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Fisher III, M.D. All rights reserved. history philadelphia quaker colonies medicine health care economics politics gfisher@philadelphia-reflections.com (George Ross Fisher III MD) george@georgefisher.com (George Ross Fisher, IV) Hand-crafted using PHP Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:40:28 EST hourly 12 2012-02-14T16:40:28-05:00 http://backend.userland.com/rss091 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/RSSimage.jpg 144 144 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/ http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/ tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-05-01:%2Findex.php Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:40:28 EST gfisher@philadelphia-reflections.com (George Ross Fisher III, M.D.) William Penn's Quaker Colonies plus medicine, economics and politics Dr. George Ross Fisher, III Philadelphia Reflections 2012-02-14 39.9455 -75.1532 Dr. Fisher's medical office location 39.9455 -75.1532 39.9455 -75.1532 Enumerated and Implied Powers http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1544.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-03:%2Fconstitution_part_ii.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:39:53 EST <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> Human Rights http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1554.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-29:%2Fhuman_rights.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:39:25 EST 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> Reconsidering All Our Laws http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2169.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-29:%2Freconsidering_all_our_laws.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:38:37 EST <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. Harvard Men Suggest a Cold Place for Yale http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1108.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-17:%2Fharvard_men_suggest_a.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:37:44 EST <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 41.3318 -75.0328 Pike 41.3318 -75.0328 Constitution I : Turning Colonies into States http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1541.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-28:%2Fconstitution_part_i.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:37:08 EST 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> World Finance, Columbus Day 2008 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1525.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-13:%2Fworld_finance_columbus_day.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:36:06 EST <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 40.7077 -74.0083 Dow Jones 40.7077 -74.0083 U.S. and E.U. Exchange Experiences (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1230.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-17:%2Fus_and_eu_exchange.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:35:31 EST <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> U.S. and E.U. Exchange Experiences (1) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1229.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-17:%2Fthe_us_and_the.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:35:03 EST <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 39.9547 -75.1961 The Global Interdependence Center 39.9547 -75.1961 Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2228.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-02-14:%2F%2Fblog%2F2228.htm Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:31:01 EST The Northwest Territory belonged to France until the French and Indian War, when the British took it over. The United States 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. Constitutional Liberty http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2115.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-30:%2Fconstitutional_liberty.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:30:31 EST <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/youngr_morris.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Robert Morris has been called all manner of names for appearing to support both England and its rebellious colonies at the same time. Some of the criticism was overwrought, and some merely seems legitimate to those who oppose parts of the U.S. Constitution. He was pretty much in the middle of a public riot, a poor time to raise sophisticated points..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Father of the Bureaucracy http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2168.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-28:%2Ffather_of_the_bureaucracy.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:29:57 EST <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. Grand Union http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1700.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-19:%2Fgrand_union.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:29:24 EST <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> Addressing The Proprietor's Dilemma http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1136.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-09-27:%2Fthe_proprietors_dilemma.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:29:02 EST <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/660.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fdecision_trenton.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:28:05 EST <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 40.2201 -74.7778 Trenton Makes the World Takes 40.2201 -74.7778 Litchfield County, Extended (1771-1775) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/569.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Flitchfield_county_ext.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:27:31 EST <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 impending 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 41.2447 -75.8803 THE CITY OF WILKES-BARRE 41.2447 -75.8803 Articles of Confederation: Of What Value? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2227.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-02-09:%2F%2Fblog%2F2227.htm Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:27:02 EST The American Articles of Confederation were devised in Philadelphia, used to govern in Philadelphia, and replaced in Philadelphia. Correcting their biggest flaws did make it easier to accept a Constitution which is sparse but hard to amend. Washington's Circular Letters http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1997.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-02:%2Fwashingtons_circular_letters.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:26:29 EST <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 41.5105 -74.0195 Newburgh NY 41.5105 -74.0195 Perpetual? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/606.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fperpetual.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:25:42 EST <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> Articles of Confederation: Fatal Flaw http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/472.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Farticles_conf_fatal_falw.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:25:02 EST <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 39.949 -75.1504 The Congress Hall 39.949 -75.1504 A Pennsylvania Farmer -- in Delaware http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1244.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-19:%2Fa_pennsylvania_farmer_in.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:24:17 EST <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 39.9489 -75.15 Independence National Historical Park 39.9489 -75.15 Articles of Confederation http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/24.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Farticles_confed_topic.php Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:23:20 EST 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. Delaware to do http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1821.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-01:%2Fdelaware_to_do.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:53:56 EST <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> Defining and Naming New Jersey http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1551.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-24:%2Fdefining_and_naming_new.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:12:46 EST <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> Default Investing http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1162.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-26:%2Fdefault_investing.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:08:11 EST <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> Debt Rating Agencies http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1389.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-12:%2Fdebt_rating_agencies.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:53:29 EST <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> Serpentine Rock From Serpentine Barrens http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1834.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-29:%2Fserpentine_rock_from_serpentine.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:00:20 EST <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 39.7414 -76.0428 Nottingham County Park 39.7414 -76.0428 Show Biz Image: Hepburn, Rogers, Kelly http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/643.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fshow_biz.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:34:48 EST <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> Free Quaker Meetinghouse http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1091.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzfree_quaker_meetinghouse.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:50:40 EST <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 39.9524 -75.1487 Free Quaker Mettinghouse 39.9524 -75.1487 Albert C. Barnes, M.D. http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/458.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Falbert_barnes_investor.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:33:07 EST <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 39.998 -75.2405 Barnes Museum, Merion 39.998 -75.2405 Musical Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/22.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fmusical_phila_topic.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:25:41 EST 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. Historical Motor Excursion North of Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/78.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-03:%2Fhistorical_motor_excursion_north.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:20:31 EST 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> Escape Path of the Philadelphia Tories http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/146.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-03:%2Fescape_path_of_the.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:00:10 EST <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> Headwaters of the Middle Atlantic Rivers http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2025.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-28:%2Fmiddle_atlantic_rivers_the.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:15:52 EST <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> Rail Station at Broad and Washington http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/632.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Frail_station_broad.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:41:06 EST <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 39.9365 -75.159 Washington Avenue Philadelphia, PA 39.9365 -75.159 Credit Crunch Turning Point, at Eight Months? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1427.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-31:%2Fcredit_crunch_turning_point.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:54:23 EST <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> TOAST TO E. DIGBY BALTZELL (1915-1996) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1767.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-01-29:%2Ftoast_to_e_digby.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:47:02 EST <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> Wildlife in Haddonfield http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1529.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-21:%2Fwildlife_in_haddonfield.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:46:46 EST 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 39.898 -75.0313 Ross and Perry Inc., 39.898 -75.0313 Radioactive River Bend http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/940.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzradioactive_river_bend.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:46:20 EST <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 40.2268 -75.5873 Limerick Nuclear Power Plant 40.2268 -75.5873 Home Heating Issues http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1798.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-06:%2Fhome_heating_issues.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:45:45 EST <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> Playing The Cards As You Are Dealt Them http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2134.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-29:%2Fplaying_cards_you_are.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:45:14 EST <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> Favorites - II http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/171.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-12:%2Ffavorites_ii.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:45:02 EST More favorites. Under construction. Reminiscences http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/91.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-18:%2Freminiscences_.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:44:38 EST 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> Montgomery County, Pennsylvania http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/151.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-17:%2Fmontgomery_county_pennsylvania.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:44:27 EST <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> States Rights Confront Civil War http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1740.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-10-20:%2Fstates_rights_confront_civil.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:43:50 EST <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 39.9489 -75.15 Independence Hall 39.9489 -75.15 Nobel Prize: Michael Brown, MD http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/768.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fnobel_prize_michael_brown.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:42:25 EST <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 39.9534 -75.177 The College of Physcians of Philadelphia 39.9534 -75.177 While the City Sleeps http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/851.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fwhile_the_city_sleeps.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:42:05 EST <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 39.9501 -75.1935 Unit for Experimental Psychiatry 39.9501 -75.1935 Sierra Hotel http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2102.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-16:%2Fsierra_hotel_by_c.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:42:00 EST <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> Litchfield's Past http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1995.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-01:%2Flitchfields_past.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:41:55 EST <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 41.7555 -73.1987 Litchfield CT 41.7555 -73.1987 Day Two: Rehoboth to Kennett Square http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1224.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-05:%2Fday_two_rehoboth_to.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:41:05 EST <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 39.8467 -75.7119 Kennett Square 39.8467 -75.7119 Shaping the Constitution in Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/121.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-11:%2Fwriting_and_shaping_the.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:40:04 EST 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> Stir http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/995.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzstir_.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:40:01 EST <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 40.0333 -75.0181 House of Correction 40.0333 -75.0181 Suburban Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/152.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-17:%2Fsuburban_philadelphia.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:39:52 EST .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> GIC in Paris http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1451.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-14:%2Fgic_in_paris.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:39:22 EST <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 48.8567 2.35097 GIC in Paris 48.8567 2.35097 Appendix I, Charitable Contributions. http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1605.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-27:%2Fappendix_i_charitable_contributions.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:39:22 EST <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> Japan and Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/31.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fjapan_and_philadelphia.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:39:02 EST Philadelphia and Japan have had a special friendship for 150 years. 35.6867 139.752 35.6867 139.752 Imerial Place, Edo 35.6867 139.752 Pirate Lair http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/941.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzpirate_lair.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:38:13 EST <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> Lewis Harlow van Dusen, Jr. (1910-2004) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/925.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzlewis_harlow_van_dusen.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:38:00 EST <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 40.0031 -75.2267 Saint Asaph Episcopal Church 40.0031 -75.2267 Franklin in Paris http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1155.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-01:%2Ffranklin_in_paris.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:37:11 EST <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 48.8574 2.28585 Passy 48.8574 2.28585 Curing Deflation http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/834.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fcuring_deflation.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:37:07 EST <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> Gardening http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1682.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-27:%2Fgardening_.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:36:30 EST <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 39.9313 -75.2154 John Bartram's Gardens 39.9313 -75.2154 Revisionist Themes http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/109.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-10:%2Frevisionist_themes.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:36:29 EST 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> SHAKASPEARE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA NOVEMBER 5, 2003 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1413.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-06:%2Fshakespeare_society_of_philadelphia.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:36:26 EST <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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 Conventions and Convention Centers http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/62.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Fconventions_and_convention_centers.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:36:18 EST 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> Securitized Debt: Fumbled, But Magnificent http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1505.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-08-02:%2Fsecuritized_debt_fumbled_but.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:36:16 EST <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 40.7118 -74.0087 Merrill Lynch 40.7118 -74.0087 Stephen Girard 1750-1831 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/738.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fstephen_girard_1750_1831.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:36:08 EST <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 39.948 -75.1463 First National Bank of Philadelphia 39.948 -75.1463 Creating and Wrecking the Penn Central http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2031.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-04:%2Fcreating_and_wrecking_the.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:36:01 EST <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 39.9562 -75.182 30th Street Station 39.9562 -75.182 Power of the Purse http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2138.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-05-12:%2Fpower_of_the_purse.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:36:01 EST <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> A New Food and Drug Category http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/822.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fa_new_food_and.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:33:48 EST <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 40.711 -74.0135 The Wall Street Journal 40.711 -74.0135 A Woman's Work http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/843.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fa_woman_s_work.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:33:36 EST <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 40.0245 -75.3189 Bryn Mawr College 40.0245 -75.3189 Clinton Health Plan Starts at the Union League http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1255.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-18:%2Fclinton_health_plan_starts.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:33:31 EST <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 39.95 -75.1645 The Union League of Philadelphia 39.95 -75.1645 Constitution V: The Unforeseeable http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1581.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-24:%2Fconstitution_v_the_unforeseeable.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:33:28 EST 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> To Germantown, a Short Appreciation http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/15.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fto_germanatown_topic.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:33:22 EST 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. Five Macroeconomic Myths http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1160.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-21:%2Ffive_macroeconomic_myths.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:33:16 EST <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> Philadelphia Economics http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/61.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Fphiladelphia_economics.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:33:10 EST economics Getaway http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/874.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzgetaway_.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:31:36 EST <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 39.7509 -75.5496 Delaware Division, Wilmington Medical Center 39.7509 -75.5496 Retiring to the Workforce http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/831.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fretiring_to_the_workforce.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:30:55 EST <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> Replacing Employer-Based Health Insurance http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1293.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-31:%2Freplacing_employerbased_health_insurance.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:30:50 EST 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> Tales of the Troop http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1735.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-10-06:%2Ftales_of_the_troop.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:30:29 EST <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 39.9532 -75.1782 First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry The Armory 39.9532 -75.1782 Camden Riversharks http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1416.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-07:%2Fcamden_riversharks.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:29:57 EST <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 39.9505 -75.1282 Campbell field 39.9505 -75.1282 Right Angle Club 2007 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/73.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-01:%2Fthe_right_angle_club.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:29:05 EST 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 39.9491 -75.1675 Right Angle Club of Philadelphia 39.9491 -75.1675 R. Morris, Land Speculator http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2182.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-10-19:%2Fr_morris_land_speculator.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:27:50 EST <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. The Franklin Inn http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/667.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fthe_franklin_inn.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:26:45 EST <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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 Cornell, For the Birds http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1982.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-04:%2Fcornell_is_for_the.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:56:16 EST <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 42.4805 -76.4538 Cornell Birds Ornithology 42.4805 -76.4538 Globalization http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1660.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-29:%2Fglobalization_.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:48:55 EST <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 39.8988 -75.5572 Peter Aloise House 39.8988 -75.5572 Quaker Doctrine and Schism http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/779.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fquaker_doctrine_and_schism.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:47:19 EST <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 39.9524 -75.1487 The Free Quaker Meeting House Philadelphia 39.9524 -75.1487 Statement of Accounts, March 1785 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2186.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-10-31:%2Fstatement_of_accounts_march.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:45:44 EST 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. Albert Gallatin http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/100.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-23:%2Falbert_gallatin.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:44:18 EST 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> Look Out For That Ship! http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/760.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Flook_out_for_that.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:41:07 EST <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 39.9826 -75.0692 Delair Railroad Drawbridge 39.9826 -75.0692 Abortion (Podcast) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2055.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-12:%2Fabortion_podcast.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:38:01 EST <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> Right Angle Club 2009 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/123.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-09:%2Fright_angle_club_2009.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:54:02 EST 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> Veterans Hospital http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1598.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-17:%2Fveterans_hospital.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:53:48 EST <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 39.9481 -75.1999 Philadelphia VA Medical Center Home 39.9481 -75.1999 Architecture in Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/72.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-20:%2Farchitecture_in_philadelphia.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:53:27 EST 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> The Barnes Foundation: Comments on the Economics of Art (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/655.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fbarnes_foundation_comments.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:53:21 EST <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 39.998 -75.2405 Barnes Museum, Merion 39.998 -75.2405 Robert Morris, In Charge By Popular Demand http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2148.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-06-23:%2Frobert_morris_takes_over.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:53:12 EST <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> Parliamentary procedure(2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/601.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fparlimentary_procedure_2.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:52:46 EST <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 51.5016 0.126989 House of Lords 51.5016 0.126989 College of Physicians of Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1021.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzcollege_of_physicians_of.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:52:08 EST <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 39.9535 -75.1768 College of Physicians of Philadelphia 39.9535 -75.1768 Philadelphia Fish and Fishing http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/33.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fphiladelphia_fish_and_fishing.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:51:13 EST 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. Andrew Hamilton (1676-1741) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1191.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-16:%2Fandrew_hamilton_16761741.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:50:01 EST <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 39.9525 -75.1634 Philadelphia City Hall 39.9525 -75.1634 Delaware County Travel Suggestions http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2098.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-13:%2Fdelaware_county_travel_suggestions.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:49:35 EST <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. Quakers Turn Their Backs on Power http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/913.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzquakers_turn_their_backs.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:49:01 EST <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> George Washington's Cherry Tree, Revisited http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1742.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-11-03:%2Fgeorge_washingtons_cherry_tree.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:48:41 EST <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> Evolving Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/57.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Fevolving_philadelphia.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:47:50 EST 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> Computers, Digital Cameras, and Cellphones http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/55.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Fcomputers_.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:47:15 EST 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> Quakerism and the Industrial Revolution http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1257.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-19:%2Fquakerism_and_the_industrial.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:45:34 EST <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 53.108 -1.55339 Arkwright's Mill 53.108 -1.55339 What's a Repo? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1420.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-17:%2Fwhats_a_repo.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:45:19 EST <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 40.7558 -73.9768 Bear Stearns 40.7558 -73.9768 Webpage Printing http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1120.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-04:%2Fwebpage_printing.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:45:11 EST Webpage printing is supported on this site. It seems to work pretty well except for text flow-around for some browsers. Insurance in Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/56.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Finsurance_in_philadelphia.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:44:44 EST 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> Appendix H Philadelphia Public Ledger, May 25, 1925 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1617.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-14:%2Fappendix_h.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:44:24 EST <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> Legislative Branch: Two Chambers or One? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2119.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-07:%2Fcongress_two_chambers_or.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:44:12 EST <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> A Few Rooms of Your Own http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/852.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fa_few_rooms_of.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:43:55 EST <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 40.711 -74.0135 The Wall Street Journal 40.711 -74.0135 Nation's First Hospital, 1751-2008 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1432.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-11:%2Fnations_first_hospital_17512008.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:43:29 EST <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> Yet Another Toast to Dr. J. William White http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1176.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-13:%2Fyet_another_toast_to.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:43:08 EST <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> Medical Malpractice http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/16.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fmedical_malpractice_topic.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:42:57 EST 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. Philadelphia's Two Years Under Attack: A Chronology http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/935.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzphiladelphias_year_at_war.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:42:47 EST <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> Our Federal Reserve : Biddle's Bank (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1104.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-27:%2Fzour_federal_reserve_biddles.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:42:28 EST <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 39.9486 -75.1484 Biddle Bank 39.9486 -75.1484 Encampment At East Falls http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/939.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzencampment_at_east_falls.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:42:11 EST 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 40.22 -74.7779 Trenton Makes the World Takes 40.22 -74.7779 Retirement Planning http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1373.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-28:%2Fretirement_planning.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:41:55 EST <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. Draining Suburbia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1138.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-09-29:%2Fdraining_suburbia.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:41:44 EST <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 39.9528 -75.2511 Cobbs Creek 39.9528 -75.2511 Ethnic Subcultures http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/164.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-17:%2Fethnic_subcultures.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:41:04 EST 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> Morris Quits His Business http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2178.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-09-29:%2Fmorris_quits_his_business.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:39:41 EST <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> Pakistan and Democracy http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1524.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-10:%2Fpakistan_and_democracy.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:38:59 EST <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 29.3896 71.6705 High Court pakistan 29.3896 71.6705 Literary Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/63.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Fliterary_philadelphia.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:38:45 EST 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> Ampersand Madness: Convert & to & to prevent XHTML errors http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1216.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-22:%2Fconvert_to_amp_to.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:38:38 EST A regex solution to the huge problem of ampersand encoding in XHTML Health Insurance http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/99.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-22:%2Fhealth_insurance.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:38:27 EST 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> Obamacare Follies, Executive Summary http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/133.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-18:%2Fobamacare_follies_executive_summary.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:38:20 EST 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> Conflict Within the Bill of Rights http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1820.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-25:%2Fconflict_within_the_bill.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:38:06 EST <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..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="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 39.949 -75.1506 Congress Hall 39.949 -75.1506 Sackett's Town at Sackets Harbor http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1985.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-05:%2Fsacketts_town_at_sackets.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:37:22 EST <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 43.9477 -76.123 Sackets Harbor Mansion 43.9477 -76.123 Madeira Party 2009 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1672.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-21:%2Fmadeira_party_2009.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:36:38 EST 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> Insomnia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1975.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-23:%2Finsomnia_.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:36:20 EST <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 39.9522 -75.2018 University of Pennsylvania 39.9522 -75.2018 Haddonfield Blooming Outdoors, Year-Round http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1545.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-03:%2Fhaddonfield_outdoors_mini_and.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:35:16 EST <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 39.8981 -75.0312 Ross and Perry Inc., 39.8981 -75.0312 Pea Patch Island http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/880.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzpea_patch_island.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:34:19 EST <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 39.5894 -75.5672 Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island 39.5894 -75.5672 Philadelphia in 1658 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/616.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphiladelphia_1658.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:33:01 EST <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 39.9527 -75.1635 City Hall 39.9527 -75.1635 Christ Church and Elfreths Alley http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1102.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzchrist_church_and_elfreths.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:32:54 EST <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 39.9527 -75.1422 Elfreths Alley 39.9527 -75.1422 Germantown Before 1730 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/875.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzgermantown_before_1730.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:32:52 EST <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 40.0319 -75.1764 Germantown 40.0319 -75.1764 Second and Market to Sixth and Walnut http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1221.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-02:%2Fsecond_and_market_to.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:32:47 EST <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 39.9495 -75.1466 Franklin Court 39.9495 -75.1466 Net Neutrality and Vertical Integration http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2054.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-11:%2Fnet_neutrality_and_vertical.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:08:24 EST <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 39.9543 -75.1688 Comcast Center 39.9543 -75.1688 Germantown After 1730 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/877.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzgermantown_after_1730.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:02:27 EST <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 40.0346 -75.1732 Germantown Ave. 40.0346 -75.1732 Unintended Consequences for Advanced Placement http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/474.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Funintended_consequence.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:01:25 EST <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 40.2937 -74.7251 Lawrenceville School 40.2937 -74.7251 Mohammed Ali, Cassius Clay http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/719.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fmohammed_ali_cassius_clay.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:00:51 EST <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 39.91 -75.0085 Mohamed AliMohamed Ali the Prizefighter 39.91 -75.0085 Fanny Kemble http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1040.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzfanny_kemble.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:55:15 EST <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 39.9494 -75.1538 Pierce Butler Mansion 39.9494 -75.1538 Newspapers http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1683.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-29:%2Fnewspapers_.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:49:19 EST <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 39.96 -75.1623 The Philadelphia Inquirer 39.96 -75.1623 Charitable Immunity: An Underestimated Revolution http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/812.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fcharitable_immunity_an_underestimated.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:48:55 EST <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 39.953 -75.1661 Supreme Court Chief JusticeSupreme Court Chief Justice 39.953 -75.1661 Pennsylvania Likes Private Property Private http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1815.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-14:%2Fpennsylvania_likes_private_property.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:48:48 EST <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> Is Stock Trading Passe? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2177.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-09-27:%2Fis_stock_trading_passe.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:17:43 EST <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> The Hospital That Ate Chicago (1) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/784.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fthe_hospital_that_ate.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:38:38 EST <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 39.8895 -75.0425 George Ross Fisher 39.8895 -75.0425 Appendix K, Honors and Other Items http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1608.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-30:%2Fappendix_k_honors_and.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:59:46 EST <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1354.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-26:%2Fbye_bye_banks.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:05:52 EST <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1669.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-18:%2Fthe_tenth_amendment.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:05:46 EST 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> SHAKSPERE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA OCTOBER 8, 2003 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1412.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-06:%2Fshakspere_society_of_philadelphia.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:05:45 EST <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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 Curtis: The Business Plan http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/804.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fcurtis_the_business_plan.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:05:34 EST <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 39.9498 -75.1465 Franklin Court Museum 39.9498 -75.1465 Morris Upended by a Nobody http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2181.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-10-12:%2Fmorris_upended_by_a.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:04:41 EST <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> City of Rivers and Rivulets http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/46.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-17:%2Fcity_of_rivers_and.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:04:30 EST Philadelphia has always been defined by the waters that surround it. American Finance After Robert Morris http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/178.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-12-21:%2Famerican_finance_after_robert.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:04:24 EST In progress. WILLIAM BLATHWAYT'S DRAFT OF THE CHARTER OF PENNSYLVANIA http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1765.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-01-28:%2Fwilliam_blathwayts_draft_of.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:04:15 EST 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> Tyler Arboretum http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2110.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-23:%2Ftyler_arboretum.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:03:57 EST <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> Locating Corporate Headquarters http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2063.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-15:%2Flocating_corporate_headquarters.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:03:24 EST <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> SHAKSPERE SOCIETY, Annual Dinner 2003 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1382.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-01:%2Fshakspere_society_annual_dinner.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:03:11 EST <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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 Northrop YF-23A Flight Manual http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2104.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-18:%2Fnorthrop_yf23a_flight_manual.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:01:55 EST 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> Wyoming, Fair Wilkes Barre http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1999.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-07:%2Fwyoming_fair_wilkes_barre.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:01:05 EST <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> Quaker Carillon http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1527.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-15:%2Fquaker_carillon.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:00:12 EST <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 39.8992 -75.0327 Hadonfield Friends MeetingHouse 39.8992 -75.0327 From Brunnemeier to Solutions http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2000.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-07:%2Ffrom_brunnemeier_to_solutions.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:00:00 EST <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 40.3447 -74.6547 Princeton University 40.3447 -74.6547 Tours of Philadelphia Region http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1226.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-09:%2Ftours_of_philadelphia_region.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:59:17 EST 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> Glorious Revolution: Nov. 5, 1688 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2043.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-16:%2Fglorious_revolution_nov_5.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:58:53 EST <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 50.452 -3.55808 Torbay, UK 50.452 -3.55808 Obamacare Examined http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/134.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-18:%2Fobamacare_follies.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:58:48 EST 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> Round the Block in Haddonfield http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1335.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-17:%2Fround_the_block_in.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:57:27 EST 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 39.8902 -75.0425 Home 39.8902 -75.0425 Robert Morris, Financial Virtuoso http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2157.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-22:%2Frobert_morris_financial_virtuoso.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:56:48 EST 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. Future Directions for Book Authoring http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2062.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-15:%2Ffuture_directions_for_book.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:56:45 EST <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> It Ain't Necessarily So http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1032.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzit_aint_necessarily_so.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:55:05 EST <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 39.9003 -75.0326 Friends Meetinghouse Haddonfield NJ 39.9003 -75.0326 Appendix E, Newpaper Accounts of Remarks by Dr. Adolph Lorenz. http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1604.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-26:%2Fappendix_e_newpaper_accounts.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:53:49 EST <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2116.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-31:%2Fthe_network.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:53:35 EST <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> Doylestown http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/888.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzdoylestown_.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:52:54 EST <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 40.31 -75.13 Doylestown PA 40.31 -75.13 Touring Philadelphia's Western Regions http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/81.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-09:%2Ftouring_philadelpia_s_western.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:52:34 EST 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> Investment Consequences http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2135.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-05-02:%2Finvestment_consequences.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:52:27 EST <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> Mesoamerican Ball Game http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1539.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-21:%2Fmesoamerican_ball_game.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:07:48 EST <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> Charles Dickens Doesn't Like Our Nice Penitentiary http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/502.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fcharles_dickens_pen.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:07:37 EST 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 39.9683 -75.1726 Eastern State Penitentiary 39.9683 -75.1726 Financial Meltdown Documentary http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1578.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-17:%2Ffinancial_meltdown_documentary.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:07:20 EST 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> Loss of USS Thresher http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2106.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-18:%2Floss_of_uss_thresher.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:05:58 EST <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> Philadelphia: A 1925 Viewpoint http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1044.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzphiladelphia_a_1925_viewpoint.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:05:49 EST <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> Clinton Plan Summary: Physician Effects http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1279.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-01:%2Fclinton_plan_summary_physician.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:05:44 EST <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> Freedom, But Not Independence http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1773.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-03:%2Ffreedom_is_not_independence.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:05:28 EST <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 51.5053 -0.13795 St. James Palace 51.5053 -0.13795 Greenhouses http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1830.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-16:%2Fgreenhouses_.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:04:33 EST <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> Specialized Surgeons http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/920.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzspecialized_surgeons.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:04:14 EST <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 39.9449 -75.1557 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9449 -75.1557 Regulation Precision: Not Entirely Good Idea http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2010.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-22:%2Fregulation_precision_not_entirely.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:03:25 EST <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 41.7369 -76.0241 Camptown, PA 41.7369 -76.0241 Dedication: Deaths of the Shah http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1215.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-22:%2Fblog_dedication_diamond_27.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:03:21 EST .... Day in Court http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2011.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-23:%2Fday_in_court.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:02:56 EST <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 39.9618 -75.1624 The Philadelphia Inquirer 39.9618 -75.1624 Rara Avis http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1816.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-15:%2Frara_avis.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:02:50 EST <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 39.9571 -75.1712 The Academy of Natural Sciences 39.9571 -75.1712 Bill Gates Gets a Medal http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1811.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-04:%2Fbill_gates_gets_a.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:01:21 EST <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> Russian Military Dictionary http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2107.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-18:%2Frussian_military_dictionary.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:00:58 EST <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> Revolt of the Pennsylvania Line http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2147.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-06-23:%2Frevolt_of_the_pennsylvania.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:59:27 EST 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> Malpractice: Insurance War Stories http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/748.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fmalpractice_insurance_war_stories.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:59:16 EST <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> Malpractice: Blame Insurance Companies? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/815.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fmalpractice_blame_insurance_companies.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:59:14 EST <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> Paying for Assisted Living http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2112.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-25:%2Fpaying_for_assisted_living.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:59:10 EST <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> A Prophet In Our Valley http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/484.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fprophet_valley.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:59:08 EST <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 40.0734 -75.4157 The Vanguard Investment Company 40.0734 -75.4157 Whither Alzheimer? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1941.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-09:%2Fwhither_alzheimer.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:58:43 EST <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 39.9535 -75.1961 THe University of Pennsylvania 39.9535 -75.1961 Who Killed Philadelphia Industry? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1833.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-18:%2Fwho_killed_philadelphia_industry.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:58:02 EST <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> Due North of Philadelphia, More or Less http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1978.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-03:%2Fdue_north_of_philadelphia.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:57:20 EST <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 44.223 -76.5041 John A. Macdonald House 44.223 -76.5041 After Six months http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1418.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-13:%2Fafter_six_months.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:56:46 EST <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> Appendix J, Special Events http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1603.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-24:%2Fappendix_j_special_events.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:54:56 EST <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> George Will at CPAC http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1779.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-25:%2Fgeorge_will_at_cpac.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:54:34 EST <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/700.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fwhigs_slaves_tarriffs.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:54:05 EST <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> The American Friends Service Committee http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/488.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-04-05:%2Famerican_friends.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:53:04 EST <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 39.9559 -75.1651 The American Friends Service Committee 39.9559 -75.1651 Planning Horizon: Review Benchmarks http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2127.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-21:%2Fplanning_horizon_review_benchmarks.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:50:45 EST <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> A Tip of the Hat to Skaneateles http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1983.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-04:%2Fa_tip_of_the.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:49:56 EST <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 42.944 -76.4343 The Krebs Restaurant of Skaneateles 42.944 -76.4343 Peace, Disdained http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2171.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-09-05:%2Fpeace_disdained.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:49:01 EST <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. Helping the home owner http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1535.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-01:%2Fhelping_the_home_owner.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:48:57 EST <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 38.8845 -77.1023 FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 38.8845 -77.1023 Christmas Reflections (Podcast) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2045.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-21:%2Fchristmas_reflections_podcast.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:48:29 EST <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> Mister Roberts http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/800.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fmister_roberts.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:58:43 EST <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 39.9503 -75.1643 Fidelity Building 39.9503 -75.1643 Sorting Out Future Winners Some Suggestions http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/850.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fsorting_out_the_future.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:58:22 EST 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> Vote Counting, Past and Future http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1515.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-09-12:%2Fvote_counting_past_and.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:58:15 EST <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 39.9504 -75.1644 Montgomery Mc Cracken 39.9504 -75.1644 Hedge Funds in Delaware http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1453.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-21:%2Fhedge_funds_in_delaware.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:58:04 EST <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 39.748 -75.5472 Delaware State Chamber of Commerce 1-(800) 292-9507 39.748 -75.5472 Dinner With Hoffa http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/968.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzdinner_with_hoffa.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:58:02 EST <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 39.9637 -75.1732 The Philadelphia Medical Society 39.9637 -75.1732 Employer-based Health Insurance: End of the Trail? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1148.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-23:%2Femployerbased_health_insurance_end.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:58:02 EST 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1145.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-18:%2Freflections_on_swensen.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:57:59 EST 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) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/845.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fmaking_money_2.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:57:49 EST <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 37.8926 -85.9497 Fort Knox 37.8926 -85.9497 August, 2007: Sudden Financial Jolt http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1480.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-01:%2Faugust_2007_sudden_financial.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:57:26 EST <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> Future Directions for Colleges http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/820.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Ffuture_directions_for_colleges.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:57:17 EST <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 40.808 -73.9634 Columbia University 40.808 -73.9634 Estate Planning Tool http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1161.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-26:%2Festate_planning_tool.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:57:08 EST 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> Paying for College I http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1782.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-08:%2Fpaying_for_college_i.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:56:53 EST <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> Retire Later http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1676.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-23:%2Fretire_later.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:56:43 EST 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. Short Tour of Philadelphia's West Country http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1225.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-09:%2Ftouring_philadelphias_west_country.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:56:42 EST <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 39.9893 -75.1948 Fairmount Park 39.9893 -75.1948 Barbarians At the Gates of the Magical Kingdom http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1041.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzbarbarians_at_the_gates.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:56:36 EST <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 33.8089 -117.924 Disneyland 33.8089 -117.924 Proposal: A Second Federal Reserve http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1447.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-05:%2Fproposal_a_second_federal.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:55:43 EST <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 39.9547 -75.1961 The Global Interdependence Center (GIC)Phone: 215-898-9453 39.9547 -75.1961 New Health Insurance Reform Proposals http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/861.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fnew_health_insurance_reform.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:55:37 EST <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> What Will Replace Daily Newspapers? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1686.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-02:%2Fwhat_will_replace_newspapers.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:55:15 EST <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/835.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Ftv_and_politics.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:54:57 EST <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> Malpractice: Captain of the Ship ... New Title, One Step At A Time, but A Big One. http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/811.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fmalpractice_captain_of_the.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:54:26 EST <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> State Capitol Think Tanks http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/857.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fstate_capitol_thinktanks.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:54:13 EST <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> Retirement Communities http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1677.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-24:%2Fretirement_communities.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:54:04 EST 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> Mouthpiece of the Mob http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1167.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-31:%2Fthe_mouthpiece_of_the.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:54:03 EST <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 39.9471 -75.1543 Robert F. Simone Law Office 39.9471 -75.1543 Blackball http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/745.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fblackball_.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:54:02 EST <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 39.95 -75.1645 Union League of Philadelphia 39.95 -75.1645 Emails From Iraq (1) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1241.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-06:%2Femails_from_iraq_1.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:53:39 EST <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 21.3486 -157.96 Pearl Harbor 21.3486 -157.96 Oil Bubble http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1476.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-25:%2Foil_bubble.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:53:35 EST <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> Sixth and Arch to Second and Arch http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1220.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-02:%2Fsixth_and_arch_to.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:52:50 EST <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 39.9519 -75.1426 Arch Street 39.9519 -75.1426 Remember This Date: May 18 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1245.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-20:%2Fremember_this_date_may.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:52:49 EST 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> Market Street, East (1) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/869.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzmarket_street_east_1.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:52:16 EST <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 39.9527 -75.1635 Philadelphia City Hall 39.9527 -75.1635 Social Disintermediation http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1325.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-29:%2Fsocial_disintermediation.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:52:03 EST <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> Rejecting Preventive Health Care for Good Reason http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1705.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-27:%2Frejecting_preventive_health_care.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:44:58 EST <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 39.9456 -75.1556 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9456 -75.1556 No Laborer Left Behind http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1251.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-03:%2Fno_laborers_left_behind.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:44:48 EST <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 42.4451 -76.4828 Cornell University 42.4451 -76.4828 The Ghost of William Penn http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2042.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-15:%2Fthe_ghost_of_william.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:43:56 EST 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2044.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-16:%2Fthe_ghost_of_william.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:43:56 EST <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> Making Money (8): Virtual Money http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1349.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-19:%2Fmaking_money_8_virtual.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:42:45 EST <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> A New Gorilla in the Cage http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1267.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-11:%2Fa_new_gorilla_in.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:42:29 EST <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 38.8976 -77.0365 The White House 38.8976 -77.0365 Perfect, the Enemy of Good http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1290.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-20:%2Fperfect_the_enemy_of.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:41:00 EST <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> Forty Days Before the Mast http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1323.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-26:%2Fforty_days_before_the.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:41:00 EST <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 39.9423 -75.141 Moshulu Restaurant 39.9423 -75.141 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY March 5, 2003 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1379.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-31:%2Fshakspere_society_march_5.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:39:40 EST <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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 Potts http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/792.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fpotts_.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:39:14 EST <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> Navigation Signals for Philadelphia Reflections http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2172.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-09-07:%2Fnavigation_signals_for_philadelphia.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:39:00 EST <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> Disappearing Stock Power http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1882.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-03:%2Fdisappearing_stock_power.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:38:44 EST <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 40.7072 -74.0112 NYSE 40.7072 -74.0112 Cost of K-12 Education http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1799.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-11:%2Fcost_of_k12_education.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:38:32 EST <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> After a Year of Crisis, Fannie and Freddy Finally Get the Spotlight http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1497.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-21:%2Fafter_a_year_of.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:37:51 EST <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 38.9404 -77.0767 Fannie Mae Corporate Headquarters 38.9404 -77.0767 The Birthplace of Radio http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1018.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_birthplace_of_radio.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:12:23 EST <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 39.9605 -75.6056 WCOJ Radio 39.9605 -75.6056 Chinese Canyons http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1095.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzchinese_canyons.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:12:14 EST <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 39.9527 -75.1579 Chinese Wall 39.9527 -75.1579 Easy Ride: Perth Amboy to Trenton http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/607.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fperth_amboy_trenton_2.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:12:12 EST <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 40.6219 -74.0868 British Camp Staten Island NY 40.6219 -74.0868 Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/128.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-28:%2Fpre_revolutionary_philadelphia.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:11:10 EST .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Computer Adjectives http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/799.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fcomputer_adjectives.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:11:04 EST <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 39.9521 -75.1907 Engineering at Penn 39.9521 -75.1907 Bonds--Do They Have A Future? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2195.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-12-14:%2Fbondsdo_they_have_a.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:10:42 EST <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 Victor Talking Machine Company http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/932.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_victor_talking_machine.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:10:09 EST <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> Nixon, Reconsidered http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1252.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-05:%2Frichard_m_nixon.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:09:16 EST <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 38.9 -77.0563 The Watergate Hotel 38.9 -77.0563 Stylesheet for ATOM feed http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1616.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-09:%2Fstylesheet_for_atom_feed.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:08:49 EST 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1764.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-01-27:%2Fa_william_penn_chronology.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:08:38 EST <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> Pyramid-Building, Greatly Simplified http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1741.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-10-27:%2Fpyramidbuilding_greatly_simplified.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:08:25 EST <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 29.9838 31.1293 The Great Pyramid of Giza 29.9838 31.1293 Right Angle Club 2010 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/137.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-04:%2Fright_angle_club_2010.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:08:24 EST 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 39.949 -75.1676 Right Angle Club 2010 39.949 -75.1676 Oriental Money http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1622.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-16:%2Foriental_money.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:07:53 EST <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 31.2382 121.506 Shanghai Stock Exchange 31.2382 121.506 Morris Arboretum http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1273.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-23:%2Fmorris_arboretum.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:07:22 EST <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 40.0916 -75.2284 Morris Arboretum 40.0916 -75.2284 Politics of the French and Indian War http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/795.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fpolitics_of_the_french.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:07:09 EST <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> Tourist Walk in Olde Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/77.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-29:%2Ftourist_walk_in_olde.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:07:05 EST 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 39.9509 -75.15 Visitor's Center 39.9509 -75.15 The Kappa Lambda Society of Hippocrates http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1664.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-04:%2Fthe_kappa_lambda_society.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:06:46 EST <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> Germantown and the French and Indian War http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/876.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzgermantown_and_the_french.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:06:43 EST <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 40.4034 -79.8685 Braddock's Defeat 40.4034 -79.8685 Chester County, Pennsylvania http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/148.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-13:%2Fchester_and_delaware_counties.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:06:37 EST <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> Owen Roberts: A Switch in Time http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/599.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fowen_roberts.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:06:07 EST <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 39.954 -75.1922 University of Pennsylvania Law School 39.954 -75.1922 Zane Grey, Dentist http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/733.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fzane_grey_dentist.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:06:05 EST <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. James A. Michener (1907-1997) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/886.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzjames_a_michener_1907.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:05:44 EST <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 39.9051 -75.3523 Swarthmore College 39.9051 -75.3523 Windmill Electricity http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1614.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-03:%2Fwindmill_electricity.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:05:43 EST <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 45.524 -122.684 Iberdrola Renewables 45.524 -122.684 Descendants of Anthony Morris, 1654-1721 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/176.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-11-29:%2Fdescendants_of_anthony_morris.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:05:41 EST 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. Children's Scholarship Fund of Philadelphia (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2091.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-02-25:%2Fchildrens_scholarship_fund_of.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:05:40 EST <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 39.9503 -75.1691 Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia 39.9503 -75.1691 The Richest Men in America http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1087.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_richest_men_in.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:05:38 EST <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 39.948 -75.1464 First Bank of United States Philadelphia PA 39.948 -75.1464 La Cosa Nostra Has an Apalachin Outing http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1981.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-04:%2Fla_cosa_nostra_has.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:05:28 EST <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 42.0587 -76.1538 Joseph Barbara's Estate 42.0587 -76.1538 What's a Mezzanine Loan? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1392.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-14:%2Fwhats_a_mezzanine.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:05:25 EST <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> Joseph Priestley, Shaker and Mover http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1045.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzjoseph_priestley_shaker_and.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:05:19 EST <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 39.9526 -75.1764 First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia 39.9526 -75.1764 Parliamentary Procedure (1) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/602.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fparlimentary_procedures_1.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:05:12 EST <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> Mrs. Meade's House http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/585.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fmrs_meades_house.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:04:43 EST <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 39.947 -75.1729 Mrs. Meades House 39.947 -75.1729 What's Different About Kosher ? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1789.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-19:%2Fwhats_different_about_kosher.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:04:40 EST <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 39.9488 -75.1465 The Chemical Heritage Foundation 39.9488 -75.1465 SEPTA's Long Term Planning http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1766.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-01-29:%2Fseptas_long_term_planning.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:04:19 EST <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 39.9519 -75.161 Septa 39.9519 -75.161 The Pennamite Wars: Who Had The Last Word? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/677.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fthe_pennamite_wars.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:04:18 EST <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> Methods of Thought: Scientific, Logical, Future http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2151.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-11:%2Fmethods_of_thought_scientific.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:04:05 EST <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> Ross and Perry, Inc. Publishers http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/165.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-16:%2Fross_perry_publishing.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:03:59 EST 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> Do Computers Thrive on Lead Poisoning? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2056.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-12:%2Fdo_computers_thrive_on.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:03:51 EST <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> Reviving the Mummers http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/469.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Freviving_the_mummers.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:03:50 EST <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 39.9336 -75.1475 The Mummer Museum 39.9336 -75.1475 Art in Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/21.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fart_in_phila_topic.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:03:33 EST 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 39.9658 -75.1812 Philadelphia Art Museum 39.9658 -75.1812 Port of Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1337.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-20:%2Fport_of_philadelphia.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:03:13 EST <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 39.8867 -75.1766 Ports of Philadelphia 39.8867 -75.1766 Madison in Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1548.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-18:%2Fmadison_in_philadelphia.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:03:05 EST <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> Quilts, Patchwork Style http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1317.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-04:%2Fquilts_patchwork_style.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:02:53 EST <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> Illicit Drugs are Eliminated in Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1171.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-01-11:%2Fillicit_drugs_are_eliminated.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:02:32 EST <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 39.8957 -75.2292 Narcotics Bureau-Investigation 39.8957 -75.2292 Monocacy Creek and Monocacy River http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1835.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-29:%2Fmonocacy_.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:02:19 EST <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 39.5075 -77.3778 Monocacy River 39.5075 -77.3778 Franklin Endorses the Constitution http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1739.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-10-20:%2Ffranklin_endorses_the_constitution.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:01:52 EST <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 39.9489 -75.15 Independence Hall 39.9489 -75.15 Working Girls Get the Faints http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/807.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fcurtis_fainting_spells.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:01:37 EST <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 39.9473 -75.1506 The Curtis Publishing Company 39.9473 -75.1506 Dislocations: Financial and Fundamental http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/98.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-22:%2Fusing_computers_instead_of.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:01:34 EST 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> Merrill Lynch Illuminates the Mortgage Crisis http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1504.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-31:%2Fmerrill_lynch_illustrates_the.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:01:27 EST <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 39.9534 -75.1711 Merill Lynch 39.9534 -75.1711 Beaumarchais: A Playwright Brings France into the American Revolution http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2125.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-18:%2Fbeaumarchais_.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:01:25 EST <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> Broad Street North and South http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1442.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-03:%2Fbroad_street_north_and.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:01:01 EST <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 39.9524 -75.1636 Philadelphia City Hall 39.9524 -75.1636 Trapped in a Casino http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1452.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-21:%2Ftrapped_in_a_casino.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:00:51 EST <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 39.3578 -74.4394 Atlantic City Convention and Visitors Authority609-348-7100 or 888-AC-VISIT (228-4748) 39.3578 -74.4394 Marcellus Shale Gas: Good Thing or Bad? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1814.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-11:%2Fmarcellus_shale_gas_good.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:00:51 EST <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 42.6068 -75.1701 Cortland County Soil and Water Conservation District 42.6068 -75.1701 Harvard Progressives in Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1716.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-27:%2Fharvard_progressives_in_philadelphia.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:00:36 EST <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> Harry C. Bishop 1921-2009 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1748.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-13:%2Fharry_c_bishop_19212009.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:00:32 EST 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> Swashbuckler http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/688.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fthe_swashbuckler.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:00:06 EST <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 39.8483 -75.3471 Sun Shipyard 39.8483 -75.3471 Not a Single Red Knot http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2141.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-05-23:%2Fnot_a_single_red.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:59:53 EST <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. West Fairmount Park http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/781.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fwest_fairmount_park.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:59:19 EST <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 39.9851 -75.2161 Japanese House and Garden 39.9851 -75.2161 Community Volunteers in Medicine http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1250.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-01:%2Fcommunity_volunteers_in_medicine.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:59:08 EST <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 39.983 -75.5879 Community Volunteers in Medicine, a non-profit primary care. 39.983 -75.5879 Logan, Franklin, Library http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1150.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-28:%2Flogan_franklin_library.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:59:07 EST <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 39.9478 -75.1631 The Library Company of Philadelphia 39.9478 -75.1631 Private Sector Disciplines Congress http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2146.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-06-21:%2Ffinancially_disciplining_congress.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:59:05 EST <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. Wagner Free Institute of Science http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1588.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-04:%2Fwagner_free_institute.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:58:42 EST <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 39.9806 -75.1621 Wagner Free Institute of Science 39.9806 -75.1621 Albert Gallatin: Enigma Furioso http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1329.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-02:%2Falbert_gallatin_enigma_furioso.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:58:19 EST <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 46.2038 6.13996 Birthplace of Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) 46.2038 6.13996 Principles of the Command of War http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1713.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-24:%2Fprinciples_of_the_command.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:58:19 EST <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 41.3912 -73.9585 United States Military Academy at West Point 41.3912 -73.9585 Curtis: Textbook Case for Business School http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/803.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fcurtis_textbook_case_for.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:57:49 EST <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 39.9473 -75.1506 The Curtis Publishing Company 39.9473 -75.1506 The Philadelphia Media http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/117.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-03:%2Fthe_philadelphia_media.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:52:41 EST 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> Germantown Avenue, One End to the Other http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1358.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-02:%2Fgermantown_avenue_one_end.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:52:35 EST <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> Subtleties of the Constitution http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1689.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-06:%2Fsubtleties_of_the_constitution.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:46:29 EST 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> Frank Furness (1):PAFA http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1826.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-08:%2Ffrank_furness_1pafa.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:46:04 EST <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 39.9552 -75.1634 Pennsylvania Academy-Fine Arts 39.9552 -75.1634 Cataracts http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1697.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-15:%2Fcataracts_.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:45:09 EST <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 39.9479 -75.1555 Willis Eye Hospital 39.9479 -75.1555 The Inky http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1300.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-19:%2Fthe_inky.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:44:17 EST <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 39.9598 -75.1623 Philaelphia Inquirer 39.9598 -75.1623 Dr. Cadwalader's Hat http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/778.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fdr_cadwalader_s_hat.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:43:31 EST <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 39.9449 -75.1558 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9449 -75.1558 Re-Doing Dilworth Plaza http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1755.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-18:%2Fredoing_dilworth_plaza.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:43:13 EST <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 39.9533 -75.1647 Dilworth Plaza 39.9533 -75.1647 Killer Instinct http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1966.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-16:%2Fkiller_instinct.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:43:06 EST 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> Litchfield to Wilkes Barre, Today http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/147.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-02:%2Flitchfield_to_wilkes_barre.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:42:44 EST 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> New Jersey: A Keg Tapped at Both Ends (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1299.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-19:%2Fa_keg_tapped_at.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:42:39 EST <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> Powel House, Huzzah! http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2037.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-06:%2Fpowel_house_huzzah.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:42:27 EST <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 39.9458 -75.1467 The Powel House 39.9458 -75.1467 Corinthian Epistle http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1078.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzcorinthian_epistle.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:42:21 EST <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 39.8611 -75.3049 The Corinthian Yacht Club 39.8611 -75.3049 William Penn, Robert Barclay and the Ranters http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1702.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-23:%2Fwilliam_penn_robert_barclay.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:42:20 EST <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 51.6096 -0.594051 Jordans Quaker Meeting House 51.6096 -0.594051 Philadelphia Mafia: The First Fifty Years http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1178.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-17:%2Fphiladelphia_mafia_the_frist.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:41:58 EST <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> Mensa http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1695.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-14:%2Fmensa_.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:52:02 EST <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 32.7702 -97.0673 American Mensa, Ltd. 32.7702 -97.0673 The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1084.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzzthe_girl_in_the.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:51:47 EST <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 39.9476 -75.1698 Former Thaw Residence 39.9476 -75.1698 Acorn Club of Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1507.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-08-03:%2Facorn_club_of_philadelphia.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:51:29 EST <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 39.9484 -75.1671 The Acorn Club of Philadelphia 39.9484 -75.1671 L. Stokowsi and the Philadelphia Orchestra http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1824.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-05:%2Fl_stokowsi_and_the.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:51:29 EST <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 39.9482 -75.1659 The Academy of Music 39.9482 -75.1659 Custom Tour of Private Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/28.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fcustom_tour_of_private.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:51:28 EST Philadelphia Hospitality, a non-profit group, puts together the following tour for visiting bigwigs. A good guide to what's best around here. HTML Anchor without an HREF? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1429.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-04:%2Fhtml_anchor_without_an.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:51:22 EST How to execute a JavaScript function and nothing else. Reviving Schuylkill: Eight Miles From the Dam to Ft. Mifflin http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2094.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-04:%2Freviving_the_schuylkill_from.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:51:15 EST <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> New Jersey Ponders a Rising Sea Level http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1516.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-09-16:%2Fnew_jersey_ponders_a.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:51:05 EST <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> Wyoming, Fair Wyoming Valley http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1107.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-16:%2Fwyoming_fair_wyoming_valley.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:50:42 EST <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1055.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzsugarloaf_.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:50:22 EST <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1996.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-02:%2Fnewburgh_ny_washington_slept.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:50:17 EST <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 41.5105 -74.0195 Newburgh NY 41.5105 -74.0195 An Under-used Veterans Benefit http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1601.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-20:%2Fan_underused_veterans_benefit.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:50:14 EST <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 39.9498 -75.2016 Philadelphia VA Medical Center 39.9498 -75.2016 Sidney George Fisher's Mount Harmon http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2142.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-05-24:%2Fsidney_george_fishers_mount.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:49:47 EST <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 39.387 -75.9383 Mount Harmon Plantation 39.387 -75.9383 Franklin Crown Soap http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/530.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ffranklin_crown.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:49:15 EST <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 42.3576 -71.0544 Franklin Soap and Home 42.3576 -71.0544 Send a KML file from disk using PHP http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1328.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-01:%2Fsend_a_kml_file.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:49:04 EST Preprocessing a kml or kmz disk file improves the user experience Trenton's Tomato Pie Cult http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1462.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-31:%2Ftrentons_tomato_pie_cult.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:48:45 EST <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 40.2111 -74.7497 De Lorenzo's Tomato Pies(609)695-9534 40.2111 -74.7497 Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount, Order of the Garter http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1572.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-27:%2Ffield_marshal_william_joseph.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:01:14 EST <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 21.8782 95.9658 Myanmar (Burma) 21.8782 95.9658 Cushman Club for Lonesome Actresses http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1790.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-19:%2Fcushman_club_becomes_cushman.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:01:07 EST <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 39.9472 -75.1544 Morris House Hotel 39.9472 -75.1544 Philadelphia's Republican Machine http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/624.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphila_republican_machine.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:00:31 EST <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 39.9525 -75.1936 Unit for Experimental Psychiatry 39.9525 -75.1936 Why Bother Investing? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/169.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-21:%2Fwhy_bother_investing.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:00:31 EST 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> Molly Maguires of Pennsylvania (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1710.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-18:%2Fmolly_maguires_of_pennsylvania.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:00:25 EST <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 40.6886 -76.1992 Schuylkill County Courthouse 40.6886 -76.1992 Benjamin Franklin Parkway (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/902.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzbenjamin_franklin_parkway_2.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:00:16 EST <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 39.9579 -75.1706 Swann Memorial Fountain 39.9579 -75.1706 The Main Line http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/82.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-10:%2Fphiladelphia_s_west_country.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:00:03 EST 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> Medical Club of Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/125.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-18:%2Fmedical_club_of_philadelphia.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:59:58 EST 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. City of Homes http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/140.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-06:%2Fcity_of_homes.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:59:55 EST 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> WRTI, Classical Music and Jazz http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1521.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-03:%2Fwrti_classical_music_and.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:59:53 EST <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 39.9792 -75.1599 WRTI RADIO 39.9792 -75.1599 Sights to See: The Outer Ring http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/53.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-01:%2Fsights_to_see_the.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:59:49 EST There are many interesting places to visit in the exurban ring beyond Philadelphia, linked to the city by history rather than commerce. Herbert Hoover, Mining Engineer http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1258.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-20:%2Fherbert_hoover_mining_engineer.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:59:48 EST <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 40.7564 -73.9739 The Waldorf Astoria Hotel 40.7564 -73.9739 Philadelphia Food: Traditional http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/614.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphila_food_traditional.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:59:44 EST <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 39.9539 -75.1734 The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 39.9539 -75.1734 Arch Street: from Sixth to Second http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/85.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-04:%2Fsixth_and_arch_to.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:59:32 EST <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> Government Organization http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/102.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-23:%2Fgovernment_organization.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:59:30 EST 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> Authors, Writers, Poets, Reporters and Publishers in Laurel Hill Cemetery http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1401.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-21:%2Fauthors_writers_poets_reporters.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:59:11 EST 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 40.0042 -75.1876 Laurel Hill Cemetery 40.0042 -75.1876 Helis the Whale http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/753.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fhelis_the_whale.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:58:46 EST <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 48.4772 -68.9733 St. Lawrence River Seaway 48.4772 -68.9733 Laundered Money http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1043.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzlaundered_money.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:58:44 EST <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 39.9534 -75.1476 Philadelphian U.S. Mint 39.9534 -75.1476 House that Love Built: Ronald McDonald of Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1154.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-11-03:%2Fhouse_that_love_built.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:58:34 EST <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 39.9553 -75.2002 Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House 39.9553 -75.2002 Delaware (State of) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/14.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fdelaware_state_of_topic.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:58:31 EST <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. Right Angle Club 2012 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/175.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-10-27:%2Fright_angle_club_2012.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:58:12 EST In progress. Two Hotheads May Have Destroyed an Empire http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1152.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-11-01:%2Ftwo_loudmouths_destroy_an.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:57:59 EST <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> The Swedenborgian Church http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/916.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_swedenborgian_church.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:57:53 EST <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 39.9458 -75.702 The Swedenborgian Church 39.9458 -75.702 Original Intent and the Miranda Decision http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1817.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-17:%2Foriginal_intent_and_the.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:57:49 EST <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> Signers and Non-Signers of the Constitution http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1561.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-06:%2Fsigners_and_nonsigners_of.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:57:42 EST <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Scene_at_the_Signing_of_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States.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 39.9489 -75.15 Independence Hall 39.9489 -75.15 Clinton Health Plan of 1993 - Part Two http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/95.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-10:%2Ffrogs_like_flies.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:57:21 EST <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> Alexander Hamilton, Celebrity http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1133.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-09-01:%2Falexander_hamilton_celebrity.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:57:14 EST <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 39.9489 -75.146 Alexander Hamilton's Phila home 39.9489 -75.146 Thinking About Thought http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/172.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-12:%2Fthinking_about_thought.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:57:00 EST There's a yawning gap between concepts of the mind, and concepts of brain function. Local Elections (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1065.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzlocal_elections_2.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:56:50 EST <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> Secret Places http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1052.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzsecret_places.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:56:49 EST <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 39.8728 -75.6789 Longwood Gardens Kennett Square PA 39.8728 -75.6789 Circular Letter: Boston Committee of Correspondance, May 1774 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2041.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-15:%2Fcircular_letter_boston_committee.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:56:49 EST <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 42.3636 -71.0537 Boston MA, 02113 42.3636 -71.0537 Gettysburg http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1436.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-29:%2Fgettysburg_.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:56:47 EST <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 39.7268 -77.2106 Gettysburg National Military Parkphone: (717) 334-1124 39.7268 -77.2106 George Washington Demands a New Constitution http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1538.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-11:%2Fgeorge_washington_demands_a.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:56:47 EST <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 39.949 -75.1504 Congress Hall 39.949 -75.1504 Report Identity Theft to the Secret Service http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1359.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-05:%2Fsecret_service_gets_a.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:56:11 EST <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> In Memoriam http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/124.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-09:%2Fin_memoriam.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:55:52 EST .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" 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 Finance http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/71.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-26:%2Fpersonal_finance.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:55:51 EST 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> Sullivan's March http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/653.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fsullivans_march.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:55:50 EST <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> Republican Convention in the Wigwam (1860) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1027.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzrepublican_convention_in_the.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:55:43 EST <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> What Obamacare Should Say But Doesn't http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1730.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-20:%2Fwhat_obamacare_should_say.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:55:36 EST 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> Philadelphia Politics http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/20.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fphila_politics_topic.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:55:24 EST 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. The Heirs of William Penn http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1139.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-05:%2Fthe_heirs_of_william.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:55:11 EST <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 39.7242 -75.7678 DE, PA, MD Circular border 39.7242 -75.7678 Starving the Beast of Early Retirement http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/829.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fstarving_the_beast.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:55:08 EST <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> Ball Lightning, Regular Lightning, and B. Franklin http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2095.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-08:%2Fball_lightning_regular_lightning.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:54:54 EST <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 39.9499 -75.1571 Franklin and the Kite 39.9499 -75.1571 Larger Clubs http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/565.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Flarger_clubs.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:54:50 EST <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 39.95 -75.1645 Union League of Phialdelphia 39.95 -75.1645 The Swamps of Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1061.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_swamps_of_philadelphia.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:54:43 EST <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 39.8753 -75.213 Fort Miffin 39.8753 -75.213 Delaware's Court of Chancery http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/459.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fdelaware_court_chancery.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:54:11 EST <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 39.741 -75.5501 New Castle County Courthouse 39.741 -75.5501 Quaker Efficiency Expert: Frederick Winslow Taylor 1856-1915 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1296.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-10:%2Fquaker_efficiency_expert_frederick.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:54:10 EST <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 40.0435 -75.182 Germantown Avenue PA 40.0435 -75.182 The Park and Beyond: East Falls, Germantown, Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/11.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fthe_park_beyond_topic.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:54:06 EST 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/903.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fza_toast_to_silas.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:53:59 EST <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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 Puritan Boston & Quaker Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1759.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-29:%2Fpuritan_boston_quaker_philadelphia.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:53:59 EST <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 39.9546 -75.1948 The University of Pennsylvania Sociology 39.9546 -75.1948 Monetary Causes of the American Revolutionary War http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1063.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzmonetary_causes_of_the.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:53:51 EST <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 39.9482 -75.1472 Carpenter Hall 39.9482 -75.1472 What Good Did Medicare Do? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1183.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-28:%2Fwhat_good_did_medicare.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:53:43 EST <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> Fanny Kemble Takes the Train South, in 1838 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/934.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzfanny_kemble_takes_the.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:53:41 EST <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 31.1551 -81.4085 St. Simon Island 31.1551 -81.4085 Robert Morris: The Dark Side http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/168.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-17:%2Frobert_morris_the_dark.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:53:31 EST 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> Mummer's Strut http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/586.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fmummers_strut.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:53:27 EST <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 39.9336 -75.1475 The Mummer Museum 39.9336 -75.1475 Customs, Culture and Traditions http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/54.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-01:%2Fcustoms_culture_and_traditions.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:53:19 EST Abundant seafood made it easy to settle here. Agriculture takes longer. Customs, Culture and Traditions (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/132.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-03:%2Fcustoms_culture_and_traditions.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:53:19 EST . Particular Sights to See:Center City http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/44.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-17:%2Fcenter_city.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:53:16 EST 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 39.9523 -75.1638 Philadelphia City Hall 39.9523 -75.1638 Day One: Camden to Cape May http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1223.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-04:%2Fday_one_camden_to.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:53:03 EST <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 38.9345 -74.9594 Cape May 38.9345 -74.9594 Franklin on British American Relationships http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1680.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-25:%2Ffranklin_on_british_american.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:52:51 EST <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> Delaware Declares Independence ... From Pennsylvania http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/992.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzdelaware_declares_independence_from.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:52:50 EST <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 39.1602 -75.5239 Delaware Tourism Office 39.1602 -75.5239 Sixth and Walnut to Broad and Samson http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1222.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-02:%2Fsixth_and_chestnut_to.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:52:50 EST <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> Pipe Organs, and Similar http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1793.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-28:%2Fpipe_organs_and_similar.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:52:43 EST <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 39.9466 -75.1653 Kimmel Center 39.9466 -75.1653 British Headquarters: Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in its 1776 Heyday http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/608.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fperth_amboy_heyday.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:52:16 EST <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 40.5035 -74.2692 Proprietary House 40.5035 -74.2692 Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1038.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzfairmount_park_historic_preservation.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:52:15 EST <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 40.0214 -75.2022 Fairmount Park 40.0214 -75.2022 Poor Richard's Wealth http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2200.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-01-20:%2Fpoor_richards_wealth.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:52:12 EST <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? Priceless Art as Mass Entertainment http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/983.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzpriceless_art_as_mass.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:52:05 EST <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> Blood and Honor: The Philadelphia Mafia, Lately http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1726.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-16:%2Fblood_and_honor_the.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:52:02 EST <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 39.9389 -75.1578 9th Christian Street 39.9389 -75.1578 Funding the National Debt http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2189.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-11-02:%2Ffunding_the_national_debt.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:52:02 EST <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> Cecilia Beaux, Portraitist of the Grand Manner http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/958.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzcecilia_beaux_portraitist_of.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:51:58 EST <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 39.955 -75.1634 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 39.955 -75.1634 Benjamin Franklin Parkway (1) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/493.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fben_franklin_pkwy_1.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:51:56 EST <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 39.9642 -75.1791 Philadelphia Museum of Art Fountain 39.9642 -75.1791 Morris at the Constitutional Convention http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2190.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-11-03:%2Fmorris_at_the_constitutional.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:51:30 EST The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was not nearly as democratic as the document it produced. Sporting Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/5.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fsporting_phila_topic.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:51:21 EST A few reflections about sports in and around Philadelphia. Camden NJ: The Third, or Irish, Tenth http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1724.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-14:%2Fcamden_the_third_or.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:50:59 EST <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> Philadelphia Medicine (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/127.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-21:%2Fphiladelphia_medicine_2.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:50:53 EST Philadelphia is where medicine began in America Clinton Health Plan of 1993 - Part One http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/92.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-08:%2Fthe_clinton_health_plan.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:50:48 EST <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> Academia, Medical Version http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/108.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-25:%2Facademia_medical_version.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:50:44 EST 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. Foot of Arch Street http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1796.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-02:%2Ffoot_of_arch_street.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:50:35 EST <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 39.9517 -75.1417 Foot of Arch St. 39.9517 -75.1417 Python URL Handling http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2199.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-01-16:%2Fpython_url_handling.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:38:48 EST An example of URL handling using Python 3.2.2 installed on Windows 7 Reforming Health Reform (2009), New Jersey Style http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1714.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-25:%2Freforming_health_reform.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:03:13 EST <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 39.7106 -75.1203 Rowan University 39.7106 -75.1203 Shakspere Society, January 23, 2008 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1366.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-25:%2Fshakspere_society_january_23.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:02:52 EST <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 52.6343 -1.13623 King Leir of Britain 52.6343 -1.13623 Tour of Duty in 'Nam http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1717.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-28:%2Ftour_of_duty_in.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:02:14 EST <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 11.6026 106.498 Ho Chin Minh Trail 11.6026 106.498 Financing a Research University http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/470.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ffinancing_research_univ.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:02:08 EST <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 40.3487 -74.6594 Nassu Hall 40.3487 -74.6594 Thieves of Baghdad http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1795.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-01:%2Fthieves_of_baghdad.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:02:08 EST <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 33.3283 44.3854 National Museumof Iraq 33.3283 44.3854 Fixing the Financial Mess http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1674.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-23:%2Ffixing_the_financial_mess.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:02:05 EST <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> SHAKSPERE SOCIETY March 19, 2003 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1378.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-31:%2Fshakspere_society_march_19.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:01:55 EST <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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 War Dance http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/732.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fwar_dance.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:01:10 EST <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> SHAKSPERE SOCIETY January 8, 2003 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1375.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-31:%2Fshakspere_society_january_8.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:01:03 EST <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>. Segmented Health Insurance http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1287.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-08:%2Fsegmented_health_insurance.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:00:54 EST <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> Shakspere Society, January 9, 2008 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1365.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-25:%2Fshakespere_january_9_2008.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:00:54 EST <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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 The Rise and Fall of Life Insurance http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/974.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzrise_and_fall_of.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:00:53 EST <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> Franklin's Admirers on TV http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1471.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-14:%2Ffranklins_admirers_on_tv.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:00:47 EST <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 39.9559 -75.1677 Friends Select School 39.9559 -75.1677 Whatever Was George III Thinking? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1157.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-07:%2Fwhatever_was_george_iii.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:00:28 EST <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> OUR NICE HOUSING BOOM COLLAPSES http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1331.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-09:%2Four_nice_housing_boom.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:00:22 EST <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/635.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Frise_fall_insurance.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:00:12 EST <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1351.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-20:%2Fgloomy_future_for_banks.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:59:51 EST <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 39.9503 -75.1486 Federal Reserve Bank 39.9503 -75.1486 Fees for Trial Lawyers, Section 1983 Variety http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/473.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ffees_lawyers.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:59:43 EST <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> xxSHAKeSPEaRE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ,12/10/ 2003 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1415.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-06:%2Fxxshakespeare_society_of_philadelphia.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:59:26 EST xxxxMEETING OF THE SHAKSPERE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA AT THE FRANKLIN INN CLUB, 12/10/ 2003 39.9486 -75.1614 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 Directly Reforming Malpractice Insurance Is a Blind Alley http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/810.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fdirectly_reforming_malpractice_insurance.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:59:09 EST 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> Malpractice: Reported Medical Errors http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/813.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fmalpractice_reported_medical_errors.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:58:40 EST 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> FLY ON THE WAL http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1575.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-08:%2Ffly_on_the_wal.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:58:31 EST <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> Bonds are Up: Is That a Good Thing? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1352.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-21:%2Fbonds_are_up_is.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:58:27 EST <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 39.9505 -75.1489 Federal Reserve Bank 39.9505 -75.1489 Secret Service Visits Burlington Bristol Bridge http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2008.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-20:%2Fsecret_service_visits_burlington.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:58:22 EST <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 40.1444 -74.8695 Burlington Bristol Bridge 40.1444 -74.8695 William Penn Conducts a Witchcraft Trial http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/701.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fwilliam_penn_witchcraft.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:58:11 EST <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> SHAKSPERE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA NOVEMBER 19, 2003 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1414.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-06:%2Fhakspere_society_of_philadelphia.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:57:01 EST <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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 Malpractice Epidemic? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/808.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fmalpractice_epidemic.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:56:56 EST 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> Financial Planning for a Long Retirement http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/103.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-28:%2Ffinancial_planning.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:43:33 EST <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> The Whole Town as a Retirement Center http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1701.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-20:%2Fthe_whole_town_as.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:26:38 EST 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> Lithuanian Law http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1738.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-10-16:%2Flithuanian_law.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:39:26 EST <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 54.6832 25.286 University of Vilnius 54.6832 25.286 The Schools of School House Lane http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1059.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_schools_of_school.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:39:13 EST <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 40.0321 -75.1744 The Pennsylvania School for the Deaf 40.0321 -75.1744 TARP Demands But Does Not Create a New Standard of Fair Value http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1519.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-09-29:%2Ftarp_forces_a_new.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:38:47 EST <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 40.7074 -74.0112 New York Stock Exchange 40.7074 -74.0112 Reservoir on Reservoir Drive http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1812.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-07:%2Freservoir_on_reservoir_road.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:38:47 EST <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 39.9825 -75.1919 Reservoir Drive 39.9825 -75.1919 Delaware County, Pennsylvania http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/149.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-15:%2Fdelaware_county_pennsylvania.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:38:02 EST .<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> A Change of Era http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2179.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-10-05:%2Fa_change_of_era.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:37:51 EST <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. The British Attack Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/35.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-03:%2Fthe_british_attack_philadelphia.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:37:33 EST 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. Philadelphia Gardens http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/609.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphiladelphia_gardens.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:37:22 EST <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> Fanny Kemble http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/47.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-21:%2Ffanny_kemble.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:37:12 EST 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. James Buchanan: The President from Lancaster http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2093.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-02-27:%2Fjames_buchanan_the_president.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:37:03 EST <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> Meschianza http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1039.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzmeschianza_.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:36:44 EST <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 39.9322 -75.153 Joseph Wharton House 39.9322 -75.153 How Does New Jersey State Aid Affect School Districts? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1800.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-14:%2Fdoes_state_aid_help.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:36:40 EST <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 40.2206 -74.7701 State House of NJ 40.2206 -74.7701 Whither, Federal Reserve? (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/122.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-31:%2Fwhither_federal_reserve_2.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:36:00 EST 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> Embed Flash as Valid XHTML http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1566.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-10:%2Fembed_flash_and_validate.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:35:48 EST The embed tag doesn't validate with XHTML. Here's what to do. The Constitution http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/59.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Fthe_constitution.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:35:47 EST The Constitution was not just a paper written at a convention. It was a choice between uncertain alternatives, and new difficulties soon were revealed by making those choices. Its reliance on compromise displays the powerful influence of 18th Century Quaker 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> Wilkes-Barre, Site of the Wyoming Massacre http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1992.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-11:%2Fwilkesbarre_site_of_the.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:35:21 EST <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 41.3054 -75.8448 Wyoming Monument 41.3054 -75.8448 Bristol, PA http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/901.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzbristol_pa_2.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:35:07 EST <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 40.1231 -74.8681 Bristol Township 40.1231 -74.8681 Curtis http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/48.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-22:%2Fcurtis_.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:35:06 EST 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. Computerizing Medical Care http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1277.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-29:%2Fcomputerizing_medical_care.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:34:48 EST <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 38.9069 -77.0412 National Business Coalition for Health 38.9069 -77.0412 Tom Paine: Rabble-Rousing Quaker? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/692.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ftom_paine_rabble.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:34:40 EST <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> Rise and Fall of Books http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1470.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-13:%2Frise_and_fall_of.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:34:37 EST <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 39.9478 -75.1631 The Library Company of Philadelphia 39.9478 -75.1631 Parliament Provokes a Revolution http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1141.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-09:%2Fparliament_provokes_a_revolution.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:34:30 EST <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> Brewerytown http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/714.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-17:%2Fbrewerytown_.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:34:23 EST <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 39.9773 -75.1813 Brewerytown PA. 39.9773 -75.1813 Indigents http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/75.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-08:%2Findigents_.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:34:17 EST 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> Military School http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/746.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fmilitary_school.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:33:57 EST <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 40.0537 -75.382 Valley Forge Military Academy 40.0537 -75.382 Commercial Academic Think Tank http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1360.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-09:%2Fcommercial_think_tank.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:33:37 EST <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 39.9533 -75.1982 The Wharton School 39.9533 -75.1982 Land Tour Around Delaware Bay http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/79.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-04:%2Fland_tour_around_delaware.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:33:25 EST <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 40.39 -75.34 View Above Philadelphia 40.39 -75.34 Robert Adams, Jr. http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1435.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-25:%2Frobert_adams_jr.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:33:03 EST <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 39.9488 -75.1937 Philadelphia General Hospital 39.9488 -75.1937 Black Swans (Financial Variety) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2143.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-05-26:%2Fblack_swans_financial_variety.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:32:54 EST <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> Laurel Hill http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1131.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-28:%2Flaurel_hills.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:32:10 EST <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 40.0041 -75.1876 Laurel Hill Cemetery 40.0041 -75.1876 Green Roof at Peco http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2009.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-22:%2Fgreen_roof_at_peco.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:32:00 EST <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 39.9545 -75.1848 Peco 39.9545 -75.1848 Finances of the Girard Estate http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/755.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Ffinances_of_the_girard.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:30:57 EST <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 39.9741 -75.1701 Girard College 39.9741 -75.1701 Loaves and Fishes http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1064.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzloaves_and_fishes.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:30:54 EST <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 39.9027 -75.157 Philabundance 39.9027 -75.157 Central Pennsylvania http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/174.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-03:%2Fcentral_pennsylvania.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:30:54 EST "Alabama in-between," snickered James Carville, "Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Alabama in-between." International Visitors Council http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1068.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzinternational_visitors.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:30:40 EST <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 39.955 -75.1658 nternational Vistors Council 39.955 -75.1658 Books http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1681.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-26:%2Fbooks_.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:30:31 EST <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 39.9594 -75.1711 Free Library of Philadelphia 39.9594 -75.1711 Philadelphia Women http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/138.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-01-27:%2Fphiladelphia_women.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:30:11 EST .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/120.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-10:%2Fright_angle_club_2008.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:29:59 EST 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> Houses of the Penn Family http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1144.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-17:%2Fhouses_of_the_penn.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:29:53 EST <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 51.6096 -0.594009 Jordans Meeting House 51.6096 -0.594009 Line Dividing East from West Jersey http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1511.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-08-20:%2Fthe_line_between_east.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:28:50 EST <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> Durance Vile http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1424.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-27:%2Fdurance_vile.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:27:40 EST 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 40.967 -4.13438 Alcazar De Segovia 40.967 -4.13438 Unalienable Rights Before 1776 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1801.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-16:%2Fbackground_of_unalienable_rights.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:26:25 EST <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> Police Athletic League http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/770.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fpolice_athletic_league.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:26:06 EST <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 39.985 -75.1071 Police Athletic League of Philadelphia 39.985 -75.1071 Funny Toes: A Physician Viewpoint http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1506.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-08-03:%2Ffunny_toes_a_physician.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:25:48 EST <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 39.9453 -75.1556 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9453 -75.1556 The Proprietorship of West Jersey http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/50.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-28:%2Fthe_proprietorship_of_west.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:25:44 EST The southern half of New Jersey was William Penn's first venture in real estate. It undoubtedly gave him bigger ideas. Volunteerism http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/74.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-05:%2Fvolunteerism_.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:25:43 EST 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> Bergdoll the Rich Draft Dodger http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1813.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-09:%2Fbergdoll_the_rich_draft.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:25:20 EST <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 39.9655 -75.1744 Bergdoll Mansion 39.9655 -75.1744 Geo Positioning http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1301.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-22:%2Fgeo_position_test_blog.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:25:02 EST 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 42.3579 -71.0573 Fidelity Investments headquarters 42.3579 -71.0573 Pacifist Pennsylvania, Invaded Many Times http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/106.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-29:%2Fpacifist_pennsylvania_invaded_many.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:24:59 EST 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> Benjamin Franklin, Prophet http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1720.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-09:%2Fbenjamin_franklin_prophet.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:24:22 EST <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 39.9495 -75.1466 Franklin Court 39.9495 -75.1466 Pictures in the Library http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/156.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-01:%2Fpictures_in_the_library.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:23:34 EST 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> Socratic Teaching http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2152.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-12:%2Fsocratic_teaching.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:23:06 EST <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> Great Bend: Joseph Smith Translates the Golden Plates http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1990.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-09:%2Fgreat_bend_joseph_smith.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:22:46 EST <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 41.9562 -75.7051 Great Bend PA 41.9562 -75.7051 Pennsylvania Prison Society http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1263.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-29:%2Fpennsylvania_prison_society.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:22:36 EST <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 39.9684 -75.1726 Eastern State Penitentiary 39.9684 -75.1726 Personal Passions http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/144.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-04:%2Fpersonal_passions.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:22:22 EST My own personal short list; eight decades in retrospect. Lumpers In Constant Combat With Splitters http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1810.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-03:%2Flumpers_do_constant_combat.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:21:50 EST <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 39.9581 -75.1724 The Franklin Institute 39.9581 -75.1724 RR Monopoly Self-Destructs http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1831.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-17:%2Fmonopoly_selfdestructs.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:21:45 EST <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 39.9535 -75.1594 Reading Terminal Market 39.9535 -75.1594 Philadelphia's Middle Urban Ring http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/52.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-01:%2Fphiladelphia_s_middle_urban.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:21:44 EST 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. Pennyslvania's Boundary: David Rittenhouse, Hero, Lord Baltimore, Villain http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1080.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzpennyslvanias_boundary_david_rittenhouse.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:21:36 EST <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 40.0295 -75.1897 David Rittenhouse Birth Place 40.0295 -75.1897 BEA Monitors the Economy http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1153.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-11-02:%2Fbea_monitors_the_economy.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:21:28 EST <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 39.9547 -75.1961 The Global Interdependence Center 39.9547 -75.1961 Six Ways to Fix Social Security http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1173.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-01-24:%2Fsix_ways_to_fix.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:21:23 EST <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> Setting National Interest Rates http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/826.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fsetting_national_interest_rates.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:21:20 EST <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 39.9503 -75.1485 The Federal Reserve Bank Of Philadelphia 39.9503 -75.1485 Robert Morris Has a Mid-Life Crisis http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2174.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-09-08:%2Frobert_morris_has_a.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:21:12 EST <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> Billy Penn's Hat http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1098.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzbilly_penns_hat.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:21:06 EST <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 39.9528 -75.1635 Top of City Hall 39.9528 -75.1635 National Debt, National Blessing http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1355.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-26:%2Fnational_debt_national_blessing.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:20:56 EST <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 39.9481 -75.1464 The First Bank of the United States 39.9481 -75.1464 The Scotch-Irish In the Revolution http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1149.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-24:%2Fthe_scotchirish_in_the.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:20:53 EST <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 40.3466 -74.6589 Princeton University 40.3466 -74.6589 The No-Doctrine Doctrine http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/796.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fthe_no_doctrine_doctrine.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:26:43 EST <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> Benjamin Franklin http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/6.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fben_franklin_topic.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:26:36 EST A collection of Benjamin Franklin tidbits that relate Philadelphia's revolutionary prelate to his moving around the city, the colonies, and the world. Unwritten Constitution http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1345.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-11:%2Funwritten_constitution.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:26:30 EST <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> Making the Whole Town into a CCRC http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2196.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-12-27:%2Fmaking_the_whole_town.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:26:29 EST <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. Revolutionary Philadelphia's Loyalists http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/68.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-31:%2Frevolutionary_philadelphia_loyalists.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:26:29 EST 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> CEO of the World http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/849.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fceo_of_the_world.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:26:28 EST <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 38.8938 -77.0488 U.S. Department of State 38.8938 -77.0488 Philadelphia's Big Ben http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1563.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-07:%2Fphiladelphias_big_ben.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:26:27 EST 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> Africa Comes to the Schuylkill http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1261.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-26:%2Fafrica_comes_to_the.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:26:26 EST <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 39.9822 -76.1659 Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania 39.9822 -76.1659 Another Toast to S. Weir Mitchell http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1576.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-12:%2Fanother_toast_to_s.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:26:26 EST <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> Jury Nullification http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1060.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzjury_nullification.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:26:24 EST <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 39.9535 -75.1617 Criminal Court 39.9535 -75.1617 Sanctuaria Mariposa http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1009.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzsanctuaria_mariposa.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:26:21 EST <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 26.9835 -104.183 Mariposa 26.9835 -104.183 Nobel Prizes http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/90.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-11:%2Fnobel_prizes.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:26:20 EST 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> Trial Bar Cavalry Charge http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1464.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-02:%2Ftrial_bar_cavalry_charge.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:26:17 EST <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> Children Playing With Matches http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2185.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-10-31:%2Fchildren_playing_with_matches.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:26:17 EST <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. Selling Entire Towns http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1819.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-24:%2Fselling_entire_towns.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:26:07 EST <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 40.0121 -75.2982 Arcadia Land Company 40.0121 -75.2982 Gardens for Posterity http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1077.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzgardens_for_posterity.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:25:35 EST <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 39.9318 -75.216 Bartram's Garden 39.9318 -75.216 Tourist Trips Around Philadelphia and the Quaker Colonies http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/80.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-06:%2Ftourist_trips_around_philadelphia.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:51:10 EST 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> The Battle of Germantown: Oct. 3, 1777 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/656.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fbattle_of_germantown.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:44:36 EST <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 40.0432 -75.1817 battle of Germantown 40.0432 -75.1817 Benjamin Franklin: Chronology http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1135.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-09-03:%2Fbenjamin_franklin_chronology.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:46:49 EST <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 39.9496 -75.1466 Benjamin Franklin Museum 39.9496 -75.1466 Legal Philadelphia (1) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/131.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-03:%2Flegal_philadelphia_2.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:30:31 EST .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Le http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/135.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-10-16:%2Flegal_philadelphia_2.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:30:31 EST .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Doing Well, Doing Good. http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1313.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-28:%2Fdoing_well_doing_good.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:29:23 EST <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 42.0458 -87.6824 Rotary International World Headquarters 42.0458 -87.6824 Philadelphia Food: Ingredients http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/613.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphila_food_ingredients.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:28:54 EST <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> Inverted Yield Curve: The Depositors' Viewpoint http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1390.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-12:%2Finverted_yield_curve_the.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:27:54 EST <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> Rittenhouse Square Area http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1086.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzv_.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:27:42 EST <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 39.9495 -75.1719 Rittenhouse Square 39.9495 -75.1719 Highway Beautification http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/926.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzhighway_beautification.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:27:32 EST <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 39.9205 -75.211 Philadelphia Junk Yards 39.9205 -75.211 Saving the United States http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1666.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-15:%2Fsaving_the_united_states.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:27:14 EST <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 39.919 -75.1377 SS United States 39.919 -75.1377 Urban Transportation http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1780.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-05:%2Furban_transportation.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:27:11 EST <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> Federalism Slowly Conquers the States http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/129.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-18:%2Ffederalism_slowly_conquers_the.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:26:55 EST 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> Perth Amboy Revisited http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1239.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-02:%2Fperth_amboy_revisited.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:26:20 EST <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 40.5083 -74.2699 PERTH AMBOY NJ 40.5083 -74.2699 Battle of the Clouds: September, Remember http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/933.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzbattle_of_the_clouds.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:26:19 EST <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 39.9923 -75.5483 Battle of The Clouds 39.9923 -75.5483 The Coming Baby Boomer Retirement Problem http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1159.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-19:%2Fthe_coming_baby_boomer.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:26:17 EST <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 40.22 -74.7779 Trenton Makes the World Takes 40.22 -74.7779 Education in Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/141.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-13:%2Feducation_in_philadelphia.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:25:59 EST 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> Eleventh Amendment http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1667.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-16:%2Feleventh_amendment.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:25:54 EST 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> America's New Theater Capital http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1988.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-06:%2Famericas_new_theater_capital.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:25:53 EST <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 39.9475 -75.1649 The Merriam Theater 39.9475 -75.1649 Hidden River http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1522.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-05:%2Fhidden_river.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:25:45 EST 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 39.9519 -75.181 The Dock at 24th And Walnut Street 39.9519 -75.181 Separation of Church and State http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1756.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-21:%2Fseparation_of_church_and.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:25:23 EST <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 39.9491 -75.1508 Congress Hall 39.9491 -75.1508 Quakers: All Alike, All Different http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/49.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-25:%2Fquakers_all_alike_all.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:24:51 EST Quaker doctrines emerge from the stories they tell about each other. Chester County, Pennsylvania http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1931.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-08:%2Fchester_county_pennsylvania.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:24:21 EST <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> Whither, WHYY http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1175.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-09:%2Fwhither_whyy.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:23:57 EST <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 39.9542 -75.1496 WHYY Studio 39.9542 -75.1496 Controlling the Currency http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/170.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-06-21:%2Fcontrolling_the_currency.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:23:51 EST 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> Poor Richard Plays Hardball http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/626.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fpoor_richard_plays.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:23:21 EST <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> Pennsylvania: Browbeaten Into Joining a War http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2113.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-25:%2Fpiracy_or_privateering.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:23:17 EST <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> Downtown http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/3.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fdowntown_topic.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:22:53 EST A discussion about downtown area in Philadelphia and connections from today with its historical past. The Founding of The Franklin Inn Club http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1361.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-10:%2Fthe_founding_of_the.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:22:44 EST 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 39.9485 -75.1615 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9485 -75.1615 Henry George, Single Tax http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1048.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzhenry_george_single_tax.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:22:37 EST <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 39.9443 -75.1586 Birthplace of Henry George 39.9443 -75.1586 Heron Rookery on the Delaware http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1788.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-18:%2Fheron_rookery_on_the.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:22:21 EST <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 40.0342 -74.9821 Amico Island Park 40.0342 -74.9821 Toast To Benjamin Franklin http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1364.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-23:%2Ftoast_to_benjamin_franklin.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:21:38 EST <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 39.9484 -75.1615 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9484 -75.1615 Slavery: If This be done well, What is done evil? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1036.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzif_this_is_done.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:21:36 EST <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 39.9979 -74.7781 John Woolman House 39.9979 -74.7781 School Tax Seldom Equates to School Spending http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1805.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-20:%2Fschool_tax_is_not.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:21:30 EST <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 39.8946 -75.0341 Central Elementary School 39.8946 -75.0341 Taxes as a Form of Consumption http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2129.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-25:%2Ftaxes_as_a_form.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:21:08 EST <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? German Immigrants via New York http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/155.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-07:%2Fgerman_pilgrims_17th_century.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:20:37 EST <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> Appendix C, Honored Guests http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1619.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-14:%2Fappendix_c.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:20:27 EST <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> Frederick Mason Jones,Jr. 1919-2009 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1593.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-08:%2Fmason_jones_19192009.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:20:22 EST <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 40.0683 -75.5247 St. Peter's in the Great Valley 40.0683 -75.5247 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY February 5, 2003 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1377.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-31:%2Fshakspere_society_february_5.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:19:39 EST <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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 AFSC: American Friends Service Committee http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/710.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-05:%2Fafsc_the_american_friends.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:19:38 EST <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 39.956 -75.1648 American Friends Service Committee 39.956 -75.1648 Gardens Flowers and Horticulture http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/142.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-13:%2Fgardens_flowers_and_horticulture.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:19:18 EST 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> George Washington Defends Philadelphia (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/537.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fg_washington_defends_phila.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:18:59 EST <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 40.5086 -74.2698 Perth Amboy 40.5086 -74.2698 City Troop http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1093.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzcity_troop.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:18:44 EST <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 39.9535 -75.1782 First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry 39.9535 -75.1782 Nature Preservation http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/65.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Fnature_preservation.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:18:06 EST Nature preservation and nature destruction are different parts of an eternal 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> A Single International Currency? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/825.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fa_single_international_currency.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:18:04 EST <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 39.9504 -75.1489 Federal Reserve Bank 39.9504 -75.1489 Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Trial http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/762.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Flindbergh_baby_kidnapping_trial.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:18:03 EST <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 40.5102 -74.8613 Hunterdon County Courthouse 40.5102 -74.8613 Causes of the American Revolution http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/70.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-11-03:%2Fcauses_of_the_american.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:17:36 EST 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> Furniture for the Horse Country http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1318.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-05:%2Ffurniture_for_the_horse.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:17:26 EST <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 39.8951 -75.7328 Kinloch Woodworking , LTD 39.8951 -75.7328 Franklin: Upstart Hero of King George's War (1747) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/480.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ffranklin_upstart_hero.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:17:14 EST <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 39.9445 -75.1446 Man of Trouble Tavern 39.9445 -75.1446 Bank Accounting Off the Books http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1391.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-13:%2Fbank_accounting_off_the.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:17:07 EST <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> Obamacare, Executive Summary http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1733.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-29:%2Fobamacare_executive_summary.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:17:01 EST 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> Mennonites: The Pennsylvania Swiss http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2038.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-10:%2Fmennonites_the_pennsylvania_swiss.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:17:00 EST <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 40.306 -75.3673 Franconia Mennonite Meetinghouse 40.306 -75.3673 Up the King's High Way http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/84.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-02:%2Fup_the_king_s.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:16:49 EST 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> America's First Medical Interne, Jacob Ehrenzeller http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1562.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-07:%2Famericas_first_medical_interne.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:15:44 EST <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> Hospital Elevators http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1518.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-09-24:%2Fhospital_elevators.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:15:28 EST <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 39.9498 -75.1583 Thomas Jefferson Hospital 39.9498 -75.1583 Quaker Gray Turns Quaker Green http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1236.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-22:%2Fquaker_gray_turns_quaker.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:14:44 EST <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 39.9559 -75.1651 AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE 39.9559 -75.1651 Steep Yield Curve: A Useful Subsidy? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1638.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-18:%2Fsteep_interest_rate_curve.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:14:32 EST 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> Boalsburg http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2163.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-03:%2Fboalsburg_.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:14:29 EST <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. George Washington's View of the British Army http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1156.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-07:%2Fgeorge_washington_at_braddocks.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:14:21 EST <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 40.4041 -79.8685 Braddock Defeat 40.4041 -79.8685 Easter Sunrise in Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/449.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-05-18:%2Feaster_sunrise.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:13:45 EST <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> Thousand Islands: U.S. Side http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1986.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-05:%2Fthousand_islands_us_side.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:13:45 EST <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 44.3041 -75.9826 Thousand Island Bridge 44.3041 -75.9826 Robert Morris Invents American Banking http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2123.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-13:%2Frobert_morris_invents_american.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:13:27 EST <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> Roebling http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1463.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-01:%2Froebling_.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:13:23 EST <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> Canada's Southern Seaport http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/725.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fcanada_s_southern_port.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:13:08 EST <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 39.8754 -75.2495 Philadelphia International Airprt 39.8754 -75.2495 Wall Art in Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1249.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-29:%2Fwall_art_in_philadelphia.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:12:40 EST <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 39.9651 -75.1663 Mural Arts Program 39.9651 -75.1663 What To Do If You Have a Heart Attack http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1620.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-15:%2Fheart_attack_2009.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:12:40 EST <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 39.9455 -75.1551 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9455 -75.1551 Eisenhower, Reagan and Rumsfeld http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/819.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Feisenhower_reagan_and_rumsfeld.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:12:22 EST <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 38.8155 -77.0154 Department of Defense Office of Public Communication 38.8155 -77.0154 There She Goes, Miss America http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1836.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-30:%2Fthere_she_goes_miss.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:12:12 EST <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 39.3639 -74.4409 Atlantic City Convention Center 39.3639 -74.4409 The Revolutionary Origins of The Methodist Church http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/682.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Frevolutionary_origins_meth.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:11:49 EST <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 39.9555 -75.1464 Saint George United Methodist Church 39.9555 -75.1464 Quakers: William Penn http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/37.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-05:%2Fquakers_william_penn.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:11:47 EST Although Ben Franklin gets more ink lately, William Penn deserves at least equal rank among the most remarkable men who ever lived. Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1182.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-27:%2Frecording_for_the_blind.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:11:44 EST <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 40.7533 -73.9823 The New York Public Library 40.7533 -73.9823 Up Market Street to Sixth and Walnut http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/86.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-04:%2Fsecond_and_market_to.php Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:11:29 EST <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> Appalachian Geography http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2161.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-02:%2Fappalachian_geography.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:20:23 EST <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1092.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzbullseye_sociology.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:31:02 EST <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 39.7458 -75.547 Rodney Square Wilmington, DE 39.7458 -75.547 Jersey http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1100.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzjersey_.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:49:45 EST <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 40.3053 -74.4527 New Jersey NJ 40.3053 -74.4527 Tammany: Philadelphia's Gift to New York http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2187.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-11-01:%2Ftammany_philadelphias_gift_to.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:17:29 EST <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 --> Shakspere Society of Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/104.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-31:%2Fshakspere_society_of_philadelphia.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:09:23 EST 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 39.9485 -75.1615 Franklin Inn Club 39.9485 -75.1615 How Could We Improve State Legislatures? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2216.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-01-25:%2Fhow_could_we_improve.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:09:05 EST 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? Atlantic City, Brigantine and the N.I.H. http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1818.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-20:%2Fatlantic_city_brigantine_and.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:08:54 EST <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 39.3586 -74.4198 Steel Pier 39.3586 -74.4198 History of the Mennonites http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2039.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-14:%2Fhistory_of_the_mennonites.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:08:36 EST <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 40.2905 -75.3801 Mennonite Heritage Center 40.2905 -75.3801 Dingman's Ferry, Below Port Jervis http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1998.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-03:%2Fdingmans_ferry_below_port.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:08:10 EST <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 41.2201 -74.8593 Dingman Ferry Bridge, PA 41.2201 -74.8593 American Succession http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1540.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-26:%2Famerican_succession_beliefs.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:07:48 EST <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 39.9502 -75.1494 The President's House 39.9502 -75.1494 Curtis Center http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1703.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-24:%2Fcurtis_center.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:07:42 EST <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> Who Watches the Watchmen? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/909.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzwho_watches_the_watchmen.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:07:34 EST <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 39.8775 -75.2445 Philadelphia Airport 39.8775 -75.2445 XHTML vs. HTML http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1119.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-03:%2Fxhtml_vs_html.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:07:22 EST 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%. The Origins of Haddonfield http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/676.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Forigins_haddonfield.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:07:15 EST <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 39.897 -75.0341 Haddonfield 39.897 -75.0341 Historical Preservation http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/41.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-14:%2Fhistorical_preservation.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:07:14 EST 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. New Roles For Grandparents http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1823.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-04:%2Fnew_roles_for_grandparents.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:06:54 EST <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> Central Pennsylvania Settlers Before 1700 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1994.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-31:%2Fcentral_pennsylvania_settlers_before.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:06:36 EST <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> Relocation http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2197.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-01-11:%2Frelocation_.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:06:34 EST <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. Elias Durand http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2033.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-24:%2Facademy_portraits_elias_durand.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:06:31 EST <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 39.9492 -75.1508 Site of Durand Pharmacy 39.9492 -75.1508 Native Habitat http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1219.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-23:%2Fnative_habitat.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:05:57 EST <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 39.8717 -75.5917 Habitat Resource Network of Southeast 39.8717 -75.5917 Shale Fracking Arrives in Pennsylvania http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2013.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-06:%2Fshale_fracking_arrives_in.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:05:55 EST <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 41.8341 -75.8773 Susquehanna County Court House 41.8341 -75.8773 Vanishing Honey Bees http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1606.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-29:%2Fvanishing_honey_bees.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:05:12 EST <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 39.9806 -75.1621 The Wagner Institute 39.9806 -75.1621 New Jersey (State of) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/96.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-19:%2Fnew_jersey_state_of.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:04:58 EST <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)<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> 40.1194 -74.4055 40.1194 -74.4055 The State of New Jersey 40.1194 -74.4055 South Amboy Explodes http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1482.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-02:%2Fsouth_amboy_explodes.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:04:51 EST <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> Flexner Report, Revisited http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/837.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fflexner_report_revisited.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:04:02 EST <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 41.5036 -81.62 The Cleveland Clinic Main Campus 41.5036 -81.62 Pot Belly http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1687.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-03:%2Fpot_belly.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:03:58 EST <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> Democracy Turns Out To Be a Two-Party System http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/853.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fdemocracy_turns_out_to.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:03:54 EST 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> After the Convention:Hamilton and Madison http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1134.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-09-01:%2Fhamilton_and_madison.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:03:34 EST <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 39.9488 -75.1499 Independence Hall 39.9488 -75.1499 Philadelphia Economics (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/162.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-15:%2Fphiladelphia_economics_2.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:03:23 EST .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" 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 Panic 2007-2009 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/105.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-10:%2Fcredit_crunch_2007.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:02:56 EST 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> If Men Were Angels, No Government Would Be Necessary http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/551.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fif_men_were_angels.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:02:46 EST <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 39.9489 -75.1501 Independence Hall 39.9489 -75.1501 July 4, 1776 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1431.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-09:%2Fjuly_4_1776.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:02:42 EST Patients in Pennsylvania Hospital on Independence Day, 1776. Gum http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1837.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-01:%2Fgum_.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:02:38 EST <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 39.8981 -75.0315 The Gum Corner 39.8981 -75.0315 Washington Lurks in Bucks County, Waiting for Howe to Make a Move http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/938.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzcomic_interlude_at_moland.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:02:34 EST <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 40.2358 -75.0928 Moland Houes 40.2358 -75.0928 East Park Jingle http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/782.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Feast_park_jingle.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:02:12 EST <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 39.9618 -75.2592 69th Street Terminal 39.9618 -75.2592 Three-Mile Island http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2024.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-27:%2Fthreemile_island.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:01:52 EST <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 40.156 -76.7254 Three Mile Island 40.156 -76.7254 Corporations: Property, but also Immortal Persons http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2170.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-31:%2Fcorporations_persons_but_immortal.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:01:17 EST <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. Forming the State of Delaware http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1774.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-04:%2Flegal_quagmire_forming_the.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:01:10 EST <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 39.7222 -75.7739 Delaware Wedge 39.7222 -75.7739 Marcellus, Where Shale Gas Comes From http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1984.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-04:%2Fmarcellus_where_the_shale.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:01:08 EST <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 42.9755 -76.3326 Marcellus NY 42.9755 -76.3326 Philadelphia Drink http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1073.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzphiladelphia_drink.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:00:56 EST <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 39.95 -75.1645 Union League of Philadelphia 39.95 -75.1645 West of Broad http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/9.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fwest_of_broad_topic.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:00:32 EST A collection of articles about the area west of Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Children's Scholarship Fund (1) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1746.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-02:%2Fchildrens_scholarship_fund.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:59:23 EST <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 39.9498 -75.1684 Children's Scholarship Fund of Philadelphia 39.9498 -75.1684 New Museum of Chemical Heritage http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1523.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-06:%2Fnew_museum_of_chemical.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:58:47 EST <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 39.949 -75.1466 The Chemical Hertiage 39.949 -75.1466 Water Works, Emblem of the Past http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1721.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-11:%2Fwater_works_emblem_of.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:58:43 EST <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 39.9669 -75.1839 Fairmount Water Works 39.9669 -75.1839 The Walking Purchase http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/797.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fthe_walking_purchase.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:58:42 EST <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 39.9661 -75.1287 Penn Treaty Park 39.9661 -75.1287 Quakers and Indians http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1777.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-22:%2Fquakers_and_indians.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:58:19 EST <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 39.9559 -75.1651 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 39.9559 -75.1651 Curtis: Those 1905 Delivery Trucks http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/805.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fcurtis_those_1905_delivery.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:58:15 EST <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 39.9473 -75.1506 The Curtis Publishing Company 39.9473 -75.1506 Railroad Town http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/107.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-15:%2Frailroad_town.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:58:09 EST <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> Kenneth Gordon, MD, Hero of Valley Forge http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/564.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fkenneth_gordon.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:58:04 EST <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 40.0918 -75.4622 Valley Forge, PA 40.0918 -75.4622 Richard Henry Lee: A Pennsylvania Viewpoint http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2118.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-05:%2Frichard_henry_lee_a.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:57:59 EST <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> Robert Morris and the Lee Brothers http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2124.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-15:%2Frobert_morris_and_the.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:57:56 EST <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Robert_morris_3.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" /> Mayors and Limos http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1072.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzmayors_and_limos.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:57:06 EST <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 39.9469 -75.151 Mayor Richardson Dilworth 39.9469 -75.151 Restoring the Gold Standard by Levering Judges' Salaries http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1838.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-01:%2Frestoring_the_gold_standard.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:57:04 EST 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> What Happened in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/619.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphiladelphia_in_76.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:56:44 EST <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 39.9489 -75.15 Independence National Historical Park 39.9489 -75.15 The Third Pennamite War (1784) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/689.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fthird_pennamite_war.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:56:36 EST <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> Victorian Broad Street http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1101.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzvictorian_broad_street.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:56:33 EST <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 39.9479 -75.1652 South Broad Street Philadelphia PA 39.9479 -75.1652 Real Estate Bubble Traps Robert Morris http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2140.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-05-20:%2Freal_estate_bubble_traps.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:56:33 EST <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> Heavenly House http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2126.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-19:%2Fheavenly_house.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:56:23 EST <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 40.0636 -75.291 Father Divine as the Mount of the House of the Lord 40.0636 -75.291 Inazo Nitobe, Quaker Samurai http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/873.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzinazo_nitobe_quaker_samurai.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:56:15 EST <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 52.087 4.29754 Peace Palace 52.087 4.29754 Fair Mount http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/867.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_schuylkill_navy_at.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:54:35 EST <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 39.9689 -75.1852 The Schuylkill Navy at Boathouse Row 39.9689 -75.1852 Defeat and Disaster: Philadelphia Falls to the Enemy http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/620.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphiladelphia_or_sara_4.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:53:42 EST <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 39.8744 -75.5762 Brandy wine Battlefield 39.8744 -75.5762 Disorderly Retreat: From Trenton Back to Perth Amboy http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/879.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzfrom_trenton_back_to.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:53:39 EST <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 40.331 -74.6754 Princeton Battlefield Park 40.331 -74.6754 A Fair Plan for Fire Insurance (and Health Insurance, too?) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/984.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fza_fair_plan_for.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:53:29 EST <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 39.948 -75.1532 fire insurance company 39.948 -75.1532 Shrine of Historical Restoration http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1090.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzhistorical_restoration.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:53:23 EST <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 39.9447 -75.1476 Charles Peterson House 39.9447 -75.1476 New Jersey: A Keg Tapped at Both Ends (1) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1298.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-16:%2Fnew_jersey_a_keg.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:53:16 EST <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> Insurance http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1396.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-15:%2Finsurance_.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:53:13 EST 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> Battle of Monmouth http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2149.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-06-27:%2Fbattle_of_monmouth.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:45:24 EST <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> Military Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/145.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-16:%2Fmilitary_philadelphia.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:42:44 EST .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1624.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-17:%2Fbanking_.html Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:23:59 EST <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> Philadelphia: Charles Dickens Gives an 1842 Viewpoint http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/623.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphiladelphia_dickens_view.html Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:19:17 EST <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> The Corinthos Disaster http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1496.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-20:%2Fthe_corinthos_disaster.html Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:00:41 EST <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 39.8182 -75.4156 Marcus Hook 39.8182 -75.4156 Outlaws: Crime in Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/10.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fphila_outlaws_topic.php Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:55:43 EST Even the criminals, the courts and the prisons of this town have a Philadelphia distinctiveness. The underworld has its own version of history. Old Age, Re-designed http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/130.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-23:%2Fre_designing_old_age.php Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:44:21 EST 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> Beginning Social Security Benefits http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1165.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-30:%2Fbeginning_social_security_benefits.html Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:13:21 EST <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> Robert Morris: Think Big http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/166.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-17:%2Frobert_morris_think_big.php Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:38:16 EST 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 and America http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/167.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-17:%2Frobert_morris_and_america.php Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:37:37 EST 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> Two Friends Create the Articles of Confederation http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2226.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-02-03:%2F%2Fblog%2F2226.htm Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:09:12 EST 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. Itch http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1758.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-28:%2Fitch_.html Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:01:42 EST <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> Friends Lifecare at Home http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/734.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Ffriends_lifecare_at_home.html Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:38:53 EST <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 39.9694 -75.6067 Quaker retirement villages 39.9694 -75.6067 Academia (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/177.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-11-30:%2Facademia_2.php Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:25:58 EST continued. Checks and Balances (??) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1883.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-07:%2Fchecks_and_balances.html Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:35:28 EST <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 for someone 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> Passage to India http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2089.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-02-14:%2Fpassage_to_india.html Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:43:29 EST <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> Robert Morris' United States http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/volume/19.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-17:%2Frobert_morris_united_states.php Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:19:28 EST 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. Germantown Nurses the Yellow Fever, 1793 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/481.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2F1793_germantown.html Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:20:22 EST <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 40.0432 -75.1808 Borough of Germantown 40.0432 -75.1808 Victor Rambo, Indian Eye Surgeon http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/695.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fvictor_rambo.html Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:46:00 EST <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 39.9456 -75.1556 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9456 -75.1556 Website Development http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/66.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-05:%2Fwebsite_development.php Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:20:58 EST 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. Notable and Quotable http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/157.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-03:%2Fnotable_and_quotable.php Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:32:24 EST 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> B. Franklin, Scientist http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1661.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-31:%2Fb_franklin_scientist.html Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:21:16 EST <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. Paying For College - II http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1785.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-12:%2Fpaying_for_college_ii.html Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:36:11 EST <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 40.3486 -74.6593 Princeton University 40.3486 -74.6593 Cultural http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/119.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-07:%2Fculture_and_traditions_2.php Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:30:34 EST Culture and Traditions (2) The University Museum: Frozen in Concrete http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1278.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-31:%2Fthe_university_museum.html Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:36:52 EST <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 39.95 -75.1917 University of Pennsylvania Museum 39.95 -75.1917 Weather Man http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2198.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2012-01-12:%2Fweather_man.html Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:54:54 EST <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1736.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-10-06:%2Fthe_university_city.html Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:53:51 EST <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 39.9532 -75.1938 University of Pennsylvania 39.9532 -75.1938 Colleges and Religions Drift Apart http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/729.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fcolleges_and_religions_drift.html Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:34:22 EST <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 42.3782 -71.1138 Havard University 42.3782 -71.1138 Academia in the Philadelphia Region http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/60.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Facademia_.php Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:42:00 EST Higher education is a source of pride, progress, and aggravation. Philadelphia's River Region http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/8.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fphila_river_region_topic.php Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:52:18 EST A concentration of articles around the rivers and wetland in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Natural Science http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/159.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-01:%2Fnatural_science.php Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:51:12 EST 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> Philadelphia Economics (3) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/163.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-15:%2Fphiladelphia_economics_3.php Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:33:35 EST . Bucks County, Pennsylvania http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/150.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-16:%2Fbucks_county_pennsylvania.php Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:28:27 EST <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> Tactics: U.S. Marine Corps FMFM 1-3 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2100.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-16:%2Ftactics_us_marine_corps.html Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:27:34 EST 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> The Wyoming Massacre of July 3, 1778 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/761.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fthe_wyoming_massacre_of.html Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:00:00 EST <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 41.3211 -75.8181 The Battle of Wyoming Marker 41.3211 -75.8181 Foreground: Parliament Irks the Colonial Merchants http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2111.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-23:%2Fearly_signs.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:17:48 EST <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> Beyond Most of Us http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1321.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-22:%2Fbeyond_most_of_us.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:06:29 EST <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 39.9451 -75.16 Louis I Kahn Park 39.9451 -75.16 Philadelphia and Japan http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/981.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzphiladelphia_and_japan.html Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:23:36 EST <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 35.5449 139.949 Tokyo Bay 35.5449 139.949 Legal Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/25.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Flegal_phila_topic.php Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:11:37 EST 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. Brave New World http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2159.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-25:%2Fbrave_new_world.html Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:53:34 EST <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> Rentier Class http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/838.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Frentier_class.html Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:57:00 EST 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> Unique Investment Requirements http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2128.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-25:%2Funique_investment_requirements.html Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:07:06 EST <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> Heads Up: Look Ahead http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/839.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Flooking_ahead_to_budget.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:19:51 EST 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> Widower's Friend http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2184.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-10-31:%2Flonesome_again.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:34:28 EST When a widow or a widower dies, the children are left in charge of the funeral. They may be unprepared. Ageing Owners, Ageing Property http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2176.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-09-26:%2Fageing_owners_ageing_property.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:31:53 EST <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. Last Will and Testment of Robert Morris, Jr. http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2160.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-28:%2Flast_will_and_testment.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:08:38 EST Here is the last will and testament of the richest man in America -- for most of his life, but not the end of it. The Supreme Court Revisits Girard's Will http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/794.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fthe_supreme_court_revisits.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:55:54 EST <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 39.9739 -75.1701 Girard College 39.9739 -75.1701 Franklin's Codicil to His Will: Strange Afterthoughts http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1973.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-22:%2Ffrugal_franklin_more_quaker.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:35:47 EST 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> Last Will of Benjamin Franklin http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1969.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-19:%2Flast_will_of_benjamin.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:36:54 EST 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> Only Three Things Wrong With American Healthcare http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1754.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-17:%2Fthree_things_wrong_with.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:32:07 EST 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> Carpenters Hall http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/802.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fcarpenters_hall.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:48:30 EST <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 39.9481 -75.1472 Capenter Hall 39.9481 -75.1472 The First and Oldest Hospital in America http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1014.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_first_and_oldest.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:48:16 EST <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/pennsyhosp.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 39.9452 -75.1557 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9452 -75.1557 Gallatin, Part 1 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1339.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-03:%2Fgallatin_part_1.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:18:22 EST <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 40.1676 -80.2463 Whiskey Rebellion (1794) 40.1676 -80.2463 Mercantilism Dies Hard http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1534.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-30:%2Fmercantilism_dies_hard.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:06:06 EST <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> Railroading Haddonfield http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1017.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzrailroading_haddonfield.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:47:33 EST <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 39.8974 -75.0368 Patco Haddonfield NJ 39.8974 -75.0368 Investing for Children http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1166.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-30:%2Finvesting_for_children.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:31:29 EST <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> How to Live Off an Investment Portfolio http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1781.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-06:%2Fhow_to_live_off.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:28:24 EST 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> Recalling the Names of Acquaintances http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2066.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-17:%2Frecalling_the_names_of.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:27:21 EST <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 39.9562 -75.1954 University of Pennsylvania 39.9562 -75.1954 Cataracts and Deference to Seniors http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1967.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-16:%2Fcataracts_and_deference_to.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:58:29 EST <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 39.9478 -75.1563 Willis Eye Hospital 39.9478 -75.1563 Food http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1718.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-30:%2Ffood_.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:32:20 EST <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> Stop Slapping Your Feet! http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1829.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-13:%2Fstop_slapping_your_feet.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:05:49 EST <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> Exercise As Fun http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1828.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-12:%2Fexercise_as_fun.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:05:15 EST <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> Glutes, Abs and Pects http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1744.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-11-20:%2Fglutes_abs_and_pects.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:53:56 EST <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 39.95 -75.1646 The Union League of Philadelphia 39.95 -75.1646 Sylphs in Passing http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2158.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-25:%2Fsylphs_in_passing.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:16:35 EST <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1698.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-15:%2Fkiddiekarts_.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:10:06 EST <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> The News of Ideas http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1685.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-01:%2Fthe_news_of_ideas.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:52:11 EST <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 40.7538 -73.9764 The New York Times 40.7538 -73.9764 Put Down That Lid! http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1177.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-14:%2Fput_down_that_lid.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:44:19 EST <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> Phillycarshare http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1579.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-20:%2Fphillycarshare_.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:17:09 EST <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 39.9502 -75.1552 Phillycarshare Headquaters 39.9502 -75.1552 Wheels http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1679.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-25:%2Fwheels_.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:59:13 EST <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 39.9489 -75.1555 Philly Car Share Head Quarters 39.9489 -75.1555 Hospitals Shift Costs Three Ways http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1696.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-14:%2Fhospitals_shift_costs_three.html Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:29:54 EST <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. Airport Economics http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/478.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fairport_economics.html Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:41:04 EST <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 39.8678 -75.246 Philadelphia, PA 39.8678 -75.246 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2145.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-06-17:%2F1688_germantown_quaker_petition.html Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:43:50 EST 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> Robert Morris, Land Speculator http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2191.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-11-05:%2Frobert_morris_land_speculator.html Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:47:34 EST <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. Christmas Reflections http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1757.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-24:%2Fchristmas_reflections.html Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:19:37 EST <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> George Washington in Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/136.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-11-10:%2Fgeorge_washington_in_philadelphia.php Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:22:57 EST 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> Fort Mifflin http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2194.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-12-01:%2Ffort_mifflin.html Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:10:23 EST <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. State in Schuylkill Fishing Club http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2192.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-11-29:%2Fstate_of_schuylkill_fishing.html Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:06:42 EST <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. Morris Defends Banks From the Bank-Haters http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2188.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-11-01:%2Fmorris_defends_banks_from.html Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:51:11 EST <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. Retirement Communities (CCRC) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1699.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-16:%2Fretirement_communities_ccrc.html Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:20:33 EST Retirement communities of the continuing-care variety, are a comparatively new and apparently splendid development. The present economic crisis is their first major test. Redesigning Old Age http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1675.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-23:%2Fredesigning_old_age.html Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:55:26 EST The authors of the Bible believed human life was designed to end at age 70. The revised scientific guess is 100. Nanoparticles: The Dwarfs are Coming http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2193.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-11-30:%2Fnanoparticles_the_dwarfs_are.html Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:35:09 EST <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. Ow http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/987.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzowen_roberts_a_switch.html Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:33:34 EST <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> Investing, Philadelphia Style http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/39.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-06:%2Finvesting_philadelphia_style.php Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:09:20 EST 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. Medical Generation Gap http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/823.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fmedical_generation_gap.html Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:18:58 EST <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> Modern Printing and Post-Modern Printing http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1530.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-27:%2Fmodern_printing_and_postmodern.html Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:35:22 EST <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> Fort Washington, PA http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2109.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-21:%2Ffort_washington_pa.html Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:21:04 EST <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> Emperor's Doctor http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/980.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzemperors_doctor.html Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:50:56 EST <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2155.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-17:%2Flowhanging_fruit_runs_low.html Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:02:32 EST <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> Subcultures http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/4.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fsubcultures_topic.php Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:07:34 EST <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 39.9305 -75.1683 South Philly 39.9305 -75.1683 High Oil Prices and The Federal Reserve: Chicken or Egg? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1467.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-06:%2Foil_prices_and_the.html Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:48:06 EST <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> Right Angle Club 2011 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/158.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-30:%2Fright_angle_club_2011.php Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:03:50 EST 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> Science http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/64.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Fscience_.php Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:24:07 EST 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> The Jews in Colonial Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1151.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-29:%2Fthe_jews_in_colonial.html Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:12:11 EST <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> Religious Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/19.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Freligious_phila_topic.php Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:43:01 EST 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. Food and Drink in Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/58.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-02:%2Ffood_and_drink_in.php Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:38:50 EST 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> Bystanders to the Revolution http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/116.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-03:%2Fworking_topic.php Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:35:40 EST 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> How The Markets Really Work http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1532.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-29:%2Fhow_the_markets_really.html Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:48:24 EST 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> Old Blockley (P.G.H.) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1015.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzold_blockley_pgh.html Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:24:53 EST <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 39.9557 -75.199 Philadelphia General Hospital 39.9557 -75.199 Navigation Signals for Deeper Levels http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2175.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-09-09:%2Fnavigation_signals_for_deeper.html Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:59:05 EST <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> MySQL server has gone away http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1503.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-29:%2Fmysql_server_has_gone.html Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:21:57 EST What to do when your MySQL connection is timing out for no apparently good reason, all of a sudden. Fort Wilson http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2144.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-06-16:%2Ffort_wilson.html Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:36:22 EST <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 39.947 -75.1465 Fort Wilson 39.947 -75.1465 Perpetuities http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2131.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-26:%2Fperpetuities_.html Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:53:00 EST <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> Connecticut Invades Pennsylvania! http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/43.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-15:%2Fconnecticut_invades_pennsylvania.php Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:15:37 EST 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. Medical Economics http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/42.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-14:%2Fmedical_economics.php Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:15:26 EST Some Philadelphia physicians are contributors to current national debates on the financing of medical care. Whither, Federal Reserve? (1) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/40.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-07:%2Fwhither_federal_reserve.php Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:14:50 EST 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. Haddonfield http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/38.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-06:%2Fhaddonfield_.php Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:14:18 EST Haddonfield is a bit of a secret. It's Philadelphia's "Main Line, East" 39.8979 -75.0315 39.8979 -75.0315 Center of Downtown Haddonfield 39.8979 -75.0315 Quakers: The Society of Friends http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/34.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-03:%2Fquakers_the_society_of.php Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:13:34 EST According to an old Quaker joke, the Holy Trinity consists of the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, and the neighborhood of Philadelphia. Theatre in Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/23.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Ftheater_phila_topic.php Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:11:46 EST Theater has declined, everywhere in the western world. But in Philadelphia, even today if you attended every new play you would keep pretty busy. Philadelphia Physicians http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/18.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fphila_physicians_topic.php Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:10:28 EST 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. Philadelphia Medicine http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/17.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fmedical_phila_topic.php Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:10:09 EST 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. Franklin Inn Club http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/13.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fthe_franklin_inn_topic.php Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:09:10 EST 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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn 39.9486 -75.1614 North of Market http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/12.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fnorth_of_market_topic.php Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:08:56 EST 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. Philadelphia, A Running Commentary http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/7.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fphila_a_running_comment.php Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:07:45 EST A series of observations in and around Philadelphia by notables over the last three and one-half centuries. America's Historic Square Mile (pre-1800) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/2.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fhistorical_revival_topic.php Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:05:51 EST 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 39.9458 -75.1551 Society Hill 39.9458 -75.1551 Christmas, 1776, Behind the Scenes at Trenton http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2117.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-04:%2Fchristmas_1776_behind_the.html Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:55:39 EST <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> Adrift With The Living Constitution http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2097.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-10:%2Fadrift_with_the_living.html Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:02:07 EST <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> Labyrinth, Episcopalian Version http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2090.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-02-18:%2Flabyrinth_episcopalian_version.html Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:37:11 EST <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2064.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-15:%2Flowering_the_taxes_on.html Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:28:46 EST <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> South Philadelphia: Ideal Intermodality Transportation Site http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2060.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-14:%2Fsouth_philadelphia_ideal_intermodality.html Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:06:29 EST <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 39.8937 -75.2104 Fort Mifflin 39.8937 -75.2104 Causes of the 2007 Crash: Political and Technological http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2049.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-04:%2Fcauses_of_the_2007.html Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:44:51 EST <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> Financial Institutions of the Future http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1526.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-13:%2Ffinancial_institutions_of_the.html Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:23:35 EST <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> Computerized Finance to the Guillotine http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1356.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-27:%2Fcomputerized_finance_to_the.html Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:02:08 EST <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> Banks: Fragile and Dangerous http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1500.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-26:%2Fbank_s_fragile_and.html Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:32:43 EST <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> Google Earth Tour of Franklin Locations http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1326.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-31:%2Fgoogle_earth_tour_of.html Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:57:15 EST <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 39.9458 -75.1551 Philadelphia, Franklin's adopted home 39.9458 -75.1551 Franklin's Real Estate Holdings http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1971.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-21:%2Ffranklins_real_estate_holdings.html Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:32:31 EST <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> Frozen Markets http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1433.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-21:%2Ffrozen_markets.html Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:44:11 EST <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> Create and send CSV files from PHP http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1469.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-12:%2Fcreate_and_send_csv.html Sat, 05 Nov 2011 02:33:42 EDT The ability to create a CSV file from MySQL data in PHP, download it and have it open automatically in Excel is very handy. Philadelphia Changes the Nature of Money http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/118.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-08:%2Fphiladelphia_changes_the_nature.php Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:28:37 EDT 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> British Abandon Philadelphia, Morris Takes It Back http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/173.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-24:%2Fbritish_abandon_philadelphia_morris.php Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:19:28 EDT 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. Ginseng Trading http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2183.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-10-29:%2Fginseng_trading.html Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:33:36 EDT 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 Teaches Investing to Boston and Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1974.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-22:%2Ffranklin_teaches_investing_to.html Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:17:39 EDT <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> Franklin Benefits the Pennsylvania Hospital http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1972.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-22:%2Ffranklin_benefits_the_pennsylvania.html Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:32:13 EDT <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> Franklin and Marshall http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1634.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-12:%2Ffranklin_and_marshall.html Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:22:10 EDT <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> For the Good of the Order http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1560.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-04:%2Ffor_the_good_of.html Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:13:45 EDT <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> Privateering, War Supplies, and Inflation http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2121.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-08:%2Fprivateering_war_supplies_and.html Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:25:25 EDT <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? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1637.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-18:%2Fwho_invented_the_curve.html Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:07:55 EDT <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 42.7002 -74.9229 National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum: 42.7002 -74.9229 History of Religion http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1583.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-27:%2Fhistory_of_religion.html Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:08:56 EDT 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> A Quaker Carillon http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1594.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-10:%2Fa_quaker_carillon.html Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:48:15 EDT <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> Euros and Dollars http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1457.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-24:%2Feuros_and_dollars.html Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:18:39 EDT <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> Anatomy of an Urban Political Machine http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2114.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-28:%2Fanatomy_of_an_urban.html Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:53:15 EDT <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> Revolutionary Philadelphia's Patriots http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/69.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-31:%2Frevolutionary_philadelphia_s_patriots.php Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:43:23 EDT 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> Religion at Girard College:Spiritual But Irreligious http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/754.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Freligion_at_girard_college.html Tue, 18 Oct 2011 06:04:03 EDT <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 39.9559 -75.1651 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 39.9559 -75.1651 RSS http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/930.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzrss_.html Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:29:24 EDT <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> Politics of Employer Hiring Preferences http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2167.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-23:%2Fpolitics_of_employer_hiring.html Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:06:59 EDT <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. Two-Party Ideologies http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2180.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-10-07:%2Ftwoparty_ideologies.html Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:34:37 EDT <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> Commercial Credit Sinks Globalization http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1732.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-28:%2Fcommercial_credit_sinks_globalization.html Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:31:53 EDT <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> The Final Capture of Philadelphia (6) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/663.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fthe_final_capture_phila_6.html Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:21:32 EDT <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 39.8753 -75.213 Fort Miffin 39.8753 -75.213 Molly Maguires of Pennsylvania (1) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1709.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-15:%2Fmollie_maguires_of_pennsylvania.html Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:27:51 EDT <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 40.6886 -76.1991 Schuylkill County Courthouse 40.6886 -76.1991 Shakspere Society, 150th Annual Dinner April 23, 2001 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1372.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-26:%2Fshakspere_society_150th_annual.html Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:50:12 EDT <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 52.1942 -1.70883 Shakspere's Birthplace 52.1942 -1.70883 Musical Fund Hall http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/587.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fmusical_fund_hall.html Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:51:13 EDT <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 39.948 -75.1649 The Academy of Music 39.948 -75.1649 How Could an Honest Man Go Bankrupt? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2139.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-05-17:%2Fhow_could_an_honest.html Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:22:30 EDT <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> Jewelers Row http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1071.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzjewelers_row.html Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:23:17 EDT <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 39.9488 -75.1527 Safian Rudolph Jewelers 39.9488 -75.1527 Star-Gazing in Cherry Valley http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2164.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-04:%2Fstargazing_in_cherry_valley.html Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:52:07 EDT <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. The Swedenborgian Choich http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2096.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-09:%2Fthe_swedenborgian_choich.html Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:18:19 EDT <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 39.9458 -75.702 The Swedenborgian Church 39.9458 -75.702 Plays and Players, Haddonfield Version http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1707.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-03:%2Fplays_and_players_haddonfield.html Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:07:52 EDT <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 39.8837 -75.0276 Haddonfield Play and Players 39.8837 -75.0276 The Rights of Man http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/774.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fthe_rights_of_man.html Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:21:37 EDT <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> East Jersey's Decline and Fall http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1556.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-30:%2Feast_jersey_decline_and.html Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:54:07 EDT <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.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1762.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-01-15:%2Fwilliam_penn_and_the.html Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:13:18 EDT 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> Pennsbury Manor http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1240.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-03:%2Fpennsbury_manor.html Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:06:21 EDT <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 40.1353 -74.7714 The Pennsbury Manor 40.1353 -74.7714 The Proprietorships of William Penn http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/679.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fproprietorships_of_penn.html Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:51:43 EDT <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> William Penn: Visionary with Persuasiveness http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/703.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fwilliam_penn_vision_persu.html Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:53:59 EDT <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> Concessions and Agreements http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1512.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-08-25:%2Fconcessions_and_agreements.html Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:01:39 EDT <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> William Penn, Justice Holmes, and the Inner Light http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1693.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-10:%2Fwilliam_penn_justice_holmes.html Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:20:29 EDT <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 Computers Displace Money, Trust But Verify http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1353.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-26:%2Fas_computers_displace_money.html Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:14:14 EDT <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> As Others See Us http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1670.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-18:%2Fas_others_see_us.html Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:53:07 EDT <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> Mr. Obama Attacks Unemployment http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2173.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-09-07:%2Fmr_obama_attacks_unemployment.html Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:47:19 EDT <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. The Jersey Shore http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2166.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-20:%2Fnew_house.html Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:07:38 EDT 103 The Terrace Sea Girt Monmouth County NJ 08750 40.1382 -74.0292 40.1382 -74.0292 peggy's shore house 40.1382 -74.0292 John Bartram's Garden http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/783.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fjohn_bartram_s_garden.html Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:55:06 EDT <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 39.9318 -75.216 Bartram's Garden 39.9318 -75.216 Not Only to Own, but to Govern http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1771.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-03:%2Fnot_only_to_own.html Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:52:15 EDT <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) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/914.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzuse_the_internet_for.html Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:15:50 EDT <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> 2008 -- A Time to Reflect http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1357.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-28:%2Fa_time_to_reflect.html Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:16:53 EDT <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> Navigation and Mineral Rights http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1770.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-03:%2Fnavigation_rights.html Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:12:41 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2165.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-16:%2Fcitizen_genet.html Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:12:01 EDT <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? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/827.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fdid_tax_cuts_invert.html Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:13:44 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1528.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-21:%2Fmississippi_carillons.html Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:25:36 EDT <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> Sanctuaria Mariposa (Podcast) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2053.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-09:%2Fsanctuaria_mariposa_podcast.html Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:05:15 EDT <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> New Castle, Delaware http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/450.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-05-18:%2Fnew_castle_delaware.html Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:22:37 EDT <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 39.6598 -75.564 New Castle, Delaware 39.6598 -75.564 Governor Keith's House http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2027.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-01:%2Fgovernor_keiths_house.html Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:00:09 EDT <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 40.2169 -75.1533 Governor Keith's House 40.2169 -75.1533 Mayor Tish http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1989.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-06:%2Fmayor_tish.html Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:10:13 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1691.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-07:%2Fvalid_xhtml_youtube_embed.html Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:53:15 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1536.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-07:%2Fcitywide_social_calendar.html Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:28:24 EDT <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 39.9598 -75.1623 The Philadelphia Inquirer 39.9598 -75.1623 French Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/160.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-06:%2Ffrench_philadelphia.php Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:43:01 EDT 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> The Republican Court http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1763.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-01-26:%2Fthe_republican_court.html Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:25:43 EDT <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> John Dickinson, Quaker Hamlet http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/559.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fjohn_dickinson_quaker.html Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:15:55 EDT <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 39.9481 -75.1472 Carpenter Hall 39.9481 -75.1472 Howe's Choice: To Philadelphia, or Saratoga? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/621.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-04-06:%2Fphiladelphia_saratoga_5.html Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:12:57 EDT <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 43.0108 -73.6534 Battlefield of Saratoga 43.0108 -73.6534 Where Do Shad Go, When They Aren't Around Here? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1010.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzwhere_do_shad_go.html Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:37:47 EDT <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 45 -65.7978 Bay of Fundy 45 -65.7978 Wellsboro: Grand Canyon http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2162.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-08-03:%2Fwellsboro_grand_canyon.html Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:42:53 EDT <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> Delaware Water Gap http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1979.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-03:%2Fdelaware_water_gap.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:08:59 EDT <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 41.0879 -75.0067 Delaware Water Gap 41.0879 -75.0067 Mauch Chunk, Jim Thorpe, and All That http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1980.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-03:%2Fmauch_chunk_jim_thorpe.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:55:54 EDT <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 40.8628 -75.738 Old Mauch Chunk Train 40.8628 -75.738 Joseph Priestley of Northumberland, PA http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2012.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-05:%2Fjoseph_priestley_of_northumberland.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:38:25 EDT <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 40.8903 -76.79 Joseph Priestley Home 40.8903 -76.79 Stephen Foster, Susquehanna Schoolboy http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2015.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-15:%2Fstephen_foster_susquehanna_schoolboy.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:50:14 EDT <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> Sayre / Athens http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2022.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-25:%2Fsayreathens_.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:41:34 EDT <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 40.9804 -76.5215 The Gutrie Clinic 40.9804 -76.5215 Term Limits, With Exceptions http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/828.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fterm_limits_with_exceptions.html Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:29:17 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1589.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-05:%2Fedgar_allan_poe_18091849.html Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:38:13 EDT <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 39.9617 -75.1498 Edgar Allan Poe National Historical Site 39.9617 -75.1498 The Virginian: A Philadelphian Goes West http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2016.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-16:%2Fthe_virginian_a_philadelphian.html Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:34:28 EDT 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> Health Care Rationing, American Style http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/824.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fhealth_care_rationing_american.html Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:43:28 EDT <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 39.9545 -75.1504 American College of Physicians 39.9545 -75.1504 Cira Centre II - (?) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1584.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-27:%2Fcira_centre_ii.html Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:32:35 EDT <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 39.9575 -75.1826 Cira Center 39.9575 -75.1826 The Beginnings of E-Mail http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1051.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_beginnings_of_email.html Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:35:19 EDT <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 40.7491 -73.9816 J.P. Mogans House 40.7491 -73.9816 Charter of Incorporation of Franklin Inn Club (1902) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1455.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-23:%2Fcharter_of_incorporation_of.html Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:33:01 EDT <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 39.9485 -75.1615 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia215-732-0334 39.9485 -75.1615 New Constitution Needed http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2136.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-05-10:%2Fnew_constitution_needed.html Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:16:10 EDT <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> Block Captains http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/497.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fblock_captains.html Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:37:20 EDT <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 39.9637 -75.1732 Philadelphia County Medical Society 39.9637 -75.1732 Addressing the Flaws of Republics http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1976.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-28:%2Faddressing_the_flaws_of.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 05:54:36 EDT <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> Armonica, Momentarily Mesmerizing http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1235.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-21:%2Farmonica_momentarily_mesmerizing.html Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:51:51 EDT <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 39.9498 -75.1465 Franklin Court Museum 39.9498 -75.1465 Yale Blue http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/821.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fyale_blue.html Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:41:00 EDT <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 41.3145 -72.9234 Yale University 41.3145 -72.9234 National Business Coalition on Health http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1270.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-16:%2Fnational_coalition_on_health.html Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:39:37 EDT <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> Buying Corporate America with Cheap Money http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1493.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-15:%2Fbuying_corporate_america_with.html Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:23:18 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/volume/15.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-23:%2Famerican_capital_1775_1799.php Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:48:52 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1970.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-21:%2Fa_grievance_carried_to.html Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:40:34 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1633.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-09:%2Fa_just_society.html Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:38:08 EDT <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 39.9491 -75.1675 The Racquet Club of Philadelphia 39.9491 -75.1675 Many Mickles in One Muckle http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2154.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-14:%2Fmany_mickles_in_one.html Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:03:49 EDT <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> Montgomery and Bucks Counties http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/97.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-19:%2Fchester_delaware_montgomery_and.php Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:17:54 EDT 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> The Silas Deane Affair http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2122.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-10:%2Fthe_silas_deane_affair.html Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:18:28 EDT Who Won the American Revolution? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2150.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-07:%2Fwho_won_the_american.html Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:28:20 EDT <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> Barack and Hillary: The Ol' Soft Shoe http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1671.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-19:%2Fbarack_and_hillary_the.html Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:26:35 EDT <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> Steep Yield-Curves Subsidize Banks http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1639.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-18:%2Fa_subsidy_steep_interest.html Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:12:43 EDT <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> Wild Irish http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2036.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-01:%2Fwild_irish.html Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:11:39 EDT <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> American Philosophical Society http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/489.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-24:%2Famerican_philo_society.html Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:20:01 EDT <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 39.9485 -75.1494 (Am.) Philosophical Hall 39.9485 -75.1494 Google Earth: Philadelphia Virtual Tours http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1977.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-30:%2Fgoogle_earth_philadelphia_virtual.html Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:37:32 EDT <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> Robert Barclay Justifies Quaker Meetings http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1706.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-03:%2Frobert_barclay_justifies_quaker.html Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:43:01 EDT <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 which has 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> Wood Turning http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1808.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-30:%2Fwood_turning.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:06:39 EDT <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 39.9564 -75.1477 The Wood Turning Center 39.9564 -75.1477 Winter of Our Discontent http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1174.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-06:%2Fwinter_of_our_discontent.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:04:12 EDT <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> Willow Grove Park http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1807.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-23:%2Fwillow_grove_park.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:00:33 EDT <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 40.142 -75.1211 Willow Grove PArk 40.142 -75.1211 William Allen, Tory http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1143.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-16:%2Fwilliam_allen_tory.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:54:03 EDT <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 41.308 -72.9268 Yale University 41.308 -72.9268 Will Power http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1628.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-22:%2Fwill_power.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:53:32 EDT <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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 Widener, Stotesbury, and Trumbauer http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/712.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fwidener_stotesbury_and_trumbauer.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:51:00 EDT <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 39.9492 -75.1675 The Racquet Club of Philadelphia 39.9492 -75.1675 Why Did Admiral Howe Choose the Chesapeake? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1121.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-04:%2Fwhy_did_admiral_howe.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:48:47 EDT <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> Why Are Hospital Prices So High? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/793.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fwhy_are_hospital_prices.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:48:25 EDT <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 39.9458 -75.1559 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9458 -75.1559 Who Paid for the Revolutionary War? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2137.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-05-11:%2Fwho_paid_for_the.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:47:33 EDT <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> When Bosses Ruled Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/936.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzwhen_bosses_ruled_philadelphia.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:43:39 EDT <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 39.9524 -75.1636 Philadelphia City Hall 39.9524 -75.1636 What's a Tranche? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1393.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-14:%2Fwhats_a_tranche.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:40:18 EDT <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's a Derivative? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1395.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-14:%2Fwhats_a_derivative.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:38:48 EDT <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> What's a Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO)? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1394.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-14:%2Fwhats_a_securitized_debt.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:38:30 EDT <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> What is an NRSRO? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1397.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-16:%2Fwhat_is_an_nrsno.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:35:47 EDT <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 38.8989 -77.0124 Securities and Exchange Commission 38.8989 -77.0124 What Do Unions Want? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1488.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-10:%2Fwhat_do_unions_want.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:34:07 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1731.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-22:%2Fwaterworks_.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:32:35 EDT <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 39.9669 -75.1839 The Philadelphia Water Works 39.9669 -75.1839 Washington Square http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1097.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzwashington_square.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:30:24 EDT <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 39.9471 -75.1525 Washington Square Park 39.9471 -75.1525 Warnings of Impending Trouble for the PRR http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2030.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-04:%2Fwarnings_of_impending_trouble.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:29:55 EDT <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 39.9542 -75.1668 Suburban Station 39.9542 -75.1668 Volunteerism Needs a Business Plan http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1448.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-06:%2Fvolunteerism_needs_a_business.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:27:05 EDT <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 39.9528 -75.1778 The America Red Cross 39.9528 -75.1778 Void for Vagueness http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1881.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-07-02:%2Fvoid_for_vagueness.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:26:10 EDT <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 38.89 -77.009 U.S. Congress Capital Building 38.89 -77.009 Virginia Invades Pennsylvania http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1137.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-09-27:%2Fvirginia_invades_pennsylvania.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:25:44 EDT <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 39.9471 -75.1525 WAshington Square Park 39.9471 -75.1525 Valentine Tours, Right Here in River City http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1260.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-21:%2Fvalentine_tours_right_here.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:21:36 EDT <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 39.9746 -75.1956 The Phialdelphia Zoo 39.9746 -75.1956 Using the Delaware River as a Weapon http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2006.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-20:%2Fusing_the_delaware_river.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:21:18 EDT 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> Use the Internet for Your Club http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/464.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Finternet_club_1.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:20:19 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1002.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzurban_termites.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:19:32 EDT <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> Urban Bridges http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1495.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-20:%2Furban_bridges.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:19:12 EDT <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 40.0262 -75.1229 St. Gabriel's Multicultural Community Episcopal Church 40.0262 -75.1229 Unwritten Features of the Constitution http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1574.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-02:%2Funwritten_features_of_the.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:18:53 EDT 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> Unexpected Benefits of a Lurid Past http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1256.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-19:%2Funexpected_benefits_of_a.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:11:22 EDT <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 39.8693 -74.1148 Barnegat Bay. 39.8693 -74.1148 Unequal Health in an Unequal World http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1192.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-19:%2Funequal_health_in_an.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:10:43 EDT <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 39.9532 -75.1766 The College of Physcians of Philadelphia 39.9532 -75.1766 Unemployment 2008/09 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1791.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-21:%2Funemployment_200809.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:09:55 EDT 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> Unconstitutionality of Otherwise Desirable Laws http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2028.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-03:%2Fnotable_and_quotable.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:08:31 EDT 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> Two Pacifists: Einstein and Eddington http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1332.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-11:%2Ftwo_pacifists_einstein_and.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:04:41 EDT <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 40.3486 -74.6583 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 40.3486 -74.6583 Twenty Five Years at the Center http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1663.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-03:%2Ffoo_.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:02:47 EDT 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> Turtles and Bananas http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1481.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-02:%2Fturtles_and_bananas.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:01:52 EDT <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 39.9468 -75.143 Old Original BookBinder's 39.9468 -75.143 Tulips, Jay Cooke, and Google http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1005.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fztulips_jay_cooke_and.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:01:25 EDT <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 37.4229 -122.084 Google Campus 37.4229 -122.084 Tree Huggers: Delaware Valley College http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1295.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-07:%2Ftree_huggers_delaware_valley.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:59:36 EDT <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 40.2987 -75.1586 Delaware Valley College 40.2987 -75.1586 Trader's Option http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1468.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-10:%2Ftraders_option.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:58:51 EDT <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> Touring Bhutan http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1564.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-09:%2Ftouring_bhutan.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:56:15 EDT <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 27.4426 89.6673 Bhutan, the original Shangri la 27.4426 89.6673 Tony Junker: Tunnell's Boys http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1233.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-21:%2Ftunnells_boys_by_tony.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:55:06 EDT <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 38.7971 -75.1 Cape Henlopen lighthouse Lewes DE 38.7971 -75.1 To Germantown: A Short Appreciation http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1066.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzto_germantown_a_short.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:52:36 EDT 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> Times Penn Spent in Delco: by Thomas R. Smith, http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2065.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-17:%2Ftimes_penn_spent_in.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:51:47 EDT 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> Time To Care http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1725.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-15:%2Ftime_to_care.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:51:11 EDT <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 39.9453 -75.1556 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9453 -75.1556 Three Revolutions at Once, Maybe Four http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1803.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-19:%2Fthree_revolutions_at_once.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:49:04 EDT <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> Thomas Say http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2032.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-24:%2Facademy_portraits_thomas_say.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:48:11 EDT <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 39.9908 -75.1776 Academy of Natural Sciences 39.9908 -75.1776 The Web As Investigative Reporter http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/766.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fthe_web_as_investigative.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:45:26 EDT <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> The Value of Large Law Firms http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1441.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-02:%2Fthe_value_of_large.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:42:52 EDT <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 39.9541 -75.1921 University of Pennsylvania Law School 39.9541 -75.1921 The United States: ChapterTen http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1205.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-21:%2Fthe_united_states_chapterten.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:41:21 EDT ......,<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" 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 Trigger and the Cliffhanger http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1509.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-08-08:%2Fthe_trigger_and_the.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:39:15 EDT <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 38.883 -77.0101 U.S Treasury 38.883 -77.0101 The Supreme Court Gets Fed Up With Professors http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/833.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fthe_supreme_court_gets.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:36:34 EDT <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> The Supreme Court Arrives, A Little Late http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/997.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_supreme_court_arrives.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:36:12 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/769.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fthe_savoy_and_the.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:32:55 EDT <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 39.9492 -75.1771 The Orpheus Club of Philadelphia 39.9492 -75.1771 The S&P 500 Has Been Letting Us Down http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1760.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-01-01:%2Fthe_sp_500_has.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:32:31 EDT <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> The Republican Convention (1900) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1029.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_republican_convention_1900.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:24:06 EDT <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 39.9487 -75.1937 Childrens Hopital of Philadelphia 39.9487 -75.1937 The Quaker Who Would Be King http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/949.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_quaker_who_would.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:22:56 EDT <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> The Proprietor, Himself http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1761.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-01-08:%2Fthe_proprietor_himself.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:21:31 EDT <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> The Phillies: Disapointment through Mismanagement http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1508.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-08-07:%2Fprofessional_sports.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:21:01 EDT <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 39.9057 -75.1665 Citizens Bank Park 39.9057 -75.1665 The Philadelphia Bay (1) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1047.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_philadelphia_bay_1.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:20:45 EDT <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 39.2781 -75.3397 Philadelphia Bay 39.2781 -75.3397 The Palace on Wheels http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2088.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-02-12:%2Fthe_palace_on_wheels.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:19:43 EDT <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 28.5823 77.186 Delhi Safdarjung Railway station 28.5823 77.186 The Nation's Future Health Profile http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/856.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fthe_nation_s_future.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:11:55 EDT 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 39.9487 -75.1937 Childrens Hopital of Philadelphia 39.9487 -75.1937 The Nation's Capitol http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1179.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-20:%2Fthe_nations_capitol.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:10:28 EDT <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 38.708 -77.0861 Mt. Vernon 38.708 -77.0861 The Naming of Pennsylvania http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1037.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_naming_of_pennsylvania.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:10:10 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/674.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fthe_missouri_compromise.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:09:39 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1012.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_minnesota_investment_standard.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:09:18 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1479.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-27:%2Fthe_man_behind_the.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:08:50 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/567.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Flife_death_cities-1.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:02:37 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1030.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzconnecticut_invades_pennsylvania.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:54:14 EDT <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 Kimmel Center: Comments On The Economics of Music http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1025.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_kimmel_center_comments.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:53:50 EDT <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 39.9467 -75.1656 The Kimmel Center Philadelphia PA 39.9467 -75.1656 The Judiciary http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/751.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fthe_judiciary.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:53:12 EDT <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 Housing Bubble http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1434.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-23:%2Fthe_housing_bubble.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:51:44 EDT <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 39.9532 -75.1502 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 39.9532 -75.1502 The Houses in the Park http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/671.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fthe_house_in_the_park.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:51:17 EDT <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 39.9943 -75.1906 Strawberry Mansion 39.9943 -75.1906 The Hogan Schism http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/670.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fhogan_schism.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:50:36 EDT <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 39.9466 -75.1476 Old St. Joseph Church Philadelphia Pa 39.9466 -75.1476 The Godfather http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1054.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_godfather.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:46:44 EDT <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 39.9232 -75.1617 Angelo Bruno Home 39.9232 -75.1617 The Garden Show Evolves http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1410.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-03:%2Fthe_garden_show_evolves.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:34:49 EDT <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 39.956 -75.1731 The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 39.956 -75.1731 The First Pennamite War (1769-1771) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/665.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ffirst_pennamite_war.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:32:21 EDT <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 39.9672 -75.1784 First Hospital Wyoming Valley 39.9672 -75.1784 The Empire Visits Haddonfield, Briefly http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/911.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_empire_visits_haddonfield.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:30:59 EDT <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 39.9002 -75.0326 Haddonfield Quaker Meeting House 39.9002 -75.0326 The Economic Power of Laws http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/662.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fthe_economic_power_law.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:30:38 EDT <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 39.9002 -75.0326 Haddonfield Quaker Meeting House 39.9002 -75.0326 The Definition of a Real Philadelphian (1914) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1008.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_definition_of_a.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:30:20 EDT <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 39.9522 -75.1623 Philadelphia PA 39.9522 -75.1623 The Cost of Meeting Unmet Medical Needs http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1248.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-24:%2Fthe_cost_of_meeting.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:29:20 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1094.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_center_of_town.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:26:54 EDT <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 39.9518 -75.1637 Philadelphia City Hall 39.9518 -75.1637 The Cause of the Subprime Crisis http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1437.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-30:%2Fthe_cause_of_the.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:26:40 EDT 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 Blue Cross Discount (6) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/789.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fthe_blue_cross_discount.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:26:18 EDT <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 39.9536 -75.1711 Blue Cross and Blue Shield 39.9536 -75.1711 The Best Density for an Idea http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/758.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fthe_best_density_for.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:25:21 EDT <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> The American Health Non-system http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1147.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-20:%2Fthe_american_health_nonsystem.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:23:50 EDT <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 39.9544 -75.15 American College of Physicans Philadelphia 39.9544 -75.15 The 28th Infantry Division http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1386.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-08:%2F28th_infantry_division.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:22:45 EDT <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 40.2769 -76.8739 28th Infantry Division 40.2769 -76.8739 That Damned Cowboy http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1028.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fz_.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:22:16 EDT <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 39.9489 -75.1938 Childrens Hopital of Philadelphia 39.9489 -75.1938 Text of the Rosetta Stone http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1475.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-23:%2Ftext_of_the_rosetta.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:21:59 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1185.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-06:%2Ftax_credit_time.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:20:42 EDT 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> Tavistock http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1016.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fztavistock_.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:20:23 EDT <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 39.8738 -75.0215 Tavistock 39.8738 -75.0215 Taking Risks Demands Its Price http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1549.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-21:%2Ftaking_risks_demands_its.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:19:27 EDT 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> Taking Care of Our Veterans http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1597.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-13:%2Ftaking_care_of_our.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:18:48 EDT <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 39.9498 -75.2016 Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Treatment Research Center 39.9498 -75.2016 Swarthmore College http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/780.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fswarthmore_college.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:17:21 EDT <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 39.9053 -75.3542 Swarthmore College 39.9053 -75.3542 Supra Complex Heating Systems http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1797.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-05:%2Fsupra_complex_heating_systems.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:13:57 EDT 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 39.8909 -75.0352 Stuart I. Harris House 39.8909 -75.0352 Supply-Side Tax Cuts http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/836.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fsupply_side_tax_cuts.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:13:39 EDT <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> Stetson http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/726.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fstetson_.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:54:37 EDT <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 39.9584 -75.1506 Stetson Hat Factory Phialelphia PA 39.9584 -75.1506 Stephen Girard, Compulsive Gambler http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1327.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-31:%2Fstephan_girard_compulsive_gambler.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:51:44 EDT <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 39.948 -75.1464 First Bank of United States Philadelphia PA 39.948 -75.1464 Stephen Girard and Religion http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/650.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fstephen_girard_religion.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:51:13 EDT <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 39.9739 -75.1557 Girard College 39.9739 -75.1557 Spreading the City Out to Its Edges http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/776.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fspreading_the_city_out.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:35:36 EDT <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> Special Education, Special Problems http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1806.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-21:%2Fspecial_education_special_problems.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:33:46 EDT <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> Sovereign Wealth Funds http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1408.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-27:%2Fsovereign_wealth_funds.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:33:29 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1105.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-05:%2Fsorry_but_this_may.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:22:50 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1602.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-22:%2Fsold_out.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:21:48 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/956.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzsociety_hill_stonehenge.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:19:36 EDT <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 39.9461 -75.1522 Hopkins House Philadelphia 39.9461 -75.1522 Slum Creation and Urban Sprawl http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1001.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzslum_creation_and_urban.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:11:32 EDT <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 40.0083 -75.1513 North Broad Street Philadephia 40.0083 -75.1513 Slaveowning Quaker Steps Up To The Plate http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/950.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzslaveowning_quaker_steps_up.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:08:36 EDT <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 39.7413 -75.3211 Township of Woolwich NJ 39.7413 -75.3211 Skating and Humane http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1079.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzskating_and_humane.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:05:51 EDT <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 40.0081 -75.3006 Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society 40.0081 -75.3006 Singing Waiters http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1640.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-20:%2Fsinging_waiters.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:58:49 EDT <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 39.9316 -75.1664 The Victor Cafe 39.9316 -75.1664 Silence Connotes Assent: Only To Quakers http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1024.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzsilence_connotes_assent_only.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:58:29 EDT <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 39.9524 -75.1487 Free Quaker Meeting House of Philadelphia 39.9524 -75.1487 Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2101.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-16:%2Fshield_and_sword_the.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:24:32 EDT <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> Favorite Reflections http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/89.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-07:%2Ffavorite_reflectionsxx.php Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:24:27 EDT <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> Shad http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1033.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzshad_.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:22:02 EDT <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 40.3664 -74.9477 Lewis Island, NJ 40.3664 -74.9477 Seventeenth Amendment http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/989.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzseventeenth_amendment.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:17:11 EDT <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 39.9489 -75.1494 Old City Hall Philadelphia 39.9489 -75.1494 Settlement Music School http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/730.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fsettlement_music_school.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:10:35 EDT <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 40.0411 -75.1797 The Settlement Music School 40.0411 -75.1797 Server-Side gzip Compression http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1387.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-11:%2Fserverside_gzip_compression.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:09:17 EDT 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> Selection of Judges http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/752.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fselection_of_judges.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:58:20 EDT <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 51.519 -0.114118 The Inns Of Court School Of Law 51.519 -0.114118 Securitization: Pass the Hot Potato http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1498.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-22:%2Fsecuritization_pass_the_hot.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:55:35 EDT <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 38.9403 -77.0766 Fannie Mae Corporate Headquarters 38.9403 -77.0766 Securitization http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1388.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-11:%2Fsecuritization_.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:55:01 EDT <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> Securities Trading Across Time Zones http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1483.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-05:%2Fsecurities_trading_across_time.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:54:46 EDT <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> Second Opinion: Dick Watson http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1590.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-06:%2Fplaying_philadelphia_catchup.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:52:50 EDT <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 39.9489 -75.1663 Office of the Controller 39.9489 -75.1663 Second Mortgages Want to Be First http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1631.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-04:%2Fsecond_mortgages_want_to.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:52:24 EDT <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 42.4083 -82.9161 CHRYSLER 42.4083 -82.9161 SCUBA Tours of the Andrea Doria http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1499.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-25:%2Fscuba_tours_of_the.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:41:02 EDT <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 40.4917 -98.85 The Wreck of The Andrea Doria 40.4917 -98.85 SCORE http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1430.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-04:%2Fscore_.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:35:45 EDT <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 39.9508 -75.1557 Philadelphia SCORE - Chapter 0046 Robert N.C. Nix Federal Bldg (215-580-2712) 39.9508 -75.1557 Sacred Places at Risk http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1269.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-16:%2Fsacred_places_at_risk.html Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:07:15 EDT <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 39.9506 -75.1691 Partners For Sacred Places 39.9506 -75.1691 America's Revolutionary War http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/volume/20.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-07-08:%2Famerica_s_revolutionary_war.php Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:10:28 EDT 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. Rugby in Our Midst http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1231.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-18:%2Frugby_in_our_midst.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:28:30 EDT <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 39.95 -75.19 Franklin Field Philadelphia PA 39.95 -75.19 Rufus Jones, Quaker http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/970.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzrufus_jones_quaker.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:28:02 EDT <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 40.0128 -75.2998 Haverford College 40.0128 -75.2998 Rubberneck Tours of Philadelphia (1) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/798.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Frubberneck_tours_of_philadelphia.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:27:42 EDT <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 39.9527 -75.1635 Philadelphia City Hall 39.9527 -75.1635 Rosencrantz and Gildenstern (4) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/787.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Frosencrantz_and_gildenstern_4.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:17:46 EDT <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> Riverline: Camden and Amboy Revival http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/637.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Friverline_camden_amboy.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:14:33 EDT <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 39.9408 -75.1284 Riverline Camden, NJ 39.9408 -75.1284 River City http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1019.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzriver_city.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:14:17 EDT <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 39.8834 -75.1946 The Confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers 39.8834 -75.1946 Rising (China and) Developing Nations http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1491.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-10:%2Frising_china_and_developing.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:10:40 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1542.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-02:%2Fright_angle_club_2008.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:09:23 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2099.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-16:%2Frevolt_of_the_admirals.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:08:14 EDT 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> Revising, Amending, and Skirting The Constitution http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1668.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-17:%2Frevising_amending_and_skirting.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:07:11 EDT 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> Retirement Planning Video http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1443.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-04:%2Fretirement_planning_video.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:02:38 EDT 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? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1531.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-28:%2Frescuing_international_finance.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:48:18 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2018.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-21:%2Frebel_hill.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:27:50 EDT <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 40.0639 -75.3417 Washington's Rock 40.0639 -75.3417 Real Estate Investment Calculator http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1659.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-29:%2Freal_estate_investment_calculator.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:23:42 EDT 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> Reading Books Compared With Computer Viewing http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1485.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-06:%2Freading_books_compared_with.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:22:14 EDT <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> Rare Causes of High Blood Pressure http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2092.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-02-25:%2Frare_causes_of_high.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:21:25 EDT <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> Rancocas Valley: Mt. Holly, Eayrestown, Medford http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1630.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-22:%2Francocas_valley_mt_holly.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:09:19 EDT <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> Quotes from B. Franklin, Curmudgeon http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/953.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzquotes_from_b_franklin.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:52:33 EDT <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> Quakers From the Indian Point of View http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/951.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzquakers_from_the_indian.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:51:35 EDT <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 39.8995 -75.0344 Nicholson/Elkinton House 39.8995 -75.0344 Quaker Mary Dyer and Algernon Sydney http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2130.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-26:%2Fquaker_mary_dyer_and.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:44:43 EDT <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> Quaker Investment Committee http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1013.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzquaker_investment_committee.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:42:07 EDT <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 39.9637 -75.1732 The Philadelphia County Medical Society 39.9637 -75.1732 QR Codes http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1804.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-20:%2Fqr_codes.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:40:01 EDT <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? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/858.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fput_corporate_raiders_to.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:38:50 EDT <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 38.8852 -77.1002 3301 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22201 38.8852 -77.1002 Proton Therapy at Penn http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1665.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-05:%2Fproton_therapy_at_penn.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:36:24 EDT <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 39.95 -75.193 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania 39.95 -75.193 Printed Books v. Websites http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1752.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-15:%2Fprinted_books_v_websites.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:34:26 EDT 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> Preppies of the Future? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/854.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fpreppies_of_the_future.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:28:19 EDT <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 39.9657 -75.1811 The Philadelphia Museum of Art 39.9657 -75.1811 Premature Solutions to the Credit Crisis of 2007 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1450.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-07:%2Fpremature_solutions_to_the.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:28:04 EDT <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> Preamble to the Charter of Pennsylvania http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1768.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-03:%2Fpreamble_to_the_charter.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:27:47 EDT <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 51.5047 -0.137823 St. James Palace 51.5047 -0.137823 Political Bosses http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1753.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-16:%2Fpolitical_bosses.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:18:53 EDT .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2047.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-30:%2Fpodcasts_on_itunes.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:18:23 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1294.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-06:%2Fplease_touch.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:18:03 EDT <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 39.958 -75.1743 Please Touch Museum 39.958 -75.1743 Please Don't Lose Any Sleep Over This http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/750.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fplease_don_t_lose.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:17:39 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/747.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fplain_speech.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:15:55 EDT <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 40.7579 -73.9776 Corner of 5th Avenue 40.7579 -73.9776 Pink Slips for Green Doctors http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1170.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-01-07:%2Fpink_slips_for_green.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:09:43 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1405.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-21:%2Fpictures_iv.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:06:41 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1404.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-21:%2Fpictures_iii.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:05:46 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1403.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-21:%2Fpictures_ii.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:04:19 EDT 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> Picking Up the Usual Suspects http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1265.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-09:%2Fpicking_up_the_usual.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:03:15 EDT <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> Philosophy Means Science in Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1537.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-11-07:%2Fphilosophy_means_science_in.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:02:52 EDT <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 39.9486 -75.1494 The American Philosphical Society 39.9486 -75.1494 Philadelphia in October, 1774 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/772.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fphiladelphia_in_october_1774.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:59:17 EDT <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 39.9481 -75.1472 Carpenter Hall 39.9481 -75.1472 Philadelphia in 1976: Legionaire's Disease http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/618.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphiladelphia_in_1976.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:58:49 EDT <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 39.9491 -75.1647 The Bellevue Stratford Hotel 39.9491 -75.1647 Philadelphia in 1876: The Centennial http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/617.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphiladelphia_in_1876.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:52:54 EDT <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 39.9829 -75.2098 Fairmount Park 1876 Centennial 39.9829 -75.2098 Philadelphia in 1800 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1711.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-20:%2Fphiladelphia_in_1800.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:52:38 EDT <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 39.949 -75.1502 Independence Hall 39.949 -75.1502 Philadelphia in '76 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1046.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzphiladelphia_in_76.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:51:51 EDT <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> Philadelphia Gets the Business http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1684.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-01:%2Fphiladelphia_gets_the_business.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:51:24 EDT <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 39.9502 -75.1476 The Philadelphia Business Journal 215-238-1450 39.9502 -75.1476 Philadelphia Food: Fast Food http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1074.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzphiladelphia_food_fast_food.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:49:43 EDT <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 39.9332 -75.1593 Pats King of Steaks 39.9332 -75.1593 Philadelphia City-County Consolidation of 1854 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1573.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-28:%2Fphiladelphia_citycounty_consolidation_of.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:48:21 EDT <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 39.9524 -75.1636 City Hall 39.9524 -75.1636 Philadelphia City Controller http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1591.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-06:%2Fphiladelphia_city_controller.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:47:50 EDT <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 39.9489 -75.1663 Philadelphia City Controller 39.9489 -75.1663 Philadelphia Chromosome http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1809.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-01:%2Fexplaining_the_cause_of.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:38:12 EDT <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 39.9497 -75.1931 The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania 39.9497 -75.1931 Philadelphia Calendars http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1103.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-27:%2Fphiladelphia_calendars.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:37:54 EDT 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 39.9467 -75.1655 The Kimmel Center 39.9467 -75.1655 Philadelphia Green http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/742.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fphiladelphia_green.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:37:10 EDT <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 39.9539 -75.1734 The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 39.9539 -75.1734 Pets For all Seasons http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1794.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-29:%2Fpets_for_all_seasons.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:35:26 EDT <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 39.9507 -75.1999 University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School 39.9507 -75.1999 Perth Amboy to Trenton (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/863.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzperth_amboy_to_trenton.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:32:36 EDT <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 40.6651 -73.9712 Battle of Long Island 1776 40.6651 -73.9712 Perpetual Fire Insurance http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/985.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzperpetual_fire_insurance.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:19:37 EDT <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 39.944 -75.1552 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.944 -75.1552 Pembertons http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1132.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-31:%2Fpembertons_.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:15:06 EDT <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/oldphosp.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 39.945 -75.1558 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.945 -75.1558 Peculiarities of Obama-care Politics: A Fireside Chat http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1729.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-18:%2Fpeculiarities_of_obamacare_politics.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:14:45 EDT 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> Paul Robeson 1898-1976 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1126.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-07:%2Fpaul_robeson_18981976.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:00:11 EDT <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 39.9565 -75.2205 Paul Robeson House 39.9565 -75.2205 Paying Bills Electronically http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/840.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fpaying_bills_electronically.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:59:48 EDT <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> Patent Pending http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1056.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzpatent_pending.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:58:51 EDT <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 39.949 -75.1504 The Congress Hall of Philadelphia 39.949 -75.1504 Passenger Stop http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1472.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-15:%2Fpassenger_stop.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:58:35 EDT <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> Page 2-54 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1611.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-02:%2Fmedical_club_book_page.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:05:07 EDT <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> Ownership of the Port http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1006.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzownership_of_the_port.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:48:44 EDT <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 39.9787 -75.0872 Philadelphia Regional Port Authority 39.9787 -75.0872 Overnight in Philadelphia: Tourism Suggestions http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1243.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-19:%2Fovernight_philadelphia_tourism_suggestions.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:21:57 EDT <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 39.9447 -75.1449 Thomas Bond House 39.9447 -75.1449 Our Federal Reserve: Okayed (3) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/864.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzour_federal_reserve_okayed.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:20:21 EDT <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 42.3952 -73.6984 Kinderhook, NY 42.3952 -73.6984 Our Federal Reserve (1) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/866.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzour_federal_reserve_1.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:19:21 EDT <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 39.9457 -75.1534 Nicholas Biddle House 39.9457 -75.1534 Or, A Few Bad Apples? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/718.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2For_a_few_bad.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:17:23 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/775.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fopposition_to_privatized_social.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:17:03 EDT <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 38.909 -77.0406 The Brookings Institution 38.909 -77.0406 Onward, Christian Soldiers http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1425.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-28:%2Fonward_christian_soldiers.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:16:30 EDT <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 39.9538 -75.1763 The Salvation Army 39.9538 -75.1763 On the Making of Boundaries: PA/NY http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1081.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzon_the_making_of.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:15:27 EDT <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> Omnibus Obamacare http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1728.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-18:%2Fobamacare_folly.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:15:10 EDT 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> Odessa, Delaware http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/593.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fodessa_delaware.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:13:04 EDT <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 39.4551 -75.658 The Corbit-Sharp House 39.4551 -75.658 Obituaries, 2010 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2040.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-14:%2Fobituaries_2010.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:12:49 EDT 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 for Lobbyists http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1734.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-10-01:%2Fobamacare_for_lobbyists.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:10:50 EDT 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> Obamacare Follies, Executive Summary http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1727.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-18:%2Fobamacare_follies_executive_summary.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:10:13 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1585.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-28:%2Fnprs_lincoln.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:09:17 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1271.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-17:%2Fnowheresville_.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:07:40 EDT <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> Novation http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1460.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-28:%2Fnovation_.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:07:24 EDT 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> Northwest Rittenhouse Square http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/592.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fnorthwest_rittenhouse_sq.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:06:27 EDT <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 39.9505 -75.1745 John Wanamaker's Mansion 39.9505 -75.1745 Northern Liberties Starts to Revive http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/591.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fnorthern_liberties_starts.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:05:53 EDT <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> North of Market http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1067.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fznorth_of_market.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:04:58 EDT <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 39.9525 -75.1487 Free Quaker Meeting House of Philadelphia 39.9525 -75.1487 New York Times Front Page http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1595.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-12:%2Fnew_york_times_front.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:55:04 EDT 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> New Phillies Stadium http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/999.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fznew_phillies_stadium.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:54:11 EDT <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 39.9062 -75.1652 Citizens Bank Park 39.9062 -75.1652 New Health Care Reform Proposal http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1164.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-29:%2Fnew_health_care_reform.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:52:15 EDT <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> Neopolitan Right Angle http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1292.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-28:%2Fneopolitan_right_angle.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:50:27 EDT <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 39.9491 -75.1675 The Racquet club of Philadelphia 39.9491 -75.1675 Neglection http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/727.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fneglection_.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:50:07 EDT <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 52.1937 -1.70776 Shakespeare Birthplace 52.1937 -1.70776 Nature Preservation http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/588.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fnature_preservation.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:48:36 EDT <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 39.8882 -75.3109 Wildlife Preservation Trust International 39.8882 -75.3109 Mutual Fund Governance http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/771.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fquot_why_do_mutual.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:45:37 EDT <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 38.3907 -77.0414 National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH) 38.3907 -77.0414 Mussolini in South Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1169.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-01-03:%2Fmousellini_in_south_philadelphia.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:45:18 EDT <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 37.4785 14.0414 Sicilia, Montedoro Caltanissetta, Italy 37.4785 14.0414 Murky Crisis http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1409.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-01:%2Fmurky_crisis.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:43:58 EDT <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> Ms. Mayor http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1991.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-09:%2Fms_mayor.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:43:06 EDT <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 39.8984 -75.0304 Haddonfield Borough Hall 39.8984 -75.0304 Most Popular Images http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1454.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-23:%2Fmost_popular_images.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:41:23 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1445.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-05:%2Fmortgages_from_the_banks.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:41:08 EDT <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 39.9547 -75.1961 The Global Interdependence Center (GIC)Phone: 215-898-9453 39.9547 -75.1961 Money Bags http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1288.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-08:%2Fmoney_bags.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:39:52 EDT <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> Modernism and Postmodernism http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/735.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fmodernism_and_postmodernism.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:34:46 EDT <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 39.9656 -75.181 Philadelphia Art Museum 39.9656 -75.181 Mind Your Manners http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1172.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-01-12:%2Fmind_your_manners.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:32:36 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1673.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-21:%2Fmilton_friedman_on_capitalism.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:32:18 EDT 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> Military Dictionary http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2103.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-18:%2Fmilitary_dictionary.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:31:28 EDT <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> Mexico Goes to Morocco http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1312.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-27:%2Fmexico_goes_to_morocco.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:30:25 EDT <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 31.8345 -7.12622 Morocco, Marakech, 31.8345 -7.12622 Merging Cities With Their Suburbs http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1570.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-22:%2Fmerging_cities_with_their.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:21:51 EDT <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 39.9518 -75.1637 City Hall of Philadelphia 39.9518 -75.1637 Meeting of the Minds http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1264.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-06:%2Fmeeting_of_the_minds.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:15:32 EDT <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 38.9009 -77.0285 The Corporation for National and Community Service 38.9009 -77.0285 Medicare/Health Savings Accounts Legislation http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/859.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fmedicare_health_savings_accounts.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:15:07 EDT 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> Medical Tort Reform http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/767.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fmedical_tort_reform.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:11:11 EDT <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, Appendix B, Membership http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1599.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-20:%2Fthe_medical_club_of.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:07:30 EDT .....<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> Medical Club of Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1510.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-08-14:%2Fmedical_club_of_philadelphia.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:04:30 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/937.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzmeasures_of_philadelphia.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:42:25 EDT <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 39.9526 -75.1635 City Hall 39.9526 -75.1635 Mary Cassatt http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/457.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fmary_cassatt.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:39:41 EDT <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 39.9479 -75.1632 The Cassatt House 39.9479 -75.1632 Marty Feldstein Forecasts the Future http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/818.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fmarty_feldstein_forecasts_the.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:39:18 EDT <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 42.3757 -71.1138 Harvard University 42.3757 -71.1138 Market Street, East (3) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/868.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzmarket_street_east_3.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:38:54 EDT <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 39.9503 -75.1492 George Washington House Philadelphia, PA 39.9503 -75.1492 Market Street, East (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/870.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzmarket_street_east_2.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:37:19 EDT <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 39.9523 -75.1604 PSFS Building 39.9523 -75.1604 Market at Schuylkill http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/578.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fmarket_at_schuylkill.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:36:08 EDT <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 39.9555 -75.1818 30th Street Station 39.9555 -75.1818 Mark Twain Sees Philadelphia in 1853 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/577.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fmark_twain_sees_phila.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:35:42 EDT <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 39.9489 -75.1501 Independence Hall 39.9489 -75.1501 Mark Twain Observes 1890 Pennsylvania Politics http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1026.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzmark_twain_observes_1890.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:35:27 EDT <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 39.9662 -75.1287 Penn Treaty Park 39.9662 -75.1287 Mark Twain in Vienna http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1743.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-11-19:%2Fmark_twain_in_vienna.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:34:51 EDT <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 48.209 16.3738 wien fiaker am stephansplatz 48.209 16.3738 Marian B. Sanders, Quaker Activist, 87 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/575.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fmarian_sanders_87.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:34:04 EDT <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 39.9426 -75.2725 Lansdowne Friends School 39.9426 -75.2725 Margaret of Anjou (1) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/462.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fmargaret_anjou_1.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:33:09 EDT <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 39.9485 -75.1615 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9485 -75.1615 Map of Middle Eastern Empires http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1582.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-27:%2Fmap_of_middle_eastern.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:32:03 EDT 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> Manna http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1057.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzmanna_.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:30:44 EDT <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 39.9539 -75.1781 Manna Phialdelphia, PA 39.9539 -75.1781 Malpractice: State or Federal Problem? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/814.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fmalpractice_state_or_federal.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:29:40 EDT <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 Volunteerism a Business http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1340.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-05:%2Fmaking_volunteerism_a_business.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:27:20 EDT 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> Making Money (7): Fractional Reserve Banking http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1342.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-07:%2Fmaking_money_7_fractional.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:26:17 EDT <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 39.9531 -75.015 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 39.9531 -75.015 Making Money (6): The Laffer Curve http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/841.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fmaking_money_6.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:17:52 EDT <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 (5) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/848.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fmaking_money_5.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:01:37 EDT <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> Making Money (4) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/847.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fmaking_money_4.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:01:10 EDT <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) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/846.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fmaking_money_3.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:00:31 EDT <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) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/844.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fmaking_money_1.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:58:42 EDT <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 37.8926 -85.9497 Fort Knox 37.8926 -85.9497 Main Line School Night http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/749.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fmain_line_school_night.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:58:24 EDT <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 40.0535 -75.3597 Main Line School 40.0535 -75.3597 Main Line Oligarchy http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2020.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-21:%2Fmain_line_oligarchy.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:57:44 EDT <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 40.042 -75.4834 Paoli (SEPTA station) 40.042 -75.4834 Madame Butterfly (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/906.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzmadame_butterfly.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:56:59 EDT <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 39.9485 -75.1615 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9485 -75.1615 Macroeconomics of The 2007 Collapse http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1596.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-12:%2Fmacroeconomics_of_the_2007.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:56:37 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1489.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-10:%2Flooking_beyond_cheap_oil.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:48:41 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1490.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-10:%2Flongevity_revolution.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:45:53 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1070.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzlocal_elections.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:43:29 EDT <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> Little Town of Bethlehem http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1678.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-06-25:%2Flittle_town_of_bethlehem.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:39:16 EDT <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 39.9503 -75.1733 The Church of the Holy Trinity Rittenhouse Square 215-567-1267 39.9503 -75.1733 Literary Figures in the Philadelphia Region http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1778.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-23:%2Fliterary_figures_in_the.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:38:22 EDT .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2029.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-04:%2Flitchfield_to_wilkes_barre.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:08:30 EDT .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/763.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Flindbergh_boulevard.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:05:41 EDT <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 40.424 -74.7683 Lindbergh Kidnapping 40.424 -74.7683 Lin http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1130.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-24:%2Flin_.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:04:53 EDT <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 39.9449 -75.1557 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.9449 -75.1557 Life On The River (3) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/568.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Flife_on_the_river_3.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:04:15 EDT <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 39.9276 -75.135 Delaware River, PA 39.9276 -75.135 Lexington, Concord, and All That http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1658.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-25:%2Flexington_concord_and_all.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:03:19 EDT <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 39.949 -75.1501 Independence Hall 39.949 -75.1501 Let's Give the Supreme Court Some Help http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/855.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Flet_s_give_the.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:02:39 EDT <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 39.9489 -75.1494 Old City Hall Philadelphia 39.9489 -75.1494 Lessons For the European Union http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/998.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzlessons_for_the_european.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:02:17 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1494.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-16:%2Flawn_tennis_at_the.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:01:15 EDT <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 40.0161 -75.2983 The Merion Cricket Club 40.0161 -75.2983 Laran Bronze http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1291.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-27:%2Flaran_bronze.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:59:04 EDT <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 38.8895 -77.0404 World War II Memorial 38.8895 -77.0404 Lansdowne http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1140.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-06:%2Flansdowne_.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:58:12 EDT <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 39.9382 -75.2717 Lansdwone Borough Hall 39.9382 -75.2717 Lambertville and Lewis Island http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/739.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Flewes_lewis_island_and.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:57:32 EDT <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 40.3664 -74.9477 Lewis Island, NJ 40.3664 -74.9477 La Fayette, We Are Here http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/731.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Fla_fayette_we_are.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:56:34 EDT <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 40.0879 -75.263 Barren Hill 40.0879 -75.263 Kingston: Birthplace of Canada http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1987.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-05:%2Fkingston_birthplace_of_canada.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:45:40 EDT <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 44.223 -76.5041 John A. Macdonald House 44.223 -76.5041 Keeping Lunaticks Off the Streets http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/961.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzkeeping_lunaticks_off_the.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:44:12 EDT <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 39.945 -75.1558 Pennsylvania Hospital 39.945 -75.1558 John Woolman Reports on Yearly Meeting, 1758 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/872.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzjohn_woolman_reports_on.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:41:11 EDT <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 39.9979 -74.7781 John Woolman House 39.9979 -74.7781 John Head, His Book of Account, 1718-1753 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1517.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-09-21:%2Fjohn_head_his_book.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:40:39 EDT <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 39.9486 -75.1494 American Philosophical Society 39.9486 -75.1494 Job Loss Map http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1792.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-21:%2Fjob_loss_map.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:39:20 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2021.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-21:%2Fj_edgar_thomson_pres.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:18:07 EDT <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 39.9822 -76.1606 Railroad Museum Of Pennsylvania 39.9822 -76.1606 IRA ... Individual Retirement Accounts (3) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/786.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fira_individual_retirement_accounts.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:16:55 EDT <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 39.9522 -75.1907 Engerring at University of Penn 39.9522 -75.1907 iPhone, Skype, Land Lines and International rates http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1623.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-17:%2Fiphone_skype_and_international.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:16:34 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/455.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-13:%2Finvestment_strategies.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:16:10 EDT <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 40.0701 -75.098 The Pitcairn Financial Group 40.0701 -75.098 Internet, Websites, and related Programming http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1627.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-22:%2Finternet_websites_and_related.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:14:44 EDT 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> Intelligensia, Philly Style http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1513.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-08-27:%2Fintelligensia_philly_style.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:14:03 EDT <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 39.946 -75.1655 The University of the Arts 39.946 -75.1655 Insuring the Uninsured is Not Entirely a Health Issue http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1180.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-21:%2Finsuring_the_uninsured_is.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:13:43 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1708.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-07:%2Finside_the_big_house.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:12:31 EDT <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 39.738 -75.6275 200 Greenbank Rd, Wilmington 39.738 -75.6275 Inscrutable Chinese http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/945.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzinscrutable_chinese.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:12:16 EDT <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 Inflating and Deflating Japan. http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/832.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Finflating_and_deflating_japan.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:11:47 EDT <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 40.7563 -73.9739 The Waldorf Astoria Hotel 40.7563 -73.9739 Income vs Life Expectancy over time http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1459.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-26:%2Fincome_vs_life_expectancy.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:45:18 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1571.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-24:%2Finauguration_of_president_obama.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:41:09 EDT 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> Inalienable Rights Before the Magna Carta http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1802.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-16:%2Finalienable_rights_before_the.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:28:24 EDT <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> Immigration and Universal Health Insurance http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1289.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-09:%2Fimmigration_and_universal_health.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:14:16 EDT <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 31.7725 -106.43 El Paso TX 31.7725 -106.43 Immigration http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1254.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-08:%2Fimmigration_.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:06:08 EDT <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 40.7367 -73.9972 U.S. Immigration Support 40.7367 -73.9972 Images http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1520.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-09-30:%2Fcooliris_wall.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:05:46 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1569.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-20:%2Fi_o_u_s.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:04:28 EDT <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> HSP: Philadelphia's Attic http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1615.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-03:%2Fhsp_philadelphias_attic.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:03:43 EDT <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 39.9477 -75.1627 The Historical Society of Pennsylvania 39.9477 -75.1627 HowTo Create A Subprime Derivative http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1439.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-01:%2Fhowto_create_a_subprime.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:03:17 EDT 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?(2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1502.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-28:%2F2_how_should_we.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:01:16 EDT 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> How Should We Reform Real Estate Finance?(1) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1501.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-27:%2Fhow_should_we_reform.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:00:49 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/947.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzhome_of_the_us.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:55:17 EDT <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 39.9439 -75.1837 The U.S. Naval Asylum 39.9439 -75.1837 Hold the Presses http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1274.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-24:%2Fhold_the_presses.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:54:05 EDT <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 40.7605 -73.9737 USA Today Building 40.7605 -73.9737 Henry Mercer's Rathskeller http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/713.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-15:%2Fhenry_mercer_s_rathskeller.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:46:56 EDT <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 39.9491 -75.1678 RACQUET CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA 39.9491 -75.1678 Henry Cadbury Dresses Up for the King http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1034.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzhenry_cadbury_dresses_up.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:45:57 EDT <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 39.9555 -75.1643 American Friends Service Committee 39.9555 -75.1643 Helis the Whale (Podcast) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2061.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-14:%2Fhelis_the_whale_podcast.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:45:21 EDT 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 (3) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1286.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-08:%2Ftemporary_.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:43:24 EDT <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> Healthcare Reform: Looking Ahead (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1284.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-07:%2Fhealthcare_reform.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:42:58 EDT <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> Healthcare Reform: Looking Ahead (1) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1283.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-05:%2Fhealthcare_reform_looking_ahead.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:42:45 EDT <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> Health Savings Accounts http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/860.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fhealth_savings_accounts.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:42:02 EDT <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 38.9009 -77.034 House of Representatives 38.9009 -77.034 Health Maintenance Organizations, Reconsidered http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1276.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-28:%2Fhealth_maintenance_organizations_reconsidered.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:41:09 EDT <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 38.904 -77.0389 The American Academy of Actuaries 38.904 -77.0389 Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1268.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-12:%2Fhealth_maintenence_organizations_hmo.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:40:09 EDT <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 39.9536 -75.1712 Blue Cross and Blue Shield 39.9536 -75.1712 Health Expenditures as a percent of GDP http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1384.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-01:%2Fhealth_expenditures_as_of.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:39:52 EDT 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> Hayek Confronts Keynes http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1262.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-28:%2Fhayek_confronts_keynes.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:38:22 EDT <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 40.7936 -73.4145 John Maynard Keynes House 40.7936 -73.4145 Harriton House http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/973.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzharriton_house.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:32:18 EDT <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 40.033 -75.3104 Harriton House 40.033 -75.3104 Hal Becomes Henry V http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2052.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-09:%2Fhal_becomes_henry_v.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:31:55 EDT 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> Gunk, 27 Million Tons of It http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1069.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fz27_million_tons_of.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:30:08 EDT <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 39.9074 -75.1388 Packer Avenue Marine Terminal 39.9074 -75.1388 Growing Legs http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/791.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fgrowing_legs.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:29:18 EDT <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> Gross National Happiness In Bhutan http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1565.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-09:%2Fgross_national_happiness_in.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:28:29 EDT <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 27.4405 89.4155 Paro Valley Bhutan 27.4405 89.4155 Greenwich, Where? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/942.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzgreenwich_where.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:28:05 EDT <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 39.3902 -75.3392 Greenwich NJ 39.3902 -75.3392 Goat Head Merchant http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1035.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzgoat_head_merchant.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:06:30 EDT <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 39.6649 -74.4432 Jersey Pine Barrens 39.6649 -74.4432 Go to Delaware, Elephants? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1776.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-19:%2Fgo_to_delaware_elephants.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:05:55 EDT <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 39.1596 -75.5239 Woodburn, The Governor's House 39.1596 -75.5239 Globalizing Real Estate http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1247.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-24:%2Fglobalizing_real_estate.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:38:31 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/542.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fgermany_before_germantown.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:22:28 EDT <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 50.2109 7.63061 Rhine River, Rheinland-Pfalz 50.2109 7.63061 German Origins of the Philadelphia Orchestra http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1023.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzgerman_origins_of_the.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:19:40 EDT <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 39.948 -75.1648 The Academy of Music 39.948 -75.1648 Georgetown Returns Day http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/757.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fgeorgetown_returns_day.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:19:22 EDT <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 38.6901 -75.3858 Georgetown DE 38.6901 -75.3858 Georgetown Oyster Eat: Separate but Equal http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/756.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fgeorgetown_oyster_eat_separate.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:18:50 EDT <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 38.6901 -75.3858 Georgetown 38.6901 -75.3858 George Willoughby, 95, Peace Activist http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1775.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-05:%2Fgeorge_willoughby_95_peace.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:18:35 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1737.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-10-13:%2Fgeorge_washington_on_the.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:16:51 EDT <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 39.9504 -75.1501 The President's House 39.9504 -75.1501 Geckos: Academy of Natural Sciences brings Mini Dinosaurs http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1704.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-26:%2Fgeckos_academy_of_natural.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:13:43 EDT <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 39.9571 -75.1712 Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences 39.9571 -75.1712 Gazela Primeiro http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1694.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-14:%2Fgazela_primo.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:13:17 EDT <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 39.9493 -75.139 Gazela Primeiro 39.9493 -75.139 Gardening Survives http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1297.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-13:%2Fgardening_survives.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:12:34 EDT <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 39.9542 -75.1948 University of Pennsylvania 39.9542 -75.1948 Gallatin Part II http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1348.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-12:%2Fgallatin_part_ii.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:11:12 EDT <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> Galapagos As an Environmental Laboratory http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1419.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-14:%2Fgalapagos_as_an_environmental.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:10:38 EDT <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 -0.679766 -91.2149 the Galapagos Islands -0.679766 -91.2149 Further Acknowledgments (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/785.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Ffurther_acknowledgments_2.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:09:35 EDT <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 39.9525 -75.1904 Engerring at University of Penn 39.9525 -75.1904 Friends of Boyd http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1190.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-16:%2Ffriends_of_boyd.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:04:11 EDT <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 39.9518 -75.1724 Boyd Theater (closed) 39.9518 -75.1724 Frida Kahlo http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1422.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-19:%2Ffrida_kahlo.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:00:45 EDT <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 39.9653 -75.1806 Philadelphia Art Museum 39.9653 -75.1806 French-English Military Technical Dictionary http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2108.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-18:%2Ffrenchenglish_military_technical_dictionary.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:59:51 EDT <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> French Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1099.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzfrench_philadelphia.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:59:10 EDT <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 39.9464 -75.1564 Joseph Bonaparte house 39.9464 -75.1564 Freedom of Religion Includes Freedom For Anglicans http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1772.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-03:%2Ffreedom_of_religion_includes.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:52:10 EDT <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 51.2797 1.08288 Canterbury Cathedral 51.2797 1.08288 Fred Etherington http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1749.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-13:%2Ffred_etherington.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:35:41 EDT <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 Public Pledge to Braddock http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/531.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ffranklins_public_pledge.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:33:52 EDT 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 40.4034 -79.8685 Braddock's Defeat 40.4034 -79.8685 Franklin's Funeral, 1790 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1712.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-08-20:%2Ffranklins_funeral_1790.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:27:05 EDT <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 39.9507 -75.1439 Christ Church in Philadelphia 39.9507 -75.1439 Franklin Institute: Hawks and Galileo http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1636.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-16:%2Ffranklin_institute_hawks_and.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:12:29 EDT <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 39.9584 -75.1736 The Franklin Institute 39.9584 -75.1736 Franklin Declares Independence a Year Early http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1158.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-13:%2Ffranklin_declares_independence_a.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:11:22 EDT <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 40.8905 -76.7898 Joseph Priestley House 40.8905 -76.7898 Franklin Bets His Wad on General Braddock http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/529.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ffranklin_bets_his_wad.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:10:32 EDT <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 40.4411 -80.0109 Fort Duquesne Pittsburgh, PA 40.4411 -80.0109 Frank Furness,(3) Rush's Lancer http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1514.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-09-11:%2Ffrank_furness_rushs_lancer.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:08:05 EDT <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 39.9489 -75.1612 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9489 -75.1612 Frank Furness (2) Rittenhouse Square http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1827.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-08:%2Ffrank_furness_2_rittenhouse.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:06:36 EDT <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 39.9484 -75.1714 Joseph Roberts D.D.S 39.9484 -75.1714 Founding Fish http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1011.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_founding_fish.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:43:14 EDT <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> Forbidden SNL Clip http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1552.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-25:%2Fforbidden_snl_clip.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:40:39 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/477.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ffollowing_the_rules.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:38:53 EDT <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 39.9528 -75.1501 Senator Arlen Specter (R, PA) 39.9528 -75.1501 Flanders & Swann http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1446.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-05:%2Fflanders_amp_swann.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:36:35 EDT 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> Finding the Nerve to Cut Health Costs http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1747.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-12-09:%2Ffinding_the_nerve_to.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:34:36 EDT <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> Find your location http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1825.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-07:%2Ffind_your_location.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:34:14 EDT <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> Fernery http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1272.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-18:%2Ffernery_.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:26:17 EDT <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 40.0896 -75.2269 The Morris Arboretum 40.0896 -75.2269 Fellow Travelers http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1336.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-19:%2Ffellow_travellers.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:25:53 EDT <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 39.9232 -75.1617 Angelo Bruno Home 39.9232 -75.1617 Federal Reserve Rolls the Dice http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1688.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-03:%2Ffederal_reserve_rolls_the.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:24:40 EDT <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 39.9532 -75.1507 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 39.9532 -75.1507 Federal Reserve Changes Its Business Model http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1465.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-03:%2Ffederal_reserve_changes_its.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:24:15 EDT <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 39.9504 -75.1489 The Federal Reserve Bank Of Philadelphia 39.9504 -75.1489 Falstaff Without Prince Hal http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1042.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzfalstaff_without_prince_hal.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:20:14 EDT <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 39.9272 -75.2322 William Claude Dukenfield Home 39.9272 -75.2322 Exit, Pursued by a Bear http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/830.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Fexit_pursued_by_a.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:16:32 EDT <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 39.9499 -75.1942 University of Pennsylvania 39.9499 -75.1942 Existing Websites Which Offer Higher Education http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1787.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-13:%2Fexisting_websites_which_offer.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:16:11 EDT 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> European Common Currency http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/842.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-22:%2Feuropean_common_currency.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:00:08 EDT <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> Ethics of Obamacare http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1993.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-08-13:%2Fethics_of_obamacare.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:59:07 EDT <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 39.9531 -75.1939 University of Pennsylvania 39.9531 -75.1939 Equal Pay for Equal Work http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1266.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-10:%2Fequal_pay_for_equal.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:56:29 EDT <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 39.9637 -75.1731 American Medical Assocation Philadelphia 39.9637 -75.1731 Emails From Iraq (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1242.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-06:%2Femails_from_iraq_2.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:50:53 EDT 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 33.1718 44.523 Baghdad 33.1718 44.523 Elizabethan Accents in Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/728.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-19:%2Felizabethan_accents_in_philadelphia.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:49:55 EDT <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 38.6905 -75.3855 Courthouse Georgetown DE 38.6905 -75.3855 Effingham Buckley Morris http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2034.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-24:%2Feffingham_buckley_morris.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:38:23 EDT <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 39.9512 -75.1642 Old Girard Trust Building 39.9512 -75.1642 Edward Hicks: Peaceable Kingdoms http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/976.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzedward_hicks_peaceable_kingdoms.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:38:06 EDT <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 40.2262 -74.9364 Quaker Meeting, Newtown PA 40.2262 -74.9364 Economics of La Cosa Nostra http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1168.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-31:%2Feconomics_of_la_cosa.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:37:01 EDT <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 39.9232 -75.1617 Angelo Bruno Home 39.9232 -75.1617 Economic Power of Laws http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1088.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_economic_power_of.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:36:38 EDT 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> East Falls http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1082.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzeast_falls.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:31:01 EDT <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 40.0065 -75.1924 East Falls Bridge 40.0065 -75.1924 Early Germantown-Music http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1022.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzearly_germantownmusic.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:30:22 EDT <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 40.0342 -75.1712 Germantown Avenue PA 40.0342 -75.1712 Eakins and Doctors http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1163.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-12-27:%2Feakins_and_doctors.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:29:48 EDT <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 39.9482 -75.1582 The Gross Clinic 39.9482 -75.1582 Drexel and Morgan, Investment Bankers http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2019.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-21:%2Fdrexel_and_morgan_investment.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:27:20 EDT <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 40.7149 -74.0202 New York, Harbor 40.7149 -74.0202 Donor Intent http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1181.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-02-22:%2Fdonor_intent.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:23:21 EDT <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 39.974 -75.1701 Girard College 39.974 -75.1701 Donald Hough About the Author http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1533.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-10-30:%2Fdonald_hough_about_the.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:22:59 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1341.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-06:%2Fdog_days.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:19:06 EDT <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 40.0622 -75.5967 Skycastle French Hounds 40.0622 -75.5967 Do-It-Yourself Globalization http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/910.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzdoityourself_globalization.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:18:17 EDT <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> Display Image http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2026.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-31:%2Fdisplay_image.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:17:27 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/991.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzdiscipline_for_the_disciple.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:15:04 EDT <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 39.9499 -75.1942 University of Pennsylvania 39.9499 -75.1942 Difference of Opinion http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1117.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-29:%2Fdifference_of_opinion.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:54:03 EDT <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 41.4864 -71.3087 Redwood Library Newport RI 41.4864 -71.3087 Detroit Makes, Philadelphia Takes http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1338.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-30:%2Fdetroit_makes_philadelphia_takes.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:37:19 EDT <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 39.8978 -75.2114 George C. Platt Bridge Philadelphia 39.8978 -75.2114 Designated Lifetime Funds http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2132.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-04-27:%2Fdesignated_lifetime_funds.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:36:59 EDT <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> Deconstructing Higher Education, Home Design, and Medical Care. http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1492.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-10:%2Fdeconstructing_higher_education_home.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:29:57 EDT 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> Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1458.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-26:%2Fdebunking_thirdworld_myths_with.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:28:59 EDT 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> David F. Bradford, 1939-2005 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/907.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzdavid_f_bradford_19392005.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:21:15 EDT <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 40.3504 -74.6524 Princeton University 40.3504 -74.6524 Dark Morning at the Supreme Court http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/994.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzdark_morning_at_the.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:19:52 EDT <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 39.9528 -75.166 Philadelphia Supreme Court 39.9528 -75.166 Curtis: Fainting Spells (Podcast) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2057.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-14:%2Fznote_curtis_fainting_podcast.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:41:53 EDT 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> Curtis and the Book Trade http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/806.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fcurtis_and_the_book.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:41:01 EDT <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 39.9473 -75.1506 The Curtis Publishing Company 39.9473 -75.1506 Curing Stagflation http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1440.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-01:%2Fcuring_stagflation.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:40:34 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1031.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzcultural_imperialism.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:38:40 EDT <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 39.8786 -75.2395 Southwest Airlines Philadelphia International Airport 39.8786 -75.2395 Critic of Darkness http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2035.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-11-30:%2Fcritic_of_darkness.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:38:18 EDT <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! http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1186.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-11:%2Fcricket_fanatics_say_baseball.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:24:26 EDT <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 40.0161 -75.2981 The Merion Cricket Club 40.0161 -75.2981 Country Auction Modernized http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1719.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-08:%2Fcountry_auction_modernized.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:07:47 EDT <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 40.2715 -75.3169 Alderfer Auction Company 40.2715 -75.3169 Cost of Medical Care http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/514.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fcost_medical_care.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:07:04 EDT <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 40.2779 -76.6758 Penn State Hershey Medical Center 40.2779 -76.6758 Corrupt and Contented http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1007.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzcorrupt_and_contented.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:05:57 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1096.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzconvention_center.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:42:04 EDT <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 39.9547 -75.1591 Pennsylvania Convention Center 39.9547 -75.1591 Contemporary Germantown http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/885.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzcontemporary_germantown.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:41:42 EDT <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 40.2722 -76.813 The Pennsylvaia Medical Soceity 40.2722 -76.813 Constitution-tampering is Unwise http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1487.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-10:%2Fconstitutiontampering_is_unwise.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:39:47 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1543.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-03:%2Fconstitution_part.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:09:34 EDT ..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" 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 IV: The Unforseen http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1577.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-17:%2Fconstitution_iv_the_unforseen.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:07:29 EDT 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> Constitution III, Amendments, Afterthoughts and Rights http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1546.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-05:%2Fconstitution_part_iii.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:06:52 EDT <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 39.949 -75.1506 Congress Hall 39.949 -75.1506 CNBC Exposed http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1592.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-08:%2Fcnbc_exposed.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:42:28 EDT 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 40.8964 -73.9408 CNBC Studio(Catch the fever) 40.8964 -73.9408 Clinton Plan Summary: Nation's Financial Health http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1281.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-02:%2Fclinton_plan_summary_nations.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:28:24 EDT <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 Plan Summary: Effects on National Health http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1282.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-03:%2Fclinton_plan_summary_effects.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:27:13 EDT <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 40.8412 -75.9404 Columbia Presbyterian Hospital 40.8412 -75.9404 Clinton Health (2) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1657.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-21:%2Fclinton_health_2.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:07:33 EDT . .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> Cleaning Up The Railroad Mess 1974 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1832.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-06-17:%2Fcleaning_up_the_railroad.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:06:50 EDT <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 39.9556 -75.1817 Amtrack 30th Street Station 39.9556 -75.1817 Chinese North http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1319.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-13:%2Fchinese_north.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:59:56 EDT <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 39.9163 116.391 Forbidden City 39.9163 116.391 China Bubble http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1486.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-06:%2Fchina_bubble.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:55:33 EDT <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 22.2778 114.159 1 Garden Road Hong Kong 22.2778 114.159 Chester: To the Dark Tower http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1322.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-10-22:%2Fchester_to_the_dark.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:51:50 EDT <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 39.8485 -75.3594 Chester PA 39.8485 -75.3594 Charles Peterson and Amity Buttons http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/946.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzcharles_peterson_and_amity.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:34:52 EDT <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 39.9445 -75.1476 Charles Peterson House 39.9445 -75.1476 CFPA or Die http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1786.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-13:%2Fcfpa_or_die.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:32:33 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1400.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-20:%2Fcentral_securities.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:19:02 EDT 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> Central Bankers Refine the Art of Diplomacy http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1228.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-16:%2Fcentral_bankers_refine_the.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:31:43 EDT <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 39.9504 -75.1489 Feeral Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 39.9504 -75.1489 Cedar Falls Junction City http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2105.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-03-18:%2Fcedar_falls_junction_city.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:31:16 EDT <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> Canaris and Lahousen http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1745.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-11-27:%2Fcanaris_and_lahousen.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:25:51 EDT <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 39.9501 -75.0164 Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP 39.9501 -75.0164 Calendar of Local Events http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1438.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-30:%2Fgrfisheriii_google_calendar.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:15:28 EDT 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> Caesar Rodney Rides Through the Rain http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/965.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzcaesar_rodney_rides_through.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:14:55 EDT <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> Burlington, Capital of the Province of West Jersey http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1558.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-02:%2Fburlington_capital_of_the.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:08:13 EDT <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> Burlington County, NJ http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1381.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-01:%2Fburlington_county_nj.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:07:14 EDT <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 40.0044 -74.8352 Burlington County County Office Building 40.0044 -74.8352 Broken Pots http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1246.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-21:%2Fbroken_pots.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:51:32 EDT <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 39.9481 -75.1464 First Bank Of Philadelphia 39.9481 -75.1464 Brandywine Museum http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/892.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzbrandywine_museum.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:34:35 EDT <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 39.8599 -75.5886 Brandywine River Museum 39.8599 -75.5886 Boundaries of the Grant of Pennsylvania http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1769.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-03:%2Fboundaries_of_the_grant.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:34:12 EDT <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 Books by Philadelphians or about Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/705.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-05-24:%2Fphila_books.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:33:52 EDT <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> Book Proposal: Investing http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1587.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-01:%2Fbook_proposal_investing.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:32:53 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2023.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-27:%2Fbloomsburgdanville_.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:30:44 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1625.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-20:%2Fbleeding_ulcer.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:06:56 EDT <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? http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/809.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fblame_managed_care.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:01:44 EDT <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 38.8987 -77.0173 GAO The Government Accountability Office 38.8987 -77.0173 Big Pharma Loses Momentum http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1232.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-19:%2Fbig_pharma_loses_momentum.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:53:11 EDT <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 39.9489 -75.1466 The Chemical Heritage Foundation 39.9489 -75.1466 Bi-state Fishing http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2007.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-20:%2Fbistate_fishing.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:52:38 EDT <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 38.7817 -75.1278 Lewes Delaware 38.7817 -75.1278 Betsy Ross on Hard Times http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1053.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzbetsy_ross_on_hard.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:51:30 EDT <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 39.9522 -75.1446 Betsy Ross House 39.9522 -75.1446 Bertrand Russell Disturbs the Barnes Foundation Neighbors http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/479.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fbertrand_russell.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:44:27 EDT <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 39.998 -75.2407 The Barnes Foundation 39.998 -75.2407 Bertand Russell Disturbs the Barnes Foundation Neighbors (Podscast) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2051.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-08:%2Fbertand_russell_disturbs_the.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:37:42 EDT 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> Beaux Revival http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1374.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-30:%2Fbeaux_revival.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:03:25 EDT <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 39.955 -75.1633 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 39.955 -75.1633 Be Careful What You Wish For http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1275.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-07-26:%2Fbe_careful_what_you.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:01:22 EDT <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 39.9537 -75.1719 Keystone Health Plan East HMO 39.9537 -75.1719 Battleship New Jersey: Home is the Sailor http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/921.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzbattleship_new_jersey_home.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:00:52 EDT <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 39.9397 -75.1333 The Battleship New Jersey 39.9397 -75.1333 Baruch Blumberg, Renaissance Man http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1259.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-21:%2Fbaruch_blumberg_rennaisance_man.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:59:18 EDT <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> Barringer Crater in Winslow AZ http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1662.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-31:%2Fbarringer_crater_in_winslow.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:56:53 EDT <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 35.0274 -111.023 Barringer Crater 35.0274 -111.023 Bank Street http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1580.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-02-22:%2Fbank_street.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:33:00 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1417.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-09:%2Fb_franklin_and_daylight.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:04:06 EDT <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 39.9498 -75.1466 Franklin Court Museum 39.9498 -75.1466 Azilum: French Asylum on the Susquehanna http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2014.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-10-12:%2Fazilum_french_asylum_on.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:57:56 EDT <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 41.7669 -76.4444 Azilum, PA 41.7669 -76.4444 Avian Footnote http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1253.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-06-07:%2Favian_footnote.html Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:56:35 EDT <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 40.0066 -75.1245 St. Christopher's Hospital for Children 40.0066 -75.1245 Astral http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1050.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzastral_.html Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:23:46 EDT <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 39.9486 -75.1648 Astral Artistic Services 39.9486 -75.1648 ASCAP Methods http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/490.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Fascap_methods.html Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:23:22 EDT <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> Arthur Beecher Carles 1882-1952 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1692.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-09:%2Farthur_beecher_carles_18821952.html Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:04:50 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1234.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-04-21:%2Fventuris_franklin_museum_in.html Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:03:25 EDT <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 39.9498 -75.1465 Franklin Court Museum 39.9498 -75.1465 Ardrossan Wayne PA http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1690.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-07-07:%2Fardrossan_wayne_pa.html Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:59:43 EDT 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 G. Annual Outings. http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1618.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-14:%2Fappendix_g.html Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:56:03 EDT <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> Appendix F, Dinner For President Taft http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1607.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-30:%2Fappendix_f_dinner_for.html Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:55:39 EDT <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> Appendix D, Presidents of the Club http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1600.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-20:%2Fappendix_d_presidents.html Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:51:19 EDT ....<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, http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1609.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-03-31:%2Fappendix_a.html Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:47:58 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1426.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-31:%2Fannual_meeting_and_dinner.html Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:42:36 EDT 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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 An iPhone web app http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1632.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-06:%2Fan_iphone_web_app.html Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:31:35 EDT <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> America in 1767 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/801.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Famerica_in_1767.html Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:27:12 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1142.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-10-16:%2Fadvanced_placement_gains_attackers.html Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:19:17 EDT <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 40.711 -74.0135 The Wall Street Journal 40.711 -74.0135 Abortion http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/917.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzabortion_.html Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:05:05 EDT <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 40.2721 -76.813 The Pennsylvania Medical Society 40.2721 -76.813 AARP: Making Money, Losing Trust http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1568.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-01-16:%2Faarp_losing_trust_amid.html Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:03:01 EDT <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 38.8962 -77.02 AARP headquarters 38.8962 -77.02 A Toast To J. William White, MD http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/904.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-23:%2Fza_toast_to_j.html Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:48:02 EDT <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> A Toast to Doctor Franklin http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/485.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2005-03-14:%2Ftoast_franklin.html Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:45:16 EDT <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 39.9551 -75.1854 Philadelphia General Hospital 39.9551 -75.1854 Sixth and Walnut over to Broad and Sansom http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/87.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-04:%2Fsixth_and_walnut_to.php Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:26:19 EDT <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> Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/153.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-09-23:%2Fphiladelphia_county_pennsylvania.php Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:13:54 EDT <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> FRONT MATERIAL: Deaths of the Shah http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/111.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-14:%2Ffront_material_deaths_of.php Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:55:33 EDT .<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/101.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-23:%2Fforeign_affairs.php Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:54:04 EDT 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> Favorites Podcasts http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/161.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2011-01-14:%2Ffavorites_podcasts.php Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:52:21 EDT 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> Charter of Pennsylvania, from Charles II to William Penn http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/139.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-02-04:%2Fcharter_of_pennsylvania_from.php Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:02:12 EDT 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 41.2033 -77.1945 The State of Pennsylvania 41.2033 -77.1945 Black Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/67.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-08:%2Fblack_philadelphia.php Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:55:22 EDT 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> Benjamin Franklin Parkway http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/topic/143.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-05-01:%2Fbenjamin_franklin_parkway.php Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:54:59 EDT 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> SQL To Exclude A List Of Items http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1421.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-17:%2Fsql_to_exclude_a.html Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:42:17 EDT How do you select everything from one table except for a list contained in another table? PHP script to display Google PageRank http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1466.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-06:%2Fphp_script_to_display.html Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:48:02 EST It is very handy to know the Google PageRank of your pages. Here's a PHP script that figures it out for you. SHAKSPERE SOCIETY OCTOBER 22, 2003 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1423.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-24:%2Fshakspere_society_october_22.html Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:42:46 EST <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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 Delaware Bay Before the White Man Came http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1085.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzdelaware_bay_before_the.html Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:15:39 EST <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 39.0452 -75.1679 Delaware Bay 39.0452 -75.1679 Constitutionality of the Monetary System http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1557.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-31:%2Fconstitutionality_of_the_monetary.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:07:47 EST <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 39.95 -75.1502 Independence Hall 39.95 -75.1502 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY OF PHILADLEPHIA OCTOBER 22, 2003 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1411.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-03-06:%2Fshakspere_society_of_philadlephia.html Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:36:16 EST <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 Shakspere Society November 7, 2001 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1369.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-26:%2Fshakspere_society_november_7.html Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:50:41 EST <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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 Help Using Philadelphia Reflections http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1106.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-07-05:%2Fhelp_using_philadelphia_reflections.html Mon, 27 Dec 2010 10:55:35 EST 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. Latitude http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/2046.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-12-25:%2Flatitude_.html Sat, 25 Dec 2010 16:38:35 EST google latitude Sociology: Philadelphia and the Quaker Colonies http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/volume/18.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-07:%2Fsociology_philadelphia_and_the.php Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:29:11 EST Sociology: Philadelphia and the Quaker Colonies Tourist Trips: Philadelphia and the Quaker Colonies http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/volume/1.htm tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2007-04-11:%2Ftrips_around_philadelphia.php Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:49:15 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/volume/2.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-04:%2Ftourist_walk_in_olde.php Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:20:48 EDT 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. How to detect an iPhone and other mobile devices http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1621.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-15:%2Fhow_to_detect_an.html Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:05:52 EDT <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. Regional Overview: The Sights of the City, Loosely Defined http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/volume/12.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-22:%2Fthe_sights_of_the.php Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:13:06 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/volume/6.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-07-15:%2Fbanks_redefined.php Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:45:22 EDT . Shakspere Society October 10,2001 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1371.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-26:%2Fshakspere_society_october_102001.html Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:13:43 EDT <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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 History: Philadelphia and the Quaker Colonies http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/volume/17.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-04-07:%2Fhistory_of_philadelphia_and.php Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:36:15 EDT Philadelphia and the Quaker Colonies The Right Angle Club of Philadelphia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/volume/10.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-22:%2Fthe_right_angle_club.php Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:35:35 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1461.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-05-29:%2Fwebsite_statistics.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:27:08 EST Philadelphia Reflections' popularity has grown quite dramatically over two and a half years. Google Maps Icons http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1784.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-10:%2Fgoogle_maps_icons.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:09:42 EST Google Maps/Earth do not make icon creation & manipulation easy. Escaping for PHP Output to JavaScript http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1783.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2010-03-10:%2Fescaping_for_php_output.html Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:17:00 EST To send data to a JavaScript script from PHP, three levels of escaping are required Invaders of Pennsylvania http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/volume/3.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-30:%2Finvaders_of_pennsylvania.php Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:08:24 EST 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/volume/11.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-22:%2Fculture_the_flavors_of.php Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:56:33 EST 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/volume/13.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-23:%2Fcolonial_times.php Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:05:10 EST More than half of American history took place before 1776, but after 1492. For Philadelphia, Colonial history lasted about a century. Converting Mayan Dates http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1723.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-13:%2Fconverting_mayan_dates.html Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:42:40 EDT Routines to convert to and from the Mayan Long Count date system Date Math http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1722.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-09-13:%2Fdate_math.html Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:44:14 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1124.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-07:%2Fopen_a_new_window.html Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:25:19 EDT 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? Christ Church Memorabilia http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/759.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-20:%2Fchrist_church_memorabilia.html Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:16:50 EDT <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Christ%20Church%20Memorabilia.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />(To be completed.) 39.9507 -75.144 39.9507 -75.144 Christ Chruch Memorabilla 39.9507 -75.144 Regex URL Matching http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1347.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-12:%2Fregex_url_matching.html Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:37:06 EDT On this site we check for the existence of a URL whenever an entry is updated. A Regex (regular expression) string was the breakthrough. The Association (5) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/788.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fthe_association_5.html Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:40:58 EDT <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 41.8914 -87.6276 American Medical Association 41.8914 -87.6276 School Vouchers (7) http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/790.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-06-21:%2Fschool_vouchers_7.html Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:34:48 EDT <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 40.7113 -74.0135 The Wall Street Journal 40.7113 -74.0135 Recent Convulsions in World Finance http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/volume/8.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-22:%2Frecent_convulsions_in_world.php Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:36:15 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/volume/14.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-23:%2Fcolonial_days.php Thu, 28 May 2009 20:11:52 EDT More than half of American history took place before 1776, but after 1492. For Philadelphia, the Colonial period lasted about a century. Philadelphia Medicine http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/volume/7.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-22:%2Fphiladelphia_medicine.php Sun, 24 May 2009 20:51:47 EDT Several hundred essays on the history and peculiarities of Medicine in Philadelphia, where most of it started. Philadelphia Since the Industrial Revolution http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/volume/16.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-23:%2Fphiladelphia_since_the_industrial.php Sun, 24 May 2009 08:10:49 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/volume/9.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-05-22:%2Fcomputers_websites_and_other.php Fri, 22 May 2009 17:11:43 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1629.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-22:%2Fmysqlupdateassoc_.html Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:59:31 EDT Easily (and quote_smart-ly) update a record in a MySQL database table mysql_insert_assoc http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1626.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2009-04-20:%2Fmysqlinsertassoc_.html Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:57:36 EDT How to make MySQL insertions easier (and safe) sample http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1550.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-12-23:%2Fsample_.html Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:17:56 EST Sample sample Shakspere's Last Will and Testament http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1383.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-02-01:%2Fshaksperes_last_will_and.html Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:37:55 EDT <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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 Shakspere Society October 24, 2001 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1370.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-26:%2Fshakspere_society_october_24.html Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:24:16 EDT <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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 Shakspere Society December 12, 2001 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1367.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-26:%2Fshakspere_society_december_12.html Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:08:59 EDT <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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 Shakspere Society April 2,2003 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1380.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-31:%2Fshakspere_society_april_22003.html Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:05:39 EDT <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 39.9486 -75.1614 The Franklin Inn Club Of Philadelphia 39.9486 -75.1614 Shakspere Society November 28, 2001 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1368.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-26:%2Fshakspere_society_november_28.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:40:45 EDT <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 31.2096 29.9123 The site of the tryst that brought an end to the Ptolemies 31.2096 29.9123 SHAKSPERE SOCIETY January 22, 2003 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1376.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-01-31:%2Fshakspere_society_january_22.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:35:56 EDT <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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1123.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-07:%2Fediting_html_with_php.html Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:38:05 EDT 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 http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1350.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-12-19:%2Fparsing_namevalue_pair_attributes.html Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:10:53 EDT Regexp HTML Attribute Parsing: Pulling out the value of numerous attributes in an HTML tag is a mind bender Static vs Dynamic URLs http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1333.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-15:%2Fstatic_vs_dynamic_urls.html Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:14:21 EDT Implementing static URLs for a website driven by PHP and MySQL is as easy as a little regex and htaccess magic. Ternary Operator and the IIF function http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1474.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-19:%2Fternary_operator_and_the.html Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:36:10 EDT Reduce the PHP If function and/or include it in a function PHP out of memory condition http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1473.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-06-17:%2Fphp_out_of_memory.html Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:13:33 EDT PHP scripts sometime run out of internal memory. Here's how to get around the problem. The Evolution of a Programmer http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1428.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2008-04-02:%2Fthe_evolution_of_a.html Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:39:22 EDT <img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/pocketpr.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Excellence depends upon simplicity RSS Feeds http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1238.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-05-01:%2Frss_feeds.html Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:38:38 EST RSS (syndication) feeds come in many flavors. We provide the most common. Captcha http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1187.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-14:%2Fcaptcha_.html Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:04:00 EST Captcha is the term for security codes the user must enter into a form Regular Expressions http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1128.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-09:%2Fregular_expressions.html Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:39:17 EST Regular Expressions, regex, are an obscure but very powerful pattern-matching tool that every developer should learn. Clinton Plan Summary: Hospital Effects http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1280.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-08-02:%2Fclinton_plan_summary_hospital.html Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:28:18 EST <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 39.9536 -75.1712 Blue Cross and Blue Sheild 39.9536 -75.1712 Process .htm and .html as php http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1314.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-09-30:%2Fprocess_htm_and_html.html Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:10:29 EST How to include php scripts in html files Javascript: document.write and XHTML http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1184.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-05:%2Fjavascript_documentwrite_and_xhtml.html Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:10:02 EST Document.write does not work with "true" XHTML. Don't bother trying to fix the javascript. RSS, Atom, Syndication, etc. http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1188.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-03-15:%2Frss_atom_syndication_etc.html Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:00:43 EST The world is full of XML and XML-like file formats for syndication-feed purposes. 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BU to Pier 7 GPS Tour http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1330.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2007-11-08:%2Fexample_of_including_a.html Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:25:12 EST <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 42.3734 -71.0491 The End of the Trip 42.3734 -71.0491 Web hosting providers http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/1127.htm tag:www.philadelphia-reflections.com,2006-08-08:%2Fweb_hosting_providers.html Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:12:04 EST <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.