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By Satyama Lasby ? December 1st, 2012 ? 851 Views

Retreat From What?

More and more, people are seeking a longer, perhaps deeper experience away from their everyday. A retreat in nature, over a weekend, a week or even a month can truly alter one?s level of understanding into consciousness.? It provides so much more than a singular yoga class or instructional workshop on meditation or other topic in spirituality. When someone makes a commitment to take a deeper look into themselves, it is a sure indication that they are on the road to self-improvement.? This journey is of course, lifelong.

Those with regular jobs may go down the path to betterment by attending classes ? fitness, yoga, dance, and they do this in between working hours.? Attendance in a class is often an indication that the person is attempting to become better, lose weight, get more flexible, or whatever the reason.

When the decision to attend a retreat is made, you know that the reach has gone one step further. A yoga retreat can open a person up to more subtle changes than just the physical body.? Multiple teachings over time, in a setting away from one?s home can intensify energetic or emotional?experiences.? Retreats?can?hold?certain surprises for those choosing to partake ? and they can happen with simple?and profound interaction between people on the retreat. You have to make the decision to be open to the magic, and let it take you on a different journey.

?A yoga retreat, for example, draws people with similar interests in the study of yoga asana. With proper intention, a retreat can also open the doors of awareness to assisting one in becoming more aware of ?how you interact with others.

Are you impeccable with your word? Are you proficient? Focused? Do you attract what you want in your life easily? If these questions speak to you, a retreat in self-development of any kind may be in order this year, not only for enjoyment, but also for deepening our understanding on how this wonderful universe works on a karmic and energetic level.

If there seems to be some break in ?ease? in your life, you may want to consider a retreat. Why?

1. It allows for the natural rhythms of nature to align your body energetically ? fresh air, clean lakes,?and deep rest

2. You get away from your everyday, be that your partner, your kids, your work, or something?that may be...

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Federal Judge blocks Xbox ban, grants motion to dismiss Motorola request for injunctive relief

Motorola's hopes of enforcing a German-won sales injunction against the Xbox 360, Windows 7 and other products have yet again been dashed -- a Federal judge has taken Microsoft's side. Judge James L. Robart granted a motion declaring that Motorola Mobility isn't entitled to injunctive relief, effectively blocking bans based on the firm's H.264 streaming and (previously dropped) WiFi patent complaints. The court had been sitting on the motion for nearly a year, but for Microsoft, the final word is worth the wait: Motorola "has not shown it has suffered an irreparable injury or that remedies available at law are inadequate to compensate for its injury," the court said, noting that Microsoft "will pay royalties under any license agreement from the time of infringement within the statute of limitations." Basically, Motorola will recoup all the scratch it's complaining it lost anyway, so no harm, no foul. Just a giant legal headache.

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Editors' Neighborhood Guides | New York - DailyCandy

Believe it or not, we don?t live at DailyCandy headquarters. Here?s how five of our editors kick off the weekend.

Crown Heights/Prospect Heights
Tiffany Davis, Everywhere editor
Warm-Up: With the front burger joint, back beer garden, firehouse bar space, and casual cocktail bar, happy hour standard Franklin Park is four stops in one.
Main Course: Teensy Jamaican dining attic De Islands is the curry-est, coziest way to fake a Caribbean sojourn. It?s BYOB, so visit boutique wine seller Wino(t) beforehand.
Next Level: Cocktails at The Crown Inn and a midnight (second) dinner of bulgogi on rye and house-brined pickle pots from Black Tree sandwich shop tucked in back.

Cobble Hill
Lauren Berger, senior editor
Warm-Up: Score a picnic table at 61 Local for hyperlocal brews and shared honey ricotta toast with pistachio dust. Make a mental note to return in the a.m. for cinnamon tea and Bien Cuit pastries.
Main Course: Follow the brownstone lights all the way to Spanish tapas joint La Vara. Only have time for a quickie? Hanco?s classic pork banh mi is a steal at $6.
Next Level: The snug Sample (152 Smith St.; 718-643-6622) eases up once (a worthy) happy hour ends. Dessert nuts should know The Chocolate Room?s best-kept secret is a cup of mint chip ice cream.

Fort Greene
Jay Blades, managing editor
Warm-Up: Put your name in at tiny newbie Lulu & Po then walk two blocks south to Walter?s. Sit at the bar; order a Diablo and a dozen oysters (or spoil your appetite with artichoke dip and steamed duck buns).
Main Course: Lulu & Po plays into the whole local, seasonal, small-plates shtick, but you can?t knock deep-fried anchovies, bone marrow tacos, or hearty house-brined pork chop with seasonal chutney.
Next Level: Dick & Jane?s may look like your typical speakeasy (unmarked door, tin ceiling), but it?s surprisingly unpretentious. It?s the only area bar that can make a Penicillin (blended Scotch, ginger, honey, and lemon), though rumor has it the other drinks are quite tasty.

Park Slope
Emily Warman, social media editor
Warm-Up: Half-price wine and apps (try the fried lamb and sage sausage) make for a very happy hour at Terroir. You?re supposed to get free sherry, so ask for it.
Main Course: If you?re balling, Al Di L? or Talde. If you?re thrifty, Peruvian joint Coco Roco for the $14 roast chicken (it feeds three).
Next Level: Check The Bell House show schedule or get down at Blueprint with Smoky Mary?s (chipotle tequila, lime, agave). For better or worse, swing by Pork Slope and/or High Dive for a nightcap.

West Village
Jordan Blumberg, New York editor
Warm-Up: Powwow about forthcoming antics and stain your lips red at Aria Wine Bar. Or shuck it and fill up on oysters and a split plate of lobster spaghetti at Jeffrey?s.
Main Course: Get on the list at Red Farm; temper the wait next door at Swine; return and inhale dumplings on dumplings on whatever special is happening.
Next Level: Channel competitive energy with beer pong and a Britney sound track at Pieces Bar. It?s cash only, but beer is cheap and there?s an ATM that dispenses nothing but $10 bills.

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Jessica Simpson was spotted with fianc? Eric Johnson at the Los Angeles International Airport Thursday with daughter Maxwell Drew in tow.

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The End of Pens

Julia Turner, pen in hand.

Juliana Jim?nez Jaramillo for Slate.

The answer is less obvious than you might think. Sure, you are familiar with your own scrawled to-do lists, or the brief missives you leave on the kitchen counter for houseguests or your spouse. Perhaps you take notes by hand in meetings (though if you?re like me you consult them only sporadically after the fact). But when was the last time you filled a page of foolscap?or Mead college rule, for those of us who?ve never been quite sure what foolscap is?with lines and lines of unbroken lettering, trying to express an argument or make a developed point? When was the last time you used pen and ink for writing, and not just for jotting?

The Missing Ink, from British novelist Philip Hensher, makes the case that it has probably been too long. Subtitled ?The Lost Art of Handwriting,? the book is an ode to a dying form: part lament, part obituary, part sentimental rallying cry. In an age of texting and notes tapped straight into tablets, we are rapidly losing the art and skill it takes to swiftly write, with a pen, a sentence that is both intelligible and attractive. The time devoted to teaching handwriting in elementary schools around the globe has dwindled. Hensher opens his book with the plaintive question: ?Should we even care? Should we accept that handwriting is a skill whose time has now passed? Or does it carry with it a value that can never truly be superseded by the typed word??

Hensher has a dog in the fight. He makes reference throughout the text to various chapters that he has drafted in longhand?a process unfathomable to someone who is tapping out these lines in the Notes app on her iPhone at 4:58 in the morning. (That?s one advantage to our modern means of scrivening?you can do it at night in the dark without getting out of bed or waking your husband.) But Hensher is a man whose friends compliment him on his distinctive handwriting (and who reproduces perhaps a few more of these compliments in the book than is strictly necessary). Hensher is a man who composes on paper and has a preferred brand?and nib!?of fountain pen. In other words, he is quite unlike most modern humans.

Still, I share Hensher?s concern about the ?lost art of handwriting.? When I examine my own crabbed scrawl, I?m struck by the idea that I can no longer be said to have any particular sort of handwriting, anymore. Here?s what it looks like, these days:

When I review the 42 notebooks I have filled in my years working at Slate, they look like diaries of a madwoman?a jumble of styles and ink types with very little consistency. This is particularly troubling given Hensher?s emphasis on the notion that our writing is, on some level, an expression of ourselves. He is most eloquent?and his novelist?s eye for detail most keen?when discussing the self-consciousness with which young people learn to write, and to develop a style of their own. He recalls a certain Paul im Thurn whose distinctive italic style impressed him at university, and how he developed ?violent downward verticals.? He writes of adolescent experimenters who amended their penmanship ?sometimes as a response to an impressive master at school, sometimes independently, in their spare time at their desk in their bedroom, just wanting to be as elegant as possible.?

The Missing Ink has an amusing chapter on handwriting analysis?that bogus pastime?and is full of interesting observations and arcana. Hensher notes in his introduction that he cannot recognize the penmanship of his closest friends; never having seen their handwriting in the wild, he simply doesn?t know what it looks like. It?s a startling truth about modern life: I asked 15 colleagues, many of whom I?ve worked with for years, to put the sentence ?The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog? on paper, and I was able to match only two of the samples to their owners. (Hensher also reveals that the British have many more interesting pangrams?or sentences featuring every letter of the alphabet?than we do, among them: ?Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex!,? ?Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes,? and ?TV quiz jock, Mr Ph.D., bags few lynx.?)

But what Hensher?s book continually emphasizes is how brief and ill-starred the history of handwriting has been. Although a fuller account is available in Kitty Burns Florey?s Script & Scribble (and if you?re thinking of buying a book of handwriting nostalgia this holiday season for the pen freak in your life, Florey?s is the one to get?it?s just as charming and much more informative, full of usefully placed examples and illustrations), Hensher gets the basics down. Before the industrial revolution, handwriting was the province of the elite; with the rise in the 19^th century of commerce and clerks and an office-inhabiting worker class came schools of penmanship designed to ?get things done neatly, get them done quickly, and get things done correctly.? The first of these, Spencerian copperplate, was modeled on engraving and was thought?like so many things during that period?to engender moral uplift. It did so, per its proponents, by leading the untoward and unwashed to contemplate pleasing forms ?such as a nice rounded o.? (?If I were a Victorian urchin,? Hensher notes, such sentiments ?would persuade me to stay in the gin shop for the rest of my life, making rude marks on the billiard board with a crayon clutched in my fist.?)

After copperplate came a few other schools, notably Vere Foster?s ?civil service hand? in the United Kingdom, and Palmer cursive in the United States. The Palmer method, which is almost certainly responsible for the way your grandmother wrote on your birthday cards, seems today to be full of superfluous curlicues, but it was actually designed, we learn, with speed and physicality in mind. A.N. Palmer, its progenitor, was an advocate of ?whole arm movement??a way of creating letterforms from your shoulder, rather than just the hand and wrist?which he thought helped people write with greater speed for longer periods, without cramping up.

Although these historical tidbits are fascinating?the chapter on the absurdly indecipherable script prevalent in Germany before Hitler banned it helps demonstrate how arbitrary and cultural our writing conventions are?they have one point in common. Every innovation in handwriting was designed to improve the speed and legibility of human communication. And here is where Hensher?s quixotic defense of the hand stumbles. For what is faster and clearer than typing? Weren?t you slightly relieved when the handwritten paragraphs in this review came to an end, leaving you on the sturdy shores of a new thought expressed in Microsoft Verdana? Isn?t it easier to catch my meaning, to pay attention, when you are staring at a nice clean block of type?

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N. Korea rocket preparations might be a bluff

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? Rocket sections are apparently being trucked into North Korea's northwest launch site, but some analysts are asking whether it's just a calculated bluff meant to jangle the Obama administration and influence South Korean voters ahead of presidential elections in three weeks.

There are questions about whether North Korean scientists have corrected whatever caused the embarrassing crackup of its last rocket shortly after liftoff in April, and whether Pyongyang is willing to risk another failure ? along with U.N. condemnation and more sanctions.

"It's possible, of course, that Pyongyang knows its preparations will be seen and discussed in the West, and they are intended to be a signal rather than signs of an imminent launch," David Wright, a physicist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, wrote on the organization's website this week. "Preparing for a launch less than a year after a failure calls into question whether the North could have analyzed and fixed whatever went wrong."

Before its last two launches, North Korea notified international organizations of its plans to send a satellite into orbit aboard a rocket. Neither the International Maritime Organization nor the International Civil Aviation Organization has responded to requests from The Associated Press for information. But South Korea and analysts say North Korea has yet to provide such notification, something that usually happens weeks in advance.

Even if a launch never comes, the mere preparations could be an attempt to influence the Dec. 19 presidential election in rival South Korea and raise Pyongyang on President Barack Obama's list of foreign policy priorities as he prepares to be inaugurated for his second term in January.

North Korea has repeatedly tried to interfere with South Korean elections, according to government officials and analysts, and there's speculation that Pyongyang's rocket work could be an attempt to raise worries as campaigning heats up.

North Korea presumably prefers the liberal candidate, Moon Jae-in, the argument goes. Another provocation, or simply heightened tensions, could be seen by voters as evidence of a failed North Korea policy by the current conservative leader in Seoul.

Both Moon and the conservative contender, Park Geun-hye, have signaled a softening on North Korea policy. But Moon has suggested a return to an accommodating policy of engagement and aid for Pyongyang that has been missing during the five years of President Lee Myung-bak's rule, which ends in February when his single term expires.

"If indeed a new satellite launch is North Korea's next provocation, it will be an early test of South Korean candidate commitments to reopen dialogue with the North," Scott Snyder, senior fellow for Korea studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote this week.

Pyongyang could also be trying to send a message to Obama following his re-election. Pyongyang has previously staged what Washington and Seoul consider provocations around elections in both the United States and South Korea. North Korea conducted a rocket and nuclear test within months of Obama taking office in early 2009.

Washington worries about North Korean launches because long-range rocket technology can be easily converted into use for missiles that could target the United States.

Analysis of recent satellite images written for 38 North, the website for the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, suggests Pyongyang could be ready to launch a three-stage rocket by the end of the first week in December.

The timing of the preparations has some analysts expecting a launch.

North Korea's April rocket firing came during celebrations of the centennial of the birth of national founder Kim Il Sung, current leader Kim Jong Un's grandfather. Pyongyang has declared 2012 a crucial year for its scientific and economic development, and there has been speculation that it could do something extraordinary to mark its conclusion.

Dec. 17 also marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Kim Jong Un's father, Kim Jong Il.

Because North Korea's missile and nuclear programs aren't transparent, said Daniel Pinkston, a North Korea analyst at the International Crisis Group, outsiders cannot determine what went wrong with the April test and what scientists are doing to address the problem.

Any launch attempt raises the specter of failure, Pinkston said, but "they call it rocket science because ... it's hard. Everyone makes mistakes ... but every time you test, you get to go back and work on those problems and fix them."

Baek Seung-joo, an analyst at the state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in South Korea, said past failure could actually be a spur to try again.

"North Korea needs to redeem its embarrassing rocket failure in April," he said.

___

AP writer Sam Kim contributed to this report from Seoul.

Associated Press

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