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Reporter acquitted in case seen as attack on press rights
After deliberating for less than two hours, the jury found Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri not guilty on misdemeanor charges of failure to disperse and interference with official acts.
By Ryan J. Foley | Associated Press
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Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri, facing, hugs her mother, Muna Tareh-Sahouri, after being found not-guilty at the conclusion of her trial at the Drake University Legal Clinic, Wednesday, March 10, 2021, in Des Moines, Iowa.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — An Iowa jury on Wednesday acquitted a journalist who was pepper-sprayed and arrested by police while covering a protest, in a case that critics have derided as an attack on press freedoms and an abuse of prosecutorial discretion.
After deliberating for less than two hours, the jury found Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri and her ex-boyfriend Spenser Robnett not guilty on misdemeanor charges of failure to disperse and interference with official acts.
The Des Moines verdict is an embarrassing outcome for the office of Polk County Attorney John Sarcone, which pursued the charges despite widespread condemnation from advocates for a free press and human rights.
Those advocates, ranging from Sahouri's bosses at the Register to Amnesty International, argued that Sahouri was wrongly arrested while doing her job covering racial injustice protests in Des Moines last May.
More than 100 groups called for the dismissal of charges last summer, but prosecutors aggressively pursued them, arguing that Sahouri and Robnett didn't comply with police orders to leave the chaotic scene outside of a mall and interfered with the officer who arrested Sahouri.
Sahouri, 25, immediately identified herself as a reporter on assignment but was subjected to what she called "extremely painful" pepper spray blasts and jailed. Robnett, 24, said he was sprayed and handcuffed after telling the officer that Sahouri was a Register journalist.
Sahouri was the first working U.S. journalist to face a criminal trial since 2018, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. Although more than 125 U.S. journalists were arrested or detained last year, the vast majority were not charged or had their charges dismissed.
Sahouri told reporters she was relieved by the quick acquittal, which she called a victory for press freedom and democracy. She said the case had taken a toll on her personally and professionally, but that she would continue reporting the news.
"I have been dealing with a lot of pressure and anxiety and trauma from the assault and continuing to do my job has been difficult," she said. "But it is important. That is why I am in this field."
If convicted on either count, Sahouri and Robnett would have faced hundreds of dollars in fines and up to 30 days in jail.
The Register's parent company, Gannett, funded their defense, and employees of the newspaper chain rallied behind Sahouri on social media. Columbia Journalism School, where Sahouri earned a master's degree in 2019 before joining the Register, also expressed solidarity by promoting the hashtag #JournalismIsNotACrime.
Journalists celebrated the verdict, saying it supports their freedom to document newsworthy events. But they said it was disgraceful that authorities pressed forward with the charges for nine months at taxpayer expense.
"Grateful justice was done and @andreamsahouri was fully exonerated," Gannett news president and USA Today Publisher Maribel Wadsworth tweeted. "But it should never have come to this. She was assaulted, arrested, charged and tried for doing her job. Today's victory is as much a victory for the 1st Amendment as it is for Andrea."
Prosecutor Bradley Kinkade told jurors during his closing argument that it didn't matter Sahouri was a working journalist, saying her profession wasn't a defense against the charges. In fact, he argued that the video and photos she reported live on Twitter of protesters breaking store windows and throwing rocks was "convincing evidence" that she was near an unlawful assembly.
Kinkade, an assistant Polk County attorney, argued that Sahouri and Robnett were within hearing distance when police gave orders to disperse, but that they stayed with the crowd. He said they didn't have to actually hear or understand the orders, which were given nearly 90 minutes before their arrests as police tried to unblock an intersection. The orders were barely audible on video played for jurors.
Kinkade urged jurors to accept the testimony of arresting officer Luke Wilson, who claimed that Robnett tried to pull Sahouri out of his custody and that Sahouri briefly resisted arrest. Wilson acknowledged that he had failed to record the arrest on his body camera and did not try to recover the video later, in violation of Des Moines Police Department policy.
Defense attorney Nicholas Klinefeldt said the case was about a reporter who was doing her job and a boyfriend who accompanied her for safety reasons. He said Sahouri was reporting on the "destruction of property so that the community could see what was going on."
Klinefeldt said the defendants didn't hear any dispersal orders and that Sahouri was trying to report only from places where she was allowed. He noted that they were running away from a tense location where riot police had deployed tear gas when Wilson arrested them.
Klinefeldt said that the officer's claim that they interfered wasn't credible. Sahouri testified that she put her hands up and repeatedly identified herself as a reporter but was nonetheless pepper-sprayed and cuffed with zip ties. Another Register reporter, Katie Akin, was near Sahouri and quickly informed police that they were journalists. Akin was told to leave but was not arrested.
Video captured by a responding officer showed Sahouri in pain, temporarily blinded by the pepper spray and repeatedly telling officers that she was a journalist doing her job. Nonetheless, authorities put her in a police van and took her to jail.
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When Todd Akin sneezes, Paul Ryan catches a cold.
The Republicans' soon-to-be nominee for vice president is supposed to be delivering a message about jobs and the economy, but he's finding he cannot escape his longtime House colleague, now a national pariah for his exotic views on rape.
"His statements were outrageous, over the pale. I don't know anybody who would agree with that. Rape is rape, period, end of story," Ryan told Pittsburgh's KDKA-TV in the first in a series of local TV interviews.
Except it wasn't the end of the story. The questions were just beginning.
"Rape is rape. Rape is rape, period. End of story," Ryan replied to another query.
"Rape is rape, and there's no splitting hairs over rape," he answered yet again.
Ryan is surely aching to talk about something other than Akin. But the outrage set off by the Republicans' Senate nominee in Missouri has consumed the political world. It has been particularly harmful to Ryan, who has served for more than a decade with Akin, recently hailing him as "a great asset" on Ryan's budget committee and an example of "exactly the kind of leadership America needs."
More problematic in this situation: Ryan has the same anti-abortion position as Akin — no exceptions — and some of the nearly 40 abortion bills he has co-sponsored have provided no exemption for rape victims.
This is more random bad luck for Mitt Romney, who has had more than his share in recent days. His running mate, chosen for his green-eyeshade savvy, has unexpectedly become a lightning rod in the culture wars, in an area where Republicans are at a decided disadvantage.
Only 20 percent of Americans agree with Ryan and Akin that abortion should be illegal in all cases, according to a Gallup poll in May.
Akin, in an interview last Wednesday morning with NBC's Matt Lauer, confirmed that Ryan had called to try to push him from the race after his "legitimate rape" remark and his fanciful claim that women's bodies could reject the sperm of rapists. "He felt that I had to make a decision, but he advised me that it would be good for me to step down," said Akin, who rebuffed Ryan.
"It's as you would imagine," Ryan said when asked aboard his campaign plane later for his version of the call. "And I'll keep it between us." Ryan repeated his view that Akin "should've dropped out of the race, but he's not. He's going to run his campaign. We're going to run ours."
Would he call Akin again?
"I have no plans to," the candidate said.
Surely Ryan would like to call Akin all kinds of colorful things for throwing Republicans badly off message on the eve of their convention. Romney, party officials and even Rush Limbaugh have called for him to quit.
Akin's dwindling list of supporters is down to a motley assortment of abortion hard-liners who applaud his no-exceptions stance.
Ryan has already surrendered that position. "Look, I'm proud of my record," he told reporters on his plane, but "Mitt Romney is going to be president, and the president sets policy. His policy is exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother. I'm comfortable with it because it's a good step in the right direction."
Does he now regret his sponsorship of legislation that made a distinction between "forcible rape" and other kinds — a position eerily similar to Akin's "legitimate rape"?
"That bill passed, I think, by 251 votes," Ryan replied. "It was bipartisan." He neglected to mention that it passed after removal of the "forcible" language.
The candidate tried to guide the reporters back to friendlier topics. "This is fantastic," he said of his brief time on the trail. "The encouragement from the crowds is just amazing. It's an infectious enthusiasm."
Perhaps, but that's not the dominant strain infecting Ryan's candidacy at the moment.
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Marcello Lippi is the man to start a new cycle with Scotland
The Italian is proven at every level, open to another international job, and far too cool to be mocked on the back page of a tabloid
Marcello Lippi at Hampden in 2012 (Image: SNS Group)
Alex McLeish lasted just 12 games in his second spell as Scotland manager, adding further credence to the theory that you should never go back.
It's something that has been borne out time and again, from Louis van Gaal at Barcelona to Arrigo Sacchi at Milan. It's also something that one Marcello Lippi knows only too well, having returned to the Italy job two years after guiding his country to the World Cup.
The second time around the legendary manager couldn't recreate the magic, with his side suffering humiliation in South Africa in 2010 as they exited at the group stage without winning a single match.
It was the lowest point of Lippi's career, but it's no reason to write him off as a spent force - and it's no reason he shouldn't be the next Scotland manager.
The suggestion that the former Juventus, Inter and Napoli boss would take the hotseat at Hampden isn't as left field as it sounds. The Italian has recently returned from the Far East, where he managed the Chinese national team, and has no plans to retire yet.
"Two or three years of work and travel, one out, then start again: I've found that's the right formula," Lippi told the Corriere dello Sport last year.
"I've stopped with clubs forever, but a closer national team, in Europe or the Emirates, I could consider…"
It's a well-known geographical fact that Scotland is closer to Italy than China is, so if the SFA could put a tempting enough proposal on the table there's no reason to think Lippi wouldn't at least consider it.
Why offer it to the 71-year-old? Well, first of all his track record speaks for itself.
(Image: Andreas Rentz/Bongarts/Getty Images)
Walter Smith is the same age as Lippi, and was widely believed to be a candidate for the Scotland job before McLeish was appointed. With all due respect to Smith, his record doesn't compare to Lippi's at the highest level.
The Italian has won five Serie A titles with Juventus, not to mention the Coppa Italia, the Champions League and the Intercontinental Cup.
No less a figure than Sir Alex Ferguson considers him an authority, famously adopting Lippi's approach of demolishing a team when it's at its most successful to make way for a new cycle.
"Looking into his eyes is enough to tell you that you are dealing with somebody who is in command of himself and his professional domain," Fergie wrote of his old rival in his first autobiography.
"Those eyes are sometimes burning with seriousness, sometimes twinkling, sometimes warily assessing you – and always they are alive with intelligence. Nobody could make the mistake of taking Lippi lightly."
Lippi left Juventus in 2004 - after a successful second spell, incidentally - to take over the Italian national team.
Two years later he was on top of the world, the Azzurri having beaten France to lift the biggest prize in football. Lippi resigned in triumph, but returned two years later after Roberto Donadoni's side were knocked out in the second round at Euro 2008.
"I shouldn't have left the national team, and I should never have come back," Lippi admitted in that Corriere dello Sport interview.
"I came back solely because I was wrong to leave after winning the World Cup, so I didn't make one serious mistake but two."
When he resigned after the 2010 World Cup it was assumed that Lippi's career was over, but the latter portion of his career has been successful too.
He led Guangzhou Evergrande to three Chinese Superleague titles, as well as winning the Asian Champions League in 2013. He remains the only man to have won the Asian and European Champions Leagues, as well as the World Cup.
After a couple of years out he took over the Chinese national team, and his side beat South Korea for the first time in their history. China finished just a point away from the play-offs, before reaching the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup.
Lippi had already announced he'd be leaving after the Asian Cup, but he's keen to keep working and wants a national team job.
It makes perfect sense for a coach of his age, and his CV blows any other realistic contender out of the water. Scotland have a young but talented squad, and the cool experience of Lippi could be perfect to get the best out of them.
He'd command instant respect from the players, and even the media would have a difficult time ridiculing him - just try and mock up Lippi looking uncool on the back of a tabloid, it literally cannot be done.
(Image: ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images)
Granted he'd have to take a massive wage cut from the £21m a year he was earning in China, but with a play-off for Euro 2020 already secured there's no better time for the SFA to push the boat out.
Antonio Conte, Zinedine Zidane, Paulo Sousa, Rino Gattuso and Didier Deschamps all played and learned under Lippi - he's exactly the wise old head this Scotland team needs.
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A very important workshop and a project showcase will take place at the event "A New Era of Blue Enlightenment" taking place in Lisbon, Portugal 12 – 14 July 2017. The FarFish project main topics are in line with this important event.
Commissioner Carlos Moedas will host a High-Level Ministerial and Scientific event on 12-14 July 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal, joined by high-level government representatives from Brazil and South Africa, as well as from the European Union.
A Statement on Atlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Cooperation between the European Union, Brazil and South Africa is planned to be signed during the event.
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July brought beautiful formations of clouds and heat waves . The wind was high several days during the month and it made for a pleasant scene; I loved watching the patches of white and grey collide and drift by. Staring at a moving sky while laying on a paddleboard is like meditating.
I started many of my mornings with a smoothie in one hand and phone in the other, monitoring the wind and radar to see if the weather threatened a SUP Yoga class. The wind came but only seemed to be strong enough to cancel class regularly on Thursdays. Group classes were not scheduled on those days to accommodate a fun adventure series that Royal Pigeon Yoga and Athleta dreamed up in late spring. It was almost comical that Thursday came around and there was the wind with it, blowing over the lake at 18 to 25 MPH. A couple of times we went for it and it was challenging but fun as usual.
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A pre-apocalyptic cocktail hour
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It's July 3, 1965. The number one single is going to trade back and forth between Elvis and the Hollies before The Byrds storm in and take #1 with their cover of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man." Although the Byrds are American, this still seems like the completion of a deal that started back in The Reign of Terror, when Bob Dylan introduced the Beatles to drugs. In turn, the Beatles, indirectly through The Byrds, introduce Bob Dylan's sort of music to rock, creating folk rock. The day after the last episode of The Time Meddler, Bob Dylan plays his infamous electric concert at the Newport Folk Festival.
The comparisons to The Reign of Terror are apt, as this is the second time Dennis Spooner has been tapped to write a season finale. I was none too fond of his first story, and his second did not particularly endear itself to me either. The flip side of that, however, is that he's been the script editor since The Rescue, which means he's presided over an era that has, on the whole, been of more consistent quality than David Whitaker's run of the first season. (Here we get the first script edited by Donald Tosh, who has no solo scripts on Doctor Who and is thus hard to judge in comparison with Whitaker and Spooner. But more on Tosh's reign when we get to the end of it.)
With very few exceptions, it's hard to draw clear lines of "eras" in Doctor Who. Doctor changes provide some sense of it, but, ignoring the 8th and 9th Doctors for obvious reasons, with only two exceptions these changes do not correspond with companion changes (The 3rd and 11th Doctors both started off with brand new companions), and only twice has the creative team shifted at the same time (The 4th and 11th, although the 4th was technically completed over two stories. To be fair, the 3rd and 7th Doctors had partial creative shifts as well, but only the 4th and 11th did full overhauls of the creative team). In many ways producers work better, but that's not a perfect measure either. Seasons might work, except in the early days of the program stories were routinely produced at the end of one season to carry over into the next, requiring a distinction between production seasons and transmission seasons.
I say all of this because, muddy as it is, there's a clear era shift going on here that is worth remarking on. The first season of Doctor Who was largely defined by its inconsistency. Significant chunks of it were not very good - The Keys of Marinus being the most uncontroversial example, though as I've said, I was no fan of The Reign of Terror (though I'm in the minority on that) or Marco Polo (I seem to be the only person to think that was a horrifically overlong mess of a story). Nobody involved had a clear sense of what Doctor Who was good at yet, which led both to stories that were brilliant but not the direction the show would go (The Aztecs) and stories that were just out in left field (Marco Polo, frankly, and The Edge of Destruction).
Somewhere in the transition to Season 2 - I'd put it at The Dalek Invasion of Earth, personally, but there's a case to be made for putting it one story earlier or later - the show found its footing, and we got a chain of six or seven stories of which, frankly, the worst that can be said is that The Romans is a bit fluffy. (I recognize that this involves readings of several stories that place them significantly above fan consensus - I am much more fond of The Rescue, The Web Planet, The Space Museum, and to a lesser extent The Chase than is normal. We'll talk about the changing nature of fan consensus and what it means for evaluating the program in a few entries when we get to what, for about 20 years, was universally recognized as the worst ever Doctor Who story, mostly by people who had never seen it.)
Crucial to this change was that the show embraced a youthful and mildly anarchic view of the world, and took a real joy in it. I say this era is better than Season 1 largely because it is at least possible to find a set of criteria that the show appears to be judging itself by. In Season 1, it was a real challenge to figure out why The Sensorites and The Reign of Terror were part of the same show. In Season 2, it was possible to make sense out of why The Web Planet led into The Crusade led into The Space Museum, and to use a fairly consistent yardstick of what the show is to evaluate all of them. Even if that yardstick seems at times to strain credulity, you can, for the first time, look at a chunk of Doctor Who and say "This is what they were doing here."
Starting with the last episode of The Chase, however, we enter a fourteen episode stretch of Doctor Who in which we get three companion departures, two companion arrivals, a change of script editors, and a change of producers. More broadly, the run from The Chase in the summer of 1965 to the beginning of The Ark in the spring of 1966 forms the closest thing to a distinct multi-story arc that Doctor Who will do for some time.
Now that we have a rough roadmap to take us through the next few stories, then, let's look at this one. Starting with the new TARDIS crew. The Doctor and Vicki's relationship is re-stressed here, and is work remarking on, as Vicki assures the Doctor, quite touchingly, that she wants to travel with him. In practice, she departs after only two more appearances, both of which are completely missing from the archives, so this is actually the last existent story in which we see Vicki. So let's take a moment and talk about her. I was in a Twitter discussion not long ago in which it was asserted that Steven, about whom we'll say more in a bit, was the first successful new companion, and I have to say, I think that's terribly unfair to Maureen O'Brien.
In point of fact, Vicki was an immaculately acted companion, and O'Brien did a remarkable job of making her repeated scenes of exposition and screaming work. The writing for her was often flat and phoned in, but anyone who thinks she is not a successful companion should fire up The Space Museum and watch her happily tell the computer she's planning revolution. Then consider the fact that the character who loves all that the Doctor represents and loves traveling through space and time with him was invented by Vicki. Susan loved her grandfather, and Ian and Barbara were reluctant passengers. Vicki is the first companion from the mould that will bring us Sarah Jane, Ace, Rose, Donna, and Amy.
We also get Steven here, and get it hammered home how much the Doctor has changed since An Unearthly Child. He accepts Steven quickly, and even seems spurred to be unusually charismatic and charming, explaining the workings of the TARDIS to him with what is possibly his best line to date, "That is the dematerializing control. And that, over yonder, is the horizontal hold. Up there is the scanner, those are the doors, that is a chair with a panda on it. Sheer poetry, dear boy!" Steven is, at this point, unsurprisingly undeveloped. Just as Vicki was very much Susan rejigged to be a mod fantasy of future youth, Steven is, at this point, a youthed up Ian. Perhaps the most interesting thing is that we finally get a detailed explanation of why the TARDIS looks like a Police Box, which, when it occurs, seems like an incidental detail, not like a significant piece of setup for the plot.
Ah, yes. The plot. For a while now, with few exceptions, Doctor Who has been alternating between historicals and science fiction. So following The Chase, the audience was primed for a historical. That, along with the fact that the first episode is called The Watcher and so we don't have the clue of the title that we have in the modern day, is absolutely crucial to understanding how this story works.
Thus far, when we see a historical with Dennis Spooner's name on it, we have a pretty good idea what to expect. Any careful and attentive viewer will remember The Romans and The Reign of Terror, and, when they see the 11th Century Britain setting, assume they know exactly what they're going to get, namely an episode of Doctor Who that will probably, when they get around to having titles for these sorts of things, be called The Saxons. One of the major story beats of the first episode is the Doctor working out the history of 1066 and what's going to happen, which, again, sets us up for a story we know - in which we find out the ways in which the Doctor was secretly responsible for some aspect of history.
Which is the key thing people overlook in this story. That it's not just that we don't expect to see another time traveller in 1066 AD. It's that we don't expect to have a plot involving history other than the Doctor either scrambling to get all of the TARDIS crew unkidnapped or the Doctor secretly being responsible for some major event in history. Most of what is clever about this story, then, is that Spooner plays cleverly with those expectations.
That said, I'm not sure he's quite as clever as the story's reputation would suggest. The first episode of this one is where most of the praise centers, largely for an admittedly brilliant sequence in which the Doctor is wandering around a monastery with sounds of chanting in the background. He turns a corner and finds a record player, which he lifts the arm of, revealing that the chants were just a record. In 1066. And yes, this is a fantastic sequence (as, actually, is the sequence immediately following, in which a trap door slams shut in front of the Doctor and the Monk emerges to give us our first proper insane villainous laugh of Doctor Who).
On the other hand, it might have been a bit more clever if, in the scene immediately before, Steven hadn't found a modern wristwatch and thus if the discovery of modern technology in 1066 was still as much a surprise as the discovery that the music was fake. Or if, a few minutes earlier, we hadn't heard the record skip. This sort of repeated use of the same revelation has been a problem before. The Mary Celeste sequence of The Chase is wrecked in part by the fact that the story spends a while panning around the empty ship before revealing that it's the Mary Celeste - a perfectly reasonable way to do the reveal - and then immediately jumps to the TARDIS in which Ian tells Barbara the exact same thing. Thus we get the "reveal" that it's the Mary Celeste twice. Which is, no matter how you cut it, one too many. Likewise, the first episode's cliffhanger would be far more shocking if the discovery of the record player were actually a complete surprise as opposed to one we've already seen, basically, twice before in the episode.
And so watching The Time Meddler clearly requires a healthy level of "yes, well, let's give them a break because no one had ever done it before." Which is a skill that, to some extent, the whole Hartnell era requires, but this story requires it more than others. And, I mean, it is fair. Much of what is obviously done wrong about The Time Meddler is only obvious because we've seen 46 years of Doctor Who in which the basic ideas of The Time Meddler were repeatedly dusted off and done better. The Time Meddler has to get some sort of a break for doing it first.
And if Spooner failed to quite realize that the cleverest idea he had in this script was the frisson between the historical and the science fiction, he did at least partially realize it. Notably, look at the use of comedy in it. Spooner's historicals have, as I said, been established as "the funny ones." (And keep in mind, we've only seen six historicals before this - two Spooner, two Lucarotti, a Coburn, and a Whitaker. That the codes of the genre are well-established enough that we can distinguish Spooner-style historicals from Lucarotti-style ones is an astonishing testament to how memorable and distinctive even the relatively rubbish ones are.) And this one is no exception. But the primary comedic figure is the villain - the Monk himself.
This, as much as the subversion of history and science fiction, is where the frisson really comes into this story. We've seen the comedic bumbling figure through history, and the pleasure of it has always been that the Doctor gets the joke when he doesn't. Consider, for instance, Nero in the Romans, where the whole joke is that the Doctor knows where the history is going and so can outwit the comedic fool. Here, the comedy risks outwitting the Doctor. And there's an odd terror to that - one that the story's legacy tends to miss.
Because the story's legacy, of course, is its third episode cliffhanger where Steven and Vicki enter the Monk's secret hideout and discover that it's a TARDIS. This is the story where the Doctor's people become evident and visible. Except, no, it's bloody well not. Other than a repeat appearance by the Monk later this season, the Time Lords, as they are not actually called yet, are still invisible until the end of the sixth season. And once the Time Lords proper appear, the Monk never does again. The Monk was, in other words, designed independently of the Time Lords, and the Time Lords were never designed to accommodate the Monk. To read the Monk, as fans tend to, as a sort of proto-Master is to spectacularly miss the point of this story. The Master comes from taking a Time Lord like the Doctor and making him into a villain. The Monk comes from taking a comedy historical villain from the Spooner tradition - a tradition that no longer even existed in 1971 - and making him like the Doctor.
In fact, one thing that's interesting about the Monk is how poorly he fits with later conceptions of Time Lords. The Doctor suggests, for instance, that the Monk is "about fifty years later," which jars with later concepts when the Time Lords are basically set so that they have a clear "present" at all times, and one that, curiously, seems to coincide with the present of Earth. (That latter fact is in play here - the Monk and the Doctor clearly consider 1965 to be the present. Construct your own fanwank theories about why there's a present day that applies to both Gallifrey and Earth. For my part, I vote for it being related to why the Time Lords and the Humans appear identical to an external observer. But more on this... oh, hm. How about around the UNIT era?)
Which is why the usual fan complaint that the story is dull whenever the Vikings are around misses the point. This may be the first pseudo-historical, but comparing it to something like The Time Warrior or The Unquiet Dead misses the point. This story is "The Meddling Monk Invades The Saxons," not "The Doctor versus the Monk."
Really, this is another example of narrative collapse. A more targeted one than The Chase, because for some reason The Daleks are the ones that really lend themselves to that style of plot, but a narrative collapse story all the same. The story hinges on the fact that a character like the Monk is aberrant to Doctor Who - he doesn't belong.
But crucially, he's not a villain. Honestly, if he were a villain, he'd probably fit better into the tradition that includes the Daleks, Yartek, Leader of the Alien Voord, Lobos, the Animus, etc. But no. What the Monk is is specifically an alternative sort of character to the Doctor. Where the Doctor delights in turning out to be the reason history happened, the Monk likes chaotically rewriting history. And, notably, he's put on the same level as the Doctor. We're told explicitly that Stonehenge only happened because of the Monk, for instance, providing the delightful possibility that our own human history is fundamentally wrong. You can, it seems, rewrite history.
So we are forced to choose between the chaotic, funny Monk's approach to creating our history or the Doctor's. And for the first time, we get something resembling a real challenge to the Doctor's role as anti-establishment figure. This is a theme we are going to see play out over the next few stories - a sense that there might be something darker to the youth rebellion that Season 2 spent so much time advocating for.
Even still, though, one gets the sense that the Doctor is a sort of rebel. The Doctor quickly identifies the Monk as a particular and known type of time traveller. The Monk, on the other hand, seems far more cautious about the Doctor, and not to know what to make of him. The Doctor is still, in other words, clearly a rebel. It's just much less clear, now, exactly what sort of rebel he is.
Which makes this story a nice endpoint of the arc that began with The Dalek Invasion of Earth. Having done its narrative collapse, the show is working towards a new status quo - one that is not entirely clear yet. But one that seems distinctly purposeful. In a fundamental sense, it is only because the Daleks made a concentrated effort to dismantle Doctor Who that it can be rebuilt in this strange new sense, where we can no longer expect with confidence that we know what kind of adventure we are having.
And so the second season of Doctor Who comes to a close, seeming to have, for the first time, told a real set of stories where the show knew what it was. The third season is coming, with, at least for its first half, an equally sure sense of what it is. But between now and then, there's something very big that is going to happen to Doctor Who. Something with as big an impact as anything we've seen before.
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Seeing_I 7 years, 11 months ago
Ah, but did the Monk know about the Pandorica? I can see him allowing the Silence (or whomever) to install it underneath, rubbing his hands in glee and muttering "Oh, this won't half annoy that nosy Doctor!"
As far as the Monk being "fifty years later," I just always took that to mean that the Monk was probably younger than the Doctor and fled the home planet 50 years after he did. They are still more-or-less contemporaries. Doesn't really conflict with the concept of "Gallifreyan Mean Time" that I can see. Though their both treating 1965 as "the present" is, indeed, quite odd. But who knows? Perhaps it IS?
Wm Keith 7 years, 9 months ago
Having watched "The Watcher" for the first time last night, I don't see it as having a "repeated use of the same revelation". Not in quite the same clunky way as "Flight through Eternity".
The cliffhanger isn't about discovering that there's another time traveller in 1066. Peter Butterworth has been prancing around the TARDIS and clearly knows what it is. From his actions, the wristwatch obviously belongs to him.
The cliffhanger is about making the viewer feel wise and then foolish, while the pattern of the episode is suspicion-revelation-confirmation.
1. The musical chant runs down. "That's surely a gramophone!" says the viewer.
2. Steven finds the wristwatch. "Are we in 1000 or 2000?"
3. The Doctor finds the gramophone. "I'm right, it was a gramophone."
- but then the real cliffhanger comes and both the viewer and the Doctor find that they've walked into a trap. They're not so smart as they thought.
neroden@gmail 5 years, 7 months ago
" This sort of repeated use of the same revelation has been a problem before."
Part of it is semiotic redundancy. In theater, and television prior to the age of recording, you *must* show each important plot point more than once, because people may have to get up to use the bathroom, etc. I don't complain about this when it's at reasonable levels, because sometimes *I* have to do the same thing.
In the age of "pause buttons" it seems less necessary, but it's important to understand the function of the redundancy. A plot point which is mentioned only once is bad writing in theater.


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Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 4:00pm
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State health officials are reminding parents that these diseases, both of which can be especially serious for infants and young children, are preventable through vaccination.
Measles can spread quickly, and because of global travel it can spread far according to Dan Hopfensperger, who directs the Wisconsin immunization program at the Department of Health Services.
"Vaccine-preventable diseases, especially measles, can be just a plane ride away, so we cannot let our guard down," said Hopfensperger.
In the two cases of measles reported this year, both were imported. Hopfensperger says a child traveling to the Philippines caught the disease, as did a young adult who traveled to California.
"We do regular alerts, said Hopfensperger. "When we have measles, mumps, or rubella in individuals, we put out information to providers that they should be on the lookout for symptoms of measles or of mumps. And if you see that in patients, it should raise your index of suspicion and test accordingly."
State health officials say 85 percent of kids are vaccinated against mumps, measles and rubella by age 2.
Coronavirus: Pandemic Causes Kids To Miss Vaccinations
Wisconsin Vaccine Panel: We Need Health Care Workers Immunized Against COVID-19
Will Wisconsin Kids Need An Eventual COVID-19 Vaccine To Go To School? History Has Some Answers.
WisContext: How COVID-19 Capped A 'Bizarre' Flu Season In Wisconsin
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The board of directors of Pure Multi-Family REIT LP (RUF-UN-X) says it has rejected an acquisition bid by Florida-based Electra America because it believes "the proposals do not fully value Pure Multi-Family's highly attractive portfolio" and other potential bidders might be willing to offer more money.
Pure Multi-Family's board issued a release Thursday night which outlines three reasons for rejecting the unsolicited, all-cash bid. It also explains why an original takeover offer in December was not disclosed to shareholders – a confidentiality demand by Electra America.
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The firm has been extremely active in mergers and acquisitions, having completed, among others, the acquisition of Apartment Trust of America, a U.S. apartment REIT, and the sale of approximately US$2 billion of apartment assets to Starwood Capital Group and Milestone Apartments Real Estate Investment Trust.
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Episode 38: Laurie Santos | The Science & Practice of Happiness | Click to Listen
After On Podcast #38: The Science & Practice of Happiness
Laurie Santos trained as an evolutionary psychologist at Harvard, and has been a Yale professor for sixteen years. Her early academic work was on animal cognition - with a focus on monkeys and dogs. But she's now also becoming a major force in positive psychology. This the science of something we're all interested in: happiness.
Laurie Santos
There's a crisis of misery brewing on American campuses, and beyond them as well. Laurie's frontline exposure to this –plus some really jarring statistical research she came across – propelled her to develop her course.
She launched it almost as an experiment. Then to her astonishment, it became the single most popular class in the university's 300-plus year history. Fully a quarter of the school took it.
The next thing she knew, she was on the Today show. The New Yorker, and the New York Times were writing about her class. The equivalents of the New York Times in many foreign countries were covering it. In short – she was clearly onto something big.
In honor of Laurie's animal-friendly work, my buddy Ashby the Dog finally agreed to come along as a co-host of sorts. This is Ashby in the midst of an intensive editing session with me, earlier this evening:
This is Ashby the Dog.
And this is Ashby ingeniously disguised as a cat (she does a bit of undercover work for the K9 unit of the NYPD. Shhhhh - it's a secret!)
It's a seeeee-cret!
Laurie and I start today's interview by discussing how the cognitive landscapes of monkeys and dogs differ from our own. The second and longer portion of the interview focuses on the fascinating, and vital science of happiness. This is something a crash version of Laurie's course, in that we review her key findings & lessons. We also explore many of the techniques that neuroscientists, neuro-psychologists and others have honed to increase happiness levels in those who practice them.
I should stress that none of this is hokey self-help gimmickry. It all stems from meticulous research that's been done at top universities throughout the world, and published in academic journals.
I'd like to dedicate this episode to the memory of my father, who passed away in the short span of time between the recording of this interview and it's publication. Rest in peace, Dad – we all miss you.
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Rob Reid November 14, 2018
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Ченцы — деревня в Ковровском районе Владимирской области России, входит в состав Клязьминского сельского поселения.

География
Деревня расположена в 2 км на юг от центра поселения села Клязьминский Городок и в 17 км на северо-восток от райцентра города Ковров.

История
В конце XIX — начале XX века деревня входила в состав Санниковской волости Ковровского уезда, с 1926 года — в составе Осиповской волости. В 1859 году в деревне числилось 21 дворов, в 1905 году — 7 дворов, в 1926 году — 22 дворов.

С 1929 года деревня входила в состав Клязьмо-Городецкого сельсовета Ковровского района, с 1940 года — в составе Клязьминского сельсовета, с 2005 года — в составе Клязьминского сельского поселения.

Население

Примечания

Ссылки

Населённые пункты Ковровского района

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I thought David brought home a lot of bananas this time. But last week I came home to find this.
Just under $8 for all these.
I let them sit for a few days because they weren't too overripe (and honestly, I didn't want to peel and chop them all). But last night I got to work and filled up 5 gallon size freezer bags of future ice cream. Took me over an hour but now we'll have plenty of ice cream in the future. In the meantime, I told David not to bring home any more bananas!
We got our Christmas tree up and decorated last week, and I had to bring some of the Christmas cheer into other rooms of the house.
If I can't see her, she can't see me!
This was the first tree we ever had as a married couple five Christmases ago. We lived in a small apartment in St. Louis and couldn't fit a big tree in our living room. I saw this little silver tree at Garden Ridge and had to have it. I love the retro feel!
Cleo (she's an Easter Egger) is looking much better than she did here. Her feathers are all back in and still growing and getting longer every day.
Jobin's (she's a Delaware) new feathers are still pretty short (you can see the tiny feathers on her wings). You can see the black part of her new tail feathers though!
Penguin (she's an Australorp) is pretty much in the same boat Jobin is in at the moment. Feathers back in, but some really short still. New feathers are unbelievably soft!
Tubs (she's a Speckled Sussex) is looking pretty good. Her tail feathers are still pretty short, though.
Buttercup (she's a Golden-Laced Wyandotte) is gorgeous! She may still have a little more feather growth, but she's in good shape.
Chickabod (she's a white leghorn) is looking good, too. So fluffy and white!
Our rooster, Cam, didn't molt this year since he was just born in April (chickens usually won't molt unless they are over 12-18 months old). But his wattles (those crazy red things hanging from his chin) are getting longer every day! Such a heart breaker!
Of course Duchess is getting a crazy thick winter coat as well.
Hard to believe less than five months ago this is what she looked like!
David will be home soon and no doubt starving, so I better get dinner started. Tonight we're having this soup with scallion pancakes. Yum!
Holy guacamole, that there's a lotta 'nannas! You're diligent. I love your tiny Xmas tree and the garland. And Fitze's face...and your comment about his face. This post gave me lots of smiles!


Nice cabin in great area close to downtown area of Big Bear City. Centrally located easy access on paved road. Two large bedrooms and two nice size bathrooms. Large living area and Dinning area with a good size kitchen. Two balconies, one is a big enough for entertaining and barbecue. Great view of surrounding area and close to lake.


Suitable for slow cooking, braising , casseroles, stewing and large roast and a perfect roasting dish in the oven. With almost straight sides, the frying surface is larger. Suits especially for Greek , Italian and Indian type of cooking. 7.0 liter capacity.


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The geometric pattern of the elegant Niccola couch pillows complements all style of interior décor. The comfy throw pillows are simplistically square for versatile accessorizing in any room. The modern decorative pillows feature a dramatic two-tone wraparound design for maximum visual impact. As casual décor pillows, you can pile them up on a sofa in the living room. The toss pillows also make fabulous decorative pillows for bed. Take your stylish bedding a step further by incorporating coordinating accent pillows, drapes and bedding from the Shop Decorator collection.


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Waking the Dead is the fourth studio album by The Clay People, released on May 27, 2007 by Overit Records.

Track listing

Personnel
Adapted from the Waking the Dead liner notes.

Clay People
 John Delehanty – vocals, guitar, synthesizer, production, engineering, recording, mixing (4-6, 8-10)
 Dan Dinsmore – drums, executive-producer
 Brian McGarvey – vocals, production
 Daniel Neet – lead vocals, synthesizer, production

Additional performers
 Eric Schwanke – bass guitar

Production and design
 Andrew Ehrlich – recording assistant, engineering
 Neil Kernon – mixing (1-3, 7, 11-15)
 Philip Montelone – cover art, design

Release history

References

External links
 Waking the Dead at Bandcamp
 Waking the Dead at Discogs (list of releases)

2007 albums
The Clay People albums


Gary the Goose is extremely accident prone and causes trouble for everyone who lives on the canal. He is befriended by a kind couple and when Charlotte discovers the cause of Gary's problem, she comes up with a very novel way to help him.
This is a short story for beginning readers, accompanied by beautiful watercolour illustrations by Heather Dickinson.


For us, as perhaps for you, Photo Corners is an escape from the headlines of the day. It's a place where beauty is celebrated and chased with wild abandon, where good humor reigns and a generous spirit infects everything we do.
Red, White & Blue. And the inevitable green. San Francisco, 2008. Fujifilm FinePix S100FS at f5, 1/350s and ISO 200.
But the pictures we take are of the world. The world that is source of all those headlines.
Admittedly, the world we cover here is smaller than the one the headlines of the day cover. But still, we're a member of the working press. Our perspective is that of you, our reader, not the the companies that would like you as a client.
But our world is big enough to celebrate the work of photojournalists and mourn their passing. They are part of that corps covering the larger world that keeps you free to know what's going on and protects you from the manipulators who would pervert your understanding.
There really is, after all, no escape from the headlines of the day.
Today's headlines will no doubt observe that we are busy celebrating the founding of the United States of America. History isn't as tidy as the story, with the vote for independence actually being passed by the Second Continental Congress on July 2 and the Declaration of Independence not finally signed by everyone until Aug. 2.
But the notion of a united nation doesn't reflect reality either. Not even in 1776.
The military struggle of 1775-1782 wasn't fought by an "American people" seeking to create a united, continent-spanning republic where all men were created equal and guaranteed freedom of speech, religion and the press. On the contrary, it was a profoundly conservative action fought by a loose military alliance of nations, each of which was most concerned with preserving or reasserting control of its respective culture, character and power structure. The rebellious nations certainly didn't want to be bonded together into a single republic.
That reality of a divided nation still describes the country today as various political factions seem to be speaking in tongues rather than English.
How can the richest nation on earth come within a handful of votes of depriving over 20 million of their neighbors something as basic as health care?
How can a man in the most powerful seat in that nation's government fritter away his time watching television broadcasts about himself and rebutting them in childish tweets while remaining detached from the debate about the pressing issues of the day and the legislation meant to address them?
How can the people who voted for that man be unconcerned that they were intentionally misled by a foreign and hostile government?
How can so many Americans be so poorly informed that they don't know who represents them in Congress or what position those representatives hold on issues as personal as their own health care and as important as the environment?
Those have become more unfathomable mysteries than answerable questions today. And their unfathomable depths make this Independence Day a very sad one.
We were perhaps, as Woodard suggests, always a nation of protest signs and bumper stickers. Congenitally unwilling to cooperate. Our interests not just diverse but contradictory.
But maybe it's time we take a cue from the press and, instead of blurting out bumper stickers at picnics and parties, start asking each other questions -- and listen for the answers.
We're going to try that today.
Then maybe the richest nation on earth can become a place where beauty is celebrated and chased with wild abandon, where good humor reigns and a generous spirit infects everything we do.


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Bracon rurrenus es una especie de insecto del género Bracon de la familia Braconidae del orden Hymenoptera.

Historia
Fue descrita científicamente por primera vez en el año 1984 por Papp.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

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Glad to meet you once again for a catch up on my crochet blog . I've been abusing the crocodile stitch quite a lot lately to make baby blankets , pillow cases , shawls , hats , scarves and mittens . Up until the moment my inner voice whispered to me that I should give the shell stitch a try because it might surprise me at how easy it is to crochet it . And so I did and let me tell you that it was quite fun to relearn it . So here are the written instructions for this lovely stitch . They will include a slight modification in the pattern in comparison to the instructions shown in the video tutorial posted on my old YouTube Channel that you can find here .
I did so because I still find quite difficult to crochet a foundation chain and work a stitch across the foundation chain . What I did here was to add an extra row of single crochet stitches at the beginning for a more solid foundation . Let's get started .
Usage : blankets , pillow cases , cardigans , sweaters , purses , etc.
Make a foundation chain from a multiple of 6 plus 2 extra chains to complete the pattern . Crochet an extra row of sc across the foundation chain to make it more solid and give your item a nicer look .
Row 1 : Work 1sc in the first sc ; * skip next 2sc ; work 5dc in the next sc ; skip next 2sc ; 1sc in the next sc * ; repeat from * to * across the row ; make sure that you end up the row with a sc in the last sc from previous row ; ch3 to turn ( counts as a dc here and throughout ) .
Row 2 : Work 2dc in the last sc from previous row ; * skip next 2dc ; 1sc in top of the third dc from the set of 5dc from previous row ; skip next 2dc ; 5dc in next sc * ; repeat from * to * across the row ; skip next 2dc ; 1sc in next dc ; skip next 2dc ; 3dc in last sc from previous row ; ch1 to turn .
Row 3 : Work 1sc in top of first dc from the set of 3dc from previous row ; * skip next 2dc ; 5dc in the next sc ; skip next 2dc ; 1sc in top of the third dc from the set of 5dc * ; repeat from * to * across the row ; make sure you end up the row with 1sc in top of beg ch3 on the side from previous row ; ch3 to turn .
That is about all with the crochet shell stitch . Don't forget to like and share this pattern if you found it helpful . Also , don't forget to share images of your work on the Facebook page that my sister , Ana Maria , and I manage . You can find it in the sidebar .
Happy shell-ing , everyone !!
In this post we will teach you how to crochet the Granny on the Straight stitch.
This stitch originates from the Traditional Granny Square. Unlike the traditional Granny square, the Granny on the Straight stitch is worked on the long or on the wide in straight rows (thus the name). It is one of the easiest and frequently used stitch. You can crochet a variety of projects with the Granny on the Straight, such as blankets, shawls, scarves, sweaters, blouses, handbags and much more. You just have to use your imagination.
– the shells are separated by a ch-1-space, which creates a space between the sets.
When learning a new stitch, always crochet small swatches before committing yourself to bigger projects.
Work a loose chain from multiples of 4. Then work a row of single crochet stitches.
Row 1: work 3ch (they count as a dc here and across the project); work 2dc in the same sc as the ch-3; * 1ch; skip next 3sc from previous row; 3dc in 4th sc from previous row*; repeat from * to *; finish the row: 1ch, skip next 3sc, 3dc in last sc from previous row; work 4ch to turn (this counts as 1dc + ch-1 here and across).
Note: If you decide not to work the row of single crochet stitches, the instructions are the same. You will work the shells in the chains on the foundation chain and not in the single crochet. Here it goes: work 3ch; 2dc in 4th ch from foundation ch; *1ch; skip next 3ch; work 3dc in 4th ch from foundation ch*; repeat from * to *; finish the row: 1ch, skip 3ch from foundation ch, 3dc in last ch from foundation ch; work 4ch to turn.
Row 2: skip 1st shell of 3dc; work 3dc in next ch-1-space; * 1ch; skip next set of 3dc; work 3dc in next ch-1-space from previous row*; repeat from * to *; finish the row: 1ch, 1dc in last ch-3 from previous row (this sp is the same as the ch-4-sp from the beginning of the row); work 3ch to turn.
Row 3: work 2dc in 1st ch-1-sp from previous row (these 2dc + ch-3 make a shell); *1ch; skip next set of 3dc; work 3dc in next ch-1-sp from previous row*; repeat fro * to *; finish the row: 1ch, 3dc in last ch-1-sp from previous row; work 4ch to turn.
Repeat rows 2 and 3 to complete the pattern.
If you worked a row of single crochet stitches at the beginning you need to finish the project with a row of single crochet stitches as well. So, work 1sc in each dc from previous row, including the ch-1-sps as well.
We hope that our instructions will help you learn the Granny on the Straight stitch.
We would be happy if you uploaded photos of your finished projects using this stitch on our Facebook page, which you can find in the right column.


98:03 ERROR CODE - Nozzels out in order Strange!
see attached photo. I canceled a print job and after that I am getting 98:03 error code. I checked the web server to see what printheads could be bad and I see all the nozzeles are out in order on all the print heads.
Print quality is still good.
#1 Can you tell us which printer are you using?
Independently of the printer the first step I would suggest you to do is a nozzle check test plot followed by a complete printhead cleaning cycle. If issue persists then re-insert the printheads and perform the nozzle check again, cleaning, printhead alignment.
I hope this information helps, but if you tell us the printer I would be able to give you a better feedback.
normally if error 98:03 show, if while print out the nozzle test and all nozzle is good. than that will be the drop detector problem, this can be solve clean or replace the DD.


Streusel is a sweet, multi-use topping in pastry. Typically made with just Flour, Butter and Sugar, it is not unlike a crumbled Shortbread Cookie. Streusel is quick and easy to make, and it can easily serve as a textural enhancement atop Breads, Pies and Cakes.
The basic recipe, though already extremely versatile, can be customized in myriad ways. This recipe is an adaptation based on a Polenta Streusel that we used on occasion at Osteria Morini, Corn Meal being a key ingredient to highlight that menu's Italian influences.
Corn Meal brings a unique crunch. And in this recipe, Oats and Lemon Zest add even more texture and flavor. But other common additions include minced Nuts, Extracts and various Spices. By keeping a few basic ratios in check, the possibilities are wide open.
A Streusel can be baked on top of a pastry (or hidden between layers of Batter). It can also be baked in advance and used as a finishing garnish on plated desserts.
There are no Eggs. There is no leavening. There is no complicated mixing technique. The ingredients are simply mixed together until they form a dry, crumbly Streusel Dough.
Spices, Zests and Extracts can be added according to taste without affecting the balance of the Dough.
If you want to add "Flour-like" ingredients such as Oats and minced Nuts, replace up to 50% of the Flour by weight (i.e. one part Flour). I do not recommend replacing more the 50% of the Flour - the resulting Streusel may be too crumbly. Some gluten-containing Flour helps hold the Streusel together.
Bake the Streusel in a thin layer on a parchment or silpat lined sheet tray at 300 degrees Fahrenheit (149 degrees Celsius). Bake the Streusel for up to one hour, checking it every 15 minutes and breaking up any large pieces with a spatula. The Streusel is done when it begins to lightly brown and becomes dry and crumbly.
Set the Streusel aside to cool. When the Streusel is fully cool, break up any remaining large pieces with your hands or briefly in a food processor.
Because of the extremely low moisture content, the Streusel has a long shelf life. The Streusel will keep well in an airtight container at room temperature for several weeks. The Streusel can also be frozen for several months.
1. Preheat the oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit (149 degrees Celsius).
2. Cream the Butter and Sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment until smooth. Scrape down the bowl. Add the Vanilla Extract and Lemon Zest and mix until well incorporated.
Chef's Note: It is not necessary to beat the Butter and Sugar until very light and airy in texture, as with many other recipes, as trapped air is not necessary to leaven the final product.
3. In a separate bowl, mix together the dry ingredients including the Flour, Corn Meal, Oats and Salt.
4. With the mixer on low speed, stir in the dry ingredients in thirds. Continue mixing until the Streusel Dough is just combined.
5. Using your hands, crumble the Streusel Dough in a thin layer onto a parchment or silpat lined sheet tray.
6. Bake the Streusel for up to one hour, checking it every 15 minutes and breaking up any large pieces with a spatula. The Streusel is done when it begins to lightly brown and becomes dry and crumbly.
7. Set the Streusel aside to cool. When it is fully cool, break up any remaining large pieces with your hands or in a food processor. Do not over-process the Streusel.
- The Streusel will keep well in an airtight container at room temperature for several weeks. The Streusel can also be frozen for several months.


The Mason Gross Extension Division will hold a winter/spring open house on Saturday, December 6, 2014, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Douglass Campus in New Brunswick.
This event is free and open to the public and will offer sample classes and lessons for the upcoming winter/spring semester. Drop by a class (please RSVP), attend a concert, enjoy visual arts projects for children and families, and learn about private lessons and group offerings. Members of the Extension Division faculty will be available to answer any questions.
For detailed schedule information, please click here. To reach the Mason Gross Extension Division, call 848-932-8618 or email extension@masongross.rutgers.edu.