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Valley Forge National Historical Park Things to Do
Statue of General Friedrich Wilhelm von...
From Wikipedia: - - - - - - - - - Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was a onetime member of the elite General Staff of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. No longer in the Prussian Army, indeed without employment of any kind, von Steuben offered his military skills to the patriot cause. When he arrived at Valley Forge from France on February...
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Walk or bike around!!
Valley Forge is a great place to enjoy Nature. For me, Europan city girl, such open spaces were just... amazing (I've no words!!) The park has19.5 miles of designated hiking trails. In addition, hiking is permitted in most open areas of the park. The 6.6 mile Joseph Plumb Martin Trail connects the key historic and interpretive sites, you can easily...
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George Washington's Army huts
No battles were fought at Valley Forge in southeastern Pennsylvania. This was a training ground for Washington's troops. Here, Washington trained his army into during the winter of 1777-78.Each tiny log cabin, heated by a small fireplace, housed 12 men. Can you imagine that in winter? No wonder so many soldiers died due to illness and hunger.The...
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Washington Memorial Chapel
Dr. W. Herbert Burk founded the Memorial in 1903. As per their website: "The Memorial stands in remembrance of those brave men and women who have given so much to insure and maintain our freedom in America. But especially we remember those who gave so freely of their time, talent, treasure, and lives to win our freedom in the American Revolution"....
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Mothers of the Nation sculpture
Beautiful and moving sculpture, given by Stephen Heckscher, Esq., in. honor of the Mothers of the Nation and in memory of his. wife, Henrietta Brown Heckscher, who died died on childbirth on 1912.
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Soldiers' Huts
At Stop #2 on the auto tour is the defensive line of the Muhlenberg Brigade, where today stand several reconstructed huts that effectively show the primitive shelters that protected our troops (or some fraction thereof) during the harsh winter. In season, park personnel in period costume answer questions concerning the park and the huts (even...
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Valley Forge National Historical Park
A simplified version of the Triumphal Arch of Titus in Rome, the Valley Forge National Memorial Arch signifies the entrance of Washinton's Continental Army into Valley Forge.It was designed by Paul Cret, a University of Pennsylvannia professor. It was dedicated on June 19, 1917, 139 years after the evacuation of Valley forge.The memorial is carved...
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Von Steuben's statue
Von Steuben offered his services to Washington in order to train the troops and to instill a regular military discipline into the ranks. In the center of the Valley Forge auto loop is the Grand Parade ground where von Steuben did his drilling. His commemorative statue stands near Stop #9 by General Varnum's quarters.
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Though there was no action here during the conflict, the colonial troops set up prudent batteries to guard against a sudden move by the British troops quartered in nearby Philadelphia. Single cannon and rows of guns appear in various places throughout the park, such as Stops 6-8, the redoubts and battery park.
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Washington's Headquarters
One of the neatest structures within the park is the former home of Isaac Potts, commandeered during the 1777 winter by Washington for his headquarters. Constructed of stone in two stories with a single prominent chimney, the house seems a perfect prototype for rural domiciles of the well-to-do in the colonial period.
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Memorial Arch
Erected in 1917, the Memorial Arch is the most considerable monument at Valley Forge. Commemorating the "patience and fidelity" of the soldiers who wintered here in 1777, there is no more fitting memorial to our fallen heroes throughout the state of Pennsylvania (save the Pennsylvania Monument at Gettysburg).
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Anthony Wayne statue
"Mad" Anthony Wayne (as he became known) was one of Washington's more stalwart lieutenants, and while not as successful in his address or campaigns as Nathaniel Greene, Wayne deserves credit for his staunch support and energy during the Revolution. At Valley Forge, this bronze equestrian statue stands near where Wayne's troops were encamped during...
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Park Headquarters
Visitors to Valley Forge should properly start their trip at the visitor center, complete with a bookstore and helpful personnel. Nearby stands the park's headquarters, a stone construction meant to blend in with the other buildings within the park (unlike the modern visitor center). Nonetheless, Valley Forge is an interesting historical tour and a...
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Miscellaneous Miscellany
Apart from the iron foundry (of which some remnants supposedly remain), there are other period structures that receive virtually no attention to the average visitor. It is true that deer (estimated to run close to 1,300) overrun the open fields within the park, but for history buffs and those enamored with things in the American East, other...
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Miscellaneous Homes
Some of the structures within the Valley Forge boundaries were directly related to the encampments, the planning or the soldiers' lives during the Winter of 1777-8. Some of these include a covered bridge and an iron foundry, but also a few homes of the period such as the Knox home. Doubtless these homes were used as hospitals or officers' quarters...
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Business Ethics Business Ethics is referred to as the study of what constitutes right and wrong , or good and bad , human conduct in a business context (Shaw 2004 :5 . Most of the time , business owners experience ethical dilemmas that challenges their decision making process . Some of the issues that they have to resolve are related to the operations of their business as well as in the handling of their employees . These could be exemplified by the dilemma of whether they would sacrifice quality for quantity or if they would lay off some
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The Universalist perspective towards ethical decision-making is synonymous to the Golden Rule . This approach is made up of two steps First , the individual responsible in making the decision should contemplate on whether a specific action is applicable to all people at all times . Second , the individual should assess oneself if he or she would agree that this same action or rule will be applied to him or her (Poznak Law Firm Ltd
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The view of relativism emphasizes that there are different perspectives of ethics in each society . This approach gives due consideration to the fact that cultural or national boundaries have a strong influence on how ethics is viewed . Ethical relativism considered that each society 's interpretation about ethics is legitimate . This idea only explains that ethics is also affected by the diversity of people around the world Cultural differences are also the reason why there are different norms and moral practices that people follow (Velasquez et al , 2008
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The rooms were of good size and amazing views over the pool and oceon. All staff very chattie and helpful throughout the stay.
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Loved the Brisa Sol Hotel - Excellent Value
Brisa Sol Hotel is excellent value for money, child friendly and staff are extremely helpful. Kept clean and tidy with plenty of indoor activities to keep you occupied. Worth trying!
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Excellent location, excellent staff, extremley clean, thoroughly enjoyed the four week stay
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We always go to this hotel in the month januari until marz because it is very nice in the hotel, the weather is better than in the netherlands and also the people is very helpless anf friendly. we are going for the thirteenth year, and we hope to go many year again.
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Our Portuguese holiday in Albufeira was made all the more pleasurable by the fantastic hotel accomodation namely the Brisa Sol located just a 10 minute walk to the 'old Town'. The cleanliness of all rooms combined with the curteous staff ensured a relaxing time was had by all. On the 2 occasions we dined in the Restaurant the food was of the highest standard and very reasonably priced considering its 4 star rating. The indoor and outdoor pools together with the sun bathing facilities were able to accomodate all who wished to burn off calories or just 'chill out' under the sun. Me, I preferred the latter spending quality time sipping Bacardi cokes from the small outside bar which also catered for food and non alcoholic beverages. Whilst on the subject of alcohol, the evening entertainment in the main bar was good clean professional fun. The bar staff were polite and the prices considerably cheaper than the ear splitting roudiness of the 'new Town' areas. Although I have given this hotel an above average score as opposed to excellent this doesn't detract from the fact that our holiday at this location was memorable for all the good reasons and the Hotel Brisa Sol has not seen the last of me !!!
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I was very pleased with the hotel and the rooms available. Everything is very clean ans the staff are very polite. The pool facilities are excellant for adults and children alike and the pool food is very rerasonable. The beach is about 15 minutes walk awa and all down hill but there was about 100 steps to get down to it and believe me it was very steep and very hard to get back up again, especially with a push chair. The old and new stripe are both down hill and when coming home can be a bit of a struggle walking back up again. Overall I had a relaxing holiday around the hotel, but the only reason I would not return with kids is the lack of entertainment for them. Our kids where bored at night time with nothing to do.
Simply fantastic thats all there is to say about this accomodation.
This is our 2nd visit to the Brisa Sol and without doubt we will be returning next year. Spotlessly clean (maid service every day) & well furnished. We paid a small charge for a studio with a pool view and it was well worth the cost as the rooms at the back overlook the car park or the main road. 10 minutes to old town or the strip depending on which way you turn when leaving the hotel, fairly hilly but well worth the walk in either direction. All staff very friendly but not over impressed with the bar, the evening entertainment leaving a lot to be desired but nightlife in resort very good. If dining out I must recommend the Grandmothers House Restaurant.
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Went to Brisa sol in June 2003. Fabulous Weather Hotel beautiful and clean, nothing too much trouble very friendly and pool side snack bar smashing. All in all a wonderful holiday. Already been 3 times. Need i say more !
Had a great holiday loved the hotel
We recently stayed at the Brisa Sol Hotel Apartmentos. We had an excellent vacation the staff at the hotel were most helpful and accommodating at all times. I would seriously recommend them to our friends if they ever ventured into Portugal. The cleaning staff were a delight to spend time with especially our two ladies Isabel Bento and her partner Maria. It would nice if we could receive the email address for the Brisa Sol as we have a couple of photographs of Isabel and Maria which we would like forward to them. We stayed at Brisa Sol from March 02 thru to March 29 of this year 2003.
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I visited the Brisa Sol a few years ago, but it is a splendid site for a holiday. The apartments are spotless and furnished to a high standard. They are situated on a busy road whereas when you go outside you either turn left for the old town or right for the strip. It is a 10 minutes stroll but to be honest, with a taxi rank outside we usually took the taxi! The pool area is fantastic, with plenty of sunloungers with matresses for your comfort. If there was one complaint it would be that there was no evening entertainment and no entertainment staff and therefore every night was spent out. Still, I would go back there -- and Portugal -- in a heartbeat!
albufeira has 2 parts, a loud strip end & a quieter old town, the brisa sol is a 4 star hotel 10 mins walk from the old town, spotless, indoor & outdoor pool, very friendly helpful staff, reasonable rates, my husband had a massage whilst he was there, the guy who comes to the hotel is a sports phsio, best massage he has had, half the price of back home. supermarker next door, which is great as this is an aparthotel also, we stayed in a studio feb 2002, we were overlooking the road, we go back in april 2003, but will get a pool view this time. don't bother booking trips thru a rep, the hotel has same trips a lot cheaper!
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The Monmouth College music department will start the coming academic year on a good note—literally—thanks to the gift of a new Steinway concert grand piano by 1947 graduate Joyce Busby of Litchfield, Ill.
The instrument, which is valued at approximately $80,000, will arrive by the beginning of September, according to associate professor of music Ian Moschenross. It will be formally dedicated at a Sept. 22 piano recital by Moschenross.
Moschenross said that thanks to the gift, he and department colleague Tim Pahel are looking forward to traveling to New York City in August. "Steinway sends you to their factory in Queens," he explained, "and you tour the factory and see pianos being made."
Moschenross had the opportunity to meet Busby earlier this month and express his gratitude for the gift, which Busby made in honor of her parents, Leland and Ruth Busby. Her father attended Monmouth during the 1921-22 academic year.
"I have an abiding interest in good music," she said. "That's why I wanted to make a gift to Monmouth College along those lines."
Busby said that her grandmother played the piano and was a music major at Illinois State University. Asked about her own musical talents, she replied, "I took piano as a child in Litchfield, but you'd never know it. I was more of a tomboy."
Busby graduated high school in 1942 and, after working a year, enrolled at Monmouth College in the fall of 1943. As a female, she found herself in the majority of the student body during World War II, although the college was home to Naval cadets during her first two years on campus.
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Busby majored in sociology and was a member of Kappa Delta sorority. When it came time to enter the working world, she used her liberal arts education to find work as an office manager in St. Louis.
"I didn't do justice to my degree in sociology," she said. "I think it can be said of most liberal arts students that the education prepared you for different things."
Busby spent about half her career in insurance, also serving as a district manager for Avon and working her final 18 years before retirement at the University of Iowa.
"On behalf of the students and faculty in the music department, I want to thank Joyce Busby for this incredibly generous and meaningful gift," said Moschenross. "Both of our current concert instruments are refurbished Steinways originally purchased by the college in the 1920s. Having a brand new, world-class instrument from Steinway will impact students, faculty and guest artists, literally for generations to come."
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The seventh edition of the IPL is on the home straight, and, in terms of big hitting, the 2014 tournament has been an absolute cracker.
After Match 48—a loss for the table-topping Kings XI Punjab to a resurgent Mumbai Indians—an incredible 533 sixes had been scored, per IPLT20.com.
With Punjab and Chennai having already confirmed their places in the knockout stages, the chase for the final two qualifying spots is on.
Let's take a look at who's leading the way in the batting stakes.
Top Batsmen
Here's a look at the players who have punished bowlers most frequently so far in IPL 2014—the batsmen with the most runs and the best averages after Wednesday's matches:
Player | Team | Innings | Runs | HS |
Glenn Maxwell | Punjab | 12 | 533 | 95 |
Robin Uthappa | Kolkata | 12 | 489 | 80 |
Dwayne Smith | Chennai | 12 | 454 | 79 |
David Warner | Hyderabad | 12 | 434 | 65 |
Brendon McCullum | Chennai | 12 | 380 | 71* |
Player | Team | Innings | NO | Runs | Average |
Lendl Simmons | Mumbai | 5 | 1 | 280 | 70.00 |
Rishi Dhawan | Punjab | 5 | 4 | 68 | 68.00 |
JP Duminy | Delhi | 12 | 5 | 357 | 51.00 |
David Warner | Hyderabad | 12 | 3 | 434 | 48.22 |
Kieron Pollard | Mumbai | 12 | 7 | 241 | 48.20 |
Glenn Maxwell has been the star man with the bat throughout this tournament and he continues to retain his place at the head of the race for the Orange Cap with his haul of 533 runs.
Along with David Miller and George Bailey, Maxwell makes up part of the most formidable middle order in the tournament.
Kings XI have been scoring for fun so far, recording an enormous total of 231 runs from their 20 overs as they beat Chennai Super Kings in early May.
Maxwell scored a fabulous 38-ball 90 in that game, as Punjab worked their way to the biggest total of the tournament so far.
Robin Uthappa has been the key man for Kolkata, who currently sit in the last qualifying spot with two games remaining for each side.
His team's official Twitter feed reports his recent imperious and record-breaking form:
With 47,65,47,46,80,40,67 runs, #KKR's Robin Uthappa has highest number of Consecutive 40+ scores in #IPL History. (Via @mohanstatsman )
— KKR Knight Riders (@kkrofficial) May 20, 2014
If he carries on at this rate, he may well pip Maxwell to the post for most tournament runs, with many believing that he is playing his way into contention for an international call-up:
Ever since Robin Uthappa spoke to @Sport_360 he's been in imperious form & could now receive a recall for India. http://t.co/trbNa2luU5
— Sport360° (@Sport_360) May 22, 2014
Leading the averages is Lendl Simmons, who became the first man to score a century in this year's tournament during Mumbai's win over Kings XI on Wednesday, per the IPL:
Watch Lendl Simmons become the first batsman to score a hundred in #PepsiIPL 2014 http://t.co/dUqENURPn8 @mipaltan #MI #DilSeMI
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) May 22, 2014
Brought into the tournament late as a replacement for Jalaj Saxena, the West Indian has made an instant impact as Mumbai have surged into fifth after a terrible opening to the campaign.
The Mumbai Indians have signed West Indian batsman Lendl Simmons as a replacement for Jalaj Saxena wh... http://t.co/ifZoDVCUeG #cricket
— Cricket News (@crick_news) April 29, 2014
Rishi Dhawan's lofty position is the result of a string of not outs during the tournament, but JP Duminy's average is fully deserved.
The South African has been very consistent so far in a team that currently sit rock bottom of the table with just two wins from 12 matches.
The race is very much on for top run-scorer in IPL7, and although Maxwell looked to have the honour in the bag early on in the tournament, Uthappa or Dwayne Smith could unseat him with one big score.
However, it would be a brave man who would bet against the Australian ending the competition at the top of the batting pile.
Most Sixes
Another leaderboard that Maxwell sits atop is the one for the most maximums. He has cleared the rope 35 times in his 12 innings so far.
Let's take a look at the most prolific six-hitters of the IPL:
Player | Team | Innings | 6s |
Glenn Maxwell | Punjab | 12 | 35 |
Dwayne Smith | Chennai | 12 | 29 |
Yuvraj Singh | Bangalore | 12 | 26 |
AB de Villiers | Bangalore | 11 | 24 |
David Warner | Hyderabad | 12 | 21 |
Maxwell has some way to go to eclipse Chris Gayle's record of 59 sixes in the 2012 tournament, but you can bet that he will have added plenty more by the end of the tournament.
Most sixes in one #IPL season 59 Gayle 2012 51 Gayle 2013 44 Gayle 2011 35* Maxwell 2014 31 Jayasuriya 2008 #DDvsKXIP
— PepsiIPL IPL IPL7 (@It_IPL) May 19, 2014
Dwayne Smith has been another consistent maximum man in the tournament so far, racking up 29 sixes—eight of which coming during his 51-ball 79 against Delhi Daredevils, per ESPNcricinfo.
It's no surprise to see Yuvraj Singh in there, the Indian middle-order batsmen is famed for his big hitting at international level as well as in the IPL.
Both he and fourth-placed AB de Villiers have impressive balls-to-sixes ratios in the tournament. Yuvraj's 26 have come from 242 balls faced, while De Villiers has 24 maximums from 230 balls, per IPLT20.com.
As ever, the IPL has provided rich entertainment with big hitting galore and rapid run-scoring to all corners of every ground.
The likes of Maxwell and Smith have caught the eye up to this point of the competition, but it will all count for little if their runs dry up at the business end of the tournament.
There is plenty more entertainment still to come as teams fight for their lives in the IPL.


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No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the artists of classical Greece could find the perfect fusion of content and form, modernity faced complicating and ultimately disabling questions. Christianity, with its code of unworldliness, had compromised the immediacy of man's relationship with reality, and ironic detachment had alienated him from his deepest feelings. Hegel's "Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics" were delivered in Berlin in the 1820s and stand today as a passionately argued work that challenged the ability of art to respond to the modern world.
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Hegel (1770-1831) is one of hte most important of modern philosophers, due to his relation to Marx and the support his philosophy seemed to offer to theories of nationalism and social democracy, and his impact on a range of humanities. He is best known for The Phenomenology of Spirit, The Science of Logic, The Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, and The Philosophy of Right, as well as his lectures, which were published posthumously by his friends. Bernard Bosanquet was a Fellow of University College, Oxford teaching philosophy and ancient history. From 1903 to 1908 he held the chair of moral philosophy at St Andrews. He died in 1923.
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The range of aesthetic defined, and some objections against the philosophy of art refuted; methods of science applicable to beauty and art; the conception of artisitc beauty; historical deduction of the true idea of art in modern philosophy; division of the subject.


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A GenX call to arms against Millenials.
One need look no further than the local newsstand to see the favoritism the Millennials have received. Whereas Generation X was routinely denigrated by the press, the Millennials have been compared to World War II's Greatest Generation. In Robert Strauss and Neil Howe's Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation, the authors state authoritatively that "over the next decade, the Millennial Generation will entirely recast the image of youth from downbeat and alienated to upbeat and engaged."
Sure, Generation X survived AIDS, Reagan, the Cold War, Tipper Gore, and A Flock of Seagulls, but those adversities, suggest Strauss and Howe, pale in comparison to what Millennials face today. Consider the stress of having to juggle a 30-hour work week while simultaneously maintaining Facebook, MySpace, and Flickr accounts. It's enough to make your head spin! And maybe the Millennials never faced Hitler's forces on the beaches of Normandy, but had they been around in 1944 (and had the technology existed), you can bet they would have blogged about it.
I took my dad to the Leonard Cohen concert on Sunday.
Ah, Leonard.
My officemate flew to Halifax a few weeks ago to see him, and before she left the two of us attempted to explain this mild insanity to a Romanian colleague:
Romanian colleague: So this guy's in his seventies?
Us: Yeah.
RC: And he's a poet? Who sings?
Us. An excellent poet. But, well, he never did have much of a voice really.
RC: And you'd run off with him?
Us: HELL YEAH. It's your patriotic duty as a Canadian female, just like Pierre Trudeau (before he died, that is).
RC: If you say so. (Contemplates delaying her citizenship application.) See you next week then.
Me: ….unless you run off with Leonard.
Officemate: Unless I do. But I'll call from Paris.
But it's not just women, of course (quote from here):
Correctional officer Vernon Silver, 53, a married father of two stepchildren, will travel from Sault Ste. Marie to see Cohen this June.
Silver has been a fan since he was 17 for this simple reason: "Leonard says the things I wish I could say when I talk to women."
Fortunately the shows were worth a plane flight. It was as close to perfect as a live show can get — and never mind that the main performer is 73 and never could sing all that well. The instrumentation was brilliant; the arrangements inspired, the sound mixing excellent, the musicians wonderful, the set list well-considered and entirely satisfactory. The only sad things is that it'll probably be his last tour — it's likely he wouldn't have toured again at all, if his financial advisor hadn't made off with all but a small portion of his money. So I'll have to join Nancy White:
I was listening to music as I swept the kitchen floor.
I was needing a shampoo and I was pushing 44.
And I had one of those flashes that hits you now and then
About experience manqué and certain sadly missing men.
And I realized in horror as I stroked my double chin,
Leonard Cohen's never gonna bring my groceries in.
Also, I suppose I shall at last have to give up my vague fantasy about losing half my body weight, getting implants, learning to walk in heels and being one of his backup singers. Oh well. Can't have everything in life I suppose.
Happy retirement, Leonard. Just call if you ever need company in Paris.
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Antimatter: does it fall up or down?
Fascinating to think about, and now they've designed an experiment (download the PDF) which will, with luck, provide an answer. But reading the paper made something in my brain seize up, I think.
(h/t to Slashdot)
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Woo, I can see again! Although I'm still in that new-glasses phase where the ground isn't quite where you expect it to be.
I cheerfully tossed Andrea Buchanan's Mother shock : loving every (other) minute of it and (perhaps less cheerfully) Susan Wicklund's This common secret : my journey as an abortion doctor on my library hold list, intending to review one or the other. Neither of them has yet turned up, but coincidentally the library coughed up Identical Strangers: A memoir of twins separated and reunited instead and it is certainly a book that approaches the concept of "mother" from many angles.
Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein were given up at birth and were adopted into separate families, possibly because the adoption clinic's consulting psychiatrist believed it was better for twins to be separated and possibly for the much less altruistic reason that she wanted to study certain aspects of heritability. The families were never told the children were twins, and it isn't discovered until Elyse — in her 30s — embarks on a search for her birth mother.
You can imagine the issues of identity of self, of the family in which you were raised, of the family you're now raising, of how to negotiate the new relationship with your twin, that would arise if out of the blue in your 30s it arose that not only did you have an identical twin, but the two of you may have been part of a bizarrely unethical scientific experiment.
Both twins write with amazing honesty (they alternate passages, so their individual voices remain distinct) about their experiences — I'm impressed that they were willing to put so much openness into their writing. It makes the book one part ruminations about self, family, and motherhood and one part mystery — why were they separated? Who was their mother anyway? It would be hard to say more without tossing in spoilers, so I'll leave it at that. Recommended.
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Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession with Cosmetic Surgery
by Alex Kuczynski
The initial tone of this book is wildly uncritical — she skims quickly past the notions that half the American population isn't comfortable with their looks and are subjected to a constant barrage of images of surgically-sculpted perfection and gets right into the how-to without a backward glance at the deeper issues. Kuczynski is a journalist, not a scientist or an investigator, and she clearly goes for sensationalism over depth or meaning. For example, she leaves uncommented this interview with Dr. Suzanne Lepine, a Manhattan specialist in cosmetic surgery for, of all things, feet:
We live in a fifteen-second culture," she said. "That's how long it takes, I believe, for a man to look at you and decide if he will be in love with you. That is it. And if you're wearing stiletto sandals and your feet look like hell, he's not even going to give you the time of day."
A man won't love you, Levine reasons, or even give himself the chance of falling in love with you, if you have a bunion peeping out of your $500 evening sandal. Tough town, I said.
"Tough town, that's for sure," she said. "It sets its own standards. People overreact. I had one woman come in who wanted me to do liposuction of the toe. I mean, that's even over the top for me."
What happened to the patient?
"I told her to go see a shrink instead," Levine said.
When I left, Levine asked me if I knew any good single men.
Yikes. Talk about the need for a psychiatrist and a smack upside the head with a book on feminist theory. To be clear: if a man rejects you on the basis of fifteen seconds' worth of gazing at your unpedicured, unsculpted toes, your foot should be applied swiftly to his ass as you boot him out the door, not taken to a surgeon. (But I digress.)
In later chapters Kuczynski does a reasonable job at covering the risks of surgery and gives a fairly impassioned schpeel on the need for potential clients to check the qualifications of their putative surgeons; she doesn't skip discussion of the risks at all. Still, she doesn't ever really address anything beyond the who, what, how, and how much money of plastic surgery — the background societal issues remain unexamined. Which, to be fair, is probably beyond what might reasonably be expected from this book: Kuczynski set out to explore the world of plastic surgery, and given that parameter she's done a fine job. It's a very decent factual piece which would make a respectable accompaniment to some deeper analysis.
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Me: It's time to go inside. We need to make some dinner.
M: Can I watch a movie?
Me: No, it's not the weekend yet. Why don't you play with your Webkinz on the computer?
M: Nooooo. I want to just sit and watch a movie.
D: Hey, I know. Why don't you come upstairs and play with your Nintendo?
M: Noooo! Nintendo's too active!
Just down the street from my office, and around the corner from D.'s old office, there was a falafel place with much promise. The area is high on all varieties of Asian but decent shawarma is a little thin on the ground.
I went there a couple of times and each time I had a terrible time getting my order. They'd take my order, nod confidently, do twenty-seven other things seemingly randomly, deliver orders to people before and after me also quite randomly, then eventually deliver me something close to but not quite exactly what I'd ordered and charge me a random amount of money for it. They had no process. It was like an extreme version of Starbucks' tendency to produce drinks for three people who ordered after I did before finally coughing up something vaguely resembling my drink five minutes later.
The food at the falafel place was good but I quit going there: apparently I am too anal for that sort of free-for-all and it made me tense. It seems I need a visible and knowable process in my lunch preparations. The roti place, for example. You come in and line up in one clearly indicated line to order and pay. Then you switch to another clearly indicated line and wait for your food, which is prepared in order. It's all very transparent and obvious. You know how long it'll be before yours is ready, and then when it's your turn you can watch and make sure you're getting what you asked for plus extra hot sauce and no bag thanks. It's all very pleasing and efficient.
D., however, ate at the falafel place regularly. Perhaps it's all the time he spent in the Middle East but the place never gave him the same case of (admittedly mockable) nerves. Eventually, he said, a new guy started there and he had A System.
And so I went back, with high hopes.
This time they forgot my order entirely, although (as it was 2pm) I was one of only three people in the place and there were three people behind the counter.
We figured I was jinxed and perhaps D. needed to accompany me. But then D.'s office moved and the falafel place closed. Another mystery never to be solved.
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From an introduction to a biography:
After he died, I was interviewed a lot, asked about Douglas. I said that I didn't think that he had ever been a novelist, not really, despite having been an internationally best-selling novelist who had written several books which are, a quarter of a century later, becoming seen as classics. Writing novels was a profession he had backed into, or stumbled over, or sat down on very suddenly and broken.
I think that perhaps what Douglas was was probably something we don't even have a word for yet. A Futurologist, or an Explainer, or something. That one day they'll realise that the most important job out there is for someone who can explain the world to itself in ways that the world won't forget. Who can dramatise the plight of endangered species as easily (or at least, as astonishingly well, for nothing Douglas did was ever exactly easy) as he can explain to an analog race what it means to find yourself going digital. Someone whose dreams and ideas, practical or impractical, are always the size of a planet, and who is going to keep going forward, and taking the rest of us with him.
Once upon a time a long long time ago there was a downstairs kitchen in our house. It looked something like this:
…and despite its extreme ugliness when we bought the house we fully intended to use it for a time, then switch to the upstairs kitchen temporarily while we renovated.
But no. Once we started running water and flushing the upstairs toilet — and after my poor mother had spent an entire day cleaning the downstairs kitchen — we discovered that over in that corner the cabinets were mounted on a sheet of plywood, which Safety-Averse Former Owner (SAFO) had affixed there many years ago. It was there to cover for the fact that there was a massive, sewage-leaking crack in the house's soil stack (the big pipe that carries all your wastewater to the sewer) behind the wall. It had been flinging sewage into the wall for so long that below cabinet level the wall/plywood/whathaveyou had dissolved, and the cabinets were full of dust and dried sewage.
Ew. Even if we had been able to clean the cabinets adequately, that wall had to disappear to get the stack fixed, which meant the cabinets had to go. Also note the extensive water damage on the ceiling due to SAFO's ineptitude with tiling the upstairs bathroom. And there was no insulation in the walls, thus no space for wiring for things like lights and dishwashers. We'd need to build proper frame walls for that. Plus the roof developed a leak that ruined more of the ceiling and another wall.
So we ripped it all out, down to the brick. There was sewage soaked through all five layers of kitchen flooring, right down to the eighty-year-old joists.
I have no handy pictures of this phase, but here's a shot down into the kitchen from the similarly destroyed upstairs bathroom to give a sense of the level of destruction:
You can see some of the new walls being framed in the lower room — they're the new-looking 2x4s.
Then we got the plumbing and wiring totally replaced, closed the door on the kitchen and worked on the upstairs bathroom instead, because it's really irritating to only have a functional bathtub in the basement. Especially one in a room with no heating vent and with the cast-iron tub touching the two outside walls — in winter, the tub got so cold you could burn your feet on it.
The bathroom's now done but for several very tiny details and its very pleasantness has thrown the irritatingness of the tiny upstairs "kitchen" into sharp relief. If you can count the number of people that can work in a kitchen without bumping into each other, our upstairs kitchen is a zero-bum kitchen. You get in your OWN way in there, what with the fourteen inches of counter space, no drawers, and half-broken stove.
But look! Here's that same corner of the downstairs kitchen yesterday morning:
Whee, drywall! (You can even see a bit of the ceiling there.)
And after drywall comes paint, and after paint comes the floor (which has been stacked up in the basement for several years) and the trim, and after the floor and the trim comes a crew of nice men who will install, you know, a kitchen. And there will be much rejoicing.
55: Approximate weight of a sheet of 1/2″ x 4′ x 8′ drywall, in pounds.
9: Height in feet of our kitchen ceiling
639: Approximate number of muscles in the human body
600: Approximate number of those muscles that will hurt the next day if you spend a lot of time lifting 1/2″ x 4′ x 8′ sheets of drywall up to the ceiling, balancing with varying degrees of precariousness on ladders and the corners of tables, and holding the drywall sheets up there while they're screwed down. This includes the muscles between your ribs (the ones that make it hurt when you breath), the muscles in your instep, the full pectoral suite, the full gluteal suite, and more. Many more.
39: Approximate number of muscles in your face. I am happy to report that you can drywall without pulling these.*
*Assuming your marriage is good, that is. I suppose if you spend the day frowning and hollering at your spouse while also holding sheets of drywall over your head, you may be risking your facial muscles too. And then how will you call your RMT, hmm?
M: look! A robin! Do you know you are named after it?
Me: I see it! and yes.
M: I'm not named after anything.
Me: I suppose that's true. Daddy isn't either.
M: When I have a baby I'm going to name her after something. She'll be called Tulip or Rose or Chrysanthemum or Petunia. Then she can do a flower dance after her name.
Me: What if it's a boy? What will you call him then, Catnip?
M: Yeah. Lettuce or Catnip or Potato. Or Tree. Because we need more trees, and then he'd be one.
How odd to see this float through my inbox —
Quotation of the Day for April 4, 2008
"Its major importance would appear to be financial support of the surgical profession."
– Alfred Sherwood Romer and Thomas S. Parsons, explaining the role of the human appendix, in The Vertebrate Body.
I remember doing a double-take on reading that sentence in that book, which is a formidable and otherwise utterly humour-free textbook. Thomas Parsons was a professor of mine, and a very good one, and in the vertebrate anatomy class in which we used that book he admitted to adding that sentence during the book's revision.
As a professor he was old-school enough to wear a shirt and tie, but modern enough to wear his Zoology sweatshirt overtop and to get up on the lab counter to demonstrate the difference between reptilian hips and bird hips.
He taught me how to do excellent dissections with a blunt probe and an absolute minimum of scalpel, leading me to mutter disapprovingly when I later came across human bodies that had been dissected by scalpel-happy med students with no sense of subtlety.
He set insanely difficult bell-ringer exams, with specimens cut on the diagonal and all kinds of things where you'd waste half of your ninety seconds wondering what the heck the animal was, never mind identifying the bit of it with the pin in. His essay questions weren't any easier. But then he'd scale up the marks so it was still possible to get a decent mark after all.
He had four season's tickets to the opera and as his wife didn't like opera he would take students. Not by invitation — by open call in class, first come first served. A brave thing, taking science geeks to the opera.
He was, in short, the sort of professor for whom you work hard not for yourself but because you don't want to disappoint him.
He retired the same year I graduated and moved back to New Jersey to do some birding. I see he's still doing that. We exchanged a few notes around the time I was applying to grad school. I'm sorry I didn't keep up the correspondence, but it seemed he was settling very happily into retirement.
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I'm looking for a little help here since I have not run anything lower than 50 series on my Stang. I have a Jaguar I am upgrading to 18,19,or20's. The 18's will fit 45 series but the 19 and 20's need a 255-35 to fit. How do these tires ride on rough roads? I see alot of people running these low profile tire but i don't want to mess up the ride of the jag to much. Thanks in advance.
I wouldn't do it, but that's just me. I also like to see quite a bit of tire. I wouldn't go lower than 40 series. I prefer 45 series.
That's what I was thinking but many luxury performance cars are running these so i was thinking of following the pack. My Jag rides so nice I don't want to screw it up to much. Thanks
+2 on not doing 35 series on the Jag! The only way I'd do a 35 series if the width was at least 300 to give you a decent amount of sidewall! The # you are refering to is the aspect ratio(% of tire width). Eventhough tires have a lower aspect ratio, it does not mean they are shorter. My 295/45 is 1.1" taller than the OEM 235/50.
I really don't have issues with my 295/35/19 for my rear tires except that my BF G's are a little bit noisy on the road because of the tread pattern. Other than that I love the low profile look. The ride quality is about the same as the stockers. My fronts are 245/40/19 series. Both fronts and rears are equal to the overall ride hight to the stock tires .
I've got 275/35 x 20s all round and the ride is fine on my Mustang. However, much depends on other factors. For example, I have Roush progressive springs and Tokico D-Specs which I have set one turn from hardest. The wheel and tyre combo only adds 10lbs a corner too but a heavier wheel would perhaps cause the ride to deteriorate. All I can say is the ride I have is great and I use Dunlop Sport Maxx tires which aren't too noisy on road roar. It's a question of what you want. I'm more than happy with what I've got and you get a sharper steering input. I couldn't tolerate the 55 profile junk that comes as stock on the car. Moving from stock rims/tires to what I have now, I'd hardly say the transformation was significant enough that I'd even notice to any significant difference in the ride but the steering response and grip is a different league. Since Jags are softly sprung, I'm not convinced that the ride would deteriorate to any huge degree.
Gonna dive in with LV on this, I'm a little more extreme with my tire sizes as well. 255/35/20 up front currently a 285/30/20 rear. I can't complain about the ride at all at this point and I ride around in a cushy soft suspensioned truck for my DD. To be honest, I'm more worried about the dang things gettin taco'd up on a pothole or something. I like how mine rides very much..
All tires of the same nominal size don't perform equally. I'd look at the Tire Rack's comparison tests. They seem to be pretty thorough. My 275-35-19 Michelin Pilot Sport PS2s really ride much better than the previous 245-45-18 Bridgestone RE-01Rs. They are, as you say, luxury sport tires, and except for the (reputed) short tread life, are very much worth the (expensive) cost. They make my puny V6 Mustang feel like a BMW 750 on the road (that's what the tires are specific to)(the BMW; road, too, come to think of it). I have been warned about the vulnerability of rims this size and larger to damage from chuck holes and pot holes. No problems so far. The Saleen Parnelli Jones wheels are heavy and thick; I hope they will stand up to ordinary and autocross use.
I want to thank everyone for the input. I just ordered staggered TSW Indy 500 wheels 19x8 and 19x9.5 Yokohama S-drive tires Front 245-40-19 Rear 255-40-19 I'll post up pics later in the week when they are on. Thanks again.