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Andy LeCompte Salon
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616 N. Almont Dr.
Andy LeCompte Salon
Derek Louden
Highlights, $300 and up
616 N. Almont Dr.
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616 N. Almont Dr.
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Vanessa Spaeth
616 N. Almont Dr.
Art Luna Salon
Art Luna
2116 Main St., Santa Monica
Luna works in a crisp white shirt, which led us to ask: "Is it practical to play with hair color while wearing that?" Luna assured us that he was "very precise." And after a few hours spent processing our hair in his garden, we had to agree. He replaced our plum-red shade with a summery strawberry, marked with golden glints that Luna painted a few painstaking strands at a time. Before we left, he examined us outside at different angles to make sure the color was perfect. And as we shamelessly checked ourselves out in every storefront window for the rest of the day, we marveled that such a methodical process could leave us with a color so beautifully natural.
Art Luna Salon
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2116 Main St., Santa Monica
B2V Salon
646 N. Doheny Dr.
This old-Hollywood cabana-style salon is as laid-back as it gets. But don't be fooled—they take hair very seriously. After making nicey-nice chitchat, our stylist sat us beneath a tell-all skylight to survey the damage. One look at our dark roots and brassy ends, and he suggested we trade in our beachy balayage look for more sophisticated highlights using a similar free-form technique he has dubbed "American tailoring." Painting right next to the scalp "to avoid that quarter-inch gap you get with foils," he made the strands thinner "so they're more subtle than balayage." After explaining that hair naturally has four colors running through it, he applied warm brown streaks alongside an amber and two different shades of golden blonde. When our colorist laid his brush to rest, our honeyed tresses took our breath away—seriously.
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The word: Kenyon boasts some serious balayage skills, as well as over 11,000 followers on Instagram.
What we got: He lightened our hair with a handful of amber highlights concentrated on the middle and underside.
Bottom line: The slivers echoed our natural color and peeked through with every head turn. We never realized medium brown could be so thrilling. (Our bill: $275.)
Beverly Hills Color Bar
Malcolm McAlpine
9885 S. Santa Monica Blvd.
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What we were after: Natural-looking highlights to liven up our virgin dark brown hair.
What we got: After McAlpine spent an hour painting ribbons of caramel starting a couple of inches from the roots, we ended up with a multi�dimensional chocolate hue.
Bottom line: The slivers of light were the exact boost we wanted and made our eyes sparkle. And with the upscale look and skilled staff of a Beverly Hills spot (without the attitude or inflated prices), this place is a real find.
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I have two photoshop pngs, I am trying to simulate a rotating coin 3D effect. One image will act as heads and the other will act as tails. How can I get these two images to rotate together to simulate the front and back of a coin spinning on a 0 axis? Output to be either a gif or mpeg4. Here is an image of the heads side of the coin. Both images are 512 x 512 with a radius of 80.
Can this be done in photoshop, illustrator, or something else?
How do I get an image on the back of the image below to look as if the image is double sided?

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When is it better to self-answer and when is it better to include detail in the question?
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When you have an answer you should put it in as an answer, so that voting will rank it relative to other answers. Self-answering can help the site accumulate a good collection of questions and answers.
More detail that is needed to help solve the problem is always helpful, but if it does solve the problem, then the detail should be an answer.
If I ask here, it means that I haven't had any luck finding an answer myself.
Adding more detail to the question is when you now have more information to give to help people find an answer.
Answering your own question is when you find a solution yourself (maybe all the answers are wrong, but let you find the correct terms to google). If an answer is nearly right, I'll comment on it to let the user add that last bit, then accept it.
These are two completely different situations with nearly no overlap.
I never been the type to post a question only to answer it myself. Even though this is encouraged, I feel that if i was to do this then it was never really a question from the beginning if I already had the answer.
I have only been in a few cases where I answered my own question. This is when I ask a question and receive answers that might be on the right track; but not correct was a case when I came to answer my own question. Reason was to give the accurate answer to my question for others who could come looking for answers after finding my question. When I have done that though I would comment on the posted answer that put me in the best position to answer my question and give reason why their answer was not accurate.
I think that if you have an idea which you think might work, but you aren't sure, posting it as an answer rather than a question will:
Unfortunately, it has the disadvantage that people who help you may not be rewarded, because they commented on your answer rather than providing their own. Also, people tend to be harsher with downvoting self answers, but I think they will be less critical if you list what you think are limitations.


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A strategic initiative within Microsoft IT is to improve the overall productivity, quality, and predictability of internal software development projects. Microsoft IT partnered with Microsoft Research to create a Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2005 extension that counts lines of code and predicts system defects. In the software development environment, insight into the volume of code being produced, and the changes applied to that code, provide measurements of productivity and quality. Join this TechNet Radio to see how the Line of Code (LOC) counter provides a flexible and extensible framework for automating the LOC counting process.
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(adj) expressing stereotypical traits of a jew based upon the need for instant gratification and often used to manipulate others who are not cognizant that they are being victimized until it's too late or the situation has already been resolved. (n) a person who is jew-wise.
What a freakin jew-wise, he totally left early to dodge the bill." "She was jew-wise about the engagement; she made him feel so guilty about wanting to wait a few more months that not only did he pop the question the next night, he also bought her the ring she picked out and put on hold.
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I would like to see a forum plugin [phpbb, etc] that would allow forums to move posts to Stackoverflow. It gets rather annoying seeing repetitive questions in forums that are posted on SO or in the forum in another place.
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The Stack Overflow API currently has no writing function. The bot discrimination system in use prevents the use of most bots. If you want to migrate posts, your best bet is to do it by hand.
Eventually the API will include posting functions, and the thing you'll need to be careful about then is that the questions posted are good, otherwise the user account (and eventually IP and other methods of tracking it) will be blocked due to consistently poor posts.
But as long as the questions add value to stack overflow, it won't be a problem.
There is no timetable for the post access on the API.
I'm opposed.
A question needs a person to ask it, adjust it to the audience, tag it, submit it, look at other questions and the way they are written, browse the site for duplicates, browse around in the relevant tags... All these things a forum plugin can't do.
IMO this is a bad idea since it has the potential to reduce question quality and just have all sorts of crap posts pushed to SO for the sake of it (if someone just needs to click a button to add a post to SO from an original forum post they probably will just in case they get a response.)
If all questions on forums were carefully worded, good, on topic questions then I'd be for it. But I suspect all this would bring to SO is more bad questions. If someone really wants to get input from stack overflow as well as a forum and really feels the question is suitable for both, they'll post it in both places.


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2015 Partner Program Guide: 5-Star Peripherals VendorsAs part of the Partner Program Guide, CRN designates some programs as 5-Star Partner Programs. Here are the 5-Star designees in the peripherals space.
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My request is simple: Many times, there will be a question where some people feel like it should be closed. At the same time, I'll feel like it's a perfectly legit question, and it should therefore NOT be closed. Right now, I have to wait till it gets enough close votes (which it always does for some reason, as soon as 1 or 2 people vote to close, e/o else decides to vote as well) and then vote to re-open. How about, as soon as there's one vote to close, there should be an option to counter the close vote, something like "vote not to close" or whatever. This would then bring the "Vote to close" number down by one. Only when the vote to close outnumbers the vote not to close by 5, that's when a question is indeed closed. Any thoughts?
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I am definitively in favor of that process.
Of course, it has been proposed "numerous" time on UserVoice already:
Note: since 2014-05-13 ("When did I get close-vote superpowers?"), users with a gold badge in a tag for a question can immediatly reopen a question closed as duplicate.
This is a (very small) improvement, which doesn't address the initial issue: there is no way to be notified when a question get (finally) closed in order to cast one's own reopen vote.
As I commented before, notification is really broken or non-existent on Stack Exchange sites.
Don't forget also the trivial ability to reverse your own close-vote (e.g. in a case a question was improved significantly).
this seems to come down to adding another dimention to the voting system.
interesting ^ | | proper<------------>improper | | uninteresting
we already have buttons for voting on the intersting/unintersting axis
if close > x+open then mark as closed
As the Mechanical snail points out, this has now been implemented, though not quite as-requested.
Of note:
The philosophy behind this is reflected in my response to Miles' bounty:
When you find a problem with the way in which folks are behaving on the site, try to correct it with a scalpel, not an axe. The "silent majority" can prevent such migrations:
We're also working on revamping the "review" tools to put questions on the path to being closed in front of those with the most expertise in their topics. I can't always tell if, say, an r question is better off on Cross Validated, but there are plenty of folks who can. This will also give us some better data for determining when the silent majority has actually reviewed a question, and the ability to then age close votes accordingly. Which is really what you want.
Requiring that "silent majority" to go around casting "unclose" votes wouldn't do anything but create more work within the system for the benefit of a few edge-cases and a rather larger increase in the ability for griefers to waste the time of those already going out of their way to review and moderate. It's a tool for creating gridlock, something Stack Overflow in particular doesn't need any more of.
It is already "possible" to do this!
Step 1
Go to the new Review interface for close votes.
Step 2
Click through the ≈ 60,100 questions (on SO) with close votes until you see the one you want to vote not to close.
Step 3
Click Do Not Close.
Step 4
And...problem solved!
But seriously
The functionality already exists, but is hard to use. If you agree with a close vote, you can always cast your vote to close directly from the question. Why should it be harder if you disagree?
(Also, it seems the queue interface is biased toward more recent questions, so you wouldn't have to click that many times. And voting not to close doesn't literally cancel out a close vote, but if several people do it the question is removed from the queue.)
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Shog pointed out that close votes come with reasons to close, and so contain more useful information. (Here we're not concerned about obvious duplicates and the like; people aren't going to be disputing those: only the more complex cases.) Shog is afraid that allowing no-close votes will lead to people canceling out close votes without providing a useful rationale. I'll grant you that's a problem, but the problem is symmetric: close vote reasons are vague and often require additional explanation for why they apply, and most of the time close voters don't explain exactly why they think it's e.g. a duplicate. Fundamentally it would be no harder to comment along with your no-close vote from a question, than to add a useful argument along with a your close vote for a non-clear-cut question. I therefore see the no-close-vote proposal as orthogonal to the problem of people not providing rationales.
For example, I have seen a fair number of duplicate votes for which the questions look subtly different; it may require a minute or two of reading to determine whether they really are dupes. In these I don't recall ever seeing comments like "This poster's underlying problem is xxx which is the same as the other question".
Because it's easier to get questions that should be closed out of the queue, the current system encourages questions getting closed and reopened repeatedly. Lack of explanation is a different problem; perhaps adding a comment field to the (no-)close dialog would help.
Would the same work for reopening too?
Would it reopen the moment the number of close votes dropped to 4, or would it have to gain a net score of 5 reopen votes to be reopened?
Sounds like you'll get a closing war: close it, no, yes, no, yes,... with a long comment thread why and why not. Than SO is the discussion group and not Meta. I don't like this scenario.
This is a splendid idea. But the whole concept must be as simple as possible: "Vote not to close" is in fact the same as open, so I think it could be simplified. The whole concept could be as in the case of score votes. There would be two buttons, available all the time, regardless the state (open/closed/on-hold) that would operate on current number of close votes (0-5):
This concept is very simple and easy to understand, and also has all the benefits we starve for:
Please leave the closing/reopening system alone. It works fine as is. There is a bias towards reopening, but most of the noise is getting purged properly.
I strongly agree with the need for amending the current completely non-closing process democratic - which is by the way illustrated very well by the voting in this particular discussion (as of 25.11.2015, +421 votes supporting the idea, -85 votes disagreeing with the Jeff Atwood's rejecting answer).
I suggest some improvements to the original proposal:
By the way, I came MUCH TOO OFTEN via Google search to questions which I found very useful and on-topic, and based on their upvote score together with me tens of other users also did, but the question was closed because a small [sarcasm]elite group of 5 überusers[/sarcasm] decided that the question is off-topic.
with statistically more relevant
So acceptable scores for closing are e.g.:
Declining, because there's already a solution: track the question (favorite it, or leave it open in a tab in your browser) and if it reaches the close threshold, vote to reopen it.
Beyond that, the 10k rep tools include a report that will show you
(I plan to improve this a bit in the future.)
That gives you the ability to monitor questions that are on the edge either way and vote to close or reopen. But remember, you can only vote to close once and vote to reopen once on the same question.


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(CNN)-- Federal police officers under investigation for drug trafficking opened fire on fellow officers at Mexico City's international airport, killing three, officials said.
Two of the officers died at the scene Monday, while a third was transported to a hospital and died there.
The officers who were shot were on their way to arrest the two gunmen after an investigation showed they had ties to a drug trafficking cell, the Public Security Ministry said in a statement.
"The two officers under investigation opened fire to avoid arrest when they spotted the federal police's investigation unit, " the ministry said.
It was not clear whether there had been any arrests.
The shooting took place at Benito Juarez International Airport, the country's busiest.
Mexico's candidates vow a different kind of drug war
Body dump a new era in Mexico drug war?
Security firms in high demand in Mexico
Last year, authorities there seized 198 pounds (90 kilograms) of cocaine, the ministry said. So far this year, they have seized 440 pounds (200 kilograms) of the drug.
More than 47,500 people have died in drug-related violence throughout Mexico since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon announced plans to deploy troops in efforts to combat drug cartels.
The violence is worse outside the heavily policed capital, though crime still manages to creep in.
Murder rates in Mexico City are half the national rate of 18 per 100,000 residents and are lower than homicide rates in U.S. cities like New Orleans and Washington.


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Does the nominal pronoun in a Hebrew sentence with a conjugated verb
i) add information or
ii) deserve to be translated?
Conversely, exactly how much
i) information does a stand-alone conjugated Hebrew verb contain and
ii) of a stand-alone conjugated Hebrew verb deserves to be translated?
E.g.: Does "אמרתי" properly mean "I said" or "said" and is it properly translated as "I said" or "said"?
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Not 100% certain I understand the question. In Tanach, such verbs are often found without a separate pronoun (e.g., אמרתי, not אני אמרתי), and then they do need to be translated as, e.g., "I said" for the sentence to make any sense. The cases where we have pronoun + verb + suffix (אני אמרתי) are usually for emphasis: "I said."
Of course, for second- and third-person forms, when a noun is needed to identify the speaker, you'll have that (אנשי המקום אמרו), and then I suppose a hyper-literal translation might be "The men of the place, they said." I have never seen such a translation, though.
In modern Hebrew (colloquial, and sometimes formal too) you find the form אני אמרתי much more often, not necessarily with any intent at emphasis. My guess is that these are influenced by European languages, where the verb suffix (if any) doesn't encode pronominal information.
If you are asking for an educational-practical purpose then here is what I have concluded:
Based on exmples in Tanach of these verbs appearing as stand-alones I would tend to agree with Alex that the pronoun is included in the conjugated verb. However, as with all translation from language to language one must deal with the (pardon the term) idiosyncrasies of the language being translated from. In the case of Lashon HaKodesh we (us English speakers) perceive the redundancy of the pronoun as such.
Therefore, if your goal is for the students to first be aware of the individual words' translations have them translate the individual words as such, including the pronouns. Then have them descramble these single-word translations into their proper phrases, dropping the now redundant pronouns when necessary.


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Is it possible to change the microphone sensitivity (input volume) on the iPad?
If so, how?
Is it possible to change the microphone sensitivity (input volume) on the iPad?
If so, how?
What you can do with the built-in microphone is limited. You should investigate purchasing a third-party microphone, or better yet an audio interface with a microphone preamplifier, into which you plug a microphone. This will cost money but give you much more control.
Look for products from Tascam, Apogee, Line 6, IK Multimedia, and Griffin.
Yes, it is possible to change the microphone sensitivity system wide on the iPad 2 and above, but only for external mics, as far as I know.
To adjust the audio input level you need two things:
In the voice recording section of GarageBand, select the button with the audio plug. With a supported device you should see the audio-input level slider and other extra settings like a monitor switch. The microphone input level adjusted in GarageBand, works system wide.
Depending of the amount of current you USB-mic needs, it could be that the iPad cannot deliver sufficient energy to power the mic. In that case you can use the Griffin iMic, or a powered USB hub. My Samson C01U works perfectly without any additional power requirements.
If you mean some sort of a global setting, then no. You might find an app that allows you to change your mic's sensitivity within the app, but I assume this is not what you need.
If you are asking because you feel that your mic is too quiet, it could be a hardware issue. I've seen a number of people complaining about their microphones, and they would often get a replacement (though using a vacuum cleaner to suck out dust from the mic hole could also theoretically help).


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Frank Rich
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Frank Rich is no longer writing his column for The New York Times.
Frank Rich is an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. His weekly 1,500-word essay helped inaugurate the expanded opinion pages that the paper introduced in the Sunday Week in Review section in April 2005.
Mr. Rich started as a columnist on the Op-Ed Page in January 1994. He first began writing his longer-form essays for the Op-Ed page in 1999, and from 1999 to 2003 was also a senior writer for The New York Times Magazine, a dual title that was a first for The Times. Before writing his column, Mr. Rich served as The Times's chief drama critic beginning in 1980, the year he joined The Times.
From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Rich was the front-page columnist for the Sunday Arts & Leisure section as part of that section's redesign and expansion. He also served in an advisory role in the revamping of The Times's daily and Sunday cultural report during that time.
Among other honors, Mr. Rich received the George Polk Award for commentary in 2005. In addition to his work at The Times, he has written about politics and culture for many other publications. His latest book, "The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina," was published by Penguin Press in 2006 and as a Penguin paperback in 2007. His childhood memoir, "Ghost Light," was published in 2000 by Random House and as a Random House Trade Paperback in 2001. The film rights to "Ghost Light" have been acquired by Storyline Entertainment. A collection of Mr. Rich's drama reviews, "Hot Seat: Theater Criticism for The New York Times, 1980-1993," was published by Random House in October 1998. His book "The Theatre Art of Boris Aronson," co-authored with Lisa Aronson, was published by Knopf in 1987.
In May 2008, Mr. Rich signed on as a creative consultant to help initiate and develop new programming at the pay-TV network HBO. He recused himself from writing about either HBO or its parent company, Time Warner, in his weekly Times column.
Before joining The Times, Mr. Rich was a film and television critic at Time magazine. Earlier, he had been film critic for The New York Post and film critic and senior editor of New Times Magazine. He was a founding editor of The Richmond (Va.) Mercury, a weekly newspaper, in the early 1970s.
Mr. Rich earned a B.A. degree in American History and Literature, graduating magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1971 and serving as Editorial Chairman of The Harvard Crimson.
Mr. Rich has two sons. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, the author and novelist Alex Witchel, who is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine.
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This battle, ostensibly over the deficit, is so much larger than the sum of its line-item parts.
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The Republicans, who sold themselves as the uncompromising champions of Tea Party-fueled fiscal austerity, have discovered that most Americans prefer compromise to confrontation.
January 30, 2011, Sunday
The One-Eyed Man Is King
"True Grit" has unalloyed faith in values antithetical to those of the 21st century America so deftly skewered in "The Social Network."
January 23, 2011, Sunday
No One Listened to Gabrielle Giffords
In March 2010, few of our leaders wanted to see what Giffords saw — that the vandalism and the death threats were part of a tide of insurrectionism that had been rising since the final weeks of the 2008 campaign.
January 16, 2011, Sunday
Let Obama's Reagan Revolution Begin
If Obama actually read that biography of Ronald Reagan that he took on vacation, his comeback could have legs.
January 9, 2011, Sunday
Who Killed the Disneyland Dream?
For all the inequities of America in 1956, economic equality seemed within reach, at least for the vast middle class.
December 26, 2010, Sunday
Harvard Magazine Profile of Frank Rich
The magazine writes on the columnist's theatrical approach to politics. (April 2007)
Frank Rich on The Colbert Report
From Jan. 19, 2009
Audio: Interview with Frank Rich
Sam Tanenhaus, editor of The New York Times Book Review, talks to the columnist about his book, "The Greatest Story Ever Sold." (Sept. 17, 2006)
Brooks, Dowd and Rich on U.S. Politics
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A recent report from Robinson and colleagues provides evidence that induced stress enhances aversive, but not appetitive, prediction error (PE) signaling in the ventral striatum (VS). This paper helps to potentially integrate findings from the human and nonhuman animal literatures, where non-rewarding salient events seem to "paradoxically" evoke reward system activation (Zink et al., 2003), including dopamine release (Horvitz, 2000). Robinson et al. show that a threatening environment may enhance the negative PE signal in the VS, at the expense of the positive PE signal, by biasing attention toward negative outcomes.
The finding by Robinson et al. has clear relevance for anxiety disorders, where enhanced processing of threat is thought to be a fundamental pathophysiological mechanism. Might these findings have relevance for schizophrenia? At first glance, one might think that this process could be involved as people begin to become psychotic. It is thought that stress is a critical contributor to the development of psychosis, and enhanced processing of threatening information might serve to amplify suspicion to the point of becoming a delusion. Thus, there is a case to be made that this same mechanism might contribute to the evolution of psychosis.
Interestingly, the same case can be made for negative symptoms. In three different studies, we have found that patients with high levels of negative symptoms appear to have preserved loss avoidance/"no-go" learning coupled with impaired positive reward-driven learning (Gold et al., 2012; Strauss et al., 2011; Waltz et al., 2007). This is supported by fMRI evidence of fully normal (if not enhanced) signaling of negative prediction errors with diminished processing of positive prediction errors in an experiment using a primary reinforcer (Waltz et al., 2009). These findings suggest that normal or enhanced punishment-driven learning, in the presence of compromised reward-driven learning, might be a path to motivational deficits and/or depression. Could a case be made that many patients with schizophrenia are basically chronically stressed, thereby enhancing the processing of aversive outcomes relative to positive outcomes, leading to behavioral deactivation and symptoms like avolition, anhedonia, and asociality? In fact, schizophrenia patients do consistently report reduced positive and increased negative trait affectivity relative to healthy populations (Horan et al., 2008).
While it may seem a bit far-fetched to think that increased trait negative affect can be equated with acute threat, the ongoing experience of negative emotion is likely a form of chronic stress. Multiple studies have linked elevated stress and high trait negative affect to an emotion regulation abnormality, i.e., difficulty applying strategies to reduce negative affect (Gross, 1998). We recently found evidence that high trait negative affect was associated with ineffective use of reappraisal strategies intended to decrease negative emotion at the neural level in patients with schizophrenia (Strauss et al., 2013). Perhaps high trait negative affect sets the stage for being more sensitive to negative PE signaling and forming aversive associations with outcomes, and emotion regulation abnormalities cause patients to be less able to recover from those aversive experiences quickly.
Several issues remain to be resolved, regarding the finding of Robinson et al. For example, does the threat environment actually flip the sign of the prediction error signal in the VS, or is the VS response to fearful faces in the threatening environment a sign-less salience signal? Should an enhancement of the negative PE signal in the threat condition involve extreme deactivation of the VS, or activation of the VS?
Nonetheless, the work of Robinson and colleagues provides us with several new questions to consider in people with schizophrenia.
Gold JM, Waltz JA, Matveeva TM, Kasanova Z, Strauss GP, Herbener ES, Collins AG, Frank MJ. Negative symptoms and the failure to represent the expected reward value of actions: behavioral and computational modeling evidence. Arch Gen Psychiatry . 2012 Feb ; 69(2):129-38. Abstract
Gross JJ. The emerging field of emotion regulation: an integrative review. Review of General Psychology. 1998;2:271-99.
Horan WP, Blanchard JJ, Clark LA, Green MF. Affective traits in schizophrenia and schizotypy. Schizophr Bull. 2008;34:856-874. Abstract
Horvitz JC. Mesolimbocortical and nigrostriatal dopamine responses to salient
non-reward events. Neuroscience. 2000;96(4):651-6. Review. Abstract
Strauss GP, Frank MJ, Waltz JA, Kasanova Z, Herbener ES, Gold JM. Deficits in positive reinforcement learning and uncertainty-driven exploration are associated with distinct aspects of negative symptoms in schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry . 2011 Mar 1 ; 69(5):424-31. Abstract
Strauss GP, Kappenman ES, Culbreth AJ, Catalano LT, Lee BG, Gold JM. Emotion Regulation Abnormalities in Schizophrenia: Cognitive Change Strategies Fail to Decrease the Neural Response to Unpleasant Stimuli. Schizophr Bull . 2013 Jan 11. Abstract
Waltz JA, Frank MJ, Robinson BM, Gold JM. Selective reinforcement learning deficits in schizophrenia support predictions from computational models of striatal-cortical dysfunction. Biol Psychiatry . 2007 Oct 1 ; 62(7):756-64. Abstract
Waltz JA, Schweitzer JB, Gold JM, Kurup PK, Ross TJ, Salmeron BJ, Rose EJ, McClure SM, Stein EA. Patients with schizophrenia have a reduced neural response to both unpredictable and predictable primary reinforcers. Neuropsychopharmacology . 2009 May ; 34(6):1567-77. Abstract
Zink CF, Pagnoni G, Martin ME, Dhamala M, Berns GS. Human striatal response to salient nonrewarding stimuli. J Neurosci. 2003 Sep 3;23(22):8092-7. Abstract


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Last year Sony revealed that all its first-party studios were developing games for the PlayStation 4, although many of these projects are still shrouded in mystery. Now the team behind The Getaway series, SCE London Studio, has posted a job listing which sheds some light on what the developer is working on next.
The advert calls for a senior artist with next-generation experience to produce environment and vehicle assets to a "superb quality" on an upcoming PS4 title. The successful candidate will join a "small, dynamic game development team" so it appears that there's still a long way to go before production on the project ramps up.
Besides The Getaway series, SCE London Studio has made a handful of games involving vehicles over the past two decades including Porsche Challenge, Hardware: Online Arena, Fired Up, and Gangs of London.
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If your store is successful and it's time to open a second one, what could be handier than taking the space next door?
Connie Schleuning did exactly that this spring, when she opened Mercí Boutique in Chenoweth Square, on the west side of her Fleur de Lis store.
"The same people are working at both places now, sharing responsibility, so it's manageable," she said. "We thought about cutting a hole through the wall to connect the stores – maybe someday."
Connie, who has a degree in business marketing, opened Fleur de Lis 12 years ago to sell home interior items, accessories and gifts. The store has done interior design work in a number of houses.
"I just liked the way 'Fleur de Lis' sounded," she said. "My husband, Bill, thought it was a terrible name, because nobody knew what it was or how to say it. He didn't realize that it's the symbol of Louisville – to be honest, neither did I. That became a joke between us."
The opportunity to create Mercí came when the wine store beside Fleur de Lis closed. Mercí opened about two months ago, following hands-on redecorating by Fleur de Lis staff, friends and relatives. The close-knit staff comprises Connie; her sister, Shorty Martin; Mary Beth Hughes and Linda Vittitow, both of whom were Connie's classmates at Jeffersonville High School; and Leaha Shaughnessy, Linda's neice.
"The name 'Mercí' just seemed to go with 'Fleur de Lis'," Connie said. "We decided that it should be a clothing store, for no particular reason other than the fact that we love pretty clothes. All Louisville women do."
Connie and her staff travel to market shows in New York and Atlanta for the latest and best fashions. Now that the more formal dresses of Derby season have gone, they have been savoring summer styles from designers such as Nanette Lepore, Pink Tartan, and Britt Ryan.
"We like colors, so we've put an emphasis on brightness. Even our white and black clothes look bright," she said. "I used to go around in a golf shirt, but now I'm stepping out a little."
Mercí's goals include carrying a wide range of sizes – from 0 to 14, although not in every item – and clothing that appeals to more than one generation. As the youngest member of the buying team, Leaha helps bring in the "younger taste level."
"We also have a good range of shoppers: We sold Derby dresses to girls going to their high school dances, but also to an 80-year-old lady," she said. "Sometimes, there is crossover for the same item."
Mercí carries jewelry, including handmade selections by local designers W&M Custom Jewelry, and Coquettish Designs. At present, the only footwear is fancy flip-flops, which also have been sold at Fleur de Lis. Reading glasses by Eyebobs are on display as well.
"People see these pretty things and think that hanging them up is all there is to do, but we have to open all the boxes and break them down," Connie said. "That kind of thing takes a lot of effort and time. My husband is a tremendous help and so understanding. He pitches in a lot."
The payoff for that hard work is the tide of customers that continues to roll in. Some shoppers are long-time Fleur de Lis patrons, while others are new to both stores.
"There's a lot of value in being next door to The Cheddar Box, too, and across from Paul's Fruit Market, because everyone in St. Matthews goes to them," she said. "The greatest compliment we've gotten came from Nancy (Tarrant) at The Cheddar Box – she said, 'I'm thankful to be located next to Mercí, because we're now getting people we've never seen.' "
Mercí Boutique, 3911 Chenoweth Square, is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. For more information, call 502.893.4252.


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The 7 Most Offensive Adaptations of Classic Comic Books
#3. The Wholly Unremarkable Spider-Man
Twenty-five years before Hollywood spent millions in special effects trying to make Tobey Maguire look like a teenager, Spider-Man starred in his first live-action adaptation, a low-budget TV movie that spawned a short-lived CBS series.
The show came out in 1977, back when all the funky vibes and cocaine particles permeating the air made it physically impossible to compose a theme song that didn't sound like it belonged in a porno. This was no exception:
The series jettisoned Spidey's entire supporting cast under the age of 70, leaving only Aunt May and Peter's boss J. Jonah Jameson. Except Jameson has been made so mellow (or, as Wikipedia puts it, "avuncular") that he's practically a different character.
"Goddammit, Parker. Don't make me go avuncular on your ass."
Even worse: None of Spidey's villains were featured in the series, probably because the budget was so low that they could only afford to rent one cheap Halloween costume at the time. So instead of fighting Dr. Octopus and the Green Goblin, Spider-Man spends all his time tracking down and catching anonymous thugs, meaning this is basically Law & Order: Asshole in Pantyhose Division.
"A body in a dumpster? Looks like somebody got trashed."
And of course, no 70s action series is complete without awkwardly choreographed kung fu high jinks.
You'll notice that Spider-Man spends most of those fights jumping out of the way of the henchmen instead of, you know, fighting them. The closest thing to a display of superpowers in the entire show is the part where a thug lifts Spider-Man in the air, and his body magically morphs into a dummy between shots.
Even Stan Lee (who received a "story consultant" credit on every show) was publicly critical of the series, calling it "too juvenile." This is the same guy who praised the bizarre Japanese rip-off in which Spider-Man commands a giant robot. Say what you will about that one, at least it looks like they were TRYING to make a superhero show.
#2. It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's ... The Shittiest Musical Ever
Here's how much the world has changed in 35 years: In 1975, you could sit down, turn on your TV and see a lavish musical about Superman. Actors were paid to star in it. A TV network paid for it. Advertisers paid money to have their commercials shown during it.
Thanks again, Cocaine.
There is some background here; before It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's Superman was a TV special, it was a Broadway show. This was in 1966, and by then the Man of Steel was in the same spot as the Ninja Turtles in the 80s: Musical theater was the only medium he hadn't yet appeared in.
And really, a stage show about a guy going around punching criminals isn't necessarily a bad idea, but in this case it totally was. Why? Look at it.
The show also starred a particularly vacuous version of Lois Lane, a Superman-hating reporter called Max Mencken and the geriatric Dr. Abner Sedgwick as the main villain of the piece. Lex Luthor couldn't appear because he was too busy staying away from this silly shit.
"Ha ha ha ... no."
But hey, at least we got some memorable new characters, like Office Worker Who Breaks Into Song #3.
He eventually got his own miniseries from DC Comics.
At one point, in a fit of despair over being called a "freak," Superman tries to kill himself -- not by ingesting kryptonite or having his atoms dispersed by a black hole, but by jumping off a bridge. Either he's stupid and forgot who he was, or he's a huge attention whore intentionally trying to make a scene.
He even waited until a boat full of people could see him.
Superman is eventually saved by two happening hippies who let him know that "there's nothing wrong with being a freak, as long as you freak in the right direction." After this not-so-subtle come-on, Superman flees the scene as fast as he can, a little flattered, a little curious.
Then there's the musical number where Superman battles a handful of henchmen in a laboratory while singing and dancing around the room, occasionally throwing punches in their general direction. It's very difficult to accurately lip-synch as you're mime fighting, as we all know, so the actor playing Superman compromises by focusing on neither of those things.
Now imagine you paid money for a ticket to see this live.
#1. Generation X: The C-List X-Men
Anyone tuning into Generation X hoping for an adaptation of Douglas Coupland's novel must have been sorely disappointed -- but nowhere near as disappointed as the throngs of X-Men fans hoping to finally see their favorite characters realized in live-action.
Airing in 1996, Generation X was an X-Men adaptation that featured none of the popular X-Men (like, you know, any of the 20 that appear in the recent movies), focusing instead on minor characters like Banshee, Jubilee and Mondo, who according to Wikipedia looks like this:
The villain is some guy called Russell Tresh, a wildly out-of-control advertiser who, as an example of his new mind-control device, causes a whole board of executives to suddenly erupt into an orgy of flatulence.
That happens.
Instead of Professor X we get Emma Frost, a powerful psychic who looks like a retired stripper and who has access to the so-called "Dream Dimension." The villain's evil master plan is to take over the dream realm and exploit it to sell video games and deodorants.
"Now that you're at my mercy, can I interest you in some magazine subscriptions?"
Because mutant brains are essential to Tresh's plan, he starts visiting the teenage X-Men in their dreams, calling himself "Uncle Russ" and acting like a cross between Freddy Krueger and Gary Glitter. When he finally manages to lure a mutant kid into his lab he quickly traps him inside a weird S&M device, complete with ball gag ...
... and then pulls out a straight razor and threatens to circumcise the 17-year-old strapped to the table. Seriously. We have video:
Yeah, about the villain ... in the first (real) X-Men movie, Bryan Singer had Magneto played by Ian McKellen, an accomplished Shakespearean actor who could bring a level of pathos and dignity to the role. For Generation X, they cast the guy who played Max Headroom. And then they had him play the most disturbing villain the history of crappy low-budget TV movies.
By the way, Tresh's plan to use his dream device to plant ideas in unsuspecting brains strangely mirrors the plot of Inception -- if Christopher Nolan had written it at age 13.
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I'll be at Intervention7 this September!
We STILL seem to have a RANDOM ARCHIVE GLITCH where clicking on the next comic will take you to the next comic page, but oddly display a comic from a totally different date. Hitting Refresh sometimes helps.
Comic for Monday 03/09/09
Comic for Tuesday 03/10/09
This is technically only half the comic I intended for today, but my work-speed was grinding to a halt and I was burning out. So I apologize that this is only half the intended comic. I don't think this is a good solution, only better than running a filler comic mid-fall.


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Wholesale opportunities now available
Put SoundSuitShop in your own shop
Don't miss us at the Museum Store Association Conference in Booth 437. We will launching a over 20 new products that matter. If you are interested carrying our line in your store please send your wholesale request to email@example.com.
SSS is currently carried at: Seattle Art Museum, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
Nick Cave has been making Soundsuits for nearly 20 years, and though they've been lauded in the art world, their spread in Vogue's September Issue secured Cave a whole new brand of recognition.
"Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth is an invitation by the artist to break free from the confines of our daily life and travel to a place in which imagination is unencumbered," said SAM's Pamela McClusky, Curator of African and Oceanic Art. "Nick Cave is an extraordinary artist whose work is a true confluence of art, movement and sound that is impossible to resist."
After leading you through a magical, mystical, fantastic journey, interwoven with nostalgia, memory, and the transformative, Meet Me at the Center of the Earth culminates with SoundSuitShop | SAM, an immersive shopping experience in the last gallery of the exhibition.
SoundSuitShop was created to share the art of Nick Cave with a wider audience than his exhibitions can possibly reach. These simple, practical items transport Nick's richly patterned, highly conceptual Soundsuits into the realm of everyday life. The quality and ingenuity of every SoundSuitShop item make them easy to wear, share or simply enjoy. Expect every SoundSuitShop product to spark thought, conversation and even pure wonder. Each product has been carefully sourced and designed to outperform other products in its category. As Nick's work evolves, so does SoundSuitShop's selection. Product quantities will be limited to a single production run; we hate to disappoint, so please order early.
Contact firstname.lastname@example.com regarding any wholesale requests.
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Design by Faust Associates
Development by Cartel Blanche
Photos by James Prinz
As both artist and partner, Nick is the vision of all things "Soundsuit". He is also the Chairman of the Fashion Department at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. Nick is a trans-artist working between sculpture, installation, performance, video, designed object and fashion. His work is shown nationally and internationally and is very interested in using his work as a impetus for outreach in the community at large.
As partner and design director, Bob both designs and develops all SoundSuitShop products. He is also the founder and creative director of Faust Associates, a design and branding firm in Chicago with clients such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Four Seasons Hotels, Playboy Enterprises and McDonald's Corporation. He has been recognized as a design leader by many prestigious publications and organizations and has recently served as sponsorship chair for AIGA, the professional association for design, and is currently a member of the School of the Art Institute's Fashion Committee.
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Soundsuitshop SAM pop-up shop
Seattle Art Museum
March 8, 2011 – June 5, 2011
Conversation with Cynthia Rowley
Seattle Art Museum
March 30, 2011
Pictoplasma Conference
Berlin, Germany
April 8, 2011
Moorehead University
Moorehead, Kentucky
April 14, 2011
Public Parade
Residency Project with University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee
April 23, 2011
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, Illinois
June 18 – October 16, 2011
Smart Museum of Art
Chicago, Illinois
June 29th – September 2011
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Taubman Art Museum
Roanoke, Virginia
August 2011 – January 2012
Concurrent Exhibitions
Mary Boone Gallery and Jack Shainman Gallery
New York, New York
Sept 8, 2011 – October 8, 2011
Weatherspoon Art Museum
Greensboro, North Carolina
September 17 – December 11, 2011
Prospect 2
New Orleans, Louisiana
October 2011 – December 2011
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati, Ohio
January 2012 – April 2012
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Boise Art Museum
Boise, Idaho
May 19 – September 23, 2012
Not for the fashion faint-of-heart, SoundSuitShop.com bravely brings pattern down to the ground (below the waist?). Emblazon your legs with buttons, flowers, sequins or hair by pulling on a pair of these leggings made of heavy gauge four-way stretch fabric. Then hit the streets ready to create some legging lust.
Available now at SoundSuitShop/SAM pop-up shop through June 5th at the Seattle Art Museum in conjunction with the Meet Me at the Center of the Earth exhibition. Sign up to be notified when this product is available online.
Price: $240 Added to Shopping Bag.


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16 Jan 2010 3:51 AM #41
conjoon 0.1RC2 Release Announcements
We are proud to announce the second release candidate of conjoon 0.1 (conjoon 0.1RC2). This RC focuses on bug fixes, Ext 3.1 integration and security enhancements, and should be the last candidate for the next stable release.
Here's a list of notable fixes/enhancements that made it into this release:
[Email module - backend]
- fixed an issue where protocol would get overwritten on account update
- fixed: sending emails would not consider the configured port for the outgoing
mail server
[Email module - client]
- fixed a critical issue where the state of a panel would not be saved when
deactivating this panel (closes #369)
- fixed a possible security hole that could occur if relative links are used
in feed items (closes #371)
[Feeds module - backend]
- fixed an issue that would break importing/adding feeds when a call to
"getLastDateModified()" from Zend_Feed_Reader on the specific resource would
return NULL (closes #370)
[Feeds module - client]
- fixed an issue where the dialog would not be closable after an error occured
on the server during adding a feed (see #370)
[Twitter module - client]
- fixed an issue where the local Twitter account store would not be updated
with the most recent values after data has been successfully submitted to the
server (closes #361)
Please download and test this release candidate, and report any issues found. A stable release is expected next week. In case of critcal issues we will continue producing weekly RCs. Downloads and further information is available at http://www.conjoon.org/downloads. See also the most recent installation/upgrade guide at http://wiki.conjoon.org/wiki/Users/Guide/Installation.
- fixed an issue where protocol would get overwritten on account update
17 Jan 2010 3:47 PM #42
Thorste, I have to say congratulations!
Your release is inspirational, it's one of the best I've seen and it's awesome to see that the code is available to download. I've been reading through it and I've been very impressed by how clean and well documented it is
Great job, you guys should be very proud of yourselfs. Thanks for sharing your efforts and inspiring me (and hopefully many others) at least.
21 Jan 2010 1:56 AM #43
conjoon 0.1RC3 release announcements
Thanks for the feedback @Palastanga
In the meantime, we have released conjoon 0.1RC3. This RC focuses on issues we came across during tests on various systems, and we want to thank Marc Steinert and Johannes Hahn for providing us with detailed bug reports.
Notable changes from the changelog:
[Email module - client]
- fixed an issue where the EmailAccountWizard would be opened twice if no email accounts are available due to reserved method name "onShow()"
[Twitter module - backend]
- fixed an issue where reading out Tweets from a newly imported account with no Tweets yet would trigger an error
[General UI]
- removed debug code that would trigger an error in other browsers than FF
Release announcements and download options can be found at http://www.conjoon.org
22 Mar 2010 2:40 AM #44
conjoon V0.1.1 available
I'm proud to announce the immediate release of conjoon V0.1.1. This is a maintenance release in the 0.1 series which provides several bug fixes.
From the changelog:
- brought Ext.ux.Livegrid 0.4.1 into the main dev branch which fixes an issue
reported by hflipman (http://www.conjoon.org/forum/showthread.php?346) regarding
the loading of selections
[Reception module - client]
- fixed a consequence of a possible race condition that could occur if a user
sets the workbench into "standby", then a login with the same user credentials
is done on another machine, and the previously locked workbench is unlocked
- fixed several trailing comma issues that would prevent IE7 from starting
the application
- updated conjoon to use Ext.ux.YoutubePlayer 0.4 which fixes a few issues
and introduces functionality to chose from different video resolutions based
on the resolutions the currently playing video provides
[Feeds module - backend]
- fixed an issue where item facade's "importAndAddFeedItems()" would not handle
an exception other than "Zend_Http_Client_Exception" properly, thus breaking
updating other feed items resources if any other exception was thrown
You can download the latest release at the official download page.
29 Mar 2010 3:02 AM #45
conjoon demo is available
I've had finally the time to set up a demo.
The demo's purpose is to give you a first glance of the features of conjoon. Therefore,
- you can only use one preconfigured email account
- only the latest 10 emails from this preconfigured account will be fetched every time you check for new messages
- you can't edit, add or remove email accounts
- an additional signature will be attached to each message you send from the demo
The demo is available at http://demo.conjoon.org. Please visit http://www.conjoon.org/demo for further instructions and informations.
30 Mar 2010 6:17 AM #46
conjoon 0.1.2 available
Hey there,
conjoon 0.1.2 is available and introduces ExtJS 3.1.2 to the 0.1 branch of conjoon. You can read the release announcements over at http://www.conjoon.org/blog/2010/03/...-1-2-released/.
In short, the release focuses on ui enhancements and improving the installation wizard. We have encountered some problems on unix based systems and hope those issues are now ironed out.
For the 0.1 series, we will provide bug fixes from now on. New features are all added to the 0.2 branch, which also introduces IMAP support.
Oh, and make sure you check out the official demo over at http://demo.conjoon.org!
30 Mar 2010 9:17 AM #47
Hi Thorsten,
Thank you for sharing your fabulous work of art.
When I'm out on vacation beginning next week, I have time to study and learn from 2 great examples and a new tool.
1. Your awesome product
2. Jay Garcia's app.zip -- this is using CodeIgniter from what I have read
3. Also play with the new Ext Designer
4. And more time with your LiveGrid user extension
My goal is to become better at doing Ext JS.
I can never thank you enough.
30 Mar 2010 9:19 AM #48
Hi Mario,
I'm on step four right now
When you have time, look at Thorsten's code. Clearly, he's a leader in this space.https://moduscreate.com/wp-content/t...es/favicon.png
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30 Mar 2010 10:54 AM #49
I have looked at making the scrollbar more user friendly and consistent between browsers. During the last 3 days, I made 2 attempts at it and documented it beginning here for the work I done.
In any event both attempts failed. The 2nd was very close and it was very nice. But, IE 6 changes the minimum distance the scroll will move depending on the height of the window, where Firefox and WebKit is a fixed amount.
Our users have expressed on not wanting to have to page through a grid. It's now the year 2010 and I agree with the users. The LiveGrid is there for prefetching, buffering, etc.
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There are various common (often Latin) phrases for various logic fallacies, such as post hoc ergo propter hoc, argumentum ad populum, slippery slope fallacy, etc. Is there a common phrase used to describe the fallacy of saying that because a claim seems so unusual or specific, it must be true, because 'nobody would ever make something that unusual up'?
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The biggest problem in finding a technical fallacy is that "absurd", in this context, isn't detailed enough. Why is it absurd? The idea that any absurd thing could be believed if it was simply absurd enough is not really true.
The idea of arguing something as true because no one would make it up is close to these fallacies:
Strangely enough, the last is pretty darn close and is described as:
If you notice the quotes in that quote, you may wonder who coined the term. It was Adolf Hilter in his book Mein Kampf. In a certain sense, this Big Lie is an appeal to authority mixed with a strong pull on assumed morality.
Many tend to think of an appeal to authority as the style of bringing in a football player to advertise footballs: Since the player uses football, surely he knows which are best. But appeal to authority also includes what we are talking about here. Trying to list the steps it would look something like this:
The 3-4 step is the appeal to authority. Using English, these are all appeals to authority:
In conclusion, most "so absurd it must be true" arguments are likely to include one of these somewhere. They probably have other problems, too, considering how absurd they are. The specific term Big Lie is appropriate for someone who actually created such an absurd argument and is using it against the people who consider it too absurd to doubt.
"Truth is stranger than fiction" is a common English phrase, and implies that something outlandish is probably true. Admittedly it is not exactly what the questioner sought.
There is no such fallacy. The nearest I could get was:
While it doesn't touch on the "absurd" portion, a related concept is the exception that proves the rule in it's more modern, sardonic, "incorrect"† sense.
† ("Incorrect" according to Fowler a century ago, though the modern "nonsense" version is the only way I've ever actually heard it in day-to-day life.)
I believe [sic] that you are after a higher concept, such as dogma.
It does not fit all the attributes that you have prescribed, however it describes how one could come to accept propositions that are or seem to be unbelievable, incredible or fantastic.
On the other hand, I don't believe that credibility of such statements grows intrinsically from their unusualness. I think that your criteria: "it must be true since no one would make this up." is an afterthought, a reasoning (and yes, that is fallacious).
The original statement is not fallacious by itself - for example, such statement could have been: "It rained frogs". By itself it does not make me believe that it is true just because it sounds highly unlikely (or impossible); on the contrary, without any context I am more inclined to reject the statement as false. Still, it is a statement - either true or false. It contains no intrinsic fallacy and we can accept it either as assumption (used in consequent reasoning) or axiom (postulate) or as dogma.
It is fallacious to defend its truth value by saying "it must be true since no one would invent such a thing".
I think that this Nazi reasoning given to us by Joseph Goebbles, even in translation, has been read in English print long enough for it to qualify as a common English Phrase.
More of a rant then a phrase but I'm sure it's meaning qualifies as common English knowledge today as a result of the notoriety of the statement.
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