights; character consumed by fire.
- Marriage/Religion: Aliens sing "Amazing Grace" at a funeral.
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Banking, shopping and job hunting online
Banking and keeping track of finances, shopping and searching for jobs are the main tasks of Internet users around the globe, according to a new international survey.
Nearly 60 percent of people in 24 countries used the web to check their bank account and other financial assets in the past 90 days, making it the most popular use of the Internet.
Shopping was not far behind at 48 percent, the Ipsos poll for Reuters showed, and 41 percent went online in search of a job.
It is easy. You can do it any time of the day and most of the transactions don't have fees, said Keren Gottfried, research manager for Ipsos Global Public Affairs, about banking online.
Swedes were the biggest online bankers with almost 90 percent of adults using e-banking. But it has also caught on in a big way in France, Canada, Australia, Poland, South Africa and Belgium, where about 75 percent of people bank online.
But the Germans and Britons take the top prize for shopping on the web. Seventy-four percent of people in both countries have bought something online in the past three months, followed by 68 percent of Swedes, 65 percent of Americans and 62 percent of South Koreans.
It is telling that the top four countries are all traditionally developed western countries, said Gottfried. It's really been under 10 years that this technology has been around.
Almost half of people around the world have shopped online and an even bigger number, 61 percent, search the web for information about products they are thinking about buying.
Online shopping was the least popular in Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Hungary and Russia, where 28 percent or fewer people buy online.
And in an indication of how far things have changed from looking for work in the classified ads in newspapers, 41 percent of people said they used the Internet to search for work.
Poles were the most likely to log on to look for a job, with 61 percent searching online for work, followed by Hungarians, South Africans and Mexicans. But only 17 percent of Japanese and a quarter of South Koreans and French have chosen the web for their job search.
Gottfried said the findings shadow very closely the number of people who said they knew someone who has lost or is looking for a job.
For almost all of them (countries) it mirrors who has the most job anxiety, she explained.
Older people, between 50-64, with higher incomes and education were the most likely to do their banking online, the poll showed. Online shoppers were also better educated and bigger earners.
But about half of online job searchers were under 35 years old, unmarried and had smaller incomes.
Ipsos interviewed a total of 19,216 adults in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United States.
(Reporting by Patricia Reaney; editing by Paul Casciato)
© Copyright Thomson Reuters 2024. All rights reserved.


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"Maybe we could sleep in; I'll make you banana pancakes; Pretend like it's the weekend now. We could pretend it all the time." –Jack Johnson, Banana Pancakes
It never hurts to have a little inspiration for a recipe and the Jack Johnson song "Banana Pancakes" is what prompted me to make a batch of pancakes for myself. It's a cute song and, if you listen to it a couple of times, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that you're beginning to feel a bit of a craving, either.
This recipe is basically a buttermilk pancake with mashed banana added into it. It's the perfect way to use up just one overripe banana – not enough to make banana bread or a banana cake – when you have one in the kitchen. I've had banana pancakes that use more banana than my recipe does and I really prefer to keep the amount of banana low. A really ripe banana has a strong banana flavor to it, and the pancakes remain light and fluffy when you don't add in too much. I will typically use 1 fairly large banana and not spend too much time worrying about the precise amount of banana I add in. If my fruits were very small, I would probably use two.
You probably noticed that the pancakes in my little stack look awfully small. They are. Each of those pancakes is about the size of a quarter – perfect for stacking up into a bite-size tower. They cook much more quickly than their larger counterparts, so they require a closer eye on the stove, but they are oh-so-cute and, in my opinion, just a bit more fun to eat. Feel free to make full-sized pancakes, too, and stack them up to appease bigger eaters.
Banana Pancakes
2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
2 large eggs
2 cups buttermilk
approx 1/2 cup mashed, ripe banana (1 lrg.)
In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
Whisk in eggs, buttermilk and mashed banana until batter just comes together and no large streaks of flour remain. If your batter is too thick (different sized bananas will cause the batter to vary in thickness), or you prefer your pancakes to be on the thinner side, add an extra 1/4 cup of milk or buttermilk into the mix to thin it slightly.
Heat a skillet or griddle over medium-high heat until a drop of water placed on it skitters around the surface. If it instantly evaporates, turn down the temperature slightly.
Drop by 1/4 cup fulls for large pancakes, or small spoonfuls for bite-sized ones, into the preheated pan and cook until golden on both sides, turning once.
Serve immediately, with maple syrup.
Serves 6-8.


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- 3 2/3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) plus 3 tablespoon unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes, frozen
Filling and assembly
- 1 pound fresh (or frozen, thawed) cranberries (about 4 cups)
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon finely grated orange zest
- 2 tablespoon fresh orange juice
- 1/2 teaspoon instant tapioca (not starch)
- 1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 1 large egg, beaten to blend
- Raw sugar
Recipe Preparation
- Pulse flour, sugar, and salt in a food processor to combine. Add butter; pulse until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal (no big pieces of butter should remain). With motor running, slowly drizzle 1/2 cup ice water through feed tube. Pulse until dough just begins to come together.
- Divide dough in half. Form each half into a ball; flatten into disks. Wrap each disk tightly in plastic. Chill for at least 2 hours. DO AHEAD Dough can be made 2 days ahead. Keep chilled. Let stand at room temperature for 15 minutes to soften slightly before rolling out.
Filling and assembly
- Combine cranberries, sugar, orange zest and juice, and tapioca in a medium saucepan. Scrape in seeds from vanilla bean; add bean. Let stand for juices to accumulate, about 10 minutes, then cook over medium heat until mixture comes to a simmer and begins to thicken, 5-6 minutes. (Some cranberries will have burst.) Let cool completely. DO AHEAD Cranberry filling can be made 5 days ahead. Cover and chill.
- Line two baking sheets with parchment paper; set aside. Working with 1 disk at a time, roll out dough on a lightly floured surface until very thin, about 1/16-inch thick. Using cookie cutter, cut out 16 circles.
- Brush edges of 8 circles with beaten egg. Place 1 heaping tablespoon filling in center of each egg-washed circle. Top with remaining circles to form 8 pies. Using a fork, crimp 1/4-inch around edges to seal. If desired, use cookie cutter to clean edges. Repeat with remaining dough, egg, and filling.
- Divide pies between prepared sheets; chill for 45 minutes. DO AHEAD Pies can be made 2 hours ahead. Cover; keep chilled.
- Preheat oven to 425°. Working with 1 baking sheet of pies at a time, score dough, forming a small X in the center of each pie. Brush tops of pies with beaten egg and sprinkle with raw sugar.
- Bake pies until crust is golden brown and filling bubbles out of Xs, 17-20 minutes. Let cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes; transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely. Repeat with remaining baking sheet of pies.


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When you're backstage amidst the hustle and bustle of Fashion Week, it's easy to believe a very charming makeup artist when he tells you triangle-shaped eyeshadow is totally wearable off the runway. Not so.
But now that the NYFW haze has cleared, we figured we should put the runway-to-real-world theory to the test. So, we decked out two real girls in a few of the craziest hair and makeup looks from the shows, then unleashed them on an unsuspecting public, to see what the reaction would be. The result was predictably hilarious.
Would you dare to wear runway beauty in real life?
Photographed by Amelia Alpaugh


text: Other | 05. May 2011 VBS Far Range data taken during transfer in-between experiments The different experiments executed at GSOC are performed at different relative distances between the two spacecrafts. According to this we had to transfer Mango from a position at 1500 m behind Tango closer down to 50 m. The ideal opportunity to take a sequence with the Far Range camera testing its use for later GSOC experiments. One of the main goals during the PRISMA mission operations at GSOC is to generate data from the cameras for On-Orbit Servicing representative scenarios. At far distances this shall be performed later on with the Far Range camera. As different kind of data can be acquainted with the camera first tests have been performed for comparison and selection of the ideal data type for later use. For this purpose the transfer in-between the HPGP final and the AFF-VBS-CR initial state has been used to run the VBS FR camera on the way in generating data. The transfer is shown in Fig. 1. The blue line denotes the relative distance between the two spacecrafts (x), the red one the radial displacement between the two (z) and the green one the difference in the component normal to the orbital plane (y). While y and z do not alter too much the shrinking value denoted by the blue line. Clearly the decreasing relative distance can be detected with a final arrival at destination at 30th of April 2am in the morning. Fig. 1 Transfer from 1500 m to 50 m A video shows the data generated with the VBS Far Range camera during the last 100 m of the approach sequence.


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UPDATED: Euro MPs were near scene of attack in Brussels
Steven Woolfe said his building shook as a blast hit Maelbeek metro station, which was 50m from his flat.
He told a national radio station he had been talking to his wife about what had already happened at Zaventem airport in Brussels when the incident happened.
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"The building shook. I instantly thought oh no."
Mr Woolfe said a "huge number" of police officers arrived and the main road to the metro station was blocked off by police and ambulances.
Also close to the metro station was Sajjad Karim, who lives in the Ribble Valley.
He was leaving his flat in the Belgian city when he saw police and ambulances rush towards the station.
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At least 34 people were killed and 170 injured after co-ordinated bomb attacks on the main airport and the Metro system brought terror to Brussels.


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The hot and humid weather pattern will continue along with a slight chance of isolated afternoon showers.
Beach Conditions for Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte Counties:
Gulf temperature: 86°F
Heat index: 94°F
Tanning index™: 7
Surf conditions: Light chop with with 1-2 foot surf
Wind: SSE 6-12 knots
Tides in Sarasota: Low 6:59 p.m. / High 10:11 a.m.
Weather: Low 76°F / High 90°F / 20% chance of rain
Sunset: 8:20 p.m.
Water Quality: No water advisories issued today.
Currents: Rip currents present at Coquina Beach today.
Beach Information:
Sarasota Area Beach Guide
Siesta Key Beach Webcam
Siesta Key Drum Circle Slideshow
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Helpful Gulf Coast Websites:
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text: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Lyle Bickley wrote: > On Thursday 10 July 2008, Robert G. Brown wrote: > --snip-- >> Aye, laddy, 'twas a PDP 1 with sense switches on the front that one did >> indeed toggle in the paper tape boot program (to get it to where it >> could read from other media), a green oscilloscope-style CRT for a >> monitor (complete with crosshatches IIRC), a real teletype console, and >> the ability to run simple fortran programs that did beam optic >> computations and displayed a simple visualization of same. The PDP >> itself was quite large, and I was told that it "had a few bad bits..." >> but that they usually didn't affect the outcome of a computation. > > I'm on the PDP-1 and IBM 1620 Restoration Teams at the Computer History Museum > (see: http://www.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/). So if the PDP-1 was your first > computer (and one NEVER forgets their first computer) you can see it in > action (running Spacewar!, Minskytron, Music, etc.) at the CHM! > > In fact, if your visiting Silicon Valley, I'll give you a private tour! Cool! I think TUNL finally got rid of theirs -- always a shame, somehow, when a magnificent thing like that dies. > Funny combination - setting up Beowulf clusters and restoring vintage > computers. There must be a lesson here :-) Vintage clusters? ;-) rgb > > Cheers, > Lyle > > > > > >> >> rgb > > > > -- Robert G. Brown Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb Book of Lilith Website: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977


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Terry Melton: Leda and the Swan/Letters from Jupiter
May 31 – August 16, 2003
Terry Melton is a painter, printmaker, and retired arts executive who, in the early 1990s, created a portfolio suite of 18 serigraphs and 52 poems based on the Greek legend of Leda and the Swan. The exhibition features the entire portfolio suite.
Gaylen Hansen: Tall Tales
June 14 – August 23, 2003
Gaylen Hansen is a nationally recognized narrative painter who lives and works in the Palouse region of Eastern Washington. Central to Hansen's work is a character known as the "Kernal, a Western vagabond whose exploits in the wilds of the Palouse region are filled with animals of gigantic proportions, front porch humor, and wildly improbable twists of fate.
Jacob Lawrence: The Hiroshima Series
August 23 – October 25, 2003
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) was one of the most important African American painters of the twentieth century. In 1982 he was commissioned by Limited Editions Club of New York to illustrate a special edition of John Hersey's book Hiroshima, a chillingly objective account of the atomic bomb explosion in Japan. The following year Lawrence produced a limited edition series of prints based on the paintings.
Yard Art
September 6 – November 1, 2003
Yard Art will feature one-of-a-kind pieces created for the backyard by artists from Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. Included in the exhibition will be sculpture, fence posts, whirligigs, gazebos, fences, birdbaths, yard furniture, birdhouses, and weathervanes. A number of artist sites will be featured in the exhibition, including Dick and Jane's Spot in Ellensburg, Washington.
In Search of the Real St. Nicholas: Orthodox Icons from American Collections
November 1, 2003 – January 3, 2004
St. Nicholas was the Bishop of Myra in the fourth century AD. Over the centuries, St. Nicholas's legendary generosity and special affection for children evolved into a custom of gift-giving on his feast day of December 6 and to his gradual transformation into Santa Claus. The exhibition features a number of exquisite icons of the saint on loan from American collections.
Robert Jones: Abstractions
November 15, 2003 – January 10, 2004
Robert Jones is a highly regarded Seattle painter and professor emeritus at the University of Washington who creates large scale, abstract works characterized by strong compositional arrangements, bold lines, and intense colors reminiscent of the French Fauves and their German counterpoint, Die Brucke. The exhibition features a range of paintings and drawings created over the past two decades.
Helen Gilkey: Botanical Illustrations
January 10 – March 13, 2004
Helen Gilkey (1886-1972) was a nationally recognized mycologist and botanical illustrator. During her long career as curator and director of the herbarium at Oregon State University, she published many books and articles on fungi and flowering plants. The exhibition will feature a wide range of her exquisite botanical illustrations, many of which have never been shown before.
Lillian Pitt: Spirits Keep Whistling Me Home
January 24 – March 20, 2004
Lillian Pitt is a highly regarded Native American artist whose ceramics, mixed media sculptures, and installations celebrate the rich cultural traditions of the Columbia River people. Her works bring to life the legends and values of the Columbia River people, especially the women who have preceded her.
Ancient Mexico: Meso-American Art from the Caroline Tarbell Tupper Collection
March 20 – May 22, 2004
Ancient Mexico features a range of Meso-American objects from the permanent collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, a recent gift of Caroline Tarbell Tupper. The collection, comprised of over 625 objects, spans over 4,500 years of Meso-American history and culture and includes objects from West Mexico, the Central Highlands of Mexico, and South Mexico.
Senior Art Majors
April 3 – May 15, 2004
Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior art majors at Willamette. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, photography and mixed media.
Robert Hess: Recent Work
April 3 – May 15, 2004
Robert Hess is on the art faculty at Willamette University, where he teaches sculpture and drawing. The exhibition features a range of work from the past four years.


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Israel and The Middle EastB'nai B'rith International's Israel/Middle East policy includes issues such as fighting terrorism; supporting Israel's right to defend itself; preventing Iran's efforts to acquire nuclear weapons; preserving the unity of Jerusalem; promoting the rights of Jewish refugees from Arab and Muslim countries; and supporting direct negotiations between the parties to the Middle East conflict while affirming the importance of Israel's critical security needs.
Domestically, we advance our Middle East priorities by supporting congressional legislation such as the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act and the Iran Freedom Support Act; and communicating regularly with the White House and State Department to promote the Jewish community's interests in the Middle East. Internationally, B'nai B'rith encourages other governments to build stronger bilateral and regional ties with Israel. We provide analysis and expertise on current Middle East issues, and we facilitate Israel's efforts to provide humanitarian assistance abroad. The B'nai B'rith World Center in Jerusalem plays a vital role in these efforts, as do our offices in Washington, D.C., New York, Brussels, and Montevideo. At the World Center in Jerusalem, B'nai B'rith focuses on Israel and its place in the world. The World Center promotes strong Israel–Diaspora relations. It is the voice of the B'nai B'rith community to the Israeli government, national institutions, and the NGO community in Israel. At the United Nations, B'nai B'rith advocates for policies that reflect a fair and responsible perspective on the Middle East conflict. B'nai B'rith leaders meet with U.N. officials and ambassadors to discuss key Jewish concerns, such as preventing and eliminating anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, Israel's status at the U.N., and anti-Israel proceedings at the Human Rights Council. Contact UsFor more information about B'nai B'rith International's work concerning Israel and the Middle East, please call 202-857-6545 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A Seed's Journey Through Life
A funny thing happens when it's that time of year to plant pumpkin seeds, I get emotional. The weather has turned from naughty to nice, the days longer, and the hummingbirds are back for another visit. Another school year is almost over, actually for me this year, it's over for good. My last child will be graduating from high school. A new journey begins…
I don't know about you, but whenever I plant something, I instinctively think about the harvest. As you all know, time flies…One day you're planting a seed in the field, the next day it's a fully grown fruit or vegetable and time to reap the rewards of your efforts…really…in the blink of an eye it seems. What happens during that growing period and how does it all happen so fast? There are many things to consider before, during and after you plant your seeds.
The first step in growing your crop is to determine where it will grow. The best crops flourish in a safe, well drained area with healthy soil and adequate sunlight. Each seed must have enough room to spread out while growing with consideration for its neighboring varieties. Sometimes, it's not good to let them spread out too far, it's not productive.
Determining the depth of the seed is important. If you plant them too shallow, they may not have enough soil to take root. Seeds that get planted an inch too deep will make their way up, reaching out of the soil looking for light, but may take longer. I do love this stage in the growing process, I have control, I can hover over the seeds to make sure they are safe.
The easy part is over…the seeds are sown. Not the more difficult journey, ensuring survival. If the seeds don't have water, they won't grow. Water,water, nurture and nurture… If you are lucky, nature will play a role and help water when needed, however, we have to always be on call to make sure it gets done no matter what. Weeds crop up along the way, some may even choke the growing vines.
Sometimes it takes others to get their hands dirty and help with the weeding. Weeding is very hard work, it's back breaking labor, with little reward…except to know your little seed will have a better chance with the army of weeders.
This is an exciting time. The buds start to form and you know you're on your way. You still have some work to do, however, you have peace in knowing your seeds are firmly set and your vines are strong. This is the part that goes fast. One minute you see buds, the next flowers and then the fruit. Some vines have lots of buds, some few. Some varieties such as Big Mac's grow better with fewer buds. It's not the quantity of the buds, but the quality in this case.
My favorite part of growing pumpkins, is to watch how they grow. They are all green in the beginning, and over time find their true colors. Whether they turn orange, white, yellow, red, or some even remain green, they are in a league all their own and all fun to watch. We are always comparing the varieties and picking our favorites, but the truth is that each one is beautiful and unique in their own way. Funny, but the Warty Goblin, a bumpy variety, has been one of our best sellers.
At this stage the fruit will mature and wont need much help, maybe a turn here and there to help shape the pumpkin or give it guidance. I'm both proud of how they have grown and sad to know they are almost ready to harvest. Again…where did the time go.
Much preparation goes into the harvest. One would think the work is complete, however, in reality it's just begun. Weeks before the harvest, the barns have be cleaned and ready to greet the guests that will arrive for the big event. Windows cleaned, grass mowed, shelves stocked, signs made, benches built, customers contacted. Pumpkins are picked and told to stand up straight to cure safely in the fields to prepare for the big day. It's a proud moment to see those pumpkins getting ready to leave the fields. I am reminiscent of all the times that little pumpkin struggled, but we all were there to coach and cheer him on. As the big day draws near, I think about how much I've focused on the harvest season, what I never anticipated that is that the growing season would be so much fun.
There is pumpkin for everyone, no matter how large or small. There is an emotional attachment, when people pick their pumpkins. Whether its the size, the shape, or just the feeling that it's the right one for them. One thing is for sure, they don't often think about the journey or the struggle that it takes to ripen. The really cool thing about pumpkins is that just when they get to that perfect age, their seeds are ready to be planted and a new journey begins.
Good luck Jordan, my little pumpkin, as you sit in the field, standing straight, ready to enter the harvest season, remember, you're not alone, you'll have plenty of pumpkins sitting on the bench, right by your side to guide you down the path.
(There a a few baseball references in here, read again and you'll see what I mean!)


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Saturday, February 4, 2012
"Pete...Funny to see my horse design so many places. I don't know if you have seen the article I wrote about it in FWW years ago. It's available on line if you are a member of the online forum thingy. There are a lot of things I mention in the article about how to build the horse to fit your body. Most folks don't do that, but follow the given numbers instead. That extension of the lower jaw in front of the upper jaw is an important part of how I use a horse. I do a fair bit of end grain finishing on the horse and the downward pressure I give it requires that extension. If it is in the way by all means lop it off, but I find that man people have changed the design without understanding why it is made the way it is and often don't understand what they are doing.
For various work demands I have envisioned a few different interchangeable lower jaws. They pull right out in a second so you could have a few different models with different angles or whatever your needs demand. I have wanted one that has an adjustable stop in the front so I can shave short stuff. With this design the top jaw pushes the pin against
the front stop much like a bench dog system holds work. This allows full exposure of short stuff, nothing hidden under the jaw.
I was not expecting schools to have them, but in this case adjustable foot bars would be a great addition to the adjustable seat. I personally like the horse to be as tall as I can mount to increase the leverage with a longer pivot.
I always like hearing new ideas about tool design, especially from fresh perspectives like yours. You made some good suggestions. Too often the ideas come out of being stuck in one mindset and unwilling to open up to something one isn't used to."
I wanted to share this because I was pleased to hear that my ideas weren't too cranky, and to offer an example of a craftsman with an open and inquisitive mindset.
I initially hesitated to write the original post for the simple reason that it's uncomfortable to speak to another's design, but Brian's gracious response put it all in the right order.
Thanks Brian!
10 comments:
- Terry Kelly said...
Is the design of the Aussie horses Boggs' or Drew's? I built one according to Drew's plans, actually Tom Donahey (sp). I like mine but it does hurt my back after awhile, may be too high. How you been?
- February 4, 2012 at 6:29 PM
- Glen Rundell said...
Hey Pete,
have really enjoyed the past couple of posts. It's great to hear from Brian about why he designed the horse jaws for specific tasks. To be honest, we made all 13 of those horses just from one photocopy of a page given to us by Curtis Buchanan, without any real concept of the 'engineering or ergonomics' of the thing. The process is ever evolving and that's a terrific thing. My next horse, won't have the hoof but will have a dumb head! Cheers Glen - February 4, 2012 at 9:06 PM
- Peter Galbert said...
Good to hear from you, all is well here, how's the family? - February 6, 2012 at 6:54 PM
- Peter Galbert said...
I was fascinated to hear brains response, perhaps I'm not nuts after all!
Have you gotten another rodent for Tom? - February 6, 2012 at 6:55 PM
- R Francis said...
article at least, joint authorship, please, somewhere accessible with drawings to supplement Brian's original article. Put both brains together, yours and his. - February 7, 2012 at 10:00 AM
- Glen Rundell said...
Hey mate. The new improved model arrives on Saturday, from the farmers market. I'm fashioning a miniature helmet and kevlar vest for him as we speak!
- February 8, 2012 at 2:40 AM
- Ray Schwanenberger said...
Pete, thanks for the great posts. I use Brian's style shavehorse and have thought about some design changes to better fit me, one being the lower jaw. I have thought about making another shorter one as you have described and now I'm convinced. I had occasion to approach Brian at WIA last fall and also found him to be very approachable and gracious with information and thought provoking ideas that have influenced the way I build my chairs. Thanks again for your blog.
- February 8, 2012 at 4:28 PM
- Terry Kelly said...
All is well here as well. Father/daughter dance on Friday which should be fun. Take care, - February 9, 2012 at 7:24 AM
- Peter Galbert said...
something tells me that Brian has his hands full! Besides, I'll always maintain that the ol standby dumbhead is the best shavehorse you can build!
Thanks Ray, I do think that a couple of dedicated inserts would go a long way towards improving the design. - February 13, 2012 at 9:11 PM
- anieb said...
Very nice blog i would like to appreciate your above blog, Thanks for sharing.
Windsor task chair - February 18, 2012 at 9:30 AM


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The Iowa Library Association has announced the All Iowa Reads title for 2011 – it's Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos. Be sure to watch the Davenport Public Library newsletter for the announcement of programs and discussions of this book throughout the year.
In 1978, Hope Jones, mother of three, is swept away during a tornado. Her body is never found. Twenty-five years later her children – Larkin, Gaelan and Bonnie – still struggle to understand their loss and to find their place in the world. The sudden death of their father brings them all home again, forcing them to come to terms with their history and each other.
Set on the open plains of southwest Nebraska, the writing and atmosphere evoke the rural Midwest effortlessly – open skies, violent weather, the restrictions and freedoms of small towns. This is a complex story of grief, love and healing with touches of magical realism and characters that you come to care about.


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395 Boulder-East Side |
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This cube shaped boulder sits at 6000 feet in the Walker River Canyon. It used to be part of the cliffs up on the hill until several years ago when it appeared in the turnout alongside the highway. Sometimes we lose boulders to access issues or natural forces but occasionally it goes the other way and we get some! This boulder has flat landings under most of its faces. Notable Bouldering Problems
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Wolfgang. My first dog that I owned and was old enough to take care of. I miss you so much, Wolf. Oh what I'd give to pet you one last time; to feel your soft coat; listen to you bark.. I wish I had the knowledge about dogs that I do now when I had you. Maybe you would have lasted longer,.. I'm so sorry for not taking better care of you. But I learned from my mistakes. It's thanks to you that I know so much now. I'll see you again some day, baby..
I love you, Wolfie..
(with my sister)..
"Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you?
But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window." -- Steve Bluestone
Here is my Winchester or Chester. He is 6 years old.
My little brat, Wilbur...
Thank you Wolf_Q!
Wyatt also known as "the little white dog", fuzzface, Wy and a name I can't say in a public forum, lol He is the number one comic in my house and a total goober but so cute you cannot help but love him.
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"Taste of Home Cooking Show Coming To Tyler – Today's Sneak Peak Recipe"
September 8th – Save the date! Taste of Home is coming to Tyler for a cooking show at Harvey Hall. The doors to the show will open at 4 pm, with the exhibits running from 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm, then Taste of Home cooking specialist Jamie Dunn will begin a cooking demonstration in the main hall at 6:30 pm. Get your tickets HERE or simply click on our Events tab.
Bacon-Wrapped Beef Patties
The lazy days of summer call for cuisine that's carefree, too. So it's no surprise that picnics are a popular choice for Labor Day weekend. This year's Labor Day is set for September 5th. You know what that means – the autumn season will be here before we know it.
- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese
- 2/3 cup chopped onion
- 1/4 cup ketchup
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 10 bacon strips
- 10 hamburger buns, split, optional
- In a large bowl, combine the first eight ingredients. Crumble beef over mixture and mix well. Shape into ten 3/4-in.-thick patties. Wrap each patty with a bacon strip; secure with wooden toothpicks.
- Grill patties, uncovered, over medium heat for 5-6 minutes on each side or until juices run clear and a meat thermometer reads 160°. Discard toothpicks. Serve on buns if desired. Yield: 10 servings.
Nutrition Facts: 1 serving equals 464 calories, 28 g fat (12 g saturated fat), 115 mg cholesterol, 839 mg sodium, 26 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 26 g protein.


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Relativity - Time Dilation
This movie explains the concept of "time dilation", which is part of Einstein's theory of relativity. |
This movie explains an idea called "time dilation". Time dilation is an important part of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Imagine two people who are moving very, very fast relative to each other. Each of them will think that time is passing more slowly for the other person than it is for herself or himself. In other words, they will think the other person's clocks are running more slowly. Pretty strange, huh? That is just one of the very odd things that Einstein's theory of relativity says is true!
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