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WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Monday called on Americans to stand up against religious bigotry as he offered his support to the families of those killed in shootings at two Jewish community centers in the Kansas City area.
"Nobody should have to worry about their security when gathering with their fellow believers," Obama told religious leaders at the White House for the annual Easter prayer breakfast. "No one should ever have to fear for their safety when they go to pray. And as a government, we're going to provide whatever assistance is needed to support the investigation."
Obama noted that he had a connection to two of the victims. A teenager and his grandfather, shot in a parking lot behind the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, attended the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, Obama said. That church's pastor, Rev. Adam Hamilton, delivered the sermon at the prayer service at the National Cathedral marking Obama's second inauguration and attended last year's prayer breakfast at the White House. Hamilton broke the news to his congregation at the Palm Sunday service, the president said.
"That this occurred now, as Jews were preparing to celebrate Passover, as Christians were observing Palm Sunday, makes this tragedy all the more painful," Obama said.
Police have arrested Frazier Glenn Miller, 73, in connection with the shooting. Civil rights advocates say Miller has ties to the Ku Klux Klan and a long history of espousing hate against Jews, among others. Police say they do not believe that the shooter knew his victims.
Obama called on the religious leaders to "keep coming together across faiths to combat the ignorance and intolerance, including anti-Semitism, that can lead to hatred and to violence."
"This Easter week, of course, we recognize that there's a lot of pain and a lot of sin and a lot of tragedy in this world, but we're also overwhelmed by the grace of an awesome God," he said. "We're all children of God, we're all made his image, all worthy of his love and dignity, and we see what happens around the world when this kind of religious-based or -tinged violence can rear its ugly head. It's got no place in our society."
Obama mentioned his recent trip to Vatican City, where he met for the first time with Pope Francis. Obama, who is not Catholic, has said he is inspired by the pope and praised his focus on inequality and inclusion in the church.
The president urged the religious leaders to mind the message coming out of Rome.
"He implores us to see the inherent dignity in each human being. But it's also his deeds, simple yet profound, hugging the homeless man or washing the feet of somebody who, normally, ordinary folks would just pass by on the street. He reminds us that all of us, no matter what our station, have an obligation to live righteously and that we all have an obligation to live humbly, because that's, in fact, the example that we profess to follow."
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$45 to watch a snowboard event? Damn … that'd better be one stacked field, right? Some kind of Olympic Pipe Finals, or special mega-pro one-off session, yeah? Wait … aren't all of those guys are in Aspen for the X Games? While Tor, Halldór, Shaun, Seb, and the rest of the household names partied the night away up in the land where water flows like wine, 14,000 raucous fans still bought the ticket and took the ride down in Denver, coming out in masse to experience World Cup snowboarding in the capitol city.
Todd Richards tweeted before the event: "Denver Big Air … I recognize 4 names on the start list. Why this wasn't next week is beyond me. Sick venue for a no-name event." Todd's right on both accounts (if 14 G came out to see unfamiliar faces, can you imagine the crowd had there been a true all-star cast?), but mostly so regarding the incredible structure that was erected in downtown for last night's event. The 106-foot scaffolding brought on mirror images of the recent Air & Style in China—with the exception of there not being quite as many dead-panned military officials securing the perimeter, of course. Regardless, the course was pretty spectacular. And the air show, even with lacking some of the more recognizable names in snowboarding, lived up to the hyped just fine. Backside double 10s, back 12s, and even some style tricks thrown in for good pleasure all delighted the hyped (read: "Denver'ed") audience.
A couple quick, interesting notes:
- ~ Snow DJ Hero, Matty "This ain't Willies!" Mo, ran the crowd. If you're in SLC on a Weds, check.
- ~ "Michael Macho" is the best name in snowboarding.
- ~ Ian Thorley, Robbie Walker, and Matts Kulisek all went big.
- ~ Listening to the announcers butcher the riders' names was hilarious.
- ~ The lights on the Denver City and County Building were epic. Colors changed to match the riders' outerwear.
- ~ Euros love plaid.
In the end, 19-year old Dutch rider, Rocco Van Straten would take home the Denver Big Air, the first World Cup Big Air event in the USA since Mt. Hood in 2004. Rocco ('s Modern Life?) landed a couple Cab 9s (sorry, Universal Sports. There's no such thing as a "switch cab 900" …) on his first two jumps, and then brought the house down with an almost-perfect back double cork 10 for the win. Rounding out the podium were the clean style of Canada's Zach Stone, and Austria's Michael "Randy Savage" Macho.

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FRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky State Parks are offering a weekday camping deal in April and May – pay for one night and get the second night free Sunday through Thursday.
To get the discount, campers need to make online reservations at www.parks.ky.gov (look for the "reservations" tab at the top of the page). Use the promotion code "SPRING14." The offer runs through May 22, 2014.
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The News-Democrat
Funding for a new Jefferson Community and Technical College campus in Carrollton is heading to Gov. Steve Beshear's desk for his signature as part of a budget agreement that passed in both houses of the legislature Monday night.
FRANKFORT--The House budget committee gave its approval Tuesday to a nearly $20.3 billion two-year state budget proposal that would trim funding for most of state government, leave some areas untouched, and offer modest increases for foster parents and private child care providers.
Louisville, KY -- Equipped with national priority issues established during their annual meeting in December, 185 Kentucky Farm Bureau volunteer leaders are heading to the nation's capitol during the last week of February. The group has scheduled a series of strategic discussions with Kentucky's Congressional Delegation to examine issues facing agriculture in the Commonwealth.
After an absence of several years, cancer patients in the La Grange area will once again have the option of receiving their chemotherapy close to home.
On Feb. 18, Baptist Health La Grange and the CBC Group: Consulting in Blood Disorders, opened a six-chair chemotherapy treatment area on the second floor of the Physician Office Building.
This is the second outpatient chemo treatment area for the practice, which is part of Baptist Medical Associates. Treatment is also offered on the 3Park cancer care unit at Baptist Health Louisville campus.
The Kentucky State Police will be conducting traffic safety checkpoints in the counties of Oldham, Trimble, Henry, Owen, Carroll and Gallatin during the period of Feb. 24 - March 10, 2014.
The intent of a traffic safety checkpoint is to provide for high visibility public safety service, focusing on vehicular equipment deficiencies, confirming appropriate registration of vehicles and the licensing of drivers. Violations of law or other public safety issues that arise shall be addressed in accordance with Kentucky traffic and regulatory laws.
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The News-Democrat
The first day on the job at Carroll County Memorial Hospital was a busy one for Dr. Farooq Mirza.
Not only was he busy getting settled into his new offices, he also performed two of surgeries and consulted on another that he scheduled for next week.
Mirza joined the team at CCMH Monday as the new full-time surgeon. Educated at Yale University and the University of Cincinnati, he is a board certified general surgeon.
MADISON, Ind. - The King's Daughters' Health Diabetes Care Center will host a free diabetes Awareness Event at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 7 in the Oak Rooms of the KDH Conference Center, located on the basement level of the facility. Diabetes patients, their family members or friends and anyone wanting to learn more about diabetes is encouraged to attend. Please contact Debbie Cross 812-801-0611 to reserve a seat.
FRANKFORT, Ky – The Kentucky Department of Revenue has set the 2013 State Real Property Tax Rate at 12.2 cents per $100 of assessed value. Kentucky Revised Statute 132.020 requires the Department of Revenue to set the real property rate no later than July 1 of each year.
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Crêpes With Herb and Goat Cheese Scrambled Eggs Recipe
How to make the best meal of the week even better.
At once delicate and substantial, savory crêpes are perfectly suited for brunch. Softly scrambled eggs make a wonderful filling, especially with the addition of creamy goat cheese.
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- Yield:Serves 4
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:30 minutes
- For the Crepes:
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 4 eggs, beaten
- Kosher salt
- 4 tablespoons butter
- For the Herb and Goat Cheese Scrambled Eggs:
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 teaspoons milk
- 2 tablespoons chopped assorted herbs
- 6 eggs, beaten
- 1/4 cup goat cheese
- Kosher salt and cracked black pepper
For the Crepes: In a large bowl combine flour, milk, eggs and a pinch of salt and whisk until smooth. Let sit for 5 minutes.
Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat to 170[°], or low, Heat 1/2 tablespoon of butter over medium high heat in a 10- inch non-stick skillet and when melted add 1/4 cup crepe batter, swirling pan in a circular motion so that the batter becomes thin. Cook for 2 minutes or until browned then flip and cook until the other side is browned, about 1 more minute. Place crepe on an oven proof plate and place in the oven to keep warm while you make the rest of the crepes.
For the Herb and Goat Cheese Scrambled Eggs: Once the crepes are cooked and in the warm oven, whisk together milk, herbs and eggs. Wipe out the skillet, return to the stove and heat butter over medium low heat until melted. Add eggs and cook stirring often with a rubber spatula until eggs have just set, about 5 minutes. Add the goat cheese and gently stir until goat cheese is just incorporated into the eggs.
To assemble the crepes, place a scoop of eggs in 1/4 of the crepe then fold in half, then fold again so that the crepe pockets the eggs. Serve immediately garnished with chopped chives.
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Hi Bianca. Great meeting you and hitting them with you today. Just what I needed. Looking forward to many more battles. It's great that you like to play games and sets. There is so much to practice and nice to get it all in one session. Thanks again buddy.
Yes that's the one. There is a narrow one way alley off draper street that goes right behind the courts. There is plenty of parking there. Don't park in the front and walk all the way through the campus. Here is my number in case you get lost.
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Hey B. Sounds great, There is a possibility that there will be students on the courts around that time, but worse case scenario the La Jolla Rec center is just down the street. Happy New Year Buddy.
Hi Bianca. Yes Wednesday works for me. I usually play in La Jolla. I don't know a lot of spots yet that you can play at 11am. If you know of one, I'm down. The only ones I can think of is Colina park, and La Jolla Recreation center. The courts in La Jolla are nice.Gotta wear white bottom shoes there. Let me know what you think. Thanks, Josh
Hi Bianca, and good morning. I am available to play this whole week either in the mornings, afternoons, & evenings. I have an extremely flexible schedule when I'm in town. I usually work out of town for a couple weeks at a time and then off for 3-4 weeks. Always looking to get court time. Let me know when is best for you.
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Del Fuegos w/ Groovechild
Where: Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St. in Concord
When: Sunday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $26 & $36 at www.ccanh.com
The Del Fuegos return to Concord for the final night of their 13-city reunion tour on March 4 expecting a warmer greeting than the one the band received at its first hometown gig 30-plus years ago. The group managed to make it halfway through the first night of a Friday/Saturday run before management at the now defunct Hawaiian Isle II sent them packing.
"That was our first experience when we left college," said lead singer and guitarist Dan Zanes in a recent phone interview. "By the end of the second set on the first night, they canceled the weekend, gave us the money and said we could go home."
The four-piece band — brothers Dan and Warren Zanes, Woody Giessmann and Tom Lloyd — then moved south to Boston, finding an audience at the Rat, Paradise, Channel and other rowdy rooms. By 1984, they were signed with Slash Records, home to X, Los Lobos and the Blasters, and Rolling Stone had named them the country's best new band.
Despite a short run that ended in a 1989 breakup, the group was a big part of the Beantown scene. In 2007, writer Brett Milano named his definitive history of rock music in the city, The Sound of Our Town, after a Del Fuegos song.
"We stumbled into something that was just perfect for us and we didn't have to change ourselves," says Zanes. "We were on our own track at that point, and we got lucky."
There were a few bumps on the road, like a 1985 television ad for Miller Beer. Other rock greats had done commercials — the Rolling Stones once hawked Rice Krispies — but the move backfired when it aired during Live Aid.
"Our timing was a little unfortunate," says Zanes with a laugh. "Everybody else was raising money to help Africa and we were out there selling beer. It kind of put us at odds with the rest of the community."
There was an up side: "We were touring out in the Midwest, and it helped a lot of people learn about the band and that worked out really well," notes Zanes. "It's just that a lot of critics weren't into it."
When the group split, the four members each moved on to successful careers. Dan is a trailblazing family musician; Warren and Tom Lloyd both earned doctorate degrees, and Giessmann, with a master's from Suffolk University, founded the artists-in-recovery program Right Turn. Apart from a one-off benefit show in 2002, they resisted the urge to reunite.
That changed last summer, when they played a fundraiser for Giessmann's clinic, joined by fellow Boston club denizens Lyres and Nervous Eaters. The first show sold out, as did a quickly added second night. Together again on the Paradise stage, they found something clicked.
"It's hard to put my finger on it, but it was really more fun than I have ever had with these guys before," Zanes says.
Feedback from a crowd that knew the words to every song helped fuel the band's buzz.
"We tend to forget … it meant something to people," Zanes says. "To hear everybody sing along made me realize that in some small way we were able to be a soundtrack for people's lives at one point in time. I know what that feels like as a music fan; it's an honor to be on the other side."
The idea of a tour, hitting their favorite '80s haunts, began brewing.
"I think we realized we could play without having any strings attached so it was strictly about having fun," Zanes says, adding that without the burden of being a hungry young band, "we just get to go out and ride around in a bus and have fun with our fans."
The good vibes even led them back to the studio — the first time since 1987's Stand Up that all four members have recorded together. An eight-song EP, as yet untitled, should be available at the Concord show.
"I've been writing songs all along with my brother, and it was nice to just think about the Del Fuegos as a good vehicle for getting some tunes out there," Zanes says. "In rock 'n' roll, there's plenty of room for creativity of all kinds, but it's also a great excuse to not take yourself so seriously. It doesn't have to be heavy-handed."
Asked if hindsight gives him a better understanding of what might have kept the band together, or if that even matters, Zanes demurs: "We learned from the experience with relationships intact. Most importantly, we're all still alive. A lot of the mistakes we made had to do with lifestyle choices, and not everybody survives that, so we're very grateful."
In most respects, the current chemistry trumps the Del Fuegos' heyday.
"In our own weird way we were able to grow as a band," Zanes says. "Any time I get together and play with these guys is kind of a mind-boggling experience in a way. It's like we're all 21 again, with the same group dynamics and the same way of talking to each other; it's not like being a bunch of grownups."


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Mini Soft Pretzels
Cover with sea salt for a traditional taste to dip in mustard or nacho cheese. Dress it up with a sprinkle of cheese on top, or take it even further with garlic salt, Italian seasoning, and shredded mozzarella, dipped in marinara for an Italian twist. Looking for something sweet? Top with cinnamon and sugar and dip them into yogurt or cream cheese! They're a snack for all tastes! And they're surprisingly easy to make.
If you've made bread before, then you're already set. If you haven't, pretzels might be a good place to start. They're less fussy than bread, and they don't need that pesky long second proof. Even the twisting and shaping is simple!
1. Roll your dough into a rope about 12 to 15 inches long. Make a U-shape with the dough on the counter.
2. Cross the right end of the U over the left end about 3 to 4 inches from the top.
3. Cross the right end over the left end again, making a double twist at the top.
4. Fold the twist down so the ends touch the bottom curve of the U, shaping as needed to create the classic pretzel shape.
Or skip the shaping altogether and roll the dough out to an inch thick rope and cut into 1 to 1 ½-inch pieces to make pretzel bites!
A couple tips: If your dough keeps shrinking back while you're trying to roll it out, let it rest for about 5 minutes before rolling out again. I rolled out about 6 to 8 pieces at a time, rolling until it would pull back, then setting it aside and moving on to the next piece. By the time I was done with the last piece, the first one had rested enough to roll out a bit more!
Also, don't let your pretzels poach for too long in the boiling water, otherwise they'll get a little soggy. I poached some of my pretzel bites while I was busy cutting the rest, letting them boil for an extra minute or so, and they ended up a bit squishy.
I know what I'll be snacking on during the game. How about you?
Adapted from Smitten Kitchen
Makes 16 full sized pretzels, 32 mini pretzels, or a whole lot of pretzel bites
2 cups warm water (100F to 110F) (should feel warm to the touch, but not hot)
1 tablespoon, plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 (1/4 oz) package active dry yeast
5 to 6 cups all purpose flour
1 tablespoon salt
Oil or cooking spray, to coat bowl
¼ cup baking soda
1 large egg
Coarse sea salt or pretzel salt
1. Pour warm water and 1 tablespoon of sugar into the bowl of an electric mixer and stir to combine. Sprinkle with yeast and let stand for 10 minutes; yeast should be foamy.
2. Add 1 cup of flour to yeast and mix on low with the paddle attachment (or dough hook if you prefer) until combined. Add salt and 4 cups more of flour, mixing until combined. Beat on medium low speed until dough forms and pulls away from the sides of the bowl. Add another ½ cup of flour and knead in mixer on low for 1 minute more. (Or turn out onto a clean, lightly floured work surface and knead by hand.) If dough is still sticky, add another ½ cup of flour. Knead until smooth.
3. Oil a large bowl (or spray with cooking spray). Transfer dough to bowl, turning to coat all sides. Cover with a kitchen towel and let rise in a warm spot for 1 hour, or until dough has doubled in size.
4. Preheat oven to 450F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats, or spray with cooking spray to coat; set aside. Punch down dough to remove any air bubbles. Transfer to a clean, lightly floured work surface and divide into 16 pieces (or 32 if you're making mini pretzels). Cover with plastic wrap to keep from drying out while you're working with other pieces.
5. Roll one piece of dough at a time into a 12 to 15 inch long rope. Shaping the rope into a U-shape, bring the right end of the rope over the left end about 3 to 4 inches from the top. Repeat, bringing the right end over the left end to create a double twist at the top of the U. Fold the twist over so the ends touch the bottom curve of the U, shaping as necessary to create the classic pretzel shape. Transfer to prepared baking sheet. Cover with a clean kitchen towel. Continue shaping the remaining pieces of dough. Let pretzels rest about 15 minutes, or until they've puffed slightly. (*Alternately, roll dough out into ropes 1-inch thick. Cut rope into 1 ½-inch pieces to make pretzel bites. Transfer to prepared baking sheets, careful not to put them too close together, otherwise they'll stick to each other!)
6. While pretzels are resting, fill a large pot with 2 inches of water and bring to a boil. Add baking soda (carefully, because it will bubble furiously! And make sure your pot has high sides, because it might boil over otherwise.) and two remaining tablespoons of sugar. Reduce heat to a simmer; transfer three to four pretzels to water. Poach 1 minute on each side. (They'll sink to the bottom first, but after about 10 seconds they'll float up to the top making them easier to flip over.) Use a slotted spoon to drain off as much of the water as you can before transferring to baking sheets. Continue until all pretzels are poached.
7. Beat egg with 1 tablespoon of water. Brush pretzels with egg wash and sprinkle with salt. Bake until golden brown, 12 to 15 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack, or eat warm. They are best when eaten the same day, but will keep at room temperature, uncovered for up to 2 days. Don't store in a covered container or they will turn soggy!
3 comments:
- Rachel @ Baked by Rachel said...
It's cracking me up how popular pretzels are within the past few weeks. I bet so many people will be eating them Sunday. Your mini pretzels turned out so cute! Next time I'll totally try mini ones :)
- February 4, 2011 at 8:45 PM
I love, love, love homemade pretzels! These look delicious! :)
- February 7, 2011 at 11:33 PM
- oneordinaryday said...
I am completely in love with homemade soft pretzels. They're one of the best things I've ever made. :)
- February 10, 2011 at 5:24 PM


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Have you ever wondered how your computer gets made? Ever thought about the people who put it together? What about how life is like inside a computer factory? This video, which was found inside a brand new HP laptop, answers all your questions.
A Reddit user recently bought a HP laptop and found this test video inside the My Documents folder of a factory worker testing out the laptop's camera feature. The voyeuristic video shows a glimpse of the monotonous life inside: sitting, testing the same gear over and over, more sitting, more testing, etc. The conveyor belt of the same new gadget is endless. Supposedly, the video was taken in the Quanta Chongqing Manufacturing City in Chongqing. Props for the opera, factory guy. [Reddit via TechCrunch]


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Specter of NAFTA haunts Obama
President Barack Obama just can't shake NAFTA's ghost.
As Obama met neighboring heads of state for their annual summit in Mexico on Wednesday, the three leaders underscored their efforts to leave the 20-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement in the history books by fixing its failings in a broader Pacific Rim deal.
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"Some of these old agreements put us at a disadvantage. That's exactly why we've got to have stronger agreements," Obama said during a Wednesday night press conference with his Canadian and Mexican counterparts.
But every time the president tells a home audience he's working on a bigger and better approach to international trade, Democrats and public interest groups only seem to hear "NAFTA on steroids."
Obama is pushing to complete the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would link North America with Asian countries like Japan. But to get his way, the president will have to sell the American public and the congressional leaders of his own party on the notion that the deal is an escape from NAFTA's mistakes, rather than just an expansion of its reach.
( POLITICO's full coverage of trade policy)
What's his fellow Democrats' take on the likelihood of that happening?
"Nonsense," said Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York.
"In all the time I've been in Congress, I have never seen a trade bill that benefited the American producer or the American worker. It's all been give-away, and we really can't afford that anymore," she said. "People are sick and tired of the one-way trade deal."
The pressure is building as the administration's top trade negotiators head to Singapore for meetings this week, where they'll try to break the remaining impasses and finish the deal, and the White House lobbies Congress for the authority to "fast-track" the agreement to a vote without amendments.
A big piece of Obama's legacy depends on his administration's success on those items: Will he be the president who remade the free trade mold, for better or worse, or will political opposition leave his efforts to drift, unresolved?
( Also on POLITICO: Trade leak shows U.S.'s weak environmental pitch, groups say)
Before meeting with Mexican President Pena Nieto on Wednesday, Obama touted the pan-Pacific deal as an "opportunity to open up new markets in the fastest, most populous region of the world – the Asia Pacific region."
What's more, it's a chance to carry out Obama's 2008 campaign pledge to renegotiate NAFTA, adding labor rights and environmental protections to its mix of provisions. In fact, the Pacific deal's higher standards would effectively replace NAFTA.
At the joint press conference Wednesday, Obama touted the three countries' commitments to completing the pan-Pacific deal, "including strong protections for our workers and the environment, so that we can compete in the fast-growing markets in the Asia Pacific."
Obama's senior aides are renewing efforts this week to push the message that the Pacific Rim deal made up for past omissions.
On Air Force One, Obama's deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, pitched the pan-Pacific deal as one that would "elevate the standards that were absent from the NAFTA agreement so that we are dealing with issues like labor and environmental standards that are important to 21st century trade."
( Also on POLITICO: GOP exploits Democrats' trade dust-up)
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman sounded a similar theme during a speech at the Center for American Progress on Tuesday.
"From the start of this administration, we have made clear that we need to understand the history of trade policy and learn the lessons of that history," he said. "However, some of the criticisms I hear of our agenda don't seem to recognize that this is 2014, not 1994."


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Katie Reichart of Morningstar shows how investing contrary to market sentiment can pay off in the long run.
Each year we look at the equity categories that have experienced the greatest outflows and inflows to gauge which areas of the market are unloved or overheated.
The idea is to use fund flows as a contrarian indicator, buying into categories that have seen investors leaving in droves while trimming exposure to those that have experienced a lot of interest. We have tracked this strategy since the early 1990s, and this research indicates that holding funds in the unpopular categories for at least three to five years is an effective approach that yields strong results.
Using fund flows data for the year to date through November (the most recent available), the most popular equity categories in 2012 were diversified emerging markets (inflows of $20.6 billion), foreign large-value (inflows of $5.3 billion), and real estate (inflows of $3.8 billion).
Those looking across asset classes might want to be cautious about sending new money to intermediate-term bond (inflows of $104.9 billion), short-term bond (inflows of $31.7 billion), and high-yield bond (inflows of $24.5 billion), particularly as interest rates have nowhere to go but up.
The most unloved equity categories are also the most unpopular overall: large-growth (outflows of $34 billion), large-value (outflows of $19.7 billion), and mid-growth (outflows of $9.1 billion). These categories have seen outflows despite posting double-digit gains through mid-December.
The money leaving these categories reflects a broader trend of investors fleeing equity funds while piling into fixed-income offerings and passive exchange traded funds. Some of these categories have endured outflows for a while: Large-growth has had annual net outflows since 2004, large-value since 2007, and mid-growth since 2008.
Below, we'll look at some fund picks in these categories that could serve as good long-term holdings.
Harbor Capital Appreciation (HACAX) is a reliable large-growth option. Longtime manager Sig Segalas and team have produced strong long-term results by focusing on steady blue chips and more aggressive names whose sales growth is growing faster than the S&P 500. Over time, it has held up well in market downturns.
Investors looking for higher growth might instead opt for Primecap Odyssey Growth (POGRX) or Primecap Odyssey Stock (POSKX). These Gold-rated funds often invest in small- and mid-cap stocks and make sector bets, so it can look out of sync from peers at times, but both have stellar long-term records.
Vanguard Growth Index (VIGAX) is a low-cost, passive way to gain access to large-growth stocks. A recent change in index (from the MSCI US Prime Market Growth Index to the CRSP US Large Cap Growth Index) means there could even be more cost savings for investors down the road.
On the large-value side, Sound Shore (SSHFX) is a good choice. Despite a middling three-year record, it has generated an enviable record under its management team, which has been in place for more than 25 years. Dodge & Cox Stock (DODGX) is also proving it's worth sticking with; after its financial stake hurt results in 2011, it was back in top form in 2012.
Mid-growth investors might opt for Gold-rated Westport (WPFRX), whose longtime manager has excelled with a low-turnover, high-quality approach that's made the fund less volatile than its peers.
Silver-rated Champlain Mid Cap's (CIPMX) record dates back only to 2008, but Scott Brayman and team have used the same strategy that's worked well at Champlain Small Company (CIPSX) and previously at Sentinel Small Company (SAGWX). Their cautious, valuation-driven approach won't do well in huge rallies, but the fund has held up better than peers in down markets.
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Jacob Siwicki, a part-time Sagaponack resident who in the past two years has played football for two nationally ranked high schools, Upper Saint Clair in suburban Pittsburgh and DeMatha in Hyattsville, Md., outside of Washington, D.C., has decided to take a postgrad year at the Northfield-Mount Hermon preparatory school in Northfield, Mass., in order to broaden his college prospects.
Bill McGregor, Siwicki's coach at DeMatha, said in an e-mail this week that Mount Hermon not only played "very competitive football," but also was "a highly rated academic institution that prepares students for Ivy League and similar Division 1 colleges."
"I believe," McGregor continued, "that Mount Hermon has found itself a game-changing football player who can turn its program around."
He added that Siwicki, a 6-foot, 217-pound running back who is a sure-handed receiver as well, has since July 1 been "practicing with eight National Football League players," Darrelle Revis of the Jets, Darius Butler of the Patriots, and Jay Richardson of the Seahawks among them. "He was the only non-N.F.L. player who was permitted to practice with this group, which should give you an insight into the type of athlete he is."
Siwicki, whose father, J.R., grew up in Pittsburgh, and whose mother is from an old East Hampton family, the Strongs, left East Hampton for Upper Saint Clair in his sophomore year, a move in which both the lure of a big-time high school football program and a falling out with some members of the football coaching staff here apparently played a part.
However the move came about, East Hampton's loss was undoubtedly Upper Saint Clair's and DeMatha's gain.
In another e-mail, in March, McGregor said Siwicki was "a terrific football player . . . [whose] goal is to play for a very competitive D-1 program with high academic standards. . . . He is one of the best players to come out of DeMatha, which in my 29 years as head coach has sent almost 300 D-1A players and 120 D-1AA players to college and 28 players to the National Football League."
Further, McGregor described his starting tailback, and the team's offensive M.V.P., as "a slasher with exceptional power and very quick feet. He hits the hole explosively with great balance, and when at the second level he has excellent field vision. He blocks well and has terrific hands. He breaks a tremendous amount of tackles, and always seems to fall forward for important extra yardage. His yards-after-contact stat is off the charts."
"Jacob, who led both our team and our league in rushing yards, touchdowns, and points scored, scored 15 rushing touchdowns, had four 2-point conversion receptions, and caught several passes out of the backfield. He didn't drop a pass the whole season. . . . We gave him the ball in most of our red zone opportunities because we trusted that he would give us our best chance to score."
McGregor said that Siwicki had in 2011 been nominated as the D.C./Metro Area's player of the year; had, as aforesaid, been named DeMatha's offensive most valuable player and had led the league in rushing yards and rushing touchdowns; had been twice named the D.C./Metro Area's player of the week, and had been picked for the Chesapeake Bowl, a regional high school all-star game drawing from the best players in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.
Moreover, Siwicki had been named the most valuable player of a game in October between DeMatha and Our Lady of Good Counsel. "We're archrivals and it's DeMatha's most important game of the year," said McGregor, adding that "national media outlets attended and reported. There were 30 Division 1A starting players on the field that night."


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Texting and driving has been blamed for more than 100,000 car crashes a year, and according to one study it raises the chances of an accident by 23 times. And now even mobile carriers are getting fed up with it.
In recent weeks, AT&T has stepped up its "It Can Wait" campaign against texting and driving, including a renewed push for DriveMode, a free app the carrier developed to curb texting while driving.
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The app allows users to temporarily disable texting and e-mail functions, thereby reducing the urge to fire off a quick text or read email at a stoplight. Calls to 911 are allowed. The app also allows you to set an auto-reply message to anyone who texts you while it's activated, and it lets you set up a limited list of contacts whom you can call (or receive calls from) behind the wheel.
Sprint offers the Drive First app, which automatically kicks in when the phone's GPS detects that it's moving faster than 10 mph. When active, the app locks the home screen, auto-replies to text messages and sends any phone calls (outside of five allowed numbers) to voicemail. But the service doesn't come free: After a 15-day free trial, it will cost you $2 per month per line.
T-Mobile's DriveSmart is free in its basic versions; a premium app that senses a vehicle in motion and notifies parents of any override costs $4.99 a month.
Dozens of other applications are available for smartphone users, with varying levels of restrictions and functionality, at prices that range from free to monthly fees.
But all of them work only if you choose to use them.
It's dangerous, illegal and expensive
It shouldn't come as a surprise that the major phone carriers are offering such tools. In addition to the increasing the odds of an accident, texting while driving is also illegal.
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 39 states and the District of Columbia have outright bans on texting while driving, and five more ban it for novice drivers. Fines can be substantial. But only a few states treat texting as a moving violation -- the kind that can hit your driving record and eventually raise your rates.
Get into an accident, though, and you will be lucky if you walk away with only a texting violation as a reminder.
An at-fault accident can raise your rates substantially: An analysis of 841,000 car insurance quotes delivered through CarInsurance.com's rate-comparison engine shows that drivers with a single claim were quoted rates that averaged $300 more than drivers with no claims, an increase of about 17 percent. An accident surcharge could hurt your rates for years.
And even that pales next to possible criminal prosecution. Prosecutions of texting drivers under manslaughter or negligence laws have become distressingly common; in fact, a Massachusetts teenager was sentenced in June to jail time under the state's vehicular homicide law. He also lost his license for 15 years.
How much technology do you want?
Few people will lock their phones away, however dire the consequences. Instead, apps try to make texting less tempting and less distracting.
There's iZup (as in, "eyes up"), a third-party app that shuts down your phone's texting and data functions except for the GPS, as long as you're going over 5 mph.
DriveSafe.ly, on the other hand, still lets you receive texts, but it reads them aloud so you don't have to take your eyes off the road. The free version will read messages up to 25 words in length, while a premium version for $14 a year has a larger word count cap and lets you dictate responses.
iOnRoad not only reads texts aloud, but also turns your phone into a collision-warning system. Mount it below your rearview mirror and the app uses your phone's camera to monitor both your position in the lane and the distance to the car in front of you.
Despina Stavrinos, an expert on distracted driving and assistant professor of psychology at the University of Alabama, prefers those apps that totally shut down texting.
"Removing the whole element of distracted driving is the best way to combat the issue, but I'm not in support of the ones that do talk-to-text," she says. Dictating texts or listening to them, she explains, is a "cognitive distraction" akin to talking on the phone, which is less dangerous than taking your eyes off the road to text but still a serious distraction.
The fine print at 60 mph
The rapidly evolving technology of text-avoidance still has some kinks.
For instance, apps that automatically activate at high speeds can't distinguish between users who are moving fast because they're behind the wheel or because they're a passenger in a car or train. Some have a password-protected override in the event that you're not the one behind the wheel. (Meanwhile, a team of engineers at Rutgers University has developed an app that uses the car's Bluetooth speaker system to determine where the phone is located, providing a possible solution to the passenger problem.)
Another issue is that few of the available text-shutdown apps work on the iPhone, which doesn't allow apps to run in the background and affect basic phone functions like texting. (The iPhone version of DriveSafe.ly, for instance, apologetically explains that reading text messages aloud "is not technically possible on iOS devices.") The best bet for iPhone users is to dictate texts using Siri, though apps like JustDrive can at least be used by parents to monitor their teens' behavior.
Finally, it's worth noting that texting is hardly the only thing that can distract you on the road. As Stavrinos points out, "we pick on text messaging, but anything can take your attention off the road, even a child crying in the backseat."
Anybody got a crying-child app?
The original article can be found at CarInsurance.com:Please make me stop texting


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The Coda Distributed Filesystem for Linux
Introduction to Coda
The initial article in this series provided an overview of the basic principles of distributed filesystems, and highlighted several of the most popular and up-and-coming distributed filesystems that are available for Linux today. The previous articles explored the InterMezzo distributed filesystem and explained how to install and configure a simple InterMezzo client and server. This article explores the Coda distributed filesystem that provided much of the inspiration for InterMezzo and which is also readily available for Linux.
Coda is a well-established distributed filesystem that was developed at Carnegie-Mellon University, is actively in use there, and is also still actively under development. Coda began life as a variant of the AFS distributed filesystem (version 2) from Carnegie-Mellon University, but has since taken on a complete life of its own. Led by M. Satyanarayanan, the Coda filesystem project is focused on specific distributed filesystem functionality required for mobile computing, such as support for disconnected operation. As explained in the article on InterMezzo, "disconnected operation" is the term used to describe the situation where a system that is ordinarily a part of a networked, distributed filesystem, is used without being connected to a network.
Due to its heritage, Coda shares a basic set of terminology and features with AFS. (The Open Source version of AFS, OpenAFS, will be discussed in the next article in this series.) Coda provides a number of features that make it an excellent, high-performance distributed filesystem. Beyond its focus on mobile and disconnected operation, one of Coda's most significant features is its extensive use of caching. Caching means that copies of files or portions of file retrieved from Coda servers are preserved on Coda clients as long as they can be verified to match the master data stored on the Coda server. This is therefore known as "client-side caching". Client-side caching reduces the amount of time that it takes to restart a Coda client by minimizing the amount of data that needs to be transmitted over the network after a Coda client is restarted. It's a fact of computer life that people tend to work on the same files and in the same directories--these change over time, of course, but the files you are working on today are probably more-or-less the same ones that you worked on yesterday.
Client-side caching reduces network communication and minimizes client restart times, but doesn't always guarantee that the files that you need to work on are present on the client. In a networked environment, this is fine--the client system can simply retrieve the file from the file server on which it is located. Given Coda's focus on disconnected operation, Coda also provides command-line commands that let users manipulate the contents of the cache, guaranteeing that specific files and directories will be present in the client's cache. Coda's "hoard" command therefore enables you to anticipate being disconnected from the network. uses any preloading your system with cached copies of specific file and directories. This function is typically used before you disconnect a laptop from the network prior to working in a disconnected fashion for some period of time. An example of using the hoard command is provided later in this article.


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There is much to be discouraged by in Transparency International's recently-released 2013 Global Corruption Barometer, the biennial global survey that gauges popular perceptions about the extent of corruption in public life. More than half of 114,000 people in 107 countries polled for the 2013 survey believe that corruption has increased over the last couple of years. And 27 per cent of the respondents reported having paid a bribe when accessing public services and institutions, an increase from the 10 per cent that reported similar incidents in the 2009, 2007, and 2005 surveys.
The intransigence of the challenge might not be news to international agencies, but it is certainly a cause for introspection. For a few decades now, aid agencies (including the Bank following the 1997 Cancer of Corruption speech by then President Wolfensohn), have aimed to help stem corruption through regulatory tools such as codes of conduct, access to information laws, standards for procurement and public financial management, conflict of interest and asset disclosure regulations, and by establishing oversight institutions such as anti-corruption agencies, audit institutions, and parliamentary oversight committees. More recently, in response to a recognition that such technical fixes are only half a solution, the "demand side" of governance has received much attention, and there are several examples of successful programs, as chronicled, for instance, by retired Bank staffer, Pierre Landell-Mills, in a recent compendium.
But clearly, the findings of the TI survey suggest the limited efficacy of these efforts in tackling corruption. In fact, the survey shows that some of the key checks and balance institutions – the parliament, the police, the judiciary – are themselves perceived as being among the most corrupt. Admittedly, perception is an imperfect measure of corruption, and one used because of the paucity of more accurate yardsticks, and there might very well be discrepancies between perceptions and actual levels of corruption. For instance, while improvements in transparency serve as a deterrent to corruption, in the short term, enhanced transparency might actually heighten perceptions of corruption as information that was previously inaccessible comes to light. But this caveat notwithstanding, there appears to be little countervailing evidence to suggest that national and international efforts have made much of a dent in stemming systemic corruption.
Two global dynamics, however, might provide a hint of a silver lining to this intractable cloud. The first, as a recent piece in the Economist argues, is a proliferation of multi-stakeholder coalitions, global NGOs, and multilateral initiatives that have intensified international efforts against corruption. The second, is a powerful popular backlash against corruption in several countries around the world. Landell-Mills suggests that popular resignation to corruption might explain partly why the problem has persisted. "Too often," he writes, "the man in the street accepted corruption as if it were a permanent societal disability to be borne with resignation." But, he says, "now attitudes are changing….. (People) have become more aware of what is happening and they want to do something about it"
That is putting it mildly. Over the last three years, popular anti-corruption movements have surged in country after country - in western metropolises, in India, Brazil, Russia, and Turkey. These movements, as Acemoglu and Robinson argue, have different sparks and different origins, and have triggered different reactions. But they have rallied around very similar sources of discontent - state systems that seem configured for the benefit of a few, enriching the rich and impoverishing the poor, through both petty everyday corruption and more institutionalized forms of state capture.
In contrast to the new social movements of the latter half of the 20th century, that either represented the interests of specific groups (feminist and civil rights movements), or were organized by activists on issues of the commons (environmental, peace, anti-nuclear, and anti-globalization movements), the anti-corruption movements are truly "citizens movements" – spontaneous constellations of ordinary people, predominantly young and urban, mobilized around the demand for more equitable and inclusive governance systems. This expanding popular resistance is reflected in the TI report also - nine out of 10 people surveyed said they would act against corruption and two-thirds of those who were asked to pay a bribe had refused.
As a commentary on the protests points out the constant is that people was to fix a broken democracy, not replace it. And perhaps, such reform within a democracy, where gains are incremental and the demands somewhat diffuse, can be more challenging than a revolutionary transition to democracy, where the objective of change is much more clear-cut and concrete.
So, whether these movements will create enough pressure for systemic and lasting change is an open question. Reactions so far suggest a mixed prognosis. While there are signs that protracted demonstrations are yielding change, it is hard to tell how deep the impact really will be. In Russia, in an unprecedented move, an anti-corruption activist, who had been prosecuted and convicted of embezzlement charges, was freed on bail on following demonstrations by thousands of protesters against the verdict as being politically motivated, but his prosecution itself has been seen as muffling dissent. In India, a new law was set in place and oversight and review of the functioning of law enforcement enhanced after massive protests against governance failures related to the gang-rape of a young woman, but an earlier protest movement for the setting up of a people's ombudsman has led to several promises, but little action. In Brazil, in response to massive protests, President Dilma Rousseff promised that she would battle corruption, create a national plan to improve urban transportation, and use oil royalties for investments in education, but the extent to which these promises will be implemented remains to be seen.
But certainly, the growing salience of domestic anti-corruption forces poses questions for external aid agencies on their role and relevance. In countries where such grassroots movements exist, should aid agencies simply get out of the way and let local dynamics play out their course? In countries where the political space for such activism is limited, should aid agencies foster an enabling environment for such movements to emerge? An evaluation of the Bank's anti-corruption work in 2006 pointed out that interventions to improve governance have worked where homegrown grassroots community initiatives already existed, but where such mobilization did not exist, projects tended to be usurped by local elites. A recent report examines the limitations and challenges of induced participation for development goals. These findings should be important considerations in devising fresh approaches to governance and anti-corruption support that go beyond standard blueprints to more nuanced engagement that recognizes the complexities of local political dynamics. But the fact that urban, educated, middle class youth have been at the vanguard of anti-corruption movements might suggest at least one clear lesson - in the long run, investment in education might be the most effective panacea to this persistent problem.
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My job involves quite a lot of traveling so I purchased these utensils as part of the cookset I fly with. I like MSR products a lot and this is no exception.
I was initially skeptical of the durability of these, given their appearance, material, and general flexibility, particularly in the case of the strainer/cheese grater. After over 3 months of daily use I can safely say that they live up to the MSR name and I am glad to have them. They show very little signs of use so far.
While the spatula is a little smaller than I would like, I gladly sacrifice that in order to keep them lighter and more packable. The other downside of the set is the spoon, but only because I don't use it. I haven't found a time where it worked better than any normal spoon so I don't bring it with me anymore.
Bottom line: Great utensils but skip the set and buy the spatula and strainer separately.
Great for backcountry cooking
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
These work well for cooking more than dehydrated foods. I have had no issues with them and am very satisfied. I mean I really can't say anything more about them just buy them and you will thank yourself.
They perform as advertised
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
We put them to the test last week, cooking for four. The set works as advertised, light weight, compact and inexpensive. The spoon is shaped perfectly to get the last bit of batter and beans out of the cook ware. The measurements on the inside are helpful. I would of traded the strainer for tongs as my cookware has a strainer lid but I can see its potential. They looked micro at first glance but scooped, mixed and flipped as needed.
Easy does it !
Easy to pack and functional....good value for the $$.
Compact and useful
lightweight, compact and useful.
used small spatula
need shalow pan for best results
Are they high temperature silicone? Would...
Are they high temperature silicone? Would they not melt in hot bacon grease?
Hey Jake, thanks for your question. I can't find anything that states these utensils are made with high temperature silicone but I would guess that they have to be. I have used these utensils many many times with very hot temperatures and never had any issues with the utensils melting. Hope this helps.


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An agent for Public Security Section 9 who suggests a cross between a Playboy centerfold and the Terminator, Maj. Kusanagi battles the hacker known only as "The Puppet Master." But her real quest is of self-discovery: Does her "Ghost," her essential being, reside in the organic brain within her largely prosthetic body or is it part of the Web? Which is more real: the physical world or the electronic one?
Roland Kelts, the author of "Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S.," said the original "Ghost" "introduced American audiences to the philosophical risk-taking and literary sophistication of Japanese animation. The film is about defending against malicious hackers, and the fluidity of gender identities — making it almost unbearably prescient two decades later."
"Ghost" began as a manga — a Japanese graphic novel — by Masamune Shirow that was popular among animators.
"I figured it would eventually be animated, and that I would likely end up directing the animated adaptation," Oshii said in a recent interview conducted via email. "I tried to make Shirow's abstruse work as easy to understand as possible, but in spite of my efforts, it seems to have a reputation as a difficult film. It wasn't very well received when it first hit theaters in Japan, so I was taken aback by its reception in the United States. Its ongoing popularity shocks me, frankly: I never thought of it as something audiences would keep watching for such a long time."
He speculated on the reasons for that success: "Real and unreal worlds are a dramatic theme as old as time: Humans are by nature unable to live in anything but a virtual world, and it will never be possible to prove that one's own reality is the same as another person's."
Many recent Japanese animated features deal with shifting identities and uncertain realities. But Oshii seemed skeptical about his work affecting other filmmakers. "Perhaps the influence is more about directorial aspects than about the ideas ['Ghost'] explores," he said. "People have told me about the similarities between my film and 'The Matrix' with annoying frequency, but that series is based on the Wachowskis' own worldview.
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The poem from which Robert Lipsyte, a Shelter Islander who began an all-star reporting, writing, and broadcasting career with The New York Times a half-century ago, borrows the last two lines to serve as an epigraph for his memoir, "An Accidental Sportswriter," is Dylan Thomas's "Should Lanterns Shine," a poem that while despairing of the heart or the head's ability to transcend our dreary past, sites hope for new possibilities and reinvention in the quickened pulse.
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And you can bet that if it did, Lipsyte, whose reflective and very readable book is about struggle — often with various bullies, one of which, testicular cancer, struck him at age 40 — and inspired moments, would throw it up again.
Not one of sportswriting's "lodge brothers," all too inclined to trade access for protection, nor, for that matter, a "ripper," solely intent on removing the veil from mythic sports heroes, the writer, whose multifaceted career, which began with The Times at 19, has included sports and column writing stints for that paper, book writing (primarily in the young-adult genre), and television journalism, comes across as an engaging truth-teller with a heart.
It all began with an assignment no one wanted, when The Times's "toy department" told him to go cover a mouthy young man from Kentucky who everyone thought would be crushed by Sonny Liston in a heavyweight title bout in Miami. Four British mopheads whom no one knew at the time were there too.
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". . . Suddenly the locker room door burst open, and Cassius Clay filled the doorway. The Beatles and I gasped. He was so much larger than he looked in pictures. He was beautiful. He seemed to glow. He was laughing."
" 'Hello there, Beatles!' he roared. 'We oughta do some road shows together, we'll get rich.' "
"The Beatles got it right away. They followed Clay out to the boxing ring like kindergarten kids. You would have thought they'd met before and choreographed their routine. They bounced into the ring, capered, dropped down to pray that Clay would stop hitting them. . . . Then they lined up so Clay could knock them all out with one punch. They fell like dominoes, then jumped up to form a pyramid to get at Clay's jaw. . . ."
(There's a photo taken from that serendipitous encounter in Astro Pizza in Amagansett, by the way, and the whole madcap scene is on YouTube.)
And so began Lipsyte's journey into sportsworld, which he quickly realized was not immune to the pressing political and social questions of the day.
He was there when Ali got his draft notice. He wrote a book, "Nigger," with Dick Gregory. He was mentored by Gay Talese and Howard Cosell, "the most important sports journalist of my era." He was once knocked down by the bodyguards of Malcolm X, who later told him that his coverage of Ali had been the fairest. He was once told to go fuck himself by Mickey Mantle. He was treated to a magical treatise on "the outfielder's sky" by Joe DiMaggio. He was "besotted" by Billie Jean King, "the most important sports figure of the 20th century, one of the smartest athletes I've known," who radiated the joy and possibility that Ali did, and who included him in her aura.
I could go on, but I don't want to spoil a book that is well worth the reading.
Not only is "An Accidental Sportswriter" an engaging anecdotal account of a lively career informed by Lipsyte's triumphant pummeling of a bully in elementary school, but it is also a reflection on what's important in life.
Used to shining a lantern on famous athletes, the writer was often disappointed (see "Should Lanterns Shine"), but he did meet along the way jocks — first and foremost his father, with whom he really began to connect when both were old men — who impressed him with their gritty integrity and abiding interest in fair play.
"There's a moral nut in every human being," the Onondaga chief Oren Lyons (who once played on the same lacrosse team as Jim Brown) tells him. "We have to keep reminding people, we have to keep exposing them to what's good in themselves. We have to teach the question, the only question. 'Is it right?' So simple. But if people don't want to follow that, the game is up. It's all over."
As a serious reporter, though, Lipsyte had to remain on guard lest he become too much of a fan, someone, say, like Bob Costas, whom he thought tilted too much toward sentiment.
Costas, in turn, thought Lipsyte was at times overly critical. The writer and the younger sports journalist make an interesting, if somewhat combative, pair. The heart and the head. My wife, who also read this book, said "Should Lanterns Shine" might well be "a poem for Bob Costas."
And what of the quickened pulse, of possibility and reinvention? There is some of that too in this book — especially when Lipsyte is driven, and later drives, at speed around a Nascar track.
". . . And then we were at speed, the qualifying lap, and I gave myself up to sheer pleasure. My body pressed against the seat on the straightaway, but my mind lifted out of my head, a balloon freed of thought, and I felt an exhilaration so intense it seemed a white light."
". . . I hated to see the checkered flag. I eased into neutral and coasted home. My pit crew was cheering and waving. . . . I felt an overwhelming warmth for them all. They seemed bubbly with gratitude that I was alive. Someone estimated that I had reached about 130 MPH."
And the ball he threw while playing in the park that day has not yet reached the ground.


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10 HIV/AIDS Stories That Defined 2011 in the US
December 1, 2011
Rod McCullom has written and produced for ABC News and NBC, and has reported for Ebony, The Advocate, Colorlines, the Black AIDS Institute and others. Rod blogs on politics, pop culture and black gay news at rod20.com.
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Comment by: Andy (Cleveland, OH) Sat., Dec. 10, 2011 at 12:55 pm UTC
Lets see, I counted one antiquidated story about a "cure", 1 historic observation, 4 discussions about new avenues of prevention, 1 description of the adap crisis, 2 decriptions of what groups are most at risk of getting HIV and 1 issue about criminalization. Methods of prevention and understanding who is at risk are important, but prevention doesn't really do much for people who have the virus. Still, these issues occupied no less than six out of ten "defining stories". Two more were history and ONLY TWO actually addressed the issues we face-the ADAP crisis and the rise in criminalization. These don't exactly show progress. It looks to me as if 2011 was a pretty grim beast with a window towards the past and a middle finger extended towards anyone living with the virus. I hope that in 2012, we begin to understand that people currently living with HIV have HIV related needs, and make some progress in addressing these.
Comment by: Karen Dennis (Victoria, BC - Canada) Tue., Dec. 6, 2011 at 1:44 pm UTC
well done!
Comment by: Dixie (Jackson, TN) Sun., Dec. 4, 2011 at 12:44 am UTC
I was so saddened to hear about the 13 year old
boy who was denied admission to a school in Hershey, Pennsylvania because he was HIV positive. How incredible!
How sad that people are still so damn ignorant!
Bless Ryan White and this 13 year old boy. I am sorry that he doesn't want to show his face but
can you blame him? We live in a world of ignorant, condemning, and mean (it all goes together), people. It sickens me to think that in 2011, people can be so judgmental and so ignorant. I don't think that would have happened in the South, actually. I hope not.
Nonetheless, I admire Ryan White and it's a shame that, for all his struggles in the spotlight, all these years later, so much of our society is still so "in the dark". God Help Them! I guess all we can do is pray for them.
They need it much worse than we do. How do they sleep at night? oh yeah, they're stupid. Isn't that the worst disease in this country?????
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