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T-Mobile USA's new plans compared to competition

NEW YORK (AP) ? T-Mobile USA has revamped its pricing plans, the latest move in an industry that's still experimenting feverishly with various ways of luring customers and getting current ones to pay as much as possible. Here's how T-Mobile's gambit compares.

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The most significant change is that T-Mobile is breaking the cost of the phone away from the monthly service fee. Instead, the company will sell the phone on an installment. It's making a big deal out of the fact that it will no longer have two-year service contracts, but it's replacing them with two-year financing contracts. To buy an iPhone 5 from T-Mobile, you'll be putting $100 down and then paying $20 per month for two years to pay off the phone. That's on top of service fees that start at $50 per month for unlimited talk, text and 500 megabytes of data. An additional $10 per month gives you another 2 gigabytes of data. Add $20 instead, and you get unlimited data. If you leave T-Mobile within the two-year period, you'll still be charged $20 a month until the two-year contract runs out.

Pros: T-Mobile's plans are generally cheaper than the competition. If you've paid off your phone, your monthly bill declines. You can pay off the phone early if you want, with no penalty. You can also buy "unlocked" phones, or bring them over from AT&T, and get a good deal on monthly service. T-Mobile's "4G" service is relatively fast ? at least, faster than Sprint, in places where Sprint doesn't have LTE. T-Mobile also offers unlimited data service, for peace of mind.

Cons: T-Mobile's data network coverage is poor in rural areas. It's only now rolling out an "LTE" network, and it doesn't have access to the low frequencies where Verizon Wireless and AT&T run their wall-penetrating LTE networks. There's no option to share a data plan among many devices, but T-Mobile makes it relatively inexpensive to add a line to the plan: $10, which comes with 500 megabytes of data usage.

Bottom line: The price over two years for a 16-gigabyte iPhone 5 with unlimited calling, unlimited texting and 2.5 gigabytes of data usage per month, excluding taxes, is $2,020.

Verizon Wireless, AT&T

Last year, the two big guns in the wireless industry trotted out "shared data" plans that let a family tap into a common pool of data usage every month. They're betting on a future where phones will be just one of many devices connected to wireless networks.

Pros: The shared data plans make connecting tablets, laptops and mobile hotspots cheaper. Verizon has stellar coverage and the largest high-speed "LTE" network. AT&T has less coverage, but more than T-Mobile and Sprint, and it has a fast "4G" network in most places LTE isn't available.

Cons: For single phones, AT&T's and Verizon's prices are considerably higher than T-Mobile's ? you pay for that extra network coverage and reliability. Neither offers new customers unlimited data. The two-year contracts are complicated, with early termination fees and varying periods before you're eligible to buy a new phone at a subsidized price.

Bottom line: The price over two years for a 16-gigabyte iPhone 5 with unlimited calling, unlimited texting and 2-3 gigabytes of data usage per month is $2,635, excluding taxes.

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The No. 3 wireless company has done the least to revamp its pricing plans ? they're pretty much the same they've been for the last five years.

Pros: Sprint has stuck to offering unlimited data plans, which is good for peace of mind. It sells smartphone service for as little as $35 per month through its Virgin Mobile subsidiary.

Cons: Unlimited data service is only good if the network is fast enough to serve up all the data you need, and Sprint's network is in a complicated transition period. Its "3G" service is very slow. It's complemented in places by Clearwire's "4G" network, and it's in the early stages of an "LTE" buildout. With unlimited data as the only option, Sprint-branded smartphone service isn't cheap. The two-year contracts are complicated, with early termination fees and varying periods before you're eligible to buy a new phone at a subsidized price.

Bottom line: The price over two years for 16-gigabyte iPhone 5 with unlimited calling, texting and data, excluding taxes, is $2,840.

Associated Press

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Early Learning for Babies and Toddlers

Posted: Tue 4:34 AM, Mar 26, 2013

Updated: Tue 10:30 AM, Mar 26, 2013

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Early education and intervention specialists say just talking to your child will help stimulate their brain's ability to think and problem solve. With that, studies show they'll be less likely to develop a childhood learning disability.

"They may not pay attention or understand, but they are learning," said mom, SheRae Hunter.

That's why she and her husband, Kyle, have been reading books and stories to their now 16-month-old son, Zecharaiah, every day since he was born.

"It does help their mind develop, it does help their speech and vocabulary develop," said SheRae Hunter.

"I think that we weren't even thinking too much about the learning disabilities, we were just trying to help him develop and thought it was a good thing to do," said Kyle Hunter.

And reading to your child is one of the best things to do.

"Read to your child," said Infant and Toddler Connection local system manager, Sharlene Stowers. "Read to your baby, even when they're teeny, tiny, read to them. Point out pictures in the books."

That's exactly what the Hunter family does. They say Zecharaiah surprises them with new things he learns every day.

"Learning to go up a step or learning to open something he's never opened before," said SheRae Hunter.

The Hunters spend nearly five hours a day playing, reading and spending one-on-one time with their son. Studies show that interacting with them on their level also helps them learn.

"One of the things that we do is to try to teach parents that they can use their regular daily activities and turn them into a fun, educational, playful experience for their child without having to do anything special," said Stowers.

That can be anything from folding laundry to cooking dinner.

"Certainly you're never going to be able to do it 100%, but just to be aware," said Stowers.

Another thing the Infant and Toddler Connection of Shenandoah Valley suggests parents be aware of is when their TV is on. They say kids under two-years shouldn't watch any TV because the screen isn't healthy for brain development. They also advice parents to be cautious of learning programs that are marketed for babies.

"Things like Baby Einstein and 'Your Baby Can Read' and those products, actually they do not help language development. They actually can also decrease language development in your child because a child's brain is wired to listen to a normal, natural voice. So they perceive things differently when it's an automated, electronic voice," said Stowers.

The Federal Trade Commission filed false advertising charges against the marketers of "Your Baby Can Read." Last July, the company announced they were going out of business.

Source: http://www.tv3winchester.com/home/headlines/Early-Learning-for-Babies-and-Toddlers-199988721.html

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Happy 29th Birthday, Katharine McPhee!

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AP source: Lohse, Brewers reach $33M, 3-year deal

A person familiar with the deal tells The Associated Press that free agent pitcher Kyle Lohse and the Milwaukee Brewers have reached agreement on a three-year contract worth $33 million.

Several media outlets reported the deal Monday. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because an official announcement was expected later in the day.

The 34-year-old Lohse joined the Brewers exactly a week before they're set to open the season at home against Colorado.

Lohse enjoyed his best season in the majors last year, going 16-3 with a 2.86 ERA and helping the St. Louis Cardinals earn an NL wild-card spot. He is 118-109 lifetime with a 4.45 ERA in 12 seasons with Minnesota, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and St. Louis.

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James Franco: What hasn't he done?

James Franco is starring in two popular movies currently in theaters ('Oz the Great and Powerful' and 'Spring Breakers'), but those achievements are just the latest on a very long resume. How many items would Franco have checked off if he had a bucket list?

By Saba Hamedy / March 25, 2013

James Franco is currently starring in the movie 'Spring Breakers.'

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Whether you love him or hate him, you have to admit that actor James Franco has gotten involved with... well, pretty much everything. As Joshua Mohr wrote in a New York Times article in 2010, Franco?s ?ambition over the past few years has manifested almost as performance art.?

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Parent-child violence leads to teen dating violence, study suggests

Mar. 25, 2013 ? Teens today are involved in intimate relationships at a much younger age and often have different definitions of what is acceptable behavior in a relationship. Violence is something that is all too common and according to researchers at Iowa State it is a reflection of the relationships teens have with their parents or their parent's partner.

"It is true that if you grow up in a violent household you have a higher likelihood of being in a violent relationship," said Brenda Lohman, lead author and an associate professor of human development and family studies at Iowa State University.

The research focused on psychological violence instead of physical violence. Lohman and her colleagues discovered that psychological violence between a parent and child was more significant than a child witnessing violence between two adults in the home.

"If the parent is more aggressive toward the child, the child is more likely to be in relationships where they're being victimized or perpetrating violence against their partner a few years or even a decade later," Lohman said.

This study is part of a special series of articles on teen dating violence guest edited by Lohman for the April issue of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. It is one of the first studies to examine patterns of violence over three decades to see how children exposed to psychological violence and family stress were affected in relationships later in life. Researchers relied on data from the Iowa Youth and Family Project, a 24-year project assessing families in rural Iowa, as well as video recordings of families and couples having a discussion or completing assigned problem-solving tasks.

Researchers found family stress, both emotional and financial, during adolescence is another predictor of intimate partner violence, but only when people are in their late 20s or early 30s, not during the teen years. Tricia Neppl, coauthor and an assistant professor in human development and family studies, said there could be several reasons why. It could be that people are more stable in their relationships or the fact that they have children.

"For whatever reason, the family stress that you experienced in early adolescence is having some kind of a lasting effect on your role as you settle into adulthood," Neppl said. "And more so than emerging adulthood, or your early 20s, when you're still trying to figure out what those roles are, you're young and you may or may not have children yet."

What is troubling for researchers is how the cycle of violence continues from one generation to the next. Adolescents who are influenced by family stress early in life not only grow up to have poor relationships with their partner or spouse, but Neppl's work shows it influences their children's development into adulthood as well.

Negative personality and the more sexual partners a teen has also increases the likelihood of risky behavior and violence in a relationship, researchers said.

Teenage girls and the definition of violence

Perception and gender also factor into the cycle of violence. In a second study, Lohman interviewed teens in low-income neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago and San Antonio and found an individual's perception made a difference in how violence was reported.

For example, Lohman said she and her colleague found that in an urban sample "females were a lot more psychologically violent during the teen years than boys. This includes minor acts of violence, like name-calling, hitting, slapping or pushing."

However, the data did not allow researchers to pinpoint how the cycle of violence started with each reported incident and whether the male or female was the perpetrator. But it is not surprising to them to see more teen girls initiating the violence.

In the second study, drug and alcohol use, low parental monitoring, academic difficulties and involvement with antisocial peers were also significant early risk factors for perpetration of dating violence in late adolescence. Differences in race, culture and gender also strongly influenced if teens perpetrated violence.

"Teens who were struggling in school or were using drugs and alcohol were more likely to perpetrate violence," Lohman said. "Furthermore, teens whose parents did not know who their friends were or did not know where their child hung out socially with peers, were more likely to be violent. This underscores the importance of prevention and intervention programs that address peers, families and schools."

Prevention and building relationship skills

The fact that one in four adolescents report dating violence every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control, underscores the need for better and earlier prevention, Lohman said. The renewal of the Violence Against Women Act is a step in that direction, but researchers would like to see more education and programming in the schools or after-school programs that focus on the teen years.

Family intervention is also important to preventing psychological violence later in life.

"Working with families who are under particular amounts of stress, whether it is economic or emotional distress, it's working with those families to help lower their stress loads," Neppl said. "We also want to help teach them how to be better parents and focus more on prevention services."

The results from these two studies imply that early warning signs across multiple systems, such as the family, peers and schools, should be addressed in dating violence prevention programs.

"Beyond parenting, I think it starts with peer skill building and peer development. Adults can start by explaining appropriate things to say to other peers and that you don't call peers names. These skills then carry over into future romantic relationships," Lohman said. "The earlier you can teach relationship skills the better. As for romantic relationship skills, I would like to see those taught at least by middle school and beyond."

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Brenda J. Lohman, Tricia K. Neppl, Jennifer M. Senia, Thomas J. Schofield. Understanding Adolescent and Family Influences on Intimate Partner Psychological Violence During Emerging Adulthood and Adulthood. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013; 42 (4): 500 DOI: 10.1007/s10964-013-9923-7

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Little Mix Lock Down Hip-Hop With Missy Elliott Remix

Missy will appear on the remix of the group's 'funky' DNA track, 'How Ya Doin'?'
By Jocelyn Vena

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Photo: MTV News

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1704222/little-mix-missy-elliott-how-ya-doin-remix.jhtml

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