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Date Issues While Exporting from phpMyAdmin to Microsoft Excel

First if your only problem is date formatting all cells in Microsoft Excel go past the part about phpMyAdmin.  I am including the mysql date format just to show you how to get your date formatted right out of phpMyAdmin in case you want to use CVS data only and/or planning on importing it into [...]

Ranston/Randleston Estate

anston Estate on Flicker

Randleston was purchased by Robert Ryves in the 36th year of Henry VIII’s rule (1545).  I have seen several websites which show a picture of the current manor on the site; however, this research indicates that the current site was built by Thomas Ryves.
From Parks and Garden of UK’s website

Brief history of site
The old manor [...]

What 28 Dance Shots Did Sarah Lane Appear in the film Black Swan

The Internet Movie Database says the following:
There are 139 dance shots in the film. Out of the 139, 111 are untouched shots of Natalie Portman and the remaining 28 are her dance double, Sarah Lane. Of the shots in which Lane is featured, 26 of the 28 are wide shots and rarely appear on screen [...]

Portman vs. Lane in Black Swan | My Review

This was posted on Portman's Facebook Page

How much dancing was in Black Swan?

Around 18 minutes in 16 scenes

How much of total dance time in the film did Natalie Portman dance en pointe?

18% — not “en pointe” but anytime Portman was wearing pointe shoes

How much of the film’s dancing did Natalie Portman dance in?

72.1%

How much of Black Swan’s dancing only featured [...]

Black Swan | Natalie Portman vs Sarah Lane | Who Did What? | A Scene by Scene Review

Magic! Pointe shoes now appear

It is my goal to look at every dance scene from Black Swan to determine who is doing what, how much, and of what quality. Did Natalie really do 90% of the dancing? If so, what type of dancing was it–filmed from the top up only, did she do pointe work? I open this blog entry up tonight with the opening scene. I will let you know as I get to additional scenes.