Self improvement is one of those wishy washy topics you probably believe, particularly if you consider yourself a serious business professional, you should avoid. The truth is that the same helpful tips that help you in a personal capacity can help you in a professional capacity. There is so much more to self improvement than emotions. You?ll earn money with it too. How do self improvement methods help you earn a living? The truth is that they are quite useful in building a better business for yourself? Keep reading to find out!
Delegation is a skill you must learn. Stress and anxiety is what you will suffer if you try to handle every little task on your own. You want to make sure things get done according to your vision. However, that?s doesn?t mean that you are the only one who can do the job. Delegating will help complete two objectives. It sends a signal to everyone, including yourself, that you trust your team and the people you work with to help with your projects. This will make you rise in their consideration, especially when you inform them of your appreciation that they took on the job. It will also give you more time to spend working on more essential things. You will be able to meet more of your goals through this approach and that will improve your self-esteem. Both your business and professional life will benefit from all these things.
Positive visualization ? ever hear of it? This is where, before you have to do something that intimidates you or worries you, you take a moment to imagine it going well. When you do this, your business performance can accelerate to higher levels. You want to also experience the emotions that you would feel if this were to go your way. Once you visualize the event happening the way you want it to, you will have confidence when you go to actually do this. Accomplishing or succeeding at what you want to do can happen when you visualize it before it happens. Even though this may seem a little new age, it is certainly a tip that works, and is one of the best business strategies that you can use today.
Try to work on your stubbornness. There may be a strict, direct path you?ve mapped out to reach your goals. What if the path you?ve decided to follow is no longer effective? Instead of being stubborn and insisting on sticking to the same idea, allow yourself to change techniques and try something new. What?s the worst case scenario? That it won?t be effective? There are plenty of other strategies you can adopt and try out. It takes time to develop flexibility. However, keep in mind that being flexible doesn?t mean being weak or not caring. It merely means that you are prepared to do anything it takes to fulfill your objectives. This will have benefits for your business. You shouldn?t just use self improvement in your personal life. It is quite useful to the professional side of your life too. This is just the start of the many ways self improvement can be implemented into your business. As you work, you?ll find others.
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The Reks ? Ross Thorpe and Jay Abercrombie ? are trying to get a head start in the music industry with a heavy YouTube presence.
Max Fleet
IN A city dominated by pub rock acts, two young, aspiring Bundaberg hip-hop artists have turned to another means to get their work noticed.
Avoca-based The Reks has spent the past year making its own music videos and uploading them to YouTube in an effort to create some buzz.
At just 21, rapper Jay Abercrombie, or MC GZup, and beatboxer Ross Thorpe have been together for about six years after they discovered they had a mutual love of hip-hop and rap at the end of school.
Since getting together the pair have played shows together in Bundaberg, the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane and Sydney.
But it's been YouTube where they have been finding their niche.
With just 17 videos on the site, the band has more than 150 subscribers and more than 22,000 views of their work.
"We believe that if you don't get signed you can do it yourself if you have a big enough backing," Abercrombie said.
"We will keep going with what we do to try and build that base up."
They are planning to use the video website to help them break into the unforgiving industry.
"In 2012 we have released seven film clips and plan to release more," Abercrombie said.
"We are getting about 100 views a week."
But being an urban duo in Bundaberg has definitely posed a challenge for the pair.
"There is so much rock," Abercrombie said.
"When you do get the opportunity to play, you take it."
But there was never any question about what type of music the two would play.
"Basically what I'm feeling in life I can explain by rapping," he said.
"Lyrically rap is really powerful."
Abercrombie said he had long been a fan of rap music but it was mostly Australian rap that inspired him now.
"We did both start out listening to American bands but it's the Australian stuff which means more to us," he said.
Abercrombie listed bands such as 360 and the Hilltop Hoods as among his favourites.
Earlier this week, Lambda Legal and the ACLU of Illinois filed separate lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the Illinois law that denies gay men and women the right to marry. There is little doubt among constitutional experts that the challenged law is unconstitutional. The central question is whether our Illinois judges will have the courage to say so.
More than most Americans today realize, throughout much of our history gay men and women have been branded as criminals, sexual psychopaths and perverts. They have been imprisoned, beaten, sterilized, ostracized, castrated, psychoanalyzed, and publicly humiliated. They have been compelled to hide an essential facet of their nature, to deny who they are, and to pretend to be what they are not. They have been shadowed by fear, fired from jobs, shunned by family members and friends, and forced to live lives of shame. The history of our nation's treatment of gay men and women is a national tragedy.
Over the past forty years, however, we have made remarkable progress. As gays and lesbians have tentatively but courageously revealed themselves to friends and family, the views of most Americans have gradually changed. Most Americans have come to realize that gay men and women are not creepy degenerates, but people "just like us." We have discovered, often to our surprise, that they are our sons and daughters, our brothers and sisters, our neighbors and friends. With that knowledge has come greater tolerance and understanding. For most Americans, it has been an extraordinary journey of enlightened thinking and moral progress.
But we still have a way to go. The most important remaining remnant of an era now largely behind us is the continuing denial to gay men and women of the freedom to marry. This is not a mere technicality, as some would have us believe, but a grievous insult to the dignity of good and decent people and to the inherent worth of their loving commitments to one another. Indeed, from a moral and legal perspective, the refusal to recognize gay and lesbian marriage today is no more defensible than the refusal to recognize interracial marriage fifty years ago.
In an editorial on May 14, the Chicago Tribune applauded both the shift in American public opinion on this issue and President Obama's public declaration that he supports same-sex marriage. The Tribune went even further and endorsed legislation in Illinois that would recognize the right of gay men and women to marry. At the same time, though, the Tribune cautioned that courts should stay out of this matter and should "defer to the voters and their elected representatives." This is flat-out wrong.
Courts have a fundamental responsibility to enforce the Constitution. It is not their job to make political judgments about whether it would be good or bad policy for them to hold an unconstitutional law unconstitutional. If they conclude that a law is unconstitutional, then it is their duty to say so and to declare the law null and void. They have no legal authority to deprive individual citizens of their fundamental constitutional rights until "the voters" decide to grant those rights on their own. Such an approach is incompatible with the very idea of constitutional freedoms.
Before any state legislature voted to enact same-sex marriage, five state supreme courts (Hawaii, Massachusetts, Connecticut, California, and Iowa) first had to hold the denial of marriage equality unconstitutional. As in so many areas of individual liberty, it took courts to lead the way. Without the constitutional foundation and legal momentum generated by those judicial decisions, it is doubtful that any state legislature would have had the courage to take on this issue. It is the very independence of courts from the electoral process that gives them the authority and responsibility to protect rights otherwise denied by "the voters."
To wait on the outcome of the electoral process to protect the constitutional rights of a group that has for so long been demonized in our society would be especially problematic. Although opinion polls show that a majority of Americans now support same-sex marriage, that is no guarantee that reform will come through the electoral process. As we have seen repeatedly in state-wide referenda on this issue, single-issue, single-minded voters, well-funded by religious organizations and driven by religious fervor, can effectively block the will of the majority. In our constitutional system, this is precisely when courts must intervene.
This situation is not dissimilar to that facing the United States Supreme Court in 1967 when it held in Loving v. Virginia that marriage is a fundamental right and that state anti-miscegenation laws prohibiting marriage across the color line violate the constitutional guarantee of "equal protection of the laws." The justices unanimously understood that they could not legitimately "defer to the voters" and hold off reaching the correct constitutional decision while the nation waited for those who feared and despised interracial marriage to catch up with the Constitution. The same is true here and now.
In addressing the fundamental constitutional issues posed by these lawsuits, our Illinois judges - like the judges in Hawaii, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa and California - must not "defer" to the vagaries of the political process. If they conclude that it is unconstitutional for the state of Illinois to deny its gay and lesbian citizens the freedom to marry, then it is their constitutional responsibility to so rule. I predict that they will. It will be a proud day for Illinois.
This appeared in the Chicago Tribune on May 31, 2012.
Bias found in state supreme courts, according to UGA studyPublic release date: 31-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Robert K. Christensen rc@uga.edu 706-542-2884 University of Georgia
Athens, Ga. The assignment to write a court's majority opinion is one of the major tools for shaping judicial and, consequently, public policy. Researchers at the University of Georgia, along with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, recently examined factors that might influence such an assignment. Based on data from all 50 states, the study reveals that judges' race, gender and other status-based characteristics influence the majority opinion assignment in many state supreme courts.
"This shows how powerful race and gender status cues can be in our daily and workplace decisions, even among our policy elite judges that we assume know better because of their close association with the law and equal protection," said Robert Christensen, an assistant professor of public administration and policy with the UGA School of Public and International Affairs.
Christensen worked with fellow UGA professor Justin Stritch and UNC Charlotte professor John Szmer to examine the use of random-, rotation- and discretion-based administrative processes. The data used for the study were found in the State Supreme County Data Project, which collected decisions from all 50 state supreme courts from 1995-1998. The information also included biographical information for more than 400 justices.
The study discovered that black judges were systematically under assigned the writing of the majority opinion in states using random- and discretion-based assignment processes. Christensen, Szmer and Stritch found that black male judges were 4 percent less likely to be assigned the average case than white male judges in discretion-based states, and 2 percent less likely in states with random assignment. However, when random-based courts assigned high-profile cases, black male judges were 43 percent less likely than their white male colleagues to receive these assignments.
In general, white female judges received significantly fewer assignments in random-based states but disproportionately more assignments, 2.4 percent more than white male judges, in discretion-based states. However, the over-assignment disappeared when discretion-based courts assigned high-profile cases.
Significantly, Christensen and his co-authors did not find evidence of race or gender bias in state supreme courts using rotation-based assignments.
"This study shows that rules are not self-enforcing," Christensen said. "There needs to be monitoring if we expect rules to work well. The rotation of opinion assignment allowed just thateasy monitoring of a rule to assign opinion writing equally. The random assignment rule made it difficult to monitor who was really being bypassed."
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The results from the study were published online May 23 and will appear in the print issue of Oxford Press's Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. For the full journal article, see http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/05/22/jopart.mus020.full?keytype=ref&ijkey=o69OxqZy2GssCeV.
States with a discretion assignment rule are Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wyoming. Those states randomly assigning opinion writing are Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. The remaining states use a rotation-based assignment process and are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont and West Virginia.
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Bias found in state supreme courts, according to UGA studyPublic release date: 31-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Robert K. Christensen rc@uga.edu 706-542-2884 University of Georgia
Athens, Ga. The assignment to write a court's majority opinion is one of the major tools for shaping judicial and, consequently, public policy. Researchers at the University of Georgia, along with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, recently examined factors that might influence such an assignment. Based on data from all 50 states, the study reveals that judges' race, gender and other status-based characteristics influence the majority opinion assignment in many state supreme courts.
"This shows how powerful race and gender status cues can be in our daily and workplace decisions, even among our policy elite judges that we assume know better because of their close association with the law and equal protection," said Robert Christensen, an assistant professor of public administration and policy with the UGA School of Public and International Affairs.
Christensen worked with fellow UGA professor Justin Stritch and UNC Charlotte professor John Szmer to examine the use of random-, rotation- and discretion-based administrative processes. The data used for the study were found in the State Supreme County Data Project, which collected decisions from all 50 state supreme courts from 1995-1998. The information also included biographical information for more than 400 justices.
The study discovered that black judges were systematically under assigned the writing of the majority opinion in states using random- and discretion-based assignment processes. Christensen, Szmer and Stritch found that black male judges were 4 percent less likely to be assigned the average case than white male judges in discretion-based states, and 2 percent less likely in states with random assignment. However, when random-based courts assigned high-profile cases, black male judges were 43 percent less likely than their white male colleagues to receive these assignments.
In general, white female judges received significantly fewer assignments in random-based states but disproportionately more assignments, 2.4 percent more than white male judges, in discretion-based states. However, the over-assignment disappeared when discretion-based courts assigned high-profile cases.
Significantly, Christensen and his co-authors did not find evidence of race or gender bias in state supreme courts using rotation-based assignments.
"This study shows that rules are not self-enforcing," Christensen said. "There needs to be monitoring if we expect rules to work well. The rotation of opinion assignment allowed just thateasy monitoring of a rule to assign opinion writing equally. The random assignment rule made it difficult to monitor who was really being bypassed."
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The results from the study were published online May 23 and will appear in the print issue of Oxford Press's Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. For the full journal article, see http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/05/22/jopart.mus020.full?keytype=ref&ijkey=o69OxqZy2GssCeV.
States with a discretion assignment rule are Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wyoming. Those states randomly assigning opinion writing are Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. The remaining states use a rotation-based assignment process and are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont and West Virginia.
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LONDON (AP) ? Iran and other Middle East countries have been hit with a cunning computer virus that can eavesdrop on computer users and their co-workers and filch information from nearby cellphones, cybersecurity experts said Tuesday. And suspicion immediately fell on Israel as the culprit.
The Russian Internet security firm Kaspersky Lab ZAO said the "Flame" virus is unprecedented in size and complexity, with researcher Roel Schouwenberg marveling at its versatility.
"It can be used to spy on everything that a user is doing," he said.
Computers in Iran appear to have been particularly affected, and Kaspersky's conclusion that the virus was crafted at the behest of a national government fueled speculation it could be part of an Israeli-backed campaign of electronic sabotage against the Jewish state's archenemy.
The virus can activate a computer's audio systems to listen in on Skype calls or office chatter. It can also take screenshots, log keystrokes and ? in one of its more novel functions? steal data from Bluetooth-enabled cellphones.
Schouwenberg said there is evidence to suggest that the people behind Flame also helped craft Stuxnet, a virus that is believed to have attacked nuclear centrifuges in Iran in 2010. Many suspect Stuxnet was the work of Israeli intelligence.
Tehran has not said whether it lost any data to Flame, but a unit of the Iranian communications and information technology ministry said it has produced an anti-virus capable of identifying and removing Flame from its computers.
Israel's vice premier did little to deflect suspicion about the country's possible involvement in the cyberattack.
"Whoever sees the Iranian threat as a significant threat is likely to take various steps, including these, to hobble it," Moshe Yaalon told Army Radio when asked about Flame. "Israel is blessed with high technology, and we boast tools that open all sorts of opportunities for us."
Researchers not involved in Flame's discovery were more skeptical of its sophistication than Kaspersky, with Richard Bejtlich of Virginia-based Mandiant saying the virus appeared similar to spyware used by the German government to monitor criminal suspects.
"There have been tools like this employed by high-end teams for many years," he said.
Colorado-based Webroot said the virus wasn't as complex or as stealthy as Stuxnet and was "a relatively easy threat to identify."
Flame is unusually large. Malicious programs collected by the British security firm Sophos averaged about 340 kilobytes in 2010, the same year that Kaspersky believes Flame first started spreading. Flame is 20 megabytes ? nearly 60 times that figure.
Alan Woodward, a professor of computing at the University of Surrey in England, said functions can be added or subtracted to the virus depending on what kind of espionage is desired, not unlike the way apps can be downloaded to a smartphone.
He was particularly struck by Flame's ability to turn an infected computer into a kind of "industrial vacuum cleaner," copying data from vulnerable cellphones or other Bluetooth wireless devices left near it.
"I don't believe I've seen it before," he said.
Udi Mokady, chief executive of Cyber-Ark, an Israeli developer of information security, said he believes four countries, in no particular order, have the know-how to develop so sophisticated a weapon: Israel, the U.S., China and Russia.
"It was 20 times more sophisticated than Stuxnet," with thousands of lines of code that took a large team, ample funding and months, if not years, to develop, he said. "It's a live program that communicates back to its master. It asks, 'Where should I go? What should I do now?' It's really almost like a science fiction movie."
It's not clear exactly what the virus was targeting. Kaspersky said it detected the program in hundreds of computers, mainly in Iran but also in Israel, the Palestinian territories, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
The company would not give details on the victims except to say that they "range from individuals to certain state-related organizations or educational institutions."
Schouwenberg said stolen data was being sent to some 80 different servers, something that would give the virus' controllers time to adjust their tactics if they were discovered.
As for Flame's purpose, "maybe it's just espionage," he said. "Maybe it's also sabotage."
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Teibel reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writers Diaa Hadid in Jerusalem and Lolita Baldor in Washington also contributed to this report.
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When your inevitable day comes, your surviving loved ones will grieve for you. Each of them will deal with the loss of you in their own unique way. There will be days, months and years often filled with emotion and conflicts among and between your surviving loved ones. Unfortunately, this can often lead to family battles over personal belongings and other similar inheritance conflicts. Any planning that can be implemented today to alleviate such pain to your surviving loved ones must be considered by you.
Greed and pettiness appear at first blush to be the cause of most inheritance conflicts. However, a closer examination of inheritance conflicts reveals that they are actually signs of the survivors? deep desire to feel connected and important to you. Studies have found that the battles for dad?s watch or mom?s wedding ring are not just about the material items, but rather what these items symbolize to surviving loved ones, i.e., how important they were to you and how much you loved them.
When families fight about inheritance, money and greed are rarely the cause of the conflict. Most of the time, the source of the conflict can be traced back for years, even back to childhood. As an elder in your family, you probably already know what conflicts exist among your loved ones. The last thing that you would ever want to leave for your surviving loved ones is additional fuel for any existing ongoing conflicts.
Unless you elect to be proactive, upon your death your loved ones could be entrenched in a long inheritance conflict lasting for years and costing thousands of dollars. However, with careful planning, you can avoid the inheritance conflicts among your loved ones. After all, the reason why you plan for your death is not for you, but for those whom you love the most.
This is why you need to seek the advice of a Personal Family Lawyer? on what is fair and customary. We use our legal training and knowledge to document your wishes while being sensitive to the needs of those left behind. You should consider mending fences while your loved ones are still alive, and implement estate planning that leaves a legacy of love ? not of conflicts. We can assist you in these goals and protect your loved ones from predators within and without the family who are most likely to manipulate and abuse your surviving loved ones. In short, we can make a difference.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? A class-action settlement agreement has been reached to resolve nearly all the remaining court claims over allegations that government-issued trailers exposed Gulf Coast residents to hazardous fumes after Hurricane Katrina, a lead plaintiffs' attorney said Monday.
In a court filing late Monday, plaintiffs' lawyers and several companies that manufactured FEMA trailers after the 2005 storm asked U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt to approve an expanded version of a multimillion-dollar deal initially announced in April.
A separate agreement with four FEMA contractors that installed or refurbished trailers will be filed Tuesday, lead plaintiffs' attorney Gerald Meunier told The Associated Press.
Nearly two dozen FEMA trailer makers agreed last month to pay a total of $14.8 million to resolve claims over elevated formaldehyde levels in FEMA trailers following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Monday's expanded settlement agreement includes claims against trailer manufacturers Gulf Stream Coach Inc., Forest River Inc., Jayco Inc. and Monaco Coach Corp. Representatives of the four companies didn't immediately respond to emails seeking comment.
FEMA contractors Shaw Environmental Inc., Bechtel Corp., Fluor Enterprises Inc. and CH2M Hill Constructors Inc. also have reached agreements with the plaintiffs' lawyers, according to Meunier.
The amount of money that would be paid by each of the eight companies wasn't immediately disclosed.
Residents of Louisiana, Texas, Alabama and Mississippi who lived in FEMA trailers after the 2005 hurricanes are eligible to participate.
Engelhardt is expected to hold a fairness hearing on the proposed settlement on Sept. 27. If he approves the deal, a group of Texas residents' claims against the Federal Emergency Management Agency would be the only formaldehyde-related claims that haven't been settled or dismissed by the judge, Meunier said.
Meunier estimates that roughly 60,000 plaintiffs could benefit from the entire settlement. He said the deal is a "positive development" for residents even if the amount of compensation is lower than many had anticipated when the case started nearly five years ago.
"But I think the outcome here reflects the realities of the case," Meunier said.
Meunier said the plaintiffs' lawyers tested a sample of FEMA trailers but couldn't test every unit occupied by every plaintiff.
"I think that presented a challenge," he said. "It was our belief that to go on trying thousands of cases with that kind of challenge in presenting the evidence ... was not going to be a very satisfactory alternative for the clients."
Daniel Balhoff, a court-appointed mediator who helped broker the proposed settlement with FEMA trailer makers, said in a court filing Monday that he believes the deal is "fair, adequate and reasonable."
"The plaintiffs are faced with significant burden of proof issues with respect to causation," he said. "For many plaintiffs, the manufactured home no longer exists or can no longer be located. Further, many individual plaintiffs faced causation problems due to the fact that they were smokers or had independent bases separate from formaldehyde exposure for their health issues."
Formaldehyde, a chemical commonly found in building materials, can cause breathing problems and is classified as a carcinogen. Government tests on hundreds of trailers in Louisiana and Mississippi found formaldehyde levels that were, on average, about five times what people are exposed to in most modern homes.
FEMA, which isn't a party in the settlement, downplayed formaldehyde risks for months before those test results were announced in February 2008. As early as 2006, trailer occupants began reporting headaches, nosebleeds and difficulty breathing.
The federal agency provided trailers or mobile homes to more than 144,000 families after the hurricanes. Plaintiffs' lawyers have accused the trailer makers of using shoddy building materials and methods in a rush to meet the agency's unprecedented demand for temporary housing.
In October 2007, Engelhardt was picked to oversee hundreds of consolidated lawsuits and tens of thousands of related claims. Since then, the case has generated more than 25,000 docket entries and resulted in three trials for individual claims. The juries in all three trials sided with the companies and didn't award any damages.
The settlement isn't the first in the litigation. Last year, a group of companies that manufactured mobile homes for FEMA after Katrina agreed to pay $2.6 million to resolve thousands of related claims. Mobile homes are larger and sturdier than travel trailers, which housed the majority of storm victims and are more prone to elevated levels of formaldehyde.
Fleetwood Enterprises Inc., which supplied FEMA with travel trailers before it filed for bankruptcy in 2009, agreed in 2010 to a settlement resolving about 7,500 to 8,000 claims. Terms of that deal weren't disclosed.
Engelhardt dismissed claims against FEMA by residents of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Plaintiffs' attorneys have asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to overturn Engelhardt's dismissal of the Louisiana claims. The appeals court previously upheld his dismissal of the Mississippi and Alabama claims.
If you like to remain informed and entertained while on-the-go, you're no doubt familiar with the deluge of live radio broadcasts and on-demand podcasts accessible from your smartphone -- the selection is awesome, but it can also be a bit intimidating. Now, the creators of Stitcher are looking to bring a bit of insight to the discovery process with a new service known as The Stitcher List. Here, users may browse 15 different categories to find weekly updates of trending shows, along with the most popular and the most shared broadcasts of the week. The Stitcher List is set to go live on the company's website today, and the wheels are already in motion to integrate it with Stitcher's multi-platform smartphone apps. So, if you've been meaning to find a reason to untangle those earbuds, consider this your sign.
CNBC's Kayla Tausche reports Facebook options begin trading today, and the impact that's likely to have on the company's stock, with Michael Khouw, CRT Group head of equity derivatives.
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The hits keep on coming for the spiraling disaster that is Spain, the world's 12th largest economy...
Spanish retail sales fell 9.8% year-over-year in April, which according to Markit is the largest collapse in the history of that series, which has been in existence since 2003.
It's possible that there's been a larger year-over-year decline at some point before the data was collected.
Reuters' Scotty Barber has the stomach-dropping chart.
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