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Crain's reports that the Manhattan rental market is slowing, but that the rent on a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan has came down nearly 7% in a year. The city has lost about 105,029 jobs since August, 2008 and, as you may have noticed, unemployment hovers at 8.1%.

Also: Discipline of Freedom: The Yoga Sutra attributed to Patanjali by Barbara Stoler Miller   

All life is suffering for a man of discrimination, because of the sufferings inherent in change and its corrupting subliminal impressions, and because of the way qualities of material nature turn against themselves. (15)  

Suffering that has not yet come can be escaped. (16)