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Apple's New iWork: 3 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back
Oct 31, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Real updates to Apple's iWork suite of apps -- Pages, Numbers and Keynote -- have been a long time coming, so when Apple updated the suite with a free upgrade that plays well with iOS 7 and with Web browsers, plenty of users jumped into the new version without looking. Unfortunately, a good many found they had leapt into a shallow pool full of sharp rocks.
Feature parity with iWork '09 is not one-to-one with the new iWork, and users are complaining in all sorts of places online. In one discussion thread on the Apple Support Communities pages, there are nearly 400 posts and more than 25,000 views on a question asking why Apple got rid of so many useful features in the new Pages -- and it then goes on to list them in excruciating crowdsourced detail.
Personally, despite typing words most days of the year, I've always had a love-hate relationship with Pages, as well as with Numbers and Keynote. Mostly Pages, though. Microsoft Word is a bloated mess of features, ribbons, toolbars and all sorts of distracting crud, and while Pages has always been leaner in its set of features, it's bloated in that there is far too much wasted white space that is very difficult to pare down -- at least, in my opinion.
I want lean and mean where almost nothing gets in the way of the words. When I'm making posters designed to help find a lost cat, yeah, templates and such are nice -- but that's just me.
The point is, any sort of power user has all sorts of personal needs around software applications and, more importantly, all sorts of habits and preferences. Consequently, mass upgrades have a tendency to irritate some of the most important users. If Apple is willing to anger and disappoint its power users, though, what's the better play here? Who's the new user?
Apple's New 'More Important' Users
Unfortunately, I see two realistic possible reasons for Apple's iWork upgrade debacle: 1) Apple dropped the ball and lost features by accident and changed things in ways that were dumb because it didn't put enough resources or time into the upgrade and new version; or 2) Apple reset iWork on purpose for a greater good.
While reason No. 1 is possible, I have a hard time believing it. Apple has -- compared to most technology companies -- nearly unlimited resources. Billions in the bank and plenty of time between upgrades. If Apple can expend resources to shave thickness in 1/100th of a millimeter increments off the iPad to create the iPad Air, the company sure as heck ought to be able to figure out a word processing application.
That means it was on purpose. Apple reset iWork with a reasonable -- but not complete -- set of features that most of the world would need and likely use. More importantly, it still is a suite of applications that creates files that can be shared seamlessly between iOS devices, Macs and Web browsers -- as well as edited collaboratively on the fly via iCloud. The goal is to take iWork to the masses.
More to the point, I think Apple is paying attention to the education market in a whole new way, and while iWork will handle the needs of many individuals and business users -- who also like free -- Apple is really resetting iWork so that it's ready to rock and roll for students.
94 Percent of the Education Tablet Market
In Apple's earnings call with investors earlier this week, CEO Tim Cook said the iPad's educational market share is "unheard of," and at 94 percent, he's right. That's astounding. Especially with all the cheap competition trying to get in -- and when most of the PCs in education these days are still Windows-based.
If iWork is free and upgrades are free, Apple just removed a hindrance for IT management and cost at schools -- and for students at home. At the same time, if these apps can be used via iCloud for free via Web browsers, kids can work anywhere on their reports and projects, even if they don't have Macs or iPads at home.
And they can do it collaboratively. In the school districts I'm aware of, collaboration and group projects seem to be on the rise. If student work shifts away from Microsoft Word and PowerPoint toward iWork and Apple, wow -- this would be a major coup for Apple.
Forget being "compatible" with PowerPoint. What if a majority of kids created their presentations first on Keynote instead of PowerPoint? That's a huge mindshare shift, and it's not just about battling Microsoft in an office suite battle fought on tablets -- it marginalizes Android as an OS in schools, too.
Side Effect of Bigger Goals
If more people can seamlessly use iWork everywhere, that's a good thing. However, I see the iWork messiness as a Apple choosing to take three steps forward and one step back while it marches toward a different goal.
I remain baffled as to how a company that can compress magic into tiny devices and ship it all over the world still can't get word processing right.


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Still reeling from the events of last season's finale "Posse Comitatus," I fired up my "DVD player" and expected "20 Hours In America" to pick up right where that other episode left off. At the very least, having not watched The West Wing for the better part of a year, the first thing I thought of when I remembered "Posse Comitatus" was the kick-punch that was the death of Simon Donovan. Then I remembered CJ crouching outside the theater and crying. And, of course, Bartlet putting Governor Ritchie in his place. Surely these were all going to be things that factored heavily into the season four premiere, in the same way the season two premiere picked up right after the gunman shot at Bartlet's party.
I was surprised, though not really too much, that "20 Hours In America" takes place in the thick of the campaign trail. Bartlet is out in rural Indiana making a few stops on his way back to the White House. Toby and Josh are hanging on the sidelines with Donna, talking to Amy Adams the farmer about her diesel car. CJ is waiting to usher the President on to his next meeting. Back at the home front, Leo discovers Qumar is reopening an investigation on the plane they took down, and Sam is sent home to sleep after working way too much. Time has passed since the incidents in New York, and it seems little has been done to acknowledge them.
Things aren't that simple on The West Wing. Rarely has Aaron Sorkin ever written an episode, or even a short series of scenes, where an action leads to a reasonable or logical reaction. Characters on this show behave like normal people with super demanding jobs. They let things fester, brewing below the surface, suppressed from years of putting the needs of a nation before their own.
Take CJ for example. During the course of the two-part "20 Hours In America," I think she says Simon's name three times, maybe only twice. Presumably, she grieved. She had a hard time. She let a lot out. In these two episodes, she deals only in facts. Simon was a mentor to a boy named Anthony, arrested for a charge that should be a misdemeanor, but because of priors will likely land him in juvenile hall. She spoke to the judge, who agreed to let Anthony off with custody if a White House staffer is willing to take Anthony under his wing. So, she asks Charlie. She asks Sam. She pulls Anthony aside and tells him she's working on it, and when he ignores her, she speaks about how she misses Simon too. There's no more emotion in her voice, though. That part of her isn't allowed to take over anymore. She speaks about Simon the same way she gives a press briefing, even a shockingly tragic one like the news of the 44 college students killed later in the episode. And because she keeps her cool—because she can't bring herself to get worked up over this issue anymore—her words are even more painful to hear; Simon's shadow lingers just a bit longer.
Taken as one unit, "20 Hours In America" perfectly captures that spirit of, "I'll deal with this later; right now we have an election to win." Or, rather, it's essentially two simultaneous episodes crammed together in stark contrast. Back in Washington, Sam isn't even allowed to finish his day off. He's woken from his hard-earned slumber by a call from Josh, and ordered to the President's side for the day. He'll herd the President from one meeting to the next, filling him in on pertinent details and trying to make sense of the global ripple effect of budget deficit, and how it might relate to a superstitious photo op with the guy who shook the President's hand the day before the Great Depression.
At the other end of the spectrum sits Josh, Toby, and Donna. They missed the motorcade and because of a Daylight Savings Time snafu (wouldn't the President's official schedule reflect this?), they are stranded in Indiana and run into a mess of bad luck trying to get back to Washington. Unlike the others who can conveniently ignore sleep or the passing of a loved one, they have to deal with this situation now, because they have an election to win.
So thus begins a fish-out-of-water tale: Three big city government folks trying to make their way through the simple country roads of "middle America." Aw gee golly gee. Aaron Sorkin loves writing characters who do something really well but aren't fully appreciated by those around them; and if regular people only knew, well, they sure would treat them differently, that's for sure. Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip was the most egregious example—writing for TV and lusting after an unavailable Christian bombshell is really hard!—but there's plenty of this attitude in "20 Hours In America."
And I say this with a sigh, because it's not quite as ham-fisted as I'm making it out to be, but it sure does get grating after a while. After the motorcade leaves without them, Josh and Toby are able to procure a ride from Amy Adams the farmer and her bullish boyfriend. The car runs out of diesel, and the trio (Donna included) has to walk to the nearby gas station—where there's no diesel to be found—and wait for one of the volunteers to pick them up. There, Toby and Josh make a silly bet off of a silly throw-a-rock-at-a-trash-can game: Whoever misses first has to spend the rest of the day introducing themselves as, "I'm _____; I work at the White House." Toby suggests the idea, but immediately loses and now must make himself seem even more out of place than he already acts.
They run into the volunteer's girlfriend and her friends, who don't give a shit where these guys work; they only want to talk about their extreme beliefs that all people in Washington are baby murderers. They meet a couple who owns a diner, impatient with these city folk asking them questions about the menu when really everyone just gets the dry rub. And finally, they meet a man in the hotel bar who is trying to put his daughter through college, but he's afraid the recent stock market crash is going to make that difficult, and he just wishes someone in the government could help him out. Donna pointed out to Toby and Josh that they weren't really listening to what these people were saying; they were spilling the same political rhetoric they always do, and these folks just didn't care. Now, Toby listened—really listened to this guy, and even bought him a beer.
I suppose the "message" of these two episodes is meant to be, "If you really listen, you'll be surprised what you hear!" And if that's the case, sure, I get it. But I'm kind of refusing to acknowledge that "20 Hours In America" can be that simple, and choosing to focus on something I noticed in the background. It goes back to the point about time management, how there are things that take precedence during an election season that probably shouldn't. And "20 Hours In America" proves that more often than not, you're wrong.
There's a tragedy that occurs at a college, and 44 are dead as a result. It's horrific. Bartlet, as it turns out, is giving a speech that night, and he decides to address what happened earlier that day. And you know what? He found a way (or rather, Sam found a way) to make his remarks completely apolitical. He could have made it an issue; he could have lobbed something in Ritchie's face. But he didn't. He made his remarks in the interest of healing as a nation. We deal with this now, so we don't have to deal with this later.
Meanwhile, Toby and Josh are having a fight that's basically about the antithesis: Dealing with something in the moment that's best dealt with later. Throughout their Indiana travels, Toby keeps getting upset that Bartlet is making his remarks about proving he's way smarter than Ritchie—debating facts and pointing to specific moments of incompetence. Josh doesn't understand why Toby would get so angry; after all, they're playing for the same team. But it's not the facts that Toby wants to win the election—not the witty retorts or farm-specific jokes and jabs Bartlet makes at Ritchie's expense. He wants to win because Bartlet deserves to win, which is based more in qualitative reasoning than quantitative. He wants to make Bartlet the President that inspires hope and change in America (notice anything similar?), knowing that the policies and the smarts and the witticisms will come later. Bartlet's speech about the 44 dead students is about the here-and-now; Toby is thinking about bigger things: what the Presidency represents, and how that idea can inspire voters to throw their weight behind their guy.
We end on a shot of DC just as the sun is coming up. Toby, Josh, and Donna got off their shuttle bus and are walking to work. They forget for a minute that there's an election going on. They're simply basking in the glow of the idea of an American government. "20 Hours In America" demonstrates that not everyone gets it, but that there's nothing more American than believing in America.
Stray observations:
- Kept waiting for the motorcade to roll through Pawnee. Leslie Knope would have a lot to say to Bartlet, I'm sure.
- A great exchange from these episodes: After Josh accidentally talks about Amy Adams in front of her boyfriend, "Is that corn?" "No. Trees."
- Lots of funny moments, like when the volunteer points in one direction and the train goes in the other, or Sam's voicemail mentioning that he's taking time off, and if he's really needed they should shout, followed by Josh screaming into the phone.
- Hey, Leo's daughter is back! And Sam is fucking great at his job! Go off and literally make beautiful children, Chris Traeger.
- Man, Bruno sure does love talking about women. He should run a birth control subcommittee.

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By way of example, 2 of you demonstrated today how it should NOT be done. Faker and her bff Fakess came by today, with Faker complaining of sand in her eye and Fakess complaining that her hand was hurting.
Skool Nerse: "Which hand is it?"
Fakess: "The one I write with."
Skool Nerse: "And that is...?"
Fakess: "Um, did my Mom put it on that card she filled out?"
Skool Nerse: "No."
Fakess: "Okay it's, um, uh, ah, this one?"
Skool Nerse: "That's the hand that hurts? Is that the one you write with?"
Fakess: "Let me think..."
Skool Nerse: "You do that." (turns to Faker) "What's wrong with you?"
Faker: "I have sand in my eye."
Skool Nerse: "Which eye?"
Faker: "This one."
Skool Nerse: (carefully examines eyeball) "Hmm... I don't see any sand, or redness..."
Fakess: "Oh, that's because I'm the one with sand in my eye".
Faker: "Yeah, I forgot. It was her. I hurt my hand, this one."
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The Goliad, Texas Sheriff's Office confirmed that the Texas Department of Public Safety is coordinating cleanup of this mass casualty incident, and suggested that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be involved in the crash investigation.
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Poltergeist 1982
Film Review- 'Poltergeist' (2015) (**)
Poltergeist (2015) ** (out of 5)
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jared Harris, Jane Adams, Saxon Sharbino, Kyle Catlett, and Kennedi Clements
Written by: David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by: Gil Kenan
Remakes, reboots, re-envisionings, re-tellings. It's what Hollywood does today. I've become comfortably numb to the idea, for it appears that if I protested them all, I wouldn't actually see much at the theater, now would I? I only ask that the project follow my super fair guidelines. For starters, remake or reboot something that makes sense, or provides an improvement on a mediocre or poor original. Then, at least update the idea to reflect the current times, if applicable. Finally, capture something special, or at least something that distances your film from what came before. Otherwise, isn't the whole exercise silly? Wouldn't it be simply treading water? Keeping those guidelines in mind, you might guess that I had an aversion to the updated, seemingly forever-in-utero Poltergeist. You'd be right. Originally announced about a decade ago, the idea of this project has long bothered me, as it violated the first of my super fair guidelines- how could one improve, or even make relevant, a new version?
Director Gil Kenan's (Monster House, City of Ember) film is neither satisfying, nor relevant enough to even enter the ring with the original's classic status. It wouldn't be prudent to critique this film solely as a companion piece to Tobe Hooper's masterpiece, though. On its' own merits (or lack thereof), I can't recommend this version. To be fair, it isn't near the wretched hive of scum and villainy I imagined it would be. It simply does not fill a void, serve a need, or matter in any way, shape, or form. This Poltergeist does not offer a sublime undercurrent of building tension or a wonderful Jerry Goldsmith score, and it doesn't pray upon our fears as former children or current parents like it should. Instead, it has just enough boo moments and frightening imagery to rub shoulders with the thousand other mediocre horror films of modern times. As it is just interesting enough to not be a disaster, I suppose we should deliver Kenan, Sam Raimi and crew a hearty back slap, an 'atta boy' for making money off our penchant for nostalgia, and a shiny blue participation ribbon.
We're familiar with the bulk of the film's plot, but a few things have changed. In this version, both parents (Rockwell & DeWitt) are jobless as we meet them, and thus they need to 'downsize'. Well, they've 'downsized' to a nice, cozy suburban home with four bedrooms. Now that's the type of unemployment situation we could all get used to, right? Their teenage daughter Kendra (Sharbino) is spoiled and upset about life in general (oh those teens!), their son (Catlett) is afraid of most everything, and the baby of the family, Madison (Clements) is just about as adorable and precocious as you can imagine. The script provides this topical unemployment angle, which could lead to an unease that would lend a nice dollop of tension to the film, and provide a timely parallel to the original's capitalists-be-damned angle, but Kenan doesn't spend much time on it, and as a result, it becomes perfunctory.
For that matter, this film doesn't have the time for such trivial elements as character development. With a blink-and-you'll-miss-it run time of ninety minutes, Poltergeist is bewilderingly rushed. By the time young Madison has been snatched from the earthly plane by supernatural forces, we barely knew her, what she feared, or how close she was to the rest of her family. Coupled with our existing knowledge of her 1982 doppelgänger Carol Anne, how can we possibly care the requisite amount when she's gone? How can we care about any of these characters enough to be concerned about their fates? For whatever reason (perhaps an expectation of shorter audience attention spans), the film makes an unnecessary push for the finish line that lays waste to possible character moments, the same base elements that made the original so endearing. Any fan of horror flicks, even relative amateurs such as myself, knows that most successful horror films tempt the audience with tension until a series of climactic scares are unleashed upon our frail psyches. Poltergeist plays like a pair of clumsy first-time lovers, prematurely 'matriculating' to the climax.
Something can be said about the film's one strong point, however. Whereas the original relied on our blind faith in the invisible other-worldly plane, this update breaks that wall, literally and figuratively. The visuals 'behind' the world of Madison's closet are ghoulish and effective, invoking an organic/mechanic mix reminiscent of H.R. Giger, laced with electric impulses. This version renders electricity like a tangible beast, insinuating a scientific origin for the afterlife. I'm pleased that a horror film actually used science to perhaps detail why a dead spirit might travel from place to place. It doesn't explain everything, but it's a good start.
Poor Gil Kenan had an unenviable task when he set forth to make this unnecessary film. Even with professional actors like Rockwell and DeWitt, the task of besting a masterpiece was never something he could realistically accomplish. That said, how seriously can I critique a film that simply lacks a valid excuse to exist? With the exception of a newfangled view of the 'other side', this Poltergeist offers nothing but a way to call on our sentiment for the original. If, like the original did, the story saw this as a family drama first, wrapped around the heart of a horror film, I sense that it might have worked. If it had been the first to make our irrational childhood fears come to life, it might have worked. Like most remakes, reboots, re-envisionings, and re-tellings, however, this update just cannot graduate past the starting line of, you know, needing a reason for being.


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The hosts opened the tournament with a lacklustre goalless draw against Cape Verde Islands on Saturday and have received plenty of criticism in the aftermath.
It was the third consecutive match they failed to score following a 1-0 friendly loss to Norway and another 0-0 stalemate against Algeria earlier in January.
"I think we have quality strikers here," Mphela said in Durban on Monday.
"Statistically you know I've played in these tournaments before and I'm the most experienced striker in this team, so I think I can be the difference."
The 28-year-old, who won his 50th cap on Saturday and has scored over 20 goals for Bafana Bafana, believed it was his responsibility, as a forward, to break their goal-scoring drought.
Frozen under pressure
"Now that the Afcon is here, and we obviously didn't play well in our first game, we want to do well in our second one," he said.
"Hopefully I'll get some goals for the team to get through to the next round."
Mphela, slowly nursing his way back from six months on the sidelines due to a knee injury, had a 22-minute run out against Cape Verde, but made little impact, along with most of his teammates, who had frozen under pressure, according to coach Gordon Igesund.
The Mamelodi Sundowns striker is tipped to start when South Africa face the Angolans in Durban and he believed he was up to the task.
"My fitness is ok now. I've played a couple of friendlies already and the other day I came in as a substitute, playing about 20 minutes," he said.
"If I'm picked and I start against Angola, then I think I'm more than ready. I'm prepared to step up to the plate and try to obviously get what we need, which is goals."
Creating more chances
Mphela also defended the Bafana midfielders, who were blasted for a lack of creativity in the opening match.
"The last game we did not create enough chances, but in the two friendlies we played before that we created a lot, so I don't think [supply] was an issue," he said.
"As the coach has said, the players were a bit frozen for the opening match. I think going into the next game we'll create more chances." – Sapa


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Before Rome became the dominant state of the Italic Peninsula and imposed its culture and language on the non-Roman Italic population, there were a bewildering number of ethnic and linguistic groups that thrived in the Peninsula. One of these groups is the Oscans, who occupied the southern part of the Peninsula that were not settled by Greeks.
The Oscan speakers adopted the Etruscan alphabet to write their language. This event probably occurred around the 7th century BCE but the first evidence of the Oscan alphabet did not appear until the 5th century BCE in the form of inscriptions on coins. Because the Oscan language is Indo-European, its phonology is different from that of Etruscan. As a result, many letters not used in Etruscan but inherited from Greek were revived to denote Oscan sounds such as [b], [g], and [d]. Sometimes the u letter is used to denote the [o] sound (which did not exist in Etruscan and therefore there was no letter for it). Also, two new letters were invented during the 4th century BCE, namely í and ú, for the long vowels of [i:] and [u:]. The total tally of letters in the Oscan alphabet is therefore 21.
A note about the previous chart of the Oscan alphabet: The black letter is the Oscan letter, the blue is the traditional Roman transcription of the corresponding Oscan letter, and the red in brackets is the phonetic pronunciation of the Oscan letter.
The Oscan alphabet is written from right to left, a feature preserved in Etruscan but not in Latin. Also, to mark separation between words, a dot is used, as in the following example from Pompeii:
As Rome conquered territory occupied by Oscans, it assimilated the Oscan people into the Roman world. As a consequence, the Oscan ethnic identity and culture disappeared, and the Oscan language ceased to be spoken and written by the end of the 1st century CE.


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Bucks beat Magic 115-109
Ellis scores 39 points, 25 of them in the 4th quarter
Monta Ellis scored a season-high 39 points, including 25 in the fourth quarter, and the Milwaukee Bucks rallied for a 115-109 over the Orlando Magic on Sunday.
Ersan Ilyasova added 20 points and 11 rebounds for Milwaukee, which ended a three-game losing streak. Brandon Jennings had 15 points and 14 assists.
The Bucks ended the game on a 30-12 lead to pull out the victory over the Magic, who led most of the game. Orlando has lost seven of its last nine games.
Arron Afflalo scored 24 points and rookie Maurice Harkless had a career-high 23 for the Magic. Nikola Vucevic added 20 points and 15 rebounds in the loss.
Orlando was up 97-85 midway through the final quarter, but back-to-back 3-pointers by Ellis cut the lead to six points. A fast-break dunk by Ellis later in the quarter off a slick feed from Jennings brought the Bucks to 101-99.
Afflalo then connected for a 3 to make it 104-99 before Ellis made another 3-pointer to again slice the lead to two. The teams exchanged baskets until an Orlando missed shot led to an Ilyasova layup at the other end off an assist from Jennings to tie it at 108. Harkless made one of two free throws to put Orlando ahead 109-108 with 1:08 remaining.
On the ensuing possession, Larry Sanders made a hook shot to send the Bucks in front 110-109. Jameer Nelson missed a shot and Ellis sank his fifth 3 of the quarter to put the Bucks up 113-109 with 13 seconds remaining.
A five-second violation on Orlando gave the Bucks the ball again. J.J. Redick added two free throws as the lead grew to the final margin of 115-109.
The Bucks began the game by missing 11 of their first 13 shots while the Magic failed to connect on nine of their first 12 attempts. Orlando improved its shooting and led 25-18 after the period.
The Bucks' shooting woes continued in the second quarter. Milwaukee finished the first half shooting just 30 percent and trailed 54-44. The Bucks opened the third quarter on a 7-0 run, cutting its halftime deficit to three points. The Magic rebuilt the lead to 13 late in the quarter. Orlando was up 81-70 going into the fourth quarter.
NOTES: The Bucks entered the game with a 7-0 record at home on St. Patrick's Day. ... Magic rookie forward Andrew Nicholson returned after missing Friday night's game and not practicing Saturday while quarantined because of illness. ... Milwaukee's Luc Richard Mbah a Moute missed his fourth consecutive game with a turf toe injury. ... Marquis Daniels, who scored 14 points against Miami on Friday night, started in his place. ... The rare noon start required the teams to alter their routines. Orlando coach Jacque Vaughn said, "It's just different. Do you go to bed earlier? When do you wake up to eat? How much do you eat? Routinewise, it throws you off."


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A few set photos from the Steve Jobs biopic jOBS have surfaced, giving us a look at Ashton Kutcher doing his best "Steve Jobs on acid" impression. The Apple visionary made no secret of his past experimentation with LSD, and it appears that director Joshua Michael Stern's indie biopic has at least one scene in which Kutcher's Jobs goes tripping in a field. Noah Wyle did a hell of a job portraying Jobs and tackling his fascination with LSD in the TV movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, so Kutcher has his work cut out for him.
Additionally, a couple more images of Angelina Jolie in character in Disney's Maleficent have surfaced. The story centers on the Sleeping Beauty villain and "reveals the events that hardened her heart and drove her to curse the baby, Aurora." Yesterday some set photos landed online that gave us a look at Jolie performing some flying stunts, but this batch is much less death-defying. Hit the jump to check out the set photos from both jOBS and Maleficent. [Update: We've removed the unofficial images.]