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I'm a geek. A nerd. A dork. I love a lot of traditionally "geeky" things (sci-fi, fantasy, graphic novels, anime, dinosaurs…who am I kidding – everyone loves dinosaurs) and I love them A LOT. I think author John Green sums it up pretty well:
"Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can't-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is 'you like stuff.' Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness'." – John Green
Being a geek does not mean that you can't have style, it just means that you want to express your love for things that are awesome. Like, all the time. Even at your wedding. I was chatting with photographer extraordinaire Candice Benjamin about this phenomenon – sometime after I introduced her to the BBC TV show Doctor Who – and we lamented the fact that as wedding professionals and geeks, we don't see a lot of fandom-inspired weddings that are also outright glamorous. Maybe, we thought, other geeks are under the impression that your wedding can't be geeky and gorgeous at the same time.
In honor of our love for the sci-fi television series Doctor Who, and the show's 50th anniversary this year, we decided to put together the geekiest, chic-iest wedding imaginable. We called up Jen from First Pick Planning, adding her event planning expertise to our fangirl knowledge. Together with some amazing vendors, we crafted a TARDIS blue and sparkling gold event that any bride could appreciate, but with lots of special touches that reveal our Whovian obsession.
Through All of Time and Space: Wedding Inspiration from Doctor Who from Jakfoto Films on Vimeo.
Styled by: Jakfoto Films | Candice Benjamin Photography | First Pick Planning
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Photography by Candice Benjamin Photography – Check out her blog post!
Bridal Gown Hope Stanley, Bridal Stylist at Marry Me Bridal
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Print Design: Mintwich Design
Floral Design: Studio Ooh La La
Ceremony Venue: Big Bear Solar Observatory
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Fourth Doctor's Scarf: NoemisKnits
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Reception Venue: Huron Substation, Los Angeles
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Cocktail Bar: Night Owl Productions
Eleventh Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver & The Master's Pocket Watch: ThinkGeek
Extra Special Thanks To: Kasey McKay, Josh McKay, Alastair James Murden, Chris Wayne, and Bree Rhoten
How did you do it?
First of all, an amazing team of vendors and friends. Second, Pinterest. You can check out our original Pin board, including some ideas that didn't make the final cut!
A styled shoot with vows?
I've made videos for a few styled wedding shoots before, and they're always fun and pretty, but they're not as engaging as a real wedding film. I wanted to include more personality, more story, and of course more references to Doctor Who! The show has so many beautiful lines about love and friendship, so I pulled together lines and references over many episodes and seasons to write vows for this Whovian bride and groom. If anyone can pick out all of the quotes and what episodes they came from, I will send you a sonic screwdriver. Really.
Where are the Daleks?
We decided early on that the villains were not invited. Daleks have no concept of love or beauty – they'd be so uncomfortable at a wedding! And we don't want them exterminating the guests.
I want this wedding!
^ If anyone feels this way, please email me now. Right now. We still have a lot of these details on hand, and I can't express how thrilled I'd be to document a real Whovian wedding!
Thanks for all your love, everybody! If you're a fan, please connect with me on Twitter @jakfotofilms so that we can all squee and cry over Series 7 Part 2 together.
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Even more cunning battery adapter
Friend of the blog Mike Meakin drew a neat idea to my attention over on CNET – a battery holder that adds Bluetooth control from a phone to anything that is powered by AA batteries.
"Whilst browsing the blogs I noticed your Engineer in Wonderland – 'A Cunning battery adapter' article and just couldn't help but reply with 'An Even More Cunning battery adapter'," said Mike, "I never cease to be amazed !"
What a neat idea – from Teatherboard.
I do hope the thing switches itself off sensibly when the AAA cell goes flat before its AA colleagues.
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Bones Round Table: "The Hot Dog in the Competition"by Steve Marsi at . Comments
Aside from a few minor complaints, our staff members remained pleased with Bones' new direction after last week's episode, "The Hot Dog in the Competition." What about you?
Below, Jeffersonian squintern wannabes and TV Fanatic scribes Steve Marsi, Chandel Charles, Christine Orlando and Carissa Pavlica have gathered for an in-depth Bones Q&A.
Here's what we thought. Weigh in with your own answers after reading!
What was your favorite moment/quote from the episode?
Chandel: When Brennan imitated John Wayne when talking with Finn. I felt like she was making an effort to bond with him in some way, which felt like something we really haven't seen from Brennan before.
Carissa: "Once, I saw her make a foot long wiener disappear." "Is that some kind of euphemism, for prostitutes?"
Christine: Favorite scene was definitely B and B watching the baby's ultrasound at the end. It was very sweet and made up for a lot.
Steve: All of my colleagues made great choices above. To round things out, I'll go with the python emerging from the body cavity. Hilariously disgusting.
Do you like new squintern Finn?
Chandel: I'm still undecided. He seems like a nice enough guy, but each of the interns has been distinctly different, with decidedly obvious quirks. The only thing I'm getting from this guy is a heavy accent and dramatic past. He's less of a lighthearted character than previous interns seemed to be.
Carissa: Finn is a double edged sword. I really like the character, but his accent is enough to make me climb the walls. I suppose I will be called names now for admitting that, but it's true. I will try to look beyond it and enjoy him for his personality. He is very sweet, smart and had a heck of a rough start in life.
Christine: I like Finn. He's different and interesting and I enjoy his sordid past. I wonder if his evil stepdad will come back into the picture at some point. I'm even good with the accent but can they ease up on the southern colloquialisms. A little goes a long way.
Steve: Personally I think he's great, and I enjoyed the portrayal of a miscreant youth taken under the Jeffersonian's wing. They were laying it on a little thick with the accent and nonsense expressions, though. We get it, he's southern and backwoodsy. It sort of cheapened his appeal, but I still hope to see him again.
Harder to believe: Hodgins giving Finn a hard time, or anyone - even Brennan - not thinking that the father would want to know the baby's gender?
Chandel: Hard to say. Hodgins giving Finn a hard time was kind of off-putting. I know he's tried to put everyone through a blender since things with Zach went sideways seasons back, but it felt kind of forced as well, which wasn't good.
Carissa: I sense a sarcastic question when I hear one!! That said, Hodgins was exceptionally harsh. Most likely for the same reason I find Finn a double edged sword.
Christine: Hodgins seemed downright mean at times which was surprising but come on? Brennan has her issues but is she really that dense that she wouldn't think Booth would be over the moon to find out the gender of their child or that it should be a private moment between the two of them. That one really bothered me.
Steve: I expect a little hazing from the King of the Lab, but he seemed like he was getting a bit personal with it. Obviously Finn brought his A-game when it came to the science of things. Why hammer away at his past? As for Brennan, I can't believe that even she would consider that moment insignificant, but it made for some fun exchanges, so ... tie?
What was the best part of Brennan being Booth for a day?
Chandel: Two things: First, Brennan tackling that guy when she thought he was shoving food down her throat. Second, her less-than-subtle references to thinking about sex. She was definitely harping on her own perceived stereotypes about men, which could have probably cited a study on if given the chance.
Carissa: All the sex talk. "And now I want to have intercourse. See? You do, too!" Awesomesauce.
Christine: It always amazes me how patient Booth can be. He had every right to be upset yet he came up with this creative way to try and get his point across, even when she frustrated the hell out of him.
Steve: Immediately and frequently assuming Booth thinks about sex, then expressing it in typical Brennan fashion. Way to stereotype my entire gender, Temperance. Not entirely inaccurately, but still!
How are you liking the B-squared dynamic so far?
Chandel: I really like it because I feel like the honesty is there and that there are still more aspects of their relationship to explore. They aren't always on the same page with one another, but it's interesting to watch Brennan open up in a sense that she is making some sort of effort to connect with people in a way I don't believe we've seen her do much before.
Carissa: I'm happy. It hasn't changed. They are still in the strangest love affair on television. Any affair with Brennan would have to be strange, given her lack of appropriate interpersonal skills. I have no fear they will become boring.
Christine: I enjoyed the season premiere more than this. It felt like Brennan took a step backwards but having them watch the video at the end made up for it. I'm looking forward to seeing the two of them with the actual baby.
Steve: Some people complain that "Robo-Brennan" has gotten stale and predictable and I do see that trend at times. By and large, though, I love them together and think their new circumstances are not only being handled believably, but entertainingly. The show hasn't jumped the shark with the pregnancy. Instead, it opened new doors.
Have you ever done any sort of competitive eating (or drinking)?
Chandel: No, I have not. Unless you include the Twizzler eating contests I have with myself unintentionally. I got into this habit of buying a bag a week, and they always ended up magically gone. Needless to say I stopped buying them after a while, not because I was sick of the taste, but more weary of my waistline!
Carissa: Only if you count playing quarters. However, I don't think that's a technical challenge of the drinking, but more of the bouncing of the coin.
Christine: Only privately, with Oreos. They should really just put the total calorie count on the bag and forget that serving size nonsense because I can't seem to open the package without finishing it.
Steve: I once entered a pizza-eating contest for charity. I also once attempted to drink a gallon of milk in one sitting on a wager. Neither ended well, but at least my parents' tuition money was well spent.
To weigh in on the last week's Bones episode, or how the TV Fanatic staff is such a bunch of sissies when it comes to competitive eating, leave a comment below!
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ChapterThree, I have similar sentiment about this season of Bones. I have been a devoted fan from the beginning. Although the personal story arcs in Season Six (i.e. Booth and Hannah) were not what the audience inevitably wanted, it was believable and for the most part well-written. Obviously, we all wanted to see Booth and Brennan have a go, but not like this. Now, I think they've tried so hard to avoid the Moonlighting curse, a 25-year-old show, that they've skipped on some crucial storyline developments and the relationship almost doesn't seem believable. And, I'm not just referring to not seeing the physical relationship begin. I can't exactly put my finger on it, but something isn't there. I'm okay with the pregnancy, too. I think that was a logical move, but it hasn't been a smooth transition or a laughably, cute struggle...just somewhere, awkwardly, in the middle. As for Finn, I am very disappointed in the writing. I don't think Luke Kleintank can necessarily be judged when the character has been turned into a caricature. I have lived in Alabama and Finn's supposed home, North Carolina {how much more Southern can you get?) and I have never heard an accent like Finn's. I have heard some extreme accents, and some laughable colloquialisms, but this was ridiculous. Would it have killed them to not make a exaggerated, Southern stereotype and give the guy a workable dialect peppered with Southern charm (perhaps one or two colloquialisms) and eloquence?
What TV series was this round table group watching ?? I am not meaning for that to sting, I just cannot understand (other than Finn comments) what you saw as good conflict/interaction with the lead characters in this show. Let me ask it this way; if you claim to know the characters in this series slightly more than watching the show more than a couple of seasons, then you could not possibly think that Bones is being written well. Perhaps the round table group should watch the SNathan comments he made at the Paley Center / 2011 about the incredible "progress" and "opening up and discovering feelings" that Brennan went through in season six, how she is a different person having understood though the Doctor in the Photo episode, (which he wrote) that she is in love with Booth and needs to act on feelings or suffer missing her chance. Bones is being written so harshly as to avoid the Moonlighting curse that the Bones Curse has been developed. The Bones curse adds up to: Play the same cards as the previous six seasons with the fans, they never saw "anything" between them to confirm a relationship, so lets let them live the dream in their minds. Booth and Bones are in a relationship, sleeping with each other, going to have a child together and ..................jeez, forget to mention over B'fast that a Doctor's appointment and a sonogram will occur in an hour or so........blow each other a kiss and off to work they go........then insult the father of the baby at a crime scene as you tell your co-worker the sex of the child. Hhhhhmmmmmmmmm Well don't forget to blow a kiss to the fans as they stop watching and leave the show's fandom.
I don't see why everybody seems suprised by Hodgins' behavior. He was best friends with Zach, who became an apprentice for a serial killer. So Hodgins had to get used to a bunch of new interns. It was hard for him to accept any of them but he finally did and made some really good friends. Then Mr. Vincent Nigel Murray is murdered in the Jeffersonian!!! Why would we think Hodgins would welcome anybody new with open arms? I expected him to be resentful. It seems totally normal he would be resistant to having a new person around.
1. I think my favourite scene was Finn OWNING Hodgins when he figured out how to get the bone without killing the snake. 2. I'm with Carissa. Finn is a great character, but the colloquialisms are over the top. He doesn't need to sound like he stepped out of Deliverance to sound southern. 3. Hmmm. I'm with the tie. Hodgins seemed downright judgemental and personal, which is unlike him. So that's out of character, thus not believable. But Brennan was just insane for not realizing that. Too silly, thus not believable. 4. I'm trying to believe that Brennan was joking and being over the top on purpose. Because there's no way, after knowing someone as closely as she's known Booth for years, that she could behave so wrongly about what Booth would do in some situations. That being said, her tackling the guy was funny. 5. I think it works. I was worried for a bit, but it works. 6. I actually have - a "bun-eating" contest in high school, part of the school games. We had one large bun, and the competition was to see who could eat it the fastest with their hands behind their back. I won :D :D :D
-I have to admit that the competitive eating thing grossed me out. -Hodgins doesn't usually bond with new people readily since Zach but he's never been this mean about it. I didn't seem like him. I know that Bones is suppose to be emotionally challenged but I hate it when they make her seem completely clueless. Having her tell everyone else about the gender of the baby before Booth makes it hard to like her. -Finn was okay. I'll keep an open mind. -I've felt that the season got off track after season 4. At least the baby forces the characters to move forward which is good to see. I'm not complete sold but at least I'm not bored.
I'm from the "backwoodsy" south and I can say that there are people with some thick accents but none resembling Finn's it almost had like a British sound or something.


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Jeff Martin goes to a lot of restaurants. Unlike most of us, he spends a lot of his time in the kitchens. In fact, the Australia-based painter's scenes of restaurant kitchens in Sydney and Melbourne form the basis for his first Blurb book, Back of House. He designed the book with BookSmart, choosing our Large Square (12 x 12 inches) trim size and Premium Matte Paper. He chose to print on a black background so there would be, "no fighting with the color of the works." We talked to Martin about traveling for work, sketching in tight places, and making a book with Blurb.
Blurb: I think the first thing we'd like to know is why you chose restaurant kitchens as your subject.
Jeff Martin: I have a background in the hospitality industry, which helped pay for canvas and paint in the early years. The "Back of House" series came about due to my access and contacts. It really is a celebration of the kitchen and all the hard-working people that do it, day in and day out, at this level.
Blurb: How did you select the particular restaurants for your book?
Jeff Martin: The restaurants in this book are 30 of the best in each city. Any food lover that is from Melbourne or Sydney, or has visited, will know most of these establishments. Some are even recognized in the S.Pellegrino 50 Best Restaurants in the World list.
Blurb: Restaurant kitchens are notoriously busy places. Was it difficult to be a fly on the wall in such a crowded environment?
Jeff Martin: My experience in the industry is my greatest asset, as I understand what is happening and how to stay out of the way. It is not something anyone without my level of experience would be allowed to do. There have been kitchens that are a bit tight but there is always a way to work around the situation without causing an issue.
Blurb: What particular medium do you use for the final paintings?
Jeff Martin: They are all oil on Belgian linen. The paintings are all large, 150 x 180 centimeters in either portrait or landscape, depending on my sketches and the layout of space. I placed the two last photographs in the book in an attempt to convey size to anyone that has not seen the works in person.
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By Timothy Villareal
According to the initial reports in the New York Times last year, the Obama administration was aiming for "plausible deniability" when it launched a cyber war on the Iranian nuclear weapons installations. (Author's note: Those who deny Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, not nuclear energy, tend to be the same people who refuse to publicly address Israel's nuclear weapons aresenal, in effect, turning a blind-eye to both.)
Given the dire repercussions of warfare, be it of the cyber variety like Stuxnet or the bullet variety, it would seem that a self-respecting democracy would afford itself some role in the decision of whether to go to war in the first place. According to Andrew Bacevich, professor of international relations at Boston University, "Were a foreign country to disable the U. S. nuclear arsenal through cyber attack, we would most assuredly consider it an act of war. We should not be surprised that a foreign country might consider a U. S.-orchestrated cyber attack against its nuclear program in a similar light."
Americans would do well to ask the following question: How did we get from Point A) a government supposedly by and for the people, to Point B) a government that is willing to engage in de facto acts of war – all without the consent of the governed?
Arguing for the Constitution in Federalist No. 46, James Madison admonished the Anti-Federalists by writing, "They [Anti-Federalists ] must be told that the ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on the comparative ambition or address of the different governments, whether either, or which of them, will be able to enlarge its sphere of jurisdiction at the expense of the other. Truth, no less than decency, requires that the event in every case should be supposed to depend on the sentiments and sanction of their common constituents."
It goes without saying that the American people have never been engaged on the question of whether the advantages of launching a cyber attack against Iran's nuclear installations outweigh the disadvantages, namely the potential for a retaliatory attack by Iran; an attack that could be just as "plausibly deniable" as the one our own government launched.
The framers of the Constitution rightly vested Congress with the power to declare war on other nations; a necessary and proper instrument to avoid a descent into de facto monarchical rule, of which executive warmongering is a most essential ingredient. But principles, including separation of powers, when in any way tethered to magical thinking, lose their force. The United States Senate, treasured by many as a bulwark against a tyrannical, or potentially tyrannical, Executive branch is anything but.
The recent cyber war is a prime example of the Senate's failure. The unresolved questions of international law vis-à-vis cyber attacks aside, the reported action against Iran clearly had a military aim – to disrupt Iran's de facto military installations – and therefore the question must be asked: Has the modern United States Senate – that "august" guarantor of state sovereignty -done anything whatsoever to rein in the Executive branch's unilateral war making abilities toward foreign nations, including cyber war-making?
On the contrary, instead of seeking legislation to rein in the Executive branch's ability to launch secret de facto wars against foreign nations, which could ignite similar retaliations upon us, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee has passed, overwhelmingly, a bill to prevent Executive branch whistleblowers from speaking with journalists. Among other disclosures, the leaks that informed the American people that our government has indeed engaged in a cyber war against a foreign nation, which could invite retaliation, serves as the basis for the U.S. Senate's crackdown on executive branch truth-tellers – as if we need less, not more of them. (After the Senate Intelligence Committee passed the bill a media furor erupted. Bill Keller of the New York Times and others identified the dranconian nature of the bill. Senator Feinstein, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is now "seeking alternatives" to the bill.)
As Madison wrote, "Truth, no less than decency, requires that the event in every case should be supposed to depend on the sentiments and sanction of their common constituents." The United States Senate in 2012, as an institution, has no grounds on which to base its implicit claim: namely, that the states its members supposedly represent have sanctioned, or would sanction, taking the entire Republic not only into the dangerous realm of offensive cyberwar – a realm in which frenzied actions outpace intellectual consideration – but into that even more dangerous zone of politics that the framers rightly warned against: the ability of the Executive branch to take the entire nation into foreign wars without the consent of the governed.
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New Year's Eve 2007: Berklee College of Music
We spent a few hours talking through how everything would be handled, from power access to running the audio and com (including video) lines from the performance space, through the kitchen and out to the truck.
New Year's Eve 2007: Dakota Jazz Club
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In craving of a hot cup of soup and a good sandwich I ventured over to Bridge City Cafe formerly known as Paradise Bakery. They are now a locally owned cafe hence the name change, but the new owner has the rights to Paradise Bakery's recipes which is a familiar taste with a few changes made.
The menu looks pretty much the same as the Paradise Menu plus a few added menu items such as more soup selection.
If you have never been to Paradise Bakery now known as Bridge City Cafe, their menu offers salads, hot/cold sandwiches with daily fresh baked bread, and other bakery items such as muffins, rolls, and cookies. There is also a full espresso bar for early morning pick me ups so its not just a place for lunch.
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Saudis and some other Persian Gulf Arab states are obviously losers in this battle. USA has realized that friendship with Iran is more beneficial rather than hostility.
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Document Type Doctoral Thesis Author Du Toit, Elsie Sophia URN etd-02222006-153025 Document Title Temperature effects on bulb growth and inflorescence development of Lachenalia cv. Ronina Degree PhD Agric (Horticultural Science) Department Plant Production and Soil Science Supervisor
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Date 2001-09-01 Availability unrestricted AbstractLachenalia cv. Ronina, a new flower bulb variety developed by the ARC-Roodeplaat Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Institute, has excellent characteristics as a flowering pot plant, but information on cultivation practices is limited. Temperature is the most important environmental factor regulating the growth cycle of this flower bulb, therefore three temperature regimes, representing a cool, moderate and warm winter climate, were chosen to manipulate floral development. During this study the bulb structure, development and growth were determined during the bulb preparation phase (year 1) and subsequently the morphology of the bulb was evaluated during the pot plant phase (year 2).
Regarding the bulb structure and development, cultivar Ronina has a typical rhythmic, sympodial, modular growth. Bulb growth and module formation is affected by temperature. The low (L TR) and moderate (MTR) temperature regime, which represent the cool and moderate winter climate in South Africa were found to be the best temperature regimes for bulb production. The high (HTR) temperature regime caused bulbs to develop faster, but flower abortion occurred. At the end of the bulb preparation phase, daughter bulbs were observed in the axils of the leaf bases in bulbs of all three temperature regime treatments. Additional inflorescences from underdeveloped growth modules were detected in the axils of the inner leaf bases of bulbs of the high temperature regime. The bulbs as well as the roots are the main sinks for the carbohydrates, whereas the inflorescence and especially the leaves are the main source for soluble sugars.
Due to the more stable temperature that was applied in the growth cabinets, the flowering date of bulbs in all three treatments flowered two months earlier than plants growing in the open. During this production phase, simultaneous flowering occurred more within bulbs that were subjected to the LTR during the bulb preparation phase. These bulbs also produced broader leaves with more spots on and better quality inflorescences with a longer keeping ability than those of the higher temperature regimes. A correlation was found between the leaf number and the number of inflorescences of plants in the pot plant phase, grown from LTR treated bulbs. The bulb fresh mass/size at the end of the bulb preparation phase cannot be used as a reliable criterion to predict the quality of the pot plant. By examining the bulb structure at the end of the bulb preparation phase, the quality of the pot plant can be predicted.
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Happy weekend, everyone! What do you have planned?
DH and I have a working weekend. He'll be doing some plumbing work for friends, I'll be doing some outside work, and then we'll also be doing lots of relaxing. The kids will be with their grandparents aaaaall weekend, and it's a long weekend for us. Yay! I'll also get to see one of my dearest friends, and go to the nicest bookstore I know. It's going to be a good weekend!


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10 Unique Ways to Decorate with Mirrors
No matter where you put one, mirrors are an easy way to reflect light, make a space look bigger, and open up a room. Here are 10 decorating ideas for using them in your house.
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Advance Viewer Says David Gest Doc About Michael Jackson is 'Pretty Good'
After originally hinting at a 2010 release for the feature documentary The Real Michael Jackson, David Gest dropped off the radar with his project. But just before Memorial Day, he resurfaced on the Universal Studio lot to host a May 26th sneak preview for family members and celebs like Smokey Robinson and Angie Dickinson.
Roger Friedman of Showbiz 411 has the details, along with the text of the email invite. That message contains a great endorsement for the film from Motown legend Lamont Dozier, which Friedman seconds to a certain extent via his own Deep Glove:
The source I spoke to says the documentary is pretty good mainly because it includes lots of rare footage of Michael and the Jacksons. How Gest got the rights to the footage, I don't know. He does have plans to release the doc in the UK.


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The Senate Judiciary Committee passed Thursday Sen. Dianne Feinstein's "assault weapons" ban by a straight party line vote, despite Republican efforts to point out the obvious holes in the legislation. Read the article: The Washington Times
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Cream Puffs with Dark-Chocolate Sauce
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To save 365 calories and 29 grams of fat per serving, we cut the butter in the puffs by 2 tablespoons, made 10 puffs instead of our usual 8, and used light ice cream and a drizzle of chocolate sauce.
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Serves: 10
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Total Time: 55 min
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- 1 cup(s) water
- 6 tablespoon(s) butter or margarine
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt
- 1 cup(s) all-purpose flour
- 4 large eggs
- 4 ounce(s) bittersweet chocolate
- 1/2 cup(s) half-and-half or light cream
- 1 tablespoon(s) sugar
- 1 quart(s) light vanilla ice cream
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease and flour large cookie sheet or spray it with a nonstick spray that contains flour.
- In 3-quart saucepan, heat water, butter, and salt to boiling on medium until butter melts. Remove saucepan from heat. Vigorously stir in flour all at once until mixture forms ball and comes away from side of pan.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition, until batter becomes smooth and satiny.
- Drop batter by scant 1/4 cups into 10 large mounds, 2 inches apart, onto prepared cookie sheet. With fingertip moistened with water, gently smooth tops to round.
- Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until puffs are a deep golden-brown. Remove cookie sheet from oven; with knife, poke hole in one side of each puff to release steam. Turn off oven. Return cookie sheet to oven and let puffs stand 10 minutes to dry out slightly. Transfer puffs to wire rack to cool completely.
- Using serrated knife, slice each cooled puff horizontally in half. With fingers, remove and discard any moist dough inside.
- Meanwhile, coarsely chop chocolate. In 1-quart saucepan, heat half-and-half and sugar just to boiling on medium-high. Remove saucepan from heat; add chocolate and let stand 1 minute. Whisk until smooth.
- To serve, place 1 scoop ice cream in each cream puff base; replace cream puff top, then drizzle with warm chocolate sauce.
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- Structural Analysis of Cylindrical Particles by Small Angle X-ray Scattering (2005)
- The objective of this work is to analyze nano-scaled cylindrical particles by small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). Three systems with cylinder-shaped particles: (1) Laponite particles in aqueous solutions, (2) Poly(carbon suboxide) particles in binary water/DMF solutions, and (3) Suprastructural aggregates of coil-ring-coil block copolymers in cyclohexane, have been studied by SAXS performing either a Kratky-Compact-Camera in our laboratory or ID2 beamline of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble. The synthetic clay particles, Laponite RD, have been chosen as ideal disc-shaped model particles. In combination of SAXS with static light scattering, the scattering intensities of a concentration serial (volume fraction from 0.0002 to 0.0016) were measured in almost three orders of magnitude of the scattering vector q. Through extrapolation of concentration the scattering intensity at vanishing concentration, i.e. the form factor P(q) of particles was achieved. It shows q-2 decay at intermediate q range, which indicates that the shape of single Laponite particle in aqueous solution is platelet. The plateau of the form factor at low q range implies that there is no aggregate or cluster structure, and the Laponite particles are dispersed completely under the investigated conditions. More detailed structural information was then obtained by fitting of P(q) with disc model. The radii of the discs exhibit a large polydispersity. A radius of 10.5 nm with Schulz-Zimm distribution of Rw/Rn = 1.5 (where Rw and Rn denote weight and number average radius, respectively) was found to fit the form factor perfectly. The thickness of one single platelet was determined to be 0.9 nm. The weight averaged molecular weight and radius of gyration were determined to be 930 kg/mol and 13.4 nm, respectively. The inter-particle interactions of Laponite particles were investigated by the structure factor S(q), from which the effective diameter of interparticle interactions deff was determined for the first time. The strong electrostatic Coulomb repulsion between charged Laponite particles was attributed to the much higher value of deff (= 46 nm), in comparison to 2Rg (= 27 nm). The recently developed multicomponent interaction site model was performed by Harnau to predict these experimental structure factors. An effective potential of interaction, which pays attention to a screened Coulomb interaction as well as an attractive interaction, leads to the best description of the model to the experimental data. By means of SAXS, the size of synthetic polymer carbon suboxide ((C3O2)n) dissolved in binary water/DMF solutions was determined for the first time with radius of gyration Rg = 1.7 nm and molecular weight Mw = 2760 g/mol, which corresponds to a polymerization's degree of about 40. This value is much larger than literature one (5-10). The form factor of polymer carbon suboxide can be described by a semiflexible chain model. The radius of gyration in cross-section RC and molecular weight per unit length ML were obtained to be 0.3 nm and 350 g/(mol.nm), respectively, which can confirm the fact that the chemical structure of poly(carbon suboxide) is repeated pyronic ring, as suggested in most literatures. Thus the structure and size of polymer carbon suboxide were characterized completely by SAXS. Finally, SAXS was employed to analyze a suprastructural aggregation system derived by self-assembly of coil-ring-coil block copolymers. This is a newly synthesized subclass of rod-coil block copolymers composed of a nanometer-sized shape-persistent macrocycle and two covalently attached polystyrene (PS) coils. The solubility of the rigid ring is largely enhanced due to the attachment of the flexible side groups. With suitable length of the flexible side groups (Mw (PS) = 2500 g/mol) the block copolymers can form colloidal-sized aggregates in selected solvent cyclohexane, which were concluded to be of cylindrical shape with the rigid rings packing densely in a tubular way and the flexible side groups arranging outside of the ring. Such aggregated cylinder brushes can be further confirmed to exist as a mixture of cylinder bundles by analyzing the local structural parameter ML (= 25730 g/(mol.nm), molecular weight per nm length of cylindrical objects). In comparison of this value with M0 (= 6500 g/mol, molecular weight of single coil-ring-coil block copolymer) and d (= 0.6 nm, distance of adjacent densely packed rings), the number fraction of coexisted single cylinder, bi- and tri-cylinder bundles was resulted to be 1:1:2. Through fitting by using approximated circular cylinder model the radius of single cylinders was determined to be 2.6 nm (polydispersity 20 percent) with a hollow inside of radius of 1.2 nm.
- Biochemical analysis of the interaction between transfer ribonucleic acid and exportin-t (2006)
- In this thesis the ternary complex of tRNA•exportin-t•Ran•GTP was studied by biochemical and biophysical methods. Firstly, photocrosslinking was used to determine the contact sites between tRNA and exportin-t. 4-Thiouridine (s4U) was introduced into tRNAPheT.th by in vitro transcription with T7 RNA polymerase and crosslinked to exportin-t by irradiation at 312 nm. The crosslinking was Ran•GTP dependent and could be competitively inhibited by other tRNA species, showing that the crosslinking was the consequence of the formation of a tRNA•exportin-t•Ran•GTP complex. The crosslinked complex of (s4U)tRNAPheT.th-exportin-t after proteinase K digestion was incubated with a primer complementary to the 3'end of the tRNAPheT.th in the primer extension reaction. The elongation of the reverse transcriptase was forced to halt at s4Us crosslinked to peptides, namely, U55, U47, U33, U20. Among them, U47 and U55 were shown to be the major crosslinking sites. U47A mutation was introduced into tRNAPheT.th to test the role of U47. The mutant tRNAPheT.th transcript was still able to bind exportin-t, though a little weaker than normal tRNAPheT.th transcript. In contrast, s4U containing mutant tRNAPheT.th U47A exhibited a much poorer capability to crosslink exportin-t. It is concluded that U47 may be a major contact site between tRNAPheT.th and exportin-t. Secondly, the binding abilities of different tRNA species in calf liver tRNABulk to exportin-t was examined by affinity chromatography on immobilized exportin-t. With a stepwise elution of 250 mM and 500 mM KCl, tRNABulk was fractionated into 2 peaks. Therefore, Different tRNAs bound to exportin-t with different affinity. Among 7 tRNAs tested, the relative affinity to exportin-t ranked as tRNALeuCAG > tRNASerGCU, tRNALeuCAA, tRNASerUGA > tRNASerAGA, tRNALeuAAG > tRNAArgACG. To interpret the different affinity of tRNAs to exportin-t, it is proposed that exportin-t preferentially exports tRNAs that are required the stronger by the protein synthesis machine. The extent of requirement of a specific tRNA by cells is supposed as the ratio between the tRNA concentration in a cell and its codon frequency in the genome, if all tRNAs are supposed to be aminoacylated and transported to ribosome equally. It was found that among 7 tRNAs identified on the 2D urea PAGE, the theoretical estimation of 5 tRNA species upon their requirement by cell ranked the same as their relative affinity to exportin-t. Finally, atomic force microscopy was used to observe exportin-t and its interaction with tRNA in a native and undisturbed state directly. Exportin-t-esterase, immobilized to trifluoromethyl ketone (TFK) modified mica surface, showed a diameter of 15 ± 2 nm. After binding tRNA and Ran•GppNHp, the diameter of the complex somewhat increased to 16 ± 2 nm.