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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Russian court denies punk band convict Tolokonnikova parole
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court refused to release from prison one of two jailed members of the Pussy Riot punk band so that she can look after her young daughter.
The court on Friday rejected Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's appeal for parole eight months after she was handed a two-year prison sentence for the band's performance of a "punk prayer" in Moscow's main Russian Orthodox cathedral.
Tolokonnikova, 23, has been serving her sentence for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" in a prison colony in central Russia, about 550 km (350 miles) southeast of Moscow.
"I've spent enough time in the prison colony. I've had enough of studying it. Half a year is long enough," Tolokonnikova, a philosophy student, told the judge at the parole hearing, the RAPSI legal news agency reported.
She complained of having frequent headaches in jail in Mordovia, a region that has a large number of prisons.
Her lawyer, Irina Khrunova, said Tolokonnikova's five-year-old daughter Gera needed her mother.
The judge said Tolokonnikova's parental status had been taken into account when she was sentenced - prosecutors had asked for three years - and pointed to two reprimands she has received as evidence her conduct has not been sufficiently "corrected", RAPSI reported.
Tolokonnikova and two other band members, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich, were sentenced last August after a trial that was widely condemned abroad as part of a clampdown on dissent by President Vladimir Putin.
Performers such as Madonna, Sting and former Beatle Paul McCartney offered their support for Pussy Riot last year.
SENTENCES DIVIDED OPINION
Although the two-year sentences outraged many liberals, many conservative Russians saw their profanity-laced protest against Putin's close ties with the Church, performed in short dresses and brightly colored tights and balaclavas, as sacrilege.
Samutsevich, 30, was freed in October when her sentence was suspended on appeal after she argued that she had been prevented from taking part in the protest because a guard seized her.
Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina, 24, lost their appeals and in January a judge rejected Alyokhina's request for her sentence to be deferred until her child is older. She has also requested parole and that appeal could be heard next month.
The three women said they had not meant to offend Orthodox Christians with their protest in February 2012, while anti-Putin protests were drawing tens of thousands of people to the streets of Moscow and other big cities.
The rallies have since dwindled and did not stop Putin winning a presidential election the next month.
In his annual nationwide question-and-answer session on Thursday, Putin denied using the courts for political ends.
But he made clear he did not regret Pussy Riot's sentences, mentioning them in the same breath as people who desecrate the graves of World War Two veterans.
But Samutsevich says Pussy Riot's protest at least succeeded in drawing attention to what the all-women protest band sees as Putin's unhealthy relationship with the church and a lack of political freedoms.
"We wanted to start a discussion in society, show our negative view of the merging of the church and state ... The problem was raised internationally, the problem of human rights was put sharply into focus," she said in a recent interview.
(Writing by Timothy Heritage; Editing by Steve Gutterman and Mike Collett-White)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/russian-court-denies-punk-band-convict-tolokonnikova-parole-184156369.html
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Renault hopes to have approval for Chinese plant by summer: CEO
PARIS (Reuters) - Renault-Nissan
Ghosn had said last month he expected final government approval for the plant by the end of the year.
"Renault already has a plan for China, which is ready, and currently being negotiated with the Chinese government, and I hope we will have all agreements before the summer," Ghosn told French radio Europe 1.
He added that French President Francois Hollande's visit to China this week would help the carmaker over the administrative hurdles.
(Reporting by Gilles Guillaume; Writing Sybille de La Hamaide; Editing by Greg Mahlich)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/renault-hopes-approval-chinese-plant-summer-ceo-091801999.html
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Party In SF, For Charity
The TechCrunch SF staff normally goes to your parties, but tonight you can come to ours. And this one has a mission beyond drinking and tech talk -- we'll be donating the proceeds to a nonprofit, like we've done in the past, this time to Teach for America.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/FCoXdJPmJ68/
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Monday, April 15, 2013
Does the '0' have to go?
Can FC Dallas count on a Galaxy hangover when the teams meet tonight in North Texas, a little So-Cal sulking from the side that went out with some disappointment in this week?s CONCACAF Champions League?
In four words ? don?t bet on it.
Galaxy manager Bruce Arena has been around the MLS block more than a few times and knows how to keep a team balanced through a long season. Besides, the Galaxy went into Monterrey earlier this week understanding the task ahead ? so it?s not like the inability to get the job done in Wednesday?s second-leg semifinal was some giant soul crusher.
At best, the champs could be a little tired when they meet FCD in suburban Dallas; Saturday?s kickoff on NBC Sports Network is set for 7:30 p.m. ET.
An interesting contest features one side we all thought would be leading this Western Conference race (the two-time defending MLS Cup champion Galaxy) and the surprise team that actually finds itself lead dog on the conference sled (Schellas Hyndman?s FC Dallas).
Two of the league?s better strikers will lead their teams? attacks. In LA?s Robbie Keane, we may be speaking of ?the best.? Keane has a goal and assist in just two matches this year, but continues to find the? defensive gaps and look dangerous. Propping up the Galaxy scoring, meanwhile, is Mike Magee, the surprising league leader with five goals.
Similar to Keane, FC Dallas? Blas Perez has been limited this year due to injuries and international call-ups; he has two goals in three matches. They were, however, in Dallas? last two matches, a pair of important road strikes as Hyndman?s team collected four points away from home over the last two weekends.
Containing Perez will be Job 1 for Omar Gonzalez; the Galaxy?s prized center back is coming off a fantastic night down in Mexico.
With one travel day and just one other full day of rest since Wednesday?s contest, Arena is sure to make lineup changes. Sophomore center back Tommy Meyer could be one, and that would be his 2013 Galaxy debut. Or Colin Clark could get on the field since the midfield vet (who played for Hyndman in college at SMU) is cup-tied and was not eligible to play in the CONCACAF series.
Magee appears ready after missing Wednesday?s match due to injury. As for Landon Donovan, who has appeared in three matches since returning from sabbatical? He went the full 90 on Wednesday, so an appearance off the bench seems most likely.
On Dallas? side, watch for Jackson on the right and Andrew Jacobson in the holding midfield role; both are having outstanding seasons. A little more on Jackson?s 2013 campaign is here.
LA is undefeated in its last four against FC Dallas, including back-to-back shutout victories in the teams? last pair of 2012 meetings. FCD last defeated the Galaxy back in May of 2001.
Source: http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/13/mls-match-preview-fc-dallas-vs-la-galaxy/related/
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or shame? Do stop believing
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It ?made my mom very happy,? Geddy Lee said about Rush (who belongs) being named to the Hall of Fame.
Photograph by: Allen McInnis , Gazette file photo
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Why not? The litany of Inexplicables in popular music is at least as long as the list of Brilliancies. How did Adam Ant get into the Motown 25 show? Did anyone in the Milli Vanilli clone factory truly believe they would get away with it? And what is a C.C. DeVille?
We might ask.
And the Kid Rock reference? Well, they?ll vote a lot of ersatz figures into office these days. Which brings us to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which holds its 28th annual induction ceremony in Los Angeles on Thursday, April 18. At the very least, the RnRHoF gave every rock critic born in a certain era a reason to work, to remain vigilant, to persist, to survive. And that was to ensure that Journey never got in.
This remains a great fear. Then again, the trend it would represent is already coming to pass. This year?s inductees are Albert King, Rush, Donna Summer, Public Enemy, Randy Newman and Heart. For one thing, that?s too many. For another, at the very least, there are bands that absolutely ought to have been inducted before a few of the aforementioned (see sidebar).
There will always be disgruntled parties when we draw up lists and codify greatness. Here, there are three sides to this ? three sides wrestling over the putative soul of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
On one side are the rock ayatollahs, flogging themselves with guitar strings that Donna Summer and anyone else who prayed to the Mirrorball of Evil would be admitted. Some go further in their guitars-only Republicanism, denouncing the inclusion of the likes of Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Etta James or Smokey Robinson, but championing ? among those unfairly excluded ? people like Journey, Bad Company, Styx, Bread and Yes.
Bread? OK. In a special shame-room for Worst Band Names.
The very notion of purism is antithetical to rock ?n? roll.
Only someone who thinks rock ?n? roll was invented by Ritche Blackmore could believe that nonsense. You want that? Kick out the Doors and their pseudo-Brechtian cabaret. Lose Talking Heads and their intello-art-funk polyrhythms. Boot out Bowie, for eight reasons. Man wore a dress, for heaven?s sake. And goodbye Jimi; he came from R&B and probably would have played some unimagined new hybrid of funk/jazz/psychedelia/X had he lived. It wasn?t all Purple Haze, Creationists.
On another side are the disco bunnies who would completely abandon the control tower to admit all manner of substandard acts who barely belong in a dance music Hall. At the very least, some of them understand the central notion that rock music is a fusion of many things ? at its core, yes, the hoary clich? of white man?s/black man?s blues, but always in a constant evolution of cultural and musical influences. But completely relaxing anything resembling a standard is at least as bad as having one so rigid that it smacks of the old man yelling about how Kids Today wouldn?t know real music if it bit them on the ear with a nine-minute laserbeam-cued drum solo.
Then there is a third opinion. Those who think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame shouldn?t exist at all.
Some of them are ... bitter. Gene Simmons of Kiss doesn?t like it. Well, it doesn?t like Gene. But he?s not alone. Ozzy Osbourne and the Sex Pistols both denounced it. They had their reasons, most of which amounted to grenade-tossing ... not that there isn?t a seed of truth there, moot though it now be.
Incidentally, to his credit, 2013 inductee Geddy Lee of Rush (who belongs there) winningly said, when asked (by Rolling Stone) if the band might boycott, ?We?re nice Canadian boys. We wouldn?t do that. It also made my mom very happy, so that?s worth it.?
Let?s be happy for Geddy and mom. Let?s be sad for the Hall. While it does function as a Hall of Fame, with all that implies, it does not as a proper Hall of Greatness. Which entails a brief side trip into baseball, and the saga of Tim Raines.
Expos. 23 years, 2,605 hits, .294 career batting average with five .300+ seasons, 980 RBIs, won the 1986 NL batting title (. 334). Stole 70 bases every year from ?81-?86 and ended up 4th on the all-time list (808) behind Henderson, Brock and Cobb ? legends all ? and once held the highest career stolen base percentage (84.7 per cent) in baseball.
He?s not in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He may get in next year, but he?s out. For all its criminal tendencies, Major League Baseball understands the central principle of enshrinement: that it?s as much about exclusion as inclusion, if not more. It?s about the people left nosing the window, whose snubbing only further enhances the profiles and confirms the exceptional work of those honoured inside. That it should be cruel, not sentimental. At least twice, the Baseball Writers? Association of America has inducted ... nobody. Meanwhile, the RnRHoF now seems ready to usher in every .260 infielder with a few timely hits and the right iPhone contacts list.
In sports, there are pioneers, then players whose skills and stats eventually surpass them, due to ... everything. Equipment. Techniques. Training. Legal medicine. Science. The very fact that men are now larger. Drugs. Nostalgists may argue for the supposed purity of ye olden tymes, but for the most part, the contemporary athlete is bigger, stronger, faster and, outside of intangibles, better in statistical terms. Baseball is stats.
Rock ?n? roll is not. In an art form, not every cycle or era brings improvement. There are peaks and valleys. The quality is in and out. The very rawness of the pioneers is elemental to the history and present of the music, a source to which even its most progressive proponents may return. And when you have influences, you have brilliant inheritors, and you have copies. Pallid copies. Some years, the draft is thin. And you?re going to start inducting them, simply because you need to slam someone in there for the big tuxedo party. Even though it took you the better part of a decade to get the Stooges in.
In some cases, you are inducting virtual cover bands who will share shelf space, costume racks and wax dummy exhibits or whatnot with their antecedents. I have no personal animus against Heart ? I like some Heart ? but Heart had some good if de rigueur rawk years, and some truly bad MOR corporate arena years. As good as their best material may be, this is knock-off Led Zep with girls. The implication being that all inductees not otherwise differentiated from the truly great have the same relative value and importance. At which point ... no. They certainly do not.
Diminishing returns ... even those invited to induct or perform this year indicate the gene pool is draining out. John Mayer ?honours? Albert King? How, by tuning his axe? Jennifer Hudson is there for Donna Summer? These are mall people, pallid copies. At least Dave Grohl will speak for Rush, as it should be.
But for clarity of speech, go to the man named Elvis. As in Costello.
In 2003 in the Rocky Mountain News (which folded four years ago), Costello said the Hall was ?really about the people who run it ... It isn?t about the people who are in it. That was obvious in the speeches they made. We were just the hired help. We were just the cabaret. It?s about getting people through the turnstiles in Cleveland. Any pretence that it?s anything noble is laughable.?
And he?s in the Hall. But he got it: not a meritocracy, but a gala-bureaucracy that seemingly functions as much for the egos of its founding and ruling junta as for its inductees. It?s really the Hall of Jann, as in Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner, who has been accused of playing favourites over and over again, and even of vote-rigging. And so it functions like the Senate. Our Senate. You get in because you?re old, and have pals in the government. Or you get in because they need to fill a red velvet seat.
To clarify: Tim Raines, yes. Journey, never.
But the truly glaring insult here, as I?m sure you?re all aware, is the unspeakable omission of an entire category. Where are the writers? Where are the ink-stained wretches who sacrifice eardrums, sanity, girl/boyfriend nervous systems, regular meals, TV and reasonably profitable careers to pummel their thesauri for the next great pun on the name Whitesnake. Where are the rock critics?
A trifle self-serving, it?s true. Incidentally, Jann had himself inducted. Ah well, in rock ?n? roll, as in life, you lose a few and you Wenn a few.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction gala will be held Thursday, April 18, and will be broadcast May 18 on HBO.
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
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Germany puts brakes on EU bank union with treaty call
By Annika Breidthardt and John O'Donnell
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Germany said European banking union will require changes to EU law, in a call that could slow completion of the plan designed to underpin the euro currency.
Speaking after a meeting of European Union finance ministers on Saturday, Germany Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said the EU's Lisbon treaty had to be changed to allow common rules on shutting troubled banks - a central element of the union.
"Banking union only makes sense ... if we also have rules for restructuring and resolving banks. But if we want European institutions for that, we will need a treaty change," he said.
Designed to ensure vulnerable countries do not have to tackle financial problems alone, the plan for banking union was one of the bloc's biggest political steps to stabilize the euro and prevent taxpayers from footing bills for bank rescues.
"We will not be able to take any steps on the basis of a doubtful legal basis," Schaeuble told reporters. "That's why it's also crucial that we strengthen the network of national restructuring funds and authorities."
As a first step towards the union, the European Central Bank is set to start supervising euro zone banks from July 2014.
This should be followed by a so-called bank resolution scheme to close or salvage struggling banks as well as pay for the costs involved. The third and final step would be a coherent framework across Europe for deposit protection.
Worried the supervisory role could compromise ECB monetary policy independence, Germany on Friday persuaded EU countries to sign a political declaration committing to future treaty change.
Schaeuble also made clear legal change would be necessary for the unified scheme for tackling failed banks.
Changing the Lisbon treaty, which underpins the bloc's law, would be a drawn-out process as it calls for the agreement of all member states - some of which require referenda.
It would raise particular problems for Britain, where eurosceptics have argued that the country should quit the bloc.
Schaeuble has long had reservations about banking union, which would be a step towards allowing the euro zone's rescue fund to directly assist banks, a move Germany fears might leave it facing the bill for reckless lending by foreign banks.
Schaeuble said the country of a bank in financial difficulty must first inject fresh capital before direct support from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) is possible.
Spain's Finance Minister Luis de Guindos said member states would pay a minimum 4.5 percent of capital for troubled banks.
"From that point, there would be a burden sharing to converge towards 10 percent paid by the member state," de Guindos said. "This means the ESM will pay for around 90 percent and the member state for 10 percent."
Schaeuble also emphasized German opposition to the creation of a joint deposit guarantee scheme.
(Additional reporting By Ilona Wissenbach and Jan Strupczewski in Dublin and Julien Toyer in Madrid; Writing by Annika Breidthardt; Editing by Jason Webb)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/germany-puts-brakes-eu-bank-union-treaty-call-162518801--business.html
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
93% Lore
All Critics (87) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (81) | Rotten (6)
It's a harrowing walk through the heart of darkness.
Saskia Rosendahl gives an impressively poised performance as the beautiful teenager, whose determination to protect her remaining family coincides with her growing revulsion toward her parents.
"Lore" is not a pretty story, but it is a good and sadly believable one.
"Lore" is not a love story, nor the story of a friendship. Rather, it's a story of healing and of how breaking, sometimes painfully, is often necessary before that process can begin.
A fiercely poetic portrait of a young woman staggering beyond innocence and denial, it's about the wars that rage within after the wars outside are lost.
Full of surprises, the movie draws a thin line between pity and revulsion - how would you feel if you had discovered your whole life had been based on lies?
Texture and detail embellish a provocative story
Child of Nazi parents faces an uncertain future
[Director Cate] Shortland directs with an almost hypnotic focus, favoring Lore's immediate experience over the big picture.
Rosendahl's performance is raw and compelling, as Lore fights for her siblings' survival and grows up in a hurry.
Lore and her siblings make a harrowing journey across Germany
Worthwhile, but so subtle that it's frustrating.
The Australian-German co-production takes an unconventional tale and turns it into a challenging, visually stunning and emotionally turbulent film experience.
Over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother's house we go. Except this ain't no fairy tale... unless it is, perhaps, a hint of the beginnings of a new mythology of ... scary childhood and even scarier adolescence...
With a child's perspective on war, "Lore" deserves comparisons with "Empire of the Sun" and "Hope and Glory," and with a feisty female protagonist it stands virtually alone.
Rosendahl...provides both narrative and emotional continuity to a film whose deliberate pace and fragmented presentation of reality might otherwise prove exasperating.
A burning portrait of consciousness and endurance, gracefully acted and strikingly realized, producing an honest sense of emotional disruption, while concluding on a powerful note of cultural and familial rejection.
Although there are moments that push the story a bit beyond credulity, Shortland has created something remarkable by forcing us to find within ourselves sympathy for this would-be Aryan princess.
Stunning, admirable and indelible - truthfully chronicling the triumph of the human spirit - in a class with Michael Haneke's 'The White Ribbon.'
Can we spare some sympathy or hope for the children of villains, even if they too show signs of their parents' evil? Lore provides no easy answers.
The portrait is miniature and yet indelible, a ghostly reminder of the 20th century.
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Monday, April 8, 2013
Fetal exposure to excessive stress hormones in the womb linked to adult mood disorders
Apr. 6, 2013 ? Exposure of the developing fetus to excessive levels of stress hormones in the womb can cause mood disorders in later life and now, for the first time, researchers have found a mechanism that may underpin this process, according to research presented April 7 at the British Neuroscience Association Festival of Neuroscience (BNA2013) in London.
The concept of fetal programming of adult disease, whereby the environment experienced in the womb can have profound long-lasting consequences on health and risk of disease in later life, is well known; however, the process that drives this is unclear. Professor Megan Holmes, a neuroendocrinologist from the University of Edinburgh/British Heart Foundation Centre for Cardiovascular Science in Scotland (UK), will say: "During our research we have identified the enzyme 11?-HSD2 which we believe plays a key role in the process of fetal programming."
Adverse environments experienced while in the womb, such as in cases of stress, bereavement or abuse, will increase levels of glucocorticoids in the mother, which may harm the growing baby. Glucocorticoids are naturally produced hormones and they are also known as stress hormones because of their role in the stress response.
"The stress hormone cortisol may be a key factor in programming the fetus, baby or child to be at risk of disease in later life. Cortisol causes reduced growth and modifies the timing of tissue development as well as having long lasting effects on gene expression," she will say.
Prof Holmes will describe how her research has identified an enzyme called 11?-HSD2 (11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2) that breaks down the stress hormone cortisol to an inactive form, before it can cause any harm to the developing fetus. The enzyme 11?-HSD2 is present in the placenta and the developing fetal brain where it is thought to act as a shield to protect against the harmful actions of cortisol.
Prof Holmes and her colleagues developed genetically modified mice that lacked 11?-HSD2 in order to determine the role of the enzyme in the placenta and fetal brain. "In mice lacking the enzyme 11?-HSD2, fetuses were exposed to high levels of stress hormones and, as a consequence, these mice exhibited reduced fetal growth and went on to show programmed mood disorders in later life. We also found that the placentas from these mice were smaller and did not transport nutrients efficiently across to the developing fetus. This too could contribute to the harmful consequences of increased stress hormone exposure on the fetus and suggests that the placental 11?-HSD2 shield is the most important barrier.
"However, preliminary new data show that with the loss of the 11?-HSD2 protective barrier solely in the brain, programming of the developing fetus still occurs, and, therefore, this raises questions about how dominant a role is played by the placental 11?-HSD2 barrier. This research is currently ongoing and we cannot draw any firm conclusions yet.
"Determining the exact molecular and cellular mechanisms that drive fetal programming will help us identify potential therapeutic targets that can be used to reverse the deleterious consequences on mood disorders. In the future, we hope to explore the potential of these targets in studies in humans," she will say.
Prof Holmes hopes that her research will make healthcare workers more aware of the fact that children exposed to an adverse environment, be it abuse, malnutrition, or bereavement, are at an increased risk of mood disorders in later life and the children should be carefully monitored and supported to prevent this from happening.
In addition, the potential effects of excessive levels of stress hormones on the developing fetus are also of relevance to individuals involved in antenatal care. Within the past 20 years, the majority of women at risk of premature delivery have been given synthetic glucocorticoids to accelerate fetal lung development to allow the premature babies to survive early birth.
"While this glucocorticoid treatment is essential, the dose, number of treatments and the drug used, have to be carefully monitored to ensure that the minimum effective therapy is used, as it may set the stage for effects later in the child's life," Prof Holmes will say.
Puberty is another sensitive time of development and stress experienced at this time can also be involved in programming adult mood disorders. Prof Holmes and her colleagues have found evidence from imaging studies in rats that stress in early teenage years could affect mood and emotional behaviour via changes in the brain's neural networks associated with emotional processing.
The researchers used fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) to see which pathways in the brain were affected when stressed, peripubertal rats responded to a specific learned task. [1].
Prof Holmes will say: "We showed that in stressed 'teenage' rats, the part of the brain region involved in emotion and fear (known as amygdala) was activated in an exaggerated fashion when compared to controls. The results from this study clearly showed that altered emotional processing occurs in the amygdala in response to stress during this crucial period of development."
Abstract title: "Perinatal programming of stress-related behaviour by glucocorticoids." Symposium: "Early life stress and its long-term effects -- experimental studies."
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Recognize Your "Escape Mode," and Identify the Root Cause
Trent at The Simple Dollar realized that he played a lot of video games and read a lot of books when avoiding problems in his life.
For the longest time, I didn't recognize the things I would do to "block out" the problems I was having. I viewed such activities as a sign that I was "down," not necessarily that I was trying to avoid facing a specific problem in my life.
Today, though, I recognize that response. I know that when I'm drawn to spend a significant chunk of my spare time playing video games or most of my spare time reading, I'm trying to avoid something in my life.
While a little escapism isn't necessarily a bad thing, you should try to figure out the root cause, and correct it if possible. Some stresses in life are subtle, or build slowly over time, but by self-diagnosing our escape mode, we can focus our energy on identifying and eliminating them. Trent actually used this method to identify the cause of his minor chronic leg pain, and eliminate it. For more of his story, be sure to check out the source link.
Blocking What We Can't Deal With | The Simple Dollar
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
US economy adds 88K jobs, rate drops to 7.6 pct.
kvue.com
Posted on April 5, 2013 at 7:27 AM
Updated today at 8:03 AM
?? WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. employers added just 88,000 jobs in March, the fewest in nine months and a sharp retreat after a period of strong hiring. The slowdown is a reminder that the job market's path back to full health will be uneven.
?? The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate dipped to 7.6 percent from 7.7 percent. While that is the lowest rate in four years, it fell last month only because more people stopped looking for work. The government counts people as unemployed only if they are actively looking for a job.
?? The percentage of Americans working or looking for jobs fell to 63.3 percent in March, the lowest in nearly 34 years.
?? Stock futures fell after the jobs report was released.
?? The weakness in March may signal that some companies were worried last month about steep government spending cuts that began on March 1.
?? March's job gains were half the pace of the previous six months, when the economy added an average of 196,000 jobs a month. The drop raises fears that the economy could slow after a showing signs of strengthening over the winter.
?? In fact, the government said hiring was even stronger over the previous two months than estimated last month. February's job gains were revised to 268,000, up from 236,000. January job growth was 148,000, up from 119,000.
?? Several industries cut back sharply on hiring in March. Retailers cut 24,000 jobs after averaging 32,000 in the previous three months. Manufacturers cut 3,000 jobs after adding 19,000 the previous month. Financial services shed 2,000.
?? Economists say the decline in the work force reflects several trends: many of those out of work become discouraged and give up on their job hunts. And as the population ages, more people are retiring.
?? Most economists are predicting the economy strengthened from January through March, helped by the pickup in hiring, a sustained recovery in housing and a more resilient consumer. Consumers stepped up purchases in February and January, even after Social Security taxes increased this year.
?? Still the higher taxes have reduced paychecks. And many economists say $85 billion in automatic government spending cuts will slow growth in the spring and summer.
?? Mark Vitner, an economist at Wells Fargo Securities, expects that the economy expanded at a 3.2 percent annual rate in the first quarter. But he forecasts growth will slow to a 2 percent pace in the second quarter, and then rebound after the impact of the government spending cuts fades.
?? Economists expect the spending reductions will shave half a percentage point off economic growth this year. Many federal workers will experience pay cuts. And government contractors will likely cut jobs. That could also drag down overall monthly hiring.
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Source: http://www.kvue.com/news/consumer/March-job-numbers-not-as-strong-as-Februarys-201604411.html
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Friday, April 5, 2013
HTC First the first Snapdragon 400-powered phone
Hidden away in today's HTC First and Facebook Home announcements was the news that the Facebook-centric HTC First is powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 400 processor -- a mid-range chip announced back in February. The Facebook Home-running handset is the first to incorporate this new chip.
The Snapdragon 400 in the HTC First includes a dual Krait aSMP running up to 1.7GHz per core. That's paired with an Adreno 305 native Miracast wireless display technology, and 4G LTE connectivity options.
The HTC First will launch on Apr. 12 on AT&T, priced at $99.99.
More: HTC First announcement; HTC First forums
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