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When starting a new job, learning the unwritten rules is usually one of the biggest challenges. You have to learn the nuances of the corporate culture, and this is something that is carefully learned over time, through observation, experience and perhaps even the assistance of helpful coworkers who can help to guide you along the way. However, there can be unfortunate consequences of not learning the unwritten rules, including the worst-case scenario of losing your job. These rules apply to everyone within a company, from the custodial staff right up to the CEO.
Gossip Galore
Gossip is one thing that certainly finds many people in trouble - both in and out of the workplace. Many people have a hard time not sharing juicy bits of information that they heard from a friend or co-worker. However, as most of us have learned from playing the "telephone" game as children, stories have a way of morphing over time until they become more fiction than fact. Some types of gossip can be vindictive and intentionally spread to tarnish someone's reputation. The gossiper can be terminated because the act is a form of bullying.
Bad Mouthing the Boss
Even if you don't like your boss, you probably shouldn't go around advertising that fact. Spreading juicy gossip about your peers is bad enough, but when it is about the boss, it can have an even more detrimental effect on your relationship with your employer. Consider the fact that your boss has the ability to make your work life a lot more difficult, perhaps even suspending or terminating your position. Alienating someone who is in a position of power is always a bad idea.
Representing the Company Badly
One of the best rules of thumb when talking about your employer - in any public forum - is to act like a representative of your company. Even if you're not in sales or marketing, you represent the ideals and products of the organization. It is in your best interest to consider yourself as an ambassador of your employer in every situation. Some who have failed to live up to this unwritten rule have found themselves in hot water. Negatively representing your organization or the products or services it sells can buy you a one-way ticket out the door.
Confidentiality Clash
Sharing confidential information about your coworkers or the company you work for is definitely something to avoid. There are some positions within a company where this might be written right into the employment contract, such as for medical staff, human resources personnel or legal professionals.
Those who work in a company's research and development department may find a similar clause in their contracts where information relates to trade secrets. However, even for those who don't normally work in areas of the company that deal with sensitive information, it can still create problems when private information about the company is shared publicly. This could include such things as the company's financial performance, private information about the wellness of another employee, or perhaps even details of the company's strategic plans.
Not Keeping Company Secrets Secret
As noted above, some highly-specific job contracts may outline the need to keep company secrets confidential, though this is generally something that's left out of many employment contracts. A survey completed by Forrester Research found that 82% of the 150 companies that were surveyed monitor social media for intelligence coming from their competitors. This only makes sense. Every company wants to gain a competitive advantage. Allowing your company to lose its advantage can result in a significant economic impact to the organization.
Care to Put That in Writing?
Creating a document that contains private information could be dangerous if there aren't measures in place to keep that document secret. For example, sending emails that contain private or personal information or opinions, rather than facts, doesn't really constitute good business sense. This extends to email, which is generally considered the property of your employer, thus giving them the right to monitor what you're sending and receiving at your work account. You should also be careful with memos, printed or hand-written documents and instant messages sent while at work.
Social Media Messes
Our current world depends largely upon social media to dispel news and communicate with those in our networks of friends, family, colleagues and other associates. However, posting anything to a social media site that you wouldn't feel comfortable saying in front of your boss definitely has the potential to come back and haunt you.
Numerous cases exist of people who lost their jobs because they said something in an online forum that insulted their boss, the company that they work for or a co-worker. Realistically, you could be fired for breaking any number of the above unwritten rules when posting to a social media site. People should always consider these sites completely public because you have no idea who will see what you've said or if one of your contacts will spread the information you thought you were posting in confidence.
The Bottom Line
If you've made any these blunders in the workplace, don't despair. Everyone makes mistakes, and don't forget that rules can change over time. The most important thing you can do is learn from both the mistakes and successes of others, and observe the actions of your boss. Try to avoid doing anything at work that you'd feel uncomfortable doing in front of your boss. Even if the boss isn't present, there's always a chance that word will work its way through the office, and your boss will find out. Do your best to maintain decorum and follow the company's guidelines - written or otherwise - on all things relating to attendance and deadlines.


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I do not think it means what you think it means...
"reaction time dropped by 25 per cent for those sending text messages"
The UK's Transport Research Laboratory has established that taking your eyes off the road to look at a tiny screen held in hands that are no longer gripping the wheel is really, really dangerous. It's hard to imagine that this comes as a huge surprise to all but the most stupid, but the Times reports that in (simulator) tests …
"reaction time dropped by 25 per cent for those sending text messages"
...that loads of young people do indeed believe that they are capable of driving while texting.
Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if they think they can keep their Facebook profiles up to date safely while they are driving.
if being stoned hampers you soooo much how come i can kick ass on a ps3 after a 12 hour session? i can happily fly round tracks at 200mph fine.
i would also like to know their definition of 'drunk' - is that the over the limit 1 pint drunk? or actually steaming drunk? as im considerably less coordinated after a skinful that i am when stoned (btw - i dont drink/smoke and drive)
also a lot of people have admitted to texting whilst driving... is that when crawling along at 10mph in towns or doing 80 on a motorway?
ahhh dont you love stats!
Headline says "Texting worse for drivers than drink or drugs"
Morans read it as "You know how texting is safe, cos you do it every day? Well drink driving is even less 'dangerous' than that!"
Sometimes I wonder if headline writers (both in the media and in the PR firms / spin doctors) have any common sense at all...
Yes, texting while driving is dangerous, but if this is just testing reaction times than it's crap data. Alcohol doesn't just affect your reaction times, it changes your abilities, skills, judgement. It also lasts the entire journey not just the 30 seconds you're writing the text. Writing a text message doesn't make you drive down the road with no lights on, or drive the wrong way down the motorway, or plough through a pedestrian precinct.
Don't believe it? How many road deaths last year were put down to one driver texting and how many were down to one driver being pissed as arseholes?
[Don't you love non-sequiturs starting with that info?]
Well, not being a single mother, I like this type of study. For example, driving a motorbike carries a slightly higher risk as driving a car while both drunk AND drugged (being just one of those two being much safer). But the big difference is that the motorbiker risks mostly him/herself [75% of accidents being one-sided, even]. The conclusion is obvious: force any person found texting in a car, to drive a motorbike [and allow them to text then]. This is a Darwinian approach, leading to superior bikers. I as a biker without driving licence strongly approve of this.
Do you get invited to take part in these things? Where do I sign??
You mean the the ability to juggle is a result of drug taking?! Oh, wait; you mean *affected"...
it is time to have cars fitted with a method of detecting where your hands are and generate a loud ear splitting noise if they aren't involved in driving activities! This would maybe advise those who appear to be so stupid that they *even* contemplate texting whilst driving.
I have been in a bus where the driver was texting his girlfriend whilst driving at 70mph on a dual carriageway. He was reported and sacked.
Why on earth does anyone think they are so f*cking important that they must continuously be in touch with everyone else (shortly before they become deceased forever!)?
Does taking your eyes off the road and your hands off the steering wheel negatively impact your ability to drive?
I don't know here take these millions of pounds to go and find out!
Carried off with your usual panache! :-)
But surely you meant "ability to juggle is *a*ffected"...
...oh shit, I've just run over an old lady on a zebra crossing...
.... whilst you're drunk and/or stoned throughout the entire duration of your journey, you'll only be "impaired" for the 20 seconds it takes you to send a text, following which you'll resume your full driving abilities (such as they are)?
It seems to follow, then, that whilst your impairment is more severe whilst texting, you'll be impaired for longer while drunk/stoned and therefore these two are still, overall, more likely to be in the origin of an incident.
Or am I missing something crucial?
I get my fastest laptimes whilst stoned. Crap stoners to be honest.
Being a women affects your ability to drive well... by up to 100%...
The amount of times I've been cut-up, had to brake at roundabouts due to tunnel-vision femm's and been stuck behind a little mouse driving at 30 in a national speed limit zone is incredible. Yes I agree that blokey's are usually more aggressive on the roads, but being aggressive is not dangerous in itself. What is dangerous is a women looking in the mirror and playing with her hair at 70mph+ (again, I've been behind multiple women drivers who do this - it wasn't just a one-off).
So the headline should read something like "Being a women worse for drivers than texting, drink or drugs".
I've got my coat and I'm out the door before the backlash can take place.... :-)
I can text fine, I can have a couple of beers and drive fine, I can even smoke a spliff and driver fine. The one thing that really screws up my ability to drive is when I'm trying to move some hair that's fallen infront of my face, and sneezing is a real danger too.
I think that anybody convicted of a serious driving offence should lose their licence - permanently.
At present there is no real lasting penalty for endangering other peoples lives, and a fine or 6 month ban doesn't cut it.
It annoys me that professional drivers have to take more advanced training, and tests, and suffer harsher penalties for irresponsible actions than the people who surround them. This level of rigour should apply to anyone who assumes control of a motor vehicle.
For example: In the local paper a few weeks ago, there was a big write up about an accident where a couple of people were killed/injured after their car left the road and hit a tree. The most telling part of the story was where it was revealed that the car hit the tree 12 FEET above the ground ! This all took place in a 30mph limit. They may have got what they deserved, but pity any pedestrians or innocent motorists who could have been in the way.
Oh dear @ Morans. dat wud be lyk me slgin ppl 4 txt spk.
Anyway, I've been known to text whilst driving, while crawling round town at 10/20mph and also whilst on the motorways etc at speeds of 70mph + ( Yes I sometimes speed)
Let the flaming begin,
How does one sign up for these tests? I quite fancy a bit of government sanctioned and funded toking in a driving simulator.
Difficult to text 'aaaaaaargh' without any vowels.
Paris, as she too can adversely affect my grip on the wheel...
all we need now is a copper on the street to nick you when you do. ah... here lies the flaw in our plan!
"Why on earth does anyone think they are so f*cking important that they must continuously be in touch with everyone else (shortly before they become deceased forever!)?"
Exactly! Phone/text while driving, that gets my goat no end, you really a complete ass-hat of the first order. Do you really think that your that important or that invincible? Yah, well let's up the ante, you get in one of those electric cars and get it up to max speed in the fast lane, then start texting, I will then ask 10 lorry drivers high on angel dust to keep nudging you and we'll see how long you think you can last. Hey in fact, I think this is a great idea for a new game show!
The big one is when the butt-munch involved feels the need to walk out underground station and instantly they have to have that phone out to see how important they are and how many calls they have missed while they have been out of service for all of 10 mins maximum! The upshot of this moronic behaviour is to clog the pavement area directly outside said station, while the rest us have to try to dodge around the dawdling knut, trying to make our connection to the next mode of transport!
Reg hacks clearly need to go and try this out (on a test course of course). They can steer with their knees and/or one hand and text one handed (even a pissed and stoned reg hack can text one handed).
Oh yes. I never see 30/40/50something audi/cayenne drivers do that. Honestly
Off on a tangent:
Have you ever noticed that the more expensive the car, the less likely the driver is to be using a handsfree set of some flavour?
Maybe they could research that instead. Does it have to do with small genitalia and looking important?
Evil Steve, 'cause trying to second-guess the iPhone's autocorrect while driving will definitely kill you.
Driving Blindfolded decreases your reaction times by 100%
OK - so now if I'm called when I'm driving I've got my dinky little headset on and I press a button and go "Who is it?" cos I can't see cos my phone's on the seat next to me or in the well under the gear stick. But it's ok, I'm hands free, I'm concentrating on driving and looking at where I'm going...
So far so good...
But what about texting?
To text, you need to be able to read the text and write texts. Can this be made driver-safe?
Here's a way:
If someone were to invent / re-purpose a bluetooth heads-up display of some kind that could go on the dashboard... with some kind of paddle-operated system mounted on the steering column similar to what racing drivers use to change gear / the rest of us use on steering-wheel mounted radio and volume controls - couldn't this be done. Obviously you wouldn't have the 12 key numerical keypad but there's bound to be some sort of workaround possible. After all, if you were in desperate need to text, you'd pull over and do it by hand.
Also controls and a headsup display like this could be used to control a phone to make outgoing calls / screen calls.
Just a thought....
So, there are two of us here. This could make things interesting, as if I were to admit to being a 'stoner' i'd lose my job. My boss reads this site too.
Perhaps I should reg a new account.
Let's ignore your anecdote-based evidence, shall we? It proves absolutely nothing.
Let's just observe that women actually pay less for their car insurance. And insurance is based on real measured statistics. So why do women pay less for their car insurance? Because they generally have fewer accidents, and the ones they have cause less damage. As good a measure of "safer drivers" as I know.
Does this mean that if you're driving along and you want to _safely_ text a mate you should down a few cans?
so we can save lives by getting people out bed and behind the wheel of a car.
"Let's just observe that women actually pay less for their car insurance. And insurance is based on real measured statistics. So why do women pay less for their car insurance? Because they generally have fewer accidents, and the ones they have cause less damage. As good a measure of "safer drivers" as I know."
"Safer" because they, on average, drive fewer miles per insurance period at, on average, lower speeds.
There are shitwits of both sexes behind the wheels of our nations' autos.
Wasn't there some research that showed that hands free sets were just as dangerous as using a mobile with your paws ? They'd already put the legislation in place so they didn't bother putting an outright ban on using phones while driving.........
Hmmm I reckon I could become 12% more careful after a skinfull. So that's alright then, cheers !
> "I do not think it means what you think it means..."
You beat me to it...
Here's something wot I wrote earlier - as part of a general anti-mobile-using-driver rant:
One more modern habit that has got me so perplexed
These blokes who think it's safe to drive while they're composing texts
At least, I say they think it's safe, they got a ****ing gall
From where I'm ****ing standing, they don't ****ing think at all
"Don't believe it? How many road deaths last year were put down to one driver texting and how many were down to one driver being pissed as arseholes?"
How many people would readily admit to crashing due to texting, thats even dumber than texting while driving
@The Fuzzy Wotnot - I have a solution to that, it works very well. Wait for said idiot to stop in front of you and barge really hard into the back of them, they will either drop their phone or they will fall flat on their face. If they complain just say sorry you were looking at your mobile phone :)
@Simon Brown - yup there is, it's called a BMW or Mercedes (can't remember which models coe with this HUD and phone features).
@ "Let's just observe that women actually pay less for their car insurance. And insurance is based on real measured statistics. So why do women pay less for their car insurance? Because they generally have fewer accidents, and the ones they have cause less damage. As good a measure of "safer drivers" as I know."
playing devils advocate here... but strictly not right...
i think most people will agree that men drive, generally, a lot more miles per year (how many mums do the driving as opposed to dad, how many female reps, salespeople do you see?)
so maybe women are less likely to have an accident but the fact is they drive much less... so if you do an average of miles/crash you would get a more realistic (gu)estimate.
i can also say that the vast majority of women drivers i know are far from safe... why the hell does my mum feel the need to talk with her hands whilst driving?
Good to see some people still know English.
"But what about texting?"
You shouldn't be doing it while driving, ever. How bloody hard is that to grasp, exactly? Pull over and stop, or better yet, get out of the mindset that you have to answer that call/read that text RIGHT NOW. It can wait, you know.
"To text, you need to be able to read the text and write texts. Can this be made driver-safe?"
No, it can't, unless you go to a fully voice-controlled system, with voice-to-txt-to-voice and handsfree. Which still isn't 100% safe, you're still being distracted to a degree but at least your hands are on the controls and your eyes on the road.
While you're reading or writing a text, even on your suggested heads-up display with specially adapted controls, you're focusing on the text and reading or writing the text, not on the road ahead or interpreting the visual cues your vehicle is hurtling toward.
HUDs are great for stuff like your speed which matter as part of driving, but writing a txt 2 ur m8 has fuck all to do with driving and doesn't belong behind the wheel.
Free weed and driving games, Where do I sign up?!
Theres no smoke without fire...
ALL cellphones are now equipped with GPS -
lets USE it.
The GPS can be used to determine the velocity of the phone.
If (velocity > Max_Allowed_Movement_Speed)
Disconnect_Call = True
Allow_Incoming_Call = False
Allow_Outgoing_Call = False
Allow_Emergency_Call = True
Disconnect_Text_Message = True
Allow_Text_Outgoing_Message = False
Allow_Text_Incoming_Message = False
<all of above = true>
end if
Max_Allowed_Movement_Speed = 8 mph/12 kph
this speed allows usage in stopped (very slow) traffic, while walking, running.
So you are suggesting that mobiles shoiuld not be allowed to operate on public transport? Oh, hang on...
Method, buy a batter classic car. Drive around town until you see a muppet on the phone or texting and pull up a bit sharply in front of them. Then when you make the insurance claim, demand the other drivers mobile records are pulled up.
Mind you when they know what you plan they will probably admit liability. I was hit by a solicitor once who got out with his reasonably freshly lit fag and he amited it was his fault straight away !
Idiots will find a way to not drive no matter how poor the tech available to them. Case in poiint:
In '95 I was cruising west on the Southern State Parkway on Long Island, NY at five am. I overtook a gentleman who was driving at 50 MPH while reading the New York Times (a three foot wide bedsheet that he had spread out over that little round lectern thing cars have just in front of all those dials) while clutching a breakfast sandwich in one hand and a cup of piping hot coffee in the other.
I am not making this up.
I can only assume he was steering with his knees a-la John Candy in "Trains Planes and Automobiles".
Apparently, against all reason, you have to tell some people that even though they have cruise control and an automatic gearbox they still have to be there.
Recently , only about 50 years ago, I worked for a fellow who smoked.
He rolled his own cigs.(do they still have those?) and as he controlled the steering wheel with his knees ,
all I had to do was to make regular course corrections from the passengers seat , as the car headed off the road..
We survived about 5 years of that behaviour .
I see the post from Stevie , that such things still go on, and even more so than my generation did.
Seriously -- here in California we just recently had a very serious train wreck caused by an engineer texting. He paid with his life, and the lives of 25 others.

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Analia Saban's sculptural paintings are the result of the artist's interest in dissecting both the painting process and her works themselves. Saban describes her own method of working as both artistic and scientific—an approach that was inspired by her former instructor John Baldessari. She is best known for using laser cutters, silicone molds and acrylic, and erosive techniques. In her early works, Saban reduced the works of Modernists like Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró, and Henri Matisse into individual swatches of color, which she then cut out, copied, and rearranged. Since then, her painting practice has also included unraveling painted canvases and wrapping the threads into a single ball; shrink-wrapping oil-on-canvas works such that the paint moved beneath the plastic; and using photographic emulsion as a device for applying marks to painted surfaces.
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Tracing Frank Stella's Disproportionate Influence on Contemporary Art
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Norman and Susan are no exception. Asked why they are moving, they list three reasons - the names of the grandkids. A fourth might be the soul-eroding drive up and down the 401 to visit them, a trip they've taken once too often. So, with much heartache, their property, situated in gentle hill country between Sutton and Brome Lake, is listed with Royal Lepage at $1.1 million (MLS# 9979822).
"This did not look like this when we got here," Susan explains, with a sweep of her arm to the four-bedroom, 1895 heritage house, a recent two-storey workshop, extensive gardens, swimming pond and 14 acres of mixed pasture and woodland. Before, during and after photos are proof she's telling nothing but the stone-cold truth.
The place was a wreck when they decided on a bottom-to-top overhaul, begun May 1, 2005, and ready for a Thanksgiving celebration that year. Norman is a talented woodworker, but the scale of the operation required calling in the cavalry.
"We had to redo the foundation, walls and windows," he says. "Only the roof survived."
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BP Pleads Guilty — MAD Told You So!
In December 2010, BP earned the top spot in MAD's "20 Dumbest People, Events and Things" with their horrific oil rig explosion and the disastrous oil spill that followed in the Gulf of Mexico. Today, BP finally admitted their guilt, agreed to pay $4.5 billion in fines and pled guilty to 14 criminal charges. A small bit of justice for the 11 people killed in the explosion and the millions more whose lives were disrupted or forever ruined by BP's gross incompetence.


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'Lowdown' thieves stealing woodpilesBy BENJAMIN C. KLEIN
Union Leader Correspondent
January 20. 2014 10:17PM
CANDIA — Candia police say woodpiles are being raided, and residents should keep a weather eye out for thieves.
Police Chief Mike McGillen said a half-cord is believed to have been taken from a residence on Old Deerfield Road Jan. 5. The theft of a quarter-cord from a Raymond Road residence likely happened Jan. 7.
"In the 13 years that I have been here, I don't remember something like this happening before. We're talking hundreds of pounds of wood worth hundreds of dollars," McGillen said.
The chief said one neighbor on Old Deerfield Road reported seeing a gray pickup truck driven by a white man of medium build.
"The witness said that at the time, he just thought it was the homeowner's son loading up some wood, but it fits in the time line of when the homeowner was away and when the wood could have been stolen," McGillen said.
He added that if someone is stealing out of desperation to heat their own home, they should contact the town welfare department to get help.
"People in this town are great; they would all be willing to lend a hand," McGillen said.
The chief pointed out with the arrival of another cold snap, residents should be especially vigilant.
Selectmen Chairman Frederick Kelley said it seems likely the thief is selling the wood.
"If anyone is stealing wood, that is pretty lowdown; people have got to heat their homes, and the way the economy is today, it's tough," Kelley said. "Wood is very important. Lots of people here heat with wood; it's very important,"


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Hood River Warming Shelter goes into service in mid-November, and opportunities to volunteer happen this month.
This year the Hood River Warming Shelter will be open from mid-November through mid-March. Once again the shelter will rotate on a weekly basis from site to site. Hours are from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. Three shifts of two volunteers each are needed for each night during this four-month period.
Persons interested in volunteering to work one of three shifts at the Warming Shelter need to attend a training session. Past volunteers are encouraged to show up for the second hour to learn some practical skills in de-escalation and conflict management led by a staff member from the Mid-Columbia Center for Living.
Training dates, times and locations:
n Oct. 21, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Mid-Columbia Center for Living Community Room, 1610 Woods Court, off of Pacific Avenue
n Oct. 23, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Ninth and State streets
n Oct. 26, 9:30-11:30 a.m. at Riverside Community Church on State Street
Warming Shelter Mission: To compassionately provide a safe place to meet the basic human needs of those without shelter mid-November through mid-March.
This year the Warming Shelter program will have a "shelter host," who will be on site five nights a week to help both guests and volunteers feel welcome and comfortable.
For details visit http://www.hood-rivercares.org/
Applications for volunteering are available online. Fill them out and bring them with you to one of the three training sessions.
The Oct. 5 Hood River Leos can and bottle collection will benefit the Hood River Warming Shelter.
Leos will be on hand from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Rosauers parking lot.
Each month the high school group collects containers on the first Saturday, and donates the money to a local cause.
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Goat Puppet built for a 2011 New Century Theater production of O Lovely Glowworm, directed by Roger Benington. Puppet has moving mouth, fully articulted head and front legs and was built to be able to rear and butt as well as function as a free standing prop. Puppet was built on a stand with casters so it could be easily moved about the stage either as a character or prop. For information on design and build costs contact Brian Kooser at firstname.lastname@example.com. To buy tickets to see O Lovely Glow Worm, click on the Brown Paper Ticket link below. To read Seattle Magazine's Editor's Pick, visit Seattle Magazine's Review.
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After digesting a slew of mixed economic reports, Wall Street stayed in a tight trading range and bounced between slight gains and losses Wednesday afternoon.
Today's Markets
As of 2:53 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 9.50 points, or 0.07%, to 13181.52, the S&P 500 added 2.76 points, or 0.20%, to 1406.69 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 13.09 points, or 0.24%, to 3030.89. The FOX50 picked up 0.40 points, or 0.04%, to 1056.26.
The back-and-forth action leaves Wall Street in jeopardy of a third consecutive decline and its first losing week after five weeks of gains. However, this week's slide has been very muted, erasing just a bit of the markets' recent hot streak.
About half of the Dow's 30 members gained ground, led by Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) and United Technologies (NYSE:UTX). The index's biggest percentage losers were Merck (NYSE:MRK) and Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT).
Trading volume has dried up considerably on Wall Street, as is common during August when some market participants take extended vacations. Monday marked the lightest volume day of 2012 for the New York Stock Exchange volume has remained under 3 billion shares for the past three sessions, compared with 2012's average of 3.7 billion.
U.S. markets bounced off their lows after the National Association of Home Builders said its U.S. home builder sentiment index rose to 37 in August from 35 in July, marking the highest level since February 2007.
Home building stocks like Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) and KB Home (NYSE:KBH) traded mixed in the aftermath of the report.
Also, the Federal Reserve said industrial production picked up steam in July, jumping 0.6% from June -- the fourth consecutive monthly rise and largest since April.
On the other hand, the Empire Manufacturing index showed activity in the New York area unexpectedly turned negative for the first time since October, coming in at -5.85 in August from 7.39 the month before. Economists had been bracing for a more modest decline to 6.5.
"Numbers such as these provide no comfort. Economic data of late had been better than expected so let's hope today's number is not the start of a trend reversal," Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at BTIG, said in a note.
U.S. stocks received a slight boost on Tuesday after the government said retail sales broke a three-month slump in July, enjoying their strongest rise since February.
Also on the economic front on Wednesday, the Labor Department said consumer prices were flat in July from June, compared with forecasts for a 0.2% rise. Excluding food and energy, prices were up 0.1%, just under the expected 0.2% estimated increase.
In the commodities complex, crude oil rose $1.04 a barrel, or 1.13%, to $94.47. Gold advanced for the fourth day of the past six, gaining $4.30 a troy ounce, or 0.27%, to $1,603.70.
Corporate Movers
Target (NYSE:TGT) topped forecasts with EPS of $1.06 last quarter and upgraded its full-year earnings guidance above the Street's view. The discount retailer's outlook for the current quarter would also surpass estimates.
Staples (NASDAQ:SPLS) tumbled 16% after disclosing a worse-than-expected 32% tumble in earnings. The office supplies retailer also missed estimates with a 5.5% decline in sales to $5.5 billion and cut its full-year outlook.
Deere (NYSE:DE) retreated 6% after posting EPS of $1.98, widely trailing estimates for $2.38. The agricultural and construction equipment maker's sales rose 15% to $9.6 billion, narrowly beating the Street.
Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) disclosed a 52% plunge in second-quarter earnings, but topped the Street's beaten-down expectations. Sale-store sales contracted 10%, the first decline since 2009. A&F also boosted its share buyback plans by 10 million shares.
Carlyle Group (NYSE:CG) scooped up a controlling stake in Getty Images from private-equity firm Hellman & Friedman for $3.3 billion. Carlyle beat out rivals KKR (NYSE:KKR) and TPG.
Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Target (NYSE:TGT) and a slew of other retailers unveiled a mobile-payments alliance. The venture, called the Merchant Customer Exchange, could rival similar systems from Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and wireless providers like AT&T (NYSE:T).
Global Markets
The U.K.'s FTSE 100 fell 0.54% to 5833.04, the French CAC 40 dipped 0.03% to 3449.20 and Germany's DAX slid 0.40% to 6946.80.
In Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 slipped 0.05% to 8925.04 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng retreated 1.18% to 20052.29.


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Today we have in our labs Noctua's new NF-A14 and NF-A15 140mm fans. The new fans have been designed to replace the popular NF-P14 fans, which have been the choice of PC enthusiasts.
Compared to the NF-P14, the new fans have been aerodynamically optimized to provide higher static pressure and a better airflow/noise ratio. Noctua' NF-A14 series includes the NF-A14 FLX (flexible) and the NF-A14 ULN models. Both 140mm fans have the same size (140x140x25 mm) and square frame design.
The FLX version is provides 1200, 1050 and 900 rpm speed settings via the supplied Low-Noise and Ultra-Low-Noise Adaptors, offering more options for fine-tuning for superior airflow or maximum quietness.
The ULX version is providing 800 and 650 rpm speed settings via the supplied adaptor, meaning it's tailor made for silent enthusiasts who demand quietness of operation.
The third fan we present today is the Noctua NF-A15 PWM, an 140mm fan sized at 140x150x25 mm - 10mm wider than the NF-A14 series - with a round frame designed for use on today's high-end CPU coolers. The cooler features standard 120mm mounting holes (105mm spacing) allowing for a performance upgrade for 120mm case or CPU fans.
The NF-A15 PWM fan supports the automatic PWM speed control and it is supplied with a Low-Noise Adaptor (L.N.A.) that reduces the maximum fan speed from 1200 to 900rpm. The L.N.A can be used either to run the fan at a fixed speed of 900rpm or to cap the maximum speed when using automatic PWM control. In addition, the NF-A15 PWM uses Noctua's custom designed NE-FD1 PWM IC that integrates Smooth Commutation Drive (SCD) technology. The IC is said to provide smoother torque impulses suppressesing PWM switching noises and thus makes the fan quieter at low speeds.
All three coolers comply with Noctua's AAO (Advanced Acoustic Optimization) standard, they feature Noctua's aerodynamic design measures such as Flow Acceleration Channels, and SSO2 bearing.
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The NF-A14 (FLX & ULN) square 140mm frame with 140mm mounting holes (124.5mm spacing) makes it a replacement for common 140mm case fans and perfect for use on 140mm water cooling radiators, where its square shape will ensure full coverage and best pressure performance.
The NF-A14/A15 impeller features suction side Flow Acceleration Channels. By speeding up the airflow at the crucial outer blade regions, this measure reduces suction side flow separation and thus leads to better efficiency and lower vortex noise.
Noctua's AAO (Advanced Acoustic Optimization) frames feature integrated anti-vibration pads as well as Noctua's proprietary Stepped Inlet Design and Inner Surface Microstructures, both of which further refine the fan's performance/noise efficiency.
Noctua's Stepped Inlet Design adds turbulence to the influx in order to facilitate the transition from laminar flow to turbulent flow, which reduces tonal intake noise, improves flow attachment and increases suction capacity, especially in space restricted environments.
The NF-A15 PWM consumes only 0.96W of power, which amounts to a reduction of about 20% as compared to its predecessor.
The fan's short 20cm primary cable minimizes cable clutter in typical applications while the supplied 30cm extension provides extended reach when necessary. Both cables are fully sleeved and a 4-pin y-cable allows to connect a second NF-A15 PWM fan to the same PWM fan header for automatic control.


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Film Review
The Karate Kid
Reboot of cheesy classic offers few kicks
The Karate Kid
Directed by Harald Zwart
Cast: Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan
Despite (or perhaps because of) a certain temporal, dawn-of-the-MTV-era cheesiness, The Karate Kid has become a fondly remembered classic of '80s cinema. It spawned several sequels, frequent shouts of "Sweep the leg!" and is now responsible for a 21st century series reboot. Like all nostalgic reboots (an update of The A-Team also hits theaters this weekend, for crying out loud), it's hard to tell if the world really needs this new version. Probably not, but we're stuck with it. So, let's examine what we've got.
The 2010 version of The Karate Kid has been conceived of as a vehicle for Will Smith's skinny offspring Jaden (who last appeared with his pops in The Pursuit of Happyness). Turns out the film is less of a remake and more of a continuation of the original's themes with totally different characters and settings. (Let's call it Yet Another Karate Kid instead.) Jaden plays Dre Parker, a 12-year-old wimp whose mom gets reassigned to a new job in Shanghai. (Do a lot of non-
The film proceeds in more or less the same manner as the original. The hero gets punched about, the grumpy old Asian dude refuses to help for a while, eventually relenting and putting his little protégé through a training regimen that consists of 90 percent boring repetition. The film replaces the original's "wax on, wax off" mantra with a more realistic, but even more dull "take jacket off, hang jacket up, put jacket on" routine. In the end (the very end, mind you) we finally get some actual martial arts, with Dre entering a kung fu tournament to show up those evil bullies from the evil martial arts academy. I won't spoil the ending for you, but I will say he does remarkably well for a fighter who's never actually sparred with another human being and has spent the bulk of his training picking up a jacket.
Yes, there's really only one sequence of martial arts in the entire film. It's extended, but still. Honestly, it's probably for the best, since it's fairly clear fairly early that Jaden Smith has no martial arts ability whatsoever. The kid can move a little and has obviously inherited a lot of his father's muscle memory. He can definitely dance and is good at striking poses. But it takes an awful lot of Hollywood trickery to make it look like he can throw a punch or land a kick. Hard to believe, but he actually makes Ralph Macchio look like a convincing bad-ass. Jackie Chan, on the other hand, is a master of the art form. Certainly, he's a better choice for the mentor role than comedian Pat Morita. Sadly, Jackie's sole martial arts sequence is a brief one in which he beats up a bunch of adolscents. Not very impressive, really.
If you tried hard, you might be able to equate The Karate Kid to various historic, "training"-style kung fu films. Hong Kong classics like The 36th Chamber of Shaolin and The 18 Bronzemen showcased relatively little actual hand-to-hand combat. They focused, instead, on the brutal day-to-day training techniques employed by the Shaolin temples. But then they also had the mind-boggling athleticism of guys like Gordon Liu to showcase. Twig-thin would-be tween idol Jaden Smith just ain't in that category. He does get to rap the closing credit song, though.
So, if you're going to see The Karate Kid for its fight scenes, you'll be getting precious little. Instead, the 2 hour and 15 minute film is overstuffed with subplots that have nothing to do with martial arts. (Will the cute Chinese girl Dre has a crush on land a scholarship to the prestigious music academy? ... Seriously, who cares?) The final, completely predictable showdown between Dre and the evil bullies is enough to elicit a few cheers from the audience—but it's possible they're just hungry for any sort of excitement at that point.
Add it all up, and this retooled, pre-teen, outsourced-to-China version of The Karate Kid is a lot like New Coke or Crystal Pepsi (to continue the flashback theme). It's splashy, will attract a lot of attention and may even garner a few young fans. But it offers nothing that the original didn't do better.


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Since 2006, over 180 projects have been completed by students. They work together as writers, directors, cinematographers, producers, and editors as they learn the fundamentals of filmmaking with the goal of creating competition-worthy works of art.
Watch films** from the 2009 Summer Intensive Program:
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Tiempo Extra Written and Directed by Jonathan Pimentel
Moments after his death, a hit man contemplates where his life went.
Tiempo de Negacion Written and Directed by Kelvin Mejia
A man prepares breakfast for his wife.
The Hunt Written and Directed by Nelson Peralta
When a man follows a young girl home, he gets more than he bargains for when she turns the tables on him.
Permission Written by Violeta Lockhart and Directed by Jose Ignacio
A Dominican girl confronts her father before going on a date with a Haitian.
La Fanatica Written and Directed by Karen Eliana Estévez
A fan stalks her favorite soap opera at his hotel to get a glimpse of the heartthrob.
La Espera Written and Directed by Dilenia Hernández
In the afterlife, a girl desperately waits for Mr. D to take her to the great beyond.
Indiference d'un Couple Written and Directed by Sophonie Zidor
When a couple breaks up, a girl realizes she'll never be able to forget her one true love.
Guillermo's History Written and Directed by Guillermo Molina
A special agent is on a mission to steal a top-secret CD from an evil organization.
El Reloj Written and Directed by Deivis Fermin
A man waits for a girl to pass his house at the same time everyday.
Asechada Written by Kelvin Mejia and Directed by Watson Balmyr
A woman finds herself being stalked by her neighbor.
El Caso Written by Karen Eliana Estévez and Directed by Deivis Fermin
Two detectives hunt for an elderly woman's murderer.
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2D:3M Written and Directed by Andres Mateo Martinez
An experimental piece on a man's desire to live inside a movie frame.
Apertura Written by Laura Guzman and Directed by Jay Rivera
A loner falls in love with the model of her photographs.
De La 33 a La 64 Written and Directed by Jay Rivera An homage to Julio Cortazar and jazz legend Charlie Parker.
De La 33 a La 64 Written and Directed by Jay Rivera
An homage to Julio Cortazar and jazz legend Charlie Parker.Dominican Fu Written and Directed by Eduardo Martinez
A young ninja on a special mission.
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A look at our program in the Dominican Republic.
Shine Written and Directed by Dante Lara
An illiterate shoe shine boy learns that honesty is the best policy.
Mariposa Written and Directed by Maria Victoria Hernandez
An uncle's birthday gift unties a chain of events that will degenerate into a young girl's transition away from innocence.
Zapatos Rojos Written and Directed by Erika Torres
A prostitute faces the dangers of working the streets late at night.
The First Time Written and Directed by Edna Lerebours
Two people meet daily and bond on an abandoned bus.


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Ford Taps, Stanford, MIT to Help Develop Self-Driving Cars
Cars that guide themselves without help from a human driver may still seem like a far-off fantasy. But car makers are accelerating efforts to develop self-driving technology and autonomous cars are closer to mass-market reality than many consumers might believe.
Ford Motor Co. said it entered partnerships with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University to bolster its research and development of control systems needed to reliably navigate without driver input.


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and timing supervision, primarily for DSP and processor-based systems.
During power-on, RESET is asserted low when the supply voltage
(VDD) becomes higher than 0.4 V. Thereafter, the supervisory circuit
monitors VDD and keeps the RESET output low as long
as VDD remains below the threshold voltage (VIT–). To
ensure proper system reset, after VDD surpasses the threshold voltage, an
internal timer delays the transition of the RESET signal from low to high
for the specified time. When VDD drops below VIT–,
the output transitions low again.
All the devices of this family have a fixed-sense threshold voltage
(VIT–) set by an internal voltage divider.
TPS3103 and TPS3106 devices have an active-low, open-drain RESET output and
either an integrated power-fail input (PFI) or SENSE input with corresponding outputs for
monitoring other voltages. The TPS3110 has an active-low push/pull RESET and
a watchdog timer to monitor the operation of microprocessors. All three devices have a manual reset
pin that can be used to force the outputs low regardless of the sensed voltages.
The product spectrum is designed for supply voltages of 0.9 V up to
3.6 V. The circuits are available in
6-pin SOT-23 packages. The TPS31xx family is characterized for operation over a temperature range
of –40°C to 125°C.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Post Co.'s stock jumped 5 percent Friday after the company reported a third-quarter profit, reversing a loss from the same period a year ago.
The media and education company reported net income of $93.8 million, or $12.64 per share, in the three months that ended on Sept. 30.
A year ago, the Post Co. booked a loss of $6.2 million, or 82 cents per share. The third quarter of 2011 included one-time charges of $3.5 million, or 44 cents per share, related to severance and restructuring at Kaplan. It also included a writedown of $14.9 million, or $1.89 per share, related to its stake in Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit education company separate from Kaplan. Excluding these items, the company would have earned $4.95 per share in that quarter.
The Post Co.'s latest quarter included a one-time charge of $7.6 million, or $1.02 per share, in early retirement, severance and restructuring costs at its newspaper publishing division and at its Kaplan education business. Still, there were fewer charges than last year.
Revenue in the most recent quarter was $1.01 billion, about the same as a year earlier.
The company's stock rose $17.05, or 5 percent, to $356.50 million in midday trading. The stock has traded between $323.29 and $405 in the past 52 weeks.
The company is best known for The Washington Post newspaper, but its Kaplan education business accounts for more than half of its revenue. Kaplan, which operates a range of educational services, including for-profit universities, was once a growing business. But recent federal regulations aimed at lowering student debt have led to lower enrollment at many for-profit schools where a large proportion of students borrow money to attend.
In response to government scrutiny, Kaplan schools have raised admissions standards and given students a trial period before they are required to pay. Kaplan has also changed the way it markets its programs.
Kaplan's higher-education division had 73,261 students enrolled as of Sept. 30, down 8 percent from 78,534 a year ago.
Revenue at the company's education division fell 8 percent from a year earlier to $552.6 million from $601.6 million.
At the Post Co.'s cable TV business, revenue grew 6 percent to $199.6 million from $187.9 million.
Revenue from newspaper publishing fell 4 percent to $137.3 million from $143.5 million.
Broadcast TV revenue rose 44 percent $106.4 million from $73.8 million due to improved advertising demand, helped by the presidential elections and the summer Olympics.


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McPherson allows three homers in loss to Rays
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- The Rays cracked three home runs and defeated the Pirates, 6-2, on Monday night at Charlotte Sports Park.
Matt Moore made his fifth appearance of the spring. The 23-year-old left-hander has struggled with his command in spurts all spring, and Monday night was no exception.View Full Game Coverage
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- The Rays cracked three home runs and defeated the Pirates, 6-2, on Monday night at Charlotte Sports Park.
Matt Moore made his fifth appearance of the spring. The 23-year-old left-hander has struggled with his command in spurts all spring, and Monday night was no exception.View Full Game Coverage
Moore walked two and gave up a single as the Pirates loaded the bases in the first. He managed to escape the jam, but he threw 25 pitches, of which just 13 went for strikes.
"To find that overall feel for the heater from the get-go was a little tough tonight," said Moore, regarding his command.
That doesn't mean he is getting nervous about his control, however. "I'm pretty competitive," he said. "I feel like it's not so much like you can just turn it on. But when the time comes around and I'm battling in those moments where I have runners in scoring position, it's better when it's going like that."
Russell Martin did not let Moore escape the second. After Kyle McPherson and Jose Tabata strung together back-to-back singles with two outs, the Pirates catcher smoked a ground-rule double to left that drove home McPherson for a 1-0 Pirates lead.
Moore issued a leadoff walk to Gaby Sanchez to start the third. Sanchez moved to second on a wild pitch before Josh Harrison brought him home on a single to left.
Moore allowed two runs on six hits and five walks, while striking out three in 4 2/3 innings before getting lifted after 106 pitches.
McPherson, who is competing for a spot at the back end of the Pirates' rotation, surrendered a solo home run to Shelley Duncan in the second. For Duncan, the blast was his fifth of the spring.
Ben Zobrist put the Rays ahead with a two-run homer with two outs in the fifth off of McPherson. But he didn't leave the yard without a little help from Pirates right fielder Tabata, who may have knocked the ball over the fence as he tried to make a leaping grab.
Matt Joyce followed with a single before Evan Longoria hit his first homer of the spring, driving a 2-0 McPherson offering deep onto the berm past the left-field fence for a 5-2 Rays lead.
"It's good to get [the first home run] out of the way," said Longoria. "I had a couple of good at-bats today where I hit the ball on the barrel, and really that's just been my focus, is having good at-bats. The balls that are in the zone, barreling them up."
McPherson allowed five runs on seven hits -- including the three homers -- and one walk. He struck out two in his five innings of work.
In the sixth, Brandon Jennings drove in James Loney with a single up the middle.
Up Next for the Pirates: Pittsburgh travels to Dunedin on Tuesday to meet the Blue Jays in a 1:05 p.m. ET game, and it could be the formal unveiling of Jonathan Sanchez as the club's No. 4 starter. The veteran lefty is the tentatively-scheduled starter, even though the club faces a morning decision on whether to add him to the roster or grant him his release. Sanchez has been in camp on a Minor League contract, and has thrown eight scoreless innings in his last two starts.
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com.


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I'm in a bind. My friend Elliott and I bought tickets to see the much-anticipated conclusion to Chris Nolan's Batman trilogy, "The Dark Knight Rises" on IMAX this Wednesday.
Let me note that this is exactly the way I want to see it. With over an hour of footage shot specifically for the IMAX screen, it's one of the few times a $20 movie ticket is totally worth it ("Avatar" and "Watchmen" being very important instances of when it was not). Secondly, I'm very happy to be going on a bro-date with Elliott.
Bro-dates are actually way better than real dates with women because you don't have to buy a guy friend's ticket, you can go round for round on drinks with them afterward, and a hand-job at the end of the night is a bonus instead of a disappointment.
Furthermore, I just can't take a woman to see "The Dark Knight Rises." I saw "The Dark Knight" three times in theaters when it came out. The first time, I was so stoned I didn't remember anything about it except for there was a lot of light and color. The second time I saw it on IMAX for $20 (and it was worth every penny). The third time I went with my then-girlfriend, to whom I said afterward, "So? How awesome was that?"
"Sure," she said. "It was okay."
"Heath Ledger was good."
"Good?! Okay?! These are not acceptable adjectives."
"It's a guy movie. You like anything with a troubled rogue riding off in the distance at the end—just look at your entire obsession with Bruce Springsteen music."
My point being that women are practitioners of psychological withcraft, and I want to enjoy my Batman movies without the commentary on my psychosexual issues. Elliott knows nothing of psychosexual issues (other than his own), so we can just go to this awesome movie and watch Bane blow up a football stadium and Anne Hathaway wear skin-tight leather.
The problem arises from the five-day lag between the film's release and our opportunity to see it. There will literally be nothing else on the Internet for those five days other than people debating the film's merits, plot points, and place in the Nolan oeuvre. The 2012 presidential election, Syria's civil war, the horrific drought of the Great Plains—all of this bullshit will take a backseat to the debate over the raspiness of Batman's voice and whether Joseph Gordon-Levittis in fact Robin the Boy Wonder or not Robin the Boy Wonder?
(Please, please, no Robin the Boy Wonder).
How am I going to avoid this? I won't be able to watch TV or go on-line—and I definitely cannot go anywhere near Twitter since I know all the people I follow from Roger Ebert to Paul Krugman will be Tweeting spoilers. I guess I could read a copy of this so-called news-papper thing? Certainly there's almost no information left in those.


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The practice of providing material support to those who have the mission to proclaim the Gospel began with Christianity itself, with the aim of enabling them to engage fully in their ministry and at the same time take care of the most needy among us (cf. Acts of the Apostles 4:34; 11,29).
At the end of the 8th century, the Anglo-Saxons, after their conversion, they felt so attached to the Bishop of Rome, who decided to stably send an annual contribution to the Holy Father. Thus was born the "Denarius Sancti Petri" (Alms to Saint Peter), which soon spread throughout Europe. This, like other similar practices, passed through many ups and downs over the centuries, until it was blessed by Pope Pius IX, with the Saepe venerabilis Encyclical of 5 August 1871. Currently, this collection takes place throughout the Catholic world, mostly on 29 June or on the Sunday closest to the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul.


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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) Canada upset a short-handed Spain team Sunday to reach the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup for the first time.
Fifteenth-ranked Milos Raonic defeated No. 82 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 in the opening reverse singles match to give Canada an insurmountable 3-1 lead.
Five-time champion Spain was missing Rafael Nadal, David Ferrer and Nicolas Almagro because of injuries and fatigue.
Canada will next play Italy in April.
Raonic and Frank Dancevic won their opening singles matches Friday to give Canada a 2-0 lead before Spain won the doubles Saturday.


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40 Years Ago, May 9, 1973
Islettes volunteer for happiness march
Grand Island will be well represented at the May 20 Buffalo parade to celebrate national Nursing Home Week. Teddy's Islettes Baton and Drum Corps will be among the marching units.
Planned by the Delaware Avenue Nursing Home, the parade will pass that home and three others for the benefit of patients who are unable to travel. At last report, more than 1,000 persons, including Grand Island's 125 Islettes, had volunteered for the event. All units will march down Delaware Avenue between West Utica Street and Gates Circle beginning at 2 p.m. There will be no competition for prizes and cash awards, "just an opportunity to make someone happy," a spokesman for the Islettes said.
The Islettes' first Grand Island appearance is scheduled for May 28, 1973, when the town will pay tribute to its war dead at a ceremony in DeGlopper Memorial Park ...
30 Years Ago, May 6, 1983
Area youth drawn by hope of work
"Jobs no fantasy on Grand Island," was what one local television station reported as Fantasy Island interviewed candidates for 350 to 400 jobs for the summer. More than 1,300 people lined up at the fire headquarters Saturday, some waiting several hours to fill out an application and speak to one of the 12 interviewers.
Many were soaked before reaching the hall, but the rain discouraged few. Coffee from the fire auxiliary, whose annual doughnut sale coincided with the hiring day, warmed many of the job-seekers. Another 500 people applied Sunday.
20 Years Ago, May 12, 1993
Residents continue to voice pipeline opposition
Grand Island and Wheatfield residents joined forces once again in opposition to the proposed Empire State pipeline last Thursday, this time at public hearings scheduled by the New York State Public Service Commission. After more than five years of fighting, the angry residents pummeled ANR officials with questions on safety, alternative routes, the environment, property values, and more.
The public hearings, which were held May 6 at Wheatfield Town Hall, were arranged by PSC to officially record comments from residents regarding ANR Pipeline Company's request to change directional drilling for the project. In an effort to better explain the proposed changes, the PSC requested that ANR representatives be on hand one hour before each public hearing to allow for a question-and-answer period.
Approximately 75 residents bombarded Jack P. Lucido, ANR vice president of engineering and construction, with questions for more than an hour before the 1 p.m. hearing. Although comments were supposed to be restricted to the directional drilling change, many residents went back to long-asked questions that have never received answers.
Residents from both Wheatfield and Grand Island aired concerns about a decrease in property values for those homes in close proximity to the proposed pipeline. ...
10 Years Ago, May 9, 2003
Buffalo Launch Club celebrates 100 years
This year marks a special occasion for the Buffalo Launch Club - "the oldest power boating club in the world" - as its membership proudly observes its 100th anniversary on Oct. 9.
Located at 503 East River Road, the club traces its beginnings to the efforts of Dr. A.E. Hibbard, a Buffalo-area boating enthusiast and pioneer. (He) along with 18 other like-minded aficionados, organized to form a club where they could share their ideas and experiences on Niagara River boating - in those days a newfound and daring venture on boats powered by internal combustion engines.
Over the years, Niagara River powerboat racing became increasingly popular for enthusiasts as well as Buffalo-area residents - primarily due to the efforts of the BLC. The club weathered the struggles of the Great Depression of the 1930s, the war years and a tragic fire that saw its clubhouse burn to the ground. Today, the BLC boasts a membership from the Island and beyond.


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Released in the UK in 2005, The Machinist was directed
by Brad Anderson and stars Christian Bale in one of the most
committed performances to be seen in cinema. Bale loses so much
weight for the part of Trevor Reznik, more than 4 stones in a
matter of months, that his skeletal form is almost too difficult to
watch at times. The film opens with the main protagonist, Reznik,
in an extremely disturbed state of mind, seemingly disposing of a
body rolled in carpet. What follows is the back-story to this
scene, as we learn that Reznik has suffered from a year of crushing
insomnia and dramatic weight loss. The film ends with us
understanding the cause of his initial insomnia and the subsequent
development of his paranoid psychosis.
I do not intend to reveal the entire plot of The
Machinist, but wish to consider the way in which the film
provides us with suggestions about Reznik's mental state. This
begins with the choice made by the director, throughout most of the
film, to use a cinematic atmosphere of low light and grimy
surroundings, which contribute to an overall tone of hopelessness
and despair. The musical score also reinforces what we see of
Reznik's fearful, persecutory state of mind for much of the film.
But it is the gaunt, haunted skeletal appearance of Bale himself
who manages to convey the complexity of his character, racked with
guilt, denial and increasing persecutory anxieties, that makes this
an extraordinary visual account of a mental illness unfolding
before our very eyes.
After the initial opening scene described
above, we learn that Trevor Reznik is single and works as a machine
operator at the local factory. We discover that he visits a
prostitute, called Stevie, regularly and that he is a friend to her
as much as a client. Early in the film, she is clearly concerned
about both his weight loss and his distracted mental state and
suggests that he see a doctor. However, he refuses to seek help of
any kind. The management at his workplace also express concern
about his weight loss and mental state, asking him if he is 'doing
drugs'. To them he states that he has got a lot on his mind, but
he's dealing with it.
His distracted mental state then leads to an
awful accident at his work in which a colleague loses a limb,
resulting in the other workers turning against Reznik for his
'weird' state of mind. His paranoia in this context appears real
and justified. In the investigation of the incident, Reznik
confesses to having been distracted by another worker, called Ivan,
leading him to discover that there is no such person employed by
the factory. However, Ivan continues to pursue Reznik, who begins
to feel increasingly persecuted. He begins to neglect his
day-to-day responsibilities and personal care and in a downward
spiral of despair also loses his job. But he continues to turn to
Stevie as someone he can trust until, finally, she too becomes a
part of his persecutory world and she throws him out of her flat. A
parallel storyline, with particular significance to the film,
concerns Reznik's late night trips to the airport coffee bar where
he has become well known to the waitress there who works the night
shift. Interestingly, these scenes are bathed in light and seem to
offer some temporary way out of the darkness for Reznik.
As the film progresses the boundary between
truth and delusion becomes completely blurred for Reznik and the
viewer. Certain everyday objects, like the cigarette lighter in his
truck, appear to take on a special significance only understandable
after the final scenes of the film. We are not sure what to believe
until we are given several clues that Ivan is in fact a part of
Reznik himself, hounding him until he finally makes the right
choice about something he has done. Only when he takes full
responsibility for his earlier action does he get any resolution of
his guilt and can at last fall into a deep sleep. The film
provides us with the final piece of the psychological puzzle at its
very end but some viewers may have managed to collect enough clues
before then to reach the correct conclusion for themselves.
The Machinist offers not only a
brilliant springboard to teach about the experience of paranoia but
also presents the opportunity to consider the differential
diagnosis in someone who presents with such symptoms and to examine
the predisposing, precipitating and perpetuating factors that might
be used in constructing a psychodynamic formulation. Further
discussion about psychodynamic formulations is available in a
two-part article published in Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
entitled Teaching of psychodynamic formulation to psychiatric
trainees (2005)
11: 416-423 and (2006)
12: 92-99 both by Chris Mace and Sharon
With regards to Reznik, one could suggest that
his premorbid personality, shaped perhaps by the absence of his
father from a young age, coupled with his single status and lack of
intimacy, has predisposed him to develop a depressive episode, in
which he suffers from extreme anorexia and chronically impaired
sleep, which in turn further impair his cognitive functions. We
come to understand that the trigger for his illness was his spur of
the moment decision to flee from a traumatic event generating huge
guilt. His depression steadily worsened over a year without any
professional help, until he develops a severe psychotic depressive
episode with mood congruent paranoid delusions, visual
hallucinations and second person auditory hallucinations. I suggest
that Ivan represents a projection; the mental mechanism described
by psychoanalysts whereby a person attempts to get rid of
unacceptable impulses or parts of the self by externalising
The Machinist could also offer a
platform for discussion about the topic of insomnia and chronic
sleep deprivation. A very good and broad
introduction to the topic of insomnia and its causes
can be found on the NHS choices website. It is important to note
that although Reznik states that he hasn't slept for a year, we
actually watch him having a brief lapse into sleep that lasts a few
seconds one night. In reality, the sleep deprivation record is
thought to stand at 266 hours (a little over 11 days) achieved on
live webcam in 2007 by a 43 year old Cornishman called Tony Wright,
as this
BBC report describes. The Guinness Book of
Records stopped acknowledging attempts at sleep deprivation prior
to his achievement because of the negative consequences for
The Machinist could definitely be
used to teach students from various backgrounds about persecutory
delusions and abnormal perceptions and it illustrates the
importance of obtaining an independent history from an informant,
whenever possible, when interviewing someone suffering from
paranoid symptoms. I would recommend this film for anyone seeking
to work in adult mental health.
Finally, after mentioning the first national
medical film festival, Medfest 2011, in my last post, I was
fortunate to attend the St George's event as a panellist. The three
contrasting films shown made for a very interesting evening of
viewing and discussion, one of which, called Shadow Scan,
tells the harrowing story of an over stressed, drug addicted and
depressed, self-harming junior doctor. Written and directed by
doctor turned filmmaker, Tinge Krishnan, Shadow Scan won a
BAFTA in 2001. Lasting ten minutes, it is available to watch on
YouTube and could definitely be considered alongside The
Machinist in a discussion about the filmic techniques used to
create an atmosphere of despair and depression in a character.
Scan can be viewed in its entirety here and for
anyone interested in hearing more about the festival, there is an
excellent review at the
Lancet online, May 18, 2011.
• More information about The
Machinist can be found at IMDB as
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The 2010 Ryder Cup finished a day late (Monday) due to weather delays on the first day, but the conclusion was well worth watching.
Unfortunately, as in every sporting event there has to be a winner and a loser. In this case the winner was the European team, but it came down to the last group of the final day to determine that fact.
It was a big moment for Graeme McDowell who won his match against Hunter Mahan on the 17th hole, giving the Europeans 14 1/2 points to the USA team's 14 points. A great year for McDowell, having won the US Open earlier in the year and then wrapping up the Ryder Cup for his team.
I did bleed a bit for Hunter Mahan who was short with his shot into the 17th green and then muffed his chip on his next shot to lose the hole and the match. My first thought was that the press would brand him as the goat for this Ryder Cup, although from what I've seen that didn't happen.
I'm sure that Mahan will relive that chip in his mind for a long time: that's golf. The pressure was intense and shit happens in this game. But the reality was that Mahan was 2 down at that point and needed to win the last two holes just to get a half on his match (which would have left the cup in the hands of the US team). All McDowell had to do was win or tie one of the last two. Which probably didn't feel that easy to him at the time, knowing what was at stake.
I was pleased to see Tiger Woods playing well, especially on the final day in his singles match. Maybe he is ready to put his personal problems behind him and return to his old form. But I must admit that I am amazed by the anger that some people I have talked exhibit when Woods' name comes up. Almost an visceral reaction.
There were some great performances by a number of players on both teams and some disappointments for others.
Now they can start thinking about doing it all over again in two year's time.