We take it for granted each time we open a tap that there is an endless supply of hot and cold running water. However to some this would be considerd a luzary, especilaly to those that are geographically located outside the route of the mains water supply.
Creating a mains supply grid is an in-depth feat of engineering that most modern cities throughtout the world already have in place. Aside from this there are small towns and villages in some countrys that do not have the luzary of mains water supply. However with the use of natures natual resources and modern inivitive plumbing techniques an adequate supply of water can be achieved.
Inivitive plumbing can be use to establish an independent water supply.
A natural source of water comes from the rain, this natural water cycle of can be captured and stored for use as and when needed. Whenever it rains the flow of water from the roof to the gutter can be captured and the contained beneath a building where it is stored. This method of capturing water may not be adequate enough to replenish a continues use during the dry summer months. However water can be purchased for topping up the supply whenever the contents drops below a certain level.
Without some kind of force pushing stored water a good working pressure can not be achieved. Intern the transportation of water through pipework would be impossible. A gravity feed system is commonly used for this purpose, it can easily be identified as it uses a Varity of different sized water storage vessels . Typically fitted in a loft or in some counties outside on the roof. This system uses the natural force of gravity weighing down as momentum to push water through pipework.
When water is stored below ground difficulties arise in trying to gain a good working pressure at taps and other water outlets. As a resolution to this problem hydraulics can be put in place, a pump can be fitted that is wired into the electrics. The pump is activated through usage, via a flow switch that is triggered on demand whenever a tap, toilet or shower is in use.
The simplicity of water isolation associated with this type of system is very straight forward. Because the water is contained at a lower lever than the water outlets, by simply deactivating the pump via the electric supply will render the taps and all other outlet to run dry. This will enable complete water isolation whenever plumbing repairs or maintance is required.
If your geologically located outside a mains water grid then the possibity of having a water supply problem becomes even greater. Restaurant hotels and airports can not afford to have a problem like this that could potentially cost them thousands. All of the manager fast food chains are reliant on an ample fresh supply of water each day. Without this facility big brans are reluctant to make the investment until a mains water supply is established in a reign.
Traveling hours to purchase a pizza or burger and fries may seem ridiculous, but commercial brand names attack people. It may be the case of traveling to the next closest town or village with a main supply. A mains water supply is essential it has an affect on what most people that live in a big city would never consider a luxury. So the next time you open a tap take a shower or flush the toilet take a moment to consider the years of planning and, engineering that went into constructing such a convenient amenity.


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Irish Ladies Golf Union
Ladies' and Girls' Home International Matches
Ballybunion Golf Club, Ireland
8 - 10 August 2018
Ballybunion hosts Home Internationals
SCORING (From August 8)
The Ladies and Girls Home International Matches will this year be hosted by Ballybunion Golf Club, Co. Kerry from August 8th to 10th.
Celebrating its 125th year, Ballybunion is considered one of the finest links courses in the world and after being remodelled by five-time Champion Golfer of the Year Tom Watson in 1995, it hosted The Irish Open in 2000 and the Arnold Palmer Cup in 2004. It hosted Jacques Leglise Trophy for the first time in its history in 2017 when the Continent of Europe defeated Great Britain and Ireland 15½-9½.
Ireland were crowned champions at the Ladies' Home Internationals after defeating England 5-4 in the deciding match at Little Aston, near Birmingham. While in 2016, the Irish Girls were victorious in the Girls Home Internationals.
The teams from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales compete against each other in individual matches. Each match consists of three foursomes in the morning and six singles in the afternoon.
Day 1: Ireland v England, Wales v Scotland
Day 2: Scotland v England, Wales v Ireland
Day 3: England v Wales, Ireland v Scotland
Ladies Home International Matches – Team Ireland
Ballybunion, 8 - 10 August
Shannon Burke (Ballinrobe), Louise Coffey (Malone), Paula Grant (Lisburn), Mairead Martin (Kanturk), Jessica Ross (Clandeboye), Lauren Walsh (Castlewarden), Annabel Wilson (Lurgan)
Team Captain: Danielle McVeigh, Team Coach: Donal Scott
Girls' Home International Matches – Team Ireland
Sara Byrne (Douglas), Valerie Clancy (Killarney), Beth Coulter (Kirkistown Castle), Aine Donegan (Woodstock), Anna Foster (Elm Park), Nicole Joyce-Moreno (Royal Portrush), Kate Lanigan (Hermitage)
Team Captain: Helen Jones, Team Manager: Suzie Hayes, Team Coach: Chris Jelly
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5 - 18" x 24" works on panel, made from a collection of photographs taken by my cousin Buff with a disposable camera in 2013/2014.
DOC hosts six solo and group exhibitions under the frame of Umwelt Monde. A cross-section of presentations, reflecting a community that is not defined by geography. Umwelt Monde is the fourth edition of Thomas Jeppe's Umwelt project. In June 2017 The Community participated in the third edition, Umwelt Mode, in Basel.


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Leapin' eels! Video shows they attack with zaps
When a large predator threatens from above, an electric eel makes a shocking attack
An electric eel jumps out of the water to attack. The plastic alligator head it struck is outfitted with LEDs and lights up when the eel zaps it. This plastic model shows how an eel can attack a predator as it enters the water.
KENNETH CATANIA/VANDERBILT UNIV.
By Sarah Zielinski
Sometimes large, land-based predators threaten to attack electric eels from above. When that happens, these eels can leap at the threat from the water, a new study finds. And upon contact, those eels can deliver high-voltage attacks to ward off the invader.
Kenneth Catania is a biologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He has been studying electric eels for years. He reports on this' leaping behavior in the June 6 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Catania isn't the first scientist to describe eel leaping. In 1807, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt reported seeing it while visiting the Amazon seven years earlier. He had hired local fishermen to collect electric eels so that he could study the animals. The fishermen led about 30 horses and mules into a muddy pond. There, eels leapt up. They pressed themselves against the large mammals, delivering mighty shocks. Eventually the eels exhausted themselves. That's when the fishermen were able to catch five of them. But there were casualties: Two horses died.
Still, no one had reported such behavior again in the next 200 years. That's why most scientists dismissed Humboldt's account as a bunch of malarkey. Until, that is, Catania witnessed something odd while working with his eels. To get one out of its cage, he would reach in with a large net. That net had a metallic rim and handle. And the eels attacked. Each time, an eel would leap up, touch its chin to the metal and discharge a high-voltage volley. (Yes, Catania was smart enough to wear protective gloves.)
A MIGHTY LEAP By leaping up and striking at a predator with its chin, an electric eel can deliver a powerful shock to defend itself. VIDEO PRODUCTION: H. THOMPSON; FOOTAGE: KENNETH CATANIA/VANDERBILT UNIV.
Catania hooked meters that measure voltage and amperage to an aluminum plate. Afterward, he let the eels leap at it. The higher a leap, the more voltage and amperage an eel produced.
Indeed, getting high enough is key to effectively zapping an attacker, he now concludes. Once an eel gets high enough, the charge it delivers has no path back into the water (and the eel) except through the targeted threat. So a high leap produces a big zap.
By lacing a fake arm and a plastic alligator head with LEDs, Catania was then able to visualize the effect of this attack. The higher an eel struck the target, the more LEDs it lit up with its electric discharge.
In the wild, eels may be stuck in small, muddy ponds during the dry season. There, they don't have any escape routes. And electrifying the water around them may not be enough to deter a large, terrestrial predator that has only a part of its body submerged. Attacking, in this case, may be the best option an eel has for defense.
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aluminum A metallic element, the third most abundant in Earth's crust. It is light and soft, and used in many items from bicycles to spacecraft.
amperage The strength of an electrical current. This is measured in amps.
electric eel A fish that can deliver incredibly strong electric shocks. Electric eels live in dark, murky rivers in South America, such as the Amazon.
electric discharge A flow of charge, called electricity, through a medium such as a gas. Lightning is a good example of such a natural electric discharge on Earth.
LED (light-emitting diode) A type of semiconductor device that produces light.
naturalist A biologist who works in the field (such as in forests, swamps or tundra) and studies the interconnections between wildlife that make up local ecosystems.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences A prestigious journal publishing original scientific research, begun in 1914. The journal's content spans the biological, physical, and social sciences. Each of the more than 3,000 papers published each year, now, not only is peer reviewed but also approved by a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
voltage A force associated with an electric current that is measured in units known as volts. Power companies use high-voltage power lines to move electric power over long distances.
K.C. Catania. Leaping eels electrify threats, supporting Humboldt's account of a battle with horses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Published online June 6, 2016. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1604009113.
S. Milius. "How electric eels put more zip in their zap." Science News. October 28, 2015.
D. Strain. "Zap! More fish." Science News. April 28, 2011.
About Sarah Zielinski
Sarah Zielinski is managing editor of Science News for Students. She has degrees in biology and journalism and likes to write about ecology, plants and animals. She has two cats, Oscar and Saffir.
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The shocking electric eel!
By Roberta Kwok June 2, 2016
Electric eels get on their prey's nerves
By Stephen Ornes December 30, 2014


This is not the occasion for a thorough — or even moderately substantial — defense of teleological thinking. Since an intrinsic component of modernist teleology is the systematic suppression of teleological thought, the topic is certainly an intriguing one. This post, however, is devoted to a far narrower purpose. (At least, that is how it initially appears.) There is no need for the larger problem to be envisaged as an obstacle.
It is rare to encounter any serious resistance to the application of teleological reasoning to economics. In this intellectual domain the attribution of socio-historical developments to interests, incentives, and goals does not expect to encounter objection. Regardless of intellectual tradition or ideology, the presupposition of goal-oriented direction to work and business — even without reference to large-scale strategic planning — is considered so uncontroversial that it typically passes without comment, even in technical treatises. Within the biological sciences, teleology teleolonomy remains a source of cognitive irritation, but in the social and historical 'sciences' it is entirely natural to ask what economic production is for.
There are three, and only three, basic responses to this question, although subtilization and recombination allows open ended complication from any of these starting points. The foundational teleologies of all economic philosophy are Humanistic, Malthusian, or Mechanogenic.
Humanistic economics is by far the most common, to such an extent that it tends to presume itself unchallenged. It's basic assumption is that the end of all economic activity is to be found in human needs or desires, and technically in (human) consumption as the final cause of economic life. People engage in production and trade because they want things. 'Utility' is an obvious abbreviation for 'human utility' and a generalized utilitarianism — developed in one of several possible directions — provides a complete teleological solution to the economic problem. The thunderous collisions between the various liberal and socialist economic schools are all enveloped within this expansive and flexible framework. Individually or collectively, man is the proper and efficient end of productive activity. "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production" insisted Adam Smith, and this claim has rarely been found tendentious.
Malthusian teleology dissolves man into naturalistic anthropology (and ultimately into generalized Darwinism). Whatever purposes people lucidly advance as motivations for economic action, the real goal of production is population increase. Where humanistic economics tends intrinsically to optimism, across all differences of theoretical and ideological inclination, the Malthusian vision is stubbornly tragic. It has haunted the classical economic tradition as a shadowy ghoul, manifested in the Ricardian Iron law of Wages, which sets the natural exchange value of labor in the Marxian analysis, and continues to impose its dark-matter curvature upon economic speculation into contemporary futurism. The instinctual life of the species, rather than its conscious self-direction, consumes its economic advances, with no stable equilibrium to be found beyond the edge of bare survival. Real purposes are inescapably grim.
The superficial answer: Accelerationism, in setting into its various modes, has already implicitly chosen between these explanatory paths. As it develops, it can only cycle through its conceptual foundations, and the teleological problem will become an explicit challenge. What is accelerationism for? We shall have to ask.
ADDED: Humanism on steroids in increasingly what the IEET is all about.
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Early bird tickets must be bought and paid for before 30 September, after which tickets will still be available, but at the full gate price. Day tickets will go on sale in another couple of weeks.
You can also purchase tickets for the three-hour fiddle/mandolin masterclass being run by Aussie Lindsay Martin at Brookfield on the Monday morning. This is something new for us and is not included in your weekend registration. There are very limited numbers for this class – strictly first in, first served. $60.00 if you buy a weekend ticket; or $100.00 if you aren't attending the Festival.
Ticket prices are on the site or here.
Thank you to everyone for your patience.


Table for one. . .
We all have to do it from time to time. A lunch alone. Dinner by yourself. Whether you are single, dating, married, have a ton of kids with activities hither and yon, empty nesters…every once in awhile you have a meal alone.
Most people I know will high tail it to the closest drive through or chinese take out or make that somber pilgrimage into a restaurant for a table for one, but frankly if you have to do it on a regular basis that's hard on the budget, the arteries and the waistline. Lord knows I've done my share of staring blankly at a pantry of stuff when it's only a meal for myself bemoaning the fact there's nothing to eat and grouchily settling on oatmeal with an ice cream chaser. (Yes, it ain't pretty! No, I'm not doing that any more.) It's not any fun.
If you flip through a modern cook book, a lot of recipes are for 4-6 people and make a ton of food, which is fine if you have other people to help with the leftovers. But if you're just looking for an entree and a side for one, you don't need to toss the cookbook in a pique of dining rage. You just need to find something that will work. Look for recipes that are made in a single skillet and are easily divided. Check out the appetizers and party food sections for things that are easily made in small amounts. If you are lucky enough to have a cookbook from the 50s, look for a section specifically for dining for two…many of them have great recipes and tips.
Be sure to stock up on a few staples too such as individually frozen chicken breasts and various frozen mixed vegetables. Frozen fish fillets are good too and you can find them individually frozen many places now as well. I always try to keep a few things on hand in the fridge too…having apples, carrots, celery, broccoli, onions and garlic available makes just about any dinner simpler.
So here's a pair of great recipes for all those times you really don't want to deal with the drive through on the way home or just for something nice to have on those nights when everyone else is off doing their own thing and you have to eat by yourself.
Do this on a cookie sheet lined with foil. Very little clean up that way! Heat oven to 450. Place the fish on a 12 inch square of foil and top with the vegetables, dill, salt, pepper and wine. Fold up foil and seal edges to hold in the steam. Bake about 35 minutes on a cookie sheet or until vegetables are done and fish flakes with a fork.
You can do this in parchment paper too, but rather than a square, you'll need to cut the parchment in a heart shape. Brush the parchment with oil and put everything on one side of the heart, fold over the other half and roll the edge to seal.
This recipe is -very- versatile as well, just multiply and make enough packets for however many people you're having over for dinner. It's also crazy easy for camping and cooking over coals.
Heat about an inch of water in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Add carrots, cover and heat to boiling then reduce to a simmer. Simmer 12 to 15 minutes or until tender, but not overcooked and smushy. Drain. While carrots cook, heat butter in a skillet over medium heat. Cook apple wedges in butter for 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in syrup and spice and cook for an additional 3-5 minutes stirring frequently until apples are evenly coated. Stir in carrots.
What's your favorite thing to make when you are dining alone?
Karen, Joel and I will be coming to Boston in August for Affiliate Summit and we need some help.
What is the best seafood restaurant?
What's the best steak house?
What is the most quintessentially Boston place to eat and drink?
What is the best "local joint" to grab a beer and a meal, or just a quick bite?
We'd love to hear from you. If you have some suggestions, please comment below.


i used to have really bad spots and they've cleared up ok now but im left with really bad skin, Its all blotchy and red in places and on most of it the pores are quite big, it looks horrible! its fine when i have make up on but thats not the point, and i dont exactly like wearing make up any ways coz im a bit of a tom boy.
If it's really bothering you it may be worht asking your gp to see a dermatologists in the first instance and if that doesn't work out look into treatment at private clinics.
I used to have really bad skin too, I went to my local beauty therapist and had a facial using Dermalogica products and they have really sorted my skin out.


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HomeTravelTravel NewsWyndham Worldwide to open Wyndham Sanya Resort in 2014
Wyndham Worldwide to open Wyndham Sanya Resort in 2014
Wyndham Hotel Group will open 26-story Wyndham Sanya Resort in 2014
Building on its impressive momentum in the Asia Pacific region last year, having opened nearly 100 properties in the region in 2010, Wyndham Hotel Group, part of Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (NYSE: WYN), today announced agreements to open and manage a Wyndham® hotel in Sanya, China, and a new Wyndham hotel in Thailand, to be developed in Khao Lak.
The beachfront Wyndham Khao Lak Resort, owned by South Sea Prakarang Resort Co., Ltd., is now under construction and is scheduled to open by late 2011. The hotel will feature 134 resort rooms and 66 villas, outdoor swimming pool, spa, gym, meeting and banquet space, all-day-dining restaurant, American bistro and beach bar.
The 26-story Wyndham Sanya Resort, to be built by Sanya Hengsen Industrial Investment Co., Ltd., and expected to open in January 2014, will offer access to the beach, shopping and entertainment. Each of the 403 guest rooms will provide scenic views of Sanya Bay. The resort will feature indoor and outdoor swimming pools, gym, meeting and banquet space and Western, Chinese and specialty restaurants.
"The Asia Pacific region continues to be a key area of focus for our company's development," said Eric Danziger, Wyndham Hotel Group president and chief executive officer. "We are pleased to work with South Sea Prakarang Resort Co., Ltd., and Sanya Hengsen Industrial Investment Co., Ltd., to introduce Wyndham Hotels and Resorts in Thailand and grow the brand in China, further strengthening our presence in this region."
The addition of Wyndham Sanya Resort strengthens Wyndham Hotel Group's position as the largest U.S.-based hotel company in China, where the company franchises 301 hotels representing more than 46,000 rooms under the Wyndham, Ramada®, Howard Johnson®, Days Inn® and Super 8® brands. With this new hotel, there are 14 Wyndham hotels open or under development in China.
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"Whatever abuses, insults and allegations directed to me, I am dedicated to make a similar commitment like the valiant war heroes who made sacrifices to bring about an ever lasting peace in the country", says President Maithripala Sirisena.
"Some narrow-minded political extremists are accusing me stating that I am trying to break the country into two parts by arresting the members of intelligent sections and thereby destroying the national security. But, I refuse all these allegations as the commander of the tri-forces who is responsible for the security of the country", the President said.
The President made these remarks at the ceremony held at the Temple Trees yesterday (Jan. 25) to issue 'Virusara Varaprasada' benefit card offered to the families of the disabled war heroes of the tri-forces by the State Ministry of Defense.
President Sirisena said he would be committed to make the Sri Lankan Tri-forces to a world renowned force while protecting the dignity of them. "According to the responsibility I had as a reasonable minister before January 08 2015 and with the responsibility I have today, I will work to take the country towards the development by strengthening of the national security", he said.
"No matter who was the Leader of this country before January 08, 2015 and after January 08, the country today has a questionnaire to answer in front of the international community. The civil society is also requesting us to answer it. Therefore, the government should answer it", the President further stated. "The investigations regarding that will never aim war heroes or the members of the intelligent service", he added.
"Some people have started to speak about blood today. Whatever religion we follow, whatever language we speak, we all have the same blood", the President said. He also pointed out that everybody should get together to build a country where every people can live with peace and happiness by discarding the narrow ideas as the people in a developed civilization.
The 'Virusara Varaprasada' benefit card is an honor extended to war heroes for their peerless commitment done. This is offered to the offered to the family members of the war heroes by the State Ministry of Defense. This covers the sections of customer services, health, education, finance and insurance.
The President symbolically handed over the Virisara cards and 100 scholarships to the children from Jaffna, Mannar and Vavuniya at this occasion.
Ministers Nimal Siripala de Silva, Harin Fernando, State Minister Ruwan Wijewardena, Defence Secretary Karunasena Hettiarachchi, Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Peace Jagath Wijeweera, Commanders of the tri-forces Field Martial Sarath Fonseka and the Chairperson of the Ranaviru Seva Authority Mrs. Anoma Fonseka also participated in this ceremony.
What he meant by we all have same 'BLOOD'?
Define who are these ALL?
I have seen many time he barks, but no actions.
your actions betray your deeds. You have authorised the arrest of Ven Gnansara on petty charges whereas you entertain criminals and muederes in parlaiment.
You allow Kathikawath bill is designed to gag the bhikkus and this would only polarise the nation and you are cursed.
When you want votes you seek the blessings of the priests is it blessing you seek or seek an endorsement but i doubt this would happen.
What is this BLOOD? When we hear BLOOD our blood get boiled. Sinhalee, Bibalee, Bicycalee, Bothalee… That said, SINHALE is a name for Sri Lanka. I do not know why some people allergic to this word?
Irrespective of what language we speak and what religion we follow, the blood in our bodies is the same.
Nowadays, there is something called Sinha Le (Blood of the Lion); a few years ago, there was something called called a Koti Le (the blood of the Tiger).
We all know where the Koti Le disappeared; the same fate is likely to befall the Sinha Le.
I wonder why Sri Lankan Le has not been discovered yet.
The day it is discovered, we will be a new nation.
What? Are you stupid or something else? Same blood ? Please don't insult me. I feel like commuting suicide.


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Gary Weiss, in his 2012 book, Ayn Rand Nation, tenders all of the fundamental arguments outlining all of the options for disaster if Rand's economic theories would be implemented in America, or anywhere else. A classic case of overcompensation, Rand, raised in the oppressive, failing social experiments of Communist Russia, her experience soured by government regulation that was arrogant, harsh, ineffectual and ruinous, moved to America and looked to The American Way for relief. But for Rand, American Capitalism was not quite the answer either. For her standards and beliefs, the system would have to be heavily modified: a completely non-regulatory environment, the absolute separation of finance and state, no welfare, no Social Security, no Medicare. Despite the opinions and observations of the more intractable Tea Party patriots, recent evidence of the crisis caused by the implementation of even partial Wall Street deregulation lays bare the absurdity of Randian thought. To be fair, Rand's proposal that those who are the real producers, those who can build and run steel mills, auto plants and railroads should be given free reign—hands off, Uncle Sam—has at least some credence in the light that somewhere in the 1970s a major shift occurred, the wealth producers changed from manufactures to money manipulators, Andrew Carnegie to Richard Fuld. But still . . .
And there lies the foundation for much of the negative criticism of the book—her economic ideas are just unworkable. Unconvinced and unfriendly critics have also pointed out the interminable pages of rant, the mishmash of Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, the celebration of egoism, the defense for selfishness and her worship of the golden calf. And what of the wooden stereotyped characters that mouth pieties, all in a too similar voice, the purple prose and strained plotlines? Obviously this makes the novel messy, but messy in the way Moby Dick is messy, with the chapters on cetology, and War and Peace is messy, with its opinionated, historical analysis. But that said, the criticism of Atlas Shrugged's excesses is sound, reasonable, inevitable.
But this is not the way to read Atlas Shrugged. First the plot: Because of rampaging socialism and regulation in the United States Government that had become absolutely corrupt, the economy becomes destined for complete collapse. And what of the movers and shakers who could keep the economy running, those able to run mills and railroads? They begin to disappear, one-by-one, hastening and abetting the collapse. These giants of industry are being spirited away by a mysterious stranger, and the reader finds that the stranger is in the process of clandestinely building an alternative, start-up economy, a correction, a replacement society. The last woman standing is Miss Dagny Taggart, running The Taggart Transcontinental Railroad, tirelessly performing triage as the looters in Washington continue to issue directives to stop her while feathering their own nests. Internecine rivalry among the disparate government factions, gangs of thugs by the end, brings the country to the razor edge of destruction. Will Dagny, along with her lovers, Hank Reardon, Francisco d'Anconia and John Galt, save the world?
Keep in mind that Atlas Shrugged is, after all, a novel of science fiction: Amazing inventions, secret laboratories, super ray guns and magic motors. The novel ends as a Tom Swiftian adventure, complete with an underground torture chamber, heroic endurance, a small band of clever and fearless adventurers and a dramatic, last-minute escape. These are what have kept Atlas Shrugged strong in the marketplace for decades, despite the cockeyed economic theory, despite the wooden characters, despite the long pages of half-baked rhetoric. And there is Miss Taggart: Proud. Accomplished. Competent. Strong. Enduring. Beautiful. Sexy. Adulterous. She is the key to the on-going popularity of Atlas Shrugged. She is Rand's "motor of the world." Because—again despite the malignancy of the novel's technical difficulties—Miss Dagny Taggart is arguably the strongest woman protagonist of Rand's literary generation. Taggart runs right over many of the men of her world: her weak, inadequate brother James; Wesley Mouch, the amoral quintessence of Washington greed; Cuffy Meigs, the Director of Unification who is noted for being "impervious to thought;" Dr. Stadler, Dr. Ferris and the rest. Also, she is more than equal to her three lovers, perhaps the only woman alive who could be a suitable mate for these three supermen, and she beds them according to her will and desire. So Atlas Shrugged is more than a science-fiction adventure; it is also a bodice-ripper, adding even more to the book's appeal.
Taggart builds the railroad line of the future, swifter, stronger and more durable—only to have it dismantled by the looters' self-serving regulatory commission. She keeps fighting, however, to the bitter end. Her skills, her dynamism, her courage, her determination and her unflagging strength—this is what keeps Atlas Shrugged in print decade after decade for the majority of readers, as it is the politics, the theories, the Randian bombast of the novel that sustain it for the relative few who have, during the course of the last decade, moved American politics further and further to the right. It is the science-fiction adventure story, the tale of a great and forceful woman that has sustained the book's perennial popularity. Remember, Ayn Rand eventually signed on for Medicare; I very much doubt if Dagny Taggart would have ever, ever done so.
Copyright 2012, Bill Wolf (speedreaders.info).
Plume; Reprint edition (August 1, 1999)
1200 pages, softcover
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