NVIDIA’s cooked up a few ways to describe the Tegra 3′s quad-core-with-a-spare architecture, usually by giving the extra Cortex A9 a cute nickname like “ninja,” or “companion.” Until now, the proper description was “Variable Symmetrical Multiprocessing,” or, vSMP for short. Despite how much fun (and technically accurate) some of these descriptions may have been, however, they just aren’t marketable. “Our customers wanted a name for it that’s unique and descriptive,” writes mobile business unit general manager Michael Rayfield, “A name they could put on a box or a store sign that immediately represents its value.” That official name is the 4-PLUS-1 quad-core architecture, he says, and you’ll probably see it pop up a few times in Barcelona next week if LG’s latest offering is any indication. It lacks something in pizzaz, to be sure, but we’ll admit that it is at least descriptive of the Tegra 3′s technical chops. In related news, NVIDIA promises the Tegra will be less fickle about its new moniker than the symbol formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince.

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Sarah isn?t perfect, but she mostly manages to keep from losing her cool. When her baby had colic, she tried to keep her own distress under control. When her toddler behaved defiantly or made a mistake, she avoided displaying a lot of anger or anxiety in front of her child.

Karen, by contrast, has always had trouble staying calm. When something goes wrong, she?s quick to yell, threaten, or show aggression toward her child. She?s what psychologists call an ?over-reactive? parent, somebody who typically responds to her child with irritation, anger, or harsh discipline.

If you?re thinking Karen?s kids are headed for trouble, you might be right. Lots of studies reveal a link between over-reactive parenting and behavior problems in children.

But what comes first? Maybe troublesome kids make their parents overreact. That?s a reasonable possibility. In fact, it seems a sure bet. Karen doesn?t blow her top for no reason at all. Something has to set her off first.

But a new study lends support to the idea that over-reactive parenting increases a child?s chances of developing emotional troubles and behavior problems.

Shannon Lipscomb and colleagues tracked 358 two-parent families for more than 18 months, evaluating young children when they were 9-, 18-, and 27-months old. The researchers also tried to measure the parents? reactions to stress. They did this by asking each parent to rate his agreement with statements about his partner, statements like:

?When my child misbehaves, my partner raises his voice or yells??

When the researchers analyzed the results, a pattern emerged. The kids who showed the least self-control at 27 months were the kids who?d been unusually moody as infants. They had shown more negative emotionality at 9 months, and their emotional problems often got worse over time.

And what predicted a child?s bad moods? Over-reactive parenting.

Now, it wasn?t a big effect. But the effect was big enough to make the researchers think it wasn?t just a statistical blip.

So it seems that over-reactive parenting may have contributed to toddler behavior problems by making children more moody and emotionally difficult.

What about genetics? You might wonder if some people are genetically predisposed to bad moods and behavior problems. Maybe over-reactive parenting and toddler moodiness are linked merely because parents and children share genes that put them at higher risk.

It?s a plausible explanation. But in this study, Lipscomb and colleagues controlled for genetics: All the children were raised by adoptive parents.

When the researchers compared the children with their birth mothers, they did indeed find evidence that genetics matter. Babies born to women with emotional problems were more likely to suffer from bad moods. And, unfortunately, the children?s emotional troubles were not improved by having adoptive parents who were calm and collected.

But, overall, the study supports the idea that staying cool will help most children avoid behavior problems.

?Parents? ability to regulate themselves and to remain firm, confident and not over-react is a key way they can help their children to modify their behavior,? Lipscomb says in a press release from Oregon State University. ?You set the example as a parent in your own emotions and reactions.?

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For more talk about the effects of parenting on a child?s developing mind, see my recent post ?How you handle stress shapes growing brains.?

Reference: Lipscomb ST, Leve LD, Shaw DS, et al. 2012. Negative emotionality and externalizing problems in toddlerhood: Overreactive parenting as a moderator of genetic influences. Dev Psychopathol. 24(1):167-79.

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Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde, left, speaks with Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos during a round table meeting of eurozone finance ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. Eurozone governments will likely approve on Monday a long-elusive rescue package for Greece, saving it from a potentially calamitous bankruptcy next month, senior officials said. But finance ministers meeting in Brussels will have a few last issues to wrangle over, such as tighter controls over Greece’s spending and further cuts to the country’s debt load. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, left, shakes hands with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble during a round table meeting of eurozone finance ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. Eurozone governments will likely approve on Monday a long-elusive rescue package for Greece, saving it from a potentially calamitous bankruptcy next month, senior officials said. But finance ministers meeting in Brussels will have a few last issues to wrangle over, such as tighter controls over Greece’s spending and further cuts to the country’s debt load. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, left, speaks with Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, center, during a round table meeting of eurozone finance ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. Eurozone governments will likely approve on Monday a long-elusive rescue package for Greece, saving it from a potentially calamitous bankruptcy next month, senior officials said. But finance ministers meeting in Brussels will have a few last issues to wrangle over, such as tighter controls over Greece’s spending and further cuts to the country’s debt load. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, left, speaks with French Finance Minister Francois Baroin, center, and Luxembourg’s Finance Minister Luc Frieden during a round table meeting of eurozone finance ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. Eurozone governments will likely approve on Monday a long-elusive rescue package for Greece, saving it from a potentially calamitous bankruptcy next month, senior officials said. But finance ministers meeting in Brussels will have a few last issues to wrangle over, such as tighter controls over Greece’s spending and further cuts to the country’s debt load. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

The euro sign is seen on the side of the building of EU headquarters in Brussels on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. Leaders from Germany, Italy and Greece have said they are optimistic that the deal on a second massive bailout for Athens can be clinched at a meeting of EU finance ministers on Monday after months of delay, but critics have expressed doubts over Greek political leaders’ commitment to austerity and there are still difficult details to be ironed out. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

BRUSSELS (AP) ? A second, euro130 billion ($172 billion) bailout and a deep debt write-off for financially stricken Greece will ward off a financial disaster in Europe.

Economists, however, only give the deal a slim chance of putting the country on the path to economic recovery ? and steadying its place in Europe’s currency union.

Agreement on the bailout, reached early Tuesday after an all-night summit of finance ministers seven months after it was first proposed, will give Greece euro130 billion in loans through 2014 from other eurozone governments and the International Monetary Fund. It’s the country’s second bailout, following a euro110 billion rescue secured in 2010 that didn’t return the country to solvency.

The agreement also assumes that banks and investors owed money by Greece will take new bonds that reduce their holdings by more than half.

In return for the second bailout, Greece has agreed to painful and humiliating measures imposed by its mistrustful partners which also use the euro, annoyed after two years of what they say are broken promises to reform. Athens agreed to cut spending and wages, and to permit outsiders to supervise its finances through the presence of European Union and International Monetary Fund officials permanently stationed in Greece. The rescuers also demanded a separate account for the aid money and legal guarantees that creditors get paid before teachers, doctors and police do.

The finance ministers from Greece and the other 16 countries that use the euro wrangled until the early morning over the details of the rescue, squeezing last-minute concessions out of private holders of Greek debt who agreed to lose 53.5 percent of the face value of their investment to avoid even more severe losses expected if Greece fails to pay euro14.5 billion in debt coming due March 20.

The fear is that an uncontrolled bankruptcy could unleash market panic across the rest of the continent, further unsettling other struggling other debt-stricken countries such as Ireland, Portugal or the much bigger Italy or Spain.

Serious risks of failure include the chance that Greece’s economy remains in a deep recession ? where it’s been for four straight years ? instead of returning to growth in 2013 as the deal assumes. That would undermine chances of paying even the reduced debt load, estimated at a still-high 120 percent of annual economic output in 2020, down from 160 percent now.

Additionally, political outrage over the cutbacks could lead Greece politicians to balk at the tough conditions. That could push rescuer countries ? led by Germany ? to cut off further funding.

Elections in Greece are expected in April. The leaders of the two main parties have committed to the cuts and reform program, but anti-bailout parties have been gaining in the polls.

Growth is the key. But Greece’s economy shrank 7 percent in the fourth quarter of last year and unemployment is 19 percent, a consequence of cuts in public wages and increased taxes inflicted during a downturn.

If that keeps up, even the rescuers acknowledge the reduction goal of 120 percent of GDP is long gone.

Success “really depends on the assumptions you make in terms of growth and interest rates,” said Diego Iscaro, an economist at IHS Global Insight. “The risks are clearly on the downside. The main risk comes from the economic situation, the economic dire straits.”

“By austerity alone, Greece will not solve the problems it has at the moment. We don’t know when the economy will return to growth and how it will grow.”

Unless something breaks the cycle of austerity and contraction “something will have to give.”

Even if it later balks at the conditions for the bailout, Greece would have difficulty writing down the new debt it issued to private bondholders, who demanded stronger legal protections. Official creditors ? the IMF, the eurozone countries and the European Central Bank ? would also have difficulty accepting more writedowns. Inability to pay ? or unwillingness to accept the harsh conditions ? could lead to a non-negotiated “hard” default that could end in Greece leaving the euro.

The eurozone and the International Monetary Fund hope the new program will eventually put Greece back into a position where it can survive without external support. Both private and official creditors went beyond what they had said was possible in the past. On top of the new rescue loans, Athens will also ask banks and other investment funds to forgive it some euro107 billion ($142 billion) in debt, while the European Central Bank and national central banks in the eurozone will forgo profits on their holdings.

The deal “closes the door to an uncontrolled default that would be chaos for Greece and Greek people,” said European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.

But despite those unprecedented efforts, it was clear that Greece was at the very best starting on a long and painful road to recovery. It is being pushed to make its economy more business-friendly and productive by opening access to closed trades and professions; halting rampant tax evasion; allowing more flexibility in wage bargaining between companies and unions; simplifying starting a business; and cutting its bureaucracy.

But those measures will take years to work ? if Greece’s politicians are willing or able to push them through.

“It’s not an easy (program), it’s an ambitious one,” said Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, adding that there were significant risks that Greece’s economy could not grow as much as hoped.

Including Greece’s first bailout worth euro110 billion ($146 billion), the new deal means every Greek man, woman and child will owe the eurozone and the IMF about euro22,000 ($29,000).

In Athens, the reaction to the news was a mixture of relief the country has avoided financial catastrophe and fear of a dark future.

“I don’t see it with any joy because again we’re being burdened with loans, loans, loans, with no end in sight,” architect Valia Rokou said in the Greek capital.

Greek politicians nevertheless greeted the package as a turning point for their battered country.

“It’s no exaggeration to say that today is a historic day for the Greek economy,” said Greek Premier Lucas Papademos, who had rushed to the finance ministers’ meeting to lend weight to his country’s pleas for help.

For those who Greece owes money, the bond swap will lop euro107 billion off Greece’s euro352 billion load. On top of that, investors will be asked to give Athens 30 years to repay them, compared with just under 7 years.

Average interest rates would fall to 3.65 percent from around 4.8 percent.

Overall losses for private bondholders would be above 70 percent when accounting for the new bonds’ longer repayment period and lower interest rate.

Private investors weren’t the only ones having to give ground. The eurozone countries will reduce the interest that Greece has to pay for its first package of bailout loans to 1.5 percentage points over market rates from between 2 percentage points to 3 percentage points currently.

At the same time, the European Central Bank and the national central banks in the countries that use the euro will forgo profits on their Greek debt holdings, again reducing the costs for Greece.

But several hurdles remain before Greece will see any of the money or other benefits of the new program.

Apart from the implementation of more than 30 different savings and reform measures by Greece, the new bailout has to be debated by parliaments in several member states, including Germany, the Netherlands and Finland.

The IMF also still has to decide how much of the euro130 billion bill it is willing to stump up. Going into the meeting, the Washington-based fund had indicated its contribution will be lower than the one-third of the total it has provided in previous bailouts.

IMF chief Lagarde said the fund’s board would decide on its contribution in the second week of March.

“In doing so it will have in mind the overall program, but also additional matters such as the proper setting up of a decent firewall,” Lagarde said with reference to Europe’s current and future bailout funds.

At the moment, the overall ceiling for eurozone rescue loans has been set at euro500 billion ($663 billion), much of which has already been committed to Ireland, Portugal and now Greece. Euro leaders will decide at their summit in early March whether that ceiling should be increased.

On top of that, it will also take some time to see how many private creditors will participate in the debt relief and how many will have to be forced to sign up through new legal clauses. The representatives of the private bondholders said they were confident that investors would find the deal attractive, but some analysts fear that imposing losses on even some bondholders may destabilize markets.

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Derek Gatopoulos and Elena Becatoros in Athens, Greece, and Sarah di Lorenzo and Don Melvin in Brussels contributed to this report.

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A low pressure system that brought snowy and windy conditions to the Central and Northern Plains will advance northeastward toward the Great Lakes. This will bring snow showers to the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes throughout the day. Moisture will be limited with this system, so most areas will see 1 to 2 inches of new snow.

Strong winds will accompany this system with gusts between 20 to 30 mph. The southern side of this system will remain in the 40s, thus supporting freezing rain and rain showers across the Midwest. Rainfall accumulation from the Mid-Mississippi River Valley through the Ohio River Valley will be less than a half of an inch. This fast moving system will reach into the Northeast late in the evening hours, bringing rain and snow to the region.

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Rainfall totals at lower elevations and along the coasts will range from 0.50 to 1.0 inches on Tuesday. High pressure to the south will keep most of California dry with mostly sunny skies. Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Monday have ranged from a morning low of -11 degrees at Stanley, Idaho, to a high of 79 degrees at Harlingen, Texas.

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European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn addresses the media, at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. The 17-nation eurozone economy will suffer a modest recession this year despite recent signs of stabilization, particularly in financial markets, the European Union’s executive branch said Thursday. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn addresses the media, at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. The 17-nation eurozone economy will suffer a modest recession this year despite recent signs of stabilization, particularly in financial markets, the European Union’s executive branch said Thursday.(AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn addresses the media, at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. The 17-nation eurozone economy will suffer a modest recession this year despite recent signs of stabilization, particularly in financial markets, the European Union’s executive branch said Thursday. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn addresses the media, at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. The 17-nation eurozone economy will suffer a modest recession this year despite recent signs of stabilization, particularly in financial markets, the European Union’s executive branch said Thursday. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn addresses the media, at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. The 17-nation eurozone economy will suffer a modest recession this year despite recent signs of stabilization, particularly in financial markets, the European Union’s executive branch said Thursday. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

BRUSSELS (AP) ? The 17-nation eurozone economy will suffer a modest recession this year despite recent signs of stabilization, particularly in financial markets, the European Union’s executive branch said Thursday.

In its latest projections, the European Commission forecast a 0.3 percent contraction in the eurozone economy, with Greece leading the way downward with a massive 4.4 percent decline.

That would be the fifth straight year of recession in Greece, which earlier this week clinched its second massive bailout package in less than two years.

In its last forecast in November, the Commission predicted a 0.5 percent expansion across the eurozone economy following last year’s 1.4 percent growth. The difference this time is that it now expects the economies of Belgium, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, the Netherlands and Slovenia to contract in 2012, not just Greece and Portugal.

The overall decline is limited by resilient activity in Germany and France, the eurozone’s two-largest economies. Growth in Germany is penciled in at 0.6 percent while France is forecast to grow by 0.4 percent.

“Although growth has stalled, we are seeing signs of stabilisation in the European economy,” said Olli Rehn, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs. “Economic sentiment is still at low levels, but stress in financial markets is easing.”

He said the forecast was based on the assumption that uncertainty created by the debt crisis “will gradually fade away.”

Sony Kapoor, managing director of economic think-tank Re-Define, urged Europe not to get complacent over its handling of the debt crisis.

“The sharply deteriorating economic forecasts underscore why despite the lull arising from a quietening of the acute phase of the crisis, EU policy makers must not be allowed to procrastinate and become complacent, a pattern that has characterized EU decision-making from the start of the crisis,” Kapoor said.

Last November, financial markets were struck by fears that Europe’s debt crisis would not be confined to the relatively small economies of Greece, Ireland and Portugal. Worries grew that Spain and Italy could get swamped by their debt loads, too. Both countries now have new governments to enact sweeping austerity measures.

The more benign atmosphere in financial markets has also been helped by the European Central Bank’s offering of super-cheap long-term loans to banks and the decision of the 17 euro countries to tie their economies closer together.

Though austerity measures are the main pillar in Europe’s strategy to fight the debt crisis, they are clearly hurting the economy in the short-term ? Spain and Italy are expected to sink into recession this year as their governments cut debt aggressively.

Italy, which is the eurozone’s third-largest economy and has a debt mountain of around euro1.9 trillion ($2.5 trillion), is predicted to contract by 1.3 percent this year, in contrast to the 0.3 percent growth predicted in November.

And Spain is expected to contract 1 percent in 2012, against the 0.7 percent growth predicted in the fall. The Commission warned that if the Spanish government enacts further budget cuts in an effort to meet its 2012 targets, its economy will likely shrink even more.

Rehn dodged questions on whether the Commission would be willing to give Spain more time to cuts its deficits considering the country’s worsened economic situation. Under current commitments to the EU, Spain has to cut its deficit to 4.4 percent of GDP for 2012. But the new government, facing another recession, has hinted it wants the EU to lower the target a bit.

The Spanish government has yet to release official figures but says the deficit for 2011 will come in at around 8 percent of GDP, rather than 6 percent as forecast by the Socialist administration it ousted in November elections.

Of the three bailed-out countries, only Ireland offered some glimpse of hope. While Greece and Portugal were expected to remain in deep recessions, Ireland’s economy was forecast to grow 0.5 percent this year, on top of 2011′s 0.9 percent growth.

Rehn said many of the measures being taken across Europe are “essential” for financial stability and to establish conditions for more sustainable growth and job creation.

“With decisive action, we can turn the corner and move from stabilisation to boosting growth and jobs,” Rehn said.

Rehn also reiterated a previous call on the euro countries to boost the currency union’s bailout funds so prevent a further spread of the crisis.

“The past one and a half years have shown that this call was more than justified,” Rehn said.

Under current plans, the lending capacity of the eurozone’s bailout funds is capped at euro500 billion ($662 billion), of which more than euro150 billion ($198 billion) have already been promised to Greece, Ireland and Portugal.

Eurozone leaders will have to decide next week whether they will keep the money remaining in the interim bailout fund, the euro440 billion ($582 billion) European Financial Stability Facility, available once the permanent euro500 billion European Stability Mechanism comes into force in July.

Germany has so far rejected this proposal, though the Commission believes that a bigger firewall could protect vulnerable economies like Italy and Spain.

The wider 27-nation EU, which includes non-euro countries, is expected to post flat growth this year. Britain is forecast to eke out growth of 0.6 percent, while Poland is expected to post a 2.5 percent expansion, the highest rate across the EU.

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Pylas contributed from London

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