The moment of the internal negotiation — the point at which I weigh my two options — is an important teachable moment. I wish that in those moments, I had the ability to step outside of the situation and reexamine the tradeoff I had formulated.
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The stress and strain of constantly being connected can sometimes take your life — and your well-being — off course. GPS For The Soul can help you find your way back to balance.
GPS Guides are our way of showing you what has relieved others’ stress in the hopes that you will be able to identify solutions that work for you. We all have de-stressing “secret weapons” that we pull out in times of tension or anxiety, whether they be photos that relax us or make us smile, songs that bring us back to our heart, quotes or poems that create a feeling of harmony, or meditative exercises that help us find a sense of silence and calm. We encourage you to look at the GPS Guide below, visit our other GPS Guides here, and share with us your own personal tips for finding peace, balance and tranquility.
In his GPS Guide below, Dr. Steve Rosenberg guides you through a sole-soothing, stress-relieving foot practice that will restore the balance within your soul.
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(This article was published in “The Louisiana Weekly” in the Feb. 25, 2013 edition.)
New Orleans officials hope to move residents toward a consensus this spring about whether to remove or keep the 1960s-era Claiborne expressway that destroyed African American neighborhoods in Treme, the Seventh Ward and vicinity.
Last week, Peter Park, a Denver-based city planner who oversaw the tear-down of Milwaukee’s freeway, advised New Orleanians to “get involved in the Claiborne corridor study and own the plan. This isn’t a government project, it’s a people project.” Park, a Harvard University 2012 Loeb fellow, spoke to a packed room at the Sojourner Truth Neighborhood Center in New Orleans on Feb. 20. He was joined by John Norquist, president of the Congress for the New Urbanism in San Francisco and a former Milwaukee mayor.
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ISPs in the US are just getting around to enforcing a “six strikes” policy against illegal P2P sharing, but France is now contemplating a crackdown on the streaming and direct downloads of pirated content. Hadopi, the government organization behind the country’s existing “three strikes” law, released a new report that proposes websites take a page from YouTube’s book and actively monitor content by using recognition algorithms and the like to take down things that are presumed illegal. If a site weren’t to cooperate after a round of warnings, it might face penalties including DNS and IP blocking, domain name seizures and even financial repercussions that involve having their accounts with “payment intermediaries” (think PayPal) suspended. As for enforcement of this potential government mandate, the dossier posits that it could lean on internet service providers instead of hosting services, which according to EU law, can’t be forced to conduct widespread surveillance. For now, these suggestions aren’t being made policy, but Hadopi is mulling them over.
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Filed under: Internet
Via: Ars Technica
Source: Hadopi (1, translated), (2, PDF)
Melinda McGraw will play the “smart and ambitious” wife of Hollis Doyle (Gregg Henry) in ABC’s “Scandal,” TVLine reports.
McGraw, perhaps best known as Don Draper’s mistress in “Mad Men” Season 2, will debut as Deborah in an April episode, and knowing what we know of husband Hollis — the man responsible for rigging Fitz’s (Tony Goldwyn) election — we’re guessing she’s got her fair share of dirty laundry stashed away.
In other casting news …
Do you respond to the beep, ping, rattle and shake of your gadgets on command? You may be suffering from digital distress — or maybe even a case of Social Media Anxiety Disorder — and you might be in need of a digital purge.
Sound like something you could benefit from? This Friday, March 1, marks the fourth annual National Day of Unplugging. Participants around the country can pledge to unplug from their digital crutches for a full 24 hours — from sunset to sunset — while experiencing the forgotten art of being present.
Why unplug? “We’ve reached a point where all of our technological devices are using us, rather than the other way around,” Gemini Adams, author of “The Facebook Diet” (coming out April 2013) told The Huffington Post. “Technology has come into our life so quickly that we haven’t had the time to make conscious choices about how to use it.” Adams says that having a national call to unplug is “brilliant,” as the day gives people a taste of what life would be like if we actually had clear digital boundaries.
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Google has unveiled a Chrome Experiment called Super Sync Sports, a side-scrolling game with colorful animation and simple, yet addictive sub-games: racing, cycling, and swimming. Instead of using your computer’s controls to play, however, gamers sync and use their mobile device, using it as a controller, hence the game’s name. You can check out a video of the game in action, as well as instruction on how to play yourself.
A tablet or a smartphone can be used, with a smartphone arguably being easier to use than a larger tablet. Syncing is achieved by using Chrome for Mobile/iPhone, so users will need to download and install it in order to play. Once installed, syncing the controller with the game is simple and straight forward. Up to four players can sync their devices and compete with each other.
Gamers need to go to chrome.com/supersyncsports on their laptop or desktop to pull up the game. After doing that, select a game, then turn on your mobile device. From Chrome for Mobile, visit g.co/super and enter the code that appears on the computer screen. By doing this, the mobile device will sync with the browser game and begin to function as a controller.
After syncing, the gamers can then select an athlete to play as from the mobile device, then control the character via gestures on the touchscreen. Super Sync Sports works with Chrome version 15 and higher, Android 4 and higher, and iOS 4.3 and later. The game utilized HTML5, CSS3, and Canvas.
[via Google Blog]
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Libratone’s speaker line hasn’t been convenient at all for mobile users who don’t swing the iOS way — not unless they’ve got a very long audio cable. The audio designer hasn’t quite achieved the Holy Grail of full wireless control for other platforms, but its new Android app provides the next best thing. The release lets Android 2.3 and beyond set up Live, Lounge and Zipp speakers on the WiFi network, and it can tune their sounds to match a physical space or musical tastes. There’s still a distance to go when the speaker needs an aux-in connection just to change the volume. Still, we’ll take a free app if it saves us a few walks across the living room.
Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals, Portable Audio/Video, Mobile
Source: Google Play
Japan’s FabCafe is following up their Valentine’s Day 3D-printed chocolate head promotion with a little something for the guys: the opportunity to create a miniature edible gummy replica of yourself just in time for White Day.
This quirky short follows a young boy as he susses out the relationship between life, death, and the sleepy shadow monsters that live in our mouths. Tim Divall created Drifting as his first year film project at the RCA. More »
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