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6 Actors Who Thought They Had Made a Totally Different Movie
Filmmaking is such a chaotic, haphazard process that it's nearly impossible for the people involved to tell if the movie is going to be good or not. Scenes are filmed out of order, much of what you shoot is going to get cut, and you have to trust that whatever effects fill in the big green wall behind you are going to look good.
So maybe it's not all that surprising that some of the stars of your favorite movies had no goddamned idea what film they were even making. For example ...
#6. Carrie (1976) -- Piper Laurie Thought She Was Filming a Comedy
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Carrie is the story of a horribly abused high school outcast with supreme telekinetic power who is finally pushed too far by a prank on prom night and decides to use her mutant ability to kill every single person who ever looked at her askance. To prove she isn't wholly evil, she also kills John Travolta as a public service.
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If she had just stopped there, the town would have probably been ready to call it even.
Then Carrie stumbles back home and kills the real villain of the movie -- her mother, a cruelly evil Bible-thumping taskmistress who was Carrie's chief tormenter -- before using her mind-flexes to implode their house.
The Confusion:
Carrie's mother is so over-the-top evil that she's like a kindergartner's drawing of violent religious insanity. In fact, the character was so broad that Piper Laurie, the actress who plays her, was convinced the movie was a comedy when she first read the script. The mother was so operatic to her that she thought the character was intentionally cartoonish.
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She was surprisingly lax about wire hangers.
Director Brian De Palma had to take her aside and explain that he wasn't exactly going for laughs with his film about abuse, rage, and supernatural murder. Still, Laurie couldn't shake the idea that her character was completely ridiculous, and she laughed constantly between takes. This might have something to do with the scene in which she refers to her daughter's breasts as "dirty pillows," completely stone-faced and without a trace of irony, or it could be related to the Phantom of the Opera cape she wears in every scene with a similar lack of elbow-nudging winks.
Whatever the case, Laurie still insists that Carrie is really a black comedy. We are curious to see what constitutes gut-busting hijinks in her mind, because she's fucking terrifying in that movie.
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"I'm a horrifying monster! Get it?!"
#5. The Usual Suspects -- Everyone Thought They Were Keyser Soze
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The Usual Suspects is a critically acclaimed thriller about a team of career criminals working for a legendary supervillain named Keyser Soze, who we only ever see in a series of flashbacks looking like Antonio Banderas' stunt double with his face shrouded by a delumination spell. The story is told through the eyes of Verbal Kint, the weeniest member of Keyser Soze's gang, as he is being interrogated by a police detective in the wake of their botched ultra-heist.
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"I also want to know who the hell keeps stealing my newspaper!"
However, in one of the most infamous non-Shyamalan twist endings in cinema history, we learn that Verbal Kint was really Keyser Soze all along and had made the entire story up to pin the crime on a guy named Dean Keaton, who was conveniently too dead to offer a compelling rebuttal.
The Confusion:
Verbal Kint's story (which, in essence, is the entire movie we just watched) is so convincing that Gabriel Byrne, the actor who played Dean Keaton, really believed he was Keyser Soze. He went right on believing he was Keyser Soze all through the filming of The Usual Suspects and wasn't aware of the twist until he and the rest of the cast were shown a preview screening, at which point he became furiously pissed and dragged director Bryan Singer outside to scream into his face about it. Note: This is not the last time a person would feel compelled to bellow rage gusts at Bryan Singer after watching one of his movies.
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In fact, according to Kevin Spacey (who played Verbal Kint), Singer had convinced everyone in the main cast that they were Keyser Soze. So Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Stephen Baldwin, and Kevin Pollak all thought they were going to sit in a darkened theater on opening night and watch themselves revealed as the ultimate crime machine. The fact that Singer managed to convince Stephen Baldwin and Kevin Pollak that they were the ultimate anything in his movie is a testament to the strength of his deception.
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A full three years passed before Baldwin realized that Singer had paid him in expired Popeye's coupons.
One reason the trickery was so successful was that Singer really believed it was the truth -- he told veteran character actor Pete Postlethwaite (who plays the lawyer Kobayashi in the film) that it didn't matter what part Postlethwaite chose to play, because they were all Keyser Soze. Technically that's true -- the entire movie is just a story made up by Kint/Soze, so every character in it is essentially him -- but that's the same kind of pretentiousness that gave us the most boring Superman movie ever created, so we're kind of with Gabriel Byrne on this one.
#4. The Shining -- The Kid Didn't Know It Was a Horror Movie
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Stanley Kubrick's hallucinogenic mindfuck bonanza The Shining stars Jack Nicholson as a man named Jack with a tenuous grip on sobriety (needless to say, it was the acting challenge of his career). He takes his family to a haunted hotel where a bunch of ghosts pause long enough in between giving each other phantasmic costumed blow jobs to convince him to kill his son, Danny, who uses his Professor X thought powers to convince Jack to kill an old black man instead and get locked outside in a fatal snowstorm.
The Confusion:
The little boy who played Danny, 6-year-old Danny Lloyd, had no idea he was acting in a horror movie. Stanley Kubrick, a man famous for not giving one screaming banshee fart for the comfort and safety of his actors, decided to spare Lloyd from seeing all the terrifying bullshit he was capturing on film while making one of the most famous horror movies of all time (this is the same man who, on the exact same film, tormented the lead actress so badly that her hair began to fall out). Evidently he had a soft spot for children.
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"And after this scene, you and the twins go to Disney World and play forever and ever and ever."
Lloyd just thought they were making a movie about a family in a hotel. He wasn't even really sure how much he was getting paid to be there. He was only ever shown severely edited footage that took out all the scary parts, which essentially means he thought he was filming the most boring snoozefest ever created, because without the iconic scenes of terror, The Shining is a movie about three people wandering around in cavernous, brooding silence.
Lloyd didn't see the actual uncut movie until many years later as a teenager, and suddenly everything clicked into place -- those two nice British girls with whom he used to play and share lunch in between takes? They were ax-murdered ghosts who wanted his soul. That nice Jack Nicholson man who did a funny tomahawk dance when Lloyd accidentally wandered on set one day? Jack was slobberingly hacking his way through a bathroom door to murder Lloyd's onscreen mother only moments prior.
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"I thought we were just filming a new Tonight Show title sequence."
For all his jimmy-legged, scraggly-bearded lunacy, Stanley Kubrick did his absolute best to make sure Lloyd didn't experience any of the psychological horror he was wielding the boy to create. According to historical record, this is the closest to "doing something nice" that Stanley Kubrick ever got.


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In what situations would I want to use a polarized vs. a merged range? Are there situations where it is best to have a purely high or low value range?
When to use a low-value range
There is no time when an exclusively low value range is optimal. The purpose of including low value hands in a range is to extract additional value from high value hands, or to play more hands in general against opponents that fold too often. In the first case, you need high value hands in your range to make the strategy work. In the second, there is no reason to limit yourself to low value hands.
When to use a high-value range
Against loose-passive opponents, who will play most hands and take them to the river, you will want to play high-value hands. Since these players can't be bluffed, you need hands that can get to showdown and win. Your "high value" range can expand to include some medium hands depending on how light opponents will call down (if they call down with any pair, hands that make second pair can be played profitably), but it will not include low value hands.
This is the best strategy against a level 0 player.
When to use a polarized range
As your opponents become more able to fold hands in certain situations, it becomes profitable to start adding bluffs to your range. When adding bluffs to a range, it is best to start with hands that have little-to-no showdown value - the 72o-type hands. There are a few spots this can be applied. A polarized range can be used when 3-betting in position pre-flop against a good opponent. A good opponent will not call with many hands out of position - they may have some high value hands in their calling range, but for the most part they will 4-bet or fold. In this situation, you will either want to get your money all-in, or fold. You go all-in with your high value hands, and fold the rest. So if you 3-bet with a hand like AJs, but have to fold to an all-in, that is a waste of a hand that can be profitably played in position. This is why we polarize our range - when we get 4-bet with 72o, and have to fold, we aren't losing value.
A similar place where a polarized range can be useful is a flop check-raising situation. When the board comes out K 8 4 rainbow, and you check-raise, you are representing a very strong range - mainly sets, possibly AK. To balance that range, you can add hands like small pocket pairs or missed suited connectors - these hands have little-to-no value against the range that your opponent will continue with.
This will be the best strategy against a level 1 or level 2 player.
When to use a merged range
A merged range comes into play when your opponent starts adjusting to your polarized range. On the previous flop of K 8 4, an opponent may start adjusting to your polarized raising range by calling down with second pair, or a pocket pair like 99 or 77. Suddenly, we can start raising hands like KJ and QQ for value. A merged range will put opponents to many more difficult decisions, which will likely lead to them making more mistakes.
This strategy will be best employed against higher level thinkers, where there are significant meta-game factors and constant adjustment of ranges as the match proceeds.
One example I can come out is a situation where if you make a raise, you put your opponent to a decision that they will be comitted whatever they do, so either they need to push or fold. Because of this reason, you have the same decision too after they made their (push or fold). So getting in a situation like this with a range not polarized is simply bad, because if you are comitted, you have to call the push if you have the right odds, and put more money in bad... but if you fold a mid-strong hand, you wasted your potential to win the hand by calling. Example: you raise the turn with a middle pair or strong draw such amount that your opponent can't just call. In this case you lose nothing with zero equity hand when your range is polarized. You would lost with that hand anyway, and you can make a -EV situation profitable if they fold enough, but if they push, you don't have to put more money in bad. With a middle strong holding it could be a terrible idea, because you lose the possibility to win at showdown let's say with mid pair, you waste your chance to win if you do this.
You can balance your polarized range perfectly anyway by the correct ratio of good/bad hands in that situation.
Another example came to my mind, when your opponent has polarized range on the river!! There is no point to bet your mid strong hands, because either they will fold their nothing or bluff your not-good-enough-for-calling hand out of the pot with a raise and you could win with a check anyway. And if you bet your hand and still call, it's not sure if the pure bluff enough to make the call profitable, so you are screwed. :D A typical and very common situation when you think your opponent had a draw all the way, and the river card completed no draw at all. Betting with one-pair in this situation is terrible, even some strong but tricky hand too, especially against opponents who can balance their ranges well, so they can check-raise bluff you out of the pot optimal times...
I remember a hand (actually two :D) played by Daniel Negreanu in a high stakes heads up match, where he check-called three times with top pair and good kicker OOP, and then, a similar situation came, and the guy checked behind top pair with good kicker, because he was afraid that Negreanu can call him with a better hand ! He would clearly bet that hand for value without the history (the previous hand) as Negreanu pointed out in his analysis. So, from the opponent perspective, there were no value in merging his value range against Negreanu in that situation.

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quote: Higher quality 4" screen while the rest of the industry moved to 4.6-5.0. And please spare me the "all you need is 4" argument cause it's getting old.
quote: Better build quality? IDK, iphone always feel pretty solid but there's plenty of choices now with solid build. The HTC One i played with actually feels much better than the iphone, has better screen, camera and overall a more exciting product.
quote: better apps? Almost all decent apps are cross platforms. A few unique apps for both platforms but the only time you can say apps is better is when you compare to W8 or Blackberry.
quote: Timely updates? So does google Nexus
quote: Does the iphone5 beat the LG Nexus 4 at anything?
quote: Oh, so its OK for you to call me liar, but not in reverse?
quote: your true motives have been outed.
quote: I can see it, dont call me a liar over it, I can see it.
quote: Once the GS4 drops it will be beaten. Of course, it remains to be seen how practical performance is and how well the GPU handles its resolution. Videos of the GS4 are all choppy so far (hard to know if it is the hardware or Android itself, we'll see).
quote: An sRGB calibrated IPS screen looks much better than an oversaturated AMOLED any day, especially when the best selling high end Android handset uses a cheap pentile matrix. Size is personal preference but 5" phones are too big for single handed operation. If you want a big screen then by all means get one, but display quality in most Android devices is substandard.
quote: The HTC One and DNA both have excellent screens and build quality, I really like them both. Calibration isn't as good as the iPhone's but its good enough, and it blows away Samsung's displays/build quality. No argument there.
quote: The best apps I use are platform exclusive. Going to another platform would mean a downgrade in quality or losing it altogether. Even most mainstream cross-platform apps are better on iOS (mainstream stuff like Flipboard or Yelp), and the biggest Android app news is usually when something ancient like Instapaper or Flipboard finally gets an Android port. Even some of Google's iOS apps are better than their Android counterparts (maps, voice search, gmail). And the best GMail client isn't by Google, same with the best Youtube client. They are called Mailbox and Jasmine, and they are both iOS only.
quote: Certainly, and I wish it was like that for all Android devices. Unfortunately the Nexus makes up a single-digit percentage point of all Android devices sold, hardly a relevant data point.
quote: Speed, battery life, LTE, display quality (Anandtech slammed the Nexus 4 display), applications, build quality, etc.
quote: you're right. This is not android's fault, this is the carriers faults. Apple somehow got around that probably because it's not open. But I only care as what i experience as the consumer so iphone wins here.
quote: Did you even read the article? I just glanced at it again to be sure but he praised the Nexus 4. The only thing he "slammed" the Nexus 4 for is the screen not being calibrated and a little on battery life.


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I understand the capabilities of SQL Server Schemas, but what are the best practices? Sure they give another layer of security, and provide logical grouping of database objects within the database, but what is typical out there? I often, in my experience, don't see many custom made schemas utilized. Is this typical? Is it the less-frequent scenario where custom schemas should be used?
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Useful and practical observations past the white paper mentioned by Marian:
I think that an answer can be found in this MSDN article: SQL Server Best Practices – Implementation of Database Object Schemas.
Quote: "This white paper discusses the opportunities for improvements in the security administration of a user database, and it outlines some best practices around using schemas to manage database objects in development and production databases. Specifically, it addresses three real-world scenarios:
I especially use the third part - relate group of objects together based on their logical meaning - different schemas belonging to different projects inside the same database.
You may want to go to some of the foundational texts on this to address some of your questions. Documents on the relational database model from Mssrs E. F. Codd and C. J. Date address may common questions related to design, performance, security, optimal schema design etc... Ultimately, as the fathers of the modern relational database model, their works stand as the foundation for DB2, ORACLE, SQL Server (Microsoft and Sybase), Ingres, MySQL and every other relational database solution set available.


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This is probably not the best worded question but here goes.
I've been reading a text book trying to get my head around time complexity.
I understand the most of it, but this example has threw me. Am I missing something or is the textbook simply wrong.
It has the following table:
$g(n)$, where $f(n) = O(g(n))$
- $g(n) = 5 \to f(n) = O(1)$
- $g(n) = 20n + 17 \to f(n) = O(n)$
- $g(n) = 40n^2 + 3n - 10\to f(n) = O(n^2)$
- $g(n) = 10n^3 + 26n^2 + 220 \to f(n) = O(n^3)$
I understand the first two cases: If ($g(n)$ is 5) time complexity is a constant. and if ($g(n)$ is $20n + 17$ then time complexity is $O(n)$ as constants are ignored.
What I'm not sure I understand is why the last two cases are equal to $O(n^2)$ and $O(n^3)$ respectively.
From my math understanding and ignoring constants it should be $O(n^3)$ and $O(n^5)$ respectively and not what was in the text book.
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The number of times pages from your site were viewed in search results, and the percentage increase/decrease in the daily average impressions compared to the previous period. (The number of days per period defaults to 30, but you can change it at any time.)
Can you point out exactly where Buyselladds is mentioning impressions in their case? Because I think they're talking about impressions of the ads they're serving and not what you're looking at in Webmaster Tools. The general concept is the same eg. how many times did people see your ad, but the two numbers wouldn't have any actual relation between them.
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How much is the proper amount to give for Matanos L'Evyonim?
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Mishnah Berurah 694:1 cites Ritva that the minimum is two perutos.
He also goes on (ibid. :3) to quote Rambam, that it's better to spend more for matanos la'evyonim than for the seudah and mishloach manos. Considering what lots of Purim baskets go for nowadays, that suggests that the proper amount for matanos la'evyonim is quite a bit more than two perutos...
From Rabbi Yisrael Dov Webster (Dayan, Yeshiva Emek Halacha, Brooklyn, New York) :
The Ben Ish Chai (Shana Rishona, Tetzaveh Hilchos Purim paragraph 15) also says that Matanot La'evyonim could be food (at least 3 eggs), but if you're giving money it should be enough to buy "bread weighing the equivalent of three eggs".


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As stated in the CATIE and CAFÉ neurocognition manuscripts, it is possible that the small improvements in neurocognitive performance following randomization to one of the antipsychotic treatments in these studies are due solely to practice effects or expectation biases. This statement is affirmed by the excellent recent study by Goldberg et al. in which improvements in cognitive performance were almost identical in magnitude to the practice effects found in healthy controls. While these data may be perhaps disappointing to the hope that second-generation medications improve cognition, they may also suggest that cognitive performance is less recalcitrant to change than previously expected.
In the context of a double-blind study design, the degree of cognitive enhancement observed for each treatment group is a function of three major variables: treatment effect, placebo effect, and practice effect. In studies of antipsychotic medications without a placebo control group, practice and placebo effects in schizophrenia cannot be disentangled from treatment effects. They also cannot be disentangled from each other. Recent data from a double-blind study comparing the effects of donepezil hydrochloride and placebo in a highly refined sample of 226 patients with schizophrenia stabilized while taking second-generation antipsychotics suggested that patients taking placebo had neurocognitive effect size improvements (0.22 SD after being tested twice over 6 weeks; 0.45 SD after the third assessment at 12 weeks) on the same test battery used in the CATIE and CAFÉ studies, suggesting a practice or placebo effect (Keefe et al., Neuropsychopharmacology, in press) consistent with the improvements reported in the CATIE and CAFÉ treatment studies. These cognitive improvements are in contrast to test-retest data collected in patients with schizophrenia tested with the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB; Nuechterlein et al., in press) and the Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS; Keefe et al., 2004), which showed very little practice effects. The contrast of the data from these test-retest studies that did not involve the initiation of new treatments with cognitive improvements following the initiation of antipsychotic treatment or placebo suggests that attribution biases beyond simple practice effects may be at work.
Test-retest data from patients tested twice within a briefer period than the test interval in the four treatment studies discussed above suggest that schizophrenia patients demonstrate relatively small improvements in executive functions (Keefe et al., 2004; Nuechterlein et al., in press) and the WAIS digit-symbol test (Nuechterlein et al., in press), and medium improvements on tests of verbal memory only when identical versions are repeated (Hawkins and Wexler, 1999; Keefe et al., 2004) but not on tests of verbal fluency (Keefe et al., 2004; Nuechterlein et al., in press). In the donepezil/placebo study, patients who received placebo improved substantially across several cognitive domains. Although not tested directly, this series of results suggests that the magnitude of placebo effects in cognitive enhancement trials may exceed the reported size of practice-related improvements in studies of schizophrenia patients tested twice without the prospect of the initiation of a cognitive intervention.
The greater improvements in cognition found in the context of a placebo-controlled trial could be due to a variety of psychological factors. When a patient enters into a trial or is treated with a medication that is believed to contribute beneficially to cognitive performance, rater bias and expectation bias can have strong effects on performance. Patients who are told that their cognitive abilities might improve may be able to perform better on the test batteries used in the study simply because their expectations become more optimistic. Second, testers who believe that a patient will have cognitive improvement, or hope for such improvement, could administer the tests in a more hopeful, positive manner, which can help the patient raise his or her expectations for performance and thus engage motivational systems that were previously disengaged (Keefe, 2006). Such expectation bias can also lead to inaccuracies in scoring; since many cognitive tests require the use of judgment to determine final scores, hopeful testers are more likely to give the "benefit of the doubt" to patients after they have entered into a study in which the treatment is potentially cognitively enhancing. Third, this same type of expectation could have an impact on the support that a patient receives in his or her community/living situation. If the people who interact regularly with the patient begin looking for better performance on cognitively related tasks, these expectations could become self-fulfilling in that they may raise the confidence and motivation of the patient to perform well on such tasks, including cognitive testing.
The factors associated with improvement during a placebo-controlled trial are indeed complex, and it is difficult to distinguish practice effects from placebo effects. However, the relatively small clinical improvement in test-retest designs without treatment or placebo intervention suggests that any potential practice effects may at least be potentiated by placebo effects.
The implications for this series of results include a methodological caution and a reason for optimism. Regarding the caution, future trials of cognitive-enhancing compounds might need to be designed in such a way that practice and placebo are reduced. Very few treatment studies of patients with schizophrenia have employed a priori methodological strategies to reduce the magnitude of potential practice effects, such as the use of a placebo run-in period with one or more administrations of the cognitive battery prior to randomization. Regarding the optimism, these studies suggest that schizophrenia cognition (perhaps especially when freed from the dampening effects of large doses of high potency medications such as haloperidol) could be more plastic that had been previously assumed; it is possibly as sensitive to experience-dependent learning in schizophrenia patients as healthy controls, and it may benefit from improved psychological expectations. While this is a methodological nuisance for clinical trial designs, it may also reveal an unexpectedly large potential gain for psychological interventions such as cognitive remediation, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and even encouragement.
Goldberg TE, Goldman RS, Burdick KE, Malhotra AK, Lencz T, Patel RC, Woerner MG, Schooler NR, Kane JM, Robinson DG. Cognitive improvement after treatment with second-generation antipsychotic medications in first-episode schizophrenia: Is it a practice effect? Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2007 Oct;64:1115-1122. Abstract
Hawkins KA, Wexler BE (1999). California Verbal Learning Test practice effects in a schizophrenia sample. Schizophr Res 39: 73-78. Abstract
Keefe RSE. Missing the sweet spot: Disengagement in schizophrenia. Psychiatry, 2006; 3: 36-41.
Keefe RSE, Malhotra AK, Meltzer H, Kane JM, Buchanan RW, Murthy A, Sovel M, Li, C, Goldman R. Efficacy and safety of donepezil in patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder: Significant placebo/practice effects in a 12-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Neuropsychopharmacology, 2007 [Epub ahead of print]. Abstract
Keefe RSE¸ Goldberg TE, Harvey PD, Gold JM, Poe M, Coughenour L. The Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia: Reliability, sensitivity, and comparison with a standard neurocognitive battery. Schizophrenia Research, 2004; 68: 283-297. Abstract
Nuechterlein KH, Green MF, Kern RS, Baade LE, Barch D, Cohen J, Essock S, Fenton WS, Frese FJ, Gold JM, Goldberg T, Heaton R, Keefe RSE, Kraemer H, Mesholam-Gately R, Seidman LJ, Stover E, Weinberger D, Young AS, Zalcman S, Marder SR. The MATRICS consensus cognitive battery: Part 1. Test selection, reliability, and validity. The American Journal of Psychiatry (in press).
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This article questions the prevailing notion that antipsychotic medication (particularly second-generation antipsychotics) improve cognitive functioning in individuals with schizophrenia. As the authors rightly note, practice effects should be taken into account before attributing improvements to drug effects.
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I propose that future studies should use computational cognitive assessment tools like CANTAB or CogTest, which have at least two advantages. These tools have multiple similar test modules, so on each testing during one study, participants get a similar but not the same test to assess the same cognitive function. Besides, computational assessment also reduces chances of subjective bias on the part of investigator.
Levaux MN, Potvin S, Sepehry AA, Sablier J, Mendrek A, Stip E. Computerized assessment of cognition in schizophrenia: promises and pitfalls of CANTAB. Eur Psychiatry. 2007 Mar;22(2):104-15. Review. Abstract
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One remedy would be repeated practice over time before the actual baseline, sufficient to reach asymptotic ability. Computerized testing of reaction time measures, short-term memory span, etc. would all be quite cheap and easy to implement, for example, as a weekly session.
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We recently completed a meta-analysis on "Longitudinal studies of cognition in schizophrenia" (to be published in the British Journal of Psychiatry) based on 53 studies providing data for 31 cognitive variables. When enough data were available (19 variables from eight cognitive tests), we compared the results of schizophrenic participants to those of normal controls.
Given the differences in methods and the fact that most of the studies included in our meta-analysis reported results of patients being past their first episode (FE), it is surprising how close our results and conclusions are compared to those of Goldberg et al. In our analysis we found that, with two exceptions (semantic verbal fluency and Boston naming test, which were stable), participants with schizophrenia improved their performances. The improvement was statistically significant for 19 variables (out of 29).
However, controls also showed improvement in most of the variables due to the practice effect. A significant improvement (definite practice effect) was present for 10 variables, an improvement that did not reach significance (possible practice effect) was present in six more variables, and three variables showed no improvement. When compared with schizophrenic patients, controls showed similar improvement for 11 variables, significantly more improvement for seven variables (six of them from the "definite practice effect" group, one from the "possible practice effect") and for one variable less improvement (the Stroop interference score). Thus, these results suggest that for most of the cognitive variables, improvement seen in schizophrenic subjects does not exceed improvement due to the practice effect.
It is interesting to mention that in our analysis only two variables improved significantly more when patients had a change in their medication from first-generation antipsychotics (FGAs) to second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs). These variables were time to complete TMT B and the delayed recall of the Visual Reproduction (from the WMS). In the Goldberg et al. study the only two tests that showed more improvement in schizophrenic subjects than in controls were also the TMT and visual reproduction. Although in our study schizophrenic subjects did not improve more than controls, the two results (Goldberg's and ours) taken together could be an indirect argument for a differential, specific effect of SGAs on those two (visuo-spatial) tasks. The placebo effect—see the comment by Richard Keefe—could explain why improvement in the study by Goldberg et al. was greater than in our meta-analysis. Studies of effects of changing medication in the opposite direction, from SGAs to FGAs, could contribute to validate or invalidate these hypotheses.
Goldberg et al. suggested that there could be a set of task characteristics that could be used to develop tasks resistant to the practice effect. Our own results are less optimistic as they show that phonemic verbal fluency, despite a very similar format, does not share the "practice resistance" with the semantic verbal fluency. However, we think that there is already a wealth of data that could be used to select the best cognitive tests. An alternative solution is the use of scales and questionnaires for evaluating cognition (that are sensible to the placebo effect but not to the practice effect).
Szoke A, Trandafir A, Dupont M-E, Meary A, Schurhoff F, Leboyer M. Longitudinal studies of cognition in schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry (in press).
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This one from the roof of the Renaissance Hotel in Caracas. D800 14-24mm
Chris, What do you think about the quality of the file? How does it compare to the 5dmk3 and 260 files? How does the camera's live view work compared to the Canon? Are there any issues with it and the 17? Thanks, Jim
Jim, the 17 and 24 both work nicely on it. I dig the files. I think I'll go down and setup a tripod in my living room to compare the A7r / IQ260 / 5d2 (the 5d3 never interested me)... maybe even the Epic too just for fun.Here's another out of the Sony, 24 TS-E II...Edit: Craig, no C1 support yet but Lionel tells me it's coming! I read somewhere that you could tether into LR with a plugin. Haven't tried that yet. A couple more things I totally dig: on the EVF you can enable Focus Peaking (ala a video camera). I've found it pretty accurate. Also, it will give you digital horizon and pitch indicators which get the camera in the ballpark of level. The live view is as good as Canon's.
Jim, the 17 and 24 both work nicely on it. I dig the files. I think I'll go down and setup a tripod in my living room to compare the A7r / IQ260 / 5d2 (the 5d3 never interested me)... maybe even the Epic too just for fun.
Walking around in the snow this morning
Which focus capabilities? The r has focus peaking and live view zooming (which works better than my 5d2). Or does the A7 have better autofocus?I wrote Lionel, one of the programmers at Phase 1 and A7 support will be coming to C1 Pro, so that will be the ideal tether solution. For now I've got a dorky workaround: I use Sony's "Remote Camera Control" app to connect to the laptop. That shoots to a watched folder that LightRoom auto imports from. It's ok... for now.Here are some quick tests from my festive living room as raw files: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/coeaopdb1srglbe/jdi7ZiT4IXYou need Lightroom 5.3 Release Candidate to process the Sony files.... or some crappy Sony software I guess.I'll process these all out and post them to a new thread shortly.Cheers,CB
Ok Alan, where are you located? I cant get nice winter scenes like that when it is mid winter where I am at.
Chris I understand why you went with the R version because most of what you shoot in stills isn't moving, but I do wonder why they didn't add the same focus capabilties to the R that they did the A7.IMOBC


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While some posters think this is not special, I decided to really look at it and imagine... I think of multicolor blocks striped on a background of gold silk. :)
Interesting. Feel like the view of one portion of the land; Austraria from the passenger window of the plane.
Yeah I agree with some of the confused posters here. This photo doesn't remark any kind special skill in photography or film development. For a NAtGeo pic of the day, it just falls way short of the rest of what they usually post. I pass by parking lots filled with cars every day and it's not that impressive.
Humanity's (colorful) footprint =)
Great perspective and patterns. There is a story behind this shot as well ! Great execution !
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Kool, it is interesting how the vehicles are neatly lined up even though there are no parking lines on the ground.
I'm not an expert on Australian autos but more than half look to be from the same model, awhile about half seem to be the same model even.
I like the perspective and colors. Congratulations!
Great shot,congrats!
whats so special about this photo?
Looks Like A Hot Wheels Collections
except for three sedans all cars are SUVs or trucks
Not a particularly impressive shot.
Hi, just joined nationalgeographic. Is that possible to get a higher resolution of photos? 990x742 is too small. Thanks.
not normal such cars and waisting fual
Looks like a giant child's toy set.
The parking alignment also appears to be child like.
@Syed Yawar The location!!! It's isolation, the formation of 4x4s, invites you to think where is everyone, what are they all doing there.... Photography should spike our imagination to want to know more and this photo does, it is about Australia, it is about human nature, way of life, sad you can't see it
@Syed Yawar A valid question.
@Bergers Jeroen I very much agree with you. While the photo itself may be of good composition and framing, it also speaks volumes about the disgusting reliance on fossil fuels and the sheer enormity of the contribution of such events to global environmental destruction. I'm beginning to wonder if we will ever learn...
@Bergers Jeroen And some photos are a wasting my time
@Janette Murdoch @Syed Yawar I'm not sad. This photo does not invite me at all,it tells me to look away.
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in central Australia on the edge of the Simpson Desert. It is 383kms to
nearest town, Boulia which only has a population of approx.250. The
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@Cedar Waxwing @Bergers Jeroen Hi, When we upload our photos on Your Shot, we never know what the NG editors might choose to honor. They are looking for many things in a shot, color, perspective, creativity, use of the camera, etc. This shot was chosen. Why not congratulate the person whose photo was noticed? Or say nothing.
Your negative comments make me sad. Why even bother to speak out if it's a shot you don't like? You can just pass it by without trashing a person's work.
Cedar Wawing, it looks like you are a member, but have not uploaded any photos. Perhaps if you upload photos some day, you'll realize what it feels like to put yourself out there.
So far, I have experienced the Your Shot community to be nothing but supportive and open to new ideas. Today is the first time I have seen this kind of snarky negative commentary. I hope I do not have to see this again.
If you don't like a photo, pass it by, then it will not be a "waste of your time."
@Simone Merrett @Cedar Waxwing @Syed Yawar Not even close. The question is why is this photo of day? What makes this photo worthy of such an honer? Many of us just don't get it. It kind of looks like one of those photos when your camera goes off by accident.
@Ginger Parish Let me ask you a question, Ginger: Should we have "passed by" slavery and ignored it because we didn't like it?
Think carefully before you respond to people. You may not like that they have said something negative, but every person is an individual and entitled his/her own opinion and to express that opinion. Your attempt to silence people because they disagreed with the validity of a photo is considerably more offensive than the comments posted here were.
I hope I do not have to see another posting like yours here on NatGeo...
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Bridging the Americas
Using neotropical migratory birds as a theme to enhance environmental and cultural awareness.
Bridging the Americas / Unidos por las Aves is a cross-cultural environmental education program that partners classes in grades 2 through 8 in Maryland, Virginia, Washington, DC, New Hampshire and Vermont with classes in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The paired classes learn and exchange information about the migratory birds that winter in Latin America and return to the US and Canada each spring to breed.
Since 1993, about 17,000 students from classrooms in the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, the British Virgin Islands, and Ecuador have participated.
Bridging the Americas/Unidos por las Aves is coordinated by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (SMBC) which is based at the National Zoo in Washington, DC.
The overarching goal is to use migratory birds as an engaging, cross-disciplinary theme that connects students with an accessible and inspirational part of nature, links them with their peers in another part of the world, and motivates them to be good stewards of the environment.
Students gain an appreciation for birds and the need to protect the habitats they depend on throughout the year, an awareness of the threats birds face and actions people can take to help ensure their survival, and an enhanced understanding of their partner class' country and culture.
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Participating teachers receive a packet of teaching aids and information on migratory birds and their partner class' country. Each class in the US is partnered with a class in Latin America or the Caribbean. The classes learn about migratory birds and their partner class' country and exchange art work, letters, photos, and other creative materials. Classes are also encouraged to complete a project to benefit birds.
Letters sent to the partner class in Latin America or the Caribbean may need to be in Spanish. Teachers are encouraged to work with a volunteer from the school or community or with a high school Spanish class to translate letters written by individual students. If no such arrangement is possible, the SMBC will translate a letter from the class as a whole to send along with the students' drawings.
View the contents for the Bridging the Americas Teacher's Manual
This is a flexible program in that teachers are free to adapt it to fit their particular situation. The only requirements are that you engage your students in learning about migratory birds and about your partner class' country and that you complete one exchange of art work, letters, photos and other creative materials with your partner class.
You will also be encouraged to have your students complete a project to benefit birds. The educational materials provided by the program are geared toward using birds as a theme for cross-curricular teaching in multiple subject areas, including science, math, geography, social studies, visual arts and language arts.
- View a short video from the Fairfax Country Public Schools network about the program
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Bridging the Americas/Unidos por las Aves is open to elementary and middle school school teachers of grades 2 through 8 in Maryland, Virginia, Washington, DC, New Hampshire, Vermont, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
The cost for a teacher in the U.S. to participate is $35. This fee covers one teacher with one class of up to 30 students. An additional $10 covers each additional class of up to 30 students.
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We hope this fee will not prohibit any interested teachers from participating, and that it is viewed as a small price to pay relative to what the program offers. Any teacher who wishes to participate but cannot pay this fee is encouraged to submit a request for a waiver.
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A friend of mine needs to fly today. All typical aggregated booking sites don't allow searching for today. Anyone know where it is possible?
Kayak allows 'today' flight searches. You should also be able to make bookings with airlines on their websites directly.
Most definitely Kayak - it's my number one stop for flights, be they a year ahead, or 5 hours from now. And they certainly support LCCs - I once used Kayak to work out that Miami to London was quite a bit more expensive than Miami to Dusseldorf, and find another way for the final leg. So I flew to Dusseldorf, trained to Cologne, went into a net cafe, found an EasyJet flight later that day, had lunch and headed to the airport.
It's certainly made travel more flexible for me - thinking back to using travel agents makes me cringe :/
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If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that gamers are fans of hyperbole and it's sometimes difficult to get through a conversation without something being labelled 'The Best Thing Ever,' or on the opposite end of the spectrum, 'The Worst Thing Ever.'
This isn't an outright condemnation, it's merely a phenomenon that naturally occurs as a result of the gaming community's uncontrollable passion and excitement for everything and anything, which is admirable.
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Brooke County Sheriff Chuck Jackson confirmed Jason Pratz, 30, was found dead from a gunshot wound at his home at about 1:40 p.m.
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According to both the leJOS NXT API documentation and Chapter 9 of 'Intelligence Unleashed', a pilot (robot) should travel a forward-directed, clockwise arc if the radius is negative and the angle is positive.
I tried to let my robot (the Carpet Pilot built in Intelligence Unleashed) travel the shape of the number eight, i.e., one full forward-directed, counter-clockwise circle, followed by a full forward-directed, clockwise circle. So I typed:
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The Columbia Journal of Gender and Law and the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) recently hosted a panel discussion at the Law School on new legal research related to reproductive health and human rights. The event celebrated the CRR/Columbia Law School Fellowship program by highlighting the work of its inaugural fellow, Khiara Bridges '02, as well as research from other scholars.
The two-year fellowship presents a new opportunity for Law School graduates pursuing academic legal careers in reproductive health and human rights. Bridges, who recently completed her doctorate in anthropology at Columbia University, is using her fellowship to analyze abortion jurisprudence by using postmodern theory. Joining Bridges on the panel were Vicki Jackson, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and, last fall, the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School; Linda Fentiman, a professor at Pace University School of Law; and Jessie Hill, an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.


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I purchased two of these with the intention of making scones in one and brownie bars in the other at the same time. So far, I've only used it for the packaged scones and they baked evenly and were easy to remove from the pan. I love how this looks on my bakers cart. Great value and excellent pan that will be used for all types of baking.
I just love this little pan. I'll have to admit I haven't made scones, but I do use it to make individual servings of cornbread. The look great and everybody likes having cornbread with crispy crust all around every slice.
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I've been admiring this pan for awhile, and today I made my purchase! Because of the previous review, I examined two pans carefully for any defects ... and afterwards I found zero defects on either of the pans. I'm excited about trying it out. I suspect it will work great!
Pan has a defect in the top of one of the dividers; looks like part of a seam that was not closed up before firing. It does not appear to run all the way through to the underside, so I hope it will not break when I go to actually bake some scones (haven't had time to do so, yet.)


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress' latest crack at a new assault weapons ban would protect more than 2,200 specific firearms, including a semi-automatic rifle that is nearly identical to one of the guns used in the bloodiest shootout in FBI history.
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I have statewide land ownership data and have created a mask to project ownership for only one county. I need to calculate the acreage of each owner within that county. Is there a quick way to achieve this? I'm using Arc10. Thanks for any help!
You can use the 'Calculate Geometry' (Right click on an field in the attribute table) tool to determine the area of each polygon and then use the 'Summary Statistics' (in the Analysis toolbox) with the owner name as a Case field and the area field set to sum will produce a table that shows the total area for every unique entry in the owner name field.
Here is the link to the help file for the summary statistics tool.
Limiting the results to one county can be accomplished through a variety of ways. The most straightforward one is to use the county layer to clip out all the shapes from the ownership polygon for just that polygon. You could also use the polygon shapefile as an analysis environment in the workspace of your document (provided you have access to a license of spatial analyst)
Create a field in the attribute table to store the acreages. Do a select by location query that intersects the parcels with your mask. In the attribute table right click on the name of your new field and use the Geometry Calculator. You can select acreage from there.
You'll need to specify a projection, hopefully your data is in UTM or State Plane.
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WHEELING - U.S. Rep. David McKinley introduced a resolution this week seeking congressional opposition to a federal carbon tax he says would raise electric costs and drive up unemployment rates.
"A carbon tax would increase the cost of everything from driving a car to heating and cooling a home," McKinley, R-Wheeling, said. "It would be especially burdensome on middle-class Americans and prevent our economy from recovering.
"Raising taxes on everyone from manufacturers to homeowners is not the way to improve our economy and Congress should reject this idea."
McKinley first introduced the measure on Nov. 30 during the last days of the 112th Congress and it has been re-introduced in the new 113th Congress. It states coal and natural gas are essential to America's economic competitiveness and independence from foreign energy.
The resolution notes a carbon tax would have a dramatic, immediate impact on transportation costs, with low-income families feeling the greatest impact. The tax also would result in "immediate increases in the price of electricity, making electricity less affordable for millions of Americans," it states.
Reps. Shelley Moore Capito, R-Charleston; Bill Johnson, R-Marietta, Ohio; and Nick Rahall, D-Beckley, join eight other co-sponsors, all Republicans, signing on to the resolution.
Capito spokeswoman Jamie Corley said the congresswoman "supports any legislation that expresses opposition to policies that will hurt West Virginia resources - especially a carbon tax."
"Many West Virginians would pay the cost of this tax with their jobs, because the tax would spur more layoffs in the energy and energy intensive manufacturing sectors, and all West Virginians would pay the carbon tax every time they pay their electric bills or fill up their gas tanks," Corley said.
Johnson also noted the potential costs of a federal carbon tax.
"Right now, hardworking families are being hit in the wallet from all sides - at the gas pump, at the grocery store, and heating their homes," he said. "A federal carbon tax would make it even more difficult for working families and small businesses to make ends meet, which is why I'm co-sponsoring a resolution opposing a carbon tax.
"Many businesses along the Ohio River are already struggling to keep their doors open because of the rising price of electricity caused by the Obama administration's war on coal. A carbon tax would further increase the cost of electricity, which could force energy-intensive manufacturers to shed even more jobs, or shut down altogether."


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Report: CBS grumpy that Sharyl Attkisson's Benghazi scoops are "wading dangerously close to advocacy"
posted at 1:21 pm on May 8, 2013 by Allahpundit
Of course they are. The news department responsible for Rathergate has very exacting standards.
The second Goliath is CBS News, which has grown increasingly frustrated with Attkisson's Benghazi campaign. CBS News executives see Attkisson wading dangerously close to advocacy on the issue, network sources have told POLITICO. Attkisson can't get some of her stories on the air, and is thus left feeling marginalized and underutilized. That, in part, is why Attkisson is in talks to leave CBS ahead of contract, as POLITICO reported in April.
Farhi mentions "internal conflicts" in the final paragraph, though he seems to dismiss them. The "internal conflicts" are indeed real — Attkisson is still eyeing an exit, according to sources — and provide important context for today's piece. Today, CBS News is celebrating Attkisson's commitment to the Benghazi story. A PR representative even encouraged POLITICO to write a post about Farhi's piece. But that support is an abberation.
If you missed it a few days ago, here's the most recent example of Attkisson's hysterical, advocacy-based journalism. But wait: Why, if an outlet like Fox is reporting similar details, is CBS worried about Attkisson's scoops? To complete the puzzle, let's read WaPo:
While other media, particularly Fox News, have been similarly skeptical about the official narrative about Benghazi, Attkisson and CBS might put the story in a different light. As a much-decorated reporter from a news outlet often derided by conservatives as a liberal beacon, Attkisson and her network flip the usual script on this highly politicized story. That is, it's hard to peg her and her network as Republican sympathizers out to score political points against a Democratic president…
"I'm a political agnostic," she says. "I don't think about who's good and who's bad. I just go where the story leads. . . . People can say what they want about me, I don't care. I just want to get the information out there."…
As it happens, Attkisson has won recognition for tough stories on Republicans, too, such as an Emmy-winning series on the Bush administration's bank bailout and an investigation of fundraising tactics by Republican congressmen at a Florida resort last year.
Bingo. For the same reason, the left takes greater exception to the Koch brothers' interest in buying the LA Times than it would to the Kochs setting out to build their own right-wing paper from the ground up. They can't stop conservative media from existing, but they can ghettoize it as illegitimate and "partisan" in a way that their own partisan garbage isn't. The problem with the Kochs buying the Times is that the paper already has a reputation among wider media for being respectable and impartial (giggle). That reputation can and will be retracted by the rest of the press if/when the Kochs take it over, but it'll take more work to delegitimize it than it would some new Koch start-up. Same with Attkisson: Skepticism about Benghazi is fine for the wingnuts at Fox, but bringing such unhelpful nonsense into an "impartial," i.e. pro-Obama, outlet like CBS risks lending credence to the GOP's accusations. The proper line to take on Benghazi is to dismiss the new hearings with a sneer, a la Joe Klein, or, in the case of "impartial" news coverage, to dismiss them more lightly by referencing Hillary's long-ago whining about a "vast right-wing conspiracy" to discredit the Clintons. "Going where the story leads" is unhelpful to liberalism in this case, ergo it's advocacy by definition.
Ah well. CBS's loss will, undoubtedly, eventually be Fox News's gain. Then Attkisson can do her "advocacy" in the proper ghettoized context. I'll leave you with this, which crossed the Twitter feed less than an hour ago of the famously impartial, very legitimate Washington Post:
Who's tweeting about Benghazi? Rich, middle-aged men and Chick-fil-A lovers wapo.st/18YFgKP
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 8, 2013
See Ace's latest for why that's "newsworthy."
Update: Via the Daily Caller, here's Scarborough caring a little about Benghazi and caring a lot about making sure that people know those wingnuts have gone kuh-ray-zee in overselling it.
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Shot fired: A resident on Girtys Point Road near West Liberty reported hearing shots fired near her home at about 7 a.m. Monday. A short time later, when she closed the door of her van, the back window shattered and glass fell to the ground. The woman and a sheriff's deputy found markings from BBs on the rear hatch.
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Arrested: Jacob McKinley, 21, 5612 county Road 152, Dillonvale, domestic violence, possession of drugs, today.
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Dressed At Gunpoint: Louise Redknapp
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We accepted long ago that Louise Redknapp's go-to designer is Stella McCartney and that's great. Stella makes fabulous clothes. Other designers make fabulous clothes too, but we get that she's in a groove. We don't, however, get what she was thinking when she put on this dress.
The dress is from Stella's Fall 2012 collection and while it's certainly not the worst dress ever in life, it's so, so wrong for Louise and her body type. Louis is a petite, curvy woman and this drowns her and makes her look incredibly top heavy. Also, the styling? Girl, no. Those ankle boots make her look about 4'11″ tall and while black and blue is a big trend for fall, it doesn't make sense here. A silver metallic heel, much like these amaze Nicholas Kirkwood platform slingbacks, would have worked so much better.
Furthermore, could there have been a better occasion for her lovely hair to have been in a top knot or bun to show off her face and the high neckline of the dress? No. See? It could have been salvageable. Maybe. Call us before your next appearance, Louise.
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Grow an Avocado Tree
- Avocado seed
- Sharp nail
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- Pierce the avocado seed with the nail to make three holes evenly spaced around the middle of the seed.
- Insert a toothpick in each hole.
- Fill the tumbler with water and balance the avocado seed on the top, making sure the bottom of the seed is in the water.
- Place on a window ledge.
- Soon it will begin to produce a root and a shoot.
- As soon as the shoot has a few leaves, snip off the top ones to encourage the plant to branch out.
- Pot the little tree when the roots are thick. If you live in a warm climate, you can plant the tree outside.
- Remember to keep it watered.
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A pneumatic cylinder is kept vertically straight on a weighing scale, which is set at 0 for the setup.
now a force of 1000 N is applied on the cylinder.
what is the reading of scale.
assume the outlet/ inlet to be blocked hence the mass of air inside the cylinder shall remain constant all the times and cylinder can move in y(vertical) direction by compressing the air inside it on application of external force.
let diameter of bore of cylinder be 60 mm and stroke be 50 mm.
will the reading be less than 1000N or less or more??
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This has happened a couple of times now, the unity menu (when you click on the Ubuntu logo) has all the categories there but when you click on say media apps it will be blank the same for the other options as well. searching for something will also draw a blank =/
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