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| Choke | | 2008-07-17 06:32:01 | | Sex addict and colonial theme park worker, Victor Mancini, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mom's hospital bills while she suffers from an Alzheimer's disease that hides the truth about his childhood. He pretends to choke on food in a restaurant and the person who "saves" him will feel responsible for Victor for the rest of their lives.Coming to theaters on September 26, 2008.Click to see the trailer and website.Rated: Comedy, Drama | | By: Go To Movies | | |
| | The Choke Factor: How Stereotypes Affect Performance | | 2007-12-12 04:34:00 | | An Interesting article below to stimulate the brain on a Wednesday morning, interested in some feed back, Guy Kawasaki does a post on the same article have a look at his analysis, to me his summary is common sense, and does not do the article real justice. I look forward to your comments.How Stereotypes Shape Performance By S. Alexander Haslam, Jessica Salvatore, and Thomas KesslerUniversity of Exeter, UKEvery sports fan has vivid memories of key occasions on which a favorite team or player has 'choked' under pressure. And every student who has ever taken a standardized test knows what that kind of pressure feels like. What makes for high-pressure situations, and how do they influence performance? In the last decade such issues have been explored by social psychologists researching the phenomenon of stereotype threat. Their work shows not only that pressure can compromise performance, but that this dynamic is more common among members of negatively stereotyped social groups. Why?The classic demonstration of stereotype threat, in a 1995 paper by Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson, emerged from a series of studies in which high-achieving African American students at Stanford completed the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) under conditions where they thought either that the test was measuring intelligence or that it was not a test of ability at all. Intriguingly, these bright students did much worse when they considered it an intelligence test.. This, the researchers argued, was because "in situations where [a negative] stereotype is applicable, one is at risk of confirming it as a self-characterization, both to one's self and to others who know the stereotype." This tendency to perform worse when conscious of being in a group stereotyped as performing poorly is what is meant by stereotype threat. This pattern of findings has been replicated with many different groups on many different dimensions of stereotype content. The work of the University of Chicago's Sian Beilock an | | By: Gordon Whyte's Blog of the daily challenges of an | | |
| | INDIA: Private petro retailers choke as losses mount | | 2007-07-30 06:00:00 | | With elections looming in several states, starting with Gujarat, the Centre is in no mood to hike petrol and diesel prices, leaving oil retailers to deal with the losses. While state-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) will eventually be compensated with oil bonds, private sector majors like Reliance Industries (RIL) and Essar Oil (EOL) have no such recourse.RIL has lost over Rs 2,100 crore and Essar Rs 240 crore since they started their retail operations. As international crude prices continue to hold firm at the $75 per barrel level, RIL has decided to increase petrol and diesel prices by Rs 1.50 per litre from Monday. Essar Oil is likely to follow suit.Public sector OMCs are losing Rs 180 crore per day with India’s largest marketer, Indian Oil (IOC), alone losing Rs 90 crore per day on the sales of petrol, diesel, kerosene and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). It is losing Rs 5.90 per litre on petrol, Rs 4.80 per litre on diesel, Rs 14.16 on kerosene and Rs 190 per cylinder on LPG s | | By: energy BLOG | | |
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| Whatta A Choke!!! | | 2007-04-21 09:49:03 | | Curt Schilling= 7 innings 8 hits and five earned runs Manny Papi= 1 for 6 no r.b.i.'s Jonathan Papelbon= inactive for the game A-Rod= 3 for 5 with 2 homers and 4 r.b.i.'s= worthless Watching the Yankees and Mariano... | | By: Red Sox Nation Daily | | |
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