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This series consists of talks in the area of Quantum Gravity.
Attempts to go beyond the framework of local quantum field theory include scenarios in which the action of external symmetries on the quantum fields Hilbert space is deformed. A common feature of these models is that the quantum group symmetry of their Hilbert spaces induces additional structure in the multiparticle states which in turns reflects a non-trivial momentum-dependent statistics.
Loop quantum gravity and spin foams are two closely related theories of quantum gravity. There is an expectation that the sum over histories or path integral formulation of LQG will take the form of a spin foam, although a rigorous connection between the two is available only in 2+1 gravity. Understanding the relation between them will resolve many open questions of both theories. We probe the connection through an exactly soluble model of loop quantum cosmology. Beginning from the canonical theory we construct a spin foam like expansion of LQC.
I will describe a very special (infinite-parameter) family of gravity theories that all describe, exactly like General Relativity, just two propagating degrees of freedom. The theories are obtained by generalizing Plebanski's self-dual (chiral) formulation of GR. I will argue that this class of gravity theories provides a potentially powerful new framework for testing the asymptotic safety conjecture in quantum gravity.
A quantum theory of gravity implies a quantum theory of geometries. To
this end we will introduce different phases spaces and choices for the
space of discretized geometries. These are derived through a canonical
analysis of simplicity constraints - which are central for spin foam
models - and gluing constraints. We will discuss implications for
spin foam models and map out how to obtain a path integral
quantization starting from a canonical quantization.
Diffeomorphism symmetry is the underlying symmetry of general
relativity and deeply intertwined with its dynamics. The notion of
diffeomorphism symmetry is however obscured in discrete gravity, which
underlies most of the current quantum gravity models. We will propose
a notion of diffeomorphism symmetry in discrete models and find that
such a symmetry is weakly broken in many models. This is connected to
the problem of finding a consistent canonical dynamics for discrete
gravity. Finally we will discuss methods to construct models with
We will give a short overview of non-perturbative quantum gravity
models and discuss some key common problems for these models. In
particular we will analyze what background independence requires from
a theory of quantum gravity.
In causal set quantum gravity, spacetime is assumed to have a fundamental atomicity or discreteness, and is replaced by a locally finite poset, the causal set. After giving a brief review of causal sets, I will discuss two distinct approaches to constructing a quantum dynamics for causal sets. In the first approach one borrows heavily from the continuum to construct a partition function for causal sets.
The concept of renormalization lies at the heart of fundamental physics. I introduce in this talk the Connes-Kreimer algebraic approach for expressing renormalizability in quantum field theories as well as the extension of these notions to the manifestly non-local framework of noncommutative quantum field theories. Finally, I will present an attempt to further generalize these concepts to quantum gravity models. based on: 0909.5631 [gr-qc], Class. Quant. Grav. (in press)
"Extended" topological field theory generalizes ordinary TQFT to include spacetimes with boundary. Starting from a gauge theory of flat G-connections, and its boundary restriction, I will describe a plan for constructing an extended topological field theory, for any compact Lie group G. This is based on work-in-progress with Jeffrey Morton.
It has recently uncovered that the intertwiner space for LQG carries a natural representation of the U(N) unitary group. I will describe this U(N) action in details and show how it can be used to compute the LQG black hole entropy, to define coherent intertwiner states and to reformulate the LQG dynamics in new terms.

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Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Roger D. Peng is a Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Co-Editor of the Simply Statistics blog. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a prominent researcher in the areas of air pollution and health risk assessment and statistical methods for environmental data. He is the recipient of the 2016 Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association, which honors a statistician who has made outstanding contributions to health statistics. He created the course Statistical Programming at Johns Hopkins as a way to introduce students to the computational tools for data analysis. Dr. Peng is also a national leader in the area of methods and standards for reproducible research and is the Reproducible Research editor for the journal Biostatistics. His research is highly interdisciplinary and his work has been published in major substantive and statistical journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Dr. Peng is the author of more than a dozen software packages implementing statistical methods for environmental studies, methods for reproducible research, and data distribution tools. He has also given workshops, tutorials, and short courses in statistical computing and data analysis.


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BLUFFTON, S.C. - A 19-year-old woman suspected of shoplifting from a Beaufort County outlet mall has died following a police chase.
Jasper County Coroner Martin Sauls III says the 19-year-old woman was found dead inside a car Thursday. Her name hasn't been released.
The woman was one of four people in a car fleeing Beaufort County deputies, according to reports. A clerk at one of the Tanger outlets was assaulted as he tried to keep four shoplifting suspects from leaving.
Deputies followed the car, which hit a pickup truck and crashed into a tree. Three people ran from the crash and were later arrested. The driver, Craig Scott, has been charged with reckless homicide. He and two passengers were also charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving death.


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Jury to Begin Deliberations in Drew Peterson Murder Trial
Peterson has denied that he killed his wife Kathleen Savio.
Sept. 4, 2012 -- The fate of former Illinois cop Drew Peterson will go to the jury in Joliet, Ill., Wednesday morning, after prosecutors and defense attorneys finished their closing arguments today. Peterson is accused of murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
Defense attorney Joe Lopez pleaded with the jury during his statement to remember that there is no physical evidence tying Peterson to the scene of his wife's death in 2004.
Savio's death was initially ruled an accident after she was found dead in her bathtub. After Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy, disappeared without a trace in 2007, however, police exhumed Savio's body and reexamined it as part of the Stacy Peterson investigation. They then changed the cause of death to homicide and charged Drew Peterson.
He has denied any involvement in Savio's death, and prosecutors admit there is no physical evidence connecting him to the scene of the crime. He has never been charged in connection with Stacy's disappearance.
"There [are] no witnesses or scientific evidence that place Drew at the house. .. They can't even prove that Ms. Savio was the victim of a homicide," Lopez said, according to ABC station WLS-TV. "They're trying to nail Jell-O to a tree -- it's an accident, it's an accident, pure and simple."
"The state has not proved this case beyond a reasonable doubt; this case is riddled with doubt like a piece of Swiss cheese," he said.
Lopez's statement to the jury followed prosecutors' closing statement, in which they asked the jury to use "common sense" when deciding if Peterson killed his wife. They cited hearsay statements by Savio to friends and relatives expressing fear that Peterson would hurt or kill her. They also pointed out that she had had a lock installed on her bedroom door.
Prosecutor Chris Koch told the jury, "When you walked into this courthouse, you did not leave your common sense at the front door. It is clear this man, Drew Peterson, murdered Kathleen Savio," according to WLS.
Prosecutors today reminded the jury that a witness called by the defense admitted that the chance of a healthy adult drowning in a bathtub was "one in a million."
"Drew Peterson had the motive and means to make his third wife, Kathleen Savio's bathtub drowning look like an accident," Koch said.
The prosecution addressed the jury one last time following the defense during its rebuttal period, in which prosecutor James Glasgow argued that the jury should consider their expert witnesses' opinions about Savio's death more seriously than the defense's expert witnesses. Forensic pathologists testified for both sides about Savio's injuries; experts for the prosecution said that her injuries pointed to homicide, while those for the defense said they indicated an accidental fall in the bathtub.
The jurors, who have arrived in court in matching outfits on many days of the trial, did not coordinate their clothing today.
Judge Edward Burmila recessed court today following closing arguments and said he planned to instruct and charge the jury beginning at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
Peterson's attorneys said before court this morning that Peterson is ready, whatever the jury may decide.
"He's a bit anxious but prepared emotionally for whatever happens," attorney Joel Brodsky said.
Drew Peterson, a former Bolingbrook, Ill., police sergeant, faces 60 years in prison if convicted.


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Missouri Names Top Lawyer as Interim Chancellor
COLUMBIA (AP) - The University of Missouri is again turning to its top lawyer as a temporary campus leader, this time as acting Columbia campus chancellor while the search for Brady Deaton's successor continues.
University System President Tim Wolfe on Monday named general counsel Steve Owens as interim chancellor of the flagship campus. Owens was previously the interim system president before Wolfe's hiring.
Deaton is stepping down on Nov. 15 after nine years as chancellor. He will remain in Columbia as executive director of a new international development research center bearing his name.
Wolfe also appointed Deputy Chancellor Mike Middleton as transition executive to help ease the next chancellor into the job. The president says that neither Owens nor Middleton is a candidate for the permanent position.


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Early Spring Training Thoughts Bouncing Through My Brain
Spring Training has sprung and with an array of early news beginning to trickle out of the camps, I had a lot of thoughts bouncing around in my brain, none of which was really a post in and of itself – much like a kid at the Lego store. Ooo, shiny! …Ooooo, shinier!! …Oooooooooo…you get the general idea. Instead of trying to force too much concentration to interfere with all of the excitement, here are some of the things that are pleasing, concerning, amusing, and annoying me right now:
- They're all there now, in Arizona – okay and in Florida too. Actual ballplayers running actual drills! Live baseball footage on MLBN, even if it's only batting practice, bullpen sessions and drills, makes me a very happy girl.
- Peter Bourjos says that the hip he was rehabbing over the winter feels 100%…but it's a bone bruise and he'll still most likely have surgery after the season is over. Ummm…so why didn't he take care of this this offseason? Apparently, he didn't get the MRI until around Thanksgiving so there wasn't enough time. Ummm…okay. I think. So those rumors that Bourjos is actually part golden retriever? Hip issues certainly aren't doing a lot to dispel them, kid. All joking aside, I am crossing my fingers that he stays as close to whatever approximates 100% for ballplayers throughout the season. I want Mike Trout to join Bourjos in the outfield ASAP, not come up to replace him during a DL stint.
- Live games start this Saturday and Angels individual game tickets go on sale this Saturday. That makes this Saturday kind of like Christmas…well…until Opening Day and then that's even more like Christmas…until a game comes along where I have particularly good seats and it's a particularly exciting game and then that's more like… Hey, they say we're supposed to keep the spirit of Christmas alive throughout the year, right? 😉
- Mark Trumbo took a line drive to the face – as you do when you're learning a new position – but doesn't want to have the doc take a look at his nose. My husband will laugh uproariously at me when he reads this, but you have doctors on staff for a reason, right? Your foot? Bourjos' hip? Go see the doc, you know, just in case. But way to really go for it at third! And way to be flexible and roll with the changes.
- C.J. Wilson is really growing on me. I think Terry Smith asked him the perfect questions this afternoon to draw out his love of baseball in addition to his love of his extra-curricular activities. I thoroughly appreciated what he had to say about baseball, about loving the challenge, living for the competition and his gratitude for his adult successes after a childhood of never being the big, highly athletic kid. Very cool stuff. Hearing that, I am reassured that he does have his mind on the game and am leaning back towards, he's so well rounded. Isn't that cool! And, hey, a writing major. I did not know that, but gotta love those crazy writing types…especially when they finish a season with more than 200 strikeouts.
- When did "effort" become a verb on MLBN, as in 'I efforted that,' 'we're in the process of efforting that'? I first noticed Greg Amsinger using it last week and now it seems to be a thing. Okay, the English language, cobbled together, mismatched, uneven, patchwork quilt of a thing that it is, lends itself well to a certain fluidity. And I love words. I love playing with them with even more – I know, you are all shocked! – and I frequently find myself applauding the creative prose of sports announcers. But, efforting? No please. Stop it right now.
- It's February 29th. Happy Birthday, Frederic! Still nose to the grindstone on that apprenticeship? 😉


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What's new in comic shops this week? Ed Brubaker wraps up his latest Incognito miniseries, Bill Willingham pulls the plug on Jack of Fables, and enough one-shot comics are out to wallpaper your bedroom.
First Issues
Eric Powell of The Goon relaunches Godzilla for IDW, Joe Casey kicks off his new "superexploitation" miniseries Butcher Baker The Righteous Maker, and Image's Undying Love is a crime tale with Chinese vampires (not sure if they're of the hopping variety or not). Elephantmen Man And Elephantman follows the further adventures of the hippo detective Hip Flask. Age of X: Universe elucidates what's going on with the rest of the Marvel Universe during Mike Carey's alternate reality X-miniseries.
As for one-shot titles, we have Dollhouse Epitaphs: One Shot which sets up the new Dollhouse comic series (read a preview here), Nick Spencer wraps up his story about Superman's pal in Jimmy Olsen: One-Shot, Kelly Sue Deconnick's Captain America And The Secret Avengers covers Steve Rogers' female espionage squad, and Dean Haspiel does the art on Cyclops: One Shot.
Other Releases
In Action Comics, it's Lex Luthor versus Braniac. Scott Snyder pens new arcs on American Vampire and Detective Comics, Amazing Spider-Man covers Johnny Storm's wake, and the second issue of Kick-Ass 2 hits stands. There also new issues of Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev's Scarlet and Terry Moore's Echoes.
Finale issues include the end of Ed Brubaker's Incognito: Bad Influences, Matt Fraction writes his final issue of Thor (before it's relaunched as Journey Into Mystery next month), and Bill Willingham finishes his run on Jack of Fables with issue #50.
Graphic Novels
The hardcover treatment of Marvel's Strange Tales 2 anthology is out, featuring contributions from (among many people) Harvey Pekar, Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, Jeff Lemire. Grant Morrison's Batman And Robin: Batman Reborn is out in trade paperback. Paul Cornell's Superman: The Black Ring sees Lex Luthor battle DC's worst scum. New volumes of Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic Four and Secret Warriors are out too.
As usual, here's the list of everything being released to comic stores tomorrow, and you can find your nearest comic retailer here. Happy reading, gang, and I'm outta here like Rob Granito.
Top image: Incognito: Bad Influences #5 by Sean Phillips.


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Getting Over That Dreaded Exercise Plateau
August 18, 2011 - Dalia Jakubauskas
Is this you? You've been exercising regularly for months and watching you diet with good results. You've lost some weight and need to shed just a few more pounds. But, all of a sudden, despite your best efforts and faithfully sticking to the same exercise and diet regimen, not a single extra ounce will come off. What gives? Well, you've just become stuck in a place that fitness professionals call "a plateau." This refers to a time period that can last weeks or even months in an exerciser's life when he or she is seemingly doing all the right things but is making no further progress. This typically happens because people continue to follow the same exact routine day after day and week after week. Their routines have become so regimented that their bodies have gotten used to the "same-old, same-old." With no new challenges to master, the body becomes complacent and settles into a plateau stage. Some studies indicated that the human body will fully adapt to a regular exercise routine in about 12 to 16 weeks. In order to keep things fresh and keep make progress, it's imperative that you throw something new into your routine every few months. Before throwing in the towel and trashing your treadmill, consider taking some simple steps to shake up your exercise routine.
• Increase the intensity of your workout. 1. During aerobic workouts: If you have been doing your cardio at the same pace and intensity week after week, try pumping it up by adding some more time to the session (a few minutes will often do). Or, throw in some speed work at selected intervals. Your heart rate should spike up during these so that you feel almost breathless. Sustain this for a couple of minutes at most, then return to your normal pace. 2. During resistance training: If you have been doing the same weight or repetitions for what feels like forever, shake things up by increasing the weight or repetitions. When lifting weights or doing light resistance training, the weight needs to be challenging enough so that your last few repetitions cause your muscles to burn and the weight becomes a struggle to lift. This is called "working to failure." You can also achieve this effect by increasing the number of repetitions. However, if you go beyond 20-25 repetitions, you'll also need to increase the weight. • Throw a new activity into your workout routine. 1. For your cardio workouts: Choose a different cardio activity that challenges you. If, for instance, you've been doing the same cardio machines in the gym for months on end, substitute a new one 2 days per week. Or, pick up a new outdoor activity like swimming, water aerobics, stand- up, paddle boarding, biking or jogging. You get the picture. 2. During resistance training: If you have been using the same weight training routine for too long, try and find a different way to work the same muscle groups. For instance, if you've been using nothing but machines during your weight training sessions, switch to dumbbells, resistance bands or body weight. Throw in things like freestanding squats and lunges, push-ups, pull-ups, crunches and shoulder exercises using resistance bands. Or, try a class like yoga or Pilates, which provides resistance training using just body weight. • Other simple solutions include: 1. Reorder your routine. Switch days that you do your cardio and weight training. Or, switch up the order of your exercises. For example, if you always start with shoulders, bicep and triceps on days that you concentrate on arms, try it the other way around. 2. Throw in a little cardio at the end of your resistance training sessions. Your metabolism gets revved up during weight training and you can keep the effect going by adding 15 -20 minutes of cardio at the end of your session. 3. Replicate an indoor, aerobic activity outdoors. For example, if you are used to running on a treadmill, running outdoors will challenge a whole other set of muscles that a machine does not. Hamstrings and glutes are engaged much more intensely running for real as opposed to running on a treadmill. Or, bike outdoors instead of using a stationary bike. It's much tougher to cheat on a real hill than one you can de-program on an indoor bike. 4. Rest! Sometimes taking you foot off the gas can be just as important as increasing the intensity of your workouts. If during all of your workouts you are pushing yourself to near exhaustion, you are not allowing you body to heal. It needs to heal in order to build endurance and lean muscle mass. Make sure to include lighter workouts into your schedule. Set aside a day or two where you do nothing or engage in active recovery. Things like, light walks or gentle stretching will suffice.
Getting over your exercise plateau and losing those stubborn, last few pounds may not be easy. But, shaking up your routine every few months using a little creative thinking should provide your body with the challenges it needs to reach your goals.
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Wantagh's Quinn excels at Nassau state qualifier
For two of the last three years, Wantagh's Brianna Quinn tried to make it to the state qualifier, only to be sidelined by injury. Almost appropriately, her return to the big meet Monday night was slightly painful.
"But,'' she said, "it was all worth it.''
Despite flying off the high bar and splitting the inside of her lip in a fall, Quinn was otherwise flawless, earning a meet-high 36.725 in the all-around at the Nassau gymnastics state qualifier at Hicksville High School.
With her score, Quinn will headline the Nassau contingent at the state meet March 2 at Smithtown East. It's the senior's second trip to the championship, and her first since she qualified as an all-around in eighth grade. Monday was her first appearance in a state qualifier in four years.
"It was nerve-wracking, but once I started practicing, I calmed down,'' Quinn said. "Then I just wanted to get it over with. Whatever happens, happens.''
Quinn earned a meet-high 9.50 on her vault, a Yurchenko, and was the only gymnast to break a 9 on beam, with a 9.225. She came in first on floor with a 9.20, and that bar routine wasn't so terribly ill-fated after all: she got an 8.80. Joining her on the all-around are Stephanie Jennings, the Sewanhaka District sophomore making her third straight appearance in the state meet, and Plainview seventh-grader Jessica Lopez.
"I knew it was going to be tough competition,'' said Jennings, who attends Elmont and finished with a 35.975, including a 9.05 on bars. "It feels great to get second because at first, when I saw everyone warming up, I didn't even think I'd make it to states because everyone was so good.''
Along with the top three all around, Nassau will be represented by the next three finishers in each event. The event specialists are Alyssa Firth (floor, beam and vault); Alexis Fraher (floor, bars); Jamie Kaletcher (beam) and Sarah Ciresi (bars, vault) of Bethpage; Plainview's Melissa Kropf (floor); Sewanhaka's Liz Giannatasio (beam); Hicksville's Lauren Cecco (bars), and Valley Stream's Jessica Betts (vault).
"This is very, very exciting,'' said Lopez, who earned a 35.575 in the all-around. "Being in seventh grade, this is my first time and I'm just really excited."
Lopez's show-stopping Yurchenko pike earned her a 9.425 on vault, while her floor exercise earned her a 9.10. Even her beam routine, in which she fell on her back handspring connection, couldn't get her down.
"I think after I fell, I tried to forget about it and keep going,'' Lopez said. "Keep going like nothing happened.''
Unintentionally echoing Quinn's words, she indicated the prize was worth the stumble. "This is just awesome.''


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Isn't the *something* considered as NULL ? And if so, how come I got through the isset() test ?
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"Haven't you ever wondered what it's like to be a blonde?"
|The Blonde Squad
|Season 3, Episode 13
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|June 30th, 2012
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The Blonde Squad is the 13th episode of Season 3 of Victorious and the 47th episode overall. It was originally scheduled to air on June 23rd, 2012, however it was pushed back to air on June 30th, 2012. This episode premiered to 3.8 million viewers, slightly higher than Tori Goes Platinum. Nickelodeon split this season in half, so this serves as the season finale.
Tori, Jade, and Cat decide to go to Nozu after a day of filming Beck's new movie called "The Blonde Squad" but don't take off their blonde wigs and their blue contacts because Tori wants to know what it's like to be blonde.
At Nozu, Cat meets a cute boy named Evan Smith on her way to the bathroom, and they sit down together and chat. The next day, Cat is happier than usual due to her date and gives out free hugs, explaining her day to Tori and Robbie. When Tori asks Cat how Evan reacted to discovering what Cat really looked like, Cat becomes confused and realizes that after talking to him for five hours, she forgets to tell him she is a red-headed, brown-eyed girl. Afterwards, Cat starts to freak out and cries, worrying about Evan's thoughts on her real self. Tori and Robbie constantly tell her that she is beautiful and she is overreacting, and when Cat talks to Robbie about Evan, Robbie gets jealous. During lunch, Jade checks Evan's SplashFace profile, and shows that all of his ex-girlfriends are blondes, he likes blonde girls, and dislikes people not being themselves, which only leads to Cat freaking out more.On the night of the premiere of Beck's movie, Jade and Tori expect Cat to be herself, however, Catwalks in to meet Evan wearing her blonde wig, which Robbie helped her with, and blue contacts. During the movie, André's grandmother's pet bird (see subplot) lands on Cat's wig and begins to pull her wig off. Beck pauses the movie, and Tori and Robbie chase Cat out.
After they get out, the bird flies off of Cat's wig, and Cat begs Robbie to fix her wig, but Tori tells him no and starts telling Cat that Evan will still like her for who she is. Cat finally gives in, and Robbie takes Cat into a room to take off her wig, and when Evan comes out, he tells Cat she is beautiful but that he is only into blondes and breaks up with her, revealing Cat's suspicions were right all along. This breaks Cat's heart, and she sits in the Black Box Theater and wishes to not be comforted by Tori and wants to be alone. However, Robbie walks in to cheer Cat up with a song he had been working on and performs his song "I Think You're Swell" to Cat. In the end, though, she only responds by saying that maybe she should dye her hair blonde, possibly still insecure about herself.
Subplot 1
Beck directs a movie called "The Blonde Squad", which stars three blonde girls. The play also stars André's grandmother's pet bird, Larry.
Subplot 2
When André lets Larry out for air, he flies out into the studio. André tries to catch him using "special" bird seeds, but it doesn't work and he catches Sinjin instead of the bird with the seeds, which leads to Sinjin's addiction to the bird seeds. In the end, André is seen trying to catch the bird. It is unknown if the bird is caught, though his TheSlap page indicates that Larry hasn't been caught yet.
- This episode was confirmed through an all day long Twitter session by DanWarp.
- It's probably noticed before this episode that Tori is a fan of Katy Perry and has a sticker of her in Tori's locker. You can also see that she (Tori) might be a fan of the song "I Kissed a Girl" sung by Katy Perry different because she has a sticker of the song and has different pictures of men around the sticker.
- Evan Smith is from the school Briarwood, which was also mentioned in the iCarly episode, iMight Switch Schools.
- It was rumored that Evan was played by Burkely Duffield. This was disproved through the first promo.
- It was confirmed by Victoria and Leon in a live Q&A session online that Robbie sings and plays the guitar in this episode. This is the 4th time he has played his guitar and sang on an episode and the 6th time altogether (including 2 times on TheSlap).
- This episode was filmed the week of February 13-17, 2012, along with the iCarly episode iApril Fools.
- According to a DanWarp video, Tori, Cat, and Jade had "banana guns" in this episode.[2]
- Ariana Grande said on Twitter that this episode is "really sweet".
- This is the second time Jade wears a blonde wig (the first time was in Tori & Jade's Play Date).
- This episode is a Charlie's Angels parody.
- There was a scene that Dan posted on YouTube where Tori says to Cat, "You're freaking over nothing!" but this was not shown in the actual episode.
- This is the third episode where Rex does not appear. The first two are How Trina Got In and Car, Rain & Fire.
- This episode marks the first, and the only, time a female's underwear is shown.
- The song when Spencer's assistant Marty quits in the iCarly episode iBalls plays when Tori, Jade, and Cat are in Nozu.
- Tori has a picture of a young Dan Schneider taped on her locker.
- In this episode, Robbie confesses his love for Cat through a song. Cat, however, doesn't get the message.
- André, Cat, Tori, and Jade all wear a blonde wig at some point in the episode.
- Ending Tagline: You're holding your banana backwards!
- This is the first time in an episode in which Cat's full name is spoken (by Robbie).
- This is the second time it is mentioned that Cat does not like playing pirates with Robbie (the first was in The Gorilla Club).
- This is the second time Cat is seen with Mr. Purple (her stuffed giraffe).
- This is the fourth time that Burf appears in an episode, but he only makes a cameo appearance in the beginning and has a picture in the episode gallery.
- In the scene where André and Beck are outside the stage door, there are movie posters on the wall (one reading "Antony and Cleopatra" and another reading "He Said, She Said").
- Jade makes a reference to Snow White, when she said to Tori, "Can you be the princess who gets poisoned?"
- This is the third time the movie Titanic is mentioned. (The first being on a photo gallery for Tori Gets Stuck on TheSlap and the second in The Worst Couple.)
- This is the fourth time Northridge girls appeared in the show (the first was in Freak the Freak Out, the second in The Worst Couple, and the third in Driving Tori Crazy).
- There is a running gag in the Nozu scene, in which Tori keeps going on about being blonde and Jade keeps getting bored and groans at every mention or says "Oh my God," in annoyance at every mention. For example, when:
- Tori thinks that their water is free because they're blondes.
- Cat gets a new boyfriend.
- Before his dad came over, Tori believed that Reese was just pretending to borrow their soy sauce instead of saying that he wanted to hang out.
- In iTunes, this episode is the start of the fourth season.
- This episode occurred 1 year before the Sam & Cat episode, #TheKillerTunaJump.
- In one scene, Robbie takes Cat to remove her blonde hair. However, later on, André is wearing the blonde wig, but Robbie took it off Cat in a room on the opposite side of the hall.
- When Cat doesn't have the wig on, her hair is normal length and colour. In the last episode, her head was completely shaved. It couldn't have grown back that fast, and extensions couldn't make it look exactly the same. However, this show isn't known for following a specific continuity.
- Larry's claws that landed on Cat could have dug deep and hurt Cat. However, birds are scared of humans, so this is very unusual.
- Tori's first status update on TheSlap.com during the episode said that she was excited about being blonde. Her mood is "light-haired." On the actual website of TheSlap.com, her mood is 'blonde'.
- The cap to Tori's water bottle keeps moving (on, off, disappeared, etc.).
- Robbie mentions Star Wars during his song, but they already exist a parody named Galaxy Wars mentioned in Drake and Josh, Zoey 101, and iCarly. (This is because the actor who portrays Robbie, Matt Bennett, wrote the song himself.)
- Beck couldn't have been able to finish the movie since the bird flew away while they were filming it unless the bird was only in that one scene)
- After Robbie throws the water bottle, Jade raises her head to look at him. In the next shot, her head is down and she raises it a second time.
- During the Nozu scene, the girls don't have blue eyes.
- When the bird sat on Cat's hair, the movie had a slight pause. Then just before André paused, Cat's role was supposed to say 'I told the chief they shouldn't put idiots on the blonde squad'. But in the next scene when André was pausing, Tori's role says 'Look! There's McCluskey's bird', which is the 2nd next line.
Running Gags
- Someone blowing their nose in Tori's underwear.
- People saying Tori's underwear is "big".
- André chasing after Larry.
- Someone telling Tori not to touch something.
- Sinjin eating bird food.
- Robbie mentioning that he is a "wig master".
- Cat being scared, resulting in crying.
- Robbie saying "lucky as cheese".
- Tori mentioning how cool it is to be blonde and Jade groaning.
The episode was viewed by 3.84 million viewers on its premiere night. It was the most-watched show on Nick for the week. It is also the third most-watch episode of the season, slightly ahead of Tori Goes Platinum, and behind The Breakfast Bunch and Tori and Jade's Play Date. This episode received over a million more viewers than the last episode, Crazy Ponnie. It also placed #21 on the cable top 25 lists for the week.
Tori: There has been a burglary!
Jade: They could still be here!
Cat: Bananas! (Tori, Jade, and Cat get into fighting poses)
Tori: Under desk, clear...
Cat: Closet, clear...
Jade: Middle of the room, this area from here to like, right around here, this whole section I'm indicating with my hand gestures, clear!!!
Tori: Tawni, you're holding your banana backwards!
Jade: Are you sure? 'Cause it's my understanding that the banana- (knocks herself out)
Cat: I told the chief they shouldn't let idiots on The Blonde Squad.
Tori: You see what blonde girls get? Free stuff!
Jade: It's a magical night.
Beck: Cat! You have the next line!
Cat: No, the bird does.
Beck: We put his line later on.
Cat: Ok, I'll just wait!
Tori: Ahh!!!! See what blonde hair does for a girl?
Jade: Ughhhhrrrr.
Cat: (as Larry lands on her head) I gotta go freshen up!
Evan: Wait, don't you want to hit the bathroom first?
Cat: No, you seem way more fun than a bathroom!
Reese: Excuse me, hi.
Tori: Well, hi there.
Tori: Ohhh. (looks at Jade) He wants to borrow our soy sauce.
Jade: Wow?
Tori: What's your name cute thing?
Reese: Reese.
Tori: Well Reese, if you want to hang with us blondes-
Jade: My god...
Tori: Oh look, it's low sodium.
Reese's Dad: What are you, a doctor?
Robbie: (singing) And later if you're hungry I'll make you some spaghetti.
Cat: Would there be meatballs?
Robbie: (nodding) There would.
Beck: So you and the bird are cousins?
Tori: This is so cool! We're blondes! Woah! We're like princesses!
Jade: Can you be the princess who gets poisoned? (Smiles)
Robbie: Well, if it isn't the Vega girls!
Trina: Gross.
Tori: You're in a good mood.
Robbie: Yup. Cause I've finished the song I've been writing.
Tori: Oh, is it another song about worms?
Robbie: Not this time!
Trina: I hate this guy.
Robbie: This song's about a girl.
Trina: Look, Robbie, I already told you I'm not interested in you.
Robbie: I didn't mean you. I-
Trina: Okay, you know how some girls say "I only like you as a friend"?
Robbie: Yeah.
Trina: I don't even like you that way.
Cat: (While crying) What is this?
Tori: Underwear.
Cat: They're so big!
Cat: (Referring to Evan) If he sees what I really look like he's gonna be disappointed and-
Robbie: (Throws the bottle of water) That does it! Caterina Valentine, I will not sit here anymore and listen to you talk bad about yourself! You're adorable. Any guy would be lucky as cheese to go out with you.
Cat: Thanks, Robbie, that's really sweet, but you don't know how guys think.
Robbie: What? Hah- how could- Good day! (Walks away angrily)
Tori: Cheese is lucky?
Robbie: (Yells from off-screen) YES!!!
Beck: Thank you for coming to my semester project, a funny short film called The Blonde Squad.
Northridge Girls: (While clapping) Yay! Alright, Beck! We love you Beck!
Beck: Northridge right?
Northridge Girls: Uh-huh.
Beck: Yeah...
Cat: Hi.
Evan: Cat?
Cat: I guess.
Evan: Is that you?
Cat: (Nods)
Evan: But-
Cat: It was a blonde wig. And the blue eyes were fake. It was for Beck's movie. This is me.
Evan: Well, you're beautiful.
Cat: I am?
Evan: Totally. But I'm really into blondes. Later. (Walks away)
Robbie: Come with me. (Takes Cat's hand and starts walking)
Cat: I don't know about this...
Robbie: It's okay.
Cat: But I don't like controversy.
Robbie: I know, I got you.
Tori: Oh hey! You guys wanna grab sushi at Nozu?
Cat: Yay!
Jade: I don't want to but I will.
Cat: Oh, remember we have to let Robbie take our wigs off.
Tori: Or we could go to Nozu in our wigs.
Jade: Why?
Tori: Cause, haven't you ever wondered what it's like to be a blonde?
Jade: No.
Cat: I've wondered that. I've also wondered why lemonade is a drink and first aid is for the injured. Like, what if a thirsty person gets injured? Do you give him first aid first and then lemonade? Or lemonade first and then second aid?
(Tori stares at her)
Cat: Lemonade. (Laughs)
Tori: So sushi?
Jade: Let's go!
Robbie: Hey.
Cat: (upset) Hi.
Robbie: I think that Evan guy is really dumb for not seeing how great you are.
Robbie: You want to hear the new song I've been working on?
Cat: I don't know if I'm in the mood to listen--
Robbie: Please.
Cat: 'Kay.
(Robbie sings 'I Think You're Swell').
Jade: Blonde, Blonde, Blonde, WHOA UGLY BLONDE!!!!!!!!
Beck: (To Sinjin) Sinjin! Stop eating the birdseed!
Sinjin: Don't you think I would if I could!
Andre: Larry, I got the wig on and it's full of birdseed! Come eat from my wig!
Cat: I'm so upset!
Jade: (To Robbie) Did you try to play pirates with her?!
Robbie: No!
Tori: Cat's Buggin cause her and that guy Evan hit it off but he thinks that she has blond hair and blue eyes.
Jade: You never told him you were wearing a wig?
Cat: I forgot! What if he hates redheaded girls!
Tori: He won't!
Robbie: You're being silly.
Jade: What's this boy's name?
Cat: Evan. I forgot what his last name is it rhymes with a sniff.
Tori: Uhhh could it be Smith?
Cat: That's it! God, it's been killing me!
[Talking about Evan's Splashface page]
Tori: What are his likes and dislikes?
Jade: Uh... sushi, video games...girls with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Tori: Dislikes?
Jade: People who pretend to be something they're not.
Cat: Oh no, can I have your underwear again?!
Click here to see the photo gallery for The Blonde Squad.


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NEW DELHI — Four top Indian filmmakers have come together to make "Bombay Talkies," a short-film collection that hits theaters Friday to celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema.
India's first full-length feature film "Raja Harishchandra," or "King Harishchandra," was released in 1913. Its producer and director Dhundiraj Govind Phalke is described as the "father of Indian cinema."
The four popular and contemporary filmmakers behind "Bombay Talkies" are Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar and Dibakar Banerjee. While Johar is known for his larger-than-life, song-and-dance love stories, the other three known for more realistic work.
Friday's release is a collection of four short films that has some of Indian cinema's biggest names making appearances. The stars include Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan and other actors including Aamir Khan, Rani Mukherji and Katrina Kaif.
The films deal with subjects as varied the dilemmas faced by a married couple, a failed actor's struggle to make a living and a young boy's dreams about a movie star.
"Raja Harishchandra" was a silent film. The first Indian "talkie" or film with sound was "Alam Ara" in 1931.
Since then Indian cinema has become the largest producer of films in the world. India produced nearly 1,500 films last year, according to accounting firm KPMG.
Indian films have also won audiences across the world, especially among the South Asian diaspora. It's not uncommon now for an Indian blockbuster film to be released in theaters in India and across the world on the same day.


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Farrah Fawcett's last living trust reportedly left out longtime love Ryan O'Neal – along with friends Alana Stewart and Craig Nevius.
According to Radar Online, who obtained a copy of Farrah's living trust (last updated on August 9, 2007), the actress left $4.5 million to son Redmond O'Neal. Additionally, she left $500,000 to nephew Greg Walls, $500,000 to father James Fawcett and $100,000 to ex-boyfriend Greg Lott.
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Ryan, who dated Farrah on and off for many years, and Alana and Craig, who documented the actress' cancer battle in the documentary "Farrah's Story," were not named in the trust.
The trust, which appears to be signed by the late actress, also stated that Farrah wanted to spend her last days at home.
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"Settlor (Farrah) declares that she wishes to remain at home for as long as possible during any period of illness or incapacity and to die at home," the trust states.
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MANILA, Philippines -- An inaccurate map that mislocated a marine sanctuary may have caused a U.S. Navy minesweeper to run aground on a coral reef in the Philippines this week, the Navy said. Salvage operations continued Monday as parts of the ship were reported to be flooded.
All 79 officers and crew of the USS Guardian were taken off the ship for safety reasons after it struck the reef with its bow at 2 a.m. Thursday. The Navy's Pacific Fleet, based in Hawaii, said Saturday that its ships along with several support vessels continued to conduct salvage operations that minimize environmental effects to the reef.
The Navy said in a statement that a review of Digital Nautical Charts, which are used for safe navigation by all U.S. Navy ships, found they contained inaccurate data and may have been a factor in the Guardian's grounding. As a result, Navigator of the Navy Rear Adm. Jonathan White released precautionary guidance to all Pacific Fleet ships, saying that "initial review of navigation data indicates an error in the location of Tubbataha Reef" in the Philippines.
"While the erroneous navigation chart data is important information, no one should jump to conclusions," said Pacific Fleet spokesman Capt. Darryn James. "It is critical that the U.S. Navy conduct a comprehensive investigation that assesses all the facts surrounding the Guardian grounding."
The Avenger-class ship had just completed a port call in Subic Bay, a former American naval base west of the capital, Manila, and was en route to Indonesia and then on to East Timor to participate in a training exercise when it hit the reef, about 128 kilometers (80 miles) southeast of Palawan Island.
The World Wide Fund for Nature Philippines said that according to an initial visual inspection, the 68-meter- (74-yard-) long, 1,300-ton Guardian damaged at least 10 meters (yards) of the reef, which UNESCO designated as a World Heritage Site. It is part of Southeast Asia's Coral Triangle, a huge stretch of ocean that contains most of the world's coral species, reefs, and more than 3,000 species of fish.
Angelique Songco, head of the government's Protected Area Management Board, said the government imposes a fine of about $300 per square meter (yard) of damaged coral, plus other fees.
In 2005, the environmental group Greenpeace was fined almost $7,000 after its flagship struck a reef in the same area.
Songco blamed the Guardian for turning away park rangers who wanted to board the minesweeper, but the Navy said it was cooperating with the Philippine government, a key U.S. defense ally.
Presidential spokeswoman Abigail Valte said the government will observe the law governing the Tubbataha Reef, but right now "the primary concern is extricating the ship out of the reef with minimal damage."
-- Associated Press writer Audrey McAvoy in Honolulu, Hawaii, contributed to this report.


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http://www.greencarcongress.com/2017/10 ... ardec.htmlDOE and Army TARDEC partner to advance hydrogen and fuel cell technologies
The US Department of Energy's (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) and the US Army's Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) will collaborate on jointly funded projects to advance progress in hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.
This announcement follows a workshop held by DOE in January that led to successful outcomes identifying critical needs for tactical hydrogen infrastructure in remote areas. The workshop was immediately followed by an evaluation of a military fuel cell-powered vehicle (Chevrolet Colorado ZH2) developed by General Motors and sponsored by Army TARDEC. (Earlier post.)
This vehicle's concept marries fuel cell technology and its advantages of on-board water production, exportable electric power, and near silent operation with extreme off-road capability.
TARDEC and General Motors tested the Chevrolet Colorado ZH2 at Fort Carson, Colorado, 27-30 June 2017. Soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division and 10th Special Forces Group exercised the limits of the demonstrator to evaluate the ZH2's off-road capabilities, power (torque) responsiveness, silent mobility, high exportable power, and fuel cell technology. . . .


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ATTN: Dinosaur Jr. Fans, Malkmus, Anybody that loves great dirty delicious guitar tones, solos and flourishes.
I pretty much headbanged, danced, and/or swayed through this whole album. I plan on blasting this in my car with the windows down this summer. Guitar driven album, riffage galore, love all the note bends!!!
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Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin – Reverse Shark Attack
And HE'S BACK!!! Ty Segall is churning out albums like crazy the past few years. This album is a collaboration with Mikal Cronin, who is in his current band. THIS IS DIRTY GARAGE ROCK, high throttle, blow your speakers out loud. They literally sound like they recorded this in their garage surrounded by Jay Reatard posters. I like how it sometimes sounds like they are running their instruments through a chainsaw. Tracks 1-6 are fun, loud, and 2 minutes or less while the last track is a 10 minute soundscape and definitely my favorite song on the album. If you like Ty Segall's music, you will like this. Reverb, distortion, vibrations, underwater kingdom, wild!!
Song Picks: "Reverse Shark Attack", "Ramona", "High School", "Drop Dead Baby"
Chelsea Light Moving – s/t 4/2013
If you are a Sonic Youth fan, don't worry, you can feel Thurston Moore's influence on these songs. Sometimes the guitars are creepy sounding, vocals are awkward like they should be from Moore, and these songs are sometimes darker/heavier than Sonic Youth. If you don't know Sonic Youth, it sounds like weird rock: guitars tuned strange, rambling songs, being on a strange journey that you're not sure if you should be on. I say that with love!
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Two sisters bringing you a concoction of reverb guitars and vocals, California, simple and straightforward song structure, titles and lyrical content, catchy and feeling good. I bet they are fun live. It sounds like they had a good time making this album. NO STRESS HERE, they take it easy.
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Green Plum Cooking School – Saturday, February 5th
To say that I'm still processing the movie "Black Swan" is an understatement. My friends' and followers' reactions to my tweeting about it forced me to do even more processing. I think some people thought I didn't get the movie. Au contraire. I have been screening my own personal "Black Swan" movie in my head all year; only, instead of Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman filling the light and dark roles, in my "movie mind" I've got Rosie O'Donnell and Ellen DeGeneres cat fighting — or at least that is the image I get in the middle of the night, between 3:00 am and 6:00 am, when I seem to do most of my processing.
I didn't understand why people called "Black Swan" a horror flick until I saw it. One woman was stuck on the question of "Did she really slam her mother's hand in the door that hard?" Well, she did have it wrapped in a bandage later. In the end, it's a psychological thriller. I tried to give a sanitized synopsis of the movie to my 8-year-old daughter and now she has her own obsession with the film: she wants to somehow become 13 to be able to see the movie and then go back to being 8 again afterwards. Ah, if only we all could stay kids somehow, especially the girls.
And yes, since I most often wake up in the middle of the night to process everything, I am now worried about the new study that correlates heart disease with getting less than six hours (or more than nine) of sleep a night. My heart does hurt. I do want to feel like the Natalie Portman character, though. I love it when her director says, "I'm not worried about you playing the white swan, you've got the technique down, but to play the black swan you have to let go, you have to feel and make me feel"….isn't that the trick? Last year in particular, I was in a battle with myself, with my inner white and black swans. You may have noticed that I stopped blogging for a while because I just couldn't put myself out there anymore. I have loved doing the free cooking classes on Saturday mornings, they have been a kind of therapy for me. As one regular class member said, "You've found your pulpit." Well, I did sort of find my pulpit, my stage, my voice so to speak, even if no one was listening but me (and occasionally my daughter). But I stopped writing the blogs because I felt a diatribe coming on, a tirade, a Tyra-Banks-cell-phone-moment, a railing against the world or Bravo or male chefs or all food critics or just everyday people but, ultimately, I realized it was just me against myself. It's been complicated.
My food journey started because I wanted to find out who I was, who my family was, where we came from, how we cooked. Really, I wanted to hear stories. Food is the language of family and stories are the salt. And you have to have salt—it's the ingredient that makes food taste like what it is supposed to taste like, salt brings food alive. There is nothing worse than eating something that you can almost taste. I just believe in good food too much. I love this quote from Wallace Stevens: "People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it." I feel this way about good food and the chefs who should be cooking it.
I told somebody recently that I wasn't interested in the ordinary economy, I'm only interested in the transformation economy. And that is what this year is about for me. So, I am back, people! I am cooking and blogging and preserving myself, my family and my local food.
So to start the year off right, I decided to make a Black Swan Winter salad for my first class this year. From the market vendors, I got red carrots, Napa cabbage, Red Russian kale, watermelon radishes, radicchio, beets, grapefruits, oranges and Hans' sunflower and buckwheat sprouts (these are so nutritionally dense that a ballerina could survive on eating them alone).
In class, I broke down all the greens, rinsed them, and fanned them on a towel to dry. I half-boiled a beet — halfway through the cooking process, I realized that the beet would be great raw in the salad, so I pulled it out of the boiling water, scraped the skin off with my fingernail and cut it into wedges. Even though it was accidental, the beet had the best of both worlds: it was still a little crunchy but a little sweeter and more "beety" than it would have been raw.
I peeled the radish because the skin looked a little tired from bumping around in the farmer's igloo. I don't know what got into me but I threw the peel at the audience for them to taste it. Everyone seemed a little shocked but we moved on quickly. I sliced the radish thinly on the mandolin; it was a watermelon radish and, yes, it looks just like a watermelon on the inside. Someone in the audience actually asked me where I got the radish. Hum…is this thing on? Is anybody out there listening? I got it at our local farmers market, where do you think! Since it's a new me in a new year, I didn't get depressed that no one is listening to me or gets what I'm doing, I instead called this lady out and went Black Swan on her!
I sliced imperfect rounds and also shavings of the raw carrot. I didn't peel it because most of the nutrition is in the skin. Don't get me started again on carrot nubs, people! Even my daughter, Lili, knows how I feel about the little carrot bullets in the cellophane package at the grocery store; she warmed my heart when she noticed the little Thumbelina carrots at the Tuesday market and told me she was going to name these carrots "the real natural good local carrot nubs." She looked at me a little askance when she said the word "nub," but I let it slide. This from a kid who two years ago didn't believe that purple carrots were real carrots. Although she still won't eat a carrot, transformation is happening all the time.
I told the class the story about Dan Barber from Blue Hill at Stone Barns (in upstate New York) who tested the Brix (or sugar content) levels of the carrots he grew in his own garden, which registered around 12, compared to the grocery store carrots, which registered a big, fat ZERO. Small growers are using technology to test the sugar content of their crops so they know the best time to harvest. This means your food will taste better when picked at the height of ripeness and readiness, more like what it's supposed to taste like. The whole relationship of land stewardship, flavor, nutrition and just knowing the family and the stories behind what we eat is priceless. No, this is no ordinary economy.
Next, I made a sweet seed dressing that supposedly originated from Kentucky. I actually had local sesame seeds from David Cater (Utility Research Garden). My Czech swan can't help throwing in poppy seeds and some black sesame seeds just to be equal opportunity about it. I also found basil seeds as well as Chia seeds at Phoenicia so I threw those in for good measure. Speaking of measuring, I actually measured my ingredients with a measuring cup this time. For some reason, the audience was shocked and awed more by that than the real food we were preparing. This dressing is made with grape seed oil, minced shallot, apple cider vinegar (or champagne vinegar), sugar, salt and pepper and is very sexy in the bowl. Toss the salad ingredients with the dressing, plate it up, top with the sprouts and some savory granola and you've got a transformational eating experience.
And that's how this Black Swan cooks.


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A small update -- as of most recent commits, CEGUI v0-8 is now much much easier to use in emscripten. I recently succeeded in creating a port of lib epoxy to emscripten, which I call empoxy -- this means that you can configure cegui to use epoxy and build for emscripten without changing the opengl calls or headers.
The only thing that is needed is some fixups to support static linking the whole cegui library together (emscripten doesn't really support dladdr and all the fancy dynamic linking that cegui v0-8 does), and it mostly compiles right out of the box now.
I would like either to update the "cegui-emscripten" repository, or eventually make a patch to the cegui build system so that it can directly support emscripten without modification.
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For those fans who can never quite get enough of Justin Bieber, there's good news on the horizon.
Never Say Never, the 3-D documentary about the Canadian pop star, is being re-released with 40 additional minutes of footage, reports the New York Daily News.
The new edit, dubbed a "Director's Fan Cut," will hit theaters on February 25 and run for one week.
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"I realized I had an embarrassment of riches when I was I in the cutting room," director Jon M. Chu said in a statement. "This cut allows me to retain some of the best scenes from the original movie, while incorporating previously unseen footage and new material I shot during our extensive promotional tour on behalf of the movie."
22 minutes of the original film have been cut with the addition of the new material, leaving the running time at 115 minutes.
According to Chu, more footage of Bieber's friends and hometown, along with unseen performances and video taken from fans at the film's premiere, will be in the new version.
Never Say Never captured the box office title over Valentine's Day weekend - its first in theaters - with a $12.35 million haul and has collected over $50 million since its release.
Selected Reading: New York Daily News, Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly


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BERWICK, Maine — A Roast Beef Supper will be held at the Berwick United Methodist Church, 37 School Street in Berwick on Saturday, Nov. 10, from 4:30-6 p.m. Featuring Roast Beef, real mashed potatoes, gravy, carrots, green beans, pickled beets, home made bread, strawberry Shortcake, coffee, tea, juice or milk. Cost: $9.00.
DOVER — The Parish of the Assumption will host a homemade turkey dinner at St. Charles Church Hall, 577 Central Ave., on Saturday, Nov. 10, from 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. The menu includes roast turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, squash, corn, peas, onions, gravy, rolls, cranberry sauce, beverage and dessert. Adults, $9; seniors, $8; children 5 to 12, $5; children under 5, free. Take-out meals are available for $9, and the Church Hall is handicapped accessible. This dinner is open to the public.
DOVER — The Annual Harvest Supper will be held at the Strafford Masonic Lodge on Saturday, November 10th, 2012, from 4 p.m. -6:30 p.m.
Menu consist of a Full turkey dinner with all the trimmings. Adults: $8; Seniors and under 12: $7.
This year we are very proud to announce that proceeds are going to End 68 Hours of Hunger. The Grange Hall, is at the corner of 6th Street and County Farm Cross Road, Dover.
SOMERSWORTH — The public is invited to a breakfast buffet on Sunday, November 11th from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. at St Martin's Church Hall on the corner of West High and Maple Streets in Somersworth. The menu consists of scrambled and fried eggs, plain and blueberry pancakes, French toast, sausage, ham, bacon, home fries, toast, beans, juice and hot beverage. You can't beat the price at only $6.00; for children aged 7-15 is $2.50 and for children under 7, is free. These breakfasts will be held monthly on the second Sunday thru April 2013. The Parish Hall is a handicapped accessible facility via the elevator located in the vestibule.
KITTERY POINT, Maine — The Amicus Club of First Christian Church in Kittery Point, Maine, is sponsoring a public bean supper on Saturday, November 10,from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Church on the corner of Haley and Crockett Neck Roads in Kittery Point. The menu includes a variety of home-made baked beans, hot dogs, mac and cheese, salads, and desserts.
The supper is free. Free-will donations will be gratefully received and will be used in the benevolent work of the Club.The Amicus Club is comprised of Church women who meet for Christian fellowship as they also contribute their time, energy and treasure to such projects as: The Kittery Holiday Basket Program, the Samaritan's Purse Christmas Child Shoe Box program, and other charitable works for the Church and the community.
KENSINGTON — The Kensington Congregational Church cordially invites the public to enjoy a traditional New England Ham and Bean Supper on Saturday, November 17 from 5 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. at 108 Amesbury Road on Route 150 in the center of Kensington.
The menu consists of two kinds of home cooked beans, best quality ham, old fashioned brown bread, rolls, potato salad, coleslaw, home cooked desserts and coffee or milk. The church's Ham and Bean Suppers have become well known in the Seacoast for the quality of food, as well as, for the charm of their rural New Hampshire atmosphere. The cost of the supper is $7.00 for adults and $2.50 for children and includes all you can eat. The church is only four miles south of the bandstand in Exeter, and can be reached from there by following Route 108 South and then Route 150 South. For more information, call the church office at 603-772-5821.
MADBURY — The Union Congregational Church of Madbury will sponsor a Ham and Bean Supper on Saturday, Nov. 17, at the Madbury Town Hall, located at 20 Town Hall Road in Madbury. The supper will be held from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and the menu will feature ham, baked beans, cole slaw, potato salad, hot dogs, rolls, brown bread, corn bread, our famous salad bar, homemade pies, and beverages. The cost for the supper is $8 for adults, $4 for children, and $20 for families. All are welcome!
PORTSMOUTH — The First United Methodist Church on Miller Ave. (Rt.1A) will be having a Bell Bazaar on Nov. 17 from 9:00 a.m. till 2:00 p.m. Homemade Cinnamon Rolls, Bid Table, Craft Table, Baked Food Table, and much more. Any question - please call 436-6038.
HAMPTON — All Welcome! There will be a FREE Thanksgiving Day Dinner served at Hampton United Methodist Church, 525 Lafayette Rd.(Rte. 1), Hampton, NH, on Thursday, Nov. 22, at NOON; seating begins at 11:15 a.m. with appetizers and fellowship time.
For Reservations, transportation to the dinner, a meal delivered, or to help, call the church office at 926-2702, M-F 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The menu includes turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, squash, peas, rolls & butter, cranberry sauce, pie, and beverage.
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Bookshelf: 3 for Charles Dickens' birthday
Charles Dickens fathered 10 children. But his most beloved offspring was David Copperfield.
He dumped his wife for a teenager. But he imagined himself Sydney Carton.
The more you learn about the personal life of the revered author, eminent Victorian and permanent resident of Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, the more he seems worth a serialized novel himself.
Dickens' 201st birthday is Thursday, the culmination of a bicentennial that has been celebrated grandly. And his love life has gotten some attention, too, from three books and a forthcoming film directed by Ralph Fiennes, who plays Dickens.
"The Great Charles Dickens Scandal" (Yale University Press, $30) by Michael Slater is a sharply focused examination of Dickens' affair with actress Ellen Lawless "Nelly" Ternan. Seventeen when she met the author, Ternan was the age of his youngest daughter.
Slater, a Dickens biographer and emeritus professor of Victorian literature at Birbeck College, University of London, delivers a terse, lively account of the relationship that dominated the last decade-plus of the writer's life -- and the intricate cover-up that went with it.
By now, the Ternan tale isn't exactly news. But Slater masterfully tells it, with considerable detail and clarification about what's known and what isn't, what's speculative and what's true. In recent years, the Dickens-Ternan affair has fueled sensational headlines in the London tabloids, from "Dickens's Romps with Naughty Nelly" to "Dickens Kept a Keen Eye on Fallen Women."
The story is especially juicy and ironic because Dickens remains "our great national celebrant of hearth, home and family love . . . Radiant domesticity is also the dominant mood at the end of most of his great novels . . ." The creator of Oliver Twist, Little Nell and Tiny Tim, however, wouldn't have been at his best at a PTA meeting.
Slater deftly separates the gossip from the research into Dickens' "wild indiscretion." For the record, Ternan wasn't Dickens' first teenage crush. That was Mary Hogarth, his wife Catherine's sister. She died at 17, when he was 25. And her image would haunt Dickens for life. At 18, he was infatuated with Mary Beadnell, a banker's daughter. He pursued her but failed. She'd rekindle his flame with a letter written when she was married.
Ternan's turn apparently went well beyond letters and fantasies. There's ample speculation that the mistress bore him a "short-lived child."
Dickens' actual children are the subject of Robert Gottlieb's "Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25).
"Why was I ever a father!" Dickens wrote two years before he died. Gottlieb, former editor of The New Yorker and a former editor in chief at Alfred A. Knopf, writes a vivid, entertaining, enlightening story about children never living up to what their driven, domineering, fanatically orderly, self-made father wanted.
"Certainly, their lives, however unfortunate, were far from disgraceful," Gottlieb writes. One, for example, was a respected editor; another, an admired jurist.
Although Gottlieb notes that the kids loved Dickens despite his "cavalier disposal" of them, you may think otherwise. Dickens apparently was a good dad when they were toddlers, but that quality didn't extend to their adolescence. By the time he died, his children were "living their various exiles."
Gottlieb adds, "It's hard not to conclude that, in the grip of the psychodrama involving his marriage and his passion for Ellen Ternan, Dickens wanted to have his life simplified by the dispersal of his children." They weren't told "anything about why their parents had separated . . . One day they lived together as a family, the next day their mother was gone."
Dickens' surviving children protected his image. But after his last son died, the revelations about Ternan started to become part of the legacy.
Robert Garnett's "Charles Dickens in Love" (Pegasus Books, $28.95) covers the Ternan affair as well as the impact of Hogarth and Beadnell. Garnett is a professor of English at Gettysburg College.
His account is exceedingly earnest and unduly sympathetic, as well as repetitive, equivocating and, to use one of his favorite words, "vexing." Garnett is better at discussing the classic fiction than the elusive facts. That's magnified with Ternan, with whom "he entered the labyrinth." Beadnell "taught him how passionately he could love, and how hard he could work." "Mary Hogarth, in fact, became his religion." They were his "muses and teachers in the school of love"
Wince away. And when Garnett compares Dickens with Faust or sets a scene with "Let's imagine . . .," you'll be ready to write your own ending to his unfinished "The Mystery of Edwin Drood."


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I'm working on a biology project that requires me to run little apps from java. The code below was borrowed and works 99% of the time. I send it a command which it executes like typing it into command line. The problem here is that this program requires text input. In linux, if i type in "wine protdist.exe < protdist" where protdist is a text file with the input (in this case, only "y" then carriage returns), the program runs and I get output. If I use the code below, it will execute wine protdist.exe, but I cant for the life of me pass the program the few characters that I need for it to move on. Any suggestions on how I can execute this program. send it a character and a carriage return and more on? TIA
File dirFile = new File(tempDir); String[] cmd = new String[1]; cmd = "wine protdist.exe < protdist"; deleteFile(tempDir + "outfile"); Process coffee = null; Runtime runtime = null; try { coffee = runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd, null, dirFile); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); System.out.println("OMG FAIL!"); } InputStream is = coffee.getInputStream(); InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr); String line; deleteFile(tempDir + "testOuput.txt"); TextIO.writeFile(tempDir + "testOutput.txt"); try{ while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) { TextIO.putln(line); } } catch (IOException e) {System.out.println("fail");} //System.out.println("Program terminated!");


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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Vintage Treasure in My Own Closet
15 comments:
- Casey Maura said...
Oh wow!!! What a beautiful dress--you look so pretty in that style! :)
I had to giggle a bit over your comment about "rediscovering" this dress. I've been doing that a lot lately as I've been packing to move--it's amazing how many "buried treasures" there are hidden away! ;)
- October 22, 2008 at 11:52 AM
- Imelda said...
What a lovely dress!
- October 22, 2008 at 12:02 PM
- Sal said...
But when spring comes, you'll be so delighted you have it.
- October 22, 2008 at 12:28 PM
- melissa said...
it is a treasure! and you look awesome in it! she's so graceful in this movie! what's your other fav film of her? i need to watch more french films.
- October 22, 2008 at 1:06 PM
- Aimée - Vint Condition said...
I have a feeling when I move I too will rediscover quite a few items. Most of my vintage clothing is residing in a hand wash only pile that I haven't gotten to in...well..a really long time. I'm guessing I'm going to be really excited about finding my cute clothes again.
Gorgeous dress by the way!!
- October 22, 2008 at 2:22 PM
Gosh your dress looks so similar to Jean's. Isn't it amazing when you rediscover something? It's a shame you have to wait till spring to wear it but it'll definitely be worth it!
- October 22, 2008 at 3:44 PM
- Andrea Eames said...
The dress is stunning! Can I ask what colour it is?
- October 22, 2008 at 4:42 PM
- Jen said...
Oh its so beautiful!! I'm in love - you look so cute in it :) I've given you a blog award btw, details on mine :)
- October 22, 2008 at 5:32 PM
- esme and the laneway said...
Oh wow, what a beautiful dress! I'm glad you found it again. I love those shoes, too!
- October 22, 2008 at 8:49 PM
- Q's Daydream said...
Thank you all so much! It is so wonderful to rediscover treasures! :o)
cat of impossible color: Thanx! the dress is light blue with navy blue stripes and very subtle red stripes! :o)
- October 23, 2008 at 7:35 AM
- Louise said...
How could you forget such a dress? It does suit you really well. I do wish I had such things hidden away to rediscover...
- October 23, 2008 at 2:21 PM
- Ariella said...
What a lovely dress! It suits you so well... such a great cut :)
Isn't it fantastic to find something you forgot you had? I love that feeling.
- October 24, 2008 at 11:44 AM
- Alice said...
Beautiful vintage dress. It looks great with your hair style! :)
- October 26, 2008 at 11:03 AM
- Eyeliah said...
I like this dress, you could pair with winter tights and sweater and wear in fall, why not?! :-)
- October 26, 2008 at 12:07 PM
- Unknown said...
I absolutely adore that dress. What a wonderful find.
- October 30, 2008 at 12:42 AM


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templates for the triangle pouch and star.
For the square pouch cut out the following pieces (notions are also included):
- Two 9" squares of outer blue fabric, I used denim
- Two 9" squares of inner blue fabric
- Two 1.5" by 2.5" squares of outer blue fabric for zipper tabs
- Two 2" by 4" white pieces for label
- Nine 1.5" squares, 3 of each color
- One 8" zipper in blue
- Two 9" squares of interfacing
For the round pouch, cut out:
- Four 8.25" circles of red fabric, two for the outer, two for the inner
- One 6" circle of second red fabric
- One 3.5" circle of the third red fabric
- Two 3" by 1.25" white pieces for label
- 3 metal gripper snaps
- Two 8.25" circles of interfacing
For the triangle pouch, cut out:
- Four 6.5" triangles, two from outer fabric, two from lining
- Two 2.5" by 2.5" squares for button tabs
- Two 3" by 1.25" white pieces for label
- 2 black buttons
- Two 6.5" triangles of interfacing
For the star:
- Two stars from a gold/yellow colored fabric
- One star of batting remnant
- Two stars of interfacing
- Two 1.75" by 1.25" white pieces for label
- One small grommet
- 6" piece of grosgrain ribbon
Assembling the square pouch===All seams are 1/4".
Prepare the outer decorations. One side will have the "square" label, the other will have the 9 colored counting squares.
Ready to put it all together?
Assembling the round pouch.
I'm really excited about this one...it was a little tricky to figure out how to make a round lined pouch...and now you can too!
Prepare your outer side pieces, following the same steps as for the square. Begin by interfacing the outer pieces. Then apply the appliques.
The appliques for this pouch are simpler, and include two more circles applied with heat n bond lite, and then zigzag stitched onto one piece.
To assemble, put the outer circles right sides together, making sure you identify the "top"...or where the circle label is in the right spot.
IMPORTANT...leave a second opening in the lining, smaller than the top opening. You'll need this for turning everything at the end.
Assemble the triangle pouch.
This gets easier as they get smaller. Interface the outer pieces, and apply the triangle label as with the other pouches. This is the only applique.
Fold in half, and you're ready to sew down each side, leaving the short side open.
Lastly, assemble the star.
And you're done! You've made a fun teaching toy that will keep a little one entertained in lots of places where they need to be quiet. At least that's the hope.
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|Just a few minutes' walk from many of the area's best shopping and dining outlets, iCheck Inn Silom also provides easy access to Bangkok's famous riverside landmarks.
Despite its central location, the hotel's semi private frontage, situated down a quiet side street,
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|iCheck Inn Silom is home to 26 stylish bedrooms perfectly furnished to ensure maximum comfort.
Featuring a nice blend of vibrant colours and sleek fittings each room is fully air conditioned and equipped with flat screen cable
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Superior Room Size 24 sq.m.
Feature a choice of one king-size bed or two single beds. Amenities include LCD screen with cable channels, mini-fridge and complimentary wireless internet access.
|A pleasant 10 minute walk to BTS Surasak, means that Bangkok's other famous landmarks and attractions can be easily explored.


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Jim Hong, Kyle Randolph and I attended the BSIMM Community Conference last week at the Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, WA (about an hour outside Portland). The BSIMM ("Building Security In Maturity Model") community is composed of folks who work on software security as part of their day job for organizations who have performed a BSIMM measurement. Adobe was one of the original nine organizations to kickstart BSIMM in the fall of 2008 and we conducted a second measurement in 2010. I'm also a member of the BSIMM Advisory Board. You can learn more about BSIMM at http://bsimm.com/.
Of the more than 40 organizations that have conducted a BSIMM measurement, 25 were represented by 77 attendees at last week's BSIMM community event. This group made for a very interesting subset of the broader security community because everyone is focused narrowly on practical defensive software security. Typically, offensive security topics tend to dominate most of the security conferences I attend. Even the conference talks that are supposedly about defensive topics tend to be more focused on how to employ offensive techniques during testing rather than on providing a holistic view of real-world defensive software security. So, it is refreshing and exciting when someone tries to rally attention towards research into truly defensive techniques. (The Microsoft BlueHat Prize announced at BlackHat this past summer or the exchanges among the members of SAFECode are other examples that come to mind.)
I presented "Adobe Product Security Through the BSIMM Lens: 2008-2011" on the first day of the BSIMM event and attended a number of interesting talks. However, the most valuable part of the event, as is always the case, was the "hallway track." The chance to compare notes with peers from other organizations tackling the same technical problems with such widely varying resources, priorities and definitions of success was the reason I attended, and I wasn't disappointed.
To sum it up, the BSIMM community event was a great opportunity to spend time with like-minded folks from across the industry. I'm looking forward to next year.


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The ancestor, JEAN GUYON,
is featured in the January 2007 (Vol. 135 No. 1)
of the REVUE SAINTE-ANNE.
Some of the "dit" surname descendants of this ancestor include DION, DESPRÈS, DUMONTIER, LEMOINE and, in Louisiana, DEBRANNE. The article is 3 ½ pages and contains 5 pictures:
Church of Saint-Auibin-de-Tourouvre;
Céline DION at age 14;
Adhémar DION & his wife, Thérèse TANGUAY (Céline's parents);
DION brothers: Arthur, Adélard, Napoléon, Alphonse, Alfred;
Antoine DION and Jeanne DUTIL
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Job Summary This position independently provides respiratory care, pulmonary and cardiology diagnostic testing to patients in a variety of health care settings.
Essential Functions
Minimum Qualifications Associate or technical degree Proof of having passed the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC) as a Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT). RRT required for all new hires to the position after October 1, 2015. Incumbents in the position as of October 1, 2015 must possess their RRT by October 1, 2017. A current license in state practiced as required by state law. Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) required. In Home Care setting, must posses valid drivers license and be eligible for coverage under the company auto insurance policy. Must be knowledgeable of clinical techniques, applications and equipment as typically obtained through 1 year of clinical experience. Must possess highly effective human relation skills necessary to interface with patients, families, staff and other healthcare personnel. Preferred Qualifications Additional related education and/or experience preferred.
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