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Judith Klinman. Courtesy Judith P. Klinman.
Judith P. Klinman (b. 1941) studies how proteins and enzymes do everything from letting our bodies use oxygen to regulating neurotransmitters. She looks for the fundamental properties that underlie these reactions, often using isotope tracers to uncover the chemical steps involved.
Klinman was born Judith Pollack and grew up in Philadelphia. She became interested in science early on and excelled at school, but her family was not wealthy and her parents were not sure they could afford to pay for college. Wanting to study chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, she earned a partial scholarship and convinced her parents to let her enroll. Her mother went to work to help pay the costs not covered by the scholarship.
Judith graduated and made plans for graduate school. A friend recommended she apply to Harvard University, but she did not feel confident enough, even though she had just graduated second in her class from Penn, an Ivy League school. Instead she applied to New York University and was accepted. There she met Norman Klinman, and they married in 1963.
She and her husband soon transferred together to the University of Pennsylvania to finish their doctorates. While a graduate student, Klinman gave birth to their first son. When her husband finished his Ph.D. in 1965, he took a job at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. Klinman completed her Ph.D. in physical-organic chemistry in 1966 and also found postdoctoral work at the Weizmann Institute. There she began using radioactive isotopes to study important chemical reactions in the body. After 16 months at the institute, she joined Norman briefly in London, where he had accepted a research position at University College. She was allowed to do research while there, but unlike her husband, she did not get paid for her work.
Returning to the United States, Klinman joined the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia, where she was a research scientist from 1968 to 1978. In 1978 she became the first woman professor in the chemistry department of the University of California, Berkeley, where she continues to do research on enzymes today. During the course of her career she has received many honors from her scientific peers including election to the National Academy of Sciences and to the presidency of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Commenting on how things have progressed for women in the sciences, she has said, "I look at the young women today, and I am so in awe of the changes that have taken place."
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hi guys looking at buying a new bike and have seen the wilier la triestina in a local lbs, looks a nice bike but cant seem to find any reviews on the bike, just wondering if anyone has one or any links to any reviews? went in to look at the new cannondale 8 105 but this just looks a nice bike imo but unsure how it compares to the cannondale!! or should i not be bothered about reviews and go with the better looking bike???
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A better looking bike? So not about fit and feel, just looks??
If you looking at the Cannondale 8 with 105, you might want to check out this bargin
posted by Gkam84 [7651 posts]
3rd November 2012 - 13:51
posted by Dave Atkinson [6872 posts]
3rd November 2012 - 13:52
I'm guessing it would be something like this http://www.evanscycles.com/products/wilier/la-triestina-105-2012-road-bi...
posted by Gkam84 [7651 posts]
3rd November 2012 - 13:57
yeah fit n feel 1st saw the bike and liked the look of it and got home and cudnt find many reviews, will try 1st but geometry is similar to the one 1 ride now. so cant be to far off!
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posted by okeydokey79 [14 posts]
3rd November 2012 - 16:28
also yeah i had seen the cannondlae for sale but to big for me
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3rd November 2012 - 16:29
Bought one last year with campag groupset and miche wheels, slightly different spec to current spec (I think)... However cannot fault it, good ride, money well spent and a Wilier seems to turn heads!
Nice touch Drive!
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As long as it fits you then buy the bike that makes you happy.
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Fine-tuned Universe
The fine-tuned Universe is the proposition that the conditions that allow life in the Universe can only occur when certain universal fundamental physical constants lie within a very narrow range, so that if any of several fundamental constants were only slightly different, the Universe would be unlikely to be conducive to the establishment and development of matter, astronomical structures, elemental diversity, or life as it is understood.[1] The proposition is discussed among philosophers, scientists, theologians, and creationists proponents.
Physicist Paul Davies has asserted that "There is now broad agreement among physicists and cosmologists that the Universe is in several respects 'fine-tuned' for life". However, he continues, "the conclusion is not so much that the Universe is fine-tuned for life; rather it is fine-tuned for the building blocks and environments that life requires." He also states that "'anthropic' reasoning fails to distinguish between minimally biophilic universes, in which life is permitted, but only marginally possible, and optimally biophilic universes, in which life flourishes because biogenesis occurs frequently".[2] Among scientists who find the evidence persuasive, a variety of natural explanations have been proposed, such as the anthropic principle along with multiple universes. George F. R. Ellis observes "that no possible astronomical observations can ever see those other universes. The arguments are indirect at best. And even if the multiverse exists, it leaves the deep mysteries of nature unexplained."[3]
In 1913, the chemist Lawrence Joseph Henderson (1878–1942) wrote The Fitness of the Environment, one of the first books to explore concepts of fine tuning in the Universe. Henderson discusses the importance of water and the environment with respect to living things, pointing out that life depends entirely on the very specific environmental conditions on Earth, especially with regard to the prevalence and properties of water.[4]
In 1961, the physicist Robert H. Dicke claimed that certain forces in physics, such as gravity and electromagnetism, must be perfectly fine-tuned for life to exist anywhere in the Universe.[5][6] Fred Hoyle also argued for a fine-tuned Universe in his 1984 book Intelligent Universe. He compares "the chance of obtaining even a single functioning protein by chance combination of amino acids to a star system full of blind men solving Rubik's Cube simultaneously".[7]
John Gribbin and Martin Rees wrote a detailed history and defence of the fine-tuning argument in their book Cosmic Coincidences (1989). According to Gribbin and Rees, carbon-based life was not haphazardly arrived at, but the deliberate end of a Universe "tailor-made for man."[8]
The premise of the fine-tuned Universe assertion is that a small change in several of the dimensionless fundamental physical constants would make the Universe radically different. As Stephen Hawking has noted, "The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron. ... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life."[9]
If, for example, the strong nuclear force were 2% stronger than it is (i.e., if the coupling constant representing its strength were 2% larger), while the other constants were left unchanged, diprotons would be stable and hydrogen would fuse into them instead of deuterium and helium.[10] This would drastically alter the physics of stars, and presumably preclude the existence of life similar to what we observe on Earth. The existence of the di-proton would short-circuit the slow fusion of hydrogen into deuterium. Hydrogen would fuse so easily that it is likely that all of the Universe's hydrogen would be consumed in the first few minutes after the Big Bang.[10] However, some of the fundamental constants describe the properties of the unstable strange, charmed, bottom and top quarks and mu and tau leptons that seem to play little part in the Universe or the structure of matter.[citation needed]
The precise formulation of the idea is made difficult by the fact that physicists do not yet know how many independent physical constants there are. The current standard model of particle physics has 25 freely adjustable parameters with an additional parameter, the cosmological constant, for gravitation. However, because the standard model is not mathematically self-consistent under certain conditions (e.g., at very high energies, at which both quantum mechanics and general relativity are relevant), physicists believe that it is underlaid by some other theory, such as a grand unified theory, string theory, or loop quantum gravity. In some candidate theories, the actual number of independent physical constants may be as small as one. For example, the cosmological constant may be a fundamental constant, but attempts have also been made to calculate it from other constants, and according to the author of one such calculation, "the small value of the cosmological constant is telling us that a remarkably precise and totally unexpected relation exists among all the parameters of the Standard Model of particle physics, the bare cosmological constant and unknown physics."[11]
Martin Rees[12] formulates the fine-tuning of the Universe in terms of the following six dimensionless constants:
- N = ratio of the strengths of gravity to that of electromagnetism;
- Epsilon (ε) = strength of the force binding nucleons into nuclei;
- Omega (ω) = relative importance of gravity and expansion energy in the Universe;
- Lambda (λ) = cosmological constant;
- Q = ratio of the gravitational energy required to pull a large galaxy apart to the energy equivalent of its mass;
- D = number of spatial dimensions in spacetime.
Disputes regarding the existence and extent of fine-tuning[edit]
Physicist Victor Stenger objects to the fine-tuning, and especially to theist use of fine-tuning arguments. His numerous criticisms include what he calls "the wholly unwarranted assumption that only carbon-based life is possible."[13] In turn, the astrophysicist Luke Barnes has criticised much of Stenger's work.[14]
Fred Adams has investigated the structure of stars in universes with different values of the gravitational constant G, the fine-structure constant α, and a nuclear reaction rate parameter C. His study suggests that roughly 25% of this parameter space allows stars to exist.[15]
The validity of fine tuning examples is sometimes questioned on the grounds that such reasoning is subjective anthropomorphism applied to natural physical constants. Critics also suggest that the fine-tuned Universe assertion and the anthropic principle are essentially tautologies.[16]
The fine-tuned Universe argument has also been criticized as an argument by lack of imagination, as it assumes no other forms of life, sometimes referred to as carbon chauvinism. Conceptually, alternative biochemistry or other forms of life are possible.[17] Regarding this, Stenger argues: "We have no reason to believe that our kind of carbon-based life is all that is possible. Furthermore, modern cosmology theorises that multiple universes may exist with different constants and laws of physics. So, it is not surprising that we live in the one suited for us. The Universe is not fine-tuned to life; life is fine-tuned to the Universe."[18]
In addition, critics argue that humans are adapted to the Universe through the process of evolution, rather than the Universe being adapted to humans (see puddle thinking, below). They also see it as an example of the logical flaw of hubris or anthropocentrism in its assertion that humans are the purpose of the Universe.[19]
Possible naturalistic explanations[edit]
There are fine tuning arguments that are naturalistic.[20] As modern cosmology developed, various hypotheses have been proposed. One is an oscillatory universe or a multiverse, where fundamental physical constants are postulated to resolve themselves to random values in different iterations of reality.[21] Under this hypothesis, separate parts of reality would have wildly different characteristics. In such scenarios, the issue of fine-tuning does not arise at all, as only those "universes" with constants hospitable to life (such as what we observe) would develop life capable of contemplating the question of the origin of fine-tuning.
Based upon the Anthropic principle, physicist Robert H. Dicke proposed the "Dicke coincidence" argument that the structure (age, physical constants, etc.) of the Universe as seen by living observers is not random, but is constrained by biological factors that require it to be roughly a "golden age".[5]
Inflationary cosmology[edit]
Inflation theory posits that an inflaton field in the first 10−30 seconds of the universe produces strong repulsive gravity, and the universe and space-time expand by a factor of 1030. After 10−30 seconds, gravity starts to become attractive. In this framework, with such rapid expansion, the overall shape of the universe at 14 billion years is much less sensitive to initial parameters than the standard big bang model, and thus the fine-tuning issue disappears.[22][citation needed]
The Multiverse hypothesis assumes the existence of many universes with different physical constants, some of which are hospitable to intelligent life (see multiverse: anthropic principle). Because we are intelligent beings, we are by definition in a hospitable one. Mathematician Michael Ikeda and astronomer William H. Jefferys have argued that the anthropic principle and selection effect resolves the entire issue of fine-tuning,[23][24] as does philosopher of science Elliott Sober.[25] Philosopher and theologian Richard Swinburne reaches the opposite conclusion using Bayesian probability.[26]
This approach has led to considerable research into the anthropic principle and has been of particular interest to particle physicists, because theories of everything do apparently generate large numbers of universes in which the physical constants vary widely. As yet, there is no evidence for the existence of a multiverse, but some versions of the theory do make predictions that some researchers studying M-theory and gravity leaks hope to see some evidence of soon.[27] Some multiverse theories are not falsifiable, thus scientists may be reluctant to call any multiverse theory "scientific". UNC-Chapel Hill professor Laura Mersini-Houghton claims that the WMAP cold spot may provide testable empirical evidence for a parallel universe,[28] although this claim was recently refuted as the WMAP cold spot was found to be nothing more than a statistical artifact.[29] Variants on this approach include Lee Smolin's notion of cosmological natural selection, the Ekpyrotic universe, and the Bubble universe theory.
Critics of the multiverse-related explanations argue that there is no evidence that other universes exist.
Bubble universe theory[edit]
The bubble universe model by physicist Andrei Linde postulates that our Universe is one of many that grew from a multiverse consisting of vacuum that had not yet decayed to its ground state.
According to this scenario, by means of a random quantum fluctuation, the Universe "tunneled" from pure vacuum ("nothing") to what is called a false vacuum, a region of space that contains no matter or radiation, but is not quite "nothing." The space inside this bubble of false vacuum was curved, or warped. A small amount of energy was contained in that curvature, somewhat like the energy stored in a strung bow. This ostensible violation of energy conservation is allowed by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for sufficiently small time intervals. The bubble then inflated exponentially and the Universe grew by many orders of magnitude in a tiny fraction of a second. (For a not-too-technical discussion, see Stenger 1990[30]). As the bubble expanded, its curvature energy was converted into matter and radiation, inflation stopped, and the more linear Big Bang expansion we now experience commenced. The Universe cooled and its structure spontaneously froze out, as formless water vapor freezes into snowflakes whose unique patterns arise from a combination of symmetry and randomness.
—Victor J. Stenger, The Anthropic Coincidences[31]
In standard inflation, inflationary expansion occurred while the Universe was in a false vacuum state, halting when the Universe decayed to a true vacuum state. The bubble universe model proposes that different parts of this inflationary universe (termed a Multiverse) decayed at different times, with decaying regions corresponding to universes not in causal contact with each other. It further supposes that each bubble universe may have different physical constants.
Top-down cosmology[edit]
Stephen Hawking, along with Thomas Hertog of CERN, proposed that the Universe's initial conditions consisted of a superposition of many possible initial conditions, only a small fraction of which contributed to the conditions we see today.[32] According to their theory, it is inevitable that we find our Universe's "fine-tuned" physical constants, as the current Universe "selects" only those past histories that led to the present conditions. In this way, top-down cosmology provides an anthropic explanation for why we find ourselves in a universe that allows matter and life, without invoking the existence of the Multiverse.[33]
Alien design[edit]
One hypothesis is that the Universe may have been designed by extra-universal aliens. Some believe this would solve the problem of how a designer or design team capable of fine-tuning the Universe could come to exist. Cosmologist Alan Guth believes humans will in time be able to generate new universes. By implication previous intelligent entities may have generated our Universe.[34] This idea leads to the possibility that the extraterrestrial designer/designers are themselves the product of an evolutionary process in their own universe, which must therefore itself be able to sustain life. However it also raises the question of where this universe came from, leading to an infinite regress.
The Biocosm hypothesis and the Meduso-anthropic principle both suggest that natural selection has made the universe biophilic. The Universe enables intelligence because intelligent entities later create new biophilic universes. This is different from the suggestion above that aliens from a universe that is less-finely tuned than ours made our Universe finely tuned.
The Designer Universe theory of John Gribbin suggests that the Universe could have been made deliberately by a member or members of a technologically advanced civilization in another part of the Multiverse, and that this advanced civilization may have been responsible for causing the Big Bang.[35]
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As with theistic evolution, some individual scientists, theologians, and philosophers as well as certain religious groups argue that providence or creation are responsible for fine-tuning.
Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga argues that random chance, applied to a single and sole universe, only raises the question as to why this universe could be so "lucky" as to have precise conditions that support life at least at some place (the Earth) and time (within millions of years of the present).
One reaction to these apparent enormous coincidences is to see them as substantiating the theistic claim that the Universe has been created by a personal God and as offering the material for a properly restrained theistic argument—hence the fine-tuning argument. It's as if there are a large number of dials that have to be tuned to within extremely narrow limits for life to be possible in our Universe. It is extremely unlikely that this should happen by chance, but much more likely that this should happen, if there is such a person as God.
—Alvin Plantinga, The Dawkins Confusion; Naturalism ad absurdum[36]
This fine-tuning of the Universe is cited[37] by philosopher and Christian apologist William Lane Craig as an evidence for the existence of God or some form of intelligence capable of manipulating (or designing) the basic physics that governs the Universe. Craig argues, however, "that the postulate of a divine Designer does not settle for us the religious question."
Intelligent design[edit]
Proponents of Intelligent design argue that certain features of the Universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection. The fine-tuned Universe argument is a central premise or presented as given in many of the published works of prominent intelligent design proponents, such as William A. Dembski and Michael Behe.
Counter arguments[edit]
Victor Stenger argues that "The fine-tuning argument and other recent intelligent design arguments are modern versions of God-of-the-gaps reasoning, where a God is deemed necessary whenever science has not fully explained some phenomenon".[13] Stenger argues that science may provide an explanation if a Theory of Everything is formulated, which he says may reveal connections between the physical constants. A change in one physical constant may be compensated by a change in another, suggesting that the apparent fine-tuning of the universe is a fallacy because, in hypothesizing the apparent fine-tuning, it is mistaken to vary one physical parameter while keeping the others constant.[38]
The argument from imperfection suggests that if the Universe were designed to be fine-tuned for life, it should be the best one possible and that evidence suggests that it is not.[39] In fact, most of the Universe is highly hostile to life.
In popular culture[edit]
- John C. Lennox discusses the fine-tuned Universe at length in his novel God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (2006).
- Robert J. Sawyer discusses the fine-tuned Universe at length in his novel Calculating God (2000).
- Author Neal Stephenson discussed the issue of fine-tuning in the conclusion to his essay In the Beginning... was the Command Line.[40]
- Puddle thinking is a satirical illustration of the "life is fine-tuned to the Universe" argument above coined by Douglas Adams to satirize the Fine-tuned Universe argument for supernatural creationism.[41][42] As quoted in Richard Dawkins' eulogy for Douglas Adams:[43]
imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact, it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the Sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be all right, because this World was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.
The illustration is saying that, assuming there is a significant probability that self-aware life would come to exist in some form, then such life forms shouldn't be surprised to find that they exist.
See also[edit]
- Clockwork universe theory
- Fine-tuning
- Origin of life
- Rare Earth hypothesis
- Teleology
- Ultimate fate of the universe
- ^ Mark Isaak (ed.) (2005). "CI301: The Anthropic Principle". Index to Creationist Claims. TalkOrigins Archive. Retrieved 2007-10-31.
- ^ Davies (2003). "How bio-friendly is the universe". Int.J.Astrobiol 2 (115): 115. arXiv:astro-ph/0403050. Bibcode:2003IJAsB...2..115D. doi:10.1017/S1473550403001514.
- ^ George F. R. Ellis, "Does the Multiverse Really Exist?" Scientific American
- ^ Lawrence Joseph Henderson, The fitness of the environment: an inquiry into the biological significance of the properties of matter The Macmillan Company, 1913
- ^ a b R. H. Dicke (1961). "Dirac's Cosmology and Mach's Principle". Nature 192 (4801): 440–441. Bibcode:1961Natur.192..440D. doi:10.1038/192440a0.
- ^ Heilbron, J. L. The Oxford guide to the history of physics and astronomy, Volume 10 2005, p. 8
- ^ Profile of Fred Hoyle at OPT. Optcorp.com. Retrieved on 2013-03-11.
- ^ Gribbin. J and Rees. M, Cosmic Coincidences: Dark Matter, Mankind, and Anthropic Cosmology, 1989, ISBN 0-553-34740-3
- ^ Stephen Hawking, 1988. A Brief History of Time, Bantam Books, ISBN 0-553-05340-X, p. 125.
- ^ a b Paul Davies, 1993. The Accidental Universe, Cambridge University Press, p70-71
- ^ Larry Abbott, "The Mystery of the Cosmological Constant," Scientific American, vol. 3, no. 1 (1991): 78.
- ^ Martin Rees, 1999. Just Six Numbers, HarperCollins Publishers, ISBN 0-465-03672-4.
- ^ a b Is The Universe Fine-Tuned For Us? Victor J. Stenger, University of Colorado.
- ^ Barnes (2011). "The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Intelligent Life". arXiv:1112.4647 [physics.hist-ph].
- ^ Adams, F.C. (2008). "Stars in other universes: stellar structure with different fundamental constants". Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2008 (8): 010. arXiv:0807.3697. Bibcode:2008JCAP...08..010A. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2008/08/010.
- ^ See, e.g., Our place in the Multiverse Joseph Silk. Nature, Volume 443 Number 7108, September 14, 2006.
- ^ See, e.g. Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart: What Does a Martian Look Like: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life, Wiley, 2002
- ^ Victor Stenger, Flew's Flawed Science
- ^ See, e.g., Gerald Feinberg and Robert Shapiro, "A Puddlian Fable" in Huchingson, Religion and the Natural Sciences (1993), pp. 220–221
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- ^ The Fabric of the Cosmos.
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- Barrow, John D.; Tipler, Frank J. (1988). The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-282147-8. LCCN 87028148.
- John D. Barrow, 2003. The Constants of Nature, Pantheon Books, ISBN 0-375-42221-8
- Bernard Carr, ed. (2007) Universe or Multiverse? Cambridge University Press.
- Paul Davies, 1982. The Accidental Universe, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-24212-6
- Paul Davies, 2007. Cosmic Jackpot: Why Our Universe Is Just Right for Life, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 0-618-59226-1. Reprinted as: The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life?, 2008, Mariner Books, ISBN 0-547-05358-4.
- Alister McGrath, 2009. A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology, Westminster John Knox Press, ISBN 0-664-23310-4.
- Simon Conway Morris, 2003. Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe. Cambridge Univ. Press.
- Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee, 2000. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe. Springer Verlag.
External links[edit]
- Defend fine-tuning
- God: new evidence – a series of six videos exploring how evidence from cosmic fine tuning points to the reality of a creator God
- Stephen M. Barr (2001) "Overview of the Cosmological Intelligent Design argument," First Things, the Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life.
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- Gerald Schroeder: Fine-turned universe.
- The cosmos is fine-tuned to permit human life at the talk.origins index to creationist claims.
- Interview with Charles Townes discussing science and religion.
- Home page of Templeton Foundation project on fine-tuning.
- Criticize fine tuning
- Bibliography of online Links to criticisms of the Fine-Tuning Argument. Secular Web.
- Ikeda, Michael, and Jefferys, William H., "The Anthropic Principle Does Not Support Supernaturalism."
- Jefferys, W. H., and J. O. Berger, "Sharpening Ockham's razor on a Bayesian strop."
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- Elliott Sober, "The Design Argument." An earlier version appeared in the Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Religion (2004).
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What does she really think about Charles Lowe, the gay husband-manager she depended on 24 hours a day for 42 years before she sued him in an ugly divorce scandal? He was a power freak—cold, distant and controlling. Unfortunately, one of the things he controlled was her money. But did he really steal everything, including the millions she earned, then sell off her scrapbooks, etchings, photos and memories, leaving her bankrupt and desperate? We get Debbie Reynolds, always good for a pithy quote, calling him a crook and a thief and jokingly comparing him to her own disastrous husbands, but we get nothing from Carol, licking her wounds. Charles Lowe died before the divorce was final, unable to answer the charges or defend himself. Like any amateur Sherlock, I smell smoke, but nobody in this movie makes a move to cool the embers. Why else has Carol's only son, Chan, fathered by her second husband, football player Alexander Carson and then adopted by Lowe, refused to speak to his mother for the past 15 years? Now a prize-winning political cartoonist in Palm Beach, his own biographical info on the Internet makes no mention of his mother at all. What's the story, morning glory? There were years of success, followed by huge absences and lapses of work. But you gotta applaud her passion, dedication and discipline in keeping the legend alive. The curtain went up more than 5,000 times on Hello, Dolly! and she never missed a performance except for half of a show one night when she was felled by food poisoning in Kalamazoo. When she was battling ovarian cancer she would fly to New York every Saturday night, sleeping on wooden airport benches waiting for her plane to take off, undergo painful and grueling treatments all weekend, then return to the town where she was on tour in time for the Tuesday night show. Always the consummate trouper, she told her understudies, "Don't worry about learning the part—you'll never have to go on," and she meant it. She survived every setback with the rabbit's foot that had stuck by her side from her stage debut at the age of 7, which is why she named her 2002 autobiography Just Lucky I Guess. "It's funny creating a part," she says. "It's yours for eternity." Well, that was not exactly true with Lorelei. When Marilyn Monroe shimmied into Carol's role in the legendary movie musical of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, everybody forgot the original. But Hello, Dolly! was another story. (Just ask Barbra Streisand.) The timing for Dolly, according to Jerry Herman, was different. It was written for Ethel Merman, who turned it down, but when it opened in 1964, Carol didn't just lease the stage. She owned it. It opened on Broadway after the assassination of President Kennedy, when America was ready for two hours of fun, frolic and farce, and eager, as the old song goes, to "forget your troubles and just get happy." She's been playing it ever since. Now that she's 90 years old, she'll probably play it for eight more bars and out—in a wheelchair.
After 70 years, her childhood flame, Harry Kullijian, read a kind mention of his name in her book, and materialized, like Banquo's ghost. Depressed and broke, she needed another man to manage her life. He married her, moved her to Modesto and gave her a future by forming a partnership to bring the arts to public schools. Harry is as much a part of this movie as Carol. The scenes where she takes him on a tour of her Broadway haunts during the years when their paths came close to crossing but didn't, he accompanies her to unveil her star on the Palm Springs sidewalk of fame, and they revisit their old childhood neighborhood in San Francisco, are genuinely touching. The movie is full of gaps, but what you get is the sense that the real person behind the willowy blonde from Bennington College with a voice like a Greyhound bus with a faulty carburetor has always been a conundrum: push-pull, secure-insecure, superior-inferior. At the heart of her emotional stress was the feeling that the theater was her only home. You get the sense that in the past brief period of all that, Harry gave her a new definition of security. Then, just as Carol Channing: Larger Than Life was completed and ready for release, another misfortune: Harry died just before Christmas, on the eve of his 92nd birthday, and a grief-stricken Carol has gone into seclusion, unable to do any of the requisite publicity to promote the film. "The safest place in the world to be," she says, "is center stage."
Flawed but bittersweet and enjoyable, this film may be the final chapter in a colorful and illustrious life. Frail and exhausted, her voice unsteady and scarcely able to carry a tune, Carol Channing is bent, but her spirit is indomitable, her throaty laugh buoyant as always. Wow, oh, wow, fellas. Look at the old girl now, fellas. Let's hope Dolly finds her way back to center stage and never goes away again.
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I always giggle when people don't get enough dirt. While I agree that a documentary is supposed to present facts objectively, that also doesn't mean that it HAS to plumbe the darker reaches of a personality's private life because, well, it's private. A personality can decide what to reveal as part of their cultivated public image and what to keep for themselves. What Carol presents is, luckily for us, naturally fascinating. That's all we need to know (unless of course we're gossips and drama queens). Just like no one needs to know their neighbor's business, no one needs to know specifically what happened in matters of Ms. Channing's previous marriages, etc., documentary or not. Remember, she's "Larger Than Life", so…you get the large stuff, not the small crap that everyone goes through: divorces, family fights…ooh ooh! Who cares. That's basic. Let's see what made us love her: the performances, the personality…the things we can't do. Mr. Reed writes that this documentary is "
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Monday, October 26, 2009
The Braves Scout Team defeated the Orange County Boxers 7-1 Monday afternoon in Jupiter, Florida, to claim the 2009 World Wood Bat Association World Championship.
The championship game was the culmination of 5 days of outstanding baseball by 85 teams and over 1,500 of the top high school age players in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic. It was also one of, if not the most, heavily scouted such events in history.
The title was the second in three years for the Braves Scout Team, although under very different circumstances. The team was organized by former Atlanta Braves scouting supervisor Tom Battista and is made up of a core of players from ABD's top junior team. The 2007 WWBA World Champion Braves Scout Team was organized and run by Battista around of core of players from the Midland Redskins organization.
It was the first time that a team made up of underclassman, in this case 2011 and 2012 graduates, has ever won the WWBA World Championship
With Battista no longer working for the Braves organization, there is no telling what the 2010 edition of the team will be called.
The Orange County Boxers also have a tie-in to the ABD organization, which is based out of Southern California. Many of their players play for the Temecula Boxers, ABD's #2 senior team. The ABD Bulldogs, the top ABD senior team and the defending WWBA World Champions, were eliminated from this year's tournament during pool play.
Both teams had won their semifinal matchups earlier Monday in convincing fashion and were playing their 8th game in four days.
The Braves defeated the Diamond Devils 3-0 behind a dominating pitching performance by LHP Daniel Camarena. Camarena threw a two-hit complete game shutout, striking out 12 hitters.
The Boxers reached the championship game by downing the Orlando Scorpions 6-1 behind six solid innings from LHP Robert Kraft. The Scorpions were seeking a WWBA double, as their junior team won the WWBA Underclass World Championship two weeks ago.
The Boxers took an early lead in the championship game, played under sunny skies and near record temperatures for late October in Florida. LF Callen Dawson stroked a one out double to left field in the top of the second inning and scored on a single by SS Steven Pallares.
The Braves came right back in the bottom of the second inning with two runs of their own. 1B Rouric Bridgewater reached base on an error and moved to second on a walk to SS Brett Harrison. A single by RF Jean Ramirez scored Bridgewater and Harrison later scored on a ground ball out.
More runs could have scored except for one of the stranger plays you will ever see, perhaps the result of fatigue on the part of everyone involved. With Ramirez on third base and C Bryce Mosier on second and one out, EH Johnny Drown hit a one hopper to 3B Luke White. White threw home to C Vinny Ponce to try to get Ramirez but Ponce appeared to forget that it wasn't a force play and didn't attempt to tag the sliding Ramirez. However, the home plate umpire also appeared to forget that it wasn't a force play and gave a casual out signal. Then no one in the Braves dugout seemed to recognize what went on and there wasn't a whisper raised in protest. The game continued with few seemingly the wiser.
The Braves broke open the game with a 4 run rally in the 4th inning, again keyed by the same part of the lineup. Bridgewater, Harrison, Ramirez, Mosier and CF Josh Guerra strung together 5 consecutive hits off tiring Boxers starter Brandon Trinkwon.
Braves starter RHP David Longville threw the first five innings, consistently pounding the strike zone to get ahead of the Boxer hitters. LHP Henry Owens finished up the last two innings.
Owens, a 6-5, 185 lb southpaw from Huntington Beach (CA) and a member of the 2011 class, was named the championship's Most Valuable Pitcher. Owens threw 9 shutout innings during the week, striking out 12 hitters while only allowing 4 hits.
Camarena was named the Most Valuable Player after one of the most impressive performances in WWBA World Championship history. The 6-1, 185 lb 2011 grad from Bonita (CA) threw 11 2/3 innings of shutout ball, going 2-0 with a save, including the dominant performance in the semifinals. Camarena also was a key contributor with the bat, going 8-17 at the plate, including a 3-4, 2 Rbi showing in the Braves quarterfinal victory over the White Sox Scout Team/Florida Legends.
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The latest entry is Abigaile (1301 Manhattan Ave., Hermosa Beach, 310-999-3508), part of the seemingly endless line of gastropubs to open in the South Bay - a big room with a high-ceiling just two blocks from the beach, offering dozens of freshly poured brews, along with the requisite eclectic menu that runs from truffled pork rillette to a Bad Ass Burger packed with bacon-infused beef. The half-timbered walls make the sprawling space look like a log cabin that's taken a wrong turn, with the letter "A" written largely on many a surface - the Scarlet Letter by the shore.
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Retailing at £11,950 I don't think I could ever bring myself to touch it, let alone wear it but if you've got a spare 12 grand knock yourself out because gold is the colour of this season.
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It's part reunion, drawing native children back home for a weekend. Kevin Betler's daughter is a doctor in Morgantown now and has to work this weekend, but some of the friends she brought home with her from college will be at Fasnacht.
Betler runs the Kultur House, a building that also houses Helvetia's General Store, Post Office and Mask Museum.
He says Fasnacht is also part tourism.
"It's considerably bigger than it used to be," he says. "It used to be just the locals, but Eleanor really got the word out and promoted it."
That's good for the few businesses in town: The Hutte, the Honey Haus, Alpenglow Handmade Soaps and the six-bedroom, one-bath Alpen Lodge.
Typically, people book the town's few rooms a year or more in advance. Those who don't want to drive a half-hour to the nearest motel in Mill Creek can pay $5 to put a cot or sleeping bag on the floor of the Star Band Hall after the open mic session wraps up.
The festival's success has not, however, been able to consistently sustain the town's cheese-making tradition.
State legislators tried to help, passing a law in the late 1990s to exempt cheese-makers in Helvetia from the requirement to use pasteurized milk it they were selling less than 5,000 pounds. But Betler says it's tough to sustain a steady supply of fresh milk in Helvetia, and cheese-making is a seven-day-a-week process.
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