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Jewish Responses to HIV: A Mitzvah

Winter 2009/2010

"It is not upon you to finish the work. Neither are you free to desist from it."

-- Rabbi Tarfon

There is no single Jewish response to HIV, just as there is no single Jewish community. Jews and the communities they build contain complex and at times contradictory histories, traditions, beliefs, and perspectives on justice. There is, however, a strong Jewish tradition that leans toward justice, provides a foundation for valuing individual human worth, and motivates many to act as caretakers and change makers. This tradition draws on Jewish values passed down between generations, interpreted and enacted anew on a daily basis.

The Jewish concept of tikkun olam -- repairing the world -- acknowledges that we are living in an imperfect world and emphasizes a Jewish commitment to taking action. Mitzvot, which are sometimes translated as good deeds, are actually commandments. These serve as a guide for addressing the many ways in which our world could be made better. While some Jews define their daily lives by these commandments, other use them as a source of inspiration, choosing which ones remain relevant. Either way, mitzvot provide a basis for understanding our interconnectedness. They bind us to one another and outline our societal responsibilities.

In addressing sickness and disease, Jewish teaching emphasizes the importance of focusing on the needs of those affected on a physical, social, and spiritual level. On the physical level, the saving of a life is seen as the highest of obligations -- an important mitzvah. The saving of a single life is seen as equal to saving an entire world, recognizing the infinite value of every human life. The tradition of visiting the sick recognizes that those who are ill can often experience extreme isolation from their communities; it is therefore the responsibility of their communities to reach out to them, to provide them with support and comfort, and to cultivate a sense of belonging.

These teachings create the foundation for responding to HIV in such a way that those affected are fully valued, supported, and included. The obligation to save a life does not require each of us to take on superhuman powers, or to become doctors. Rather, it demands that when we have the ability to take an action that could save someone else's life, we do it, and that we seek out opportunities to save human life. Jewish tradition also bars individuals from intentionally risking their own lives or well-being. Thus HIV prevention has a strong grounding in the Jewish tradition.

Although the teachings of our tradition offer clear guidance for action, people with HIV have not always felt the support that Jewish tradition demands.
As solemn as these obligations are, we have sometimes fallen short. The Jewish community's response to HIV has certainly not always been supportive. Like most faith communities, ours contains a vast array of viewpoints and practices, from the radically progressive to the most socially conservative. Although the teachings of our tradition offer clear guidance for action, people with HIV have not always felt the support that Jewish tradition demands. In some Jewish communities, stigma around homosexuality and drug use is a barrier to support for people affected by HIV. Traditional Jewish law prohibits drug use as well as anal sex between men, the two most risky behaviors for HIV.

A Need for Change

Jewish Responses to HIV: A Mitzvah In the past three decades, various movements have created space for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Jews. The Reconstructionist movement was the first to ordain openly gay rabbis in 1984, followed by the Reform movement in 1990 and the Conservative movement in 2006. While all of these movements have created rituals to recognize same-sex unions, the Conservative movement still formally condemns anal sex between men.

LGBT synagogues often served as havens for the community during the early years of the epidemic, and were shaped by their losses from and responses to HIV. These included Congregation Beth Simchat Torah (CBST) in New York, Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in San Francisco, and Congregation Beit Chayim Chadashim (BCC) in Los Angeles. They provided community, information on HIV prevention, and pastoral care, as well as funerals and memorials that honored the lives of gay men who died of AIDS, including those rejected by their families and communities. Prominent AIDS activists among their ranks have included several of the founders of GMHC and ACT UP.

In the early years of the HIV epidemic LBGT congregations saw their membership increase drastically. Many men in the gay community were living with HIV or with the reality that their friends were dying. They turned to welcoming and responsive Jewish institutions to seek care and support in these unexpected and devastating times. CBST hired its first clergy, Rabbi Sharon Klienbaum, in response to the need for pastoral care for the large number of members affected by HIV. Sha'ar Zahav dedicated a fund to its first congregant lost to AIDS, to provide resources to members dealing with HIV and grants to HIV service organizations. The congregation also sponsored a monthly Sunday morning brunch at the main HIV hospital in San Francisco to support family and caregivers. BCC created its Nechama ("comfort") program, which delivered food to people with HIV. It has now become Project Chicken Soup of the Los Angeles Jewish AIDS Services.

Both CBST and Sha'ar Zahav created memorial walls to honor the memory of those they had lost. These walls listed the names of all the members of their community lost, so that those whose families had left them were not forgotten. Both congregations lost so many members that the congregations had to purchase space for their own graveyards much sooner than they had expected. HIV is a profound part of the fabric of these communities. It remains present among their membership, as well as in the consciousness that they lost generation of leaders.

The legacy and continued presence of HIV has shaped these congregations, visible at CBST through the AIDS quilt that hangs in its sanctuary, its World AIDS day ritual of honoring positive members, and HIV-specific liturgy in its prayer book. The "AIDS and World AIDS Day" portion of the prayer book notes:

"More than one fourth of the male membership of CBST has died of AIDS. World AIDS Day is not an abstract, amorphous, anonymous day of commemoration in our community. We don't have to set aside one day a year to acknowledge AIDS and what it has done to us. For many of us, AIDS touches every day and every event. Many of us can't look at ourselves in the mirror without seeing AIDS. We have lost lovers. We are bereft. We have lost friends. Many of us are sick. Many of us are facing death . Many of us are touched by the loss."

Rabbi Klienbaum continues to recognize the need to create Jewish spaces to talk about safer sex and to speak about condoms. To this day, a basket of condoms is present at every CBST service.

A Call to Action

In 1985, Judaism's Reform movement issued a "summons to action" calling for increased resources for prevention and treatment and an end to HIV-related discrimination. The leadership of the Reform movement has reaffirmed its dedication to HIV by passing numerous resolutions, including support for antidiscrimination laws, HIV prevention, and needle exchange. It has consistently advocated for increased federal domestic HIV funding, comprehensive sex education in schools, and greater global and domestic access to HIV treatment. In the past year, the Reform movement has focused its advocacy on prevention efforts, including supporting the passage of the Responsible Education About Life Act, which creates a funding pool for states to teach sex education that emphasizes both abstinence and safer sex.

Reconstructionist congregations began buddy programs to support people living with HIV, and rabbis provided pastoral care as well as traditional burial and memorial services. Congregations in Philadelphia and Los Angeles did outreach to affected communities. In 1991, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism issued a resolution on HIV. This document identified HIV as "one of the most devastating public health crises of all times" and provided guidance for synagogues to conduct congregational outreach.

In addition to congregations, a broad range of organizations provide support and resources. The Tzvi Aryeh AIDS Foundation, founded in the mid-90s in New York City, works in the Orthodox and Chassidic communities to provide discreet support networks for HIV-positive community members and their families, along with information on HIV care and treatment. In these communities, the only method of transmission that can be openly talked about is blood transfusions. Gay and bisexual men either leave the community or marry women. If they are married, as most men who remain in these communities are, their wives are then at higher risk for HIV.

The San Francisco Jewish Family and Children's Services initiated its first HIV project in 1986. Serving as a model for other communities, it provided services to Jews living with HIV, enlisted volunteers from the community, and provided HIV education and outreach. That same year, the New York Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services began supporting those affected by HIV through its AIDS Project, which provided guidance, training, and education to ensure that Jewish social service providers were able to offer a continuum of HIV care. The AIDS Project also developed resources to help Jewish organizations like schools and summer camps implement HIV policies.

In 1988, the United Jewish Appeal Federation (UJAF) responded to the HIV epidemic by supporting research and access to treatment, and advocating for public policies related to HIV. The UJAF network also began providing services and community education to clients of all backgrounds.

Global Efforts

Through the work of the American Jewish World Service (AJWS), the Jewish community has shown significant leadership in responding to HIV as a global pandemic. For the past decade, AJWS has focused on working with communities devastated by HIV in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Currently, one-quarter of AJWS's local partners are doing HIV-related work. AJWS supports grassroots efforts to fight HIV by providing local partners with grants and volunteers. These partners work to prevent and treat the disease as well as to build community, fight stigma, and empower people with HIV legally, socially, and economically. One such organization, the Foundation for the Development of Needy Communities, trains community-based HIV educators in Uganda. Other local partners use grants to advocate for access to drugs, safer sex education, and midwife training to prevent HIV transmission during birth.

The life-changing effects of these efforts is probably best expressed in the words of Yalemzewd, a client of AJWS grantee Mekdim, Ethiopia's first association of people with HIV: "At one point in my life AIDS was beating me, leaving me bedridden for more than a year. I didn't have [a] plan for the future except waiting for my death and thinking about the virus, crying every day. With the availability of free treatment?I was able to get well again. But in order to maintain my health, I needed to earn money to support myself and my family. This motivated me to be a member of this group. Now, I don't have the time to think about the virus. I'm busy every day and surrounded by others in the same situation as me. As I am living with the community, community members are changing their attitudes towards people living with the virus."

Yalemzewd did not just receive essential medical assistance. She was also empowered to support herself economically. She connected with people facing the same challenges as her own, and, perhaps most critically, by simply living and working with dignity she was able to help change her community's response to HIV.

The numerous individuals, communities, congregations, and organizations described above have each, in different ways, taken on the call to action to repair our world, to practice tikkun olam, by responding to HIV in their communities and in other communities affected by HIV. As much as there is a history of neglect, of negligence, and of silence among Jewish communities, there is also a history of organizing, of action, of caretaking, and of advocacy. This history shows that as long as HIV continues to affect individuals and their communities throughout our country and around the globe, an array of Jewish responses to HIV will continue to do their part to repair our world.

Alana Krivo-Kaufman is the AVODAH Fellow in the Policy Department at GMHC. AVODAH connects individuals committed to pursuing social justice from a Jewish perspective with organizations working to end poverty.

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...might have higher blood levels of drugs. Women are more likely than men to get skin rashes and liver problems, and to experience body shape changes (lipodystrophy, see Fact Sheet 553 ). Bone loss is also a concern (see Fact Sheet 557 ). They... Read more »
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The 72% Chocolate and the Pineapple chocolate bars. From what I remember, they were both very good!

Pocky Salty

I wasn’t terribly surprised to see this box of Pocky Salt sitting on the shelf at my local-ish Japanese Market. Salt has been an “it” gourmet food thing for a few years now. Most major candy companies who consider even a little sliver of their product to be gourmet have tried it. Off the top of my head Lindt, Godiva, Michel Cluizel, Kit Kat (Japan), come to mind, but to list them all we’d be here all day. So seeing that Pocky is finally giving it a go, I say good for them. It’s not a food fad that is over by any means, so I was happy to see them trying something new. I tossed the box into my shopping cart to take home.

The box is pretty and I like how they tried to make the box look “salty” by adding sparkles. It does give the effect of salt crystals catching the light and shining on the sticks of Pocky.  It’s fun, blingy and seems very Japanese all at the same time.

Inside the box there’s two packets of Pocky. It’s hard for me to understand how they decide on dividing the pocky sticks into packets. It seems every time I open a box of Pocky it’s a different number of packets inside. I know it doesn’t matter, but it does make me curious.

The sticks of Pocky look like normal Pocky. Slender with a coating of milk chocolate. I don’t see any granules of salt on the outside, no covered up in the chocolate. I take a bite, and the flavor is pretty consistent to regular Pocky. You taste the sweet, smooth milk chocolate and the slight buttery vanilla flavor of the biscuit stick. It took me a few bites before I tasted the salt. I think it was on bite three or four when I finally got a hit of salt. It was as if a singular large chunk of salt was just sitting there, waiting for me. I took some more bites, to see if perhaps the first few were dudes. Again, I tasted nothing until I hit another single chunk of salt. Very strange. I mean, it’s good, but in no way does it feel that the salt in this Pocky is evenly distributed.

I think, considering how infrequently I tasted the salt in this Pocky, that if you want to give a salted candy a try as your first time, this is a good candy for that. The salt is infrequent enough so that if you can still enjoy the candy, but you still get a taste of what the inclusion of salt is like. It’s like a baby toe into the hot tub. Even as an experience salted chocolate eater, I still liked these. It’s hard to go wrong with Pocky!

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Pocky Winter Coffee

I was pleasantly surprised when I found this box of Winter Coffee Pocky during my last rip to Little Tokyo. The “winter” varieties of Pocky are my favorites, with the extra layering of chocolate and the dusting of cocoa powder on top. For the past few years Pocky has been releasing just a normal, everyday chocolate flavor during the winter. It is awesome, let me tell you. So I was quite surprised when I saw that this past winter they decided to change things up a bit and come out wit ha new flavor: Winter Coffee.

The package has less of a “wintry” feel to it than the other Winter Pocky, which used cool blue tones and white on the package. This one is green, a nice forest green. Perhaps they are trying to evoke the jungle where the coffee beans come from.

Opening the packet I get a rich aroma that I can only say is the wonderful mix of chocolate and coffee. I taste my first Pocky stuck, and immediately I get the slight bitter cocoa powder dusting. The the rich chocolate comes forward, sweet and rich, but full of wonderful earthy coffee notes. The biscuit serves as a palette cleanser, not really carrying a flavor of it’s own, but allows the chocolate to shine and to provide a nice crunch. All I can say is, this is beyond delicious and terribly addicting.

Both my fiance and I really loved this Pocky. It’s so familiar, yet just that hint of a different makes it even yummier. I found I really craved this Pocky with my morning coffee. Considering how importing these candies from Japan takes time and a means a more limited supply, I would really recommend trying this Winter Coffee flavor if you happen to see it.

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Pamir Teeth Package

A really freaky candy. I think unintentionally so….considering their attempt at the “cute” character on the front there.

TicTac Strawberry Fields

Tic Tacs are a candy that I always enjoyed and was fascinated with when I was a kid. I loved how all my friend’s Moms seemed to carry them in their purses. Pulling them out while at soccer games and hearing that familiar shaking should as a Tic Tac tumbled into your hand. It was a point in time where I didn’t bother to learn the flavors, as I think I was too young to read these at some points. So I knew them as the “white ones” or the “green ones”. The “orange ones” were my favorite.

Now fast forward to the present where I do buy the occasional box of Tic Tacs, but usually it’s a new flavor that draws me in. As far as my childhood fascination goes, I surprisingly don’t buy them much. Now here is the newest flavor I found on store shelves, Tic Tac Strawberry Fields.

The Tic Tacs come in two colors, one a light pink and the other a more traditional pink-pink. Oddly enough when I checked the website, they make note of this being a “strawberry and cream” flavor even though I don’t see that anywhere on the package.

The candies smell just sweet, mostly of marshmallows. The packaging design is pretty with strawberry vines with ripe berries on them frame the tic tac logo. the green vines accented with the red strawberries is very pretty.

The flavor starts out tasting like the aroma; of vanilla marshmallow. Then a sweet, berry flavor develops. As it grows it tastes more and more like strawberry. As it hits its apex I’m strongly reminded of strawberry jam. It’s sweet, fruity, with a light floral note to it. It’s a lot of flavor for just one little Tic Tac. I’m impressed. The only thing is I don’t taste any “cream” in there that the website suggests. Just to be sure, I tried both color several times to see if the flavor was any different between the two. The only thing I notcied was the pink’s flavor appeared more quickly than the light pink one.

I liked these a lot. I know I don’t have Tic Tacs often, but I’d imagine a new flavor added to the mix is very refreshing. So adding some strawberry into your Tic Tac cycle, you won’t be disappointed. I liked having this bow in my purse for moments when I needed a quick flavor pick me up.

Rating: Will Eat Again

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James Carr Grizzard died Thursday, March 22, 2012, in Gainesville after a lengthy illness.

Mr. Grizzard was a 1969 graduate of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. He was an active member in both the Burns Club and the St. Andrews Society of Atlanta and served as president of the Kerr Family Association of North America.

He is survived by: his wife, Corinne; two brothers, George King Grizzard of New Smyrna Beach, Fla., and Stephen Jones Grizzard of Clarkesville; a sister, Jeannine Annette Grizzard of Ashland, Ore.; and two nieces Virginia King Grizzard-Brierley of Los Angeles and Elizabeth Jones Grizzard of Atlanta.

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Regular readers of this column know I am not a Hallmark holiday sort of guy. Not really “anti-Christmas,” it’s more accurate to describe me as pro environment. Christmas has never occurred to me as being ecologically friendly.
Christmas is a weird cultural construct that merges the Christian birth myth with pre-Christian paganism, and full-frontal consumerism. So weird it would seem Santa, elves, flying reindeer and toy shops were created to encourage debt and destruction.
I stopped dreaming of a green Christmas years ago.
From the dead trees festooned with glass and plastic, to the wrapping paper that will be ripped from gifts as part of the gift-giving ritual, no matter how you look at it, Christmas is a season of anti-environmental excess.
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generated by holiday merry-making is an ecological time bomb. From the rape of natural resources, to the industrial pollution resulting from the manufacturing of unnecessary consumer goods, 95 percent of Christmas presents will end up in a landfill.
Christmas is anti-tree. In 2007, more than 31 million trees were killed in the name of market-driven sentimentality. A price tag of $1.3 billion.
And no Virginia, artificial trees are not more environmentally benign than real trees. Eighty-five percent of artificial trees are made in China from metals and plastics. The plastic material, typically PVC, is known as a potential source of hazardous lead. The potential for lead poisoning is such a threat, fake trees made in China are required to have a warning label by California Proposition 65.
According to the National Christmas Tree Association, 17.4 million artificial trees were purchased as well in 2007, at a cost of $1.2 billion.
And then there is all the stuff stuffed under the aforementioned Christmas trees, the majority of which is also made in China. All consumer goods have to come from somewhere and be made from something. X-mas gifts also require fossil fuels to deliver them to the intended recipients.
Christmas lights, although magically twinkly, are also a waste of energy and natural resources. Call me a curmudgeon, but the more lights neighborhoods and communities put out the less enchanting they become. Wasting energy so people can “Ooo” and “Ahhh” at your wastefulness is so 20th century it’s sad.
This is not to say people shouldn’t gather with family and friends to feast and make music. They should. They should also worship as they see fit. Holidays should be about community not consumption.
This year with the global economy in free fall, Californians would be best served by giving each other ethical restraint and economic frugality along with yuletide cheer. With a housing crisis and credit crunch undermining cultural stability, spending less and saving more is the only sensible choice.
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Carlsbad City Council declares Proclamations for two groups Tuesday, the Girl Scouts of America and Kids for Peace. From left, Girl Scouts Caitlin Hurst, Alex Patterson, Joelle Mason, Marissa Gideon, Jenny Case, Sheila O’Neill with troop leader, Laura Case visit council chambers. March 12, 2012 is proclaimed Girl Scout Day in Carlsbad.

CARLSBAD — The council chambers at the city of Carlsbad buzzed with energy as two groups, which enhance the lives of children, received some prestigious attention. On Feb. 28, Girl Scouts of the USA, celebrating its 100th anniversary, and Kids for Peace, earned Proclamations in recognition of the special work they do. All city council members were present and praised the achievements of these two organizations, which in their own unique way help guide children to become better citizens.Councilmember Mark Packard presented Girl Scout troop 1436 from Carlsbad with their Proclamation.“It’s my pleasure tonight to represent the city and the council in recognizing the Girl Scouts of America,” he said, welcoming the troop. “We are grateful to have them with us tonight.”March 12, 2012 was proclaimed as Girl Scout Day in the City of Carlsbad.

Troop leader, Laura Case, accepted the Proclamation and shared a few words.

“As a leader and a lifelong Girl Scout, I am honored to represent the 72 troops and over 600 girls who are currently registered as Girl Scouts in the city of Carlsbad and thousands nationwide,” she said. “My troop is a special troop; these girls are graduating seniors in high school and ambassadors — they are ready to go off and do everything we have taught them through their years in Girl Scouts.”

Jo Dee Jacob, chief executive officer of Girl Scouts San Diego, wasn’t in attendance, but said her heart would be with the girls.

“It’s a real honor for our troop to be selected to represent Carlsbad Girl Scouts,” said Jacob, adding how there are currently more than 50 million Girl Scout alumni. “Today’s girls are very involved in community service, and leadership is what distinguishes us as an organization to make the world a better place.”

March 6, 2012 is proclaimed Peace Pledge Day in Carlsbad. Kids for Peace students are, from back row: Maia Masamoto, Katie Meitchik, Grant Tong, Kylie Valency, (Middle) Matt Parker, Aryana Jahangir, Sofia Charvel (Front): Lanay Hazzard. Photo by Christina Macone-Greene

Next to receive recognition was Kids for Peace from Councilmember Keith Blackburn. This nonprofit is based in Carlsbad and was established in 2006. Peace Pledge Day is March 6, 2012.

“Kids for Peace provides a platform for young people to actively engage in socially conscious leadership, community service, arts, environmental stewardship and global friendship,” Blackburn said. “Kids for Peace believe that if everyone followed the Peace Pledge we would have a world of kindness, respect, unity and love; by getting the Peace Pledge into our schools, communities, and out to the world they can create the change.”

Jill McManigal, co-founder and executive director of Kids for Peace, said they believe that all kids are innately good and kind and they really support and give children opportunities to develop those qualities more.

Currently, there are over 100 chapters worldwide and about 2,000 involved in Kids for Peace. Including national chapters, others can be found around the globe such as India, Australia, Canada, Haiti, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Sweden, United Kingdom, and Mongolia.

In Carlsbad, there are roughly 100 children taking part in Kids for Peace. Its five chapters are located at McManigal’s home, three at Jefferson Elementary, and the other at Hope Elementary.

On March 3, a group from Kids for Peace is taking their “Peace Pledge” to Washington D.C.

“Everything we do is based on our Peace Pledge,” McManigal said. “Our kids came up with how to best live life so we are going to Congress and throughout Washington D.C. to share our Peace Pledge.”

More than 30 kids will be representing San Diego County while 65 other Kids for Peace children will be coming from other states to meet them in Washington D.C.

“We actually get to go on the house floor and meet with the U.S. House of Representatives and present our Peace Pledge there and will present it at a Democratic caucus meeting, Institute of Peace, a homeless shelter, and the Kenyan Embassy,” McManigal said.

The children are looking forward to sharing their message of peace.

“It’s beautiful to have the support of our city with this Proclamation and we are honored that Carlsbad is the birthplace of Kids for Peace,” McManigal said.

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Literary Scandal: The Agent Who Disappeared

One of the top literary agents in New York who represented Saul Bellow and others disappeared amid allegations of missing royalties. Now her former client Ted Mooney has a new book out and is going it alone, reports Claire Howorth.

The literary-agent scandal making news right now is William Morris-Endeavor agent Bill Clegg’s past as a crackhead. But as novelist Ted Mooney published his new book, The Same River Twice, with Knopf last month, old rumors bubbled up about another agent, Harriet Wasserman, who once represented Mooney. The Same River Twice, an intellectual thriller of art, crime, and love, has received glowing reviews—Danielle Trussoni in the New York Times was “mesmerized by [the] storyteller’s gifts”; the Boston Globe called it “riveting” and “dazzling.”  And it was hardly hyperbole when Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of The New York Times Book Review, recently said, “Ted Mooney has had one of the most interesting and ambitious literary careers of the modern period.” Considering he arrived without any representation at Knopf with its formidable Editor-at-Large Gary Fisketjon, it seems even more extraordinary—it's unusual for an established writer to publish at a major house without the aid and connections of an agent.  But he had his reasons for going it alone, Wasserman being first and foremost, and the story is its own parable of art, crime, and love.

“I think she just got desperate. She mixed up her accounts, spent too much money, and wasn’t able to come up with it when she needed to pay us.”

Mooney has been on bookshelves for decades: his 1981 novel, Easy Travel to Other Planets, published to great acclaim, launched him up there with other popular writers of the era—Lorrie Moore, Jay McInerney, Ann Beattie, and Tama Janowitz. But as his career progressed through the 1990s with Traffic and Laughter (1990) and Singing Into the Piano (1998), his potential seemed under-realized. Those next two books were certainly not disasters—they were good—but they met some tough critics, and though they sold well enough, they never made Mooney a household name. At the time, Wasserman represented Mooney and a glittery list of other writers, including Oscar Hijuelos, Richard Bausch, Alice McDermott, Reynolds Price, and Suzan-Lori Parks. Most infamously, Wasserman also represented Saul Bellow, whom she was madly in love with, as she wrote in her tragically confessional 1997 memoir, Handsome Is (the title refers to Bellow). Bellow had other plans with other agents; he left Wasserman for Andrew Wylie in 1993. That, thinks Mooney, is when Wasserman began a long decline, one that her other clients would not realize until it was too late.

“When Saul, whom she just adored, left her for Wylie, she thought, f--- it,” says Mooney, trying to make heads or tails of what happened next. Several people contacted for this article gave the same story: over the coming years, Wasserman’s clients, in increasing numbers, began to question her stability, and the attention being paid to their works being pushed out into the world. Aggressive representation and vigorous attention, it seems, were exactly what Mooney had needed those other times.

Some of the writers began to notice that royalties were not being passed from the agency to them, though the various publishers had been cutting the proper checks, and someone had been cashing them. One of the writers who would talk was Bausch, the prolific novelist whose works include The Last Good Time (1982), Rare & Endangered Species (1994), and Thanksgiving Night (2006). Along with two of Wasserman’s former clients, Bausch sued her for $10,000 from two missing royalty payments. Others fared worse. The New York Post reported the lawsuit when it was filed in Manhattan Supreme Court three years ago this month; two children’s book writers, Walter Dean Myers and Emily Arnold McCully, alleged they were out a collective $120,000-plus. Not a Madoffian sum, but in the literary community, where most writers feel comically poor compared to bankers, it’s a huge chunk.

Bausch had left Wasserman in 2005 for literary agent Henry Dunow, after payments from publisher W.W. Norton & Company never made it to Bausch, even though the checks had been cashed by the Wasserman agency. When Bausch confronted Wasserman about the missing payments, she backpedaled with unbelievable excuses—“the dog ate my homework,” Bausch joked to The Daily Beast (he used the same analogy with the Post in 2007). “I think she just got desperate. She mixed up her accounts, spent too much money, and wasn’t able to come up with it when she needed to pay us,” posits Bausch, from Tennessee, where he’s now the Moss Chair of Excellence at the University of Memphis. He reported her to the Association of Author’s Representatives, and later filed suit with McCully and Myers. The result remains in limbo: lawyers for both sides reached a private agreement under which the suit is frozen until Wasserman is able to pay, at which point the three authors will be first in line to get their money back, so to speak. Despite the fallout, Bausch maintains a certain generosity about Wasserman’s erstwhile integrity. “Here’s the thing about Harriet: when she was at the top, she was the best. When I had to let her go, it was really hard, because it was a friendship.”

Mooney presents his own theory in a writer’s penetrating logic and lovely wording: “She'd been Saul Bellow's agent for decades, they used to talk at length on the phone every afternoon, and I'm certain that (besides just out-and-out adoring him) Harriet counted on his backlist to be her retirement fund. When Andrew Wylie persuaded Saul to let him handle the backlist, Harriet first wrote Handsome Is, a peculiar book about the one time she slept with Saul (an event distasteful to imagine at best), then must have concluded that all faith had now been broken, human beings were worthless liars, and that she thereafter would consider everything permissible.”

Wasserman seems to have simply disappeared after breaking up the agency in the fall of 2007. Attempts to find her or confirm her whereabouts turned up sand. The bad stuff is over for now, though, and Mooney’s new book continues to enjoy success, a few weeks ago having been feted at a party hosted by Susan and David Rockefeller at their home.

“If this book was anything less than what it is, it would be tough in this market [to publish without an agent]. But it’s an extremely good book. It’s extraordinary, very distinctive, and something only Ted could have written. I can’t imagine anyone reading this book without someone desperately wanting to represent him,” says Fisketjon. For Mooney, though, the feeling may not be mutual. He has decided that, “After two years of fruitless looking, I decided to represent The Same River Twice myself, which turns out to have been an excellent decision.”

Plus: Check out Book Beast for more news on hot titles and authors and excerpts from the latest books.

Claire Howorth is the Arts editor at the Daily Beast.

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The iPhone’s sensors have inspired some incredibly inventive applications. Puff! took full advantage of this, allowing Peeping Toms to crawl out from under the bleachers and see up some skirts in the comfort of their own couches. Before Apple booted Puff!, app users could blow onto their iPhones and lift the skirts of squealing Japanese girls. The harder they blew, the higher the skirts would go.

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Why ISIS Won’t Take Baghdad

The jihadist-led Sunni coalition that’s swept through parts of Syria and northwest Iraq strikes where there’s local support and the least resistance. That’s not the Iraqi capital.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Fighters loyal to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) have at times been as close as six miles to Baghdad, according to Iraqi and Kurdish commanders interviewed by The Daily Beast. But the Iraqi capital may well be  “a city too far” for this ferocious al-Qaeda offshoot that is determined, as its name says, to establish a state of its own.

While there’s no solid consensus among intelligence analysts in the region about ISIS’s precise strategy, several interviewed in recent days say the jihadists are likely to launch demoralizing commando raids and a suicide bombing blitz in Baghdad, probably timed to coincide with the arrival of the main contingent of US military advisers. (An advance guard arrived Tuesday.)

The Americans presumably will make the defense of the capital a priority, but that may be precisely what ISIS hopes they will do, because it has other interests. “The priority, I think, for ISIS is to build their Islamic State straddling the Syria-Iraq border – that is their ultimate objective—and trying to capture Baghdad would be too big for them to accomplish; it could also sidetrack them,” says a US intelligence official based in the Middle East who is closely monitoring ISIS.

ISIS has not picked difficult battles. It has calculated carefully where it could move with the biggest impact and the least resistance. Mosul was not Stalingrad, holding out against a powerful siege; it was more like Copenhagen in World War II, folding without a fight.

A concerted ISIS campaign to capture Baghdad would no doubt trigger greater military reaction from the Iranians -- key backers of the Shia-dominated government of beleaguered Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki – who already have sent members of their Revolutionary Guard and military supplies to bolster Iraqi security forces. The Iranians reportedly are flying surveillance drone flights on behalf of Maliki’s government as well.

ISIS lacks the manpower to hold Baghdad even if it could succeed in storming the capital.

Such attacks as do take place in and around Baghdad will likely aim to sow political discord and fan sectarian divisions, keeping Maliki’s government wrong-footed and on the defensive. Iraqi troops and allied Shia militiamen are holding a line north of Baghdad and trying to establish what army commanders call the Baghdad Belt around the capital. But they are making little headway mounting an offensive, relying on instead on the spotty use of airpower to take the fight into ISIS territory.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and other ISIS leaders have made clear their ambition to establish a caliphate stretching from Aleppo in Syria right across northern and western Iraq. “ISIS is not only talking the talk about establishing an Islamic state, it is walking the walk,” jihadist expert Aaron Zelin notes in a research paper on the group released Thursday by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a D.C.-based think tank.

“Further, the reality of a proto-state and ISIS’s willingness to try to govern—this khilafa project, as many within the group call it—is quite appealing to jihadists,” says Zelin. It is helping to attract recruits and undermine the standing of al-Qaeda, whose leadership disowned ISIS earlier this year, partly over its state-building aspirations.

On Baghdad, Zelin told The Daily Beast that ISIS has always had a presence in the capital. “I don’t think they can take it, though,” he said. “With 80 percent of the population being Shia, it would pretty much be impossible, though they may take Sunni neighborhoods.”

Mideast expert Jonathan Schanzer of the US-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies says ISIS lacks the manpower to hold Baghdad even if it could succeed in storming the capital.

“Strategically for ISIS, invading Baghdad would therefore seem like a mistake,” says Schanzer. But he adds the caveat, “We also don't know what kind of quiet support it enjoys from the disaffected Sunnis -- former Baathists are said to be among ISIS base of support -- who could help the group conquer and hold the seat of power in Iraq.”

The Mideast-based  American intelligence official says al-Baghdadi and his inner core of advisers made up of experienced Iraqi jihadists and military veterans -- as well as some Chechens -- are unlikely to make the mistake of trying to mount a full-scale assault on the capital.

He argues the group’s leadership has shown a remarkable grasp of military strategy, astutely withdrawing from towns in rebel-controlled provinces in northern Syria when faced by a backlash from Syrian rebel groups and thus avoiding defeats, negotiating with local Sunni tribes in both Syria and Iraq and entering a pact with former Saddam Hussein-era military officers and Iraqi Baath party members to unleash an audacious Sunni insurgency in Iraq.

Most ISIS military operations have focused on isolating the capital by securing important land routes around it or consolidating their hold on Sunni towns already captured, and by overrunning pockets of resistance in the majority-Sunni zones of western, south-western and northern Iraq bordering Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

Another priority target has been refineries and oil wells. Already in eastern Syria ISIS has been smuggling and selling oil from wells captured in the uprising against Bashar al-Assad. It’s a lucrative trade that has helped swell the jihadist group’s coffers and transform it into the world’s wealthiest terrorist organization. Taking a chunk of Iraq’s oil production could make it much richer still.

The insurgents are continuing an intense fight at Iraq’s Baiji oil refinery, the country’s largest, despite Iraqi government claims that its forces have asserted full control over the facility.

Meanwhile, a jihadist bombing campaign in Baghdad appears to have started. Two car bombs hit Baghdad’s suburbs during the week, the latest killing 19 and wounding more than 40. Infuriated Shia vowed revenge.

Al-Baghdadi, who appears to be the master strategist, was trained by the late Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant who also defied al-Qaeda’s top leadership. Al-Baghdadi has been following his mentor’s vicious playbook, including beheadings and suicide bombings as well as targeting non-Sunnis or Sunnis opposed to his brand of jihad. Al-Zarqawi believed in the importance of purging apostates – something his follower clearly endorses. The brutality appears to have the terrifying spin-off: inspiring and attracting recruits eager to join in a “successful” jihad, and especially one that has them fighting Shia, whom they consider heretics.

ISIS says it killed at least 1,700 people after seizing the city of Mosul two weeks ago. Refugees from the city told The Daily Beast they had heard that 300 Shia Muslim and Christian inmates of Mosul prison had been executed. And on Friday Human Rights Watch said ISIS had appeared to have massacred Iraqi soldiers – possibly as many as 200 of them -- who had surrendered.

As ISIS no doubt had hoped, its jihadist violence is already triggering a Shia backlash in Baghdad, with reports of dozens of abductions and killings of Sunnis in the capital by vengeful Shia groups. The vendettas are likely to keep Sunnis loyal to the insurgency,  if for no other reason than their need for protection.

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With the help of aid Pat Webb, left, Ledyard High School senior Michael Daggett, who is blind, reads the morning announcements in Braille last week over the school's PA system Thursday.
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Ledyard - Graduating senior Michael J. Daggett Jr. embodies the spirit of Ledyard High School - just ask anybody at the school who has ever had any contact with him.

He has a trademark smile, an infectious excitement about the things he's passionate about and a knack for lifting the spirit of classmates or faculty members even on their worst day, said Patricia Webb, a paraprofessional and Braille transcriptionist who has been friends with and worked with Daggett since he was in kindergarten.

"I've never seen Michael have a bad day," Webb said. "He's just an amazing person."

Webb is with Daggett daily, lending her support and translating texts to Braille for him to read. He has been blind all his life, but that fact does not appear to be a challenge for someone so interminably upbeat.

"I'm going with the flow," Daggett said. "Nothing here is too difficult."

In addition to special tutelage from the Board of Education and Services for the Blind, Daggett has weekly physical therapy sessions to help tone his muscles and occupational therapy sessions to hone his motor skills. There is also a day of speech therapy.

When asked about his condition, Daggett says he was born flat-footed.

For what may seem like a daunting number of challenges, Daggett takes it all in stride.

He is a member of the band and chorus, recently attended the prom and twice a week reads the morning announcements. He's not too modest to let people know that on the trumpet, "I'm pretty good." He's also scoring a "solid A" in Spanish class.

He fondly recalls that one of the highlights from his high school career came in his freshman year with the band. The band was playing the song, "We Are Family," and he says something just clicked with him.

"I felt so happy. ... It felt like I was playing with my brothers and sisters," he said.

On a recent visit to the school's wellness center for his weekly workout session with physical therapist Jennifer Tuohy, Daggett walked the hallways with confidence, swinging his cane from side to side and pausing occasionally to note aloud where in the building he was, or which classroom he had just passed.

He expects the confidence to grow when he moves from his home in Preston to The Perkins School for the Blind in September. It's where he plans to gain more independence and perhaps learn how to read music. It is a necessity, he said, if he intends to fulfill his desire to become a chorus instructor for the blind.

Daggett credits his family support in part for his success. He lives with his mother, Raphaella, and two siblings, brother Teagan and sister Taylar.

He lost his father, Michael J. Daggett Sr., six years ago in a motor vehicle accident. Michael Daggett, who was 33 when he died, was a star football player at Ledyard High School and executive director of the Mashantucket Pequot Utilities Department.

Daggett lights up at the mention of his father, fondly recalling his dad teaching him to fish at Sawmill Pond.

"He was a great fisherman and hunter ... the best dad ever," he said.

Faculty and student body alike agree that Daggett's absence from the school will leave a void. He recently was awarded the school's Blue and White Award for school spirit.

This year's yearbook was dedicated to Daggett. In it, Editor-In-Chief Kelsey Johnson summed up what Daggett has meant to the school:

"His acceptance of others has always been astounding and his inability to see has never hindered his ability to make friends, be extremely friendly and be an active member of this community. Thank you for inspiring us all."

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Ex-CGA coach Bill Schmitz dead of apparent suicide

Bill Schmitz, a 1976 Coast Guard Academy graduate who later coached his alma mater to its first NCAA Division III football playoff appearance, died Monday in Florida of an apparent suicide.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office told the Tampa Tribune that Schmitz, 59, drove his 2010 Kia to the main span of the Sunshine Skyway bridge at 4:56 a.m., exited his car and jumped over the side of the railing into Tampa Bay.

His body, authorities told the Tribune, was recovered approximately four hours later.

Schmitz was teaching history and coaching the boys’ track and field team at Land O’ Lakes High School in Pasco County, Fla. He served as offensive coordinator of the Land O’ Lakes football team in 2011 and 2012, but was not coaching football this season, the Tribune said.

Schmitz, who played football and baseball at Coast Guard and was inducted into the Academy's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001, guided the Bears to a 20-19 record over four seasons from 1993-96, capped by an 8-2 season in 1996 that led to the program’s first NCAA playoff appearance, where Coast Guard lost 17-16 in the opening round to the College of New Jersey.

Coast Guard athletic director Tim Fitzpatrick, in a statement released by the Academy on Monday, said: “We are very saddened to learn of the passing of coach Bill Schmitz, CGA Class of 1976. The athletics division coaches, staff and cadet-athletes send out thoughts, prayers and condolences to Bill’s family during their time of loss."

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Jack D. Kuck, 83

Jack D. Kuck, 83, of 211 Botkins Angle Road, New Knoxville, died at 10:40 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital in St. Marys.

He was born on Sept. 7, 1930, in Lima, the son of Harvey and Meta (Kuck) Kuck.

He married Jean Feight on July 14, 1956, and she survives at the residence.

He is also survived by his two sons, Matthew Kuck (Janice Dutton) of Wapakoneta and Mike Kuck of New Knoxville, by four grandchildren, Mark Kuck, Christopher Kuck, Natalie Arn and Stewart Kuck, by five great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Jack was a 1949 graduate of New Knoxville High School and he attended Ohio State University. While in high school he played on the 1947 state runner-up New Knoxville basketball team, and to this day holds many state high school basketball records. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and was the retired owner of Kuck’s IGA Grocery in New Knoxville. He also drove a school bus for  many years for the New Knoxville School. He enjoyed watching sports and going camping with his family. He was a member of American Legion Post 444 in New Knoxville and the First United Church of Christ, also in New Knoxville.

Funeral rites will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at the First United Church of Christ, the Rev. Dr. David Williams, officiant.

Burial,  with military honors, will follow at Pilger Ruhe Cemetery.

Friends may call from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Ministry Center of the First United Church of Christ, where memorial gifts may be given to the New Knoxville Athletic Association.

Condolences may be sent to Jack’s family via MillerFuneralHomes.net.

Vornholt-Miller Funeral Home, 200 W. Spring Street, New Knoxville, is in charge of the funeral arrangements.


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Heading into the July 4 weekend leads us to an array of fishing options. On the coast, your best bet is to fish the jetties with live shrimp, finger mullet or mud minnows. It’s a sure thing that there will be plenty of boats fishing the rocks, which is why live baits will rule at the Sabine jetties.

On Sam Rayburn and Toledo Bend, live minnows fished over brush piles are best for numbers of crappie in 15 to 22 feet of water. Catfish are best on trotlines baited with live perch, small pieces of shrimp or chicken livers. Bass fishing is an excellent nighttime option. Buzz baits and topwater plugs fished along the edges of grass have been good from midnight till dawn.

As of July 1, boaters must drain all water from their boat and on-board receptacles before leaving or approaching a body of fresh water anywhere in Texas.

“The new Texas Parks and Wildlife Department regulation is designed to help combat the further spread of zebra mussels and other invasive species,” says Ken Kurzawski with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. “It applies to all types and sizes of boats whether powered or not: personal watercraft, sailboats, kayaks/canoes, or any other vessel used on public waters.”

The regulation requires the draining of livewells, bilges, motors and any other receptacles or water-intake systems coming into contact with public waters.

“Live fish, including personally caught live bait, cannot be transported from the water body where the fish were caught in or aboard a vessel in water from the water body where the fish were caught,” says Ken Kurzawski. “Personally caught live bait can be used in the water body where it was caught.

“Anglers are allowed to transport and use commercially purchased live bait if they have a receipt that identifies the source of the bait. Any live bait purchased from a location on or adjacent to a public water body that is transported in water from that water body can only be used as bait on that same water body.”

Anglers participating in a fishing tournament confined to one water body may transport live fish in water from that single water body to an identified off-site weigh-in location, but all water must be drained and properly disposed of before leaving that location. Anglers are required to possess documentation provided by tournament organizers that identify them as participants in the tournament.

Movement from one access point to another on the same lake during the same day does not require draining, and there is an exception for governmental activities and emergencies. Marine sanitary systems are not covered by these regulations.

“Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and a coalition of partners are working to slow the spread of zebra mussels by reminding boaters to Clean, Drain and Dry their vessels before traveling from one lake to another,” says Kurzawski.

Texas game warden BWI enforcement efforts

Law enforcement officers across the U.S. have been gearing up for Operation Dry Water – the nation’s boating while intoxicated (BWI) awareness and enforcement campaign.

Alcohol use is the leading known contributing factor in recreational boater deaths in the United States.

“Texas game wardens as well as our law enforcement partners will be on heightened alert for those violating boating under the influence laws,” said Cody Jones, TPWD Law Enforcement Assistant Commander for Marine Enforcement and Texas State Boating Law Administrator.

In 2013, officers from across the country contacted 144,044 recreational boaters and made 290 BWI arrests during one three-day weekend. Thousands of law enforcement officers, along with their boating safety partners, are educating boaters about the dangers of boating under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

“Game Wardens will continue to remind Texans through education and enforcement to always have a designated driver while boating on our lakes and rivers,” said Danny Shaw, TPWD Law Enforcement Deputy Director. “Our purpose is to provide everyone an opportunity to safely enjoy themselves on the water and return home at the end of the day. We will have enhanced Game Warden patrols through the remainder of the summer and our officers will be on high alert for those who choose to place themselves and others in danger by drinking and operating vessels on our public waters.”

In addition to having a designated driver, TPWD stresses the following four key points to decrease boating and water related accidents, injuries, and deaths:

1. Wear a life jacket. Seventy percent of persons who died in a boating accident would be alive today if they had worn a life jacket.

2. Use the ignition safety switch, commonly called a “kill switch,” to stop the engine if you fall overboard. Don’t be stranded or run over by your own boat.

3. Learn how to swim.

4. Take a Boater Education course from Texas Parks and Wildlife. It could save your life.


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Fitness Purist or Dabbler? Why you should cheat on your exercise.

A quick clarifier: Cheating on your exercise does not mean not doing any exercise. Sorry :)

The more I started to explore the world of body building and physique competitions and the more I sought out fitness role models in that area, the more I heard about how weight lifting was “it” and cardio was kinda bad, or perhaps just for amateurs. In fact, many would say that cardio is not even necessary to achieve the ideal physique and that one could just lift weights faster to get that desired heart rate and cardiovascular pump.

Personally I think that’s a pretty clever idea…if you like lifting weights.

The problem or limitation with this bodybuilding mentality is that it seems to be very focused on one activity to the exclusion of all others. But then, many athletic pursuits are. Much like we’ve come to define ourselves by our diets (paleo, vegan, pescatarian, locavore, flexitarian) we’ve also starting defining ourselves by our preferred sport – runner, roadie, bodybuilder, crossfitter, gymrat, yogi, zumba-freak (okay, not sure about that last one).

The point is, we tend to align ourselves with certain athletic personas, which is fabulous in terms of finding like-minded folks, but it’s counterproductive when we limit ourselves from other pursuits because we are hardcore and committed to that one camp. Because really, it is just exercise after all.

In full disclosure, I’m saying this as someone who finds it very easy to slip into a fitness camp and raise my little groupie flag tall and proud. And while it’s comforting and psychologically natural to want to belong to a positively perceived “in-group”, it tends to be detrimental to one’s overall fitness progression.

As I work through my fitness training certification, I’m learning more about the perils of repetitive motion, especially when it comes to muscle imbalances and potential for injury. Last year when I packed in my weight lifting persona and took up running 5 days a week, I quickly found that my knees weren’t game with my mental choice to switch all-or-nothing camps. Now I realize that the massive jump to the repetitive motion of running caused too much stress on my knee joints without any consideration to core stabilization and addressing tight, overactive muscles that was throwing off my form. Hence, my really cranky knees emerged fast and furious.

So what’s my point with all this?

I would have been much better off to drop the all-or-nothing self-identified sport purist attitude and become a dabbler instead. So rather than my workout schedule looking like this:

Mon       Tues       Wed       Thurs       Fri         Sat        Sun
Run          Run         x-train        Run         Run       Run       Off

(Look familiar??? I know some of you have training schedules like this!!)

It should have looked more like this:

Mon      Tues      Wed         Thurs              Fri                  Sat                       Sun
Run         Lift          Yoga     Run or bike           Lift        Circuit Training       Off/yoga

Now granted, if you’re training for a sporting event, there’s reason to keep your training focused more to one sport, but it should NEVER be just that one sport (yes, I’m talking to you runners!). Addressing core stabilization, proper joint strength/mobility and overall balance training are so important to staying lean and strong, so try doing a little yoga or Pilates once or twice a week. Speed and agility training in short circuit bursts is fantastic for burning subcutaneous fat (that’s fancy terminology for cellulite), so try a boot camp or doing a HIIT and Run if you’re pressed for time or gym space.

The takeaway here is to think holistically about your fitness. Get out of the mindset of being one particular kind of athlete and train in different ways using different forms of motion. Overall, as long as you’ve got one foot in the strength camp and one foot in the cardiovascular camp, you’re going to be much better off in the long run.

Live long and dabble.

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  1. says

    I love this approach to fitness – I don’t have a problem nowadays in switching up what activities I do throughout the week, mainly because I get bored of one thing so easily! Would love to throw a class/some kind of martial art in with my current routine though

  2. says

    I love this train of thought. It was a big reason why i got into triathlons so i wouldn’t get bored and because my knees were hurting from so much running.

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    I couldn’t agree with you more. Cross training is so important. I’ve always incorporated cardio, spin, core and weight training along with my running as well as other cardio such as elliptical and stair master. I’m glad I have too because now that I’m recovering from a foot injury it’s given me other options to maintain my fitness. I’ve also taken up swimming and fallen in love with it.

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Historic ruins confirmed at Weeroona

After almost 85 years, Weeroona Island is yielding up its secrets.

So far the remains of a terrazzo floor, a winding dirt track and a rock-pool swimming pond have been discovered – all linked to the one-time Weeroona Holiday Camp.

The discoveries come on the eve of a survey that asks eligible residents to vote whether the island should be named Weeroona Island or Port Flinders.

Islander and historian Den Kennedy says the spot should be called Weeroona Island, otherwise it “makes a lie” of the camp’s history as well as the previous use of the location as an army ammunition dump in World War II.

“If it is called Port Flinders, it means it did not happen,” he said.

About a month ago, Mr Kennedy confirmed the ruins of the camp which was opened in 1929 as a holiday-makers’ retreat, complete with huts, tents and dance hall.

“They had 600 people at the opening and 400 stayed for the dance afterwards,” he said after pouring over old photographs, council records and newspaper clippings. The camp came to life after the then BHAS smelter used 13 barges to relocate the buildings from a resort at Point Lowly, near Whyalla, to the island.

Mr Kennedy said that the Point Lowly resort had been used as a venue at which smelter workers with high lead levels could go to recover.

The smelter then made an offer to Port Pirie Corporation to move the camp to the island for use by the public.

As part of the arrangements, the council built a road to the isolated site.

The council contributed to the project with in-kind support, but there was strong opposition to the venture from within the Port Pirie comm unity.

“The Recorder newspaper was the biggest critic,” Mr Kennedy said.

“They thought it was going to cost ratepayers money and it was going to be on this barren hole, Mount Ferguson.

“You could not get there by road or boat. That is why no-one lived there.”

Today, Mr Kennedy has a new-found sense of history about the island that he lives on and loves.

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Football Guest Blogger Richard Hill

Richard Hill is a recent graduate of Boston College’s Carroll School of Management, triple majoring in Operations Management, Finance, and Management Leadership Ethics. He is Managing Editor at Pats Pulpit, a New England Patriots blog at SB Nation. Over the last two years, Hill has reached millions of hits on his articles due to his in-depth analysis and thorough research. His topics range from day-to-day analysis, in-depth draft research, and extensive play breakdowns. He has been linked to by Yahoo! Sports, Sports Illustrated, CBS Sports, and Deadspin.

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The Fresh Loaf

News & Information for Amateur Bakers and Artisan Bread Enthusiasts

Two ciabattas - one sourdough, one not

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Two ciabattas - one sourdough, one not

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First, it's the ciabatta made with my usual 36 hour baguette dough (with higher hydration to be about 81%).

AP Flour, 425g
ice water, 330g
salt, 10g
white starter (100%) 150g

1. Mix flour and water into a lump of mass, cover and put in fridge for 12 hours. (let's say Thurs morning, takes <5 min)
2. Add starter and salt to the dough, use hand to mix until roughly evenly distributed. Note that the 100% starter here has two purpose: it's levaining power to raise the bread, AND it's extra water acts as the "2nd hydration" step.
3. Bulk rise at room temp (70 to 75F) for 2-3 hours until it grows about 1/3 in volume, S&F every half hour until enough strength has been developed. Put in fridge.
4. About 24 hours later, take out dough, if it has not doubled or nearly doubled, give it more time to rise at room temp. I usually have to give it about 1 to 2 hours, depending on temperature, which means the dough can probably be stored in the fridge for even longer than 24 hours.Do make sure it has a sufficient bulk rise, so the dough is strong enough; but don't let it go too long, the dough will be so bubbly that the shaping would be difficult - this is where you need to experiment with timing a lot.
5. Divide into 4 portions (which means these were 200g-ish ciabatta rolls), put on oiled parchment paper to proof. The beauty of ciabatta is that little shaping is required, however, I find that it still helps with crumb to lightly fold the edges over to make them into squares.

6. Proof until very puffy and expanded (about 1.5 hrs for me), take each one and flip over onto another parchment.

7. Bake each @460 for 18 min, the first 8 with steam.

Cut them horizontally, and they were perfect for juicy fillings

Cut it vertically, they were great for dipping into olive oil

Second one was made with this recipe:

These are bigger than the 36 hour sourdough ones

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Both are beautiful.  So which one did you think tasted better?

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Definitely the sourdough one. It has the unique depth that 36 hour sourdough dough I love.

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And that carved bowl is gorgeous, too.  Where did you locate that?

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It was a $1 purchase from a flea market. The bottom of the bowl was actually cracked, so no practical use other than being pretty. :P

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of being pretty, crack or no.

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with your extensive experience and dedication plus passion, both turned out perfect!

:) evonlim

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I believe I will try your SD version.

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Hope you will like it. It goes really well with some juicy filling.

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All I see are holes :-)  Very nice baking Ying.  Your 36 hour method really is the cat's meow.

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By now, the best part about the 36 hour method is that I am so familiar with the process it's brainless.

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came out nicely though i suspect that i should have given them a longer proof (had about an hour).  but as far as i can say from just looking at the outside that's my best go at ciabatta ever. thanks :-)

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Just tried them and they taste awesome!

However my bread didn't turn out as expected, it puffed up like a pita bread and all those internal holes turned to one huge cavity in the bread. I had the gluten well developed with several stretch and folds, although need to stay that my final proof in the fridge was longer than a day (3 days) since I couldn't find time to bake it on 36 hour mark. A possibility is that my gluten was weakened because of the long fermentation in the fridge, although I highly suspect that is the case since the dough had a good integrity to it and proofed beautifully outside of the fridge.

Any advice will be much appreciated. Thank you!


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Hair Apparent: Insects Made Of Human Hair

Julie Gerstein / January 13, 2011

Uh, that’s not a butterfly. That’s a butterfly sculpture made out of hair. Seattle artist Adrienne Antonson creates “resourceful, sustainable, meticulous and pretty” insects using only human hair and glue.

Antonson decided to work in hair because, “As an artist with a deep interest in sustainable and self-supporting systems, human hair seems the most immediate and true material. I find the historical implications and various uses of human hair fascinating. I am also intrigued with the attraction/repulsion response the material evokes. It is sentimental, challenging and honest.”

More hairsects after the jump. [Mixed Greens]


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Nicholas Hoult Appears In Flaunt Magazine, Reportedly Takes His Pants Off Somewhere

Rachel Krause / May 15, 2013

If I’m not paying attention for the remainder of the day, nor a good portion of tomorrow, it’s because I’m still sidetracked by the new Nicholas Hoult spread in Flaunt magazine. I mean, is there anything in the world more distracting than the beautiful Hoult all kitted out in a bizarrely patterned trench coat and some other odd wares? Supposedly, according to Nicholas, there are some dropped-trou shots included in the actual magazine… Say, where does one go about purchasing Flaunt? [Celebitchy]


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Posts tagged "topeka"

Today’s Lady News: Topeka Decriminalizes Domestic Violence

Yup, the city of Topeka actually decriminalized domestic violence (and other misdemeanors) so that it won’t have to pay to prosecute the crimes. Facepalm. [New York Times]
Good news about teens and sex: eight out of 10 American teen boys between 2006 and 2010 used a condom the first time they had sex.

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Jimmy Buffett and Zac Brown Band Come Together for "CMT Crossroads" Premiering March 2010 on Cmt
CMT CROSSROADS: JIMMY BUFFETT AND ZAC BROWN BAND will tape before an invitation only audience next month in Nashville.

[via press release from CMT]

NASHVILLE � Nov. 19, 2009 � Known for his high-energy sold-out shows, beach inspired tropical tunes and devoted and enthusiastic fans, singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett will share the stage with this year's breakout artist known for its Southern Rock and dynamic stage show, the Zac Brown Band. They team up for the latest episode of the critically-acclaimed CMT CROSSROADS series. CMT CROSSROADS: JIMMY BUFFETT AND ZAC BROWN BAND will tape before an invitation only audience next month in Nashville. The episode will premiere in March, 2010 on CMT.

Singer/songwriter/author Jimmy Buffett has recorded more than forty records, most of which have gone gold, platinum or multi-platinum. His legions of colorfully-attired fans, affectionately known as Parrotheads, flock to his sold-out concerts to hear the songs they know and love: "Margaritaville," "Cheeseburger In Paradise," "Fins," "Come Monday," "Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes," etc. As a best-selling author, he is one of only nine authors in the history of the New York Times Bestseller List to have reached No.1 on both their fiction and non-fiction lists. Jimmy has received two Grammy nominations, numerous CMA awards and was the recipient of one of the nation's highest songwriting honors when he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame. Buffett will release a new studio album, "Buffet Hotel," on Dec. 8. It will be his first studio album since 2006's "Take the Weather With You."

Zac Brown Band are currently on the road with their "Breaking Southern Ground" national tour, headlining arenas and amphitheatres. Behind only Lady Gaga, Zac Brown Band are the biggest selling new artist of 2009 with their platinum debut album "The Foundation" (Atlantic Records/Home Grown/Big Picture) and three No.1 hit singles. Earlier this year, Zac Brown Band won an ACM Award and two CMT awards in addition to receiving four CMA nominations. The band is currently nominated for two AMA Awards...

Jimmy Buffett and Zac Brown Band join an elite group of performers who have taped CMT CROSSROADS, which pairs country music stars with popular artists from other genres�pop, rock, R&B�to play together, swap stories, and share their common love of music. Previous episodes of CROSSROADS have included Lindsey Buckingham and Little Big Town; Bon Jovi and Sugarland; John Fogerty and Keith Urban; Kelly Clarkson and Reba McEntire; Joss Stone and LeAnn Rimes; Robert Plant and Alison Krauss; and Def Leppard and Taylor Swift.

CMT CROSSROADS is produced by Tom Forrest and Chad Hines. John Hamlin, Margaret Comeaux and Bill Flanagan serve as executive producers for CMT.

For more information on CMT CROSSROADS log on to CMT.com

CMT, a unit of Viacom's MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), is the leading television and digital authority on country music and entertainment, reaching more than 89 million homes in the U.S. CMT and its website, CMT.com, offer an unparalleled mix of music, news, live concerts and series and is the top resource for country music on demand. The network's digital platforms include the 24-hour music channel, CMT Pure Country, CMT Mobile and CMT VOD.

MTV Networks, a division of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), is one of the world's leading creators of entertainment content, with brands that engage and connect diverse audiences across television, online, mobile, games, virtual worlds and consumer products. The company's portfolio spans more than 150 television channels and 400 digital media properties worldwide, and includes MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo, Harmonix, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Nick Jr., TeenNick, AddictingGames, Neopets, COMEDY CENTRAL, SPIKE, TV Land, Atom, GameTrailers and Xfire.

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[08/31/15 - 03:11 PM]
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[08/31/15 - 02:31 PM]
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[08/31/15 - 01:40 PM]
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[08/31/15 - 10:30 AM]
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Review: Mad Dog McCree

A single shot is enough to pay a visit to the undertaker…

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Mad Dog McCree hit the arcades way back in 1990, and mixed some speedy light gun fun with live action acted visuals to create a pretty unique and memorable experience. Even Gamesmaster jumped on the bandwagon, including Mad Dog challenges in the TV show which ingrained the game into the memories of most teenagers at the time. Since then the game has cropped up on a few platforms, but a few weeks back it was released onto the PS3 giving Move owners something else to wave their wands at. But is there space in the 21st century gaming home for something which is, rather frighteningly, 23 years old?

That depends on exactly what you’re looking for. The PS3 version of Mad Dog McCree surely exists purely for nostalgia purposes. There’s no brand-new graphs or interfaces, just an upscaled 720p version of an old arcade shooter. Younger gamers will load this up and wonder just what they’ve stumbled into – bad acting, some hilariously bad dialoge and graphics that despite being filmed with real actors in real locations, actually won’t impress people as mcuh as some current gen animated titles. Welcome to the world of early 90s arcade games! And yet those with a few more years under their belts will have a series of memory moments, those times when you see something that makes you grin as you see something that had long since been forgotten and stored in the “probably won’t need this again” file in your brain’s basement.

But rose tinted glasses themselves don’t make a retro arcade game worth playing – luckily there’s a fair few merits to the game that go beyond the maybe-intentioanlly-but-maybe-not comedy value. Firstly, this game is tough. Really tough. True, you can half-learn where the bad guys will pop up but some areas area super-tough. One area, which sticks in my mind as a result of spending about a week trying to get past it, has you facing a rocky area with bad guys popping up to shoot you. The target to aim for is tiny, to the point that you’re unlikely to hit them in time unless you see them duck out of cover at just the right time, and even then your aim needs to be spot on. Other moments, such as the quick-draw duals are tough as well, especially if you’re not using a gun attachment for your Move controller. It’s refreshingly unforgiving, but frustrating at the same time. A single shot is enough to pay a visit to the undertaker, who will always have some brilliantly smart advice to share with you. I defy you not to line your crosshairs up between his eyes…

There are some other decent moments too – getting into a mine involves shooting some objects hanging around outside the entrance, with the items you need to shoot changing each time. There are also a couple of practice mini-games, when someone will throw an item into the air for you to shoot. It’s like cowboy clay pigeon shooting, but with the same voice clip used just before each throw it’s far more repetitive if you need a few attempts. Generally it’s decent fun the first time round, and you can enjoy it again when you invite more people into the action, but that’s probably as far as it goes.

If nothing else, Mad Dog McCree is a strong reminder of just how hard games used to be. In a gaming world where success and achievements mean more to some gamers than the enjoyment of the game itself, you just don’t see games anywhere where being an inch off target is the difference between moving on, and having to pump another 20p into the machine. It’s a massive challenge, especially if you plan to get through in one sitting without using any continues on offer, but I’m not convinced it’s all that relevant nowadays unless you want a huge nostalgia hit. It’s more fun with more people and even more fun when playing with different language options enabled, but there’s little reason to play this several times over unless you want to perfect it in time to amaze your easily-amazed friends with your sharp shooting skills.

Reviewed on PS3

3 Comments on Review: Mad Dog McCree

  1. Zorb (95 XP - Level 1)

    Ah, but how much is it? If it’s about

  2. Zorb (95 XP - Level 1)

    See thats not totally stupid money for a bit of retro gaming. I might get it when I get the ps3 set up again after being moved into the under stairs conversion!

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