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- Suggests that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should make efforts to reform by: increasing its transparency, establishing internationally acceptable bankruptcy standards, and establishing uniform minimum standards regarding robust banking and supervisory systems.
- Instructs the IMF to increase its effectiveness by: opening domestic markets to fair and open internal competition, privatizing industries, supporting economic deregulation, and investing in programs that discourage practices which may promote ethnic or social strife, among other reforms.
- Bans aid for international abortions, while allowing funds to be used for family planning projects which offer information about a broad range of family planning practices.
- Prohibits using appropriated funds for expenditures, contracts, or commitments involving the export of nuclear equipment, fuel, or technology to any country other than an eligible nuclear-weapon state.
- Authorizes the President to withhold economic revitalization funds if Bosnia and Herzegovina have not removed foreign forces or have not terminated intelligence cooperation with Iranian officials.
- Allows the President to withhold 50 percent of funds to Russia if it has not terminated arrangements to provide Iran with technical expertise, technology, or equipment necessary to develop a nuclear reactor, ballistic missile capabilities, or related research facilities.
- Requires that all funds given to the Foreign Military Financing Program be spent on defense articles sold by the federal government.
- Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to the Committee on Appropriations detailing the training activities of the School of the Americas and a general assessment of its graduates.
- Bans Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Sudan, or Syria from directly receiving assistance or reparations.
- $2.94 billion for aid to Israel, including $1.86 billion for Foreign Military Financing and $1.08 billion for economic assistance.
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- $1.17 billion for development assistance.
- $640 million for migration and refugee assistance.
- $590 million for assistance for the new independent states of the former Soviet Union.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College men's basketball program and head coach Terry Sellers announced the signing of Bryan Hamlet Wednesday.
Hamlet, a 5-foot-10 guard, comes to Georgia College from Archer High School in Lawrenceville, Ga., where he started all four seasons under head coach Tim Watkins.
"Bryan had a terrific career at Archer," said Sellers. "He is a tough competitor and scored a lot of points in his high school career. We plan on playing him at both guard positions. We are excited Bryan has chosen to continue his collegiate career at Georgia College."
Hamlet averaged 16.4 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 1.7 assists per game for the Tigers.
Archer went 22-8 this past season finishing eighth in the final AAAAAA AJC Poll. The Tigers advanced to the AAAAAA Sweet Sixteen. Hamlet was named All-8AAAAAA First Team, All-Gwinnett County First team and All-State Third Team. He finished his career with 1,505 points (15th all-time in Gwinnett County).
The Bobcats battled through the 2012-13 season, a 9-17 year with a 5-14 conference mark. Senior forward Scott Ferguson earned a slot on the All-Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Third Team. Georgia College finished the season third in the PBC in fewest turnovers per game (11.3) and second in defending the three-point shot (.306). Sellers picked up his 200th PBC win this season, his 20th at the helm of Bobcat basketball.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Saw The Cabin In The Woods. Pretty good stuff. Freaky, but classic Joss.
Is that the one with Bacon?? (ps I love Bacon...both types)It was on my "to watch" list till I realized I saw a ton of dark and sad movies and switched on over to more happier stuff for a bit.Anyways, I watched "The Five Year Engagement". Colour-coded name because the movie has a very yellow and blue filter, I actually don't think any green is in this movie. ...anyways.Lots of fun, great couples movie especially if you dig the "Apatow" humour of 40 Year Old Virgin and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Jason Segal is just downright likeable despite being this kinda unattractive, gigantic friendly bear on screen. Both Emily Blunt and Alison Brie are in it, both performing really well too. One thing I admired was that it hit an all too common problem that most couples run into at some point and make their point through a metaphor about "old donuts". I recommend it; it's a bit longer than it needs to be (I call this a common problem in Apatow-style flicks though); but one thing I loved that another reviewer put better than I did, was that the characters in these flicks are people you really just wanna "hangout" with.
anyone ever see Rachel Getting Married. I hate that movie so fucking much. Every frame makes my blood boil with the fire of a million suns
Cabin in the Woods: Fucking fantastic. What a smart, funny movie that is such an obvious nod to horror tropes. Like Scream was for slashers back in the 90's, this does for the entire horror genre for this decade. The whole last 30 minutes was so epic. I bet this was an awesome movie to see in theaters.
"Have you seen the ending to my movie?"
It's... kind of a mix. There are times where Cabin's a straight up horror movie, and others where it's something else. Scream is actually a better reference point than I initially thought it was - both movies look at the tropes of horror movies, sometimes by using them, sometimes by directly referencing how tropey they are.Edit: I like this piece of trivia from IMDB:Immediately after an early preview screening with fan Q&A, the first question Director Drew Goddard was asked was, "Will there be a sequel?" To which he responded, Code: [Select]"Have you seen the ending to my movie?"
The central plot of the movie revolves around the classic horror movie archetypes: Whore, Fool(Partyer), Athlete (Jock), Scholar (Nerd) and the Virgin (Final Girl). So many horror movies follow this same trope and, really, the only thing that changes is the monster. The repetition of the same scenario in itself is like a ritual, and the creators were clever enough to take this meta idea of archetypes and myth and craft a story around the mythology of horror movies, while still creating a horror movie.


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Re-Anchoring the Market and Idea Place Vienna Internationally
Hedwig Saxenhuber and I have both got to know and learnt to understand the art world through our functions as critics and curators. This makes it all the more appealing to take over this task and to re-anchor the market place and particularly the idea place Vienna internationally, Georg Schöllhammer describes his motive to accept the post as artistic director of the VIENNAFAIR in collaboration with Hedwig Saxenhuber. The VIENNAFAIR has become an important information market for the region of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in a short period of time. A position which is internationally simply expected of the art venue Vienna. In an environment in which other art fairs also attempt to occupy this place it becomes all the more important to make good use of the locational advantage and to consolidate and further extend the status achieved. With our curating and editing activities we have contributed a little to develop Viennas significant role as place of exchange, and we have also initiated a few international artistic careers from here. The intention is to make the VIENNAFAIR the central market place, not only for Eastern and South-Eastern Europe but develop it further beyond that. And this aims not only at Western collectors but equally at international museums and public collections which only now begin to discern the historic and regional gaps in their European collections. And private collectors from these regions are also to be included. It is clear that this will be a long-term project. And it is clear that the turn-over must be met. The international competition is fierce; placing a trade fair becomes increasingly difficult. But at good trade fairs, not only goods but also ideas are traded. This is a Viennese strength and it is our strength. Also part of it is naturally that all strong players are invited on site to collaborate because only with tight collaboration the strengths of the art fair venue Vienna can be elaborated and further developed.
Georg Schöllhammer is founding editor of springerin - Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, free author and curator. As director of tranzit.at, Schöllhammer is co-curator of Manifesta 8 (Murcia 2010). From 2004 to 2007 he was chief editor of documenta 12, for which he conceptualized documenta_Magazines, a cooperational project of more than 100 periodicals worldwide.
Currently, he is active as founding member of the European museum cooperation LInternational and is working amongst others on long-term concepts and projects of the research, collection and exhibition cooperations between the museums Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, and artist archives such as, amongst others, The KwieKulik Archives, Warsaw and Jùlius Koller Society, Bratislava, which he presides. Georg Schöllhammer also heads, amongst others, the international research projects Lokale Modernen Architektur am Rande der Sowjetunion (Local Modernities Architecture on the Fringes of the Soviet Union; Frankfurt/Berlin), Sweet Sixties (urban Avantgardes in the shade of the Cold War in Algiers, Beirut, Delhi, Kiev, Istanbul, Rabat, Yerevan, Tbilisi, Zagreb); he advises the European research initiative Former West which deals with questions of contemporary art after 1989. In 2011 he will curate not only solo exhibitions by KwieKulik and Július Koller but also, amongst others, the exhibition on Soviet Modernity, Sowjet-Moderne 19601991, at the Architekturzentrum Wien.
Georg Schöllhammer is also member of the programme advisory board of steirischer herbst, Graz, and the Austrian UNESCO commission as well as corresponding member of Wiener Secession. Since the beginning of the 1980s, Georg Schöllhammer has worked as architecture and art critic and wrote for Austrian newspapers Die Presse (19861988) and Der Standard (19881994). He lives and works in Vienna.
Hedwig Saxenhuber is one of the editors of springerin Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, curator, art critic and corresponding member of Wiener Secession. She has been organizing and conceptualizing numerous exhibitions, projects, symposiums and film programmes since 1989. These include: Wittgenstein Projekt: Das Spiel des Unsagbaren (The Play of the Unsayable; artistic concept: Joseph Kosuth, 1989), Malen ist Wahlen (exhibition with Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen and Werner Büttner, Kunstverein München, 1992), Dialogue: Gordon Matta Clark and Bas Jan Ader (exhibition, Kunstverein München, 1994), Oh boy it´s a girl (Kunstverein München and Kunstraum Wien, 1994), Du bist die Welt (You are the world, exhibition of Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, 2001), Parallel Actions: Conceptual Tendencies in Central Europe from 1965 to 1980 (exhibition and symposium with Noah Chasin, New York, Július Koller, Bratislava, Vit Havránek, Prague, Sanja Ivekovic, Zagreb and Jiri Kovanda, Prague, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, 2003), Play Sofia (exhibition, KUNSTHALLE project space, Vienna, 2005), Postorange, Beispiele ukrainischer Gegenwartskunst (Post-Orange, examples of Ukrainian contemporary art, exhibition, KUNSTHALLE project space, Vienna, 2006), Valie EXPORT (solo exhibition, NCCA and Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow in the context of the 2nd Moscow Biennale, 2007). In cooperation with Christian Kravagna she founded kunstraum lakeside (art space lakeside) in Klagenfurt, Carinthia and since 2005 she has been in charge of the artistic programme together with Kravagna. Hedwig Saxenhuber was, amongst others, jury member at Förderpreise im Bereich bildende Kunst der Landeshauptstadt München (advancement awards in the area of visual arts of the provincial capital of Munich) in 1994, jury member at Central-Kunstpreis (Central-art award), Cologne, in 2002, and member of the advisory committee for Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich (art in the public space Lower Austria) from 1998 to 2004, member of the jury of the Gaudenz B. Ruf Award, Sofia, from 2008 to 2009, she has been jury member of the Sammlung der Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien (collection of the Department for Cultural Affairs of the City of Vienna) from 2006 to 2009, and she is jury member of the Kunstpreis der Stadt Wien (art award of the City of Vienna) since 2007.
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New Mexico Tech Hydrologist Fred Phillips Named AAAS Fellow, Oct. 25, 2007
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SOCORRO, N.M., Oct. 25, 2007 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society, has awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow to New Mexico Tech hydrology professor Fred M. Phillips. Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.
Phillips joins 470 other members who have been awarded the prestigious international honor this year by the AAAS because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
As part of the Section on Geology and Geography, Phillips was elected as an AAAS Fellow "for his pioneering interdisciplinary work with interactions between hydrology, geochemistry, and geology, especially cosmogenic isotopes and surface-exposure dating," his citation states.
Phillips, who has been at New Mexico Tech for more than 25 years, has been the past recipient of numerous national and international awards for his research contributions made to the scientific fields of hydrogeology, geomorphology, and Quaternary geology, which covers the last 1.7 million years of Earth's geologic history.
The Geological Society of America, for example, previously honored Phillips with its Kirk Bryan Award for Research Excellence, the O.E. Meizner Award for advances in hydrogeology, and also named him as one of the organization's Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturers, a geological trifecta of sorts that no one else before or since has achieved.
Most of Phillips' diverse research in the geosciences stems from a technique he pioneered of using measured ratios of radioactive isotopes of chlorine formed by cosmic-ray reactions in rocks and other landforms to more accurately date geological events of the past million years such as earthquakes, landslides, and glaciers.
In addition to his teaching and research at New Mexico Tech, Phillips also is the principal investigator and coordinator of the CRONUS-Earth Project, a multi-year, multi-disciplinary research project funded by the National Science Foundation. The acronym CRONUS stands for Cosmic-Ray Produced Nuclide Systematics.
The CRONUS-Earth Project is tasked with rigorously and systematically identifying and investigating sources of uncertainty in cosmogenic-nuclide production so as to improve the accuracy and reliability of geochronology techniques and other scientific applications that rely on analyses of cosmogenic surface exposure.
As a newly elected AAAS Fellow, Phillips will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering) commemorative pin next year at the 2008 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston.
The tradition of naming AAAS Fellows began in 1874. Currently, AAAS members can be considered for the rank of Fellow only if nominated by the Steering Committees of the Association's 24 sections, or by any three Fellows who are current AAAS members (so long as two of the three sponsors are not affiliated with the nominee's home institution), or by the AAAS Chief Executive Officer.


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FORT JACKSON, SC -- President George W. Bush stopped by Fort Jackson, SC, in early November to observe soldiers in their first week of basic combat training go through the Fit to Win training course. Bush was the first president to visit the installation in more than 50 years.
"That was a special opportunity that doesn't come often," says Kyle Stevens, commander. "For me, though, the thrill was seeing my soldiers and the glow on their faces when he greeted them. This makes basic training a very memorable experience for them."
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Strike two: Excerpt of new anti-Hillary book filled with factual errors, misleading claims, very little context
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The July 2005 issue of Vanity Fair contains an excerpt from the forthcoming The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President (Sentinel, June 2005), a book-length attack on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) written by Edward Klein with the stated intent of inflicting electoral damage on her. But a review of the error-ridden excerpt in Vanity Fair suggests the book may inflict more damage on its author, publisher, Vanity Fair, and other news organizations that take it seriously than on Clinton. The first verifiable claim reportedly from the book turned out to be false; a Mail on Sunday article showed that Klein is peddling gay-baiting sexual innuendo and gossip; now, the Vanity Fair excerpt reveals the book to be a sloppily researched, factually challenged hit piece that merely recycles long-debunked and dismissed criticism of Clinton.
Perhaps the most sensational allegation against Clinton in the Vanity Fair excerpt is Klein's claim that she "suddenly turned up a long-lost" Jewish relative in response to furor over her controversial embrace of Suha Arafat. Klein portrayed the incident as an example of Clinton's supposed opportunism and pandering:
When Hillary made the obligatory trip to Israel to win Jewish votes back home, she went to the Palestinian-controlled city of Ramallah. There she appeared onstage with Yasser Arafat's wife, Suha, who made the outrageous charge that Israel was poisoning Palestinian women and children with toxic gas. At the end of Mrs. Arafat's speech, Hillary marched to the podium and gave Suha Arafat a big hug and kiss. The photo of the two women kissing, which was played around the world, sowed serious doubts about Hillary in the minds of many Jewish voters.
When Hillary realized that she had gotten herself in a jam with Jewish voters, she suddenly turned up a long-lost Jewish step grandfather -- an announcement that was dismissed by many cynical New York voters as an example of her pandering.
But Klein, trying to portray Clinton as a political opportunist, got the facts completely wrong: News of Clinton's Jewish step-grandfather came long before the Suha Arafat incident, as even a cursory check of the facts would have quickly revealed. The story about Clinton's Jewish family members received extensive media coverage in August 1999, three months before the November 1999 incident with Arafat:
- Washington Post, 8/7/99: "Her audience seemed to have little interest in the two media obsessions surrounding the first lady -- her recent remarks on her husband's infidelities, and the fact that her step-grandfather turns out to have been Jewish. (Headline in the New York Post: 'Oy Vey!')"
- Rita Cosby, Fox News, 8/5/99: "Another surprise from the first lady. As she campaigns in New York, she tells a Jewish newspaper that her step-grandfather, Max Rosenberg, was Jewish."
- Seth Gitell of the Jewish newspaper Forward, CNN, 8/5/99: "What we've found is that Hillary Clinton's grandmother, a woman named Della Murray, married a Russian Jewish immigrant named Max Rosenberg and had a daughter who was Hillary Clinton's half-aunt, who Hillary was in touch with until that woman died in December."
Klein later wrote of Clinton's supposed metamorphosis during the campaign:
At the start of the campaign Hillary had come off poorly in small groups. Now she seemed more at ease schmoozing potential donors. Gone was the left-wing Hillary, the gender feminist who sounded to many people like a radical bomb thrower. In her place was the newly minted Hillary, a kinder, gentler, family-oriented candidate who championed such issues as children's mental health.
This is a patently absurd example of the ongoing effort by some media figures and conservative activists to pretend that Hillary Clinton was a "left-wing radical" who has moved to the center out of political expediency. Mrs. Clinton has long "championed such issues as children's mental health," as a nearly 20-year-old April 25, 1986, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette article makes clear:
About 200 guests gathered Thursday for a ground-breaking ceremony at the site of a new Sturgis Adolescent Center that will be built adjacent to the Elizabeth Mitchell Children's Center at 6601 West Twelfth Street and heard Hillary Clinton proclaim the event "an important day for the children of Arkansas." Later, to the applause of the guests, Mrs. Clinton sat at the controls of a large backhoe and, under the supervision of a professional operator, scooped up a shovelful of dirt and deftly set it aside.
More than $1,050,000 has been raised to build the center through a capital campaign that Mrs. Clinton, wife of Governor Bill Clinton, helped begin in January 1985.
The Children's Center is a mental health agency for emotionally troubled children and their families and provides private counseling for children and families and intensive residential treatment for children aged six to 16 who are experiencing severe emotional problems.
D. Eugene Fortson, the capital campaign chairman, said at the groundbreaking that the new two-story Adolescent Center would meet the needs of disturbed adolescents who often have had to go outside the state to find approved medical care.
He noted that Act 588 of 1985, which was proposed by Mr. Clinton and guided through the legislature by state Senator Max Howell of Jacksonville, had provided a $ 200,000 matching grant for construction of the Adolescent Center.
If Klein (or his editors and publishers) cared enough to check the facts behind Clinton's supposedly newfound interest in children's mental health, it wouldn't have been hard to do: A rudimentary Nexis search for "Hillary Clinton and children! w/5 mental w/5 health" yields 112 results, the oldest of which is the Democrat-Gazette article quoted above.
Elsewhere, Klein repeats tired old complaints about Mrs. Clinton that have been debunked and dismissed countless times. Klein writes:
When the Yankees won the World Series and went to the White House, Manager Joe Torre presented Hillary with a team cap. She promptly put it on and declared that she had "always been a big Yankees fan." After the laughter died down in the saloons and taverns throughout New York City, Hillary looked more like an out-of-touch carpetbagger than ever.
But Klein inexplicably decided not to tell readers the whole story: Clinton "looked more like an out-of-touch carpetbagger than ever" because her political opponents and the media rushed to mock her, ignoring the inconvenient reality that she had, in fact, always been a big Yankees fan.
Again hammering on the "carpetbagger" issue, Klein claims to have found an anonymous "New York-based politico" who was willing to suggest -- in remarkably florid prose -- that key Clinton adviser Harold M. Ickes was an odd choice to run her campaign, since he didn't live in New York:
"It was clear from the way Harold ran the meeting -- and the fact that he brought along [former Clinton-Gore '96 campaign official] Laura Hartigan -- that he was going to be in total charge of Hillary's Senate campaign," said a New York-based politico who was there. "I found it strange that Hillary, who was going to face the sensitive carpetbagger issue, would choose Harold, who now made his headquarters in Washington, D.C., not in New York, and was seriously contaminated by his alleged connections to so many financial scandals.
"Let's face it," this person continued, "Harold might be a brilliant political strategist, but he's not a good guy. And he hated Bill Clinton for having fired him [in the wake of the 1996 campaign-finance scandals, in which Ickes was implicated]. True, Hillary had conspired with Bill behind the scenes to fire Harold, but she pretended otherwise, and was able to good-cop Harold back into her camp for the Senate race. That this seriously compromised guy was her guru said an awful lot about the character of Hillary Clinton."
Klein must have spent a great deal of time tracking down someone willing to argue that Ickes might somehow exacerbate Mrs. Clinton's "carpetbagger" problem, as Ickes's ties to New York were certainly not in question at the time:
- Newsday, 3/11/99: "Few are better equipped to help Clinton navigate New York's choppy political waters than Ickes, the son of a New Deal cabinet secretary and a longtime veteran of New York's bare-knuckles political wars. ... 'Harold is one of smartest political strategists in the country,' said Judith Hope, state Democratic chairwoman. 'And anybody would be fortunate to have him on their team, especially anyone looking to build a career in New York State.' In addition to his link to the Mineola law firm, Ickes also runs his own consulting business with former aide Janice Enright. They count among their clients some of New York's most powerful forces, including the United Federation of Teachers and the New York City Council."
- New York Observer, 2/28/99: "[A]t the very moment the Senate was voting to acquit the President, Hillary was sitting down to what aides call 'just a social lunch' with Ickes Jnr, by now the party's prime wheeler-dealer in New York, to make him her point man in the upcoming campaign."
- The Baltimore Sun, 5/19/99: "He represents New York's City Council and other high-octane interests through his Washington consulting business and still works for a politically connected Long Island law firm. ... Having worked on nearly every level of New York campaign short of dog catcher, his state connections remain solid."
- New York Associated Press political writer Marc Humbert, 7/26/99: "While Republicans are fond of dismissing her as a 'carpetbagger' who has never lived or worked in New York, Hillary Rodham Clinton has put together a political team with strong ties to the state. Republicans aren't convinced it will turn the trick for her. 'Her problem is not her advisers not being from New York, it's her not being from New York,' veteran GOP operative Kieran Mahoney said. But there is no denying her organization has a strong New York flavor. Heading up the first lady's troupe is Harold Ickes, a former White House deputy chief of staff who played key roles in both of Bill Clinton's successful presidential runs. The son of one of the late New York Gov. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's top presidential advisers, Ickes is a veteran of the New York political scene and was a key adviser to former New York City Mayor David Dinkins."
To support his claim that "Ickes seemed intent on turning Hillary's Senate campaign into a dry run for the White House," Klein wrote:
A quick scan of the document [outlining campaign fundraising plans] revealed two major surprises. First, the plan set a staggering goal of $25 million in direct contributions, or so-called hard money, to the candidate. This was a huge amount for a Senate race.
$25 million is, indeed, a "huge amount" -- but less than the $27 million in hard money that another New York senator, Republican Al D'Amato, raised for his unsuccessful 1998 re-election campaign. Put in that context, Mrs. Clinton's fund-raising goal was a bit less "staggering."
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2013 Nissan Altima: New Car Review
Pros: Handsome styling; cushy seats; innovative continuously variable transmission technology
Cons: Vague power steering; engine-induced torque steer
What's New: The Nissan Altima has been completely redesigned for 2013.
The family sedan category in recent years has become the Camry/Accord category. Those two reliable Japanese models have come to represent prudent purchase decisions to many family buyers.
But recently, we've seen the arrival of the all-new Chevrolet Malibu, Ford Fusion, Hyundai Sonata, Kia Optima and Volkswagen Passat, and now the all-new Nissan Altima. Each of these cars has its own strengths and weaknesses, and some are better than both the Honda Accord and the Toyota Camry.
Nissan targeted maximum efficiency for its conventional, non-hybrid version of the Altima, producing the lightest car of this group and continuing the company's class-exclusive use of a continuously variable transmission (CVT) to achieve an impressive 38 mpg on the EPA highway driving cycle for the 4-cylinder model.
Comfort & Utility
Considering the amazing highway fuel efficiency of the 4-cylinder Altima, it is even more incredible that the car is as spacious and comfortable as it is. The Camry feels bigger inside, but the Nissan's materials are clearly nicer.
Nissan boasts that the front seats were designed using NASA zero g technology, and they are comfortable regardless of the connection to NASA. This includes the basic, fabric-covered seats, not just the pricey leather-wrapped ones, although it would be nice to have adjustable lumbar support on the base seats. That fabric seat covering has a soft, fuzzy texture similar to a stuffed teddy bear, and that contributes to the comfortable impression of the seats. Likewise, the headliner and sun visors are also covered in soft fabric.
In the back seat, the legroom is especially commendable, and the seat bottoms are supportive. The rear seatbacks fold down so that long items can pass through from the roomy trunk. They lie at an angle rather than fold flat, so the utility of the load space is fairly limited.
Nissan is ahead of the game in integrating consumer technology into the Altima. A color display sits between the large circular analog gauges and shows tire pressure readings, navigation information, blind spot warning signals and music information from Pandora streamed from a connected smartphone. Bluetooth phone connectivity is standard equipment on all Altimas. Smartphones can also coordinate with the car to provide hands-free messaging and to search Google for points of interest.
The Easy Fill Tire Alert system simplifies pumping up the tires by chirping the Altima's horn when you've put in enough air. Remote keyless entry and push-button start are also standard; these items are more commonly standard only on premium-brand cars.
Performance & Fuel Economy
Nissan carried over the existing Altima's engines, a 182-horsepower 2.5-liter 4-cylinder and a 270-hp 3.5-liter V6. The 4-cylinder's EPA ratings are 27 mpg city and 38 mpg highway, while the V6 scores 22 mpg in the city and 31 on the highway.
Nissan applied its knowhow to the Altima's continuously variable automatic transmission. Nissan has stuck with CVTs while other companies like Ford have tried and given up. For the new Altima, Nissan redesigned 70 percent of the CVT's parts, cutting internal friction by 40 percent and expanding the range of available gear ratios. The computer that manages the transmission has also been programmed to be smarter.
As a result, Nissan credits the CVT with 40 percent of the Altima's improvement in fuel economy for 2013. On the road, there's less of the expected CVT engine screaming at high revs that makes it seem, when accelerating, that something on the car might have broken. In fact, the Altima's CVT is even more invisible to drivers than before, which is high praise for a technology that is widely disliked by drivers because of that disconnected feeling they have had from bad CVTs.
The question is, however, why does Nissan bother with a unique technology when conventional automatics are getting up to eight or nine speeds? For now, Nissan's response to that question is "38 mpg," and that's a good answer.
Nissan offers several new safety technologies aimed at helping Altima drivers avoid accidents, such as lane departure, blind spot and moving object warning systems. Cameras monitor the surrounding area, letting the computer warn the driver if there's a car in the blind spot. Even better, the computer analyzes the images it sees and issues a warning in case there is a moving object in view behind the car.
To supplement the usual new stability control technologies, the Altima features active understeer control. This automatically brakes the inside front wheel when the car is going too quickly into a turn, reducing the understeer effect that is common to front-wheel-drive cars. Understeer is when a car doesn't turn as much as the driver intends because the front tires are sliding.
Driving Impressions
The Altima's styling, comfort and efficiency all promise to make it an excellent contender against the top-selling family sedans. Unfortunately, the car's steering is a significant letdown, particularly in the V6 version.
In turns, the steering provides no feel for the road, and steering effort remains exactly the same no matter how hard the car is turning or how much grip the tires find. This gives the Altima's steering a disconnected, artificial feeling.
Similarly, the Altima suffers torque steer while accelerating. It isn't the seriously bad kind of torque steer in which the engine wrenches the front wheels to the side and tries to change lanes when the driver intended to go straight. No, this is the more subtle sort, in which the car resists the driver's attempt to turn the steering wheel-for instance, when unwinding the wheel while accelerating from a turn.
Other Cars to Consider
Chevrolet Malibu: The Malibu is a smaller, tauter 4-cylinder-only car.
Ford Fusion: The Fusion combines winning style with a huge variety of power sources, including a standard 4-cylinder, a turbo, a hybrid electric and a plug-in hybrid.
Honda Accord: The old standby is still solid, efficient and responsive, although the styling has gotten a little stale.
Hyundai Sonata: The exciting-looking Sonata isn't that exciting to drive, but it is a great car, delivering the combination of price, efficiency and quality that built the Toyota Camry's reputation.
AutoTrader Recommends
Loading the Altima with options quickly runs the price of the V6 version into the low $30,000s, which should scare away family drivers. At that price, Nissan's own Maxima might be the better choice. The responsible family shopper can choose the 2.5 SV trim level for $24,100 and get goodies like remote start, Pandora radio integration and hands-free text reading with 17-inch aluminum wheels and a backup camera, all in a car rated at 38 mpg on the highway.


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Stark Museum of Art Hosts Powerful Portraits Family Day on July 16
The Stark Museum of Art, in Orange, Texas, invites families to Powerful Portraits Family Day on Saturday, July 16, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Admission is free and all ages are welcome.
Powerful Portraits Family Day will highlight portraits from the Stark collection. Children can search for clues during a scavenger hunt in the galleries and win a prize. Families will have the opportunity to try hands-on art activities and enjoy complimentary refreshments.
A highlight of the Family Day will be a photo booth where families can pose for pictures. Props and costumes will be on hand to inspire creative portrait-making, both inside the booth and out.
Art stations will be set up, and families will be able to create their own portrait drawings with oil pastels, as well as color a unique coloring page inspired by portraits from the Museum collection.
Amelia Wiggins, Public Programs Educator, welcomes the public, saying, "We invite families to Powerful Portraits Family Day to create art together and learn from the portraits in the Museum." Wiggins reminds the public that the Museum welcomes all ages, but children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
Families will also have the opportunity to view the special exhibition Visions of the West in a newly renovated gallery. Visions of the West features highlights of the Western collection of the Museum. This exhibition explores how the land, wildlife, individuals, conflicts and communities shape our concepts of the American West. Visions of the West will be on view through Dec. 31, 2011.
Located at 712 Green Avenue in Orange, Texas, the Stark Museum of Art is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Admission is free for all ages. Group tours are available by appointment. For more information call 409-886-ARTS (2787) or visit http://www.starkmuseum.org/.


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Although I knew that many people find tardigrades very interesting I must admit that I did not expect such an interest in the TARDIS project! Information about the TARDIS project has been broadcasted all over the world. And almost every day I get e-mails from journalists and other people interested in knowing more about the project and about tardigrades in general. So it seems that the TARDIS project has really brought this animal group into a public focus. I hope this will also lead to an increased interest in tardigrades from professional biologists. Today, there are probably less than 100 tardigrade researchers in the world.
An important step towards a greater recognition of tardigrades as potential biological model organisms was recently taken by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI, USA), when they decided that the whole genome of a tardigrade (Hypsibius dujardini) should be sequenced within the next few years. Needless to say, this will open up a wide range of possibilities to go deeper into the genetics and physiology of tardigrades, including investigations that may eventually solve the mystery of the extreme tolerances of these animals.
So there is much to look forward to if you are interested in these animals!!
The analyses of the TARDIS samples are still in progress. Please have patience!
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HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — The consensus is that it takes 15-20 games to really evaluate how good or bad a team is. Mike Brown didn't get nearly that long.
USA Today's Sam Amick was the first to report that Brown has been fired as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers after a disappointing 1-4 start.
The Lakers made it official a short time later with a terse press release:
"This was a difficult and painful decision to make," said [general manager Mitch] Kupchak. "Mike was very hard-working and dedicated, but we felt it was in the best interest of the team to make a change at this time. We appreciate Mike's efforts and contributions and wish him and his family the best of luck."
Less than 48 hours ago, Lakers executive vice president Jim Buss gave Brown a vote of confidence. Either Buss was lying through his teeth, or he — or someone around him — had a serious change of heart.
According to TNT's David Aldridge, Brown's camp believes the decision to let him go came straight from Lakers owner Jerry Buss and not from his son, Jim, or general manager Kupchak and without any influence from Lakers star guard Kobe Bryant.
While it's easy to blame the slow start on the Princeton offense that Brown decided to put in this summer, the Lakers actually have played better offensively (where they rank sixth through Thursday's games) than defensively (23rd). And their problems really lie with their lack of depth; L.A.'s starting lineups — with either Steve Nash or Steve Blake — have outscored their opponents by 35 points over their five games.
But ultimately, it was Brown that took the fall.
Early speculation on possible coaches to replace Brown centers on former Phoenix Suns and New York Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni, former Lakers assistant (currently with the Indiana Pacers) Brian Shaw, former Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan and, most prominently, former Lakers coach Phil Jackson. But Aldridge reports that the Lakers are not seriously considering Jackson.
Current Lakers assistant Bernie Bickerstaff will take the reins on an interim basis when the Lakers host the Golden State Warriors tonight. According to Aldridge, the Lakers are still working on a list of possible replacements. Bickerstaff may or may not be on that list.


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text: Best and worst movie foodsUpdated 1915 GMT (0315 HKT) February 22, 2013 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Photos: Best and worst movie foodsBest and worst movie foods – Mystery, intrigue, horror -- you go to the movies hoping to get these on the big screen, not at the concession stand. But don't let the calorie counts of theater treats ruin your night -- there are smart ways to snack at the movies. "There's no getting around the fact that you're going to eat junk when you go to a movie theater," Paul Kriegler, corporate dietitian for Life Time Fitness, told Health.com. "You definitely don't want to go (to the movies) hungry, and whatever you do order you're going to want to share with friends." Here are some other options to pick (and skip) before your flick.Hide Caption 1 of 15 Photos: Best and worst movie foodsBest and worst movie foods – Best popcorn: Small with no toppings or real butter Choose the smallest size popcorn available, says Kriegler, and go easy on the salt and toppings. Even with a small, you'll likely want to split it with a friend. Regal, the country's largest theater chain, reports that their small popcorn contains 670 calories and 34 grams of saturated fat. AMC, the No. 2 chain, serves a smaller option: 370 calories, but still a day's worth of saturated fat (20 grams). Cinemark Theaters, the third largest chain, is your best bet when it comes to popcorn: Their kernels are popped in non-hydrogenated canola oil, which is much lower in saturated fat than its rivals' choice of coconut oil, and is offered in a Junior Bag for only 200 calories, 11 grams fat and only 1 gram saturated fat.Hide Caption 2 of 15 Photos: Best and worst movie foodsBest and worst movie foods – Worst popcorn: Large with butter flavoring Tests done in 2009 by the Center for Science in the Public Interest found nutritional numbers to be higher than advertised for most products it tested, including a large popcorn at Regal (1,200 calories and 60 grams of saturated fat, according to tests); AMC (1,030 calories and 57 grams saturated fat, not counting the free refill!); and Cinemark (910 calories and 4 grams saturated fat). Every tablespoon of buttery topping adds about another 130 calories. And although Cinemark's large popcorn was the lowest in calories and saturated fat, it contained the most sodium: 1,500 milligrams, or an entire day's worth for most people.Hide Caption 3 of 15 Photos: Best and worst movie foodsBest savory snack: Soft pretzel, no cheese – Best savory snack: Soft pretzel, no cheeseRegal Cinema's Bavarian pretzel contains 480 calories -- less than most popcorns or candy boxes, but still more than enough snack to split with the person next to you. Their pretzel bits are slightly better, with 370 calories -- without the cheese dipping sauce on the side. Soft pretzels are notoriously high in sodium, as well, so you may want to ask for one with less salt, or brush most of it off into a trash can before showtime.Hide Caption 4 of 15 Photos: Best and worst movie foodsWorst savory snack: Nachos – Worst savory snack: Nachos Fried corn chips smothered in gooey cheese sauce are pretty much a nutritional nightmare: Regal Cinemas' version contains 780 calories, while AMC's contains 554 calories and 30 grams fat (10 grams saturated). Plus, they're high in cholesterol and sodium -- bad news for your waistline and your heart. Health.com: 25 fattening foods you should never eatHide Caption 5 of 15 Photos: Best and worst movie foodsBest chocolate candy: Sno-Caps – Best chocolate candy: Sno-Caps, 3.1-ounce boxSplit this box of semisweet nonpareils with a friend and you'll each down 180 calories, 8 grams of fat (5 grams saturated), and 24 grams sugar. (That's 360 calories if you eat the whole thing yourself.) It's certainly not the best snack option out there, but at the theater you could also do much worse. "If you know you're going to treat yourself to something really sugary, the best thing you can do is exercise before you go," says Kriegler. "For about 12 hours after a strenuous workout, your body will be a little more sensitive to using sugar from that junk food to replenish energy stores."Doing intervals or a hard strength-training workout before hitting the theater can help minimize the damage done, he adds -- just don't let it turn into an excuse to pig out even further.Hide Caption 6 of 15 Photos: Best and worst movie foodsWorst chocolate candy: M&Ms – Worst chocolate candy: M&Ms, 3.4-ounce box A theater-sized box of milk chocolate M&Ms states its nutrition info clearly on the box: 210 calories! But look a little closer and you'll see the small print beneath those numbers: "per serving," and "2.5 servings per pack." In reality, that's 525 calories in each box, along with 68 grams of sugar and 22 grams of fat (12 grams saturated). Choosing Peanut M&Ms over regular means slightly more total calories and fat, but less sugar and saturated fat. Don't be fooled by other healthier-sounding varieties, however, like peanut butter or dark chocolate: "The quality of nuts and seeds and cocoa used in these candies are so far removed from the natural, good-for-you ingredients, it's not worth considering their health benefits," says Kriegler.Hide Caption 7 of 15 Photos: Best and worst movie foodsBest peanut-butter candy: Butterfinger Minis – Best peanut-butter candy: Butterfinger Minis, 3.5-ounce box A full package of these "crispety, crunchety, peanut-buttery" candies adds up to 450 calories, 20 grams of fat (10 grams saturated) and 45 grams sugar. But it's not all bad: You also get 5 grams of protein and 1.5 grams of fiber -- so it may satisfy you more than another candy that's just straight sugar. "If you're choosing between candies that are pretty much all bad, it makes sense to consider the way you're going to be eating it," says Kriegler. "I would pick the snack you would have to take the longest time eating or chewing or sucking on -- anything to help you slow down the pace at which you're inhaling it."Hide Caption 8 of 15 Photos: Best and worst movie foodsWorst peanut-butter candy: Reese's Pieces – Worst peanut-butter candy: Reese's Pieces, 4-ounce box Their slightly bigger box and colorful candy coating make Reese's Pieces the loser in this category: One package contains 600 calories, 27 grams of fat (21 saturated), and 63 grams sugar. And while the nutritional label lists zero trans fats, the ingredient list still contains partially hydrogenated vegetable oils -- which means that trans fats are present in quantities under half a gram per serving. With three servings per box, you could be chowing down on a significant amount of this artery-clogging ingredient."Serving sizes on food labels are determined by the manufacturer," says Kriegler. "Decide how much you are actually going to eat, and then figure out what that means for you, nutritionally."Hide Caption 9 of 15 Photos: Best and worst movie foodsBest use of real fruit: Smart MovieSnacks – Best use of real fruit: Smart MovieSnacks BundleAMC offers a real-fruit option as part of their Smart MovieSnacks Bundle: For $7, you get a bag of Chiquita Fruit Chips -- a crunchy mix of dehydrated bananas, pineapples, and mangos for 110 calories and 20 grams of sugar -- along with bottled water, air-popped corn chips and an Odwalla trail mix bar.Cinemark Cinemas also offers several zero- or low-calorie items on its concessions menu, including a Dreyer's fruit bar, made with real chunks of frozen fruit, for just 80 calories and 19 grams of sugar. Health.com: 8 movie treats under 80 caloriesHide Caption 10 of 15 Photos: Best and worst movie foodsWorst use of real fruit: Raisinets – Worst use of real fruit: Raisinets, 3.5-ounce box If a fruit is covered in chocolate, is it still a fruit? Hardly, says Kriegler. Let's look at the facts: A theater-size box of milk chocolate Raisinets contains 380 calories, 54 grams of sugar and 16 grams fat; the dark chocolate variety's only slightly better with 360 calories and 52 grams of sugar. The candies may technically contain a half serving of fruit in every quarter cup (or one full serving per box), but you're much better off eating an apple, or even a box of plain raisins -- with zero fat, cholesterol, or added sugar. However, if you're choosing between chocolate-covered candies, Raisinets are a better choice than some other options.Hide Caption 11 of 15 Photos: Best and worst movie foodsBest sour candy: Sour Patch Kids – Best sour candy: Sour Patch Kids, 3.5-ounce box This movie theater classic is actually one of the lowest-calorie candies you can choose, thanks to its relatively small box. (That's not to say a jumbo-size box isn't on its way to a theater near you.) Nutritionally, it's similar to other sugary candies: 150 calories per 40 grams, totaling 395 calories and 65 grams of sugar in each box. There's one more plus to these sour-then-sweet candies: Because of their strong flavor, you may find yourself sucking on them longer and eating fewer of them, says Kriegler.Hide Caption 12 of 15 Photos: Best and worst movie foodsWorst sour candy: Lemonheads – Worst sour candy: Lemonheads, 6-ounce box There are 12 suggested servings in one of these jumbo boxes of chewy candies, "made with real lemon juice," adding up to 600 calories total. They're also made with sugar -- lots of it: Each box has 132 grams!Health.com: Best and worst foods for digestionHide Caption 13 of 15 Photos: Best and worst movie foodsBest dinner entree: Hot dog – Best dinner entree: Hot dog In any other world, a hot dog would not be considered a healthy dinner option: Cured meats are high in sodium and artery-blocking cholesterol, and they contain nitrates -- a chemical that's been linked to cancer and other health problems. At the movie theater, however, it may be better than its alternatives. Unlike giant boxes of candy or bottomless popcorn, hot dogs have built-in portion control; AMC Cinemas says its hot dog (with bun) contains 305 calories and 5 grams of fat, while Regal's clocks in at 284 calories and 10 grams fat. Just don't fall victim to the combo deals with popcorn and soda, or two-for-one offerings. One is more than enough!Hide Caption 14 of 15 Photos: Best and worst movie foodsWorst dinner entree: Pepperoni pizza – Worst dinner entree: Pepperoni pizza According to AMC Cinemas, the brand's personal pepperoni pizza contains 780 calories, 30 grams of fat (16 grams saturated) and a whopping 1,960 milligrams of sodium. To put that in perspective, the American Heart Association recommends a maximum of only 1,500 milligrams in an entire day. Consuming too much sodium on a regular basis can raise your risk for high blood pressure and heart disease.Health.com: Worst fast-food meals for sodiumHide Caption 15 of 15Powered by Livefyre


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The scenario is well known, and the story still haunts the modern mind. The great ocean liner that was built as unsinkable struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912 and sank early the next morning, taking 1,517 of 2,223 lives on board. The RMS Titanic became a parable of modernity -- of the limits of technology and the hubris of humanity. It is also a subject of enduring fascination because of the stories of those who lived and died, known to us because of the fame and fortune of so many on the Titanic.
Less known to many is the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, which was torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915, taking 1,198 of 1,959 lives on board. The sinking of the Lusitania was a major factor in bringing the United States into war against the German Empire in World War I, but it plays a much less prominent role in the American imagination -- largely thanks to Hollywood and its fascination with the Titanic.
But more is at play here, for the two sinkings were notably different in one crucial respect. The Titanic took hours to sink, leaving time for a remarkable human drama on board the sinking ship. The Lusitania sank in just eighteen minutes, leaving far less of a human trace in the imagination.
As it turns out, there was another crucial difference. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences looks at the difference in the behavior of the men aboard the two sinking ships. The difference was remarkable. Aboard the Titanic, the men generally behaved with great concern for women and children, doing their best to get the women and children into the precious and insufficient seats in the lifeboats. Hundreds of men died with the Titanic, demonstrating a commitment to put the welfare and lives of women and children above their own.
Aboard the sinking Lusitania, the scene was very different. Women and children were less likely than men to survive that disaster, because the men used their natural strength and speed to take the spaces on the lifeboats, with women and children forced out of their way.
As The New York Times summarizes: "On the Titanic, the study found, children were 14.8 percent more likely to survive than adults, while on the Lusitania they were 5.3 percent less likely to do so. And women on the Titanic were 53 percent more likely to survive than men, while on the Lusitania they were 1.1 percent less likely to do so."
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The results told a revealing tale. Aboard the Titanic, children under 16 years old were nearly 31% likelier than the reference group to have survived, but those on the Lusitania were 0.7% less likely. Males ages 16 to 35 on the Titanic had a 6.5% poorer survival rate than the reference group but did 7.9% better on the Lusitania. For females in the 16-to-35 group, the gap was more dramatic: those on the Titanic enjoyed a whopping 48.3% edge; on the Lusitania it was a smaller but still significant 10.4%. The most striking survival disparity — no surprise, given the era — was determined by class. The Titanic's first-class passengers had a 43.9% greater chance of making it off the ship and into a lifeboat than the reference group; the Lusitania's, remarkably, were 11.5% less likely.
What accounts for the difference? The researchers looked at several factors, but settled on one that appeared more obvious as they considered the question -- the length of time it took the ship to sink. As the report explains, on the Lusitania "the short-run flight impulse dominated behavior. On the slowly sinking Titanic, there was time for socially determined behavioral patterns to reemerge."
Put plainly, on the Lusitania the male passengers demonstrated "selfish rationality." As TIME explains, this is "a behavior that's every bit as me-centered as it sounds and that provides an edge to strong, younger males in particular. On the Titanic, the rules concerning gender, class and the gentle treatment of children — in other words, good manners — had a chance to assert themselves."
Note carefully the assumption here that "the rules concerning gender, class and the gentle treatment of children" are ascribed to "good manners" and "socially determined behavioral patterns." In other words, the male decision to give priority to the welfare of women and children is just a learned behavior, a social convention.
Is that all there is to it? There is a huge question looming in this -- is it right for men to act with care and concern toward women and children, or is this just an outmoded relic of Victorian morality?
What do modern feminists do with this? Those who stake their lives on the elimination of all meaningful gender distinctions must, if honest, take what they see on the Lusitania as the inevitable result of such a worldview. Are we really to believe that the moral call that makes men act against their own self-preservation is just a socially-constructed artifact of manners?
Aboard the Lusitania, young males acted out of a selfish survival instinct, and women and children were cast aside, left to the waves. Aboard the Titanic, there was time for men to consider what was at stake and to call themselves to a higher morality. There was time for conscience to raise its voice and authority, and for men, young and old, to know and to do their duty.
The Christian worldview based in Scripture explains this in terms of God's revelation of moral order within the structures of creation, and especially in what we call conscience. Even in our fallen state, this moral knowledge speaks to us, and there is a moral knowledge within us that calls us to do what we otherwise would never do -- even what is plainly not in our direct self-interest.
A secular worldview has little at its disposal to explain all this, and is left with some argument based in evolutionary survival behaviors or socially constructed morality. The feminists are in even worse shape in this. They call for a world like the Lusitania, but must hope against hope that the world is really more like the Titanic.
Women and children first. Civilization itself depends upon this kind of moral knowledge. Without it, the entire enterprise of human civilization is destined to sink beneath the waves.
Sindya Bhanoo, "How the Men Reacted as the Titanic and Lusitania Went Under," The New York Times, Monday, March 1, 2010.
Jeffrey Kluger, "Titanic and Lusitania -- How People Behave in a Disaster," TIME Magazine, Wednesday, March 3, 2010.
Trey, Savage, and Torgler, "Interaction of Natural Survival Instincts and Internalized Social Norms: Exploring the Titanic and Lusitania Disasters," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 1, 2010. [Abstract only]


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The Federal Communications Commission yesterday voted along party lines 3 to 2 to approve proposed new rules about Net Neutrality, a development former FCC chair Reed Hundt told me casts a shadow over current deal making by Comcast (CMCSA) and AT&T (T) and others.
Today, the sell side chimed in with some thoughts on the matter.
Raymond James analyst Frank Louthan, who follows Comcast shares and rates them an Outperform, writes that he thinks some of the regulatory effort here is wrong-headed, but he doesn't think that so far there's anything to worry about for Comcast:
First, the ongoing debate over how to ruin the Internet just will not die and the FCC is again taking an opportunity to propose oversight where it may or may not be needed. We applaud the Chairman's openness to debate the merits of business models that allow paid access, especially in the face of opposition that cannot seem to understand how this can coexist with the current best-efforts Internet we have today. That said, the continued push by the protestors for 1930s-style regulation of Internet providers would harm consumers and stifle innovation in our view, and we fail to see how this path can be justified or will prevail in court. While we cannot disagree that net-neutrality may be best left up to Congress, we do believe the notice as it reads today should not be a negative for our coverage universe. We did not rule out the possibility for the Internet service providers (ISPs) to charge for a fast lane, provided they are still providing the agreed-upon speeds to all of their consumers, which could be slightly incremental. In addition, despite the notice asking for comments around the potential for Title II classification, we continue to believe that Title II classification of broadband will not make it through the courts.
Canaccord Genuity's Greg Miller, who follows Internet capacity providers such as Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Level 3 Communications (LVLT), and Cogent Commmunications (CCOI), and rates them all a Buy, thinks all three can benefit from efforts of carriers to make bandwidth available:
We believe that as ISPs (Comcast, AT&T, Verizon and others) become more open to the idea of increasing port capacity to satisfy the demands of their own customers, content neutral transit providers like Level 3 and Cogent will benefit before the NPRM has been codified into rules. We note that Comcast has reported to have made more port capacity available to Cogent prior to their House Judiciary Committee Hearings that took place just last week. We expect this type of behavior will continue and that the continued robust volume growth of the Internet will be reflected in their volume trends as well.
Although "the actual resolution could take years to conclude and implement," writes Miller, nevertheless, "we believe industry participants will begin to behave in a more compliant fashion well before such rules have been codified in an attempt to persuade the FCC to make them less draconian, if nothing else."
Nomura Equity Research telecom analyst Adam Ilkowitz thinks that with FCC chairman Wheeler on the job for only six months so far, "We think today's rulings show that attempting to predict the outcome of merger reviews will be difficult given some of the innovation in regulatory approach."
Despite "ominous questions" in the rule making process, he doesn't expect a very bad outcome in the end:
Many questions are posed in today's rulemaking but no final answers, though the view on 'net neutrality' is more expansive than past attempts at regulation. Title II is on the table, though years of litigation are likely to follow and must be weighed against more expedient regulatory options. Peering is not being considered, limiting the near-term risk as broadband operators won't degrade any traffic. Including wireless is an interesting development, but with data caps already in place we see any final impact as limited. This is the start of a six month process, and we expect the final outcome to be fairly benign.


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SSP are the UK's largest operator of food outlets in train stations and airports. Whilst the name may mean nothing to most, it has more than 30,000 staff in 400 locations across 30 countries with brands in the UK including Upper Crust, Millie's Cookies and Caffe Ritazza. If you're a rail commuter and partial to a baguette or the occasional calorific, oversized chocolate chip biscuit, you are likely very familiar with their offering.
For those who have been reading the business pages of most newspapers or websites this week, the big news is that Kate Swann has been named as their new boss. With sales of £1.7bn reported last year, it's a colossus. And it's now being run by a woman.
She has a track record and credibility, having turned loss making WH Smith profitable. After a decade in charge, when she stepped down last week from the retailers where most of us pick up our reading material before we hop on a train or plane, she had presided over a company that converted a £72m pre-tax loss in her first results in April 2004 to a £69m profit earlier this year.
Swann turned an ailing FTSE 250 giant into a profitable giant and that's no mean feat. And of course being a woman, she is a poster girl for many. Time and time again, I hear women crying out for role models and I am acutely aware - because of the frequency that I hear it - that women need and want more of them.
Conversely and perhaps bizarrely, there seem to be some who don't think her appointment is such good news. With her resignation from a plc board, the statistics for women on boards of listed companies will dip. Women make up under 20pc of FTSE 100 boards with just two years to go to meet the Government's 25pc target set by former banker Lord Davies in 2011 - and there are only 13pc on FTSE 250 boards. And now there's one less.
When I heard that she had stepped down from WH Smith I was, like many, expecting to hear she had stepped into a bigger PLC - or certainly that's what the pundits were saying. There are currently three women at the helm of a FTSE 100 company and contrary to speculation, Swann will not be pushing that number up to four.
Personally speaking - and this might not be popular - but when I read about the new appointment, gender wasn't the first thing that crossed my mind. What I thought was, 'what an interesting choice', not just for SSP but also for Swann.
While I understand the importance of data, given I am an ex-banker and secretly something of a numbers geek, I take great exception to excessive discussions on gender metrics. It's important to record information and consider its implications but when I heard that there was "disappointment" that Swann left a plc for a company owned by a private equity group because "it made the numbers look worse" - that's when gender commentary got out of hand in my books.
If Swann is a role model, she will be as much a role model at SSP as at WH Smiths. I know the statistics for women on boards don't look as good as they could, but her moving to a private company is cause for congratulations (to her on her new job). Expressing disappointment because the numbers are negatively affected is absurd: it places emphasis on statistics over common sense.
And, while I'm at it, something else which I rarely hear said. Maybe women don't join boards out of choice. Has anyone thought of that? Sitting on the executive board has many positives - I love the stock market and it appeals to me - but that's just me. Joining a plc board carries a significant amount of fiduciary risk. And in the case of a FTSE company, sitting on the board likely involves being involved in a large corporate, the culture and politics of which may not appeal to woman (or indeed men).
Should it really be women on boards that we focus on, or should it be less about gender and more about diversity? In the USA, there are less African-Americans on boards than women. And although it's not a 'minority issue', I can't think of many listed boards in any country where there's an entrepreneur with a seat at the table. Quite often the board is composed of 'safe hands' and recognisable names who may be more prone to following corporate policy and practice, whereas entrepreneurs are typically more likely to 'rock the boat' and 'inconveniently call a spade a spade'. You know what they say. Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Shouldn't we be talking about creating cultures that are inclusive? Shouldn't we be aiming to create environments which recognise and celebrate different points of view? And to those who have expressed disappointment about Swann's move: aside from the fact that her career choices are none of our business - stop focusing on the numbers. Or rather, spend less time focusing on the numbers and more time focusing on how you are going to change them (if you so believe they need changing). Actions don't just speak louder than words: they also, in my book, speak louder than statistics.
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Before the show each of the 12 architecture students submitted a plan and then they voted on which one would be built. This season's winning design is a two-story, 1,200-square-foot, three-bedroom house that features Structural Insulated Panels, or SIPs. These high performance building panels are durable, energy efficient, and cost-effective. Sips are constructed by sandwiching foam insulation between two structural skins of fiber-cement, metal or oriented strand board (OSB). OSB is made from sustainably harvested wood, and SIP foam cores are composed from air and a small amount of petroleum. According to the Structural Insulated Panel Association, "The average SIP home saves nineteen times the energy it took to make the EPS insulation in the first year of installation".
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