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SVMC Psychiatry Welcomes Dr. Linda Jasperse
BENNINGTON — SVMC Psychiatry welcomes Dr. Linda Jasperse in early December. Dr. Jasperse is a psychiatrist who is coming to the area through a cooperative agreement between the Brattleboro Retreat and Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC). She will provide psychiatric consults to area physicians treating patients in the hospital; work closely with case managers and social workers; and will consult with local primary care physicians to help them manage patients with mental health issues.
"I'm really looking forward to joining the Bennington community," said Dr. Jasperse. "I will be working alongside some wonderful primary care physicians in providing another element of medical care to the community. I look forward to getting to know my colleagues and patients."
Dr Jasperse completed her residency in psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University Health Systems in Richmond, Va., and she is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Before attending medical school, Dr. Jasperse was employed in various professional positions for Shell Oil Companies and worked in a research laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Most recently, she was a psychiatric hospitalist doing consultative work at Health First hospitals in Melbourne and Palm Bay, Florida.
""I was drawn by the vision of care presented by SVMC," stated Dr. Jasperse. "It is important to me that I get to know my patients and try to understand their struggles and what their strengths are," she added, "even if I only get to see them for a short time. That way, I can help them build on those strengths so they can improve their overall well-being."
Dr. Jasperse enjoys physical fitness and running. This year, she participated in the Old Mutual Two Oceans half marathon in Cape Town, South Africa. As part of team "Run for Africa," she helped raise funds for a charity that supports orphans of the AIDS epidemic.
"I enjoy doing things that challenge me," she said, "and have a lot fun doing them. Run for Africa took me on a course that spans the distance between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. It was a thrill to take part in that race."
Dr. Jasperse will see patients referred by their primary care physicians. Her office will be at SVMC Psychiatry in suite 209 of the Medical Office Building at 140 Hospital Drive in Bennington. To make an appointment with her, your primary care physician can call (802) 442-8165.
SVMC Psychiatry and Southwestern Vermont Medical Center are part of Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC), an integrated health system providing care for patients in Bennington and WindhamCounties in Vermont, Rensselaer and WashingtonCounties in New York, and BerkshireCounty in Massachusetts. SVHC includes the VNA & Hospice of SVHC, the Centers for Living & Rehabilitation, and the SVMC Northshire and Deerfield Valley Campuses. To learn more about SVHC, visit svhealthcare.org.
Contact: Eileen Druckenmiller
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The 26th annual Mike Hazelton Memorial Golf Tourney was held on June 28 at the Massena Country Club. Although Mother Nature was not on our side that day, the turnout was amazing. While three teams braved the conditions that morning to golf a full 18, another 25 teams played a makeshift 9 hole tourney due to conditions and the other 12 teams, showed up, paid and either stuck around or returned later for a wonderful buffet provided by the River Road Restaurant. In the end, we had a successful tourney whether golf happened or not. Another full house of mingling with from friends near and far and sharing and making more memories.
On behalf of the family of Mike Hazelton and the Scholarship Committee, we extend our sincere appreciation and thanks to all involved for making the 2013 Mike Hazelton Memorial Tournament another success.
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Tee sponsors: Massena Savings and Loan, Perras Excavating, St. Regis Nursing Home, Hoot Owl Enterprises, Hancock & Estabrook LLP, Costingtons, Benjamin News-Ed Murphy, North Country Agency, www.ibewlocal2032.com, Manley (Nationwide) Insurance, Alkies Liquor Store, Blevins Seaway Motors, Coles Creek Pine Boys - Scott Peets, Pottery Plus - Mike & Lisa Quenneville, Attorney Randy Peets, Laneuvilles, C2AE-Tim Burley, Dr. Maureen Daye, Pease & Gustafson, LLP, Tom Post State Farm, Paul Post Realty, TJ Maxx - Massena and Cindys Hair Place - Cindy Wood.
Thank you to the following for their cash donations and door prizes: Massena Savings and Loan, Ed Murphy, A. Cappione Inc., Manley Nationwide Insurance, Laneuvilles, Alkies, Zach Long-Winebow, Inc., Studio 162, Peets Jewelers, Massena Chamber of Commerce, JAC Tower, Zach Bogosian, Bogies Power Washing - Aaron Bogosian, Charlene Hazelton, Italian Affair, Mimis Italian Cookies & More - Toni Helmer, Rose Chilton - Appearances, Simply You, Highland Greens Golf Course - Harold Webb, Coachs Corner, Tony & Margaret Polidoro, Bob & Spud Fredericks, Charlie Boots, Rick Ahlfeld, Chantal OShaughnessy, Vicky & Ike Bogosian.
We would like to thank Massena Chamber of Commerce, Sandy Cook - 1340 WMSA for the publicity, and Bob Beckstead at Courier Observer, Tom Siddon and the staff of the Massena Country Cub before, during and after the tourney, DeDe Cappione & Staff of the River Road Restaurant, Curt Wood of A. Cappione Inc. for tee signs, Vicky Bogosian, Kaleigh Zappia, and Julie Sharlow for registration coverage and family and friends who help pull this tourney together each year.
Congratulations to the 2013 scholarship recipient Kaleigh Zappia.
See you in 2014.
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Document Number: 4211Addressing Racial Disparities in High-Achieving Suburban Schools - This report addresses racial and ethnic achievement differences in high-performing suburban school districts. Based on the findings, the author suggests four recommendations for schools, communities, and state and federal policymakers: (1) assume no motivational differences, (2) address specific skill deficits, (3) supply ample encouragement routinely, and (4) provide access to resources and learning experiences. (Ronald F. Ferguson, NCREL, December 2002)...
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Extended mass layoffs, first quarter 2006
May 12, 2006
In the first quarter of 2006, employers took 892 mass layoff actions in the private nonfarm sector that resulted in the separation of 161,686 workers from their jobs for at least 31 days.
Both the total number of layoff events and the number of separations were sharply lower than during January-March 2005, with both events and separations at their lowest levels for any first quarter since data collection began in 1995.
The over-the-year declines were most notable in administrative and support services, nonstore retailers, and food manufacturing.
These data are from the Mass Layoff Statistics program. "Extended mass layoffs" last more than 30 days and involve 50 or more individuals from a single establishment filing initial claims for unemployment insurance during a consecutive 5-week period. Data for the first quarter of 2006 are preliminary and subject to revision. Additional information is available in "Extended Mass Layoffs in the First Quarter of 2006" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 06-822.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Extended mass layoffs, first quarter 2006 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2006/may/wk2/art05.htm (visited October 07, 2015).
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The Final Stretch: Monday's Stops
November 05, 2012
Obama and Romney each hit the states on their path of least resistance to 270.
How the Ghost of Jerry Falwell Conquered the Republican Party
March 05, 2012
The 2012 GOP nominating contest has witnessed the final triumph of an unlikely figure. I say "unlikely" because his name hasn't been invoked much (if at all) by any of the candidates, nor has he been mentioned frequently by the press in its campaign coverage. What's more, he died in 2007.
In Remembrance of James Q. Wilson
March 03, 2012
Jim Wilson opted to spend his last couple of years at Boston College, and I, and all my colleagues, were enriched by his presence. Jim, of course, was a conservative, and I am a liberal. But before I go on about how we nonetheless saw eye to eye on this issue or that, there was something else he represented that I both admired and, to the best of my ability, tried to emulate.
A Solution To The Romney-Perry Feud
August 29, 2011
Maggie Haberman reports on the personal animosity between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry: Perry thinks "Romney stands for nothing," said a Perry confidante. "He's got no spine, no backbone." ... Perry, people familiar with his views said, sees Romney as expedient, overly ambitious and unpalatable to the conservative base. Likewise, people close to Romney said he has unflattering opinions about Perry. "I think he had a few exasperating experiences with Perry, and he's not alone in that," said one source close to Romney. "I think Mitt thinks Perry is not that bright." Stop it, you two!
The Tragedy of Tim Pawlenty
July 17, 2011
At almost precisely the minute that Michele Bachmann was declaring her presidential candidacy in Iowa at the end of June, I was interviewing Tim Pawlenty in a borrowed conference room in a midtown Manhattan financial firm. For much of our interview, the long-faced, dark-haired-flecked-with-gray, 50-year-old Pawlenty sat tall in his chair, rarely fidgeting, his hand gestures confined to occasionally pointing for emphasis. Though he maintained steady eye contact, many of his answers were campaign boilerplate, and his mind sometimes seemed miles away.
Jesus and Jefferson
May 19, 2011
God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right By Daniel K. Williams (Oxford University Press, 372 pp., $29.95) From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism By Darren Dochuk (W.W. Norton, 520 pp., $35) In the presidential election of 1976, the Democrat Jimmy Carter split the votes of American white evangelical Protestants almost evenly with the Republican Gerald Ford. With a clear plurality of at least ten percentage points, Carter did even better among the nation's white Baptists.
Color Commentator
November 02, 2009
The saga of Rush Limbaugh and his failed attempt to acquire a piece of the St. Louis Rams may be the quintessential postmodern American racial incident. When word first leaked of Limbaugh's potential ownership, a couple of sportswriters, joined by a handful of cable news talking heads, repeated what turned out to be totally unsubstantiated quotes by Limbaugh praising slavery and James Earl Ray.
Quayle v. Palin: Quayle Pulls Ahead!
October 30, 2009
Remember the period between the 2008 Republican Convention, but before the Katie Couric interview, when Sarah Palin was widely seen as a new politico dynamo who had breathed life into the McCain campaign? I wrote a column pointing out the the reaction to Palin eerily recalled the early reaction to Dan Quayle in 1988: [S]omewhere in the recesses of my mind, this admiring appraisal of the prospective veep's intellect struck a familiar chord. With a quick search, I discovered that, indeed, the same was said of Dan Quayle in 1988.
The Attack On Obamacare: Gay Conspiracy Edition
August 13, 2009
Reader JP just alerted me to an email blast from a group called "The Pray In Jesus Name Project." It suggests that ObamaCare will not only pull the plug on grandma, but also result in a gay and transgendered takeover of the entire health care system.
A Bush Administration Scandal, And Its Antecedent
June 10, 2008
The more right-wing cronyism changes, it seems, the more it stays the same. Last night's episode of Nightline revealed that the DOJ's juvenile justice office has been awarding massive federal grants--meant to help seriously at-risk children--to a circus of right-wing groups with the "right" connections, abstinence campaigns, and the like. (Video here.) Shocking? Kinda. Everyone knows that the Bush administration rewards political hacks with federal patronage.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Humana will continue providing health care to military members and their families in the South.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Having realized its quest to earn a berth in the Atlantic Coast Conference title game, No. 10 Florida State can now turn its attention toward other objectives — such as beating Florida, winning the league title and maybe, just maybe, making a run at the national championship.
Devonta Freeman ran for 148 yards and two touchdowns, Albany native Rashad Green caught five balls for 50 yards and a TD and FSU's top-ranked defense lived up to its billing as the Seminoles rolled past Maryland, 41-14, on Saturday to capture the Atlantic Division crown.
"One of our first goals is to win the division," coach Jimbo Fisher said. "Now we have to play the Florida game, get in the ACC championship game and see where that goes."
The Seminoles (10-1, 7-1) need a lot of things to fall into place before they can begin thinking about finishing No. 1. But who knows?
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"This has been one of our goals since camp time," wide receiver Kenny Shaw said.
"I'm happy we won the game and clinched it," FSU defensive lineman Bjoern Werner said. "Now we got Florida next and then we can go to Charlotte (N.C.). It's awesome."
EJ Manuel completed 17 of 23 passes for 144 yards and two scores to supplement a running game that gained 237 yards. In their previous game at Virginia Tech, the Seminoles were held to minus-15 yards rushing.
"We just got back to fundamentals," Fisher said. "We got good angles and we were being efficient at what we were doing."
Operating against an injury-plagued Maryland team using a linebacker at quarterback, Florida State allowed 27 yards and three first downs before halftime and ended up giving up 170 yards — well below their nation's best average of 242.9 per game.
Were it not for a 42-yard touchdown pass from Shawn Petty to Kevin Dorsey with 25 seconds left, the Seminoles would have held the opposition under 10 points for the sixth time in 11 games.
The defeat formally ended any chance Maryland had of becoming bowl eligible. The Terrapins (4-7, 2-5) have dropped five straight, the last three by a collective 119-37 score.
Maryland's skid coincides with the loss of its top four quarterbacks with season-ending injuries. Making his third straight start, Petty went 8 for 19 for 136 yards and two touchdowns but lost a fumble.
Any reasonable hope the Terrapins had of pulling off an upset vanished after the Seminoles scored two touchdowns in a 12-second span to take a 14-0 lead with less than six minutes elapsed.
Maryland won the toss, deferred and promptly yielded an 11-play, 61-yard drive that ended with a 5-yard run by Freeman. Levern Jacobs fumbled the subsequent kickoff, FSU recovered at the 10 and Manuel threw a first-down touchdown pass to tight end Nick O'Leary.
"The one thing I told the team at the end of the game was that we would have had to play a perfect game to win," coach Randy Edsall said. "We went down 7-0 and then fumbled, and the next thing you know it's 14-0 — and we fumbled again."
Late in the first quarter, Petty botched a handoff and the Seminoles recovered the fumble at the Maryland 32.
After 15 minutes, the Seminoles had a 111-18 advantage in total yardage. On the second play of the second quarter, Dustin Hopkins kicked a 26-yard field goal to make it 17-0 and set a Football Bowl Subdivision record for career points by a kicker (442). He added six more points to extend the mark to 448.
Florida State's next drive began with a 21-yard pass from Manuel to O'Leary and ended with a 40-yard field goal. Late in the half, Manuel directed a 70-yard march that ended with his 30-yard touchdown pass to Greene.
In the third quarter, Petty threw a 33-yard touchdown pass to Dorsey on a fourth-down play. It was the final home game for Dorsey and 16 other Maryland seniors, all of whom never got the satisfaction of defeating a top-10 team.
Florida State went up 34-7 late in the third quarter. After Freeman ran for 47 yards on a third-and-1, he scored on the next play from the 2.
With Manuel and Freeman watching from the sideline, the Seminoles added a fourth-quarter touchdown on a 22-yard run by James Wilder Jr.
Asked afterward how it felt to clinch the division title, Manuel said, "It's a great accomplishment, but we know we have more games to win. I think we'll be able to celebrate everything at the end of the year."
ATLANTA — There will be a bowl game for Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets may even play for the ACC championship.
Those are unlikely developments for a team that entered November with a losing record.
Tevin Washington passed for three touchdowns and ran for another score to lead Georgia Tech to a 42-24 win over Duke on Saturday, preserving the Yellow Jackets' hopes of playing in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game.
Georgia Tech (6-5, 5-3 ACC) has won three straight games to become bowl-eligible for the 16th consecutive season. The Yellow Jackets moved one-half game ahead of Miami in the Coastal Division. Miami ends its conference schedule next week against Duke.
Miami, 4-3 in the ACC, would win a tie-breaker with Georgia Tech, thanks to its 42-36 overtime win over the Yellow Jackets on Sept. 22, if each team finishes 5-3 in the league.
Miami, under NCAA investigation, could self-impose its second-straight bowl ban. That decision would send Georgia Tech to the Dec. 1 ACC championship game against Florida State.
"All I know is that the worst we can do is tie for first in the Coastal Division," said Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson, who said "I have no idea" what Miami will decide.
"After the way the season started and everybody kind of wrote it off, I'm proud of these guys for hanging in there and fighting," he said.
Duke (6-5, 3-4) already clinched its first bowl berth since 1994.
Washington threw two scoring passes to Robert Godhigh and one to Zach Laskey.
Duke receiver Conner Vernon became the ACC's all-time leader in yards receiving, passing former Florida State star Peter Warrick's record of 3,517 yards. Vernon, who began the game 35 yards behind Warrick's mark, had five catches for 38 yards.
On the first play of the game, Vernon caught a 2-yard pass from Sean Renfree, giving him receptions in 46 consecutive games, setting another ACC record. North Carolina's Corey Holliday had the old record of 45 games.
Washington, a senior, completed 6 of 10 passes for 102 yards and had 19 carries for 62 yards in his final home game. He matched his career high with the three touchdown passes. He also threw three scoring passes against Western Carolina on Sept. 1, 2011.
"I wanted to make sure we came out with a lot of energy and focus as a senior class," Washington said.
Georgia Tech ran the ball on 72 of its 80 plays in its spread-option attack and had 330 yards rushing with no turnovers. Godhigh had 18 carries for 72 yards, David Sims had 70 yards rushing with a touchdown and Orwin Smith added 67 yards.
"Generally, when you play a team that runs this offense, they're going to make a mistake," said Duke coach David Cutcliffe. "They're going to fumble a snap, they're going to fumble the exchange, they're going to pitch one on the ground. They did not. ... You're not going to shut them down."
Even a rare loose ball worked in Georgia Tech's favor. A third-quarter pass from Washington bounced off receiver Chris Jackson's hands — and into the hands of left tackle Ray Beno, who rambled 9 yards for a first down.
An extra week of practice didn't seem to help Duke's defense. Georgia Tech was successful on 13 of 20 third-down plays and each of its four fourth-down conversions.
"We definitely felt prepared," said Duke defensive end Kenny Anunike, who said the Blue Devils' scout defense couldn't imitate "the speed that Georgia Tech is gonna run it."
Renfree completed 24 of 36 passes for 198 yards with two touchdowns and an interception as Duke took its third straight loss.
The Blue Devils' offense could only watch as Georgia Tech held the ball more than 38 minutes with time-consuming scoring drives of 13, 10, 16, 13, 18 and six plays. Duke was left with less than 22 minutes.
"We had five possessions in the first half," said Duke receiver Desmond Scott. "That's unbelievable. I remember one series they had the ball for at least seven minutes. Sitting on the sideline, you're thinking to yourself we've got to get the ball and score quick."
Washington was again the most prominent quarterback after he played only two possessions in last week's 68-50 win over North Carolina.
Washington set a school and ACC record for career rushing touchdowns by a quarterback when he capped a 13-play drive with his 1-yard scoring run on Georgia Tech's first drive. The rushing touchdown was his 36th. Joshua Nesbitt had the old record of 35 for the Yellow Jackets from 2007-10.
Vad Lee, who played most of last week's game behind Washington, had four carries for 13 yards, including a 2-yard touchdown run. He completed 2 of 4 passes for 17 yards.
"Tevin played a great game," Johnson said. "Tevin was more of the hot hand, so we left him in."
Georgia Tech led 28-24 when Washington led an 18-play touchdown drive that lasted 8 minutes, 31 seconds. It was the Yellow Jackets' longest drive by number of plays and time of possession this season.
The only pass of the drive was Washington's 8-yard touchdown toss to Godhigh with about 10 minutes remaining.
On Duke's next possession, linebacker Jeremiah Attaochu's third-down sack of Renfree forced only the Blue Devils' second punt of the game.
Attaochu delivered another key stop on a fake punt by Duke's Will Monday with about 5 minutes remaining.
Renfree, who had a 9-yard scoring run, had touchdown passes of 24 yards to Desmond Scott in the first quarter and 1 yard to Juwan Thompson in the third quarter.
Duke's Lee Butler had four kickoff returns for 98 yards before leaving with a knee injury. Cutcliffe said Butler likely will need surgery.
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The Dolphins have been back in action for 3 days now, so there is finally some Dolphins news for us to report. In addition to PhinNation, a number of other Dolphins blogs have been busy writing stories too. Since the season is back, so are our Miami Musings. Here are some of the stories we're reading about around the Dolphins blogosphere.
Josh Samuda's car 'stolen' – ThePhinsider.com
As has become the tradition, the Miami Dolphins players practice hard, but they play hard off the field too. Usually it's rookies that get hazed by veterans, but last night we saw the Dolphins veterans playing tricks on a 2nd year player, Josh Samuda. ThePhinsider breaks down the prank, so we won't spoil it for you. Let's just say that Samuda's car was 'stolen'


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DIY: Spa Towel WrapWednesday, September 2nd, 2009
I hope you've had your coffee, cause I'm getting up close and personal this morning.
When you step out of the shower or bath, what is your first layer of choice, after drying off your bum with your towel? Are you a robe person? Do you immediately dress? Or do you dance around to bad 80s metal in your skivvies? (Don't tell us, if the latter is you.)
Quite frankly, I am none of the above. (Although Mr. CG loves to belt 80s rock ballads while shaving, but don't tell him I told you.) Robes make me sweaty (except on the coldest mornings), and I can't imagine getting dressed right away. And I'm much too bashful to run around in my underwear. Day after day, I turn to a spa towel wrap because it covers me with cozy terry cloth, but frees up my arms for all that I must accomplish between 7 and 8 a.m.
My old storebought spa wrap was getting a bit tattered after years of use, so I thought I'd just make myself a new one. My five year old daughter is just as "anti-robe" as I am ("It's too sweaty mommmmmmiiiiiieeeeeee" ) so I also made her one too.
One clearance towel + 1/2 yard of cute cotton fabric + one afternoon = glam spa towel wrap.
Here is the pink version I made for my girl:


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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Every once in a while, the universe serves up someone who, in whatever field has been chosen for them, is a natural. Babe Ruth. Louis Armstrong. Mozart. After seeing his debut feature, Who's That Knocking At My Door, one is tempted to add Martin Scorsese to this illustrious list. He is now long firmly established in the canon of the great American filmmakers, but many of Scorsese's strengths, his skill for marrying music with striking, often unexpected imagery, his gift for naturalistic dialogue, his strong eye for authentic moments of urban ethnography, are in evidence in this maiden effort. However, Scorsese's weaknesses are also on rather ample display here as well, and their presence makes for a fascinating, the-more-things-change look at the first flowering of an American cinematic giant.
Who's That Knocking began life as a graduate film production during Scorsese's tenure at NYU film school in the mid-'60s (NYU film professor Haig Manoogian, who was the instructor for the first film course Scorsese ever took, is credited as a co-producer on this film; the filmmaker's 1980 masterpiece Raging Bull was later dedicated to Manoogian), and it was shot over the course of several years and went through numerous iterations as short films and truncated features under varying titles before finally emerging as this 90-minute feature in 1967. Not surprisingly, considering this extended gestation, not to mention the film's origins as a student project and its low budget (ultimately an estimated $75,000), the picture is rough around the edges in a classic first-indie-film tradition. Some of the sound work is quite harsh; an early barroom scene, in particular, could have greatly benefited from some overdubbing, as shuffling feet and the room's ambient tone bury many of the lines. Also, it's fairly easy to tell scenes shot early from those lensed later in the production by gauging the changing length of star Harvey Keitel's hair. Nevertheless, what is most remarkable about Who's That Knocking At My Door is how thoroughly engaged Scorsese is, even at this nascent point in his career, with the stylistic tropes and thematic concerns he will adopt as his own. Unlike many filmmakers' first works, and much more so than his subsequent feature, 1972's Roger Corman-produced exploitation Bonnie and Clyde rip-off Boxcar Bertha, Who's That Knocking has no trouble fitting comfortably on the shelf with Scorsese's extended body of work, representing the filmmaker's first crack at issues that would preoccupy him for a celebrated forty-year-and-counting career.
Who's That Knocking is the story, such as it is, of J.R. (Keitel), a rough-and-tumble Little Italy street tough who whiles away his days drinking, fighting, and causing trouble with his buddies, a road-company version of the petty hoodlums who would populate Scorsese's later gangland classics. It seems like a life destined to go around in relentlessly unfulfilling circles, until J.R. meets a Girl (Zina Bethune) on the Staten Island Ferry and slowly eases into a relationship. He's falling in love, but he's troubled by his own reluctance to sleep with her...and even more so by her subsequent admission that she is not a virgin (she tells him that her past partner forced himself on her, but he struggles to believe that it's true). It's the classic madonna-whore complex; if J.R. accepts The Girl as she is, he marks himself as willing to stoop to being with just a "broad", one of those runaround girls from the neighborhood, and maybe no better than the prostitutes that J.R. himself frequents, in classic hypocritical male fashion. Will J.R. do the right thing, or will he succumb to the pressures of his milieu and the guilt-riddled Catholic culture in which he was brought up?
Basically, if Mean Streets and Raging Bull had a baby, and that baby was somehow older than both of those films, it would be Who's That Knocking At My Door. It's an amalgam of the former film's slice-of-life depiction of inarticulate Noo Yawk petty thugs and the later epic's chronicle of a man undone by jealous sexual fantasies about the woman he loves. Granted, Scorsese has grown by leaps and bounds since this initial foray into feature filmmaking, and Who's That Knocking is marked by this fact throughout its running time. His examination here of the life and crimes of petty hoods has nowhere near the verisimilitude of Mean Streets (or, for that matter, of GoodFellas or Casino). The Scorsesean bursts of sudden violence are fairly choppily choreographed, a few of the locations feel like obvious sets, and Scorsese's dialogue, from his own screenplay, has the later films' inarticulate, frequently circular cadence without their exhilarating profanity and gutter wit. Likewise, the street guys that surround J.R. here are manques compared to the explosive, larger-than-life personalities that would fill Scorsese's later work. The only characteristic the much put-upon Sally Gaga (Michael Scala) shares with his cinematic descendants is an amusing nickname (the emphasis is hard on the second syllable; he's "GaGA", not "GAga"), and the loudmouth troublemaker Joey (Lennard Kuras) has all the bluster and noise of Joe Pesci's tinpot martinets with none of the fire and nuance. Likewise, the examination of a relationship-destroying inability to accept a lover's past is handled here with nowhere near the subtlety and grace with which the same subject is addressed in Raging Bull. In that film, we knew Jake LaMotta suspected his wife of infidelity when he imagined her drifting towards other men in slow motion; here, J.R. expresses his lack of faith in The Girl's virtue by flat-out calling her a whore. (Worthy of note is the sketchy nature of the film's female characters; The Girl doesn't even have a name, and the only other prominent women are the prostitutes J.R. frequents, who have no lines, Gaga's hysterical and also nameless date (Wendy Russell) at a party-cum-brawl, and the nameless Italian mother, played by the much-beloved Catherine Scorsese, who makes a meat pie for some random children in the opening scene.) This lead-pipe-to-the-head lack of thematic subtlety reminds one both of Scorsese's European influences (Ingmar Bergman, for all the symbolism of his imagery, was also one for the thematically on-the-nose dialogue) and his simple naivete as a first-time filmmaker.
Nevertheless, given that this is a first-time feature, Scorsese's command of his medium here is remarkable, as is his already crystal-clear artistic vision. Who's That Knocking At My Door is full of performances, images and scenes that are undoubtedly Scorsesean in their style and thematic intent. J.R., significantly, does not woo The Girl with shows of strength or flagrant displays of wealth, but the way a young Scorsese himself might have, by engaging her in a conversation about westerns sparked by a photo of John Wayne in a magazine she's reading. (In a foreshadowing of one of Scorsese's own future films, J.R. name-checks Wayne's Searchers co-star Jeffrey Hunter and mentions that he played Christ in Nicholas Ray's King of Kings.) Movies also plant the seeds of the end of J.R.'s romance, as a discussion of Angie Dickinson's status as a "broad" versus a "lady" following a screening of Rio Bravo takes on added weight when J.R., arguing with The Girl about her sexual past, asks her if she's "that kind of broad". The film also features an unusual but thematically significant scene in which J.R., Joey and another pal drive to a small town outside the city and go hiking in the hills, only to spend their time at the summit bitching about what a foolish enterprise this is. You can take the boys out of the city, Scorsese suggests, but you can't take the city out of them, a fact that becomes painfully true when J.R. can only interpret The Girl's past through his ignorant "urban" perspective. The film also includes moments of telling ethnographic filmmaking, as in the opening meat-pie-making scene, and bits of typically blatant Scorsese symbolism, as when J.R., after forsaking The Girl, kisses the feet of a tiny crucifix only to come away with bloodied lips.
Most Scorsesean of all is the film's usage of music montage. Despite the wealth of quotable dialogue throughout his filmography, Scorsese himself often seems most comfortable as a filmmaker working with pure sound and image, and in Who's That Knocking, he indulges that tendency so frequently that at times the film almost plays like an urban tone poem set to music. Many key sequences are conducted with no dialogue at all, and the picture is remarkable as an early independent film for the rich variety of its pop soundtrack. The film's opening credits are set to a montage of a street fight cut to Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels' exhilarating "C.C. Rider", perhaps the first example of Scorsese setting a scene of urban violence to an incongruously upbeat music track. J.R. courts The Girl amidst the New York rooftops to the Bell Notes's "I've Had It". A party scene erupts in playful though still threatening slow-motion violence to the strains of Ray Baretto's "El Watusi". The Doors' hallucinatory "The End", used to such striking effect in Apocalypse Now, here makes an earlier appearance as accompaniment to J.R.'s dalliances with prostitutes. And, most memorably, as J.R. confesses his sins and prays for forgiveness after losing The Girl to his own ignorance, a montage of agonized Christ statues and downcast Mother Marys is set, almost blasphemously, to the Genies' soaring doo-wop rendition of the title song. Scorsese has always been among the most imaginative utilizers of source music in contemporary cinema, and Who's That Knocking shows that he possessed that gift for scoring his films right from the jump.
The film is also significant in forging several relationships that were to serve Scorsese well throughout his career. Keitel, who gives a sometimes uneven but nevertheless persuasive performance here, went on to a prominent, Oscar-nominated career that included appearances in four more Scorsese films, most notably Mean Streets (playing a character very similar to J.R.) and Taxi Driver (as the pimp imprisoning Jodie Foster's underage prostitute). Scorsese's assistant director, Mardik Martin, went on to receive co-writing credit on the director's New York, New York and Raging Bull. Co-cinematographer Michael Wadleigh would subsequently direct the groundbreaking documentary Woodstock, on which Scorsese would serve as an editor. Also an editor on that film was the woman who cut Who's That Knocking, and with whom Scorsese has had arguably his richest collaborative relationship: Thelma Schoonmaker, who has edited every feature Scorsese has made since Raging Bull, and who has taken home three Academy Awards for her trouble (for Bull, The Aviator and The Departed).
Oftentimes, a filmmaker's first work is more notable simply for being their first than for any artistic merits it may possess in its own right. I don't know a whole lot of people who are lining up these days to watch Steven Spielberg's 1968 debut feature Amblin', and Robert Altman kicked off his celebrated career with the trashy 1957 exploitation thriller The Delinquents. Of course, a few filmmakers do hit a home run their first time out of the gate. I am one of the rare people who thinks Quentin Tarantino has never topped Reservoir Dogs, and Kevin Smith has yet to duplicate what he achieved in 1994's Clerks with nothing but twenty-seven grand and a brilliant script. Who's That Knocking At My Door, however, falls on neither side of this equation. It is certainly not a film to rank with Scorsese's best, but neither is it a negligible footnote to an otherwise significant career. It is a rough and patchy but nevertheless engaging work, and an endearing snapshot of the earliest cinematic attempt to come to terms with the themes and issues that would spark one of the most celebrated careers in contemporary film. Few would argue that Scorsese hits this one entirely out of the park. But it definitely got him well into the game.
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Mike Judge; based on his "Milton" animated shorts
Why It's Here
It is hard to remember, considering the fervent following it has developed over the years, but Office Space was not a financial success upon its original release. Hell, it's almost hard to recall that it even received a release, as most of its fans, present company included, first encountered the film on DVD well after its non-event of a theatrical run, during which the film just barely recouped a budget of only $10 million. Several factors may have accounted for the film's initially indifferent public reception. Fox's ad campaign for the picture was admittedly uninspired, with a hackneyed poster featuring an anonymous figure covered in Post-It Notes, commercials that were not exactly chock-full of memorable, sock-'em-home comedy highlights, and a tagline ("Work sucks") that any mongoloid on a street corner probably could have come up with. The film was also somewhat lacking in star power, the only marquee presence provided by Jennifer Aniston, who audiences at that point could have been forgiven for writing off as just "Rachel from Friends", which was then still in the midst of its ten-season run. But films with even less going for them than Office Space have been much bigger hits...and other, just-as-worthwhile films that received an equally lukewarm theatrical reception have not gone on to receive the passionate fan base that has accumulated around this dry, un-flashy, sometimes flat-out bleak workplace satire. What is it about Office Space that has kept audiences seeking it out on DVD and cable TV airings when many more comedies of its era have fallen through the cracks of cinematic limbo?
Two words: Mike Judge. Best known as the mind and voice behind MTV's megahit mid-'90s animated series Beavis and Butt-Head and the long-running working-class Fox sitcom King of the Hill, Judge made his live-action writing / directing debut with Office Space (he also, under the pseudonym "William King", portrays Aniston's corporate-stooge restaurant-manager boss). The film's screenplay, inspired by a series of hand-drawn shorts that appeared on MTV's animation omnibus Liquid Television (the show also gave birth to both Beavis and Butt-Head and Aeon Flux, the anime-style future-female ass-kicker that inspired a megaflop Charlize Theron film), reminds audiences of a fact that was often neglected by narrow-minded viewers who blasted Beavis and Butt-Head as glorifications of adolescent rage and stupidity. Judge is a satirist, and quite honestly, a frequently brutal one. Beavis and Butt-Head, far from being celebrated by Judge for their mindless metalhead ways, were shown as exactly what they were: ignorant, violent children destined to grow up into ignorant, violent adults (I recall a flash-forward to them as fat, toothless slobs, still sitting on the same couch, recalling their greatest triumph in life...spying on some naked people from a clump of bushes at a nudist colony), and even King of the Hill, which was comparatively mild in its approach, nevertheless needled Hank Hill and his buddies at every turn for their love-America-first, ask-questions-never philosophy. Office Space is never as savage in its satire as B & B or as Judge's subsequent feature, the scathing, barely released, now fellow cult favorite Idiocracy, which portrays the world of the future, the world we're gleefully marching towards, as one of almost fascistic corporatism, id-driven excess, and society-strangling stupidity. No, all Office Space does is tell us that the jobs that we put so much of our sweat, our spirits, our lives into? Yeah. They're killing us by inches, and short of supernatural or divine intervention, we're powerless to save ourselves. Put like that, it's little wonder that people didn't queue up after a hard week at the office to watch a movie about just how hard that week could be...even if it was a comedy.
Office Space's "hero", for lack of a better word, is Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston, in a beautifully droll, deadpan performance), a dead-eyed drone for the monstrous Initech Corporation, one of those brutalist cubicle farms where rows of people work very hard for indifferent pay doing jobs that make no logical sense. It's telling that, while Peter has a definite role at his office (he is, in a slightly dated but still reasonable plot detail, assisting with updating bank software for the Y2K changeover), it's nevertheless kept entirely vague exactly what it is that Initech does. Do they manufacture anything? Sell anything? Who the hell knows? What companies like this do, Judge seems to suggest, is simply provide people with income, nothing less, and quite certainly nothing more. Peter's life is a meaningless farrago of soul-deadening dreariness punctuated by brief moments of intense impotent rage, mostly directed at his bosses, who insist on telling him over and over about the most meaningless infractions. In one of the film's first scenes, Peter is approached by no less than three supervisors who scold him about his failure to put a particular cover sheet on a particular report; these three people, we later learn, are among the eight bosses that currently make Peter's life a miserable experience. His personal life is no more glorious, consisting mostly of sneaking out of the office to steal coffee breaks and commiserate with software techies Samir (Ajay Naidu) and Michael Bolton (the marvelously defeated David Herman), whose name is in and of itself a form of cosmic punishment; he spends a frustratingly large portion of his work day explaining to people that it is merely a coincidence that he shares a name with "that no-talent ass clown". Peter also pines for Joanna (Aniston), a waitress at a T.G.I. Friday's-ish chain restaurant, even though he's dating the imperious Anne (Alexandra Wentworth), who he and, disconcertingly, everyone else he knows suspect is cheating on him. Finally, after being asked to come in on the weekend by Bill Lumbergh (the transcendently unctuous Gary Cole), a weaselly, faux-buddyish VP with a coffee mug permanently welded to his hand, Peter decides to go see an "occupational hypnotherapist". He's hoping the guy can "maybe just kind of zonk me out so I don't realize that I'm at work", but the doctor (Micheal McShane) instead promises to implant a subconscious hypnotic sense of complete apathy about Peter's job or its consequences upon his life. It works like a charm...but the big-boned doc drops dead of a heart attack before he can snap Peter out of it. Peter Gibbons is a new man. A man who couldn't give less of a shit about his job if you put a loaded gun to his head.
The new Peter's workplace rebellion is a harmless but still crowd-pleasing rendition of what we'd do if we stopped caring about work. He blows off his weekend overtime, and it's no more shirt and tie for him. Jeans and sneakers all the way. He goes fishing during office hours, guts the fish at his desk (in a nice throwaway gag, he dumps the discarded guts on a stack of those oh-so-important report cover sheets), uses an electric drill to remove a metal doorknob that persistently shocks him, and knocks down the wall of his cubicle to allow him a window view... that looks out, admittedly, to a not-that-impressive access road. But it's better than particleboard. And not surprisingly, in a reflection of good old-fashioned American failing upwards, Peter's benign neglect of responsibility is rewarded with a promotion from the Bobs (John C. McGinley and Paul Willson), two "consultants" hired to weed out unnecessary "human resources". Unfortunately, two of those useless cogs are Michael and Samir, and when Peter finds out that his friends, the two best software people at Initech, are being cast aside, his rebellion shifts from prankish to blatantly criminal, as they install a software virus allowing them to steal fractions of leftover, usually rounded-off pennies from bank transactions (Michael cribs this idea from Superman III, which he calls an "underrated movie, actually"). It's a petty, victimless crime that will net them a never-missed few hundred thousand over the course of a few years...or over a weekend, when Peter discovers that the virus has stolen over three hundred grand in two days. Suddenly, Peter again cares very much about his job...or at least about the fact that it just might send him to a "federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison".
Like most of the comedies previously featured on this countdown, Office Space is not on this list because of its plot. The script's structure is admittedly pretty unpolished. Peter's hypnosis is merely a convenient excuse for his rebellious behavior; the doctor is barely mentioned again once he drops dead, and there is no effort made to de-hypnotize Peter and turn him back into a "functioning" soulless drudge. Likewise, the penny-stealing scam, for something that takes up such a strong percentage of the film's back half, is not really adequately built up to early on; Michael has a throwaway line about being able to program a virus that could rob Initech blind, but until Peter gets the idea out of the blue, it never seems like the film is building to some kind of scam like this. The plot thus proceeds in fits and starts, a symptom perhaps of Judge's previous extensive experience with short-form episodic material. He also struggles a bit with handling exposition, finally throwing up his hands and bringing in Drew (Greg Pitts), a fellow office hack who shows up out of nowhere more than halfway through the film and who exists solely to provide exposition about a car accident that befalls sad-sack customer service rep Tom Smykowski (Richard Riehle) and about Joanna's past romantic exploits, which throws the one monkey wrench into her otherwise smooth-as-silk relationship with Peter. Drew is admittedly funny, mostly thanks to Pitts's portrayal of him as the office's designated frat douche, but even the other characters seem to recognize his superfluous nature; when he suddenly appears in his first scene, Peter's reaction is an almost surprised "Oh, hi, Drew..."
But the devil here is in the details, and Office Space is a worthy rival to Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's masterful Britcom The Office in its dead-on dissection of the manner in which the simple act of having a job in America seems designed to grind you down into a fine dust. Judge realizes that one of the keys to effective satire is to overplay the absurdity just enough for us to recognize what it says about the naked ridiculousness of our own everyday lives. It's all there in Judge's script. The infuriating mundanity of "inspirational" corporate slogans and signage (one of Peter's first acts of rebellion is to tear down an office-spanning banner that reads "Is This Good for the Company?"). The way bosses abuse their employees by couching unfair work demands in the form of a request for a personal favor (Lumbergh is fond of telling his employees that if they could just do this or that annoying, frustrating, pointless action, "that would be greeeeaaaaat"). The way the little nothingnesses of everyday office life, accumulated over time, induce near-psychotic levels of irritation (witness Peter's reaction to his co-worker's incessant chirping of "Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking...just a moment..."). And, of course, the way in which the mechanics of life in the corporate world turn us into petty, grasping, territorial beasts, a fact embodied brilliantly by Milton Waddams (Stephen Root), a pockmarked, poorly dressed schlub whose entire life has been boiled down to a numb-from-the-neck-up quest to defend his right to listen to the radio while he's collating (naturally and hilariously, he's listening to a droning news broadcast about a sinking battleship...much like Initech itself), his right to a piece of office-party birthday cake, and of course, his beloved red Swingline stapler. Peter, Michael and Samir are not immune to this sort of pettiness, either. On the software guys' last day, they drive out to a field and take their revenge on their greatest office nemesis: a malfunctioning fax machine that they brutalize with a baseball bat and (in the case of a hysterical Michael) their bare fists, a slo-motion sequence hilariously scored to the Geto Boys's viciously profane gangsta-rap "Still".
It's not just the flora, but the fauna of modern American office life that Judge gets brilliantly right in Office Space. Each of the film's characters represents a different, familiar attitude about the world of work. Peter is the classic bright young man made bad, the kind of guy who you could imagine had all the hope in the world when he got out of college, and who has, through years of work, seen his idealism die the death of a thousand Xerox-machine paper cuts. He morosely tells the hypnotist that every day since he has started working at Initech has been worse than the day before. "That means," he concludes, "that every time you see me, it's on the worst day of my life." One can see how that sort of feeling would make Peter blow his job up into the embodiment of evil, "everything that is soulless and wrong", and how even the simple act of playing Tetris in front of Lumbergh comes to seem like a major victory to him. Samir, on the other hand, is the just-happy-to-be-employed guy; when Peter laments about what it would mean if they were still at Initech when they were fifty years old, Samir responds, "It would be nice to have that kind of job security," and when presented with the hypothetical "what would you do with a million dollars" question, all he can offer up are sensible investment opportunities. (Judge nicely avoids making Samir a raft of Indian software guy cliches, although his co-workers do have a tremendous lot of trouble with his last name.) Smykowski is your garden-variety office Chicken Little, who sees every little change sent down from the top of the corporate ladder as a direct attack on his employment status. He is so beholden to his corporate paymasters that he attempts suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning (he is only saved by the sudden arrival of his wife...only to back out of his garage and be smashed into immediately by an oncoming drunk driver). On the other side of the coin is Lumbergh, who has been assimilated by the corporate hive-mind and who seems to have no identity outside of a job that is basically meaningless (after all, like most higher-ups, we never see Lumbergh doing anything but walking around with his mug). For all the humanity he projects, it might as well be poisoned Kool-Aid he's incessantly sipping from that mug. And, of course, there's the perkolators, the office "rays of sunshine" who seem to exist merely to give their co-workers someone to agree to hate. Initech has the bubbly secretary who tells a complaining Peter that it "sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays", and Joanna is plagued by Brian (Todd Duffey), an insanely upbeat fellow restaurant server whose excessive "flair" (funny buttons on his uniform suspenders) are an endless thorn in her side. The only person in Office Space who seems to have a healthy relationship with his job is, significantly, the only person who seems to do real work for a living. Peter's neighbor, itinerant construction worker Lawrence (Diedrich Bader), is admittedly a stereotype, a blue-collar schlub with a mustache and mullet who lives for beer and fishing, and who would use his hypothetical million dollars to pay two women to have sex with him at the same time. Nevertheless, he doesn't sweat his job when he's not on the job, he gets to leave for the day with something to actually show for his labor, and if someone where he works said you were having a case of the Mondays, he'd be on the receiving end of an ass-kicking. Lawrence seems to have a lot figured out, but it can't be an accident that he seems so much like a grown-up Butt-Head. These, Judge seems to be suggesting, are our only options: constant, pointless, unwinnable war against the corporate machine; total immersion in the Borg-like life of an office drone; or blissful, bad-haircut ignorance. Put like that, it's no wonder that Office Space failed to find an audience initially. It's a comedy, yes, but an often grim and harshly realistic one.
But sometimes we laugh that we may not cry, and one of the things that makes Office Space a comedy that people (including myself) return to again and again, like a life-raft against the madness is that it's just nice to know that we're not alone, that someone gets it, that someone sees the way we live now and realizes that it's wrong, disspiriting, inhuman. As I've previously mentioned, I do not write this blog for a living, nor do I make any kind of living in the literary or entertainment fields. I have worked for a major corporation for over a decade now, I have done my time in a cubicle, and I have personally gone through every peak and trough of the emotional roller coaster that Peter Gibbons rides in the course of this film. When he fantasizes about coming into work one day and just laying waste with a machine gun, I can relate 100 percent (as recently as last week, I joked that my last day at my job, should it ever come and oh please let it, will probably result in someone having to shout at me, "Stop hitting him, he's already dead!"). I too have taken those "mental health days", where you wake up, look at the clock and just realize that, healthy or no, work just can not happen today. I've spent plenty of time on the job spacing out, plenty of days where I only put in "about fifteen minutes of real, actual work". So I, like many people, can entirely relate to where Peter's coming from, and I appreciate Office Space as an accurate and incisive depiction of modern American corporate misery. But I also know that Office Space is over in ninety minutes, and I'm still staring down the barrel of this job for who knows how long. And I don't know about you, but if I saw a guy like Peter, blowing off work, not giving a damn, and being kicked upstairs into management for his trouble? He might very well be the guy I was turning my machine gun on. We often look at suffering movie characters and say, "There, but for the grace of God, goes I." Office Space just might have failed in its original release, and might have found its small but fervent cult, because this film's protagonist could look at its viewers and say the exact same thing.
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The conclusion of the global warming conference yielded in the 11th hour the new Copenhagen Accord, which seeks to establish a roadmap for future coordinated actions on climate control. At the political level, this Accord is best understood as a variation of that legal curiosity known as an agreement to agree. The parties "underline" their view that climate change ranks as "one of the greatest challenges of our time," and pledge to take steps to keep any increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius. The vital question of the allocation of responsibilities are left largely untapped, save for the important caveat that each nation pledges internationally to keep its own domestic commitments.
The political agreement treats the commitment to "deep cuts" in global warning as being "required according to science." But it gives little hint on how it views "the science." It does not specify either the probability that the earth's temperatures will exceed the 2 degree Celsius barrier or how much man-made emissions will drive that. Nor does it explain why huge commitment of resources should be made now on a problem whose status is heavily debated in the literature, to say the least.
How then to get a handle on these critical issues of probability and timing? Unlike many writers on this vast topic, I start small. First take simple two-party disputes, master them and then work up to global issues. Thus in an everyday nuisance suit between private parties over sewage and odors, the key question involves the choice of remedy for future and uncertain harms. The usual response of the tort law follows libertarian lines. Hold off on government remedies until needed. So don't shut down a defendant's mine or mill until the threat of harm is actual or imminent.
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An inattentive janitor caused several deaths in a South African hospital when she unplugged patients' life support systems to plug in her floor polisher.
[Collected on the Internet, 1996]
"For several months, our nurses have been baffled to find a dead patient in the same bed every Friday morning," a spokeswoman for the Pelonomi Hospital (Free State, South Africa) told reporters. "There was no apparent cause for any of the deaths, and extensive checks on the air conditioning system, and a search for possible bacterial infection, failed to reveal any clues."
"However, further inquiries have now revealed the cause of these deaths. It seems that every Friday morning a cleaner would enter the ward, remove the plug that powered the patient's life support system, plug her floor polisher into the vacant socket, then go about her business. When she had finished her chores, she would plug the life support machine back in and leave, unaware that the patient was now dead. She could not, after all, hear the screams and eventual death rattle over the whirring of her polisher."
"We are sorry, and have sent a strong letter to the cleaner in question. Further, the Free State Health and Welfare Department is arranging for an electrician to fit an extra socket, so there should be no repetition of this incident. The enquiry is now closed."
[Collected on the Internet, 2003]
There was a case in one hospital's Intensive Care ward where patients always died in the same bed, on Sunday morning at
regardless of their medical condition. This puzzled the doctors and some even thought that it had something to do with the supernatural. No one could solve the mystery as to why the deaths occurred around
on Sundays.
So, a Worldwide team of experts was assembled to investigate the cause of the incidents. The next Sunday morning, a few minutes before
all the doctors and nurses nervously wait outside the ward to see for themselves what the terrible phenomenon was all about. Some were holding wooden crosses, prayer books and other holy objects to ward off the evil spirits.
Just when the clock struck 11... Pookie Johnson, The part-time Sunday sweeper, entered the ward and unplugged the life support system so that he could use the vacuum cleaner.
Shocking account of tragic, accidental deaths in the very place where people are supposed to recover from their illnesses, eh? Especially that bit about a sharply-worded letter. Was reprimanding the cleaner really the hospital's greatest concern?
Oftentimes it's the tail ends of these stories which make the difference between cute ones which get told once or twice then drop out of sight, and ones such as this, which get forwarded all over the world. The floor cleaner's mistake is bad enough; what sends this story over the top is the callous matter-of-factness of the hospital. What does it say about health care in South Africa?
Summer 1996 saw this hilarious yet chilling account take the Internet by storm. In an article purportedly from the
13 June
Cape Times
("Cleaner Polishes Off Patients"), it quickly became the story of the moment. Various publications picked it
up and ran it as a news item, adding to the legend's credibility.
Bottom line: no matter how many papers you might have read that said different, there were no Friday massacres in Pelonomi Hospital, no murdering floor cleaners, no overly-callous hospital spokespeople imperiously intoning, "The enquiry is now closed." It's folklore, pure and simple
— a
tall tale that got loose, then went on a rampage.
How did this amazing story come to be taken as a news item? As always, through a misunderstanding. The legend had been around forever, so
Die Volksblad
(a small yet widely-circulated rural South African newspaper) took it upon itself to get to the bottom of this persistent rumor. Part of that effort to uncover the truth resulted in a
Die Volksblad
article asking those related to the victim(s) to come forward.
That article was picked up by
Die Burger
, and it was
Die Burger's
article which
Cape Times
got its hands on. In much the same way children playing a game of "Telephone" will invariably garble the message,
Cape Times
' version came out as a news story, not as a rural paper's attempt to sort fact from fiction. From there the tale went to other publications, very few of whom bothered to check either with Pelonomi hospital or
Die Volksblad
Those journalists who checked with
Cape Times
(and not all of them did even this much) were told that yes, it had run a story about this. Unknown both to the reporters doing the asking and
Cape Times
personnel doing the answering, the version made popular by the Internet and the actual
Cape Times
article weren't the same. The Internet version had been greatly embellished, further garbling the already hopelessly garbled and creating by the stroke of a few electrons a suitably cold-hearted but entirely fictional spokeswoman for Pelonomi Hospital.
From there on in, it became a zoo, with publications such as
New Scientist
and the
Sunday Telegraph
claiming this as a news item. And why not indeed?
Cape Times
was telling them it was.
South African folklorist Arthur Goldstuck was involved with this tale almost from the moment it appeared. His fascinating "Cleaner Polishes Off Patient"
is filled with an incredible depth of detail about this legend.
Although the "murdering South African floor cleaner" tale was new in 1996, its basic plot was as old as the hills, as demonstrated by this anecdote from a 1967 issue of
Reader's Digest
British engineers feared that they would have to replan the Dungesness nuclear station in Kent, after studying a special model which showed the flow of rivers and estuaries in the area. Then they discovered the reason for the puzzling variations in the model's water level. An office cleaner had been filling her bucket from it each day.
Once again, a dull-witted office cleaner is said to have upset Technology's applecart while discharging her janitorial duties. The charwoman does not recognize the "special model" serves a particular purpose — she views it merely as something she can fill her bucket from and uses it as such. Likewise, the South African floor cleaner perceives the loaded outlet in Intensive Care only as a place to plug in a needed piece of cleaning equipment — recognition that whatever is already occupying that outlet might be important eludes him.
The theme of both these stories appears in another tale collected in 1993, this one poking fun not at office cleaners, but at office workers.
Around noon every day the computer system at some office keeps freezing out. Five minutes later the system will power back up again. No one can figure out what's going
on — software
checks out, hardware checks out, everything is as protected as it can be from a power surge, and besides, why would there be a power surge every day around the same time?
Finally, one bright whiz kid decides to keep an eye on the main server as the only thing that makes sense is someone has to be fooling with it. Sure enough, a little after noon one of the secretaries comes by with a kettle in hand, reaches down, unplugs the
server ...
An additional thread ties all of these stories together. It's no accident these legends are told about janitors and secretaries: they are considered lesser beings in the world of labor and are often presumed to be of lower intelligence. In each of these tales, someone from the bottom rungs of the corporate ladder who has access to key equipment but lacks so much as a basic understanding of its function and importance screws the pooch. Such tales confirm the commonly-held stereotypes of those who hold those jobs.
Given how prevalent similar tales are, there was very little excuse for the journalistic outpouring the South African floor cleaner story provoked in 1996. (One need not hear a joke told the same way each time to recognize it as the same joke, after all.) This mess proved so very conclusively that even newspapermen fall victim to 'I read it in the paper, so it must be true."
Barbara "front paged" Mikkelson
This legend figures in an episode of the British police drama
A Touch of Frost
("Benefit of the Doubt," original air date
15 January
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Can you imagine getting on a website 14 times in a day just to see what updates might have happened since you last checked it? To put it in 1998 terms, that would be like calling your home answering machine 14 times over the course of the day to see if someone left you a message.
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