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A divorced lady raising 2 teenage daughters doesn't attract any kind of attention nowadays, unless, possibly, an online dating service happens in order to pair a person with the woman's. We experience high-achieving profession women each and every workday.
We don't believe twice regarding arrangements when a young guy shares residing quarters having a young lady (or even women). Such plans are as probably be about cash as regarding love, anyhow.
An African-American nurse is simply a health professional. A dark person going to a whitened couple's home is simply a visitor. A gay person is just a person who is actually gay.
Not so long back, these daily situations had been fodder with regard to situation humor – frequently, very great situation humor. We can be a more understanding society these days, but a minimum of we was previously funny. (All of us still could be funny, nevertheless, as an incredible number of Modern Loved ones fans might attest. )#)
The unforeseen death associated with actress Bonnie Franklin obtained me taking into consideration the ways by which situation humor has assisted change the actual culture this laughed from.
As Ann Romano, the solitary mother in a single Day at any given time, Franklin personified the actual everyday challenges and benefits of ladies who created "women's liberation" a real possibility in the actual 1970s. Along with expanded profession opportunities as well as divorce liberated of stigma, an infant boom lady could draw out herself through an unsatisfied marriage as well as live a far more independent existence. Nobody stated "independent" means "easy, inch however. Increasing children is actually seldom simple under any kind of circumstances, and it doesn't get easier if you have to make all of your mistakes on it's own. Franklin's personality was a female that actual women might recognize, and something whom actual men – the type who observe children because something besides baggage — could appreciate.
It was something to become a mother that became a functional, single parent due to divorce; it had been quite another to become a working lady who became just one parent through choice. Round the dawn from the 1990s, Vice Leader Dan Quayle selected a battle about loved ones values having a fictional tv journalist through the name associated with Murphy Dark brown (performed by Candice Bergen) as well as was highly the loss. This might not have already been entirely reasonable to Quayle – there's a lot associated with attention today directed at the drawbacks faced through children developing up within one-parent houses – however few People in america in 2013 query either the best or the actual wisdom of the woman who are able to provide a great home to boost a child with no domestic companion.
Sitcoms aren't documentaries. They aren't in the commercial of decorating facts as well as figures. They do not give us the possibilities that the actual members of the certain home will develop to complete college, own a house, get hitched or stay from prison, which are some of the indications associated with success within our society. What sitcoms perform give all of us is a glance at people in whose situations may be different through ours, but that usually come out not to become so different in the end.
Back within the 1960s, black People in america were difficult to find on system television other than in 3 contexts: within news broadcasts regarding crime or even the municipal rights motion; in sports activities and music entertainment; as well as, occasionally, within stereotyped portrayals which showed all of them as servants, toons, or each.
One night in 1968, all of us met Julia Baker (Diahann Carroll), a health professional who needed employment to assistance herself as well as her youthful son following her spouse was wiped out in Vietnam. Within the first episode from the series to that the character offered her title, Julia phone calls Dr. Morton Chegley (Lloyd Nolan) in regards to a job.
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"I'll perform my greatest, sir, inch Julia response. "But offers Mr. Colton informed you? inch
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"I'm coloured, " Julia states, reminding all of us today the way the vocabulary associated with polite speech can alter over period.
"What color have you been? " questions Dr. Chegley.
"I'm the Negro, inch Julia describes.
"Have you been a Negro, or have you been just attempting to be trendy? " (1)
These days this trade is slightly amusing, within an archaic method. But Julia very first aired under six months following the assassination associated with Dr. Martin Luther Full, barely annually after competition riots sundered Detroit along with other U. Utes. cities, in support of four years following the Civil Privileges Act had been passed. It required courage with regard to NBC to use it the atmosphere, even although critics at that time derided this for portraying the sanitized look at of African-American existence. The display gave numerous white People in america their first take a look at a dark household which was recognizably like their very own. Less than two decades later, The Cosby Display portrayed a booming and caring black United states family as well as earned best ratings along with scarcely a good ounce associated with controversy.
If Julia demonstrated white The united states someone who had been more such as itself compared to it anticipated, Archie Bunker demonstrated white The united states someone who had been more such as itself compared to it desired – noisally bigoted as well as ignorant, though not really mean-spirited or even evil in mind. Archie (Carroll O'Connor) had been the main character of in the household, which opened on CBS within 1970 as well as dominated ratings for any decade. In a single episode, entertainer Sammy Davis, Junior., pays a good improbable trip to the Bunkers' house in A queen, N. B. Ever the actual considerate web host, Archie requires his spouse, Edith (Jean Stapleton) in order to fetch the beer with regard to him – and also to bring Davis the Twinkie.
Gays had been even much less visible upon television compared to blacks till they started appearing out of the wardrobe in actual life and arriving in sitcom dreams. (I'm not keeping track of Jack Ritter's portrayal of the straight guy cohabiting along with two appealing women within Three's Organization, in that Ritter's personality pretends to become gay to be able to divert the landlord who's simultaneously dubious, judgmental as well as lecherous. )#) Notoriously, in the situation of Ellen DeGeneres as well as her 1990s sitcom, Ellen, both events happened together within 1997.
DeGeneres' being released occurred only a year following Congress handed, and Leader Bill Clinton authorized, the Protection of Relationship Act. It arrived seven years prior to the first lawful same-sex relationship was carried out on Ough. S. dirt. Ellen and also the many implies that have pictured gays because, from May and Sophistication to Contemporary Family, have cracked away in the law's basic principle associated with "otherness" almost as soon as it handed. In a couple of months, we could see the end result of this particular societal toning, if the actual Supreme Courtroom strikes lower all or a part of DOMA.
I question that many of these sitcoms attempted to change culture. I suspect the main goal was simply to be humorous, which was necessary to stay about the air. Yet I believe it is fair to express that throughout entertaining all of us, they transformed us, or a minimum of they managed to get easier for all of us to alter ourselves.
Condolences to people who were near to Bonnie Franklin, that died from age 69 associated with complications through pancreatic most cancers. And thanks to all the creative abilities, past as well as present, whose function has assisted us grow a lot through the years, even in the event that we didn't mean in order to.


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Memorial Day on Monday, plus a further 11 early games on Wednesday
Archive | May, 2015
BGB Fantasy League 2015: Week Seven
Some upsets were caused in week seven of the BaseballGB Fantasy League. Which teams were picking up wins against the top teams?
BGB Fantasy League 2015: Week Six
There were some outstanding pitching performances this week. Which managers saw the benefits of Kluber's 18 strikeout game and Shelby Miller's near no-hitter?
Anyone can manage an MLB team
The Miami Marlins' appointment of Dan Jennings as their new manager just goes to show how little value MLB teams seem to place in managerial and coaching roles
MLB this Week: Potential Kershaw-Bumgarner match up
This working week's pre-midnight MLB starts includes a Dodgers-Giants game on Thursday and two chances to catch the surprising Houston Astros
BGB Fantasy League 2015: Week Five
Week five of the BaseballGB Fantasy League saw a homer binge by Bryce Harper and a number of young arms racking up the strikeouts. But which teams would benefit?
MLB this Week: Cardinals-Indians series and more
We've got 10 MLB games starting before midnight UK time this working week
Rays in Review 2015 – Solid Start For April
The Tampa Bay Rays kicked off their 2015 season with a somewhat successful month that went relatively under the radar
BGB Fantasy League 2015: Week Four
There were some big wins in week four of the BaseballGB fantasy league. Which teams would benefit?
MLB this Week: Avoiding the General Election coverage
There are eight MLB day-games this working week, including five scheduled for General Election Thursday

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EP153- What We Are Up To (Part V)
Shaun Cordingley
In what is (somehow) their longest ever podcast, Shaun (@Shauncord) and Dave (@davidronn) discuss what they have been up to since November.
This means the conversation moves from books and comic books, to video games (on the xb360 and ps4), to OTHER podcasts, to music, to television shows, and finally coming around to movies...which means that they talk about everything from "IT" to "Marvel Star Wars", from Red Dead Redemption to Doom, Shaun actually talks a bit about horror movies, and they even manage to not just gush more about Swiss Army Man for a while...
Although Shaun may mention its' soundtrack...
Send us your questions! We are getting set up for our February podcasts, and are ready for whatever you've got (that is hopefully not about American politics....)! Hit us up individually on Twitter, together @guysfrompodcast, or via email on our website www.theguysfrom.com
Thanks again to our friends The Sweets (www.wearethesweets.com) for our opening music ("Prairie Blues").
Plus, thanks to Kevin MacLeod for "Minstrel Guild " for our advertisement, and "Fearless First" wrapping the episode up.
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Manning Shines As Colts Gobble Up Lions
Peyton Manning broke one of Dan Marino's records, took a big step toward another and didn't even have to play the whole game to do it. Manning threw for six touchdowns in less than three quarters and raised his season total to 41.
Pittsburgh 16, No. 21 West Virginia 13
Pitt quarterback Tyler Palko found himself down late in the game against a favored opponent for the second game in a row. Just as he got it done against Notre Dame, he got it done against West Virginia.
Top-Selling Author Arthur Hailey Dies in Bahamas
NASSAU, Bahamas - Top-selling British author Arthur Hailey, whose novels sold 170 million copies around the world, died in his sleep at his Bahamas home, his wife said on Thursday. He was 84.
The author of several bestsellers that became blockbuster movies, like "Airport" and "Hotel," had been ailing since suffering a stroke two months ago. But he had enjoyed dinner with two of his six children just a few hours before he died.
"He had a wonderful life. His greatest ambition was to see his name on a book and he certainly achieved that," said his wife Sheila.
Born in Luton, England, in 1920 as the only child of working class parents, Hailey began writing after World War II, when a meal served on a DC-4 flight triggered a story idea that was to propel him to fortune.
He began to wonder what would happen if the flight crew went down with food poisoning and penned his story "Flight Into Danger" -- the first of his successful works.
Hollywood producers bought several of his books and he flirted with script writing himself before deciding that novels were his forte. He was known for his intricate research and wanted his readers to be both entertained and informed.
He went on to see his books published in 38 languages in 40 countries.
"Wheels," "The Moneychangers" and "Strong Medicine," were some of his other novels that were made into movies.
Hailey emigrated from Britain to Canada after the war and worked in marketing and public relations before launching his literary career.
It took him about three years to complete each book. After publishing "Detective" in 1997, when he was 77 years old, he decided to retire.
He and his wife lived at Lyford Cay, Nassau, for more than 40 years.
Hailey was never influenced by critics or literary awards. During his career, he chiseled out just 600 words a day. "I have never been able to write quickly or easily. I am too self-critical for that. I am never satisfied," he once said.


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Following the failures of French generals Jean-Andoche Junot and Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult in 1807 and 1809, Napoleon Bonaparte sent a powerful army to invade Portugal in 1810. The French army, which was commanded by Marshal Massena, easily made their way to the center of the country—but little did they know that the Anglo-Portuguese army, led by General Wellington, was waiting to take them down on the other side.
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Mark Howard
Name: Mark Howard
Athletic Background: Lifting weights in the gym for years then fell in love with cycling. These days a sort of jack of all trades master of none.
Biggest sporting achievement to date?: Since I moved into the vet age group last year I`ve been winning my cat almost each time I`ve raced.
Favourite workout?: Neg splits or Hills for a run and anything on the bike.
Least Favourite Workout?: Anything in the water.
Worst Habit ?: Red wine and Chocolate and my timekeeping is always last minute.
Favourite song to train to / motivate?: Not that bothered really.
Something about you that many people do not know?: I used to tip the scales at just under 16 stone.
If you could tell other athletes one thing you have learned so far in your training what would it be?: Sounds obvious but try and train "hard" and make every session count. I`m not a person that goes through the motions during a workout, id rather not bother turning up than waste the session.
What is your ultimate goal as an athlete?: To stay injury free and keep enjoying racing.
Favourite Race / Course?: Liverpool Tri.
What's your most memorable racing moment?: Loads, but fresh in the memory is the Tri relays in Nottingham and all the chaos that went with the day. Great event and id love to go back and have another bash.
Any unusual race day routines or superstitions?: None
What race / event / ride is on your bucket list?: I always wanted to ride Le Marmotte and finally got there this year. I`d also like to race for the GB age groups in the near future.
Swim: Orca suit/predator goggles
Bike: Specialized Tramac and Dolan Scala
Run: Asics
Nutrition of choice: Soreen
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About: Darcy Kitching is the Walk2Connect Collaborative Storyteller and Boulder Program Director. See her ongoing project, Walk2Connect Stories, here. Darcy grew up in Colorado, hiking and camping with her family. She went on to study education, urban planning and community development, and has honed her photography skills over more than 20 years. While she still loves a great hiking challenge, Darcy values community-oriented places where people can walk, learn and relax together. She is a proud founding professional member of the Walk2Connect Cooperative. Find her in Boulder walking with her son and bringing people together on neighborhood, open-space and longer-distance walks around the county!
Darcy's Niche: Child- and family-friendly walks, nature and discovery walks/hikes, civic engagement walks linked to transportation planning, long-distance rambles around Boulder County
1.) Photo-voice Storytelling & Documentation Services: Photographing people and the places they value, significant community assets and landmarks, issues and problems with the built/pedestrian environment, and important local pathways that make walking easy and fun.
2.) Walking Experiences for Walkable Community Design & Placemaking: Partnering with planning agencies to provide walking experiences as a form of mobile civic engagement.
3.) Children & Youth Engagement in Walkable Community Design: Creating programs that specialize in participatory work with children and youth, facilitating walks that help young people's voices and ideas be heard in planning and design decision making.
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My LAPTOP auto types qqqqq after some time intervals. This is very annoying specially while chatting or entering passwords. My anti virus programs have failed to detect any viruses. This happens only in my user account not in the guest account nor in any other account . Can you please guide me towards fixing the problem.
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Doesn't sound like a virus, more like a keyboard issue. It could be pure coincidence that it has only shown up when in your user account.
Two things to try:
1. With the computer off, give 12 or so firm taps on the "q" key - that sometimes fixes key issues, for a while anyway.
2. Try an external keyboard and see if you still get the issue.
Always pop back and let us know the outcome - thanks
NOPE, my keyboard is working fine as i have checked it in every possible way. The problem is with the software
Well, although it doesn't really sound like a virus anything is possible. Run MalwareBytes on it and see if it finds anything:
(green icon top right).
If it finds anything paste the log on here.
Always pop back and let us know the outcome - thanks
But does the problem persist with an external keyboard - have you tried/confirmed that - as suggested by Derek?
As i have said before that i have tried all of the anti malware and anti virus programs but they are unable to detect any such malware/virus .
Yes i have tried to that too. I have seen few more people here complaining about the similar problem. Even they don't have any problem with the hardware.
"Yes i have tried to that too"
Lets dig deeper.
1. Download ZHPDiag from one of these links.
Screenshots ( SS ) How to install.
(Don't be alarmed if the site is in French, it sometimes happens, the tool will take your system language and allow the download if you get a warning message.)
2. Save the file on your Desktop.
3. Double click on ZHPDiag.exe and follow the installation instructions.
(For Vista and Win 7 users, click right to ensure you execute with admin right)
The tool creates two icons ZHPDiag and ZHPFix.
4. Double click on the short cut ZHPDiag on your Destktop.
5. If you need to change the language, click on the little house, (bottom right) and change to English.
6. Click on the "Configure" button.
7. Click on the Magnifying glass "Default diagnosis with legitimate".
8. Click on "Search" and answer yes if a message appears.
Wait for the tool to finished (maybe a long time) A ZHPDiag log will be on the Desktop.
9. Close ZHPDiag.
10. The log is large, upload it to a site of your choosing or use Image Uploader.
I upload to Imgur.com for images & load.to for files ( neither need an account ) Give us the link please.
Free file sharing sites come & go, if Imgur.com & load.to are too busy ( or not working ) here are others to try.
free file upload no account needed
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How to use for files.
Can I have you email address Jhonw? Is the information provided by me is secure and will not be misused?


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Chris Conley is a Policy Attorney with the Technology and Civil Liberties Project of the ACLU of Northern California, where he works to ensure that emerging technologies support rather than undermine individual rights.
He has recently focused on issues of government surveillance, including the role of community input and oversight into law enforcement use of surveillance technology and the privacy implications of metadata collection by the NSA and other government agencies.
His past work includes looking at the role of mobile and social media platforms in protecting individual rights, exploring non-regulatory approaches to the "right to be forgotten," and developing a "Facebook quiz about Facebook quizzes" and other multimedia tools to help educate consumers about privacy and free speech issues. He has been invited to speak on various topics before the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Federal Trade Commission, the California legislature, and at various conferences including SXSW Interactive and DEF CON.
Prior to joining the ACLU of Northern California, Chris was a Fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, where he studied international Internet surveillance. He previously worked as a software engineer and data architect for various corporations and non-profits.
Chris holds a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Michigan, a S.M. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology.


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Desire Lines is an art series in the format of a walking tour. With a guide, audience members move through several locations, each playing host to a performance, installation or sonic experience. Desire Lines aspire to blur the line between private and public space and performative and non-performative actions. Accordingly, artworks created within this context function and appear differently to those who view them, so that each iteration of the event is unique. Desire Lines seeks to make art and performance accessible to a broad demographic of the local community.
Sebastian Henry-Jones
Sebastian is an emerging curator and writer in the final stages of completing a masters of art curation at The University of Sydney. In 2017 he took part in the Australia Council's professional development program at the Venice Biennale. He has previously worked for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Kaldor Public Art Projects, and has spent time abroad interning at Gagosian Gallery and at Block Universe, an annual performance art festival in London.
Maeve Parker
Maeve is a Sydney based curator and musician. She is particularly interested in exploring the potential for art and performance as a method for individuals and broader communities to explore contemporary issues. She has recently completed a bachelor of laws and communications with honours at UTS, and is presently undertaking further research into the spatial implications of criminal justice and the politics of space. She regularly performs and records with a number of projects.
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Tourists Spend Exactly This Much On Average While Holidaying In Malta
Tourists visiting Malta spent around €827 per person on average in the first nine months of 2018, new statistics released by the National Statistics Office have revealed.
The new statistics reveals the average budget of tourists who visit Malta, as well as the sleeping habits of tourists to Malta, between the months of January and September 2018, and gives an insight into the type of people who visit Malta for a vacation.
Tourists spent a total of €1.7 billion while holidaying in Malta in the same period
This was an increase of 9.3% compared to 2017. In September alone, tourists were estimated to have spent €242.7 million, an increase of 4.8% over the same month in 2017.
There was also an increase in the sheer amount of inbound tourists to the island
Just over two million inbound tourists trips took place between January and September, with 2,036,841 trips occurring, which was 15.6% more than in 2017.
Moreover, tourists were spending more time in Malta, with a 10.2% increase in total nights spent in Malta
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the development of Vietnam Economy and integration into the World Trade System
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Re: the development of Vietnam Economy and integration into the World Trade System
Answered By: pafalafa-ga on 01 Oct 2004 08:09 PDT
Hello there. Sometimes, on the internet, one just hits the motherlode! I'm sure that virtually all the information you would need on this topic can be found at this single source below, from the World Bank's section on Vietnam: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/EASTASIAPACIFICEXT/VIETNAMEXTN/0,,contentMDK:20151907~menuPK:387586~pagePK:64027988~piPK:64027986~theSitePK:387565,00.html Vietnam: Readiness for WTO Accession Vietnam has applied for entry into the World Trade Organization and as such, its economy is being closely scrutinized, with a particular emphasis on any issues regarding international trade. There are more than 25 papers at this site that will provide you with detailed information on the topic of your question. Probably the most pertinent paper for starters is this: Opportunities and challenges for Vietnam in WTO accession http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTRANETTRADE/Resources/WBI-Training/vietnamaccession_nam.pdf The opening sections of the paper give a good overview of the main issues confronting Vietnam as it enters the arena of global trade: ========== OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR VIETNAM IN WTO ACCESSION Prof. Dr. Do Hoai Nam Director, National Center for Social Science & Humanity It is imperative to explain the opportunities and challenges faced by Vietnam in its WTO accession. In principle, opportunities and challenges in integration for Vietnam now are affected by two major factors. The first is the complex and fast changing international context. The second is Vietnam's specific issues in its own development. To come up with an appropriate approach, the study on opportunities and challenges for Vietnam in WTO accession should clarify these factors. 1. New international context, opportunities and challenges in development for Vietnam In recent period, the world situation changed rapidly and profoundly as never before. The impact of globalization and the knowledge-based economy forces developing countries to join the world economy system, and the situation for them is much more difficult than before. In general, the level of development in the modern world is measured by the following indicators: First, high speed of change and the faster pace of shortening in the production and technology cycle. Second, the global network structure and the complex nexus of the world economy. Third, conditions for economic development become unstable and unpredictable. Fourth, the balance of power is profoundly changing and driving the world economy, with power concentrating in a few nations and transnational corporations. These new developments entail great challenges to the late comers as follows: First, the reaction by governments and firms should be prompt and effective in a high-speed global game. Second, the cost of integrating into the global economy is high, especially to the poor countries. Third, competition at the global scale becomes vigorous. The traditional comparative advantage based on natural resources and low labor cost is diminishing in importance. Knowledge and skill become determinants of competitiveness. The big challenge to late comer countries is how to continuously improve their comparative advantage and dynamic competitiveness, created by human being in an integrated environment, under the impact of economic globalization. ========== I think these opening comments provide an excellent overview for you, and the remainder of this document -- along with the other documents at this site -- should provide invaluable resources for your research. Before rating this answer, please let me know if you need any additional information. Just post a Request for Clarification, and I'll be happy to assist you further. All the best, pafalafa-ga search strategy: Visited the World Bank site and found their Vietnam page.
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1987 Ford F-Series Trucks
Ford's evolution of the eighth-generation F-Series took a key turn in 1987 with yet another refresh on the 1980 F150 redesign. This time, however, Ford took the equivalent of a giant leap in the styling department, and it helped make an already successful model sell even better.
Interestingly enough, the basic design of the F-Series remained the same - it's a testament both to how good the 1980 remodel was, and just how big a difference a stylish front end can make.
Either way, the 1987 pickup trucks from the Blue Oval were light years away from any other manufacturer in terms of style, and by the end of the eighth-generation tenure in 1991, the F-Series would go from being the best selling truck in America, to the best selling overall vehicle in America.
The days of pickup trucks being barebones work machines were well and truly over.
Restored 1987 Ford F-150 Video
Take two minutes right now to check out this beautiful black restored 87 F150. Wow that truck looks absolutely amazing in black!
What's New For 1987
A flattened, rounded, and otherwise sculptured front end evicted the angular lines and large egg carton grille from 1986. Flush headlights and wraparound amber turn signals combined with a simpler grille to give the F-Series a thoroughly modern look that no other manufacturer could touch. The new, aerodynamic headlights are also easier to service (i.e. you can replace bulbs without tools).
The changes went further than just the front end, however. Wheel arches became rounder and bumpers became smaller, all of which contributed to the new streamlined look. Inside, a completely redesigned dash board with new gauges brought the F-Series closer and closer to passenger car ergonomics and comfort.
The new looks went hand in hand with technological upgrades such as standard rear anti-lock brakes-an industry first for a pickup truck. The standard 4.9L I-6 engine received multi-port fuel injection, while recalibrations to the Twin I-Beam front suspension gave the F-Series a more precise on-road feel.
Other small changes for '87 include:
- The washer fluid reservoir capacity is increased to 80 ounces, with a widened filler mouth for easier filling
- The 4.9L and 5.0L engines now use a serpentine belt and idler pulley means no more belt tensioning and easier belt replacement
- The brake fluid reservoir is made of see-through plastic with a screw-on cap, it's now easier to check the level and add fluid
- Tailgate operation has been redesigned; and a redesign in the front suspension allows for easier alignments.
1987 F-Series Model Lineup
Regular and SuperCab models were available in the F-150 and F-250, with Crew Cab models reserved for the one-ton F-350. Styleside beds were the norm, with Flaresides still available in the F-150, though 1987 would mark the end of Flaresides until 1992.
F-Series shoppers only had three trim levels to choose from-the "plain Jane" Custom, mid-level XL, and top-of-the-line XLT Lariat. All models could be had with four-wheel drive, save for dual rear wheel versions of the F-350.
1987 F-Series Powertrains
Familiar engines populate the 1987 F-Series line, though fuel injection on the 4.9 liter inline six cylinder gave the base engine for the F-150/250 a much needed power boost. The high output 5.8 liter was standard for the F-350, though the 7.5 liter monster remained the heavy hauler power plant of choice.
1987 would also be the last year for the 6.9 liter diesel; a new 7.3 liter oil burner would take its place in 1988.
As for transmissions, the old-school three-speed manual "three on the tree" was finally replaced with a traditional four-speed manual as the standard transmission across the line (F-150 models used a four-speed with overdrive), with three or four-speed automatics all optional.
4.9 liter/300 cid I-6
|F-150 / F-250 / F-250HD (2WD only)
165 / 275
5.0 liter/302 cid V-8
185 / 270
5.8 liter/351 cid V-8
210 / 315
7.5 liter/460 cid V-8
225 / 362
6.9 liter/445 cid V-8 Diesel
170 / 310
1987 Ford F-Series Defects / Recalls
Only one significant recall affects the 1987 F-Series. Listed as ID 39696, this recall addresses a problem with the spring lock fuel line coupling, which could work loose over time, causing a fuel leak.
Despite Ford's use of galvanized metals, rust in cab corners, doors, and fenders are a significant problem for the entire eighth-generation F-Series. Many owners also complain about worn bushings in the front suspension, leading to clunks and a general looseness in the front end.
1987 Ford F-150 Standard Features & Available Options
Major standard features include:
- 4.9L six cylinder engine with multi-port fuel injection
- Four-speed manual transmission with overdrive
- Twin I-Beam front suspension (Twin Traction Beam on 4WD models)
- Power steering
- Power brakes with rear Anti-Lock
- AM radio with digital clock
- Halogen headlamps
- Chrome front bumper
- Full gauge cluster (oil pressure, engine temperature, and voltmeter)
- Easily removable tailgate
- Front/rear fender liners
- Bright hub caps
- Color-keyed sun visors
Eight Preferred Equipment Packages (500A through 507A) were available depending on trim level. They include: Custom-500A, 501A, 502A XL-503A, 504A XLT Lariat-505A, 506A, 507A
Major options include:
- Electronic AM/FM stereo cassette with digital clock
- Cruise control
- Air conditioning
- Power windows (XL and XLT Lariat only)
- Power door locks (XL, XLT, and XLT Lariat only)
- Tilt steering wheel
- Interval Wipers
- Captain's chairs (SuperCab only)
- Center console (SuperCab only)
- Cloth Seats (XLT only)
- Cloth / vinyl bench seat
- Roof clearance lights
- Dual fuel tanks
- Chrome grille
- Automatic locking hubs
- Lower bodyside and wheel lip moldings
- Combination/Deluxe/Roof & Rocker two-tone paint
- Heavy-duty front suspension
- Heavy-duty rear suspension
- Deluxe argent styled steel wheels
- Sliding rear window
- Argent rear step bumper
- Chrome rear step bumper
- Skid plates
- Trailer Towing/Camper Package (Front and rear stabilizer bars, heavy-duty springs, heavy-duty shock absorbers, 7-wire trailer wiring harness, heavy-duty flashers, super engine cooling, aux transmission cooler with automatic transmission)
Interior trim colors for 1987 include Medium Grey, Regatta Blue, Canyon Red, and Chestnut. These colors are coded to certain exterior paint colors and may not be available in all interior/exterior color combinations. Available exterior paint color choices for 1987 include:
- Light Chestnut
- Desert Tan Metallic
- Colonial White
- Dark Shadow Blue Metallic
- Dark Canyon Red
- Alpine Green Metallic
- Light Regatta Blue
- Bright Canyon Red
- Medium Silver Metallic
- Dark Grey Metallic
- Raven Black
1987 Ford F-Series Brochure
Here are some excerpts taken from the '87 F150 brochure:
The new style of the 1987 instrument panel has a curved, driver-biased shape that positions the speedometer in the center, where you get an unobstructed view through the steering wheel. A full complement of gauges for oil pressure, engine coolant temperature, ammeter and fuel are also standard. They are all backlit with lit pointers for excellent night readability. You'll notice a new indicator light in the F-Series instrument panel, too. It's one that you won't find on any other pickup manufactured in America. It's for the standard rear antilock brake system. The system contributes to smooth, sure stops by inhibiting rear wheel lock-up under most operating conditions.
Anytime rear wheel lock-up is detected, the computer processes signals and directs the pressure control valve to modulate rear brake line hydraulic pressure. The result is more controlled rear brake performance. Each time the ignition is turned on, a warning light check and a complete computer self-check are made. The computer continuously checks for any possible electrical malfunction. Should the system ever fail to operate, the warning light on the instrument panel will alert the driver that the computer has automatically shut down the system and converted the rear brakes to conventional non-antilock operation.
Notable advancements incorporated into the F-Series suspensions for 1987n are the use of gas-pressurized shock absorbers for a smooth ride and adjustable caster and camber for accurate alignment.
Scheduled maintenance intervals for the 1987 F-Series included a 7,500 mile or 6 month oil change interval. Spark plugs, air filter, and coolant are due to be changed every 30,000 miles (or 3 years for the coolant).


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Near the midway point of his recently published autobiography, On the Move: a Life, neurologist and author Oliver Sacks recounts a time in 2000 when he was busy writing an earlier book, a memoir about his childhood love of chemistry called Uncle Tungsten. In his late 60s at the time, Sacks was working on a chapter about spectroscopy and found himself roaming the streets of New York with a miniature spectroscope, an instrument that allows you to see the unique spectral light patterns emitted by each of the elements. Peering in through the window of a gay bar, he was dazzled by the display of light, but then he realized that the people inside were disturbed by the apparition of this eccentric old man looking at them through a strange device. Instead of withdrawing, though, Sacks went to the door and "strode in boldly," shouting, "Stop talking about sex, everyone! Have a look at something interesting." As it turned out, some of the patrons did stop to take a look. Sacks writes that after a span of "dumbfounded silence,"
Near the midway point of his recently published autobiography, On the Move: a Life, neurologist and author Oliver Sacks recounts a time in 2000 when he was busy writing an earlier book, a memoir about his childhood love of chemistry called Uncle Tungsten. In his late 60s at the time, Sacks was working on a chapter about spectroscopy and found himself roaming the streets of New York with a miniature spectroscope, an instrument that allows you to see the unique spectral light patterns emitted by each of the elements. Peering in through the window of a gay bar, he was dazzled by the display of light, but then he realized that the people inside were disturbed by the apparition of this eccentric old man looking at them through a strange device. Instead of withdrawing, though, Sacks went to the door and "strode in boldly," shouting, "Stop talking about sex, everyone! Have a look at something interesting." As it turned out, some of the patrons did stop to take a look. Sacks writes that after a span of "dumbfounded silence,"
my childish, ingenuous enthusiasm won the day, and everyone started passing the spectroscope from hand to hand, making comments like, "Wow—cool!" After everyone had had a turn with the spectroscope, it was handed back, with thanks. Then they all resumed talking about sex again. (238)
This episode encapsulates in microcosm the poignancy that pervades Sacks's entire autobiography, standing out even amid the multitude of likewise humorous and quietly touching scenes. Sacks has for years been telling us to stop and have a look at something interesting, whether it be the case histories of his tragically, yet fascinatingly, afflicted patients, some pivotal discovery in the history of neuroscience, or the story behind one of his own personal epiphanies. What you wouldn't know from reading this story apart from the rest of the book, though, is that Sacks didn't wander onto that particular scene by sheer coincidence.
Read in its context, this anecdote says a lot about what has afflicted Sacks himself for almost his entire life, leaving us to wonder if perhaps some of his infectious enthusiasm for science and literature and history—or at least the solitary proclivities that support it—came about through his efforts at compensating for those afflictions. Indeed, one of the pleasures of reading On the Move is learning about the origins of what would become his abiding preoccupations, the central themes that shine through in his writing, the ones that, along with his gracefully meticulous prose style and his unmistakable compassion, have earned his essays and books such widespread acclaim. But at times it's somewhat of a shock to discover just how much Sacks himself was struggling—and continues to struggle—with impediments both physical and social. Just before going into the story about the spectroscope, for instance, he writes,
I am shy in ordinary social contexts; I am not able to "chat" with any ease; I have difficulty recognizing people (this is lifelong, though worse now that my eyesight is impaired); I have little knowledge of and little interest in current affairs, whether political, social, or sexual. Now, additionally, I am hard of hearing, a polite term for deepening deafness. Given all this, I tend to retreat into a corner, to look invisible, to hope I am passed over. This was incapacitating in the 1960s, when I went to gay bars to meet people; I would agonize, wedged into a corner, and leave after an hour, alone, sad, but somehow relieved. But if I find someone, at a party or elsewhere, who shares some of my own (usually scientific) interests—volcanoes, jellyfish, gravitational waves, whatever—then I am immediately drawn into animated conversation (though I may still fail to recognize the person I'm talking to a moment later). (236-7)
Sacks only recently began talking about his own prosopagnosia, or face blindness, the topic of an essay that gave one of his earliest books its provocative title, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat—though Sacks's own condition is much milder than the man whose case he explored in the essay (or at least it was until his vision began failing). After reading On the Move, though, that title, along with the one for his next collection, An Anthropologist on Mars, which took its name from an essay about Temple Grandin and Asperger's syndrome, both seem like they reveal as much about Sacks's own alienation as about the unique lives of his patients.
Sacks's homosexuality is also something he only recently began discussing, but it comes up early in his autobiography. One of the central themes of Sacks's writing has been that what most of us are tempted to look at as disorders or diseases are often just different ways of perceiving and living in the world. When his parents found out about his homosexuality, his mother in particular responded with unforgivable harshness: "'You are an abomination,' she said. 'I wish you had never been born.' Then she left and did not speak to me for several days" (10). Sacks, however, does forgive her, or at least comes to understand her motives:
When, in 1951, my mother learned of my homosexuality and said, "I wish you had never been born," she was speaking, though I am not sure I realized this at the time, out of anguish as much as accusation—the anguish of a mother who, feeling she had lost one son to schizophrenia, now feared she was losing another son to homosexuality, a "condition" which was regarded then as shameful and stigmatizing and with a deep power to mark and spoil a life. (61)
Today, it's easy for most of us to think of homosexuality as just another aspect of healthy human diversity, not as a mental condition, certainly not as anything shameful; if anything, we recognize now, it was probably that stigma, and his mother's inability to see past it, that threatened to spoil Sacks's life. Remarkably, though, Sacks was by then questioning whether even his brother's schizophrenia was best understood, and best treated, as a medical condition.
Two of his three older brothers were already on their way to becoming doctors by the time Oliver and the third brother, Michael, began entering into a type of conspiracy against anyone who sought, by some crude chemical means, to cure him. Michael was an avid reader of communist pamphlets and enjoyed his job as a messenger because he saw it as serving a heroic cause. Oliver writes,
He once told me that the seemingly humdrum messages he delivered might have hidden, secret meanings, apparent only to the designated recipient; this was why they could not be entrusted to anyone else. Though he might appear to be an ordinary messenger with ordinary messages, Michael said, this was by no means the case. He never said this to anyone else—he knew it would sound bizarre, if not mad—and he had begun to think of our parents, his older brothers, and the entire medical profession as determined to devalue or "medicalize" everything he thought and did, especially if it had any hint of mysticism, for they would see it as an intimation of psychosis. But I was still his little brother, just twelve years old, not yet a medicalizer, and able to listen sensitively and sympathetically to anything he said, even if I could not fully understand it. (60)
When Michael began taking Largactil (or Thorazine, as it's called in the U.S.) in the early 1950s, this blending together of the real world with his fantasy life came to an end. Michael became dull and lazy. The drug is, after all, a tranquilizer.
The treatment wasn't altogether sinister, however, as Michael's schizophrenia was often truly debilitating, and his delusions and violent mood swings were not only dangerous at times—they were a nerve-rackingly constant source of anxiety for anyone close to him, including his little brother. As Oliver writes,
When I left England on my twenty-seventh birthday, it was, among many other reasons, partly to get away from my tragic, hopeless, mismanaged brother. But perhaps, in another sense, it would become an attempt to explore schizophrenia and allied brain-mind disorders in my own patients and in my own way. (65)
Thus equipped with the insight that neurological patients often see their own conditions much differently from the way doctors see them—not merely as problems needing to be fixed but as rare if onerous gifts intricately tied up with their sense of who they are and what their place is in the world—while at the same time still tormented by the condemnation of his mother and forever ill-at-ease in casual social exchanges, Sacks came to America, to explore, to see where he might fit in, to stay on the move so as to outpace some ultimate reckoning the nature of which he couldn't begin to anticipate.
On the Move reads briskly. The chapters are broken into mostly light-hearted and often quite funny anecdotes, vignettes, and mini-essays, while the overarching structure of the autobiography builds on the themes introduced in the earliest pages. When Sacks's father, wondering why his son never seemed to be interested in any girls, asked him if he might prefer boys, the young Oliver responded, "Yes, I do—but it's just a feeling—I have never 'done' anything" (10). While he would eventually get around to doing something with a handful of lovers, all these relationships were remarkable either for their brevity or for their lack of intimacy. In London in 1973, Sacks, celebrating his 40th birthday, met a young man from Harvard and spent the following week with him. Though it's a little heartbreaking, it's not exactly surprising when Sacks reveals that "after that sweet birthday fling I was to have no sex for the next thirty-five years" (203). It would have been under thirty years into this unenforced sentence of celibacy when Sacks burst into that gay bar in 2000 and shouted at the patrons to stop talking about sex so they could have a look at something interesting.
The multiple sections of each chapter are connected thematically, so they jump around in time to some degree, even as the overall temporal direction is forward from Sacks's early childhood into the present. The descriptions tend to come as though from a distance, as Sacks resists the temptation to fill in details lost to the void of normal forgetfulness—though several of his quoted letters, journal entries, and unpublished narrative essays do intermittently lend some enticing texture to many of episodes he recounts. As effortlessly engaging as each section is on its own, the rapid-fire cascade of what appear at first glance like loosely connected, even somewhat shallowly rendered reminiscences could easily detract from any sense of progression, blunting any compulsion toward further reading. What saves On the Move from being submerged in tedious and chatty meandering is the general picture that incrementally emerges through the reprisal of themes harking back to Sacks's childhood and the earliest pages of the book. Considered collectively, the individual sections come to seem like tiles comprising an intricate mosaic, a portrait of a man on a quest that's part scientific expedition and part something much more personal, a search for a manageable form of human connection, and for a viable reconciliation of his two professional roles, each of whose objectives are frequently at odds with the other's.
When you consider the difficulty of arranging all the heartbreaks, triumphs, turning points, and tragedies that make up several decades of memories—along with all the scattered impressions and one-off encounters that have left their indelible marks—all into a book of under four hundred pages, you begin to appreciate the near impossibility of writing an autobiography that captures at all suitably the essence of a life. Most works in the genre rely heavily on the author's celebrity for whatever modicum of interest they manage to pique. A man with an oeuvre as impressive as Sacks's could also have coasted along on the promise of delivering the dish about what went on behind the scenes of his earlier works, all of which foregrounded the patients rather than the good doctor himself. With all those previous books, too, Sacks had the luxury of focusing closely in on the individuals, events, and relationships that he felt best illuminated whatever neuropsychological phenomenon he was then exploring—the memoirist's advantage of a narrow scope. Approaching On the Move, Sacks faced the formidable challenge of composing an entire autobiography, which meant having to condense a long and extraordinarily rich life into a dozen or so chapters. The style and structure he adopted to meet this challenge, while much different from the methods on display in past books, serve as one more testament to his literary ingenuity.
On the Move does feature its fair share of celebrities, both Hollywood types like Robert De Niro and Robin Williams and scientific types like Stephen Jay Gould and Francis Crick. You also get plenty of background to the stories told in Sacks's groundbreaking books. A vital theme recurring throughout the book, however, is Sacks's seemingly endless struggle to find the best way to represent his experiences, and the characters at the center of them, in a prose register that does justice to the real lives, the real dignity and spirit of his subjects, while at the same time casting light on the neurological phenomena that so fascinate him. What has always made Sacks's books so wonderfully engrossing, and what makes Sacks himself such a treasure, is his dual identity as a profoundly compassionate doctor and a consummate artist, one in constant search of the ideal form to convey his stories. His essays and books aren't just cogent explorations of scientific mysteries; they consistently achieve the status of true literature. And now, with On the Move, Sacks has bequeathed to us a masterpiece of the autobiographical form.
As with all artistic masterpieces, though, you don't close this book with any unalloyed feeling of uplift. Oliver Sacks's life and his career raise some troubling questions about the driving impulse behind scientific and literary achievement. Again and again throughout his life, Sacks has played the role of outsider, either by force or by choice. The early chapters of On the Move in which he recounts his days as a motorcycling aficionado give a sense of what it took for him to quell his fears of isolation and unworthiness. He writes,
There is a direct union of oneself with a motorcycle, for it is so geared to one's proprioception, one's movements and postures, that it responds almost like a part of one's own body. Bike and rider become a single, indivisible entity; it is very much like riding a horse. A car cannot become part of one in quite the same way. (96)
Sacks would usually experience this union of man and machine over the course of long journeys he embarked on by himself. He would thus spend hour after hour, alone but connected with a near-living machine that responded intimately to his bidding, and forever moving toward something, away from certain other things—this is Sacks in his element. But the motorcycling that gave him such joy wasn't completely without a social dimension:
America, I imagined, was a classless society, a place where everyone, irrespective of birth, color, religion, education, or profession, could meet each other as fellow human beings, brother animals, a place where a professor could talk to a truck driver, without the categories coming between them.
I had had a taste, a glimpse, of such a democracy, an equality, when I roved about England on my motorcycle in the 1950s. Motorcycles seemed, even in stiff England, to bypass the barriers, to open a sort of social ease and good nature in everyone. "That's a nice bike," someone would say, and the conversation would go from there. Motorcyclists were a friendly lot; we waved to one another when we passed on the road, made conversation easily if we met at a café. We formed a sort of romantic classless society within society at large. (72-3)
Sacks could, in such a society, avoid being forced to answer for his difficulty recognizing faces. He could escape questions about his sexual preferences. Even within this ideal society, though, Sacks was given to withdrawing. He writes of being accepted by the Hells Angels, for instance, who were charmed by the notion of a biker with an MD, but he never actually got around to going on any rides with them.
Another obsession that took hold of Sacks as a young man, and that takes up a significant portion of the first half of his autobiography, was weightlifting. This endeavor too brought Sacks into a community of sorts, and yet he participated in this loose-knit society in just as marginal a way as he did that of his biker comrades. Sacks's descriptions of motorcycling suggest that for him riding was a way of settling the paradox of a fiercely guarded man quietly yearning to connect and belong, in union with a machine that could create the illusion of sentience, even acceptance. With weightlifting too, we see him engaged in solitary exercises that nonetheless take place in, and derive their significance from, a group of likeminded fellow practitioners. But Sacks reveals later in the book that what he was after with bodybuilding was much more straightforward.
I sometimes wonder why I pushed myself so relentlessly in weight lifting. My motive, I think, was not an uncommon one; I was not the ninety-eight-pound weakling of bodybuilding advertisements, but I was timid, diffident, insecure, submissive. I became strong—very strong—with all my weight lifting but found that this did nothing for my character, which remained exactly the same. And, like many excesses, weight lifting exacted a price. (122)
If motorcycling was for Sacks an attempt to square the circle of his competing needs for solitude and companionship, weightlifting seems to have been more about wanting to make himself powerful to compensate for feelings of powerlessness. Both obsessions, crucially, could be indulged in solitude, but both likewise attracted a circle of fellow enthusiasts. If there's a single thread that ties the diverse episodes of Sacks's autobiography together, it would be this theme of lonely intimacy, connection at a distance, roaming the far reaches in search of home.
Sacks, it becomes clear, is not only perfectly aware of the repetition of these notes throughout the book; he's using them quite deliberately and to striking effect. The title of the book derives from a poem by Thom Gunn, one of Sacks's many close friends living at a distance. The two routinely shared lessons learned from their lives as writers, as well as insights gleaned from their experiences with hallucinogens and other drugs. Sacks writes,
We had launched on journeys, evolutions, developments, that could not be entirely predicted or controlled; we were constantly in motion. In "On the Move," which Thom wrote in his twenties, are the lines
At worst, one is in motion; and at best,
Reaching no absolute, in which to rest,
One is always nearer by not keeping still. (278)
"Reaching no absolute" captures much of the essence of Sacks's identity. Over the course of the autobiography, the stage on which he struggles with the many nuances and contradictions of his life shifts from the road and the gym to the hospitals housing his patients and the pages containing his prose. In his professional life, his obsessions have made him just as unplaceable as he is in his personal life. He's had all the practical difficulties of balancing his patients' needs with his readers' desires, his desire to maintain his scientific professionalism with his graciousness toward his audience (a comment he once received from an editor: "The book is too easy to read. This will make people suspicious—professionalize it" [151]), and his role as a doctor with his role as a writer. But his stake in each of these struggles has always been deeply personal.
|Oliver Sacks with Robin Williams
Despite the theme of never-ending motion, On the Move does offer a gratifying sense of direction as we see how Oliver Sacks became the great figure we recognize today by that name. This evolution was as much personal as it was scientific, since to write his breakthrough work Awakenings, the inspiration for a movie of that title starring Robin Williams as a stand-in for Sacks, he not only had to do experimental drug treatments with catatonic patients, but he also had to arrive at an understanding of what his role could be as a doctor and a friend to his subjects, and as a writer turning them into semi-fictional characters. He then had to figure out how to convey something of the essence of that relationship to his readers. One of his favorite responses to the finished book came from none other than Thom Gunn, one of his partners in constant motion. Comparing Awakenings to some of Sacks's earlier writing, Gunn admits he saw those initial works as deficient and despaired of his friend's prospects for overcoming the underlying shortcoming. In a letter, Gunn explained,
What I didn't know was that the growth of sympathies is something frequently delayed till one's thirties. What was deficient in these writings is now the supreme organizer of Awakenings, and wonderfully so. It is literally the organizer of your style, too, and is what enables it to be so inclusive, so receptive, and so varied…. I wonder if you know what happened. Simply working with the patients over so long, or the opening up helped by acid, or really falling in love with someone (as opposed to being infatuated). Or all three… (276).
Sacks doesn't have any fully resolved answer to the question of what precipitated the transformation, but he suggests that both his own and Gunn's development had much to do with "the sense of history, of predecessors" (277).
Sacks's coming into his own with the publication and success of Awakenings does place him in an easily recognizable position among the scientists and explorers of yore, so much so that it makes you wonder if his alienation could be attributed to him having been born some hundred-odd years too late. His essays often read like dispatches from exotic regions, messages home about how much stranger, how much scarier, and how much more wonderful the world is once you step beyond the bounds of your own personal known world. This element to his writing didn't come about through chance. He writes,
I used to delight in the natural history journals of the nineteenth century, all of them blends of the personal and the scientific—especially Wallace's Malay Archipelago, Bate's Naturalist on the River Amazons, and Spruce's Notes of a Botanist, and the work which inspired them all (and Darwin too), Alexander von Humbolt's Personal Narrative. It pleased me to think that Wallace, Bates, and Spruce were all crisscrossing one another's paths, leapfrogging, on the same stretch of the Amazon during the selfsame months of 1849 and to think that all of them were good friends. (They continued to correspond throughout their lives, and Wallace was to publish Spruce's Notes after his death.)
They were all, in a sense, amateurs—self-educated, self-motivated, not part of an institution—and they lived, it sometimes seemed to me, in a halcyon world, a sort of Eden, not yet turbulent and troubled by the almost murderous rivalries which were soon to mark an increasingly professionalized world. (330)
All these great friends, traveling far and wide, corresponding at a distance, fueled by an insatiable wonder, and all writing unforgettable tales of their adventures—how could Oliver Sacks not love these stories? How could he not feel perfectly at home as his own career began to take on a shape resembling this lost ideal, even if the resemblances were only superficial?
On the Move, as the autobiography of a scientist, is as much about the author's evolution as an intellectual as it is about his personal development. The penultimate chapter is primarily focused on Gerald Edelman's theory of neural Darwinism. The idea strikes Sacks as so compelling and far-reaching in its implications that he remembers feeling grateful when the full realization of its import sank in. "I thought, 'Thank God I have lived to hear this theory.' I felt as I imagined many people must have felt in 1859 when the Origin came out" (365). It's not the least bit surprising that Sacks felt this way about a theory of neurological and mental development, especially one that could explain the quintessential uniqueness of each individual. What's remarkable—genius really—is how the discussion of neural Darwinism ties so many of the book's themes so neatly together.
What is the theory? The idea is that the mind emerges from the communication of a variety of distantly located regions of the brain. Sacks explains,
Such correlation and synchronization of neuronal firing in widely separated areas of the brain is made possible by very rich connections between the brain's maps—connections which are reciprocal and may contain millions of fibers. Stimuli from, say, touching a chair may affect one set of maps; stimuli from seeing it may affect another set. Reentrant signaling takes place between these sets of maps as part of the process of perceiving a chair. (363)
This reentrant signaling is a type of real-time updating of maps based on information coming in from various sensory inputs, as it gets channeled through and incorporated into still other maps. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to use as a metaphor for reentrance the rich correspondences of nineteenth century explorers and scientists, all collaborating to generate a more comprehensive and accurate view of the natural world. "And in its broadest sense," Sacks writes, "neural Darwinism implies that we are destined, whether we wish it or not, to a life of particularity and self-development, to make our own individual paths through life" (369).
Sacks's endorsement notwithstanding, the scientific community is far from reaching a final verdict on Edelman's theory. It may however receive quite a boost from Sacks's treatment in his book (especially considering that Edelman's own writing is significantly less reader-friendly). But what I was left wondering when I turned over the last page of On the Move was how much Sacks's love of writing owed to his need to correspond at a distance, a need that very likely arose from the insecurity and rejection he experienced as a young man. You can't be a great writer until you've found your great subject. For Sacks, this was neurology. But you can't be either a great writer or a great doctor unless you're driven by a mad passion to explore, understand, tinker, and improve. When Sacks writes about being shy and hiding out in a corner of some bar, we know he was probably busy either filling a notebook or marking up some text written any time in the last three centuries. While he's sitting there failing to connect with his fellow humans, in other words, he's working to produce the very pieces of writing that make him such a treasure to all of us. If he'd had a choice to begin with, would Sacks have considered this a good trade? Would any of us?
Even if the obsession that underlies successful scientific and literary careers doesn't originate as a compensation for some social debility, then that same obsession, once developed, is likely to become a social debility in its own right. I think about this now that Sacks is gone and any opportunity I had to write to him about how much his work has delighted, fascinated, influenced, and inspired me over the past two decades is gone with him. After his New York Times essay in February, in which he revealed that he had terminal cancer, I, along with probably thousands of other readers, felt a tiny panicked urge to write and express our gratitude before it was too late. Thinking of those thousands of others, I decided writing would be pointless. But that's the paradox I'm left with: a man who touched countless lives but who remained unreachable, often despite himself, in his own life. The chief solace we have is that while Sacks's personal struggles may not have ever been resolved, the scientific and literary work those struggles made way for remain for still more countless others to be touched by in the future.
Also read: Napoleon Chagnon's Crucible and the Ongoing Epidemic of Moralizing Hysteria in Academia
The Feminist Sociobiologist: An Appreciation of Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Disguised as a Review of "Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding"
Rebecca Mead's Middlemarch Pilgrimage and the 3 Wrong Ways to Read a Novel
Also read: Napoleon Chagnon's Crucible and the Ongoing Epidemic of Moralizing Hysteria in Academia
The Feminist Sociobiologist: An Appreciation of Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Disguised as a Review of "Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding"
Rebecca Mead's Middlemarch Pilgrimage and the 3 Wrong Ways to Read a Novel


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Readers' picks: More of San Francisco's hidden gems
A few weeks ago, we ran our list of some of San Francisco's finest hidden gems, including urban hikes and lesser-known eateries.
We opened the suggestion box to hear our readers' favorites, which they left in comments, emails and on Facebook. We understand those who were coy about revealing their favorite secret spots. Some things are worth keeping a secret.
We've added those reader suggestions to the gallery above, but we'd always love to hear more. If you've got one we missed the first time around, let us know in the comments!


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New Fulham joint Stagolee's serves truly comforting Southern American food, with some cracking options under our magic £8 mark, any time of day.
I wandered in on the weekend when their brunch menu was on (11am - 4pm), and went for buttermilk biscuits with sausage, egg and cheese, and hash browns for £6.95. The biscuits were fresh out the oven, fluffy and rich with butter, and the sausage patty was house made with chicken, apple, sage and spices.
Or, you can go for a pork sausage with rosemary and thyme, or maple bacon cured and smoked in-house, both sourced from the excellent Ginger Pig butchers (who have a London Cheap Entry of their own). The hash browns were finely shredded and served in a pot, and terrific with the house hot sauce. Though this brunch might look small, it's in fact perfectly proportioned, as the components are incredibly rich and filling.
Other brunch options include waffled cinnamon and vanilla French toast served with Southern fried apples for £7.95, or eggs any style with bacon or sausage, hash browns and toast for £6.95.
I would seriously recommend Stagolee's for dinner too. You can combine items such as a piece of mild / hot / very hot skillet-fried chicken for £3.95, or a half-portion of cornmeal-battered fish of the day for £4.95, with a a side like crinkle-cut fries or cornbread for £2.95, for a great meal for under £8.
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For anyone that's kept up with the news on the both sides of the political spectrum, something very odd is happening. Most recently with the first democratic debate of 2016, the few moments that were most talked about were the issues of gun control, and Sanders' health care plan. In fact one of the post-debate commentators for MSNBC stated that Sanders had flip-flopped on the issue and sounded "just life Washington." Well I'm not here to defend Bernie, but it does raise an interesting point about the state of the Democratic Party.
This appears to mean that the candidate's strategies is to appear most liberal or most conservative, according to the direction of their party. It's no secret that politicians will pamper their message to fit an agenda, and therefore they will all largely sound the same. For instance it wasn't that long ago when the GOP wasn't as fervent about gun deregulation. With Reagan being the Idol of the republican party, many forget his oped piece with Carter and Ford about the regulation of assault rifles. Yet, if any serious GOP candidate were to propose measures such as those it would be political suicide.
But since the 1980's the GOP conscious has moved away from that standpoint and is now more crazed about gun deregulation. Candidates, whether truly believing it or not, have to support gun deregulation in the republican party to have any chance of a nomination, and the same goes with other issues as well. The candidates must change their topic according to the party lines so that they will fit within the party lines. Whether or not Sanders really cares about gun regulation (which I truly believe he does) he would have to at least appear to have a fighting chance in the nomination. It would turn off a good deal of voters if they liked a candidate about every issue, except one issue they felt strongly about. It would be one thing if the candidate tried to keep quiet about an issue that didn't fit within the party line, but then rival candidates would see that as a weakness and expose it.
The two parties right now are moving further and further within their own spectrum. It is helpful to view the Sanders-Clinton struggle as a fight between the spirit of the party. Sanders represents the progressive populist side of the party clashing to gain control, and Clinton represents the moderate establishment side struggling to remain in power, despite what she makes herself out to be. And on the other side, candidates like Trump and Carson revel in their image as non-establishment candidates. Watch closely at the debates in the republican party, now each one of them tries to make themselves appear to be the non-establishment candidate. Cruz, for instance, appears this way through his anger at both Washington and the media, while Christie does this by just being angry at everything. Notice how a candidate like Senator Paul, who may be considered a party outsider due to his disagreement on issues, is actually a non-establishment candidate, yet he has virtually no chance. He doesn't fit within the party line, therefore he is sinking.
Now that each party is separating from each other, what comes next? Well eventually everything will reach it's equilibrium point, but what is unsure is what happens before then. Depending on the success of non-establishment candidates like Trump, Carson, and God willing Sanders, the parties will move farther apart until there is a tipping point. The cause of the divide is already from the inability to create real action. Why would a nation viewing events such as the government shutdown or the rise of terrorist organizations, still want establishment politics? When however both parties reach that tipping point, there will be a brawl to see who is the victor. In a sense, the spirit of which party will prevail before they both go back to their moderate stances.
It is likely that we are entering the next chapter in American politics. By this, I mean that this is when historians will later view as when things began to "change for better or for worse." This is the way the 1930's is viewed today. There was America before the Great Depression, and then there's America after the Great Depression. It was one of those events that lead to a change in spirit for all of America, and with the increasing polarity in the nation, we may be heading towards a similar such event.


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Adele's 'Hello' may mean goodbye to touring
Mon., March 27, 2017, 12:17 p.m.
Adele has been quite chatty as she closes out the third leg of her world tour in Australia and New Zealand.
Earlier in the month, the superstar singer and songwriter confirmed to a Brisbane, Australia, audience that she had tied the knot with longtime partner Simon Konecki, and at a Sunday concert in Auckland, New Zealand, Adele may have dropped the biggest bomb of all.
The New Zealand Herald reported Monday that Adele remarked at the close of her concert her doubts about continuing to tour.
"Touring isn't something I'm good at," the 28-year-old from London remarked. "Applause makes me feel a bit vulnerable."
Adele continued, saying: "I don't know if I will ever tour again. The only reason I've toured is you. I'm not sure if touring is my bag."
Her latest tour began in February 2016, and when it concludes in July, it will have encompassed more than 120 shows on three continents.
The artist's skittishness regarding live performances could well be attributed to several high-profile flubs at consecutive Grammy Awards ceremonies.
At the 2016 Grammys, Adele struggled with audio issues during a performance of "All I Ask." And when she stopped her George Michael memorial performance of "Fastlove" at the 2017 ceremony and asked to start again, she explained, "I can't do it again like last year."
Her current tour concludes with four concerts at Wembley Stadium in London in late June and early July, dramatically dubbed "The Finale."
Is this really the end of Adele's touring career?
Representatives for the singer did not immediately respond request for comment.
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After last year's debacle (we wont even go back to the year before last!), I'm really hoping I did OK this year. I tried. I have often been told that trying is all it takes. I don't think those guys know a damn thing 'bout Valentines Day—trying don't get ya anywhere.
While the wife was at work, I made myself lunch and kept the pups off the carpet—didn't even allow them outta the kitchen. I decorated the kitchen and made the wife a Valentine Sack—you remember those; the kind you pasted harts on and hoped your best girl would give you a special Valentine—even though she had absolutely no idea whatsoever that she was your best girl. I made me one also just so I could put my two lonely cards inside and re-read again later. Of course I maintained the appropriate proportionality between the sacks—I'm not completely stupid.
I next went over to the HEB, searched up and down the Valentine Card aisle for just the right card that had exactly the right words on the inside—like I could really tell. I walked around and around the flowers and finally picked out just the exact right ones in this area also—ditto the previous comment.
Brought all the goodies home and added some appropriate sentiments to the inside of the card. Then I sat back and waited on the inevitable outcome.
The wife arrives: "What's this?" she comments as she stares down the big sack I have provided for the collection of her valentines.
Just WHO gets all the attention at my house?
I explain that I wanted her to recapture her youth, but only if she wanted to. She did enjoy the roses—actually took a few to work with her the next day; saying: she "wanted to enjoy them more." There wasn't as much excitement about the sack—Gus and I had put a lot of work in on that; I was disappointed now. The pups, both Little Gus and Otis thought the sack was the top of the world. They kept running at it and poking it with their nose and tail: "Look Mom; we got a sack!"
See, I put it in there!
Patsy got a bite of ham or two, went upstairs to change clothes and we were off to the Austin City Limits Live stage to take in a Rob Schneider concert. She had scored the tickets at work—actually she is my main link to good tickets to whatever is going on in the Austin area now that I have retired and no longer have various vendors attempting to bribe me for business purposes.
I am always looking for somebody I know when we are out like this and invariably I never see anybody I know.
Making our way through the throng, we encountered some of Patsy's associates and the Director of Marketing who were working the event and I scored some very cool sunglasses and a hand soap dispenser—you can never get too much free junque, ya know? Soon after we were chased down by one of the two of Patsy's employees and their significant others—also attending the event—prior to heading to our seats. We spent the rest of the pre-show available time with good people and great conversation.
The organization where Patsy works has a suite at the ACL-Live stage so we took advantage and had two or three (or more) glasses of champagne and several chocolate covered strawberries apiece before the show and again at intermission.
Schneider's show has been reworked a bit since the last time I saw him at a ACL Festival several years back—probably a little more that just a little re-work has taken place. He has a string quartet, an additional cello, a piano and trumpet player accompanying him now along with two girl singers who perform off and on (singularly) throughout the show. The songs had been captured from the late 1930s and early 1940s—My Funny Valentine, As Time Goes By and the like. We both enjoyed the show immensely.
Made our way to our seats and found some squatters; sternly advised them that they needed to move—actually considered chunking them over the rail; we were on the first row of the mezzanine and could have. They moved to the seats I kindly advised them that were available at the time but were up and down during the whole show.
Checking around the section, one of the group spotted Mathew McConaughey (with fiancée) and Robert Rodriguez sitting in our section. I thought it so sad that neither of them knew Patsy nor I—their loss.
We didn't get out of the theatre until after 11 PM and finally home some twenty minutes later. The pups were irritated that they had to stay up past their bedtime—mine also. I paid for it this morning with Champagne Head.
Yep, I survived Valentines Day; but just barely.


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Changes to housing benefit - size criteria ('bedroom tax')
The amount of housing benefit you can claim has been reduced since April 2013 if you are working age and have a spare bedroom.
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You provide all fishing gear needed. Available for rent is a trolling fishing boat and a paddle boat to be used only on our private 13 acre lake located on this private property. Big Hill Lake has been listed by Field and Stream magazine as one of the "Top 20 Bass Lakes". The lake is formed inside of 20 square miles of shoreline with 1,240 acres of surface, at normal pool.
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