Brisbane
Brisbane /ˈbrɪzbən/ is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of 2.24 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred on Brisbane, encompasses a population of more than 3 million. The Brisbane central business district stands on the original European settlement and is situated inside a bend of the Brisbane River, approximately 15 kilometres (9 miles) from its mouth at Moreton Bay. The metropolitan area extends in all directions along the floodplain of the Brisbane River valley between Moreton Bay and the Great Dividing Range. The metropolitan area sprawls across several of Australia's most populous local government areas, including the City of Brisbane, which is by far the most populous LGA in the nation. The demonym of Brisbane is Brisbanite.
Brisbane is named after the Brisbane River on which it is located, which in turn was named after Scotsman Sir Thomas Brisbane, the Governor of New South Wales from 1821 to 1825. The first European settlement in Queensland was a penal colony at Redcliffe, 28 kilometres (17 mi) north of the central business district, which was founded in 1824. That settlement was soon abandoned and moved to North Quay in 1825. Free settlers were permitted from 1842. Brisbane was chosen as the capital when Queensland was proclaimed a separate colony from New South Wales in 1859.
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Carroll Shelby - The Lost Interview | Ford v Ferrari | Le Mans | GT40 | Complete Life History
Carroll Shelby tells all in this never-before-seen, newly released, raw & uncut interview. Shelby talks openly about his childhood, passions, early race career, Henry Ford II & Ford Motor Company, Ford v. Ferrari, Mustangs, Cobras, GT40s, Daytona Coupe, winning the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans, Lee Iacocca, Ken Miles, Don Frey, John Wyer, Ray Geddes, Hal Sperlich, Pete Brock, Fred Goodell, and living in Africa.
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Supermarine Spitfire PR X1 - RAF Cosford Airshow 2013
Here's the Hangar 11 Collection's Supermarine Spitfire PR X1 displaying at the RAF Cosford Airshow 2013.
Supermarine Spitfire PR Mk XI serial number PL965 left the Aldermaston factory in mid 1944. Built as a PR Mk XI photo reconnaissance aircraft, she was designed to operate at high altitudes (over 30,000 ft) as well as at high speeds of over 400 mph, and as such was the fastest of all the Merlin powered Spitfires. She was allocated to No.9 MU Cosford on 1st October 1944 and then ferried to No 34 Wing and thence allocated to16 Squadron, which at the time was a forward squadron based at Melsbroek airfield near Brussels in Belgium as part of the 2nd Tactical Air Force. She proudly wore the identifying code R for Robert.
16 Squadron was commanded by Squadron Leader Tony Davis DFC and his Spitfires were called upon to provide photographs of enemy territory for bomb damage assessment, to monitor airfields harbouring jet and rocket propelled aircraft and to build up the vital photographic mosaic maps which were used by the bomber groups for pin point bombing accuracy. The PRU blue painted Spitfires operated at low and high altitudes, always flying alone.
Over the next year or so, PL965 flew in excess of 40 operational missions over Germany, France and Holland . Squadron and pilot records include such destinations as Osnabruck, Bremen, Dortmund, Hanover, Hamburg , Kiel, and Berlin itself. Several distinguished pilots were entrusted with her safety on these long and dangerous sorties. Pilots such as Norman Godfrey DFC and Croix de Guerre, Willy Willshaw DFC, Group Captain Richard Bowen DFC, to name but a few.
With such missions being conducted at both high and low altitudes, she encountered anti-aircraft fire and was often intercepted and attacked by German fighters, including the new jet powered ME 262, one of the few aircraft that had the speed to catch her.
At the end of hostilities, PL965 returned to the UK for a short time but was then flown to Buckeburg near Minden in Germany and served with 2nd TAF Communications Wing. Her story continues in Europe, as she was retired and sold for the princely sum of £25 to the Royal Netherlands Air Force and on the 10th July 1947 flown to Deelen in Holland, where she was used as a ground technical instruction aircraft.
As one of the lucky wartime survivors, by 1960 she was an exhibit at the Dutch War Museum at Overloon. Here she remained for 27 years, eventually returning to the UK in 1987, for restoration to airworthy status in the hands of the late Nick Grace. Prior to his tragic death, Nick had arranged for the rebuild to be carried out at Rochester by MAPS Ltd. and over the next 5 years she was lovingly and painstakingly restored by this highly experienced and dedicated team.
Returning to the skies in December 1992, PL965 was flown by the late and sadly missed Mark Hanna. Since then, PL965 has been a well-loved participant on the air show scene both here and in the USA from where she had recently returned in the summer of 2004.
In September 2004, PL965 made the move from her old home at Breighton in Yorkshire to North Weald in Essex. Since becoming part of the Hangar 11 Collection, this extremely rare and unusual example of a Spitfire has been a welcome sight at air displays and special events across Europe and has also taken part in a number of television programmes.
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Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga is a city in New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, with an urban population of 55,364 people, Wagga Wagga is the state's largest inland city, and is an important agricultural, military, and transport hub of Australia. It is midway between the two largest cities in Australia, Sydney and Melbourne, and is the major regional centre for the Riverina and South West Slopes regions.
The central business district is focused around the commercial and recreational grid bounded by Best and Tarcutta Streets and the Murrumbidgee River and the Sturt Highway. The main shopping street of Wagga is Baylis Street which becomes Fitzmaurice Street at the northern end. The city is in an alluvial valley and much of the city has a problem with urban salinity.
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Xiaomi Giiker Super Cube i3S (Electronic Rubiks Cube - APP Remote via Bluetooth)
The Giiker Cube is the world's first smart 3x3x3 rubik's cube developed by Xiaomi Technology Company. It features bluetooth sensors in the center caps to allow wireless tracking of the cube state as you turn it. The cube can be connected to your iPad or Android device and the smart applications will teach you how to solve the cube or provide you with detailed analysis of your solve.
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List of planetariums | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:13 1 Permanent planetariums
00:00:37 1.1 Africa
00:01:21 1.2 Asia
00:06:51 1.3 Europe
00:21:00 1.4 North America
00:21:09 1.4.1 Canada
00:22:56 1.4.2 Costa Rica
00:23:08 1.4.3 Mexico
00:25:50 1.4.4 United States
00:40:49 1.5 Oceania
00:41:41 1.6 South America
00:44:17 2 Planetarium computer software
00:45:02 3 Planetarium manufacturers
00:50:40 4 See also
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00:01:12 1 Etymology
00:01:48 2 Purpose
00:05:18 3 Most visited museums
00:05:52 4 History
00:06:01 4.1 Early museums
00:14:03 4.2 Modern museums
00:19:48 5 Management
00:23:55 5.1 Exhibition histories
00:25:30 6 Museum planning
00:28:55 6.1 Financial uses of museums
00:31:27 6.2 Museum funding
00:32:39 7 Exhibition design
00:38:04 8 Types
00:39:48 8.1 Agricultural museums
00:40:35 8.2 Architecture museums
00:43:40 8.3 Archaeology museums
00:44:19 8.4 Art museums
00:47:15 8.5 Biographical museums
00:48:16 8.6 Automobile museums
00:49:03 8.7 Children's museums
00:54:02 8.8 Design museums
00:54:34 8.9 Encyclopedic museums
00:55:47 8.10 Ethnology or ethnographic museums
00:56:20 8.11 Historic house museums
00:59:32 8.12 History museums
01:02:38 8.13 Living history museums
01:05:06 8.14 Maritime museums
01:05:59 8.15 Medical museums
01:08:21 8.16 Memorial museums
01:10:53 8.17 Military and war museums
01:12:09 8.18 Mobile museums
01:12:52 8.19 Natural history museums
01:13:47 8.20 Open-air museums
01:14:44 8.21 Pop-up museums
01:16:33 8.22 Science museums
01:20:20 8.23 Specialized museums
01:22:55 8.24 Virtual museums
01:23:59 8.25 Zoological parks and botanic gardens
01:24:57 9 See also
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A museum ( mew-ZEE-əm; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. The largest museums are located in major cities throughout the world, while thousands of local museums exist in smaller cities, towns and rural areas. Museums have varying aims, ranging from serving researchers and specialists to serving the general public. The goal of serving researchers is increasingly shifting to serving the general public.
There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums, and children's museums. Amongst the world's largest and most visited museums are the Louvre in Paris, the National Museum of China in Beijing, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the British Museum and National Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and Vatican Museums in Vatican City. According to International Council of Museums, there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 countries.
Belfast | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:33 1 Name
00:04:02 2 History
00:04:24 2.1 Origins
00:05:34 2.2 Growth
00:07:53 2.3 The Troubles
00:09:40 2.4 21st century
00:10:40 3 Governance
00:11:20 3.1 Local government
00:13:41 3.2 Northern Ireland Assembly and Westminster
00:14:55 4 Geography
00:17:45 4.1 Climate
00:21:29 4.2 Areas and districts
00:25:50 5 Cityscape
00:25:59 5.1 Architecture
00:29:30 5.2 Parks and gardens
00:33:20 6 Demography
00:37:24 7 Economy
00:41:16 7.1 Industrial growth
00:43:49 8 Infrastructure
00:44:55 8.1 Utilities
00:46:24 8.2 Health care
00:47:41 8.3 Transport
00:53:34 9 Culture
00:58:56 9.1 Media
01:01:05 9.2 Sports
01:05:05 10 Notable people
01:05:15 11 Education
01:08:06 12 Tourism
01:10:46 13 Twin towns – sister cities
01:11:20 14 See also
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Belfast (; from Irish: Béal Feirste, meaning mouth of the Farset) is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast of Ireland. It is the largest city in Northern Ireland and second-largest on the island of Ireland, after Dublin. It had a population of 333,871 as of 2015.By the early 19th century, Belfast became a major port. It played a key role in the Industrial Revolution, becoming the biggest linen-producer in the world, earning it the nickname Linenopolis. By the time it was granted city status in 1888, it was a major centre of Irish linen production, tobacco-processing and rope-making. Shipbuilding was also a key industry; the Harland and Wolff shipyard, which built the RMS Titanic, was the world's biggest shipyard. Belfast as of 2019 has a major aerospace and missiles industry. Industrialisation and the inward migration it brought made Belfast Ireland's biggest city and it became the capital of Northern Ireland following the Partition of Ireland in 1922. Its status as a global industrial centre ended in the decades after the Second World War of 1939–1945.
Belfast suffered greatly in the Troubles: in the 1970s and 1980s it was one of the world's most dangerous cities. However, a survey conducted by a finance company and published in 2016 rated the city as one of the safest within the United Kingdom. Throughout the 21st century, the city has seen a sustained period of calm, free from the intense political violence of former years, and has benefitted from substantial economic and commercial growth. Belfast remains a centre for industry, as well as for the arts, higher education, business, and law, and is the economic engine of Northern Ireland. Belfast is still a major port, with commercial and industrial docks, including the Harland and Wolff shipyard, dominating the Belfast Lough shoreline. It is served by two airports: George Best Belfast City Airport and Belfast International Airport 15 miles (24 km) west of the city. The Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) listed Belfast as a Gamma global city in 2018.
Brisbane | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:41 1 History
00:03:51 1.1 Before the 19th century
00:04:37 1.2 The 19th century
00:08:46 1.3 Twentieth century
00:12:21 1.4 Twenty-first century
00:13:14 2 Geography
00:15:24 2.1 Urban structure
00:19:25 2.2 Climate
00:25:23 3 Governance
00:26:42 4 Economy
00:29:15 4.1 Port of Brisbane
00:30:10 5 Demographics
00:30:55 5.1 Ancestry and immigration
00:32:31 5.2 Language
00:33:10 5.3 Religion
00:34:17 6 Education
00:35:45 7 Infrastructure
00:35:55 7.1 Transport
00:41:22 7.2 Utilities and healthcare
00:44:11 7.3 Aged care
00:46:13 8 Culture
00:46:29 8.1 Queensland Gallery of Modern Art
00:47:31 8.2 Arts and classical culture
00:47:41 8.3 Venues and classical performers
00:48:47 8.4 Theatres
00:49:53 8.5 In popular culture
00:50:15 8.6 Live music
00:51:26 8.7 Musicians
00:53:27 8.8 Music references
00:54:05 9 Notable people
00:54:15 10 Sport
00:56:26 11 Annual events
00:58:50 12 Tourism and recreation
01:01:00 13 Media
01:01:10 13.1 Print
01:02:01 13.2 Television
01:03:27 13.3 Radio
01:04:36 14 Brisbane nicknames
01:05:29 15 See also
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Brisbane ( (listen)) is the capital of and the most populated city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of approximately 2.5 million, and the South East Queensland metropolitan region, centred on Brisbane, encompasses a population of more than 3.6 million. The Brisbane central business district stands on the historic European settlement and is situated inside a peninsula of the Brisbane River, about 15 kilometres (9 miles) from its mouth at Moreton Bay. The metropolitan area extends in all directions along the floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Great Dividing Range, sprawling across several of Australia's most populous local government areas (LGAs)—most centrally the City of Brisbane, which is by far the most populous LGA in the nation. The demonym of Brisbane is Brisbanite or Brisbanian.One of the oldest cities in Australia, Brisbane was founded upon the ancient homelands of the indigenous Turrbal and Jagera peoples. Named after the Brisbane River on which it is located—which in turn takes its name from the Scotsman Sir Thomas Brisbane, the Governor of New South Wales from 1821 to 1825—the area was chosen as a place for secondary offenders from the Sydney Colony. A penal settlement was founded in 1824 at Redcliffe, 28 kilometres (17 mi) north of the central business district, but was soon abandoned and moved to North Quay in 1825, opening to free settlement in 1842. There was conflict between the European people and the Aboriginal people from 1843 to 1855. The development was partly set back by the Great Fire of Brisbane of 1864, and the Great Brisbane Flood of 1893. Brisbane was chosen as the capital when Queensland was proclaimed a separate colony from New South Wales in 1859. During World War II, Brisbane played a central role in the Allied campaign and served as the South West Pacific headquarters for United States Army General Douglas MacArthur.Today, Brisbane is well known for its distinct Queenslander architecture which forms much of the city's built heritage. It also received attention for its damaging flood events, most notably in 1974 and 2011. Major landmarks and precincts include; the South Bank Parklands and the Queensland Cultural Centre, City Hall and King George Square, the Story Bridge, the City Botanic Gardens and Parliament of Queensland, ANZAC Square, Howard Smith Wharves, Fortitude Valley, West End, Roma Street Parkland, New Farm Park and the Brisbane Powerhouse, St John's Cathedral, Mount Coot-tha, Redcliffe and Moreton and Stradbroke Islands. The city is a popular tourist destination, serv ...
Woodrow Wilson | Wikipedia audio article
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Woodrow Wilson
00:03:58 1 Early life
00:06:17 2 Education
00:09:04 3 Marriage and family
00:10:11 4 Personal interests
00:10:57 5 Academic career
00:13:08 6 Political science author
00:13:18 6.1 U.S. and British system contrast
00:17:53 6.2 Public administration
00:20:15 7 President of Princeton University
00:25:55 8 Governor of New Jersey
00:30:05 9 Presidential election of 1912
00:30:16 9.1 Democratic nomination
00:34:20 9.2 General election
00:37:43 10 Presidency (1913–1921)
00:37:54 10.1 First term (1913–1917)
00:43:22 10.1.1 Tariff legislation and income tax
00:44:19 10.1.2 Federal Reserve System
00:46:46 10.1.3 Antitrust and other measures
00:48:51 10.1.4 Mexican Revolution
00:49:55 10.1.4.1 Pancho Villa
00:51:32 10.1.5 Miners strike, wife's death and remarriage
00:54:29 10.1.6 Events leading to U.S. entry into World War I (1914–16)
01:00:59 10.2 Presidential election of 1916
01:05:46 10.3 Second term (1917–1921)
01:05:58 10.3.1 Entry into World War I
01:11:08 10.3.2 Home front
01:14:15 10.3.3 The Fourteen Points
01:15:22 10.3.4 Peace Conference 1919
01:19:10 10.3.5 Treaty fight, 1919
01:21:49 10.3.6 Post war: 1919–1920
01:23:22 10.3.7 Other foreign affairs
01:26:34 10.3.8 Incapacity
01:28:28 10.3.9 Prohibition
01:30:12 10.3.10 Women's suffrage
01:32:02 10.3.11 Post war economic depression
01:32:27 10.4 Administration and Cabinet
01:33:05 10.5 Judicial appointments
01:33:14 10.5.1 Supreme Court
01:33:58 10.5.2 Other courts
01:34:16 11 Final years and death
01:36:59 12 Race relations
01:43:12 13 Memorials
01:45:22 14 Works
01:46:21 15 Media
01:46:29 16 See also
01:47:02 17 Notes
01:47:11 18 Bibliography
01:47:20 18.1 Biographical
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American statesman and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and as Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913, before winning the 1912 presidential election. As president, he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal in 1933. He also led the United States during World War I, establishing an activist foreign policy known as Wilsonianism. He was one of the three key leaders at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where he championed a new League of Nations, but he was unable to win Senate approval for U.S. participation in the League.
Born in Staunton, Virginia, to a slaveholding family, Wilson spent his early years in Augusta, Georgia, and Columbia, South Carolina. His father was a leading Southern Presbyterian and helped to found the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America. After earning a Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University, Wilson taught at various schools before taking a position at Princeton. In 1910, Democratic leaders recruited him to run for Governor of New Jersey. Serving from 1911 to 1913, Wilson broke with party bosses and won the passage of several progressive reforms. Wilson's success in New Jersey gave him a national reputation as a progressive reformer, and his Southern roots helped him win favor in that region. After several ballots, the 1912 Democratic National Convention selected Wilson as the party's presidential nominee. Theodore Roosevelt's third-party candidacy split the Republican Party, which re-nominated incumbent President William Howard Taft. Wilson won the 1912 election with a plurality of the popular vote and a large majority in the Electoral College.
Upon taking office, Wilson called a special session of Congress, whose work culminated in the Revenue Act of 1913, introducing a federal income tax which provided revenue lost when tariffs were sharply lowered. He also presided over the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, which created a central banking system in the form of the Federal Reserve System. Other ma ...
Soviet dissidents | Wikipedia audio article
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Soviet dissidents were people who disagreed with certain features in the embodiment of Soviet ideology and who were willing to speak out against them. The term dissident was used in the Soviet Union in the period following Joseph Stalin's death until the fall of communism. It was used to refer to small groups of marginalized intellectuals whose modest challenges to the Soviet regime met protection and encouragement from correspondents. Following the etymology of the term, a dissident is considered to sit apart from the regime. As dissenters began self-identifying as dissidents, the term came to refer to an individual whose non-conformism was perceived to be for the good of a society.Political opposition in the USSR was barely visible and, with rare exceptions, of little consequence. Instead, an important element of dissident activity in the Soviet Union was informing society (both inside the Soviet Union and in foreign countries) about violation of laws and human rights. Over time, the dissident movement created vivid awareness of Soviet Communist abuses.
Soviet dissidents who criticized the state faced possible legal sanctions under the Soviet Criminal Code and faced the choice of exile, the mental hospital, or the labor camp. Anti-Soviet political behavior, in particular, being outspoken in opposition to the authorities, demonstrating for reform, writing books were defined in some persons as being simultaneously a criminal act (e.g., violation of Articles 70 or 190-1), a symptom (e.g., delusion of reformism), and a diagnosis (e.g., sluggish schizophrenia).
Film industry | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:13 1 Modern film industry
00:02:37 1.1 United States
00:06:43 1.2 China
00:09:29 1.3 France
00:09:37 1.4 United Kingdom
00:09:46 1.5 India
00:13:14 1.6 Nigeria
00:17:05 1.7 Egypt
00:18:56 1.8 Iran
00:19:56 1.9 Japan
00:20:07 1.10 Korea
00:21:49 1.11 Hong Kong
00:23:02 1.12 Turkey
00:25:41 1.13 Pakistan
00:27:41 1.14 Bangladesh
00:30:44 1.15 Indonesia
00:32:01 1.16 Trinidad and Tobago
00:34:00 1.17 Nepal
00:35:44 2 History
00:36:48 2.1 Hollywood
00:40:28 2.2 Bollywood
00:44:30 3 Economics
00:47:29 4 Statistics
00:47:38 4.1 Largest industries by number of film productions
00:48:05 4.2 Largest markets by box office revenue
00:48:16 4.3 Largest markets by number of box office admissions
00:48:28 5 See also
00:48:49 6 Footnotes
00:48:58 7 Bibliography
00:49:37 8 External links
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The film industry or motion picture industry, comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post production, film festivals, distribution and actors, film directors and other film crew personnel.
Though the expense involved in making films almost immediately led film production to concentrate under the auspices of standing production companies, advances in affordable film making equipment, and expansion of opportunities to acquire investment capital from outside the film industry itself, have allowed independent film production to evolve. Hollywood is the oldest film industry of the world, and the largest in terms of box office gross revenue. Indian cinema (including Bollywood) is the largest film industry in terms of the number of films produced and the number of tickets sold, with 3.5 billion tickets sold worldwide annually (compared to Hollywood's 2.6 billion tickets sold annually) and 1,986 feature films produced annually.
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Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)