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The overwhelming and endless stream of electronic alerts and messages on our computers, phones and tablets is driving demand for a new kind of summer camp for adults. "Technology-free" camps that force their campers to surrender their gadgets, wallets and that nagging "fear of missing out" — FOMO — are booking up fast.

In June, Digital Detox held its first session of Camp Grounded, a three-day break from electronic devices in the Redwoods of Northern California. At a price tag of $350, the event sold out.

"You read articles about being present and being in the moment, and you kind of nod your head and you agree. But I don't think you know what that means until you put everything away and you're OK with where you are," says Anastasia Savvina, who attended the June camp.

Tech-free getaway options like this are growing. Hotels like the Lake Placid Lodge in New York and Hotel Monaco Chicago are offering digital detox or "black-out" services. The Check-In to Check-Out package at the Lake Placid Lodge invites guests to leave their electronic devices at the front desk and to immerse themselves in "the serenity of the Adirondacks."

Digital Detox co-founder Levi Felix attributes the high demand for tech-free retreats to a growing awareness of the pervasiveness of technology in our everyday lives. "People are feeling like something's not right here," he says.

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More jobs were created last month than economists had expected, but the unemployment rate held steady.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that employers added 195,000 jobs to public and private payrolls. That's better than the gain of 165,000 that forecasters had predicted.

The agency also revised up its estimate of job growth in May — to 195,000 positions, compared with the 175,000 it initially estimated.

But the jobless rate last month was unchanged at 7.6 percent.

We'll have much more from the report and reactions to it as the morning continues. Hit your refresh button to be sure you're seeing our latest updates.

Update at 10:35 a.m. ET. "Are We Well Yet?"

In a related story, NPR's Marilyn Geewax looks at the recent relatively slow growth in jobs.

Update at 9:45 a.m. ET. Economy "Continues To Recover," Says White House:

"While more work remains to be done, today's employment report provides further confirmation that the U.S. economy is continuing to recover from the worst downturn since the Great Depression," writes Alan Krueger, President Obama's top economic adviser.

Update at 9:30 a.m. ET. Boehner Calls Growth "Tepid":

"There's some good news in this report, but economic growth is still tepid, the unemployment rate is far too high, and the president continues to promote policies that undermine robust job creation," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, says in a statement emailed to reporters by his office.

Update at 9:05 a.m. ET. How Will The Federal Reserve React?

Reuters writes that "job growth increased more than expected in June, which could draw the Federal Reserve closer to implementing a plan to start scaling back its massive monetary stimulus later this year."

Update at 8:55 a.m. ET. Sharp Upward Revision In April's Jobs Data:

A month ago, BLS revised down its estimate of the job growth in April. It had initially reported that 165,000 jobs were added to payrolls that month. Then, in its first revision of the data, it said the increase was 149,000. On Friday, it revised the figure again — to a gain of 199,000 jobs.

According to The Wall Street Journal:

"Of course, more revisions are possible. On average, the Labor Department changes its payroll numbers by about 46,000 — up or down — from the time the first estimate comes out until the third estimate is issued two months later, as more complete data comes in."

I saw Man of Steel last week — the latest retelling of the Superman story — and I was thrilled to see that now, finally, an effort has been made to make better sense of Superman's X-ray vision.

Surgeons have been performing cataract operations on the blind for centuries now and there is a large and ancient literature exploring the work. But what has not very often been discussed is the fact that removing cataracts does not typically have the effect of, as it were, pulling aside a a curtain and revealing, in one fell swoop, a coherent visible world. Visual information to someone who is unfamiliar with it can be confusing and, in fact, blinding.

Case studies describe patients who refuse to use vision to perform delicate or difficult tasks that they have long since mastered relying on senses other than sight. Such patients will shut their eyes to make their way across an intersection, or turn off the bathroom light so that they can shave. As Oliver Sacks, Richard Gregory and others have also documented, acquiring sight at a late age can be a demoralizing and unpleasant gift.

This is just the situation that we find young Clark in as his superpowers begin to develop.

Readers of my age will remember the ads at the back of comic books for X-ray specs that promised to enable you to see through ladies blouses. But Clark was not given his own voyeuristic power with the onset of X-ray vision. He was, rather, blinded and confused.

To see the skulls, or subcutaneous flesh, of the people around you, is not to see their faces, and so, really, it is not to see them. Clark found himself alone and scared, alienated from those around him. To see at all, Clark needed to learn not to see through things. He needed, that is, to come to understand that seeing is a way of paying attention, not to everything, but to what interests you or is relevant or important for this or that purpose.

In the film, Clark is represented as having wildly hyperactive senses, as though he suffered from a kind of ADHD, or something along those lines. To harness his powers, what was required, finally, was a kind of mindfulness training. He needed learn to focus and filter and shut out and pay attention.

But the true moral of Clark's situation — brought out when we notice the literature of the surgical restoration of sight — is that we are all always in the situation that Clark Kent finds himself in, his more powerful sensory capacities notwithstanding. It's not the sensations that matter to us. It's the world around us. And the way we learn to see is by learning to understand the way our sensations depend, in reliable and familiar ways, on our changing relation to a changing environment.

Clark Kent is, then, truly a super man.

Later in the film he is able to use his all-too-human understanding of the limitations inherent in our perceptual capacities to do battle with villains from Krypton who, although also equipped with the same heightened sensory powers, are, initially at least, no better than blind.

The overwhelming and endless stream of electronic alerts and messages on our computers, phones and tablets is driving demand for a new kind summer camp for adults. "Technology-free" camps that force their campers to surrender their gadgets, wallets and that nagging "fear of missing out"— FOMO — are booking up fast.

In June, The Digital Detox held its first session of Camp Grounded, a three-day break from electronic devices in the Redwoods of Northern California. At a price tag of $350, the event sold out.

"You read articles about being present and being in the moment, and you kind of nod your head and you agree. But I don't think you know what that means until you put everything away and you're OK with where you are," says Anastasia Savvina, who attended the June camp.

Tech-free getaway options like this are growing. Hotels like the Lake Placid Lodge in New York and Hotel Monaco Chicago are offering digital detox or "black-out" services. The "Check-In to Check-Out" package at the Lake Placid Lodge invites guests to leave their electronic devices at the front desk and to immerse themselves in "the serenity of the Adirondacks."

Digital Detox co-founder Levi Felix attributes the high demand for tech-free retreats to a growing awareness of the pervasiveness of technology in our everyday lives. "People are feeling like something's not right here," he says.

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