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OCEAN CITY- Local anglers hoping to avoid the crowds and holiday shopping next week and perhaps win some money instead of spending it are encouraged to participate in the first-ever Black Friday 550 Rockfish Tournament next Friday and Saturday, November 23-24, out of the Ocean City Fishing Center.
For 36 hours next weekend, local fishing enthusiasts looking for an alternative to holiday shopping will take to the waters in and around the resort area for the first annual Black Friday 550 Rockfish Tournament. The tourney will be held from 6 a.m. on Friday morning and will conclude at 6 p.m. on Saturday.
As the name of the event implies, the only species targeted during the tournament will be rockfish, or striped bass. Cash prizes for the largest rockfish weighed will be awarded at different intervals during the two-day tournament with a winner-take-all prize for the largest single fish weighed during the event. The anticipated payout for the Black Friday tournament is $10,500.
Weigh-ins will be held at the host Ocean City Fishing Center from 10 a.m. to Noon and from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, and from 9-11 a.m., and 5-7 p.m. on Saturday. An awards ceremony will be held at the close of the scales on Saturday. Registration will cost $250 per boat up to four anglers with additional fees for extra anglers. Boats can register right up until the start of the event on Friday at 6 a.m. For more information, contact the Ocean City Fishing Center at (410) 213-1121.


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Discounted registration for the American Anthropological Association's 112th Annual Meeting is now available. Registration will be offered at a discount for a limited time.
The 112th AAA Annual meeting will be held at the Chicago Hilton November 20-24, 2013 in Chicago IL. The 2013 annual meeting theme Future Publics, Current Engagements invites discussions about how anthropological theory and method can provide insight into the human past and emerging future.
Anthropologists have long been engaged with diverse publics and with other social sciences. The influence of anthropological methods, concepts and research is growing, as witnessed by the fact that over half of us are now employed outside the academy. Our journals are experimenting with new formats to link research to contemporary concerns. We engage with rapidly changing media technologies to reach diverse audiences and explore different pathways to activism, collaboration, and scholarship. By locating the human at the center of its inquiry, anthropology through all of its fields provide crucial methodological and political insights for other disciplines.
Chicago, the site for the 2013 AAA Annual Meeting, was a powerhouse of the American 20th century. At the confluence of diverse migrations, the city was the location for experiments in commerce, architecture, technology and the human sciences. It was the intellectual inspiration for the modeling of socio-ecological relationships. Today, Chicago is once again at the forefront of thinking about urban places, social movements, the political machinery, and the role of technology in shaping modern publics and life. As elsewhere, its peoples traverse the fraught terrain of changing economic conditions, calling anthropologists to reflect on our role in the real and painful struggles of cities and their residents.
The 2013 annual meeting is dedicated to examining our efforts to transform our disciplinary identity and capacity in terms of knowledge production and relevance in a world of radical change. What is the nature of anthropological knowledge in a world of heterogeneity, interconnectivity and risk? How can we rethink collaborations beyond the categories of researcher/subject, expert/lay, or anthropologist/other? How can we fruitfully participate in interdisciplinary exchanges and projects that engage big questions? How do we nurture and support younger scholars who are struggling to expand the questions and parameters that define the field for a new century? How do ethical considerations shape the practice but also the substance of our scholarship in an imperiled world?
We are at a historical moment when there is healthy interdisciplinary dialogue about theory and method and a search for effective methods for studying globalized futures. Anthropology can take a lead in confronting questions of the human, culture and life itself that engages many disciplines.
We are planning a lively conference to consider these questions, among others. In addition to the standard modes of dialogue and representation, we will offer innovative ways to engage Chicago audiences with opportunities to present in the "public square," converse with curious, engaged residents, and view the city in a different light. We hope to create a space for advancing anthropological thought to new domains.


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Brokaw did not challenge McCain's claim that Obama plan would "fine" small businesses that do not offer health insurance
Tom Brokaw did not challenge Sen. John McCain's false claim that under Sen. Barack Obama's health care plan, "[S]mall-business people who have employees without health insurance, that he is going to fine them if they don't have, have the insurance policy that they want, that Senator Obama wants them to have." In fact, while Obama has proposed requiring large businesses that do not provide health coverage to pay a percentage of their payroll into a National Health Insurance Exchange, small businesses would be exempt.
During the October 26 edition of NBC's Meet the Press, host Tom Brokaw did not challenge Sen. John McCain's false claim that under Sen. Barack Obama's health care plan, "[S]mall-business people who have employees without health insurance, that he is going to fine them if they don't have, have the insurance policy that they want, that Senator Obama wants them to have." In fact, while Obama has proposed requiring large businesses that do not provide employer-sponsored health coverage to pay a percentage of their payroll into a National Health Insurance Exchange to help Americans purchase private health insurance, small businesses would be exempt. Obama also has proposed a refundable Small Business Health Tax Credit for small businesses that do provide employer-sponsored health care.
Indeed, during the October 15 presidential debate, after McCain stated, "Now, Senator Obama, I'd like -- still like to know what that fine is going to be," Obama responded, "Zero, because as I said in our last debate and I'll repeat, John, I exempt small businesses from the requirement for large businesses that can afford to provide health care to their employees, but are not doing it." Obama continued:
I exempt small businesses from having to pay into a kitty. But large businesses that can afford it, we've got a choice. Either they provide health insurance to their employees or somebody has to.
Right now, what happens is those employees get dumped into either the Medicaid system, which taxpayers pick up, or they're going to the emergency room for uncompensated care, which everybody picks up in their premiums.
The average family is paying an additional $900 a year in higher premiums because of the uninsured.
So here's what we do. We exempt small businesses. In fact, what, Joe, if you want to do the right thing with your employees and you want to provide them health insurance, we'll give you a 50-percent credit so that you will actually be able to afford it.
If you don't have health insurance or you want to buy into a group plan, you will be able to buy into the plan that I just described.
In addition, while discussing his relationship with President Bush, McCain claimed that "I've stood up against my party, not just President Bush, but others, and I've the scars to prove it, including taking up with [Sen.] Ted Kennedy [D-MA] immigration reform knowing full well that that was going to hurt my chances in the primaries." But Brokaw did not point out that during the Republican primaries, at the January 30 Republican presidential debate, McCain said that he would no longer support the comprehensive reform bill he co-sponsored with Kennedy if it came up for a vote in the Senate.
From the October 26 edition of NBC's Meet the Press:
BROKAW: Senator, in the last of the presidential debates, moderated by Bob Schieffer, you drew greater distinction between yourself and George Bush. You said, "I am not George Bush." And then this past week in The Washington Times, a newspaper in Washington, this was the account: "Senator John McCain blasted President Bush for building a mountain of debt for future generations, failing to pay for expanding Medicare, and abusing executive powers, leveling his strongest criticism to date of the administration, whose unpopularity may be dragging the Republican Party to the brink of a massive electoral defeat. 'We just let things get completely out of hand,' he said of his own party's rule in the last eight years."
But then we have an account of you on Meet the Press, going back to June 2005. And this is what you had to say about your relationship with Present Bush at that time.
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McCAIN: The fact is that I'm different, but the fact is that I've agreed with President Bush far more than I have disagreed. And on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, I have been totally in agreement and support of President Bush.
So I strongly disagree with any assertion that I've been more at odds with the president of the United States than I have been in agreement with.
McCAIN: Well, I'm very honored and humbled to have the opportunity to receive the endorsement of the president of the United States, a man who I have great admiration, respect, and affection.
McCAIN: I intend to have, as much possible, campaigning events and together, as is in keeping with the president's heavy schedule. And I look forward to that opportunity.
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BROKAW: Senator McCain, both in tone and language, you are very close to President Bush in those appearances. The Congressional Quarterly did a review of your votes: 92 percent of the time, you voted with President Bush. So it's a little hard for the public to separate you from this administration, isn't it?
McCAIN: Well, it may be the way you describe it. And by the way, the last interview that I did with The Washington Times -- of course, I've been repeating for last eight years that the spending was out of control. That's why I voted against these projects, these pork-barrel spending. I was the harshest critic of the failed strategy in Iraq and pointed it out at hearing after hearing and fought against it. I've supported action to address climate change from -- since 2000 and said we've got to do something about it. There were sharp disagreements there.
There were a number of disagreements on general overall philosophy. I am a Republican. I respect the president of the United States. Of course we let spending get completely out of control, and I've been talking about it for a long, long period of time.
Now, I know how it is on this show. You show various segments and comments that we make thousands of, and I understand that. But the fact is, I am not George Bush. The fact is that I was not popular within my own party. The fact is that when I said that we were failing in Iraq and we were going to lose, I was criticized by Republicans. The fact is, when I did campaign finance reform with [Sen.] Russ Feingold [D-WI], I was opposed by my own party and my own president.
So do we share a common philosophy of the Republican Party? Of course. But I've stood up against my party, not just President Bush, but others, and I've the scars to prove it, including taking up with Ted Kennedy immigration reform knowing full well that that was going to hurt my chances in the primaries.
So I could go down a long list of issues with you. Do I respect President Bush? Of course I respect him, but I pointed out we were on the wrong track in a whole lot of ways, including a $10 trillion deficit, including saying we've got to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and proposed legislation to try to fix it before that triggered the housing collapse, including today, when I'm saying they should be going out and buying up these mortgages and giving people mortgages that they can afford rather than bailing out the banks.
BROKAW: We're going to get to that very issue in a moment. One of the things that you've been saying in the course of your campaign is that Senator Obama has neither the experience nor the judgment to be the president of the United States. We've got some polls on how he's doing with the American voter on some of the critical issues of the day.
This is the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that was taken from October 17 to October 20. On health care, who is better equipped to deal with that? Obama has a 39-point advantage over you in that poll. As you can see, the economy it's up 21 points; the housing crisis, a 21-point advantage; taxes, 14. In Iraq, you have an advantage over Senator Obama of about five points. These are not pundits.
McCAIN: We've now finally found the pony.
BROKAW: These are not the pundits or the media elites. This is a broad-based poll across the country.
McCAIN: That I don't agree with.
BROKAW: People making judgments about who's qualified to be --
McCAIN: But I don't agree with their conclusion that I'm, quote, 11 or 12 or 14 point -- whatever it is. We have polls, including, I think, a Zogby poll showing us three or four points behind. So if you want to continue to referring to a poll that I disagree with, I have to start out our conversation -- I don't agree with that. We are closing, and we have been closing.
BROKAW: But it's not the only poll, Senator. A number of polls show that.
McCAIN: Oh, yeah. And it's not the only poll that shows us close. So, you know, I'm sure we don't want to spend the morning arguing about polls that are accurate or inaccurate.
But I will stand before the American people with my view that I think that we don't -- we cannot fine small-business people and their -- or their employee -- small-business people who have employees without health insurance, that he's going to fine them if they don't have the insurance policy that they want -- that Senator Obama wants them to have, that if they have children that don't have health insurance that Senator Obama wants them to have, they will be fined, that he wants to spend an additional trillion dollars. I'll stand on those issues. I'll stand on them, and I'll take the verdict of the American people. And I guarantee you that two weeks from now, you will see this has been a very close race. And I believe that I'm going to win it.
BROKAW: All right. I don't want to dwell on these polls unduly, but even you had a big --
McCAIN: Here we go again.


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Wrestler of the Week - No. 3
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Josiah Simburger of Northwestern (Iowa) has been named the NAIA National Wrestler of the Week, the national office announced Wednesday. Simburger was selected based on his performances from Jan. 16 – 22.
Simburger, a 5-foot-6 senior, went 6-0 on the week and won the York (Neb.) Open in the 141-pound class. In those victories, he defeated the 12th-ranked individual, Christian Hernandez of Bacone (Okla.), by major decision, 16-5, and also knocked off No. 2 Alex Stepanek of Concordia (Neb.). The native of Mandan, N.D., also picked up a win against NCAA Division I grappler Chad Stroh from Nebraska.
Simburger is currently ranked No. 9 in the 141-pound weight class and stands 30-9 overall.
The next Wrestler of the Week announcement will be made on Feb. 1.
Nominees: Vince Pezzuto, Cumberlands (Ky.); Mitchell Lofstedt, Southern Oregon; Kody Kersten, Midland (Neb.); Marlon Branson, Jamestown (N.D.); Ian Stephens, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Trever DeVestern, Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.); Conor Young, Campbellsville (Ky.); Nik Turner, Oklahoma City.
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The Summer after my Sophomore year at SUU I worked my first year as a stitcher for the Utah Shakespearean Festival. It was amazing! I was working with professionals in my field of choice, and learning so much from them. The best part was that I was also working with my bestie Jared.
Lavage. Isn't it such a pretty sounding word? Lavage... like Massage.
This is what it is like, but with coughing and gagging.
The Lavage is pumping water in through the tube, and then sucking everything back out.
The GI arrived and I was taken for a scope.
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They Gave Me Sleepy-Happy meds!
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They didn't find the pin. Boo!
I was sent home to hopefully...... work things out on my own (sorry)
I get to go and have a couple more X-rays to make sure it is moving along. If not, or if it pokes or tears anything.....surgery. Bleh!
The moral of this very long story is
Don't Put Pins in Your Mouth!


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Hartford Jazz Orchestra
Arch Street Tavern
85 Arch Street
Hartford, CT, 06103
Hartford Jazz Orchestra
The Hartford Jazz Orchestra (HJO) began its Monday night ritual in October 1965 at King Phillip Junior High School in West Hartford Connecticut under the direction of Bill Stanley, who was the band director at Hall High School in the same city. The band continued at the same location and leadership until the early 1970s when it moved to Manchester Community College and operated under Bob Vater who was on the teaching staff a MCC.
For a period of time, the band suffered from a lack of quality musicians and spotty attendance. But the group worked with a series of new and interesting musical arrangements.
With Bob Vater at the helm, the band performed concerts with the Woody Herman, Stan Kenton band along with joint appearances with jazz greats Zoot Sims and Clark Terry. It was about at this time that Chic Cicchetti joined the band as a section trombone player. The HJO moved to Newington High School about 1979 and continued under the direction of John Mills. At this time, due to space availability, some of the meetings were conducted at the Newington town Hall.
The band moved back to MCC for a short time again under the direction of Bill Stanley. It was about at this time that Chic Cicchetti began to make his presence felt with his stellar musical arrangements, which led to his ultimate leadership. In the early 1980s the band moved to The Rocking Horse Café which was, at that time, owned by the DePalma brothers.
There were many personnel changes through all these years with a definitive surge in the quality of musicianship with the addition of Jack Nedorostek on lead trumpet and Tony DiMaggio on lead trombone. Seb Giacco has played the lead alto sax chair since the band's inception. Dick Prestage, presently in the trumpet section, also is an original member but moved to Florida for three years before returning to the organization.
The band subsequently moved to the then famous Club 880 which, at that time, was the mecca of the Hartford jazz scene. It was during this time that singer Bobbi Rogers joined the group. Ms. Rogers, to this day, is the one and only vocalist to sing with the HJO.
The HJO was the house band at the 880 until the club owner expired and the establishment began to show signs of instability. Under Chic's leadership, the band moved to The Great American Café in Glastonbury, Ct. for a short stay; then on to the Ramada Inn in East Hartford. In 1998, the HJO moved to the Arch Street Tavern where it remains to this day.
Chic Cicchetti died in May of 2000. Before his passing, he expressed the wish that his music would be under the stewardship of Dick Prestage, Jack Nedorostek, Don West and Seb Giacco. The present leader of the HJO is Donn Trenner whose tremendous bio appears elsewhere on this site.
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BIO releases best practices recommendations for improving STEM education in the U.S.
In 2005, in response to a request from a bipartisan group of U.S. legislators, the National Academies of Sciences issued a report titled "Rising above the gathering storm: energizing and employing America for a brighter economic future." The "gathering storm" report, as it commonly became known, evaluated the nation's standing in what it called the "principal ingredients of innovation and competitiveness – Knowledge Capital, Human Capital, and the existence of a creative 'Ecosystem.'" Its findings painted a worrying picture of America's ability to keep pace with the global science and technology market and emphasized that "the most pervasive concern was considered to be the state of the United States K – 12 education, which on average is a laggard among industrial economies."
In recognition of this concern, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, in conjunction with Battelle, a global leader in innovative research, recently released a report containing recommendations for best practices in elementary and secondary science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. The report, "Bioscience education: examples of innovative science education programs in the United States," gives examples of state-administered STEM programs in which BIO sees promise through its ongoing evaluation of bioscience education in the United States.
The BIO report details six areas that have demonstrated effectiveness:
In effect, the BIO recommendations are all about exposing kids to science in a coherent yet engaging manner and even encouraging them to think about becoming scientists someday. "Many students leave high school without having learned basic biology principles," the BIO report states, "and even fewer are excited enough by the sciences to pursue them in higher education or as a career."
The report also gives examples of the recommended bioscience education best practices at work, citing specific initiatives and programs by state. It's no surprise that the states with the highest numbers of effective STEM education programs are Maryland, Massachusetts and California – places that already are hotbeds of scientific innovation. A thriving biotechnology industry tends to make a larger investment in bioscience education, thereby contributing to the human capital component cited in the "gathering storm" report. This type of circular relationship is good for biotech companies, schools and especially the kids who reap the benefits of early exposure to STEM. And because funding bioscience education is especially difficult at present – state and local governments are constrained by tight budgets and other priorities, and the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and America COMPETES Act are set to expire soon – schools are more dependent on the biotechnology industry than ever. But biotech companies tend to cluster geographically; states with a weaker biotech presence tend to lag behind in terms of bioscience education too.
According to BIO, comprehensive bioscience education is just one aspect of creating a favorable environment for a thriving biotechnology community. An incubator for innovation, such as a university, where groundbreaking research is performed, often is where small companies begin to take shape. Access to capital also is important so startups can get their feet off the ground. And being business-friendly helps – states that provide tax breaks for small companies, for example, tend to have a more developed biotechnology sector. But a skilled and educated workforce is essential for building the biotechnology industry locally. "Without an increase in children and young adults pursuing the STEM disciplines, the U.S. bioscience industry will be forced to look abroad for competent workers," noted BIO President and CEO James Greenwood in a press release.
Greenwood's statement conveys a sense of urgency about the state of bioscience education in America – as does the BIO report itself. "Where the country leads in scientific and industry development, it is trailing many developed nations in the educational attainment of its workforce," it states. "This poses a very real threat to the nation's leadership position in the coming decade." Even more sobering is the National Academies of Sciences' follow-up report, "Rising above the gathering storm, revisited," which assesses changes in the nation's competitiveness outlook in the five years since the original "gathering storm" document was issued. The 2010 report observes that there has been little improvement in the public school system, particularly in STEM education, and bluntly notes, "The Gathering Storm increasingly appears to be a Category 5."
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Many newly insured still face health coverage upheaval
As procrastinators rushed to purchase health insurance Monday by the Affordable Care Act's official enrollment deadline, new research estimates that about half of those with subsidized coverage obtained from federal or state marketplaces will lose it within a year because of changes in their incomes or other family circumstances, such as divorce, relocation or the births of children.
The same is true for about half of new Medicaid recipients, who are likely to lose program eligibility at some point over the next year for a variety of reasons, said Benjamin Sommers, an assistant professor of health policy and economics at the Harvard School of Public Health.
When people lose, drop or change health coverage for unforeseen reasons, it's known as "churning." It's a common occurrence for consumers with individual coverage purchased outside the workplace, as well as for those with Medicaid, the state-federal health program for poor people and those with disabilities.
Along with being a bookkeeping headache for insurers and Medicaid administrators, churning undermines the continuity of care between doctors and patients by causing patients to miss treatments and sometimes seek new caregivers.
It also has a financial impact, as coverage lapses may lead to costly emergency room visits when primary physicians could have provided treatment for far less.
In the 25 states that expanded eligibility for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, churning probably won't leave people without coverage because there's no gap between the income thresholds for Medicaid and subsidized marketplace coverage. Instead, millions will move between eligibility for both as their incomes are periodically updated and verified.
"It's not exactly that they'll lose coverage," Sommers said in an interview. "It's that they may have to change the coverage they have."
But for people in states that so far have declined to expand Medicaid, "then they're worse off," he said. If they lose their eligibility for subsidized coverage when their incomes fall too low to qualify, "they will probably have no option for coverage," Sommers said.
That's because the income limits to qualify for Medicaid in non-expansion states are far below the levels at which subsidized marketplace insurance is available. That creates a "coverage gap" in which millions of people earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough for federal subsidies to help them buy marketplace insurance.
"In other words, most adults who lose marketplace subsidies in non-expanding states will become uninsured," Sommers and three other researchers wrote in their report on churning in the April edition of Health Affairs magazine.
Expansion states with lower poverty rates and higher per capita incomes will see more churning because they have more adults with incomes near the eligibility line for Medicaid and subsidized coverage, Sommers said in the interview.
Half of Americans with individual health insurance churned in and out of coverage in 2010, according to recent congressional testimony by Medicaid Administrator Marilyn Tavenner. The reasons were myriad: Some couldn't afford it, some switched to different plans and others may have dropped their coverage after obtaining job-based insurance.
The average Medicaid recipient loses coverage for 20 percent of the year _ nearly 10.5 weeks _ because of administrative violations, clerical errors, income changes or other factors that make him or her ineligible, according to researchers at George Washington University.
"The implication is that eligibility changes are likely to be a major challenge for every state as implementation of the ACA continues," according to the Health Affairs article.
Allowing continuous 12-month Medicaid eligibility in expansion states would help curb churning between the program and subsidized coverage, said Leighton Ku, the director of the Center for Health Policy Research at George Washington University's school of public health.
Doing so would be more expensive for states and would require special permission from the federal government. But it would provide better and more efficient Medicaid coverage, Ku said.
Medicaid benefits for a working-age adult average about $597 for one month of enrollment, compared with $481 for someone enrolled for six months and $345 per month for someone enrolled for an entire year, Ku said. That's because people often enroll in Medicaid when they're sick and need immediate care, but as their conditions stabilize with regular treatment, their monthly costs go down.
No states currently provide one-year continuous Medicaid coverage for adults. Eligibility must be updated periodically throughout the year. Legislation has been introduced in Congress that would allow states to provide continuous coverage without federal approval.
States also could cut churning by using projected annual income to determine Medicaid eligibility instead of monthly income. A plan by Arkansas, Iowa and Pennsylvania to buy marketplace coverage with Medicaid funds would curb churning by as much as two-thirds, according to some estimates, Sommers said.
Most new Medicaid expansion enrollees get coverage through managed care plans that provide program benefits. Marketplace health plans in 33 states and the District of Columbia also offer these Medicaid managed care plans. Nationwide, nearly 40 percent of marketplace insurers also offer a Medicaid managed care benefit, said Margaret Murray, the CEO of the Association for Community Affiliated Plans, which represents Medicaid managed care plans.
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Ridicule is the criticism or disapproval of someone or something through scornful jocularity. It is similar to mockery.
- We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."
- Thomas Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855), Voltaire.
- Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school,
And took for truth the test of ridicule;
Lucy saw no such virtue in a jest,
Truth was with her of ridicule the test.
- George Crabbe, Tales of the Hall (1819), Book VIII, line 126.
- "I wish to become a teacher of the Truth."
"Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-five?"
"I am. But tell me: What will happen after I am forty-five?"
"You will have grown accustomed to it."
- Wellsprings : A Book of Spiritual Exercises (1985), p. 19
- Anthony de Mello, Wellsprings : A Book of Spiritual Exercises (1985), p. 19.
- The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.
- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, Part II (1795).
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- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 673-74.
- It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, is perfectly bombast.
- Hugh Blair. Commenting on Lucan's style. Borrowed from Longinus, Treatise on the Sublime, Section III.
- That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk (Jan. 20, 1834). Christoph Martin Wieland, Abdereiten, III, Chapter XII.
- I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two are as near one another as extreme wisdom and folly.
- Raymond Deslaudes, Reflexions sur les Grands Hommes qui sont morts en Plaisantant.
- L'on ne saurait mieux faire voir que le magnifique et le ridicule sont si voisins qu'ils se touchent.
- There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
- Bernard Le Bouvier de Fontenelle, Œuvres, Dialogues des Morts (1683), IV. 32. Ed. 1825. Used by Edward, Lord Oxford, Ms. Common Place Book.
- Ridiculum acri
Fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res.
- Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.
- Horace, Satires, Book I. 10. 14.
- En géneral, le ridicule touche au sublime.
- Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime.
- Jean-François Marmontel, Œuvres Complettes (1787), V, 188.
- Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.
- There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
- Napoleon I to Abbé du Pradt, at Warsaw. See Histoire de l'Ambassade dans la Grande Duché de Vasovie, Ed. 2, p. 219. Attributed also to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (traced from Napoleon to Paine, Paine to Blair).
- How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristics, Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, Part I, Section II.
- 'Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristics, Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, Part I. Sect. V. Referring to Leontinus.
- Truth, 'tis supposed, may bear all lights; and one of those principal lights or natural mediums by which things are to be viewed in order to a thorough recognition is ridicule itself.
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour, Part I, Section I.
- I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies very ridiculous!" God has granted it to me.
- Voltaire, letter to M. Damilaville (16 May 1767).


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Dr. BBQ's Famous Baby Back Ribs
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Lots of photos above in the slideshow – we'll show you how to fold the tin foil to encase the ribs so that the apple juice/honey doesn't spill out.
You think that a food enthusiast like me and a beef aficionado like my husband would have already dived deep into the black, charred world of charcoal.
But no, I must confess that, until this weekend, we've been tethered to an ugly white liquid propane gas tank I'm always scared will explode on the car ride home. So I make my husband drive 20 mph and avoid speed bumps and curbs. Which makes our drive to the market to refill the tank just about as boring and uneventful as the third time 'round It's a Small World at the Magic Kingdom.
I had never been interested in charcoal because anything that contributes to or directly causes my pile of laundry to increase is a no-no in my home. Just looking at an open bag causes my skin to break out in housewifery hives.
Recently, my good friend, Ray Lampe, aka Dr. BBQ, came over with a nice little present for me: a Big Green Egg. He also lugged in a bag of charcoal and some hickory, but I didn't whine about the black glitter on the carpets. Nor did I obsessively dab at my husband's shirt with the bleach pen. When you've got Dr. BBQ in your home, you just let him do his thing.
Ray taught us the basics of barbecuing and how to use the Big Green Egg, which looks more like a bomb shelter than a grill. The smoked salmon came out silky with the perfect hint of hickory (though Ray says for salmon, cherry or alder wood chips are best). When it came time to grill our steaks, the flames shot straight up. Oops, that was my fault. I'm used to lubing the steaks with cooking oil to coax some flame action from our regular lame-o grill.
Ray left the Egg for us, and we've put it to use every night since. I'm considering spray-painting the darn thing hot pink in case he comes back to get it. I really can't see that man rolling a Big Pink Egg to championship barbecue competitions.
<– THIS IS DR. BBQ. He knows his shit. Ray has authored these books:
and Ray is the reason I'm 1 degree away from Justin Timberlake (Ray is the executive chef of Southern Hospitality, Timberlake's restaurant)
<– THIS IS THE BIG GREEN EGG. It's ugly. I love it.
Dr. BBQ's Famous Baby Back Ribs Recipe
Featuring the Big Green Egg
3 slabs baby back ribs, membrane on back of ribs removed
2 cups honey
1 1/2 cups apple juice
2 cups of Dr. BBQ's Sweet and Sticky Glaze (see below)
Dr. BBQ's rub (see below)
Prepare your cooker for indirect grilling at 275 degrees Fahrenheit, using cherry and hickory wood for flavor. Season the ribs with the rub. Put the ribs into the smoker, meaty site up for two hours. Flip the ribs and cook another hour. Remove the ribs to a platter.
Take a double-thick piece of heavy-duty aluminum foil (big enough to wrap a slab of ribs), and slather about 1/3 cup of honey on each sheet, spreading it where the ribs will lie. Place the ribs meaty side down and add more honey on top of the slab. Now crimp the edges of the foil and pour 1/2 cup of apple juice in the bottom. Do this for all three slabs. Loosely close the packets around the ribs and lay them back in the cooker.
Cook another 90 minutes. Carefully unwrap the packets and take out the ribs. Place the ribs back on the cooker, raising the temperature to 350 degrees. Brush with the glaze or barbecue sauce and flip several times for another 20 minutes.
Dr. BBQ's rub (combine)
1/4 cup salt
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons granulated garlic
1 1/2 teaspoons granulated onion
1 tablespoon paprika
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper
1 1/2 teaspoons dried thyme
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
1 1/2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
Dr. BBQ's Sweet and Sticky Glaze
This is what Dr. BBQ always uses to finish his ribs and chicken at BBQ cookoffs around the country.
1 cup ketchup
1/2 cup dark molasses
1/4 cup white vinegar
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon mace
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon Liquid Smoke (Optional)
1/2 cup honey
1 tablespoon hot sauce of choice
Combine all ingredients in a saucepan, stir well, and simmer for 15 minutes to reduce and thicken
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Amy Winehouse Whines to Bully
Amy Winehouse allegedly storms into a school in London and confronts a young girl who supposedly bullied her goddaughter Dionne Bromfeld on Monday (September 21).
The 26-year-old English singer then reportedly start verbally abusing her and spitting on her.
After coming to her senses, she signed a few autographs before deciding to head home and calling it a day.
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Moving into the apartment in 40 seconds
Last week, we showed you our final apartment selection with the House Hunters style series. However, getting all of our stuff into our apartment was probably even more fun.
Going to the farm and picking fresh produce!
One of the things we both really enjoy doing is going to u-pick farms and picking our own fruits and vegetables. In the past, we've primarily picked apples, blueberries, and strawberries. Given it's fall (crazy, huh?), we figured it was time to go out and pick some apples.
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Our hang-ups with official languages
CHICAGO — I'm into "Missing (una investigacion)," the latest book by Chilean novelist Alberto Fuguet. I'm reading it in Spanish since I have to consciously practice my native language or it vanishes. My family speaks English, lest we leave spouses and children out.
Fuguet is an engaging writer with a deep love and understanding of the United States, and I keep telling both my older son, who is not a native-Spanish speaker but is taking classes in school, and my husband, who teaches Hispanic students and has them convinced he can speak fluent espanol, that they'd probably be able to read "Missing" in Spanish themselves.
There are a few words I need a Spanish dictionary to understand, but those are balanced out by the many instances when the author lapses into English.
One minute you're trying to figure out if a particular word is unfamiliar because your Spanish isn't flawless or because it's specific to Chile. In the next, the author is asking a family member to critique his written works and imploring, en ingles, "be kind, please."
Such is the nature of the English language — it's a bit like kudzu: It's everywhere, grows uncontrollably and comes to be seen as an invasive pest.
That's certainly the conclusion you could reach after learning of the uproar caused when France's minister of higher education recently introduced bill to allow that nation's universities to teach more courses in English, even when English is not the subject.
The plan, designed to attract more students from countries such as Brazil, China and India where English is widely taught, has infuriated French citizens who think it is a direct violation of their constitution, which specifies that "the language of the Republic is French."
Sound familiar?
Just last week we had our own native language kerfuffle when the group ProEnglish, "the nation's leading advocates of official English," put out a radio ad featuring what BuzzFeed Politics described as "a Spanish-speaking 'illegal immigrant' character 'thanking' [Sen. Lindsey] Graham 'for not requiring him to learn English in exchange for amnesty.'"
In the radio spot, the character ends his acknowledgement with the laughing statement: "Who needs English?!"
Well, just for starters, nearly 31 million Hispanics who report speaking only English — or report speaking it very well — out of 47 million Hispanics living in the U.S.
Instances like the French measure or the bid for "official" English really hit at the heart of the role language plays in national identity.
It's unbelievable that educated people could get so upset about the role of English in their cultural identity, considering how hardy both culture and language are in their own right.
France has absolutely nothing to worry about — it will always be an international cradle of art, culture, politics and law. And a few courses delivered in English so that full-tuition-paying international students can practice the language of business along with their francais isn't going to change this or, as some fear, "marginalize" French.
The same applies stateside, where our wrangling over an official language has little to do with logic and everything to do with emotion. Instead of talking about how strong our country would be if we ensured that each child grew up with English as their primary language and any other language as their second, we're stuck in a tired controversy about attempts to make this an "English-only" country.
English as our national unifying language — as proposed legislation once described it — wouldn't offend anyone if it was properly presented as "English first." Instead, English-only is usually viewed as code for discrimination against anyone who doesn't renounce his or her other languages or speak perfect English.
Yet only a few totally bigoted kooks really feel this way. Even ProEnglish lists respecting "the right to use other languages" as a guiding principle in its mission to ensure everyone living here can communicate in a common language.
There's no need to freak out about English. It'll grow around the world without wiping out other tongues. And, in the U.S., it will eventually conquer Hispanic households as completely as it did German homes during Ben Franklin's time.
"Official" or not, the English language will neither prevent nor degrade multilingualism. In fact, as Fuguet so fluidly proves, English will succeed in enhancing it.
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Lemon Vinaigrette with Spring Salad
Once you start making dressings from scratch, you'll never buy another bottle of preservative (and expensive!) packed dressing. It is so simple- you probably already have everything you need at home. It took me 3 years of cooking to get around to making dressing from scratch... I thought it was too much of a hassle, or difficult, or... well, involved. I was wrong - so, so easy. I highly, HIGHLY recommend it.
You can make this dressing in a bowl, and whisk it together with a fork, or make it in a jar and shake it up. The recipe is very versatile - add parmesan cheese, fresh herbs (basil or thyme would be great), minced garlic, and/or sugar/honey for a sweeter dressing.
1/2 cup of white wine vinegar
1 lemon, juiced
1 teaspoon of dijon mustard
1/2 tablespoon of sea salt (give or take)
1/2 tablespoon of fresh cracked pepper (give or take)
1/2 cup of olive oil
Start with vinegar, lemon, dijon, salt & pepper. Mix it together, then drizzle in olive oil while whisking.
Spring Salad Recipe :
4 cups of field greens
2 cups of fresh spinach
1 cup of cherry tomatoes, halved
1 cucumber, sliced
1 red pepper, chopped
1/2 small red onion, sliced
parmesan cheese
lemon vinaigrette (recipe above)
In a bowl, add greens, spinach, tomatoes, cucumber, red onion and cheese. Toss with vinaigrette. Chill for 10 minutes (if possible) and serve.
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A lot has changed since we gave the Panasonic TC-P50V10 our Editors' Choice award last year. The most relevant to the review you're reading now can be summed up with the eminently Google-able phrase "Panasonic black levels." The short story? Testing revealed that 2009 Panasonic plasmas lose their excellent black-level performance–the crucial ability to produce as dark a shade of black as possible–over less than a year of typical use. They become, literally, grayer, and lose the very edge that made them stand above the pack in the first place.
"But what about 2010?," you ask. We don't know yet. Panasonic claims that 2010 models, like the TC-PG20/25 series under review here, have modifications that "result in a more gradual change in the Black Level over time." How gradual, and how much of a change, the company won't say, and we won't be able to say ourselves for at least a few months. Rest assured that we are running a long-term test on our sample, and we'll update this review when and if that black level shifts.
According to our observations right now–which is the only way we can fairly review any product–the TC-PG20/25 series delivers superb picture quality. Its black level is among the best available today, matching what we measured on new 2009 models and surpassing any other (non-Kuro) plasma we've tested so far. The company has also improved the antiglare screen significantly and fixed THX mode, in addition to revamping its VieraCast Internet service with new content such as Netflix and Pandora. The result is an excellent-performing HDTV with a good blend of features for a highly competitive price. If the history outlined above doesn't deter you, plenty of good reasons exist for choosing this Panasonic plasma. If it does, check back in a few months for an update.
Series information: We performed a hands-on evaluation of the 50-inch TC-P50G20, but this review also applies to the other screen sizes in both the TC-PG20 and TC-PG25 series. All have identical specs, and according to the manufacturer should provide very similar picture quality. The only difference between the two, according to Panasonic, is the G25's ability to interface with a network camera (see below for details).
Panasonic avoided any major style statements with this understated black plasma. The only departure is a subtle horizontal accent strip in the midst of the lower frame, running above the slightly curved bottom edge. The 3.5-inch panel depth is chunkier than the 2010 plasmas of LG and Samsung, but plenty "flat" enough in our book.
The company uses an improved clicker compared to 2009, with more backlit keys and a larger "Menu" button, and we appreciate the well-differentiated layout. Its only downside in our view is an inability to control other gear directly via infrared. The company has updated its blue-and-yellow menus to include onscreen explanations and a persistent navigation column of icons on the left, and as a result they feel more modern and are easier to use than last year, if not quite up to the level of a Sony or Samsung.
Panasonic kept the basic feature set nearly the same as the TC-PG10/G15 series last year, reserving step-ups like 3D and flicker-free 1080p/24 compatibility (see Performance) for the significantly more expensive TC-PVT20/25 series. What remains is robust enough, though, especially at this price point.
Options include the same kind of proprietary wi-fi dongle used by Samsung and LG; naturally we'd like to see built-in Wi-Fi (a la Vizio and higher-end Sony sets) but again we're not surprised at its omission. We're also intrigued by the optional network camera, which allows G25 owners relatively cheap in-home monitoring capability. We didn't test either option for this review.
Just about every TV maker has Netflix, and when Panasonic turns on this feature in July it will join the ranks of "good enough" streaming. We'd still like to see the excellent picture quality of Vudu's HD service, found on many other makers' TVs, available too, but Amazon VOD has solid high-def picture quality in its own right. DLNA won't be missed by most buyers, and it's nice to see Pandora onboard to handle audio duties.
Panasonic's VieraCast system got a face-lift for 2010, adding widgets such as Fox Sports and Twitter, as well as a Skype option (all coming by the end of May 2010). Our favorite change is that the home page can be customized somewhat, allowing you to place the apps and streaming services you want on the first, second, or third page in any of seven slots arranged around the central picture window. Most other TVs' Internet service interfaces, aside from Vizio and Yahoo widgets, don't let you re-arrange content to the same extent.
VieraCast still seems a bit archaic compared to the others, takes over rather than overlays whatever you're watching, and inexplicably lacks a nonbusiness (and non-German) News component, but we do appreciate the well-integrated feel, relatively snappy response time, and the above-average functionality of the custom apps, namely Bloomberg and Weather. We asked for an explanation regarding those two random German apps–Tagesschau, a news service, and Bild.de, with "News, Sport and celebrity gossip from Germany and the world"–but have yet to hear back by press time.
We also like the option of using a USB keyboard, although a couple of older wireless ones we tried (a Logitech MX3200 and a Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Keyboard 7000) didn't interface with the TV. Many other wired or wireless USB keyboards should work, however, and Panasonic told us "Logitech MK700, DiNovo, Logicool, or Microsoft keyboards work well."
Panasonic has equipped the TC-PG20/25 series with an array of picture settings that finally places it on a par with other makers' TVs. The Pro Settings menu, available only in the Custom picture mode, offers niceties like a fine color temperature menu (a measly four points is still better than none) and an array of gamma choices, both of which allow tweakers some leeway. We also like that, unlike on LG's so-equipped TVs, Panasonic's THX mode can be adjusted. Said tweakers will also note the new-for-2010 "blur reduction" setting described thusly: "Improves motion picture quality. Additional sub-fields are created to reduce motion blur." See Performance for details.
Watchers paranoid about burn-in (we aren't) will appreciate the scrolling bar designed to erase it, and the pixel orbiter intended to prevent it in the first place. We'd like to see a brightness-limiting energy-saver mode, as well as an onscreen companion to the thick paper manual.
Three HDMI inputs total falls one short of most 2010 HDTVs we've tested but should still be plenty for most setups. The SD card slot can handle video, photos, and music, like the USB ports, and the second USB is a nice addition if you use the first for the optional Wi-Fi dongle.
The TC-PG20/25 delivered excellent overall picture quality. Deep black levels were a strength, color accuracy was very good in THX mode, and the typical uniformity advantages of plasma over LCD–excellent off-angle fidelity, uniform brightness and color across the screen–were in abundant evidence. The main hiccup we encountered was the inability to handle 1080p/24 content properly.
The THX mode was clearly the most accurate before adjustment. It evinced a smooth grayscale that fell within the D65 ballpark (although it was minus-blue overall), decent gamma (2.07 average, versus a target of 2.2) and, unlike last year, plenty of light output (37 ftl) with some headroom for adjustment. Best of all, there was no overt greenish tinge thanks to improved color decoding. We'd love the option to tweak THX further and improve these areas, but the Pro adjust menu, which contains the relevant settings, was inactive in THX mode.
We tried calibrating the Custom mode, which does allow tweaks to the Pro adjust menu, but while we were able to improve the grayscale compared to THX, other areas of picture quality–namely gamma, color decoding and primary/secondary color accuracy–were significantly worse. In the past, such as on the V10 last year, our adjustments in Custom yielded very good gamma results, but not this time around.
THX was still better overall than Custom, so we used it, with some tiny tweaks, for our evaluation. We checked out the Blu-ray of Invictus, with the comparison lineup below, for our main image quality tests.
Black level: Our nearly new TC-PG20/25 sample performed extremely well in this area, with the kind of deep, inky blacks we've come to expect from the company's plasma TVs. It lagged behind the Pioneer and the LG LE8500 in this area, but outperformed the others, including the slightly-aged V10 from last year. The differences were most visible in dark scenes, such as the shot down the road outside Mandela's house at the 40 minute mark. The black of a leather jacket, the night sky, the shadows under the trees and the letterbox bars appeared just a bit inkier than on the V10 and both of the Samsungs, and a good deal deeper than the LG PK750 plasma. In brighter scenes the differences between the various displays' black levels narrowed significantly, as usual, although they were still visible in the letterbox bars.
We measured a black level of 0.001 footlamberts (ftl) for the Pioneer and LG LH8500, 0.007 on the G20/25, 0.016 for the V10 (at about 1,200 hours), 0.018 for the Samsung B650, and 0.024 for the LG PK750. We ran the G20/25 for about 100 hours after we received it and that measurement didn't shift. If behavior from the 2009 models is any indication, we don't expect any change for at least a few hundred hours (typical TV use is 1,900 hours/year), but if/when we measure one, we'll update this review.
Details in shadows on the G20/25 series appeared a bit less natural than on some of the sets in our lineup. We attribute this issue to the TV's lighter gamma in dark areas, which made the shaded bush alongside Mandela's wall, and the shadowed faces of Pienaar and Nerine in Chapter 15, for example, a bit brighter than on the Pioneer or the LG LE8500. This wasn't a major issue however, and shadows and near-dark areas still looked realistic overall, mainly owing to the G20/25's deep blacks.
Color accuracy: In THX mode the G20/25 performed very well in this area, although due to its less-than-perfect grayscale it still fell a bit short of our reference display and a couple of the others in our lineup (including the V10 and the PK750). We noticed skin tones, like the faces of Pienaar's family in Chapter 9, seemed very slightly paler and shifted toward green, although not nearly to the extent we saw on last year's THX mode, for example. The light blue shirt of Mr. Pienaar and the red couch cushion exhibited a similar slight shift. We'd be hard-pressed to notice the difference without the benefit of a side-by-side a comparison, however.
Primary and secondary color accuracy was excellent, as evinced by the green of the grass and trees around the white players' field in Chapter 1, for example. The TV's deep black levels and solid color decoding contributed to some of the most saturated, punchy colors in our lineup. We also appreciated that black areas stayed a relatively neutral color on the G20/25, as opposed to veering into blue as we saw on the Samsung LCD and the PK750, for example.
Video processing: Panasonic makes a lot of marketing hay out of it 600Hz subfield drive, but as we observed last year, its benefits (much like the antiblurring effects of 120Hz, 240Hz etc LCDs) are exceedingly difficult to discern. When we engaged the Blur reduction setting, our motion resolution test showed that the G20/25 was delivering all 1080 lines of the source. When we turned off the control, the result dipped down to somewhere between 700-800 lines. Although the difference between the two settings was impossible for us to see outside of specialized test patterns, there's no obvious reason not to turn the control on–it introduced no negative effects we could see.
As we noted above the G20/25 series is not blessed with the 96Hz refresh rate found on the step-up VT20/25 models, so as we observed with Panasonic's predecessor plasmas from 2009, the G models cannot properly handle 1080p/24 sources. We confirmed this with our favorite scene for such a test, the flyover of the Intrepid from "I Am Legend," where we observed the characteristic stuttering motion of 2:3 pull-down (as opposed to the correct cadence of film we observed on the V10) when the G20/25 was set to its default 60Hz mode under "24p direct in." Switching to the other option, 48Hz, caused the display to flicker significantly and become essentially unwatchable, especially in brighter scenes.
In our 1080i deinterlacing test, it's worth noting that the G20/G25 only passed in film mode when we chose the "on" position for the 3:2 pull-down control. When the control was set to the default "Auto" position, the TV failed.
Bright lighting: Panasonic has improved its antireflective screen quite a bit compared to 2009, and the difference was clearly visible by comparing the G20/25 to the V10 in a well-lit room. The screen preserved black levels better and further reduced the brightness of reflections, such as the faces of viewers or even lamps caught in the screen. It beat the LG models in both of these areas, although it wasn't as good as the Pioneer. Compared to the Samsungs, the G20/25's screen did a better job reducing reflections, but didn't preserve black levels nearly as well.
Standard-definition: The 2010 G series is one of the worst standard-def performers we've tested recently. It didn't quite resolve all of the horizontal detail of the DVD format, and the shots of the stone bridge and grass appeared a bit soft. Jaggies in moving diagonal lines and a waving American flag were more prevalent on the G20/25 than on the Samsung or LG plasmas. Noise reduction was also less effective; in the Panasonic's strongest setting, we still saw motes and video noise in low-quality shots of skies and sunsets. The TV passed the 2:3 pull-down test in "On" mode, but the default "Auto" was again ineffective.
PC: Via analog VGA the TC-PG20/25 accepted a maximum input signal of 1,366×768, which is disappointing for a 1080p TV. Text in that resolution looked relatively soft, and we missed having an autoadjust function to fill the screen properly, but after some tweaking it looked passable. Via HDMI the TV handled every line of a 1,920×1,080 source with no edge enhancement or softness and excellent overall quality.


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The Real Samuel Adams and Real Life
I've been tracing the idea that Samuel Adams somehow instigated the shooting at Lexington on 19 Apr 1775, from the first suggestion by Harold Murdock through the development by Arthur Bernon Tourtellot to a recent elaboration by William H. Hallahan. I see three major holes in this thesis, even beyond the lack of any positive evidence for it whatsoever.
First, this theory writes off the fact that the Revolution was a mass movement. It involved hundreds of thousands of people. It was organized through committees, conventions, congresses, and other means of collective decision-making. Since the Powder Alarm of early September 1774, the Boston Whigs had realized that the Massachusetts countryside was more eager to fight than their own town.
Even among the political leaders of Massachusetts, Adams was only the foremost of a large group. Some twentieth-century writers gave him credit or blame for everything that happened in Boston and then in eastern Massachusetts. But Adams didn't come to prominence until after 1765. He had a lot of colleagues in Boston, some of them (William Molineux, Dr. Thomas Young) much closer to the crowds than he was. He was pulled along by many significant events, and far away from some others. It's foolish to believe that Adams was guiding every political development of the day.
Second, Adams's contemporaries considered him to be a cautious politician, especially when it came to violence. There's no strong evidence that he led mobs. James Otis, Jr., reportedly trusted Adams—and only him—to keep him from speaking too rashly. Adams's writings show a consistent belief that there was no need for dramatic actions. Rather, he usually stated that steady unity and resolve would cause royal officials to back down or reveal their true tyrannical aims.
Thus, on 21 May 1774, Adams wrote from Philadelphia to James Warren:
I beseech you to implore every Friend in Boston by every thing dear and sacred to Men of Sense and Virtue to avoid Blood and Tumult. They will have time enough to dye. Let them give the other Provinces opportunity to think and resolve.Even as he itched for independence, Adams wrote to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Cooper on 30 Apr 1776:
Rash Spirits that would by their Impetuosity involve us in unsurmountable Difficulties will be left to perish by themselves despisd by their Enemies, and almost detested by their Friends. Nothing can ruin us but our Violence. Reason teaches this. I have indubitable Intelligence, dreadful, as to the Designs against us; consolatory, if we are but prudent.
Indeed I have the Happiness of believing that what I most earnestly wish for will in due time be effected. We cannot make Events. Our Business is wisely to improve them.To believe that Adams had indeed "made Events" in Lexington is to believe that he was completely duplicitous about his philosophy throughout life, even with his closest colleagues.
Furthermore, all the eyewitness testimony we have about Adams's actions in the early hours of 19 Apr 1775 says that he spoke against confronting the troops. He urged leaving the Lexington parsonage as quickly and quietly as possible. Dolly Quincy reportedly heard him tell her future husband as the royal army approached, "that is not our business. We belong to the Cabinet." In other words, elected officials had the responsibility to stay away from possible violence and keep the government running.
The third weakness of the Murdock/Tourtellot hypothesis is that it's a conspiracy theory: a secret agreement among Adams, local minister Jonas Clarke, and militia captain John Parker to carry out a complex plot. That scheme depended on a precise understanding of how the Lexington militiamen would behave if ordered to stand on the Green, how the British troops would respond, and how the people of Massachusetts would respond in turn. The hypothesis requires nearly every action that men took in the early hours of 19 Apr 1775 to be the result of planning, and not just habit or circumstance. It posits a plot that men considered noble yet kept completely secret for decades.
(Hallahan's wild tangent off the Murdock/Tourtellot hypothesis is even more clearly a conspiracy theory: in addition to those actions and reactions, it also posits a secret agreement between Adams and an unidentified gunman.)
One of the wisest rules for making sense of life, either in the present or in the past, is never to come up with a conspiracy theory for what can be explained by incompetence. (For variations on this dictum, see "Hanlon's razor" and the words of Sir Bernard Ingham.) The British reports on the Concord march and the depositions from American veterans in the 1820s and 1830s offer little evidence of a conspiracy. But they show lots of evidence of incompetence, or rather of the limits on human competence: incomplete knowledge, inaccurate assumptions, misunderstandings, hesitations, poor memory, fatigue, compromises, circumstances beyond people's control. In other words, real life.
TOMORROW: Which Patriot leader really called for standing up to the regulars.


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Patrick Peterson (Gloversville, NY) and Brittney Lane (Greenwich, NY) both were honored this week by the Northeast Conference for the performances at Princeton's Larry Ellis Memorial Invitational last weekend, earning NEC Track Athlete of the Week honors.
Peterson climbed to the the No. 30 ranking amongst the NCAA East Region's top half-milers. The sophomore clocked in at 1:49.89 to win gold in the Friday Night Races. Peterson finished 0.81 second better than the runner-up in his heat, beating out previous NEC leader and past conference champion Gigi Gibilisco of Mount St. Mary's. Not only did Peterson's performance come in well under the IC4A Championship qualifying standard, but it was nearly a full second better than the 12-year old NEC Outdoor Championship meet record (1:50.88).
Lane reclaimed the Northeast Conference lead in the 5,000-meter run. Becoming the first NEC distance runner to post a sub-17:00 time since Quinnipiac's Kaitlyn Gwyther, who set the NEC Outdoor Championship meet record in 2006, Lane finished in 16:57.01 to break the SHU program record. She came in 15th out of 98 competitors at Princeton, taking the NEC lead over by 11 seconds.