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http://american.com/archive/2008/march-april-magazine-contents/why-can2019t-a-woman-be-more-like-a-man
This article is long & written in a verbally difficult way for most people to grasp, so I summarized main ideas here:
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Title IX has been effective in promoting women’s participation in sports, it has also caused serious damage, in part because it has led to the adoption of a quota system. Over the years, judges, Department of Education officials, and college administrators have interpreted Title IX to mean that women are entitled to “statistical proportionality.” That is to say, if a college’s student body is 60 percent female, then 60 percent of the athletes should be female.
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To avoid government harassment, loss of funding, and lawsuits, they have simply eliminated men’s teams.
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That kind of calibration could devastate academic science.
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But unfortunately, in her enthusiasm for Title IX, Rolison is not alone.
On October 17, 2007, a subcommittee of the House Committee on Science and Technology convened to learn why women are “underrepresented” in academic professorships of science and engineering and to consider what the federal government should do about it.
Brian Baird, the Washington-state Democrat who chairs the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education, looked at the witnesses and the crowd of more than 100 highly appreciative activists from groups like the American Association of University Women and the National Women’s LawCenter and asked, “What kind of hammer should we use?”
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For the five male, gray-haired congressmen, the hearing was a happy occasion—an opportunity to be chivalrous and witty before an audience of concerned women, and to demonstrate their goodwill and eagerness to set things right. It was also a historic occasion…..
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In 2006 the committee released a report, “Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering,” that claimed to find “pervasive unexamined gender bias.” It received lavish media attention and has become the standard reference work for the “STEM” gender-equity movement (the acronym stands for science, technology, engineering, and math).
At the hearing, Shalala warned that strong measures would be needed to improve the “hostile climate” women face in the academy. This “crisis,” as she called it, “clearly calls for a transformation of academic institutions….Our nation’s future depends on it.”
Shalala and other speakers called for rigorous application of Title IX and other punitive measures. Witness Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, stressed the need to threaten obstinate faculties with loss of funding: “People listen to money…. Make the people listen to the money talk!”
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“We don’t accept biology as destiny…. We vaccinate, we inoculate, we medicate…. I propose we adopt the same attitude toward biological sex differences.” Said feminist Virginia Valian. In other words, the ubiquitous female propensity to nurture should be treated as a kind of disorder or disease
In 2001, the NSF awarded Valian and her Hunter colleagues $3.9 MILLION to develop equity programs and workshops for the “scientific community at large.” Should Congress pass the Gender Bias Elimination Act, which mandates workshops for university department chairs, members of review panels, and agency program officers seeking federal funding, Valian will become one of the most prominent women in American scientific education.
The NSF has an annual budget of $5.9 BILLION devoted to “promoting the progress of science” and “securing the national defense.” It is not easy to understand how its ADVANCE program or its deep association with Virginia Valian is serving those goals
[ In short Gov. Research fund now being split in 51/49 along the gender line rather than merit. PLUS, numerous funds for women researchers where men researchers would not get.
Few academic scientists know anything about the equity crusade. Most have no idea of its power, its scope, and the threats that they may soon be facing. The business commu nity and citizens at large are completely in the dark. This is a quiet revolution. Its weapons are government reports that are rarely seen; amendments to federal bills that almost no one reads; small, unnoticed, but dramatically con sequential changes in the regulations regarding government grants; and congressional hearings attended mostly by true believers.
American scientific excellence is a precious national resource. It is the foundation of our economy and of the nation’s health and safety. Norman Augustine, retired CEO of Lockheed Martin, and Burton Richter, Nobel laureate in physics, once pointed out that MIT alone—its faculty, alumni, and staff—started more than 5,000 comp
If this was happening to women the UN would be called in to sort it out.
Sexism should not be tolerated in the education system. Feminists are promoting sexism, therefore they should be kicked out of the education system.
Immigration lawsuits
Towns, organizations to sue Arizona
The controversy Senate Bill 1070 ignited nearly a month ago is still fresh in the minds of those opposed to it. Now, two local towns are firing back at the state of Arizona in a lawsuit announced this week. San Luis and Somerton will try to stop the new immigration law from taking effect because they say it’s unconstitutional and will lead to racial profiling.
State Senator Amanda Aguirre says she’s okay with the lawsuit and supports towns’ rights to go to court. Senator Aguirre works in Somerton as the CEO of the Regional Center for Border Health, so the community’s fight hits close to home.
Aguirre admits she’s worried racial profiling will be inevitable if the law is allowed to stand. Two years ago, the state senator says she pushed for a national identity document known as a Smart Driver’s License designed to help authorities figure out the legal status of people they come into contact with, but Aguirre says her proposal never made it to a hearing.
Those opposed to the law won’t be fighting alone, however. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) will soon go to court in a separate civil action. The group will be joined by other organizations such as the ACLU and NAACP just to name a few.
http://www.kyma.com/slp.php?idN=3566&cat=Sports
I’m Canadian and I was laughing when I read this. People who are in a country illegally, using their healthcare, housing etc etc are furious with this Bill is utter RUBBISH. Get out of the country and re-enter the way everyone else should. The Legal documented way so that each individual person PAYS his or her taxes.
The thought of people demonstrating and fighting over this is amazing… also this has nothing to do with racial profiling if you’re actually a valid resident.
Zeitgeist: Addendum by Peter Joseph. Full movie
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Written, Produced, and Directed by Jaki Cleveland, Jason Mentele, Chris Ho. This is the first and last time I danced chicken. I don’t have the moves like my brother Dion.
Filmed: March 29-30, 2002 Brick Breeden Field House, Montana State University Bozeman, American Indian Council Powwow, Headman Kasey Nicholson, Headwoman Phenocia Bauerle, Princess Vanessa Watts, M.C. Corky Old Horn, A.D. Jonathan Windy Boy, Host Drum Young Grey Horse Singers, Fort Belknap Color Guard.
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~leokills/
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part6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdbT4UsZfBc&feature=PlayList&p=E966D3018D04134A&playnext_from=PL&index=5
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White House Press Briefings are conducted most weekdays from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the West Wing.
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A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper
(19061992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered walls of academia to serve her country in the Navy after Pearl Harbor and
finds herself on the front lines of the computer revolution. She works hard to succeed in the all-male computer industry, is almost brought down by personal problems but survives them, and ends her career as a celebrated elder stateswoman of computing, a heroine to thousands, hailed as the inventor of computer programming.
Throughout Hoppers later years, the popular media told this simplified version of her life story. In Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, Kurt Beyer goes beyond the screenplay-ready myth to reveal a more authentic Hopper, a vibrant, complex, and intriguing woman whose career paralleled the meteoric trajectory of the postwar computer industry.
Hopper made herself one of the boys in Howard Aikens wartime Computation Laboratory at Harvard, then moved on to the Eckert and Mauchly Computer Corporation. Both rebellious and collaborative, she was influential in male-dominated military and business organizations at a time when women were encouraged to devote themselves to housework and childbearing. Hoppers greatest technical achievement was to create the tools that would allow humans to communicate with computers in terms other than ones and zeroes. This advance influenced all future programming and software design and laid the foundation for the development of todays user-friendly personal computers.
Kurt grew up in a blue-collar, immigrant family in Huntington, Long
Island. Kurts Dad Karl was a baker and his Mom Ann a nurse. Kurt
was captain of the baseball and basketball teams at John Glenn High
School, an accomplished trumpet player, and received his nomination to
the U.S. Naval Academy from the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynahan.
While at Annapolis Kurt played baseball and senior year was named
Brigade Commander, in charge of the 4500 person brigade of midshipman.
He graduated Annapolis in 1990 and was commissioned an officer in the
United States Navy. Before attending flight school Kurt continued his
education at the University of Oxford for two years. At Oxford, he
completed a masters degree and rowed for Oxford where his crew competed
in the finals of the Henley Royal Regatta in 1991. He also played
on the University basketball team which won the British University
Championship in 1992.
Following Oxford Kurt headed to Pensacola for Naval Flight School
where he graduated first in his class. Kurt flew F-14 Tomcats and was
assigned to a fighter squadron at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia
Beach. Injury cut his naval career short, and Kurt was honorably
discharged, receiving a Navy Commendation Medal and National Defense
Service Medal. In 1997 Kurt moved to California to convalesce and
complete a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. Kurt fully
immersed himself in the Bay area dot.com revolution, co-founded a
digital media start-up, and married a beautiful 4th generation San
Franciscan.
The tragedy of September 11th changed Kurts path and he returned to
Annapolis as a civilian professor to help create the Naval Academys
new Information Technology major and lectured regularly on the process
of technological innovation. He served on the Academy faculty 3 1/
2 years and helped direct the international scholarships program.
During this period the Naval Academy had the most British scholarship
winners of any American University, including 8 Rhodes, 3 Marshall,
and 4 Fitzgerald scholars. In January 2006 Kurt returned to the San
Francisco Bay area to head up full time a digital media start-up and
co-authored multiple patents (pending) on high speed digital data
processing. Currently Kurt works for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
and advises start-ups and executives in Silicon Valley. He lives in
Mill Valley, Ca with his wife Johanna and two sons Charlie and Gus.
This talk was hosted by Boris Debic and is part of the computer history
series.
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Assembly of First Nations – Make Poverty History for First Nations
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A class action is being launched in Australia against local and foreign banks for repayment of dishonour and late fees….. “The firm’s lawyers will argue that the charges are illegal because they are out of all proportion to the actual cost incurred by the banks” (News.com.au) but the same charge could be levelled against the class action’s lawyers who will also eventually charge a success fee of $1billion+ despite the actual cost of running the class action being merely a few million dollars, uhh. Legalism – a sucker born every minute…..LOL
Lawyers taking part in the case say the banks have earned billions over the years that they weren’t entitled to by taking money out of people’s pockets, but there’s a catch….. The firm funding the case will take 25 per cent of the amount recovered and court papers have yet to be lodged…..
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2010/s2897912.htm?site=perth
The Finance Sector Union has raised concerns that jobs will be lost if a planned class action against bank fees is successful.
The class action will allege Australians have been illegally charged more than $5 billion in bank fees over the past six years.
Leon Carter of the Finance Sector Union says while the lawsuit is a good way to bring attention to the issue, it has the potential to backfire.
“Our concern is that if this lawsuit is successful, the banks will simply make their money up somewhere else or, even worse, sack staff to recoup any costs,” he said.
“The only long-term solution to this problem is better regulation.”
However, Bernard Murphy from the law firm running the action, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, says something has to be done.
“There’s no doubt that we have a good argument. Whether it will be successful, that’s a matter probably for the High Court,” he said.
The case will initially be heard in the Victorian Supreme Court, but it is possible there may be appeals extending to the High Court and lasting several years.
Up to half a million Australians are expected to join the class action against local and foreign banks for repayment of dishonour and late fees….. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/13/2898688.htm
Official figures show the banks collected nearly $1.2 billion in such fees in the 2008 financial year.
The class action, being run by a subsidiary of litigation funder IMF, will relate to honour and dishonour fees on bank accounts, and over limit and late fees on credit cards.
The big four banks – Commonwealth Bank, ANZ, National Bank and Westpac – recently scrapped or reduced many of those charges.
Financial Redress, the subsidiary behind the class action, says the claims will pursue exception fees deducted from accounts over the past six years….. Official figures show the banks collected nearly $1.2 billion in such fees in the 2008 financial year.
The class action, being run by a subsidiary of litigation funder IMF, will relate to honour and dishonour fees on bank accounts, and over limit and late fees on credit cards.
The big four banks – Commonwealth Bank, ANZ, National Bank and Westpac – recently scrapped or reduced many of those charges.
Financial Redress, the subsidiary behind the class action, says the claims will pursue exception fees deducted from accounts over the past six years….. http://au.biz.yahoo.com/100512/31/2cvq0.html
BANK shares were pummelled yesterday amid investor concern that a landmark legal action against fees could hit profits.
Shares in major banks including Commonwealth Bank and ANZ fell by about 1 per cent after BusinessDay reported they faced one of Australia’s biggest class actions for overcharging on penalty and late fees.
The $400 million claim, if successful, could trim bank profits by about 1 per cent…. http://www.businessday.com.au/business/banks-take-jolt-over-fee-fears-20100512-uy59.html
Half a million angry Australian bank customers are tipped to join a class action launched against the nation’s big banks over AU$5 billion (US$4.7bn) in fees raked in over the past six years…..
Victoria’s Supreme Court will be asked to rule that the banks gouged customers with a raft of “exception” fees…..
http://www.news.com.au/money/banking/imf-to-bankroll-bank-fee-class-action/story-e6frfmcr-1225865541240
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basically, I want to know whether i’m more liberal/ conservative and what political party i’m best suited with. Also, please dont attack any of my viewpoints or call me names. These are my OPINIONS and they will not change! This isalso just for fun so please dont give me lectures on how labels are wrong or how i should think for myself….
so here they are:
I am STRONGLY feminist (im a woman), am pro-choice and believe in women’s rights: her family is up to HER ALONE and government should not be rooting around in her body telling her what to do.
I do not support national/public option/ healthcare bill stuff. I plan to have a career in medicine and this bill will hurt doctors.
I know global warming is a scam and no amount of money will make magical solutions to the energy crisis pop up.
I DO NOT BELIEVE IN RELIGION!!!
I believe illegal immigration is ILLEGAL and should be enforced strongly
no free stuff should be given to people who dont work (because they dont want to, not if they are disabled or something of course). taxpayer money is precious
I love capitalism
i dislike PETA people and any radicals (both liberal or conservative)
i think fox news people are crazy
i dislike Obama ( im sure he’s a great person and all, but i dont like his policies)
i think sarah palin is a traitor to women
i support the reformation of lawsuits
i dont like this war
To help you get a sense of me as a person:
i dont like music at all, any kind from any time period
im NOT a hermit and have plenty of friends
I love my parents and care deeply for having perfect grades (I value education)
yes, i have had pets in the past ( guinea pigs)
i eat meat and wear fur
i never use foul language ( i think it’s rude to do so in public)
i was raised in a higly educated (scientist) family who supports my right to choose for myself what to believe in
i support gay marriage
i support late term abortion ( perhaps not public funding though)
i am a european immigrant myself, but im proud to have WORKED towards becoming American
overall, i support republican economic policies such as small government and no free handouts, but on social policies, im pretty liberal ( as long as no raising taxes or over-the -top tree hugging).
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* by the way, i attended Catholic education ( because these schools were the strongest academically in my area), so dont accuse me of not liking religion because i do not know what it is 
Rambling without a clue.