90% Robot & Frank

All Critics (77) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (69) | Rotten (8)

"Robot & Frank" hits all the right notes - romantic, fantastic, tragic and sweet.

There's a warm and poignant interplay between the co-stars.

Langella ... is tremendous.

It may not seem like an even playing field pitting an actor as powerfully intense as Frank Langella opposite a robot, but that's the game plan behind the waywardly endearing, slightly futuristic fantasy Robot & Frank.

Much of Robot & Frank is (frankly) resistible, including the climactic narrative twist, but there is also a likeable oddness that transcends the sentimental contrivance.

An endearing movie about a human and his mechanical new buddy.

An hysterically funny, breathlessly paced and moving meditation on old age and existence, topped by an award-worthy turn from Frank Langella. One of the year's best.

Jake Schreier and scriptwriter Christopher Ford go well beyond the initial fun of the robot conceit to craft a thoughtful film musing on both the ageing process and our relationship with technology.

A little gem of a movie about aging and obsolescence that is also a very modest sci-fi cautionary tale.

... a marvel of the highest order. Robot and Frank manages to seamlessly blend comedy, science fiction and drama into a film that is hilarious, truly original and utterly heartfelt

This blend of sentiment and genre fancy is not unlike something Ray Bradbury might have contrived for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Robot & Frank is an airy, engaging flight of fancy. It's also part caper film, part character study, and part allegory about aging. Robot & Frank shouldn't work, but it does.

..never hits the easy and obvious beats of a buddy comedy; there's no sentimental bonding between man and mecha man. Similarly, though it feints toward romance, the relationship ... resolves in an unexpectedly bittersweet way.

"Robot & Frank" is a study of a man who lives with his past mistakes but can't shake how truly alive they made him feel when he was making them, regardless of what they cost him.

Hodgepodge of moods built around an unlikely story of friendship between a man and his service robot, the film carries itself confidently, with occasional moments of significant emotion.

They get the robot right, with fluid movement (by dancer Rachael Ma) and canned warmth in its user-friendly voice (performed by Peter Sarsgaard).

What a weird, winning little movie is Robot & Frank.

The chief spectacle here -- and it's a good one -- is Langella in gruff, curdled mode, an underappreciated master actor slipping seamlessly into a bespoke role.

"Robot & Frank" is so endearing it's easy to forget it's science fiction.

The movie is sweet and agreeably unambitious, derailed only by an egregious third-act twist.

Frank Langella gives a terrific performance as the second of the two title characters in this modest but heartfelt science-fiction comedy.

There's no denying the, err, chemistry between Langella and his nameless buddy.

Amusing and ingratiating, leaving a bittersweet afterglow

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Immune response may link social rejection to later health outcomes

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Contact: Anna Mikulak
amikulak@psychologicalscience.org
202-293-9300
Association for Psychological Science

No matter which way you look at it, rejection hurts. Experiencing rejection from a boss, a friend, or a partner is difficult enough for many adults to handle. But adolescents, who are dealing with the one-two punch of biological and social change, may be the most vulnerable to its negative effects.

In a new study published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researcher Michael Murphy and colleagues examine the human immune response as a potential link between social stressors like rejection and later mental and physical health outcomes.

There are many kinds of stressors that increase our risk for disease, but stressors that threaten our social standing, such as targeted rejection, seem to be particularly harmful.

Many people are probably familiar with targeted rejection from their school days, when a student was actively and intentionally rejected by another student or a group of students. It's the kind of behavior that we see in so many cases of ostracism and bullying.

"Targeted rejection is central to some of life's most distressing experiences things like getting broken up with, getting fired, and being excluded from your peer group at school," said Murphy. "In this study, we aimed to examine processes that may give these experiences the ability to affect health."

Previous research has shown that people who are on the receiving end of this kind of rejection experience symptoms of depression three times faster than people who are faced with similarly severe life events. Researchers believe that certain inflammatory processes that are part of the immune response could be a link between targeted rejection and depression.

Murphy and colleagues decided to directly investigate whether rejection-related life events affect inflammatory activity by conducting a study that followed 147 healthy adolescent women over 2.5 years. The participants did not have a personal history of mental health problems but were all at risk for major depression due to family and other personal risk factors.

The participants were assessed for psychiatric diagnoses, incidences of targeted rejection, perceived social status, expression of inflammatory signaling molecules, and indicators of low-grade inflammation every 6 months over the course of the study.

The data collected suggest that recent exposure to targeted rejection does indeed activate the molecular signaling pathways that regulate inflammation. Participants had elevated levels of pro- inflammatory signaling molecules at visits when they had recently experienced an incidence of targeted rejection compared to visits when no targeted rejection had occurred.

Interestingly, the effect was more pronounced in those who perceived their social status to be higher.

Murphy and colleagues speculate that this inflammatory response might be adaptive for individuals at the top of a social hierarchy, giving them a survival advantage. The researchers note, however, that an overly productive immune response can be harmful to mental and physical health in the long run.

If substantiated in future research, these findings could have implications for understanding how social conditions increase risk for a variety of inflammation-related diseases, including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, certain types of cancer, and depression.

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The study was co-authored by George M. Slavich, University of California, Los Angeles; Nicolas Rohleder, Brandeis University; and Gregory E. Miller, University of British Columbia.

Clinical Psychological Science a new journal from APS publishes advances in clinical science and provides a venue for cutting-edge research across a wide range of conceptual views, approaches, and topics. The journal encompasses many core domains that have defined clinical psychology, but also boundary-crossing advances that integrate and make contact with diverse disciplines and that may not easily be found in traditional clinical psychology journals. Among the key topics are research on the underlying mechanisms and etiologies of psychological health and dysfunction; basic and applied work on the diagnosis, assessment, treatment, and prevention of mental illness; service delivery; and promotion of well-being.

The research was supported by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

For more information about this study, please contact: Michael L. M. Murphy at murphym@psych.ubc.ca.

Clinical Psychological Science is APS's newest journal. For a copy of the article "Targeted Rejection Triggers Differential Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Gene Expression in Adolescents as a Function of Social Status" and access to other Clinical Psychological Science research findings, please contact Anna Mikulak at 202-293-9300 or amikulak@psychologicalscience.org.


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Contact: Anna Mikulak
amikulak@psychologicalscience.org
202-293-9300
Association for Psychological Science

No matter which way you look at it, rejection hurts. Experiencing rejection from a boss, a friend, or a partner is difficult enough for many adults to handle. But adolescents, who are dealing with the one-two punch of biological and social change, may be the most vulnerable to its negative effects.

In a new study published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researcher Michael Murphy and colleagues examine the human immune response as a potential link between social stressors like rejection and later mental and physical health outcomes.

There are many kinds of stressors that increase our risk for disease, but stressors that threaten our social standing, such as targeted rejection, seem to be particularly harmful.

Many people are probably familiar with targeted rejection from their school days, when a student was actively and intentionally rejected by another student or a group of students. It's the kind of behavior that we see in so many cases of ostracism and bullying.

"Targeted rejection is central to some of life's most distressing experiences things like getting broken up with, getting fired, and being excluded from your peer group at school," said Murphy. "In this study, we aimed to examine processes that may give these experiences the ability to affect health."

Previous research has shown that people who are on the receiving end of this kind of rejection experience symptoms of depression three times faster than people who are faced with similarly severe life events. Researchers believe that certain inflammatory processes that are part of the immune response could be a link between targeted rejection and depression.

Murphy and colleagues decided to directly investigate whether rejection-related life events affect inflammatory activity by conducting a study that followed 147 healthy adolescent women over 2.5 years. The participants did not have a personal history of mental health problems but were all at risk for major depression due to family and other personal risk factors.

The participants were assessed for psychiatric diagnoses, incidences of targeted rejection, perceived social status, expression of inflammatory signaling molecules, and indicators of low-grade inflammation every 6 months over the course of the study.

The data collected suggest that recent exposure to targeted rejection does indeed activate the molecular signaling pathways that regulate inflammation. Participants had elevated levels of pro- inflammatory signaling molecules at visits when they had recently experienced an incidence of targeted rejection compared to visits when no targeted rejection had occurred.

Interestingly, the effect was more pronounced in those who perceived their social status to be higher.

Murphy and colleagues speculate that this inflammatory response might be adaptive for individuals at the top of a social hierarchy, giving them a survival advantage. The researchers note, however, that an overly productive immune response can be harmful to mental and physical health in the long run.

If substantiated in future research, these findings could have implications for understanding how social conditions increase risk for a variety of inflammation-related diseases, including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, certain types of cancer, and depression.

###

The study was co-authored by George M. Slavich, University of California, Los Angeles; Nicolas Rohleder, Brandeis University; and Gregory E. Miller, University of British Columbia.

Clinical Psychological Science a new journal from APS publishes advances in clinical science and provides a venue for cutting-edge research across a wide range of conceptual views, approaches, and topics. The journal encompasses many core domains that have defined clinical psychology, but also boundary-crossing advances that integrate and make contact with diverse disciplines and that may not easily be found in traditional clinical psychology journals. Among the key topics are research on the underlying mechanisms and etiologies of psychological health and dysfunction; basic and applied work on the diagnosis, assessment, treatment, and prevention of mental illness; service delivery; and promotion of well-being.

The research was supported by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

For more information about this study, please contact: Michael L. M. Murphy at murphym@psych.ubc.ca.

Clinical Psychological Science is APS's newest journal. For a copy of the article "Targeted Rejection Triggers Differential Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Gene Expression in Adolescents as a Function of Social Status" and access to other Clinical Psychological Science research findings, please contact Anna Mikulak at 202-293-9300 or amikulak@psychologicalscience.org.


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Time Out New York Expands Into Local Class Discovery Market With ...

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NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --?Time Out New York has launched a new co-branded site with New York-based startup CourseHorse. Through the site (TimeOut.CourseHorse.com), also accessible via the Classes vertical on Time Out New York's site, readers have the ability to browse and directly enroll in over 20,000 local class offerings.

Time Out New York launched the Classes vertical in response to the growing popularity of classes in the city and subsequent demand for information.

"Our readers have always demonstrated a strong interest in class offerings, by responding to our annual Continuing Education feature in the magazine and booking class offerings for sale on our Time Out Offers platform," notes Tim Boswell, Director of Transactions at Time Out North America. "CourseHorse content is a terrific resource for our young and highly active audience."

Just over a year old, CourseHorse centralizes, curates, and maintains up-to-date class information from over 500 local education providers including universities, non-profits, and small businesses. With options for both adults and kids, classes cover topics ranging from art, cooking, and yoga to finance, marketing and graphic design.

"Classes are becoming increasingly popular, both as a form of entertainment and as a tool for personal growth," notes Katie Kapler, co-founder of CourseHorse. "Given Time Out's position as the ultimate resource for living in the city, the partnership is a great fit. We're excited to provide our service to the millions of Time Out readers and inspire them to keep learning."

Reflecting the diversity of the city, CourseHorse offerings range from free workshops to semester long courses, including:

  • History of Scotch Whiskey at Brooklyn Brainery
  • French Slang? at Fluent City
  • Windowsill Herb Gardening Class at The Brooklyn Kitchen
  • Lingerie and Lace: A Lesson in Allure at Fashion Societe
  • Photo Safari in Central Park with New York City Photo Safari
  • Canine Nutrition Today at School for the Dogs
  • Couples Cupcakes Class at Butter Lane
  • Photoshop for Photographers at Brooklyn Creative
  • Architecture Intensive at the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art
  • BYOB Painting at Paint Along NYC
  • French Macaron Making at The Center for Kosher Culinary Arts
  • Lazy Weekend Pilates at Sanctuary Pilates
  • Twitter Bootcamp for Small Businesses at Social Media School
  • The Posture Tune Up Station ?at LifeLabsNY
  • Introduction to Sailing Workshop at Hudson River Community Sailing

About Time Out New York:
Time Out New York is a comprehensive arts and entertainment multiplatform media business, delivering engaging features, local listings and critical reviews to active and informed residents and visitors of New York City. Sometimes irreverent but always intelligent, Time Out New York provides passionate coverage of music, film, theater, dance, shopping, dining, and more. ?Time Out New York?is part of Time Out Group, the global media business delivering local information and cultural guidance in 38 cities across 25 countries and encompassing a worldwide audience of more than 18 million.

About Course Horse:
CourseHorse is a central booking system that helps users find, compare, and enroll in local classes in New York City. With over 500 partner schools and 20,000+ classes, CourseHorse is the first and largest class marketplace in New York City. Classes cover a wide range of topics, from art, cooking and yoga to kids and career-oriented courses.

CONTACT:
Lauren Reddy
Digital Marketing Publicist | Time Out North America
(646) 432-3090 | Lauren.Reddy@timeoutna.com

SOURCE Time Out New York

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Montana State University Bobcat Football Drops A Few Notches

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How Facebook's ambiguous privacy settings can leak your sexual orientation

Privacy settings on Facebook have long been a contentious issue, from their availability and implementation to how Facebook users utilize them. The Wall Street Journal explores the complications for homosexual users who were outed to their families after being added to a Facebook group without their consent. The ability to add friends to groups without their permission is a known privacy problem on Facebook ? one that the social network has not closed, despite adding more privacy settings information to the group creation page. To read more about the struggles of users who thought they were safe using Facebook's privacy settings, check out the full article by clicking the first search result in the source link below.

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/15/3505856/facebook-privacy-groups

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Robotic wheelchair turns wheels into legs, climbs steps

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A robotic wheelchair with wheels that behave like legs can step onto curbs and up short flights of stairs. The technology could be revolutionary for people with limited mobility.

The wheelchair is under development at Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan. It looks like a typical wheelchair that rolls along on four wheels, but when it reaches a step, a suite of sensors assesses the obstacle, adjusts the chair accordingly and maneuvers its wheels like legs to get over the hurdle.

When moving on uneven ground, such as a bumpy lawn en route to meet friends for a picnic, the robot controls the seat to keep it level.

The chair also has a few other tricks, including the ability to line all its wheels and stabilizers up in a straight line in order to pivot in a tight circle. This comes in handy when a person needs to turn around in a tight hallway, for example.

For now, the wheelchair robot is exclusively a?concept prototype. Going forward, the team plans to try out the chair with a variety of users and fine tune it for market, DigInfo TV reported.?

The video news website demonstrates the technology in the video clip below. Check it out.

The stair-climbing?technology adds to a list of innovative wheelchairs, including the Tank Chair, an off-road wheelchair that makes getting around in the great outdoors easy and fun.?

And to make sure the ability to drive these chairs is open to as many users as possible, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are working on a system that would control a wheelchair using just your tongue.?

?? via The Verge, DigInfo TV?

John Roach is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. To learn more about him, check out his website. For more of our Future of Technology series, watch the featured video below.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/robotic-wheelchair-turns-wheels-legs-climbs-steps-1C6443238

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Your Guide to Pre- and Post-Workout Nutrition : Healthy Living ...

Nutrition is an absolutely critical area when it comes on to building muscle. The purpose of pre-workout nutrition is to provide the necessary energy going into a workout, while the purpose of post-workout nutrition would be to replenish the body with nutrients that had been lost over the course of the workout.

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Carbohydrates Are a Must Heading Into a Workout

Carbohydrates are energy giving foods, so this food group is a must-have before an intensive workout. If you are going to be obtaining your carbohydrates from high sugar or processed foods like white bread, sweet biscuits or candy then it's best to have nothing at all. Those carbohydrates give one a false sense of well-being by spiking your insulin level which eventually will lead to a huge crash because the energy from them is temporary. Nothing is more frustrating than having to cut your workout short because you do not have enough energy to carry on anymore. Bad carbs will compromise your workout in the worst possible way so stay away from them.

What Are the Best Carbs to Have Before a Workout?

The best carbs to have before a workout are those that are natural and unprocessed such as fruits and vegetables, brown bread or oats. Those carbs provide long lasting energy that will ensure you get the most out of your workouts. So, if you are going to have carbs then make sure to have the right kind of carbs.

For Pre-Workout Nutrition Go Light

Above all else, when it comes to pre-workout nutrition, go light. A heavy meal before a workout would be a huge disaster. Meals should be consumed at least three hours before a workout to allow the digestion process to take its course. You will be confusing your body if you become involved in an intense workout after a meal which will leave you with an upset stomach and feeling faint.

Save Meals for After Your Workout

The best time to have a meal would be after your workout because at this time your body is starving for nutrients. It is also at this time that your body is best able to rebuild itself once it is provided with the necessary nutrients. These nutrients need to reach your starving muscles as quickly as possible. As a result, whey protein is a great supplement to have post workout since it is a fast acting protein, which basically means it is absorbed very easily by the body. The sooner nutrients are absorbed, the better.

Best Immediate Sources of Energy

Dextrose, which is found in many sports drinks, is very effective at re-energizing the body after an intense exercise. Dextrose is simply sugar and though sugar before a workout would be detrimental to performance, it is a great way to quickly replenish glycogen stores after a workout. Bananas are also great especially since they restore the potassium lost through sweat during a workout.

After a workout some people may find it difficult to consume hard foods but this can be overcome by liquid supplementation. Always travel with a whey protein shake that you can down immediately after your workout is complete. The sooner you feed your starving muscles the better.?

Stay Away From Fats Before and Immediately After a Workout

If there is one food group to avoid before or after a workout it is fats.? Fats take the longest to digest and this is bad for two reason: 1) before a workout you don't want to be consuming anything that will take a long time to digest, as this can make you feel sick during exercise. 2) After a workout you want nutrients to reach your starving muscles as soon as possible, but consuming fats will prolong the time that the carbs and protein you eat gets to your muscles.

Final Thoughts

The main thing to take away from this article is to go light before a workout. Save anything heavier for after your workout but fats should not be had before or immediately after a workout. Bear these tips in mind to maximize the effectiveness of your exercise regime.

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Chris Brown is a 25 year old fitness enthusiast who blogs at Gain Build Muscle.?Follow him me on Twitter.

Source: http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/12713/20121015/guide-pre-post-workout-nutrition.htm

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5 UK marines charged with murder in Afghan death

LONDON (AP) ? Five Royal Marines have been charged with murder over a death in Afghanistan last year, Britain's Ministry of Defense said Sunday. They are the first British troops to be charged with murder in Afghanistan since deployments began in 2001.

The five are among nine marines arrested ? seven on Thursday and two in the last 48 hours. Four have been released without charge.

Officials have said the incident involved an "engagement with an insurgent" in Helmand province, where the majority of Britain's 9,500 troops in Afghanistan are deployed. They say no civilians were involved.

The Ministry of Defense said the cases had been referred to the Service Prosecuting Authority, which oversees military trials. The ministry said the suspects, who have not been named, were in custody.

The brigade believed to be involved in the incident, 3 Commando, was in the thick of the fighting with Taliban insurgents during its deployment last year to Helmand, which lies in Afghanistan's south.

British troops operate under rules of engagement, largely derived from the Geneva Convention, that dictate under what circumstances they are allowed to open fire.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/5-uk-marines-charged-murder-afghan-death-075950500.html

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History shows ?coattail? effect not so crucial to presidents

The "coattail" effect may not be key to a successuful administration: History shows US presidents have always had to deal with opposition in Congress, whether their party held sway or not.

By Gail Russell Chaddock,?Staff writer / October 14, 2012

The trifecta of national politics is for a candidate to win the White House and help his party win control of Congress on presidential "coattails."

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But is it "game over" for a president when the other team controls the House, the Senate, or both? Not necessarily. Turns out, presidents don't always get what they want when their party has a majority on Capitol Hill ? or fail, when that majority is lost. Moreover, divided government can be the mother of legislative invention, forcing presidents to find common ground with a hostile Congress, if they can.

Past presidencies offer hints for dealing with a Congress of a different persuasion.

Numbers on 'our side' do not equal control

President Dwight Eisenhower, the World War II hero, was swept into office winning all but nine states and helping Republicans take control of the House and Senate on his coattails.

But rather than line up behind the new president, the GOP majority attacked his nominees, his legislative priorities on defense spending, and his presidential powers in foreign policy.

When Democrats won back control of the House and Senate in 1954 ? and kept it through the Eisenhower administration ? "it was a blessing in disguise," wrote Eisenhower biographer Jean Edward Smith. In short, Eisenhower made a tactical shift to the Democrats. Born in Texas, he developed close relations with House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson. The "three Texans" met weekly in joint strategy sessions that produced the Interstate Highway System and the St. Lawrence Seaway, expanded Social Security, raised the minimum wage, and established the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

President Jimmy Carter (D) ? a former Georgia governor who campaigned as a Washington "outsider" and tried to govern that way, too ? never established a working relationship with the Democrat-controlled Congress. Lawmakers complained that he lectured them and piled on more priorities than could be handled. Carter's agenda barely registered on Capitol Hill.

Divided party control of Congress is not fatal

President Ronald Reagan's 1980 election helped put Republicans in power in the Senate for the first time since 1953, but he never had a unified GOP majority in Congress to back his agenda. Reagan did not push the GOP's social agenda. Instead, he worked with some 40 conservative Democrats, such as then-Rep. Phil Gramm (D) of Texas, a member of the House Budget Committee who became a virtual surrogate for Reagan's "supply side" tax cuts and other economic proposals.

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Mayor Graham's View: Jefferson County Reports Strong Sales Tax ...

??? Led by strong auto sales and good summer weather, local sales tax revenues continued to be strong in the quarter ending August 31.?? That keeps the pressure off local governments struggling with ballooning pension costs.? It also means nothing Draconian or even modestly conservative will happen on the expense side of the ledger...at least for now.
??? Next? year with it's latest round of troop deployments will be less robust, but its just hard to project these things with absolute certainty.???? The progressives who hate regressive taxes surely lovs a tax that produces the revenue streams sales tax does.
???? In our lifetime, we have seen a transition in local government from a property tax based system of finance to one in which the property tax covers only one-fifth of what is spent in local governments like Watertown....and an even lower percentage in many towns.
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