Friday, April 5, 2013

Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW: Shower Bliss: 6 Habits to Create Peace as You Start Your Day

Do you ever wake up in the morning grumpy, or even depressed? Do you have a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach as you start up the cycle of providing breakfast, organizing kids, rushing off to work, and facing a mile-long "to do" list?

The morning is a critical time for setting the tone of your day. You can start out of the gate frenzied, frantic, and flummoxed or confident, cheerful, and calm. Which way sounds more appealing to you?

You may not realize it, but you have a spa-like respite right in your very own home: the shower. And in that shower, you can find bliss. I'm not talking about tantric sex in the shower with your partner (although if that brings you bliss, by all means, go for it). I'm talking about using shower time as a moment to intentionally reduce your stress and start your day with more "ahh" and less "ugh."

Use one or more of these shortcuts to inner peace to calm your body and your mind:

1. Let Go: As you're rinsing off your body, name three things that are troubling you. Say, "I release this worry," and imagine it washing off of you and going down the drain. Trigger your body's relaxation response by heaving a big sigh of relief and then let the water carry away your concerns.

2. Gratitude: If you've ever been to a country without indoor plumbing -- or a youth hostel with limited hot water -- you'll know that your shower is a modern miracle. Be grateful that you can step into a tiled sanctuary, turn a knob, and have hot water rain upon you. Let your gratitude sink in deep and it will change the trajectory of your day.

3. Mindfulness: Bring your attention to all of the sensations on your body. Feel the water cascading on to your skin. Feel your hand on the soap. Feel your toes gripping the floor. Be completely present in your senses and notice how your mind clears and your body relaxes.

4. Inhale: Let the scents around you stimulate your imagination. Smell the tropical fusion shampoo, the honey citrus bath wash, the ocean breeze conditioner. Your shower is a veritable aroma therapy treasure trove. Redirect your mind to a place and time of calm and relaxation. Close your eyes and let each scent take you away.

5. Open Heart: Use the shower to generate loving feelings. Imagine the love that another has for you raining down with each drop of water. Maybe today you know and feel how your grandma loves you, your dog loves you, your partner loves you, or your kids love you (unless they're teenagers!). Saturate yourself in that love and feel your heart opening. Face your day with a heart full of love and all things will go smoother.

6. Sing: It may be clich?, but singing in the shower will lift your spirits and turn your day around! Choose a song that makes you smile and warms your heart. Try a holiday song, a top hit from your high school days or a ditty from summer camp long ago. Use this time honored tradition to shift your mood while the water calms your body.

With these six tips, you may find that shower time is the best part of your day. But don't stay in there too long, a fresh day awaits.


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Google Says Facebook Home Demonstrates Android's Openness, Framing Apple As Restrictive

7173944255_fab17d35f3_zGoogle’s statement on Facebook’s introduction of “Home” was short and sweet, but very telling, so let’s dissect it a little bit. As we noted earlier, Facebook went with Android first because of its flexibility. Basically it’s easy to customize. Other platforms, not so much. Zuckerberg even mentioned that Windows Phone might be a bit easier to work with, calling it out as “somewhere in the middle” of Android and iOS. Here’s what Google said to us a little while ago: The Android platform has spurred the development of hundreds of different types of devices. This latest device demonstrates the openness and flexibility that has made Android so popular. You’ll notice that the first thing that the company says is that there are “hundreds” of different types of devices running its mobile operating system. In the past, that’s been seen as a bad thing, due to fragmentation. Here, Google is clearly positioning this as an advantage, that is has more choices for consumers than say, Apple has. Secondly, “this latest device,” being the HTC First, which is pre-installed with Facebook Home, demonstrates flexibility. There’s that word again. Clearly, Google is firing a rocket at its competitor Apple, which is notoriously very stiff when it comes to customization. In Apple’s mind, its users don’t know what they want to see until it shows it to them. By letting a company like Facebook take over the first experience users have when they wake up their phone, they are giving away pretty much everything. Again, Google points this out as a competitive advantage. In an extended version of the statement to VentureBeat, Google made sure to pump up its own products at the same time: And it?s a win for users who want a customized Facebook experience from Google Play ? the heart of the Android ecosystem ? along with their favorite Google services like Gmail, Search, and Google Maps. In this added bit, Google makes sure to bring the attention back to its baked-in Android services, like search, email and maps. Is that Google getting a little bit jealous of all of the fuss over Facebook? Not at all. These companies are competitive in the sense that they’re both after eyeballs, but when it comes to social interactions, they couldn’t be more different. Forget the Google+ argument here; it wasn’t built to be a competitor to Facebook. Google owns search and email for

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Survivors angry over 'Pain & Gain' depiction

In this Monday, April 1, 2013 photo Marc Schiller speaks to the Associated Press at his office in Boca Raton, Fla. Schiller was kidnapped, tortured and left for dead by a South Florida gang in 1994. Schiller wrote about his experience in the book, "Pain and Gain: The Untold True Story." The kidnapping has been made into a movie starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. It is set to be released April 26th. (AP Photo/Suzette Laboy)

In this Monday, April 1, 2013 photo Marc Schiller speaks to the Associated Press at his office in Boca Raton, Fla. Schiller was kidnapped, tortured and left for dead by a South Florida gang in 1994. Schiller wrote about his experience in the book, "Pain and Gain: The Untold True Story." The kidnapping has been made into a movie starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. It is set to be released April 26th. (AP Photo/Suzette Laboy)

This book cover released by Marc Schiller shows the self published book, "Pain and Gain. The Untold True Story". Marc Schiller was abducted and tortured for a month by a South Florida gang in 1994. The gang also killed two people. The kidnapping has been made into a movie starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. It opens April 26th. (AP Photo/Marc Schiller)

In this undated photo made available by the Florida Department of Corrections, shows Daniel Lugo. Lugo and two others were part of the Sun Gym crew that abducted and tortured a man for a month and killed two others in Miami in 1994. Lugo was convicted and sent to death row. The kidnapping has been made into an action-comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. "Pain and Gain" opens on April 26th. (AP Photo/Florida Department of Correction)

In this undated photo made available by the Florida Department of Corrections, shows Adrian Doorbal. Doorbal and two others were part of the Sun Gym crew that abducted and tortured a man for a month and killed two others in Miami in 1994. Doorbal was convicted and sent to death row. The kidnapping has been made into an action-comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. "Pain and Gain" opens on April 26th. (AP Photo/Florida Department of Correction)

(AP) ? The real-life murder, torture and kidnapping case from South Florida that's behind the coming movie "Pain & Gain" indeed reads like a script ? just not a funny one.

The fact that the film, starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, is an action-comedy has angered survivors of the Sun Gym gang's crimes and those who investigated them nearly two decades ago.

"You are talking about real people. And in this particular case, especially when you're talking about the murder victims, these were innocent victims," said retired Miami-Dade Police Sgt. Felix Jimenez.

Zsuzsanna Griga told The Miami Herald that the movie's depiction of the gang as sympathetic bumblers just trying to get ahead is "ridiculous." Gang members murdered and dismembered her brother and his girlfriend.

"It's horrible what happened to them," said Griga, who lives in Hungary. She could not be reached by The Associated Press. "I don't want the American public to be sympathetic to the killers," she said.

The Paramount film, which opens April 26 and is directed by Michael Bay of "Transformers" and "Armageddon" fame, is adapted from a series of Miami New Times articles about a group of 1990s bodybuilders who hatched a brutal get-rich-quick kidnapping scheme that eventually escalated to murder. Paramount declined comment.

The New Times series told of mastermind Daniel Lugo, played by Wahlberg, his sadistic muscleman Noel Doorbal, played by Anthony Mackie, and Jorge Delgado, who is not portrayed in the movie, who were denizens of the Sun Gym, which was known for its hardcore bodybuilders. Johnson plays Paul Doyle, a fictional member of the crew.

Lugo, a charming conman who had served prison time for defrauding seniors, was the gym's manager. He hired Doorbal, a gym rat and steroids abuser, as a part-time employee and cut him in on a lucrative Medicare fraud scheme. Delgado, one of Lugo's clients at the gym, had once worked for Marc Schiller, a wealthy Miami businessman whom they targeted for kidnapping.

They attempted to abduct Schiller about half-dozen times, once disguised as ninjas (which the movie pokes fun at). They finally succeed, snatching Schiller in 1994 outside his deli. They kept him at Delgado's warehouse for a month and tortured him with lighters, a Taser, sleep deprivation and water boarding until he had his wife and children move to Colombia and he signed over his home, a life insurance policy and millions of dollars in investments. Schiller, who later pled guilty to Medicare fraud, said he had earned the stolen money honestly through an accounting practice and other investments and businesses.

The gang moved into his house and then tried to kill him. They forced him to get drunk, put him in a car and set it on fire. They then crashed it into a utility pole. When he staggered out, they ran him over with another car ? twice. Somehow, he survived.

Schiller, then 34, woke up in the hospital and told staff what had happened. He said they just went about their duties, so he contacted his attorney and hired a private investigator, Ed Du Bois. Numerous news reports over the years have said Schiller hired the investigator to get his money back; however, Schiller said he wanted the investigator to gather evidence that could be used to prosecute his kidnappers because "no was listening" to him.

Four months later, he sent Du Bois to the Miami-Dade police with the reams of evidence he had collected. Nothing happened.

Du Bois, who makes a cameo as a detective in the movie, gave the film company and director credit for making an adaption of the true story.

"If you read the original article, the basic elements are in the movie but there is a lot of Hollywood in that movie," he said.

In the movie, Schiller is renamed "Victor Kershaw." Played by Tony Shalhoub, who starred in TV's "Monk," Kershaw is described by Wahlberg's character as a criminal who deserves to have bad things happen to him. Surrounded by women in skimpy bikinis, he's seen in a pool while smoking a cigar.

That image, Schiller said, couldn't be further from the truth.

"It's not who I am," said Schiller, who now works in an accounting office. He says he was married and a homebody at the time of the kidnapping and never smoked cigars. "It's supposed to represent me but it doesn't."

The movie also gives some details about at least one killing that happened after Schiller's escape, although it is unclear how that is done. Paramount rejected an AP request to view the film in advance.

In reality, the gang targeted Frank Griga, a Hungarian immigrant who had gotten rich running a phone sex operation ? Doorbal's girlfriend knew him from the strip club where she worked. Under the pretense of proposing a business deal, the gang invited Griga and his girlfriend, Krisztina Furton, to dinner with the intent to kidnap them.

But Griga fought back and was beaten to death. Furton was killed with an overdose of horse tranquilizer. Their bodies were taken to the same warehouse where Schiller had been held and dismembered. The bodies were dumped and the parts were put into drums and buckets and then discarded around South Florida. (One movie trailer shows a small dog carrying a severed toe in its mouth around a posh home).

When Griga and Furton were reported missing, the investigation quickly focused on the Sun Gym gang. Delgado became a prosecution witness against Lugo and Doorbal, who were convicted of murder in 1998 and sentenced to death. They are awaiting execution. Delgado got 15 years. Others were also convicted for their roles.

Jimenez, the detective, was often assigned to show actors ? including Kevin Bacon ? what it was like to ride in a squad car. As they cruised, he would tell them about the Sun Gym case.

"Their response was: 'I know it's true. But you can't even make a movie out of it because nobody will believe that it was true.'"

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Ross apologizes for lyrics deemed pro-rape

FILE - This July 7, 2012 file photo shows rapper Rick Ross performing during the OpenAir music festival in Frauenfeld, Switzerland. Ross says critics have misinterpreted his recent lyrics on Rocko's ?U.O.E.N.O? after uproar from women's advocacy groups. Ross raps about giving a woman the drug MDNA, known as molly, and having his way with a woman in the song, ?and she ain't even know it.? Thought the song came out in January, the lyrics gained widespread notice last week when women's groups began to complain. Petitions were also issued, including one asking Reebok to withdraw its advertising agreement with Ross. The Miami-based rapper said in an interview on New Orleans' Q93.3 that ?There was a misunderstanding with the lyric, a misinterpretation.? He says the term rape was never used and it's not something condoned by him, his camp or hip-hop in general. (AP Photo/Keystone/Ennio Leanza, file)

FILE - This July 7, 2012 file photo shows rapper Rick Ross performing during the OpenAir music festival in Frauenfeld, Switzerland. Ross says critics have misinterpreted his recent lyrics on Rocko's ?U.O.E.N.O? after uproar from women's advocacy groups. Ross raps about giving a woman the drug MDNA, known as molly, and having his way with a woman in the song, ?and she ain't even know it.? Thought the song came out in January, the lyrics gained widespread notice last week when women's groups began to complain. Petitions were also issued, including one asking Reebok to withdraw its advertising agreement with Ross. The Miami-based rapper said in an interview on New Orleans' Q93.3 that ?There was a misunderstanding with the lyric, a misinterpretation.? He says the term rape was never used and it's not something condoned by him, his camp or hip-hop in general. (AP Photo/Keystone/Ennio Leanza, file)

FILE - This Sept. 29, 2012 file photo shows Rick Ross performing at the BET Hip-Hop Honors at Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center in Atlanta. Ross says critics have misinterpreted his recent lyrics on Rocko's ?U.O.E.N.O? after uproar from women's advocacy groups. Ross raps about giving a woman the drug MDNA, known as molly, and having his way with a woman in the song, ?and she ain't even know it.? Thought the song came out in January, the lyrics gained widespread notice last week when women's groups began to complain. Petitions were also issued, including one asking Reebok to withdraw its advertising agreement with Ross. The Miami-based rapper said in an interview on New Orleans' Q93.3 that ?There was a misunderstanding with the lyric, a misinterpretation.? He says the term rape was never used and it's not something condoned by him, his camp or hip-hop in general. (Photo by John Amis/Invision/AP, file)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Rick Ross has formally apologized for lyrics some have called pro-rape.

Thursday's apology ? in the form of a tweet ? came the same day a women's group, UltraViolet, planned a protest outside of one of his sponsors, Reebok, in Manhattan.

In Rocko's song "U.O.E.N.O," Ross raps about giving a woman the drug MDMA, known as Molly, and having his way with her. The song was released in January but just recently began getting widespread notice.

Although last week Ross said his lyrics were misinterpreted, he tweeted Thursday that he doesn't condone rape and apologized for lyrics that were "interpreted as rape."

He also offered "apologies to my many business partners, who would never promote violence against women," specifically mentioning Reebok and UltraViolet.

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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Green Pea galaxies could help astronomers understand early universe

Apr. 3, 2013 ? The rare Green Pea galaxies discovered by the general public in 2007 could help confirm astronomers' understanding of reionization, a pivotal stage in the evolution of the early universe, say University of Michigan researchers.

Reionization occurred a few hundred million years after the Big Bang as the first stars were turning on and forming the first galaxies. During this period, the space between the galaxies changed from an opaque, neutral fog to a transparent charged plasma, as it is today. Plasma is gas that's electrically charged.

As for how this happened, the prevailing theory holds that massive stars in the early galaxies produced an abundance of high-energy ultraviolet light that escaped into intergalactic space. There, the UV light interacted with the neutral hydrogen gas it met, blasting electrons off the hydrogen atoms and leaving behind a plasma of negatively charged electrons and positively charged hydrogen ions.

"We think this is what happened but when we looked at galaxies nearby, the high-energy radiation doesn't appear to make it out. There's been a push to find some galaxies that show signs of radiation escaping," said Anne Jaskot, a doctoral student in astronomy.

Jaskot and Sally Oey, an associate professor of astronomy in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, have found that the Green Peas could hold that evidence. Their findings are published in the current edition of the Astrophysical Journal.

"The Green Peas are compact, highly star-forming galaxies that are very similar to the early galaxies in the universe," Jaskot said. "Our analysis shows they may be leaking ionizing radiation."

The researchers focused on six of the most intensely star-forming Green Pea galaxies, which are between one billion and five billion light years away. They studied their emission lines as observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Emission lines show how light interacts with matter, and in this case, they helped the astronomers understand the relationship between the stars and gas in these galaxies.

The emission lines told Jaskot and Oey how much light the galaxies absorbed. Then, to determine how much light was there to start with, they ran models to estimate, for example, how old the galaxies are and how many stars they contain. The galaxies, the researchers determined, produced more radiation than the researchers detected, so they infer that some of it must have escaped.

"An analogy might be if you have a tablecloth and you spill something on it. If you see the cloth has been stained all the way to the edges, there's a good chance it also spilled onto the floor," Jaskot said. "We're looking at the gas like the tablecloth and seeing how much light it has absorbed. It has absorbed a lot of light. We're seeing that the galaxy is saturated with it and there's probably some extra that spilled off the edges."

Jaskot says the Green Peas are exciting candidates to help astronomers understand a major milestone in the development of the cosmos 13 billion years ago.

The paper is called "The Origin and Optical Depth of Ionizing Radiation in the 'Green Pea' Galaxies. The research is funded by the National Science Foundation.

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Parties carp as Italy's "wise men" seek end to political crisis

By Naomi O'Leary and Barry Moody

ROME (Reuters) - Italian President Giorgio Napolitano expressed despair on Tuesday at fierce criticism of his latest plan to end a post-election deadlock that has raised fears of months of instability in the euro zone's third largest economy.

Two groups of "wise men" appointed by Napolitano to try to forge a policy compromise between squabbling parties to end the impasse since the February 24-25 election started work on Tuesday. Napolitano said they would report back in 8-10 days.

The 87-year-old head of state reacted angrily to suggestions from the center-right of Silvio Berlusconi that his plan, which came after all other efforts to find a government failed, were a useless waste of time that the economy could ill afford.

"After seven years I am ending my mandate in a surreal way, finding myself the subject of absurd reactions, suspicions and incomprehensible paranoias, from the harmless to the unhinged," Napolitano was quoted as saying by Corriere della Sera daily.

Italy is deep in its longest recession for 20 years and although markets have so far remained relatively sanguine about the political deadlock, the economy desperately needs a stable government to unblock decades of sluggish growth.

There are also fears Italy's borrowing costs could rise dangerously if the impasse finally starts to spook investors.

Since the election, the parties have refused to budge at all from irreconcilable positions that "made one despair of the possibility of governing this country", Napolitano said.

Napolitano appointed the commissions after Democratic Party (PD) leader Pier Luigi Bersani failed to gather enough support for a center-left led government despite a week of efforts.

The president's own attempt to dislodge the parties from entrenched positions also faltered last Friday.

The election resulted in three main blocs, none of which has enough support in parliament to govern alone. The center-left holds a majority in the lower house but not in the Senate.

On Tuesday, they restated their positions, with Bersani ruling out a "grand coalition" with the center-right but saying an early election would be "disastrous" and calling on other parties to support a limited package of reforms.

For its part, Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PDL) party said Bersani was blocking agreement.

"Obviously if this stalemate continues because the PD is thinking more of their factional interests than of the nation, the only road possible is going to the polls in June," said PDL secretary Angelino Alfano.

TWO WORKING GROUPS

The two working groups, one of which will discuss social-economic reforms and the other institutional changes such as a new electoral law, include representatives of the main center-left and center-right blocs, the head of the national statistics agency, legal experts and a senior Bank of Italy official.

Berlusconi's center-right has been particularly harsh in its criticism of Napolitano's move - unusual in a country where the president is typically treated with great deference.

Bersani on Tuesday again rejected a governing coalition with Berlusconi and said new elections would not fix Italy's problems. He also said Berlusconi's attempts to pick the new president were "unacceptable".

Napolitano's wise men idea was also criticized by populist 5-Star Movement leader Beppe Grillo who called the experts "domestic carers for democracy".

"At the end of the day what is it? A fake coalition government ruled by the president? I have seen the names but my puzzlement remains," Grillo's Senate leader Vito Crimi said.

One of the experts, constitutional judge Valerio Onida, shot backo: "In this parliament they need babysitters more than carers."

The government-forming crisis is now inextricably bound up with a vote next month by both houses of parliament and regional representatives to replace Napolitano by May 15.

Berlusconi's PDL party fears that if no agreement is reached on a government then Bersani could ally with Grillo to appoint a new president hostile to the media magnate, who is seeking immunity from a string of legal cases.

The 76-year-old billionaire is facing an imminent verdict in a trial for paying for sex with an underage prostitute as well as in his appeal against a four-year tax fraud sentence and has large business interests to protect.

Respected political commentator Massimo Franco said fears over the presidential election would explain Berlusconi's pressure for the working groups to finish quickly.

"Above all he suspects a successive phase marked by a Quirinale (presidential palace) hostile to the PDL," Franco wrote in a column in Corriere della Sera.

Napolitano, who cannot call elections in the final months of his presidency, may also be trying to draw things out so that the key decisions are taken by his successor, insiders say.

Details of what the two commissions will propose have not been announced, but they are also likely to include cutting the cost of the bloated political system and reforms to unblock Italy's notoriously stagnant growth.

The key reform is changing the much maligned electoral law, which is a major cause of the current impasse, but politicians failed to agree on new rules despite repeated promises during the outgoing technocrat government of Mario Monti.

Another election with the same law could produce a similar impasse, experts say, but such a reform of the rules would be improbable by June.

One of the members of Napolitano's commissions, center-left Senator Filippo Bubbico, said they would also discuss easing painful tax hikes imposed by the outgoing technocrat government of Mario Monti. "We will work fast," he promised.

Anger over the economic pain imposed by Monti, particularly a hated housing tax, pushed many voters to support Grillo in the election, where his group won an unprecedented 25 percent.

(Editing by Philippa Fletcher and Will Waterman)

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Hubble sees J 900 masquerading as a double star

Apr. 2, 2013 ? A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows Jonckheere 900 or J 900, a planetary nebula -- glowing shells of ionized gas pushed out by a dying star. Discovered in the early 1900s by astronomer Robert Jonckheere, the dusty nebula is small but fairly bright, with a relatively evenly spread central region surrounded by soft wispy edges.

Despite the clarity of this Hubble image, the two objects in the picture above can be confusing for observers. J 900's nearby companion, a faint star in the constellation of Gemini, often causes problems for observers because it is so close to the nebula -- when observation conditions are bad, this star seems to merge into J 900, giving it an elongated appearance. Hubble's position above the Earth's atmosphere means that this is not an issue for the space telescope.

Astronomers have also mistakenly reported observations of a double star in place of these two objects, as the planetary nebula is quite small and compact.

J 900's central star is only just visible in this image, and is very faint -- fainter than the nebula's neighbor. The nebula appears to display a bipolar structure, where there are two distinct lobes of material emanating from its center, enclosed by a bright oval disk.

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