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Despite our best efforts, we're all vulnerable to believing things without using logic or having proper evidence—and it doesn't matter how educated or well read we are.
But there is a method for avoiding such pitfalls of human nature, and it's called skepticism. By using rational inquiry and seeing subjects from a scientific perspective, we can approach even the most sensitive claims with clear eyes to ultimately arrive at the truth.
During 18 lectures that will surprise, challenge, and entertain you, you will learn how to think, not just what to think—and you'll come to understand why extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
You'll discover how skepticism can help differentiate between real science and pseudoscience, as well as between "scientific" history and pseudohistory—distinctions that have serious educational and political implications.
Fascinating case studies illustrate how you can apply the methods of skepticism to detect specious claims and faulty logic in any scenario you encounter such as:
As you learn how our brains work to form beliefs, you'll examine the classic fallacies of thought that lead us to experience mistakes in thinking and to form bad arguments in favor of our beliefs.
Is there a God? Is there life after death? Is there a basis for morality without God? Skepticism 101 doesn't shy away from controversial questions, nor does it give final answers. What it offers are methods and hard evidence for rationally evaluating various claims and positions, and an opportunity to understand why you believe what you believe.
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Son of Sam I Am
"A good start to critical thinking"
I've never seen the print version.
I liked each section delving more in depth with a good amount of background information.
At the end he refers those more interested in the subject to checkout the magazine and even contact him with questions, which I've done and he responds. Even with the dumb stuff .
I'm still going to get nailed with my own cognitive biases but it's always good to remind yourself that they exist which is a good way to minimize the effect.
I've read some of the books he mentions, Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted World was amazing and my first introduction to his baloney detection. This started out a bit of a rehash on those themes so I expected to not learn a whole lot of new information. A few sections in and the material was much more expanded upon with more background. I'm a fan of VS Ramachandran and Oliver Sacks so if you like those books I think this is a good diversion whilst waiting for their next. I would love to see volume 2 eventually.
"By far the worst "Great" Courses I have listened"
This is the only "Great Courses" recording I have listened to that I found to be bad; indeed, it is terrible. Perhaps I am biased by being more expert in the material than I am for history or literature courses I have listened to, though I do not think that is it. Unlike the other lecturers, that delve into interesting points with a good balance of deep insight and humility, this came across more like a Malcolm Gladwell book of just-so stories and sloppy reasoning. I suppose if you are a fan of that approach, and you know absolutely nothing about scientific reasoning, you might find this worthwhile. But if you are looking for something more insightful (a genuine great course!), this is not it.
Shermer (who is a fine narrator/speaker -- credit for that) grossly oversimplifies almost everything he talks about. He gets many scientific points out-and-out wrong. He plays it well, so you might not realize that (I have studied and taught a lot of the same material for decades), which makes it all the more hazardous. I suspect this is the result of him being accustomed to talking to people who deny or do not understand the most basic principles of scientific inquiry. The problem is that he is trying to replace their simplistic view with another simplistic view, which might be fine for an airport book or a grade-school class, but this is not supposed to be one of those.
I kept listening for two reasons. The first is the delicious irony of someone who claims to be teaching about skepticism reciting simplified interpretations of the science (e.g., lab psychology experiments) as if it were indisputable truth, and that the single interpretation of the results that is convenient for his story is the only possible interpretation. The second is to get inspiration to write a book about debunking the debunkers who recite a simplified view of scientific inquiry that may indeed help protect people against utter woo (which is Shermer's mission in life) but that create a layer of more subtle problems that can be just as dangerous.
Needless to say, neither of those upsides is worth getting this listen for most people.
Some examples for those familiar with the topics: He lists many of the standard "heuristics and biases" reasons for people drawing erroneous causal conclusions. But for about half of them he describes them incorrectly. For most all of them, he asserts they are real phenomena based on one or two artificial psych experiments whose results have many possible interpretations. Some of them he spins into just-so stories about why we have that bias, which is fine, except that he presents these as facts rather than the reasonable speculations that they are. He refers to "the scientific method" even though there is no such "the", which he actually acknowledges in passing at a few points. But this does not stop him from basing most of what he says on a notion that scientific inquiry is always about following a particular script (e.g., that particular research methods trump others, or that particular statistical rules-of-thumb are natural laws rather than just a different kind of heuristic).
I suspect that Shermer has a more sophisticated understanding than he presents here. But his approach in these lectures is to infantilize the listener and present a grade-school-level lesson. Even apart from the the out-and-out errors, this is a terrible way to teach a college-level course, telling people what to think rather than exploring the topic. It is completely out of place in the "Great Courses" series.
"Great course, the applauselines are weird"
I enjoyed this course very much. The only downside to it would be the weird applause lines that occur between lectures. I believe he is in a booth recording it, which works out fine, but do they really need to pretend he is talking to people?
"One Truely Great Course"
Wow was this a great lecture! Shermer is an interesting speaker and I found it hard to stop listening. This course should be on the list of required freshmen courses for all college students. As a skeptic in training myself, this course helped equip me with some important new tools that I know I'll be able to use at home in everyday life and in business.
"Don't be deceived, this is a great listen"
I had a true since of déjà vu moment while listening to this course by Shermer until I realized he was the author of "The Believing Brain" which I read a few months ago and this course was covering much of the same ground with many of the same stories. Shermer attacks reasons for bad thinking such as via confirmation bias, availability bias, the hind sight fallacy, and others that challenge our ability to think logically like a Scientist. The Feynman quote that went something along the lines of first you must not be deceived and you are the easiest to deceive summed up the premise of the course very well.
"Very disappointing"
There were insufficient useful and specific techniques provided. Much too vague at times, and at others felt too enslaved to the 'scientific process'
A listener should not be able to detect the prof's biases if the material and delivery is objective. His biases were immediately evident. In tone and attitude. Delivery a bit dry.I have had other courses by prof Shermer that I enjoyed. He was just not the one to deliver this particular course. I couldn't even finish it I was so put off.
Slow and dull.
There definitely were some helpful approaches to questioning .
Being skeptical doesn't mean one should be close-minded, and I didn't think prof Shermer was able to show us how to strike the balance of being a skeptic and yet having an open mind.
Not all issues are fully provable with a scientific approach - there is a lot that is un-knowable (or at least not provable yet with our current technology and understanding!)
"A Great Disappointment"
Wanted to learn HOW a scientist thinks. Instead, got propaganda. Lectures 2 and 18 worthwhile.
I thought this would be a study of the disciplines of skepticism. It should have been titled "An Argument for the Authors Point of View of God as Myth, with a Rehash of Old Phycological Studies."
"The first Audible book that makes taking notes"
Dan Ariely's book, shares few similar stories
Quite well, and he promoted his company/organization few times
You will need to note down a list, and remember them, try to keep use them all the time to overcome biases, useful
"Dogmatic with little critical thought"
There were a couple of good chapters, but for the most part full of inconsistencies and fallacies.
His delivery is mostly wooden, like he is reading a script. Otherwise, he is smug, condescending and arrogant. He assumes evolution is absolute truth, so much for critical thinking.
My background is science and engineering and his errors drove me crazy.
Bottom line: He does not address why people would take shortcuts in reasoning and critical thought. He misses on incentive analysis. A real waste of time
Read Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics. It is much better at critical thought and the means of investigation. Sowell is fair, entertaining and presents based on evidence and not wild conjecture and speculation like this guy.
The problems with this lecture are too numerous to mention but let me list a few.
He predominately falls into several logical fallacies and hypocrisies. His favorite fallacies are the Appeal to Authority, Appeal to Expertise, Bandwagon and Appeal to Ignorance and he maddeningly misuses the term Begging the Question. In addition, he does not have the same skepticism for evolution, climate change as he does UFOs, creation, etc. Nobody should get a pass. Otherwise, all they have to do is exclaim peer review and science and you salivate like Pavlov's dog.
Error 1 - He conflates experimental with observational science as if the quality of the data is the same. Experimental science allows for control of the variables and repeatability. This allows for reruns to correct for critiques and errors. Observation science has no such control and is left to speculations and assumptions on the data collected.
Error 2 - Dogmatic respect for science and scientists surprisingly without any skepticism
For example, given the Climate Science data, models and prediction, a cursory review would raise huge red flags. Clues? Notice that any outcome cold weather, hot weather, more snow, less snow is always evidence of Climate Change? It is thus irrefutable, untestable and NOT science.
The same is true for macro evolution which he assumes is true. Anything that is found is attributed to evolution. Thus, how can it be refuted? So – not science.
He had a segment on the "god helmet" which uses magnetism to induce various experiences such as out of body experience and demons. This is to support that there is no soul, angels, or supernatural. Of course it really doesn't. It is like saying that we found the parts of the brain that process vision so there is nothing external that imparts the images but simply a manifestation of the brain.
Taken to its conclusion, how do we know that a more sophisticated helmet does not induce our entire life experience?
This is a manifestation of Barkley philosophy where our experience is nothing but mind? Hmmm
He spends most of his time on arguments against UFOs, aliens, etc but very little on the important stuff. He assumes evolution is absolute truth, i.e. dogma. This is his religion, which he uses to explain and discount the other religions.
"Highly recommended."
It is not yet available in print, but perhaps it should be to gather a wider readership.
This is a succinct and comprehensive run through of rational and scientific thinking and understanding as it is today. I would highly recommend it to every and anyone.
No. Too much information to concentrate on and absorb .
It would be a shame if those of strong relgious faith were put off listening to (reading) this, but that would only prove some of the variuous cognitive biases contained therin.
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Just as Ray had said Forked River/Lanoka Harbor is a wonderful place to live with a big upside for boaters. The area is well maintained and the school systems are very good. With just a quick search I was able to find 29 waterfront properties ranging from the low $300,000's and the high being in the $1.3 million range. So as you can see there are several properties within various prices that may fit your needs. Another pro to the area is your not far from shopping, entertainment, and Atlantic City. A con if any is the traffic in the summer time. Jersey shore always gets slammed, but as compared to LBI, Pt. Pleasant, or Sea Side it is not that bad. Everyone else's answers were great and I hope this information has helped. Best of luck and enjoy the shore!!
Realtor Associate,
Sean L. Daly
Crossroads Realty
Forked River/Lanoka Harbor is a nice area, non and waterfront homes. Good school systems, straight out the bay to the inlet/ocean. As a boater, I love it here. Cons are Rt. 9 can be very congested in the summertime, but once your here, it is worthwhile.
Ray@ Crossroads Realty
I agree w/ Patrick about your intended use of the waterfront being a determining factor in decisions. I found 108 SF homes for sale in Lacey, with 47 within Forked River. Volume of units sold YTD this year are behind last years, average days on market are only slightly up over last year. Average sold price has dropped also. Inventory levels are running higher this year than last. The market is favoring buyers.
Because Lacey is further from major cities than other points on the shore, the price points are lower.
If specific data on the market trends for Forked River that provide the detials and expand upon the information above would be helpful, it can be emailed to you upon request. Current property offerings are also available.
Deborah Madey - Broker
Peninsula Realty Group - New Jersey
(732) 530-6350
I just came home today from my daughters place in Brooklyn, she has a place near the Hamptons too and they have a BIG boat. My dad had a boat in Barnegat and my brother a sail boat in Bayville now in the Chesapeake (sp). I need to know what you want to do with this waterfront. I can help you without the pressure, but we need to talk. Call me at 732-778-9933 or email email@example.com
Jim I have been doing this several decades, I really don't push or bother you but call me to talk. I'll be available till 9:00 pm tonight, Sunday. Or during the week. Sorry for the delay and not getting back sooner.
The pros of the area is decent taxes, close on/off to the GSP, easy access to the bay (and ocean if your boat can handle that) with great fishing and crabbing spots, close proximity to dining , shopping, and just about everything you may need.
The only cons I can see is the traffic of Route 9 in the area can get a bit congested, but not as bad as other places. Another I can see would be the cost of homeowners and flood insurance, not bad, but can be higher depending on just where you would live.
As Patrick says, there are alot of homes available; many at very reasonable prices and as long as you can qualify for financing, if you need it, you can especially find real bargans now.
If I can help any further, call or email.
Best Wishes and Good Luck!
John Jelinski
Crossroads Realty

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In rare cases, even the recommended doses can cause muscle contractions. Dextromethorphan can also cause severe allergic reactions; diphenhydramine may induce restlessness and anxiety.That was enough to make me abandon the idea. And what do you know. She stopped coughing soon after.
ATLANTA -- More than 1,500 toddlers and babies wound up in emergency rooms over a two-year period and three died because of bad reactions to cold or cough medicine, federal health officials reported Thursday.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned parents not to give common over-the-counter cold remedies to children under 2 years old without consulting a doctor.
The deaths of three infants 6 months or younger in 2005 led to an investigation that showed the children all had high levels of the nasal decongestant pseudoephedrine, up to 14 times the amount recommended for children ages 2 to 12. The study found 1,519 ER cases from 2004 and 2005 involving young children and cold medicine.
I looked it up, though, and the occasional use of pseudoephedrine is considered OK for breastfeeding mothers.]]>
In a study of 100 youngsters with upper-respiratory infections, neither of two ingredients -- dextromethorphan and diphenhydramine - was more effective than a placebo in improving the kids' nighttime cough and sleep, Pennsylvania State College of Medicine scientists report in the current issue of the journal Pediatrics. The placebo was a syrup with no reputed medicinal value.The study didn't look at whether cough medicine is effective in adults.
"This study ... questions whether over-the-counter medications have a place in the treatment of these illnesses for children," said Dr. Ian Paul, lead author of the Pediatrics article.


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POULSBO — Dude. The City Council is getting a Dell.
Dell Latitude 10 tablets, to be exact.
"We played around with these tablets, they worked out really well," said Tim Treacher of the City of Poulsbo's IT department. "There's a lot of familiarity. It runs the same programs, like Outlook and more."
The City Council spent time after its Feb. 19 meeting getting a primer on the new devices.
"We have to get them more familiar with it," Treacher said.
"It's more getting them to navigate around. The tiles that Windows 8 comes with are very customizable. They have a mail tile, and it opens up like an iPad opens the mail app. But it's geared to using a Microsoft interface."
The tablets are the latest step in upgrading the council's technology in recent years. The City Council has used paperless agendas for around seven years, chiefly using laptops to view meeting minutes, finances, contracts and more. The council received laptops in 2008 in order to work this way. Members are still using those same computers today.
"We had problems with council members using personal computers for email access," Treacher said. "We got city laptops to deal with that. They haven't been replaced since. They are still running Windows XP."
With time wearing on the laptops, the city's IT department felt it was time to go a little more modern — tablets.
"You can put everything (on a tablet)," Treacher said. "They can do little markups (on the agenda), and when they are at the dais they have everything in front of them."
The IT department settled on Dell Latitude 10 tablets after a little testing. Five council members have received theirs already and two more are on the way. The tablets run Windows 8, a touch screen-based program.
A docking station for the tablets was set up at City Hall for the council members, at a desktop workstation dedicated for their use.
The tablets cost around $600 each. They also come with an $80 case and keyboard.
The city's IT department made the decision to go with the tablets after testing a few models, and speaking with the council about how they use city devices.
"One of the questions I asked (council members) was 'Why don't you like your laptops?'" Treacher said. "And one answer was that they're heavy. One recommendation was to get something light. These tablets are like a pound."
The IT department has also tested other tablets to gauge their application to city work.
"When (we) were playing around with these tablets, we thought we'd see if we can replace desktops with them," Treacher said. "I took the tablet and made it my work computer for a while."
Treacher used a Venue 11 tablet, which he said had a little more guts to operate as a work device.
There currently are no plans to issue more tablets around City Hall. But Treacher said this could be where city technology leans in the future.
"I think we could start with department heads, and see if they can use it," he said.
But it won't be that simple of a decision. While tablets are cheaper than a desktop computer, which can run around $1,300, Treacher said he will need to figure the lifespan of computers versus tablets. In other words, it might not be as cost effective to replace tablets every two years, instead of a desktop computer every four years.
Treacher said he did look at Apple iPads, but was concerned about crossing the iPad programs and apps with the city's Microsoft-based desktops. He also said that the transition from Windows to an iPad for some of the council members was difficult.
"In working with the different council members the transition from a Microsoft base to an Apple base was kind of goofing them up," Treacher said.
"It goes to the Apple vs. Windows thing," he added.
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UPPER PITTSGROVE TWP. — A free backyard birding seminar will be held at Roork's Farm Supply, Inc., 163 Route 77, on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 1 p.m.
Patricia Sutton will host the book signing and program, to feature the "hows and whys" of attracting birds, butterflies and other wildlife to backyards of all sizes.
Sutton, in her long-time capacity as naturalist and program director with the Cape May Bird Observatory, researched and wrote the New Jersey Audubon Society booklet, "Backyard Habitat for Birds: A Guide for Landowners and Communities in New Jersey."
Space is limited for the free seminar, but spots can be reserved by calling (856) 358-3100 or emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
Free backyard birding seminar to be held at Roork's Farm Supply in Upper Pittsgrove Twp.
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May 17th, 2014
Saturday's lineups: Tigers at Red Sox
Gameday | TV: MLB Network, FS Detroit, MLB.TV | Radio: 97.1 FM, AM 1270, Gameday Audio
Standard lineup for Tigers. Altered lineup for Red Sox, who put Will Middlebrooks on the 15-day disabled list today. He fractured his right index finger trying to handle Ian Kinsler's first-inning line drive. He played six more innings after that, including two at-bats, before A.J. Pierzynski hit for him in the seventh.
Reminder: Tonight's game is on MLB Network outside the Detroit and Boston markets.
TIGERS (career numbers vs. Lackey)
- Ian Kinsler, 2B (15-for-35, double, triple, HR, 4 walks, K)
- Torii Hunter, RF (14-for-59, 2 doubles, 2 HR, 3 walks, 12 K's)
- Miguel Cabrera, 1B (4-for-15, double, HR, walk, 4 K's)
- Victor Martinez, DH (12-for-32, double, 4 walks, 3 K's)
- Austin Jackson, CF (3-for-11, double, 5 K's)
- Nick Castellanos, 3B
- Alex Avila, C (0-for-9, 2 walks, 4 K's)
- Andrew Romine, SS
- Rajai Davis, LF (11-for-28, 2 doubles, triple, 9 K's)
P: Rick Porcello
RED SOX (career numbers off Porcello)
- Dustin Pedroia, 2B (2-for-10, double, walk, K)
- Shane Victorino, RF (1-for-2, K)
- David Ortiz, DH (2-for-7, HR, K)
- Mike Napoli, 1B (5-for-16, 2 doubles, triple, walk, 6 K's)
- Grady Sizemore, CF (3-for-15, walk, 3 K's)
- Mike Carp, LF (0-for-1, walk)
- A.J. Pierzynski, C (5-for-22, HR, walk, 2 K's)
- Xander Bogaerts, SS
- Brock Holt, 3B
P: John Lackey
Robertson's comeback ends at Triple-A Toledo
Nate Robertson's comeback as a sidearming reliever appears to be over, at least from the Tigers' perspective, and most likely his own. The Tigers granted the 36-year-old left-hander his release on Saturday, about two months after signing him to a minor-league contract.
It's a tough end to a career that brought Robertson onto the mound as a starting pitcher in the World Series back in 2006, then earned him a lucrative three-year contract a year later. After injuries and inconsistencies, he tried to make it back out of the bullpen, signing back his old club midway through Spring Training looking for a shot.
While his early numbers were encouraging, his struggles with command and his struggles to retire left-handed hitters proved to be a problem. He walked 13 batters over 21 innings at Triple-A Toledo, and lefty hitters batted .290 against him.
His inactivity in recent weeks was a bad sign. He pitched just twice in May, and hadn't pitched in a week since walking three batters over 1 2/3 innings with two earned runs allowed against Rochester.
When Robertson talked about his comeback last month, he didn't put an end date on it. However, he said this would most likely be his last stop.
"How is this going to end? To me, it's going to end good no matter what," he said. "This is exactly what I wanted to happen, and my family wanted to happen. I got a chance to be with what I think is the greatest organization in baseball, come back to a place that feels like home. And I know what's on the table. I know what I've gotta do. A lot of things to clear, but just keep on getting those boys to roll over and give myself a chance. That's all I can do, but have fun doing it. That's the biggest thing.
"I want to make sure to have as much fun as I can, because if I can't get back up, it'll probably be it for me."
Another Mud Hens reliever, Jhan Marinez, was also released. The 26-year-old right-hander signed as a minor-league free agent last offseason, but never showed the command he needed. He walked 21 batters with 21 strikeouts over 18 1/3 innings, allowing 18 earned runs on 23 hits. He, too, had been knocked down the pecking order, with just two appearances over the last couple weeks.
Ausmus plots his way through bullpen in late innings
The memories of Tigers bullpen breakdowns at Fenway Park are fresh enough for most Detroit fans that they don't need reminding. They were fresh enough to probably come back once Max Scherzer exited with the tying run on and nobody out in the bottom of the seventh.
The crushing home run never happened. Nor, for that matter, did the game-tying hit. It's a different looking Red Sox lineup, of course, but it's also a different-looking Tigers bullpen, as well as a different manager. Here's how Brad Ausmus navigated through the Red Sox batting order:
1. Evan Reed for Scherzer after Mike Carp leadoff single in 7th
"We were going back and forth about it," Ausmus said. "In fact, if Kinsler had gotten a hit [with a runner on to extend the top of the inning], Max probably would've been done at that point. So we had people ready in the pen for that contingency. But when he went to take the mound in the seventh, we decided that if the first hitter gets on, that was going to be it."
Ausmus did not want to use Al Alburquerque, who had pitched five times in six days before Thursday's off-day. Thus, the option was Reed, who looked shaky at the outset. He balked Carp into scoring position, then hit Xander Bogaerts on a 1-2 pitch after he fouled off back-to-back fastballs. He had put the go-ahead run on base, but when he got a 1-2 count on Jackie Bradley Jr., he pounded him with sliders, eventually getting the swing and miss he needed for the first out.
2. Ian Krol for Reed with A.J. Pierzynski pinch-hitting in 7th
How a team uses its lefty relievers is vital against the Red Sox lineup because of the big hitter in the middle of the order. In this case, Ausmus had Ian Krol warming for bottom half. Krol started warming up soon after Reed did in anticipation of Pierzsynski, 2-for-3 as a pinch-hitter going into the game and a .305 (25-for-82) hitter off right-handed pitching compared with 4-for-28 off lefties.
The risk to that strategy was Jonny Gomes, also on the bench. He has reprised his lefty-killing role for 11-for-40 hitting and two home runs off southpaws this year.
"I was really kind of banking on the fact that they weren't going to use Gomes," Ausmus said. "I could've been wrong, and Krol would've had to face him. But we don't know what the status of [Shane] Victorino is. It was a little bit of a gamble, but fortunately it worked out for us."
It worked well enough for two outs rather than one. Pierzynski hit Krol's second pitch right at shortstop Danny Worth, who started the inning-ending double play. Alburquerque had briefly gotten up to start throwing, Ausmus said, but sat down after that.
3. Joba Chamberlain for 8th inning with David Ortiz looming
This is Chamberlain's role these days, and it was an automatic decision for Ausmus. The question he had to consider was what he'd do if the Red Sox put a runner on base to bring Ortiz to the plate.
Amidst all those Red Sox-Yankees matchups, Ortiz put up a pretty good track record against Chamberlain, 6-for-20 with a home run, four RBIs, three walks and five strikeouts. More than half those at-bats came during Chamberlain's season as a starter in 2009.
On the flip side, there's Phil Coke's track record against Ortiz, 2-for-20 lifetime against him. Coke made the ALCS roster last October for that possibility, but essentially became a decoy. If there was any chance of Coke getting into a big situation, facing Ortiz was it.
Coke began warming early in the inning, prompting a panic on twitter. Ausmus characterized it as a contingency plan in case of a breakdown.
"If just by chance Joba struggled there and the first three guys got on base, and we were in a bases-loaded situation with Ortiz up, then Coke would be the guy to get Ortiz," Ausmus said. "We've talked about having somebody grasp the eighth-inning setup role, and Joba's done that. I prefer to leave him out there. But if something went haywire and the bases were loaded with Ortiz up, then Coke would've been the guy."
Chamberlain retired the side in order on three groundouts, leaving Ortiz for Joe Nathan.
4. Joe Nathan for Ortiz in the ninth
This is why Nathan is here. Besides the ninth inning being his, he had the matchup advantage against all three hitters he was set to face. Ortiz was 2-for-10 off him with no extra-base hits. Napoli was 0-for-2 with two strikeouts. Carp was 0-for-4.
Getting Ortiz was the key. Nathan improvised a bit to get it.
"I think that's the first time ever I threw a changeup in a one-run game," Nathan said. "Eventually, I got him on a backdoor curveball."
Game 37: Scherzer displays his best stuff
Brad Ausmus thought this might have been Max Scherzer near his best.
"This might have been the best his stuff has been all year, really," Ausmus said.
Scherzer thought he could have been better.
"I didn't have my changeup," Scherzer said. "I didn't like where my changeup was, but I thought both my breaking balls [slider and curveball] were very good tonight. It's always going to drive me crazy when I don't throw first-pitch strikes and when I'm walking guys, so that's my first telltale sign of pitching well. And when I'm walking three in six innings, and I'm barely above 50 percent on first-pitch strikes, that's something I'm always frustrated with, because I know it's a process."
That's the perfectionist in Scherzer, which is what has pushed him the past couple years to get to this point. That's also the same pitcher who used that changeup he didn't have to get one of his biggest outs of the game, striking out Mike Napoli watching it to end the sixth inning.
"It just didn't have the action it typically had," Scherzer said. "But in that situation, the whole night I had shown him fastball-slider, and I thought, 'If I could execute a good changeup right here, this is the pitch.'
Scherzer threw 11 out of 19 changeups for strikes, according to brooksbaseball.net, including eight swings. By contrast, he got a dozen swings and misses on the night from fastballs, sliders and curveballs. In fact, hitters swung and missed at the curveball three out of five times.
He started off hitters with plenty of curveballs and sliders, which shows some confidence that he can get ahead with it.
"I thought my slider was much better today," Scherzer said. "I had much better feel for it. I actually thought my curveball was really good. I made an adjustment on my curveball. I was able to start throwing that for strikes then throw it below the zone for strikeouts. It was great to see where that pitch was."
Scherzer did not get a swing and miss off his changeup, according to brooksbaseball.net. That's the first time he has come up empty in that category since his last regular-season start here last Sept. 3. On the flip side, his three whiffs on curveballs are more than he has ever gotten from that pitch in his career. As good as the curveball has become for him, it has only been good for one or two swings and misses a game.
If he can have that kind of mix, he shouldn't need to worry about his game long-term. That said, Friday might well go down as a huge outing for his future.
He not only outpitched another soon-to-be free agent starting pitcher in Jon Lester, he did so with time to spare. He pitched in a difficult ballpark for pitchers without serious damage. And he restrained left-handed hitters, the key of opponents that troubled him until last year.
"I didn't pitch my best," Scherzer said, "but when runners were on base and I needed big pitches, I made big pitches. That's the difference in the game. We got dicey there in the sixth, got myself into a corner and fortunately I was able to collect a big double play and get a big strikeout. That was the difference in the game."


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Oscars 2006: Early word on the Best Director race
They split the big prizes at this year's Venice Film Festival. Now filmmakers Ang Lee (nominated once before for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and George Clooney (who's never even attended the Oscars) could stand side by side as Best Director nominees thanks to their work in the acclaimed Brokeback Mountain and Good Night, and Good Luck (pictured), respectively. Awards-show mainstays like Munich's Steven Spielberg (five directing nominations, two wins) and Match Point's Woody Allen (six nominations, one win) will try for a return engagement, as will more recent winners like Jarhead's Sam Mendes, Cinderella Man's Ron Howard, and King Kong's Peter Jackson. A trio of directors who have scored one nomination but didn't win — The New World's Terrence Malick, Memoirs of a Geisha's Rob Marshall, and The Constant Gardener's Fernando Meirelles — could make the list again. Many of the contenders — Walk the Line's James Mangold, Capote's Bennett Miller, The Producers' Susan Stroman, and A History of Violence's David Cronenberg — are shooting for the first nomination of their careers. Then there are the guys who've had Academy recognition in other categories but not as directors: Tommy Lee Jones, a past Supporting Actor winner for The Fugitive, won raves at Cannes for shepherding The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada; Stephan Gaghan, who picked up a screenplay trophy for Traffic, wrote and directed Syriana; and Million Dollar Baby screenplay nominee Paul Haggis pulled similar double duty on Crash.


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Ground beef, kidney beans, tomato sauce and chili powder. Sometimes onion and garlic.
Homemade with kidney beans, but I use the Morningstar meat crumblers and make vegetarian chili. If I purchase can, I get the Hormel turkey chili no beans.
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Homemade with beans
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I'm a great cook (brag brag) but I cannot for the life of me make a great pot of chili.
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i'm not a huge chili fan so its something that i dont normally make.
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What's the Market like for Jarret Johnson?
After playing his first nine career seasons with the Baltimore Ravens, Jarret Johnson is set to hit the open market and become a free agent when the new league year begins next month.
Johnson, 30, has played in a franchise record 129 games, and the day after the AFC Championship Game loss in New England, the linebacker said he would like to retire as a Raven.
NFL Network analyst Jason La Canfora believes Johnson will be a valued commodity on the open market.
"He's going to be a prized asset on the open market," La Canfora said, via BaltimoreRavens.com. "Ravens defenders always are."
Over the past few years, Baltimore has loaded up at the outside linebacker's position through the draft. The Ravens selected Paul Kruger in the second-round in 2009, and took Sergio Kindle with their first pick in 2010.
Kruger made serious strides in his third season, playing in all 16 games and recording 5.5 sacks. However, he hasn't proven he can be an every-down player like Johnson and still has much to show when it comes to stopping the run and playing the edge like Johnson has.
As for Kindle, he's yet to see any regular-season action due to the head injury he suffered before his career could even get underway.
Johnson recorded 56 tackles and 2.5 sacks this past season, and is highly regarded in the locker room.
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The city of Springfield and runners from throughout the region will enjoy one of the most enjoyable events of the year Tuesday when the fifth annual Bright Nights Road Race will be held at Forest Park, with the brightness from the largest lighting display in New England showing the way for the 500 runners.
"It's a great night for Springfield, and that's what we're thrilled about," said race committee member Charlie Casartello, a Longmeadow resident who grew up in the East Forest Park section of the city.
The 5K showed its popularity by filling up in less than a week, with the race hitting its capacity Sept. 7.
"We're very happy," Casartello said. "The idea you can have a race of 500 entrants closed up in three days is pretty remarkable. We wish we could open it up further. There were 150 people on the waiting list. But the limitations of parking and nighttime running prevented us, at least at this point.
"But it's a wonderful experience. Wintertime running at night through the lights is very unique."
The race will begin 6:30 at the Walker Memorial Grandstand. Registration will be held at Cyr Arena, and the post-race party will take place in an enclosed, heated tent.
"The park is in great shape," Casartello said. "They've done re-paving in the park, certainly where the race will be run."
With the earliest starting date in the young history of the race, the race committee is hoping that will increase the chances of favorable weather.
"We've had rain and freezing rain," Casartello said. "We had to move it one year because of a wind storm. There was ice on the trees.
"It would be really nice if we could have a clear, cool night. No rain."
SNOWSTORM CLASSICS: The Snowstorm Classics, hosted by the Greater Springfield Harriers, are set to begin Dec. 4. The series alternates between 10K and 5K courses, with the 10K kicking-off the 31st annual season. The races begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Porter Lake Skate House at Springfield's Forest Park.
MONTEMAGNI, TEAM USA: Former Holyoke Catholic and American International College athlete Tom Montemagni placed 15th in his age group at the International Triathlon Union World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 13. The 66 year old competed as a member of Team USA.
Montemagni, who lives in Vermont, will again represent his country when he participates at the World Championships in Beijing in September of 2011.
RESULTS: Al Ladd of Colrain was second Saturday in one hour, 26 minutes, 45 seconds at the Green River Dirt Half Marathon, which ran from Guilford, Vt., to Leyden . . . Anha McCusker, running for Fast Feet Inc., placed sixth in the girls bantam 3K race in 12:45 at the USA Track & Field Region I Junior Olympics Cross Country Championships at Burrillville, R.I., Sunday . . . Deerfield Academy's Ben Wood (16:55) and Suffield Academy's Lester Taylor (16:56) placed sixth and seventh Sunday at the New England Prep School Cross Country All-Star Race at Marlboro.
UPCOMING RACES: The Miles for Malawi 5K will be held Thursday starting at 9 a.m. at Springfield's Van Horn Park . . . The Hanukkah Road Race, a 5-miler, starts at 9:30 Dec. 5 at the Jewish Community Center in Springfield.


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Pearson Elementary shows PRIDE at final assembly
POULSBO What a difference a year makes. Faculty and students at Pearson Elementary School are glowing about a program that just began in September 2006. The Pearson Elementary School PRIDE program is already having a positive effect on its student body.
Seeing as it stands for Positive, Respectful, Integrity, Dependable and Engaged, its not difficult to see why.
Throughout the 2006-07 school year, assemblies stressing the importance of these five critical areas of behavior to Pearsons elementary students were routinely held.
The seventh PRIDE assembly took place Monday as students marched into the Pearson gymnasium for the final gathering of the school year.
Last year, on the last day of school our teachers collaborated together and tackled some of the discipline problems going on at our school, Pearson Elementary administration intern Deb Foreman said. We did some research and found a trend that we didnt like. We felt we needed to be proactive. Getting this program off the ground is the culmination of everyones efforts. Its had a positive effect on the entire school.
Foreman said theres been a significant decrease in the amount of disciplinary problems during the 2006-07 school year as opposed to the 2005-06 school year.
The promotion of the PRIDE program around our school has worked out so well, she said. The suspension rate has reduced significantly and theres less students being sent to the (principals) office.
Pearson Elementary counselor Patti Beer said the program has been great for not only the school, but the entire community as well.
These kids are learning how important the words positive, respectful, integrity, dependable and engaged are and are putting them into play, Beer said. This has been such a positive thing since the beginning of the year.
Foreman agreed.
I have had parents tell me that the PRIDE program is having an effect on their kids at home, she said. They are regurgitating what they learn at school and are bringing it home with them. They definitely are incorporating what they learn at school into their daily lives.
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DALTON TOWNSHIP -- Lightning is believed to have caused a barn fire at 1520 E. McMillan early Sunday.
The barn was declared a total loss, said Lt. Tom Miller Jr. with the Dalton Township Fire Department. A damage estimate was not available pending further investigation of the barn's contents.
"It was pretty much fully engulfed by the time we got there," Miller said.
Firefighters from Dalton and Muskegon townships responded around 12:30 a.m. Sunday. The homeowners were away for the weekend and have since been notified. There were no injuries, Miller said.
The fire is still under investigation, but fire officials said they believe it was due to storms with excessive lightning strikes that moved through the area around midnight. Miller and his crew were at the scene of another weather-related call near Lakewood Club when they were dispatched, he said.
A neighbor reported the fire and crews were on the scene until around 3 a.m. There was a pickup truck inside the barn, but it was hard to tell what else because the roof had collapsed, Miller said.


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Police incident reports are beginning to shed light on events that led to the May 2 arrests of 17 Eastern New Mexico University baseball players.
Reports also show confrontations took place between police and university players and coaches when arrests were made in the university field house.
Seventeen ENMU baseball players were arrested on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct stemming from their alleged involvement in fights that took place on April 27, first at a party and then in a school parking lot several hours later.
Two men not on the team were allegedly involved in the altercations, reports show. One of them told police the fight at the party was started after "some guys started grabbing some girls."
One witness told police she saw a crowd of 20-30 people, a few she recognized as being on ENMU sports teams, arguing with two other men, reports show. The two other men were also arrested.
Video from a dormitory parking lot shows several men damaging a vehicle after the incident at the party.
According to the report, the players' arrests were made on May 2 in the players' field house. The report said:
• As officers called names from a list of players they had arrest warrants for, both players and coaches were being argumentative and were refusing to comply with the commands of the officers.
• Coaches were advising players not to cooperate or say anything until the officers produced arrest warrants.
• One player attempted to leave in another direction and when an officer tried to restrain him, the player "lunged" at the officer. The officer had to restrain him and players and coaches alleged the officer choked the player.
• Coaches pulled out their cell phones and recorded the incidents. The coaches also asked if they could see an arrest warrant for the officer involved in the incident with the player for "grabbing the player by the throat."
According to the report, while the arrests were being made, students made comments about Athletic Director Jeff Geiser "having their backs and bailing them out."
Geiser said in a Friday interview that he advised the players that neither he nor any of the coaches could post bond for the players because that would violate NCAA rules.
"We didn't bail them out," he said.
Each player posted a $1,000 cash or surety bond (10 percent with collateral) soon after the arrests, Roosevelt County jail officials said.
One player told police that Geiser advised them not to talk to anyone about the altercation at the party until after games were played that had playoff implications.
Geiser on Friday denied making the statement, but said he was trying to make make sure players did not escalate the situation.
Geiser allowed players to play after their arrests.
"Part of the reason I reinstated them is because not all the men arrested were involved at the altercation," Geiser said. "The truth is going to come out eventually."
Geiser said the situation, "could have been handled better."
"It's behind us now, we have just to learn from it and move forward."


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Once more with feeling
Good teams always respond to a challenge.
Tuesdays Snapple Senior High School All Star Game doubleheader was no different, as the National League brought 11 batters to the plate in a seven-run third inning to a 14-8 win in the nightcap and sweep the American League at Legion Field.
The American League took a quick lead in the first inning when North Kitsaps J.B. Kandoll hit a 1-0 pitch from Port Townsends Chad Holbrook over the left-center field fence for a grand slam to take a 4-0 lead.
It was a fastball right down the middle, said Kandoll, who will play at Saint Martins College in Lacey next year.
That helped Kandoll, who finished with five RBI in the two games, earn the second-annual Elton Goodwin MVP award. Goodwin is a local baseball legend who led South Kitsap to three state championships, including his final year in 2003.
The honors proved to be virtually meaningless on the scoreboard, though.
SKs Aaron Cunningham scored prep teammate Pat Kelly from third base, cutting the American Leagues lead to 4-1. Kelly came through again in the third inning with a single to score Port Angeles Chris Fries and Paul Rymer.
A misplayed fly ball by the left fielder in the ensuing at bat by Cunningham scored South Kitsaps Craig Senter to tie the game, 4-4. The American League took its first lead, 5-4, on an RBI single by Central Kitsaps Matt Phillips in the following at bat.
I knew that I had to get the RBI, said Phillips, who is deciding between offers from Olympic College and Skagit Valley College. After I got in, I knew we had the game.
The American League closed the gap to 8-7 by scoring three runs in the
fourth inning, but Olympic pitcher Stephen Braun surrendered six runs in the fourth inning to put the National League up for good.
Holbrook earned the win, while Hultberg recorded the loss.
In the earlier game, a two-RBI double by Port Townsends Jerimiah Fountain produced the go-ahead run in the eighth inning as the National League claimed a 5-2 victory.
The four-run eighth inning was produced against NK standout pitcher Kevin Howe.
Hes got a nasty slider, said Senter, whos attending the University of Hawaii on an academic scholarship and wont play baseball. I think we just got some lucky hits off the end of the bat.
Howe agreed. The last two little fly balls were good pitches, I think, said Howe, who is considering playing baseball at Gonzaga University and Washington State University. They just hit them.
Bremertons Jeff Lee was one of the few batters who seemed to see the ball well in the first game as he produced the National Leagues first run on an RBI double off the right-center field wall.
It felt good, said Lee, who intends to play baseball at Olympic College next year. It was just a curveball that hung over the plate too long.
Olympics Jeff Shaw, who will play at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, said unexpected performances shouldnt be a suprise during all-star games.
I took batting practice (Monday), but I havent really swung lately, said Shaw, adding that most players take time off after the playoffs, which means many players arent as sharp.
-- One noticeable absentee from the all-star game was SKs Chris Anderson.
Thats because Anderson said he sustained a sprained left medial collateral ligament while riding a four-wheeler in Eastern Washington.
Im just glad it wasnt an a torn ligament, said Anderson, who will walk on as a linebacker at Eastern Washington University.
n Kelly won both the run around the bases and home run derby competitions between the games.
The future Bellevue Community College player was clocked at 14.88 seconds around the bases and hit three home runs.
Ive always been one of the fastest kids, he said. I didnt play the last five innings, so I kind of stretched out to prepare.
Kelly, who isnt known as a home-run hitter, said he took advantage of the conditions at Legion Field to win that competition.
I knew the wind was blowing in from left field, he said. I had the uppercut swing (working) and the ball was flying out.
-- Ten players from the all-star games were nominated for the Washington State Baseball Coaches Association All-State Series June 12-13 in Wenatchee.
Those athletes include Cunningham, Zach Gagnon (Shelton), Holbrook, Hultberg, Kandoll, Kelly, Brent Nickerson (SK), Kevin Owens (Gig Harbor), Dan Peck (NK) and Shaw.
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BOSTON - Gov. Deval L. Patrick nominated four people Friday to the state's embattled Parole Board, including an advocate for victims in the office of the Hampden District Attorney.
Patrick named the four as replacements for parole board members who resigned after they voted to release a repeat violent convict who then killed a Woburn patrolman in December.
Patrick nominated Lucy M. Soto-Abbe, an advocate for crime victims and witnesses for the past 17 years in the Hampden District Attorney's office. Soto-Abbe has a master's degree in forensic psychology from American International College in Springfield and a bachelor's degree from Bay Path College in Longmeadow.
Soto-Abbe would receive $90,000 a year if confirmed to the Parole Board. She would fill a term of a former member that would expire in June of next year and then she would be eligible for appointment to a full five-year term.
Hampden District Attorney Mark G. Mastroianni said Soto-Abbe is a very valued employee and would be missed. At the same time, he said, he is excited that someone from Hampden County was named to such an important position. "She is well qualified," Mastroianni said.
Other nominees are Charlene M. Bonner, forensic psychologist serving the Plymouth County courts; John M. Bocon, former chief probation officer in the U.S. Probation Office in Boston and Ina R. Howard-Hogan, currently general counsel to the Massachusetts Parole Board.
The Governor's Council must vote to confirm the four new appointments.
Dominic Cinelli, the man who killed the Woburn officer, was serving three concurrent life sentences for assault and robbery convictions when he was released in early 2009 after a parole hearing in late 2008. Cinelli was killed in a shoot-out with the officer.
On Jan. 13, Patrick accepted the resignations of the five parole board members who voted to release Cinelli about 18 months before police say he shot Woburn Patrolman John B. Maguire after a failed jewelry robbery in a department store on Dec. 26. The former executive director of the parole board, who served during Cinelli's parole, also resigned from his new position in the correctional system.
Among the five parole board members to step down were Leticia S. Munoz, a former clinical psychologist in Holyoke and Springfield; Candace J. Kochin, a former Hampshire probation officer and top aide to the Hampshire sheriff; and Thomas F. Merigan, former supervisor of the U.S. Probation regional office in Springfield.
Patrick previously appointed a new chairman for the board.
Last month, the Governor's Council confirmed former first assistant district attorney for Suffolk County, Joshua Wall, as chair of the board. Patrick has told Wall and a new management team to thoroughly examine Parole Board practices and revise supervision standards.
Wall said on Friday that Soto-Abbe would bring the perspective of a crime victim to the seven-member board's work and deliberations.
She has "a long and important set of experiences that will be valuable to our work," Wall said.
Soto-Abbe worked as a secretary at the parole board from 1990-1991 and then during 1993. She worked as a legal secretary for a law office in Springfield before starting her current position in February 1994.
Soto-Abbe declined comment through the communications director for the state Executive Office of Public Safety and Security. The governor's nominees for judges and other positions often decline comment to the media until they have been interviewed by the Governor's Council.
In her resume, Soto-Abbe cited her interpersonal and communication skills.
She also wrote that some offenders can benefit from a sentence that does not include jail.
"While our primary objective is the prosecution of criminal offenders and the administration of victim rights, we also give consideration to the defendant's future," she wrote. "We evaluate each offender to determine if whether the community, as well as the offender, would be affected by our sentencing recommendations."


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I totally botched this recipe the first go-round and decided to scratch the first plan altogether and go with my version.
What I had hoped would end as Shrimp Tacos with Avocado Salsa, ended up with Shrimp Tacos with a spicy guacamole. The latter actually was fantastic, though a little too much heat for the hubby.
I felt bad and added crisp bacon as a garnish to make up for it. He's one of those "everything is better with bacon" people.
Here's what I did for my Shrimp Tacos. (Side note: Next time I will use more plump shrimp. The ones I used were a little dinky for a taco.)
1. 1 pound of cooked shrimp, de-veined, cleaned and de-tailed.
2. 1 avocado, chopped
3. 1/2 red onion, chopped
4. 4 tomatillos, cut into small pieces
5. 1 jalapeno.
6. Six corn tortillas
7. A few sprinkles of cayenne pepper, and a few sprinkles of chilli powder
8. 3 strips of well-cooked bacon
9. Salt
10. 2 limes.
11. Optional: Slices of red tomatoes and lettuce for tacos.
1. In a skillet coated with oil olive, cook shrimp through with chilli powder and cayenne pepper. Set aside.
2. Put avocado, red onion, tomatillos, jalapeno and about a teaspoon of salt into a food processor and blend until it's slightly chunky. Stir in juice from one half lime. Set aside.
3. Warm tortillas, place on a warm plate and scoop shrimp, about 6-7 if small, into the shell. Add guacamole mixture and sprinkle with bacon pieces.
4. Squirt remaining lime juice all over tacos. Serve with a side salad, garnish with red tomoto.
I sought out a less-sweet white wine for this recipe and a local wine expert reminded me that "acid loves acid" when it comes to pairing lime-related recipes with wine. So he suggest a nice Pinot Grigio, which ended up complementing the meal perfectly.
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Disable The Irritating WiFi Pop-Up On The Verizon Galaxy S III [Root Only]
If you have a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III, you know what I'm talking about. We're not just talking about a something in the notification bar or the drop down, it's a pop-up letting you know there is WiFi available in the area. Sounds harmless, and we know that it saves battery to be on WiFi versus not. Also with these new shared plans it may be pretty advantageous to be on WiFi as often as you can. It's also understandable why one would want to turn this notification feature off. If you're in an area where you can't get on a WiFi network, but you get continual pop-ups telling you you should whenever you're in range of one, I could see myself pretty irritated by it. So just turn it off right? Well, on the Verizon device you can't. Other Galaxy S III variants have the ability to turn this feature off, But if you have a Verizon device, you just have to deal with it… until now. Droid-Life has posted a method to get rid of this annoying feature apparently provided by one of their readers named Brandon, but you have to be rooted. Here's the method:
- Use an SQL editor like SQLite Editor, which can easily downloading from the Google Play Store. This app is not free, there may be other free methods. It has been demonstrate working with this app.
- Using the SQL editor, browse through storage>settings.db>secure
- Once in Secure, locate line which reads "wifi_networks_available_notification_on" and long press. On Droid-Life they showed it as line 86, some have found it on line 10.
- Select "Edit Record" and change the value to 0 (zero)
- Save and reboot
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The Bisexual Mysteries of Michael Chabon
Dropping this Friday, the film adaptation of Michael Chabon's coming-of-age novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh features Jon Foster as Art Bechstein, a recent college graduate determined to have a summer of rebellion before taking up a life in the corporate machine.
And by rebellion, we mean "bisexual experimentation."
The movie adaptation excises the novel's primary gay character and replaces him with a hot, bisexual biker named Cleveland Arning (Peter Sarsgaard), but while using the film's release as an occasion to berate Hollywood for butching up a queer novel (stop the presses!) is tempting, it's far more interesting to talk about Chabon's own bisexuality, which has been glossed over all on its own– partly by Chabon's own hand.
Chabon is married to writer Ayelet Waldman and together they have four children. Entertainment Weekly has described them as "a famous — and famously in love — writing pair, like Nick and Nora Charles with word processors and not so much booze." Prior to that, Chabon was married to poet Lollie Groth.
However, when The Mysteries of Pittsburgh was first published in 1988, Newsweek included him in a feature on up-and-coming gay writers. Chabon corrected the error in a later New York Times article but said that he was "very happy" that it had happened as it had opened his writing up to a new fan base.
Then, in 2005, he wrote in an article about Mysteries for The New York Review of Books, "I had slept with one man whom I loved, and learned to love another man so much that it would never have occurred to me to want to sleep with him." As a columnist for Details, he's written about gay topics and his works are riddled with gay and bisexual characters.
It's those characters– and Chabon's depiction of them– that makes the question of Chabon's sexuality so intriguing. Bisexuality famously gets a bad rep by both some heterosexuals and some homosexuals as not being a "real" sexual orientation. Unlike fellow superstar writer Brett Easton Ellis, whose gay and bisexual characters seem to act out of compulsive hypermasculinity, the bisexual world of Chabon is more tentative, thoughtful and, dare we say it? Genuine.
Chabon's bisexuality, or at least the literary bent of it, treats the idea of two men falling in love with each other as part of the maturing phase of male sexuality. This is nothing new; the Ancient Greek's believed same-sex relationships were a way for young men to learn from their elders, but in Chabon's universe, being bi is all about discovering your own identity; no doubt, something derived from his own experience.
In Mysteries, Art falls for a young woman named Phlox Lombardi, who sort of flops around the city with Arthur Lecomte, who's gay. A love triangle develops and Art finds himself attracted to the moral indifference of Phlox and Arthur.
He decides finally to "exhaust all the possibilities" of gay sex in one fell swoop in a scene that begins with "toothed kisses" and ends in a nosebleed. Chabon writes, "My heart was simultaneously broken and filled with lust. I was exhausted, and I loved every minute of it." But, by novel's end, Art's put both of them aside in favor of maturity.
As Chabon developed as a writer, this theme kept cropping up again and again. In Wonder Boys (which was adapted into a film with Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire), there's a subplot involving James Leer, a talented young writer who's depressed and antisocial. When he winds up hooking up with the protagonist's flamboyant agent, Leer finally finds the inner strength and confidence to accept his status as literary prodigy.
Basically, Chabon switches the gender on the old "lesbian in college" saw. Same-sex experimentation isn't a halfway house on the way to one determined sexuality or another, but rather a cathartic experience that transforms people into their true selves. There's a ring of truth to this; I know plenty of guys who I hooked up with in college who have gone on to get married. Chabon's novels argue that these guys aren't closet cases, but men seeking out their identity by trying on new ones.
But are his characters– and by extension, Chabon– kidding themselves? If sexuality is determined by genetics, are guys who are gay for a little while before "becoming straight" denying their true selves? Or is sexuality as fluid as bisexuals claim? Is it less a spectrum ("I'm 30% gay and 70% straight") or is it more akin to personality, each person's being unique and multi-layered?
Chabon, for his part, offers a sort of answer in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a sprawling novel that combines comic books, Yiddish traditions, World War II and cameos by Salvador Dali that may be his best work to date.
Sammy Klayman, who begins the novel as a neurotic Brooklyn boy winds up marrying his cousin's girlfriend after he disappears for reasons to complicated to summarize here. When the cousin returns, the three of them wind up forming a unique family, even as Klayman realizes that he's sexually attracted to men. Still, he loves his wife– and his cousin– and the novel ends with the trio having formed something a platonic relationship that could not work if any one person was removed from the equation.
Chabon's main goal is not to write a polemic on sexuality, but he does seem to be saying that the expressions that love take are far more varied and complex than the standard definitions allow.
For him, the categories of gay, straight and bisexual are narrow constraints that overly simplify the various conditions of the human heart.
Michael Cunningham explores the same (or at least similar) idea in "A Home At the End of the World," in the character of Bobby. But I don't really think it is about sexual orientation. Rather, about being open to sex when you have a close relationship that is rooted more in strong friendship than sexual attraction.
Nevertheless, perhaps it is telling that I see these themes pop up in fiction more than I do in ordinary life.
Another example of Hollywood "straightening out" or just cutting a gay character completely. zzzzz
Peter Sarsgaard is a good actor, though I can NEVER see him as hot after that nude scene in Kinsey. Talk about a pencil dick…
Michael Chabon has a major case of GAYFACE.
"Kavalier & Clay" is by far one of my favorite novels. I also got my mom and her book club hooked on it.
It also has one of the best-written gay love scenes I've ever read. My mom's visiting NYC right now, and she recently dragged me up to the Empire State Building on the worst possible day. I'd had a long day at work. It was cold, rainy and the clouds obstructed most of the view. But when we got off the elevator, she told me, "I had to come up here. This is where the cute gays kissed in 'Kavalier and Clay'!"
The comments on this site never fail to be make me sad for the gay community.
@Chris: Care to elaborate?
RE: Kavalier & Clay — "[T]he novel ends with the trio having formed something a platonic relationship that could not work if any one person was removed from the equation."
And yet, that's exactly what happens at the end. Nonetheless the suggestion is that the relationship of the remaining two works out just fine.
"The movie adaptation excises the novel's primary gay character and replaces him with a hot, bisexual biker named Cleveland
Arning (Peter Sarsgaard)"
Of course. Get rid of the queer and make sure all the characters are played by a well know straight actors.
As far as bisexuals, or men who claim to have a "fluid" sexuality; it's impossible to date them, or even dare have a relationship with them, because they're constantly "experimenting", or looking for the next best thing. And don't get me started on men who marry women and continue to troll for cock. God forbid you should call them on their sluttery.
I'm personally tired of experimenters, closet cases and phony bisexuals using gay men and our hearts as their play things.
"the bisexual world of Chabon is more tentative, thoughtful and, dare we say it? Genuine…Chabon's bisexuality, or at least the literary bent of it, treats the idea of two men falling in love with each other as part of the maturing phase of male sexuality."
In your analysis of Chabon's non-straight characters, you make an interesting point in that, sleeping with men forces gay men to, I suppose, essentially grow up and accept ourselves. You use Chabon's treatment of "alternative" sexuality as evidence of this. Yet you write:
"But, by novel's end, Art's put both of them aside in favor of maturity."
So which is it? Sleeping with men and realizing we like it makes us grow up; or sleeping with men makes us realize that it's immature and sleeping with women and forming relationships with them is the mature thing to do?
I mean, I see the opposite. I still remember when Craig Russell married Lori Jenkins, he said, "It's time to stop playing with boys and grow up." Elton John said something similar after his punitive marriage to Renate Blauel. Hell, even Tom Robinson of "Glad To be Gay" fame and later, "Glad NOT To Be Gay" said essentially the same thing.
All this "experimenting" does is perpetuate the myth that sexuality is a choice. And by Hollywood celebrating this absurd argument, it makes it even harder to sell the idea of full equality to anti-gay Americans.
I have NEVER understood bi people!
BTW– He is adorable!!
You think actor Peter Sarsgaard is Straight???? him and maggie have one of the better lavender cover up relationships around…
Very astute. I'd be inerested in a followup to this question.
Anyone want to see hot sex scene's with Peter Saarsgaard check out the Center Of The World. I don't think people can really be bisexual maybe they just want the "respectability" of marriage? Thoughts?
"I'd be interested in a follow up to this question."
Me too, TANK :)
"I don't think people can really be bisexual maybe they just want the "respectability" of marriage?"
Interesting thought, GETREAL. That was the impression I got from Tom Robinson's marriage. Everything he fought against, is what he eventually became. It's like the Thatcher 1980's finally broke him and all he cared about was legitimacy. I mean, did he really need a woman to have a LTR? Why didn't he work harder at LTR's with all the men he slept with?
Who was that British dyke who was a lesbian for 12 years, then married a man, had a pile of kids and became the toast of British TV as some kind of super-mom/actress/writer? I remember her proudly stating that sexuality is a choice and she finally made the proper choice in marrying a man. It's amazing how her career took off and she was inundated with work after marrying. She even stated as such, saying getting married to a man was the best thing for her career.
I don't want it to seem like I'm trashing real bi people, because I'm not. But it seems too many people use bisexuality as an excuse to be slutty, or to play other people's emotions.
Peter Scarsgaard HOT??!?!?! I guess it's true that theres a lid for every pot. I agree he is a talented actor, but not that he is hot. I applaud him for being one of the few straight actors out there who is comfortable playing gay or sexually ambigous with roles in MYSTERIES, DYING GAUL, KINSEY and YEAR OF THE DOG.
@Mr. Enemabag Jones: So ur saying that ALL bisexual men would "constantly experiment" or "look for the next best thing". Really? What makes bisexual men different than heteros and homos? With that logic, then men in hetero and women as well, will constantly look for the next best thing. And homos as well. Or is it just something with bisexuals?
Monogamy is only within the will, and minds of heteros and homos only, it seems. Funny, I think that's the same argument homophobic people use against gays and why gays are pigeonholed as promiscuous.
Wow, lots of rude comments about bisexual people. Pretty typical I guess, but still pretty hurtful.
i didn't like the book. don't care about the movie. don't care about chabon.
that picture is freaky.
Man, wasn't that a great scene? It surprised me. That is my favorite book of all time, just sprawling and epic and unfilmable. I'm gonna have to take it out again, it's that good. Chabon also wrote Wonder Boys, which I have not read but loved as a movie – Tobey MCGuire and Robert Downey Jr naked in bed.
"So ur saying that ALL bisexual men would "constantly experiment" or 'look for the next best thing'."
Where did I write that? What I wrote was:
"As far as bisexuals, or MEN WHO CLAIM TO HAVE A 'FLUID' SEXUALITY;"
These guys who say they don't like to be labeled are merely avoiding a label so they can keep the playing field open. It also smacks of childish fear.
And really, what can one say about an adult who constantly hems and haws about their sexuality? Kids being "confused" certainly. But grown men and women? Ridiculous. Confusion is just another word for sluting around, it seems.
"Really? What makes bisexual men different than heteros and homos?"
I don't know. We screw a lot, but we don't screw everything. Maybe that's the difference.
"With that logic, then men in hetero and women as well, will constantly look for the next best thing. And homos as well. Or is it just something with bisexuals?"
Of course everyone who refuses to be in a LTR is looking for the next best thing. But, gay men don't play sexes off each other.
"Monogamy is only within the will, and minds of heteros and homos only, it seems."
I'm only speaking from my experiences. I'm not saying bisexuals are not monogamous. I am saying that far too many men who identify as bi, will leave the wife and kids at home and go out trolling for cock, and then go running back to their white picket fences when the going gets tough. Neal Boulton comes to mind.
"Funny, I think that's the same argument homophobic people use against gays and why gays are pigeonholed as promiscuous."
And it's the argument that sends bi's running for the heterosexual hills when the going gets tough. "I'm not gay, I'm bi." What that seems to say is, "Don't lump me in with those queers." I find that disingenuous.
Too many bi's are using the bisexual label as a shield against being deemed what?; as inferior as gays? There is a B in LGBTQ. But sometimes it seems like too many bi's are there in letter only.
No one should have to defend their sexuality to anyone, especially readers on a queer blog. I'm just speaking from experience. You're more than welcome to present your own experiences, Scott.
@Mr. Enemabag Jones: You said, "As far as bisexuals, or men who claim to have a "fluid" sexuality; it's impossible to date them, or even dare have a relationship with them, because they're constantly "experimenting", or looking for the next best thing."
To me, that seemed to state all Bisexuals. If you said, some bisexuals, or in my experience, bisexuals I encountered… then I wouldn't have comprehended as ALL. But you didn't say that thus I feel that your making a sweeping statement on all bisexuals.
It seems you've had sucky experiences with BIs. And I don't know many BI people, but IDK, I think if someone says they are Bi, I don't see them as being slutty or being deemed inferior to gays, or playing sexes off each other. I think they like both men and women. And at sometime in their life they may be with a women or they me be with a man.
In the rest of your response to my post, I see you started using in my experience and that really helps to qualify the statements you make. I was taking exception when you started making blank statements.
I find it sad you had such bad experiences with BI people. And honestly, no offense, it seems apparent in that initial post of yours. That you had a thing against BIs. I may have read that wrong. But that was what I was getting. But, like I said before, I've not had those experiences. I'll admit to that.
I once saw an interview with June Reinisch, head of the Kinsey Institute, in which she said something like (figures approximate) that in all their surveys, about 4-6 percent of people identified as gay, 80 percent as straight, and "the rest are up for grabs."
Gays were invisible for long, and now they're part of the social order. But now others are invisible — men who have sex with men, women who have sex with women, but don't identify or live as gay. Biologically, we all start out as female, and some get doses of hormones during development that customize the body in a masculine direction. (The genitals of some wind up between male and female; the mental orientation of some is toward persons of the same gender.) There's no ideal result — some wind up more, some less. Some of us feel definitely, positively gay — but maybe, as Dr. Reinisch hints, it's not social pressure but experience that leaves others somewhere in between.
So far, discussing causes of "gay" has been unproductive. It should be like religion, people should be free to identify as they want. One problem with gay is that straight people can't imagine our lives — they keep projecting their experience and concerns onto us. But I can't really imagine being straight, despite all the models in drama and literature. Not sure I can imagine "bi," either — but that doesn't mean it's not some people's experience. I hope we're moving toward a situation where all can love whomever they love, and find their own place in society whatever their perceived identity.
great artistic outlook on sexuality. Bravo, Mr. Chabon!
Well written article and analysis! Thanks so much for the history of Chabon's writing and thoughts. Wonderful!
writers and actors who are bisexuals are gays who know that they'll be stuck writing gay fiction if they come out and won't be accepted for anything outside of gay fiction by the intelligentsia. the way it goes is that once you come out, within the arts, you get shipped to gay island, never to return, only to be looked at across the water by telescope in gaylandia. you lose the american luxury of choice and are stuck with what's what's left and told to appreciate it, you lose the ability to create your image, you're tagged. why would a person who works so hard want want to have their talents diminished because of who they are not what they can do? it's unfair at best.
Thanks for the excellent profile. As for the all the biphobia in the comments, I know our community is slowly growing out of it… it will still take some time, but we will get there.
@Mr. Enemabag Jones: I'm bisexual… im not experimenting im not a closet case i just like men and women…is it really that hard to believe? there are plenty of heterosexuals who think that gays are faking, so why would you think the same of me?
Well…that's not the whole truth. Some talent's just too big to let sexuality get in the way. Truman Capote comes to mind. And the fabulously fay Tesnessee Williams, who was hands down america's greatest playwright. It takes a talent so big that bigotry just can't contain it, though…rare. But some who identify as bi in showbiz are…why not? And most people aren't that great…aren't creative geniuses of a fraction of that caliber…so can you blame them if what you're saying is true?
I think there are 2 components to bisexuality — what goes on with your body, and what goes on in your head. I think the majority of people have at least fantasies or dreams about same-sex hookups as adolescents, and a fair number act out their desires at least a few times (often with the help of inhibition-breaking alcohol or drugs). After a while, you mate with a person you think feels most right to you — and of course society is brainwashing you to pick the opposite gender. Only your head can tell you over time if that's correct, or if you feel unfulfilled. If you break up with your mate and go back to same-sex partners exclusively, I call that a sign you're gay. If you continue to feel erotic toward both men and women, then I would classify you as bi. This is essentially my life story, and I ended up in the "gay" camp, but I still have very infrequent erotic dreams about my ex-wife and, very rarely, about other women. About 95 percent of my dreams/fantasies are about my current male partner (of 27 years) or other guys. I term myself gay; a therapist once told me I was probably bi. Really, why should we be obsessed with labels? Let's all just call ourselves "recovering bi's" and get on with life.
you've piqued my interest.
and this post was perfectly written. keep up the good work!
This is an interesting article. But I don't think Chabon's take on sexuality comes across as 'genuine.' Rather it seems like one more version of this idealized sexuality — where it's all fluid and everything is up for grabs and it's only society putting us in categories — that we have been hearing about and fantasizing about since Kinsey but that just does not correspond to my experience or the experience of anyone I know. It also doesn't seem to correspond to current gene and brain research on the subject.
This article also glosses a little too much over the extent to which Chabon lied about the sexual relationship he had in Pittsburgh that inspired the gay angle in the Mysteries of Pittsburgh. I think someone who has lessons to teach us about authentic sexuality might have been a little more up front. Also, his statement that "he learned to love another man so much that it would never have occurred to me to want to sleep with him" is very odd indeed. What kind of love is that then? I wonder what his wife makes of that since presumably he sleeps with her. I am not sure quite what is being expressed there — that sex degrades love or man-man sex degrades love — but it doesn't come across as very sex-positive.
Nice article. Too bad this site seems to have become a magnet for a bunch of pathetic, self-hating biphobic losers. "Commenters" like Enemabag are all too common around here these days. There's no point in even trying to have a rational discussion with them – nothing will change their warped view of reality. I've NEVER seen an LGBT site infested with as many ignorant, insecure hate mongers as this one seems to be now. Wallow in your hatred, I'm moving on..
GB wrote – Too bad this site seems to have become a magnet for a bunch of pathetic, self-hating biphobic losers. "Commenters" like Enemabag are all too common around here these days.
Kathleen wrote – Wow, lots of rude comments about bisexual people. Pretty typical I guess. . .
Whose generalizing here? There is exactly one commenter here — Enemabag Jones — who has made broad, negative generalizations about bisexuals. The article about Chabon is basically an endorsement of Chabon's endorsement of fluid sexuality and most of the comments endorse the article. Get a fucking grip and argue your case like adults rather than defensive, victimized weenies.
Thanks for this review and insight.
I agree with the notion that we are sexual on a continuum and if that has a name perhaps it is pan-sexual.
I am not attracted to a male or a female because of their gender but because of who they are in the largest sense of affinity.


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Today's Pittsburgh Steelers looks at the present and future of the organization after enduring an 0-4 start. Coach Mike Tomlin made changes on both sides of the ball, but the style of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will not be among them.
Big Ben said he wouldn't alter his game in light of semi-critical comments made by teammate Ryan Clark this week. The safety said "We have to tone Ben down in a sense," referring to the quarterback extending plays and taking sacks.
The Steelers' defense is still seeking its first turnover, but hopes the addition of Cameron Heyward to its starting lineup can create change. Tomlin also said rookie safety Shamarko Thomas will play more snaps this week against the New York Jets.
Those headlines highlight today's Steelers news roundup:
Cameron Heyward taking business as usual approach (Steelers.com)
Hebron Fangupo takes the long way to NFL career (Steelers.com)
Bill Cowher knows how Mike Tomlin, Steelers feel (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Ryan Clark: Big Ben should tone things down (Post-Gazette)
Heyward continues improvement, earns first start (Post-Gazette)
Despite Clark's comments, Roethlisberger to keep playing same style (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Steve McLendon on defense: 'I don't see much change besides me' (Tribune-Review)
Steelers injury report: Ramon Foster has full practice (Behind The Steel Curtain)
William Gay replaces Cortez Allen in starting spot in practice (Behind The Steel Curtain)
Steelers GM to attend Louisville game tonight (Behind The Steel Curtain)
Ike Taylor to benched Steelers: 'Take it personal' (Behind The Steel Curtain)
Steelers working out former safety Will Allen (Steelers Gab)
Le'Veon Bell focused on staying level-headed (Nice Pick, Cowher)
Ziggy Hood handling recent demotion professionally (Nice Pick, Cowher)
Roster moves Steelers should've made during bye (Bleacher Report)
Bill Cowher will announce Pittsburgh game Sunday (USA Today)
Will Johnson making the most of limited reps (Steelers Depot)
Ike Taylor says demotion helped toughen him (ESPN.com)


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Mikel Arteta, who scored the winner against Manchester City on Sunday afternoon, has expressed his satisfaction with helping Arsenal isolate at the third place in the Premier League table, in what was 'one of the more difficult' matches for his team until the end of the season.
"It was so important. Chelsea won yesterday, Newcastle haven't really conceded in the last few games and Tottenham are still there, so it's going to be a big fight from here until the end of the season," The Spain international told Sky Sports.
"But we knew that today was one of the more difficult ones we had until the end."
"It was a tough game to be honest. I think we were the better team overall and we had the most chances."
"But it's always tough against a team like Man City, and when you're not scoring it's always difficult, but we scored at the end and this is massive for us."
"Today we did at the end and I'm so glad," he concluded.