When Ben Affleck thanked Jennifer Garner in his Oscar speech, it should have been an "aww" moment. Unfortunately, it came off as more of a "whaa?" moment.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? South Africa's president says Nelson Mandela is responding well to treatment for pneumonia in a hospital.
A statement from President Jacob Zuma's office says he visited 94-year-old Mandela on Thursday and was informed by doctors that the former president's condition is improving.
The statement quotes Zuma as saying that Mandela is stable and responding well to treatment.
Mandela was admitted to a Pretoria hospital on the night of March 27. It is his third trip to a hospital since December, when he was treated for a lung infection and also had a procedure to remove gallstones. Earlier in March, he spent a night in a hospital for what officials said was a scheduled medical test.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/south-african-president-visits-mandela-hospital-103259689.html
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Susan Patton, a Princeton alumna, wrote a letter to the campus newspaper last week encouraging undergraduate women to take their personal lives seriously while at the elite university. The furor caused by this bit of motherly advice is absurd, and underscores the zero-sum game?career success or marital happiness?that older women want to impose on a new generation.
As educators, parents, and role models, we encourage college women to prioritize their education and careers because we know how important those accomplishments will be to their well-being. So why is it verboten to offer similar encouragement to prioritize their personal lives? The choice of a life partner is among the single biggest ways we affect our trajectory and ability to create a meaningful life. To suggest that career goals are worthy of discussion and effort, while the personal happiness should ?just happen,? sends an inaccurate message to young adults.
Elements of Patton?s letter miss the mark: College women should not feel pressured to marry right out of college for fear that they?ll never find anyone better than the men on campus. Census data clearly show that educated, successful women marry older, and wiser, than their less-educated peers. There are plenty of opportunities?in graduate school, through friends, and at work?to meet and marry a kind, supportive, and smart person.
But that?s not really what?s causing the kerfuffle here. The debate springs from the now-taboo M word. Try this: Read Patton?s letter and substitute the word ?career? for the word ?marriage.?
For most of you, the cornerstone of your future and happiness will be inextricably linked to the career you choose, and you will never again have this concentration of career options available to you.
Suddenly the argument becomes rather pedestrian, huh? To encourage a young woman to take her personal life seriously?and yes, to consider marriage, which remains a consistent goal for young adults, according to opinion data?just as we encourage her to prioritize her career shouldn?t cause such a stir.
The perception of norms has a significant influence on behavior. So when serious relationship formation isn?t something we?re even allowed to discuss with undergraduate women, why are we surprised when the default relationship patterns seem to be hookups and casual sex?
I teach a course on the sociology of marriage at the University of Pittsburgh. We explore the history of marriage, the debate over same-sex marriage, gender roles, and the varying salience of religion and popular culture in establishing norms for what a ?happy marriage? should be.
When we get to the section on relationship formation, we talk about old-fashioned courtship, dating, and the current hookup culture on college campuses. Students tell me tales of drunken encounters, text-messaging, ?Facebook stalking,? and little or no daytime or sober conversations. Is that the norm for most relationships on campus? I doubt it. But it is the perceived norm?because any admission that you seek a serious relationship that might lead to marriage would mark you as a social deviant.
In her new book, The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture Is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy, Donna Freitas argues that college women?and men, too?crave more-substantial relationships, but since that?s too uncool to even speak of, they settle for casual sex as an unsatisfying alternative. Freitas?s book is a welcome counter to Hanna Rosin?s claim that young college women are driving the hookup culture because it helps them avoid the emotional entanglements that might get in the way of future educational and career success.
In his Atlantic review of the book, David Masciotra quotes the George Carlin line that ?language always gives us away.? The term ?hooking up? is emotionless and empty, just like the act itself. Freitas agrees, as do I. But the language is important here for another reason: Language helps to create norms for behavior as well, and unclear or inaccurate language can lead us astray. You might assume that you?and all college students?know the definition of a ?hookup.? It means sexual intercourse with no strings attached, right? Not exactly.
According to the research of the Stanford professor Paula England and my own online and anonymous class surveys, only about a third of students personally define a hookup as sex, but they believe that other people nearly always use the term to mean that level of sexual intimacy. So one student might say, ?I hooked up last night,? meaning that she kissed a guy at a bar, while the student listening hears that she had sex with the guy.
College students aren?t having nearly as much casual sex as we fear. But they also aren?t forming and focusing on the healthy long-term relationships we might hope they?d carry forward after graduation.
To bemoan the hookup culture and then criticize a discussion about the importance of young adults? establishing real relationships sends mixed messages that are frustrating for college students. Marriage is a worthwhile priority in life. So is an office in the C Suite. Today?s college woman is among that fortunate group with access to both. But let?s not limit her options by limiting the bounds of our conversation.
Christine B. Whelan is a visiting assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of Generation WTF (Templeton Press, 2011) and Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women (Simon & Schuster, 2006). She is a Princeton alumna and married a Princeton man six years after she graduated.
Source: http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/04/02/marriage-is-not-a-dirty-word-for-college-women/
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Are you part of the 4%? The 4% of Americans, that is, who believe that shape-shifting reptilian people control our world by taking on human form and gaining political power to manipulate our societies? If you're not, you may be a touch aghast by the (still low) number. But according to a new poll from Public Policy Polling, the conspiracy theorists are strong among us.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bitcoin-prices-surge-worries-speculative-bubble-mount-025707264.html
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Dangling WiFi-carrot meet your BlackBerry-made stick: the Z10. Perhaps because its user base has traditionally courted strong enterprise support -- a lot that typically overlaps with the jet set -- BlackBerry's offering an incentive to adopters of its BB 10 pearl, granting gratis Gogo-powered internet access for all domestic Delta flights. The best part? Latching onto that free WiFi is as simple as logging in and firing up the browser on your Z10 when it's "safe to use your electronic devices." Will this tip your hand and get you to switch to BB 10? Probably not, but it's the sort of pot sweetening that should keep BlackBerry's (moneyed) customers around for the long-haul.
[Thanks, Jared]
Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, Mobile, Blackberry
Source: BlackBerry
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/03/blackberry-z10-free-gogo-wifi-delta/
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Lance Armstrong is looking to make a splash with a return to competition.
The disgraced cyclist is signed up to swim three events this weekend at the Masters South Central Zone Swimming Championships at the University of Texas. Armstrong spokesman Mark Higgins said Wednesday that Armstrong, 41, will compete in the 40-44 age group in the 500-, 1,000- and the 1,650-yard freestyle.
Rob Butcher, executive director of U.S. Masters Swimming, said the organization is not covered under the same anti-doping rules as the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which banned Armstrong for life from its sanctioned events for his performance-enhancing drug use during his cycling career.
''Our mission, dating back to the 60s, is we encourage adults to swim,'' Butcher said. ''Lance is a member of USMS so he is eligible to swim.''
But the U.S. Master's Swimming web site suggests U.S. Masters Swimming falls under the umbrella of FINA, the international swimming federation, which is covered by the World Anti-Doping Code that bars Armstrong from competing. The web site portion covering rules links to the FINA Masters rules, which states FINA adopted the World Anti-Doping Code in 2007.
Butcher and Higgins did not immediately respond to emails Wednesday night seeking clarification.
U.S. Master's Swimming does not drug test. Butcher said earlier in the day U.S. Masters Swimming has debated in the past whether to start testing and whether Armstrong or other athletes who have been caught doping should be allowed to compete.
''We just stick to the fact that our purpose is encouraging adults to swim,'' Butcher said.
Armstrong had been pursuing a post-cycling career in triathlons before he was banned by USADA for performance-enhancing drug use. A message was left seeking comment from USADA.
Armstrong had to register for the Austin event by March 31. According to the meet event sheets, Armstrong has the second-best qualifying time in the 1,000 and No. 3 in the 1,650 and 500.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/armstrong-splash-return-214105645--spt.html
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With fiber making inroads and traditional carriers boosting speeds to compensate, internet connections are getting faster. What type of connection do you have?
Even though internet connections are better and more reliable than they've been in the past, things still aren't perfect?at least not in the US. Fiber is only available in select areas, cable companies tend to monopolize particular areas, and wireless just isn't quite there yet. We've talked in the past about how to deal with slow connections and how to troubleshoot flaky connections.
But we'd like to know:
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