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Herbert V. Hotchkiss Hall Men's and Women's Dormitory
Some history of the dorm:
Hotchkiss Hall was the first dorm constructed when the College moved to its current location in the 1960's. It was dedicated on April 30, 1965 to Dr. Herbert Hotchkiss stating: "No man ever deserved to be memorialized in connection with an educational institution more than Herbert Hotchkiss." The dorm was totally renovated including new furishings, fixtures and carpet in 2009.
Herbert Hotchkiss came to Los Angeles Baptist Seminary in fall of 1947 from Pennsylvania at the invitation of Dr. Milton Fish, the new Dean of the Seminary. The school had just started to broaden its courses into liberal arts degree work, but it was a time of great financial challenge for the school and the Board of Directors considered merging the school with another seminary or even closing the school over the summer of 1947. But partially because of a letter from Hotchkiss, the board reconsidered and decided to move forward with another school year. Hotchkiss was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree at commencement ceremonies in 1952. Dr. Hotchkiss' wife, Majorie, also served the college coordinating volunteer efforts to renovate the new property in Placerita canyon, and would later serve as "Dean of Women". Dr. Dunkin would refer to her as the "mother" of the school. Dr. Herbert Hotchkiss was the father of current TMC English Professor John Hotchkiss.
What is Hotchkiss Hall like?
Hotchkiss Dorm is a two story building in the shape of a "H". Between the two sides of rooms are a central lounge on the first story and two apartments for the Resident Directors on the second story.
There are eight wings, four men's and four women's, with a large central shower and restroom area and laundry facilities and 12 rooms on each wing. Each room is fully furnished for two students including beds, built-in shelving, drawers, and closet space and desks. And each room has an individual hearter/air-conditioner unit. The wings are normally referred to as "Upper-Back", "Lower-Back", "Upper-Front" and Upper-Back" referencing their location from the central entrance in the lounge.
Some old and new traditions:
Hotchkiss Apple Pie Night
Hotchkiss Christmas Party (complete with ugly sweater awards)
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Video: This is what Skyrim's Kinect voice commands sounds like
Bethesda made quite a splash last week by announcing that Skyrim would get a Kinect patch for voice controlled commands and dragon shouts.
Kotaku's Jason Schreier got to give the voice controls a shouting and test seemed to be rather impressed with the added depth voice controls give Skyrim.
The whole thing is based on your Favorites menu. You can go through that list and say things like "assign fire spell" or "assign bow." Then, while wandering through tundras or killing villagers or whatever it is you like to do in Skyrim, you can activate those keywords by saying things like "equip bow" or "equip fire left" (for your left hand).
Dragon shouts are a different story. You can say their English translations without a problem, but to use them in Dragon-speak, you have to hold down a button while speaking. This is because the Kinect only recognizes English, a Bethesda representative explained.
In its announcement last week, Bethesda said the patch would have over 200 voice commands. Holy moly!
Although I haven't given the voice commands for Skyrim myself, I can attest that in the many games that do have voice controls, the Kinect seems to fair just fine in recognizing specific commands.
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Sinusitis Symptoms: Signs and treatment of sinus infection
Sinuses is a condition that involves inflammation of the sinuses, that may occur resulting from infection of issues by bacteria, fungi, viruses, allergic or autoimmune. An infection in the breast can cause a headache or pressure in the eyes, nose, cheek area, or on one side of the head. of infection but also face the problem as a cough, fever, bad breath and nasal congestion with thick nasal secretions. Breast is also caused by colds, air pollutants (allergens) extreme weather conditions, weak immune system, stress, dehydration, excessive snuff, lesions of the nasal bones and infection dental.
sinus infection is classified as subacute, acute and chronic, depending on the duration of the condition. Acute (sudden) sinusitis lasts less than 4 weeks, subacute, about 4-6 weeks, and chronic (long term) and sinusitis, as its name suggests, usually lasts over 12 weeks. Other signs include nasal discharge, thick yellow or greenish, cough, fever, bad breath and upper jaw pain, fatigue, sore throat, trouble breathing through the nose, loss of smell and very rarely, a burning sensation in the eyes. In severe cases, infection can lead to sinus infection Brain osteomyelitis, and meningitis.
Humans have four pairs of these cavities referred to as:
The maxillary sinuses are each cheek.
The frontal sinuses are on both sides of the forehead above their eyes.
The smaller ethmoid sinuses are behind the bridge of the nose, between the eyes.
The sphenoid sinuses are between the top of the nose and behind his eyes.
Sinusitis Symptoms
- pain and pressure in the face that is worse when bending forward
- nasal obstruction with green or yellow mucus, which can drain from the rear of the nose into the throat and can cause sore throat and cough
- a headache upon waking in the morning
- fever
- earache
- toothache or pain in the upper jaw
- Frontal sinusitis can cause pain just above the eyebrows and forehead may be tender to touch.
- Maxillary sinusitis can cause the upper jaw, teeth and cheeks to ache and may be mistaken for toothache.
- ethmoid sinusitis can cause pain in the eyes and sides of your nose.
- Sphenoid sinusitis can cause pain around your eyes, on top of the head or temples. Also may have ear pain and neck pain.
Sinus infection (sinusitis) treatment
1. Drink fluids hot. One of the best ways to unclog sinuses is to drink hot tea – black, green, herbal or decaffeinated, no matter – or hot chicken soup throughout the day. Drink enough so that your urine turns clear. These hot liquids help moisturize the mucous membranes, accelerating the movement of cilia and thus washing mucus of the sinuses faster. Sorry, java lovers, but hot coffee is not as effective.
2. Apply warm compresses to the face. Do these three times a day for five minutes. A small towel soaked in warm water, then placed on the face below and between the eyes, will help increase circulation her breasts, which will also help accelerate the movement of their cilia.
3. Irrigate your sinuses. For 3,000 years, yoga practitioners have kept their breasts healthy through the practice of inhaling a saltwater solution rapidly in and out of the nose at low pressure. Caution: Do not attempt do this unless you have been taught how.
4. Clear your sinuses with aromatherapy. To help open clogged nasal passages and sinuses, a falling eucalyptus or menthol oil in a bowl of hot water, and then breathe the fumes – or simply open a jar of either inhale the fumes directly.
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This measure sought to issue a bond in the amount of $1.2 million in order to help pay for roof, bathrooms and other general upgrades in the schools as needed.[1]
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
|Be it resolved by the School Board of the School District of Wonewoc and Union Center, Juneau, Sauk and Richland Counties, Wisconsin that there shall be issued pursuant to Chapter 67 of the Wisconsin Statutes, general obligation bonds in an amount not to exceed $1,200,000 for the public pupose of paying the cost of replacing a roof on the school building; upgrading two girls' and two boys' bathrooms and completing other upgrades to the school building, including related equipment.[2]
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In previous years I was in photojournalism. I worked for a local newspaper and met many great people in Point Pleasant, Point Pleasant Beach and Bay Head, New Jersey. This also included photography with high school's sports and events. I didn't make alot of money, but it was a blast.
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Lopez expecting "tough start" for Lotus in Australia 11th March 2014, 13:45
Lotus face a "tough start" to the 2014 season, team chairman Gerard Lopez admitted ahead of the first race of the year.
Tough year ahead for Lotus after losing top names 6th March 2014, 10:00
Lotus have lost their star driver, their team principal and their top designer but what they haven't lost is their sense of humour.
"Long days and nights" ahead for struggling Lotus 2nd March 2014, 16:43
Lotus admit they have a lot of work to do before the first race in Australia as they still have much to learn about their E22.
Lotus to revert to old exhaust after failure 27th February 2014, 15:30
Lotus managed just 31 laps of running on the first day of the final test in Bahrain after a new exhaust on their E22 chassis failed.
Lotus appoint Pic as third driver 21st February 2014, 8:44
Lotus have hired former Caterham racer Charles Pic as their third driver for the new season.
Lotus: FIA happy with "innovative" E22 nose 20th February 2014, 15:58
The FIA is satisfied with Lotus's interpretation of the rules with the striking two-pronged nose which features on their new E22.
Lotus E22 hits the track in Bahrain 19th February 2014, 8:07
Lotus have become the final team of 2014 to run their car in public as their new E22 chassis appeared on the first day of testing in Bahrain.
Lotus E22 to run for first time at Jerez 7th February 2014, 9:13
Lotus will give their new E22 chassis its first today at Jerez.
Lotus E22: First pictures 24th January 2014, 12:02
Here are the first pictures of Lotus's new contender, the E22, which features a double-pronged nose.
Lopez takes over as Boullier leaves Lotus
Lotus has confirmed team principal Eric Boullier has left and his role will be taken over by co-chairman Gerard Lopez.


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America's universities have long had a reputation for being the best in the world—a truth so apparently self-evident that it's rarely been doubted or questioned. But what if the nation's 5,000 institutions of higher education, as a whole, have fallen behind their international peers?
Indeed, there's lots of evidence that American higher education could be doing significantly better. But how?
It's a question The Hechinger Report set out to answer by visiting countries on three continents and examining their new higher-education agendas.
As President Barack Obama has noted time and again, the U.S. has slipped from first to 16th in the world when it comes to the percentage of our population aged 25-34 with postsecondary credentials. We're at 41 percent, or about two out of every five young adults, according to the latest data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development—and this despite the huge cost of U.S. higher education to families and taxpayers.
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This story is part of The Hechinger Report's ongoing series on what the U.S. can learn from higher education in other countries.
Read the rest of the series and keep up on ongoing news on our blog.
World champion South Korea is at 63 percent. Canada—with which the United States shares a border, yet which fares far better in this international ranking—is tied with Japan for second. Fifty-six percent of Canadian and Japanese young people hold degrees. Russia follows, in fourth, at 55 percent. So what's going on?
Yes, the U.S. is home to Ivy League institutions such as Harvard and Yale, along with top-rated M.I.T. and Stanford. And yes, the U.S. boasts 17 of the top 20 universities in the world, according to the most recent Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Yet these institutions enroll a thin slice of America's 20 million college students. Far more attend two- and four-year colleges, both public and private, of often-questionable quality.
And for every U.S. student who graduates, two drop out. Nearly 80 percent of those who enroll in community colleges never finish what they start.
The United States is facing a projected shortfall of 16 million college-educated adults in the American workforce by 2025 if it doesn't change the rate at which it produces college graduates. Young Americans today will make history for being the first generation ever to be less educated, and to earn less and live less comfortably, than their parents.
With the country on the cusp of a double-dip recession, millions remain unemployed and leading thinkers are suggesting that the 21st century belongs to China and India, not America.
Why? We hear again and again that it's because America fell asleep at the wheel.
Our series, "Lessons From Abroad," tells the story of a once-dominant nation in danger of being left behind. We invite you to be a part of the discussion, as it unfolds over the coming months on this site, in The Washington Post and in other national outlets. The Hechinger Report will turn its attention to higher education in China, India, Japan and South Korea, as well as Canada, Great Britain and Ireland. Blaine Harden reports on Japan in today's Washington Post. Our hope is to spark a national conversation about higher education that continues well beyond our coverage.
In their new book, That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum explain both the opportunities and the challenges facing the United States:
"To prosper, America has to educate its young people up to and beyond the new levels of technology … we need our education system not only to strengthen everyone's basics—reading, writing, and arithmetic—but to teach and inspire all Americans to start something new, to add something extra, or to adapt something old in whatever job they are doing. With the world getting more hyper-connected all the time, maintaining the American dream will require learning, working, producing, relearning, and innovating twice as hard, twice as fast, twice as often, and twice as much" (emphasis in the original).
Our series attempts to showcase the vital lessons to be learned about how other countries get more of their students to and through college than the United States does. What works in higher education elsewhere? How are other countries increasing access and success among historically underrepresented groups? How are they maintaining quality without increasing costs, while also focusing on what students actually learn and are able to do?
More specifically, how has China doubled its higher-education participation in just the last decade—attracting students who once came to the United States for college—and how does it educate a quarter of the world's students with just two percent of the global education budget? How has Canada increased attainment rates and integrated immigrants and native populations into its higher-education system? How has Ireland created strong linkages between its K-12 and higher-education systems?
And the most important question of all: For America to avert catastrophe and regain both its educational edge and economic dominance, how—and how urgently—must U.S. higher education change?
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This is exactly why the KIPP Schools 'experiment' makes so much sense; it is an innovative way of addressing the callenge of educating our kids effectively and saving money at the same time. The other issue is that while there is strength in diversity, there lies potential ruin in the hodge-podge, fragmented nature of the US schooling system which is draining scarce resources: each state clings onto its antiquated 'educational autonomy', thus risking the nation as a whole. The educational fabric disintegrates further as each district in the nation practically does 'its own thing', all in the name of autonomy – but at what cost?
[…] The story is the first in the Hechinger Report's Lessons from Abroad series on how our international competitors are educating their young people. […]
this is the issue which requires healthy discussions……..
I believe our higher education system needs to be more responsive to college dropouts, but what has separated the U.S. and will continue to do so is the freedom to pursue our passions in life. By many measures, the U.S. has a decided edge in creativity and our standard of living allows people to experiment with their passions until they find their niche. Our capitalist society encourages people to go into business for themselves. Our entire tax code encourages it by being so business friendly. That doesn't lend itself to pursue working for others in a traditional sense as a variety of degrees may or may not be needed. That same capitalist society has shown educated people that if corporations can improve the bottom line by moving jobs overseas they will regardless of the training or degrees held by its workers. There has to be some return to patriotism and the will of CEOs and Boards to pursue the American dream here by committing to an American workforce! Globalism has allowed them to tap into workforces that demand much less compensation than Americans because they are coming from a standard of living well below Americans. It might help the bottom line, but it sure doesn't help fellow Americans maintain their standard of living or pursuit of the American dream! I believe we need to improve education in America simply because if you aren't improving you are either stagnating or worse. But, these realities faced by the average Amercian must be taken into account too in order to fully understand the actions of those trying to keep the American dream alive for themselves.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (PISA) test results have generated much discussion – is it "a Sputnik" moment or are international comparisons invalid? Rather than wade into that debate, I'd rather look more closely at the questions in the PISA test and what student responses tell us about American education. You can put international comparisons aside for that analysis.
Are American students able to analyze, reason and communicate their ideas effectively? Do they have the capacity to continue learning throughout life? Have schools been forced to sacrifice creative problem solving for "adequate yearly progress" on state tests?
Your readers might enjoy answering one of PISA questions. It offers insights into the demands of higher order thinking. Do American students learn how to sequence (higher order thinking) or simply memorize sequences provide by the teacher?
See my post for the question, answers, and PISA data – "Stop Worrying About Shanghai, What PISA Test Really Tells Us About American Students" http://bit.ly/tPE1YE
Our responsibility as educators is to do a better job of educating the public on the changes needed in education. I am not sure how to manage that task but it must be done. We live in a country where freedom of speech is highly respected and yet at times those speaking may not have as much of the background information needed to freely speak on the topic of raising the achievement gaps of our children in America.
Too often tax payers have closed the door to the nedds of public education and they don't realize the damage caused when educational issues are voted down because of past histories of poor managers. Unfortunately, the children suffer and are being punished because of managers neglect. I wish I had a simple answer to change the past disappoints of the educational system. However, the change is needed and unless our country recognizes the need for change, our educational ranking continues to slips downward.
I believe that the costs of higher education prohibit a large percentage of students from attending or continuing their post secondary studies. Many dropout because loans are oppressive, or they can't find the funds at all. Many go to work after their undergraduate degree because they simply cannot afford to stay in school further. We should address the outlandish costs of higher education in this country, as well as the type of education it provides.
[…] are falling behind the rest of the world, and millions of students are stuck in failing schools to which they are relegated solely by virtue […]
[…] we have too many people out of work, and we continually fall behind other developing countries in educating our children. So, how about our next president level with us? Tell us the truth and the hard […]
REFORM REFORM REFORM The entire Education system. Look at the rest of the world who is leaving the US in the DUST. definitely evaluate the Teachers so they would not get lazy as they are now.
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I got this from a long time ex-MRA who wanted to see my opinion on this. Primarily because I speak as someone who lies between two different cultures and so has seen the progress western culture has made in the treatment of women compared to the Indian side of my culture. So with this in mind let's cover A Voice for Men's article on "Why Women Need Men's Human Rights movement". Or basically…
There's been some talk recently about A Voice for Men having another SENIOR Editor who is a woman, and news of two more also on the way. It's been along the lines of "Well, now that women have worked their way into the organization will they censor men's voices and dominate the agenda?"To be honest that was my first thought.It was an "Uh Oh, what's this?" moment, and I tried to do two things thereafter.
Because men's voices are "so censored" in mainstream conversation? The entire dialogue in modern civilisation that is "important" is entirely in the hands of men. So while Loose Women may be on telly mocking us, we still make up the bulk of Question Time. The argument isn't "fair". I am sure women in MRA groups worked their way there by literally having to throw women under a bus.
First off to try and put myself back some years – to when I was figuratively speaking dripping blood from raw gaping wounds inflicted upon me by feminists and their white knight enablers, because I know that's where many men are at despite the best efforts of a growing Men's Human Rights Movement. In that sense I tried to put myself in the shoes of the guy freshly ripped a new one by the 'femily caught', or the guy in prison for an uncorroborated 'sex crime'.
Oh come on… Fine! I will take it seriously. The way I see it there are two groups of people who have been "done wrong" in this argument. And both are "stupid and bad". MRAs and the Man Haters. Both perceive that they have been been wronged and so take it out on everyone of another gender. The man hating feminist does exist, but they aren't feminists so much as "a weirdo position". Just like "racists" are one. You cannot look at them and then say, you know what? Feminism is crazy? Away to the Kitchen and make me a sarnie. Same thing with MRAs. I argue for more men in nursing. I want more men to learn gynaecology and stop it being a girl's only club just as much as I want surgery to stop being a boy's club. As for "the guy in prison for uncorroborated sex crimes".
You do realise it's a myth. Unless there is evidence of coitus and defensive injuries it is ridiculously hard to get a rape conviction because our system relies on evidence of guilt. We don't function by hearsay and gossip. You cannot simply go and accuse someone of "rape" and then have that person jailed without an evidence based TRIAL. And the procedure for such is quite demeaning to the rape victim? In India? The cops bring the victim to a doctor and you lay out paper on the floor, strip the victim nude and examine them with a nurse (and a copper) in the same room. Any evidence falls on the paper and is collected. You do vaginal smears and lugol iodine (VILI). However that requires a relatively fast grab on any rapist and victim. I mean the victim has to stumble into the police station immediately. The better our resources at handling and destigmatising rape the faster we get aid to such women (and men) and the more we put away rapists. Though? I bet if we actually did this there would be a lot more "innocent" men on MRA sites claiming they were stitched up. As of now? Admission of being raped is NOT fun. I do wish that AVfM's Senior Editor (the female one) grasped that concept. Admission of rape isn't a gravy train.
Or the guys jailed for having been laid off as construction companies dried up and they were subsequently unable to pay child support.
And that has what to do with "feminism"? That has to do with legality. Right… Shennanigans. I call shennanigans. AVfM has not done the research here. Loss of a job is a valid reason for modification of Child Support. Unemployment and Changes in Income are EXPLICITLY stated as reasons for modification of child support. In order to actually fall down this trap you would have to lie about not losing your job. It's a simple phone call. Even cross state borders in the USA there is a mechanism for reducing your child support payments if you are undergoing hardship.
I tried to empathize with the young guys on campus being forced to swallow PC feminist 'rape awareness' bullshit, with draconian speech codes and humiliating walk a mile in her shoes nonsense, or else risk getting their grades from feminist gatekeepers slashed and burnt.
It's been a while since I was back home but Rape Awareness is simple. DO NOT FUCKING RAPE ANYONE. ASK FOR PERMISSION. IF YOU ARE TOO DRUNK TO BUY A CAR, THEN YOU ARE TOO DRUNK TO GIVE PERMISSION. AND SO ARE THEY. Now permission can be implied but if you cannot understand basic implied communication then FUCKING BE EXPLICIT. We aren't dating victorian ladies whose mercury and lead based make up, poor diet and whalebone corsets have left them so weak that the mere question of sex will cause them to faint. It's not perfect but "JUST ASK". The clothes they wear mean absolutely fuck nothing. Just because a man wears a tuxedo doesn't mean you can steal his wallet because he was "rich" or "possibly a philanthropist". Draconian Speech Codes? Mate, you would ask if you wanted to borrow my shirt or even take a sip of my drink or a bite from my sandwich. How is it draconian to expect the same level of permission with regards to sex? And by saying "walk a mile in her shoes" it doesn't mean strap on some mules and go for a stroll. It means "THINK HOW SHE DOES". If you don't, then you don't risk getting your grades slash and burned, you risk raping someone and going the fuck to jail.
I thought of the boys, the latest of a million generations of young males hardwired to run, jump, throw, yell, spit, haze, wrestle and take risks being scolded for being themselves by dumb educational matriarchs who don't understand male nature and want to squash male students humanity into unnatural conformist sit-still and chat feminine type docility.
Girls want to do that too. It's just that we never let them. And unfortunately wrestling gets people hurt and starts "fights". So no. Teaching our young men to NOT get into fist fights is important. Every martial art out there and self defence system teaches responsibility in combat. You are told to avoid fighting. You are told to distract, evade and defend rather than attack. Yes there are some ridiculously aggressive martial arts out there but they are for use in specific circumstances. If we all thought like the author we would raise a generation of thugs. While it's fun to watch a bunch of kids wrestling and playing in the mud rather than the notion of a sterile padded room you have to realise RESPONSIBILITY. Outside your purview the people responsible for your children are not going to take risks getting sued. Which is why whenever a school does something vaguely risky (like cooking or adventure holiday stuff) they contact parents to sign release forms absolving the school of damages and responsibility for any "normal" or "unforseen injuries". So the school cannot be responsible for a cooking class where Jimmy burns his hand if you have signed the waiver.
Otherwise schools can lose millions and people can lose jobs. It's just plain sensible to not faff around with such things. However? In your own house you can have them rolling around screaming if you like. You are responsible and if you think it's good that all your boys need to learn to roll around punching each other then GO FOR IT. Just remember, you are responsible for the result.
It's why we have referees when we play rugby. Because without a referee, full contact rugby will turn into "Mud Punching" and "Broken Teeth Pickup". Imagine that with a teacher and children who have poor impulse control?
I thought of the fathers, millions of them in pain, waiting, waiting, waiting and knowing that with each passing heartbeat another moment was lost with their dear children who they ache to be close to again to end the dark nights of alienation.
Except there is custody arrangements and most people get custody on weekends or every other weekend. And every person is different. And if it is so much then you can contact the people in charge of custody and arrange better hours. And yes while men should be getting custody more, the unfortunate problem with MRAs is that they wouldn't do anything to help those men. Nothing concrete. It's very hard to get anything concrete done when your response to increased female custody victories being "Feminist Conspiracy" rather than the entrenched notion that women are better caregivers and that men are incapable of being good single parents.
Hell, MRAs such as Stephen O'Brian themselves believe in the innate differences between men and women also including things such as personality. How can you on one paragraph claim that boys are all mud rolling fight monsters while girls are all dainty tea party holding conversationalists and then expect the same stereotypes to not hold true with age?
Anger was beginning to build in me. Old familiar cold hard anger.
Dark Sider eh?
I was thinking "fucking hell, now A voice for Men is turning into another organization where a woman is SENIOR Editor and has the power to edit men's voices at the time men desperately need their voices to be heard! Again women get to be gatekeepers of men's experience, filtering it through a consciousness that ISN'T and can never be the result of what men experience because people treat men differently than they treat women. Shit!"
Another organisation? Let's just look at the New York Times. In the Department Heads section there are just TWO women out of 15 employees. There should be at least 7 to 8. The management section has 2 too (Treasurer and Secretary).
And men make up the mainstream experience. The status quo experience is White, Male and Straight. Men aren't treated differently from Women. Women are treated differently from men. It sounds like semantics but there is a difference. In the same way that suggesting that white people are treated differently from black people suggests that black people are the status quo.
But there was some self-challenging going on too:"Hang about Stephen, do you recall any of the existing female staffers at AVFM writing or saying something misandric? Answer = No. Check.
No they have not. They however have been awfully silent about AVfM when it's done stupid things. In order for these women to consistently back AVfM they have to accept that somehow the world is dominated by women and frankly that requires women to be thrown under a bus.
For fuck's sake. AVfM has thrown women under a bus. A simple google check would have helped you realise that this article is "epic grade bullshit". The "reality" here is that if indeed AVfM has a "Senior Editor" then that person didn't even bother to fucking check the stuff that this author wrote. Particularly in lieu of the time period (the Delhi Rape victim's death and the Indian Rape Protests/Riots). The gender of the editor doesn't mean anything. Whoever greenlighted this piece dropped the fucking hammer on Indian women by giving a voice to the people who oppress women. It muddied the waters and poisoned the well. While women were struggling to demand the basic right to be safe in public areas it whined about giving women segregated seats to stop men from touching them up (And let's face it, it wasn't women touching women up in buses, it was men).
For fuck's sake, a woman was sodomised to death in a place where just one case out of five hundred got a conviction for rape and your "appropriate" response to that was "Well? Men Have It Bad Because We Have to Queue In Separate Lines and Pay More For Nightclubs".
That my friend is terri-fucking-ble. And if you are part of this site and failed to speak out on such a statement then you are complicit. If PZ, Ian, Jen, Paul or someone else said something bad I would criticise it. I have criticised other people's views. (Real criticism. Yelling Prostitutive Perjorative/Fruit/Sex Crime at them is not criticism. It's swearing randomly).
The fact of the matter is, AVfM's female contingent probably have no ability to criticise this lest they be "Pineapples too" and have to "go home".
Do you recall them occasionally letting themselves be humbled, corrected by men when they made some naïve assumption about a man or men's experience and got challenged to think about it again? Answer = Yes. Check.Are they spreading word to the world at large about the extent of misandry? Answer = Yes. Check.Will they keep doing so? Answer = I don't know. In my experience women can be terribly fickle.
Because people can change their minds about things. It's called "learning" and "expanding your horizons".
And that's where I was stuck for a few hours, too busy with work activities to think it through to any conclusion.Then I went home, had a glass of wine and with thinking time available scratched my head and pondered.And it dawned on me. I've been putting myself in MEN'S shoes, which is good. But, what happens if I put myself in WOMEN'S shoes instead?
In my experience the heel breaks because they forgot the dictim of "Strong enough for a man but made for a woman".
No. No. No. Not feminist women's shoes, but grounded in reality type women's shoes.
Which means women who didn't say a single word about a culture where women live in fear of sexual harassment, are routinely killed for their gender and often cannot even speak when people from that culture stated that women have it easy.
And then, Bang! A beautiful paradigm shift occurred and with wine aiding the process I felt warm and cozy inside again. For I realized that in their own way women need the Men's Human Rights Movement as much or in some cases perhaps even more than men need it. And I'd missed that because I'm so highly attuned to empathizing with men. I make no apologies for that. I've been a counselor for men in days gone by, and I realize I've simply grown that way over decades of draconian feminist hegemony for my own safety's sake. I'm actually proud of that ability.And the realization grew:
Draconian Feminist Hegemony… Is it too late to change The Hags of Lag to the Draconian Feminist Hegemony? Because that sounds most rad.
Switched on women understand they need the Men's Human Rights Movement desperately to avoid –
- The further growth of institutionalized fatherlessness and hence of under-parented feral youth with the potential to create a level of incivility and a violent crime epidemic like nothing we've ever witnessed to date;
And how would you manage to do that? Get women to stay with men they don't fancy? And please… this ties into the notion that you need two parents to functionally train a child to be a decent human being. And there are plenty of "feral" youth who have both parents and intact marriages.
And scaremongering the youth? Nice!
- Paying more in terms of stress in a sea of incivility, and more taxes also for the housing of even more feminist-law-produced prisoners. The USA alone already has the largest prison population the world has ever known;
Actually that has to do with the way the judicial system punishes crimes (3 Strikes and Drugs). It has fuck all to do with "feminism" and a lot to do with "Right Wing Over-reactions".
- Alienation from half the world's population;
Except feminism doesn't mean "no men". It means "no sexists".
- Being unwittingly lumped in with genuine female misandric bigots exposed by an increasingly powerful communication system which is outing feminists at the tap of a touchscreen – from anywhere to anywhere, instantly, 24/7/365.
And by outing do you mean screaming cunt and bitch at them until they stop arguing?
And so that women themselves can gain as -
- Little by little smart aware men can start to trust women again and grow closer to them rather than rationally and exponentially shunning them as untrustworthy and unsafe to be around, which hugely impoverishes women's lives culturally and emotionally, not just financially – because of a quickening internet-spread MGTOW movement;
From what I have seen the biggest people hurt by MGTOW are "men". It basically consists of Men going "FUCK BITCHES! GOING GALT!" and then sitting about whinging about why no sane person wants them.
- Less men shun mating with women thereby allowing women the fulfillment of becoming mothers. Bear in mind the non-hormonal birth control pill is just around the corner, indeed already to market in Indonesia, so the potential for men to close down reproduction on current misandric terms is close and on a huge scale;
I think women can have the fulfillment of becoming mothers without fucking misogynists. And I don't think Stephen understands but a lot of men WANT children.
- Their world improves dramatically as things move from the negative side of the ledger to the positive side. Human rights for males will bring improved male longevity and male motivation to be socially involved rather than resentfully and consciously indolent and withdrawn. Thus a return to increased male inventiveness and a quantum leap in everyone's life quality we can but only hazard a guess at.
Male longevity is linked to the diseases that affect men being harder to treat in emergencies and being more lethal immediately. Thyroid conditions can kill but telegraph their advance over months and years unlike heart attacks. Male longevity is reduced due to the fact that we are prone to diseases that cause rapid death. Things like stroke, pulmonary oedema/hypertension and heart attacks. Male longevity is unfortunately linked to testosterone… And that is the hormone that defines us as male.
What he has is a pipe dream of healthcare.
I don't claim this little list is anywhere near exhaustive. Readers can add their own details to these broad brush strokes and perhaps a few broad brush strokes of their own as well.For now I'm off for another glass of wine to celebrate and to bask in a sense of relief.I made it thus far, and I trust smart women if for no other motive than their self-interest, will help me and my brothers make it further.After all they need us like a fish needs water.
This is a plain fantasy. Women need men.
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s home and its street to receive historic designation from Atlanta
By David Pendered
The street where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. moved his family in 1965 is slated to become Atlanta's newest historic district.
The Sunset Avenue Historic District would protect all houses on the street, including the King home, from developments and alterations that are not in keeping with the community's historic nature. Other dwellings were home to civil rights leaders and some of the city's earliest European settlers.
"This will bolster tourism traffic and trade in the area, and it will memorialize the giants who put their life on the line, and their families who sacrificed so much," said Atlanta Councilman Ivory Lee Young Jr. Continue reading
Great journalism in Atlanta needed now more than ever
By Lyle Harris
OK, already.
I've apparently set some dubious distinction for my last opinion column which was an optimistic ode to 2010, as in last year.
Since then, I've gotten a lot of grief about that from friends and frenemies who have helpfully informed me the expiration date for relevant internet content is usually measured in seconds, not months.
Who knew?
Here's to 2010 — And to Hope for a new regional "Odyssey"
The sci-fi masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey" was released way back in 1968, a year when it seemed as if the whole world was coming undone.
I was an 8-year-old science nerd at the time, and my big sister Gail took me to watch director Stanley Kubrick's G-rated head-trip at the Rialto Theater on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn.
I didn't understand most of the movie but couldn't wait for the day when I could travel across galaxies talking to computers and scooting between the stars with my very own jet pack.
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Really Want to Fight Crime? Let's Shift from Gulags to Green Economy
Go to any neighborhood meeting, mayoral forum or happy hour in Atlanta and ask folks to rank the issues that worry them most. I'd bet dollars to donuts that "crime" and "the economy" will top their lists.
I've been wondering a lot about how these issues are related and concluded that instead of putting more people in prison-issue, orange jumpsuits we'd be better off preparing them to become part of the coming "green collar" economy.
I realize that talking about job training for criminals seems untimely when we're so busy being scared witless about becoming their next victims. But I'm convinced my proposition would ultimately be much cheaper, and saner.
It's easy to see why our community is obsessed with crime. Our fight-or-flight response has been raised to fever pitch by a series of high-profile crimes in Atlanta – including the tragic murders of an elderly laundry worker, an outstanding young boxer and a popular bartender.
As a result of our anxieties, gun sales are up and more people are getting home security systems (assuming they can still afford to actually live in their homes).
Our local news outlets are also feeding the frenzy; most TV stations have adopted the "if it bleeds it leads" approach to journalism and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution launched a new online service that will enable its readers to track neighborhood crime stats as easily as Braves box scores.
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Old Question, New Answers for Atlanta's Struggling Media
Who will tell the people?
That oft-repeated line was first written by Mary Anne Evans, the Victorian novelist who was best known by her pen name, George Eliot.
Don't get me wrong; I wouldn't know George Eliot from George Foreman. Frankly, until I sat down to write this column, I was clueless about the fact that Eliot (who more famously authored the classic, Silas Marner) was a woman.
But that trenchant question, asked rhetorically by one of Eliot's fictional characters, has been nagging at me lately.
Considering what's happening to the newspaper industry, in general and metro Atlanta media, in particular, I wonder 'who will tell the people?'
As a lifelong reporter, the meltdown of modern journalism has me understandably worried. As a citizen of this region, the implosion of our local newspapers has me terrified.
My former employer and the state's largest daily newspaper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has shrunk – literally and figuratively – into a shadow of its former self as its readership and revenues have tanked.
In the two years since I left the AJC, the staff has been cut dramatically, key departments have been downsized or eliminated and the reporters still working there are stretched far too thin to do their best work.
Recently, the paper's publisher announced the decision to shutter the AJC's storied downtown headquarters and move the bulk of its operations out to the suburbs by the middle of 2010. Continue reading
Don't Stop the Presses: AJC move to Dunwoody is Desperate, but no Death Knell
Witnessing the downward spiral of the Atlanta Journal- Constitution reminded me how it felt watching my father die. I wanted him to keep fighting for his life, but it seemed he'd just stopped trying.
I can only hope that's not happening at the AJC.
Vincent Grover Harris passed away two years ago. He'd been in faltering health and, at one point, my family was faced with a decision that's painfully familiar to children with aging parents; whether to move him out of the comfortable home where he lived with my Mom into a medical facility some distance away where he'd get better care.
We visited several places, but deep down, we knew moving him wouldn't make much difference. We'd never cheat death but, perhaps, we hoped it would buy us more time.
It was a wrenching choice and it seems the situation may be just as grave for the city's biggest and oldest daily newspaper.
A week ago, my colleague Maria Saporta, broke the story that the AJC was considering a move from its gritty downtown headquarters on Marietta Street to the sanitized Perimeter Center office complex in suburban DeKalb County.
On Monday, Michael Joseph, the newspaper's publisher du jour, essentially confirmed Saporta's earlier account; the building that has been a fixture in the heart of the city since 1972, and the paper which had been based there for more than 140 years, would be decamping for the Perimeter by mid-2010. Continue reading
Talkin' About a (Green) Revolution
History proves that an occasional revolution is good for the soul. In fact, they can be critical to our society's survival.
Not very long ago, "going green" was dismissed as a passing fad promoted by aging hippies, tree-huggers and assorted cranks. No longer. Nowadays, the Green Revolution has become mainstream. Suddenly it seems everyone is jumping on the cleaner, greener bandwagon – and that's a good thing.
But in metro Atlanta and elsewhere, the green movement hasn't been especially popular in communities of color.
Although there's sparse research on the subject, a 2004 poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that support for environmental regulations was lower among African-Americans and Latinos than it was for other ethnic groups.
There may be some solid reasons for the racial disconnect according, to Van Jones, founder of a Oakland-based organization called Green for All.
In a 2007 article for the magazine "Color Lines," Jones said, "Too often (Blacks and minorities) have said: 'We are overwhelmed with violence, bad housing, failing schools, excessive incarceration, poor healthcare and joblessness. We can't afford to worry about spotted owls, redwood trees and polar bears."'
Jones went on to explain why he believes that racial dynamic is changing.
"Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath taught us that the coming ecological disasters will hit the Continue reading
Atlanta Still Needs to get "Smart"
As a father, I know exactly how much it stings to be told by a seemingly insensitive (but candid) teacher that the precious fruit of your loins isn't keeping up with the rest of the class.
After the instinctive impulse to defend your kid washes over you, the inevitable second-guessing and self-blaming kicks in:
'If only I had played Mozart instead of Jay-Z when she was still in the womb,' you ask yourself.
'That's it. No more Nintendo in this house!' you declare unconvincingly.
And then there's my all-time favorite: 'How is she ever going to get into Harvard now?'
Granted, it has been awhile since I've had to grapple with my kids' academic shortcomings and my own gnawing parental deficiencies.
But I confess to getting that familiar punch-in-the-gut sense of failure all over again after scanning "Smarter Cities" a recent study by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The NRDC, a non-profit, environmental advocacy group that does credible work, has ranked the American cities that have successfully implemented "smart growth" strategies.
As I plugged Atlanta's name into the study's online search tool, I was disappointed to find we weren't counted among the smartest of the large cities.
Even worse, Atlanta didn't make the list at all.
Ouch. Continue reading
Do the Right Thing: More than just a movie for Atlanta
A lot can happen in 20 years; it's hard to believe "Do the Right Thing," Spike Lee's searing portrayal of urban race relations, debuted way back in 1989 when "Poppy" Bush was in the White House and asking us to read his lips. Two decades hence, we've wished "buh-bye" through gritted teeth to the Junior Bush-in-chief.
For Bush II's beleaguered successor, fixing the economy and restoring our battered national character at home and abroad are, of course, top priorities. But, by virtue of his cross-cultural ancestry, President Obama is also implicitly tasked with re-defining our outdated notions about race.
On that score, Obama certainly has his work cut out for him. Come to think of it, as residents of metro Atlanta, so do we.
Hopefully, the recent 20th Anniversary celebration of "Do the Right Thing" at the Fox Theater will occasion more than wistful nostalgia for the late 80's. It's an opportunity also for metro Atlanta to examine anew some of the troubling issues Lee's film dared to raise.
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Lessons from "Uncle" Leon: Metro Atlanta is All in the Family
by Lyle Harris
Leon Eplan, the city of Atlanta's long-retired planning commissioner, has been a mentor to many people. I know because I'm one of them.
We met nearly 20 years ago while I was working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution after moving here from New Jersey with my family. Then as now, Eplan was a relentless visionary who had an infectious belief that the city and the region were destined for genuine greatness.
Eplan, who's originally from Florida, has lived here long enough to become a "naturalized" Atlantan. Like so many of us transplants, he shares an abiding sense that this city's future will outshine its past. Whether you're born with that native impulse or its bred into you, it helps having an "uncle" like Eplan to help make it plain.
A rare combination of enlightened principle and grounded pragmatism, Eplan understood "smart growth" before the phrase was cool or popular.
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Rosenfeld said he already sent a letter of intent to one possible company, and expects the deal to be complete by the end of the year.
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S&P: Age-Related Spending Reforms Help Restore Sovereign Fiscal Sustainability; Emerging Markets Not Immune To Aging Pressure
NEW YORK, March 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has seen a significant improvement in the budgetary positions of wealthier sovereigns since its 2010 global review of the impact of aging societies on public finances. While the rapid buildup of government debt since 2007-2008--and the resulting large deficits posted by many rated sovereigns--focused attention on age-related spending, a number of sovereigns have overhauled their public pension or health care systems--the two components of age-related programs that typically account for about 40% of government spending, according to a report released today by Standard & Poor's. The report, Global Aging 2013: Rising To The Challenge, updates Standard & Poor's 2010 report, and continues a series begun in 2002 that analyzes the fiscal effects of aging populations.
"If sovereigns overcome their post-crisis economic and budgetary difficulties and successfully adapt their social security systems to demographic challenges, pressures on public finances exerted by aging populations could be gradually contained over the long term--a somewhat surprising conclusion at this stage of the sovereign debt crisis," said Marko Mrsnik, sovereign analyst at Standard & Poor's and author of the report.
Several nations have begun to implement health care and pension measures to accommodate both their aging populations as well as their near-term budgetary pressures, although the impact of these measures in some countries is offset by economic weakness and diminished employment levels. Coupled with higher borrowing costs, such measures can hamper efforts to stabilize debt dynamics. Standard & Poor's believes, however, that if continued, the structural changes and budget consolidation processes many sovereigns have recently implemented should improve their prospects for maintaining sustainable public finances.
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Being obsessed with all forms of New Media and in particular various methods of production, the following video by Stargate Studios more or less blew my mind. I always knew the green screen was important, but never fully appreciated how prevalent it was/is.
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What persuaded you and NitroEurope to choose Edinburgh?
Edinburgh is an experienced conference destination with a wide choice of venues - the majority within easy reach of the city centre. The conference also coincided with the Edinburgh International Science Festival giving delegates an added incentive to extend their stay as for many delegates it would be their first visit to Edinburgh.
What were the main events of the conference programme and how did you co-ordinate this?
The committee pulled together a strong scientific programme which included a Workshop for Policy Stakeholders, an International Science Conference and the Launch of the European Nitrogen Assessment (ENA). Co-ordination of the programme was supported by an excellent team at CEH and further assisted by the Convention Bureau and EICC.
Did delegate numbers meet expectations?
We anticipated 270 delegates but this increased to 356. The programme and connections helped secure high profile speakers and together with location, attractive delegate rate, launch of the ENA and the number of people involved in the project - this all helped to increase numbers.
How supportive was the Convention Bureau?
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The EICC is a fantastic venue with world class facilities and outstanding service. Throughout, they were very flexible, quick to respond and had great technical support.
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There was a clash of events with another conference which had not been organised at the time of our planning and policy meeting. Also, registration was a concern with the increase in numbers but this was handled by the Convention Bureau which made the operation so much smoother.
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Tweet The State Legislature was back in session this week and things are getting busy. The Committees I serve on (Insurance, Governmental Affairs, and Children & Youth) all have bills assigned to them and have begun work. I have introduced one bill and one resolution and am working hard to see them through to passage.…
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Tweet This week, the Speaker of the House challenged the House Special Committee on Small Business Development and Job Creation to undertake serious regulation reform in order to help spur our state economy and create jobs for Georgians. The initiative, called "Red Tape Watch," charges the House Special Committee on Small Business Development and Job…
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Tweet The Legislature was in recess this week as the Appropriations Committee held hearings on the FY2012 supplemental budget and the FY2013 budget. The various department heads testified before the committee describing their budget requests. Governor Deal's proposed budget can be found at this website. Beginning next week the Appropriations Sub-Committees will meet to discuss…
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Tweet Thursday I joined Senators Chip Rogers and Bill Cowsert and Representatives Andy Welch, Lynn Riley, and Sam Teasley at a press conference calling for a Federal Balanced Budget Amendment. Resolutions will be introduced in both the House and the Senate calling for a Constitutional Convention for the limited purpose of debating such an Amendment.…
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Tweet Yesterday I joined Senator Renee Unterman (R-Buford) and a coalition of groups opposed to metal theft at the Capitol. Below is the report from Fox5. I've been assisting Rep. Jason Shaw (R-Lakeland) on a House version of the bill which should be introduced soon. We in the House have met with representatives of the…
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