We gave you one roundup already of cooking tips and hints from 2009. But here’s a look back at more in-depth tutorials and how-to posts. Most of these have extra photos or video, and they all are here to help you learn a little something extra or new in the kitchen. From how to create a beautiful sushi roll to how to peel garlic, and from how to brew kombucha and beer, to making awesome dumplings, here are 25 how to tutorials from 2009.
The Dennis Miller Show
Tuesday, Dec 29th, 2009
MLive.com: While [Umar Farouk Abdul] Mutallab was
poorly dressed, his friend was dressed in an expensive suit, [passenger
Kurt Haskell of Newport, Mich.] said. He says the suited man asked
ticket agents whether Mutallab could board without a passport.
“The guy said, ‘He’s from Sudan and we do this all
the time.’”
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Jack Hunter
UK Daily Mail
Tuesday, Dec 29th, 2009
Fears over airport security could leave millions of
passengers facing the indignity of a ‘naked’ body scan and
paying higher fares to fund it.
Hi-tech body scanners can see through clothes to detect hidden
weapons or explosives such as those used in the failed Christmas Day
plot.
They produce an anatomical image of passengers’ bodies,
including breasts and genitalia, and have been attacked as too
intrusive. Critics have described them as a ‘virtual strip
search’.
Home Secretary Alan Johnson said the Government was looking at the
use of the full body scanners, but admitted there were cost and privacy
issues.
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Our sister site, Engadget, unveiled its iPhone app [iTunes link] today. The free app functions in the same way as the current TUAW app [iTunes link] by delivering a constant stream of news from the site. Engadget’s app will cover news from the main site, Engadget Mobile and Engadget HD.
Among the app’s features are sharing articles through Twitter, Facebook or e-mail, the ability to tip Engadget on breaking news, and the ability to bookmark and view articles offline. A full list of features can be found here.
TUAWEngadget releases iPhone app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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CNN
Airs Eyewitness Testimony that ‘Well-Dressed’ Indian
accomplice helped Abdulmutallab board without passport and that man on
plane filmed entire flight and bombing attempt
Aaron Dykes
Infowars
December 29, 2009
Evidence is emerging that clearly indicates Abdulmutallab was more
than just a Nigerian extremist carrying out his anger through an
ill-conceived plot to ignite a powdery explosive substance on-board a
flight to the United States. Eyewitness testimony pointing to a man helping the accused terrorist board without a passport, along with an unusual cameraman documenting the attempted attack
on board the plane raise more than red flags– they point towards
an intelligence operation, run as a drill, meant to conjure up public
support for a number of fronts in the continuing ‘War on
Terror.’
CNN interviewed key flight witnesses during their Dec. 28 program
who raised these very points, making clear that the full story is still
emerging and that wider-connections to intelligence handlers is evident.
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THE SHARP-DRESSED MAN
Kurt Haskell and his wife, who were witnesses on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253 saw Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab receiving assistance from a well-dressed, wealthy-looking Indian man
at the boarding gate in Amsterdam. Haskell told CNN that the accused
bomber appeared strikingly ‘poor’ next to the well-dressed
man. According to Haskell, that man did the talking for him, explaining
to the flight personnel at the gate that Abdulmutallab needed to board
without a passport, claiming that he was a Sudanese refugee. Haskell
told CNN:
“Laurie and I were sitting near the boarding
gate, sitting on the floor, there weren’t any seats to sit in.
And I saw two men. They caught my eye because they seemed to
be an odd pair. One was what I would describe as a poor-looking black
teenager around 16 or 17, and the other man, age 50-ish, wealthy
looking Indian man. And I was just wondering why they were
together– kinda strange. And I watched them approach
what I would call the ticket agent, the final person that checks your
boarding pass before you get on the plane. And I could hear the entire
conversation. The only person that spoke was the Indian man,
and what he said was: ‘This man needs to board the plane, but he
doesn’t have a passport.’ And the ticket agent responded,
‘Well, if he doesn’t have a passport, he can’t get on
the plane.’ To which the Indian man responded back,
‘He’s from Sudan. We do this all the time.’ And the
ticket agent said, ‘Well, then you’ll have to go and talk
to my manager.’ And she directed them down a hallway.
And that was the last time I saw the Indian man, and the black man I
didn’t see again until he tried to blow up our plane hours
later.”
The gate attendee referred the odd-couple to the manager. Haskell
said that was the last he saw of the wealthy man, but later recognized
Abdulmutallab after the incident occurred on the plane. That’s
when he says he put two and two together about the unusual connection.
His wife, Laurie, said she found it ‘odd’ that
authorities have not yet followed up on their witness account, as they
were the only ones known to have witnessed Abdulmutallab with the
‘Indian’ man prior to boarding the flight.
THE CAMERAMAN
If he had help getting on the flight with no passport after having been reported to U.S. authorities by his own father,
what is the true explanation for the man seen filming the entire
flight? Another witness on board the flight, Richelle Keepman, said she
noticed the mysterious cameraman
at the beginning of the flight, believing the man might have been
simply excited about a first flight, or etc. Later when the
‘bombing’ incident took place, she says the cameraman was the only one standing up, and intently filming the entire incident.
ADDULMUTALLAB AND THE WIDER WAR ON TERROR
Put this together with new focus on Yemen ‘in the fight against Al Qaeda’, including calls from Sen. Lieberman to pre-emptively attack,
the media’s immediate hype of the event, and the ready-made Body
Scanners and other ‘enhanced’ Airport security, it is clear
that this is a contrived incident intentionally unleashed to goad
renewed support for ever-expanding terrorism-related warfare in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan and now Yemen.
Just like after 9/11, airport travelers are again prepared to accept
greater violations of their liberties and privacy for supposed
security. Yet patsies and watchlist-subjects alike have repeatedly been
allowed to bypass security clearance and been proven to have ties to
the intelligence community.
The latest accused ‘terrorist’ Abdulmutallab was very
likely the fall-guy in a pattern-drill– handled by wealthy,
mismatched associates, allowed to board without required credentials,
and videotaped by a cameraman with an unknown connection. Was
Abdulmutallab involved with these figures through a drill which ended
with an intentionally-failed bombing meant to incite great fear of
terrorism?
PREVIOUSLY-STAGED TERROR
This would fit closely with other elements of CIA-concocted
“terrorism.” Many of the 9/11 hijackers and other known
extremists were revealed to have participated in ‘dry run’
drills, shared addresses with intelligence handlers or lived on
military bases, were allowed to pass through the border despite being
on one or more watchlists, and were given VISAS/Passports through
execptions and/or special clearance.
Similarly, David Headly, named in the Mumbai attack, has been exposed as a CIA-double agent.
FBI/CIA provocateurs and exaggerated accounts of extremists groups
have continued to emerge from the phony stories given to the public in
the cases of many would-be plots, such as in Toronto, the ‘plot’ to bomb the Sears Tower, the Transatlantic liquid bomb plot, alleged plans to ‘blow up a Jewish temple and shoot down military planes’ in New York and more.
We see a similar pattern here, the emerging evidence strongly
suggests. How long will we allow deliberately-provoked terror incidents
to frighten us to death, invade our privacy, erode our liberties,
restrict our travel and perpetuate an ever-expanding string of wars?
COMMENTARY: BODY-SCANNERS AND THE SECURITY-SWINDLE
Benjamin Franklin long ago warned us that “If we restrict
liberty to attain security, we will lose both.” And that those
willing to make that bargain deserve neither their liberty nor security.
This adage, frequently used by Benjamin Franklin in a body of work,
with many variations in the freedom vs. security theme. On the most
basic level, government is established only for the common security of
its people. Thus, it is no surprise that government tends to test the
line between the government and the governed on grounds of
“security.”
It is no coincidence that Franklin and fellow compatriots like
Thomas Paine laid down principled reasons for an individuals’
rights in respect to government.
Today’s advances in technology do not diminish the principled
reasons for keeping government’s power in check with the
people’s essential, as per Franklin– freedom. The
‘War on Terror’ is a shining example of Franklin’s
principle gone awry. You cannot fight against an existential, shadowy
“enemy”, on a fishing expedition for evidence, avoiding
certainties and “evidence”, and employing such unprincipled
tactics as torture, rendition, widespread wire-tapping– going
against the very spirit of the law established by the Constitution,
while hoping to maintain that opposing spirit in the nation.
There is a limit to “security”– in other words,
there are limits to what government, set up to protect the rights of
the governed, can do in the line of duty. The People have
Constitutionally protected rights to privacy, probable cause before
inspection or search, security in personal belongings and property, due
process and other related safeguards against the tendencies of
government ( 4th and 5th amendments), and a government must avoid violating these rights. But even this is not the point.
The people, for reasons of “security” and stripped and
searched in every increasing contraptions of detection– losing
privacy, dignity and basic freedom of travel. All the while, the rare,
real perpetrator, identified as a terrorist, never goes through the
database checks, security screening or passenger tracking schemes
set-up by Homeland Security. The people do. Mothers with breastmilk.
Business men with laptops. Shoes, belts, nail clippers, tooth paste,
underwear, but not terrorists.
They evidently are whisked through by contacts who may or may not
work directly for the FBI, CIA or etc. Databases make exceptions for
its most-important targets while people with commonly-confused names
are kept from flying or subject to secondary screening. Any ordinary
person without proper documentation is subject, at the least, to
alternate verification and likely quite a few intense questions. For
this would-be bomber, it is apparently the matter of a handshake with
the manager, and a high-level contact to vouch as sponsor.
It’s a bait and switch. It’s not security,
Constitutionally-sound or not. It’s a scheme to tightly-control
the travel of ordinary Americans while co-opting that fear to generate
support for various overseas operations. It is textbook
problem-reaction-solution.
The Body-Scanners, next in line of the wratched-up security measures
being put forward by TSA, along with newly hailed restrictions, such as
banning blankets, electronics and on-board bathroom use during the
final 60 minutes of flight, are heavy-handed measures set up by
Homeland Security and waiting for the right excuse to put them into
place.
Though the Body Scanners have already been phased in throughout the
U.S., only with this latest incident is it been publicly introduced. It
directly mirrors the TSA’s shoe fetish, which was sold on the lie
of the preposterous shoebombing-attempt purported by Richard Reid.
The heroic, but also practical actions of the passengers in
thwarting this attack is a sane reminder in the fog of the ‘War
on Terror’ that people can actually fend for themselves in many
situations, particularly in the face of danger. Though real, big scale
dangers do exist for governments clearly play a role, we cannot shriek
in the face of danger, handing over to government all that we hold in
the balance. There are ways of detecting crimes, preventing attacks and
’saving lives, for the children’ that don’t involve a
dragnet combing over the whole of the population.
The game is surely rigged if the criminal it was meant to catch
walks right through the proverbial back-door, which was held open for
him by the archetypal inside man. The trading of liberty for so-called
security does not balance favorably, but transfers power duly held by
the people to the government, the more dangerous by the loosened-chains
of the Constitution.
Supporting links and further info:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/man-videotaped-underwear-bomber-on-flight-253.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bomber-had-no-passport-helped-to-board-plane-by-sharp-dressed-man.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/28/terror.suspect.father/index.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/terrorist-or-cia-agent-maybe-both.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/080606militaryconnections.htm
http://www.prisonplanet.com/new-york-terror-plot-another-government-provocateured-set-up.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/cia-and-mi6-links-to-rauf-and-liquid-bomb-plot.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/230606searstower.htm
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Get ready to see it everywhere. Mercedes has annouced that the droptop version of their recently redesigned E-Class will hit showrooms in January, and its safe to say the response should be overwhelming. With a bevy of diesel and petrol engines available, the adaptation of comfort technologies like the AirScarf (previously seen on higher end M-Bs like the SL-Class), and a virtual cavalcade of safety techstuff (two-to-one airbag to passenger ratio, tilt sensor, etc.), this variation of the E-Class is undoubtedly their best yet. Summer can’t come fast enough.
Continue reading for more images and a video of the Mercedes-Benz E-Class Convertible.
Source: WCF
Here we go again. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the California Science Center, an organization affiliated with the Smithsonian, is facing a lawsuit from a group called the American Freedom Alliance. The group planned to rent the Center’s IMAX theater in order to show a movie called “Darwin’s Dilemma,” which attacks the theory of evolution and promotes intelligent design. When the anti-evolution, pro-ID Discovery Institute stepped in, the Center used a clause in the contract to cancel the showing, attracting suits from both groups.
The AFA’s vision statement says that it “aims to build a national alliance of people of faith,” and the group apparently decided to use the public controversy over evolution as a way to do that. The film it chose features several Discovery Institute fellows, and was produced by a company that lists the DI as a “research link,” along with an organization, the Access Research Network, that has Discovery fellows on its board.
Discovery has a bit of a history of conflict with science museums. In the past, it’s rented space for one of its films at the Smithsonian itself, presumably in order to lend itself a veneer of scientific reputability. The Smithsonian, for its part, was widely criticized for its decision to play host to a group that promotes anti-science agitation. History seemed to be repeating itself, as the DI issued a press release in which it proudly announced that an “intelligent design documentary” would be premiered at “the Smithsonian Institution’s west coast affiliate,” and that the event would feature one of its fellows.
Unfortunately, the contract to show the film was contingent on the California Science Center approving all promotional materials. It hadn’t seen the press release in advance, so it cancelled the show. The AFA is now seeking punitive damages and compensation for lost revenues, while the DI is trying to get all the documents involved with the decision to cancel.
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I guess the year wouldn’t be complete without the mention of some cheap iPod knockoff. But this is more like ripoff and then sliced in half. The 1GB Fashion Style MP3 Player looks like the bottom half of the latest iPod Nano cut in half. The MP3 player comes in pink, green, blue, and silver and retails for $12.99. Other than that maybe save up for the real thing…
‘Nuclear whistleblower
Mordechai Vanunu has been arrested for breaking a ban on contact with
foreigners – one of the conditions of his 2004 release from jail.
Isreali police claimed
Vanunu met with ‘a number of foreigners,’ something he was ordered not
to do for fear he might divulge classified information.However, his lawyer Avigdor Feldman said Vanunu was arrested because he
has a Norwegian girlfriend whom police have already interrogated. ‘Vanunu was arrested (for) a relationship between a man and a woman, with a Norwegian citizen,’ Mr Feldman said.
‘He is not being accused
of giving any secrets. She is not interested in nuclear business –
she’s interested in Mordechai Vanunu (and he) is probably interested in
her.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Officials associated with wind energy want Congress to establish a national renewable energy standard that they say would promote jobs in South Dakota and spark the economy. Steve Wegman with the South Dakota Wind Energy …
Two bills pending in Congress call for either 3 percent or 6 percent of electricity to come from renewable sources. Wegman says that’s not enough. Sampson Brown, the president and chief executive of Knight & Carver Wind Group at Howard, said setting …
‘A fully pre-meditated
international crime of genocide has been taking place during the last
62 years in the heart of the Arab World. The victims are the
Palestinian people especially those in the Gaza Strip. The assassin is
the worst ever terrorist group deceptively called the Israeli Defense
Forces under the leadership of the theocratically most racist
“god’s chosen” deceitfully self-proclaimed “democratic
Jewish-only” Israel.
Israel had been created,
financed, armed, and politically protected by, mainly, British and
American rapture-vision-obsessed Talmudist power elites consisting of
profit-seeking financiers and military-industrial complex.’
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‘The CDC has created an
online destination for kids known as ‘BAM! Body and Mind.’
Its main focus, along with advice for dealing with stress and bullies,
is an attempt to glamorize vaccines to children ages 9-13.’
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‘In the pre-Internet age,
our society had an order of information in which knowledge was managed
by experts and authorities, as well as representatives of the
political, legal, scientific, medical and economic powers-that-be.
Academics, scientists, spokespersons for the state and the owners,
producers and editors of the major media decided what was real and what
was unreal, what was true and what was false. The upside of this was
that an awful lot of utter nonsense did not find mainstream
distribution. The downside was that some material was misclassified as
unreal or false – either by error, or because of interest group
pressure, ideology or group-think.’
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Dec. 30–The Bureau of Land Management has chosen 31 renewable energy and transmission projects, including one in Oregon, for expedited permitting in order to make them eligible for stimulus funding. “They represent the first generation of large …
‘The beauty of the golden
ratio, surely, lies in the discovery of harmony in imbalance –
that is, it’s not a symmetrical division, it’s not 1+1, but a bit more
interesting and lively. In architecture, the piers and windows of
Durham Cathedral seem to apply it as assiduously as in the Parthenon in
Athens. But why such mystique?’
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‘How strange. The
attached photo is supposedly the under wear worn by the would-be
Northwest bomber all over the news. Supposedly, there was smoke
and fire. (Up to the ceiling of the cabin according to one eyewitness –
ed). The bomber was burned enough to have to go to the
hospital. The explosive he supposedly mixed in his drawers and
then set ablaze would bring down that huge airliner.
Time to ramp up more nonsense from TSA: No potty trips and get ready to
stand naked in front of their body scanners or you don’t fly. Will you
put your 13 year old daughter or 10 year old son in front of one of
those scanners for some stranger to look at? How do you think that will
affect your children even if you don’t mind being stripped naked?
So, how come his undies are so clean looking? One would think there would be burning, tearing, ripping and black soot.’
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‘The Obama administration pledged
Thursday to provide unlimited financial assistance to mortgage giants
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, an eleventh-hour move that allows the
government to exceed the current $400 billion cap on emergency aid
without seeking permission from a bailout-weary Congress. The
Christmas Eve announcement by the Treasury Department means that it can
continue to run the companies, which were seized last year, as arms of
the government for the rest of President Obama’s current term.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac disclosed
that they had received approval from their federal regulator to pay $42
million in Wall Street-style compensation packages to 12 top executives
for 2009. The compensation packages [include] up to $6 million each to
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s chief executives.’
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