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Pixar, situated in Emeryville, Calif., north of Oakland, is a thriving playground of creativity where animators customize their workspaces to resemble tiki huts and castles, relax in secret rooms like the red-velvet Love Lounge or take a dip in the company pool. Lasseter is the ringleader, a man whose imagination fills every frame and inspires the troops. "He has a posse around him constantly," says a staff member who works closely with him. Other studio bosses are in awe of Pixar's six-for-six record. "Because of the pictures Pixar has made, the bar has been set incredibly...
...heels of strong faculty criticism of a lack of transparency in financial affairs, Kirby’s administration is making the case that those deficits reflect a responsible decision to dip into the Faculty’s $12 billion endowment for projects the dean and many professors say are critically important...
After closing above 11,000 for the first time since June 2001 on Monday, and sparking a day-long debate on Wall Street as to whether that benchmark even matters, the Dow Jones industrial average briefly gave up enough ground on Tuesday to dip below the threshold before jumping back once again. Look for more see-saw moments ahead as the Dow tries to eclipse its all-time high of 11,723, which was reached six years ago and which many market pros believe finally will be seen again later this year. That's not exactly a news flash...
...root of most slumps is a perceived decline in performance. Athletes tend to define themselves by their results, and any dip in their stats can make them start to think they are not as good as they used to be or as good as they thought they were. In some cases, they may not be slipping at all; their opponents may just be getting better. Or the decline may be a matter of perspective; after all, no one can perform at peak levels 100% of the time. Over-training and bringing the muscles to the brink of fatigue can lead...
What elevates any of those scenarios from an ordinary off day to a prolonged slump is the way the athlete interprets the dip. "It has less to do with what is contributing to the decrease in performance and more to do with how you react and adjust to the decline," says Jonathan Katz, a psychologist at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons...