Philadelphia Reflections A history of the Philadelphia area: William Penn's Quaker Colonies http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/RSSimage.jpg tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-05-18:%2Findex.php George R. Fisher III, M.D. gfisher@philadelphia-reflections.com http://www.rossperry.com/ (c) Copyright 2004 - 2012 George R. Fisher III, M.D. All rights reserved. 2012-05-14T21:36:11-04:00 hourly 12 2012-05-14T21:36:11-04:00 Philadelphia Reflections tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-05-01:%2Findex.php 2006-05-01T22:31:54-04:00 2012-05-14T21:36:11-04:00 William Penn's Quaker Colonies plus medicine, economics and politics George R. Fisher III, M.D. gfisher@philadelphia-reflections.com http://www.rossperry.com/ Dr. George Ross Fisher, III Philadelphia Reflections 2012-05-14 39.9455 -75.1532 Dr. Fisher's medical office location 39.9455 -75.1532 39.9455 -75.1532 Political Parties, Absent and Unmentionable Political Parties, Absent and Unmentionable tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-07:%2Fchecks_and_balances.html 2010-07-07T18:01:22-04:00 2012-05-14T21:34:13-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/3branches.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Our Constitution is much praised for exquisitely balancing power between the three branches of government. Maybe its achievement is to require two centuries to find a way to unbalance them..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Government Features Under Stress Government Features Under Stress tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-17:%2Fconstitution_iv_the_unforseen.html 2009-02-17T18:40:40-05:00 2012-05-14T21:10:30-04:00 A major strength of the U.S. Constitution is that it comfortably adjusted to consequences it had not foreseen. Equally important is its ability to encompass developments no one could have foreseen..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Population Growth: Constitutional Mathematics Population Growth: Constitutional Mathematics tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-06:%2Fsubtleties_of_the_constitution.html 2009-07-06T15:07:22-04:00 2012-05-14T20:35:49-04:00 It makes a big difference how many congressmen there are, and how many constituents they have. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> If Men Were Angels, No Government Would Be Necessary If Men Were Angels, No Government Would Be Necessary tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fif_men_were_angels.html 1997-11-06T16:58:17-05:00 2012-05-14T18:58:05-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/madison.gif" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A lot of shrewd thinking went into the checks and balances of the Constitution.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9489 -75.1501 Independence Hall 39.9489 -75.1501 39.9489 -75.1501 Morris at the Constitutional Convention Morris at the Constitutional Convention tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-11-03:%2Fmorris_at_the_constitutional.html 2011-11-03T16:20:56-04:00 2012-05-14T09:41:37-04:00 The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was not nearly as democratic as the document it produced. Pennsylvania Prison Society Pennsylvania Prison Society tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-29:%2Fpennsylvania_prison_society.html 2007-06-29T16:55:22-04:00 2012-05-13T11:54:50-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/william-penn.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />When the British monarchy put William Penn in jail, they set in motion a social movement which has changed prison management more than it changed Penn. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9684 -75.1726 Eastern State Penitentiary 39.9684 -75.1726 39.9684 -75.1726 An Industrial Nation, or a Plantation Society? An Industrial Nation, or a Plantation Society? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-18:%2Fmadison_in_philadelphia.html 2008-12-18T16:52:31-05:00 2012-05-11T20:55:03-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/JamesMadisonBio.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The founding of America produced patriots, heroes, revolutionaries and other idealists. James Madison was our first modern politician.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Touring Philadelphia's Western Regions Touring Philadelphia's Western Regions tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-09:%2Ftouring_philadelpia_s_western.php 2007-04-09T18:24:08-04:00 2012-05-11T17:06:42-04:00 Philadelpia County had two hundred farms in 1950, but is now thickly settled in all directions. Western regions along the Schuylkill are still spread out somewhat; with many historic estates.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Designing the Convention Designing the Convention tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-28:%2Fconstitution_part_i.html 2008-11-28T18:09:53-05:00 2012-05-10T19:25:49-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/TurningColoniesStates.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />To understand the original intent of the Constitution, it helps to see it in three parts. The part Washington and Madison devised in 1787 was mostly about structure, the main goal of which was to lay out certain national functions which the federal government could perform without state interference. That's delicate diplomacy, because the states had to ratify it..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Quakers: The Society of Friends Quakers: The Society of Friends tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-03:%2Fquakers_the_society_of.php 2006-07-03T16:10:52-04:00 2012-05-10T01:52:29-04:00 According to an old Quaker joke, the Holy Trinity consists of the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, and the neighborhood of Philadelphia. Separation and Balance of Powers Separation and Balance of Powers tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-03-30:%2F%2Fblog%2F2242.htm 2012-03-30T15:53:48-04:00 2012-05-09T18:33:08-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Constitution_of_the_United_States_of_America.jpg" alt="American Revolutionary" class="tn-l-w50" />The authors of the American Constitution made litttle distinction between a separation of powers and a balancing of them, which now seem a two-step process. Separate, then rebalance. George Washington Demands a Better Constitution George Washington Demands a Better Constitution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-11:%2Fgeorge_washington_demands_a.html 2008-11-11T18:08:11-05:00 2012-05-08T15:28:22-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/George%20Washington%201782.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />George Washington was an athlete, a soldier, and an adventurous leader. It is less appreciated that he constructed an aloof public image of himself, cloaking an activist politician, and a rather ambitious real estate developer. We got a new Constitution because he wanted a new constitution.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.949 -75.1504 Congress Hall 39.949 -75.1504 39.949 -75.1504 Hedge Funds in Delaware Hedge Funds in Delaware tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-21:%2Fhedge_funds_in_delaware.html 2008-05-21T20:22:58-04:00 2012-05-08T15:24:45-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hedge_trimmer.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Trimming the Hedge" />The state of Delaware attracts clusters of businesses for reasons having to do with its legal system; call it Delaware Attractiveness. At the moment, it attracts hedge funds.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.748 -75.5472 Delaware State Chamber of Commerce 1-(800) 292-9507 39.748 -75.5472 39.748 -75.5472 Delaware's Court of Chancery Delaware's Court of Chancery tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fdelaware_court_chancery.html 2001-04-19T16:58:17-04:00 2012-05-08T15:14:20-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/chancerylogo60.gif" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/chancerylogo60.gif}" class="tn-l-w50" />Georgetown, Delaware is a pretty small town, but it's where the major corporations of the nation plead their case.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.741 -75.5501 New Castle County Courthouse 39.741 -75.5501 39.741 -75.5501 Go to Delaware, Elephants? Go to Delaware, Elephants? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-19:%2Fgo_to_delaware_elephants.html 2010-02-19T16:29:57-05:00 2012-05-08T14:36:07-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/dead_elephant.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />It's about a 20-minute commute from Delaware to Philadelphia, with a big difference in estate taxes. Moving from New Jersey to Delaware would double that difference.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.1596 -75.5239 Woodburn, The Governor's House 39.1596 -75.5239 39.1596 -75.5239 Fort Wilson Fort Wilson tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-06-16:%2Ffort_wilson.html 2011-06-16T19:52:40-04:00 2012-05-08T14:25:54-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/wilson2.jpg" alt="Pierre Augustin Beaumarchais" class="tn-l-w50" />History was made at 3rd and Walnut, but so far, is unmarked.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.947 -75.1465 Fort Wilson 39.947 -75.1465 39.947 -75.1465 Philadelphia Economics Philadelphia Economics tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Fphiladelphia_economics.php 2006-08-02T17:22:21-04:00 2012-05-08T09:51:23-04:00 economics Unwritten Constitutional Modification Unwritten Constitutional Modification tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-05-01:%2F%2Ftopic%2F198.htm 2012-05-01T15:41:51-04:00 2012-05-07T17:23:29-04:00 New topic 2012-05-01 15:41:51 description The Constitution The Constitution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Fthe_constitution.php 2006-08-02T15:52:33-04:00 2012-05-07T17:23:06-04:00 The Constitution was not just a proclamation written at a convention. It was a choice between uncertain alternatives, with new difficulties soon exposed after making those choices. 18th Century Quaker Philadelphia quietly knew what to do: compromise now, modify later. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Eakins and Doctors Eakins and Doctors tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-27:%2Feakins_and_doctors.html 2006-12-27T20:11:58-05:00 2012-05-04T17:12:00-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/grossclinic.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/grossclinic.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Philadelphia's art world joined its medical world in reacting fiercely to Jefferson Medical College's sale of the best painting by the best artist of Philadelphia's Nineteenth century.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9482 -75.1582 The Gross Clinic 39.9482 -75.1582 39.9482 -75.1582 The First and Oldest Hospital in America The First and Oldest Hospital in America tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_first_and_oldest.html 2006-06-23T17:25:07-04:00 2012-05-04T16:59:47-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/south-east-prospect-of-penn-hosp.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The history of American medicine is the history of the Pennsylvania Hospital.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9452 -75.1557 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9452 -75.1557 39.9452 -75.1557 Pembertons Pembertons tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-31:%2Fpembertons_.html 2006-08-31T15:36:49-04:00 2012-05-04T16:48:51-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/ppembertoncoatofarms.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />One of the oldest, most prominent Quaker families contained a multitude of famous, rich, distinguished leaders. Many suffered imprisonment or exile for their pacifism, but one Pemberton is the highest-ranking wartime general buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery. He was a Confederate. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.945 -75.1558 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.945 -75.1558 39.945 -75.1558 Evo-Divo Evo-Divo tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-04-25:%2F%2Fblog%2F2251.htm 2012-04-25T15:11:46-04:00 2012-05-03T19:42:54-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/benjamin_franklin_national_memorial.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The Franklin Institute has been making awards for scientific achievement for 188 years, long before the Nobel Prize was invented. The seats are all reserved before the meeting notices are even mailed. State in Schuylkill Fishing Club State in Schuylkill Fishing Club tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-11-29:%2Fstate_of_schuylkill_fishing.html 2011-11-29T17:12:01-05:00 2012-05-03T19:39:29-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/275px-Schuylkill_Fishing_Company.png" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Unless you listen to some quibbles from White's in London, the Schuylkill Fishing Club of the State in Schuylkill is the oldest organized men's club in the world. And even if that exception is admitted, it's the oldest mens club in America. It's not secret, but it's very private. Washington's Circular Letters Washington's Circular Letters tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-02:%2Fwashingtons_circular_letters.html 2010-09-02T17:57:09-04:00 2012-05-03T19:06:11-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/headquatersnbny.jpg" alt="headquarters nbny" class="tn-l-w50" />During the dismal days of 1782-3, Washington was confronted with the first of many examples of the American tendency to quit a war before it is completely won. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.5105 -74.0195 Newburgh NY 41.5105 -74.0195 41.5105 -74.0195 Concessions and Agreements Concessions and Agreements tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-08-25:%2Fconcessions_and_agreements.html 2008-08-25T21:48:44-04:00 2012-05-03T18:31:53-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Concessions125.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt=""/>Most 17th Century colonies were proprietorships, requiring agreements for local autonomy without losing allegiance to the home country. William Penn cleverly expanded the New Jersey document into the intellectual precursor of the U.S. Constitution..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Jury Nullification Jury Nullification tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzjury_nullification.html 2006-06-26T14:32:01-04:00 2012-05-03T18:09:40-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/MonteverdeT.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />William Penn demonstrated one of the most incisive legal minds in England by trapping the British courts in what remains a central unresolved dilemma for the law. He was the defendant in his own case.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9535 -75.1617 Criminal Court 39.9535 -75.1617 39.9535 -75.1617 Articles of Confederation: Fatal Flaw Articles of Confederation: Fatal Flaw tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Farticles_conf_fatal_falw.html 2004-12-15T16:58:17-05:00 2012-05-03T18:00:42-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Independence_Hall.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Some subtle features make the Constitution a vast improvement over the Articles of Confederation.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.949 -75.1504 The Congress Hall 39.949 -75.1504 39.949 -75.1504 Land Tour Around Delaware Bay Land Tour Around Delaware Bay tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-04:%2Fland_tour_around_delaware.php 2007-04-04T19:43:36-04:00 2012-05-03T15:44:54-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/delwaretour.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Start in Philadelphia, take two days to tour around Delaware Bay. Down the New Jersey side to Cape May, ferry over to Lewes, tour up to Dover and New Castle, visit Winterthur, Longwood Gardens, Brandywine Battlefield and art museum, then back to Philadelphia. Try it!<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.39 -75.34 View Above Philadelphia 40.39 -75.34 40.39 -75.34 The Wyoming Massacre of July 3, 1778 The Wyoming Massacre of July 3, 1778 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fthe_wyoming_massacre_of.html 2006-06-20T20:41:46-04:00 2012-05-03T11:49:54-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/josephbrant.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />As the dominant Indian Tribe in Eastern America, the Iroquois were ruthless in war. Whether egged on by the British or for their own reasons, in 1778 they remorselessly wiped out the Connecticut settlers around Wilkes-Barre.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.3211 -75.8181 The Battle of Wyoming Marker 41.3211 -75.8181 41.3211 -75.8181 Union, Now and Forever Union, Now and Forever tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-03-06:%2F%2Fblog%2F2234.htm 2012-03-06T12:50:02-05:00 2012-05-01T17:53:21-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/europe_common_marketmap2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50"alt="{Europe Colonies}" />It's not easy to herd cats. <American Finance After Robert Morris tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-12-21:%2Famerican_finance_after_robert.php 2011-12-21T16:34:07-05:00 2012-05-01T16:21:51-04:00 In progress. Bill of Rights and Other Amendments Bill of Rights and Other Amendments tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-04-06:%2F%2Ftopic%2F197.htm 2012-04-06T17:19:53-04:00 2012-05-01T16:12:48-04:00 The original 1787 Constitution did not contain a Bill of Rights, although it would have been rejected without the promise that a Bill of Rights was to be added immediately after ratification. The southern states especially Virginia, strongly demanded a Bill, as did Western Pennsylvania. On an ethnic level, the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians were very prominent demanders. For the most part, New England opposed a Bill of Rights. Science Science tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Fscience_.php 2006-08-02T18:17:09-04:00 2012-04-27T17:46:32-04:00 Science<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Right Angle Club 2012 Right Angle Club 2012 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-10-27:%2Fright_angle_club_2012.php 2011-10-27T17:51:43-04:00 2012-04-27T17:46:05-04:00 In progress. Philadelphia Women Philadelphia Women tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-01-27:%2Fphiladelphia_women.php 2010-01-27T16:12:09-05:00 2012-04-27T17:45:16-04:00 .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Nobel Prizes Nobel Prizes tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-11:%2Fnobel_prizes.php 2007-05-11T22:05:06-04:00 2012-04-27T17:43:39-04:00 Some Philadelphians won Nobel Prizes for work done here, or elsewhere. Some prize winners would deny they are Philadelphians, but their work was nevertheless done here.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Natural Science Natural Science tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-01:%2Fnatural_science.php 2010-12-01T15:06:59-05:00 2012-04-27T17:43:07-04:00 foo<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fben_franklin_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-04-27T17:41:20-04:00 A collection of Benjamin Franklin tidbits that relate Philadelphia's revolutionary prelate to his moving around the city, the colonies, and the world. Academia (2) Academia (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-11-30:%2Facademia_2.php 2011-11-30T16:18:41-05:00 2012-04-27T17:40:39-04:00 continued. Obamacare Follies, Executive Summary Obamacare Follies, Executive Summary tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-18:%2Fobamacare_follies_executive_summary.php 2009-09-18T20:37:08-04:00 2012-04-24T16:21:25-04:00 Obamacare needs simple explanation<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Obamacare Examined Obamacare Examined tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-18:%2Fobamacare_follies.php 2009-09-18T20:40:22-04:00 2012-04-24T16:20:40-04:00 A short appraisal of the Obama Health Plan, its tricky politics, and a proposal of less disruptive health reforms that would suffice for the moment. www.Philadelphia-Reflections.com/topic/134.htm<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Health Insurance Health Insurance tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-22:%2Fhealth_insurance.php 2007-12-22T23:41:45-05:00 2012-04-24T16:19:54-04:00 Clinton Health Plan and its replacements.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Legal Philadelphia (1) Legal Philadelphia (1) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-03:%2Flegal_philadelphia_2.php 2009-08-03T16:03:05-04:00 2012-04-24T16:19:36-04:00 .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Insurance in Philadelphia Insurance in Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Finsurance_in_philadelphia.php 2006-08-02T15:11:18-04:00 2012-04-24T16:19:15-04:00 Early Philadelphia took a lead in insurance innovation. Some ideas, like life insurance, flourished. Others have faded.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Dislocations: Financial and Fundamental Dislocations: Financial and Fundamental tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-22:%2Fusing_computers_instead_of.php 2007-12-22T17:29:12-05:00 2012-04-24T16:18:50-04:00 The crash of 2007 was more than a bank panic. It was a collision of several revolutions which were all ripples from the same splash.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Obamacare's Constitutionality Obamacare's Constitutionality tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-04-24:%2F%2Fblog%2F2250.htm 2012-04-24T14:18:09-04:00 2012-04-24T16:17:18-04:00 Obamacare's constitutionality was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in late March, 2012. Gardening Survives Gardening Survives tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-13:%2Fgardening_survives.html 2007-09-13T19:18:28-04:00 2012-04-24T04:06:56-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/morrisabrb.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />A new book has arrived, describing the 90 great public gardens of the Philadelphia regions, and discussing the best 40 of them in detail.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9542 -75.1948 University of Pennsylvania 39.9542 -75.1948 39.9542 -75.1948 George Washington's View of the British Army George Washington's View of the British Army tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-07:%2Fgeorge_washington_at_braddocks.html 2006-12-07T16:31:47-05:00 2012-04-24T03:43:03-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Washington%20on%20horse%20at%20Trenton.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Washington's escape from Braddock's defeat may help us understand his future low opinion of the British Army, and possibly suggests a reason for his hating them.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.4041 -79.8685 Braddock Defeat 40.4041 -79.8685 40.4041 -79.8685 The Heirs of William Penn The Heirs of William Penn tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-05:%2Fthe_heirs_of_william.html 2006-10-05T18:41:25-04:00 2012-04-24T03:22:54-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Williampenn3.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The death of William Penn left his heirs the largest land holdings in America. Although they managed it fairly well, it proved to be more than a single family could cope with. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.7242 -75.7678 DE, PA, MD Circular border 39.7242 -75.7678 39.7242 -75.7678 Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-27:%2Frecording_for_the_blind.html 2007-02-27T14:41:18-05:00 2012-04-24T03:12:19-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/annemcdonald.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Anne Mc Donald" /> Out in King of Prussia, almost 300 volunteers make tape recordings of textbooks for people who can't read. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.7533 -73.9823 The New York Public Library 40.7533 -73.9823 40.7533 -73.9823 The Trigger and the Cliffhanger The Trigger and the Cliffhanger tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-08-08:%2Fthe_trigger_and_the.html 2008-08-08T23:05:50-04:00 2012-04-24T02:40:35-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/fanniemae.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />It was inevitable that someone would pull a trigger, and market gossip is now shaking loose who actually did. The cliffhanger to come is the insolvency of Fannie and Freddy. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.883 -77.0101 U.S Treasury 38.883 -77.0101 38.883 -77.0101 The Quaker Who Would Be King The Quaker Who Would Be King tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_quaker_who_would.html 2006-06-23T16:05:47-04:00 2012-04-24T01:32:40-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/man_who_would_be_king-764413.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="King" /> Two Americans, Josiah Harlan and George Bush, conquered Afghanistan, and for centuries others who tried it got massacred. Harlan, a Chester County Quaker farm boy with more brazenness than Alexander the Great, died in San Francisco while impersonating a physician. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Albert Gallatin: Enigma Furioso Albert Gallatin: Enigma Furioso tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-02:%2Falbert_gallatin_enigma_furioso.html 2007-11-02T17:23:13-04:00 2012-04-23T22:31:13-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/gallatin_oval.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/gallatin_oval.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />A man in constant motion for 88 years, Albert Gallatin almost defies description. America's longest-serving Secretary of the Treasury also founded New York University and the Chase National Bank, and negotiated the Treaty of Ghent. Having led the charge in denouncing Hamilton's bank, his greatest achievement was to persuade Jefferson not to close it down.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 46.2038 6.13996 Birthplace of Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) 46.2038 6.13996 46.2038 6.13996 Azilum: French Asylum on the Susquehanna Azilum: French Asylum on the Susquehanna tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-12:%2Fazilum_french_asylum_on.html 2010-10-12T16:51:20-04:00 2012-04-23T15:12:49-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/marieanto.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The French Revolution and the slave revolt in Haiti suggested the need for a French speaking refuge for fleeing aristocrats, and some Philadelphians organized one, including a futile effort to rescue Marie Antoinette.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.7669 -76.4444 Azilum, PA 41.7669 -76.4444 41.7669 -76.4444 Robert Morris, Land Speculator Robert Morris, Land Speculator tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-11-05:%2Frobert_morris_land_speculator.html 2011-11-05T18:37:07-04:00 2012-04-23T15:10:11-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Robert_morris_3jr.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Robert Morris devoted considerable thought to land speculation, long before he got involved in it. Wildlife in Haddonfield Wildlife in Haddonfield tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-21:%2Fwildlife_in_haddonfield.html 2008-10-21T20:11:06-04:00 2012-04-22T16:57:46-04:00 Haddonfield looks like a carefully manicured suburb but there is a surprising amount of wildlife, if you know how to look for it. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.898 -75.0313 Ross and Perry Inc., 39.898 -75.0313 39.898 -75.0313 Military Dictionary Military Dictionary tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-18:%2Fmilitary_dictionary.html 2011-03-18T15:36:03-04:00 2012-04-22T14:26:40-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/dictionary.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="{dictionary}" />Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Term<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Articles of Confederation Articles of Confederation tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Farticles_confed_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-04-22T13:36:47-04:00 The Articles of Confederation were written by John Dickinson. For thirteen years the country was ruled by them, and by Philadelphia. We learned many lessons during that episode, but begin to forget we learned them. Curtis: Those 1905 Delivery Trucks Curtis: Those 1905 Delivery Trucks tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fcurtis_those_1905_delivery.html 2006-06-21T14:26:15-04:00 2012-04-22T13:05:19-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/louis_comfort_tiffany.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Tiffany" />The streets around the Curtis Building were populated with huge solid-tire, battery-driven delivery trucks. They were built in 1905, cost almost nothing to run, and crept along at 5 miles an hour. It was impossible not to notice them, and that was the main idea.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9473 -75.1506 The Curtis Publishing Company 39.9473 -75.1506 39.9473 -75.1506 Le Le tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-10-16:%2Flegal_philadelphia_2.php 2009-10-16T15:51:04-04:00 2012-04-22T07:26:10-04:00 .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Houses in the Park The Houses in the Park tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fthe_house_in_the_park.html 2000-11-16T16:58:17-05:00 2012-04-22T06:29:30-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/StrawberryMansion.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />William Penn intended his city to stretch from river to river, with the gentry living in mansions along the Schuylkill. Briefly it was so; the mansions are on display in Fairmount Park. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9943 -75.1906 Strawberry Mansion 39.9943 -75.1906 39.9943 -75.1906 Call KML files from within a blog or topic Call KML files from within a blog or topic tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-27:%2Fcall_kml_files_from.html 2007-10-27T21:10:35-04:00 2012-04-22T05:44:42-04:00 How to create a button to call a KML or KMZ file Frank Furness (2) Rittenhouse Square Frank Furness (2) Rittenhouse Square tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-08:%2Ffrank_furness_2_rittenhouse.html 2010-06-08T16:46:58-04:00 2012-04-22T04:04:23-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/rittenhousesqhome.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />There were plenty of rich folks in Philadelphia before the Civil War. But it took the industrial revolution to make possible what we call the Victorian urban mansions.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9484 -75.1714 Joseph Roberts D.D.S 39.9484 -75.1714 39.9484 -75.1714 Philadelphia Economics (3) Philadelphia Economics (3) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-15:%2Fphiladelphia_economics_3.php 2011-01-15T22:04:58-05:00 2012-04-21T21:12:07-04:00 . Evolving Philadelphia Evolving Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Fevolving_philadelphia.php 2006-08-02T15:20:07-04:00 2012-04-21T21:11:19-04:00 The city changes.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Historical Motor Excursion North of Philadelphia Historical Motor Excursion North of Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-03:%2Fhistorical_motor_excursion_north.php 2007-04-03T17:17:48-04:00 2012-04-21T14:36:02-04:00 The narrow waist of New Jersey was the upper border of William Penn's vast land holdings, and the outer edge of Quaker influence. In 1776-77, Lord Howe made this strip the main highway of his attempt to subjugate the Colonies.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Revisionist Themes Revisionist Themes tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-10:%2Frevisionist_themes.php 2008-07-10T11:09:21-04:00 2012-04-21T14:34:51-04:00 In taking a comprehensive view of a city, an author sometimes makes observations which differ from the common view. Usually with special pride, sometimes a little sullen.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Improving Our Political System Improving Our Political System tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-03-29:%2F%2Ftopic%2F196.htm 2012-03-29T16:22:36-04:00 2012-04-21T14:30:50-04:00 New topic 2012-03-29 16:22:36 description Favorites - II Favorites - II tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-12:%2Ffavorites_ii.php 2011-07-12T12:24:06-04:00 2012-04-21T14:28:39-04:00 More favorites. Under construction. Haddonfield Haddonfield tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-06:%2Fhaddonfield_.php 2006-07-06T11:49:53-04:00 2012-04-21T14:22:35-04:00 Haddonfield is a bit of a secret. It's Philadelphia's "Main Line, East" 39.8979 -75.0315 Center of Downtown Haddonfield 39.8979 -75.0315 39.8979 -75.0315 Constitutional Slavery Constitutional Slavery tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-04-20:%2F%2Fblog%2F2249.htm 2012-04-20T19:01:03-04:00 2012-04-20T19:01:45-04:00 New blog 2012-04-20 19:01:03 description Separation of Church and State Separation of Church and State tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-21:%2Fseparation_of_church_and.html 2009-12-21T21:27:47-05:00 2012-04-20T16:32:13-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/congresshall2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Eleven of the original thirteen colonies had,"established" religions. The separation of church and state by the First Amendment was not a statement of fact, but a worrisome departure from the past. For the Pennsylvania Quakers, disestablishment was the most disheartening event in their history.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9491 -75.1508 Congress Hall 39.9491 -75.1508 39.9491 -75.1508 Selection of Constitutional Rights for the Bill of Rights Selection of Constitutional Rights for the Bill of Rights tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-25:%2Fconflict_within_the_bill.html 2010-05-25T15:46:06-04:00 2012-04-20T15:04:59-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/JamesMadisonBio.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />James Madison tried to preserve the Union by allowing states some latitude in enforcing civil rights. Eventually, we got a Civil War, a weakening of state legislatures, massive black migration to northern cities, and the Civil Rights Act. It's all about slavery being hard to eliminate..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.949 -75.1506 Congress Hall 39.949 -75.1506 39.949 -75.1506 Constitutional Liberty Constitutional Liberty tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-30:%2Fconstitutional_liberty.html 2011-03-30T16:32:41-04:00 2012-04-19T19:42:54-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/youngr_morris.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Robert Morris refused to sign the Declaration of Independence because what he really wanted was Constitutional Liberty. He didn't even mind being a British subject, and didn't want a different King. What was this all about?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> On the Subject of Rights On the Subject of Rights tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-29:%2Fhuman_rights.html 2008-12-29T19:46:45-05:00 2012-04-19T19:30:23-04:00 Human rights were mainly a religious issue to the Founding Fathers, demanding a Bill of Rights to signify God's supremacy over legislatures. When John Marshall transformed the Constitution into capstone of the legal system, constitutionally affirmed rights became a legal trump card for those who feared or opposed the actions of government. With that difference, it's little different, two hundred years later.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Robert Morris: Think Big Robert Morris: Think Big tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-17:%2Frobert_morris_think_big.php 2011-03-17T14:43:12-04:00 2012-04-19T17:18:52-04:00 Robert Morris wasn't born rich, or especially poor, but he was probably illegitimate. He had no recollection of his mother; his father, a tobacco trader in England, emigrated to Maryland and died rather young. It didn't take long for young Robert to become one of the richest men in America. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Robert Morris: The Dark Side Robert Morris: The Dark Side tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-17:%2Frobert_morris_the_dark.php 2011-03-17T14:59:56-04:00 2012-04-19T17:18:17-04:00 The richest man in America suddenly was locked in debtor's prison, $12 million in debt. While in prison, he reduced that to $3 million, and got released under a new bankruptcy law he helped devise.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Those Troublesome Lees of Virginia Those Troublesome Lees of Virginia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-04-19:%2F%2Fblog%2F2248.htm 2012-04-19T17:02:29-04:00 2012-04-19T17:15:26-04:00 It's difficult for Pennsylvanians to understand why the Lee family of Virginia made so much trouble for our heroes, Robert Morris, Benjamin Franklin, Gouveneur Morris in particular. Perhaps it was a cultural clash. Human Rights Human Rights tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-04-18:%2F%2Fblog%2F2247.htm 2012-04-18T13:45:57-04:00 2012-04-18T17:08:52-04:00 Human Rights is a popular term, but not a very clear one. What Happened in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776? What Happened in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphiladelphia_in_76.html 1994-07-28T16:58:17-04:00 2012-04-18T14:09:53-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/spirit%20of%2076.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />There were about 30,000 residents, just a small town, but it was the second largest city in the English-speaking world. Aside from wagons, there were thirty wheeled vehicles. But this is the town where decisions were made.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9489 -75.15 Independence National Historical Park 39.9489 -75.15 39.9489 -75.15 European Common Currency European Common Currency tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Feuropean_common_currency.html 2006-06-22T12:03:43-04:00 2012-04-18T03:50:26-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/eurocur.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/eurocur.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The European central bank has done a good job, but European culture is a little slow.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Line Dividing East from West Jersey Line Dividing East from West Jersey tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-08-20:%2Fthe_line_between_east.html 2008-08-20T20:39:05-04:00 2012-04-17T17:42:47-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/diveastandwestnj.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Although England had owned New Jersey for 17 years, it was unsettled until purchased by Quakers. By 1684 ownership was totally in the hands of two Proprietorships, or corporations, of Quakers. The boundary separating East from West Jersey was a line of 150 boulders from Beach Haven to Trenton. Every land title in the state is based on this survey.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Look Out For That Ship! Look Out For That Ship! tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Flook_out_for_that.html 2006-06-20T20:09:08-04:00 2012-04-17T15:36:11-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/D-delair4-njt-5-31-01.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Tales of the Sea abound, even a hundred miles from the ocean.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9826 -75.0692 Delair Railroad Drawbridge 39.9826 -75.0692 39.9826 -75.0692 The Schools of School House Lane The Schools of School House Lane tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_schools_of_school.html 2006-06-26T14:31:06-04:00 2012-04-17T10:54:37-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/germantownac-743328.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Exclusive privates schools and colleges are usually to be found in isolated rural settings. But our oldest, best, and most famous schools are clustered together in a neighborhood that is far from exclusive. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0321 -75.1744 The Pennsylvania School for the Deaf 40.0321 -75.1744 40.0321 -75.1744 Repairing Constitutional Defects Repairing Constitutional Defects tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-05:%2Fconstitution_part_iii.html 2008-12-05T18:36:09-05:00 2012-04-16T19:30:26-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/james-madison.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The concept of an amendable constitution was first devised by William Penn and utilized in his form of government of Pennsylvania. But Federalists at the 1787 Constitutional convention feared amendments would weaken the document's power. The alternative, repeat Conventions in which everything would again be on the table, ultimately seemed even more destabilizing. Amendments are permitted, but discouraged by difficult methodology..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.949 -75.1506 Congress Hall 39.949 -75.1506 39.949 -75.1506 A Time to Read Books A Time to Read Books tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-04-09:%2F%2Fblog%2F2245.htm 2012-04-09T16:27:37-04:00 2012-04-16T17:41:47-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/reading_in_library_elderly_care2.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Retirement is a good time to read all those books you meant to read. But certain things stand in the way. West Fairmount Park West Fairmount Park tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fwest_fairmount_park.html 2006-06-21T13:00:09-04:00 2012-04-11T10:19:07-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/1876_03.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/1876_03.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Fairmount Park, west of the river, is the largest part. The 1876 Centennial was held there. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9851 -75.2161 Japanese House and Garden 39.9851 -75.2161 39.9851 -75.2161 Subcultures Subcultures tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fsubcultures_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-04-09T18:02:55-04:00 <i>E pluribus unum</i> refers to thirteen colonies peacefully becoming a single nation. But it applies to Philadelphia in a different sense. Philadelphia is a city of neighborhoods. 39.9305 -75.1683 South Philly 39.9305 -75.1683 39.9305 -75.1683 Old Age, Re-designed Old Age, Re-designed tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-23:%2Fre_designing_old_age.php 2009-06-23T20:48:53-04:00 2012-04-09T18:00:47-04:00 A grumpy analysis of future trends from a member of the Grumpy Generation.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Literary Philadelphia Literary Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Fliterary_philadelphia.php 2006-08-02T18:10:47-04:00 2012-04-09T17:59:25-04:00 Literary<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Historical Preservation Historical Preservation tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-14:%2Fhistorical_preservation.php 2006-07-14T17:04:05-04:00 2012-04-09T17:58:54-04:00 The 20% federal tax credit for historic preservation is said to have been the special pet of Senator Lugar of Indiana. Much of the recent transformation of Philadelphia's downtown is attributed to this incentive. The Corinthos Disaster The Corinthos Disaster tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-20:%2Fthe_corinthos_disaster.html 2008-07-20T12:46:11-04:00 2012-04-09T00:05:26-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/big_oil_spill_on_fire.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />We hope the 1975 Corinthos disaster proves to be the worst fire in Philadelphia history; it's hard to imagine a bigger one. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8182 -75.4156 Marcus Hook 39.8182 -75.4156 39.8182 -75.4156 The Signers of the Declaration of Independence The Signers of the Declaration of Independence tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-04-06:%2F%2Fblog%2F2244.htm 2012-04-06T10:58:51-04:00 2012-04-06T16:35:37-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/declaration-of-independence-signers.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="{Signers of The Declaration of Independence}" />It was ratified by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. This anniversary is celebrated as Independence Day in the United States. The handwritten copy signed by the delegates to the Congress is on display in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Signers and Non-Signers of the Constitution Signers and Non-Signers of the Constitution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-06:%2Fsigners_and_nonsigners_of.html 2009-01-06T14:29:28-05:00 2012-04-02T19:57:48-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/The%20Constitutional%20Convention2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Seventy four delegates were selected to attend the Constitutional Convention, but only thirty-nine signed it. Considering that Rhode Island refused to attend, that sounds like a closer vote than it really was. But it was definitely not unanimous.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9489 -75.15 Independence Hall 39.9489 -75.15 39.9489 -75.15 A Gleam in Washington's Eye A Gleam in Washington's Eye tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-03:%2Fconstitution_part_ii.html 2008-12-03T20:35:22-05:00 2012-04-02T16:55:10-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/wethepeople.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution contains the enumerated powers of Congress, and Section 9 contains some prohibitions of Congressional power. Taken together, these "powers" constitute the arguments that a Union is superior to a Confederation. In the aggregate they represent the reasons why we created a Union.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Military School Military School tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fmilitary_school.html 2006-06-20T11:55:02-04:00 2012-04-02T10:37:49-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/VFMSCrest.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Valley Forge Military Academy takes rambunctious boys and makes them into leaders. Even some of the misfits and dropouts seem to benefit from the difficult experience. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0537 -75.382 Valley Forge Military Academy 40.0537 -75.382 40.0537 -75.382 The Supreme Court Revisits Girard's Will The Supreme Court Revisits Girard's Will tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fthe_supreme_court_revisits.html 2006-06-21T13:58:38-04:00 2012-04-01T08:00:44-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/asset_upload_file983_12268.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The tangled history of Stephen Girard's will and its two trips to the US Supreme Court, tells us a lot about what's at stake in the appointment of judges.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9739 -75.1701 Girard College 39.9739 -75.1701 39.9739 -75.1701 Quakers: William Penn Quakers: William Penn tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-05:%2Fquakers_william_penn.php 2006-07-05T14:38:09-04:00 2012-03-31T20:47:42-04:00 Although Ben Franklin gets more ink lately, William Penn deserves at least equal rank among the most remarkable men who ever lived. Computers, Digital Cameras, and Cellphones Computers, Digital Cameras, and Cellphones tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Fcomputers_.php 2006-08-02T15:01:53-04:00 2012-03-31T04:35:16-04:00 Much of the early development of the electronic computer took place in Philadelphia. We lost the lead, but it might return.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Making the Whole Town into a CCRC Making the Whole Town into a CCRC tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-12-27:%2Fmaking_the_whole_town.html 2011-12-27T18:20:04-05:00 2012-03-30T02:44:11-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/CCRC.jpg" alt="CCRC.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" />We can't make people any younger, or stronger, or much healthier. But we certainly can replace some institutions for the elderly with a much more enjoyable -- and cheaper -- assisted living at home. Addressing the Flaws of Republics Addressing the Flaws of Republics tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-28:%2Faddressing_the_flaws_of.html 2010-07-28T22:34:24-04:00 2012-03-29T16:09:05-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/BattlePolitician.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />We need some local, not national, think tanks. To understand why, it helps to have been elected to something, yourself.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Shaping the Constitution in Philadelphia Shaping the Constitution in Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-11:%2Fwriting_and_shaping_the.php 2008-11-11T15:54:06-05:00 2012-03-29T16:03:03-04:00 After Independence, the weakness of the Federal government dismayed a band of ardent patriots, so under Washington's leadership a stronger Constitution was written. Almost immediately, comrades discovered they had wanted the same thing for different reasons, so during the formative period they struggled to reshape future directions . Moving the Capitol from Philadelphia to the Potomac proved curiously central to all this.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> After the Convention:Hamilton and Madison After the Convention:Hamilton and Madison tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-09-01:%2Fhamilton_and_madison.html 2006-09-01T19:30:18-04:00 2012-03-29T15:58:51-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/signersconsti.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" />Two of the main authors of the Federalist Papers -- and hence of the Constitution -- ultimately proved to be acting on entirely different sets of principles, aiming for widely different goals.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9488 -75.1499 Independence Hall 39.9488 -75.1499 39.9488 -75.1499 Publius (James Madison) Explains the Proposed Constitution Publius (James Madison) Explains the Proposed Constitution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-03-27:%2F%2Fblog%2F2241.htm 2012-03-27T19:06:43-04:00 2012-03-29T15:53:14-04:00 Ten days after the Constitution was signed in Philadelphia, James Madison published Federalist paper # 10, which revealed the central organizing idea to the general public. Curtis Curtis tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-22:%2Fcurtis_.php 2006-07-22T17:46:40-04:00 2012-03-29T00:19:15-04:00 To Cy Curtis, magazines were just vehicles for advertisers. In fact, his mags taught former farmers how to manage urban life, more or less accidentally creating a focus for American books, authors, politics and literature. The fall of his empire teaches the lesson that antitrust laws against vertical integration are probably unnecessary. Philadelphia Mafia: The First Fifty Years Philadelphia Mafia: The First Fifty Years tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-17:%2Fphiladelphia_mafia_the_frist.html 2007-02-17T21:37:16-05:00 2012-03-28T23:49:50-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/garibaldi_g.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="{garibaldi}" /> For forty years after 1880, The Philadelphia Mafia was a small vigilante group secretly protecting Sicilian immigrants from marauding gangs of local Italians, which were definitely not the same thing. Prohibition transformed the whole nature of the underworld.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Signers of the Articles of Confederation Signers of the Articles of Confederation tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-03-27:%2F%2Fblog%2F2240.htm 2012-03-27T15:09:14-04:00 2012-03-28T15:03:45-04:00 The signers of America's first constitution, the Articles of Confederation, are less well-known than those of the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence, but they are no less important to our history. Some basic demographic information about these men is presented below. Washington Picks out Madison Washington Picks out Madison tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-03-27:%2F%2Fblog%2F2239.htm 2012-03-27T14:58:49-04:00 2012-03-27T15:00:47-04:00 New blog 2012-03-27 14:58:49 description The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-03-27:%2F%2Fblog%2F2238.htm 2012-03-27T11:19:41-04:00 2012-03-27T12:21:19-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/ArticlesofConfederation.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The full text of the Articles of Confederation. Bystanders to the Revolution Bystanders to the Revolution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-03:%2Fworking_topic.php 2008-10-03T12:26:44-04:00 2012-03-25T13:30:58-04:00 It wasn't heroic to everyone.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Right Angle Club 2008 Right Angle Club 2008 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-10:%2Fright_angle_club_2008.php 2008-11-10T17:19:29-05:00 2012-03-20T19:26:30-04:00 A report, to the year 2008 shareholders of the Right Angle Club of Philadelphia, by the outgoing president, Neale Bringhurst... www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/120.htm<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Pacifist Pennsylvania, Invaded Many Times Pacifist Pennsylvania, Invaded Many Times tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-29:%2Fpacifist_pennsylvania_invaded_many.php 2008-04-29T16:54:27-04:00 2012-03-19T21:11:19-04:00 Pennsylvania was founded as a pacifist utopia, and currently regards itself as protected by vast oceans. But Pennsylvania has been seriously invaded at least six times.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Revolutionary Philadelphia's Patriots Revolutionary Philadelphia's Patriots tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-31:%2Frevolutionary_philadelphia_s_patriots.php 2006-10-31T15:27:14-05:00 2012-03-19T21:09:47-04:00 All kinds of people were patriots in 1776, and many of them were all mixed up about what was going on and how they stood. Hotheads in the London Coffee House stirred up about an inoffensive Tea Act, Scotch-Irish come here to escape the British Crown, the local artisan class and the local smuggler class, unexpectedly prospering under non-importation, and the local gentry -- offended to be denied seats in Parliament like other Englishmen. Pennsylvania wavered until Ben Franklin stepped forward with a plan.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> British Abandon Philadelphia, Morris Takes It Back British Abandon Philadelphia, Morris Takes It Back tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-24:%2Fbritish_abandon_philadelphia_morris.php 2011-07-24T10:07:21-04:00 2012-03-19T21:07:01-04:00 It was fear of the French Fleet that made the British abandon conquered Philadelphia. Robert Morris took over and restored the insurgent headquarters, a hundred miles from the Ocean. Caesar Rodney Rides Through the Rain Caesar Rodney Rides Through the Rain tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzcaesar_rodney_rides_through.html 2006-06-23T16:24:21-04:00 2012-03-19T11:33:58-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/caesar_rodney-780195.gif" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Caesar Rodney" />When it looked as though Delaware was wavering on the Declaration of Independence, Caesar Rodney was summoned to ride through the rain to cast a deciding vote, in spite of advanced cancer.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Gardens for Posterity Gardens for Posterity tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzgardens_for_posterity.html 2006-06-26T14:49:10-04:00 2012-03-15T01:33:37-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PA%20Hospital-770653.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Pennsylvania Hospital" />New flowers can be planted each year, but forests take generations to grow. What you plant depends on who is meant to look at the result.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9318 -75.216 Bartram's Garden 39.9318 -75.216 39.9318 -75.216 Two Hotheads May Have Destroyed an Empire Two Hotheads May Have Destroyed an Empire tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-11-01:%2Ftwo_loudmouths_destroy_an.html 2006-11-01T19:55:17-05:00 2012-03-15T01:13:05-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/TOWNSHEND2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Charles Townshend and William Bradford were separated by an ocean, and surely never met. But if any two people can be said to have deliberately provoked the American Revolution, these two must be considered. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> FRONT MATERIAL: Deaths of the Shah FRONT MATERIAL: Deaths of the Shah tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-14:%2Ffront_material_deaths_of.php 2008-07-14T19:40:03-04:00 2012-03-15T00:30:19-04:00 .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Potts Potts tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fpotts_.html 2006-06-21T13:54:34-04:00 2012-03-14T23:56:25-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/02-23-01washington_headquarters.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="pottsville bicennial" />Once you get north of the falls of the Schuylkill in Fairmount Park, there aren't many places to ford the river until you get to Norristown, and then Pottstown. That brought commerce to the towns, and a lot of military activity during the Revolution.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> PHP script to display Google PageRank PHP script to display Google PageRank tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-06:%2Fphp_script_to_display.html 2008-06-06T17:31:33-04:00 2012-03-14T21:53:19-04:00 It is very handy to know the Google PageRank of your pages. Here's a PHP script that figures it out for you. Evolving Constitution Evolving Constitution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-03-08:%2F%2Fblog%2F2236.htm 2012-03-08T12:40:08-05:00 2012-03-14T20:05:04-04:00 As soon as the 1787 Constitution was ratified, it started to be amended, and enabling statutes began to appear. Regulations written by the Executive Branch eventually out numbered the laws written by Congress, but they had the same force of law. Hundreds of Supreme Court decisions modified the original intent, ever so slightly. The direction of drift is often hard to recognize, but there are a few clues. Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787 Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-02-14:%2F%2Fblog%2F2228.htm 2012-02-14T14:32:59-05:00 2012-03-14T17:03:39-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/The%20Northwest%20Territory.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The Northwest Territory belonged to France until the French and Indian War, when the British took it over. The United States then acquired it at the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War, in 1783. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 established rules for governing the Territory, as just about the last act of the Articles of Confederation. Mummer's Strut Mummer's Strut tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fmummers_strut.html 1995-08-03T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-14T01:00:54-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Mummersbig.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A curious and unique local custom has a long history. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9336 -75.1475 The Mummer Museum 39.9336 -75.1475 39.9336 -75.1475 Cataracts Cataracts tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-15:%2Fcataracts_.html 2009-07-15T12:41:02-04:00 2012-03-13T01:38:37-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Messerschmidt%20BF%20108.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" />The modern miracle of cataract surgery began when a Messerschmidt fired a machine gun into a Spitfire, during the Battle of Britain.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9479 -75.1555 Willis Eye Hospital 39.9479 -75.1555 39.9479 -75.1555 The American Friends Service Committee The American Friends Service Committee tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-04-05:%2Famerican_friends.html 2004-08-24T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-12T22:18:41-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/rufusjones.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Rufus Jnes" />Bravery in the face of danger, both physical and social, underlies the enormous international prestige of this remarkable Quaker relief organization. Many of its achievements defy all comparison. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9559 -75.1651 The American Friends Service Committee 39.9559 -75.1651 39.9559 -75.1651 Philadelphia's Middle Urban Ring Philadelphia's Middle Urban Ring tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-01:%2Fphiladelphia_s_middle_urban.php 2006-08-01T11:39:27-04:00 2012-03-12T19:50:53-04:00 Philadelphia grew rapidly for seventy years after the Civil War, then gradually lost population. Skyscrapers drain population upwards, suburbs beckon outwards. The result: a ring around center city, mixed prosperous and dilapidated. Future in doubt. New topic 2012-03-12 18:29:32 New topic 2012-03-12 18:29:32 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-03-12:%2F%2Ftopic%2F195.htm 2012-03-12T18:29:32-04:00 2012-03-12T18:29:32-04:00 New topic 2012-03-12 18:29:32 description New topic 2012-03-12 18:18:54 New topic 2012-03-12 18:18:54 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-03-12:%2F%2Ftopic%2F194.htm 2012-03-12T18:18:54-04:00 2012-03-12T18:18:54-04:00 New topic 2012-03-12 18:18:54 description George Washington in Philadelphia George Washington in Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-11-10:%2Fgeorge_washington_in_philadelphia.php 2009-11-10T13:42:31-05:00 2012-03-12T18:02:43-04:00 Philadelphia remains slightly miffed that Washington was so enthusiastic about moving the nation's capital next to his home on the Potomac. The fact remains that the era of Washington's eminence was Philadelphia's era; for thirty years Washington and Philadelphia dominated affairs.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Federalism Slowly Conquers the States Federalism Slowly Conquers the States tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-18:%2Ffederalism_slowly_conquers_the.php 2009-06-18T11:50:27-04:00 2012-03-12T18:00:47-04:00 Thirteen sovereign colonies voluntarily combined their power for the common good. But for two hundred years, the new federal government kept taking more power for itself.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Causes of the American Revolution Causes of the American Revolution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-11-03:%2Fcauses_of_the_american.php 2006-11-03T18:02:42-05:00 2012-03-12T17:55:57-04:00 Britain and its colonies had outgrown Eighteenth Century techniques of governance. Unfortunately, both England and America lacked the sophistication to make drastic changes smoothly.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The 28th Infantry Division The 28th Infantry Division tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-08:%2F28th_infantry_division.html 2008-02-08T16:43:45-05:00 2012-03-12T17:48:27-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/28th%20Infantry%20Division.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Seldom regarded as a warlike state, Pennsylvania has one of only eight reserve divisions of the U.S. Army, and the oldest. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.2769 -76.8739 28th Infantry Division 40.2769 -76.8739 40.2769 -76.8739 Only Three Things Wrong With American Healthcare Only Three Things Wrong With American Healthcare tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-17:%2Fthree_things_wrong_with.html 2009-12-17T19:49:57-05:00 2012-03-12T16:33:49-04:00 What needs to be fixed in American healthcare can be very simply stated as three fundamental problems.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Morris Arboretum Morris Arboretum tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-23:%2Fmorris_arboretum.html 2007-07-23T12:36:46-04:00 2012-03-12T16:15:19-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/MAvistorcenter.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />At the furtherest corner of Fairmount Park, the former estate of John and Lydia Morris is run as a public arboretum, one of the two or three finest in North America. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0916 -75.2284 Morris Arboretum 40.0916 -75.2284 40.0916 -75.2284 Healthcare Reform: Looking Ahead (3) Healthcare Reform: Looking Ahead (3) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-08:%2Ftemporary_.html 2007-08-08T12:33:15-04:00 2012-03-12T15:10:24-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/junker.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/junker.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />If radical new proposals for health care reform appear in the next few years, they are likely to originate in Detroit.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Litchfield to Wilkes Barre, Today Litchfield to Wilkes Barre, Today tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-02:%2Flitchfield_to_wilkes_barre.php 2010-09-02T18:35:43-04:00 2012-03-12T13:21:56-04:00 The journey of Connecticut's invasion path into Pennsylvania has changed little in two centuries. But some pretty important history has since taken place along that route.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Dedication: Deaths of the Shah Dedication: Deaths of the Shah tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-22:%2Fblog_dedication_diamond_27.html 2007-03-22T17:26:39-04:00 2012-03-12T09:06:23-04:00 .... States Rights Confront Civil War States Rights Confront Civil War tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-10-20:%2Fstates_rights_confront_civil.html 2009-10-20T23:32:01-04:00 2012-03-12T07:46:43-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Constitution.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Constitution took certain defined powers from the states and gave them to the Federal Government. Further steady erosion of states rights began, but the Republican Party gave things a big push during the Civil War.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9489 -75.15 Independence Hall 39.9489 -75.15 39.9489 -75.15 Old Blockley (P.G.H.) Old Blockley (P.G.H.) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzold_blockley_pgh.html 2006-06-23T17:26:03-04:00 2012-03-10T09:33:47-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/BlockleyAlmshousePC.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Every Victorian American city had a big medical almshouse, but Philadelphia had the best. The 1965 Amendments to the Social Security Act (Medicare and Medicaid) destroyed P.G. H. at the behest of local hospitals. They now regret it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9557 -75.199 Philadelphia General Hospital 39.9557 -75.199 39.9557 -75.199 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-06-17:%2F1688_germantown_quaker_petition.html 2011-06-17T17:30:33-04:00 2012-03-09T11:36:47-05:00 The first official anti-slavery document to be considered by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1688.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> After a Year of Crisis, Fannie and Freddy Finally Get the Spotlight After a Year of Crisis, Fannie and Freddy Finally Get the Spotlight tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-21:%2Fafter_a_year_of.html 2008-07-21T13:24:45-04:00 2012-03-09T08:17:37-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/fanniemae.jpg" alt="fannie mae" class="tn-l-w50" />Fannie Fannie Mae and Wall Street's chancy new CDOs are much the same thing, only with different sponsors and a few modified features. Important issues are: which model is better, whether continued competition between the two is useful, or whether both should be abolished.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.9404 -77.0767 Fannie Mae Corporate Headquarters 38.9404 -77.0767 38.9404 -77.0767 Meschianza Meschianza tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzmeschianza_.html 2006-06-26T14:00:27-04:00 2012-03-09T08:17:24-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/HOWE.GIF" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" /> With two hundred years of embellishment, the story of the big party the British Army gave for Philadelphia as a goodbye present, lives on and on. For any ambitious hostess, this is still the party to equal, although neither the Quakers nor the patriots thought very highly of it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9322 -75.153 Joseph Wharton House 39.9322 -75.153 39.9322 -75.153 The Coming Baby Boomer Retirement Problem The Coming Baby Boomer Retirement Problem tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-19:%2Fthe_coming_baby_boomer.html 2006-12-19T18:58:53-05:00 2012-03-09T08:16:49-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/DOLLARSIGN.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />In a few years, the baby boomers will retire and two things will happen. They will have to retire later in life, and the country will have to borrow money to pay for the rest. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.22 -74.7779 Trenton Makes the World Takes 40.22 -74.7779 40.22 -74.7779 Disorderly Retreat: From Trenton Back to Perth Amboy Disorderly Retreat: From Trenton Back to Perth Amboy tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzfrom_trenton_back_to.html 2006-06-23T11:59:14-04:00 2012-03-09T08:16:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Washington%20on%20horse%20at%20Trenton.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />At the Battle of Trenton, George Washington established his military reputation for all time.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.331 -74.6754 Princeton Battlefield Park 40.331 -74.6754 40.331 -74.6754 Battleship New Jersey: Home is the Sailor Battleship New Jersey: Home is the Sailor tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzbattleship_new_jersey_home.html 2006-06-23T15:28:41-04:00 2012-03-09T08:16:19-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/battleship.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Battleship N.J." />The battleship New Jersey, mightiest dreadnought in our history, now rests in Camden. At one time, it could have blown up Valley Forge without moving from that position.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9397 -75.1333 The Battleship New Jersey 39.9397 -75.1333 39.9397 -75.1333 Who Watches the Watchmen? Who Watches the Watchmen? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzwho_watches_the_watchmen.html 2006-06-23T15:01:41-04:00 2012-03-09T08:16:06-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Pitcairn_Islands.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The no-load, open-ended, mutual fund run by the Pitcairn Foundation has consistently outperformed the index by 1.5% as a result of concentrating on firms which continue to be overseen by their founding families. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8775 -75.2445 Philadelphia Airport 39.8775 -75.2445 39.8775 -75.2445 Show Biz Image: Hepburn, Rogers, Kelly Show Biz Image: Hepburn, Rogers, Kelly tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fshow_biz.html 1991-11-07T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-09T08:15:50-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/ginger_rogers_200.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="http://www.geocities.com/ginger_rogers_picture_gallery/ginger_rogers_200.jpg" />Hollywood presented a distorted image of our upper class, but presented it so forcefully that Philadelphia is now somewhat like that.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Skating and Humane Skating and Humane tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzskating_and_humane.html 2006-06-26T14:51:37-04:00 2012-03-09T08:15:40-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Ice-Skating.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />America's premier indoor skating club had its origin as a life-saving association.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0081 -75.3006 Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society 40.0081 -75.3006 40.0081 -75.3006 Recalling the Names of Acquaintances Recalling the Names of Acquaintances tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-17:%2Frecalling_the_names_of.html 2011-01-17T21:01:20-05:00 2012-03-09T08:15:31-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/handshake.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />As we get older, the speed of recall seems to slow down for most people, leading to a problem remembering names. A number of senior citizens have figured out ways to cope. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9562 -75.1954 University of Pennsylvania 39.9562 -75.1954 39.9562 -75.1954 Insurance Insurance tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-15:%2Finsurance_.html 2008-02-15T15:13:07-05:00 2012-03-09T08:15:01-05:00 Insurance comes in many types, many mis-understood. There's Risk Management, which is very important; and there's Investment, which is often better done with products other than insurance.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Parliament Provokes a Revolution Parliament Provokes a Revolution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-09:%2Fparliament_provokes_a_revolution.html 2006-10-09T11:54:11-04:00 2012-03-09T08:14:59-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Magnacarta2.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Magnacarta2.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />King George III personifies what angered the American colonists, but his Ministries acting through Parliament took the actual steps to agitate matters. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Origins of Haddonfield The Origins of Haddonfield tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Forigins_haddonfield.html 2004-11-23T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-09T08:14:53-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/haddino2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Haddonfield was founded by a 19 year-old Quaker girl in 1701, when it was still a fairly dangerous place to walk around. She has over 140 direct descendants, and forty of them still live in the town. Some famous scenes from the Revolutionary War took place here. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.897 -75.0341 Haddonfield 39.897 -75.0341 39.897 -75.0341 Stir Stir tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzstir_.html 2006-06-23T16:56:03-04:00 2012-03-09T08:14:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PennypackCreek-718687.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Penny pack Park" /><!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0333 -75.0181 House of Correction 40.0333 -75.0181 40.0333 -75.0181 Getaway Getaway tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzgetaway_.html 2006-06-23T11:41:22-04:00 2012-03-09T08:14:32-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/WilmingtonHospital.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="wilimington de" />The Delaware Hospital in Wilmington once had a real shoot-out.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.7509 -75.5496 Delaware Division, Wilmington Medical Center 39.7509 -75.5496 39.7509 -75.5496 German Immigrants via New York German Immigrants via New York tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-07:%2Fgerman_pilgrims_17th_century.php 2010-10-07T16:29:08-04:00 2012-03-09T08:14:32-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cooperstown.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Twenty-five German families made their way to the Harrisburg area by sailing up the Hudson, and then down the Susquehanna, years before other Germans got there by way of Philadelphia. The trip, re-traveled.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Furniture for the Horse Country Furniture for the Horse Country tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-05:%2Ffurniture_for_the_horse.html 2007-10-05T18:48:40-04:00 2012-03-09T08:14:16-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/carved_chippendale.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Fine art is generally the product of rich people demanding something special from a nearby artisan community. Furniture making in Chester County is sort of like that.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8951 -75.7328 Kinloch Woodworking , LTD 39.8951 -75.7328 39.8951 -75.7328 Washington Lurks in Bucks County, Waiting for Howe to Make a Move Washington Lurks in Bucks County, Waiting for Howe to Make a Move tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzcomic_interlude_at_moland.html 2006-06-23T15:52:34-04:00 2012-03-09T08:14:15-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Moland%20House2.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="Moland House" />Washington, LaFayette, and twenty-seven other famous heros of the Revolution spent a week in this Bucks County farmhouse, waiting for the British to make a move. Washington had a bottle of Madeira every day for lunch, but Mrs. Moland made him sleep on the floor, and pay for cleaning up when they left.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.2358 -75.0928 Moland Houes 40.2358 -75.0928 40.2358 -75.0928 Houses of the Penn Family Houses of the Penn Family tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-17:%2Fhouses_of_the_penn.html 2006-10-17T17:08:14-04:00 2012-03-09T08:14:08-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/jordansmeeting5.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/jordansmeeting5.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Some idea of the social position of William Penn can be gathered from the houses of his family.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 51.6096 -0.594009 Jordans Meeting House 51.6096 -0.594009 51.6096 -0.594009 Vanishing Honey Bees Vanishing Honey Bees tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-29:%2Fvanishing_honey_bees.html 2009-03-29T20:51:50-04:00 2012-03-09T08:14:00-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/honeybee2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Pollinators, mostly honey bees but including bats and hummingbirds, have been declining for fifty years. In 2008, the decline was sharply worse, a potential disaster for many flowering plants. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9806 -75.1621 The Wagner Institute 39.9806 -75.1621 39.9806 -75.1621 Kenneth Gordon, MD, Hero of Valley Forge Kenneth Gordon, MD, Hero of Valley Forge tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fkenneth_gordon.html 2004-10-27T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-09T08:13:51-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/KGMDvalleyforge.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/KGMDvalleyforge.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />This soft-spoken child psychiatrist was mainly responsible for keeping real estate developers from building houses all over the Valley Forge encampment.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0918 -75.4622 Valley Forge, PA 40.0918 -75.4622 40.0918 -75.4622 Germantown Before 1730 Germantown Before 1730 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzgermantown_before_1730.html 2006-06-23T11:43:06-04:00 2012-03-09T08:13:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/m154.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The early German settlers of Germantown were religious intellectuals, with a Swiss background and a history of religious martyrdom.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0319 -75.1764 Germantown 40.0319 -75.1764 40.0319 -75.1764 Franklin in Paris Franklin in Paris tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-01:%2Ffranklin_in_paris.html 2006-12-01T11:45:09-05:00 2012-03-09T08:13:30-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Benjaminfranklin.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Benjamin Franklin" /> During the whole Revolutionary War, Franklin was in Paris, quite obviously having a high old time. Ever since then, observers have argued whether he loved France or hated France, and whether his social life was merely a pose.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 48.8574 2.28585 Passy 48.8574 2.28585 48.8574 2.28585 Flexner Report, Revisited Flexner Report, Revisited tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fflexner_report_revisited.html 2006-06-22T11:52:51-04:00 2012-03-09T08:13:29-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/CoverphotoCleveland.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/CoverphotoCleveland.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />A new book by John A. Kastor compares the doctor-run Cleveland Clinic with the University-run Hospitals of Case Western Reserve under the managed care insurance system. Both hospital systems had plenty of problems, many of them self-inflicted, but it looks like doctor-run is winning the race.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.5036 -81.62 The Cleveland Clinic Main Campus 41.5036 -81.62 41.5036 -81.62 Easter Sunrise in Philadelphia Easter Sunrise in Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-05-18:%2Feaster_sunrise.html 2004-03-24T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-09T08:13:26-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/thomasholmes.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />William Penn laid Philadelphia out in squares, using a compass for North. If he had used true North instead of magnetic North, Easter sunrise might shine down every cross street just in time for an awesome spectacle.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Lansdowne Lansdowne tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-06:%2Flansdowne_.html 2006-10-06T18:11:40-04:00 2012-03-09T08:13:26-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Lansdowne2.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Lansdowne2.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />John Penn, the last of the Penn Proprietors, lived in a mansion near what is now Horticultural Hall in Fairmount Park.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9382 -75.2717 Lansdwone Borough Hall 39.9382 -75.2717 39.9382 -75.2717 Pea Patch Island Pea Patch Island tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzpea_patch_island.html 2006-06-23T12:00:20-04:00 2012-03-09T08:13:08-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/ft_delaware.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Fort Mifflin" />A string of three forts at the level of the Delaware-Chesapeake Canal once guarded the approaches to Philadelphia, but were never needed. After the Battle of Gettysburg, Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island served as a deplorable prison camp for Confederate prisoners; it's now a tourist stop.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.5894 -75.5672 Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island 39.5894 -75.5672 39.5894 -75.5672 Philadelphia Gardens Philadelphia Gardens tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphiladelphia_gardens.html 2004-07-28T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-09T08:12:55-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Ernesta%20Drinker%20Ballard.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt=" " />Philadelphia loves its gardens, particularly boxwood and azalea. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Gum Gum tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-01:%2Fgum_.html 2010-07-01T18:13:40-04:00 2012-03-09T08:12:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bubblegirl.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Perhaps we should refer to bubble gum as Santa Ana's revenge.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8981 -75.0315 The Gum Corner 39.8981 -75.0315 39.8981 -75.0315 Loaves and Fishes Loaves and Fishes tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzloaves_and_fishes.html 2006-06-26T14:36:30-04:00 2012-03-09T08:12:06-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PhilAbundance-Logo2jpg.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Philabundance comes close to automating the feeding of homeless people, drawing on the techniques of the supermarket chains.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9027 -75.157 Philabundance 39.9027 -75.157 39.9027 -75.157 Native Habitat Native Habitat tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-23:%2Fnative_habitat.html 2007-03-23T17:31:32-04:00 2012-03-09T08:11:59-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/pinchotg.jpg" ALT="" class="tn-l-w50" />Increased foreign trade, especially to Asia, has brought us some new plant types. Lacking natural enemies, they are taking over.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8717 -75.5917 Habitat Resource Network of Southeast 39.8717 -75.5917 39.8717 -75.5917 The Scotch-Irish In the Revolution The Scotch-Irish In the Revolution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-24:%2Fthe_scotchirish_in_the.html 2006-10-24T17:26:47-04:00 2012-03-09T08:11:57-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/john-witherspoon3.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />English Quakers and Rhineland Germans were eternally grateful to the British Monarch for offering them an American refuge. By contrast, the Scotch-Irish, although energetic frontiersmen, harbored lasting resentment against the English Kings who had driven them here. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.3466 -74.6589 Princeton University 40.3466 -74.6589 40.3466 -74.6589 Unintended Consequences for Advanced Placement Unintended Consequences for Advanced Placement tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Funintended_consequence.html 1997-02-06T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-09T08:11:35-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Heely.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Heely.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The story of how the author complained to his head master about preparation for college and how it led to the concept of Advanced Placement courses in high schools. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.2937 -74.7251 Lawrenceville School 40.2937 -74.7251 40.2937 -74.7251 Ethnic Subcultures Ethnic Subcultures tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-17:%2Fethnic_subcultures.php 2011-01-17T17:16:53-05:00 2012-03-09T08:11:25-05:00 Diverse ethnicities make up this city.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Insomnia Insomnia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-23:%2Finsomnia_.html 2010-07-23T15:54:21-04:00 2012-03-09T08:11:20-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/winter03_004a.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="t" />Between 6 and 10% of the population describes itself as suffering from chronic insomnia.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9522 -75.2018 University of Pennsylvania 39.9522 -75.2018 39.9522 -75.2018 Doing Well, Doing Good. Doing Well, Doing Good. tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-28:%2Fdoing_well_doing_good.html 2007-09-28T16:07:52-04:00 2012-03-09T08:11:17-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/RotarySeal.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A board member of Rotary International recently ran an Afghanistan relief program, and wrote a novel about the Battle of Brandywine. He's a Quaker, lives on a farm, and is chairman of the boards of several organizations.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 42.0458 -87.6824 Rotary International World Headquarters 42.0458 -87.6824 42.0458 -87.6824 Creating and Wrecking the Penn Central Creating and Wrecking the Penn Central tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-04:%2Fcreating_and_wrecking_the.html 2010-11-04T18:59:15-04:00 2012-03-09T08:11:06-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PRR_Logo.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The eleven years it took to merge the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads illustrate what killed the merger before it had a chance.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9562 -75.182 30th Street Station 39.9562 -75.182 39.9562 -75.182 Finances of the Girard Estate Finances of the Girard Estate tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Ffinances_of_the_girard.html 2006-06-20T12:24:43-04:00 2012-03-09T08:10:14-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Stephen%20Girard.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />When he died in 1830. Stephen Girard was the richest man in America. A quick review of the outcome of his life work suggests he was maybe the smartest man in America, too.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9741 -75.1701 Girard College 39.9741 -75.1701 39.9741 -75.1701 Quakerism and the Industrial Revolution Quakerism and the Industrial Revolution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-19:%2Fquakerism_and_the_industrial.html 2007-06-19T17:38:38-04:00 2012-03-09T08:09:40-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cotton.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cotton.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The Industrial Revolution extended over two centuries and was more important than all the wars, governments, and agitations of its time. Quakerism began at the same time, in the same place. Was that only coincidence?.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 53.108 -1.55339 Arkwright's Mill 53.108 -1.55339 53.108 -1.55339 Proton Therapy at Penn Proton Therapy at Penn tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-05:%2Fproton_therapy_at_penn.html 2009-06-05T16:18:42-04:00 2012-03-09T08:09:35-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/superconducting_proton_cyclotron.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="{superconducting proton cyclotron}" /> The new proton therapy center promises to improve the treatment of many types of cancers while reducing the collateral damage caused by traditional methods of radiation treatment commonly used today. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.95 -75.193 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania 39.95 -75.193 39.95 -75.193 New Jersey: A Keg Tapped at Both Ends (1) New Jersey: A Keg Tapped at Both Ends (1) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-16:%2Fnew_jersey_a_keg.html 2007-09-16T20:51:32-04:00 2012-03-09T08:09:15-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Statehouseof%20NJ.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Trenton has an urban revival but -- so far -- very few visitors tour the much-restored Statehouse. It's worth a trip. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> National Debt, National Blessing National Debt, National Blessing tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-26:%2Fnational_debt_national_blessing.html 2007-12-26T18:40:11-05:00 2012-03-09T08:08:59-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Federal_Reserve_Bank_of_Philadelphia.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />National surplus is the opposite of national debt. Sounds good, but can it even be contemplated? <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9481 -75.1464 The First Bank of the United States 39.9481 -75.1464 39.9481 -75.1464 Fanny Kemble Fanny Kemble tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-21:%2Ffanny_kemble.php 2006-07-21T18:33:55-04:00 2012-03-09T08:08:56-05:00 Fanny Kemble was more than the toast of the town, she was the most glamorous woman in the English speaking world. But far beyond that, she was a famous author, Shakespearean scholar, and had a major influence on the Civil War. Grand Union Grand Union tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-19:%2Fgrand_union.html 2009-07-19T22:26:14-04:00 2012-03-09T08:08:55-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Grand_union_flag.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Grand Union Flag" />Thirteen stars and stripes became the National Flag in 1777, but a rather similar flag was the National flag from 1775-1777. It was also designed by a Philadelphia milliner, Margaret Manny.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Tourist Trips Around Philadelphia and the Quaker Colonies Tourist Trips Around Philadelphia and the Quaker Colonies tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-06:%2Ftourist_trips_around_philadelphia.php 2007-04-06T17:40:19-04:00 2012-03-09T08:08:25-05:00 The states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and southern New Jersey all belonged to William Penn the Quaker. He was the largest private landholder in American history. Using explicit directions, comprehensive touring of the Quaker Colonies takes seven full days. Local residents would need a couple dozen one-day trips to get up to speed.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Tales of the Troop Tales of the Troop tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-10-06:%2Ftales_of_the_troop.html 2009-10-06T18:12:01-04:00 2012-03-09T08:07:59-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/about-aboutus_photo1.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Dennis Boylan is collecting stories from the archives of Philadelphia's First City Troop. Someday, it should result in a great book. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9532 -75.1782 First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry The Armory 39.9532 -75.1782 39.9532 -75.1782 Bristol, PA Bristol, PA tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzbristol_pa_2.html 2006-06-23T14:50:10-04:00 2012-03-09T08:07:49-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Burlington%20Bristol%20Bridge%20.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Bristol is at a narrow point of the river, long the main crossing point for New York-to-Philadelphia traffic. William Penn placed his mansion nearby and for decades Bristol was a flourishing social center. The Pennsylvania Railroad cut it off, just as it cut off New Castle, Delaware, and both towns are now essentially museums.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.1231 -74.8681 Bristol Township 40.1231 -74.8681 40.1231 -74.8681 TARP Demands But Does Not Create a New Standard of Fair Value TARP Demands But Does Not Create a New Standard of Fair Value tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-09-29:%2Ftarp_forces_a_new.html 2008-09-29T00:37:47-04:00 2012-03-09T08:07:16-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bubblecredit.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The recovery plan, which Congress must pass after only a few days consideration, insists on a new definition of value which may be impossible to achieve. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.7074 -74.0112 New York Stock Exchange 40.7074 -74.0112 40.7074 -74.0112 Webpage Printing Webpage Printing tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-04:%2Fwebpage_printing.html 2006-08-04T09:14:35-04:00 2012-03-09T07:39:47-05:00 Webpage printing is supported on this site. It seems to work pretty well except for text flow-around for some browsers. Mensa Mensa tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-14:%2Fmensa_.html 2009-07-14T15:42:04-04:00 2012-03-09T07:39:25-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mensa.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />About 150,000 Americans belong to Mensa, a social club for people in to the top 2% of intelligence brackets. There's a chapter for Delaware Valley residents.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 32.7702 -97.0673 American Mensa, Ltd. 32.7702 -97.0673 32.7702 -97.0673 Radioactive River Bend Radioactive River Bend tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzradioactive_river_bend.html 2006-06-23T15:54:45-04:00 2012-03-09T07:38:45-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/gold%20cert.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The river geography around Pottstown created a lot of history. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.2268 -75.5873 Limerick Nuclear Power Plant 40.2268 -75.5873 40.2268 -75.5873 Military Philadelphia Military Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-16:%2Fmilitary_philadelphia.php 2010-07-16T17:36:23-04:00 2012-03-09T06:27:31-05:00 .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Legal Philadelphia Legal Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Flegal_phila_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-09T06:27:30-05:00 The American legal profession grew up in this town, creating institutions and traditions that set the style for everyone else. Boston, New York and Washington have lots of influential lawyers, but Philadelphia shapes the legal profession. Philadelphia Physicians Philadelphia Physicians tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fphila_physicians_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-09T06:27:25-05:00 Philadelphia dominated the medical profession so long that it's hard to distinguish between local traditions and national ones. The distinctive feature is that in Philadelphia you must be a real doctor before you become a mere specialist. Descendants of Anthony Morris, 1654-1721 Descendants of Anthony Morris, 1654-1721 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-11-29:%2Fdescendants_of_anthony_morris.php 2011-11-29T14:10:56-05:00 2012-03-09T06:27:16-05:00 There were three unrelated Morris families prominent in Revolutionary Philadelphia. A short-hand description would be that this one is the Free Quaker Morris family, although it has been much more than that. Chester County, Pennsylvania Chester County, Pennsylvania tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-13:%2Fchester_and_delaware_counties.php 2010-09-13T17:58:00-04:00 2012-03-09T06:27:16-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/chestercounty.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Chester was an original county of Pennsylvania, one of the largest until Dauphin, Lancaster and Delaware counties were split off. Because the boundaries mainly did not follow rivers or other natural dividers, translating verbal boundaries into actual lines was highly contentious.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> To Germantown, a Short Appreciation To Germantown, a Short Appreciation tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fto_germanatown_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-09T06:27:15-05:00 Seven miles from the heart of Philadelphia, Germantown was once a separate town, the cultural center of Germans in America. Revolutionary battles were fought here, it was briefly the capital of the United States, and it still has an outstanding collection of schools and colleges. Tourist Walk in Olde Philadelphia Tourist Walk in Olde Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-29:%2Ftourist_walk_in_olde.php 2007-03-29T22:09:07-04:00 2012-03-09T06:27:12-05:00 Colonial Philadelphia can be seen in a hard day's walk, if you stick to the center of town.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9509 -75.15 Visitor's Center 39.9509 -75.15 39.9509 -75.15 Downtown Downtown tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fdowntown_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-09T06:27:06-05:00 A discussion about downtown area in Philadelphia and connections from today with its historical past. City of Homes City of Homes tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-06:%2Fcity_of_homes.php 2010-04-06T18:35:26-04:00 2012-03-09T06:26:33-05:00 At first, there were limitless forests, but then the city burned down. After that, the "Red" city has long been built of brick. Philadelphia's masonry future is unknown, but it won't be wood. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-28:%2Fpre_revolutionary_philadelphia.php 2009-05-28T20:09:46-04:00 2012-03-09T06:26:32-05:00 . Favorite Reflections Favorite Reflections tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-07:%2Ffavorite_reflectionsxx.php 2007-05-07T18:51:22-04:00 2012-03-09T06:26:28-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/grf.jpg" class="left" style="width:125px;margin-bottom:15px;margin-top:0;" alt="George Ross Fisher III M.D." /> <span style="text-align:left"> In no particular order, here are the author's own favorites.</span> <span class="notvisible">filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler </span><!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Personal Passions Personal Passions tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-04:%2Fpersonal_passions.php 2010-05-04T12:19:19-04:00 2012-03-09T06:26:24-05:00 My own personal short list; eight decades in retrospect. Franklin Inn Club Franklin Inn Club tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fthe_franklin_inn_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-09T06:26:23-05:00 Hidden in a back alley near the theaters, this little club is the center of the City's literary circle. It enjoys outstanding food in surroundings which suggest Samuel Johnson's club in London. 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 Religious Philadelphia Religious Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Freligious_phila_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-09T06:26:23-05:00 William Penn wanted a colony with religious freedom. A considerable number, if not the majority, of American religious denominations were founded in this city. The main misconception about religious Philadelphia is that it is Quaker-dominated. But the broader misconception is that it is not Quaker-dominated. America's Historic Square Mile (pre-1800) America's Historic Square Mile (pre-1800) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fhistorical_revival_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-09T06:26:16-05:00 Society Hill: Philadelphia's authentic colonial area, from the Delaware River west to 8th Street the limit of settlement in 1776, but for a while the center of America. The richest, most famous men in America lived within a few blocks of each other. Things happened here. 39.9458 -75.1551 Society Hill 39.9458 -75.1551 39.9458 -75.1551 North of Market North of Market tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fnorth_of_market_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-09T06:26:09-05:00 The term once referred to the Quaker district along Arch Street, and then to a larger district that had its heyday after the Civil War, industrialized, declined, and is now our worst urban problem area. Website Development Website Development tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-05:%2Fwebsite_development.php 2006-08-05T15:04:19-04:00 2012-03-09T06:26:07-05:00 The website technology supporting Philadelphia Reflections is PHP, MySQL and DHTML. The web hosting service is Internet Planners. The development of this website has provided an opportunity to learn new technology, to try out different techniques for getting noticed by the search engines and the trials and tribulations of dealing with malicious hackers and spammers who range from the annoying to the abusive. This collection of articles documents some of our experiences and we hope that people surfing the web looking for solutions to problems we've encountered will benefit. Escape Path of the Philadelphia Tories Escape Path of the Philadelphia Tories tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-03:%2Fescape_path_of_the.php 2010-08-03T15:52:57-04:00 2012-03-09T06:25:56-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/1000-islands-internationalboats.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Grievances provoking the American Revolutionary War left many Philadelphians unprovoked. Loyalists often fled to Canada, especially Kingston, Ontario. Decades later the flow of dissidents reversed, Canadian anti-royalists taking refuge south of the border.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Charter of Pennsylvania, from Charles II to William Penn Charter of Pennsylvania, from Charles II to William Penn tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-04:%2Fcharter_of_pennsylvania_from.php 2010-02-04T11:59:58-05:00 2012-03-09T06:25:51-05:00 William Penn suggested what he wanted, and the Royal bureaucracy suggested suitable modifications of the gift. The resulting charter is a shrewd and fair legal document, but contained a major geographical error.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.2033 -77.1945 The State of Pennsylvania 41.2033 -77.1945 41.2033 -77.1945 Up Market Street <br />to Sixth and Walnut Up Market Street to Sixth and Walnut tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-04:%2Fsecond_and_market_to.php 2007-05-04T22:12:48-04:00 2012-03-09T06:25:38-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/indepencehall.jpg" class="tn-l-50" width="100" alt="Independence Hall" />Millions of eye patients have been asked to read the passage from Franklin's autobiography, "I walked up Market Street, etc." which is commonly printed on eye-test cards. Here's your chance to do it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Food and Drink in Philadelphia Food and Drink in Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Ffood_and_drink_in.php 2006-08-02T15:25:33-04:00 2012-03-09T06:02:00-05:00 A flowing abundance of food sources made Philadelphia the capital of food and drink, right from earliest times.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Gardens Flowers and Horticulture Gardens Flowers and Horticulture tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-13:%2Fgardens_flowers_and_horticulture.php 2010-04-13T19:07:08-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:47-05:00 Gardening, flowers and the Flower Show are central to the social fabric of Philadelphia.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Volunteerism Volunteerism tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-05:%2Fvolunteerism_.php 2007-03-05T17:08:08-05:00 2012-03-09T06:01:46-05:00 The characteristic American behavior called volunteerism got its start with Benjamin Franklin's Junto, and has been a source of comment by foreign visitors ever since. It's still a very active force.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Japan and Philadelphia Japan and Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fjapan_and_philadelphia.php 2006-06-26T15:58:44-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:39-05:00 Philadelphia and Japan have had a special friendship for 150 years. 35.6867 139.752 Imerial Place, Edo 35.6867 139.752 35.6867 139.752 Sights to See: The Outer Ring Sights to See: The Outer Ring tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-01:%2Fsights_to_see_the.php 2006-08-01T17:05:19-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:37-05:00 There are many interesting places to visit in the exurban ring beyond Philadelphia, linked to the city by history rather than commerce. Academia, Medical Version Academia, Medical Version tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-25:%2Facademia_medical_version.php 2008-06-25T20:01:04-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:37-05:00 The first hospital in America generated the first medical school, the first medical society, and many of the unique features of American medicine. In modern times, the gusher of federal research funds not only distorted academic medicine, but academia as a whole. Philadelphia, A Running Commentary Philadelphia, A Running Commentary tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fphila_a_running_comment.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:36-05:00 A series of observations in and around Philadelphia by notables over the last three and one-half centuries. Delaware (State of) Delaware (State of) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fdelaware_state_of_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:33-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/delaware.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Delaware" />Originally the "lower counties" of Pennsylvania, and thus one of three Quaker colonies founded by William Penn, Delaware has developed its own set of traditions and history. Personal Finance Personal Finance tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-26:%2Fpersonal_finance.php 2006-12-26T21:37:50-05:00 2012-03-09T06:01:33-05:00 The rules of financial health are simple, but remarkably hard to follow. Be frugal in order to save, use your savings to buy the whole market not parts of it, if this system ain't broke, don't fix it. And don't underestimate your longevity.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Philadelphia Fish and Fishing Philadelphia Fish and Fishing tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fphiladelphia_fish_and_fishing.php 2006-06-26T16:29:36-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:31-05:00 Less than a century ago, Delaware Bay, Delaware River, Schuylkill River, Pennypack Creek, Wissahickon Creek, and dozens of other creeks in this swampy region were teeming with edible fish, oysters and crabs. They may be coming back, cautiously. Philadelphia's River Region Philadelphia's River Region tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fphila_river_region_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:28-05:00 A concentration of articles around the rivers and wetland in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Customs, Culture and Traditions Customs, Culture and Traditions tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-01:%2Fcustoms_culture_and_traditions.php 2006-08-01T19:13:20-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:26-05:00 Abundant seafood made it easy to settle here. Agriculture takes longer. Customs, Culture and Traditions (2) Customs, Culture and Traditions (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-03:%2Fcustoms_culture_and_traditions.php 2009-08-03T16:04:09-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:26-05:00 . French Philadelphia French Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-06:%2Ffrench_philadelphia.php 2010-12-06T17:19:58-05:00 2012-03-09T06:01:25-05:00 French Philadelphia<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> West of Broad West of Broad tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fwest_of_broad_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:22-05:00 A collection of articles about the area west of Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia Media The Philadelphia Media tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-03:%2Fthe_philadelphia_media.php 2008-10-03T17:36:15-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:19-05:00 The Philadelphia Media<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Philadelphia Medicine Philadelphia Medicine tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fmedical_phila_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:15-05:00 The first hospital, the first medical school, the first medical society, and abundant Civil War casualties, all combined to establish the most important medical center in the country. It's still the second largest industry in the city. Financial Planning for a Long Retirement Financial Planning for a Long Retirement tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-28:%2Ffinancial_planning.php 2008-01-28T12:40:07-05:00 2012-03-09T06:01:08-05:00 <br /> How should an individual investor ensure they have enough money for retirement? <br /><br /> Such a person is often a professional or entrepreneur who has worked to accumulate wealth. Legions of "advisors" are lined up to take this money and manage it or else to sell "products" that promise to solve some problem or other. <br /><br /> A person who has created their career and their wealth from scratch by intelligence and hard work can also manage their investments themselves, or at least supervise the process from a position of strength created by knowing what needs to be done. <br /><br /> This collection of articles explains to the individual investor how to take control of their wealth. They may eventually decide to look for help from an advisor but they will retain control of their assets and they will know what to do. <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=grfiv" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" >Financial Planning videos on YouTube</a><!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Musical Philadelphia Musical Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fmusical_phila_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:06-05:00 Quakers never cared much for music, but the city has nonetheless musically flourished into international fame. At the same time, quarrels and internal battles have also been world class. The Main Line The Main Line tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-10:%2Fphiladelphia_s_west_country.php 2007-04-10T15:43:18-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:06-05:00 Like all cities, Philadelphia is filling in and choking up with subdivisions and development, in all directions from the center. The last place to fill up is the Welsh Barony, a tip of which can be said to extend all the way in town to the Art Museum.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-23:%2Fphiladelphia_county_pennsylvania.php 2010-09-23T17:15:14-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/labeledcounty2.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Black Philadelphia Black Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-08:%2Fblack_philadelphia.php 2006-08-08T11:39:05-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:03-05:00 The City of Philadelphia is only a part of the region, but within that part, the black population holds political power. That's definitely not true in the rest of the region. Discordances like this create problems until political evolution smooths them out.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> In Memoriam In Memoriam tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-09:%2Fin_memoriam.php 2009-03-09T17:33:22-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:03-05:00 .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Cultural Cultural tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-07:%2Fculture_and_traditions_2.php 2008-11-07T20:00:36-05:00 2012-03-09T06:01:02-05:00 Culture and Traditions (2) Medical Malpractice Medical Malpractice tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fmedical_malpractice_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-09T06:01:01-05:00 The medical system is on the point of abandoning the city to escape abusive lawsuits. A series of observations about shared blame, ultimately assigns responsibility to the mistake of allowing this matter to be covered by insurance, thus creating a financial target. Medical Economics Medical Economics tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-14:%2Fmedical_economics.php 2006-07-14T19:41:55-04:00 2012-03-09T06:00:59-05:00 Some Philadelphia physicians are contributors to current national debates on the financing of medical care. Philadelphia Medicine (2) Philadelphia Medicine (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-21:%2Fphiladelphia_medicine_2.php 2009-05-21T18:13:14-04:00 2012-03-09T06:00:59-05:00 Philadelphia is where medicine began in America Why Bother Investing? Why Bother Investing? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-21:%2Fwhy_bother_investing.php 2011-04-21T18:26:15-04:00 2012-03-09T06:00:57-05:00 In a sense, money is worthless until you spend it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Clinton Health Plan of 1993 - Part One Clinton Health Plan of 1993 - Part One tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-08:%2Fthe_clinton_health_plan.php 2007-07-08T18:43:13-04:00 2012-03-09T06:00:56-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/healthcare.jpg" class="tn-l-w100" alt="health care" />Mistaking Senate re-election of Harris Wofford to mean the country demanded reform of the medical system, newly-elected President Clinton announced he would create one. When stakeholders surmised he was making it up as he went along, they deserted him.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Whither, Federal Reserve? (2) Whither, Federal Reserve? (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-31:%2Fwhither_federal_reserve_2.php 2008-12-31T20:59:26-05:00 2012-03-09T06:00:54-05:00 Whither, Federal Reserve? (2)<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Theatre in Philadelphia Theatre in Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Ftheater_phila_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-09T06:00:53-05:00 Theater has declined, everywhere in the western world. But in Philadelphia, even today if you attended every new play you would keep pretty busy. New Jersey (State of) New Jersey (State of) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-19:%2Fnew_jersey_state_of.php 2007-09-19T11:41:04-04:00 2012-03-09T06:00:53-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/nj-counties.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Garden State really has two different states of mind. The state motto is <i>Liberty and Prosperity</i>. (www.Philadelphia-Reflections.com/topic/96.htm) 40.1194 -74.4055 The State of New Jersey 40.1194 -74.4055 40.1194 -74.4055 Quakers: All Alike, All Different Quakers: All Alike, All Different tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-25:%2Fquakers_all_alike_all.php 2006-07-25T14:56:38-04:00 2012-03-09T06:00:52-05:00 Quaker doctrines emerge from the stories they tell about each other. Railroad Town Railroad Town tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-15:%2Frailroad_town.php 2008-06-15T22:40:20-04:00 2012-03-09T06:00:52-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/monopoly.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />It's generally agreed, railroads failed to adjust their fixed capacity to changing demands. It's less certain Philadelphia was pulled down by that collapsing rail system.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Philadelphia Economics (2) Philadelphia Economics (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-15:%2Fphiladelphia_economics_2.php 2011-01-15T21:59:41-05:00 2012-03-09T06:00:51-05:00 .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Connecticut Invades Pennsylvania! Connecticut Invades Pennsylvania! tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-15:%2Fconnecticut_invades_pennsylvania.php 2006-07-15T16:30:28-04:00 2012-03-09T06:00:47-05:00 The rest of the world fights wars about national grievances, both recent and long past. Meanwhile, Connecticut once waged a serious war with Pennsylvania, and we don't even remember it. Whither, Federal Reserve? (1) Whither, Federal Reserve? (1) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-07:%2Fwhither_federal_reserve.php 2006-07-07T11:51:04-04:00 2012-03-09T06:00:46-05:00 The Federal Reserve seems to be a big black box, containing magic. In fact, it's high-wire acrobatics that must not be allowed to fail. Montgomery and Bucks Counties Montgomery and Bucks Counties tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-19:%2Fchester_delaware_montgomery_and.php 2007-09-19T11:44:49-04:00 2012-03-09T06:00:43-05:00 The Philadelphia metropolitan region has five Pennsylvania counties, four New Jersey counties, one northern county in the state of Delaware. Here are the four Pennsylvania suburban ones.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Government Organization Government Organization tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-23:%2Fgovernment_organization.php 2007-12-23T00:37:11-05:00 2012-03-09T06:00:42-05:00 Government Organization<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> City of Rivers and Rivulets City of Rivers and Rivulets tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-17:%2Fcity_of_rivers_and.php 2006-07-17T16:45:05-04:00 2012-03-09T06:00:41-05:00 Philadelphia has always been defined by the waters that surround it. Up the King's High Way Up the King's High Way tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-02:%2Fup_the_king_s.php 2007-05-02T21:22:07-04:00 2012-03-09T06:00:40-05:00 New Jersey has a narrow waistline, with New York harbor at one end, and Delaware Bay on the other. Traffic and history travelled the Kings Highway along this path between New York and Philadelphia.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Outlaws: Crime in Philadelphia Outlaws: Crime in Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fphila_outlaws_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-09T06:00:28-05:00 Even the criminals, the courts and the prisons of this town have a Philadelphia distinctiveness. The underworld has its own version of history. Albert Gallatin Albert Gallatin tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-23:%2Falbert_gallatin.php 2007-12-23T00:14:07-05:00 2012-03-09T06:00:28-05:00 A magnificent but largely forgotten man.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Favorites Podcasts Favorites Podcasts tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-14:%2Ffavorites_podcasts.php 2011-01-14T17:10:16-05:00 2012-03-09T06:00:28-05:00 Recordings of Dr. Fisher's personal favorites.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Philadelphia Politics Philadelphia Politics tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fphila_politics_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-09T06:00:19-05:00 Originally, politics had to do with the Proprietors, then the immigrants, then the King of England, then the establishment of the nation. Philadelphia first perfected the big-city political machine, which centers on bulk payments from utilities to the boss politician rather than small graft payments to individual office holders. More efficient that way. Indigents Indigents tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-08:%2Findigents_.php 2007-03-08T17:04:30-05:00 2012-03-09T06:00:18-05:00 With a long history of welcoming and assisting the poor, Philadelphia has always risked swamping the lifeboat by attracting more of them than it can handle. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Right Angle Club 2010 Right Angle Club 2010 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-04:%2Fright_angle_club_2010.php 2009-12-04T17:15:42-05:00 2012-03-09T06:00:08-05:00 2010 is coming to a close, a lame-duck session is upon us, and probably after that will come two years of gridlock. But the Philadelphia Men's Club called the Right Angle, keeps right on talking about the current scene. A few of these current contents relate to speeches given elsewhere. 39.949 -75.1676 Right Angle Club 2010 39.949 -75.1676 39.949 -75.1676 Education in Philadelphia Education in Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-13:%2Feducation_in_philadelphia.php 2010-04-13T12:25:26-04:00 2012-03-09T06:00:08-05:00 Taxes are too high, but the tax base is too small, so public education is underfunded. Drug use and lack of classroom discipline are also problems. Business and employed persons have fled the city, must be induced to return. Deteriorating education, rising taxes and crime are the immediate problems, but the underlying issue is lack of vigor and engagement by the urban population itself. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Reminiscences Reminiscences tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-18:%2Freminiscences_.php 2007-06-18T15:49:02-04:00 2012-03-09T06:00:04-05:00 Watching the constantly passing scene, occasionally opportunities arise to change its flow.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Shakspere Society of Philadelphia Shakspere Society of Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-31:%2Fshakspere_society_of_philadelphia.php 2008-01-31T12:15:06-05:00 2012-03-09T05:59:58-05:00 Maybe not the first, but the oldest Shakespeare club in America or possibly even the world, has kept minutes for over a hundred fifty years.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9485 -75.1615 Franklin Inn Club 39.9485 -75.1615 39.9485 -75.1615 Philadelphia Changes the Nature of Money Philadelphia Changes the Nature of Money tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-08:%2Fphiladelphia_changes_the_nature.php 2008-10-08T16:55:43-04:00 2012-03-09T05:59:54-05:00 Banking changed its fundamentals, on Third Street in Philadelphia, three different times.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Custom Tour of Private Philadelphia Custom Tour of Private Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fcustom_tour_of_private.php 2006-06-22T17:43:15-04:00 2012-03-09T05:59:40-05:00 Philadelphia Hospitality, a non-profit group, puts together the following tour for visiting bigwigs. A good guide to what's best around here. The Proprietorship of West Jersey The Proprietorship of West Jersey tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-28:%2Fthe_proprietorship_of_west.php 2006-07-28T16:40:25-04:00 2012-03-09T05:59:30-05:00 The southern half of New Jersey was William Penn's first venture in real estate. It undoubtedly gave him bigger ideas. Pictures in the Library Pictures in the Library tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-01:%2Fpictures_in_the_library.php 2010-11-01T18:07:37-04:00 2012-03-09T05:59:28-05:00 On the walls of the Reading Room of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia are 38 portraits of the most famous scientists of 19th Century America. Here are three of them.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Perpetual? Perpetual? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fperpetual.html 2002-06-27T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-09T05:53:44-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Washington%20on%20horse%20at%20Trenton.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />If you get careless with your words, you may have to renounce them. The Articles of Confederation were stated to be perpetual, so maybe the Constitution is impertinent. Maybe someone would say it was treason.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Marty Feldstein Forecasts the Future Marty Feldstein Forecasts the Future tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fmarty_feldstein_forecasts_the.html 2006-06-22T11:09:40-04:00 2012-03-09T05:53:17-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Martin-Feldstein.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" /> Reading between the lines, Martin Feldstein announces his view that the Treasury must allow the dollar to weaken. Soon.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 42.3757 -71.1138 Harvard University 42.3757 -71.1138 42.3757 -71.1138 Christ Church Memorabilia Christ Church Memorabilia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fchrist_church_memorabilia.html 2006-06-20T19:56:38-04:00 2012-03-09T05:53:15-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Christ%20Church%20Memorabilia.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />(To be completed.) 39.9507 -75.144 Christ Chruch Memorabilla 39.9507 -75.144 39.9507 -75.144 School Vouchers (7) School Vouchers (7) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fschool_vouchers_7.html 2006-06-21T13:47:51-04:00 2012-03-09T05:53:15-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Milton%20Friedman.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" /> Health Savings Accounts,like school vouchers, dislodge government's patronage control over a vital public service. Both of them redirect tax money back to the public, who choose among vendors for themselves. Interestingly, it is unions who seem most threatened by this. 40.7113 -74.0135 The Wall Street Journal 40.7113 -74.0135 40.7113 -74.0135 Bi-state Fishing Bi-state Fishing tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-20:%2Fbistate_fishing.html 2010-09-20T19:33:07-04:00 2012-03-09T05:53:04-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/coryells-ferry.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />When Quakers lined both shores of a river, even a state boundary couldn't interfere with fishing.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.7817 -75.1278 Lewes Delaware 38.7817 -75.1278 38.7817 -75.1278 New Health Care Reform Proposal New Health Care Reform Proposal tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-29:%2Fnew_health_care_reform.html 2006-12-29T01:30:05-05:00 2012-03-09T05:53:03-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Lyndon%20Johnson.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Lyndon%20Johnson.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Medicaid, or Title XIX of the Social Security Law, has existed for forty years. That's ample time to demonstrate its hopeless failure. It needs to be repealed, transferring the strictly medical parts to Medicare.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> High Oil Prices and The Federal Reserve: Chicken or Egg? High Oil Prices and The Federal Reserve: Chicken or Egg? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-06:%2Foil_prices_and_the.html 2008-06-06T19:56:49-04:00 2012-03-09T05:52:54-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/chicken-egg.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The price of oil has gone through the roof. Will it go higher, or crash? Either way, is that good or bad?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Ross and Perry, Inc. Publishers Ross and Perry, Inc. Publishers tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-16:%2Fross_perry_publishing.php 2011-03-16T15:40:21-04:00 2012-03-09T05:52:46-05:00 A topic devoted to the best selling books from Ross and Perry Publishing.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Eleventh Amendment Eleventh Amendment tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-16:%2Feleventh_amendment.html 2009-06-16T16:11:40-04:00 2012-03-09T05:52:43-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Article-III.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Since the Bill of Rights don't really count as corrections, the Eleventh Amendment is sort of the first attempt to change the Constitution. In retrospect, the purpose seems unclear.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Clinton Health Plan Starts at the Union League Clinton Health Plan Starts at the Union League tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-18:%2Fclinton_health_plan_starts.html 2007-06-18T18:24:47-04:00 2012-03-09T05:52:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/SenatorClinton.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/SenatorClinton.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Few would guess that the famous Clinton Health Care plan can trace its origin to the staunchly Republican Union League of Philadelphia..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.95 -75.1645 The Union League of Philadelphia 39.95 -75.1645 39.95 -75.1645 Shakspere Society November 28, 2001 Shakspere Society November 28, 2001 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-26:%2Fshakspere_society_november_28.html 2008-01-26T16:42:25-05:00 2012-03-09T05:52:12-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />America's oldest Shakspere Society (Shakespeare Society) discusses Antony and Cleopatra. 31.2096 29.9123 The site of the tryst that brought an end to the Ptolemies 31.2096 29.9123 31.2096 29.9123 Stephen Foster, Susquehanna Schoolboy Stephen Foster, Susquehanna Schoolboy tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-15:%2Fstephen_foster_susquehanna_schoolboy.html 2010-10-15T17:23:02-04:00 2012-03-09T04:02:52-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/StephenFoster2.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Stephen Foster, often thought of as impoverished, was sent to boarding schools in Towanda and Athens, PA. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Why Did Admiral Howe Choose the Chesapeake? Why Did Admiral Howe Choose the Chesapeake? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-04:%2Fwhy_did_admiral_howe.html 2006-08-04T19:48:07-04:00 2012-03-09T04:02:02-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/philadelphia-airport.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Navigation of the Delaware Bay was too tricky for Admiral Howe's fleet, even though there were good landing spots. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Bucks County, Pennsylvania Bucks County, Pennsylvania tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-16:%2Fbucks_county_pennsylvania.php 2010-09-16T19:49:12-04:00 2012-03-09T04:01:49-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/buckcounty.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Bucks County once seemed destined to be the capital of Quaker America. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Christ Church and Elfreths Alley Christ Church and Elfreths Alley tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzchrist_church_and_elfreths.html 2006-06-26T15:40:45-04:00 2012-03-09T04:01:24-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/elthreths%20alley-778339.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Elthreths" />Two of our oldest and most charming tourist attractions are just across the street from each other..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9527 -75.1422 Elfreths Alley 39.9527 -75.1422 39.9527 -75.1422 Quakers From the Indian Point of View Quakers From the Indian Point of View tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzquakers_from_the_indian.html 2006-06-23T16:08:30-04:00 2012-03-09T02:24:24-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/benjamin_west-794478.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="william penn and indians" />The Iroquois were fierce warriors, but they could see they would need better education to survive in a new world. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8995 -75.0344 Nicholson/Elkinton House 39.8995 -75.0344 39.8995 -75.0344 Bonds are Up: Is That a Good Thing? Bonds are Up: Is That a Good Thing? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-21:%2Fbonds_are_up_is.html 2007-12-21T17:16:44-05:00 2012-03-09T02:24:09-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Federalbank.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />No matter how many times the newspapers explain it, many readers remain confused between the price of a bond and the rate of its interest payment. The two go in opposite directions.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9505 -75.1489 Federal Reserve Bank 39.9505 -75.1489 39.9505 -75.1489 Frozen Markets Frozen Markets tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-21:%2Ffrozen_markets.html 2008-04-21T19:37:55-04:00 2012-03-09T01:50:12-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/frozen%20markets..jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />After August 17, 2007, it was widely reported that financial markets froze up. What in the world does that mean?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Yale Blue Yale Blue tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fyale_blue.html 2006-06-22T11:15:10-04:00 2012-03-09T01:49:58-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/yaleU.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Academia is acquiring unaccustomed power, wealth and arrogance. It can cause friction with students whose career plans lie in other directions. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.3145 -72.9234 Yale University 41.3145 -72.9234 41.3145 -72.9234 Murky Crisis Murky Crisis tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-01:%2Fmurky_crisis.html 2008-03-01T22:49:48-05:00 2012-03-09T01:49:58-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/crunch.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Six months after the credit crisis began, it's still not clear how bad it is.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Mister Roberts Mister Roberts tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fmister_roberts.html 2006-06-21T14:11:19-04:00 2012-03-09T01:49:57-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/fideltybldg.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/5192/thefidelitybuilding.jpg" />Franklin Roosevelt threatened to keep adding Supreme Court justices until he got a majority to agree with him. And then one vote switched; a Switch in Time, which saved nine. Owen Roberts of Philadelphia did the switching.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9503 -75.1643 Fidelity Building 39.9503 -75.1643 39.9503 -75.1643 Oil Bubble Oil Bubble tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-25:%2Foil_bubble.html 2008-06-25T14:16:54-04:00 2012-03-09T01:49:37-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/OilRigBubble.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The cost of gas at the pump has soared, and conspirators are suspected. But, awkwardly, nice respectable pension funds and university endowments may be responsible. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Web As Investigative Reporter The Web As Investigative Reporter tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fthe_web_as_investigative.html 2006-06-21T12:24:20-04:00 2012-03-09T01:48:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Freedom-of-Press.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Reporters" />Just as cellphones reduce street crime, the Internet reduces the risk and cost of investigative reporting. That should help democracy. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Dark Morning at the Supreme Court Dark Morning at the Supreme Court tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzdark_morning_at_the.html 2006-06-23T16:55:08-04:00 2012-03-09T01:48:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/court_front_med-754378.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="supreme court" />Shouldn't the Supreme Court televise its hearings?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9528 -75.166 Philadelphia Supreme Court 39.9528 -75.166 39.9528 -75.166 The Nation's Future Health Profile The Nation's Future Health Profile tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fthe_nation_s_future.html 2006-06-22T12:24:39-04:00 2012-03-09T01:48:41-05:00 As the nation's health steadily improves, it's going to cause some problems of a social nature. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9487 -75.1937 Childrens Hopital of Philadelphia 39.9487 -75.1937 39.9487 -75.1937 New Health Insurance Reform Proposals New Health Insurance Reform Proposals tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fnew_health_insurance_reform.html 2006-06-22T12:36:51-04:00 2012-03-09T01:48:24-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Lyndon%20Johnson.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Lyndon%20Johnson.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />A Complex Reform Reduced to Brief Essentials: <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Put Down That Lid! Put Down That Lid! tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-14:%2Fput_down_that_lid.html 2007-02-14T15:13:07-05:00 2012-03-09T01:47:29-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Toilet.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Toilet" />The toilet, or loo, has been around for centuries. Only recently has the lid become an issue.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Premature Solutions to the Credit Crisis of 2007 Premature Solutions to the Credit Crisis of 2007 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-07:%2Fpremature_solutions_to_the.html 2008-05-07T18:21:43-04:00 2012-03-09T01:46:51-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/dollar_sign.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Proposals for reforms which would prevent another credit crunch are starting to surface. Even in a presidential election campaign, people are pretty hesitant to suggest dramatic reforms. At least, once said Hippocrates, please don't make things worse. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Food Food tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-30:%2Ffood_.html 2009-08-30T21:30:40-04:00 2012-03-09T01:46:40-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/retro_woman_cooking_2.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />TMeals are fitted around work schedules for working-age folks, even when they aren't going to work. In retirement, meals are themselves pivotal events.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Social Disintermediation Social Disintermediation tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-29:%2Fsocial_disintermediation.html 2007-10-29T17:00:46-04:00 2012-03-09T01:46:30-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/DOLLARSIGN.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />A term borrowed from the banking world seems to explain the recent decline of local government, local clubs, and local news sources. Alas, the consequence of such social disintermediation is a rise of insolence, insubordination, and junkyard dog-ism.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Slavery: If This be done well, What is done evil? Slavery: If This be done well, What is done evil? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzif_this_is_done.html 2006-06-26T13:57:27-04:00 2012-03-09T01:46:27-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/John_Woolman_House.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="John Woolman" />Philadelphia German Quakers were the first to protest the evils of slavery. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9979 -74.7781 John Woolman House 39.9979 -74.7781 39.9979 -74.7781 The Blue Cross Discount (6) The Blue Cross Discount (6) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fthe_blue_cross_discount.html 2006-06-21T13:46:31-04:00 2012-03-09T01:46:24-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bcbs.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Hospitals customarily inflate many charges so far beyond their costs that you must buy insurance to protect yourself. Whatever the dominant health insurers may be doing to encourage that practice, they are the main ones to benefit from it. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9536 -75.1711 Blue Cross and Blue Shield 39.9536 -75.1711 39.9536 -75.1711 Keeping Lunaticks Off the Streets Keeping Lunaticks Off the Streets tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzkeeping_lunaticks_off_the.html 2006-06-23T16:20:28-04:00 2012-03-09T01:46:23-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/pahospital.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Pennsylvania Hospital" /><!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.945 -75.1558 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.945 -75.1558 39.945 -75.1558 A New Food and Drug Category A New Food and Drug Category tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fa_new_food_and.html 2006-06-22T11:17:43-04:00 2012-03-09T01:46:18-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/nervoussystem.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The Food and Drug Act demands that drugs be efficacious and safe. There needs to be a special exemption for drugs that are efficacious but somewhat unsafe.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.711 -74.0135 The Wall Street Journal 40.711 -74.0135 40.711 -74.0135 The Godfather The Godfather tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_godfather.html 2006-06-26T14:26:24-04:00 2012-03-09T01:46:16-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/abruno.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The chief thug in town turns out to be quite a wit. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone><!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone><!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9232 -75.1617 Angelo Bruno Home 39.9232 -75.1617 39.9232 -75.1617 Cleaning Up The Railroad Mess 1974 Cleaning Up The Railroad Mess 1974 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-17:%2Fcleaning_up_the_railroad.html 2010-06-17T20:48:08-04:00 2012-03-09T01:46:08-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/WCML_freight_train.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Bankrupting the nation's freight trains isn't as bad as an atomic explosion, but it's worse than the average catastrophe, and the Supreme Court was faced with fixing it..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9556 -75.1817 Amtrack 30th Street Station 39.9556 -75.1817 39.9556 -75.1817 Retire Later Retire Later tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-23:%2Fretire_later.html 2009-06-23T20:37:00-04:00 2012-03-09T01:45:58-05:00 In the social entitlement environment, like the union environment, "givebacks" are never acceptable. But accepting a later retirement age than you planned on is one certainty, utterly beyond debate. Philadelphia in 1976: Legionaire's Disease Philadelphia in 1976: Legionaire's Disease tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphiladelphia_in_1976.html 2000-05-25T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-09T00:49:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/8239_lores.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="The Yellow Fever" />Philadelphia's ambitious Bicentennial celebration of the Declaration of Independence was ruined by an epidemic of a new disease that seemed to focus on tourists. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9491 -75.1647 The Bellevue Stratford Hotel 39.9491 -75.1647 39.9491 -75.1647 Disappearing Stock Power Disappearing Stock Power tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-03:%2Fdisappearing_stock_power.html 2010-07-03T18:48:30-04:00 2012-03-09T00:44:59-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/ice_cream_cone_melt.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The proxy voting power of corporate common stock is disappearing every day, by thousands of shares.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.7072 -74.0112 NYSE 40.7072 -74.0112 40.7072 -74.0112 Franklin and Marshall Franklin and Marshall tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-12:%2Ffranklin_and_marshall.html 2009-05-12T17:09:55-04:00 2012-03-09T00:44:57-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/CheifJohn_Marshall.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />,,<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> How Should We Reform Real Estate Finance?(2) How Should We Reform Real Estate Finance?(2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-28:%2F2_how_should_we.html 2008-07-28T12:41:54-04:00 2012-03-09T00:44:52-05:00 When the ship springs a leak, patch the leak. When the storm subsides, fix the hole. When you get back to port, ask why you were ever at sea.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Supreme Court Gets Fed Up With Professors The Supreme Court Gets Fed Up With Professors tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fthe_supreme_court_gets.html 2006-06-22T11:46:02-04:00 2012-03-09T00:44:49-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Supreme%20Court.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The interpretation of American law belongs to Judges, not to law schools, and administration of the courts is controlled by the U.S. Supreme Court. Period. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Elizabethan Accents in Philadelphia Elizabethan Accents in Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Felizabethan_accents_in_philadelphia.html 2006-06-19T20:07:30-04:00 2012-03-09T00:44:47-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/William_Shakespeare.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />In the birthplace of American independence, there's still a lot of Olde English buried in the speech patterns.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.6905 -75.3855 Courthouse Georgetown DE 38.6905 -75.3855 38.6905 -75.3855 Shakspere Society, 150th Annual Dinner April 23, 2001 Shakspere Society, 150th Annual Dinner April 23, 2001 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-26:%2Fshakspere_society_150th_annual.html 2008-01-26T17:38:13-05:00 2012-03-09T00:44:40-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The 150th annual dinner of America's oldest Shakspere Society (Shakespeare Society) on the occasion of his birthday. 52.1942 -1.70883 Shakspere's Birthplace 52.1942 -1.70883 52.1942 -1.70883 Internet, Websites, and related Programming Internet, Websites, and related Programming tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-22:%2Finternet_websites_and_related.html 2009-04-22T11:29:09-04:00 2012-03-08T22:12:23-05:00 Technical Comments related to programming this and other websites require a special topic section of their own.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Sorting Out Future Winners Some Suggestions Sorting Out Future Winners Some Suggestions tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fsorting_out_the_future.html 2006-06-22T12:14:27-04:00 2012-03-08T22:12:21-05:00 It's getting to be time for the country to tell the education industry what is expected of it. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Debt Rating Agencies Debt Rating Agencies tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-12:%2Fdebt_rating_agencies.html 2008-02-12T11:38:43-05:00 2012-03-08T22:12:18-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/crunch.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Gigantic volumes of innovative debt instruments forced investors to rely on the opinion of rating agencies for what should be a core bank function: know your counterparty.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The United States: ChapterTen The United States: ChapterTen tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-21:%2Fthe_united_states_chapterten.html 2007-03-21T15:28:40-04:00 2012-03-08T22:12:09-05:00 ......,<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Google Earth: Philadelphia Virtual Tours Google Earth: Philadelphia Virtual Tours tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-30:%2Fgoogle_earth_philadelphia_virtual.html 2010-07-30T11:18:53-04:00 2012-03-08T22:12:06-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Google-earth.jpg" alt="Google Earth" class="tn-l-w50" />Stay at home and watch virtual tours of the Philadelphia region. A work in progress.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> An iPhone web app An iPhone web app tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-06:%2Fan_iphone_web_app.html 2009-05-06T16:37:34-04:00 2012-03-08T21:47:58-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/libertybell.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Philadelphia Reflections is now available on the iPhone as a web app<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Curing Deflation Curing Deflation tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fcuring_deflation.html 2006-06-22T11:47:36-04:00 2012-03-08T21:47:46-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/fixaflat.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="John Brown" />Some recessions and deflations have lasted a long time, in spite of every effort to reverse them. The cause and cure of deflation remains uncertain.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Making Money (8): Virtual Money Making Money (8): Virtual Money tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-19:%2Fmaking_money_8_virtual.html 2007-12-19T18:54:10-05:00 2012-03-08T21:47:43-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mirage.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />When money was tangible you had to guard it, now that it's mostly virtual you have to verify it. Hardly anybody can, and that's a problem. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-26:%2Fdebunking_thirdworld_myths_with.html 2008-05-26T20:30:49-04:00 2012-03-08T21:47:36-05:00 Guaranteed: You've never seen data presented like this. Trends come to life. And the big picture snaps into sharp focus.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Paying for College I Paying for College I tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-08:%2Fpaying_for_college_i.html 2010-03-08T17:23:06-05:00 2012-03-08T21:47:33-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/collegeExpenses.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A service economy needs more education past high school. Soaring college tuition costs imply a supply shortage; and hence we need more colleges. But cheaper ones.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Paying Bills Electronically Paying Bills Electronically tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fpaying_bills_electronically.html 2006-06-22T11:57:45-04:00 2012-03-08T21:47:24-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/CommodoreMatthewPerry.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/perry.jpg" /> Here are four suggestions for improving electronic bill paying.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Intelligensia, Philly Style Intelligensia, Philly Style tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-08-27:%2Fintelligensia_philly_style.html 2008-08-27T19:46:59-04:00 2012-03-08T21:47:22-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/evelonharley.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />All computer user groups are different. In Philadelphia they are more different.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.946 -75.1655 The University of the Arts 39.946 -75.1655 39.946 -75.1655 As Computers Displace Money, Trust But Verify As Computers Displace Money, Trust But Verify tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-26:%2Fas_computers_displace_money.html 2007-12-26T13:57:17-05:00 2012-03-08T21:47:18-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/computercart.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Mainframe computers have been available for fifty years, personal computers for twenty-five. Unless the two come into better balance soon, we foresee a nightmare of government regulation, and perhaps worse.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Do-It-Yourself Globalization Do-It-Yourself Globalization tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzdoityourself_globalization.html 2006-06-23T15:02:59-04:00 2012-03-08T21:47:13-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/chinese-workers.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/chinese-workers.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Cheap mass-produced (and mostly foreign-made) goods make it cheaper to buy a new one than to repair what you already have. The effect on our culture is largely unnoticed, but quite profound.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Causes of the 2007 Crash: Political and Technological Causes of the 2007 Crash: Political and Technological tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-04:%2Fcauses_of_the_2007.html 2011-01-04T17:29:09-05:00 2012-03-08T21:47:06-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/IBM.jpg" class="tn-l-w100" alt="" /> After 4 years, we are gradually piecing out the causes of the second great crash. It seems two main causes were government subsidies of cheap housing in one form or another, and the impaction of computers on banking.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> BU to Pier 7 GPS Tour BU to Pier 7 GPS Tour tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-08:%2Fexample_of_including_a.html 2007-11-08T10:13:17-05:00 2012-03-08T21:47:03-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/computercartoon.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Example of Including a KML file 42.3734 -71.0491 The End of the Trip 42.3734 -71.0491 42.3734 -71.0491 IRA ... Individual Retirement Accounts (3) IRA ... Individual Retirement Accounts (3) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fira_individual_retirement_accounts.html 2006-06-21T13:41:57-04:00 2012-03-08T21:47:00-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/TSR-80100.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A legislative proposal gets started, beginning in the right place.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9522 -75.1907 Engerring at University of Penn 39.9522 -75.1907 39.9522 -75.1907 Navigation Signals for Deeper Levels Navigation Signals for Deeper Levels tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-09-09:%2Fnavigation_signals_for_deeper.html 2011-09-09T17:11:34-04:00 2012-03-08T21:46:58-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PRLOGO.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />A lot of things will fit on one website, but it is hard to display more than a few on a single page. The solution is to "drill down", layer after layer. Here are some deeper levels of Philadelphia Reflections.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Onward, Christian Soldiers Onward, Christian Soldiers tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-28:%2Fonward_christian_soldiers.html 2008-03-28T16:14:05-04:00 2012-03-08T21:46:56-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/joankroc.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Like a fairy godmother, Jane Kroc has dropped a spectacular gift on the poor of North Philadelphia, and the Salvation Army. Opening in 2009. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9538 -75.1763 The Salvation Army 39.9538 -75.1763 39.9538 -75.1763 Money Bags Money Bags tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-08:%2Fmoney_bags.html 2007-08-08T17:32:30-04:00 2012-03-08T21:46:44-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/ross_perot.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />When Medicare started it was chaos, worse confounded. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Proposal: A Second Federal Reserve Proposal: A Second Federal Reserve tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-05:%2Fproposal_a_second_federal.html 2008-05-05T19:21:05-04:00 2012-03-08T21:46:43-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Henry%20Kaufman.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Henry Kaufman recently made a number of wise observations about the monetary situation, followed by a radical proposal that might be rather hard to implement.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9547 -75.1961 The Global Interdependence Center (GIC)Phone: 215-898-9453 39.9547 -75.1961 39.9547 -75.1961 Printed Books v. Websites Printed Books v. Websites tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-15:%2Fprinted_books_v_websites.html 2009-12-15T15:55:49-05:00 2012-03-08T21:46:42-05:00 Since this booklet is provided in both printed book form, and online website form, the reader has a chance to compare the two media. Each has its merits. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Navigation Signals for Philadelphia Reflections Navigation Signals for Philadelphia Reflections tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-09-07:%2Fnavigation_signals_for_philadelphia.html 2011-09-07T16:55:30-04:00 2012-03-08T21:46:40-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PRLOGO.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Here's a navigation guide to the desktop/laptop version of this program. Limited screen room and constant innovation force the internet to adjust. So desktops, hand-helds, and notebooks all require programs to be specific for their class. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Constitutionality of the Monetary System Constitutionality of the Monetary System tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-31:%2Fconstitutionality_of_the_monetary.html 2008-12-31T20:34:40-05:00 2012-03-08T21:46:39-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/constitution1.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Constitution fails us when no one is certain what to do about an important issue. 39.95 -75.1502 Independence Hall 39.95 -75.1502 39.95 -75.1502 Police Athletic League Police Athletic League tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fpolice_athletic_league.html 2006-06-21T12:41:46-04:00 2012-03-08T21:46:33-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Philadelphia%20PA%20Police%20%28New%20Issue%29.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Police Athletic League wasn't invented in Philadelphia, but it has done the city a lot of good.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.985 -75.1071 Police Athletic League of Philadelphia 39.985 -75.1071 39.985 -75.1071 Computerized Finance to the Guillotine Computerized Finance to the Guillotine tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-27:%2Fcomputerized_finance_to_the.html 2007-12-27T22:34:13-05:00 2012-03-08T21:46:28-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/industrial-revolution.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Computers may well have helped create a world financial muddle, but that's no reason to go back to the abacus..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Dr. Cadwalader's Hat Dr. Cadwalader's Hat tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fdr_cadwalader_s_hat.html 2006-06-21T12:55:31-04:00 2012-03-08T21:45:56-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/20040326004x200.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Cadwalader" />Sometimes it's hard for others to understand what makes Quakers tick.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9449 -75.1558 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9449 -75.1558 39.9449 -75.1558 Albert C. Barnes, M.D. Albert C. Barnes, M.D. tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Falbert_barnes_investor.html 2001-03-29T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-08T21:45:30-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/argyrol.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Argyrol" />Impressionist paintings grew more valuable, faster than the patron's endowment for their maintenance.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.998 -75.2405 Barnes Museum, Merion 39.998 -75.2405 39.998 -75.2405 Stephen Girard and Religion Stephen Girard and Religion tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fstephen_girard_religion.html 2004-12-21T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-08T21:45:28-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/girardcollege.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/girardcollege.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The great philanthropist was, to say the least, anti-clerical. A real-life story tells how far this was carried.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9739 -75.1557 Girard College 39.9739 -75.1557 39.9739 -75.1557 The Republican Court The Republican Court tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-01-26:%2Fthe_republican_court.html 2010-01-26T17:30:02-05:00 2012-03-08T21:45:20-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/AnneBingham.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />An aristocratic court may seem a peculiar place to unite a republic, but the female-dominated social circle of 1790-1800 nevertheless united a new nation. Its definition of who is socially prominent still persists, to some degree. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Colleges and Religions Drift Apart Colleges and Religions Drift Apart tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fcolleges_and_religions_drift.html 2006-06-19T20:19:45-04:00 2012-03-08T21:44:32-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/yaleU.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />American colleges and universities were originally founded to teach ministers..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 42.3782 -71.1138 Havard University 42.3782 -71.1138 42.3782 -71.1138 Goat Head Merchant Goat Head Merchant tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzgoat_head_merchant.html 2006-06-26T13:56:40-04:00 2012-03-08T21:43:29-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bellevuehosp-775939.gif" class="tn-l-w50" alt="bellevue hospital" />A real-life story of bootleggers in a hospital.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.6649 -74.4432 Jersey Pine Barrens 39.6649 -74.4432 39.6649 -74.4432 Inalienable Rights Before the Magna Carta Inalienable Rights Before the Magna Carta tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-16:%2Finalienable_rights_before_the.html 2010-04-16T19:12:57-04:00 2012-03-08T21:39:25-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hammurabi.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />Human rights of some sort can be traced back to 1800 B.C The question is not whether they are ancient, but who gave them out.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Who Paid for the Revolutionary War? Who Paid for the Revolutionary War? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-05-11:%2Fwho_paid_for_the.html 2011-05-11T14:59:42-04:00 2012-03-08T21:39:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/poker.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Great Britain lost the war with the American colonies and paid for considerable costs. But France was the main financial loser in the sense that it couldn't afford what it lost. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Brave New World Brave New World tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-25:%2Fbrave_new_world.html 2011-07-25T17:04:51-04:00 2012-03-08T21:39:04-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/yradish-459379944-1236643131.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />A surprising secret of the younger generation.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Philadelphia Chromosome Philadelphia Chromosome tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-01:%2Fexplaining_the_cause_of.html 2010-05-01T17:48:29-04:00 2012-03-08T21:39:03-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/CML001.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Just about everybody has 46 chromosomes in every cell in the body. Some people have more than that: they have the Philadelphia Chromosome. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9497 -75.1931 The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania 39.9497 -75.1931 39.9497 -75.1931 Philadelphia Food: Fast Food Philadelphia Food: Fast Food tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzphiladelphia_food_fast_food.html 2006-06-26T14:46:01-04:00 2012-03-08T21:38:58-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/philly-pretzels.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Hard <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9332 -75.1593 Pats King of Steaks 39.9332 -75.1593 39.9332 -75.1593 Manna Manna tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzmanna_.html 2006-06-26T14:28:45-04:00 2012-03-08T21:38:56-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/manna.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />It's heartening to see Philadelphians as unlike each other as show biz, and the City Troop, coming together to help the victims of HIV/AIDS.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9539 -75.1781 Manna Phialdelphia, PA 39.9539 -75.1781 39.9539 -75.1781 How to Live Off an Investment Portfolio How to Live Off an Investment Portfolio tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-06:%2Fhow_to_live_off.html 2010-03-06T15:32:09-05:00 2012-03-08T21:38:56-05:00 It's a hard rule, but don't ignore it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> August, 2007: Sudden Financial Jolt August, 2007: Sudden Financial Jolt tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-01:%2Faugust_2007_sudden_financial.html 2008-07-01T12:54:09-04:00 2012-03-08T21:38:52-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/calm.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Calmer heads may have seen financial problems building for a decade. The rest of us only noticed a volcano eruption.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Widener, Stotesbury, and Trumbauer Widener, Stotesbury, and Trumbauer tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fwidener_stotesbury_and_trumbauer.html 2006-06-15T19:34:21-04:00 2012-03-08T21:38:49-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/raquet%20club.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Racquet Club" />The Philadelphia Racquet Club on 16th Street is a notable engineering and architectural achievement. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9492 -75.1675 The Racquet Club of Philadelphia 39.9492 -75.1675 39.9492 -75.1675 Market Street, East (2) Market Street, East (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzmarket_street_east_2.html 2006-06-23T11:32:46-04:00 2012-03-08T21:38:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/psfs.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="PSFS" />East Market Street was once the mercantile capital of the nation.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9523 -75.1604 PSFS Building 39.9523 -75.1604 39.9523 -75.1604 Neglection Neglection tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fneglection_.html 2006-06-19T19:58:38-04:00 2012-03-08T21:38:40-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/WilliamLyonPhelps.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />Shakespeare invented words freely, but unlike the rest of us, he invented good ones. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 52.1937 -1.70776 Shakespeare Birthplace 52.1937 -1.70776 52.1937 -1.70776 Stetson Stetson tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fstetson_.html 2006-06-19T19:51:14-04:00 2012-03-08T21:38:35-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/john-b-stetson.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="John Stetson" />For almost a century, Philadelphia-made Stetson hats were found on every cowboy head.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9584 -75.1506 Stetson Hat Factory Phialelphia PA 39.9584 -75.1506 39.9584 -75.1506 Airport Economics Airport Economics tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fairport_economics.html 1999-10-21T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-08T21:38:33-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/US%20Airways.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="US Airlines" />airport economics<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8678 -75.246 Philadelphia, PA 39.8678 -75.246 39.8678 -75.246 Locating Corporate Headquarters Locating Corporate Headquarters tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-15:%2Flocating_corporate_headquarters.html 2011-01-15T19:47:09-05:00 2012-03-08T21:38:30-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/troyadams.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Every year, millions of dollars are spent by cities to induce corporations to relocate their headquarters. Does it work? Is it a goal worth pursuing?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Two-Party Ideologies Two-Party Ideologies tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-10-07:%2Ftwoparty_ideologies.html 2011-10-07T16:51:47-04:00 2012-03-08T21:38:30-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/together.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />It's curious how often the two American political parties have switched positions on the main issues of the day.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Corinthian Epistle Corinthian Epistle tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzcorinthian_epistle.html 2006-06-26T14:50:15-04:00 2012-03-08T21:38:24-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/artmusolympia.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Corinth and Olympia are in Greece, both famous for amateurism in sports. A Corinthian yacht club is a type of yacht club, with no professional sailors. If you hired sailors for your yacht, and who didn't, you were supposed to keep it somewhere else..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8611 -75.3049 The Corinthian Yacht Club 39.8611 -75.3049 39.8611 -75.3049 Novation Novation tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-28:%2Fnovation_.html 2008-05-28T22:06:09-04:00 2012-03-08T21:38:13-05:00 Here's an obscure legal term at the heart of a sixty trillion dollar perplexity. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Sacred Places at Risk Sacred Places at Risk tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-16:%2Fsacred_places_at_risk.html 2007-07-16T12:39:09-04:00 2012-03-08T20:02:53-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/stjoechurch.JPG" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Church structures don't migrate, but church members do. A volunteer organization in Philadelphia has formed, to help endangered congregations decide how to review their options and act on the best choice.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9506 -75.1691 Partners For Sacred Places 39.9506 -75.1691 39.9506 -75.1691 Banking Panic 2007-2009 Banking Panic 2007-2009 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-10:%2Fcredit_crunch_2007.php 2008-02-10T00:44:35-05:00 2012-03-08T20:02:44-05:00 Mankind hasn't learned how to control sudden wealth, whether in families, third-world countries, or the richest nation in history. The world banking crisis of 2007 is the biggest example yet. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Thinking About Thought Thinking About Thought tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-12:%2Fthinking_about_thought.php 2011-07-12T13:03:33-04:00 2012-03-08T20:02:15-05:00 There's a yawning gap between concepts of the mind, and concepts of brain function. Further Acknowledgments (2) Further Acknowledgments (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Ffurther_acknowledgments_2.html 2006-06-21T13:40:49-04:00 2012-03-08T19:46:13-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/KnockingOnDoor.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Finding a publisher is often hard, but sometimes easy.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9525 -75.1904 Engerring at University of Penn 39.9525 -75.1904 39.9525 -75.1904 Reading Books Compared With Computer Viewing Reading Books Compared With Computer Viewing tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-06:%2Freading_books_compared_with.html 2008-07-06T18:04:57-04:00 2012-03-08T19:45:56-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/kindle.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Authors universally compose their work on personal computers. Much more resistance to reading books on computers comes from readers, who dislike the glare of computer monitors on their eyes, the extra cost and the cumbersomeness, and the trouble to learn how. However, storage is cheaper on servers than libraries, marketing is easier and maybe cheaper online, and technology will inevitably increase the advantages of computers. Right now, computers are ruining the book trade, not sweeping it aside.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Beginnings of E-Mail The Beginnings of E-Mail tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_beginnings_of_email.html 2006-06-26T14:14:47-04:00 2012-03-08T19:44:58-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/computercartoon.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Tony Drexel and J.P. Morgan may well have been the first. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.7491 -73.9816 J.P. Mogans House 40.7491 -73.9816 40.7491 -73.9816 Nanoparticles: The Dwarfs are Coming Nanoparticles: The Dwarfs are Coming tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-11-30:%2Fnanoparticles_the_dwarfs_are.html 2011-11-30T16:06:41-05:00 2012-03-08T19:44:55-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/nanoparticles.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />A lot of basic science will have to be revised when we fully understand what happens to particles after they get small enough. Many Mickles in One Muckle Many Mickles in One Muckle tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-14:%2Fmany_mickles_in_one.html 2011-07-14T14:33:27-04:00 2012-03-08T19:44:52-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/food-chopsticks.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />If bigger chips get too hot for a computer, engineers just add more chips instead of making bigger ones. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Modern Printing and Post-Modern Printing Modern Printing and Post-Modern Printing tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-27:%2Fmodern_printing_and_postmodern.html 2008-10-27T10:44:23-04:00 2012-03-08T19:44:51-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Printpress.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />Like computer monitors, computer printers operate at 72 dpi. Commercial publishing uses 300 dpi, and it's a little awkward to switch back and forth.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Jewelers Row Jewelers Row tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzjewelers_row.html 2006-06-26T14:43:03-04:00 2012-03-08T19:44:29-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/jewerlersrow-749624.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="jewerlers row" />It makes an interesting study in the economics of marketing to visit the collection of dozens of jeweler shops all crowded into a couple of blocks.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9488 -75.1527 Safian Rudolph Jewelers 39.9488 -75.1527 39.9488 -75.1527 What's a Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO)? What's a Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO)? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-14:%2Fwhats_a_securitized_debt.html 2008-02-14T16:44:14-05:00 2012-03-08T19:43:51-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/crunch.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />SDO's are a way to reduce the cost of debt by reducing the cost of assembling the cash. More questionably, they can reduce the cost of evaluating the credit worthiness of the debtor.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Country Auction Modernized Country Auction Modernized tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-08:%2Fcountry_auction_modernized.html 2009-09-08T19:20:45-04:00 2012-03-08T19:43:45-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Alderfer%20Auction%20Company.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />On Fairgrounds Road, in the Quaker farmlands of Bucks County, efficiency and computerized streamlining are nibbling at the enduring customs of country auctions.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.2715 -75.3169 Alderfer Auction Company 40.2715 -75.3169 40.2715 -75.3169 The Housing Bubble The Housing Bubble tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-23:%2Fthe_housing_bubble.html 2008-04-23T15:54:32-04:00 2012-03-08T19:43:30-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/housebubble.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />For now, let's call the economic upheavals of 2007 a housing bubble. It followed a dot-com crash, and both bubbles were part of the electronic revolution, beginning in 1975.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9532 -75.1502 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 39.9532 -75.1502 39.9532 -75.1502 South Philadelphia: Ideal Intermodality Transportation Site South Philadelphia: Ideal Intermodality Transportation Site tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-14:%2Fsouth_philadelphia_ideal_intermodality.html 2011-01-14T17:04:09-05:00 2012-03-08T19:43:13-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Philly%20Port.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Very few places on earth have rail, airport, ocean port, and Interstate Highway exits all crowded in a small place. An ideal location for intermodality connections, twenty minutes travel from the center of a major city.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8937 -75.2104 Fort Mifflin 39.8937 -75.2104 39.8937 -75.2104 Cira Centre II - (?) Cira Centre II - (?) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-27:%2Fcira_centre_ii.html 2009-02-27T15:01:23-05:00 2012-03-08T19:42:55-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cira%20centreii.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="Cira Centre" />Brief description of work contemplated for the present underused site near the old 30th street post office building and area..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9575 -75.1826 Cira Center 39.9575 -75.1826 39.9575 -75.1826 Send a KML file from disk using PHP Send a KML file from disk using PHP tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-01:%2Fsend_a_kml_file.html 2007-11-01T10:42:30-04:00 2012-03-08T19:42:32-05:00 Preprocessing a kml or kmz disk file improves the user experience Steep Yield-Curves Subsidize Banks Steep Yield-Curves Subsidize Banks tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-18:%2Fa_subsidy_steep_interest.html 2009-05-18T19:25:35-04:00 2012-03-08T17:20:04-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/normal-yield-curve3.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The up-sloping federal interest rate curve is a subsidy to banks, just as surely as farm price supports are subsidies to farmers. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> SHAKSPERE SOCIETY, Annual Dinner 2003 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY, Annual Dinner 2003 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-01:%2Fshakspere_society_annual_dinner.html 2008-02-01T18:26:07-05:00 2012-03-08T17:19:36-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />America's oldest Shakespeare society has a 2003 annual dinner on his birthday. 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 Quotes from B. Franklin, Curmudgeon Quotes from B. Franklin, Curmudgeon tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzquotes_from_b_franklin.html 2006-06-23T16:11:03-04:00 2012-03-08T16:52:38-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/franklinphilosopher2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />As he grew older, Franklin took less trouble to conceal what he really thought. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Unconstitutionality of Otherwise Desirable Laws Unconstitutionality of Otherwise Desirable Laws tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-03:%2Fnotable_and_quotable.html 2010-11-03T15:49:16-04:00 2012-03-08T16:51:28-05:00 President James Madison's veto message on Internal Improvements Bill (March 3,1817) makes a powerful statement about states rights and the limitation of federal powers. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Wheels Wheels tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-25:%2Fwheels_.html 2009-06-25T17:48:09-04:00 2012-03-08T16:51:11-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/fretirement.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />It's fairly easy to persuade the elder generation to live in an environmentally friendly way. A lot of the arguments do not apply to them, however. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9489 -75.1555 Philly Car Share Head Quarters 39.9489 -75.1555 39.9489 -75.1555 A New Gorilla in the Cage A New Gorilla in the Cage tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-11:%2Fa_new_gorilla_in.html 2007-07-11T16:02:58-04:00 2012-03-08T16:50:50-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Gorillacage.jpg" alt="{Gorillacage.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Large employers, distressed by costs of employer-based health insurance, had formed a coalition to do something radical about their problem when the Clinton Health Plan burst into the news. Both groups decided to have a joint look at Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO).<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.8976 -77.0365 The White House 38.8976 -77.0365 38.8976 -77.0365 Barbarians At the Gates of the Magical Kingdom Barbarians At the Gates of the Magical Kingdom tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzbarbarians_at_the_gates.html 2006-06-26T14:02:00-04:00 2012-03-08T16:50:49-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mickey-750901.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Mickey Mouse" />The big convention hall in our midst sometimes provides us yokels with entertainment of an entirely novel variety.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 33.8089 -117.924 Disneyland 33.8089 -117.924 33.8089 -117.924 Unwritten Features of the Constitution Unwritten Features of the Constitution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-02:%2Funwritten_features_of_the.html 2009-02-02T20:53:07-05:00 2012-03-08T16:50:42-05:00 Considerable anger is sometimes directed toward Judges who find unintended provisions in the Constitution. On the other hand, James Madison and some other Founding Fathers were careful to design the Constitution to create outcomes that are far from explicit. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Clinton Plan Summary: Hospital Effects Clinton Plan Summary: Hospital Effects tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-02:%2Fclinton_plan_summary_hospital.html 2007-08-02T16:39:25-04:00 2012-03-08T16:50:37-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/closedhospital.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/closedhospital.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Events in the aftermath of the Clinton Health Plan confronted hospital administrations with a deadly serious counter-party. In a war for survival everyone does things you wish they wouldn't do. 39.9536 -75.1712 Blue Cross and Blue Sheild 39.9536 -75.1712 39.9536 -75.1712 The News of Ideas The News of Ideas tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-01:%2Fthe_news_of_ideas.html 2009-07-01T19:28:17-04:00 2012-03-08T16:50:37-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/oped.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The op-ed page took its present form in 1970 at the New York Times, after a long struggle between the news department and the editorial editors. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.7538 -73.9764 The New York Times 40.7538 -73.9764 40.7538 -73.9764 Laran Bronze Laran Bronze tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-27:%2Flaran_bronze.html 2007-08-27T12:01:51-04:00 2012-03-08T16:50:36-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Wwiimemorial.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Occupying an entire block of industrial Chester, a little industry of mechanized artist engineers make most of the big bronze statues in Eastern America.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.8895 -77.0404 World War II Memorial 38.8895 -77.0404 38.8895 -77.0404 Books by Philadelphians or about Philadelphia Books by Philadelphians or about Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-05-24:%2Fphila_books.html 2006-05-24T00:00:00-04:00 2012-03-08T16:50:30-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/soundpage.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A sampling of great books by Philadelphians, and great books about Philadelphia.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Picking Up the Usual Suspects Picking Up the Usual Suspects tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-09:%2Fpicking_up_the_usual.html 2007-07-09T17:16:47-04:00 2012-03-08T16:50:19-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Crains.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Crains.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />When the U.S. President plans to change health care, everyone involved in healthcare gets excited. Some want to resist change, some want to exploit it, but everyone wants to have influence.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Clinton Plan Summary: Effects on National Health Clinton Plan Summary: Effects on National Health tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-03:%2Fclinton_plan_summary_effects.html 2007-08-03T16:28:17-04:00 2012-03-08T16:50:16-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/healthcartoon2.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/healthcartoon2.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />It is not possible to prove whether the recently reduced quality of care which physicians deplore, has resulted in decreased health or not. In a wry way, it is their own fault..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.8412 -75.9404 Columbia Presbyterian Hospital 40.8412 -75.9404 40.8412 -75.9404 Health Savings Accounts Health Savings Accounts tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fhealth_savings_accounts.html 2006-06-22T12:35:36-04:00 2012-03-08T16:50:10-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/washdc-us-capitol.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />In late 2003, Congress passed and the President signed, legislation enabling tax exemptions for contributions to Medical Savings Accounts. This monumental reform was included in a law which created a number of Medicare prescription drugs benefits which received more attention in the press. Such accounts were renamed Health Savings Accounts, which was the original terminology in 1980 when John McClaughry of Vermont and George Ross Fisher of Pennsylvania, shortly joined by Michael Smith of Louisiana, first introduced the concept.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.9009 -77.034 House of Representatives 38.9009 -77.034 38.9009 -77.034 Javascript: document.write and XHTML Javascript: document.write and XHTML tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-05:%2Fjavascript_documentwrite_and_xhtml.html 2007-03-05T15:29:39-05:00 2012-03-08T16:50:10-05:00 Document.write does not work with "true" XHTML. Don't bother trying to fix the javascript. Hold the Presses Hold the Presses tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-24:%2Fhold_the_presses.html 2007-07-24T17:56:25-04:00 2012-03-08T16:49:54-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/267-stop-the-presses.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/stopthepress.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The Clinton Health Plan was dead on arrival, but the media didn't know that.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.7605 -73.9737 USA Today Building 40.7605 -73.9737 40.7605 -73.9737 Fellow Travelers Fellow Travelers tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-19:%2Ffellow_travellers.html 2007-11-19T11:17:44-05:00 2012-03-08T16:49:50-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/abruno.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />Philadelphia high society and the Philadelphia underworld share some common beliefs.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9232 -75.1617 Angelo Bruno Home 39.9232 -75.1617 39.9232 -75.1617 Investing, Philadelphia Style Investing, Philadelphia Style tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-06:%2Finvesting_philadelphia_style.php 2006-07-06T15:51:16-04:00 2012-03-08T16:49:40-05:00 Land ownership once was the only practical form of savings, until banking matured in the mid-19th century. Philadelphia took an early lead in what is now called investment and still defines a certain style of it. Shakspere Society October 24, 2001 Shakspere Society October 24, 2001 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-26:%2Fshakspere_society_october_24.html 2008-01-26T17:09:22-05:00 2012-03-08T16:45:29-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />America's oldest Shakspere Society (Shakespeare Society) discusses the second act of Antony and Cleopatra. 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 Jersey Jersey tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzjersey_.html 2006-06-26T15:38:58-04:00 2012-03-08T16:45:12-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/nj-counties.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Understanding New Jersey means understanding its unusual geography, and its Quaker origin as one of the three colonies owned by William Penn.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.3053 -74.4527 New Jersey NJ 40.3053 -74.4527 40.3053 -74.4527 Healthcare Reform: Looking Ahead (1) Healthcare Reform: Looking Ahead (1) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-05:%2Fhealthcare_reform_looking_ahead.html 2007-08-05T20:00:17-04:00 2012-03-08T16:45:03-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/babyboomers.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="baby boomers" />It's safe to predict two upheavals in the cost of health care which will overwhelm all the old assumptions. The first upheaval comes in 2012 when the boomers retire.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Shad Shad tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzshad_.html 2006-06-26T13:54:57-04:00 2012-03-08T16:44:59-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/amer_shad.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The rivers once teemed with these big fish every springtime. They are making a hesitant comeback. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.3664 -74.9477 Lewis Island, NJ 40.3664 -74.9477 40.3664 -74.9477 Valentine Tours, Right Here in River City Valentine Tours, Right Here in River City tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-21:%2Fvalentine_tours_right_here.html 2007-06-21T19:00:24-04:00 2012-03-08T16:44:52-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Philazoopening.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="Zoo Opening" />The First Zoo in America specializes in breeding animals that are hard to breed in captivity. The Women's Committee decided to bring this delicate topic out into the light. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9746 -75.1956 The Phialdelphia Zoo 39.9746 -75.1956 39.9746 -75.1956 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY March 5, 2003 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY March 5, 2003 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-31:%2Fshakspere_society_march_5.html 2008-01-31T20:45:57-05:00 2012-03-08T16:44:50-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />America's oldest Shakespeare society continues with the <i>Taming of the Shrew</i> 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA OCTOBER 8, 2003 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA OCTOBER 8, 2003 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-06:%2Fshakspere_society_of_philadelphia.html 2008-03-06T18:53:50-05:00 2012-03-08T16:44:45-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />MEETING OF THE SHAKSPERE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA AT THE FRANKLIN INN CLUB ON OCTOBER 8, 2003 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 Be Careful What You Wish For Be Careful What You Wish For tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-26:%2Fbe_careful_what_you.html 2007-07-26T16:47:09-04:00 2012-03-08T16:44:43-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/HMOp2.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/pulsehmo.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />After the Clinton Health Plan of 1993 fizzled, major employers pushed their employees into managed care. The negative reaction to HMOs was as unambiguous as it was unexpected -- we hate it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9537 -75.1719 Keystone Health Plan East HMO 39.9537 -75.1719 39.9537 -75.1719 Cost of K-12 Education Cost of K-12 Education tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-11:%2Fcost_of_k12_education.html 2010-04-11T23:55:12-04:00 2012-03-08T16:44:40-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/KidsClassroom.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Philadelphia Inquirer just published the average school expenditures, per district, in our region of 166 districts within 8 counties. The City of Philadelphia comes in dead last, at $11,460 per pupil.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Litchfield to Wilkes Barre, Today Litchfield to Wilkes Barre, Today tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-04:%2Flitchfield_to_wilkes_barre.html 2010-11-04T14:38:29-04:00 2012-03-08T16:44:39-05:00 .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Philadelphia in '76 Philadelphia in '76 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzphiladelphia_in_76.html 2006-06-26T14:06:06-04:00 2012-03-08T16:44:37-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/spirit%20of%2076.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />There were about 30,000 residents, the size of a small town, but it was the second largest city in the English-speaking world. Aside from wagons, there were thirty wheeled vehicles.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Using the Delaware River as a Weapon Using the Delaware River as a Weapon tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-20:%2Fusing_the_delaware_river.html 2010-09-20T17:48:50-04:00 2012-03-08T16:44:36-05:00 Washington invented modern guerrila warfare. One important element was to have boats when the enemy was boatless. At the Battle of Trenton, he crossed and recrossed the Delaware, leaving his enemy stranded on the other side.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Philadelphia City Controller Philadelphia City Controller tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-06:%2Fphiladelphia_city_controller.html 2009-03-06T17:10:19-05:00 2012-03-08T16:44:27-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/alan-butkovitz2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A City Controller is expected to criticize the city's administration. Alan Butkovitz does his duty. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9489 -75.1663 Philadelphia City Controller 39.9489 -75.1663 39.9489 -75.1663 Rosencrantz and Gildenstern (4) Rosencrantz and Gildenstern (4) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Frosencrantz_and_gildenstern_4.html 2006-06-21T13:43:16-04:00 2012-03-08T16:44:24-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/princehamlet.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="theater" />After an idea "grows legs and runs around", it no longer belongs to its originator <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Gallatin, Part 1 Gallatin, Part 1 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-03:%2Fgallatin_part_1.html 2007-12-03T18:53:46-05:00 2012-03-08T16:44:19-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/gallatin_portrait.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/gallatin_portrait.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />We present here the outline of a five act play in Shakespearian style about the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.1676 -80.2463 Whiskey Rebellion (1794) 40.1676 -80.2463 40.1676 -80.2463 Preppies of the Future? Preppies of the Future? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fpreppies_of_the_future.html 2006-06-22T12:22:27-04:00 2012-03-08T16:44:11-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/eton.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/eton.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Elite boarding schools may not perceive their proper role, which is a useful one. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9657 -75.1811 The Philadelphia Museum of Art 39.9657 -75.1811 39.9657 -75.1811 Commercial Credit Sinks Globalization Commercial Credit Sinks Globalization tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-28:%2Fcommercial_credit_sinks_globalization.html 2009-09-28T19:46:07-04:00 2012-03-08T16:44:07-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/lehman-brothers%20(1).jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The financial world woke up to the housing bubble in August, 2007. As a consequence, global trade came to a sudden halt a year later. How's that, again?.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Astral Astral tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzastral_.html 2006-06-26T14:13:51-04:00 2012-03-08T16:44:03-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/VeraWilson2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Vera Wilson" />Vera Wilson decided that young musicians need help to become famous, so she set up an organization to create musical stars. It seems to work, and it adds sparkle to Philadelphia.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9486 -75.1648 Astral Artistic Services 39.9486 -75.1648 39.9486 -75.1648 Three Revolutions at Once, Maybe Four Three Revolutions at Once, Maybe Four tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-19:%2Fthree_revolutions_at_once.html 2010-04-19T21:15:17-04:00 2012-03-08T16:43:59-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/FifeDrum.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Asking the cause of the American Revolutionary War may be a little simplistic; civil wars pop up, all over the place, all the time. The more important question to ask, is why did this American Revolution have such a dramatic effect on the whole world? <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Warnings of Impending Trouble for the PRR Warnings of Impending Trouble for the PRR tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-04:%2Fwarnings_of_impending_trouble.html 2010-11-04T16:01:44-04:00 2012-03-08T16:43:58-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/prrsmoke.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />In retrospect, railroads were in danger from overcapacity as early as 1880. Their sluggish recovery from the 1929 financial crash was another warning of underlying weakness. Wartime profits and postwar boom concealed huge deferred maintenance costs built up during the great depression and World War II.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9542 -75.1668 Suburban Station 39.9542 -75.1668 39.9542 -75.1668 B. Franklin, Scientist B. Franklin, Scientist tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-31:%2Fb_franklin_scientist.html 2009-05-31T16:41:38-04:00 2012-03-08T16:43:53-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/franklinphilosopher2.jpg" alt="{franklin philosopher scientist}" class="tn-l-w50" /> Kites are children's toys; going out in a thunderstorm is deliciously dangerous. We have thus been taught to regard Franklin's science as a lark, when in fact he largely discovered the nature of electricity and was regarded as one of the greatest scientists of his age. Gunk, 27 Million Tons of It Gunk, 27 Million Tons of It tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fz27_million_tons_of.html 2006-06-26T14:40:57-04:00 2012-03-08T16:43:52-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/henryhudson.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/henryhudson.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Philadelphia wants to dredge the Delaware to help our port, but New Jersey resists because of political pressure from New York harbor, which dominates the New Jersey Legislature.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9074 -75.1388 Packer Avenue Marine Terminal 39.9074 -75.1388 39.9074 -75.1388 Perfect, the Enemy of Good Perfect, the Enemy of Good tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-20:%2Fperfect_the_enemy_of.html 2007-08-20T20:05:40-04:00 2012-03-08T16:43:47-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/health-insurance.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Health insurance to cover absolutely everyone is admirable, but may also be an unachievable digression from less glamorous but achievable reforms. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Second Mortgages Want to Be First Second Mortgages Want to Be First tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-04:%2Fsecond_mortgages_want_to.html 2009-05-04T18:29:52-04:00 2012-03-08T16:43:43-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/chrysler.logo.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt=""/>Banks would not normally take sides between first and second mortgages. However, securitization took the first mortgages away from big banks, so they now have an incentive to seek political favor for second mortgages.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 42.4083 -82.9161 CHRYSLER 42.4083 -82.9161 42.4083 -82.9161 Federal Reserve Changes Its Business Model Federal Reserve Changes Its Business Model tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-03:%2Ffederal_reserve_changes_its.html 2008-06-03T15:53:59-04:00 2012-03-08T16:43:41-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/FederalReservePA2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />On March 16, 2008, the Federal Reserve stepped in to stop an impending bank panic. It also changed the rules of the game, rather significantly.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9504 -75.1489 The Federal Reserve Bank Of Philadelphia 39.9504 -75.1489 39.9504 -75.1489 Last Will of Benjamin Franklin Last Will of Benjamin Franklin tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-19:%2Flast_will_of_benjamin.html 2010-07-19T17:35:12-04:00 2012-03-08T16:43:41-05:00 The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia has reproduced Dr. Franklin's last will and testament on the Internet. It is copied here for reader convenience.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Shakspere's Last Will and Testament Shakspere's Last Will and Testament tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-01:%2Fshaksperes_last_will_and.html 2008-02-01T18:45:34-05:00 2012-03-08T16:43:40-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Here is William Shakespeare's last will, with the spelling Shakspere. Whether that was the spelling preferred by William, or by his lawyer Francis Collins, is debatable. 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 Shakspere Society April 2,2003 Shakspere Society April 2,2003 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-31:%2Fshakspere_society_april_22003.html 2008-01-31T21:03:17-05:00 2012-03-08T16:43:39-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />America's oldest Shakespeare society completes the <i>Taming of the Shrew</i> 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 The Proprietor, Himself The Proprietor, Himself tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-01-08:%2Fthe_proprietor_himself.html 2010-01-08T20:34:44-05:00 2012-03-08T16:43:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/williampennarmour.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />William Penn was the central force in the establishment of a religion, Quakerism, certain central features of the legal system, three colonies of America, and many of the central concepts of Constitutional Law. He leaves us over three thousand documents, but it remains very hard to form a picture of what he was like.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Shakspere Society November 7, 2001 Shakspere Society November 7, 2001 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-26:%2Fshakspere_society_november_7.html 2008-01-26T16:56:46-05:00 2012-03-08T16:43:32-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />America's oldest Shakspere Society (Shakespeare Society) discusses the third Act of Antony and Cleopatra. 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 Taking Risks Demands Its Price Taking Risks Demands Its Price tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-21:%2Ftaking_risks_demands_its.html 2008-12-21T23:48:19-05:00 2012-03-08T16:43:28-05:00 For a few days in August 2007, no one knew why financial markets were suddenly in a jumble. After a week it became clear, risk spreads had been too narrow and were reverting to normal. It would be painful. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Our Federal Reserve: Okayed (3) Our Federal Reserve: Okayed (3) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzour_federal_reserve_okayed.html 2006-06-23T11:23:01-04:00 2012-03-08T16:43:18-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/8%20Martin%20Van%20Buren14x18.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/van.jpg" />Martin van Buren of Old Kinderhook invented a lot of what<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 42.3952 -73.6984 Kinderhook, NY 42.3952 -73.6984 42.3952 -73.6984 Five Macroeconomic Myths Five Macroeconomic Myths tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-21:%2Ffive_macroeconomic_myths.html 2006-12-21T17:44:41-05:00 2012-03-08T16:43:12-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/W.P.%20Carey%20School.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The <i>Wall Street Journal</i> 12/11/2006<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Controlling the Currency Controlling the Currency tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-06-21:%2Fcontrolling_the_currency.php 2011-06-21T11:02:45-04:00 2012-03-08T16:23:46-05:00 Robert Morris confronted an enduring theme of American politics in 1779: how can citizens without political power protect their assets from government confiscation?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Notable and Quotable Notable and Quotable tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-03:%2Fnotable_and_quotable.php 2010-11-03T15:45:01-04:00 2012-03-08T15:49:34-05:00 From President James Madison's veto message on the Internal Improvements Bill (March 3, 1817):<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Nature Preservation Nature Preservation tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fnature_preservation.html 1999-07-08T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-08T15:01:11-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Beer%20cub100.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Philadelphia shares the nation's confusion about what to do about animals, when people need the real estate for their own purposes.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8882 -75.3109 Wildlife Preservation Trust International 39.8882 -75.3109 39.8882 -75.3109 Rugby in Our Midst Rugby in Our Midst tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-18:%2Frugby_in_our_midst.html 2007-04-18T14:35:23-04:00 2012-03-08T15:00:14-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cricket.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Englishmen play cricket and rugby. Americans play baseball and football. The rest of the world plays soccer, and calls it football. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.95 -75.19 Franklin Field Philadelphia PA 39.95 -75.19 39.95 -75.19 Charles Peterson and Amity Buttons Charles Peterson and Amity Buttons tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzcharles_peterson_and_amity.html 2006-06-23T16:01:40-04:00 2012-03-08T15:00:06-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/charlespeterson.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Charles Peterson" />Most of our really historic buildings have an ivory button nailed to the newell post, and there is only word of mouth to explain why. America's most famous preservation architect tried very hard to document some proof but couldn't..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9445 -75.1476 Charles Peterson House 39.9445 -75.1476 39.9445 -75.1476 Philosophy Means Science in Philadelphia Philosophy Means Science in Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-07:%2Fphilosophy_means_science_in.html 2008-11-07T19:43:03-05:00 2012-03-08T14:22:25-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/MadameHelvetius.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />At least until he met Madame Helvetius, Benjamin Franklin displayed little interest in moral philosophy. His interest was in science, which was called natural philosophy in the Eighteenth Century. The American Philosophical Society is America's oldest and most prestigious society of scientific scholars. If investing is a science, the APS is good at that, too. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9486 -75.1494 The American Philosphical Society 39.9486 -75.1494 39.9486 -75.1494 Killer Instinct Killer Instinct tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-16:%2Fkiller_instinct.html 2010-07-16T17:00:46-04:00 2012-03-08T14:22:24-05:00 A former Marine and carrier pilot reflects <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/killjap.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />on the non-boastful risk takers who drive themselves toward success, but not for riches, promotions, or power. Many other nations seem to exclude these people, and while many women go wild over them, feminists want to civilize them, at our peril.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Supra Complex Heating Systems Supra Complex Heating Systems tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-05:%2Fsupra_complex_heating_systems.html 2010-04-05T17:44:52-04:00 2012-03-08T14:21:53-05:00 Because of international events and recent discoveries in shale gas extraction, home gas heat is cheaper than burning oil; that may change. Instead of replacing systems, just add a new one of the other design. By using two thermostats, switch from one to the other at will. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8909 -75.0352 Stuart I. Harris House 39.8909 -75.0352 39.8909 -75.0352 Reviving Schuylkill: Eight Miles From the Dam to Ft. Mifflin Reviving Schuylkill: Eight Miles From the Dam to Ft. Mifflin tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-04:%2Freviving_the_schuylkill_from.html 2011-03-04T18:04:08-05:00 2012-03-08T14:21:50-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PainePark_FP2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Cleaning up eight miles of banks of the Schuylkill from Fairmount Dam to Fort Mifflin, is Philadelphia's share of the Obama Stimulus Package. It will take a decade to know whether it was worth it, but as the program begins, it stirs a lot of excitement. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Powel House, Huzzah! Powel House, Huzzah! tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-06:%2Fpowel_house_huzzah.html 2010-12-06T15:14:59-05:00 2012-03-08T14:21:43-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/powelldoor.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Front door of Powel House" />On 3rd Street in Philadelphia's Society Hill, stands the finest surviving Georgian House of what Washington and Madison called the Republican Court. A great many traditions of American high society were formed in the second-floor dining room of this house.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9458 -75.1467 The Powel House 39.9458 -75.1467 39.9458 -75.1467 Fort Washington, PA Fort Washington, PA tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-21:%2Ffort_washington_pa.html 2011-03-21T18:32:26-04:00 2012-03-08T14:21:43-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Fort%20Washington%20Trip.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Fort Washington PA was never much of a fort, and nothing of it remains to be seen. Rather, it was mostly a large campground north of Philadelphia between the Battle of Brandywine and the Battle of Germantown. An interesting visit, nonetheless. A side-visit to Hope Mansion would add some local color.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> La Fayette, We Are Here La Fayette, We Are Here tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fla_fayette_we_are.html 2006-06-19T20:34:27-04:00 2012-03-08T14:21:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/ap21.19.R.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />LaFayette's first experience in charge of troops very nearly ended in his capture.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0879 -75.263 Barren Hill 40.0879 -75.263 40.0879 -75.263 Spreading the City Out to Its Edges Spreading the City Out to Its Edges tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fspreading_the_city_out.html 2006-06-21T12:52:07-04:00 2012-03-08T14:21:39-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Elfreth's%20Alley.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The early city of Philadelphia was too tightly compressed and thus generated slums. By contrast, areas today become slums by being abandoned. Is there a middle way between these extremes that doesn't produce slums?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Jews in Colonial Philadelphia The Jews in Colonial Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-29:%2Fthe_jews_in_colonial.html 2006-10-29T16:17:37-05:00 2012-03-08T14:21:35-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/haymsalomon2.jpg" alt="{haym salomon}" class="tn-l-w50" /> Sephardic Jews came to Philadelphia quite early as part of New Amsterdam, with a second influx when the British occupied New York. They seem to have played an important role in financing the Revolution. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Germantown Nurses the Yellow Fever, 1793 Germantown Nurses the Yellow Fever, 1793 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2F1793_germantown.html 1997-06-12T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-08T14:21:26-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/1787.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/1787.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Refugees from Haiti slave revolts brought Yellow Fever to south Philadelphia.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0432 -75.1808 Borough of Germantown 40.0432 -75.1808 40.0432 -75.1808 Life On The River (3) Life On The River (3) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Flife_on_the_river_3.html 1990-11-01T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-08T14:21:23-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/DartMouthCastle.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/DartMouthCastle.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Until just a few decades ago, Philadelphia life was life along the river, with the gentry building houses upriver from the port. They were surrounded by abundant fishing, hunting, and all the sports of horsemanship. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9276 -75.135 Delaware River, PA 39.9276 -75.135 39.9276 -75.135 Void for Vagueness Void for Vagueness tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-02:%2Fvoid_for_vagueness.html 2010-07-02T17:02:39-04:00 2012-03-08T14:21:23-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/quetionmark.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Ignorance of the law is no excuse, but what about a law that is deliberately vague? <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.89 -77.009 U.S. Congress Capital Building 38.89 -77.009 38.89 -77.009 The Inky The Inky tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-19:%2Fthe_inky.html 2007-09-19T12:01:02-04:00 2012-03-08T14:21:22-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Brian%20P.%20Tierney.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Philadelphia Inquirer has a new, local, management. We wish it well. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9598 -75.1623 Philaelphia Inquirer 39.9598 -75.1623 39.9598 -75.1623 Franklin Bets His Wad on General Braddock Franklin Bets His Wad on General Braddock tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ffranklin_bets_his_wad.html 2004-08-17T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-08T14:21:20-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/edward-braddock.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Braddock came to rescue Fort Duquesne with soldiers but no horses or wagons, and the pacifist Quaker government couldn't or wouldn't raise money. So Franklin the loyal British subject, gave his personal pledge to farmers for their wagons, and would have been a pauper if the British government hadn't bailed him out.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.4411 -80.0109 Fort Duquesne Pittsburgh, PA 40.4411 -80.0109 40.4411 -80.0109 Times Penn Spent in Delco: by Thomas R. Smith, Times Penn Spent in Delco: by Thomas R. Smith, tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-17:%2Ftimes_penn_spent_in.html 2011-01-17T17:00:17-05:00 2012-03-08T14:21:05-05:00 Impersonations of William Penn by Thomas R. Smith focus here on early days in Delaware County, formerly Chester County. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Lambertville and Lewis Island Lambertville and Lewis Island tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Flewes_lewis_island_and.html 2006-06-20T11:26:06-04:00 2012-03-08T14:17:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/atlanticshorerailroad.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Atlantic Shore Railroad" />As Philadelphia and New York City gradually expand until they meet, they could meet at Lambertville.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.3664 -74.9477 Lewis Island, NJ 40.3664 -74.9477 40.3664 -74.9477 Mauch Chunk, Jim Thorpe, and All That Mauch Chunk, Jim Thorpe, and All That tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-03:%2Fmauch_chunk_jim_thorpe.html 2010-08-03T20:05:04-04:00 2012-03-08T14:17:15-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/jimthorpe.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Pennsylvania's Switzerland was founded on the anthracite business and died when it did. The Jim Thorpe business is an embarrassment, but a sign of revival.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.8628 -75.738 Old Mauch Chunk Train 40.8628 -75.738 40.8628 -75.738 Railroading Haddonfield Railroading Haddonfield tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzrailroading_haddonfield.html 2006-06-23T17:27:50-04:00 2012-03-08T14:17:10-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PRSL_on_US_map_cropped-746287.png" class="tn-l-w50" alt="US map" />Steam engines puffed through the center of Haddonfield, not so long ago. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8974 -75.0368 Patco Haddonfield NJ 39.8974 -75.0368 39.8974 -75.0368 Health Expenditures as a percent of GDP Health Expenditures as a percent of GDP tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-01:%2Fhealth_expenditures_as_of.html 2008-02-01T19:56:24-05:00 2012-03-08T14:17:06-05:00 The US leads the world in health expenditures as a percent of GDP and the number is growing. Is this a meaningful statement?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Germantown Avenue, One End to the Other Germantown Avenue, One End to the Other tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-02:%2Fgermantown_avenue_one_end.html 2008-01-02T16:57:28-05:00 2012-03-08T14:17:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Germantownstsign.JPG" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />An old Indian trail cuts diagonally across Penn's street grid, from the Delaware River, to Chestnut Hill, and beyond. Lots of history, there.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> New Jersey Ponders a Rising Sea Level New Jersey Ponders a Rising Sea Level tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-09-16:%2Fnew_jersey_ponders_a.html 2008-09-16T20:35:43-04:00 2012-03-08T14:16:37-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/beachhousestilts.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />When discussion turns to global warming, here are a few sound bites for the conversation.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> William Allen, Tory William Allen, Tory tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-16:%2Fwilliam_allen_tory.html 2006-10-16T20:15:38-04:00 2012-03-08T14:16:14-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/WilliamAllen.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />History is written by the victors, so the rich Tory William Allen is largely forgotten. But he was Chief Justice, probably the richest man in the colony, the son in law of Andrew Hamilton and the father in law of John Penn, the Proprietor and Governor. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.308 -72.9268 Yale University 41.308 -72.9268 41.308 -72.9268 Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-12:%2Fhealth_maintenence_organizations_hmo.html 2007-07-12T17:21:52-04:00 2012-03-08T14:16:13-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hmo.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Paul Ellwood gets credit for inventing the term HMO, and for selling a version of it to large employers, as well as the Clinton Administration. It's been a bumpy ride.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9536 -75.1712 Blue Cross and Blue Shield 39.9536 -75.1712 39.9536 -75.1712 Serpentine Rock From Serpentine Barrens Serpentine Rock From Serpentine Barrens tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-29:%2Fserpentine_rock_from_serpentine.html 2010-06-29T14:08:04-04:00 2012-03-08T13:27:16-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/serpentine%20rock.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Nice green serpentine stone was a popular building material until its disadvantages were recognized.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.7414 -76.0428 Nottingham County Park 39.7414 -76.0428 39.7414 -76.0428 Tree Huggers: Delaware Valley College Tree Huggers: Delaware Valley College tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-07:%2Ftree_huggers_delaware_valley.html 2007-09-07T16:08:43-04:00 2012-03-08T13:27:02-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Doylestowns.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Doylestwown" />Delaware Valley College is a curious mixture of farm school with scientific aspirations and a Jewish history, located in Doylestown, where New York City and Philadelphia meet, <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.2987 -75.1586 Delaware Valley College 40.2987 -75.1586 40.2987 -75.1586 An Under-used Veterans Benefit An Under-used Veterans Benefit tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-20:%2Fan_underused_veterans_benefit.html 2009-03-20T18:57:28-04:00 2012-03-08T13:27:02-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Pilespaper.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A benefit which most any veteran can take advantage of seems to be little-known and consequently not many vets are taking advantage of it. It's called Aid and Attendance and can help defray the expenses of assisted living.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9498 -75.2016 Philadelphia VA Medical Center 39.9498 -75.2016 39.9498 -75.2016 Rare Causes of High Blood Pressure Rare Causes of High Blood Pressure tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-02-25:%2Frare_causes_of_high.html 2011-02-25T20:30:38-05:00 2012-03-08T13:26:53-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/pheochromocytoma.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The treatment of hypertension is one of the great medical triumphs of the 20th Century. But we still don't know what causes it. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Central Bankers Refine the Art of Diplomacy Central Bankers Refine the Art of Diplomacy tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-16:%2Fcentral_bankers_refine_the.html 2007-04-16T17:02:51-04:00 2012-03-08T13:26:53-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/GIC2.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/GIC2.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Currencies once failed because big issues like the gold standard hadn't been addressed by cabinet ministers. Now they are likely to fail because central bankers can't keep up with technical events.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9504 -75.1489 Feeral Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 39.9504 -75.1489 39.9504 -75.1489 Franklin Institute: Hawks and Galileo Franklin Institute: Hawks and Galileo tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-16:%2Ffranklin_institute_hawks_and.html 2009-05-16T18:00:05-04:00 2012-03-08T13:26:53-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hawkshot9.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Hawks" />From May to Labor Day, 2009, a spectacular exhibit of the original instruments of Galileo is on loan from the Medici Museum in Florence. Hawks are nesting on the window sill, which you can watch from this page.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9584 -75.1736 The Franklin Institute 39.9584 -75.1736 39.9584 -75.1736 Growing Legs Growing Legs tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fgrowing_legs.html 2006-06-21T13:49:45-04:00 2012-03-08T13:26:48-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/medical%20care.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="med cartoon" />When an entrenched institution, like health insuance, contains basic design flaws, it finds it has always had strange allies quietly defending its flaws. The mark of a really good reform is that it falls so neatly into place in a lot of unexpected ways.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Little Town of Bethlehem Little Town of Bethlehem tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-25:%2Flittle_town_of_bethlehem.html 2009-06-25T11:48:15-04:00 2012-03-08T13:26:45-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/phillipsbrooks.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem was composed by Phillips Brooks, then rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Rittenhouse Square.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9503 -75.1733 The Church of the Holy Trinity Rittenhouse Square 215-567-1267 39.9503 -75.1733 39.9503 -75.1733 What is an NRSRO? What is an NRSRO? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-16:%2Fwhat_is_an_nrsno.html 2008-02-16T14:43:24-05:00 2012-03-08T13:26:38-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/atombomb.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />For a significant time, the only thing most people knew about credit derivatives was that some were rated AAA, so they must be safe. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.8989 -77.0124 Securities and Exchange Commission 38.8989 -77.0124 38.8989 -77.0124 The Phillies: Disapointment through Mismanagement The Phillies: Disapointment through Mismanagement tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-08-07:%2Fprofessional_sports.html 2008-08-07T10:55:59-04:00 2012-03-08T13:26:38-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Phillies-Logo.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Despite Hall-of-Famers, 2 World Series and Six national Pennants, the Phillies remains the team with the most losses of any team in Major League Sport. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9057 -75.1665 Citizens Bank Park 39.9057 -75.1665 39.9057 -75.1665 Who Won the American Revolution? Who Won the American Revolution? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-07:%2Fwho_won_the_american.html 2011-07-07T16:52:29-04:00 2012-03-08T13:26:33-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/american_revolutionary_war.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />In one sense, King George III of England provoked the American Revolution, and he also lost the war. Seen from the American side, the three towering heros were George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Robert Morris. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Foreground: Parliament Irks the Colonial Merchants Foreground: Parliament Irks the Colonial Merchants tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-23:%2Fearly_signs.html 2011-03-23T16:58:40-04:00 2012-03-08T13:26:31-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/charlestownshend.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The Townshend Acts, upsetting trade and hated by Americans, bordered on economic warfare. The British tested tea, stamps and manufactures, but the most effective economic pressure points proved to be paper money and gunpowder. The Americans reacted to all this as second-class citizenship.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Mr. Obama Attacks Unemployment Mr. Obama Attacks Unemployment tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-09-07:%2Fmr_obama_attacks_unemployment.html 2011-09-07T22:12:34-04:00 2012-03-08T13:26:27-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/barack.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The 2012 election campaign has not yet selected its Republican candidate, but Mr. Obama has been officially running for re- election for several months. His big issue is unemployment, and he has staged a dramatic moment for three days after Labor Day, 2011. Sixteen more months of campaigning await us. American Philosophical Society American Philosophical Society tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-24:%2Famerican_philo_society.html 2004-05-26T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-08T13:26:26-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/charles_wilson_peale.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Charles Wilson Peale started his museum of curiosities here, and then moved it to the second floor of Independence Hall, where he painted the famous portrait of himself holding up the curtain. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9485 -75.1494 (Am.) Philosophical Hall 39.9485 -75.1494 39.9485 -75.1494 A Quaker Carillon A Quaker Carillon tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-10:%2Fa_quaker_carillon.html 2009-03-10T19:24:29-04:00 2012-03-08T13:26:26-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/carillon_bells_large.jpg" alt="carillon bells" class="tn-l-w50" />.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Mussolini in South Philadelphia Mussolini in South Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-01-03:%2Fmousellini_in_south_philadelphia.html 2007-01-03T00:10:22-05:00 2012-03-08T13:26:22-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Mussolini.jpg" alt="Mussolini" class="tn-l-w50" />The American public had scarcely heard of Benito Mussolini before World War II, but Italian immigrants in South Philadelphia were agitated by news from the old country.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 37.4785 14.0414 Sicilia, Montedoro Caltanissetta, Italy 37.4785 14.0414 37.4785 14.0414 Google Earth Tour of Franklin Locations Google Earth Tour of Franklin Locations tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-31:%2Fgoogle_earth_tour_of.html 2007-10-31T12:29:21-04:00 2012-03-08T13:26:17-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/googleearth.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Every place B. Franklin is known to have visited is included in this tour by Bob Florig.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9458 -75.1551 Philadelphia, Franklin's adopted home 39.9458 -75.1551 39.9458 -75.1551 For the Good of the Order For the Good of the Order tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-04:%2Ffor_the_good_of.html 2009-01-04T15:54:13-05:00 2012-03-08T13:26:15-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Franklin%20Inn.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Investing for Children Investing for Children tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-30:%2Finvesting_for_children.html 2006-12-30T21:39:12-05:00 2012-03-08T13:26:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/piggy-bank-1.jpg" class="tn-l-w50 alt="" />More often than not, children spend money foolishly; so our laws restrain them. However, the same laws also hamper the legitimate accumulation of savings for their education.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Immigration Immigration tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-08:%2Fimmigration_.html 2007-06-08T19:50:21-04:00 2012-03-08T13:25:45-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/DOLLARSIGN.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />The United States government makes several trillion dollars profit on immigration, through a jaw-cracker called seigniorage. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.7367 -73.9972 U.S. Immigration Support 40.7367 -73.9972 40.7367 -73.9972 New Castle, Delaware New Castle, Delaware tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-05-18:%2Fnew_castle_delaware.html 1993-06-03T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-08T12:53:54-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/city_welcome.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A short history of a historically significant town, now off the beaten path.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.6598 -75.564 New Castle, Delaware 39.6598 -75.564 39.6598 -75.564 Drexel and Morgan, Investment Bankers Drexel and Morgan, Investment Bankers tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-21:%2Fdrexel_and_morgan_investment.html 2010-10-21T14:29:01-04:00 2012-03-08T12:53:51-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/jpmorgan.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />When America was the wild, wild, West, Anthony Drexel anticipated international developing country funds, by over a century.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.7149 -74.0202 New York, Harbor 40.7149 -74.0202 40.7149 -74.0202 Harvard Men Suggest a Cold Place for Yale Harvard Men Suggest a Cold Place for Yale tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-17:%2Fharvard_men_suggest_a.html 2006-07-17T13:23:34-04:00 2012-03-08T12:53:45-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/GlacialDeposit.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The northeast corner of Pennsylvania was once covered by a glacier.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.3318 -75.0328 Pike 41.3318 -75.0328 41.3318 -75.0328 Pets For all Seasons Pets For all Seasons tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-29:%2Fpets_for_all_seasons.html 2010-03-29T17:27:17-04:00 2012-03-08T12:53:43-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/AR%20VMAS%20Artwork.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Penn's Veterinary School has established a department for the study of pets and pet loving. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9507 -75.1999 University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School 39.9507 -75.1999 39.9507 -75.1999 Tavistock Tavistock tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fztavistock_.html 2006-06-23T17:26:56-04:00 2012-03-08T12:53:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Tavistock.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A town with only four houses shows you what can be done when you really need to play golf.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8738 -75.0215 Tavistock 39.8738 -75.0215 39.8738 -75.0215 Urban Bridges Urban Bridges tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-20:%2Furban_bridges.html 2008-07-20T12:43:23-04:00 2012-03-08T12:53:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/marylaney.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Episcopal Church has found a practical way for its prosperous suburban branches to form partnerships with struggling urban parishes. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0262 -75.1229 St. Gabriel's Multicultural Community Episcopal Church 40.0262 -75.1229 40.0262 -75.1229 Block Captains Block Captains tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fblock_captains.html 1998-10-15T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-08T12:53:28-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/edasner.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/edasner.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />A remarkable group of volunteers look out for their neighbors.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9637 -75.1732 Philadelphia County Medical Society 39.9637 -75.1732 39.9637 -75.1732 Edward Hicks: Peaceable Kingdoms Edward Hicks: Peaceable Kingdoms tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzedward_hicks_peaceable_kingdoms.html 2006-06-23T16:34:13-04:00 2012-03-08T12:53:28-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/edward_hicks-734294.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Edward Hicks: Peaceable Kingdoms" />This uneducated Bucks County farm boy has steadily risen in reputation as a painter of primitive art, just as he and his cousin have become spiritual leaders of non dogmatic religious thought.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.2262 -74.9364 Quaker Meeting, Newtown PA 40.2262 -74.9364 40.2262 -74.9364 John Dickinson, Quaker Hamlet John Dickinson, Quaker Hamlet tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fjohn_dickinson_quaker.html 2004-10-27T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-08T12:53:18-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/j_dickerson.gif" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/j_dickerson.gif}" class="tn-l-w50" />John Dickinson was the most respected lawyer and politician of his time. He had a lot to do with writing the Declaration of Independence, but refused to sign it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9481 -75.1472 Carpenter Hall 39.9481 -75.1472 39.9481 -75.1472 Molly Maguires of Pennsylvania (1) Molly Maguires of Pennsylvania (1) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-15:%2Fmollie_maguires_of_pennsylvania.html 2009-08-15T19:41:03-04:00 2012-03-08T12:53:18-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/marchpottsville.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The main features of the Molly Maguires of Pennsylvania can be found in the Molly Maguires of Ireland, and perhaps far earlier than that. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.6886 -76.1991 Schuylkill County Courthouse 40.6886 -76.1991 40.6886 -76.1991 Swarthmore College Swarthmore College tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fswarthmore_college.html 2006-06-21T12:58:46-04:00 2012-03-08T12:53:16-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Swarthmore%20College.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/swarthmore2.jpg" />Swarthmore is one of the three Quaker undergraduate colleges in the Philadelphia region. It adopted the Oxford/Cambridge tutorial system of teaching, attracting an undue number of children of professors at other colleges.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9053 -75.3542 Swarthmore College 39.9053 -75.3542 39.9053 -75.3542 Trenton's Tomato Pie Cult Trenton's Tomato Pie Cult tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-31:%2Ftrentons_tomato_pie_cult.html 2008-05-31T22:05:20-04:00 2012-03-08T12:53:13-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Tomatopie.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Tomato Pie" />The capital of New Jersey teaches an important lesson about ethnic food. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.2111 -74.7497 De Lorenzo's Tomato Pies(609)695-9534 40.2111 -74.7497 40.2111 -74.7497 Tyler Arboretum Tyler Arboretum tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-23:%2Ftyler_arboretum.html 2011-03-23T15:09:20-04:00 2012-03-08T12:53:13-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Tyler_Arboretum.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />A 650-acre Arboretum next to a 2500-acre state park makes for a lot of nature walks and bird watching, as well as a gazillion azaleas and tree specimens. The only serpentine barren in Delaware County is located there. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Sayre / Athens Sayre / Athens tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-25:%2Fsayreathens_.html 2010-10-25T16:49:27-04:00 2012-03-08T12:53:07-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/sayre3.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Susquehanna running due west, takes an abrupt turn south at Sayre, right on the Pennsylvania/New York border.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.9804 -76.5215 The Gutrie Clinic 40.9804 -76.5215 40.9804 -76.5215 U.S. and E.U. Exchange Experiences (2) U.S. and E.U. Exchange Experiences (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-17:%2Fus_and_eu_exchange.html 2007-04-17T21:09:01-04:00 2012-03-08T12:52:57-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/DOLLARSIGN.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />.....But America can learn about itself from the E.U. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Philadelphia Calendars Philadelphia Calendars tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-27:%2Fphiladelphia_calendars.html 2006-06-27T17:11:05-04:00 2012-03-08T12:52:54-05:00 Here's how to use a computer to be reminded what's going on. Keeping dates straight <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9467 -75.1655 The Kimmel Center 39.9467 -75.1655 39.9467 -75.1655 Margaret of Anjou (1) Margaret of Anjou (1) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fmargaret_anjou_1.html 1995-07-06T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-08T12:52:47-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/m_anjou_coin.gif" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/m_anjou_coin.gif}" class="tn-l-w50" />The Shakespere Society of Philadelphia is constructing a new play about Margaret of Anjou, out of parts of four plays in which William Shakespeare has her appear.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9485 -75.1615 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9485 -75.1615 39.9485 -75.1615 Banks: Fragile and Dangerous Banks: Fragile and Dangerous tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-26:%2Fbank_s_fragile_and.html 2008-07-26T23:26:26-04:00 2012-03-08T12:52:40-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/moneybags051810.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Any business can fail, but when banks fail there can be a panic. Every decade or so, America has a bank panic.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Inscrutable Chinese Inscrutable Chinese tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzinscrutable_chinese.html 2006-06-23T16:00:43-04:00 2012-03-08T12:52:32-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Tibetan.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="tianamen" />American tourists in Tian an men Square never even knew they were present at one of the great revolutionary riots of the century.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9158 116.391 39.9158 116.391 39.9158 116.391 Franklin Declares Independence a Year Early Franklin Declares Independence a Year Early tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-13:%2Ffranklin_declares_independence_a.html 2006-12-13T14:01:09-05:00 2012-03-08T12:52:29-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Bfranklinportait2.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Bfranklinportait2.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Franklin made no secret of his goal of national independence, at least a year before the Continental Congress voted and Thomas Jefferson composed his rather rambling declaration.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.8905 -76.7898 Joseph Priestley House 40.8905 -76.7898 40.8905 -76.7898 Northwest Rittenhouse Square Northwest Rittenhouse Square tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fnorthwest_rittenhouse_sq.html 1997-07-24T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-08T12:05:02-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/JWanamakerhouse.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The fashionable district doesn't need so many mansions, and the Universities can't yet use the space, either. It's uncertain whether the area will become office buildings, or revert to townhouses. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9505 -75.1745 John Wanamaker's Mansion 39.9505 -75.1745 39.9505 -75.1745 Medicare/Health Savings Accounts Legislation Medicare/Health Savings Accounts Legislation tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fmedicare_health_savings_accounts.html 2006-06-22T12:33:53-04:00 2012-03-08T12:04:40-05:00 What Every Voter Needs to Know<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> L. Stokowsi and the Philadelphia Orchestra L. Stokowsi and the Philadelphia Orchestra tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-05:%2Fl_stokowsi_and_the.html 2010-06-05T23:30:17-04:00 2012-03-08T12:04:19-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/stokowski.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="">When a great institution experiences trouble, it can often be traced to a reluctance to change from what was once a winning formula.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9482 -75.1659 The Academy of Music 39.9482 -75.1659 39.9482 -75.1659 Anatomy of an Urban Political Machine Anatomy of an Urban Political Machine tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-28:%2Fanatomy_of_an_urban.html 2011-03-28T19:59:12-04:00 2012-03-08T12:04:17-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bigfam.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />If Philadelphia is typical, here is how urban machine politics works.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Trader's Option Trader's Option tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-10:%2Ftraders_option.html 2008-06-10T22:59:03-04:00 2012-03-08T12:04:11-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/dices.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Federal Reserve intervenes to protect healthy banks which are temporarily short of cash. Protecting unhealthy banks is quite another matter. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Franklin Crown Soap Franklin Crown Soap tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ffranklin_crown.html 1992-09-17T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-08T12:03:59-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/B.Franklin.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="franklin" />The Boston Franklin's were supported by discovering that adding salt to soft soap would harden it into soap bars. Eventually, the secret was leaked and soap bars became commonplace.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 42.3576 -71.0544 Franklin Soap and Home 42.3576 -71.0544 42.3576 -71.0544 Heads Up: Look Ahead Heads Up: Look Ahead tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Flooking_ahead_to_budget.html 2006-06-22T11:56:33-04:00 2012-03-08T12:03:51-05:00 Entitlements must either privatize, or disappear. Those are different things. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Odessa, Delaware Odessa, Delaware tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fodessa_delaware.html 1993-11-04T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-08T12:03:46-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/corbit_sharp_house.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Rodney Sharp fixed up his old home town, and it's an architectural jewel worth visiting. Christmas is the best time.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.4551 -75.658 The Corbit-Sharp House 39.4551 -75.658 39.4551 -75.658 Itch Itch tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-28:%2Fitch_.html 2009-12-28T17:13:59-05:00 2012-03-08T12:03:40-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/aniscrat.gif" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Bad skin is one thing, itchy skin is another.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Floating Three-Column CSS Layout Floating Three-Column CSS Layout tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-07:%2Ffloating_threecolumn_css_layout.html 2006-08-07T13:51:41-04:00 2012-03-08T12:03:28-05:00 A popular web page layout is three columns with a header and footer. This is achieved on this web site with CSS using floating columns. Geckos: Academy of Natural Sciences brings Mini Dinosaurs Geckos: Academy of Natural Sciences brings Mini Dinosaurs tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-26:%2Fgeckos_academy_of_natural.html 2009-07-26T15:18:46-04:00 2012-03-08T12:03:15-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/green-gecko.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Gecko" />Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences introduced the world to dinosaurs, and now introduces us to a miniature version.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9571 -75.1712 Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences 39.9571 -75.1712 39.9571 -75.1712 What's a Derivative? What's a Derivative? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-14:%2Fwhats_a_derivative.html 2008-02-14T17:35:41-05:00 2012-03-08T12:03:06-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/crunch.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Forget about math textbooks. Derivatives are a way of making or losing the money you dare to risk, without tying up a lot of non-working cash in the meantime. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Founding Fish Founding Fish tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_founding_fish.html 2006-06-23T17:15:03-04:00 2012-03-08T12:02:52-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Potomac%20River%20Small.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Potamac" />The story about shad rescuing the starving Continental Army at Valley Forge makes a wonderful story, but there's reason to think it may be fictional.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Georgetown Oyster Eat: Separate but Equal Georgetown Oyster Eat: Separate but Equal tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fgeorgetown_oyster_eat_separate.html 2006-06-20T12:26:21-04:00 2012-03-08T12:02:50-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/oysterknife.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="oyster knife" />The Delaware Bay once teemed with Oysters, and local firehouses were supported by annual oyster festivals. A few places bravely keep up the tradition.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.6901 -75.3858 Georgetown 38.6901 -75.3858 38.6901 -75.3858 Adrift With The Living Constitution Adrift With The Living Constitution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-10:%2Fadrift_with_the_living.html 2011-03-10T19:23:52-05:00 2012-03-08T12:02:40-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/JoeSestak%20(2).jpg" alt="Sentor Joe Setak" class="tn-l-w50" />With apologies to any political tricks left unmentioned.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> How to detect an iPhone and other mobile devices How to detect an iPhone and other mobile devices tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-15:%2Fhow_to_detect_an.html 2009-04-15T06:45:54-04:00 2012-03-08T12:02:22-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/iphone.gif" class="tn-l-w50" alt="{iPhone}" /> iPhones are definitely the wave of the future and websites, blogs, etc. must adapt to retain their audience. Luckily, if a website was developed using CSS, it's a breeze. Mouthpiece of the Mob Mouthpiece of the Mob tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-31:%2Fthe_mouthpiece_of_the.html 2006-12-31T17:33:10-05:00 2012-03-08T12:02:19-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Robert%20F.%20Simone.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Robert%20F.%20Simone.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />What newsmedia called Murder, Inc., was related to an amazing number of homicides. Mostly, the accused were found not guilty. What's about all this?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9471 -75.1543 Robert F. Simone Law Office 39.9471 -75.1543 39.9471 -75.1543 John Head, His Book of Account, 1718-1753 John Head, His Book of Account, 1718-1753 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-09-21:%2Fjohn_head_his_book.html 2008-09-21T00:17:03-04:00 2012-03-08T12:02:07-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/apstrseal.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The equivalent of the rosetta stone for colonial commerce had been sitting on George Vaux's shelf for six generations.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9486 -75.1494 American Philosophical Society 39.9486 -75.1494 39.9486 -75.1494 Revising, Amending, and Skirting The Constitution Revising, Amending, and Skirting The Constitution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-17:%2Frevising_amending_and_skirting.html 2009-06-17T14:53:59-04:00 2012-03-08T08:43:22-05:00 If you don't like what The Constitution says, what can you do about it? <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Ethics of Obamacare Ethics of Obamacare tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-13:%2Fethics_of_obamacare.html 2010-08-13T17:47:54-04:00 2012-03-08T08:43:01-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Arthur%20L.%20Caplan,.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The ethics of healthcare reform concentrate on the ethics of healthcare rationing.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9531 -75.1939 University of Pennsylvania 39.9531 -75.1939 39.9531 -75.1939 Franklin's Public Pledge to Braddock Franklin's Public Pledge to Braddock tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ffranklins_public_pledge.html 2004-02-05T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-08T08:42:28-05:00 The pacifist Quaker legislature was paralyzed with indecision when General Braddock brought troops from England to defend the western frontier, but lacked horses and wagons. Franklin risked debtors prison by personally pledging to repay local farmers whose wagons were soon lost at Fort Duquesne.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.4034 -79.8685 Braddock's Defeat 40.4034 -79.8685 40.4034 -79.8685 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Benjamin Franklin Parkway tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-01:%2Fbenjamin_franklin_parkway.php 2010-05-01T18:23:39-04:00 2012-03-08T08:42:09-05:00 Benjamin Franklin Parkway<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Immigration and Universal Health Insurance Immigration and Universal Health Insurance tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-09:%2Fimmigration_and_universal_health.html 2007-08-09T18:13:16-04:00 2012-03-08T08:42:04-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/immigrationusa.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/immigrationusa.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />How can we give health insurance to illegal immigrants?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 31.7725 -106.43 El Paso TX 31.7725 -106.43 31.7725 -106.43 Selection of Judges Selection of Judges tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fselection_of_judges.html 2006-06-20T12:19:22-04:00 2012-03-08T08:41:36-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/innsofcourtcrest..JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />There is no perfect way to select judges, but the British system of distinguishing barristers from other lawyers has much to recommend it. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 51.519 -0.114118 The Inns Of Court School Of Law 51.519 -0.114118 51.519 -0.114118 Our Federal Reserve (1) Our Federal Reserve (1) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzour_federal_reserve_1.html 2006-06-23T11:27:47-04:00 2012-03-08T08:41:23-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/indusrevol.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />All governments find it easier to print (or coin) money than to raise taxes. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9457 -75.1534 Nicholas Biddle House 39.9457 -75.1534 39.9457 -75.1534 John Bartram's Garden John Bartram's Garden tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fjohn_bartram_s_garden.html 2006-06-21T13:37:50-04:00 2012-03-08T08:12:26-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Bartram.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="john bartram" />Bartram's farm dates back to the earliest days of Philadelphia, and it's still much the same farm, right in the midst of urban urban.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9318 -75.216 Bartram's Garden 39.9318 -75.216 39.9318 -75.216 Fair Mount Fair Mount tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_schuylkill_navy_at.html 2006-06-23T11:29:08-04:00 2012-03-08T08:11:30-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/waterworks.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="TSUGA" />Philadelphia's acropolis is Faire Mount, where the Art Museum marks the entrance to Fairmount Park. Stretching beyond is Boathouse Row and its rowing races. When the azaleas are in bloom, it's the match of any place in the world.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9689 -75.1852 The Schuylkill Navy at Boathouse Row 39.9689 -75.1852 39.9689 -75.1852 Brewerytown Brewerytown tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-17:%2Fbrewerytown_.html 2006-06-17T20:54:40-04:00 2012-03-08T08:08:29-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/beer%20wagon-722808.gif" class="tn-l-w50" alt="beer wagon" />Brewerytown is an unofficial term for the North Philadelphia area which filled with a hundred breweries and ethnic German residents after the Civil War. Prohibition destroyed that industry and created slums. Gentrification is now in progress.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9773 -75.1813 Brewerytown PA. 39.9773 -75.1813 39.9773 -75.1813 Delaware Declares Independence ... From Pennsylvania Delaware Declares Independence ... From Pennsylvania tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzdelaware_declares_independence_from.html 2006-06-23T16:52:12-04:00 2012-03-08T08:08:12-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/delaware.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />To the despair of its school teachers, few Delaware citizens know or care how Delaware split off from Pennsylvania when William Penn owned them both. In fact, he also owned New Jersey.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.1602 -75.5239 Delaware Tourism Office 39.1602 -75.5239 39.1602 -75.5239 Lewis Harlow van Dusen, Jr. (1910-2004) Lewis Harlow van Dusen, Jr. (1910-2004) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzlewis_harlow_van_dusen.html 2006-06-23T15:33:06-04:00 2012-03-08T08:06:57-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/4535_croixdeguerre_ref.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Croix" /> rode together on the Metroliner down to Washington, stayed at a club there, and after the hearing took the train back to Philadelphia.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0031 -75.2267 Saint Asaph Episcopal Church 40.0031 -75.2267 40.0031 -75.2267 Quakers Turn Their Backs on Power Quakers Turn Their Backs on Power tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzquakers_turn_their_backs.html 2006-06-23T15:08:11-04:00 2012-03-08T08:06:28-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/williampenn2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="William Penn" />During the French and Indian War, the Quakers who ruled Pennsylvania were forced to choose between political power and peaceful principles. They withdrew from power. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Highway Beautification Highway Beautification tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzhighway_beautification.html 2006-06-23T15:34:28-04:00 2012-03-08T08:06:00-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Grigorij-Potiomkin.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />When American tourists notice this, they are very smug.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9205 -75.211 Philadelphia Junk Yards 39.9205 -75.211 39.9205 -75.211 Six Ways to Fix Social Security Six Ways to Fix Social Security tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-01-24:%2Fsix_ways_to_fix.html 2007-01-24T17:33:53-05:00 2012-03-08T08:05:28-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/heathcarepython.jpg" alt="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/heathcarepython.jpg alt=" />Baby boomers have dutifully paid 12.4% of income for retirement benefits, all their working lives. Politicians spent it. What can we do now?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> East Park Jingle East Park Jingle tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Feast_park_jingle.html 2006-06-21T13:36:21-04:00 2012-03-08T08:05:14-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/FaireMount.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/FaireMount.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The east side of Fairmount Park is where the grand folks, both Tories and Rebels, had their mansions during the Revolution, and many mansions are still there to be visited.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9618 -75.2592 69th Street Terminal 39.9618 -75.2592 39.9618 -75.2592 Defeat and Disaster: Philadelphia Falls to the Enemy Defeat and Disaster: Philadelphia Falls to the Enemy tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphiladelphia_or_sara_4.html 2004-03-04T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-08T08:05:04-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/HOWE2.GIF" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Howe" />Howe was to take New York (and Philadelphia if there was opportunity) and then go up the Hudson to join an army under Burgoyne, which was coming down from Quebec. Howe, who was related to the King, decided on his own to take Philadelphia and leave Burgoyne to his own devices. The plan was too ambitious, and although he conquered the enemy capital, he lost his war.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8744 -75.5762 Brandy wine Battlefield 39.8744 -75.5762 39.8744 -75.5762 The Proprietorships of William Penn The Proprietorships of William Penn tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fproprietorships_of_penn.html 1993-11-25T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-08T08:05:04-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/william-penn.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" /> William Penn owned Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware; as the proprietor, he was the largest private American landowner, ever. Although the Revolutionary War mostly ended that, one of his proprietorships still owns all unclaimed land in southern New Jersey. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Bergdoll the Rich Draft Dodger Bergdoll the Rich Draft Dodger tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-09:%2Fbergdoll_the_rich_draft.html 2010-05-09T20:34:00-04:00 2012-03-08T08:05:02-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Bergdoll%202.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Now that the Fairmount Section of Philadelphia has had a revival, an astonishingly large mansion emerges into plain sight, inevitably sparking a discussion of its lurid history.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9655 -75.1744 Bergdoll Mansion 39.9655 -75.1744 39.9655 -75.1744 Pennyslvania's Boundary: David Rittenhouse, Hero, Lord Baltimore, Villain Pennyslvania's Boundary: David Rittenhouse, Hero, Lord Baltimore, Villain tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzpennyslvanias_boundary_david_rittenhouse.html 2006-06-26T14:52:42-04:00 2012-03-08T07:56:50-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mason-dixon-line.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="ritten" />Because a local genius invented and perfected surveying instruments, America is one of the few nations in the world with straight-line boundaries.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0295 -75.1897 David Rittenhouse Birth Place 40.0295 -75.1897 40.0295 -75.1897 Urban Transportation Urban Transportation tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-05:%2Furban_transportation.html 2010-03-05T18:08:30-05:00 2012-03-08T07:55:49-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/trolley_horse_2.jpg" Class="tn-l-w50" alt="{Horse-Draw Trolley Car}" />The industrial revolution made cities grow, and thus made mass transit desirable. The flight to the suburbs then made mass transit attractive only to urban politicians. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Malpractice: Blame Insurance Companies? Malpractice: Blame Insurance Companies? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fmalpractice_blame_insurance_companies.html 2006-06-21T15:34:13-04:00 2012-03-08T05:40:07-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/killerbill.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="John Thain" />Insurance design may be a central difficulty in malpractice reform, but insurance companies themselves are not.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Making Money (5) Making Money (5) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fmaking_money_5.html 2006-06-22T12:11:32-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:58-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/lordkeynes.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/lordkeynes.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The business cycle has not been repealed. Other countries are likely to drag us into the next world recession, and we had better be thinking ahead.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzzthe_girl_in_the.html 2006-06-26T14:59:16-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:52-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/girlin%20the%20redvelvetswing.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Statue of Diana" />The original Gibson girl's husband was rich, her boyfriend was famous. But blowing somebody's brains out in public is supposed to be a felony. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9476 -75.1698 Former Thaw Residence 39.9476 -75.1698 39.9476 -75.1698 Secret Service Visits Burlington Bristol Bridge Secret Service Visits Burlington Bristol Bridge tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-20:%2Fsecret_service_visits_burlington.html 2010-09-20T19:50:42-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:49-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/sshq.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />It's surprising what sometimes goes on, around here.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.1444 -74.8695 Burlington Bristol Bridge 40.1444 -74.8695 40.1444 -74.8695 The Whole Town as a Retirement Center The Whole Town as a Retirement Center tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-20:%2Fthe_whole_town_as.html 2009-07-20T18:47:04-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:46-05:00 Why not just stay where you are? <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Directly Reforming Malpractice Insurance Is a Blind Alley Directly Reforming Malpractice Insurance Is a Blind Alley tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fdirectly_reforming_malpractice_insurance.html 2006-06-21T15:13:53-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:42-05:00 Defense lawyers frequently suggest reforms of the law which would make their job easier. Solving defense problems does not necessarily or even commonly solve Society.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Shakspere Society, January 9, 2008 Shakspere Society, January 9, 2008 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-25:%2Fshakespere_january_9_2008.html 2008-01-25T15:19:02-05:00 2012-03-08T05:39:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The oldest Shakspere Society (Shakespeare Society) in America continues to discuss King Lear. 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 Thieves of Baghdad Thieves of Baghdad tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-01:%2Fthieves_of_baghdad.html 2010-04-01T17:56:47-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:38-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/iraq-national-museum.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />American troops recovered most of the antiquities looted from the Baghdad Museum, tracing many of them through the international black market. The museum turns out to have been secretly a private treasury. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 33.3283 44.3854 National Museumof Iraq 33.3283 44.3854 33.3283 44.3854 xxSHAKeSPEaRE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ,12/10/ 2003 xxSHAKeSPEaRE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ,12/10/ 2003 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-06:%2Fxxshakespeare_society_of_philadelphia.html 2008-03-06T19:30:32-05:00 2012-03-08T05:39:37-05:00 xxxxMEETING OF THE SHAKSPERE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA AT THE FRANKLIN INN CLUB, 12/10/ 2003 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 Charles Dickens Doesn't Like Our Nice Penitentiary Charles Dickens Doesn't Like Our Nice Penitentiary tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fcharles_dickens_pen.html 2004-11-16T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-08T05:39:36-05:00 As an author, Dickens was paid by the word. He did go on a bit about Eastern Penitentiary, with its novel Quaker method for rehabilitating prisoners..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9683 -75.1726 Eastern State Penitentiary 39.9683 -75.1726 39.9683 -75.1726 Emails From Iraq (1) Emails From Iraq (1) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-06:%2Femails_from_iraq_1.html 2007-05-06T22:15:28-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:36-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Amman,%20Jordan.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />An American contractor on his arrival in Iraq in 2007 to work for a company with a contract to mentor small businesses owned by Iraqis<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 21.3486 -157.96 Pearl Harbor 21.3486 -157.96 21.3486 -157.96 Replacing Employer-Based Health Insurance Replacing Employer-Based Health Insurance tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-31:%2Freplacing_employerbased_health_insurance.html 2007-08-31T16:53:01-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:36-05:00 Employer-group health insurance will surely decline because so many are dissatisfied with it. That's just griping: a better reason to replace this system is to make way for better approaches -- if you know one. Even with a better system, we had better replace the old one gradually. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 2008 -- A Time to Reflect 2008 -- A Time to Reflect tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-28:%2Fa_time_to_reflect.html 2007-12-28T16:51:31-05:00 2012-03-08T05:39:35-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/fuel%20oil%20price.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Let's hope it's just a bump in the economic road. But worry about the price of oil and the cost of houses. And ponder the collision of banks and investment banks.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Fees for Trial Lawyers, Section 1983 Variety Fees for Trial Lawyers, Section 1983 Variety tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ffees_lawyers.html 2004-09-01T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/End_Eminent_Domain_Abuse2_1854_1_2_1486.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="ABUSE" />Suing your own town is now getting so popular it clogs the courts.<br /><!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Bill Gates Gets a Medal Bill Gates Gets a Medal tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-04:%2Fbill_gates_gets_a.html 2010-05-04T13:34:10-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Bill_Gates.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The 2010 Bower Award was given to William Henry Gates, III by the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. Although he might not agree, his life raises the topic of incentives.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Laundered Money Laundered Money tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzlaundered_money.html 2006-06-26T14:03:24-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:32-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/judge_lewis.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Judge Lewis" /> A real-life story of counterfeiting and the Secret Service -- and a little old lady doing her laundry.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9534 -75.1476 Philadelphian U.S. Mint 39.9534 -75.1476 39.9534 -75.1476 Constitution V: The Unforeseeable Constitution V: The Unforeseeable tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-24:%2Fconstitution_v_the_unforeseeable.html 2009-02-24T13:46:49-05:00 2012-03-08T05:39:31-05:00 The sturdiness of the American Constitution emerges from surveying the way it copes with huge changes which could not possibly have been foreseen..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Tour of Duty in 'Nam Tour of Duty in 'Nam tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-28:%2Ftour_of_duty_in.html 2009-08-28T17:19:48-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:30-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/vietnamwar1.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Veterans of the Vietnam conflict are famously reluctant to talk about their experiences. It's hard to know what that means, and whether it's a good thing or a bad thing. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 11.6026 106.498 Ho Chin Minh Trail 11.6026 106.498 11.6026 106.498 Reforming Health Reform (2009), New Jersey Style Reforming Health Reform (2009), New Jersey Style tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-25:%2Freforming_health_reform.html 2009-08-25T17:57:57-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:28-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Cong.RobertAndrews.img.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />U.S. Representative Robert Andrews (D, NJ) had a night he won't soon forget on August 24, 2009. Facing 3000 constituents angry about Health Reform, he practically had a public stoning. 39.7106 -75.1203 Rowan University 39.7106 -75.1203 39.7106 -75.1203 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY January 8, 2003 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY January 8, 2003 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-31:%2Fshakspere_society_january_8.html 2008-01-31T20:02:38-05:00 2012-03-08T05:39:27-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />America's oldest Shakespeare society comments on <i>Two Gentlemen of Verona</i>. Emails From Iraq (2) Emails From Iraq (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-06:%2Femails_from_iraq_2.html 2007-05-06T22:21:00-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:25-05:00 Iraq and a hard place: email record in 2007 from a young American in Iraq to work as a consultant to a local company<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 33.1718 44.523 Baghdad 33.1718 44.523 33.1718 44.523 Philadelphia in 1658 Philadelphia in 1658 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphiladelphia_1658.html 1991-09-12T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:23-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/annalsphila.gif" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Annalist John Watson reflects on the earliest scenes in Philadelphia. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9527 -75.1635 City Hall 39.9527 -75.1635 39.9527 -75.1635 Financing a Research University Financing a Research University tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ffinancing_research_univ.html 1990-06-21T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:20-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Oxford.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="{oxford}" />Responding to staggering financial temptations, our most prestigious universities are beginning to put both themselves and the rest of the country at unacceptable risk.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.3487 -74.6594 Nassu Hall 40.3487 -74.6594 40.3487 -74.6594 Malpractice Epidemic? Malpractice Epidemic? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fmalpractice_epidemic.html 2006-06-21T15:07:27-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:20-05:00 It's often the best doctors, not the worst, who get sued for malpractice. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Fixing the Financial Mess Fixing the Financial Mess tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-23:%2Ffixing_the_financial_mess.html 2009-06-23T16:20:09-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:20-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/MWolf_full.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Three general approaches to preventing financial disasters seem to be available. They are not exclusive; a combined approach may be required.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> FLY ON THE WAL FLY ON THE WAL tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-08:%2Ffly_on_the_wal.html 2009-02-08T13:59:06-05:00 2012-03-08T05:39:18-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/charlesplatt.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A New York City reporter goes under cover at Wal Mart and comes to the conclusion that Wal Mart is a powerful force for good in America.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Malpractice: Reported Medical Errors Malpractice: Reported Medical Errors tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fmalpractice_reported_medical_errors.html 2006-06-21T15:25:27-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:17-05:00 It<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> While the City Sleeps While the City Sleeps tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fwhile_the_city_sleeps.html 2006-06-22T12:18:02-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:16-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/davedinges.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" aLT="" />Sleep time is in direct competition with commute time. It shapes the city in unrecognized ways.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9501 -75.1935 Unit for Experimental Psychiatry 39.9501 -75.1935 39.9501 -75.1935 Shakspere Society, January 23, 2008 Shakspere Society, January 23, 2008 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-25:%2Fshakspere_society_january_23.html 2008-01-25T16:28:59-05:00 2012-03-08T05:39:16-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />King Lear features the January 23, 2008 meeting of America's oldest Shakspere Society (Shakespeare Society). 52.6343 -1.13623 King Leir of Britain 52.6343 -1.13623 52.6343 -1.13623 Exit, Pursued by a Bear Exit, Pursued by a Bear tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fexit_pursued_by_a.html 2006-06-22T11:36:43-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:13-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/JohnKastor.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/JohnKastor.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Its medical school consumes 75% of Penn's budget, causing a lot of difficulty for the rest of the University.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9499 -75.1942 University of Pennsylvania 39.9499 -75.1942 39.9499 -75.1942 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA NOVEMBER 19, 2003 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA NOVEMBER 19, 2003 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-06:%2Fhakspere_society_of_philadelphia.html 2008-03-06T19:21:13-05:00 2012-03-08T05:39:13-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />MEETING OF THE SHAKSPERE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA AT THE FRANKLIN INN CLUB, NOVEMBER 19, 2003 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 Franklin's Admirers on TV Franklin's Admirers on TV tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-14:%2Ffranklins_admirers_on_tv.html 2008-06-14T19:41:16-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:10-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cspan%20logo.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The author finds himself on television, and wonders whether c-span is a variant of blogging. From that, we go on to question whether Franklin really liked the French.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9559 -75.1677 Friends Select School 39.9559 -75.1677 39.9559 -75.1677 Redesigning Old Age Redesigning Old Age tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-23:%2Fredesigning_old_age.html 2009-06-23T19:54:15-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:09-05:00 The authors of the Bible believed human life was designed to end at age 70. The revised scientific guess is 100. Whatever Was George III Thinking? Whatever Was George III Thinking? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-07:%2Fwhatever_was_george_iii.html 2006-12-07T16:51:35-05:00 2012-03-08T05:39:08-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/GeorgeIII.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="George III" />After the loss of his American colonies, George III wrote some rueful but valuable insights. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> SHAKSPERE SOCIETY March 19, 2003 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY March 19, 2003 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-31:%2Fshakspere_society_march_19.html 2008-01-31T20:39:07-05:00 2012-03-08T05:39:08-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />America's oldest Shakespeare society takes up <i>The Taming of the Shrew</i> 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 Winter of Our Discontent Winter of Our Discontent tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-06:%2Fwinter_of_our_discontent.html 2007-02-06T15:40:45-05:00 2012-03-08T05:39:06-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Lyndon%20Johnson.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Lyndon%20Johnson.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Medicaid was intended for indigent hospital and physician reimbursement, but state governments have diverted the funds to nursing homes. State governors are defensive about it. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Rise and Fall of Life Insurance The Rise and Fall of Life Insurance tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzrise_and_fall_of.html 2006-06-23T16:32:19-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hammurabicode-710904.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Hammura" />Like many things, insurance started here. It's now mostly all gone. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> War Dance War Dance tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fwar_dance.html 2006-06-19T20:49:42-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:04-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/200px-Democratslogo.png" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Donkey" />The Iroquois had politics figured out long before the White Man arrived <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Exercise As Fun Exercise As Fun tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-12:%2Fexercise_as_fun.html 2010-06-12T23:21:59-04:00 2012-03-08T05:39:04-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/lifting_weights.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />You can't improve muscle strength unless you have some muscles, and you can't improve endurance until you have some strength.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Benjamin Franklin: Chronology Benjamin Franklin: Chronology tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-09-03:%2Fbenjamin_franklin_chronology.html 2006-09-03T19:48:50-04:00 2012-03-08T04:08:52-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/benfranklinport.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Franklin retired at age 42, and spent the other half of his life in public service. Only fifteen years of that career was spent in America. His timing was good, however; he was here for the French and Indian War, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitutional Convention.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9496 -75.1466 Benjamin Franklin Museum 39.9496 -75.1466 39.9496 -75.1466 Defining and Naming New Jersey Defining and Naming New Jersey tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-24:%2Fdefining_and_naming_new.html 2008-12-24T18:03:12-05:00 2012-03-08T04:06:54-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/nj-counties.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Rhoads" />A lease from James, Duke of York to John, Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, on June 23, 1664 first gave New Jersey its name and defined its boundaries.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-23:%2Fforeign_affairs.php 2007-12-23T00:28:34-05:00 2012-03-08T04:03:50-05:00 This topic is under construction. Feel free to watch it evolve.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> New Phillies Stadium New Phillies Stadium tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fznew_phillies_stadium.html 2006-06-23T17:03:04-04:00 2012-03-08T04:03:36-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/131317.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/131317.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Philadelphia builds professional sports stadia, like crazy. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9062 -75.1652 Citizens Bank Park 39.9062 -75.1652 39.9062 -75.1652 William Penn Conducts a Witchcraft Trial William Penn Conducts a Witchcraft Trial tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fwilliam_penn_witchcraft.html 2001-08-30T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-08T04:03:02-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PennWitch.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PennWitch.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />A public official has to obey the law, and conform to the traditions of his office, even if it is obvious that he thinks the whole thing is silly and unfair.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Another Toast to S. Weir Mitchell Another Toast to S. Weir Mitchell tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-12:%2Fanother_toast_to_s.html 2009-02-12T15:58:52-05:00 2012-03-08T03:48:16-05:00 <img src="http://philadelphia-reflections.com/images/weirmitchell.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The former President of Swarthmore College tips his hat to the founder of the Franklin Inn Club.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Delaware County, Pennsylvania Delaware County, Pennsylvania tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-15:%2Fdelaware_county_pennsylvania.php 2010-09-15T18:58:02-04:00 2012-03-08T03:47:02-05:00 .<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Delawrecounty.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" /><!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Headwaters of the Middle Atlantic Rivers Headwaters of the Middle Atlantic Rivers tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-28:%2Fmiddle_atlantic_rivers_the.html 2010-10-28T15:10:35-04:00 2012-03-08T00:21:35-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Delawarerivermap.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The three main rivers of the Mid-Atlantic states, the Hudson, Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers, share a comparatively small watershed.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Glutes, Abs and Pects Glutes, Abs and Pects tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-11-20:%2Fglutes_abs_and_pects.html 2009-11-20T16:48:26-05:00 2012-03-08T00:21:19-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/fitnesstrainingseniorcitizens.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Physical fitness training is catching on with senior citizens, matching the evolution from adolescent "body building" into stretching and rebalancing the shoulder and pelvis platforms that give most people, most of their physical limitations. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.95 -75.1646 The Union League of Philadelphia 39.95 -75.1646 39.95 -75.1646 Designated Lifetime Funds Designated Lifetime Funds tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-27:%2Fdesignated_lifetime_funds.html 2011-04-27T18:07:07-04:00 2012-03-08T00:21:13-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/samtax.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Nowadays, the government incentivises most investment funds to be taxable, but curiously certain funds are forced to be tax-sheltered, while personal latitude exists for others. Since most people are eventually forced into having three types of funds anyway, some thought might be given to which purposes are most suitable.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Shakspere Society December 12, 2001 Shakspere Society December 12, 2001 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-26:%2Fshakspere_society_december_12.html 2008-01-26T16:21:22-05:00 2012-03-08T00:21:09-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />America's oldest Shakspere Society (Shakespeare Society) discusses Antony and Cleopatra. 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 Lin Lin tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-24:%2Flin_.html 2006-08-24T17:44:48-04:00 2012-03-08T00:20:55-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Regan.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Regan.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Can a town of 5000 residents, with a two hundred-bed hospital, have the services of the best surgeon in the world? It all depends on your definitions.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9449 -75.1557 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9449 -75.1557 39.9449 -75.1557 Robert Morris and America Robert Morris and America tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-17:%2Frobert_morris_and_america.php 2011-03-17T14:49:57-04:00 2012-03-08T00:20:53-05:00 Robert Morris was an energetic problem-solver. In solving those problems he devised some innovative solutions which have become such axiomatic principles of a republic and its economics, that his name is seldom associated with them.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-16:%2Fshield_and_sword_the.html 2011-03-16T16:16:32-04:00 2012-03-08T00:20:07-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/shield.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Since the UN coalition victory in Operation Desert Storm in 1991, journalists, generals, and historians have focused on the air blitz against Iraq and General Norman Schwarzkopf Hail Mary maneuver around the desert flank of the Iraqi army, while the U.S. Navy has received relatively little attention.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Revolutionary Philadelphia's Loyalists Revolutionary Philadelphia's Loyalists tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-31:%2Frevolutionary_philadelphia_loyalists.php 2006-10-31T13:33:24-05:00 2012-03-07T23:49:57-05:00 History is written by the victors, so the Tory Loyalists of Revolutionary Philadelphia have mostly fallen from view.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The No-Doctrine Doctrine The No-Doctrine Doctrine tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fthe_no_doctrine_doctrine.html 2006-06-21T14:03:44-04:00 2012-03-07T23:49:45-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Quaker.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The doctrine of Quakerism is to have no doctrine. It has provoked two main schisms in the church; George Keith making a plea for at least some doctrine, Elias Hicks leading a later movement back to simplicity. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Sanctuaria Mariposa Sanctuaria Mariposa tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzsanctuaria_mariposa.html 2006-06-23T17:13:22-04:00 2012-03-07T23:49:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/MonarchButterflies.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/MonarchButterflies.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />All of the Monarch butterflies in Eastern North America travel down to a Mexican mountain and spend the winter together in about six hundred acres.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 26.9835 -104.183 Mariposa 26.9835 -104.183 26.9835 -104.183 Mercantilism Dies Hard Mercantilism Dies Hard tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-30:%2Fmercantilism_dies_hard.html 2008-10-30T21:05:47-04:00 2012-03-07T23:49:39-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Lorrain.seaport.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Diplomacy has been described as war by other means. It's possible to regard both war and diplomacy as economics by other means, a general attitude called mercantilism. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Ampersand Madness: Convert & to & to prevent XHTML errors Ampersand Madness: Convert & to & to prevent XHTML errors tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-22:%2Fconvert_to_amp_to.html 2007-03-22T23:49:04-04:00 2012-03-07T23:49:39-05:00 A regex solution to the huge problem of ampersand encoding in XHTML Africa Comes to the Schuylkill Africa Comes to the Schuylkill tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-26:%2Fafrica_comes_to_the.html 2007-06-26T18:54:51-04:00 2012-03-07T23:49:35-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Philadelphia%20Refinery.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/passyunkrefinery.jpg" />African oil, refined in Philadelphia, supplies 2/3 of the gasoline on the East Coast.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9822 -76.1659 Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania 39.9822 -76.1659 39.9822 -76.1659 Unwritten Constitution Unwritten Constitution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-11:%2Funwritten_constitution.html 2007-12-11T21:36:35-05:00 2012-03-07T23:49:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/frankroosevelt.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution serves an excellent purpose, even though the 80th Congress which proposed it may have had quite different motives. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> CEO of the World CEO of the World tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fceo_of_the_world.html 2006-06-22T12:13:22-04:00 2012-03-07T23:49:18-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/georgewbush.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The State Department must change, because the world has..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.8938 -77.0488 U.S. Department of State 38.8938 -77.0488 38.8938 -77.0488 TOAST TO E. DIGBY BALTZELL (1915-1996) TOAST TO E. DIGBY BALTZELL (1915-1996) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-01-29:%2Ftoast_to_e_digby.html 2010-01-29T20:17:14-05:00 2012-03-07T23:49:17-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/E_Digby_Baltzell.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A toast to E. Digby Baltzell (1915-1996), given by Theodore Friend, Sr. at the Franklin Inn Club annual dinner on Franklin's birthday, where toasts are customary. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Pirate Lair Pirate Lair tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzpirate_lair.html 2006-06-23T15:55:50-04:00 2012-03-07T23:49:12-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/jollyroger.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Did Blackbeard use the Delaware marshes as a hideout?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Globalization Globalization tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-29:%2Fglobalization_.html 2009-05-29T16:36:11-04:00 2012-03-07T23:49:11-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/dubai%20waterfront.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Peter Alois, now retired from a career as an international economics envoy for the Department of Commerce, discusses free and fair trade, and other issues related to globalization.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8988 -75.5572 Peter Aloise House 39.8988 -75.5572 39.8988 -75.5572 A Toast To J. William White, MD A Toast To J. William White, MD tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fza_toast_to_j.html 2006-06-23T14:55:42-04:00 2012-03-07T23:49:07-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Dr.White.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Franklin Inn holds the J. William White dinner every year on Benjamin Franklin's birthday. A surgeon, author, politician, athlete, cavalryman, and duelist, Bill was a real Philadelphia gentleman.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Philadelphia's Big Ben Philadelphia's Big Ben tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-07:%2Fphiladelphias_big_ben.html 2009-01-07T23:40:23-05:00 2012-03-07T23:49:07-05:00 The second largest bell in the world tolls at noon in Philadelphia. You can't overlook the sound, but many people don't know where it comes from. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> George Washington's Cherry Tree, Revisited George Washington's Cherry Tree, Revisited tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-11-03:%2Fgeorge_washingtons_cherry_tree.html 2009-11-03T19:42:10-05:00 2012-03-07T23:49:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/washingtonchopcherry.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Washington and the Cherry Tree" />Everybody knows the story of Washington chopping the cherry tree is bunk. But debunking drowns out a greater truth.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Trial Bar Cavalry Charge Trial Bar Cavalry Charge tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-02:%2Ftrial_bar_cavalry_charge.html 2008-06-02T09:37:24-04:00 2012-03-07T23:49:01-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/patton.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt"General George Patton" />In an unguarded moment, a member of the plaintiff trial bar spins out his side of the argument with doctors. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Selling Entire Towns Selling Entire Towns tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-24:%2Fselling_entire_towns.html 2010-05-24T17:22:14-04:00 2012-03-07T23:48:56-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/203khammerhead.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Some builders build whole towns without houses and then sell them to custom home builders.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0121 -75.2982 Arcadia Land Company 40.0121 -75.2982 40.0121 -75.2982 Andrew Hamilton (1676-1741) Andrew Hamilton (1676-1741) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-16:%2Fandrew_hamilton_16761741.html 2007-03-16T20:07:11-04:00 2012-03-07T23:48:55-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/andrewhamilton.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Andrew Hamilton" />The original Philadelphia Lawyer, Andrew Hamilton gets confused with Alexander Hamilton, no relation. Judged from his life accomplishments, Andrew was one of the most influential people in pre-Revolutionary America.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9525 -75.1634 Philadelphia City Hall 39.9525 -75.1634 39.9525 -75.1634 Children Playing With Matches Children Playing With Matches tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-10-31:%2Fchildren_playing_with_matches.html 2011-10-31T15:21:39-04:00 2012-03-07T23:48:39-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cpm.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />We are not a strongly ethnic nation. You are not an American because of who your ancestors were; you are an American because of what you believe. Find your location Find your location tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-07:%2Ffind_your_location.html 2010-06-07T17:46:12-04:00 2012-03-07T22:06:58-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/compass.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Browsers are starting to support features of the new HTML 5 standard ... such as geo location. Not IE, of course, but try Firefox.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Georgetown Returns Day Georgetown Returns Day tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fgeorgetown_returns_day.html 2006-06-20T12:27:52-04:00 2012-03-07T22:06:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/georgetownpic.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Glimpse what American democracy was supposed to be in the little Delaware village of Georgetown, even after nearly three centuries have gone by. Two days after election, the victorious and the defeated candidates still appear for announced election results, ride around the courthouse in a carriage together, and actually bury a hatchet.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.6901 -75.3858 Georgetown DE 38.6901 -75.3858 38.6901 -75.3858 Passage to India Passage to India tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-02-14:%2Fpassage_to_india.html 2011-02-14T17:14:59-05:00 2012-03-07T22:06:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/palcesign.JPG" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />There's a rumor that romance can flower at senior citizen retirement communities. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Academia in the Philadelphia Region Academia in the Philadelphia Region tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Facademia_.php 2006-08-02T17:00:49-04:00 2012-03-07T22:06:01-05:00 Higher education is a source of pride, progress, and aggravation. ASCAP Methods ASCAP Methods tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fascap_methods.html 2001-03-08T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-07T22:04:59-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Ascap_1001_invoice.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Once you get over the idea it's a hold-up, you must admit the scheme used by composers to get rich from their songs is certainly ingenious.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> From Brunnemeier to Solutions From Brunnemeier to Solutions tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-07:%2Ffrom_brunnemeier_to_solutions.html 2010-09-07T21:16:54-04:00 2012-03-07T22:04:55-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/brunnermeier.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />By common agreement among scholars, Markus K. Brunnermeier has come pretty close to a complete description of the causes of the 2007 economic crash. It's getting to be time to decide what to do about it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.3447 -74.6547 Princeton University 40.3447 -74.6547 40.3447 -74.6547 Appendix F, Dinner For President Taft Appendix F, Dinner For President Taft tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-30:%2Fappendix_f_dinner_for.html 2009-03-30T15:04:55-04:00 2012-03-07T22:04:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bookcovermc.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" /> When the club had President Taft to dinner, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, the Mayor, the Senators, and lots of others seemed appropriate, too. The First City Troop assumed the security chores.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> French-English Military Technical Dictionary French-English Military Technical Dictionary tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-18:%2Ffrenchenglish_military_technical_dictionary.html 2011-03-18T16:40:17-04:00 2012-03-07T22:04:22-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/french.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="{french}" />A dictionary of French to English military terms.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Tours of Philadelphia Region Tours of Philadelphia Region tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-09:%2Ftours_of_philadelphia_region.html 2007-04-09T15:49:34-04:00 2012-03-07T22:04:08-05:00 Philadelphia Regional Tours: Table of Contents. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> WILLIAM BLATHWAYT'S DRAFT OF THE CHARTER OF PENNSYLVANIA WILLIAM BLATHWAYT'S DRAFT OF THE CHARTER OF PENNSYLVANIA tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-01-28:%2Fwilliam_blathwayts_draft_of.html 2010-01-28T14:55:13-05:00 2012-03-07T22:04:05-05:00 William Blathwayt was clerk of the British Board of Trade. His draft of Penn's charter for Pennsylvania was essentially a staff proposal for the King to sign. It conforms to the final charter in all but minor wording [,punctuation, and emphasis marks]. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Gallatin Part II Gallatin Part II tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-12:%2Fgallatin_part_ii.html 2007-12-12T14:50:30-05:00 2012-03-07T22:03:36-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/dollar-sign_1_.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />When Jefferson won the deadlocked election of 1800, Albert Gallatin was the obvious choice for Treasury Secretary. But having destroyed Hamilton's Bank, he had the humiliating duty to reverse position to fight the War of 1812. A five-act play, with duels.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Playing The Cards As You Are Dealt Them Playing The Cards As You Are Dealt Them tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-29:%2Fplaying_cards_you_are.html 2011-04-29T20:46:54-04:00 2012-03-07T22:03:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/four-of-a-kind.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Living on earned income is a fairly recent phenomenon. Just when we start to get used to it, it steadily diminishes as a proportion of life span. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Marian B. Sanders, Quaker Activist, 87 Marian B. Sanders, Quaker Activist, 87 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fmarian_sanders_87.html 1993-11-04T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-07T22:03:27-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Pre-Kgroup.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Mrs. Sanders wasn't famous, even among Quakers. Her obituary records a fairly representative life among seriously dedicated members of the Society of Friends.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9426 -75.2725 Lansdowne Friends School 39.9426 -75.2725 39.9426 -75.2725 Politics of Employer Hiring Preferences Politics of Employer Hiring Preferences tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-23:%2Fpolitics_of_employer_hiring.html 2011-08-23T14:25:09-04:00 2012-03-07T22:03:17-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/clueinterview.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The for-profit or nonprofit nature of your previous employer affects your chances of being hired by a new boss. HSP: Philadelphia's Attic HSP: Philadelphia's Attic tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-03:%2Fhsp_philadelphias_attic.html 2009-04-03T19:46:55-04:00 2012-03-07T22:03:10-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hsplogo.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Historical Society of Pennsylvania started out in 1824 as a repository of family treasures. Several mergers and changes of direction have given it a new mission.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9477 -75.1627 The Historical Society of Pennsylvania 39.9477 -75.1627 39.9477 -75.1627 Sixth and Walnut <br />over to Broad and Sansom Sixth and Walnut over to Broad and Sansom tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-04:%2Fsixth_and_walnut_to.php 2007-05-04T22:22:50-04:00 2012-03-07T22:03:03-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PennsylvHospital.jpg" class="tn-l-h100" alt="Pennsylvania Hospital" />In 1751, the Pennsylvania Hospital at 8th and Spruce was 'way out in the country. Now it is in the center of a city, but the area still remains dominated by medical institutions.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Ms. Mayor Ms. Mayor tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-09:%2Fms_mayor.html 2010-08-09T17:37:14-04:00 2012-03-07T22:02:25-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Tish.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The current, and long time, Mayor of Haddonfield New Jersey is a lady from Odessa, Texas.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8984 -75.0304 Haddonfield Borough Hall 39.8984 -75.0304 39.8984 -75.0304 The American Health Non-system The American Health Non-system tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-20:%2Fthe_american_health_nonsystem.html 2006-10-20T16:16:03-04:00 2012-03-07T22:02:23-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/DrJockMurray2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Dr. Jock Murray" />America is betting heavily that elimination of disease will ultimately reduce healthcare costs. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9544 -75.15 American College of Physicans Philadelphia 39.9544 -75.15 39.9544 -75.15 Round the Block in Haddonfield Round the Block in Haddonfield tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-17:%2Fround_the_block_in.html 2007-11-17T14:55:49-05:00 2012-03-07T22:01:49-05:00 Walking the dog in Haddonfield can be complex. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8902 -75.0425 Home 39.8902 -75.0425 39.8902 -75.0425 Robert Morris, Financial Virtuoso Robert Morris, Financial Virtuoso tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-22:%2Frobert_morris_financial_virtuoso.html 2011-07-22T15:16:07-04:00 2012-03-07T22:01:45-05:00 Robert Morris had two episodes of being in charge of the American government, one before and the other after, the class warfare at Fort Wilson. In both cases, he displayed a virtuoso ability to innovate in a novel emergency. RSS RSS tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzrss_.html 2006-06-23T15:40:24-04:00 2012-03-07T22:01:38-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/RSS.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />WHAT IS RSS?<br /> <br /> RSS is a collection of several things--a <b>Headline Title</b>, a <b>Brief Abstract</b>, and a <b>BroadcastAdvertisement</b>. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Wyoming, Fair Wilkes Barre Wyoming, Fair Wilkes Barre tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-07:%2Fwyoming_fair_wilkes_barre.html 2010-09-07T19:25:58-04:00 2012-03-07T22:01:22-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/wbmountains.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The city of Wilkes Barre pretty well fills up the Wyoming Valley, transforming a once famous agricultural paradise into a crowded suburb. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Franklin Teaches Investing to Boston and Philadelphia Franklin Teaches Investing to Boston and Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-22:%2Ffranklin_teaches_investing_to.html 2010-07-22T14:30:54-04:00 2012-03-07T22:01:15-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/benjamin-franklinB.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />In 1789, B. Franklin changed the nature of his last will and testament from conventional to highly unconventional.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Unique Investment Requirements Unique Investment Requirements tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-25:%2Funique_investment_requirements.html 2011-04-25T13:07:50-04:00 2012-03-07T22:01:09-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/donate_3.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Some investment situations are so different from the routine ones that conventional wisdom scarcely applies. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The University Museum: Frozen in Concrete The University Museum: Frozen in Concrete tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-31:%2Fthe_university_museum.html 2007-07-31T14:15:14-04:00 2012-03-07T22:01:07-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/kingtut2.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/kingtut2.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Archaeology has long been at the center of Philadelphia culture. The University Museum of Archaeology, the largest of its kind in America. is a victim of success, stranded in a congested and overbuilt corner of town. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.95 -75.1917 University of Pennsylvania Museum 39.95 -75.1917 39.95 -75.1917 Medical Club of Philadelphia, Appendix B, Membership Medical Club of Philadelphia, Appendix B, Membership tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-20:%2Fthe_medical_club_of.html 2009-03-20T13:34:31-04:00 2012-03-07T22:00:52-05:00 .....<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bookcovermc.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" /> Recruitment of membership was an instantaneous success during the Gilded Age, and rose to a peak in the early years of the Great Depression of the 1930s. After that, interest in membership steadily declined. Excursions on private trains and dinners with the U.S. President were no longer within their means.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Sierra Hotel Sierra Hotel tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-16:%2Fsierra_hotel_by_c.html 2011-03-16T17:17:42-04:00 2012-03-07T22:00:51-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/sierra.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" width="200" />On November 2, 1969, an F4D from the 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron (TFS) ripped along at high speed and low altitude above a dirt road through northern Laos.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Segmented Health Insurance Segmented Health Insurance tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-08:%2Fsegmented_health_insurance.html 2007-08-08T14:12:13-04:00 2012-03-07T22:00:49-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Healthcaregraph.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />For a century, insurance has treated all medical care as one big lump. It's time to have a second look at this.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Special Education, Special Problems Special Education, Special Problems tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-21:%2Fspecial_education_special_problems.html 2010-04-21T19:41:15-04:00 2012-03-07T22:00:19-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/schoolbus.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Until recently, mentally retarded children weren't even considered in school budgets. But in recent decades, they have become one of the biggest challenges.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Delaware to do Delaware to do tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-01:%2Fdelaware_to_do.html 2010-06-01T11:22:07-04:00 2012-03-07T21:27:25-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Winterthur-Museum2.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Peculiarities of Obama-care Politics: A Fireside Chat Peculiarities of Obama-care Politics: A Fireside Chat tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-18:%2Fpeculiarities_of_obamacare_politics.html 2009-09-18T22:59:21-04:00 2012-03-07T21:27:23-05:00 President Obama's present political pickle is a veritable textbook of the loopholes, traps and flaws of our legislative system. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Architecture in Philadelphia Architecture in Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-20:%2Farchitecture_in_philadelphia.php 2007-02-20T16:07:41-05:00 2012-03-07T21:26:56-05:00 Originating in a limitless forest, wooden structures became a "Red City" of brick after a few fires. Then a succession of gifted architects shaped the city as Greek Revival, then French. Modern architecture now responds as much to population sociology as artistic genius. Take a look at the current "green building" movement. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> On the Making of Boundaries: PA/NY On the Making of Boundaries: PA/NY tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzon_the_making_of.html 2006-06-26T14:54:29-04:00 2012-03-07T21:26:55-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PA-NY%20-756306.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Pa Map" />Settling Pennsylvania's northern boundary with New York helped settle a more serious argument about it, with Connecticut. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> After Six months After Six months tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-13:%2Fafter_six_months.html 2008-03-13T20:37:22-04:00 2012-03-07T21:26:46-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/dollar_sign.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" /><!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Retirement Planning Retirement Planning tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-28:%2Fretirement_planning.html 2008-01-28T11:44:45-05:00 2012-03-07T21:26:41-05:00 <img class="tn-l-h50" src="http://www.georgefisheradvisors.com/images/retirementplanning/image004.jpg" alt="{personal savings rate}" />A process to determine the amount of investment portfolio to accumulate for retirement. Curtis and the Book Trade Curtis and the Book Trade tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fcurtis_and_the_book.html 2006-06-21T14:28:45-04:00 2012-03-07T21:26:39-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/imagesepjpg.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Curtis" />The <i>Saturday Evening Post</i> derived its revenue stream from advertisers, and died when that stream dried up. Too late, it was noticed that magazines of this type were a fundamental component of the book publishing industry.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9473 -75.1506 The Curtis Publishing Company 39.9473 -75.1506 39.9473 -75.1506 Financial Meltdown Documentary Financial Meltdown Documentary tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-17:%2Ffinancial_meltdown_documentary.html 2009-02-17T22:00:58-05:00 2012-03-07T21:26:28-05:00 PBS Frontline documentary about the financial meltdown during the terrifying days in September 2008<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Market at Schuylkill Market at Schuylkill tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fmarket_at_schuylkill.html 1993-05-13T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-07T21:26:17-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/kellydrive.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Where the Market Street bridge crosses the Schuylkill was once a busy city center, and it may become that again, some day. Right now, it's in decline.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9555 -75.1818 30th Street Station 39.9555 -75.1818 39.9555 -75.1818 Cornell, For the Birds Cornell, For the Birds tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-04:%2Fcornell_is_for_the.html 2010-08-04T15:16:20-04:00 2012-03-07T21:25:51-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cornellornithology.jpg"alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The Cornell Ornithological Center may not be the largest institution devoted to birds, but it certainly looks as though it might be.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 42.4805 -76.4538 Cornell Birds Ornithology 42.4805 -76.4538 42.4805 -76.4538 Making Volunteerism a Business Making Volunteerism a Business tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-05:%2Fmaking_volunteerism_a_business.html 2007-12-05T16:26:05-05:00 2012-03-07T21:25:44-05:00 The computer has systematically eliminated middle-men and middle management in every business. Why not extend that to social clubs, entertainment, and the rest of the non-profit world? <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Merging Cities With Their Suburbs Merging Cities With Their Suburbs tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-22:%2Fmerging_cities_with_their.html 2009-01-22T22:41:29-05:00 2012-03-07T21:25:43-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Philadelphia1854.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />When middle-sized cities are thriving and growing, they tend to want to annex neighboring districts. Their newspapers are ecstatic about it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9518 -75.1637 City Hall of Philadelphia 39.9518 -75.1637 39.9518 -75.1637 A Few Rooms of Your Own A Few Rooms of Your Own tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fa_few_rooms_of.html 2006-06-22T12:19:44-04:00 2012-03-07T21:25:27-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Williampenn3.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Williampenn3.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The way we live changes what we are.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.711 -74.0135 The Wall Street Journal 40.711 -74.0135 40.711 -74.0135 Rubberneck Tours of Philadelphia (1) Rubberneck Tours of Philadelphia (1) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Frubberneck_tours_of_philadelphia.html 2006-06-21T14:07:25-04:00 2012-03-07T21:25:13-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Phila%20City%20Hall.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A very enjoyable two-hour drive, up one side of the Schuylkill and down the other, encircles dozens of points of interest. Even if you don't know and don't care that this area was once the training ground for most of the Union Army.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9527 -75.1635 Philadelphia City Hall 39.9527 -75.1635 39.9527 -75.1635 Glorious Revolution: Nov. 5, 1688 Glorious Revolution: Nov. 5, 1688 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-16:%2Fglorious_revolution_nov_5.html 2010-12-16T13:51:29-05:00 2012-03-07T21:25:01-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/william_iiiorange.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="William of Orange" />William of Orange triggered three centuries of Irish conflict, more than a century of conflict between England and France, and spoiled the fortunes of William Penn. American history scarcely heard of him.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 50.452 -3.55808 Torbay, UK 50.452 -3.55808 50.452 -3.55808 Appendix E, Newpaper Accounts of Remarks by Dr. Adolph Lorenz. Appendix E, Newpaper Accounts of Remarks by Dr. Adolph Lorenz. tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-26:%2Fappendix_e_newpaper_accounts.html 2009-03-26T15:36:04-04:00 2012-03-07T21:24:56-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bookcovermc.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />The famous orthopedic surgeon who invented the plaster cast tells the Medical Club of Philadelphia how he went into orthopedics by necessity.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Network The Network tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-31:%2Fthe_network.html 2011-03-31T20:26:39-04:00 2012-03-07T21:24:55-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/youngr.morris.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />By September 1776, the prodigiously energetic Robert Morris had set up an international network to evade the British blockades, arm the colonies, and encourage privateers to enrich themselves at British expense, if they could. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Banking Banking tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-17:%2Fbanking_.html 2009-04-17T16:57:24-04:00 2012-03-07T21:24:53-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bankowned.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Paying For College - II Paying For College - II tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-12:%2Fpaying_for_college_ii.html 2010-03-12T19:40:04-05:00 2012-03-07T21:24:37-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/emptypockets.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Princeton Logo" />As college education strives to be universal, forcing a few prosperous students to subsidize many needy ones becomes unsustainable. Colleges must devise better tuition systems, before somebody else does it for them.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.3486 -74.6593 Princeton University 40.3486 -74.6593 40.3486 -74.6593 Financial Institutions of the Future Financial Institutions of the Future tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-13:%2Ffinancial_institutions_of_the.html 2008-10-13T20:13:33-04:00 2012-03-07T21:24:22-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/savings-and-house.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Impending financial crisis has pushed everything else off the front page. But looking backwards may show where we are likely going.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> A Prophet In Our Valley A Prophet In Our Valley tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fprophet_valley.html 2002-08-15T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-07T21:24:18-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/John%20C.%20Bogle.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />John Bogle invented the index fund. Lower cost, better performance.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0734 -75.4157 The Vanguard Investment Company 40.0734 -75.4157 40.0734 -75.4157 Sackett's Town at Sackets Harbor Sackett's Town at Sackets Harbor tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-05:%2Fsacketts_town_at_sackets.html 2010-08-05T12:45:50-04:00 2012-03-07T21:24:17-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/110.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />For a town of 1200 residents, Sackets Harbor NY holds a lot of history.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 43.9477 -76.123 Sackets Harbor Mansion 43.9477 -76.123 43.9477 -76.123 Investment Consequences Investment Consequences tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-05-02:%2Finvestment_consequences.html 2011-05-02T19:14:18-04:00 2012-03-07T21:24:16-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Best-Real-Estate-Investment-For-Retirement.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />How you should invest to meet major spending goals will depend on how you view your chances of recovery from intervening slumps, and how long you have left to do the recovering.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Page 2-54 Page 2-54 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-02:%2Fmedical_club_book_page.html 2009-04-02T15:36:26-04:00 2012-03-07T21:24:12-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bookcovermc.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" /> Text by Richard M. Nelson in 1992, summarizing 8000 pages of mostly handwritten records of the Club from the time of its founding in 1892. It is thus a centennial memorial to what might have been the largest local medical organization in America; it was certainly the largest one devoted to non-medical interests.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> SHAKSPERE SOCIETY OCTOBER 22, 2003 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY OCTOBER 22, 2003 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-24:%2Fshakspere_society_october_22.html 2008-03-24T19:13:46-04:00 2012-03-07T21:24:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />MEETING OF THE SHAKSPERE SOCIETY OF PHILADLEPHIA AT THE FRANKLIN INN CLUB ON OCTOBER 22, 2003 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 Finding the Nerve to Cut Health Costs Finding the Nerve to Cut Health Costs tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-09:%2Ffinding_the_nerve_to.html 2009-12-09T12:45:53-05:00 2012-03-07T21:24:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/kirk-spock-hoodlums.jpg" class="tn-l-w100" alt={everybody's got a piece of the action}" ?>Health care costs are high in the United States because everybody's getting a piece of the action<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Philadelphia: A 1925 Viewpoint Philadelphia: A 1925 Viewpoint tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzphiladelphia_a_1925_viewpoint.html 2006-06-26T14:04:24-04:00 2012-03-07T21:23:59-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/OC26.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Philly Trolly" />In 1925, the world appeared to be our oyster. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Future Directions for Book Authoring Future Directions for Book Authoring tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-15:%2Ffuture_directions_for_book.html 2011-01-15T14:33:29-05:00 2012-03-07T21:23:51-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/TSR-80100.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Personal computers have already revolutionized book authorship by greatly expanding it, and revolutionized book publishing by drowning it in authorship. What comes next?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Abortion (Podcast) Abortion (Podcast) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-12:%2Fabortion_podcast.html 2011-01-12T17:22:28-05:00 2012-03-07T21:23:48-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Roe%20v.s%20Wade.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Roe v.s Wade.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Dr. Fisher narrates his experience negotiating the abortion debate as delegate for the Pennsylvania Medical Society.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Northrop YF-23A Flight Manual Northrop YF-23A Flight Manual tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-18:%2Fnorthrop_yf23a_flight_manual.html 2011-03-18T15:48:11-04:00 2012-03-07T21:23:41-05:00 A manual containing the necessary information for safe and efficent operation of the YF-23A flight test prototype aircraft. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Morris Upended by a Nobody Morris Upended by a Nobody tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-10-12:%2Fmorris_upended_by_a.html 2011-10-12T17:12:41-04:00 2012-03-07T21:23:35-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Robert%20Morris.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Adjusting to winning the Revolutionary War was almost as painful as losing it would have been. Especially for Robert Morris.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Doylestown Doylestown tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzdoylestown_.html 2006-06-23T12:17:16-04:00 2012-03-07T21:23:14-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/michener.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="{James Michener}" />Doylestown is trapped between the steadily advancing edges of New York and Philadelphia, and must soon submerge. For now, the town's a lovely little jewel.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.31 -75.13 Doylestown PA 40.31 -75.13 40.31 -75.13 The Silas Deane Affair The Silas Deane Affair tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-10:%2Fthe_silas_deane_affair.html 2011-04-10T20:35:36-04:00 2012-03-07T21:23:12-05:00 A Tip of the Hat to Skaneateles A Tip of the Hat to Skaneateles tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-04:%2Fa_tip_of_the.html 2010-08-04T18:48:17-04:00 2012-03-07T21:23:10-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/skaneatelesny5.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Skaneateles is at the top of Skaneateles Lake, and has become a tourist attraction in spite of itself.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 42.944 -76.4343 The Krebs Restaurant of Skaneateles 42.944 -76.4343 42.944 -76.4343 Curtis: The Business Plan Curtis: The Business Plan tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fcurtis_the_business_plan.html 2006-06-21T14:25:03-04:00 2012-03-07T21:23:07-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/gutenbergpress.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="printing press" />Magazines are sold for less than they cost to print, just as grand opera costs more to produce than the ticket price. Therefore, both survival and failure can have misleading causes.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9498 -75.1465 Franklin Court Museum 39.9498 -75.1465 39.9498 -75.1465 What Obamacare Should Say But Doesn't What Obamacare Should Say But Doesn't tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-20:%2Fwhat_obamacare_should_say.html 2009-09-20T15:55:25-04:00 2012-03-07T21:23:07-05:00 Here are ten healthcare finance reforms, superior to Obamacare. By far the easiest and most effective is equalizing the tax exemption, now only enjoyed by big employer groups. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Obamacare for Lobbyists Obamacare for Lobbyists tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-10-01:%2Fobamacare_for_lobbyists.html 2009-10-01T11:29:21-04:00 2012-03-07T21:23:05-05:00 In a big legislative package, there are technical areas where the lobbyists have considerable sway in the outcome. Here are a few.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Omnibus Obamacare Omnibus Obamacare tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-18:%2Fobamacare_folly.html 2009-09-18T20:35:54-04:00 2012-03-07T21:22:55-05:00 The sound-bite is: the Obama health reform proposal of 2009 will extend affordable health insurance to every American (citizen), and save Medicare from ruin by cutting costs. Review of the proposal suggests he should press the reset button.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Sanctuaria Mariposa (Podcast) Sanctuaria Mariposa (Podcast) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-09:%2Fsanctuaria_mariposa_podcast.html 2011-01-09T15:34:33-05:00 2012-03-07T20:52:53-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/MonarchButterflies.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/MonarchButterflies.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Dr. Fisher reflects on his trip to view the vacation hot spot of the monarch butterfly in Mexico.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Beaux Revival Beaux Revival tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-30:%2Fbeaux_revival.html 2008-01-30T13:33:20-05:00 2012-03-07T20:52:41-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Ceilia_Beaux.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt=""/>The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art is staging a major revival of Cecelia Beaux, February through March 2008. Eighty five examples of her work are on display, aiming to restore her to the prominence she deserves.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.955 -75.1633 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 39.955 -75.1633 39.955 -75.1633 Turtles and Bananas Turtles and Bananas tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-02:%2Fturtles_and_bananas.html 2008-07-02T16:33:03-04:00 2012-03-07T20:52:39-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/SnappingTurtle.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Snapper soup can be made from snapping turtles, but the historical source of the ingredients has been shipped from the Caribbean. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9468 -75.143 Old Original BookBinder's 39.9468 -75.143 39.9468 -75.143 Slaveowning Quaker Steps Up To The Plate Slaveowning Quaker Steps Up To The Plate tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzslaveowning_quaker_steps_up.html 2006-06-23T16:07:06-04:00 2012-03-07T20:52:17-05:00 <img class="tn-l-w50" src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/250px-Map_of_Gloucester_County_highlighting_Woolwich_Township.png" alt="Gloucester county new jersey" />Slaves were valuable property, but it became a Quaker duty to give them their freedom. John Woolman, who started the idea, suggested freeing them in your will.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.7413 -75.3211 Township of Woolwich NJ 39.7413 -75.3211 39.7413 -75.3211 Rara Avis Rara Avis tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-15:%2Frara_avis.html 2010-05-15T17:46:18-04:00 2012-03-07T20:52:17-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/academyNaturalScience.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Academy of Natural Sciences is one of the great jewels of Philadelphia, and like the rest of the city, cringes from publicity but needs it badly.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9571 -75.1712 The Academy of Natural Sciences 39.9571 -75.1712 39.9571 -75.1712 Christmas Reflections (Podcast) Christmas Reflections (Podcast) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-21:%2Fchristmas_reflections_podcast.html 2010-12-21T12:21:07-05:00 2012-03-07T20:51:49-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/wannamakerlightshow.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Wanamakers at Christmas" /> George Fisher narrates one of his favorite reflections, "Christmas Reflections," on the changing face of Christmas and Christmas shopping in Philadelphia..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Litchfield's Past Litchfield's Past tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-01:%2Flitchfields_past.html 2010-09-01T19:27:50-04:00 2012-03-07T20:51:45-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/whiteflowerfarm.jpg.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Litchfield, Connecticut is a charming little country town, a good place for successful New Yorkers to retire. But the name of the town means "a place where heretics are burned".<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.7555 -73.1987 Litchfield CT 41.7555 -73.1987 41.7555 -73.1987 Regulation Precision: Not Entirely Good Idea Regulation Precision: Not Entirely Good Idea tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-22:%2Fregulation_precision_not_entirely.html 2010-09-22T17:42:09-04:00 2012-03-07T20:51:23-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/lawbooks2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />As regulations get more detailed, they micromanage the law. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.7369 -76.0241 Camptown, PA 41.7369 -76.0241 41.7369 -76.0241 Bertand Russell Disturbs the Barnes Foundation Neighbors (Podscast) Bertand Russell Disturbs the Barnes Foundation Neighbors (Podscast) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-08:%2Fbertand_russell_disturbs_the.html 2011-01-08T17:21:45-05:00 2012-03-07T20:50:43-05:00 Bertrand Russell once made neighbors demand the Barnes Foundation move away. Be careful what you wish for, because you may get it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Saving the United States Saving the United States tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-15:%2Fsaving_the_united_states.html 2009-06-15T13:41:21-04:00 2012-03-07T20:50:36-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/11_unitedstates.jpg" alt="SS United States" class="tn-l-w50" />For the past 13 years the SS United States has lain idle at a dock in Philadelphia and is facing the scrap heap should efforts by volunteers in several conservancies to save her not succeed. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.919 -75.1377 SS United States 39.919 -75.1377 39.919 -75.1377 Appendix I, Charitable Contributions. Appendix I, Charitable Contributions. tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-27:%2Fappendix_i_charitable_contributions.html 2009-03-27T14:45:00-04:00 2012-03-07T20:50:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bookcovermc.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />For mysterious reasons, legal counsel advised that charitable contributions were illegal. After a few years this advice was eventually ignored, but probably some inhibiting effect persisted.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Empire Visits Haddonfield, Briefly The Empire Visits Haddonfield, Briefly tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_empire_visits_haddonfield.html 2006-06-23T15:04:17-04:00 2012-03-07T20:50:28-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/holyromanempire.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />All religions were welcomed and tolerated, but the English government was deathly fearful of French Catholics in Canada, and Spanish Catholics in Florida. The Stuart kings were catholic, sort of, but the important issue was protecting colonial real estate more than protecting doctrinal purity.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9002 -75.0326 Haddonfield Quaker Meeting House 39.9002 -75.0326 39.9002 -75.0326 James A. Michener (1907-1997) James A. Michener (1907-1997) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzjames_a_michener_1907.html 2006-06-23T12:14:24-04:00 2012-03-07T20:50:24-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/michener3.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />< James A. Michener was a birthright Quaker from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where he made his home when he wasn't traveling. He wrote 40 books, most notably "South Pacific", but lived a fairly simple smalltown life, meanwhile giving over $100 million to charity. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9051 -75.3523 Swarthmore College 39.9051 -75.3523 39.9051 -75.3523 Appendix H Philadelphia Public Ledger, May 25, 1925 Appendix H Philadelphia Public Ledger, May 25, 1925 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-14:%2Fappendix_h.html 2009-04-14T14:01:55-04:00 2012-03-07T20:50:23-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bookcovermc.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" /> The President of the British Medical Association in 1925 addressed the Medical Club of Philadelphia, deploring both the British socialized system, and the American tendency to order too many medical tests. The current president of the BMA would probably change very little of the speech.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> <p>.</p> Russian Military Dictionary Russian Military Dictionary tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-18:%2Frussian_military_dictionary.html 2011-03-18T16:24:59-04:00 2012-03-07T20:50:20-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/russian.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="{russian}" />The purpose of this dictionary is to provide Russian equivalents for American military terms and the American equivalents of Russian terms. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> La Cosa Nostra Has an Apalachin Outing La Cosa Nostra Has an Apalachin Outing tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-04:%2Fla_cosa_nostra_has.html 2010-08-04T14:33:39-04:00 2012-03-07T20:50:10-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Hoover4.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />For many years it was widely denied by many, including J. Edgar Hoover, that there was such a thing as organized crime. And then, on November 14, 1957, the State Police stumbled on their national convention in Apalachin, NY.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 42.0587 -76.1538 Joseph Barbara's Estate 42.0587 -76.1538 42.0587 -76.1538 Appendix J, Special Events Appendix J, Special Events tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-24:%2Fappendix_j_special_events.html 2009-03-24T16:23:01-04:00 2012-03-07T20:50:10-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bookcovermc.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />The difference between an Annual Outing and a Special Event would be hard to define, but the minutes of the Club make this distinction.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Latitude Latitude tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-25:%2Flatitude_.html 2010-12-25T16:38:15-05:00 2012-03-07T20:50:09-05:00 google latitude Malpractice: Captain of the Ship ... New Title, One Step At A Time, but A Big One. Malpractice: Captain of the Ship ... New Title, One Step At A Time, but A Big One. tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fmalpractice_captain_of_the.html 2006-06-21T15:18:04-04:00 2012-03-07T20:50:08-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/captainshat.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The medical system has become so complex that it<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Joseph Priestley, Shaker and Mover Joseph Priestley, Shaker and Mover tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzjoseph_priestley_shaker_and.html 2006-06-26T14:05:08-04:00 2012-03-07T20:50:02-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/josephpriestley.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Priestly" />The father of the science of chemistry was also the founder of the Unitarian Church in America.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9526 -75.1764 First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia 39.9526 -75.1764 39.9526 -75.1764 Baruch Blumberg, Renaissance Man Baruch Blumberg, Renaissance Man tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-21:%2Fbaruch_blumberg_rennaisance_man.html 2007-06-21T16:35:43-04:00 2012-03-07T20:49:48-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Baruchblumberg.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Baruch Blumberg" />Winners of a Nobel Prize are sometimes strange birds. The majority are charming and affable. But Baruch Blumberg has the unusual distinction of being a rolicking extrovert.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> New Roles For Grandparents New Roles For Grandparents tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-04:%2Fnew_roles_for_grandparents.html 2010-06-04T19:28:54-04:00 2012-03-07T20:49:44-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/grandparent_child.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The present generation of grandparents is inventing new rules. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Revolt of the Pennsylvania Line Revolt of the Pennsylvania Line tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-06-23:%2Frevolt_of_the_pennsylvania.html 2011-06-23T11:30:44-04:00 2012-03-07T20:49:38-05:00 After Yorktown the American revolution seemed over, but peace negotiations dragged on, probably intentionally. The troops wanted to go home so badly they nearly lost the victory. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Greenhouses Greenhouses tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-16:%2Fgreenhouses_.html 2010-06-16T20:27:36-04:00 2012-03-07T20:49:33-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/greenhouse1.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A greenhouse is a greenhouse, until you know something about them.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Freedom, But Not Independence Freedom, But Not Independence tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-03:%2Ffreedom_is_not_independence.html 2010-02-03T17:26:34-05:00 2012-03-07T20:49:32-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/KINGCHARLESII.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Very likely, King Charles's advisors warned him of the possibility that colonies might drift away and even become enemies in time. Provisions about immigration policy and foreign relations needed some sort of review by the Crown. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 51.5053 -0.13795 St. James Palace 51.5053 -0.13795 51.5053 -0.13795 Whither Alzheimer? Whither Alzheimer? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-09:%2Fwhither_alzheimer.html 2010-07-09T18:18:19-04:00 2012-03-07T20:49:28-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/alzheimers-brain.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Individuals over 80 are increasing faster than any other age group. And so, their main disease is the fastest growing disease. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9535 -75.1961 THe University of Pennsylvania 39.9535 -75.1961 39.9535 -75.1961 The S&P 500 Has Been Letting Us Down The S&P 500 Has Been Letting Us Down tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-01-01:%2Fthe_sp_500_has.html 2010-01-01T13:57:30-05:00 2012-03-07T20:49:24-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/sandp500-1871-2009.gif" class="tn-l-h50" alt="{The S&P 500 from 1871 to 2009}" />Should anyone invest in stocks? The last decade has been a painful one for dedicated equity investors. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Christmas Reflections Christmas Reflections tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-24:%2Fchristmas_reflections.html 2009-12-24T21:15:02-05:00 2012-03-07T20:49:23-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/philaxmas.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="{christmas in philadelphia}" /> It once was a tradition to go back to the big city for Christmas shopping..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Association (5) The Association (5) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fthe_association_5.html 2006-06-21T13:44:54-04:00 2012-03-07T20:49:16-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/AMA.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/AMA.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The American Medical Association claims to represent the collective views of the medical profession, and sometimes its detractors scoff at that idea. AMA really has an elegant system for hearing the voice of a single physician, and if it likes what it hears, is really good at magnifying that voice. 41.8914 -87.6276 American Medical Association 41.8914 -87.6276 41.8914 -87.6276 Helping the home owner Helping the home owner tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-01:%2Fhelping_the_home_owner.html 2008-11-01T10:21:53-04:00 2012-03-07T20:49:03-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/fdic-logo.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Treasury's support may have stopped the bank-run panic but the mortgage crisis will not bottom out until house prices stop falling, the root cause of the crisis. Unfortunately, house prices are still no bargain.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.8845 -77.1023 FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 38.8845 -77.1023 38.8845 -77.1023 Due North of Philadelphia, More or Less Due North of Philadelphia, More or Less tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-03:%2Fdue_north_of_philadelphia.html 2010-08-03T17:30:11-04:00 2012-03-07T20:48:53-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/kingstontour.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Broad Street in Philadelphia was laid out due North and South, with a compass. From there you go due North up route 611, which splits into 6 and 11 at Scranton. Due North of that is the mouth of Lake Ontario, emptying into the St. Lawrence. Because of two large lakes in upstate New York, a trip due North is about the only reasonable way to get to Canada from Philadelphia, by land.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 44.223 -76.5041 John A. Macdonald House 44.223 -76.5041 44.223 -76.5041 Loss of USS <i>Thresher</i> Loss of USS Thresher tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-18:%2Floss_of_uss_thresher.html 2011-03-18T16:14:20-04:00 2012-03-07T20:48:52-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/loss.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="{loss}" />Hearings before the Join Committee on Atomic Energy<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Specialized Surgeons Specialized Surgeons tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzspecialized_surgeons.html 2006-06-23T15:27:30-04:00 2012-03-07T20:48:45-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/herzlinger_photo.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Specialty hospitals have actually been given more than a fair try. About a hundred years ago, the landscape was peppered with casualty hospitals, receiving hospitals, stomach hospitals, skin and cancer hospitals, lying-in hospitals, contagious disease hospitals, and a dozen other medical specialty boutiques. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9449 -75.1557 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9449 -75.1557 39.9449 -75.1557 Wild Irish Wild Irish tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-01:%2Fwild_irish.html 2010-12-01T17:57:25-05:00 2012-03-07T20:48:39-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/CIT_growth.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Irish Government lowered corporate taxes to 12.5 % and sucked continental corporations into moving to Ireland. A housing bubble ensued, surplus mortgages were sold to foreign banks, and very soon Irish debt began to look too big for any conceivable repayment. The European Bank bailed them out, but this may not be the end of it. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> sample sample tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-23:%2Fsample_.html 2008-12-23T16:17:41-05:00 2012-03-07T20:48:20-05:00 Sample sample Paying for Assisted Living Paying for Assisted Living tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-25:%2Fpaying_for_assisted_living.html 2011-03-25T17:10:19-04:00 2012-03-07T20:48:16-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/ContinuingCareRetirementCommunities(CCRCs).jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Everyone knows that Americans are living longer, but it creates some new problems.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Appendix G. Annual Outings. Appendix G. Annual Outings. tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-14:%2Fappendix_g.html 2009-04-14T14:26:29-04:00 2012-03-07T20:48:06-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bookcovermc.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />Except for some interruptions caused by world wars, the Club took some elegant trips for its "Outings", which were conducted in elegant style. In more recent years, however, outings are out of style.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Easy Ride: Perth Amboy to Trenton Easy Ride: Perth Amboy to Trenton tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fperth_amboy_trenton_2.html 1992-07-23T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-07T19:32:53-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/british-grenadier.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="Revolutionary War" />The British Army romped down the narrow waist of New Jersey, from New Brunswick to Trenton. But it's not safe to go too fast, too far into enemy territory.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.6219 -74.0868 British Camp Staten Island NY 40.6219 -74.0868 40.6219 -74.0868 Nation's First Hospital, 1751-2008 Nation's First Hospital, 1751-2008 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-11:%2Fnations_first_hospital_17512008.html 2008-04-11T19:08:56-04:00 2012-03-07T19:32:45-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/firstpahosp.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />The nation's oldest hospital changed more from 1948 to 2008 than it did from July 4. 1776 to 1948.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Birthplace of Radio The Birthplace of Radio tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_birthplace_of_radio.html 2006-06-23T17:29:06-04:00 2012-03-07T19:32:31-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/wcoj-lg.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Right here, folks, it started right here.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9605 -75.6056 WCOJ Radio 39.9605 -75.6056 39.9605 -75.6056 Computer Adjectives Computer Adjectives tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fcomputer_adjectives.html 2006-06-21T14:09:20-04:00 2012-03-07T19:32:30-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/eniac1.gif" class="tn-l-w50" alt="computers" /> The basic concepts of a computer can be reduced to three adjectives, related to the ideas of three men at the University of Pennsylvania. Mauchly made a general purpose computer. Eckert made an electronic version of it. And von Neumann designed the stored instruction set. An <b>electronic, stored-instruction, general-purpose computer </b>resulted..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9521 -75.1907 Engineering at Penn 39.9521 -75.1907 39.9521 -75.1907 Reviving the Mummers Reviving the Mummers tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Freviving_the_mummers.html 1997-01-30T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-07T19:32:03-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Mummers.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Philadelphia Mummers parade on New Year's Day is declining in both attendance and participation, just like its South Philadelphia home environment. Television is the likely main cause of this, but management difficulty and environment changes contributed, too. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9336 -75.1475 The Mummer Museum 39.9336 -75.1475 39.9336 -75.1475 Bonds--Do They Have A Future? Bonds--Do They Have A Future? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-12-14:%2Fbondsdo_they_have_a.html 2011-12-14T16:03:37-05:00 2012-03-07T19:31:53-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/gold%20standard.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />It's increasingly hard to imagine why investors buy bonds, because it's increasingly difficult to imagine an end to inflation. The Barnes Foundation: Comments on the Economics of Art (2) The Barnes Foundation: Comments on the Economics of Art (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fbarnes_foundation_comments.html 2004-11-02T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-07T19:31:48-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/gutenberg.gif" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/gutenberg.gif}" class="tn-l-w50" />Well chosen fine art will appreciate in value over time. If a museum's endowment doesn't grow at the same rate to maintain it, eventually some of the art will have to be sold.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.998 -75.2405 Barnes Museum, Merion 39.998 -75.2405 39.998 -75.2405 Tulips, Jay Cooke, and Google Tulips, Jay Cooke, and Google tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fztulips_jay_cooke_and.html 2006-06-23T17:08:44-04:00 2012-03-07T19:31:38-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/google_logo.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Google's "Dutch auction" may replace the IPO, which was first invented by Jay Cooke for government bonds in the Civil War. The older-style bond salesmen hated Cooke for doing it, just as Wall Street hates Google. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 37.4229 -122.084 Google Campus 37.4229 -122.084 37.4229 -122.084 Nixon, Reconsidered Nixon, Reconsidered tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-05:%2Frichard_m_nixon.html 2007-06-05T14:42:53-04:00 2012-03-07T19:31:30-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/RichardNixonFarewell.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />It takes a long time to evaluate a President, even longer to be confident you evaluated correctly. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.9 -77.0563 The Watergate Hotel 38.9 -77.0563 38.9 -77.0563 Quaker Doctrine and Schism Quaker Doctrine and Schism tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fquaker_doctrine_and_schism.html 2006-06-21T12:56:49-04:00 2012-03-07T19:31:20-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/T642037A.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Encarta" />Without a written doctrine, outsiders get a glimpse of Quaker belief from what they think is worth arguing over. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9524 -75.1487 The Free Quaker Meeting House Philadelphia 39.9524 -75.1487 39.9524 -75.1487 Star-Gazing in Cherry Valley Star-Gazing in Cherry Valley tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-04:%2Fstargazing_in_cherry_valley.html 2011-08-04T14:12:02-04:00 2012-03-07T19:31:17-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/NewJerseyPlanetarium.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Central Pennsylvania has one of the only two or three open-air astronomy centers in America, and it's a great family entertainment. But check your almanac; a full moon makes it hard to see stars. Retirement Communities (CCRC) Retirement Communities (CCRC) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-16:%2Fretirement_communities_ccrc.html 2009-07-16T15:17:12-04:00 2012-03-07T19:31:11-05:00 Retirement communities of the continuing-care variety, are a comparatively new and apparently splendid development. The present economic crisis is their first major test. Stylesheet for ATOM feed Stylesheet for ATOM feed tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-09:%2Fstylesheet_for_atom_feed.html 2009-04-09T14:06:13-04:00 2012-03-07T19:30:56-05:00 Unsupported for the moment (in IE 7 and Firefox 3.0.8), we have equipped our ATOM and RSS feeds with XLS style sheets which include, among other features, sorting the entries in descending order by modified date. A WILLIAM PENN CHRONOLOGY, 1680-1684 A WILLIAM PENN CHRONOLOGY, 1680-1684 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-01-27:%2Fa_william_penn_chronology.html 2010-01-27T16:52:11-05:00 2012-03-07T19:30:56-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/pennsburymanor.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />...<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Fanny Kemble Fanny Kemble tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzfanny_kemble.html 2006-06-26T14:01:15-04:00 2012-03-07T19:30:52-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/fanny_kemble_sully.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="fanny kemble sully" />Frances Anne Kemble had it all: fame, beauty, wealth, personal friendship with real royalty and literary royalty. Beyond that, she caused a major new understanding of Shakespeare, and was a major force in the abolition of slavery. Philadelphia wasn't big enough to hold her; perhaps no town was.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9494 -75.1538 Pierce Butler Mansion 39.9494 -75.1538 39.9494 -75.1538 Oriental Money Oriental Money tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-16:%2Foriental_money.html 2009-04-16T21:06:07-04:00 2012-03-07T19:30:45-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Yuancollection.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/yuan.gif" /> The Chinese did not invent the export-driven economy, or monopolize its use. But their command structure allowed them to exploit it most effectively. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 31.2382 121.506 Shanghai Stock Exchange 31.2382 121.506 31.2382 121.506 Brandywine Museum Brandywine Museum tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzbrandywine_museum.html 2006-06-23T12:43:01-04:00 2012-03-07T19:30:28-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/annashouse.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Wyeths, one of the great artistic families of America, display their work in the Brandywine Museum, which is itself a work of art.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8599 -75.5886 Brandywine River Museum 39.8599 -75.5886 39.8599 -75.5886 Friends Lifecare at Home Friends Lifecare at Home tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Ffriends_lifecare_at_home.html 2006-06-19T21:31:06-04:00 2012-03-07T19:30:18-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/lifecare.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/lifecare.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Philadelphia Quakers run over twenty retirement communities for the elderly in their region. One of them is a virtual village, one without walls.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9694 -75.6067 Quaker retirement villages 39.9694 -75.6067 39.9694 -75.6067 Germantown and the French and Indian War Germantown and the French and Indian War tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzgermantown_and_the_french.html 2006-06-23T11:55:05-04:00 2012-03-07T19:30:14-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/0301_011601.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />In 1750, the frontier was not very far from Germantown, and the pacifist Germans were as conflicted as English Quakers about Scotch-Irish behavior, Indian warfare techniques, and Benjamin Franklin<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.4034 -79.8685 Braddock's Defeat 40.4034 -79.8685 40.4034 -79.8685 Wellsboro: Grand Canyon Wellsboro: Grand Canyon tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-03:%2Fwellsboro_grand_canyon.html 2011-08-03T14:36:06-04:00 2012-03-07T19:30:14-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/marywells.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Wellsboro was a local center for lumbering in 1890, has declined with the lumber business, and is now the center of revival for the northern section of central Pennsylvania.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> Children's Scholarship Fund of Philadelphia (2) Children's Scholarship Fund of Philadelphia (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-02-25:%2Fchildrens_scholarship_fund_of.html 2011-02-25T17:22:49-05:00 2012-03-07T19:30:07-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/childrenscholarship.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />By selecting inner-city children by lottery to win scholarships, but selecting the schools with care, this ingenious charity is really a way to prove if schools make a difference. They really do; and the doubled graduation rates make you ask why anyone claimed to doubt it..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9503 -75.1691 Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia 39.9503 -75.1691 39.9503 -75.1691 The Richest Men in America The Richest Men in America tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_richest_men_in.html 2006-06-26T15:17:28-04:00 2012-03-07T19:30:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/morrisr.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />In ten minutes, you can walk between the Society Hill homes of Robert Morris, William Bingham, Stephan Girard, and Nicholas Biddle. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.948 -75.1464 First Bank of United States Philadelphia PA 39.948 -75.1464 39.948 -75.1464 Chinese Canyons Chinese Canyons tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzchinese_canyons.html 2006-06-26T15:33:00-04:00 2012-03-07T19:30:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/chinese%20wall-702538.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Chinese wall" />Philadelphia's little Chinatown is jammed between immovable objects. If immigration persists much more, something is going to have to move..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9527 -75.1579 Chinese Wall 39.9527 -75.1579 39.9527 -75.1579 The Kappa Lambda Society of Hippocrates The Kappa Lambda Society of Hippocrates tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-04:%2Fthe_kappa_lambda_society.html 2009-06-04T15:18:24-04:00 2012-03-07T19:30:04-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/KASP.jpg" alt="{Kappa Lambda superimposed over a bust of Hippocrates}" class="tn-l-w50" /> The Secret Origins of the American Medical Association <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Pyramid-Building, Greatly Simplified Pyramid-Building, Greatly Simplified tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-10-27:%2Fpyramidbuilding_greatly_simplified.html 2009-10-27T13:35:07-04:00 2012-03-07T19:30:00-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/The%20Great%20Pyramid%20of%20Giza.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />After several thousand years, building the Egyptian pyramids might turn out to be easier than we imagined.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 29.9838 31.1293 The Great Pyramid of Giza 29.9838 31.1293 29.9838 31.1293 French Philadelphia French Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzfrench_philadelphia.html 2006-06-26T15:38:16-04:00 2012-03-07T19:29:58-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/longfellow.jpeg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />The French and the English fought for centuries; colonies seeking independence played one against the other. Our cooking, clothing and architecture went French when we favored France; traces of many periods still reflect that fact.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9464 -75.1564 Joseph Bonaparte house 39.9464 -75.1564 39.9464 -75.1564 What's a Mezzanine Loan? What's a Mezzanine Loan? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-14:%2Fwhats_a_mezzanine.html 2008-02-14T15:15:01-05:00 2012-03-07T19:29:57-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/crunch.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Be careful of mezzanines, especially in the financial world. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Owen Roberts: A Switch in Time Owen Roberts: A Switch in Time tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fowen_roberts.html 1993-01-21T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-07T19:29:46-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/owenRoberts%202.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />His old law firm devotes a reception room in his name, but not everyone is pleased with his writing the documents establishing the Barnes Foundation, or his capitulation to Franklin Roosevelt's threat to pack the US Supreme Court. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.954 -75.1922 University of Pennsylvania Law School 39.954 -75.1922 39.954 -75.1922 Zane Grey, Dentist Zane Grey, Dentist tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fzane_grey_dentist.html 2006-06-19T21:18:36-04:00 2012-03-07T19:29:33-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/zane-grey.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" /> Owen Wister may have invented the theme of the noble cowboy, but Zane Grey made it famous. Windmill Electricity Windmill Electricity tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-03:%2Fwindmill_electricity.html 2009-04-03T17:47:48-04:00 2012-03-07T19:29:22-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/windmills2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />There isn't a windmill within a hundred miles of Philadelphia, but wind power is being actively promoted. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 45.524 -122.684 Iberdrola Renewables 45.524 -122.684 45.524 -122.684 Madeira Party 2009 Madeira Party 2009 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-21:%2Fmadeira_party_2009.html 2009-06-21T16:42:26-04:00 2012-03-07T19:29:16-05:00 In Colonial America, Madeira was what the upper crust drank.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Mrs. Meade's House Mrs. Meade's House tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fmrs_meades_house.html 1997-08-28T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-07T19:29:14-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/meade.gif" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/meade.gif}" class="tn-l-w50" />The grateful city fathers wanted to give General Meade a mansion out of gratitude for winning at Gettysburg. The General refused, but he hadn't asked his wife.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.947 -75.1729 Mrs. Meades House 39.947 -75.1729 39.947 -75.1729 Methods of Thought: Scientific, Logical, Future Methods of Thought: Scientific, Logical, Future tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-11:%2Fmethods_of_thought_scientific.html 2011-07-11T16:27:20-04:00 2012-03-07T19:29:13-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/galileo.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Ideas migrate slowly like an army of ants, but methods of thinking jump like grasshoppers, every few centuries. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Harry C. Bishop 1921-2009 Harry C. Bishop 1921-2009 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-13:%2Fharry_c_bishop_19212009.html 2009-12-13T18:26:12-05:00 2012-03-07T19:29:07-05:00 The Right Angle Club of Philadelphia mourns the loss of a valued member. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Parliamentary Procedure (1) Parliamentary Procedure (1) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fparlimentary_procedures_1.html 2002-06-06T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-07T19:29:03-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/jeffersonact.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/jeffersonact.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Presiding over the Senate at Sixth and Chestnut, Vice President Thomas Jefferson observed pretty earthy behavior. So he wrote a book praising the rules of the British Parliament. Things must have been pretty bad if he, of all people, chose that model.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Merrill Lynch Illuminates the Mortgage Crisis Merrill Lynch Illuminates the Mortgage Crisis tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-31:%2Fmerrill_lynch_illustrates_the.html 2008-07-31T17:06:24-04:00 2012-03-07T19:28:57-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/john_thain.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="John Thain" />John Thain seems to have bitten the bullet at Merrill Lynch, illuminating one piece of the puzzle of our current crisis. But it's probably only one piece.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9534 -75.1711 Merill Lynch 39.9534 -75.1711 39.9534 -75.1711 Do Computers Thrive on Lead Poisoning? Do Computers Thrive on Lead Poisoning? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-12:%2Fdo_computers_thrive_on.html 2011-01-12T17:31:20-05:00 2012-03-07T19:28:56-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/gettheleadout.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />There's a rumor that regulations prohibiting lead in solder will shorten the life of computers.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Power of the Purse Power of the Purse tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-05-12:%2Fpower_of_the_purse.html 2011-05-12T17:42:47-04:00 2012-03-07T19:28:47-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/libertybond.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Establishing and revising a national debt limit was a mistake in 1917. Its mistakenness becomes progressively more evident as national debt approaches the point where we could not possibly pay it off, and several foreign countries demonstrate what can then happen. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Conventions and Convention Centers Conventions and Convention Centers tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Fconventions_and_convention_centers.php 2006-08-02T17:58:44-04:00 2012-03-07T19:28:43-05:00 When you have a big convention center, some circus is always coming to town. Philadelphia has always been a convention town, has had and still has lots of convention sites, and hopes to have more of the kind of famous convention we have had in the past.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> SEPTA's Long Term Planning SEPTA's Long Term Planning tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-01-29:%2Fseptas_long_term_planning.html 2010-01-29T18:55:05-05:00 2012-03-07T19:28:39-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/septa.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />SEPTA is slowly making progress, but it's a struggle, every step of the way.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9519 -75.161 Septa 39.9519 -75.161 39.9519 -75.161 Quilts, Patchwork Style Quilts, Patchwork Style tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-04:%2Fquilts_patchwork_style.html 2007-10-04T14:11:02-04:00 2012-03-07T19:28:38-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/patchwork.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Although quilting can be found in the tombs of ancient Egypt, American farm women are correct that they invented an art form.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> What's Different About Kosher ? What's Different About Kosher ? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-19:%2Fwhats_different_about_kosher.html 2010-03-19T16:49:24-04:00 2012-03-07T19:28:36-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/kosherfood.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Kosher Foods" />A recent conference at the Chemical Heritage Foundation examined the perplexing question of just what is signified by Kosher designation of food. Most of the curious audience were themselves Jewish.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9488 -75.1465 The Chemical Heritage Foundation 39.9488 -75.1465 39.9488 -75.1465 Art in Philadelphia Art in Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fart_in_phila_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-07T19:28:16-05:00 The history of art, particularly painting and sculpture, has been a long and distinguished one. If you add in the art schools, the Philadelphia national influence on artists has been a dominant one. 39.9658 -75.1812 Philadelphia Art Museum 39.9658 -75.1812 39.9658 -75.1812 Philadelphia's Two Years Under Attack: A Chronology Philadelphia's Two Years Under Attack: A Chronology tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzphiladelphias_year_at_war.html 2006-06-23T15:46:50-04:00 2012-03-07T19:28:14-05:00 <b>First year: </b>The British marched from Perth Amboy, back to Perth Amboy. <b>Second year: </b>The British sailed from Perth Amboy, back to Perth Amboy. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Port of Philadelphia Port of Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-20:%2Fport_of_philadelphia.html 2007-11-20T16:46:01-05:00 2012-03-07T19:28:10-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/packer%20ave.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Port of Philadelphia has access to six U.S. Senators from its surrounding states, but the price to be paid is endless political wrangling. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8867 -75.1766 Ports of Philadelphia 39.8867 -75.1766 39.8867 -75.1766 Franklin Endorses the Constitution Franklin Endorses the Constitution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-10-20:%2Ffranklin_endorses_the_constitution.html 2009-10-20T16:31:54-04:00 2012-03-07T19:28:06-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/huge.82.413542.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Benjamin Franklin never revealed his contributions to the formation of the U.S. Constitution, whether victories or defeats. When the final vote had been taken, he urged unanimous support by the delegates, in the following words.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9489 -75.15 Independence Hall 39.9489 -75.15 39.9489 -75.15 Broad Street North and South Broad Street North and South tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-03:%2Fbroad_street_north_and.html 2008-05-03T22:35:43-04:00 2012-03-07T19:28:02-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/broadstline.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Broad Street in Philadelphia stretches due north from the old Nary Yard on the Delaware River, past City Hall in the center of town, to the northern edge of the city at Elkins Park. Further North of the City Route 611 continues straight on through Doylestown to Easton, where it rejoins the Delaware River.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9524 -75.1636 Philadelphia City Hall 39.9524 -75.1636 39.9524 -75.1636 Securitized Debt: Fumbled, But Magnificent Securitized Debt: Fumbled, But Magnificent tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-08-02:%2Fsecuritized_debt_fumbled_but.html 2008-08-02T00:07:29-04:00 2012-03-07T19:27:54-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Merrill.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Forget about subprime lending, Alt-A, and all that other crooked nonsense. Securitized debt remains one of the great inventions of modern times.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.7118 -74.0087 Merrill Lynch 40.7118 -74.0087 40.7118 -74.0087 Monocacy Creek and Monocacy River Monocacy Creek and Monocacy River tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-29:%2Fmonocacy_.html 2010-06-29T16:50:43-04:00 2012-03-07T19:27:51-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/shawnee-.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />An ancient Shawnee Indian word causes confusion along the Blue Mountain.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.5075 -77.3778 Monocacy River 39.5075 -77.3778 39.5075 -77.3778 Beaumarchais: A Playwright Brings France into the American Revolution Beaumarchais: A Playwright Brings France into the American Revolution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-18:%2Fbeaumarchais_.html 2011-04-18T17:43:37-04:00 2012-03-07T19:27:37-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Pierre-Augustin%20Caron%20de%20Beaumarchais2.jpg" alt="Pierre Augustin Beaumarchais" class="tn-l-w50" />Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais, the author of the classic opera, <i>The Barber of Seville</i> was also a crucial financial and ideological supporter of the Revolutionary War.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Barringer Crater in Winslow AZ Barringer Crater in Winslow AZ tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-31:%2Fbarringer_crater_in_winslow.html 2009-05-31T22:26:46-04:00 2012-03-07T19:27:35-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/crater2.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Barringer Crater" />The crater is in Arizona, but the owners are in Philadelphia.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 35.0274 -111.023 Barringer Crater 35.0274 -111.023 35.0274 -111.023 Harvard Progressives in Philadelphia Harvard Progressives in Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-27:%2Fharvard_progressives_in_philadelphia.html 2009-08-27T17:07:03-04:00 2012-03-07T19:27:31-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Owen-Wister.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Progressive movement of the early 20th century was a strange hodge-podge of political reformers, nostalgic aristocrats, would-be socialists, and anti-immigrants. The central figure was Theodore Roosevelt, traveling in strange company like Owen Wister, Robert M. LaFollette, Henry James and Henry Adams. The Philadelphia link seems to have been through Harvard.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> National Business Coalition on Health National Business Coalition on Health tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-16:%2Fnational_coalition_on_health.html 2007-07-16T18:17:06-04:00 2012-03-07T19:27:26-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/NCOH.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/NCOH.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The NCOH was founded in 1992, at the time of the Clinton Health Plan. The national body is headquartered in Washington, coordinating seventy or so state and local coalitions of businesses that are paying for employee health care.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> <div class="g-plusone" style="float:left;"></div> Working Girls Get the Faints Working Girls Get the Faints tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fcurtis_fainting_spells.html 2006-06-21T14:30:02-04:00 2012-03-07T19:27:25-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/1867-68_Public_Ledger_Bldg_Phila_Ingram_1876.jpg" class="tn-l-w50 alt" />A publishing house employs myriads of young women. They faint a lot. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9473 -75.1506 The Curtis Publishing Company 39.9473 -75.1506 39.9473 -75.1506 Trapped in a Casino Trapped in a Casino tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-21:%2Ftrapped_in_a_casino.html 2008-05-21T18:26:58-04:00 2012-03-07T19:27:25-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/casinosur.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />There's lots to be wary of, in a casino. If you are planning to cheat, here's something you surely ought to know. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.3578 -74.4394 Atlantic City Convention and Visitors Authority609-348-7100 or 888-AC-VISIT (228-4748) 39.3578 -74.4394 39.3578 -74.4394 Illicit Drugs are Eliminated in Philadelphia Illicit Drugs are Eliminated in Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-01-11:%2Fillicit_drugs_are_eliminated.html 2007-01-11T17:06:46-05:00 2012-03-07T19:27:22-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Narcotic.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Every proposal for eliminating illicit drugs has failed except the one Philadelphia used after World War II. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8957 -75.2292 Narcotics Bureau-Investigation 39.8957 -75.2292 39.8957 -75.2292 The Victor Talking Machine Company The Victor Talking Machine Company tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_victor_talking_machine.html 2006-06-23T15:42:50-04:00 2012-03-07T19:27:19-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/nipper2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Caruso sang for this record company over in Camden, and its other recordings made the fortunes of the Philadelphia Orchestra. The bitter survivors of RCA Victor believe the Sarnoff family wrecked the company . <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Marcellus Shale Gas: Good Thing or Bad? Marcellus Shale Gas: Good Thing or Bad? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-11:%2Fmarcellus_shale_gas_good.html 2010-05-11T16:06:37-04:00 2012-03-07T19:27:10-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/marcellus-shale.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />There's a gold rush, in gas not gold, in Pennsylvania. What are the unintended consequences?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 42.6068 -75.1701 Cortland County Soil and Water Conservation District 42.6068 -75.1701 42.6068 -75.1701 Not a Single Red Knot Not a Single Red Knot tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-05-23:%2Fnot_a_single_red.html 2011-05-23T20:09:27-04:00 2012-03-07T19:26:37-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bombay%20hook.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Between the Dover Air Force Base and the west bank of the Delaware River is a large area of wetland and fertile soil centered on what is called the Bombay Hook. Benjamin Chew, Caesar Rodney and John Dickinson all had extensive plantations there. In some ways, remarkable wealth is all centered on the fertility deposited over the centuries by the eggs of horseshoe crabs along the bank<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> s of the river. Germantown After 1730 Germantown After 1730 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzgermantown_after_1730.html 2006-06-23T11:56:29-04:00 2012-03-07T19:26:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/german2_2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Germantown became the spiritual and intellectual capital of German America as immigrant farmers passed through on the way to better farmland. When Benjamin Chew built his mansion there, it became an affluent suburb as well. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0346 -75.1732 Germantown Ave. 40.0346 -75.1732 40.0346 -75.1732 The Ghost of William Penn The Ghost of William Penn tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-15:%2Fthe_ghost_of_william.html 2010-12-15T14:31:46-05:00 2012-03-07T19:26:18-05:00 Thomas R. Smith recounts the upbringing of the famous Pennsylvania founder, William Penn, through the form of a first person letter to the state's current residents. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Ghost of William Penn: Father, Mother, Memories, Skedaddle Thomas R. Smith, a.k.a., William Penn The Ghost of William Penn: Father, Mother, Memories, Skedaddle Thomas R. Smith, a.k.a., William Penn tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-16:%2Fthe_ghost_of_william.html 2010-12-16T16:13:53-05:00 2012-03-07T19:26:18-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bustofpenn.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />... <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Private Sector Disciplines Congress Private Sector Disciplines Congress tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-06-21:%2Ffinancially_disciplining_congress.html 2011-06-21T18:43:53-04:00 2012-03-07T19:26:12-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Birch2ndbankpa.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />"The bond market won't let you" has disciplined American governments for two hundred years. Robert Morris invented the idea. The nation's first bank was really its first bond fund. Logan, Franklin, Library Logan, Franklin, Library tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-28:%2Flogan_franklin_library.html 2006-10-28T15:42:27-04:00 2012-03-07T19:25:55-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/James_Logan.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />James Logan and Benjamin Franklin were at the opposite ends of the social scale in Colonial Philadelphia, and were to adopt stongly differing political views. But each recognized the intellectual power of the other, and they were fast friends.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9478 -75.1631 The Library Company of Philadelphia 39.9478 -75.1631 39.9478 -75.1631 Principles of the Command of War Principles of the Command of War tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-24:%2Fprinciples_of_the_command.html 2009-08-24T13:38:16-04:00 2012-03-07T19:25:51-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Army-Soldier2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Army Soldier" />A soldier must know how to shoot a gun, but a general must know how to use an army. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.3912 -73.9585 United States Military Academy at West Point 41.3912 -73.9585 41.3912 -73.9585 Right Angle Club 2011 Right Angle Club 2011 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-30:%2Fright_angle_club_2011.php 2010-11-30T19:03:00-05:00 2012-03-07T19:25:45-05:00 As long as there is anything to say about Philadelphia, the Right Angle Club will search it out, and say it. <p><!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Community Volunteers in Medicine Community Volunteers in Medicine tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-01:%2Fcommunity_volunteers_in_medicine.html 2007-06-01T16:34:05-04:00 2012-03-07T19:25:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cvim.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cvim.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />A little group of medical volunteers in Pennsylvania's Chester County may not understand the underlying issues very well, but they just pitch in and do what they can about the medically underserved..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.983 -75.5879 Community Volunteers in Medicine, a non-profit primary care. 39.983 -75.5879 39.983 -75.5879 Wagner Free Institute of Science Wagner Free Institute of Science tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-04:%2Fwagner_free_institute.html 2009-03-04T16:45:26-05:00 2012-03-07T19:25:25-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/wagnersign.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" /> The Wagner science museum may not be the oldest museum in Philadelphia, but it is certainly the only one that is exactly the same as it was in the Nineteenth Century. It's a museum museum. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9806 -75.1621 Wagner Free Institute of Science 39.9806 -75.1621 39.9806 -75.1621 Curtis: Textbook Case for Business School Curtis: Textbook Case for Business School tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fcurtis_textbook_case_for.html 2006-06-21T14:23:42-04:00 2012-03-07T19:25:19-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/ley5.gif" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Satruday Evening Post" /> Horizontal integration takes place when a company merges with its direct competitor in the same line of work. Should a company be allowed to buy its suppliers? This old legal chestnut about "vertical integration" is central to the difficulties that ruined the Curtis Publishing Company.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9473 -75.1506 The Curtis Publishing Company 39.9473 -75.1506 39.9473 -75.1506 Swashbuckler Swashbuckler tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fthe_swashbuckler.html 2000-10-05T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-07T19:25:03-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hughes.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hughes.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Your author is probably the only person still alive who personally attended the Senate investigation of Howard Hughes. There is probably a lot to this story yet to emerge.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8483 -75.3471 Sun Shipyard 39.8483 -75.3471 39.8483 -75.3471 The Pennamite Wars: Who Had The Last Word? The Pennamite Wars: Who Had The Last Word? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fthe_pennamite_wars.html 2002-05-02T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-07T19:25:01-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/kneller.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />When we shifted from a King to a Republic, we created novel problems reconciling the two theories of continuous ownership of land. The courts did their mystifying best, we suppose. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Ow Ow tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzowen_roberts_a_switch.html 2006-06-23T16:47:17-04:00 2012-03-07T19:25:00-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/owenRoberts%202.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />His old law firm devotes a reception room to his name, but not everyone is pleased with either his writing the documents establishing the Barnes Foundation, or his capitulation to Franklin Roosevelt<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Politics of the French and Indian War Politics of the French and Indian War tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fpolitics_of_the_french.html 2006-06-21T14:01:06-04:00 2012-03-07T19:24:37-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/isaacsharplessphoto.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Isaacs Sharp" />The French and Indian War is usually depicted as combining French treachery, Braddock's arrogance, Quaker stupidity, and Ben Franklin's heroism. Here's an incisive Quaker reply. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount, Order of the Garter Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount, Order of the Garter tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-27:%2Ffield_marshal_william_joseph.html 2009-01-27T14:45:09-05:00 2012-03-07T18:51:21-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/willslims.jpg" class="tn-l-w50"alt="" />The rise of Bill Slim from humble beginnings to the highest honors Great Britain can bestow, may seem natural enough to Americans but raises reflections about the origins of British world rule.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 21.8782 95.9658 Myanmar (Burma) 21.8782 95.9658 21.8782 95.9658 Sullivan's March Sullivan's March tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fsullivans_march.html 1995-03-16T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-07T18:50:21-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/general-john-sullivan.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Sullivan" />With Washington beleaguered at Valley Forge, an Indian massacre of the nearby Wyoming Valley was a serious threat from the rear. General Sullivan was sent to exterminate the Iroquois, and proved utterly ruthless.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Pipe Organs, and Similar Pipe Organs, and Similar tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-28:%2Fpipe_organs_and_similar.html 2010-03-28T22:43:40-04:00 2012-03-07T18:50:08-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/l'Orge%20de.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The pipe organ is an astonishingly ancient instrument, usually very expensive and hard to maintain, with many individual variations. The electronic organ is catching up, and may surpass the pipe organ in a few decades, but that's guessing.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9466 -75.1653 Kimmel Center 39.9466 -75.1653 39.9466 -75.1653 Yet Another Toast to Dr. J. William White Yet Another Toast to Dr. J. William White tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-13:%2Fyet_another_toast_to.html 2007-02-13T18:03:55-05:00 2012-03-07T18:49:56-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Dr.White.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Dr.White.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" /> great many toasts to J. William White have been given since his death in 1916. This one was proposed by Philadelphia's lawyer-novelist Arthur R. G. Solmssen. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Gardening Gardening tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-27:%2Fgardening_.html 2009-06-27T22:46:02-04:00 2012-03-07T18:49:56-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/garden_cartoon.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Garden Cartoon" />Gardening is making a comeback. Retirees are right in there.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9313 -75.2154 John Bartram's Gardens 39.9313 -75.2154 39.9313 -75.2154 Day One: Camden to Cape May Day One: Camden to Cape May tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-04:%2Fday_one_camden_to.html 2007-04-04T20:36:42-04:00 2012-03-07T18:49:46-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/diveastandwestnj.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Pine Barrens occupy the center of South Jersey. Settlements for three centuries have clustered along both banks of the Delaware Bay, like beads on two strings. On the Jersey side of the bay runs the King's Highway from Haddonfield to Salem. From there to Cape May, follow the Del-Sea Drive.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.9345 -74.9594 Cape May 38.9345 -74.9594 38.9345 -74.9594 Sixth and Walnut to Broad and Samson Sixth and Walnut to Broad and Samson tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-02:%2Fsixth_and_chestnut_to.html 2007-04-02T19:12:27-04:00 2012-03-07T18:49:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PennsylvHospital.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />In 1751, the Pennsylvania Hospital at 8th and Spruce was 'way out in the country. Now it is in the center of a city, but the area remains dominated by medical institutions.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Swedenborgian Church The Swedenborgian Church tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_swedenborgian_church.html 2006-06-23T15:18:29-04:00 2012-03-07T18:49:40-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cross.gif" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Swedenborgians belong to the Church of the New Jerusalem, following the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, and strongly emphasizing personal responsibility, individuality, and good works. The Philadelphia branch is particularly strong, centered around a magnificent medieval cathedral in Bryn Athyn. Johnny Appleseed and Helen Keller were notable adherents, and a driving force has been the Pitcairn family of industrialists.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9458 -75.702 The Swedenborgian Church 39.9458 -75.702 39.9458 -75.702 Franklin on British American Relationships Franklin on British American Relationships tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-25:%2Ffranklin_on_british_american.html 2009-06-25T23:02:01-04:00 2012-03-07T18:49:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/benfranklinport.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />For one of the most remarkable men who ever lived, Benjamin Franklin unfortunately must be acknowledged to have jotted down some foolish and ill considered things in his voluminous lifetime writings.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzfairmount_park_historic_preservation.html 2006-06-26T13:58:58-04:00 2012-03-07T18:49:27-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/FPD_map-725488.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="FPD map" />First you must learn how colonial buildings were made, then you have to learn how to do it yourself. And after that, this imaginative preservation society has branched out to helping other regions restore colonial buildings.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0214 -75.2022 Fairmount Park 40.0214 -75.2022 40.0214 -75.2022 Ball Lightning, Regular Lightning, and B. Franklin Ball Lightning, Regular Lightning, and B. Franklin tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-08:%2Fball_lightning_regular_lightning.html 2011-03-08T20:01:45-05:00 2012-03-07T18:49:10-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/benjamin-franklin-lightning.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Knowledge about ball lightning is as dismal today as Franklin found the state of knowledge about regular lightning in 1752. Let's put ourselves in his shoes.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9499 -75.1571 Franklin and the Kite 39.9499 -75.1571 39.9499 -75.1571 A Woman's Work A Woman's Work tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fa_woman_s_work.html 2006-06-22T12:04:43-04:00 2012-03-07T18:49:06-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/haverfordcollege.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/haverfordcollege.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />When Haverford admitted women students perhaps it meant to go all-women.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0245 -75.3189 Bryn Mawr College 40.0245 -75.3189 40.0245 -75.3189 The Swamps of Philadelphia The Swamps of Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_swamps_of_philadelphia.html 2006-06-26T14:32:45-04:00 2012-03-07T18:49:00-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/ft_mifflin.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />It's now a little hard to remember that the swamps began at what is now the Airport, and extended to what we now call Gray's Ferry. A lot of garbage got dumped there. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8753 -75.213 Fort Miffin 39.8753 -75.213 39.8753 -75.213 Morris Defends Banks From the Bank-Haters Morris Defends Banks From the Bank-Haters tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-11-01:%2Fmorris_defends_banks_from.html 2011-11-01T17:54:46-04:00 2012-03-07T18:48:59-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Robert_morris_jr.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />To understand why lots of people today reflexly hate bankers, it's useful to review the courtroom defense of the man who invented America's first bank, facing ruin if he proved unconvincing. British Headquarters: Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in its 1776 Heyday British Headquarters: Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in its 1776 Heyday tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fperth_amboy_heyday.html 1994-01-13T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-07T18:48:50-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/amboymap.jpg" alt="{Perth Amboy map}" class="tn-l-h50" />Now dispirited and forgotten, Perth Amboy was once the glamorous capital of New Jersey. Its harbor and neighboring Staten Island were headquarters for the Admiral Howe's British fleet during most of the Revolution.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.5035 -74.2692 Proprietary House 40.5035 -74.2692 40.5035 -74.2692 College of Physicians of Philadelphia College of Physicians of Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzcollege_of_physicians_of.html 2006-06-23T17:31:33-04:00 2012-03-07T18:48:46-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cpp-726413.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The oldest medical organization in the Western Hemisphere was orginal founded by eight doctors who had gone to medical school, unlike the rest. It's now a museum of medical history with a huge public attendance, it's a fabulous medical historical library, and a famous medical lecture venue. And it's a doctor's club..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9535 -75.1768 College of Physicians of Philadelphia 39.9535 -75.1768 39.9535 -75.1768 Funding the National Debt Funding the National Debt tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-11-02:%2Ffunding_the_national_debt.html 2011-11-02T15:49:55-04:00 2012-03-07T18:48:43-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/robertmorrisjr.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Funded debt, otherwise known as Capitalism, was a gift to the nation from Robert Morris, Jr.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Original Intent and the Miranda Decision Original Intent and the Miranda Decision tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-17:%2Foriginal_intent_and_the.html 2010-05-17T20:12:29-04:00 2012-03-07T18:48:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Ernesto%20Arturo%20Miranda.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Right before our eyes, we can watch the Miranda decision migrate away from original intent. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Benjamin Franklin Parkway (1) Benjamin Franklin Parkway (1) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fben_franklin_pkwy_1.html 1992-10-01T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-07T18:48:41-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/335_small.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" /> The slash of a diagonal boulevard across Philadelphia's rectangular street pattern took a long time to heal. But if traffic remains reasonable, it's becoming a museum paradise.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9642 -75.1791 Philadelphia Museum of Art Fountain 39.9642 -75.1791 39.9642 -75.1791 Molly Maguires of Pennsylvania (2) Molly Maguires of Pennsylvania (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-18:%2Fmolly_maguires_of_pennsylvania.html 2009-08-18T18:26:02-04:00 2012-03-07T18:48:41-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/laborthumb.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Almost everything the Molly Maguires said about their ruthless enemy the mine owner was accurate. Unfortunately, much of what he said about them was also accurate. And both sides said things that were pure fabrications.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.6886 -76.1992 Schuylkill County Courthouse 40.6886 -76.1992 40.6886 -76.1992 Poor Richard's Wealth Poor Richard's Wealth tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-01-20:%2Fpoor_richards_wealth.html 2012-01-20T11:52:02-05:00 2012-03-07T18:48:39-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Benjamin-Franklinpoor.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Ben Franklin called himself Poor Richard, and he also was invited to visit five kings. Was he rich, or poor? Secret Places Secret Places tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzsecret_places.html 2006-06-26T14:15:30-04:00 2012-03-07T18:48:27-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/winterhur.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Some rich people are ostentatious about where they live. In Philadelphia, they are more likely to go into hiding, but in special places. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8728 -75.6789 Longwood Gardens Kennett Square PA 39.8728 -75.6789 39.8728 -75.6789 Philadelphia's Republican Machine Philadelphia's Republican Machine tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphila_republican_machine.html 1993-05-27T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-07T18:48:25-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/buchanan.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/buchanan.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Almost all big-city political machines have been part of the Democratic Party, except Philadelphia. There were reasons for that.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9525 -75.1936 Unit for Experimental Psychiatry 39.9525 -75.1936 39.9525 -75.1936 Securities Trading Across Time Zones Securities Trading Across Time Zones tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-05:%2Fsecurities_trading_across_time.html 2008-07-05T17:51:19-04:00 2012-03-07T18:48:23-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/googleearth.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Closing the securities markets for any reason causes disruptions. Patchwork solutions are often devised. But continuous global 24 hour trading is an idea which conflicts with the need for everybody to get some sleep. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Canaris and Lahousen Canaris and Lahousen tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-11-27:%2Fcanaris_and_lahousen.html 2009-11-27T17:48:40-05:00 2012-03-07T18:48:16-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/NAZI.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Comparatively few people are aware that the top command layers of the German Intelligence Service (Abwehr) were outraged by Hitler's behavior, and worked actively to undermine the Nazi effort.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9501 -75.0164 Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP 39.9501 -75.0164 39.9501 -75.0164 Northern Liberties Starts to Revive Northern Liberties Starts to Revive tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fnorthern_liberties_starts.html 1997-09-11T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-07T18:48:14-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Nlmap.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Nlmap.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Formerly the region just outside the city limits, the Liberties have a raunchy history but even that declined. Right now, it's practically open space, right next to the center of the city; there's even a horse farm there.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Benjamin Franklin Parkway (2) Benjamin Franklin Parkway (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzbenjamin_franklin_parkway_2.html 2006-06-23T14:53:11-04:00 2012-03-07T18:48:14-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/artmusolympia.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Parthenon-like Art Museum at the other.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9579 -75.1706 Swann Memorial Fountain 39.9579 -75.1706 39.9579 -75.1706 Starving the Beast of Early Retirement Starving the Beast of Early Retirement tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fstarving_the_beast.html 2006-06-22T11:30:50-04:00 2012-03-07T18:48:02-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/lion.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />New Jersey may be about to demonstrate that taxpayers should be on the lookout for too many government employees, not too much government spending.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Chinese North Chinese North tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-13:%2Fchinese_north.html 2007-10-13T21:35:58-04:00 2012-03-07T18:48:00-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/forbiddencity.JPG" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />Like Philadelphia, Beijing has its streets laid out in squares. Take a look from a space satellite to see how the main aisle of the Forbidden City runs due north and south..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9163 116.391 Forbidden City 39.9163 116.391 39.9163 116.391 Local Elections (2) Local Elections (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzlocal_elections_2.html 2006-06-26T14:37:29-04:00 2012-03-07T18:47:58-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/2541295_200X150.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" /> The FBI listens to what Philadelphia politicians have to say, and tape-records it for all to hear.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Sporting Philadelphia Sporting Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fsporting_phila_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-07T18:47:58-05:00 A few reflections about sports in and around Philadelphia. Priceless Art as Mass Entertainment Priceless Art as Mass Entertainment tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzpriceless_art_as_mass.html 2006-06-23T16:40:08-04:00 2012-03-07T18:47:56-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/manetatthesea.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The major art museums are becoming display galleries for travelling masterpieces. It's a major undertaking. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Clinton Health Plan of 1993 - Part Two Clinton Health Plan of 1993 - Part Two tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-10:%2Ffrogs_like_flies.php 2007-08-10T16:15:35-04:00 2012-03-07T18:47:54-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/penninsurance.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="William Penn Pennsylvania Hospital" />After the Clinton Plan was dropped, and then after fifteen years of aftermath, public dissatisfaction with the health financing system is no better, probably worse. Here are some fresh ideas.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Parliamentary procedure(2) Parliamentary procedure(2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fparlimentary_procedure_2.html 2002-11-14T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-07T18:47:46-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/kinggeorgeiii2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Parliament once was the model for civil discourse, but the corporate model supplanted it. Now, it's all the lengthened shadow of one man, the CEO. King George III learned what happens when you annoy Americans with that style.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 51.5016 0.126989 House of Lords 51.5016 0.126989 51.5016 0.126989 WRTI, Classical Music and Jazz WRTI, Classical Music and Jazz tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-03:%2Fwrti_classical_music_and.html 2008-10-03T17:13:37-04:00 2012-03-07T18:47:39-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/wrti.jpg" class="tn-l-w50 " alt="WRTI RADIO" />For a city with such a strong musical presence, it is surprising that Philadelphia has only one classical music radio station. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9792 -75.1599 WRTI RADIO 39.9792 -75.1599 39.9792 -75.1599 Circular Letter: Boston Committee of Correspondance, May 1774 Circular Letter: Boston Committee of Correspondance, May 1774 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-15:%2Fcircular_letter_boston_committee.html 2010-12-15T12:12:53-05:00 2012-03-07T18:47:39-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/paulrevere2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50"alt="Paul Revere" />Paul Revere hand delivered a circular letter from Boston appealing for Philadelphia participation in a boycott of British goods. This letter had a significant effect on Philadelphia opinion..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 42.3636 -71.0537 Boston MA, 02113 42.3636 -71.0537 42.3636 -71.0537 Difference of Opinion Difference of Opinion tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-29:%2Fdifference_of_opinion.html 2006-07-29T19:22:28-04:00 2012-03-07T18:47:37-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/day1-redwood-portrait.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Abrahm Redwood" /> Some Quakers refused to go along with abolition of slavery. That was particularly true in Newport, RI, the North American point of the triangular slave trade.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.4864 -71.3087 Redwood Library Newport RI 41.4864 -71.3087 41.4864 -71.3087 Camden Riversharks Camden Riversharks tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-07:%2Fcamden_riversharks.html 2008-03-07T16:14:29-05:00 2012-03-07T18:47:35-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/camdenriversharks.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Camden NJ has a minor league baseball team which in some ways is more fun than the Major leagues. Fans certainly sit closer to the players.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9505 -75.1282 Campbell field 39.9505 -75.1282 39.9505 -75.1282 Medical Club of Philadelphia Medical Club of Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-18:%2Fmedical_club_of_philadelphia.php 2009-03-18T12:57:57-04:00 2012-03-07T18:47:35-05:00 The Medical Club of Philadelphia was founded in the Nineteenth century, as a social club of doctors devoted to non-medical interests. Lots of famous names, here. Arch Street: from Sixth to Second Arch Street: from Sixth to Second tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-04:%2Fsixth_and_arch_to.php 2007-05-04T22:02:59-04:00 2012-03-07T18:47:33-05:00 <img src="http://www.christchurchphila.org/SiteData/imagefolder/strickland.jpg" class="tn-l-w100" alt="Christ Church, Philadelphia" /> When the large meeting house at Fourth and Arch was built, many Quakers moved their houses to the area. At that time, "North of Market" implied the Quaker region of town.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Philadelphia Food: Traditional Philadelphia Food: Traditional tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphila_food_traditional.html 1997-07-03T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-07T18:47:32-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/NOLA%20ritz%20night.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The oysters, crabs and fish are having trouble with river pollution, New Jersey is filling up with split-levels, and fear of cholesterol is tough on Pennsylvania Dutch cooking. But on special occasions, it's nice to have the traditional goodies.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9539 -75.1734 The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 39.9539 -75.1734 39.9539 -75.1734 Camden NJ: The Third, or Irish, Tenth Camden NJ: The Third, or Irish, Tenth tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-14:%2Fcamden_the_third_or.html 2009-09-14T19:42:25-04:00 2012-03-07T18:47:31-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/1662tabulac.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Early settlers of the Delaware Bay, generally picked the eastern, now New Jersey, side of the river because the terrain was easier to farm. In time, the vast wilderness on the western, or Pennsylvania, side led to more commerce.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Herbert Hoover, Mining Engineer Herbert Hoover, Mining Engineer tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-20:%2Fherbert_hoover_mining_engineer.html 2007-06-20T19:03:32-04:00 2012-03-07T18:47:29-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hoover.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Herbert Hoover" />Herbert Clark Hoover was a Quaker, an outstanding executive, a hero of famine relief, a loyal Republican, and President of the United States elected by a landslide vote, then defeated by one. But above all, he was a mining engineer.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.7564 -73.9739 The Waldorf Astoria Hotel 40.7564 -73.9739 40.7564 -73.9739 Blood and Honor: The Philadelphia Mafia, Lately Blood and Honor: The Philadelphia Mafia, Lately tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-16:%2Fblood_and_honor_the.html 2009-09-16T16:19:04-04:00 2012-03-07T18:47:24-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/blood.jpg" alt="Blood and Honor" class="tn-l-w50" /> From 1980 to 2000, mob rub-outs and long prison terms for mobsters seemed a constant occurrence in Philadelphia. In the 21st century the underworld went quiet.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9389 -75.1578 9th Christian Street 39.9389 -75.1578 39.9389 -75.1578 Newspapers Newspapers tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-29:%2Fnewspapers_.html 2009-06-29T16:34:17-04:00 2012-03-07T18:47:21-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/newspaper.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />With newspapers rapidly becoming extinct, a central feature of old age is destined to change. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.96 -75.1623 The Philadelphia Inquirer 39.96 -75.1623 39.96 -75.1623 Authors, Writers, Poets, Reporters and Publishers in Laurel Hill Cemetery Authors, Writers, Poets, Reporters and Publishers in Laurel Hill Cemetery tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-21:%2Fauthors_writers_poets_reporters.html 2008-02-21T14:33:29-05:00 2012-03-07T18:47:20-05:00 Authors, Writers, Poets, Reporters and Publishers in Laurel Hill. Naturally, lots of other people are buried there, too.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0042 -75.1876 Laurel Hill Cemetery 40.0042 -75.1876 40.0042 -75.1876 Delaware County Travel Suggestions Delaware County Travel Suggestions tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-13:%2Fdelaware_county_travel_suggestions.html 2011-03-13T15:01:20-04:00 2012-03-07T18:47:20-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Williampenn3.jpg" alt="American Revolutionary" class="tn-l-w50" />Thomas R. Smith, a.k.a., William Penn is a local expert on Delaware County (and William Penn). He offers these tips on three historic places to visit in Delco. Cecilia Beaux, Portraitist of the Grand Manner Cecilia Beaux, Portraitist of the Grand Manner tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzcecilia_beaux_portraitist_of.html 2006-06-23T16:17:49-04:00 2012-03-07T18:47:10-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/beaux.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />She has turned out to be our finest woman portrait painter, in spite of some professional friction with Mary Cassatt.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.955 -75.1634 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 39.955 -75.1634 39.955 -75.1634 Quaker Efficiency Expert: Frederick Winslow Taylor 1856-1915 Quaker Efficiency Expert: Frederick Winslow Taylor 1856-1915 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-10:%2Fquaker_efficiency_expert_frederick.html 2007-09-10T18:52:21-04:00 2012-03-07T18:47:10-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/FWTaylor.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A rich Germantown Quaker boy became the world's symbol of the efficiency expert with a stop-watch, hated by Labor Unions but admired by Lenin and Stalin. He enriched the Midvale Steel Company with his invention of high speed steel, but was fired by Bethlehem Steel for eliminating too many employees. Peter Drucker placed him in the class of innovators beside Darwin and Freud. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0435 -75.182 Germantown Avenue PA 40.0435 -75.182 40.0435 -75.182 Larger Clubs Larger Clubs tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Flarger_clubs.html 1994-08-18T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-07T18:47:07-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Raquetclub.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />No longer exclusively all-male (or, occasionally, all-female), the downtown club is changing its role but remains a social center of considerable importance.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.95 -75.1645 Union League of Phialdelphia 39.95 -75.1645 39.95 -75.1645 Fanny Kemble Takes the Train South, in 1838 Fanny Kemble Takes the Train South, in 1838 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzfanny_kemble_takes_the.html 2006-06-23T15:45:28-04:00 2012-03-07T18:47:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/fanny_kemble_sully.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />One of several important and influential books that Fanny wrote described her trip from the Philadelphia salons to the slave quarters of Georgia. It's well worth reading, even today.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 31.1551 -81.4085 St. Simon Island 31.1551 -81.4085 31.1551 -81.4085 What Good Did Medicare Do? What Good Did Medicare Do? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-28:%2Fwhat_good_did_medicare.html 2007-02-28T15:53:40-05:00 2012-03-07T18:47:03-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/NIHVisitorMap.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/nih_map.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" /> Statistics seem to show that Medicare did not increase the life expectancy of elderly people during the first ten years of the program. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Puritan Boston & Quaker Philadelphia Puritan Boston & Quaker Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-29:%2Fpuritan_boston_quaker_philadelphia.html 2009-12-29T19:48:20-05:00 2012-03-07T18:46:58-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/baltzelledigby.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The University of Pennsylvania Sociology professor E. Digby Baltzell drew attention to the strong persistence of earlier elite influences, using Philadelphia's Quakers and Boston's Puritans as prime examples. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9546 -75.1948 The University of Pennsylvania Sociology 39.9546 -75.1948 39.9546 -75.1948 Foot of Arch Street Foot of Arch Street tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-02:%2Ffoot_of_arch_street.html 2010-04-02T15:53:14-04:00 2012-03-07T18:46:57-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/1000.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The foot of Arch was once the center of town, and Arch Street from the Delaware to the Schuylkill was the center of Quaker life for two centuries.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9517 -75.1417 Foot of Arch St. 39.9517 -75.1417 39.9517 -75.1417 Gettysburg Gettysburg tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-29:%2Fgettysburg_.html 2008-04-29T14:50:47-04:00 2012-03-07T18:46:56-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bio%20pic%20of%20robert%20e%20lee.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="General Robert E. Lee" />The strategy of both sides in the Battle of Gettysburg was shaped by the type of weapons in use.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.7268 -77.2106 Gettysburg National Military Parkphone: (717) 334-1124 39.7268 -77.2106 39.7268 -77.2106 Cushman Club for Lonesome Actresses Cushman Club for Lonesome Actresses tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-19:%2Fcushman_club_becomes_cushman.html 2010-03-19T17:41:25-04:00 2012-03-07T18:46:55-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/CharlotteCushman.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Charolotte Cushman" />One of the ancient Camac Street clubs has closed its doors, to become a charitable foundation.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9472 -75.1544 Morris House Hotel 39.9472 -75.1544 39.9472 -75.1544 Father of the Bureaucracy Father of the Bureaucracy tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-28:%2Ffather_of_the_bureaucracy.html 2011-08-28T21:54:19-04:00 2012-03-07T18:46:52-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Robert_morris_3.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Only a few days after being appointed Financier, or acting President of the United States before the Constitution, Robert Morris swept away Congressional committees and replaced them with administrative employees. Encampment At East Falls Encampment At East Falls tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzencampment_at_east_falls.html 2006-06-23T15:53:45-04:00 2012-03-07T18:46:45-05:00 To follow the story chronologically, however, we must first follow Washington to Moland House in Bucks County, after the first East Falls encampment.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.22 -74.7779 Trenton Makes the World Takes 40.22 -74.7779 40.22 -74.7779 The Park and Beyond: East Falls, Germantown, Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill The Park and Beyond: East Falls, Germantown, Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fthe_park_beyond_topic.php 2006-06-15T22:31:54-04:00 2012-03-07T18:46:42-05:00 Fairmount Park is large enough to split the City from its suburbs, and is partly a playground, partly a museum. East Falls, Germantown and Chestnut Hill are almost a separate world on the far side of the park. A Toast To Silas Weir Mitchell, MD A Toast To Silas Weir Mitchell, MD tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fza_toast_to_silas.html 2006-06-23T14:54:22-04:00 2012-03-07T18:46:40-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/histswm1.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Philadelphia medical scene, and the literary one.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 Morris Quits His Business Morris Quits His Business tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-09-29:%2Fmorris_quits_his_business.html 2011-09-29T17:56:38-04:00 2012-03-07T18:46:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/morris.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Although his personal wealth in modern equivalents approached that of Bill Gates, Robert Morris abruptly quit his business after a debate in the Legislature, just to show he had no personal bias. It ruined him, but John Hancock and George Washington did much the same thing. Ben Franklin behaved the same way, but was shrewder about it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Carpenters Hall Carpenters Hall tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fcarpenters_hall.html 2006-06-21T14:21:56-04:00 2012-03-07T18:46:30-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/carpentershall.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Carpenter's Hall" />Carpenter's Hall now seems a little place, and it was chopped up into still smaller rooms at the time of the Continental CongressBut nevertheless it was the biggest rentable place in the largest town in the colonies, so 53 delegates crowded in and did their work.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9481 -75.1472 Capenter Hall 39.9481 -75.1472 39.9481 -75.1472 Helis the Whale Helis the Whale tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fhelis_the_whale.html 2006-06-20T12:21:22-04:00 2012-03-07T18:46:28-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/BELGUAWHALE.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Beluga Whale" />In the spring of 2005, a solitary Male Beluga whale made his way up the Delaware River, causing great excitement. He hung around for a week or so, presumably searching for shad.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 48.4772 -68.9733 St. Lawrence River Seaway 48.4772 -68.9733 48.4772 -68.9733 Haddonfield Blooming Outdoors, Year-Round Haddonfield Blooming Outdoors, Year-Round tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-03:%2Fhaddonfield_outdoors_mini_and.html 2008-12-03T21:09:37-05:00 2012-03-07T18:46:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/haddonfieldlights.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" /> A calendar (in progress) of outdoor blooming in Haddonfield, New Jersey.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8981 -75.0312 Ross and Perry Inc., 39.8981 -75.0312 39.8981 -75.0312 Particular Sights to See:Center City Particular Sights to See:Center City tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-17:%2Fcenter_city.php 2006-07-17T15:09:24-04:00 2012-03-07T18:46:03-05:00 Taxi drivers tell tourists that Center City is a "shining city on a hill". During the Industrial Era, the city almost urbanized out to the county line, and then retreated. Right now, the urban center is surrounded by a semi-deserted ring of former factories. 39.9523 -75.1638 Philadelphia City Hall 39.9523 -75.1638 39.9523 -75.1638 House that Love Built: Ronald McDonald of Philadelphia House that Love Built: Ronald McDonald of Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-11-03:%2Fhouse_that_love_built.html 2006-11-03T16:44:39-05:00 2012-03-07T18:45:54-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/audreyevans2.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The idea of a temporary residence for patients and their families near a children's hospital came from Dr. Audrey Evans of Philadelphia. Initial fund raising was driven by Fred Hill of the Philadelphia Eagles. In 25 years, over three hundred others in 26 nations have independently taken up the idea.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9553 -75.2002 Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House 39.9553 -75.2002 39.9553 -75.2002 Report Identity Theft to the Secret Service Report Identity Theft to the Secret Service tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-05:%2Fsecret_service_gets_a.html 2008-01-05T23:51:58-05:00 2012-03-07T18:45:54-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Secret%20Service.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Identity theft is now under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Secret Service.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Battle of Monmouth Battle of Monmouth tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-06-27:%2Fbattle_of_monmouth.html 2011-06-27T17:13:38-04:00 2012-03-07T18:45:47-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/BattleofMonmouth.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The British Army evacuated Philadelphia in June, 1778, retreated across the narrow waist of New Jersey for the safety of their Navy at Sandy Hook. Washington caught up with them at Monmouth and fought a very creditable battle. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Thomas Say Thomas Say tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-24:%2Facademy_portraits_thomas_say.html 2010-11-24T13:04:52-05:00 2012-03-07T18:45:44-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/say.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="t" />Thomas Say's portrait hangs in the Ewell Sale Stewart Library at the Academy of Natural Sciences in remembrance of his love of bugs and passion for the Academy. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9908 -75.1776 Academy of Natural Sciences 39.9908 -75.1776 39.9908 -75.1776 Republican Convention in the Wigwam (1860) Republican Convention in the Wigwam (1860) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzrepublican_convention_in_the.html 2006-06-26T13:46:51-04:00 2012-03-07T18:45:29-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/1856_music_hall-769718.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Music Hall" />Honest Abe got nominated for President in a raucous brawl. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Monetary Causes of the American Revolutionary War Monetary Causes of the American Revolutionary War tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzmonetary_causes_of_the.html 2006-06-26T14:35:23-04:00 2012-03-07T18:45:25-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mfriedman2.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mfriedman2.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />For the only time in our history, the government didn't print enough money, The British found that was just as bad as printing too much,<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9482 -75.1472 Carpenter Hall 39.9482 -75.1472 39.9482 -75.1472 Net Neutrality and Vertical Integration Net Neutrality and Vertical Integration tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-11:%2Fnet_neutrality_and_vertical.html 2011-01-11T09:33:16-05:00 2012-03-07T18:45:17-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/nightcall.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Net neutrality is a new issue with several other issues buried in it. Here we take up its relation to antitrust, particularly the legal concept of vertical integration.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9543 -75.1688 Comcast Center 39.9543 -75.1688 39.9543 -75.1688 New blog 2012-03-07 17:13:41 New blog 2012-03-07 17:13:41 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-03-07:%2F%2Fblog%2F2235.htm 2012-03-07T17:13:41-05:00 2012-03-07T17:13:41-05:00 New blog 2012-03-07 17:13:41 description Setting National Interest Rates Setting National Interest Rates tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fsetting_national_interest_rates.html 2006-06-22T11:24:25-04:00 2012-03-07T11:39:39-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/DOLLARSIGN.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />The Federal Reserve system had slowly improved over eighty years of trial and error. Two decades of stability suggested they finally had it about right. But look at August, 2007.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9503 -75.1485 The Federal Reserve Bank Of Philadelphia 39.9503 -75.1485 39.9503 -75.1485 Lithuanian Law Lithuanian Law tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-10-16:%2Flithuanian_law.html 2009-10-16T15:41:49-04:00 2012-03-07T11:39:36-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/universityVilnius.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />American lawyers teaching law students in Lithuania illustrate the strange difference between the hunger of some Europeans for American leadership, and the rejection of American culture by others.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 54.6832 25.286 University of Vilnius 54.6832 25.286 54.6832 25.286 Computerizing Medical Care Computerizing Medical Care tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-29:%2Fcomputerizing_medical_care.html 2007-07-29T19:40:08-04:00 2012-03-07T11:39:35-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/CMCare.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/CMCare.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Healthcare is mainly information processing, but utilizing computers has been a disappointment. Be prepared for high costs and continuing disappointment for decades to come. 38.9069 -77.0412 National Business Coalition for Health 38.9069 -77.0412 38.9069 -77.0412 Geo Positioning Geo Positioning tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-22:%2Fgeo_position_test_blog.html 2007-09-22T11:21:55-04:00 2012-03-07T11:39:19-05:00 With the advent of Google Earth, the tagging of websites, blogs and photographs with latitude and longitude information has taken a great leap forward. 42.3579 -71.0573 Fidelity Investments headquarters 42.3579 -71.0573 42.3579 -71.0573 Black Swans (Financial Variety) Black Swans (Financial Variety) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-05-26:%2Fblack_swans_financial_variety.html 2011-05-26T17:18:37-04:00 2012-03-07T11:39:15-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/blackswan.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />How many financial crises can be understood as "Black Swans", if we regard a financial Black Swan as a case of constrained energy kinetics?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Tom Paine: Rabble-Rousing Quaker? Tom Paine: Rabble-Rousing Quaker? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ftom_paine_rabble.html 1990-05-10T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-07T11:38:14-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/thomas_paine1.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Tom Paine is the one who mainly set the fires of revolution burning, and Franklin sent him here, got him a job, circulated his pamphlets. In spite of Franklin's sponsorship, Washington would cross the street to avoid Paine, and fellow Quakers would have no part of his violence. His later life showed him to be a rebel without a cause.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Governor Keith's House Governor Keith's House tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-01:%2Fgovernor_keiths_house.html 2010-11-01T19:13:31-04:00 2012-03-07T11:38:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Keith%20House.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Just off Route 611 adjoining the Willow Grove Air Station, and on the County Line Road between Montgomery and Bucks County, is the summer estate of Sir William Keith, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1717 to 1726. Well worth a visit. Locally, it is called Graeme Park. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.2169 -75.1533 Governor Keith's House 40.2169 -75.1533 40.2169 -75.1533 Friends of Boyd Friends of Boyd tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-16:%2Ffriends_of_boyd.html 2007-03-16T17:35:27-04:00 2012-03-07T11:38:03-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Boyd%20Theatre.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Boyd Theatre" />The last movie palace in Philadelphia is either ready for restoration, or the wrecking ball.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9518 -75.1724 Boyd Theater (closed) 39.9518 -75.1724 39.9518 -75.1724 Reservoir on Reservoir Drive Reservoir on Reservoir Drive tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-07:%2Freservoir_on_reservoir_road.html 2010-05-07T17:38:54-04:00 2012-03-07T11:37:58-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Reservoir%203.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Philadelphia has a wildlife treasure within a mile of City Hall. The birds know all about it, but citizens need to search a little. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9825 -75.1919 Reservoir Drive 39.9825 -75.1919 39.9825 -75.1919 SHAKASPEARE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA NOVEMBER 5, 2003 SHAKASPEARE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA NOVEMBER 5, 2003 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-06:%2Fshakespeare_society_of_philadelphia.html 2008-03-06T19:14:40-05:00 2012-03-07T11:37:53-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />MEETING OF THE SHAKSPERE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA AT THE FRANKLIN INN CLUB, 11/05/ 2003 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 A Change of Era A Change of Era tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-10-05:%2Fa_change_of_era.html 2011-10-05T16:00:39-04:00 2012-03-07T11:37:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Independence-Hall-Philadelphia-PA.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Few historical eras burst upon the world with the suddenness of the American one. It took place in Independence Hall, all right, but even more decisively in 1798 than 1776. Madame Butterfly (2) Madame Butterfly (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzmadame_butterfly.html 2006-06-23T14:59:02-04:00 2012-03-07T11:37:30-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mbutterflybook.gif" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mbutterflybook.gif}" class="tn-l-w50" />It is Puccini's genius to take this story of how two nasty Americans destroy an honorable Japanese girl, and using the same story with the same words, make it into a romantic woman being destroyed by a hopeless, helpless love affair<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9485 -75.1615 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9485 -75.1615 39.9485 -75.1615 Robert Adams, Jr. Robert Adams, Jr. tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-25:%2Frobert_adams_jr.html 2008-04-25T16:17:32-04:00 2012-03-07T11:37:27-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/duel.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Robert Adams Jr fought what is thought to be the last duel in Philadelphia. His opponent was the dashing eccentric J. William White M.D., who is much better known. Adams, however, was later a State legislator, an Ambassador to Brazil, and a U. S. Congressman. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9488 -75.1937 Philadelphia General Hospital 39.9488 -75.1937 39.9488 -75.1937 Commercial Academic Think Tank Commercial Academic Think Tank tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-09:%2Fcommercial_think_tank.html 2008-01-09T17:33:14-05:00 2012-03-07T11:37:26-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/wharton-school1.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />There are universities and there are think tanks. Philadelphia has at least one commercial consulting firm which combines elements of both..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9533 -75.1982 The Wharton School 39.9533 -75.1982 39.9533 -75.1982 Pennsbury Manor Pennsbury Manor tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-03:%2Fpennsbury_manor.html 2007-05-03T15:01:41-04:00 2012-03-07T11:37:23-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/FaireMount.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/FaireMount.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The Delaware River takes an abrupt right turn at Trenton, creating extensive wetlands for miles around. Whatever its environmental drawbacks, the river delta is moving toward landfill and "development". Come back in fifteen years and be amazed.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.1353 -74.7714 The Pennsbury Manor 40.1353 -74.7714 40.1353 -74.7714 RR Monopoly Self-Destructs RR Monopoly Self-Destructs tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-17:%2Fmonopoly_selfdestructs.html 2010-06-17T17:44:05-04:00 2012-03-07T11:37:19-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/monopoly.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Railroads are inherently monopolies. That breeds regulation, and from there on, it's downhill. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9535 -75.1594 Reading Terminal Market 39.9535 -75.1594 39.9535 -75.1594 Great Bend: Joseph Smith Translates the Golden Plates Great Bend: Joseph Smith Translates the Golden Plates tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-09:%2Fgreat_bend_joseph_smith.html 2010-08-09T15:55:12-04:00 2012-03-07T11:37:10-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/joseph-smith.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Joseph Smith announced he discovered the Golden Plates of Mormonism near Palmyra, NY. He spent three years translating them at his wife's home in Great Bend, Pennsylvania.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.9562 -75.7051 Great Bend PA 41.9562 -75.7051 41.9562 -75.7051 Slum Creation and Urban Sprawl Slum Creation and Urban Sprawl tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzslum_creation_and_urban.html 2006-06-23T17:05:02-04:00 2012-03-07T11:37:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/faces-desht-north-6.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Suburban sprawl leads to urban home abandonment. Nobody likes the process, but varying factors continue to promote it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0083 -75.1513 North Broad Street Philadephia 40.0083 -75.1513 40.0083 -75.1513 R. Morris, Land Speculator R. Morris, Land Speculator tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-10-19:%2Fr_morris_land_speculator.html 2011-10-19T17:18:57-04:00 2012-03-07T11:37:04-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/robertmorrisjr.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />In 1785, Robert Morris suddenly quit as the biggest banker and shipping merchant in Philadelphia. Maybe in all of America, too. Stephen Girard 1750-1831 Stephen Girard 1750-1831 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fstephen_girard_1750_1831.html 2006-06-20T11:23:00-04:00 2012-03-07T11:36:53-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Girard.gif" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Stephen Girard was blind in one eye and never went to school. But he was a successful sea captain, then a successful merchant, then a successful banker. In the last year of his life, he grasped the essence of the Industrial Revolution, made a successful plan for the next century, and wrote a truly remarkable will.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.948 -75.1463 First National Bank of Philadelphia 39.948 -75.1463 39.948 -75.1463 What's a Repo? What's a Repo? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-17:%2Fwhats_a_repo.html 2008-03-17T17:20:09-04:00 2012-03-07T11:36:51-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/crunch.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />With a dozen small variations, repurchase agreements are a new and streamlined way to make short loans in big volume. Bear Stearns dominated the repo market for hedge funds but the volume got too big to manage when interest rates shifted.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.7558 -73.9768 Bear Stearns 40.7558 -73.9768 40.7558 -73.9768 Benjamin Franklin, Prophet Benjamin Franklin, Prophet tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-09:%2Fbenjamin_franklin_prophet.html 2009-09-09T14:56:10-04:00 2012-03-07T11:36:32-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/thumbportfranklin.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Ben Franklin was not exactly religious, but for one dominating American theme, Poor Richard is the prophet.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9495 -75.1466 Franklin Court 39.9495 -75.1466 39.9495 -75.1466 Socratic Teaching Socratic Teaching tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-12:%2Fsocratic_teaching.html 2011-07-12T18:55:30-04:00 2012-03-07T11:36:31-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hemlock.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Drink that hemlock right now, or I'll pour it down your throat.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Burlington, Capital of the Province of West Jersey Burlington, Capital of the Province of West Jersey tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-02:%2Fburlington_capital_of_the.html 2009-01-02T17:04:15-05:00 2012-03-07T11:36:26-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Burlington%20County,%20NJ.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />At first, New Jersey had two provinces and two capitals, and Burlington was one of them.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> James Buchanan: The President from Lancaster James Buchanan: The President from Lancaster tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-02-27:%2Fjames_buchanan_the_president.html 2011-02-27T20:30:56-05:00 2012-03-07T11:36:22-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/James_Buchanan2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Historians rank Buchanan as our worst President. Since he is Pennsylvania's only President, let's see how we might defend his reputation.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Durance Vile Durance Vile tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-27:%2Fdurance_vile.html 2008-03-27T17:31:54-04:00 2012-03-07T11:36:17-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Victorian-Era-Prisons-3.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Imprisonment is a comparatively recent form of punishment, only marginally better than the alternatives.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.967 -4.13438 Alcazar De Segovia 40.967 -4.13438 40.967 -4.13438 Laurel Hill Laurel Hill tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-28:%2Flaurel_hills.html 2006-08-28T16:49:18-04:00 2012-03-07T11:36:07-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Laurel%20Hill%20Cemeteries.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Laurel%20Hill%20Cemeteries.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Public attitudes about cemeteries continue to evolve.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0041 -75.1876 Laurel Hill Cemetery 40.0041 -75.1876 40.0041 -75.1876 Green Roof at Peco Green Roof at Peco tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-22:%2Fgreen_roof_at_peco.html 2010-09-22T15:26:46-04:00 2012-03-07T11:35:51-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PECO_Building.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />That big black electric company building across from 30th Street Station has a green roof. That is, they have planted sedum on it, and it's attractive to visit. Economics are another matter.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9545 -75.1848 Peco 39.9545 -75.1848 39.9545 -75.1848 Planning Horizon: Review Benchmarks Planning Horizon: Review Benchmarks tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-21:%2Fplanning_horizon_review_benchmarks.html 2011-04-21T19:24:43-04:00 2012-03-07T11:35:51-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/The%20Economist.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />How often should a person review his whole situation, with professional help? Answer: every five years. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The British Attack Philadelphia The British Attack Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-03:%2Fthe_british_attack_philadelphia.php 2006-07-03T17:32:35-04:00 2012-03-07T11:35:51-05:00 Fighting in the Revolutionary War lasted eight years; for two years (June 1776 to June 1778) Philadelphia was the main military objective of the British. Free Quaker Meetinghouse Free Quaker Meetinghouse tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzfree_quaker_meetinghouse.html 2006-06-26T15:25:26-04:00 2012-03-07T11:35:45-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Indepence%20hall-724037.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Independence Hall" />It's only open a few days each year, but the red brick building at 5th and Arch was the meeting house for those few Quakers, including Betsy Ross, who fought for the Revolution. The Park Service has made a beautiful restoration, which deserves to be seen by more people.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9524 -75.1487 Free Quaker Mettinghouse 39.9524 -75.1487 39.9524 -75.1487 Unalienable Rights Before 1776 Unalienable Rights Before 1776 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-16:%2Fbackground_of_unalienable_rights.html 2010-04-16T17:20:10-04:00 2012-03-07T11:35:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/william_penn.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Lawyers commonly say the Declaration of Independence "informs" the Constitution. But prior informing was performed by William Penn, the Roman Empire, and Hammurabi. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Alexander Hamilton, Celebrity Alexander Hamilton, Celebrity tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-09-01:%2Falexander_hamilton_celebrity.html 2006-09-01T14:05:53-04:00 2012-03-07T11:35:40-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/AlexanderHamilton.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Alexander Hamilton" />He had the kind of taudry private life and flashy public behavior that Philadelphia will only tolerate in aristocrats, sometimes.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9489 -75.146 Alexander Hamilton's Phila home 39.9489 -75.146 39.9489 -75.146 Home Heating Issues Home Heating Issues tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-06:%2Fhome_heating_issues.html 2010-04-06T13:13:40-04:00 2012-03-07T11:35:39-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/homeheating.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt=""/>There are very few places in America where home heating is unnecessary. Here are a few thoughts, from the home owner's point of view.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> How Does New Jersey State Aid Affect School Districts? How Does New Jersey State Aid Affect School Districts? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-14:%2Fdoes_state_aid_help.html 2010-04-14T13:21:36-04:00 2012-03-07T11:35:27-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/robin-hood1.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" />State aid for schools is like health insurance: costs go up faster when you aren't spending your own money. At least, that's what the New Jersey statistics seem to show.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.2206 -74.7701 State House of NJ 40.2206 -74.7701 40.2206 -74.7701 Billy Penn's Hat Billy Penn's Hat tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzbilly_penns_hat.html 2006-06-26T15:36:49-04:00 2012-03-07T11:35:25-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/WilliamPennHead-798755.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Billy Penn's hat" />There was a gentleman's agreement not to build higher than the top of City Hall, but business is business.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9528 -75.1635 Top of City Hall 39.9528 -75.1635 39.9528 -75.1635 Joseph Priestley of Northumberland, PA Joseph Priestley of Northumberland, PA tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-05:%2Fjoseph_priestley_of_northumberland.html 2010-10-05T18:50:55-04:00 2012-03-07T11:35:09-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Joseph%20Priestley.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />If asked to name the residence of Joseph Priestley, the Father of Modern Chemistry, most people would not think of Northumberland, PA.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.8903 -76.79 Joseph Priestley Home 40.8903 -76.79 40.8903 -76.79 The Franklin Inn The Franklin Inn tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fthe_franklin_inn.html 1993-06-10T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-07T11:35:00-05:00 <img src="http://philadelphia-reflections.com/images/weirmitchell.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Founded by S. Weir Mitchell as a literary society, this little club hidden on Camac Street has been the center of Philadelphia's literary life for more than a century. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 Lumpers In Constant Combat With Splitters Lumpers In Constant Combat With Splitters tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-03:%2Flumpers_do_constant_combat.html 2010-05-03T19:09:20-04:00 2012-03-07T11:34:58-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Debate.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The home dinner table is no longer the place most families teach the rules of conduct to each other, probably because of the invasion of homes by television. But there are places where friendly debate is still conducted and social issues are settled. In Philadelphia, newcomers are still taught what's what, in this manner.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9581 -75.1724 The Franklin Institute 39.9581 -75.1724 39.9581 -75.1724 Robert Morris, In Charge By Popular Demand Robert Morris, In Charge By Popular Demand tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-06-23:%2Frobert_morris_takes_over.html 2011-06-23T12:23:40-04:00 2012-03-07T11:34:50-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Robert%20Morris.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Franklin warned Morris: dictatorial powers in a crisis lead to backlash, no matter how popular and necessary that arrangement may have first seemed. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Wilkes-Barre, Site of the Wyoming Massacre Wilkes-Barre, Site of the Wyoming Massacre tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-11:%2Fwilkesbarre_site_of_the.html 2010-08-11T14:58:14-04:00 2012-03-07T11:34:46-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/monument.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Wilkes-Barre has certainly seen better days, but if you speed by without knowing its past, you are missing a lot. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.3054 -75.8448 Wyoming Monument 41.3054 -75.8448 41.3054 -75.8448 Funny Toes: A Physician Viewpoint Funny Toes: A Physician Viewpoint tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-08-03:%2Ffunny_toes_a_physician.html 2008-08-03T16:16:22-04:00 2012-03-07T11:34:30-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/WebbedToes.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="webbed toes" />Most people either ignore funny toes, or hide them in their shoes. Here's one doctor's idle thoughts about them.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9453 -75.1556 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9453 -75.1556 39.9453 -75.1556 International Visitors Council International Visitors Council tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzinternational_visitors.html 2006-06-26T14:40:02-04:00 2012-03-07T11:34:29-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/NANCY-GILBOY.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />, The International Visitors Council does a great job welcoming visitors from abroad.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.955 -75.1658 nternational Vistors Council 39.955 -75.1658 39.955 -75.1658 Market Street, East (3) Market Street, East (3) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzmarket_street_east_3.html 2006-06-23T11:30:22-04:00 2012-03-07T11:34:25-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/JamesMadisonBio.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Philadelphia built a White House for George Washington at Ninth and Market, a block from the place Franklin once flew his kite.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9503 -75.1492 George Washington House Philadelphia, PA 39.9503 -75.1492 39.9503 -75.1492 Books Books tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-26:%2Fbooks_.html 2009-06-26T23:30:02-04:00 2012-03-07T11:34:22-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/retirementlibrary.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Retirement communities can develop specialized libraries with minor expense and effort.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9594 -75.1711 Free Library of Philadelphia 39.9594 -75.1711 39.9594 -75.1711 Rise and Fall of Books Rise and Fall of Books tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-13:%2Frise_and_fall_of.html 2008-06-13T19:43:16-04:00 2012-03-07T11:34:19-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Library-Company_U.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The The Director of America's first library sees books as mainly a 19th Century phenomenon. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9478 -75.1631 The Library Company of Philadelphia 39.9478 -75.1631 39.9478 -75.1631 Is Stock Trading Passe? Is Stock Trading Passe? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-09-27:%2Fis_stock_trading_passe.html 2011-09-27T16:53:11-04:00 2012-03-07T11:34:11-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/usreturnchart.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Computers have been in some sort of use for trading stocks, for over fifty years. Are they reaching their limits?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Central Pennsylvania Central Pennsylvania tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-03:%2Fcentral_pennsylvania.php 2011-08-03T16:49:18-04:00 2012-03-07T11:34:10-05:00 "Alabama in-between," snickered James Carville, "Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Alabama in-between." There She Goes, Miss America There She Goes, Miss America tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-30:%2Fthere_she_goes_miss.html 2010-06-30T15:31:00-04:00 2012-03-07T11:18:29-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/crownamerica.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The Miss America contest is all changed and different, but maybe it stays the same. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.3639 -74.4409 Atlantic City Convention Center 39.3639 -74.4409 39.3639 -74.4409 Appendix C, Honored Guests Appendix C, Honored Guests tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-14:%2Fappendix_c.html 2009-04-14T16:24:52-04:00 2012-03-07T11:18:25-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bookcovermc.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />Five Presidents of the American Medical Association were members of this club, and at least three Presidents of the United States were honored. The eminent physicians of the day, world-over, were invited guests.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Fort Mifflin Fort Mifflin tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-12-01:%2Ffort_mifflin.html 2011-12-01T17:15:26-05:00 2012-03-07T11:18:13-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/ftmifflin.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Ordered by George Washington to fight on "to the utmost extremity", the Revolutionary War defenders of Fort Mifflin came close to defeating the British Navy. Hospital Elevators Hospital Elevators tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-09-24:%2Fhospital_elevators.html 2008-09-24T17:26:49-04:00 2012-03-07T11:17:59-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/crowedelevator.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />There are never enough elevators in any hospital; all ranks and classes meet in them; they are forever breaking down. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9498 -75.1583 Thomas Jefferson Hospital 39.9498 -75.1583 39.9498 -75.1583 Frederick Mason Jones,Jr. 1919-2009 Frederick Mason Jones,Jr. 1919-2009 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-08:%2Fmason_jones_19192009.html 2009-03-08T23:41:36-04:00 2012-03-07T11:17:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mason-jones.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt=""/>The French horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra, played by the acknowledged premier artist in the history of brass instruments, falls silent.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0683 -75.5247 St. Peter's in the Great Valley 40.0683 -75.5247 40.0683 -75.5247 America's New Theater Capital America's New Theater Capital tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-06:%2Famericas_new_theater_capital.html 2010-08-06T16:55:28-04:00 2012-03-07T11:17:31-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Merriam-Theater.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />New York's professional theaters have mostly become a tourist industry. The new capital of legitimate theater in America is -- Philadelphia.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9475 -75.1649 The Merriam Theater 39.9475 -75.1649 39.9475 -75.1649 Pakistan and Democracy Pakistan and Democracy tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-10:%2Fpakistan_and_democracy.html 2008-10-10T18:19:02-04:00 2012-03-07T11:17:25-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/071108_p7_cartoon%20Pakistan's%20Democracy%20in%20Jeopardy.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />A former resident of Pakistan loves Democracy, but explains why it has been unsuccessful in Pakistan.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 29.3896 71.6705 High Court pakistan 29.3896 71.6705 29.3896 71.6705 America's First Medical Interne, Jacob Ehrenzeller America's First Medical Interne, Jacob Ehrenzeller tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-07:%2Famericas_first_medical_interne.html 2009-01-07T17:27:18-05:00 2012-03-07T11:17:25-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/ebenezerjr.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The contract between the Pennsylvania Hospital and its resident physicians in 1773 has seemed a little quaint, but only since 1965, when Medicare made it possible to pay them.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Bank Accounting Off the Books Bank Accounting Off the Books tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-13:%2Fbank_accounting_off_the.html 2008-02-13T11:42:34-05:00 2012-03-07T11:17:21-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/crunch.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Recent waves of mergers, one-bank holding companies, and subsidiaries have tangled the assessment of losses in the credit crisis, slowed the acknowledgment of losses, had an inflationary effect, and the appearance of illegality in an environment of blame seeking.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Whither, WHYY Whither, WHYY tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-09:%2Fwhither_whyy.html 2007-02-09T15:57:28-05:00 2012-03-07T11:17:19-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/whyy12.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" /> Current American law now makes it illegal to broadcast the currently free (analog) version of television after Feb 1, 2009. Couch potatoes, man the barricades.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9542 -75.1496 WHYY Studio 39.9542 -75.1496 39.9542 -75.1496 The Kimmel Center: Comments On The Economics of Music The Kimmel Center: Comments On The Economics of Music tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_kimmel_center_comments.html 2006-06-26T13:42:32-04:00 2012-03-07T11:17:15-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/kimmelcenter.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Philadelphia needs more than one concert hall, but two of them may be more music than we can manage. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9467 -75.1656 The Kimmel Center Philadelphia PA 39.9467 -75.1656 39.9467 -75.1656 Pennsylvania: Browbeaten Into Joining a War Pennsylvania: Browbeaten Into Joining a War tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-25:%2Fpiracy_or_privateering.html 2011-03-25T19:55:40-04:00 2012-03-07T11:17:12-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/battle-of-lexington-concord-1775.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />America declared Independence on July 4, 1776, but England had decided a year earlier to suppress the rebellion by overwhelming force, and announced it six months later. France was then smuggling in gunpowder and guns. But Pacifist Pennsylvania held out until there was a British naval attack in the Delaware River, in May, 1776, and a huge army had arrived at New Brunswick in June. The British wanted to confront us with a choice of surrender or subjugation. We picked a third choice the British never considered, to resist until they treated us better. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> George Washington Defends Philadelphia (2) George Washington Defends Philadelphia (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fg_washington_defends_phila.html 2004-07-22T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-07T11:17:04-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/perth_amboy_nj_1920.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />On a chessboard of geography, the generals must deploy their armies, and anticipate what the other army might do.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.5086 -74.2698 Perth Amboy 40.5086 -74.2698 40.5086 -74.2698 Boalsburg Boalsburg tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-03:%2Fboalsburg_.html 2011-08-03T16:12:47-04:00 2012-03-07T11:16:51-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/BoalsburgBoalMansion2.jpg" alt="American Revolutionary" class="tn-l-w50" />Eight generations of the Boal family have lived in the house in Boalsburg, where you can see five signatures of Presidents of the United States, and the personal possessions of -- you heard me -- Christopher Columbus. Quaker Gray Turns Quaker Green Quaker Gray Turns Quaker Green tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-22:%2Fquaker_gray_turns_quaker.html 2007-04-22T17:16:48-04:00 2012-03-07T11:16:46-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mott.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Quakers mean to turn their headquarters near Philadelphia City Hall into a glowing example of how to save money while they save their environment.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9559 -75.1651 AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE 39.9559 -75.1651 39.9559 -75.1651 AFSC: American Friends Service Committee AFSC: American Friends Service Committee tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-05:%2Fafsc_the_american_friends.html 2006-06-05T20:50:00-04:00 2012-03-07T11:16:40-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cadbury_henry.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Quakers serve, without fear or favor.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.956 -75.1648 American Friends Service Committee 39.956 -75.1648 39.956 -75.1648 City Troop City Troop tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzcity_troop.html 2006-06-26T15:30:52-04:00 2012-03-07T11:16:40-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/FTPCC-784080.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="troops" />America.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9535 -75.1782 First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry 39.9535 -75.1782 39.9535 -75.1782 Robert Morris Has a Mid-Life Crisis Robert Morris Has a Mid-Life Crisis tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-09-08:%2Frobert_morris_has_a.html 2011-09-08T20:14:30-04:00 2012-03-07T11:16:39-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Robert_morris_3.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Robert Morris baffled everybody by abruptly abandoning his merchant career at the peak of his power. It remains a puzzling action, but somehow it displays American society's confusion as the Industrial Revolution confronted the last of the Enlightenment.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Philadelphia Food: Ingredients Philadelphia Food: Ingredients tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphila_food_ingredients.html 1996-07-04T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-07T11:16:33-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Acme.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The region has always been surrounded by abundant fishing, hunting and farm products. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Thousand Islands: U.S. Side Thousand Islands: U.S. Side tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-05:%2Fthousand_islands_us_side.html 2010-08-05T15:47:20-04:00 2012-03-07T11:16:21-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Thousand%20Islands%20International%20%20Bridge.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Lake Ontario towns of Sackets Harbor, Clayton and Alexandria Bay are about the same size, had much the same early history, but are demonstrating quite a different present and future direction. 44.3041 -75.9826 Thousand Island Bridge 44.3041 -75.9826 44.3041 -75.9826 Steep Yield Curve: A Useful Subsidy? Steep Yield Curve: A Useful Subsidy? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-18:%2Fsteep_interest_rate_curve.html 2009-05-18T19:00:50-04:00 2012-03-07T11:16:03-05:00 The interest rate curve is a subsidy to banks, just as surely as farm price supports are subsidies to farmers. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Phillycarshare Phillycarshare tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-20:%2Fphillycarshare_.html 2009-02-20T21:01:46-05:00 2012-03-07T11:15:52-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/redcarshare.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Those little red cars running around Philadelphia are for rent, by the hour. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9502 -75.1552 Phillycarshare Headquaters 39.9502 -75.1552 39.9502 -75.1552 Ageing Owners, Ageing Property Ageing Owners, Ageing Property tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-09-26:%2Fageing_owners_ageing_property.html 2011-09-26T19:57:14-04:00 2012-03-07T11:15:51-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/nishimura.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />From Japan, we get a fresh view of our assets. Kiyohiko Nishimura observes that the price of a house, even of a stock portfolio, has something to do with the age of the owner who is selling it. State Capitol Think Tanks State Capitol Think Tanks tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fstate_capitol_thinktanks.html 2006-06-22T12:26:43-04:00 2012-03-07T11:15:47-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Soprano%20State.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />States rights will be neglected as long as state governments remain so second-rate. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Delaware Water Gap Delaware Water Gap tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-03:%2Fdelaware_water_gap.html 2010-08-03T18:48:40-04:00 2012-03-07T11:15:41-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/DEwatergap.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Somehow, we all got tired of the Delaware Water Gap and forgot it was there. It's one of the great scenic places in America.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.0879 -75.0067 Delaware Water Gap 41.0879 -75.0067 41.0879 -75.0067 Canada's Southern Seaport Canada's Southern Seaport tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fcanada_s_southern_port.html 2006-06-19T19:38:50-04:00 2012-03-07T11:15:32-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/020425_train3.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="train" />Railroading was once the heart of the Philadelphia industrial empire, and it's a little disheartening to see that Canada is taking us over. But historic ties to Canada are particularly strong here.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8754 -75.2495 Philadelphia International Airprt 39.8754 -75.2495 39.8754 -75.2495 Roebling Roebling tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-01:%2Froebling_.html 2008-06-01T15:42:55-04:00 2012-03-07T11:15:28-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/john_roebling.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Some millionaires of the 19th Century are called Robber Barons, but the Roeblings deserve to be called Titans of Industry. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Robert Morris Invents American Banking Robert Morris Invents American Banking tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-13:%2Frobert_morris_invents_american.html 2011-04-13T12:21:12-04:00 2012-03-07T11:15:28-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/BenHenrylatrobe's%20Bank%20of%20pennsylvania1798.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />It's now hard to imagine getting along without banks, but Robert Morris had to invent the idea in 1780. Many people were horrified. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Trial Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Trial tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Flindbergh_baby_kidnapping_trial.html 2006-06-20T21:03:49-04:00 2012-03-07T11:15:15-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/charleslindberg.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Bruno Richard Hauptmann was surely guilty of something, although it remains doubtful if he deserved to be electrocuted for the death of Charles Lindbergh's baby.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.5102 -74.8613 Hunterdon County Courthouse 40.5102 -74.8613 40.5102 -74.8613 Last Will and Testment of Robert Morris, Jr. Last Will and Testment of Robert Morris, Jr. tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-28:%2Flast_will_and_testment.html 2011-07-28T14:54:11-04:00 2012-03-07T11:15:15-05:00 Here is the last will and testament of the richest man in America -- for most of his life, but not the end of it. Poor Richard Plays Hardball Poor Richard Plays Hardball tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fpoor_richard_plays.html 1997-12-11T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-07T11:15:12-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/lordalexanderwedderburn.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />While aristocratic England gave him a public drubbing, Franklin stood silently before them and thought it all over. At that moment, the American decision was made to declare independence. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Rittenhouse Square Area Rittenhouse Square Area tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzv_.html 2006-06-26T15:02:34-04:00 2012-03-07T11:15:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/rittenhouse.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />This was the heart of uppercrust society during the Gilded Age. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9495 -75.1719 Rittenhouse Square 39.9495 -75.1719 39.9495 -75.1719 GIC in Paris GIC in Paris tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-14:%2Fgic_in_paris.html 2008-05-14T13:47:38-04:00 2012-03-07T11:15:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/GIClogo2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Global Interdependence Council (GIC) visited the Banque de France in May 2008.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 48.8567 2.35097 GIC in Paris 48.8567 2.35097 48.8567 2.35097 The Founding of The Franklin Inn Club The Founding of The Franklin Inn Club tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-10:%2Fthe_founding_of_the.html 2008-01-10T17:46:09-05:00 2012-03-07T11:14:51-05:00 A History of the Franklin Inn, written for the 5oth Anniversary Dinner, by Arthur Hobson Quinn in 1952. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9485 -75.1615 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9485 -75.1615 39.9485 -75.1615 Heron Rookery on the Delaware Heron Rookery on the Delaware tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-18:%2Fheron_rookery_on_the.html 2010-03-18T23:42:18-04:00 2012-03-07T11:14:45-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/great_blue_heron.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Two or three miles from Philadelphia City Hall, a large flock of Blue Herons with seven-foot wingspreads are nesting in the trees, largely unnoticed.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0342 -74.9821 Amico Island Park 40.0342 -74.9821 40.0342 -74.9821 What To Do If You Have a Heart Attack What To Do If You Have a Heart Attack tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-15:%2Fheart_attack_2009.html 2009-04-15T00:26:42-04:00 2012-03-07T11:14:40-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/heart_attack.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Heart Attack" />In May, I had a coronary occlusion, and a fast trip to the Pennsylvania Hospital. Cardiac catheterization opened the artery with a stent, before there was time for infarction. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9455 -75.1551 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9455 -75.1551 39.9455 -75.1551 A Single International Currency? A Single International Currency? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fa_single_international_currency.html 2006-06-22T11:22:33-04:00 2012-03-07T11:14:36-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/dollar.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/dollar.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Half the world cheats, the other half grumbles, when American dollars become a reserve currency for the rest of the world. It will be a long time before the world has a single unified currency, and it may not be desirable.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9504 -75.1489 Federal Reserve Bank 39.9504 -75.1489 39.9504 -75.1489 Reconsidering All Our Laws Reconsidering All Our Laws tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-29:%2Freconsidering_all_our_laws.html 2011-08-29T15:21:15-04:00 2012-03-07T11:14:36-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/commonlaw.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The legislatures of America were handed a clean slate for statutes by the 1787 Constitution, and thus given the opportunity to review the entire legal system. It took nearly a century to accomplish, and is still proceeding. Christmas, 1776, Behind the Scenes at Trenton Christmas, 1776, Behind the Scenes at Trenton tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-04:%2Fchristmas_1776_behind_the.html 2011-04-04T19:36:35-04:00 2012-03-07T11:14:31-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/washington-delaware-l%20(1).jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Christmas may have been a good time to surprise the Hessians at Trenton. But it was also a week before many enlistments of Washington's Continental army expired. Now or never..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Beginning Social Security Benefits Beginning Social Security Benefits tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-30:%2Fbeginning_social_security_benefits.html 2006-12-30T17:59:22-05:00 2012-03-07T11:14:30-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/ssbenfits.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />All your life you can look forward to the day Social Security starts paying you. But some folks should start benefits before age 65, others should delay it for ten years or more.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Wall Art in Philadelphia Wall Art in Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-29:%2Fwall_art_in_philadelphia.html 2007-05-29T16:22:14-04:00 2012-03-07T11:14:27-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mariolanza.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Several thousand Philadelphia buildings now display outdoor paintings by local artists, encouraged and funded by the City government. In the summer, bus trips with guides tour around the town, explaining things. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9651 -75.1663 Mural Arts Program 39.9651 -75.1663 39.9651 -75.1663 Water Works, Emblem of the Past Water Works, Emblem of the Past tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-11:%2Fwater_works_emblem_of.html 2009-09-11T22:02:44-04:00 2012-03-07T11:14:19-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/waterworks1839.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Water pollution doesn't cause Yellow Fever, but in 1799 Philadelphians thought it might, and united to make a work of art out of a new water utility. Eventually, it did eliminate Typhoid deaths. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9669 -75.1839 Fairmount Water Works 39.9669 -75.1839 39.9669 -75.1839 Eisenhower, Reagan and Rumsfeld Eisenhower, Reagan and Rumsfeld tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Feisenhower_reagan_and_rumsfeld.html 2006-06-22T11:11:23-04:00 2012-03-07T11:14:18-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/donaldrumsfeld.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/donaldrumsfeld.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The battle between Donald Rumsfeld and some of his officers was an ancient one, with roots in the 19th Century, winning the Cold War, and the Industrial Military Complex.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.8155 -77.0154 Department of Defense Office of Public Communication 38.8155 -77.0154 38.8155 -77.0154 Obamacare, Executive Summary Obamacare, Executive Summary tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-29:%2Fobamacare_executive_summary.html 2009-09-29T10:23:56-04:00 2012-03-07T11:14:15-05:00 In the fall of 2009, we are up to three thousand pages, while over five hundred more amendments to Obamacare are being painstakingly reviewed. Here's where we seem to stand. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Henry George, Single Tax Henry George, Single Tax tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzhenry_george_single_tax.html 2006-06-26T14:11:59-04:00 2012-03-07T11:14:07-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/henry-703960.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Henry George idea of a single tax still lives on in a school run in his old house on Eleventh Street.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9443 -75.1586 Birthplace of Henry George 39.9443 -75.1586 39.9443 -75.1586 Legislative Branch: Two Chambers or One? Legislative Branch: Two Chambers or One? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-07:%2Fcongress_two_chambers_or.html 2011-04-07T14:48:11-04:00 2012-03-07T11:14:06-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/founders.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Romans, two thousand, and the Icelanders, one thousand years ago, developed parliaments that served as models for our own Congress. They were unicameral, however. Bicameralism had the model of the British Parliamentary system, but the Aristocratic House of Lords is currently being whittled away. The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1777 seems to have been one of the few to recognize how important the distinction is, and shows why two are better than one. The British better go back to the Thirteenth century and start over.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Franklin: Upstart Hero of King George's War (1747) Franklin: Upstart Hero of King George's War (1747) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ffranklin_upstart_hero.html 2000-12-28T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-07T11:14:02-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cornerstone2.gif" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cornerstone2.gif}" class="tn-l-w50" />'King George's War' was two wars prior to the Revolution. Ben Franklin raised an army when the Quaker proprietors' wouldn't. The experience maybe gave him ideas.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9445 -75.1446 Man of Trouble Tavern 39.9445 -75.1446 39.9445 -75.1446 Chester County, Pennsylvania Chester County, Pennsylvania tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-08:%2Fchester_county_pennsylvania.html 2010-07-08T15:54:28-04:00 2012-03-07T11:13:53-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mapchesther1715.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />When you say Chester County, you are probably talking about horses. There's much more to say..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Revolutionary Origins of The Methodist Church The Revolutionary Origins of The Methodist Church tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Frevolutionary_origins_meth.html 1994-08-11T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-07T11:13:50-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/church98.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Wesley brothers converted so many Americans to the Anglican church, they couldn't ordain enough ministers. Reluctantly, Americans were allowed to ordain their own ministers. When the Revolution was over, they had drifted into a new Protestant denomination. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9555 -75.1464 Saint George United Methodist Church 39.9555 -75.1464 39.9555 -75.1464 Battle of the Clouds: September, Remember Battle of the Clouds: September, Remember tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzbattle_of_the_clouds.html 2006-06-23T15:44:03-04:00 2012-03-07T11:13:50-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/dilworthtown.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="hurricane" />Benjamin Franklin, it should be noted, was the first to observe that Atlantic Coast "Nor'easters" actually begin in the South and work North, even though the wind seems to be blowing the other way.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9923 -75.5483 Battle of The Clouds 39.9923 -75.5483 39.9923 -75.5483 Veterans Hospital Veterans Hospital tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-17:%2Fveterans_hospital.html 2009-03-17T11:47:14-04:00 2012-03-07T11:13:49-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/vetshospitalpa.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="{Veterans Hospital}" /> In spite of much effort and expense, Veterans hospitals are not typical of American healthcare. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9481 -75.1999 Philadelphia VA Medical Center Home 39.9481 -75.1999 39.9481 -75.1999 Mennonites: The Pennsylvania Swiss Mennonites: The Pennsylvania Swiss tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-10:%2Fmennonites_the_pennsylvania_swiss.html 2010-12-10T20:02:57-05:00 2012-03-07T11:13:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hymns.JPG" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Mennonite Pennsylvania Dutchmen actually came here from Switzerland. The book of their religious martyrs is more than a foot thick, since they practice non-resistance, a belief significantly more pacifist than non-violence. Nevertheless they prosper abundantly in Montgomery County.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.306 -75.3673 Franconia Mennonite Meetinghouse 40.306 -75.3673 40.306 -75.3673 Main Line School Night Main Line School Night tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fmain_line_school_night.html 2006-06-20T12:06:11-04:00 2012-03-07T11:13:37-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cabrini.gif" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Rador" />There are a lot of continuing education courses, but few are as successful as Main Line School Night, with 14,000 students, hardly any of whom need education.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0535 -75.3597 Main Line School 40.0535 -75.3597 40.0535 -75.3597 Statement of Accounts, March 1785 Statement of Accounts, March 1785 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-10-31:%2Fstatement_of_accounts_march.html 2011-10-31T20:13:16-04:00 2012-03-07T11:13:18-05:00 At the conclusion of Robert Morris' term of office as Financier, he did an unusual thing by submitting a complete accounting of his term. As things turned out, it was a good thing he did so. Perth Amboy Revisited Perth Amboy Revisited tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-02:%2Fperth_amboy_revisited.html 2007-05-02T22:20:13-04:00 2012-03-07T11:13:13-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/GovMPerthAmboy.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Perth Amboy was once the capital of New Jersey, and the entry point of General Howe's invasion of the rebellious colonies. Except for one old building, you might never guess. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.5083 -74.2699 PERTH AMBOY NJ 40.5083 -74.2699 40.5083 -74.2699 Inverted Yield Curve: The Depositors' Viewpoint Inverted Yield Curve: The Depositors' Viewpoint tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-12:%2Finverted_yield_curve_the.html 2008-02-12T19:27:09-05:00 2012-03-07T11:13:07-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/crunch.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Much has been made of risks for giant creditors in the 2007 credit crunch. What about the little creditors, the depositors with their savings at stake?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Toast To Benjamin Franklin Toast To Benjamin Franklin tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-23:%2Ftoast_to_benjamin_franklin.html 2008-01-23T16:13:24-05:00 2012-03-07T11:12:50-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/franklin.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Toasts to Ben Franklin continue. This one by a former president of Swarthmore College has its focus on women in Ben's life. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9484 -75.1615 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9484 -75.1615 39.9484 -75.1615 Taxes as a Form of Consumption Taxes as a Form of Consumption tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-25:%2Ftaxes_as_a_form.html 2011-04-25T16:40:12-04:00 2012-03-07T11:12:50-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/415tax.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Most people find taxes are their biggest expense. Why not reduce them? Nature Preservation Nature Preservation tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Fnature_preservation.php 2006-08-02T18:37:29-04:00 2012-03-07T11:12:39-05:00 Nature preservation and nature destruction are different parts of an eternal process. Hidden River Hidden River tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-05:%2Fhidden_river.html 2008-10-05T19:41:08-04:00 2012-03-07T11:12:37-05:00 In season, and for benefits, cruises of the Schuylkill are starting to be available at the Walnut Street dock. Go down the stairs at 24th Street.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9519 -75.181 The Dock at 24th And Walnut Street 39.9519 -75.181 39.9519 -75.181 Static vs Dynamic URLs Static vs Dynamic URLs tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-15:%2Fstatic_vs_dynamic_urls.html 2007-11-15T14:06:42-05:00 2012-03-07T11:12:27-05:00 Implementing static URLs for a website driven by PHP and MySQL is as easy as a little regex and htaccess magic. The Third Pennamite War (1784) The Third Pennamite War (1784) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fthird_pennamite_war.html 1995-03-16T16:58:17-05:00 2012-03-07T10:00:07-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Wyoming_Massacre_Web.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="wyoming masscre" />Connecticut and Pennsylvania stopped fighting during the Revolution, but then promptly resumed hostilities. The Decision of Trenton gave the prize to Pennsylvania, whose legislature promptly abused the helpless remaining Connecticut settlers. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Corporations: Property, but also Immortal Persons Corporations: Property, but also Immortal Persons tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-31:%2Fcorporations_persons_but_immortal.html 2011-08-31T17:40:18-04:00 2012-03-07T10:00:04-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Proprietorshouse.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />There had been a few stockholder corporations, dating back to the Dutch East India Corporation and the Proprietors of West Jersey. The Industrial Revolution greatly encouraged this business structure, but America got the jump on the rest of the world by some happenstances. Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Montgomery County, Pennsylvania tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-17:%2Fmontgomery_county_pennsylvania.php 2010-09-17T13:20:51-04:00 2012-03-07T09:59:54-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/montgomerycounty.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Nobel Prize: Michael Brown, MD Nobel Prize: Michael Brown, MD tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fnobel_prize_michael_brown.html 2006-06-21T12:37:47-04:00 2012-03-07T09:59:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/brown.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/brown.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />A locally trained Philadelphia physician has won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for saving millions of lives with the "statin" drugs. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9534 -75.177 The College of Physcians of Philadelphia 39.9534 -75.177 39.9534 -75.177 Restoring the Gold Standard by Levering Judges' Salaries Restoring the Gold Standard by Levering Judges' Salaries tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-01:%2Frestoring_the_gold_standard.html 2010-07-01T20:16:50-04:00 2012-03-07T09:59:38-05:00 Advocates of a gold standard may just have found an effective "gotcha".<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> How Could We Improve State Legislatures? How Could We Improve State Legislatures? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-01-25:%2Fhow_could_we_improve.html 2012-01-25T17:23:52-05:00 2012-03-07T09:59:29-05:00 If state legislatures are as bad as their reputation, we ought to be asking questions. Like, how did they get that reputation, and what can improve it? American Succession American Succession tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-26:%2Famerican_succession_beliefs.html 2008-11-26T12:34:43-05:00 2012-03-07T09:59:28-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/george_washington.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="George Washington" />The rules for succession are not spelled out in the American Constitution, but what is implicit was revolutionary. Once again, credit George Washington.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9502 -75.1494 The President's House 39.9502 -75.1494 39.9502 -75.1494 When Bosses Ruled Philadelphia When Bosses Ruled Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzwhen_bosses_ruled_philadelphia.html 2006-06-23T15:48:02-04:00 2012-03-07T09:59:21-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/whenboosesruled.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Starting with the gas works, a scholar makes the point that modern big-city political machines are financed by Utility companies. Utilities prefer one-stop payoffs to a lot of petty grafters, and being monopolies, they pass the cost to the customers. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9524 -75.1636 Philadelphia City Hall 39.9524 -75.1636 39.9524 -75.1636 Philadelphia Drink Philadelphia Drink tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzphiladelphia_drink.html 2006-06-26T14:44:28-04:00 2012-03-07T09:59:19-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/delbay.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="delbay" />Philadelphia water has always been questionable, so there is resort to substitutes, at least for drinking purposes.<br /><!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> x 39.95 -75.1645 Union League of Philadelphia 39.95 -75.1645 39.95 -75.1645 Three-Mile Island Three-Mile Island tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-27:%2Fthreemile_island.html 2010-10-27T17:25:18-04:00 2012-03-07T09:59:19-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/three-mile-island.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />An ominous-looking nuclear energy plant developed some sort of difficulty, a few miles from the State Capital of Harrisburg. The direct effects were minor, but the political and psychological ones have endured for half a century. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.156 -76.7254 Three Mile Island 40.156 -76.7254 40.156 -76.7254 Forming the State of Delaware Forming the State of Delaware tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-04:%2Flegal_quagmire_forming_the.html 2010-02-04T22:03:06-05:00 2012-03-07T09:59:13-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/King.CharlesI.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />In 1632, King Charles I granted to the Maryland proprietor coastal land with a northern border at the 40th parallel. In 1682, his son James the Duke of York evicted the Dutch from the Connecticut River to Cape Henlopen; afterwards, his brother King Charles II gave away New Jersey and Pennsylvania, leaving York with New York plus a strip of wilderness from Pennsylvania to Henlopen. York then gifted that southern strip to William Penn before anyone realized there was a sloppy overlap with Maryland of thousands of square miles. Lawsuits galore.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.7222 -75.7739 Delaware Wedge 39.7222 -75.7739 39.7222 -75.7739 XHTML vs. HTML XHTML vs. HTML tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-03:%2Fxhtml_vs_html.html 2006-08-03T16:30:27-04:00 2012-03-07T09:59:12-05:00 XHTML is advanced HTML. Not all browsers support it, so pages must test first and serve what's supported. <br /><br /> PHP output buffering improves response time. Gzip speeds internet transmission, compressing text volume (not images) up to 80%. Inazo Nitobe, Quaker Samurai Inazo Nitobe, Quaker Samurai tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzinazo_nitobe_quaker_samurai.html 2006-06-23T11:38:15-04:00 2012-03-07T09:59:12-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Nitobe.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />One of the most revered leaders of modern Japan was a Quaker, married to a Philadelphia Quaker. His father was advisor to the Emperor, his family were famous warriors.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 52.087 4.29754 Peace Palace 52.087 4.29754 52.087 4.29754 Victorian Broad Street Victorian Broad Street tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzvictorian_broad_street.html 2006-06-26T15:39:52-04:00 2012-03-07T09:59:11-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Broad100.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Some massive beautiful Victorian buildings still dominate the City crossroads on Broad Street near City Hall. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9479 -75.1652 South Broad Street Philadelphia PA 39.9479 -75.1652 39.9479 -75.1652 Children's Scholarship Fund (1) Children's Scholarship Fund (1) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-02:%2Fchildrens_scholarship_fund.html 2009-12-02T18:32:30-05:00 2012-03-07T09:59:11-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/coverimage.img.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />The Right Angle Club has decided to make donations to the Children's Scholarship Fund of Philadelphia..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9498 -75.1684 Children's Scholarship Fund of Philadelphia 39.9498 -75.1684 39.9498 -75.1684 Religion at Girard College:Spiritual But Irreligious Religion at Girard College:Spiritual But Irreligious tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Freligion_at_girard_college.html 2006-06-20T12:23:12-04:00 2012-03-07T09:59:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Founders_Hall.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />In his will, Stephen Girard famously banished all clergymen from the grounds of his school for orphans, even as visitors. Nevertheless, the school's atmosphere is a highly ethical, even religious, one. Many graduates have become ministers. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9559 -75.1651 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 39.9559 -75.1651 39.9559 -75.1651 South Amboy Explodes South Amboy Explodes tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-02:%2Fsouth_amboy_explodes.html 2008-07-02T17:51:38-04:00 2012-03-07T09:59:04-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/night_explosion_late_1.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />On May 18, 1950 South Amboy, New Jersey blew up, breaking windows of five counties in its neighborhood.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Atlantic City, Brigantine and the N.I.H. Atlantic City, Brigantine and the N.I.H. tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-20:%2Fatlantic_city_brigantine_and.html 2010-05-20T21:09:53-04:00 2012-03-07T09:58:54-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/atlantic-city.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Great scientists in crowds look and act pretty much like everyone else.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.3586 -74.4198 Steel Pier 39.3586 -74.4198 39.3586 -74.4198 Relocation Relocation tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-01-11:%2Frelocation_.html 2012-01-11T18:53:57-05:00 2012-03-07T09:58:53-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/moving_truck.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Moving your place of residence has many influences, but property taxes seem to have the biggest influence on business executives decision to move. By contrast, property prices have the biggest influence on the middle class. Mayors and Limos Mayors and Limos tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzmayors_and_limos.html 2006-06-26T14:43:46-04:00 2012-03-07T09:58:44-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Limo.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Mayors sometimes want to be noticed riding around, and sometimes want to be invisible. They have been both. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9469 -75.151 Mayor Richardson Dilworth 39.9469 -75.151 39.9469 -75.151 History of the Mennonites History of the Mennonites tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-14:%2Fhistory_of_the_mennonites.html 2010-12-14T16:48:28-05:00 2012-03-07T09:58:40-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mennosimons.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Although an occasional member is irked by the world's neglect of his church and speaks out in annoyance, the Mennonites in general prefer to do good, unnoticed.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.2905 -75.3801 Mennonite Heritage Center 40.2905 -75.3801 40.2905 -75.3801 Pot Belly Pot Belly tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-03:%2Fpot_belly.html 2009-07-03T16:25:11-04:00 2012-03-07T09:58:39-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/pot-belly.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />" It isn't just your weight that changes as you grow old, it's your shape. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Our Federal Reserve : Biddle's Bank (2) Our Federal Reserve : Biddle's Bank (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-27:%2Fzour_federal_reserve_biddles.html 2006-06-27T17:27:19-04:00 2012-03-07T09:58:37-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/nicholasbiddle.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Nicholas Biddle" />Nicholas Biddle was a cultured gentleman who invented a lot of the structure of modern banking. But he got in Andrew Jackson's road.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9486 -75.1484 Biddle Bank 39.9486 -75.1484 39.9486 -75.1484 Curtis Center Curtis Center tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-24:%2Fcurtis_center.html 2009-07-24T21:09:44-04:00 2012-03-07T09:58:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/TheCurtisCenter.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Curtis Institute of Music is tearing down several buildings on Locust Street in order to become bigger and better.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Real Estate Bubble Traps Robert Morris Real Estate Bubble Traps Robert Morris tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-05-20:%2Freal_estate_bubble_traps.html 2011-05-20T11:54:27-04:00 2012-03-07T09:58:32-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Robert%20Morris.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />His financial affairs were unusually complicated, but the main thing which destroyed Robert Morris was the collapse of a huge real estate bubble. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Walking Purchase The Walking Purchase tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fthe_walking_purchase.html 2006-06-21T14:05:28-04:00 2012-03-07T09:58:25-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/william-penn-indians.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="William Penn and Indians" /> Quaker treatment of the Indians had been exemplary before 1737, and has been highly sympathetic ever since then, too. However, James Logan totally destroyed the trust of the Delaware Indians by using hired runners to establish boundaries of the Walking Purchase, north of the Neshaminy Creek. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9661 -75.1287 Penn Treaty Park 39.9661 -75.1287 39.9661 -75.1287 Right Angle Club 2007 Right Angle Club 2007 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-01:%2Fthe_right_angle_club.php 2007-03-01T14:34:01-05:00 2012-03-07T09:58:25-05:00 A report, to the year 2007 shareholders of the Right Angle Club of Philadelphia, by the outgoing president. www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/73.htm<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9491 -75.1675 Right Angle Club of Philadelphia 39.9491 -75.1675 39.9491 -75.1675 Right Angle Club 2009 Right Angle Club 2009 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-09:%2Fright_angle_club_2009.php 2009-01-09T19:02:04-05:00 2012-03-07T09:58:25-05:00 The 2009 proceedings of the Right Angle Club of Philadelphia, beginning with the farewell address of the outgoing president, John W. Nixon, and sadly concluding with memorials to two departed members, Fred Etherington and Harry Bishop.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Willow Grove Park Willow Grove Park tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-23:%2Fwillow_grove_park.html 2010-04-23T16:57:42-04:00 2012-03-07T09:58:15-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/titlebar3.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />There were dozens of Amusement Parks run by trolley companies in 1900, and Willow Grove was the acknowledged Queen of the trolley parks. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.142 -75.1211 Willow Grove PArk 40.142 -75.1211 40.142 -75.1211 Tammany: Philadelphia's Gift to New York Tammany: Philadelphia's Gift to New York tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-11-01:%2Ftammany_philadelphias_gift_to.html 2011-11-01T13:07:51-04:00 2012-03-07T09:57:58-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Tammany%20Hall.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />All the bad things they say about Tammany Hall are somewhat true. William Penn, George Washington and Aaron Burr can be happy that Tammany Hall is now mostly a New York tradition, its Philadelphia origins long forgotten.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script><!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> New Museum of Chemical Heritage New Museum of Chemical Heritage tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-06:%2Fnew_museum_of_chemical.html 2008-10-06T18:27:16-04:00 2012-03-07T09:57:53-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/chemical-heritage-foundatio.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />There's a stunning new museum on Chestnut Street, right across the street from Carpenters Hall. It's intended to convince everybody that chemistry is fascinating, particularly those who incline to doubt it. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.949 -75.1466 The Chemical Hertiage 39.949 -75.1466 39.949 -75.1466 Shrine of Historical Restoration Shrine of Historical Restoration tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzhistorical_restoration.html 2006-06-26T15:22:19-04:00 2012-03-07T09:57:50-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mitchell-732458.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Mitchell" />Charles Peterson sparked the restoration of Society Hill. In the course of fixing old houses the preservationist found a lot of things for a museum of professionally documented old house parts which now set standards for authentic colonial restoration everywhere in the country.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9447 -75.1476 Charles Peterson House 39.9447 -75.1476 39.9447 -75.1476 Quaker Mary Dyer and Algernon Sydney Quaker Mary Dyer and Algernon Sydney tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-26:%2Fquaker_mary_dyer_and.html 2011-04-26T16:14:50-04:00 2012-03-07T09:57:44-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/william_penn_01_or.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />William Penn did not invent Quakerism, but he greatly refined it. Mary Dyer pulled Quakerism toward greater extremism. Algernon Sydney the lawyer pulled it toward a more orderly conservatism.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> July 4, 1776 July 4, 1776 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-09:%2Fjuly_4_1776.html 2008-04-09T11:14:20-04:00 2012-03-07T09:57:41-05:00 Patients in Pennsylvania Hospital on Independence Day, 1776. Day Two: Rehoboth to Kennett Square Day Two: Rehoboth to Kennett Square tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-05:%2Fday_two_rehoboth_to.html 2007-04-05T16:48:39-04:00 2012-03-07T09:57:27-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/lewesferry.JPG" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The southwestern shore of Delaware Bay was an isolated swampy world until a couple of decades ago. It now seems hurtling toward a resemblance to Luxembourg or Liechtenstein. Any way you look at it, the State of Delaware is very charming.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8467 -75.7119 Kennett Square 39.8467 -75.7119 39.8467 -75.7119 Central Pennsylvania Settlers Before 1700 Central Pennsylvania Settlers Before 1700 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-31:%2Fcentral_pennsylvania_settlers_before.html 2010-08-31T17:29:17-04:00 2012-03-07T09:57:27-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/dutchships.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />When German-speaking religious sects migrated into the "Pennsylvania Dutch" area around 1730, they found German Lutherans had been living there for nearly fifty years..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Elias Durand Elias Durand tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-24:%2Facademy_portraits_elias_durand.html 2010-11-24T13:14:07-05:00 2012-03-07T09:57:26-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/250px-Elias_Durand.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="t" />After first fighting in the Napoleonic wars, a French ex-pat brought a European flare both to Pharmacy and the study of Botany in the United States.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9492 -75.1508 Site of Durand Pharmacy 39.9492 -75.1508 39.9492 -75.1508 Charitable Immunity: An Underestimated Revolution Charitable Immunity: An Underestimated Revolution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fcharitable_immunity_an_underestimated.html 2006-06-21T15:23:49-04:00 2012-03-07T09:57:13-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/diagram2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />This particular judge-made change in the laws opened the floodgates for malpractice lawsuits..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.953 -75.1661 Supreme Court Chief JusticeSupreme Court Chief Justice 39.953 -75.1661 39.953 -75.1661 A Pennsylvania Farmer -- in Delaware A Pennsylvania Farmer -- in Delaware tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-19:%2Fa_pennsylvania_farmer_in.html 2007-05-19T20:55:25-04:00 2012-03-07T09:57:13-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/jdickinson.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/jdickinson.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />John Dickinson achieved national fame in 1773 by publishing twelve letters written earlier denouncing the Townshend Acts. They were published anonymously as "Letters From a Pennsylvania Farmer". His farm, curiously, was in Delaware.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9489 -75.15 Independence National Historical Park 39.9489 -75.15 39.9489 -75.15 Richard Henry Lee: A Pennsylvania Viewpoint Richard Henry Lee: A Pennsylvania Viewpoint tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-05:%2Frichard_henry_lee_a.html 2011-04-05T20:30:54-04:00 2012-03-07T09:57:10-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Richard%20Henry%20Lee2.jpg" alt="American Revolutionary" class="tn-l-w50" />Pennsylvania in 1776 was pacifist, prosperous, and slow to anger. Virginia was hot-headed and quick to anger. For some reason, Westmoreland County VA was most extreme. Richard Henry Lee was their leader, and always the first to pound the table. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Quakers and Indians Quakers and Indians tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-22:%2Fquakers_and_indians.html 2010-02-22T00:54:50-05:00 2012-03-07T09:57:09-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/arch-street-philadelphia-yearly-meeting-1900.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Yearly Meeting" />The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends has voted to endorse the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The United States delegation to the U. N. has declined to endorse it. Each side has a point worth considering.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9559 -75.1651 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 39.9559 -75.1651 39.9559 -75.1651 Robert Morris and the Lee Brothers Robert Morris and the Lee Brothers tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-15:%2Frobert_morris_and_the.html 2011-04-15T18:21:33-04:00 2012-03-07T09:56:47-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Robert_morris_3.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" /> Shale Fracking Arrives in Pennsylvania Shale Fracking Arrives in Pennsylvania tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-06:%2Fshale_fracking_arrives_in.html 2010-10-06T17:39:47-04:00 2012-03-07T09:56:46-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/gas.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Drilling for gas has started in upstate Pennsylvania. It's time to go look at it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.8341 -75.8773 Susquehanna County Court House 41.8341 -75.8773 41.8341 -75.8773 A Fair Plan for Fire Insurance (and Health Insurance, too?) A Fair Plan for Fire Insurance (and Health Insurance, too?) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fza_fair_plan_for.html 2006-06-23T16:40:53-04:00 2012-03-07T09:56:43-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/fireinsurancecompany.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/fireinsurancecompany.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Pennsylvania subsidizes risky neighborhoods through a fire insurance company that intentionally loses money. Safe neighborhoods pay higher rates to subsidize the process.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.948 -75.1532 fire insurance company 39.948 -75.1532 39.948 -75.1532 Mohammed Ali, Cassius Clay Mohammed Ali, Cassius Clay tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fmohammed_ali_cassius_clay.html 2006-06-19T18:31:47-04:00 2012-03-07T09:56:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Ali100.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The greatest prizefighter of all time. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.91 -75.0085 Mohamed AliMohamed Ali the Prizefighter 39.91 -75.0085 39.91 -75.0085 Economics of La Cosa Nostra Economics of La Cosa Nostra tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-31:%2Feconomics_of_la_cosa.html 2006-12-31T21:46:18-05:00 2012-03-07T09:56:26-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Angelo%20Bruno.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Angelo Bruno" />Organized crime in Philadelphia has always seemed a little quaint. The most famous local godfather seems to have designed an organization that made lots of money without annoying the public.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9232 -75.1617 Angelo Bruno Home 39.9232 -75.1617 39.9232 -75.1617 Suburban Philadelphia Suburban Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-17:%2Fsuburban_philadelphia.php 2010-09-17T13:55:29-04:00 2012-03-07T09:56:10-05:00 .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Final Capture of Philadelphia (6) The Final Capture of Philadelphia (6) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fthe_final_capture_phila_6.html 1999-05-06T16:58:17-04:00 2012-03-07T09:55:57-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/HOWE.GIF" class="tn-l-w50" alt="howe" />The British fleet dropped General Howe off at the head of the Chesapeake, planning to rejoin and resupply him by coming up the Delaware. But for six weeks the British couldn't subdue Forts Mifflin and Mercer, either by land or by sea, and had a close call before they finally did. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8753 -75.213 Fort Miffin 39.8753 -75.213 39.8753 -75.213 Marcellus, Where Shale Gas Comes From Marcellus, Where Shale Gas Comes From tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-04:%2Fmarcellus_where_the_shale.html 2010-08-04T19:29:43-04:00 2012-03-07T09:55:56-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/marcellusshale.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Marcellus shale formation stretches from Canada to Texas, mostly 5 thousand feet underground. But at Marcellus NY, you can really see it, pick it up, and take it home. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 42.9755 -76.3326 Marcellus NY 42.9755 -76.3326 42.9755 -76.3326 Twenty Five Years at the Center Twenty Five Years at the Center tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-03:%2Ffoo_.html 2009-06-03T16:31:03-04:00 2012-03-06T15:23:02-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/congress_hall.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/congress_hall.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />During the critical formative years, Philadelphia was the center of America.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> What Is the Purpose of a National Constitution? What Is the Purpose of a National Constitution? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-02-15:%2F%2Fblog%2F2231.htm 2012-02-15T14:14:29-05:00 2012-03-06T12:47:27-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/The%20Constitutional%20Convention2.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />It could be said the framers of any constitution seek to return future generations to the reasons for founding the nation. John Marshall's Constitution John Marshall's Constitution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-03-06:%2F%2Fblog%2F2233.htm 2012-03-06T12:40:48-05:00 2012-03-06T12:42:05-05:00 New blog 2012-03-06 12:40:48 description The Virginian: A Philadelphian Goes West The Virginian: A Philadelphian Goes West tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-16:%2Fthe_virginian_a_philadelphian.html 2010-10-16T18:46:22-04:00 2012-03-05T16:06:08-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/owen_wiste.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Owen Wister, that unchallenged example of the Philadelphia Gentleman, established his literary reputation as creator of the American Cowboy in his first novel. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Robert Barclay Justifies Quaker Meetings Robert Barclay Justifies Quaker Meetings tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-03:%2Frobert_barclay_justifies_quaker.html 2009-08-03T15:04:59-04:00 2012-03-04T16:27:10-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/barclay.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Robert Barclay, one of the handful of English philosophers of enduring note, came close to establishing the doctrines of the Quaker Church, a religion with no formal doctrine. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> East Jersey's Decline and Fall East Jersey's Decline and Fall tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-30:%2Feast_jersey_decline_and.html 2008-12-30T18:22:58-05:00 2012-03-04T08:41:02-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/eastNJline.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Some day, a novelist will make East Jersey famous. There's lots of material there. Articles of Confederation: Of What Value? Articles of Confederation: Of What Value? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-02-09:%2F%2Fblog%2F2227.htm 2012-02-09T14:27:21-05:00 2012-03-01T17:26:31-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/articlesconf.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The American Articles of Confederation were devised in Philadelphia, and replaced in Philadelphia. Correcting their biggest flaws made it easier to accept a permanent Constitution which is sparse but hard to amend. Two Friends Create the Articles of Confederation Two Friends Create the Articles of Confederation tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-02-03:%2F%2Fblog%2F2226.htm 2012-02-03T16:30:05-05:00 2012-03-01T17:25:43-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/article_confederation_lg.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />John Dickinson and Robert Morris were good friends who pushed the Articles of Confederation through to ratification. Both of them had been active critics of Great Britain's treatment of the colonies, but both hesitated to sign the Declaration of Independence, and both later relented and fought for Independence. Dickinson's final position is less clear, but it was Morris who first saw the weakness of the Articles, and pressed on for their replacement by the Constitution. Economic Power of Laws Economic Power of Laws tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_economic_power_of.html 2006-06-26T15:18:39-04:00 2012-02-28T16:11:23-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Williampenn3.jpg" alt=" " class="tn-l-w50" />Three states, PA,NJ and DE, were founded by the same man at about the same time, with the same ethnic and religious supporters, along the banks of the same river. And yet they have turned out rather differently. Why?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Peace, Disdained Peace, Disdained tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-09-05:%2Fpeace_disdained.html 2011-09-05T15:09:40-04:00 2012-02-26T23:33:12-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Nathaniel_Dance_Lord_North.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />After the Battle of Saratoga, Lord North offered the colonists what amounted to six extra years of peace. The offer got lost in the shuffle. Espionage in the Revolution Espionage in the Revolution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-02-24:%2F%2Fblog%2F2232.htm 2012-02-24T16:12:49-05:00 2012-02-24T17:20:34-05:00 Almost everyone in the American Revolution could speak English, so it is not surprising to hear of many spies. Remember This Date: May 18 Remember This Date: May 18 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-20:%2Fremember_this_date_may.html 2007-05-20T22:37:34-04:00 2012-02-24T11:11:04-05:00 Lower Delaware Bay is teeming with successive migrations of seafood. May 18 is a pivotal day, give or take a few days. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> New Jersey: A Keg Tapped at Both Ends (2) New Jersey: A Keg Tapped at Both Ends (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-19:%2Fa_keg_tapped_at.html 2007-09-19T10:02:26-04:00 2012-02-24T11:07:01-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/civil%20war%20soldiers.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The New Jersey legislature began by ratifying the Declaration of Independence in Haddonfield, then moved to Trenton and concerned itself with debts, then with railroads, then corporations, and now -- with debts, again.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> School Tax Seldom Equates to School Spending School Tax Seldom Equates to School Spending tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-20:%2Fschool_tax_is_not.html 2010-04-20T16:08:17-04:00 2012-02-24T11:04:54-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Little%20Red%20Schoolhouse.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Voting today on school budgets, local districts in New Jersey do not seem to realize how poorly school spending correlates with school tax rates.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8946 -75.0341 Central Elementary School 39.8946 -75.0341 39.8946 -75.0341 BEA Monitors the Economy BEA Monitors the Economy tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-11-02:%2Fbea_monitors_the_economy.html 2006-11-02T21:28:54-05:00 2012-02-24T11:02:58-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/GIC2.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/GIC2.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Thebusiness world is cyclic, and dispairs deeply when the trend is down. The Bureau of Economic Analysis seems to be very good at predicting turn arounds.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9547 -75.1961 The Global Interdependence Center 39.9547 -75.1961 39.9547 -75.1961 Acorn Club of Philadelphia Acorn Club of Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-08-03:%2Facorn_club_of_philadelphia.html 2008-08-03T17:36:17-04:00 2012-02-23T16:10:35-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Acornclub%20(2).JPG" alt="{Acorn Club}" class="tn-l-w50" />The Acorn Club is the oldest club for women in the United States. Men are welcome, but they come in through the side door on the neighboring alley.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9484 -75.1671 The Acorn Club of Philadelphia 39.9484 -75.1671 39.9484 -75.1671 U.S. and E.U. Exchange Experiences (1) U.S. and E.U. Exchange Experiences (1) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-17:%2Fthe_us_and_the.html 2007-04-17T19:25:50-04:00 2012-02-14T20:12:17-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/DOLLARSIGN.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />The European Union follows the American example. ... <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9547 -75.1961 The Global Interdependence Center 39.9547 -75.1961 39.9547 -75.1961 Old Articles (of Confederation) for Old Europe Old Articles (of Confederation) for Old Europe tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-02-14:%2F%2Fblog%2F2230.htm 2012-02-14T19:23:32-05:00 2012-02-14T19:48:16-05:00 The European Union and the American Articles of Confederation share the same problems, with a few extras. Addressing The Proprietor's Dilemma Addressing The Proprietor's Dilemma tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-09-27:%2Fthe_proprietors_dilemma.html 2006-09-27T15:34:45-04:00 2012-02-14T18:52:25-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Williampenn3.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />King Charles II gave Pennsylvania to William Penn on condition he defend the place and fuss with neighboring states about its boundaries. A century later, it proved more than a private citizen could handle.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Decision of Trenton (1782) Under the Articles of Confederation The Decision of Trenton (1782) Under the Articles of Confederation tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fdecision_trenton.html 2004-04-14T16:58:17-04:00 2012-02-14T18:47:04-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bridgetrenton2.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="Trenton makes the world takes bridge" />The 1782 Decision of Trenton simply awarded the Wyoming Valley to Pennsylvania. Strong suspicions exist that other secret decisions were never made public. Like awarding the Western Reserve of Ohio to Connecticut.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.2201 -74.7778 Trenton Makes the World Takes 40.2201 -74.7778 40.2201 -74.7778 Litchfield County, Extended (1771-1775) Litchfield County, Extended (1771-1775) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Flitchfield_county_ext.html 2004-05-05T16:58:17-04:00 2012-02-14T18:43:08-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/prospectrock.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Connecticut won the Second Pennamite War, occupying Pennsylvania territory for four years. The American Revolution caused the other colonies to put a stop to the fighting.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.2447 -75.8803 THE CITY OF WILKES-BARRE 41.2447 -75.8803 41.2447 -75.8803 World Finance, Columbus Day 2008 World Finance, Columbus Day 2008 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-13:%2Fworld_finance_columbus_day.html 2008-10-13T17:59:15-04:00 2012-02-14T16:36:06-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/dow-jones.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Europe's leaders met in Paris, while finance ministers met in Washington over the three-day weekend in October, 2008. Should nations chance total collapse to save the whole system, or sacrifice the weak to save the strong? Unfortunately, the source of the answer may not be financial but political. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.7077 -74.0083 Dow Jones 40.7077 -74.0083 40.7077 -74.0083 Default Investing Default Investing tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-26:%2Fdefault_investing.html 2006-12-26T20:44:07-05:00 2012-02-14T14:08:11-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/2_kids_and_investing_piggy_bank.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Busy people with growing families have little time for investing but will find their retirement crippled if they neglect it. Current income should be deposited directly and immediately into the default long-term vehicle, from which cash is withdrawn. Current custom is the other way around, creating idle money as a temptation for reckless consumption. The default vehicle is low-fee, low tax exposure; an <i>exchange-traded index fund of the entire world economy</i>.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Rail Station at Broad and Washington Rail Station at Broad and Washington tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Frail_station_broad.html 1997-11-13T16:58:17-05:00 2012-02-13T20:41:06-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/JonBrown.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="John Brown" />Philadelphia was the place where one railroad ended and another began. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9365 -75.159 Washington Avenue Philadelphia, PA 39.9365 -75.159 39.9365 -75.159 Credit Crunch Turning Point, at Eight Months? Credit Crunch Turning Point, at Eight Months? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-31:%2Fcredit_crunch_turning_point.html 2008-03-31T20:25:59-04:00 2012-02-13T16:54:23-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/crunch.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />After eight months of American housing mess, we are about to see if things will now finally go right, or turn into an international monetary crisis.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Retiring to the Workforce Retiring to the Workforce tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fretiring_to_the_workforce.html 2006-06-22T11:42:34-04:00 2012-02-13T12:30:55-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/workforcretirement.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Most Americans alive in 2020 will live to be ninety before they die. Forget about lock boxes and other schemes to pay for a thirty year vacation. These people will have to keep working at least until age 70. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Draining Suburbia Draining Suburbia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-09-29:%2Fdraining_suburbia.html 2006-09-29T15:49:20-04:00 2012-02-13T10:41:44-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Creeks2.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Creeks2.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Clueless storm sewer design is destroying our brooks and streams.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9528 -75.2511 Cobbs Creek 39.9528 -75.2511 39.9528 -75.2511 Second and Market to Sixth and Walnut Second and Market to Sixth and Walnut tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-02:%2Fsecond_and_market_to.html 2007-04-02T17:24:57-04:00 2012-02-13T10:32:47-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Franklin_Court.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Millions of eye patients have been asked to read the passage from Franklin's autobiography, "I walked up Market Street, etc." which is universally printed on eye-test cards. Here's your chance to do it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9495 -75.1466 Franklin Court 39.9495 -75.1466 39.9495 -75.1466 Pennsylvania Likes Private Property Private Pennsylvania Likes Private Property Private tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-14:%2Fpennsylvania_likes_private_property.html 2010-05-14T15:20:50-04:00 2012-02-13T09:48:48-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/wpenncharter.JPG" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The King used to own the whole country. William Penn got us used to the idea that my property is mine, not the King's.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Hospital That Ate Chicago (1) The Hospital That Ate Chicago (1) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fthe_hospital_that_ate.html 2006-06-21T13:39:11-04:00 2012-02-13T08:38:38-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/grf.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A flash of inspiration gets a medical article published. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8895 -75.0425 George Ross Fisher 39.8895 -75.0425 39.8895 -75.0425 Appendix K, Honors and Other Items Appendix K, Honors and Other Items tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-30:%2Fappendix_k_honors_and.html 2009-03-30T15:51:44-04:00 2012-02-12T20:59:46-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bookcovermc.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />Most of those who were elected honorary members of the club were non-members, but some were members, presumably excused from paying dues. But some were life members, so conferring honorary membership in this club has been a little capricious. Bye, Bye, Banks Bye, Bye, Banks tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-26:%2Fbye_bye_banks.html 2007-12-26T17:09:04-05:00 2012-02-12T15:05:52-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Goldsilver.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="">We're off the gold standard. For only a couple of decades, it seemed safe to replace gold with inflation targeting, whatever that is.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Tenth Amendment Tenth Amendment tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-18:%2Fthe_tenth_amendment.html 2009-06-18T16:34:25-04:00 2012-02-12T15:05:46-05:00 Short and sweet, the Tenth Amendment makes it explicit that the several American states gave nothing to the Federal government unless the Constitution spelled it out. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Quaker Carillon Quaker Carillon tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-15:%2Fquaker_carillon.html 2008-10-15T07:28:34-04:00 2012-02-12T15:00:12-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/carillon_bells_.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Toilet" />In an unprogrammed Quaker meeting, respectful pauses between messages must be long enough, but not too long. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8992 -75.0327 Hadonfield Friends MeetingHouse 39.8992 -75.0327 39.8992 -75.0327 It Ain't Necessarily So It Ain't Necessarily So tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzit_aint_necessarily_so.html 2006-06-26T13:54:05-04:00 2012-02-12T14:55:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/franklinprintpress.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" /> <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9003 -75.0326 Friends Meetinghouse Haddonfield NJ 39.9003 -75.0326 39.9003 -75.0326 Mesoamerican Ball Game Mesoamerican Ball Game tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-21:%2Fmesoamerican_ball_game.html 2008-11-21T16:44:53-05:00 2012-02-12T14:07:48-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mexicanballcourt.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The team ball game was apparently invented by Olmecs about 3000 years ago. Soccer, football and maybe baseball are variants.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Clinton Plan Summary: Physician Effects Clinton Plan Summary: Physician Effects tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-01:%2Fclinton_plan_summary_physician.html 2007-08-01T17:22:30-04:00 2012-02-12T14:05:44-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/medical_bag2.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Pressure from third-party payors reduced physician income, forced them toward overspecialization within group practices, increased the proportion of women and foreign-trained physicians, and probably induced earlier retirement. The mechanism was increased workload, mostly on administrative tasks..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Day in Court Day in Court tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-23:%2Fday_in_court.html 2010-09-23T16:29:32-04:00 2012-02-12T14:02:56-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/raymondgperelman.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Judge said September 23 was the last and final day for auction bidding on the bankrupt Philadelphia newspapers. Newspapers in other cities, beware.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9618 -75.1624 The Philadelphia Inquirer 39.9618 -75.1624 39.9618 -75.1624 Malpractice: Insurance War Stories Malpractice: Insurance War Stories tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fmalpractice_insurance_war_stories.html 2006-06-20T12:04:02-04:00 2012-02-12T13:59:16-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Roberts%202.gif" class="tn-l-w50" alt="ROBERTS" />It takes as long as six years from the time of a malpractice incident, to the time an award is paid for it. Manipulated finances in the meantime generate lots of problems.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Who Killed Philadelphia Industry? Who Killed Philadelphia Industry? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-18:%2Fwho_killed_philadelphia_industry.html 2010-06-18T17:05:07-04:00 2012-02-12T13:58:02-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/william_blackstone.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Until recently, Philadelphia was a thoroughly industrial city. Why has industry abandoned us?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> George Will at CPAC George Will at CPAC tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-25:%2Fgeorge_will_at_cpac.html 2010-02-25T19:11:20-05:00 2012-02-12T13:54:34-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/george_will.jpg" alt="{pundit george will}" class="tn-l-w50" />I have new-found respect for George Will after his speech to CPAC last week. If it's possible --from a sober egghead-- he had more laugh lines than applause lines. And a trenchant message. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Whigs, Slaves, and Tariffs Whigs, Slaves, and Tariffs tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fwhigs_slaves_tarriffs.html 1993-07-15T16:58:17-04:00 2012-02-12T13:54:05-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/philadelphia1860.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The city evolved from a little country town to a big modern city by adding waves of new immigrants. Obviously, there had to be a succession of upheavals in sociology, politics and economics, step after step. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Vote Counting, Past and Future Vote Counting, Past and Future tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-09-12:%2Fvote_counting_past_and.html 2008-09-12T17:31:42-04:00 2012-02-12T12:58:15-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/vote-button.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Voting law changes followed the contested 2000 Presidential election, but U.S. Supreme Court still comes out looking pretty good. Close elections will always cause problems, some of them brand new ones. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9504 -75.1644 Montgomery Mc Cracken 39.9504 -75.1644 39.9504 -75.1644 Dinner With Hoffa Dinner With Hoffa tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzdinner_with_hoffa.html 2006-06-23T16:27:12-04:00 2012-02-12T12:58:02-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hoffa.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Hoffa" />The author's mother decided she wanted to form her own opinion of the Teamster's Boss, a couple of weeks before he was disappeared.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9637 -75.1732 The Philadelphia Medical Society 39.9637 -75.1732 39.9637 -75.1732 Employer-based Health Insurance: End of the Trail? Employer-based Health Insurance: End of the Trail? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-23:%2Femployerbased_health_insurance_end.html 2006-10-23T17:54:49-04:00 2012-02-12T12:58:02-05:00 As diseases disappear, both employees and their employers see less urgency to having health insurance. It is Medicare that will suffer.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Reflections on Swensen Reflections on Swensen tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-18:%2Freflections_on_swensen.html 2006-10-18T13:46:09-04:00 2012-02-12T12:57:59-05:00 A private two-way conversation. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Making Money (2) Making Money (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fmaking_money_2.html 2006-06-22T12:08:03-04:00 2012-02-12T12:57:49-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/counterfitmoney.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/counterfitmoney.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />If the economy is deflated, and if taxes are too high, lowering taxes is better than inventing government spending programs. Central planning is so 1910.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 37.8926 -85.9497 Fort Knox 37.8926 -85.9497 37.8926 -85.9497 Future Directions for Colleges Future Directions for Colleges tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Ffuture_directions_for_colleges.html 2006-06-22T11:13:25-04:00 2012-02-12T12:57:17-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/ColumbiaNYC.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/ColumbiaNYC.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />America is in a mad expensive race to construct enough first-rank universities for everyone to use. Eventually, we will have too many of them.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.808 -73.9634 Columbia University 40.808 -73.9634 40.808 -73.9634 Estate Planning Tool Estate Planning Tool tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-26:%2Festate_planning_tool.html 2006-12-26T19:27:09-05:00 2012-02-12T12:57:08-05:00 It's complicated: a CRUT in a FF, administered by a DAF, and purchasing life insurance in an ILIT.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Short Tour of Philadelphia's West Country Short Tour of Philadelphia's West Country tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-09:%2Ftouring_philadelphias_west_country.html 2007-04-09T11:14:27-04:00 2012-02-12T12:56:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/fairmountpark.jpg" class="tn-r-w50" alt="" />Philadelpia County had two hundred farms in 1950, but is now thickly settled in all directions. Western regions along the Schuylkill are still spread out somewhat; with many historic estates.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9893 -75.1948 Fairmount Park 39.9893 -75.1948 39.9893 -75.1948 What Will Replace Daily Newspapers? What Will Replace Daily Newspapers? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-02:%2Fwhat_will_replace_newspapers.html 2009-07-02T19:21:06-04:00 2012-02-12T12:55:15-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/aa-C-SPAN.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Unless someone develops a very good idea soon, newspapers as we know them will disappear. What will take their place? C-Span? The Economist? <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> TV and Politics TV and Politics tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Ftv_and_politics.html 2006-06-22T11:49:12-04:00 2012-02-12T12:54:57-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/newspapers_extinct_picnik.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Political campaign costs are mostly TV costs. It has the effect of silencing TV news reporting. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Retirement Communities Retirement Communities tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-24:%2Fretirement_communities.html 2009-06-24T13:10:53-04:00 2012-02-12T12:54:04-05:00 Retirement communities are fairly new ideas, still experimenting with the ideal model, so it is hard to generalize about them. But they look to be a possibility for everybody's future. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Blackball Blackball tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fblackball_.html 2006-06-20T11:51:05-04:00 2012-02-12T12:54:02-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/blackball.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="{Black Ball}" />To blackball someone has nothing to do with billiards. At one time, most Philadelphia social clubs required unanimous agreement for the admission of a new member. There actually was a wooden box into which voting members dropped either a white ball or a black one.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.95 -75.1645 Union League of Philadelphia 39.95 -75.1645 39.95 -75.1645 Sixth and Arch to Second and Arch Sixth and Arch to Second and Arch tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-02:%2Fsixth_and_arch_to.html 2007-04-02T16:15:07-04:00 2012-02-12T12:52:50-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/free_quakermeeting.jpg" class="tn-r-w50" alt="" />When the large meeting house at Fourth and Arch was built, many Quakers moved their houses to the area. At that time, "North of Market" implied the Quaker region of town. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9519 -75.1426 Arch Street 39.9519 -75.1426 39.9519 -75.1426 Market Street, East (1) Market Street, East (1) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzmarket_street_east_1.html 2006-06-23T11:31:36-04:00 2012-02-12T12:52:16-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/philadelphia-city-hall.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />It will be enough for now to consider only the oldest section of fourteen blocks from City Hall to the Delaware River<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9527 -75.1635 Philadelphia City Hall 39.9527 -75.1635 39.9527 -75.1635 Rejecting Preventive Health Care for Good Reason Rejecting Preventive Health Care for Good Reason tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-27:%2Frejecting_preventive_health_care.html 2009-07-27T12:40:56-04:00 2012-02-12T12:44:58-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/flu-shot-cartoon.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />No one seems to be considering the opinion of older citizens about preventive health care. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9456 -75.1556 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9456 -75.1556 39.9456 -75.1556 No Laborer Left Behind No Laborer Left Behind tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-03:%2Fno_laborers_left_behind.html 2007-06-03T18:57:26-04:00 2012-02-12T12:44:48-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/ivyleague.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/ivyleague.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Expanding prestige universities to fill American academic demands, unexpectedly provokes inflation obscured by illegal immigration.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 42.4451 -76.4828 Cornell University 42.4451 -76.4828 42.4451 -76.4828 Forty Days Before the Mast Forty Days Before the Mast tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-26:%2Fforty_days_before_the.html 2007-10-26T16:59:26-04:00 2012-02-12T12:41:00-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/moshu.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Before steamships, most of our ancestors spent a month at sea in a sailing ship and never would consider going back home if it meant another such trip. Here's a taste of what it was like.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9423 -75.141 Moshulu Restaurant 39.9423 -75.141 39.9423 -75.141 Frank Furness (1):PAFA Frank Furness (1):PAFA tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-08:%2Ffrank_furness_1pafa.html 2010-06-08T15:04:59-04:00 2012-02-12T10:46:04-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PMFA.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />An art museum contains a lot of art. It should itself be a work of art if it can be.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9552 -75.1634 Pennsylvania Academy-Fine Arts 39.9552 -75.1634 39.9552 -75.1634 Re-Doing Dilworth Plaza Re-Doing Dilworth Plaza tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-18:%2Fredoing_dilworth_plaza.html 2009-12-18T17:46:52-05:00 2012-02-12T10:43:13-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/dilworthp1.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Plans are afoot to rearrange the whole focus of center-city Philadelphia, by merging the transportation network around City Hall, and changing the walking patterns. Dilworth Plaza is in the center of it all. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9533 -75.1647 Dilworth Plaza 39.9533 -75.1647 39.9533 -75.1647 William Penn, Robert Barclay and the Ranters William Penn, Robert Barclay and the Ranters tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-23:%2Fwilliam_penn_robert_barclay.html 2009-07-23T17:21:58-04:00 2012-02-12T10:42:20-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/wmpenn.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="{William Penn}" />The early Quakers were hard to tell from other Dissenters. Robert Barclay and William Penn set out what made them distinctive. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 51.6096 -0.594051 Jordans Quaker Meeting House 51.6096 -0.594051 51.6096 -0.594051 HTML Anchor without an HREF? HTML Anchor without an HREF? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-04:%2Fhtml_anchor_without_an.html 2008-04-04T11:10:51-04:00 2012-02-12T08:51:22-05:00 How to execute a JavaScript function and nothing else. Wyoming, Fair Wyoming Valley Wyoming, Fair Wyoming Valley tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-16:%2Fwyoming_fair_wyoming_valley.html 2006-07-16T18:08:35-04:00 2012-02-12T08:50:42-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/williampenn2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Even the present residents of Wilkes-Barre PA would have to giggle at descriptions of the Wyoming Valley written by poets during the Romantic Era. This is where the noble savage originally came from. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Sugarloaf Sugarloaf tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzsugarloaf_.html 2006-06-26T14:27:13-04:00 2012-02-12T08:50:22-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/geramntownmap-758733.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Strouds of Stroudsburg used to live here at the top of the town. It's now a conference center.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Newburgh NY: Washington Slept Here Newburgh NY: Washington Slept Here tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-02:%2Fnewburgh_ny_washington_slept.html 2010-09-02T14:47:54-04:00 2012-02-12T08:50:17-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/yorktown.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />After the battle of Yorktown the British knew they were beaten, but still stationed a menacing army in New York. Upriver at Newburgh, Washington struggled to keep his own army from deserting. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.5105 -74.0195 Newburgh NY 41.5105 -74.0195 41.5105 -74.0195 Sidney George Fisher's Mount Harmon Sidney George Fisher's Mount Harmon tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-05-24:%2Fsidney_george_fishers_mount.html 2011-05-24T19:53:38-04:00 2012-02-12T08:49:47-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/fisher_half.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Cecil County, Maryland is considered part of the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area. Awkwardly, it was settled a half-century before William Penn arrived, so one of Philadelphia's most famous diarists was born in a mansion built in 1651. Fronting on Chesapeake Bay, it's the most northern of the Tidewater tobacco plantations, but it's in Philadelphia.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.387 -75.9383 Mount Harmon Plantation 39.387 -75.9383 39.387 -75.9383 Python URL Handling Python URL Handling tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-01-16:%2Fpython_url_handling.html 2012-01-16T12:33:27-05:00 2012-02-12T02:38:48-05:00 An example of URL handling using Python 3.2.2 installed on Windows 7 OUR NICE HOUSING BOOM COLLAPSES OUR NICE HOUSING BOOM COLLAPSES tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-09:%2Four_nice_housing_boom.html 2007-11-09T20:28:57-05:00 2012-02-12T02:00:22-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/computercartoon.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Politicians will assign blame for the housing boom-and-bust, but they should look at themselves. Which is worse, "red-lining" or "stupid loans"? <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Rise and Fall of Life Insurance Rise and Fall of Life Insurance tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Frise_fall_insurance.html 1993-06-10T16:58:17-04:00 2012-02-12T02:00:12-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hammurabicode.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hammurabicode.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Like many things, insurance started here. It's now mostly all gone. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Gloomy Future for Banks Gloomy Future for Banks tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-20:%2Fgloomy_future_for_banks.html 2007-12-20T16:55:54-05:00 2012-02-12T01:59:51-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/FederalReservePA.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Banks pay depositors modest interest rates, lending to borrowers at higher ones. Bank reserves grow from that difference; survival depends on enough reserves to ride out exceptional situations. Profit is what is left.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9503 -75.1486 Federal Reserve Bank 39.9503 -75.1486 39.9503 -75.1486 Embed Flash as Valid XHTML Embed Flash as Valid XHTML tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-10:%2Fembed_flash_and_validate.html 2009-01-10T16:24:49-05:00 2012-02-11T23:35:48-05:00 The embed tag doesn't validate with XHTML. Here's what to do. The Battle of Germantown: Oct. 3, 1777 The Battle of Germantown: Oct. 3, 1777 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fbattle_of_germantown.html 1996-10-17T16:58:17-04:00 2012-02-11T09:44:36-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/chew_mansion_old.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />As long as the Delaware River was blocked at Fort Mifflin, the British army may have won the Battle of the Brandywine, but it still had no supplies from the British fleet and was adrift in enemy territory. Washington thought there was still a chance to save Philadelphia, and attacked Howe at his headquarters in Germantown. However, his troops got lost in a heavy fog with two units firing on each other. Retreat to Valley Forge. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0432 -75.1817 battle of Germantown 40.0432 -75.1817 40.0432 -75.1817 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY February 5, 2003 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY February 5, 2003 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-31:%2Fshakspere_society_february_5.html 2008-01-31T20:19:15-05:00 2012-02-11T07:19:39-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />America's oldest Shakespeare society finishes <i>Two Gentlemen of Verona</i>. 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 Appalachian Geography Appalachian Geography tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-02:%2Fappalachian_geography.html 2011-08-02T20:58:15-04:00 2012-02-11T06:20:23-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PAwatermap.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />To have an opinion about Central Pennsylvania requires an overview from the Great Lakes to Chesapeake Bay.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Bullseye Sociology Bullseye Sociology tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzbullseye_sociology.html 2006-06-26T15:26:17-04:00 2012-02-11T02:31:02-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cc%20phila-761957.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="center city" />Philadelphia is stratifying into concentric rings, with prosperity alternating with decay. The challenge is to unify the rings of the bullseye.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.7458 -75.547 Rodney Square Wilmington, DE 39.7458 -75.547 39.7458 -75.547 Dingman's Ferry, Below Port Jervis Dingman's Ferry, Below Port Jervis tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-03:%2Fdingmans_ferry_below_port.html 2010-09-03T16:54:10-04:00 2012-02-10T19:08:10-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/digmanbrdg.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />The northeastern corner of Pennsylvania has a deep gorge for the Delaware River. Just south of it, the river narrows to a crossing at Dingman's Ferry, now occupied by Dingman's Bridge.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 41.2201 -74.8593 Dingman Ferry Bridge, PA 41.2201 -74.8593 41.2201 -74.8593 Democracy Turns Out To Be a Two-Party System Democracy Turns Out To Be a Two-Party System tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fdemocracy_turns_out_to.html 2006-06-22T12:20:48-04:00 2012-02-10T19:03:54-05:00 One is too few, four is too many. Third parties may be occasionally useful.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Heavenly House Heavenly House tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-19:%2Fheavenly_house.html 2011-04-19T18:33:54-04:00 2012-02-10T18:56:23-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/divinehouse.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Father Divine House" />In or around Philadelphia, money no object, what's the best place to build a super-mansion?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0636 -75.291 Father Divine as the Mount of the House of the Lord 40.0636 -75.291 40.0636 -75.291 Philadelphia: Charles Dickens Gives an 1842 Viewpoint Philadelphia: Charles Dickens Gives an 1842 Viewpoint tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphiladelphia_dickens_view.html 1999-12-30T16:58:17-05:00 2012-02-07T11:19:17-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/charlesdickens.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/charlesdickens.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Dickens liked Philadelphia a lot, but he was still a little patronizing. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Robert Morris' United States Robert Morris' United States tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-17:%2Frobert_morris_united_states.php 2011-03-17T14:12:33-04:00 2012-01-28T22:19:28-05:00 Robert Morris of Philadelphia created many of the best features of the United States. His face might be carved on Mount Rushmore if he hadn't created one really bad feature, as well. Victor Rambo, Indian Eye Surgeon Victor Rambo, Indian Eye Surgeon tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fvictor_rambo.html 2001-08-02T16:58:17-04:00 2012-01-25T19:46:00-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Victor%20Clough%20Rambo%20MD.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />A twelfth-generation Philadelphian devoted his life to restoring eyesight to thousands of poor people in India. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9456 -75.1556 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9456 -75.1556 39.9456 -75.1556 Weather Man Weather Man tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-01-12:%2Fweather_man.html 2012-01-12T17:42:27-05:00 2012-01-17T14:54:54-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/paul-walsh-weather.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The weather is a big business. The University City The University City tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-10-06:%2Fthe_university_city.html 2009-10-06T19:37:39-04:00 2012-01-16T17:53:51-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Upenn.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Ben Franklin would scarcely recognize the college he created. It isn't named for him, but he probably would be concerned about how quickly it is changing. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9532 -75.1938 University of Pennsylvania 39.9532 -75.1938 39.9532 -75.1938 Tactics: U.S. Marine Corps FMFM 1-3 Tactics: U.S. Marine Corps FMFM 1-3 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-16:%2Ftactics_us_marine_corps.html 2011-03-16T16:10:44-04:00 2012-01-09T11:27:34-05:00 Tactics of the U.S. Marine Corps FMFM 1-3.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Beyond Most of Us Beyond Most of Us tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-22:%2Fbeyond_most_of_us.html 2007-10-22T17:28:24-04:00 2012-01-06T18:06:29-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/kahn.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Louis I. Kahn and Robert Venturi have a lot in common. One was the student of the other, both Philadelphians are revered as giants of the field of architecture, and -- it's awfully hard to find one of their buildings.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9451 -75.16 Louis I Kahn Park 39.9451 -75.16 39.9451 -75.16 Philadelphia and Japan Philadelphia and Japan tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzphiladelphia_and_japan.html 2006-06-23T16:38:32-04:00 2012-01-04T23:23:36-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/CommodoreMatthewPerry.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Sea faring Philadelphia was early in the opening of Japan. There is a long history of affection with the Japanese and their culture, possibly related to the understated architecture and dress, and the strong code of honor. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 35.5449 139.949 Tokyo Bay 35.5449 139.949 35.5449 139.949 Rentier Class Rentier Class tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Frentier_class.html 2006-06-22T11:54:34-04:00 2012-01-04T14:57:00-05:00 Eventually, everyone can hope to be a member of the rentier class. Ideally, they will have first spent equal time as workers. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Widower's Friend Widower's Friend tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-10-31:%2Flonesome_again.html 2011-10-31T00:00:54-04:00 2012-01-03T14:34:28-05:00 When a widow or a widower dies, the children are left in charge of the funeral. They may be unprepared. Franklin's Codicil to His Will: Strange Afterthoughts Franklin's Codicil to His Will: Strange Afterthoughts tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-22:%2Ffrugal_franklin_more_quaker.html 2010-07-22T13:21:15-04:00 2012-01-03T12:35:47-05:00 Ben Franklin died a very rich man, because he was a frugal one.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Cataracts and Deference to Seniors Cataracts and Deference to Seniors tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-16:%2Fcataracts_and_deference_to.html 2010-07-16T19:47:35-04:00 2011-12-30T16:58:29-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Cataractextraction.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Cataract extraction is now the commonest surgical operation in America. It doesn't receive the deference it deserves.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9478 -75.1563 Willis Eye Hospital 39.9478 -75.1563 39.9478 -75.1563 Stop Slapping Your Feet! Stop Slapping Your Feet! tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-13:%2Fstop_slapping_your_feet.html 2010-06-13T17:43:59-04:00 2011-12-30T16:05:49-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/donaldwalking.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Just sit on a park bench and listen to people walking by. If they slap their feet, they don't know how to walk, no matter how old they are.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Sylphs in Passing Sylphs in Passing tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-25:%2Fsylphs_in_passing.html 2011-07-25T16:00:35-04:00 2011-12-30T15:16:35-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/dianaphillyart.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Dying women sometimes experience a brief return of girlhood slenderness. Kiddie-Karts Kiddie-Karts tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-15:%2Fkiddiekarts_.html 2009-07-15T16:16:08-04:00 2011-12-30T15:10:06-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Golf_Car~small.jpg" alt="Golf Cart" class="tn-l-w50" />Motorized golf carts partly replace the need for wheel chairs, and wheelchair attendants.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Hospitals Shift Costs Three Ways Hospitals Shift Costs Three Ways tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-14:%2Fhospitals_shift_costs_three.html 2009-07-14T16:20:54-04:00 2011-12-30T11:29:54-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Primum%20non%20nocere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Hospitals probably shift costs ten or more ways, but here are three ways. Picture yourself as a Congressman trying to modify this mess, and then you try to do it in a couple of weeks. Galen, not Hippocrates, first said <i>Primum non nocere</i> -- at least, don't make things worse. Medical Generation Gap Medical Generation Gap tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fmedical_generation_gap.html 2006-06-22T11:19:37-04:00 2011-12-12T17:18:58-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/medical%20care.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Under a new rule, hospitals are forbidden to let house doctors work more than an 80 hour week. It is the cause of violent social uproar. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Emperor's Doctor Emperor's Doctor tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzemperors_doctor.html 2006-06-23T16:37:39-04:00 2011-12-08T15:50:56-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/kitamura_katsutoshi-718239.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Kitimura" />Almost trapped by the events at Pearl Harbor of which he had advance knowledge, this Pennsylvania Hospital intern rose to the top of Japanese medicine.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Background: Low-Hanging Fruit Starts Running Low Background: Low-Hanging Fruit Starts Running Low tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-17:%2Flowhanging_fruit_runs_low.html 2011-07-17T10:25:45-04:00 2011-12-06T16:02:32-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hicksPeaceable.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Pennsylvania was settled relatively late; New England and Virginia were already starting to run out of virgin land. Therefore, Pennsylvania was less constrained by the 1758 Demarcation line.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> How The Markets Really Work How The Markets Really Work tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-29:%2Fhow_the_markets_really.html 2008-10-29T13:39:04-04:00 2011-11-24T00:48:24-05:00 A prescient pair of comedians<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> MySQL server has gone away MySQL server has gone away tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-29:%2Fmysql_server_has_gone.html 2008-07-29T15:15:59-04:00 2011-11-23T03:21:57-05:00 What to do when your MySQL connection is timing out for no apparently good reason, all of a sudden. Perpetuities Perpetuities tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-26:%2Fperpetuities_.html 2011-04-26T18:19:12-04:00 2011-11-21T17:53:00-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/dow-jones-.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Although most founders of institutions look far into the future, the fact is comparatively few corporations, for-profit or not-for-profit, last longer than seventy-five years. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Labyrinth, Episcopalian Version Labyrinth, Episcopalian Version tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-02-18:%2Flabyrinth_episcopalian_version.html 2011-02-18T16:11:35-05:00 2011-11-13T22:37:11-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Labyrinth.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />There's a a thirty-foot labyrinth in the Holy Trinity Church on Rittenhouse Square. The tradition of meditation walks reached a peak in the 12th and 13th Centuries, but examples can be found dating back to 4500 B.C.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Lowering the Taxes on Corporations Lowering the Taxes on Corporations tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-15:%2Flowering_the_taxes_on.html 2011-01-15T22:53:42-05:00 2011-11-11T16:28:46-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/irish-jig.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />When Ireland lowered corporate taxes, inviting corporate immigration, and then precipitating an international financial crisis, it drew attention from others. Instead of warning them, it encouraged them to imitate Ireland.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Franklin's Real Estate Holdings Franklin's Real Estate Holdings tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-21:%2Ffranklins_real_estate_holdings.html 2010-07-21T23:04:43-04:00 2011-11-10T12:32:31-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bfranklinlcpa.jpg" alt="American Revolutionary" class="tn-l-w50" />At the time of his death, Benjamin Franklin held at least ten parcels of real estate. They ranged from a block on Market Street in Philadelphia to 3000 acres in Georgia, and included land along the Ohio River as well as land in Nova Scotia.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Create and send CSV files from PHP Create and send CSV files from PHP tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-12:%2Fcreate_and_send_csv.html 2008-06-12T10:05:40-04:00 2011-11-05T02:33:42-04:00 The ability to create a CSV file from MySQL data in PHP, download it and have it open automatically in Excel is very handy. Ginseng Trading Ginseng Trading tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-10-29:%2Fginseng_trading.html 2011-10-29T21:32:49-04:00 2011-10-29T21:33:36-04:00 The Chinese love ginseng for its alleged aphrodisiac qualities, so it is not surprising that trade has flourished between China and Philadelphia. What's surprising is that ginseng flourishes in our exurbs, and is mostly exported to China. Franklin Benefits the Pennsylvania Hospital Franklin Benefits the Pennsylvania Hospital tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-22:%2Ffranklin_benefits_the_pennsylvania.html 2010-07-22T13:02:46-04:00 2011-10-26T13:32:13-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bfranklinlcpa.jpg" alt="American Revolutionary" class="tn-l-w50" />Franklin remembered the Pennsylvania Hospital in his will by giving them his bad debts.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Privateering, War Supplies, and Inflation Privateering, War Supplies, and Inflation tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-08:%2Fprivateering_war_supplies_and.html 2011-04-08T18:24:21-04:00 2011-10-26T12:25:25-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/privateers.jpg" alt="American Revolutionary" class="tn-l-w50" />The Revolutionary War could not have been won without George Washington in the field. But the naval war, mostly privateering, was at least as important militarily. And it was a major source of munitions for the colonists. And inflation, too.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Who Invented the Curve Ball? Who Invented the Curve Ball? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-18:%2Fwho_invented_the_curve.html 2009-05-18T11:13:34-04:00 2011-10-21T11:07:55-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/curveball.jpg" class="tn-l-w50 " alt="Curveball" />Inside baseball is full of statistics. In the case of the invention of the curve ball, prevailing traditions have been challenged. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 42.7002 -74.9229 National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum: 42.7002 -74.9229 42.7002 -74.9229 History of Religion History of Religion tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-27:%2Fhistory_of_religion.html 2009-02-27T09:26:11-05:00 2011-10-20T00:08:56-04:00 How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Euros and Dollars Euros and Dollars tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-24:%2Feuros_and_dollars.html 2008-05-24T22:56:00-04:00 2011-10-18T18:18:39-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/International-money.JPG" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />When interest rates of a country go down, the international value of the currency also goes down. But the devil is in the details, the leads, lags, and fiddles.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Musical Fund Hall Musical Fund Hall tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fmusical_fund_hall.html 2002-09-19T16:58:17-04:00 2011-10-05T12:51:13-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/williamsrickland.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Musical Fund started as a musician pension scheme, but its hall was used for many historic events. The musicians union has agitated Locust Street ever since; the Musical Fund Society still meets; William Strickland's building now contains condominiums.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.948 -75.1649 The Academy of Music 39.948 -75.1649 39.948 -75.1649 How Could an Honest Man Go Bankrupt? How Could an Honest Man Go Bankrupt? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-05-17:%2Fhow_could_an_honest.html 2011-05-17T17:00:41-04:00 2011-10-04T16:22:30-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Robert_morrisr.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />By the standards of his day, and for the most part by present-day standards, Robert Morris was a completely honest man.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Swedenborgian Choich The Swedenborgian Choich tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-09:%2Fthe_swedenborgian_choich.html 2011-03-09T18:28:40-05:00 2011-09-30T16:18:19-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cross.gif" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Swedenborgians belong to the Church of the New Jerusalem, following the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, and strongly emphasizing personal responsibility, individuality, and good works. The Philadelphia branch is particularly strong, centered around a magnificent medieval cathedral in Bryn Athyn. Johnny Appleseed and Helen Keller were notable adherents, and a driving force has been the Pitcairn family of industrialists.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9458 -75.702 The Swedenborgian Church 39.9458 -75.702 39.9458 -75.702 Plays and Players, Haddonfield Version Plays and Players, Haddonfield Version tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-03:%2Fplays_and_players_haddonfield.html 2009-08-03T17:00:17-04:00 2011-09-30T16:07:52-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hpp-building.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />This year the Haddonfield Plays and Players celebrate their 75th anniversary, with an outstanding production of Anything Goes, by Cole Porter Y'13. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8837 -75.0276 Haddonfield Play and Players 39.8837 -75.0276 39.8837 -75.0276 The Rights of Man The Rights of Man tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fthe_rights_of_man.html 2006-06-21T12:47:59-04:00 2011-09-29T09:21:37-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/LawBooks.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The current dispute about judicial interpretation of the law has its origin in the different way that Common Law was once made. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> William Penn and the Corporate Model William Penn and the Corporate Model tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-01-15:%2Fwilliam_penn_and_the.html 2010-01-15T17:42:59-05:00 2011-09-21T18:13:18-04:00 Among his many accomplishments, William Penn created the oldest surviving stockholder corporation in America, now well over three hundred years old. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> William Penn: Visionary with Persuasiveness William Penn: Visionary with Persuasiveness tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fwilliam_penn_vision_persu.html 2000-02-17T16:58:17-05:00 2011-09-21T16:53:59-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/william-penn.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Even when we know how it eventually turned out, it is hard to imagine how William Penn would dare to suppose the King might give him Pennsylvania, and even harder to understand how he managed to negotiate the agreement. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> William Penn, Justice Holmes, and the Inner Light William Penn, Justice Holmes, and the Inner Light tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-10:%2Fwilliam_penn_justice_holmes.html 2009-07-10T19:57:04-04:00 2011-09-18T23:20:29-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/pendulum.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The hippies of the 1960s can be understood as just one extreme swing of an old, old pendulum. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> As Others See Us As Others See Us tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-18:%2Fas_others_see_us.html 2009-06-18T17:12:03-04:00 2011-09-16T15:53:07-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/degaulle.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Perhaps the Europeans are intentionally slow to adopt our form of Constitution.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Jersey Shore The Jersey Shore tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-20:%2Fnew_house.html 2011-08-20T09:21:34-04:00 2011-09-07T14:07:38-04:00 103 The Terrace Sea Girt Monmouth County NJ 08750 40.1382 -74.0292 peggy's shore house 40.1382 -74.0292 40.1382 -74.0292 Not Only to Own, but to Govern Not Only to Own, but to Govern tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-03:%2Fnot_only_to_own.html 2010-02-03T16:58:06-05:00 2011-09-06T19:52:15-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/KINGCHARLESII.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" class=" />King Charles II apparently recognized that Pennsylvania was ungovernable from London, three thousand miles away, and gave William Penn powers that essentially made him a vassal king. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Use the Internet for Your Club (2) Use the Internet for Your Club (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzuse_the_internet_for.html 2006-06-23T15:09:38-04:00 2011-09-06T07:15:50-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/yahoo-logo.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Yahoo" />Clubs like to have newsletters. If you have enough news to fill one, they are pretty easy to create and maintain. However, they are a little hard to explain, so stick with us as we build up the idea. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Navigation and Mineral Rights Navigation and Mineral Rights tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-03:%2Fnavigation_rights.html 2010-02-03T16:04:23-05:00 2011-09-02T16:12:41-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/CCDelawareBay.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Since the Delaware Bay and River were shared by colonies, it was essential that the rights to navigate be defined. Later on, the issues became bridges and tolls, fishing and channel deepening.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Citizen Genet Citizen Genet tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-16:%2Fcitizen_genet.html 2011-08-16T20:25:40-04:00 2011-09-02T15:12:01-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Edmond-Charles%20Genet.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />If the term "loose cannon" had been invented, Edmond-Charles Genet would have earned it. Having stirred up a lifetime of trouble for the young American Republic by the age of 31, he retired as a gentleman farmer overlooking the Hudson for the last 40 years of his life. Will Tax Cuts Invert the Yield Curve? Will Tax Cuts Invert the Yield Curve? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fdid_tax_cuts_invert.html 2006-06-22T11:26:02-04:00 2011-09-01T18:13:44-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/DOLLARSIGN.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />Tax cuts make the bonds of the federal government more nearly resemble the bonds of state and municipal governments.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Mississippi Carillons Mississippi Carillons tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-21:%2Fmississippi_carillons.html 2008-10-21T16:32:52-04:00 2011-09-01T14:25:36-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Mississippiriver.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The two ends of the Mississippi River illustrate musical timing and harmony, with wider implications for Quaker meetings for worship if you search for them.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Mayor Tish Mayor Tish tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-06:%2Fmayor_tish.html 2010-08-06T17:54:08-04:00 2011-08-25T13:10:13-04:00 Running any town is a hard job. Is it any easier for a woman to do it? <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Valid XHTML YouTube embed code generator Valid XHTML YouTube embed code generator tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-07:%2Fvalid_xhtml_youtube_embed.html 2009-07-07T20:35:10-04:00 2011-08-25T09:53:15-04:00 This free tool will create a valid XHTML embed code for any YouTube video. The code YouTube shows on the embed field is not valid XHTML! However, you can simply use this simple tool to make it Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Citywide Social Calendar Citywide Social Calendar tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-07:%2Fcitywide_social_calendar.html 2008-11-07T18:33:21-05:00 2011-08-17T17:28:24-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/RuthSeltzer2.jpg" alt="American Revolutionary" class="tn-l-w50" />Every city needs a central clearing house for timing social events, perhaps a different one for sports events, a third for conventions. And so on..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9598 -75.1623 The Philadelphia Inquirer 39.9598 -75.1623 39.9598 -75.1623 Howe's Choice: To Philadelphia, or Saratoga? Howe's Choice: To Philadelphia, or Saratoga? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-04-06:%2Fphiladelphia_saratoga_5.html 1999-12-30T16:58:17-05:00 2011-08-11T12:12:57-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/genHowe.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="General Howe" />The Howe brothers may have been socialites, and they had formerly been members of the Parliamentary party favorable to peace in the colonies. But they were also seasoned, smart soldiers who played hard and played to win. Washington proved to be their match, but he did have to prove it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 43.0108 -73.6534 Battlefield of Saratoga 43.0108 -73.6534 43.0108 -73.6534 Where Do Shad Go, When They Aren't Around Here? Where Do Shad Go, When They Aren't Around Here? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzwhere_do_shad_go.html 2006-06-23T17:14:10-04:00 2011-08-05T15:37:47-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Americanshad.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Bay of Fundy. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 45 -65.7978 Bay of Fundy 45 -65.7978 45 -65.7978 Term Limits, With Exceptions Term Limits, With Exceptions tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fterm_limits_with_exceptions.html 2006-06-22T11:28:56-04:00 2011-07-30T11:29:17-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bipartisanship.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Here's a suggestion for increasing congressional bipartisanship, a little. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849 Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-05:%2Fedgar_allan_poe_18091849.html 2009-03-05T19:22:26-05:00 2011-07-29T14:38:13-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/edgarallanpoe.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Edger Allan Poe" />Edgar Allan Poe may not have the highest literary esteem of any American, but he is provably our most famous poet. At the 200th anniversary of his birth, his disordered life symbolizes an era.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9617 -75.1498 Edgar Allan Poe National Historical Site 39.9617 -75.1498 39.9617 -75.1498 Health Care Rationing, American Style Health Care Rationing, American Style tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fhealth_care_rationing_american.html 2006-06-22T11:20:57-04:00 2011-07-29T13:43:28-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cadus.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Hayek " />American doctors are becoming afraid to test for conditions for fear of raising their patients' insurance costs, or getting sued themselves.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9545 -75.1504 American College of Physicians 39.9545 -75.1504 39.9545 -75.1504 Charter of Incorporation of Franklin Inn Club (1902) Charter of Incorporation of Franklin Inn Club (1902) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-23:%2Fcharter_of_incorporation_of.html 2008-05-23T12:19:43-04:00 2011-07-28T19:33:01-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/franklininnclub.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />In 1902, four noted Philadelphia gentlemen appeared before a judge and incorporated the Franklin Inn Club, whose purpose was to promote social intercourse among authors, illustrators, editors and publishers..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9485 -75.1615 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia215-732-0334 39.9485 -75.1615 39.9485 -75.1615 New Constitution Needed New Constitution Needed tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-05-10:%2Fnew_constitution_needed.html 2011-05-10T14:04:05-04:00 2011-07-28T13:16:10-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/battleguilfordcourthouse.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The American Revolutionary War was supposed to lead to paradise, but nobody was very happy with the state of affairs it left behind. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Armonica, Momentarily Mesmerizing Armonica, Momentarily Mesmerizing tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-21:%2Farmonica_momentarily_mesmerizing.html 2007-04-21T18:33:36-04:00 2011-07-19T16:51:51-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/glass-armonica.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/glass-armonica.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The armonica was a musical instrument invented by Ben Franklin, who else. Beethoven and Mozart wrote music for it. It made people sick and may even have killed someone.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9498 -75.1465 Franklin Court Museum 39.9498 -75.1465 39.9498 -75.1465 Buying Corporate America with Cheap Money Buying Corporate America with Cheap Money tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-15:%2Fbuying_corporate_america_with.html 2008-07-15T17:47:26-04:00 2011-07-19T16:23:18-04:00 Threat of recession induced America to reduce interest rates, and thus to cheapen the dollar. The rest of the world seizes the opportunity to buy huge American corporations on the cheap.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> America's Capital City, 1774-1800 America's Capital City, 1774-1800 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-23:%2Famerican_capital_1775_1799.php 2009-05-23T20:45:28-04:00 2011-07-19T11:48:52-04:00 The Continental Congress met in Philadelphia from 1774 to 1788. Next, the new republic had its capital here from 1790 to 1800. Thoroughly Quaker Philadelphia was in the center of the founding twenty-five years, where the enduring political institutions of America emerged. A Grievance Carried to the Grave A Grievance Carried to the Grave tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-21:%2Fa_grievance_carried_to.html 2010-07-21T22:47:22-04:00 2011-07-18T14:40:34-04:00 Neither Benjamin Franklin nor his (illegitimate) son William fully described the reasons for their falling-out, but Benjamin carried the bitter grievance to his grave.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> A Just Society A Just Society tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-09:%2Fa_just_society.html 2009-05-09T16:56:11-04:00 2011-07-18T14:38:08-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/scales-of-justice2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Justice Holds the Scales" />The Right Angle Club tries something new.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9491 -75.1675 The Racquet Club of Philadelphia 39.9491 -75.1675 39.9491 -75.1675 Barack and Hillary: The Ol' Soft Shoe Barack and Hillary: The Ol' Soft Shoe tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-19:%2Fbarack_and_hillary_the.html 2009-06-19T07:51:34-04:00 2011-07-14T18:26:35-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Hillary_Clinton.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Sixteen years after Hillary Clinton romanced the American Medical Association, Barack Obama tried the same thing in the same hotel. He came closer to success, but lacked the nerve.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Wood Turning Wood Turning tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-30:%2Fwood_turning.html 2010-04-30T15:54:08-04:00 2011-07-12T17:06:39-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/WoodTurningCenter_000.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Tucked underneath the Ben Franklin Bridge, a non-profit museum displays the work of turners, artists mostly working in their garages, a most endearing place to visit when you are near the Constitution Center in Philadelphia. A little hard to get there on one-way streets. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9564 -75.1477 The Wood Turning Center 39.9564 -75.1477 39.9564 -75.1477 Will Power Will Power tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-22:%2Fwill_power.html 2009-04-22T12:08:48-04:00 2011-07-12T16:53:32-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/shakespeare.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="{William Shakespere}" />A small group of men get together twelve times a year in Philadelphia to read and discuss the works of William Shakespeare. Phil Wagner, the dean of the Shakspere Society of Philadelphia told us all about it. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 Why Are Hospital Prices So High? Why Are Hospital Prices So High? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fwhy_are_hospital_prices.html 2006-06-21T13:56:59-04:00 2011-07-12T16:48:25-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/aspirin2.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/inside1-aspirin.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The answer is that they are discounts to insurance companies. People with insurance pay a lower price than those without. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9458 -75.1559 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9458 -75.1559 39.9458 -75.1559 What's a Tranche? What's a Tranche? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-14:%2Fwhats_a_tranche.html 2008-02-14T15:50:29-05:00 2011-07-12T16:40:18-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/crunch.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The French term for slice. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> What Do Unions Want? What Do Unions Want? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-10:%2Fwhat_do_unions_want.html 2008-07-10T11:29:09-04:00 2011-07-12T16:34:07-04:00 Working topic: Much of American history of the 20th Century fits the theory that the auto and steel unions realized the fringe benefit revolution was a product of World War II and would not last. Their strategy seems to have been to fight desperately to preserve fringe benefits, while simultaneously working politically to get the tax payers to relieve heavy industry employers of the cost.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Waterworks Waterworks tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-22:%2Fwaterworks_.html 2009-09-22T12:06:17-04:00 2011-07-12T16:32:35-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/JustinaBarrett.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Rt. Angle Club of Philadelphia had a visit from the Information Director of the Philadelphia Water Works, a notable tourist attraction for two hundred years. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9669 -75.1839 The Philadelphia Water Works 39.9669 -75.1839 39.9669 -75.1839 Washington Square Washington Square tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzwashington_square.html 2006-06-26T15:35:07-04:00 2011-07-12T16:30:24-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/washingtonsq.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />All five of William Penn's city squares have proud and colorful histories . Washington Square, however, tops them all. It's had prisons, fish ponds, cemeteries, mansions and skyscrapers. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9471 -75.1525 Washington Square Park 39.9471 -75.1525 39.9471 -75.1525 Volunteerism Needs a Business Plan Volunteerism Needs a Business Plan tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-06:%2Fvolunteerism_needs_a_business.html 2008-05-06T14:38:29-04:00 2011-07-12T16:27:05-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Red_Cross_lg.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Volunteerism has declined in recent years because of conflicting demands made by gainful employment. The spirit of volunteerism has not diminished, it just needs a different business plan. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9528 -75.1778 The America Red Cross 39.9528 -75.1778 39.9528 -75.1778 Virginia Invades Pennsylvania Virginia Invades Pennsylvania tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-09-27:%2Fvirginia_invades_pennsylvania.html 2006-09-27T19:49:17-04:00 2011-07-12T16:25:44-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mappittssburg2.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mappittssburg2.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Virginians always lusted for "Ohio" which in their mind stretched from Pittsburgh to the Pacific Ocean. The chaos of the Revolution provided an opportunity for Lord Dunmore the Governor to move in on the Ohio Valley, but it proved too much of a stretch. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9471 -75.1525 WAshington Square Park 39.9471 -75.1525 39.9471 -75.1525 Use the Internet for Your Club Use the Internet for Your Club tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Finternet_club_1.html 1998-02-26T16:58:17-05:00 2011-07-12T16:20:19-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mac_mini.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mac_mini.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" /> <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Urban Termites Urban Termites tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzurban_termites.html 2006-06-23T17:05:44-04:00 2011-07-12T16:19:32-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/philadelphia_skyline.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" /> Slums are occasionally created deliberately ... when skyscrapers are conceived, the neighborhood must change, even if it's a nice neighborhood.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Unexpected Benefits of a Lurid Past Unexpected Benefits of a Lurid Past tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-19:%2Funexpected_benefits_of_a.html 2007-06-19T16:12:03-04:00 2011-07-12T16:11:22-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/BarnegatBay.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="map of barnegat bay" />The legal prohibition of liquor caused corruption of society which was worse, and lasted longer, than the problems it might have solved. Here and there, some surprising advantages lasted a long time, too. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8693 -74.1148 Barnegat Bay. 39.8693 -74.1148 39.8693 -74.1148 Unequal Health in an Unequal World Unequal Health in an Unequal World tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-19:%2Funequal_health_in_an.html 2007-03-19T11:21:55-04:00 2011-07-12T16:10:43-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Sir%20Michael%20Marmot.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Sir%20Michael%20Marmot.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Poor people get sick and die oftener and sooner. But is that because they are poor?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9532 -75.1766 The College of Physcians of Philadelphia 39.9532 -75.1766 39.9532 -75.1766 Unemployment 2008/09 Unemployment 2008/09 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-21:%2Funemployment_200809.html 2010-03-21T15:13:59-04:00 2011-07-12T16:09:55-04:00 The average national unemployment rate of 10.6% does not convey the same impact as seeing the spread of it over time. Tune in for a 30-second display of a graphic display. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Two Pacifists: Einstein and Eddington Two Pacifists: Einstein and Eddington tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-11:%2Ftwo_pacifists_einstein_and.html 2007-11-11T18:25:31-05:00 2011-07-12T16:04:41-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/einsteineddington.jpg" cLASS="200" alt="" />The English Quaker Sir Arthur Eddington was granted draft exemption during World War I, on condition that he conduct a test of the Theory of Relativity produced by the German conscientious objector, Albert Einstein. Einstein won. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.3486 -74.6583 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 40.3486 -74.6583 40.3486 -74.6583 Touring Bhutan Touring Bhutan tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-09:%2Ftouring_bhutan.html 2009-01-09T17:16:05-05:00 2011-07-12T15:56:15-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/wright-bhutan-valley.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Touring Bhutan is strenuous, starting with twelve time zones of jet lag and ending with big mountains. But it's modernizing fast, so hurry up if you want cute, and rancid butter tea. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 27.4426 89.6673 Bhutan, the original Shangri la 27.4426 89.6673 27.4426 89.6673 Tony Junker: <i>Tunnell's Boys</i> Tony Junker: Tunnell's Boys tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-21:%2Ftunnells_boys_by_tony.html 2007-04-21T16:50:23-04:00 2011-07-12T15:55:06-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/tunnellsboys.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Pilots once had to race from the mouth of Delaware Bay to meet incoming ships. First one there got the job. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.7971 -75.1 Cape Henlopen lighthouse Lewes DE 38.7971 -75.1 38.7971 -75.1 To Germantown: A Short Appreciation To Germantown: A Short Appreciation tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzto_germantown_a_short.html 2006-06-26T14:38:35-04:00 2011-07-12T15:52:36-04:00 The Western World was long defined as a province of Rome <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Time To Care Time To Care tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-15:%2Ftime_to_care.html 2009-09-15T11:50:13-04:00 2011-07-12T15:51:11-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/timetocarebook.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A physician who practiced for sixty years, before and after Medicare, has a lot of stories to tell about how Medicine has changed, and been changed. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9453 -75.1556 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9453 -75.1556 39.9453 -75.1556 The Value of Large Law Firms The Value of Large Law Firms tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-02:%2Fthe_value_of_large.html 2008-05-02T16:26:00-04:00 2011-07-12T15:42:52-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/krooseve.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Young lawyers clamor and strive to be employed by huge law firms, but most of them complain bitterly once they achieve the goal. What's this all about? <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9541 -75.1921 University of Pennsylvania Law School 39.9541 -75.1921 39.9541 -75.1921 The Supreme Court Arrives, A Little Late The Supreme Court Arrives, A Little Late tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_supreme_court_arrives.html 2006-06-23T17:00:54-04:00 2011-07-12T15:36:12-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/jefferson-712870.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Jefferson" />The third branch of government took a generation to establish its place, and John Marshall made it happen. If you love the Supreme Court, you probably hate Thomas Jefferson. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Savoy and the Orpheus The Savoy and the Orpheus tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fthe_savoy_and_the.html 2006-06-21T12:39:22-04:00 2011-07-12T15:32:55-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Piratesof%20Penzance.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="pirates of penzance" />Two amateur singing groups are fixtures of the Philadelphia musical, and social, scene. Their success is partially due to high costs of union labor.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9492 -75.1771 The Orpheus Club of Philadelphia 39.9492 -75.1771 39.9492 -75.1771 The Republican Convention (1900) The Republican Convention (1900) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_republican_convention_1900.html 2006-06-26T13:49:40-04:00 2011-07-12T15:24:06-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/roosevelt05.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The political bosses wanted to get Teddy Roosevelt out of the Governor's chair in Albany. As things turned out, they made him President of the United States.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9487 -75.1937 Childrens Hopital of Philadelphia 39.9487 -75.1937 39.9487 -75.1937 The Philadelphia Bay (1) The Philadelphia Bay (1) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_philadelphia_bay_1.html 2006-06-26T14:11:17-04:00 2011-07-12T15:20:45-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/delbay.jpg" class="tn-l-w50">In geological times, New Jersey and Delaware were barrier islands of the Atlantic, and lower Delaware Bay was the inlet between them. Then, we silted up and formed land bridges, leaving a twisting extension of a river which originally ended at Trenton. Upper Delaware Bay is Philadelphia Bay. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.2781 -75.3397 Philadelphia Bay 39.2781 -75.3397 39.2781 -75.3397 The Palace on Wheels The Palace on Wheels tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-02-12:%2Fthe_palace_on_wheels.html 2011-02-12T09:18:56-05:00 2011-07-12T15:19:43-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/india2011/images/IMG_1174.jpg" alt="{Palace on Wheels logo}" class="tn-l-w100" /> The Palace on Wheels is a sleeper train that travels west from Delhi into the heart of the Rajput Princely States of Rajastan. A finer introduction to India cannot be found. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 28.5823 77.186 Delhi Safdarjung Railway station 28.5823 77.186 28.5823 77.186 The Nation's Capitol The Nation's Capitol tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-20:%2Fthe_nations_capitol.html 2007-02-20T17:10:41-05:00 2011-07-12T15:10:28-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Walter.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />George Washington himself may have stated the vision of the Capitol building in the city named after him; Thomas Jefferson stated strong views. But the original building was designed by Bulfinch of Boston, rather like the Massachusetts General Hospital. After the War of 1812, a succession of Philadelphia Architects took over and made it what we know today. Benjamin Latrobe set things moving, then Thomas U. Walter reset the proportions under the influence of William Strickland. If Philadelphia was to lose the capitol in a polical deal, at least it could define the outcome. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.708 -77.0861 Mt. Vernon 38.708 -77.0861 38.708 -77.0861 The Naming of Pennsylvania The Naming of Pennsylvania tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_naming_of_pennsylvania.html 2006-06-26T13:58:10-04:00 2011-07-12T15:10:10-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/annals%20pa-700075.gif" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Annuals of Pennsylvania" />King Charles gave Penn as much land as the whole of England, and named it after William Penn <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Missouri Compromise The Missouri Compromise tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fthe_missouri_compromise.html 1991-10-24T16:58:17-04:00 2011-07-12T15:09:39-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/William%20Bingham.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Pennsylvania's contribution to this bargain between the slave-holding South and abolitionist North was that William Bingham owned much of what was to become the state of Maine. That gave the free states two new senators to balance two slave-holding senators for Missouri. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Minnesota Investment Standard The Minnesota Investment Standard tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_minnesota_investment_standard.html 2006-06-23T17:15:56-04:00 2011-07-12T15:09:18-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Wall%20Street%20with%20Washington%20Statue.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Wall Street" />If financial experts expect to maintain their present living standards, they must stop producing, and defending, results that can be ridiculed. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Man Behind the Mann The Man Behind the Mann tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-27:%2Fthe_man_behind_the.html 2008-06-27T19:35:41-04:00 2011-07-12T15:08:50-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Williamx2.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Freddy Mann turned the Robin Hood Dell into the Mann Center for Performing Arts, and then Peter Lane pumped life into it. A lawyer and a cellist are now taking it to the next level. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Life and Death of Cities The Life and Death of Cities tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Flife_death_cities-1.html 2003-02-20T16:58:17-05:00 2011-07-12T15:02:37-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/jacobs.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Author Jane Jacobs makes an attractive case against globalization, but she's probably wrong. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The King's Last and Final Word The King's Last and Final Word tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzconnecticut_invades_pennsylvania.html 2006-06-26T13:50:49-04:00 2011-07-12T14:54:14-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/kingcharlesii.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />King Charles II did give Wilkes-Barre to Connecticut first, and the same king did later give the same land to William Penn. Unfortunately for Connecticut, at that time the last word was all that mattered. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Judiciary The Judiciary tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fthe_judiciary.html 2006-06-20T12:12:49-04:00 2011-07-12T14:53:12-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/sidneygfisher.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A famous 19th Century commentator grumbles about the intrusion of politics into Supreme Court decisions. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Hogan Schism The Hogan Schism tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fhogan_schism.html 1991-09-19T16:58:17-04:00 2011-07-12T14:50:36-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/binney.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />What happens when the parish likes the local priest better than the Bishop, and the Bishop is stupid enough to make an issue of it? <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9466 -75.1476 Old St. Joseph Church Philadelphia Pa 39.9466 -75.1476 39.9466 -75.1476 The Garden Show Evolves The Garden Show Evolves tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-03:%2Fthe_garden_show_evolves.html 2008-03-03T16:05:19-05:00 2011-07-12T14:34:49-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PennHortSoc.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Exhibitors at the Philadelphia Garden Show have gradually evolved from amateurs to nurserymen, and from nurserymen to florists. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.956 -75.1731 The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 39.956 -75.1731 39.956 -75.1731 The First Pennamite War (1769-1771) The First Pennamite War (1769-1771) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ffirst_pennamite_war.html 2004-09-29T16:58:17-04:00 2011-07-12T14:32:21-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Wyoming_Massacre_Web.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Penn family called Sherrif Jennings to evict Connecticut poachers from their land, along with a glamorous adventurer named Ogden who burned the cabins. The fifth time this happened, it was almost too bad about Ogden.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9672 -75.1784 First Hospital Wyoming Valley 39.9672 -75.1784 39.9672 -75.1784 The Economic Power of Laws The Economic Power of Laws tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fthe_economic_power_law.html 2004-12-09T16:58:17-05:00 2011-07-12T14:30:38-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/DOLLARSIGN.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />The power to tax is the power to destroy, and so is the power to regulate. But anarchy can also destroy. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9002 -75.0326 Haddonfield Quaker Meeting House 39.9002 -75.0326 39.9002 -75.0326 The Definition of a Real Philadelphian (1914) The Definition of a Real Philadelphian (1914) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_definition_of_a.html 2006-06-23T17:11:51-04:00 2011-07-12T14:30:20-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/philadelphia2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="South Philadelphia" />"Mrs. Pennell states the Philadelphia case with such guileless precision that it's hilarious. Quaker ladies can wield a rapier wit without hurting feelings. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9522 -75.1623 Philadelphia PA 39.9522 -75.1623 39.9522 -75.1623 The Cost of Meeting Unmet Medical Needs The Cost of Meeting Unmet Medical Needs tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-24:%2Fthe_cost_of_meeting.html 2007-05-24T16:35:43-04:00 2011-07-12T14:29:20-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/medicalclaims.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/medicalclaims.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />If you are careless, the cost of meeting unmet medical needs will continue long after the needs have been met. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Center of Town The Center of Town tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_center_of_town.html 2006-06-26T15:31:42-04:00 2011-07-12T14:26:54-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PH_City-739585.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The designs of the city squares, that of City Hall in particular, follow the "diamond" pattern characteristic of the Scotch Irish, who were keen real estate speculators. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9518 -75.1637 Philadelphia City Hall 39.9518 -75.1637 39.9518 -75.1637 The Cause of the Subprime Crisis The Cause of the Subprime Crisis tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-30:%2Fthe_cause_of_the.html 2008-04-30T18:20:15-04:00 2011-07-12T14:26:40-04:00 Things you suspected but kept to yourself <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> The Best Density for an Idea The Best Density for an Idea tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fthe_best_density_for.html 2006-06-20T19:42:04-04:00 2011-07-12T14:25:21-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Light%20Bulb.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />There's a right size for expressing any argument. Bigger than an abbreviation, smaller than an epic poem. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> That Damned Cowboy That Damned Cowboy tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fz_.html 2006-06-26T13:48:23-04:00 2011-07-12T14:22:16-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Teddy%20Roosevelt.jpg" class="tn-l-w50"alt="" />and The political bosses wanted to get Teddy Roosevelt out of the Governor's chair in Albany. As things turned out, they made him President of the United States. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9489 -75.1938 Childrens Hopital of Philadelphia 39.9489 -75.1938 39.9489 -75.1938 Text of the Rosetta Stone Text of the Rosetta Stone tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-23:%2Ftext_of_the_rosetta.html 2008-06-23T20:03:05-04:00 2011-07-12T14:21:59-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/RosettaStone.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />English translation from the Greek of the Rosetta Stone <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Tax Credit Time Tax Credit Time tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-06:%2Ftax_credit_time.html 2007-03-06T16:48:34-05:00 2011-07-12T14:20:42-04:00 Here's how a discouraging proportion of indigent tax credits go right into the pockets of predators. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Taking Care of Our Veterans Taking Care of Our Veterans tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-13:%2Ftaking_care_of_our.html 2009-03-13T19:11:18-04:00 2011-07-12T14:18:48-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/deptvetseal.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />With programs to treat most any service-related affliction, the Philadelphia offices of the Department of Veteran's Affairs is a busy center for our freedom fighters. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9498 -75.2016 Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Treatment Research Center 39.9498 -75.2016 39.9498 -75.2016 Supply-Side Tax Cuts Supply-Side Tax Cuts tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fsupply_side_tax_cuts.html 2006-06-22T11:50:43-04:00 2011-07-12T14:13:39-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/DOLLARSIGN.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />"Supply-side" refers to public policies which help or hinder the economic health of the whole nation. For example, raising or reducing the taxes on dividends and capital gains -- for individuals -- has its most important effect on raising or lowering the cost of capital throughout the economy.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Stephen Girard, Compulsive Gambler Stephen Girard, Compulsive Gambler tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-31:%2Fstephan_girard_compulsive_gambler.html 2007-10-31T19:18:54-04:00 2011-07-12T13:51:44-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Stephen%20Girard.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />The richest men in early America had an astonishing characteristic in common. Once they got to the top, they often gambled their whole fortunes on a venture which either busted them or made them incredibly richer.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.948 -75.1464 First Bank of United States Philadelphia PA 39.948 -75.1464 39.948 -75.1464 Sovereign Wealth Funds Sovereign Wealth Funds tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-27:%2Fsovereign_wealth_funds.html 2008-02-27T17:27:05-05:00 2011-07-12T13:33:29-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/crunch.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />If sovereign debt is a headache, just contemplate sovereign-wealth funds. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Sorry, But This May Hurt a Little Sorry, But This May Hurt a Little tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-05:%2Fsorry_but_this_may.html 2006-07-05T11:13:23-04:00 2011-07-12T13:22:50-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Dentist%20tooth.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Dentist%20tooth.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Lots of people experience some injury in the course of medical treatment, but only a tiny fraction of them bring suit. Since life expectancy has increased by three years in the past ten, most people think this is a risk worth running. Compensating everybody who has an injury would be unimaginably expensive.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Sold Out Sold Out tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-22:%2Fsold_out.html 2009-03-22T15:14:59-04:00 2011-07-12T13:21:48-04:00 How Wall Street bought Washington ... How Washington sold out to Wall Street.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Society Hill Stonehenge Society Hill Stonehenge tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzsociety_hill_stonehenge.html 2006-06-23T16:14:13-04:00 2011-07-12T13:19:36-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hopkinson-741914.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="hopkins" />Philadelphia streets were laid out from North to South, the North used was magnetic north. So our sunlight is six degrees away from astronomical precision. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9461 -75.1522 Hopkins House Philadelphia 39.9461 -75.1522 39.9461 -75.1522 Singing Waiters Singing Waiters tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-20:%2Fsinging_waiters.html 2009-05-20T11:54:08-04:00 2011-07-12T12:58:49-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Singing%20Waiter.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Opera exists for high society, but it also exists as folk music. In Philadelphia, the folk tradition has centered around Victor's Cafe for almost a century.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9316 -75.1664 The Victor Cafe 39.9316 -75.1664 39.9316 -75.1664 Silence Connotes Assent: Only To Quakers Silence Connotes Assent: Only To Quakers tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzsilence_connotes_assent_only.html 2006-06-26T13:41:59-04:00 2011-07-12T12:58:29-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/british.parliament.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/british.parliament.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Quakers seek consensus, but try not to be intimidated by it. You get a lot accomplished at a meeting where agreement is assumed unless disagreement is voiced.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9524 -75.1487 Free Quaker Meeting House of Philadelphia 39.9524 -75.1487 39.9524 -75.1487 Seventeenth Amendment Seventeenth Amendment tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzseventeenth_amendment.html 2006-06-23T16:49:09-04:00 2011-07-12T12:17:11-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/compromise.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/compromise.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The consequences of this little-noticed amendment should be re-examined.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9489 -75.1494 Old City Hall Philadelphia 39.9489 -75.1494 39.9489 -75.1494 Settlement Music School Settlement Music School tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fsettlement_music_school.html 2006-06-19T20:29:12-04:00 2011-07-12T12:10:35-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/JaneAddams1880-1965.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Jane Adams" />Without much notice, fifteen thousand music students attend six branches of a school with connections to the NAACP, ACLU and the Bull Moose Party.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0411 -75.1797 The Settlement Music School 40.0411 -75.1797 40.0411 -75.1797 Server-Side gzip Compression Server-Side gzip Compression tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-11:%2Fserverside_gzip_compression.html 2008-02-11T14:17:21-05:00 2011-07-12T12:09:17-04:00 You can include code in a PHP program to compress an outbound web page. It works, but instructing the web server to do it to every page is much easier. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Securitization: Pass the Hot Potato Securitization: Pass the Hot Potato tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-22:%2Fsecuritization_pass_the_hot.html 2008-07-22T20:54:16-04:00 2011-07-12T11:55:35-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hotpotato.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Securitization of home mortgages is a generally good thing, but it has one major flaw. Unless we somehow fix it, it will fix us.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.9403 -77.0766 Fannie Mae Corporate Headquarters 38.9403 -77.0766 38.9403 -77.0766 Securitization Securitization tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-11:%2Fsecuritization_.html 2008-02-11T20:44:39-05:00 2011-07-12T11:55:01-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/crunch.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Taking mortgages away from banks is a promising financial innovation. Unfortunately, it is part of a much longer process of pushing banks out of the banking business, which will remain a very dangerous process until it is complete. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Second Opinion: Dick Watson Second Opinion: Dick Watson tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-06:%2Fplaying_philadelphia_catchup.html 2009-03-06T16:03:16-05:00 2011-07-12T11:52:50-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Dollar%20Squeezed.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Although all major cities are facing budget crunches in today's economy, Philadelphia's problems go beyond that.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9489 -75.1663 Office of the Controller 39.9489 -75.1663 39.9489 -75.1663 SCUBA Tours of the Andrea Doria SCUBA Tours of the Andrea Doria tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-25:%2Fscuba_tours_of_the.html 2008-07-25T18:59:09-04:00 2011-07-12T11:41:02-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/doria_2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria and sank her in 1956 in 250 feet of water. Lots of weekend visitors still wander around inside the ship.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.4917 -98.85 The Wreck of The Andrea Doria 40.4917 -98.85 40.4917 -98.85 SCORE SCORE tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-04:%2Fscore_.html 2008-04-04T15:29:07-04:00 2011-07-12T11:35:45-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/frankpace.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Service Corps of Retired Executives has taken a new turn in Philadelphia, primarily serving minority start-ups, a majority of which are founded by black women.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9508 -75.1557 Philadelphia SCORE - Chapter 0046 Robert N.C. Nix Federal Bldg (215-580-2712) 39.9508 -75.1557 39.9508 -75.1557 America's Revolutionary War America's Revolutionary War tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-08:%2Famerica_s_revolutionary_war.php 2011-07-08T17:10:51-04:00 2011-07-08T18:10:28-04:00 It seems too specific to say the Revolutionary War's causes were economic or sociologic. North America grew too busy and valuable to be governed from three thousand miles, using available tools. The Empire fell apart after it got too big. Rufus Jones, Quaker Rufus Jones, Quaker tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzrufus_jones_quaker.html 2006-06-23T16:28:57-04:00 2011-07-08T17:28:02-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/rufusjones.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Rufus Jones dominated the Quaker religion for a generation, bringing unity out of disunity, and creating some towering institutions in the process. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0128 -75.2998 Haverford College 40.0128 -75.2998 40.0128 -75.2998 Riverline: Camden and Amboy Revival Riverline: Camden and Amboy Revival tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Friverline_camden_amboy.html 2004-01-05T16:58:17-05:00 2011-07-08T17:14:33-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/georgewashingtoncrossingdelaware.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/wash_cross_delaware.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />One of the oldest rail lines in America is coming back to life, and may be bringing the towns along it back to life, too. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9408 -75.1284 Riverline Camden, NJ 39.9408 -75.1284 39.9408 -75.1284 River City River City tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzriver_city.html 2006-06-23T17:29:43-04:00 2011-07-08T17:14:17-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/dock%20st-711527.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Philadelphia Dock" />When you get down to it, Philadelphia is located at the junction of two major rivers. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8834 -75.1946 The Confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers 39.8834 -75.1946 39.8834 -75.1946 Rising (China and) Developing Nations Rising (China and) Developing Nations tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-10:%2Frising_china_and_developing.html 2008-07-10T12:04:57-04:00 2011-07-08T17:10:40-04:00 Working topic: Sudden prosperity leaps ahead of rising lifestyles: developing countries have an early period where they cannot spend their money on consumer goods. These abnormally large savings increasingly penetrate and destabilize globalized markets. The world needs a better banking arrangement, and may well need a new basis for currency reserves.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Right Angle Club 2008, Address of the 2008 President Right Angle Club 2008, Address of the 2008 President tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-02:%2Fright_angle_club_2008.html 2008-12-02T13:03:11-05:00 2011-07-08T17:09:23-04:00 Neale Bringhurst <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Revolt of the Admirals: The Fight for Naval Aviation, 1945-1950 Revolt of the Admirals: The Fight for Naval Aviation, 1945-1950 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-16:%2Frevolt_of_the_admirals.html 2011-03-16T15:46:11-04:00 2011-07-08T17:08:14-04:00 The National Security Act of 1947, intended to unify the separate armed forces services under a single Defense Secretary, failed to settle the deeper issue that divided them: the debate over roles and missions.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Retirement Planning Video Retirement Planning Video tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-04:%2Fretirement_planning_video.html 2008-05-04T11:16:54-04:00 2011-07-08T17:02:38-04:00 The retirement situation and how much to save for yourself. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Rescuing International Finance? Rescuing International Finance? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-28:%2Frescuing_international_finance.html 2008-10-28T11:26:44-04:00 2011-07-08T16:48:18-04:00 On November 15, 2008 the world financial managers are meeting, either to resolve the whole currency mess -- or to plunge us into unimaginable chaos. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Rebel Hill Rebel Hill tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-21:%2Frebel_hill.html 2010-10-21T12:39:37-04:00 2011-07-08T16:27:50-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/valley%20Forge.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Everybody knows Washington's troops retreated to Valley Forge, but not everybody realizes how he got there. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0639 -75.3417 Washington's Rock 40.0639 -75.3417 40.0639 -75.3417 Real Estate Investment Calculator Real Estate Investment Calculator tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-29:%2Freal_estate_investment_calculator.html 2009-05-29T10:25:09-04:00 2011-07-08T16:23:42-04:00 The price you should pay for income-producing property is a function of the cash flow. Too many investors look at criteria other than cash flow and end up making bad investment decisions. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Rancocas Valley: Mt. Holly, Eayrestown, Medford Rancocas Valley: Mt. Holly, Eayrestown, Medford tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-22:%2Francocas_valley_mt_holly.html 2009-04-22T16:38:08-04:00 2011-07-08T16:09:19-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Rancocas%20River.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" /> The many branches of the Rancocas River spread out within the forests of southern New Jersey and once supported a hidden colonial community. It was once considered for historical restoration, but lost out to Williamsburg.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Quaker Investment Committee Quaker Investment Committee tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzquaker_investment_committee.html 2006-06-23T17:17:42-04:00 2011-07-08T15:42:07-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/jon%20rhoads.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Quakers expect results from their investment managers, not just Wall Street gossip. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9637 -75.1732 The Philadelphia County Medical Society 39.9637 -75.1732 39.9637 -75.1732 QR Codes QR Codes tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-20:%2Fqr_codes.html 2010-04-20T15:51:43-04:00 2011-07-08T15:40:01-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/QR_code_advisors.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />QR Codes are becoming common in print ads to encode the sponsor's URL <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Put Corporate Raiders to Some Good Use? Put Corporate Raiders to Some Good Use? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fput_corporate_raiders_to.html 2006-06-22T12:30:32-04:00 2011-07-08T15:38:50-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hgmanne.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hgmanne.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />It<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script><!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.8852 -77.1002 3301 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22201 38.8852 -77.1002 38.8852 -77.1002 Preamble to the Charter of Pennsylvania Preamble to the Charter of Pennsylvania tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-03:%2Fpreamble_to_the_charter.html 2010-02-03T13:56:28-05:00 2011-07-08T15:27:47-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/KINGCHARLESII.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Ancient legal documents, especially royal ones, began with some quaint flourishes. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 51.5047 -0.137823 St. James Palace 51.5047 -0.137823 51.5047 -0.137823 Political Bosses Political Bosses tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-16:%2Fpolitical_bosses.html 2009-12-16T12:19:52-05:00 2011-07-08T15:18:53-04:00 .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Podcasts on iTunes Podcasts on iTunes tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-30:%2Fpodcasts_on_itunes.html 2010-12-30T10:24:05-05:00 2011-07-08T15:18:23-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/GRF.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />We are now publishing podcasts through iTunes. You can listen on your PC, iPhone, iPod or iPad. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Please Touch Please Touch tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-06:%2Fplease_touch.html 2007-09-06T20:10:48-04:00 2011-07-08T15:18:03-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/pleasetouchmuseum.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Please Touch Museum" />The Please Touch Museum, a roaring success story, is planning to move to much larger quarters in the Fall of 2008. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.958 -75.1743 Please Touch Museum 39.958 -75.1743 39.958 -75.1743 Please Don't Lose Any Sleep Over This Please Don't Lose Any Sleep Over This tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fplease_don_t_lose.html 2006-06-20T12:11:05-04:00 2011-07-08T15:17:39-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Czeisler.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />New research suggests that when medical Resident physicians stay up all night working, they get sleepy. When a minimum sleep requirement for doctors was suggested, administrators were a little stunned to find doctors were annoyed. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Plain Speech Plain Speech tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fplain_speech.html 2006-06-20T11:57:34-04:00 2011-07-08T15:15:55-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/goofy.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="{CARTOON OF GOOFY IN A CAB}" />A visit to a neighboring city.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.7579 -73.9776 Corner of 5th Avenue 40.7579 -73.9776 40.7579 -73.9776 Pink Slips for Green Doctors Pink Slips for Green Doctors tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-01-07:%2Fpink_slips_for_green.html 2007-01-07T23:50:06-05:00 2011-07-08T15:09:43-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Pinkslip.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Pinkslip.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Even long before Medicare was enacted, hospital doctors had no idea what costs they were running up.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Pictures IV Pictures IV tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-21:%2Fpictures_iv.html 2008-02-21T22:32:38-05:00 2011-07-08T15:06:41-04:00 More pictures<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Pictures III Pictures III tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-21:%2Fpictures_iii.html 2008-02-21T22:31:50-05:00 2011-07-08T15:05:46-04:00 Some pictures you might like <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Pictures II Pictures II tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-21:%2Fpictures_ii.html 2008-02-21T22:31:13-05:00 2011-07-08T15:04:19-04:00 Some pictures you might like <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Philadelphia in October, 1774 Philadelphia in October, 1774 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fphiladelphia_in_october_1774.html 2006-06-21T12:44:31-04:00 2011-07-08T14:59:17-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/VPJohnAdams.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />In his diary, John Adams tells of leaving Philadelphia at the conclusion of the First Continental Congress <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9481 -75.1472 Carpenter Hall 39.9481 -75.1472 39.9481 -75.1472 Philadelphia in 1876: The Centennial Philadelphia in 1876: The Centennial tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphiladelphia_in_1876.html 2004-11-30T16:58:17-05:00 2011-07-08T14:52:54-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/grand-united-states.gif" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />A hundred years after the Declaration, Philadelphia announced to the world that is was here. And Philadelphia learned there was a lot out there in the rest of the world. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9829 -75.2098 Fairmount Park 1876 Centennial 39.9829 -75.2098 39.9829 -75.2098 Philadelphia in 1800 Philadelphia in 1800 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-20:%2Fphiladelphia_in_1800.html 2009-08-20T13:09:14-04:00 2011-07-08T14:52:38-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/philadelphia_in_1800.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />In 1800, the nation's capital moved to the District of Columbia, just as Washington, Jefferson, and Madison had hoped. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.949 -75.1502 Independence Hall 39.949 -75.1502 39.949 -75.1502 Philadelphia Gets the Business Philadelphia Gets the Business tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-01:%2Fphiladelphia_gets_the_business.html 2009-07-01T11:22:52-04:00 2011-07-08T14:51:24-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/pbj.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="The Philadelphia Business Journal" />Philadelphia is suffering from the current economic downturn just like every other major city but there's reason to be upbeat because of the many advantages this area has in its business climate.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9502 -75.1476 The Philadelphia Business Journal 215-238-1450 39.9502 -75.1476 39.9502 -75.1476 Philadelphia City-County Consolidation of 1854 Philadelphia City-County Consolidation of 1854 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-28:%2Fphiladelphia_citycounty_consolidation_of.html 2009-01-28T14:55:48-05:00 2011-07-08T14:48:21-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/1762philabiddle.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Consolidation Map 1854" />Prior to 1854, Philadelphia City was one of twenty-nine political entities within Philadelphia County. After that, it became one big city without suburbs. Growth pressure now reverses toward suburbs without a city. Political boundaries should thus shift inwardly.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9524 -75.1636 City Hall 39.9524 -75.1636 39.9524 -75.1636 Philadelphia Green Philadelphia Green tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fphiladelphia_green.html 2006-06-20T11:33:38-04:00 2011-07-08T14:37:10-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/2006_phs_001.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Pennyslvania Horticural" />Philadelphia outdoor beautification effort linked up with its traditional community spirit of volunteerism for a smashing success. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9539 -75.1734 The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 39.9539 -75.1734 39.9539 -75.1734 Perth Amboy to Trenton (2) Perth Amboy to Trenton (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzperth_amboy_to_trenton.html 2006-06-23T11:20:17-04:00 2011-07-08T14:32:36-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/declaration-of-independence-signers.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Trumbull" />Lord Howe landed troops on Staten Island, and from there launched his first attack on Philadelphia by crossing the narrow waist of New Jersey. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.6651 -73.9712 Battle of Long Island 1776 40.6651 -73.9712 40.6651 -73.9712 Perpetual Fire Insurance Perpetual Fire Insurance tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzperpetual_fire_insurance.html 2006-06-23T16:41:49-04:00 2011-07-08T14:19:37-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/crash1929.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="crash" />Perpetual fire insurance was a brilliant idea for two hundred years, but after that the risks have gradually shifted. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.944 -75.1552 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.944 -75.1552 39.944 -75.1552 Paul Robeson 1898-1976 Paul Robeson 1898-1976 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-07:%2Fpaul_robeson_18981976.html 2006-08-07T18:31:29-04:00 2011-07-08T14:00:11-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/robeson.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Valedictorian, All-American footballer, law degree, outstanding baritone, actor, film star, political activist -- Robeson rose to the top in the 1930s when by default he was always a pioneer. As a student, for example, he was the only black person on campus at Rutgers. His understandable resentments and show-biz surroundings propelled him into leftist activism. Mental infirmity and McCarthyism then brought him down. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9565 -75.2205 Paul Robeson House 39.9565 -75.2205 39.9565 -75.2205 Patent Pending Patent Pending tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzpatent_pending.html 2006-06-26T14:28:09-04:00 2011-07-08T13:58:51-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/constitution1-759321.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="constitution" />The provision for patents is part of the Constitution, and seems a little out of place. The motion was made by James Madison and seconded by Thomas Pinckney. But some of us think it sounds more like the work of Ben Franklin.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.949 -75.1504 The Congress Hall of Philadelphia 39.949 -75.1504 39.949 -75.1504 Passenger Stop Passenger Stop tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-15:%2Fpassenger_stop.html 2008-06-15T22:17:40-04:00 2011-07-08T13:58:35-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/wwavinggoodbye.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Amtrak is proud of its on-time record, but in some ways the passenger still comes first. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Ownership of the Port Ownership of the Port tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzownership_of_the_port.html 2006-06-23T17:09:30-04:00 2011-07-08T10:48:44-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/art118.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Industrial Philadelphia was built around port facilities and railroads. As East Coast shipping declined, city, state and federal governments combined to buy up the port facilities and keep them going. Is that commendable, or a futile waste of money?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9787 -75.0872 Philadelphia Regional Port Authority 39.9787 -75.0872 39.9787 -75.0872 Overnight in Philadelphia: Tourism Suggestions Overnight in Philadelphia: Tourism Suggestions tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-19:%2Fovernight_philadelphia_tourism_suggestions.html 2007-05-19T19:42:01-04:00 2011-07-07T17:21:57-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/philly-over12.08_U.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Philadelphia tourists often stay in suburban hotels, but there is a cluster of charming places right downtown. They're inexpensive, and very convenient.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9447 -75.1449 Thomas Bond House 39.9447 -75.1449 39.9447 -75.1449 Or, A Few Bad Apples? Or, A Few Bad Apples? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2For_a_few_bad.html 2006-06-19T17:17:05-04:00 2011-07-07T17:17:23-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/10.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Surgeons" />A few doctors do get sued more than others, but research has failed to produce a simple explanation. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Opposition to Privatized Social Security Opposition to Privatized Social Security tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fopposition_to_privatized_social.html 2006-06-21T12:50:16-04:00 2011-07-07T17:17:03-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/teamsters.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Union opposition to privatizing Social Security has nothing to do with privatization, and everything to do with diverting SS taxes to something else. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.909 -77.0406 The Brookings Institution 38.909 -77.0406 38.909 -77.0406 Obituaries, 2010 Obituaries, 2010 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-14:%2Fobituaries_2010.html 2010-12-14T18:27:35-05:00 2011-07-07T17:12:49-04:00 The Right Angle Club lost two of its former presidents, during the past year. They are missed with admiration and affection.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Obamacare Follies, Executive Summary Obamacare Follies, Executive Summary tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-18:%2Fobamacare_follies_executive_summary.html 2009-09-18T17:47:35-04:00 2011-07-07T17:10:13-04:00 In abbreviated form, health care reform as of September, 2009. Expanded explanations follow. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> NPR's Lincoln NPR's Lincoln tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-28:%2Fnprs_lincoln.html 2009-02-28T08:10:46-05:00 2011-07-07T17:09:17-04:00 NPR Series: 200 Years Of Abraham Lincoln<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Nowheres-ville Nowheres-ville tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-17:%2Fnowheresville_.html 2007-07-17T16:03:23-04:00 2011-07-07T17:07:40-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Hackerbook.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />After the Clinton Health Plan faded, but before new ones emerged, participants thought it safe to talk to graduate students studying the event. What emeges is a picture of big business pulling the plug. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> North of Market North of Market tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fznorth_of_market.html 2006-06-26T14:39:16-04:00 2011-07-07T17:04:58-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/FreeQuakerMeeting.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" />This old local expression originally pointed to where the Quakers live on Arch Street, but over the centuries has taken on a lot of less flattering associations. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9525 -75.1487 Free Quaker Meeting House of Philadelphia 39.9525 -75.1487 39.9525 -75.1487 New York Times Front Page New York Times Front Page tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-12:%2Fnew_york_times_front.html 2009-03-12T09:15:30-04:00 2011-07-07T16:55:04-04:00 A list of thumbnail sketches of the front page of America's paper of record.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Neopolitan Right Angle Neopolitan Right Angle tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-28:%2Fneopolitan_right_angle.html 2007-08-28T12:48:54-04:00 2011-07-07T16:50:27-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/warren_buffett.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/warrenbuffet.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />A transplanted Philadelphian plants a metastasis in Florida.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9491 -75.1675 The Racquet club of Philadelphia 39.9491 -75.1675 39.9491 -75.1675 Mutual Fund Governance Mutual Fund Governance tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fquot_why_do_mutual.html 2006-06-21T12:43:17-04:00 2011-07-07T16:45:37-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/080805_mf_mutualfunds.gif" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Mutual Funds" />Their main income depends on selling their mutual funds to corporation-controlled pension funds, that's why. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.3907 -77.0414 National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH) 38.3907 -77.0414 38.3907 -77.0414 Most Popular Images Most Popular Images tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-23:%2Fmost_popular_images.html 2008-05-23T11:35:40-04:00 2011-07-07T16:41:23-04:00 The readers have voted: here are the most popular images on Philadelphia Reflections (right now ... this changes all the time)<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Mortgages From the Bank's Viewpoint Mortgages From the Bank's Viewpoint tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-05:%2Fmortgages_from_the_banks.html 2008-05-05T00:13:50-04:00 2011-07-07T16:41:08-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/FederalReservePA.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="{The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia}" />When a bank issues a mortgage, there are lots of bumps in the road it starts to travel.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9547 -75.1961 The Global Interdependence Center (GIC)Phone: 215-898-9453 39.9547 -75.1961 39.9547 -75.1961 Modernism and Postmodernism Modernism and Postmodernism tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fmodernism_and_postmodernism.html 2006-06-19T21:59:24-04:00 2011-07-07T16:34:46-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/NudeStair.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Nude" />It's agreed that Modernism in Art was triggered by the industrial revolution. Postmodernism, beginning around 1950, may have been triggered by the American Century, the Information Revolution, or the decline of socialism. Only time will tell what it was all about.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9656 -75.181 Philadelphia Art Museum 39.9656 -75.181 39.9656 -75.181 Mind Your Manners Mind Your Manners tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-01-12:%2Fmind_your_manners.html 2007-01-12T16:17:34-05:00 2011-07-07T16:32:36-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/HOEFFEL.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/HOEFFEL.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The surgeon father of a local congressman once learned a hard lesson. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Milton Friedman on Capitalism Milton Friedman on Capitalism tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-21:%2Fmilton_friedman_on_capitalism.html 2009-06-21T20:22:40-04:00 2011-07-07T16:32:18-04:00 Milton Friedman responds to Phil Donahue's question about the plight of the millions of disadvantaged people in the world.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Mexico Goes to Morocco Mexico Goes to Morocco tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-27:%2Fmexico_goes_to_morocco.html 2007-09-27T19:03:18-04:00 2011-07-07T16:30:25-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Burkette.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />For those who like warm dry climates in the Winter, Ted Burkett led the loyal Mexico Society members to a new one.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 31.8345 -7.12622 Morocco, Marakech, 31.8345 -7.12622 31.8345 -7.12622 Meeting of the Minds Meeting of the Minds tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-06:%2Fmeeting_of_the_minds.html 2007-07-06T17:13:06-04:00 2011-07-07T16:15:32-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/senHarrisWofford.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Senator Wofford was expected to be an expert on health insurance, a subject he knew little about.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.9009 -77.0285 The Corporation for National and Community Service 38.9009 -77.0285 38.9009 -77.0285 Medical Tort Reform Medical Tort Reform tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fmedical_tort_reform.html 2006-06-21T12:28:57-04:00 2011-07-07T16:11:11-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cartoonmalpractice.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cartoonmalpractice.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Executive Summary.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Medical Club of Philadelphia Medical Club of Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-08-14:%2Fmedical_club_of_philadelphia.html 2008-08-14T17:29:01-04:00 2011-07-07T16:04:30-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/aescalaius.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Founded in 1880, this social club of Philadelphia physicians is devoted to non-medical events.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Measures of Philadelphia Measures of Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzmeasures_of_philadelphia.html 2006-06-23T15:49:17-04:00 2011-07-07T15:42:25-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/philadelphia_skyline.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Statistics.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9526 -75.1635 City Hall 39.9526 -75.1635 39.9526 -75.1635 Mary Cassatt Mary Cassatt tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fmary_cassatt.html 1994-02-24T16:58:17-05:00 2011-07-07T15:39:41-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cassatt_driving.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844-1926) is variously proclaimed as the greatest woman artist ever, and America's greatest impressionist painter of either sex. She is thus, from a Philadelphia perspective, the greatest Philadelphia woman artist.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9479 -75.1632 The Cassatt House 39.9479 -75.1632 39.9479 -75.1632 Mark Twain Sees Philadelphia in 1853 Mark Twain Sees Philadelphia in 1853 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fmark_twain_sees_phila.html 1993-01-28T16:58:17-05:00 2011-07-07T15:35:42-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Twain.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Twain.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />On his first visit to Philadelphia, Mark Twain was a very young man.<br /><br /><!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9489 -75.1501 Independence Hall 39.9489 -75.1501 39.9489 -75.1501 Mark Twain Observes 1890 Pennsylvania Politics Mark Twain Observes 1890 Pennsylvania Politics tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzmark_twain_observes_1890.html 2006-06-26T13:43:43-04:00 2011-07-07T15:35:27-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/marktwain-763753.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Mark Twain" /> Our politicians were a joke, even a century ago.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9662 -75.1287 Penn Treaty Park 39.9662 -75.1287 39.9662 -75.1287 Mark Twain in Vienna Mark Twain in Vienna tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-11-19:%2Fmark_twain_in_vienna.html 2009-11-19T13:42:02-05:00 2011-07-07T15:34:51-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/marktwainvienna1897.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Mark Twain spent two years in Vienna, repairing his depleted finances, and getting piano lessons for his daughter. He constantly sneered at things European, but the Europeans loved him for it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 48.209 16.3738 wien fiaker am stephansplatz 48.209 16.3738 48.209 16.3738 Map of Middle Eastern Empires Map of Middle Eastern Empires tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-27:%2Fmap_of_middle_eastern.html 2009-02-27T09:17:38-05:00 2011-07-07T15:32:03-04:00 Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Persians, Europeans...the list goes on. Maps-of-War is a multimedia site dedicated to producing diverse, creative visuals that enhance our understanding of war and its history. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Malpractice: State or Federal Problem? Malpractice: State or Federal Problem? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fmalpractice_state_or_federal.html 2006-06-21T15:30:11-04:00 2011-07-07T15:29:40-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Scales_of_justice2.jpg" wide class="tn-l-w50" alt="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Scales_of_justice2.jpg" />It would be lots easier to solve the malpractice problem if it could be all concentrated in one federal place. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Making Money (7): Fractional Reserve Banking Making Money (7): Fractional Reserve Banking tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-07:%2Fmaking_money_7_fractional.html 2007-12-07T17:18:27-05:00 2011-07-07T15:26:17-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/moneycredit.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Once we stopped basing bank lending on the precious metals in their vaults, we substituted "cash" reserves, which are of course created by the federal government. Then we discovered there was a "multiplier effect" if banks were allowed to loan more than the reserves.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9531 -75.015 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 39.9531 -75.015 39.9531 -75.015 Making Money (6): The Laffer Curve Making Money (6): The Laffer Curve tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fmaking_money_6.html 2006-06-22T11:59:32-04:00 2011-07-07T15:17:52-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Laffer.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The first President Bush called it Voodoo Economics. His son embarrassed him with the truth. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Making Money (4) Making Money (4) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fmaking_money_4.html 2006-06-22T12:10:02-04:00 2011-07-07T15:01:10-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/chinaman.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Money is nothing but spending power; lowering prices creates spending power. Is that "good" inflation? <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Making Money (3) Making Money (3) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fmaking_money_3.html 2006-06-22T12:08:55-04:00 2011-07-07T15:00:31-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/daltman.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/daltman.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Under the right circumstances, tax cuts are partially a free ride for us at the expense of foreign countries with fixed currency rates.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Making Money (1) Making Money (1) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fmaking_money_1.html 2006-06-22T12:06:41-04:00 2011-07-07T14:58:42-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/gold.jpg" alt="{Gold standard}" class="tn-l-w50" />Central bankers, managing the world's currencies without regard to gold, are about to be tested in their plausible scheme to do what has never been done. Hold on tight for the ride.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 37.8926 -85.9497 Fort Knox 37.8926 -85.9497 37.8926 -85.9497 Main Line Oligarchy Main Line Oligarchy tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-21:%2Fmain_line_oligarchy.html 2010-10-21T18:14:30-04:00 2011-07-07T14:57:44-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/JohnGunther.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Apparently, the Main Line offended John Gunther.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.042 -75.4834 Paoli (SEPTA station) 40.042 -75.4834 40.042 -75.4834 Macroeconomics of The 2007 Collapse Macroeconomics of The 2007 Collapse tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-12:%2Fmacroeconomics_of_the_2007.html 2009-03-12T16:21:23-04:00 2011-07-07T14:56:37-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Collapse.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />What happened to America in 2007 has happened to hundreds of developing economies in the past fifty years.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Looking Beyond Cheap Oil Looking Beyond Cheap Oil tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-10:%2Flooking_beyond_cheap_oil.html 2008-07-10T11:40:00-04:00 2011-07-07T14:48:41-04:00 Working topic: There's plenty of world oil for centuries to come, but cheap oil is mainly found in the Middle East. Even expensive oil would be cheap after a huge investment in transportation, pre-processing and refining. The geopolitical strategy would be to bite this bullet for American consumption, while forcing peace on the rest of the world by its continued dependence on the Middle East. The logical outcome of this thinking is to establish permanent Middle East military bases. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Longevity Revolution Longevity Revolution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-10:%2Flongevity_revolution.html 2008-07-10T11:50:40-04:00 2011-07-07T14:45:53-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/drummer76.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Working topic: The addition of thirty years to average life expectancy was unprecedented and largely unnoticed. After a brief celebration of vacation lifestyle for retirees, employers perceived they cannot afford the defined-benefit approach and must switch to defined-contribution pensions as fast as possible; and it gradually dawns on employees that they cannot retire before age 70. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Local Elections Local Elections tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzlocal_elections.html 2006-06-26T14:41:56-04:00 2011-07-07T14:43:29-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/LongstrethThatcher.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />To be Announced...<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Literary Figures in the Philadelphia Region Literary Figures in the Philadelphia Region tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-23:%2Fliterary_figures_in_the.html 2010-02-23T17:10:41-05:00 2011-07-07T14:38:22-04:00 .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Lindbergh Boulevard Lindbergh Boulevard tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Flindbergh_boulevard.html 2006-06-20T21:27:19-04:00 2011-07-07T14:05:41-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/charleslindberg.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />There's a street in Southwest Philadelphia in honor of a visit by Charles Lindbergh. It runs approximately from Bartrams's Garden to the Airport.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.424 -74.7683 Lindbergh Kidnapping 40.424 -74.7683 40.424 -74.7683 Lexington, Concord, and All That Lexington, Concord, and All That tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-25:%2Flexington_concord_and_all.html 2009-05-25T23:29:32-04:00 2011-07-07T14:03:19-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/captainparker.jpg" alt="{Captain Parker, minuteman}" class="tn-l-w50" /> What was the point of declaring independence, when the colonies had already been at war with England for over a year?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.949 -75.1501 Independence Hall 39.949 -75.1501 39.949 -75.1501 Let's Give the Supreme Court Some Help Let's Give the Supreme Court Some Help tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Flet_s_give_the.html 2006-06-22T12:23:40-04:00 2011-07-07T14:02:39-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/supreme_court.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />It's getting to be time to have an up-or-down vote on the constitutional right to privacy.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9489 -75.1494 Old City Hall Philadelphia 39.9489 -75.1494 39.9489 -75.1494 Lessons For the European Union Lessons For the European Union tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzlessons_for_the_european.html 2006-06-23T17:02:02-04:00 2011-07-07T14:02:17-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/alliance-macau.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/alliance-macau.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The Europeans, trying to unite 25 countries into one, could learn something from our own problems uniting 13 colonies. Mainly, it isn't easy.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Lawn Tennis at the Cricket Club Lawn Tennis at the Cricket Club tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-16:%2Flawn_tennis_at_the.html 2008-07-16T16:06:30-04:00 2011-07-07T14:01:15-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/lawntennis.jpg" class="left" width="50" alt="Lawn Tennis" />Lawn tennis is slightly older than tennis on clay courts, but it's harder to maintain grass than other surfaces, so it's less common.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0161 -75.2983 The Merion Cricket Club 40.0161 -75.2983 40.0161 -75.2983 Kingston: Birthplace of Canada Kingston: Birthplace of Canada tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-05:%2Fkingston_birthplace_of_canada.html 2010-08-05T17:25:49-04:00 2011-07-07T13:45:40-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Johnamcdonaldsign.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Kingston is where modern Canada began. Sadly, the capital has moved upstream to Ottawa, and commerce has migrated downstream to Toronto. It has the air of genteel poverty, while looking prosperous.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 44.223 -76.5041 John A. Macdonald House 44.223 -76.5041 44.223 -76.5041 John Woolman Reports on Yearly Meeting, 1758 John Woolman Reports on Yearly Meeting, 1758 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzjohn_woolman_reports_on.html 2006-06-23T11:35:05-04:00 2011-07-07T13:41:11-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/John_Woolman_House.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />At a time when the whole world thought slavery was perfectly natural, John Woolman brought the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to declare it must be abolished.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9979 -74.7781 John Woolman House 39.9979 -74.7781 39.9979 -74.7781 Job Loss Map Job Loss Map tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-21:%2Fjob_loss_map.html 2010-03-21T23:00:54-04:00 2011-07-07T13:39:20-04:00 See the growth in jobs in the US go to losses.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> J. Edgar Thomson, Pres. PRR 1852-1874 J. Edgar Thomson, Pres. PRR 1852-1874 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-21:%2Fj_edgar_thomson_pres.html 2010-10-21T19:39:50-04:00 2011-07-07T13:18:07-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/jEdgarThomson.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />J. Edgar Thompson was a quiet Quaker engineer who expanded the Pennsylvania Railroad over the old canal system, shifted from wood to coal, organized the personnel structure to meet modern needs, and converted PRR from a local to a national railroad.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9822 -76.1606 Railroad Museum Of Pennsylvania 39.9822 -76.1606 39.9822 -76.1606 iPhone, Skype, Land Lines and International rates iPhone, Skype, Land Lines and International rates tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-17:%2Fiphone_skype_and_international.html 2009-04-17T10:39:52-04:00 2011-07-07T13:16:34-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/mobile-skype.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="{skype logo}" /> The iPhone is the bomb and with Skype it is really the most functional cell phone around. Don't leave home without it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Investment Strategies Investment Strategies tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-13:%2Finvestment_strategies.html 1995-02-23T16:58:17-05:00 2011-07-07T13:16:10-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/The%20Pitcairn%20Financial%20Group.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt=" />An insight into the success of a little-known fund run by a virtually anonymous family.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0701 -75.098 The Pitcairn Financial Group 40.0701 -75.098 40.0701 -75.098 Insuring the Uninsured is Not Entirely a Health Issue Insuring the Uninsured is Not Entirely a Health Issue tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-21:%2Finsuring_the_uninsured_is.html 2007-02-21T16:35:47-05:00 2011-07-07T13:13:43-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/madison.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/madison.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The health industry resents its unwelcome role as a political tool in the tensions between labor shortages on the one hand, and unemployment on the other.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Inside the Big House Inside the Big House tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-07:%2Finside_the_big_house.html 2009-08-07T20:51:18-04:00 2011-07-07T13:12:31-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/prisonbars.jpg" class="tn-l-w50 alt="" />Medical care inside a prison is some sort of extreme case of government health care.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.738 -75.6275 200 Greenbank Rd, Wilmington 39.738 -75.6275 39.738 -75.6275 Inflating and Deflating Japan. Inflating and Deflating Japan. tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Finflating_and_deflating_japan.html 2006-06-22T11:44:21-04:00 2011-07-07T13:11:47-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hhoover.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hhoover.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Shifty financial winds rattle any boat, then panic at the helm can capsize it. Just look at Japan.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.7563 -73.9739 The Waldorf Astoria Hotel 40.7563 -73.9739 40.7563 -73.9739 Income vs Life Expectancy over time Income vs Life Expectancy over time tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-26:%2Fincome_vs_life_expectancy.html 2008-05-26T20:57:09-04:00 2011-07-07T12:45:18-04:00 A graph that shows life expectancy increasing over the years as the income of third-world countries grows.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Inauguration of President Obama Inauguration of President Obama tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-24:%2Finauguration_of_president_obama.html 2009-01-24T13:38:28-05:00 2011-07-07T12:41:09-04:00 Aerial photo of the inauguration of President Obama<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Images Images tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-09-30:%2Fcooliris_wall.html 2008-09-30T15:06:58-04:00 2011-07-06T17:05:46-04:00 The 1000+ images on Philadelphia Reflections are displayed at this location. It works better with some browsers than others.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> I O U S A I O U S A tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-20:%2Fi_o_u_s.html 2009-01-20T13:48:54-05:00 2011-07-06T17:04:28-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/iousa.jpg" alt="{IOUSA film poster}" class="tn-l-h100" /> America is in debt and it's getting worse. Much worse.<br /><br />Deficits do matter.<br /><br /> Republicans ignore them, Democrats revel in them; the rest of us pay for them.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> HowTo Create A Subprime Derivative HowTo Create A Subprime Derivative tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-01:%2Fhowto_create_a_subprime.html 2008-05-01T06:42:45-04:00 2011-07-06T17:03:17-04:00 It's easier than you thought<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> How Should We Reform Real Estate Finance?(1) How Should We Reform Real Estate Finance?(1) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-27:%2Fhow_should_we_reform.html 2008-07-27T17:44:20-04:00 2011-07-06T17:00:49-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/for_sale_sign.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Of course, first comes damage control. Soon afterwards, any crisis presents a political opportunity to reform -- or, to make matters much worse.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Home of the U.S. Naval Academy Home of the U.S. Naval Academy tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzhome_of_the_us.html 2006-06-23T16:02:49-04:00 2011-07-06T16:55:17-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/US-Naval-Academy.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/naval_home.gif}" class="tn-l-w50" />The Naval Acadamy now in Annapolis originally was on Gray's Ferry Avenue. It'sstill a handsome building, in some danger of destruction by real estate developers.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9439 -75.1837 The U.S. Naval Asylum 39.9439 -75.1837 39.9439 -75.1837 Henry Mercer's Rathskeller Henry Mercer's Rathskeller tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fhenry_mercer_s_rathskeller.html 2006-06-15T19:45:24-04:00 2011-07-06T16:46:56-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hamm2.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Racquet Club's basement resembles a rathskeller, and is the famous origin of the Mercer style of architecture.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9491 -75.1678 RACQUET CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA 39.9491 -75.1678 39.9491 -75.1678 Henry Cadbury Dresses Up for the King Henry Cadbury Dresses Up for the King tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzhenry_cadbury_dresses_up.html 2006-06-26T13:56:03-04:00 2011-07-06T16:45:57-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/henrycadbury-786734.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Henry Cadbury" />What should a plain-speech Quaker wear to the ceremony, if the King of Sweden is giving him the Nobel Prize?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9555 -75.1643 American Friends Service Committee 39.9555 -75.1643 39.9555 -75.1643 Helis the Whale (Podcast) Helis the Whale (Podcast) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-14:%2Fhelis_the_whale_podcast.html 2011-01-14T17:53:32-05:00 2011-07-06T16:45:21-04:00 A whale visits the Philadelphia region.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Healthcare Reform: Looking Ahead (2) Healthcare Reform: Looking Ahead (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-07:%2Fhealthcare_reform.html 2007-08-07T17:46:17-04:00 2011-07-06T16:42:58-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/healthcare.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/healthcare.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Spending for health care will just grow and grow forever. Oh, yeah?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Health Maintenance Organizations, Reconsidered Health Maintenance Organizations, Reconsidered tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-28:%2Fhealth_maintenance_organizations_reconsidered.html 2007-07-28T17:49:21-04:00 2011-07-06T16:41:09-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Elwoodpaul.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Elwoodpaul.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />HMOs are wildly unpopular, giving every sign of phase-out. A pity, because proposed alternatives are worse, while the one corrective measure for HMOs seems so simple.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.904 -77.0389 The American Academy of Actuaries 38.904 -77.0389 38.904 -77.0389 Hayek Confronts Keynes Hayek Confronts Keynes tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-28:%2Fhayek_confronts_keynes.html 2007-06-28T18:49:16-04:00 2011-07-06T16:38:22-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hayek.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Hayek " />The influence of Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek is slowly winning out over the views of the English economist Maynard Keynes, even though both of them are dead. Which is worse, inflation or depression?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.7936 -73.4145 John Maynard Keynes House 40.7936 -73.4145 40.7936 -73.4145 Harriton House Harriton House tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzharriton_house.html 2006-06-23T16:31:41-04:00 2011-07-06T16:32:18-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/harriton_house-731146.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" /> The original house in the old Welsh barony gave its name to Bryn Mawr, and once was the home of the secretary of the Continental Congress.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.033 -75.3104 Harriton House 40.033 -75.3104 40.033 -75.3104 Hal Becomes Henry V Hal Becomes Henry V tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-09:%2Fhal_becomes_henry_v.html 2011-01-09T12:19:13-05:00 2011-07-06T16:31:55-04:00 At the January 2011 meeting of the Shakspere Society of Philadelphia, a spirited debate ensued about the likeliness of the Bard's portrayal of that turning point in the "Henriad", the death of Henry IV and the uncertain competence of Henry V. Shakspere seems to be saying Henry V was England's greatest King. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Gross National Happiness In Bhutan Gross National Happiness In Bhutan tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-09:%2Fgross_national_happiness_in.html 2009-01-09T18:17:02-05:00 2011-07-06T16:28:29-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bhutans-gross-national-happ.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />In Bhutan, Buddhists rule, and the government responds to modernization with GNH, or Gross Domestic Happiness. Pause a moment, ye strivers and cravers, and think about this. Just because these guys wear funny clothes, doesn't mean they are from Hicksville.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 27.4405 89.4155 Paro Valley Bhutan 27.4405 89.4155 27.4405 89.4155 Greenwich, Where? Greenwich, Where? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzgreenwich_where.html 2006-06-23T15:56:59-04:00 2011-07-06T16:28:05-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/greenwich_small_edited-721326.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="greenwhich" /> A charming little colonial village in the Pine Woods of New Jersey has a long history, few visitors, and nothing reconstructed. It's the real thing.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.3902 -75.3392 Greenwich NJ 39.3902 -75.3392 39.3902 -75.3392 Globalizing Real Estate Globalizing Real Estate tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-24:%2Fglobalizing_real_estate.html 2007-05-24T11:49:32-04:00 2011-07-06T15:38:31-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bonds.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bonds.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />For many centuries, the defining financial problem has boiled down to a search for a way to translate real estate wealth into something more portable. Globalization is largely this same problem in a larger form.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Germany Before Germantown Germany Before Germantown tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fgermany_before_germantown.html 1995-09-28T16:58:17-04:00 2011-07-06T15:22:28-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/europeangeopolitics.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/europeangeopolitics.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Foraging French soldiers had ravaged the German Rhineland, so the Germans who fled to America were anti-French. That pleased the British, even the nominally Catholic Stuart kings.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 50.2109 7.63061 Rhine River, Rheinland-Pfalz 50.2109 7.63061 50.2109 7.63061 German Origins of the Philadelphia Orchestra German Origins of the Philadelphia Orchestra tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzgerman_origins_of_the.html 2006-06-26T13:40:50-04:00 2011-07-06T15:19:40-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/AofMusic%20pa-731354.jpeg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="academy of music" />Provoked by catastrophes in distant Europe, each of the four waves of German immigration to America brought us a different musical style. Since more Americans are of German ancestry than any other, there was always a large audience for new German musical styles.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.948 -75.1648 The Academy of Music 39.948 -75.1648 39.948 -75.1648 George Willoughby, 95, Peace Activist George Willoughby, 95, Peace Activist tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-05:%2Fgeorge_willoughby_95_peace.html 2010-02-05T11:58:54-05:00 2011-07-06T15:18:35-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/georgewilloughby.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />In The Philadelphia Inquirer for February 4, 2010, By Claudia Vargas Inquirer Writer.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> George Washington on the Federal Union George Washington on the Federal Union tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-10-13:%2Fgeorge_washington_on_the.html 2009-10-13T11:38:06-04:00 2011-07-06T15:16:51-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/President_George_Washingtonblack.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />On September 17, 1796, George Washington declined another term for President, taking this occasion to urge the cause of Federalism.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9504 -75.1501 The President's House 39.9504 -75.1501 39.9504 -75.1501 Gazela Primeiro Gazela Primeiro tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-14:%2Fgazela_primo.html 2009-07-14T13:17:11-04:00 2011-07-06T15:13:17-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/gaz1.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="The Gazela Primeiro" />The Gazela Primeiro is a tall sailing ship which has become a regular visitor to the Philadelphia waterfront at the foot of Market Street.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9493 -75.139 Gazela Primeiro 39.9493 -75.139 39.9493 -75.139 Galapagos As an Environmental Laboratory Galapagos As an Environmental Laboratory tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-14:%2Fgalapagos_as_an_environmental.html 2008-03-14T18:11:42-04:00 2011-07-06T15:10:38-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/darwin.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Charles Darwin" />Charles Darwin spent very little time in the Galapagos Islands, but learned a lot. Tourists can do the same.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> -0.679766 -91.2149 the Galapagos Islands -0.679766 -91.2149 -0.679766 -91.2149 Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-19:%2Ffrida_kahlo.html 2008-03-19T17:09:26-04:00 2011-07-06T15:00:45-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/fridakahlo.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/protrait-1940.jpg" />The crippled, suffering wife of Diego Rivera was herself a painter, often of surrealistic portraits of herself. She didn't want to be liked, she wanted to be noticed.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9653 -75.1806 Philadelphia Art Museum 39.9653 -75.1806 39.9653 -75.1806 Freedom of Religion Includes Freedom For Anglicans Freedom of Religion Includes Freedom For Anglicans tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-03:%2Ffreedom_of_religion_includes.html 2010-02-03T17:19:13-05:00 2011-07-06T14:52:10-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/canterbury-cathedral.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Either King Charles or his advisors seems to have had an afterthought based on experience with other religious colonies; freedom of all religion in the colony does not mean the Anglican Church can be excluded from it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 51.2797 1.08288 Canterbury Cathedral 51.2797 1.08288 51.2797 1.08288 Fred Etherington Fred Etherington tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-13:%2Ffred_etherington.html 2009-12-13T18:47:39-05:00 2011-07-06T14:35:41-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Fred%20Etherington.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="{Fred Etherington}" />The Right Angle Club of Philadelphia honors Fred Etherington, a past president and member of the club for nearly sixty years.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Franklin's Funeral, 1790 Franklin's Funeral, 1790 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-20:%2Ffranklins_funeral_1790.html 2009-08-20T13:53:19-04:00 2011-07-06T14:27:05-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bfranklingrave.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Benjamin Franklin" />Although it has been said there were efforts to tone it down, the Funeral of Benjamin Franklin was an important moment. Everyone in Philadelphia knew it. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9507 -75.1439 Christ Church in Philadelphia 39.9507 -75.1439 39.9507 -75.1439 Frank Furness,(3) Rush's Lancer Frank Furness,(3) Rush's Lancer tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-09-11:%2Ffrank_furness_rushs_lancer.html 2008-09-11T18:54:38-04:00 2011-07-06T14:08:05-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/armymoh.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />One of Philadelphia's most famous architects had two notable exploits as a Civil War cavalry officer, one of which won him the Congressional Medal of Honor.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9489 -75.1612 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9489 -75.1612 39.9489 -75.1612 Forbidden SNL Clip Forbidden SNL Clip tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-25:%2Fforbidden_snl_clip.html 2008-12-25T19:33:38-05:00 2011-07-06T13:40:39-04:00 Forbidden SNL Clip<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Following the Rules Following the Rules tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ffollowing_the_rules.html 1994-10-27T16:58:17-04:00 2011-07-06T13:38:53-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/specter2.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/specter.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Arlen Specter's tribulations while becoming the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9528 -75.1501 Senator Arlen Specter (R, PA) 39.9528 -75.1501 39.9528 -75.1501 Flanders & Swann Flanders & Swann tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-05:%2Fflanders_amp_swann.html 2008-05-05T18:07:24-04:00 2011-07-06T13:36:35-04:00 And who, pray, hasn't heard of this duo?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Fernery Fernery tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-18:%2Ffernery_.html 2007-07-18T18:35:24-04:00 2011-07-06T13:26:17-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/MAgardener2.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/MAgardener2.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Around 1840, there was a brief world-wide craze for ferns, related to the exciting discovery of their complicated reproductive process. Only one Victorian fernery still exists in North America, at the Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0896 -75.2269 The Morris Arboretum 40.0896 -75.2269 40.0896 -75.2269 Federal Reserve Rolls the Dice Federal Reserve Rolls the Dice tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-03:%2Ffederal_reserve_rolls_the.html 2009-07-03T19:01:10-04:00 2011-07-06T13:24:40-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/lehmnbros.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />When Lehman Brothers collapsed, the markets froze. The Federal Reserve responded by doubling the money supply. A few months later, the money was gradually spent buying the toxic assets. It may take ten years to sell that toxic paper, and whether we then have inflation or depression will depend on the price they bring. The Chinese are financing this ten-year gamble with two-year loans.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9532 -75.1507 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 39.9532 -75.1507 39.9532 -75.1507 Falstaff Without Prince Hal Falstaff Without Prince Hal tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzfalstaff_without_prince_hal.html 2006-06-26T14:02:40-04:00 2011-07-06T13:20:14-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/W.C%20fields-709300.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The parents of W.C. Fields didn't treat him very well, but he always acted as though Philadelphia didn't treat him well. Philadelphia's main crime was probably that it disliked the Volstead Prohibition of Alcohol Act somewhat less than Fields disliked it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9272 -75.2322 William Claude Dukenfield Home 39.9272 -75.2322 39.9272 -75.2322 Existing Websites Which Offer Higher Education Existing Websites Which Offer Higher Education tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-13:%2Fexisting_websites_which_offer.html 2010-03-13T21:25:05-05:00 2011-07-06T13:16:11-04:00 The number of Internet websites which currently offer free education on the college level is immense and growing rapidly. Just as terabyte is the next step after gigabyte, we need a new word to denominate "much larger than merely immense".<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Equal Pay for Equal Work Equal Pay for Equal Work tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-10:%2Fequal_pay_for_equal.html 2007-07-10T18:23:17-04:00 2011-07-06T12:56:29-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/medical.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/medical.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Sometimes the representatives of political interest groups try, just a little too hard.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9637 -75.1731 American Medical Assocation Philadelphia 39.9637 -75.1731 39.9637 -75.1731 Effingham Buckley Morris Effingham Buckley Morris tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-24:%2Feffingham_buckley_morris.html 2010-11-24T13:22:09-05:00 2011-07-06T12:38:23-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/effingham%20buckley.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="t" />Effingham Buckley Morris may not have thought of himself as a scientist but his love for Natural History brought the Academy of Natural Sciences much closer to the public and established the institution as an important component of Philadelphia. His banking career was a notable one.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9512 -75.1642 Old Girard Trust Building 39.9512 -75.1642 39.9512 -75.1642 East Falls East Falls tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzeast_falls.html 2006-06-26T14:57:09-04:00 2011-07-06T12:31:01-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/kellydriveart26.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="kelly drive" />A cute little suburban remnant nestles close to the center of town, protected by the Schuylkill, the Wissahickon, and the shade of John B. Kelly. Perhaps Harry Robinhold deserves some credit, too.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0065 -75.1924 East Falls Bridge 40.0065 -75.1924 40.0065 -75.1924 Early Germantown-Music Early Germantown-Music tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzearly_germantownmusic.html 2006-06-26T13:39:45-04:00 2011-07-06T12:30:22-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/germanybrassband-765365.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Quakers disapproved of music, particularly church music, and so the Germans in Germantown founded American musical traditions, mostly on Bach. That tradition continues in the Moravian communities along the Lehigh River, and it has a heavy influence on the Philadelphia Orchestra.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0342 -75.1712 Germantown Avenue PA 40.0342 -75.1712 40.0342 -75.1712 Donor Intent Donor Intent tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-22:%2Fdonor_intent.html 2007-02-22T16:53:03-05:00 2011-07-06T12:23:21-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Stephen%20Girard.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Stephen Girard" />Measure a civilization by how it acts when a donor has died but his possessions endure. Especially when his firmly declared wishes conflict with their own.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.974 -75.1701 Girard College 39.974 -75.1701 39.974 -75.1701 Donald Hough About the Author Donald Hough About the Author tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-30:%2Fdonald_hough_about_the.html 2008-10-30T16:11:46-04:00 2011-07-06T12:22:59-04:00 Donald Hough the author of Deaths of the Shah is now deceased. He was formerly a nuclear engineer.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Dog Days Dog Days tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-06:%2Fdog_days.html 2007-12-06T16:29:55-05:00 2011-07-06T12:19:06-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/TwoFrenchHounds.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />Hunting rabbits with a pack of French hounds scarcely sounds like a matter to agitate the Pennsylvania Legislature and its Governor, so maybe something else is afoot.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0622 -75.5967 Skycastle French Hounds 40.0622 -75.5967 40.0622 -75.5967 Display Image Display Image tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-31:%2Fdisplay_image.html 2010-10-31T08:13:16-04:00 2011-07-06T12:17:27-04:00 <img src="http://dummyimage.com/50x100" alt="A Dummy Image" />Create images with specific dimensions<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Discipline for the Disciple Discipline for the Disciple tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzdiscipline_for_the_disciple.html 2006-06-23T16:51:31-04:00 2011-07-06T12:15:04-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Rhoads-758580.gif" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Rhoads" />America<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9499 -75.1942 University of Pennsylvania 39.9499 -75.1942 39.9499 -75.1942 Detroit Makes, Philadelphia Takes Detroit Makes, Philadelphia Takes tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-30:%2Fdetroit_makes_philadelphia_takes.html 2007-11-30T16:30:35-05:00 2011-07-06T11:37:19-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/junkyard.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The heap of crushed auto bodies at the foot of Philadelphia's Platt Bridge is an important part of the regional economy.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8978 -75.2114 George C. Platt Bridge Philadelphia 39.8978 -75.2114 39.8978 -75.2114 Deconstructing Higher Education, Home Design, and Medical Care. Deconstructing Higher Education, Home Design, and Medical Care. tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-10:%2Fdeconstructing_higher_education_home.html 2008-07-10T12:15:02-04:00 2011-07-06T11:29:57-04:00 Working topic: Three major consumer categories are unnecessarily expensive. Higher education, housing, and medical care all suffer from obsolete designs, which we cling to because of resistance by producer groups. What may be at stake in all three is poorly organized protection for intellectual property, which leads to rent seeking.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> David F. Bradford, 1939-2005 David F. Bradford, 1939-2005 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzdavid_f_bradford_19392005.html 2006-06-23T15:00:16-04:00 2011-07-06T11:21:15-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/davidbradford.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />David Bradford, Princeton economist, recently died in an unfortunate accident. His 1977 paper "Blueprints for Tax Reform" inspired Individual Retirement Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, individual Social Security Accounts, the flat tax, and the advantages of shifting from income taxation to consumption taxes.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.3504 -74.6524 Princeton University 40.3504 -74.6524 40.3504 -74.6524 Curtis: Fainting Spells (Podcast) Curtis: Fainting Spells (Podcast) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-14:%2Fznote_curtis_fainting_podcast.html 2011-01-14T15:40:47-05:00 2011-07-05T17:41:53-04:00 Curtis Fainting<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Curing Stagflation Curing Stagflation tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-01:%2Fcuring_stagflation.html 2008-05-01T11:26:28-04:00 2011-07-05T17:40:34-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Jbagholt.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Walter Baghot" />More than a century ago, Walter Bagehot succinctly told us what to do about the dilemma of stagflation. We'll get back to him, after politicians make us try everything else first.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Cultural Imperialism Cultural Imperialism tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzcultural_imperialism.html 2006-06-26T13:52:06-04:00 2011-07-05T17:38:40-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/CAM09RN2-764127.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Gary Cooper" />Southwest Airlines<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8786 -75.2395 Southwest Airlines Philadelphia International Airport 39.8786 -75.2395 39.8786 -75.2395 Critic of Darkness Critic of Darkness tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-30:%2Fcritic_of_darkness.html 2010-11-30T12:16:13-05:00 2011-07-05T17:38:18-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/poe.jpg" class ="tn-l-w50" alt="{poe}" />Edgar Allan Poe was not only a master of the gothic story but a scathing literary critic as well. Philadelphia seems to have fostered this critical spirit when he lived in the city in the late 1830s. The city also fostered the production of his most famous short work.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Cricket Fanatics Say Baseball is for Sissies! Cricket Fanatics Say Baseball is for Sissies! tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-11:%2Fcricket_fanatics_say_baseball.html 2007-03-11T15:24:01-04:00 2011-07-05T17:24:26-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/MMarylebone%20Club.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/MMarylebone%20Club.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Cricket players may drink tea and eat watercress sandwiches, but they catch the batted ball with their bare hands, don't allow designated hitters, and keep playing one game for as long as five days. So, who's a sissy?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0161 -75.2981 The Merion Cricket Club 40.0161 -75.2981 40.0161 -75.2981 Cost of Medical Care Cost of Medical Care tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fcost_medical_care.html 2004-06-08T16:58:17-04:00 2011-07-05T17:07:04-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/milton_s_hershey.gif" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/milton_s_hershey.gif}" class="tn-l-w50" />Milton Hershey agreed to fund the Hershey Medical School out his own pocket, after a ten minute conversation.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.2779 -76.6758 Penn State Hershey Medical Center 40.2779 -76.6758 40.2779 -76.6758 Corrupt and Contented Corrupt and Contented tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzcorrupt_and_contented.html 2006-06-23T17:10:59-04:00 2011-07-05T17:05:57-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/lsteffens-731435.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="strings" />Pennsylvania elects judges, and that<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Convention Center Convention Center tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzconvention_center.html 2006-06-26T15:33:49-04:00 2011-07-05T14:42:04-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/convention_center1.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Bismarck once said that making laws was like making sausage, and maybe that's true of making convention centers, too..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9547 -75.1591 Pennsylvania Convention Center 39.9547 -75.1591 39.9547 -75.1591 Contemporary Germantown Contemporary Germantown tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzcontemporary_germantown.html 2006-06-23T12:13:03-04:00 2011-07-05T14:41:42-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bockus.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />"Well," said Bockus, "Every famous surgeon I know, has a house on an island, somewhere. Where's your island?".<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.2722 -76.813 The Pennsylvaia Medical Soceity 40.2722 -76.813 40.2722 -76.813 Constitution-tampering is Unwise Constitution-tampering is Unwise tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-10:%2Fconstitutiontampering_is_unwise.html 2008-07-10T11:19:43-04:00 2011-07-05T14:39:47-04:00 Working paper: The voluntary union of sovereign states is so rare as to stand unique if successful. Since the secret of the U.S. Constitution seems to be its delicate internal balance, tampering with its provisions is to be resisted. That's not strict constructionism, it's fear of disturbing successful equilibrium..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Constitution, Part Constitution, Part tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-03:%2Fconstitution_part.html 2008-12-03T15:41:01-05:00 2011-07-05T13:09:34-04:00 ..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> CNBC Exposed CNBC Exposed tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-08:%2Fcnbc_exposed.html 2009-03-08T18:22:04-04:00 2011-07-05T12:42:28-04:00 Finally some straight talk about the preeminent business news channel. From the Daily Show with Jon Stewart..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.8964 -73.9408 CNBC Studio(Catch the fever) 40.8964 -73.9408 40.8964 -73.9408 Clinton Plan Summary: Nation's Financial Health Clinton Plan Summary: Nation's Financial Health tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-02:%2Fclinton_plan_summary_nations.html 2007-08-02T19:13:27-04:00 2011-07-05T12:28:24-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/checkpad.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/checkpad.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Neglecting to address more important issues may be the worst error of the past two decades..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Clinton Health (2) Clinton Health (2) tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-21:%2Fclinton_health_2.html 2009-05-21T17:56:55-04:00 2011-07-05T12:07:33-04:00 . .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> China Bubble China Bubble tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-06:%2Fchina_bubble.html 2008-07-06T22:53:28-04:00 2011-07-05T11:55:33-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/map_of_china.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Poor nations don't know how to spend their money, so they save it. When they eventually spend their money it inflates prices and wages and destroys their competitive advantage. To prolong their happy period of prosperity, the Chinese government exported their savings -- and their inflation -- by buying U.S. Treasury bonds. Their inflation became our inflation, our bubbles, and our disrupted banking system..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 22.2778 114.159 1 Garden Road Hong Kong 22.2778 114.159 22.2778 114.159 Chester: To the Dark Tower Chester: To the Dark Tower tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-22:%2Fchester_to_the_dark.html 2007-10-22T18:41:02-04:00 2011-07-05T11:51:50-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/williampenn2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The ancient town of Chester struggles to revive..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.8485 -75.3594 Chester PA 39.8485 -75.3594 39.8485 -75.3594 CFPA or Die CFPA or Die tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-13:%2Fcfpa_or_die.html 2010-03-13T21:01:18-05:00 2011-07-05T11:32:33-04:00 Funny or Die's Presidential Reunion.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Central Securities Central Securities tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-20:%2Fcentral_securities.html 2008-02-20T14:45:30-05:00 2011-07-05T11:19:02-04:00 An analysis of Central Securities (CET).<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Cedar Falls Junction City Cedar Falls Junction City tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-18:%2Fcedar_falls_junction_city.html 2011-03-18T16:07:09-04:00 2011-07-01T16:31:16-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/cedar.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="{cedar}" />Operations CEDAR FALLS and JUNCTION CITY took place during the first five months of 1967 and were the first multidivisional operations in Vietnam to be conducted according to a preconceived plan.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Calendar of Local Events Calendar of Local Events tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-30:%2Fgrfisheriii_google_calendar.html 2008-04-30T21:47:39-04:00 2011-07-01T16:15:28-04:00 Dates maintained by Dr. Fisher for his readers. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Burlington County, NJ Burlington County, NJ tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-01:%2Fburlington_county_nj.html 2008-02-01T17:41:45-05:00 2011-07-01T16:07:14-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Burlington%20County,%20NJ.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Burlington County in New Jersey is on the move. This rural county puts the urban ones to shame.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0044 -74.8352 Burlington County County Office Building 40.0044 -74.8352 40.0044 -74.8352 Broken Pots Broken Pots tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-21:%2Fbroken_pots.html 2007-05-21T20:33:30-04:00 2011-07-01T15:51:32-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/brokenpots.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/brokenpots.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Philadelphia has a new visitor's center at Independence Mall. But the Park Service retains the old one, too, as a remarkable education center about the mechanics of archeology.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9481 -75.1464 First Bank Of Philadelphia 39.9481 -75.1464 39.9481 -75.1464 Boundaries of the Grant of Pennsylvania Boundaries of the Grant of Pennsylvania tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-03:%2Fboundaries_of_the_grant.html 2010-02-03T14:51:27-05:00 2011-07-01T15:34:12-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/wmpenn.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The land granted to Penn was mostly swamp and wilderness in the 17th Century. Infinite disagreements were certain to result, but a paragraph described all that could be known at the time of the grant.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0003 -74.7985 40.0003 -74.7985 40.0003 -74.7985 Book Proposal: Investing Book Proposal: Investing tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-01:%2Fbook_proposal_investing.html 2009-03-01T13:27:09-05:00 2011-07-01T15:32:53-04:00 Investing for Cash Flow <br /> Individual and institutional investors must change their investment style to survive financial crises<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Bloomsburg / Danville Bloomsburg / Danville tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-27:%2Fbloomsburgdanville_.html 2010-10-27T14:31:03-04:00 2011-07-01T15:30:44-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/us-canals.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />Bends in the North Branch of the Susquehanna River created islands and mud flats suitable for farming in the Endless Mountains, but deposits of iron ore were the cause of industrialization at Bloomsburg and Danville.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Bleeding Ulcer Bleeding Ulcer tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-20:%2Fbleeding_ulcer.html 2009-04-20T15:52:23-04:00 2011-07-01T15:06:56-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Ulcer_Bleeding.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bleeding_ulcer.jpg" /> When you vomit up blood, go to a hospital.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Blame Managed Care? Blame Managed Care? tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fblame_managed_care.html 2006-06-21T15:09:21-04:00 2011-07-01T15:01:44-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/medicall.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Does forcing people into Managed Care trigger lawsuits?<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.8987 -77.0173 GAO The Government Accountability Office 38.8987 -77.0173 38.8987 -77.0173 Big Pharma Loses Momentum Big Pharma Loses Momentum tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-19:%2Fbig_pharma_loses_momentum.html 2007-04-19T22:19:20-04:00 2011-07-01T14:53:11-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/DrugLobbyists.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />The stock market has been unkind to major drug manufacturers lately. A venture capitalist thinks that will be good for foreign firms, small niche firms, and wellness care.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9489 -75.1466 The Chemical Heritage Foundation 39.9489 -75.1466 39.9489 -75.1466 Betsy Ross on Hard Times Betsy Ross on Hard Times tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzbetsy_ross_on_hard.html 2006-06-26T14:16:15-04:00 2011-07-01T14:51:30-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Betsy%20Ross.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The famous Revolutionary seamstress lived long into the 19th Century, apparently outliving her savings. A useful tale, perhaps, for Social Security reform.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9522 -75.1446 Betsy Ross House 39.9522 -75.1446 39.9522 -75.1446 Bertrand Russell Disturbs the Barnes Foundation Neighbors Bertrand Russell Disturbs the Barnes Foundation Neighbors tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fbertrand_russell.html 1993-01-28T16:58:17-05:00 2011-07-01T14:44:27-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bertrand_russell.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Russell" />How one of Britain's most notorious philosophers wandered into the city of brotherly love, and vaulted out of destitution to wealth.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.998 -75.2407 The Barnes Foundation 39.998 -75.2407 39.998 -75.2407 Bank Street Bank Street tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-22:%2Fbank_street.html 2009-02-22T23:25:15-05:00 2011-07-01T12:33:00-04:00 Interactive feature: Follow the fortunes of some of the world's largest banks as they navigate the global financial crisis from the Financial Times.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> B. Franklin and Daylight Savings B. Franklin and Daylight Savings tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-09:%2Fb_franklin_and_daylight.html 2008-03-09T19:22:15-04:00 2011-07-01T12:04:06-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/daylight_saving_time.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Daylight savings time was devised by Benjamin Franklin, but recently its value has been challenged.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9498 -75.1466 Franklin Court Museum 39.9498 -75.1466 39.9498 -75.1466 Avian Footnote Avian Footnote tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-07:%2Favian_footnote.html 2007-06-07T18:18:37-04:00 2011-07-01T11:56:35-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/SCHCloomingsign.JPG" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/stchristophershospital.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Compiling the index of a book is a tedious, difficult, and unrewarded task.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.0066 -75.1245 St. Christopher's Hospital for Children 40.0066 -75.1245 40.0066 -75.1245 Arthur Beecher Carles 1882-1952 Arthur Beecher Carles 1882-1952 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-09:%2Farthur_beecher_carles_18821952.html 2009-07-09T18:05:04-04:00 2011-06-30T16:04:50-04:00 His link between Philadelphia and Paris led art historian Barbara Anne Boese Wolanin to describe this impressionist painter as "one of the most brilliant colorists in the history of American art."<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Venturi's Franklin Museum in Franklin Court Venturi's Franklin Museum in Franklin Court tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-21:%2Fventuris_franklin_museum_in.html 2007-04-21T17:50:39-04:00 2011-06-30T16:03:25-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/benfranklincourt.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Franklin Court Museum" />For several decades there has been a splendid museum of Franklin's personal life, hidden within the famous block where he once lived. Children love it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> . 39.9498 -75.1465 Franklin Court Museum 39.9498 -75.1465 39.9498 -75.1465 Ardrossan Wayne PA Ardrossan Wayne PA tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-07:%2Fardrossan_wayne_pa.html 2009-07-07T19:27:10-04:00 2011-06-30T15:59:43-04:00 The Philadelphia Story was about a Main Line heiress, a real one, in fact. But when Hollywood came to film the story, they took one look at her house, blanched, and selected something smaller.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Appendix D, Presidents of the Club Appendix D, Presidents of the Club tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-20:%2Fappendix_d_presidents.html 2009-03-20T15:13:30-04:00 2011-06-30T15:51:19-04:00 ....<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bookcovermc.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" /> Although some of these names seem unfamiliar to the modern public, rest assured they were widely considered the cream of the crop by the profession, at the time.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Appendix A, Appendix A, tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-31:%2Fappendix_a.html 2009-03-31T16:21:08-04:00 2011-06-30T15:47:58-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/bookcovermc.jpg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />A copy of the original 'Constitution' of the Club. When the Club was incorporated and issued a Charter, in 1900, this 'Constitution' became the Bylaws of the Club.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> ANNUAL MEETING AND DINNER APRIL 23, 2003 ANNUAL MEETING AND DINNER APRIL 23, 2003 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-31:%2Fannual_meeting_and_dinner.html 2008-03-31T17:53:08-04:00 2011-06-30T15:42:36-04:00 The Shakspere Society's annual dinner to honor Shakspere's birthday was held this year at the Francis Cope House in the Awbury Arboretum in Germantown.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 America in 1767 America in 1767 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Famerica_in_1767.html 2006-06-21T14:19:10-04:00 2011-06-30T15:27:12-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/DEKALB_exb.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Baron" />Baron de Kalb was a spy for France in 1767, correctly predicting that growing American strength would create opportunities for France to make trouble for England, there.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Advanced Placement Gains Attackers and Defenders Advanced Placement Gains Attackers and Defenders tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-16:%2Fadvanced_placement_gains_attackers.html 2006-10-16T16:09:30-04:00 2011-06-30T15:19:17-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/NaomiSchaeferRiley.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/NaomiSchaeferRiley.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />College admission is so competitive it creates vested interests. Everything is questioned, even the value of college itself.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.711 -74.0135 The Wall Street Journal 40.711 -74.0135 40.711 -74.0135 Abortion Abortion tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzabortion_.html 2006-06-23T15:19:54-04:00 2011-06-30T15:05:05-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/grossclinic.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/grossclinic.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />As I recall, our position was likewise greeted by the AMA House of Delegates with great relief, and word quickly circulated in the corridors that Pennsylvania had a position everyone could endorse for the good of the organization.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.2721 -76.813 The Pennsylvania Medical Society 40.2721 -76.813 40.2721 -76.813 AARP: Making Money, Losing Trust AARP: Making Money, Losing Trust tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-16:%2Faarp_losing_trust_amid.html 2009-01-16T08:39:52-05:00 2011-06-30T15:03:01-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/aarp.jpg" class="tn-l-w100" /> What is AARP's motivation and what are their business practices? Advocacy for retired people conflicts with such aggressive marketing.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 38.8962 -77.02 AARP headquarters 38.8962 -77.02 38.8962 -77.02 A Toast to Doctor Franklin A Toast to Doctor Franklin tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ftoast_franklin.html 1991-10-31T16:58:17-05:00 2011-06-30T14:45:16-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/B.Franklin.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Ben Franklin" />The Franklin Inn annually toasts three doctors. Even though Ben never went past second grade, his medical contributions are the most illustrious of the three. One of the most remarkable men who ever lived.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 39.9551 -75.1854 Philadelphia General Hospital 39.9551 -75.1854 39.9551 -75.1854 SQL To Exclude A List Of Items SQL To Exclude A List Of Items tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-17:%2Fsql_to_exclude_a.html 2008-03-17T19:41:39-04:00 2011-04-01T03:42:17-04:00 How do you select everything from one table except for a list contained in another table? Delaware Bay Before the White Man Came Delaware Bay Before the White Man Came tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzdelaware_bay_before_the.html 2006-06-26T15:00:37-04:00 2011-01-27T13:15:39-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/henryhudson.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />This was the last major place on the East Coast to be settled, because it was a swampy snaggy pond, full of fish and birds. And soon, pirates. 39.0452 -75.1679 Delaware Bay 39.0452 -75.1679 39.0452 -75.1679 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY OF PHILADLEPHIA OCTOBER 22, 2003 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY OF PHILADLEPHIA OCTOBER 22, 2003 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-06:%2Fshakspere_society_of_philadlephia.html 2008-03-06T18:47:50-05:00 2011-01-17T11:36:16-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />MEETING OF THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY OF PHILADLEPHIA AT THE FRANKLIN INN CLUB ON OCTOBER 22, 2003 Help Using Philadelphia Reflections Help Using Philadelphia Reflections tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-05:%2Fhelp_using_philadelphia_reflections.html 2006-07-05T14:34:48-04:00 2010-12-27T10:55:35-05:00 There's a great deal of content on Philadelphia Reflections, but it is organized in a way that is hoped will make navigation easy and productive. Sociology: Philadelphia and the Quaker Colonies Sociology: Philadelphia and the Quaker Colonies tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-07:%2Fsociology_philadelphia_and_the.php 2010-04-07T16:42:11-04:00 2010-12-10T07:29:11-05:00 Sociology: Philadelphia and the Quaker Colonies Tourist Trips:<br /> Philadelphia and the Quaker Colonies Tourist Trips: Philadelphia and the Quaker Colonies tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2007-04-11:%2Ftrips_around_philadelphia.php 2007-04-11T21:52:01-04:00 2010-10-27T17:49:15-04:00 The states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and southern New Jersey all belonged to William Penn the Quaker. He was the largest private landholder in American history. Using explicit directions, comprehensive touring of the Quaker Colonies takes seven full days. Local residents may need a couple dozen one-day wanderings to match it. Tourist Walk in Olde Philadelphia Tourist Walk in Olde Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-04:%2Ftourist_walk_in_olde.php 2007-05-04T21:55:35-04:00 2010-08-09T12:20:48-04:00 You've seen the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. <br /><br /> Come now on a tour of the city the Founding Brothers lived in, a smaller city than today which they knew intimately. Their Colonial Philadelphia can be seen in a day's walk through the center of town. Regional Overview: The Sights of the City, Loosely Defined Regional Overview: The Sights of the City, Loosely Defined tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-22:%2Fthe_sights_of_the.php 2009-05-22T20:19:37-04:00 2010-07-15T13:13:06-04:00 Philadelphia,defined here as the Quaker region of three formerly Quaker states, contains an astonishing number of interesting places to visit. Three centuries of history leave their marks everywhere. Begin by understanding that William Penn was the largest private landholder in history, and he owned all of it. BANKS REDEFINED BANKS REDEFINED tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-15:%2Fbanks_redefined.php 2008-07-15T15:52:01-04:00 2010-07-04T12:45:22-04:00 . Shakspere Society October 10,2001 Shakspere Society October 10,2001 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-26:%2Fshakspere_society_october_102001.html 2008-01-26T17:23:43-05:00 2010-04-17T20:13:43-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />America's oldest Shakspere Society (Shakespeare Society) discusses the first act of Antony and Cleopatra. 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 History: Philadelphia and the Quaker Colonies History: Philadelphia and the Quaker Colonies tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-07:%2Fhistory_of_philadelphia_and.php 2010-04-07T16:38:06-04:00 2010-04-17T19:36:15-04:00 Philadelphia and the Quaker Colonies The Right Angle Club of Philadelphia The Right Angle Club of Philadelphia tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-22:%2Fthe_right_angle_club.php 2009-05-22T17:41:11-04:00 2010-04-10T11:35:35-04:00 The Exchange luncheon club of Philadelphia, then meeting at the Bourse, withdrew from association with other Exchange Clubs on a point of principle -- hence the name it adopted, the Right Angle Club. Website Statistics Website Statistics tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-29:%2Fwebsite_statistics.html 2008-05-29T21:27:36-04:00 2010-03-11T08:27:08-05:00 Philadelphia Reflections' popularity has grown quite dramatically over two and a half years. Google Maps Icons Google Maps Icons tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-10:%2Fgoogle_maps_icons.html 2010-03-10T21:36:24-05:00 2010-03-11T08:09:42-05:00 Google Maps/Earth do not make icon creation & manipulation easy. Escaping for PHP Output to JavaScript Escaping for PHP Output to JavaScript tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-10:%2Fescaping_for_php_output.html 2010-03-10T21:16:40-05:00 2010-03-10T21:17:00-05:00 To send data to a JavaScript script from PHP, three levels of escaping are required Invaders of Pennsylvania Invaders of Pennsylvania tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-30:%2Finvaders_of_pennsylvania.php 2008-04-30T18:55:35-04:00 2010-02-18T19:08:24-05:00 For a peaceful state, Pennsylvania has suffered many invasions. It's all been one-way; Pennsylvania has never invaded anyone else. Culture: The Flavors of Philadelphia Life Culture: The Flavors of Philadelphia Life tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-22:%2Fculture_the_flavors_of.php 2009-05-22T18:28:02-04:00 2010-01-27T17:56:33-05:00 Philadelphia began as a religious colony, a utopia if you will. But all religions were welcome, so Quakerism mainly persists in its effects on others, both locally and in America, in Art, clubs, and the way of life. Colonial Times Colonial Times tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-23:%2Fcolonial_times.php 2009-05-23T20:14:26-04:00 2009-12-01T16:05:10-05:00 More than half of American history took place before 1776, but after 1492. For Philadelphia, Colonial history lasted about a century. Converting Mayan Dates Converting Mayan Dates tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-13:%2Fconverting_mayan_dates.html 2009-09-13T20:54:35-04:00 2009-09-14T05:42:40-04:00 Routines to convert to and from the Mayan Long Count date system Date Math Date Math tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-13:%2Fdate_math.html 2009-09-13T20:21:00-04:00 2009-09-13T20:44:14-04:00 If the function to calculate the number of days between two dates isn't built in, it's a pain to figure out Open a new window with XHTML Open a new window with XHTML tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-07:%2Fopen_a_new_window.html 2006-08-07T16:08:32-04:00 2009-09-12T16:25:19-04:00 Prior to XHTML, you could open a new window with a link by saying target="_blank". That's no longer allowed, but what can you do? Regex URL Matching Regex URL Matching tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-12:%2Fregex_url_matching.html 2007-12-12T07:28:27-05:00 2009-07-30T06:37:06-04:00 On this site we check for the existence of a URL whenever an entry is updated. A Regex (regular expression) string was the breakthrough. Recent Convulsions in World Finance Recent Convulsions in World Finance tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-22:%2Frecent_convulsions_in_world.php 2009-05-22T16:16:52-04:00 2009-07-16T12:36:15-04:00 Few people choose to study economics; most people don't want to. But world economics have got in such a state that lots more of us had better give it some thought. Colonial Days Colonial Days tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-23:%2Fcolonial_days.php 2009-05-23T20:16:42-04:00 2009-05-28T20:11:52-04:00 More than half of American history took place before 1776, but after 1492. For Philadelphia, the Colonial period lasted about a century. Philadelphia Medicine Philadelphia Medicine tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-22:%2Fphiladelphia_medicine.php 2009-05-22T15:45:48-04:00 2009-05-24T20:51:47-04:00 Several hundred essays on the history and peculiarities of Medicine in Philadelphia, where most of it started. Philadelphia Since the Industrial Revolution Philadelphia Since the Industrial Revolution tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-23:%2Fphiladelphia_since_the_industrial.php 2009-05-23T21:15:57-04:00 2009-05-24T08:10:49-04:00 The Industrial Revolution began about the time America declared Independence. The young nation faced a clean slate and boundless opportunities. Computers, Websites, and other Digital Gadgetry Computers, Websites, and other Digital Gadgetry tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-22:%2Fcomputers_websites_and_other.php 2009-05-22T16:40:16-04:00 2009-05-22T17:11:43-04:00 What is novel today is old-hat tomorrow; but what is old-hat to someone today is still novel for someone else. These are our own thoughts about a variety of electronic novelties, for whoever finds them of interest. mysql_update_assoc mysql_update_assoc tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-22:%2Fmysqlupdateassoc_.html 2009-04-22T15:04:50-04:00 2009-04-23T08:59:31-04:00 Easily (and quote_smart-ly) update a record in a MySQL database table mysql_insert_assoc mysql_insert_assoc tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-20:%2Fmysqlinsertassoc_.html 2009-04-20T21:55:03-04:00 2009-04-23T08:57:36-04:00 How to make MySQL insertions easier (and safe) SHAKSPERE SOCIETY January 22, 2003 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY January 22, 2003 tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-31:%2Fshakspere_society_january_22.html 2008-01-31T20:12:30-05:00 2008-09-05T13:35:56-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Shakespere.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />America's oldest Shakespeare society continues to discuss <i>Two Genlemen of Verona</i> Editing HTML with PHP scripts Editing HTML with PHP scripts tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-07:%2Fediting_html_with_php.html 2006-08-07T15:55:30-04:00 2008-08-26T18:38:05-04:00 To provide a PHP script that allows a user to edit HTML requires a few tricks that are hard to hack through but are elegantly documented in the manual. Parsing name-value pair attributes in an HTML tag Parsing name-value pair attributes in an HTML tag tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-19:%2Fparsing_namevalue_pair_attributes.html 2007-12-19T22:05:50-05:00 2008-07-29T11:10:53-04:00 Regexp HTML Attribute Parsing: Pulling out the value of numerous attributes in an HTML tag is a mind bender Ternary Operator and the IIF function Ternary Operator and the IIF function tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-19:%2Fternary_operator_and_the.html 2008-06-19T11:33:03-04:00 2008-06-19T11:36:10-04:00 Reduce the PHP If function and/or include it in a function PHP out of memory condition PHP out of memory condition tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-17:%2Fphp_out_of_memory.html 2008-06-17T09:11:52-04:00 2008-06-17T09:13:33-04:00 PHP scripts sometime run out of internal memory. Here's how to get around the problem. The Evolution of a Programmer The Evolution of a Programmer tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-02:%2Fthe_evolution_of_a.html 2008-04-02T20:18:27-04:00 2008-04-06T17:39:22-04:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/pocketpr.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Excellence depends upon simplicity RSS Feeds RSS Feeds tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-01:%2Frss_feeds.html 2007-05-01T13:02:17-04:00 2007-12-24T08:38:38-05:00 RSS (syndication) feeds come in many flavors. We provide the most common. 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Font Families Font Families tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-29:%2Ffont_families.html 2007-04-29T12:15:43-04:00 2007-12-16T23:10:36-05:00 A survey of the most-commonly installed fonts found on Windows machines DHTML, PHP and MySQL References DHTML, PHP and MySQL References tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-07:%2Fdhtml_php_and_mysql.html 2006-08-07T16:29:25-04:00 2007-12-16T23:01:34-05:00 What are good references for advanced website development? Web hosting providers Web hosting providers tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-08:%2Fweb_hosting_providers.html 2006-08-08T08:31:35-04:00 2007-12-13T17:12:04-05:00 <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/computercartoon.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />We have used two service providers: one good, the other poor.