Joe Stanley
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Markel Building, Richmond, Virginia, 1965 — Haigh Jamgochian
“The Markel Corporation commissioned architect Haigh Jamgochian, a Richmond native, to design their headquarters in 1962. The aluminum clad conical structure was inspired by a baked potato wrapped in foil served to Jamgochian while attending an American Institute of Architect’s dinner. Each floor consists of a single piece of 555-foot aluminum. They are the longest unbroken pieces of aluminum ever used as siding material. Jamgochian personally sledge-hammered crinkles into the 3rd floor siding before contractors finished the job on the other two floors in 1965. The building is a unique architectural example of its era.”
Featured in #Architecture.
…God I detest this building.
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Chillin’ in Short Pump.
And you don’t email the Richmonders?
More importantly, what is even open in Short Pump at 11pm? Aside from maybe a Dave & Busters.
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Lianna from Tumblr Support gave me this amazing ‘Richmond is for Dog Lovers’ bandana!! I love it. We have the most amazing support staff!
This means i’ll be making my way to Richmond, VA soon.. maybe we can have a TommyPom meetup in Richmond!! Any of you amazing followers near there want to have a pom-hangout?
Your pal,
TommyPom
Because tags.
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Fuck yeah, Richmond.
I will visit anywhere, but I don’t think I want to permanently leave this wonderful city.
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Storming in Richmond
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Richmond, Virginia, is currently in the lead for Outside magazine’s “Best River Town” contest. As it should be!
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Shout out to Lianna from Tumblr for her appearance in Governor Tim Kaine’s op ed piece in today’s RTD:
Businesses like Rolls Royce and Tumblr have relocated and invested in the Richmond area because our workers and higher-education institutions are top quality.
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Sex and Bart Hinkle: Males are losers
Bart, normally sane and sober, wrote (20 April 2012, Richmond Times-Dispatch, A-11), “… surely [we] ought to touch on the two places in society where women remain distinctly unequal: (a) war and (b) war’s peaceful analogue, competitive sports.” Many would agree with him. They’d be wrong. Inequality is rife and it’s males, not females, who are losing.
As Christina Hoff Sommers wrote long ago, we have been engaged in a war against boys. The effects of that war have been clear for quite a while. Boys have lost. Evidence?
1. Males are now less likely than females to
a. graduate high school (http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2012/2012006.pdf , table 9) and
b. enter college and graduate from college (see data at schev.edu, e.g., http://research.schev.edu/enrollment/E16_Report.asp and http://nces.ed.gov/). For example, in 2010-2011 in Virginia, bachelor’s degrees were awarded to 19,285 men and 26,338 women. see also http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2012/2012280.pdf , tables 1 and 7.2. About 90% of prisoners are male (http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpus10.pdf , table 3)
3. Males don’t live as long as females (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus10.pdf#022)
4. Males have lower aspirations than females (http://pewresearch.org/pubs/2248/gender-jobs-women-men-career-family-educational-attainment-labor-force-participation).
5. Women are marrying down because that’s who’s available in the marketplace, if they marry at all.
There is no shortage of additional data showing that males are an endangered and declining sex. A blind man could see that the future of the American family, if any, is dim (see, e.g., http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2010/11/18/the-decline-of-marriage-and-rise-of-new-families/?src=prc-headline). Those still fixated on affirmative action for women are going full-speed ahead while looking in the rear view mirror. A dark future looms.
I…what.
Oh, how I rue being born a white male in America! If only I had been born in a land with more opportunity. -
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