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Light My Fire Spork
Where to Buy
Overview: The LMF (Light My Fire) Spork is made of…
Price Paid: $2.99
The LMF (Light My Fire) Spork is made of heat resistant plastic, has a spoon head on one end and a fork on the other and the fork end has a serrated cutting edge.
My general assessment is that the LMF Spork is a convenient and acceptable quality plastic eating utensil for backpacking use.
I first bought one after using one a friend owned. I noticed that it was lightweight, yet strong enough to stir thick foods. The fact that it had both a normal spoon and a real fork ends was surprising, as most "sporks" are just a more rounded spoon with short slits or notches on the outside edge of the spoon.
I have owned multiple LMF Sporks for several years now, and can attest that they have held up well. I have not had one break yet. I have bent mine in a nearly 90 degree angle, and have not had any break. The heat resistant polycarbonate plastic they are made of has also proven effective. Only once have I ever-so-slightly melted the edge of one, because I left it in a fry pan on full heat for several seconds by accident.
The "knife" edge of the fork is convenient for "cutting" food items into smaller chunks while eating, just as one often might with a normal fork. But it is not functional as a real knife for any true cutting.
I usually cook more than the "just add hot water" type of meals, and like having the additional options that the LMF spork offers. I recognize that one reason I like the LMF Spork is purely a personal preference: I really dislike actual sporks. The bowl of most are an annoyingly round and blunt shape. The "tines" are rarely long or sharp enough to use as a real or functional fork, and that jagged edge doesn't allow for smooth or effective spreading either.
In summary, there are multiple features and reasons that prompt me to recommend the Light My Fire Spork:
>A Real fork end
>A Real Spoon end
> The Fork has a convenient "sharp" edge
> High resistance to heat (for plastic)
> Won't harm non-stick cookware
> Quite rigid yet still retains some flex
> Multiple sporks nestle perfectly together, taking up very little room.
> Weighs less than virtually all other plastic or metal cutlery, even titanium.
> Costs a fraction of most other utensils design for backpacking.
The biggest possible bang you will ever get for your…
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: Less than $5 for a set of two
The biggest possible bang you will ever get for your buck when it comes to a lightweight, durable, multifunctional eating utensil. I bring this with me every place I go, and eat every meal with it, and it still looks and performs the same as the first day I used it. If you can find a better way to spend a couple dollars, I'd like to hear it, because for me? It doesn't get better than this.
- 3-in-1, spoon/fork/knife, multifunctional design
- Won't scratch non-stick cookware
- Heat-resistant
- Dishwasher safe
- Lightweight and easily packable
- Durable
- Zero. Absolutely none. Does everything it should, and does it well.
- Short. Better tilt those MH meal bags to reach bottom.
Until you're making the big bucks and can afford the titanium equivalent, this is the best possible utensil you can get for your money.
The LMF spork isn't just that. It's a fork that's, well, a full fork. No truncated, frustrating prongs to poke pointlessly at your steak with. Legitimate tines.
Better yet, one of those four tines has a serrated edge to it. Yep, it's a knife, too.
Now, I know you're wondering, "Why in hell would I put a cutting blade in my mouth?" Don't sweat it. The serrated edge isn't surgically-sharp. It simply puts some teeth there to make it easier to cut things with the side edge of the fork. You'll never cut your mouth, and for all the meals I've eaten with this, and for as quick as I've eaten them, I've yet to suffer an injury.
Naturally, you've can't have Larry and Curly without Moe — there's a full-sized spoon on the other end of this double-sided utensil. Much the same, I like that it is only spoon and nothing more. Eating soup with a spork is more of an unnecessary challenge than it needs to be. LMF makes sure that's never a problem you'll suffer from.
I've eaten every meal I've ever had while camping with this utensil.
Heck, if I don't feel like doing a lot of dishes, I even use it to measure and stir and cook with.
That said? Don't leave it sitting in a hot pot or pan. Or leaning against one (mine is stuck straight into the food in the above photo). It is heat-resistant, but not heat-proof. The Tritan Copolyester is durable, the finish is matte, and the texture is almost micro-pebbled so it doesn't slip out of your hand (especially convenient when using it to cook). Moreover, since it isn't metal, you can move this thing however the heck you want about in your non-stick pots and pans, and it won't ever scratch them a bit. Unlike metal, it doesn't conduct heat, and is safe to the touch, too, when cooking.
For your number-counters and math folk, it measures 6.6" X 1.5" and weighs .2 oz. I always keep a spare tucked inside my GSI Crossover Kitchen Kit (nested inside my Pinnacle Backpacker cookset). It nests in with the rest of those cooking accessories as if it isn't even there. There's simply no excuse not to pack one of these with you.
The heat-resistance is also a bonus in that it makes this sport dishwasher-safe, so you can just toss it in with your regular dishes when you get home from your trip.
This is literally a one-piece cutlery set you can fit in one hand, and is so well made and built that mine looks as good as the day I bought it.
REI has these on clearance for less than $2 each currently. You'd be hard-pressed to find another spork at that price that does as much and lasts as long as this one does. Quite honestly, probably the single biggest bargain a beginning backpacker can score.
Only drawback to mention is the length (again, it measures 6.6" X 1.5"). If you're hoping to make your Mountain House meal good-to-the-last-drop, tilt that bag to the side and get at it that way. Better than having to get all "Medieval Times" about it and get food on your hands.
Everyone should own one.
Well, two.
You wouldn't let a friend eat with anything less than this, would you?
I didn't think so.
Very useful. The only complaint is if you need to…
Very useful.
The only complaint is if you need to actually cut something with it you need two: one to hold the food and one to cut.
It's a spork. It's what you get for two dollars. I used to stop by Wendy's to grab free utensils. This is better.
This is a great little tool. It is lightweight, but…
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: $2.75
This is a great little tool. It is lightweight, but still strong.
- Lightweight
- Strong
- Colourful
- Not being able to use the fork and knife at the same time.
It is very handy because you don't need to carry three utensils, just one. Although it has one weakness, if you are trying to use the fork and the knife at the same time it is very hard to cut stuff. I like the colours. If you lose them they are very easy to find.
Owned two, broke two. I recommend spending the extra…
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: can't remember
Owned two, broke two.
- It scoops food.
- Plastic is very brittle in the cold.
I recommend spending the extra $ and get the titanium version. Two cold mornings and two thick cups of oatmeal killed my plastic sporks. Suddenly being utensil-less makes a nice relaxing meal, not so nice and relaxing.
This is a fantastic utensil. I even use it in my lunchbox…
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: $2
This is a fantastic utensil. I even use it in my lunchbox for work.
- Weight
- Finish
- Cost
- None so far
I thought I was going to need two of these, one to hold food and the other to cut. But, the knife portion works very well on its own. Fits nicely into a Yoplait cup and can cut a pork chop. It's the all in one utensil.
I purchased one at a mountaineering supply in Tennessee and loved it. Two weeks later I went to a local parks department backpacking expo, and they were giving them away. I might just replace all my flatware at home with these things!!!
Love them! I love these sporks! I have several and…
Source: bought it new
Love them!
- Durable
- Easy to clean and reuse
- Fun colors
- Reasonable price
- None
I love these sporks! I have several and use them often. They are durable and lightweight. They have a knife, fork and spoon on them so it saves room in your pack and is eco friendly. They are great for camping, hiking, or even to take in your lunchbox for work.
Lightweight, cheap enough to lose without worrying…
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: $4
Lightweight, cheap enough to lose without worrying about.
- Cheap
- Bright colors (easy to see in the dark)
- Small
- Wide tines make food hard to grip in fork mode
Not a bad product for the money, could use a hole drilled for string (personal preference). I haven't tested it at high temps.
A ubiquitous piece of gear that is inexpensive and…
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: $2
A ubiquitous piece of gear that is inexpensive and meets most needs, but has some shortcomings. What much can be said about a spork?
- Inexpensive
- Easy to find/purchase
- In using one end, grimy hands are placed all over the other end, making it somewhat unsanitary
- Melts easily when exposed to high temps
- Handle too short to eat dehydrated foods out of the bag
We all love gear that serves double-duty in the backcountry, yes? And I believe the intent of a double-ended utensil was in good following with this idea. This spork is one of the most ubiquitous pieces of gear out there, so apparently a lot of people agree.
I was at first sold on the idea, as well. But after a lot of use, the detractors started to outweigh the multi-function.
My main criticism of this design is the short length of the handle and that fact that the handle is the other utensil. This is a big deal because your trail-grimy hands end up getting all over the surfaces that you eat from.
Likewise, in switching between utensils mid-meal, you may also end up getting foodstuffs all over your hands...unless you give it a really thorough licking. And honestly, I so rarely used the fork side that I switched back to using a long handled spoon. Not once have I missed the fork.
I will also warn that I've seen one of these melt when used to fry bacon in hot grease...so don't do this! For stirring noodles in hot water, it's fine. Not one broken yet.
Understanding that this spork is not much more than a plastic spork, you won't be disappointed. They are pretty durable, inexpensive, and easy to come by. I still have all four that came in a pack... great as a back-up and for loaning out to friends.
It's true about the melting. We have a semi-melted spork too. One pro though is that my kids like these in the different colors (everyone knows which is theirs) and they're cheap enough not to stress about. No way am I giving away my long ti spoons to kids.
1 day ago
Bought a couple of these at closeout from REI.com…
Price Paid: $1.49
Bought a couple of these at closeout from REI.com last month. I keep two in my frame pack for outings and one at work for snacks in the shop.
Easy clean up, lightweight and durable so far. I know the Ti ones are probably much more durable in the end, but for two bucks, I couldn't beat it for my needs. Highly recommended.
I have only used this spork on a few camping excursions,…
Price Paid: permanently borrowed from a friend
I have only used this spork on a few camping excursions, but when I did use it I found it very delightful and useful. It has a sloped design which makes it a lot easier to eat with, and since it's plastic the cleanup is a dip in the creek.
I have been very pleased with this spork so far, but it is only a piece of plastic after all, so I will probably get some titanium utensils that will most likely hold up for longer.
Broke too easily. I had to use other friends utensils…
Price Paid: $6
Broke too easily. I had to use other friends utensils for 40 days.
I found this to be a nice and serviceable product.
Price Paid: dont recall
I found this to be a nice and serviceable product. I personally prefer a fork and spoon rather than just carrying a spoon as some u.lers do. So I thought I'd try this combo. Both the fork and spoon are serviceable for whatever you use them for.
But the small serrated portion is useless for anything other than a back-scratcher. It is under normal usage, unbreakable but after repeatedly bending it slightly to put it into my cookpot it broke in two.
So I went back to my 30+ year lexan fork and seperate spoon, handles shortened and holes drilled in them.
I only gave it half a star because it is weak and…
Price Paid: $2
I only gave it half a star because it is weak and fits weird in hand. I broke two of these on the same trip. I had to go back to my titanium spoon. I am still looking for another lexan or plastic solution.
At first I thought this was the perfect utensil. Seemed…
Price Paid: $2.50
At first I thought this was the perfect utensil. Seemed very sturdy and light — an all-in-one device ready for backpacking. Unfortunately, the first time I tried to use it on a trip it broke in half (clean break too) while trying to eat some cooked ramen out of a freezer bag in 60 degree weather. Still, not bad for the price, but just like pairs of socks - take 2.
Pros: It's a spork! Cons: It's a spork! Seriously…
Price Paid: $2.39
Pros: It's a spork!
Cons: It's a spork!
Seriously though, what else can be said for an idea that is tried and true. Spoon for soups and chili and the fork side for noodles and such. Sometimes you're using your spoon and realize you need your fork. No need to look for one, just lick it clean, flip and there ya' go.
Now, don't think you're going to eat a steak with this. Then again, if you're on the trail eating steak why wouldn't you be using your hands!
Me, I stick to Ramen noodles, Backpacker's Pantry, and Mountain House meals. This is perfect for that and stirring your coffee.
Honestly, for $2.39 at Walmart, you can't go wrong.
Giving it 4 stars because the idea of integrating a knife is a waste. You can use it to cut your noodles or cut boiled veggies, potatoes, etc. but that's it.
Flimsy and weak. Mine only lasted a few months before…
Price Paid: $3
Flimsy and weak. Mine only lasted a few months before it broke in half. On the plus side it's cheap and lite.
I really like it. Sure it's not fine silverware, but…
I really like it. Sure it's not fine silverware, but it works and it is lightweight. I took it on a 1-week scout camping trip as a backup to my lexan knife, fork, and spoon. I ended up using the Spork every day because it was easier to carry in my pocket, always ready to eat, instead of getting the knife and fork from my tent. It was a lot simpler to clean up, too.
One drawback is that the cutting edge is biased for right-handers, so I didn't use it much.
I have found left hand models on Amazon. They aren't listed as Light My Fire, but they are LMF.
6 months ago
WE LOVE IT!!! My husband and I pack our spork everyday…
Price Paid: ~$3
WE LOVE IT!!! My husband and I pack our spork everyday in our lunches; if it is to eat our yogurt overs it is always in our bag! Also great for our camping trips. Price is right, lightweight and durable. However, not the best cutter.
Very lovely design. My girl and I were so much fascinated…
Very lovely design. My girl and I were so much fascinated but I haven't felt free using them since I broke the first one I bought several years ago. Plastic is not at all durable. So I had another titanium one ever since.
The light my fire spork works great as a utensil for…
Price Paid: under $2
The light my fire spork works great as a utensil for eating but don't try and cook with it. It will melt if you try and use it for flipping your backcountry pancakes.
This thing is the bomb. Four colors for everyone in…
Price Paid: $10 @ REI
This thing is the bomb. Four colors for everyone in the family. Light as a feather. Tough to break. I would buy it again.
Not very practical. Very lightweight. The fork part…
Not very practical. Very lightweight. The fork part isn't very deep and won't stab deep into food. It fits odd in the hand too. It has kind of a knife part to it that doesn't make sense seeing as though you'd need a fork to hold food down while you cut it. I bought them cause they are all in one, and super cheap but I think next time I go into the woods I'll buy something else.
This is a handy must-have for the trail or any trip…
Price Paid: $3
This is a handy must-have for the trail or any trip where grub's gonna be! Made of lightweight polycarbonate material, this spoon and fork combo weighs 0.35 ounces and has a length of 6.7 inches. It's heat resistant material which means no getting soft when stirring a boiling pot. I got a chance to test it out in the Tennessee mountains and noticed its pot friendliness because it didn't pull up any of the non-stick surface on my pots. The spork also features serration on one side of the fork to help you hack away at some sausage or slice through some hearty pancakes! The spoon did pretty well in my "soup test," but I felt the depth of the spoon could have been a bit deeper, though it does the job just fine. In my backpacking trips I managed to fit it in my MSR cook set pot.
Over all, I can tell that this utensil is pretty darn durable. It's available in a variety of trendy colors like: red, yellow, blue, green, orange, and pink. It is dishwasher safe and it's just plain simple! Get this spork for your next venture and you may have a few jealous eyes staring back at you...
I love this little utensil. The size is perfect for…
Price Paid: $1.50
I love this little utensil. The size is perfect for backpacking and any other use away from home. I have used this thing at all-weekend conferences and everywhere in between.
Where to Buy
Light My Fire Spork
$1.73 - $10.50


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What Poor Women Need Is ... Marriage?
For several years, sociologists and demographers have been discussing a new socioeconomic division in this country: the widening family divide between the highly educated and everyone else. On one side are those who get at least a bachelor's degree—or wait even longer—before they marry and have children. On the other side are those without a college education who have children—early and often—and have a series of partners (with or without marriage) who may or may not be related to their children. In the second group, an unexpected pregnancy may interrupt the woman's education; sometimes she wasn't going on anyway.
The first set of families—call them "blue" families, because they cluster in those states—tend to be stable, maritally and financially, which is extremely helpful for the children's well-being. The "red" families are far more chaotic, emotionally and financially. The children's family configurations shift around them, with parental figures coming and going; the parents don't have much education, and therefore not much income; they slip periodically into poverty when a parent disappears or their now-and-again single mother's income isn't enough to feed and house them securely, in part because women's income, even more than men's, bounces along at poverty's floor.
So, for instance, highly educated Massachusetts has the lowest divorce rate in the country, while Arkansas, which has one of the nation's lowest college-graduation rates, also has the highest divorce rate in the country. And guess which families' children are most likely to ascend to and remain firmly in the middle class?
Over the weekend, Jason deParle at The New York Times illustrated this newly developing class and family divide by profiling the lives of two women and their families in a thoughtful and in-depth article, "Two Classes, Divided by 'I Do.'" Without judgment, he shows the results of the different choices and situations each woman finds herself presented with. One woman, Chris Faulkner, finishes college before she marries, and then has children; those children are financially stable and involved in a wide range of enriching activities. The other woman, Jessica Schairer, gets pregnant in college, drops out, tries to make a go of it with her loser boyfriend, and ends up a single mother of three children by the age of 30. The two women work together in a childcare center, but of course, the married woman's children have the benefit of a man's wages, while the single woman's children have to get by on a service-industry job's bottom-scraping hourly wage.
There's been a lot of criticism of the way deParle frames the article: Is marriage really the key divide here? Katha Pollitt is, as usual, wickedly pointed in her critique, asking, "Do we really need a front-page story in the Sunday New York Times to tell us that a woman with a college degree and a good solid marriage is better off than a college dropout raising three kids alone?" She goes on to slice apart the idea that Chris Faulkner was smart to make her man shape up and turn into a good father while Jessica Schairer was foolish to stick around waiting to see if her man would do the same:
Well, if only we could ... put great big Good Guy and Bad Guy signs on young men so that naïve college girls could tell which slacker boys are exploitive louts and which ones just need a nudge to become prime husband material.
Katha similarly takes her knife to the idea, which she finds implicit in the piece (I didn't), that Jessica lacked good moral values:
[You could see] Jessica as having too many of those values: she rejected abortion, she stuck by her man, she tried too hard to make a family. If we really want women like Jessica to avoid early childbearing and single motherhood, we have to stop promoting outmoded ideas about sex and gender: abstinence-only sex ed, shame that leads to inconsistent use of birth control, stigmatizing abortion, woman's worth depending on keeping a man, "fixing" the relationship as woman's responsibility, motherhood as women's primary purpose in life.
The first issues that jumped out at me were, rather, the absurd mismatch between women's and men's wages, and between jobs with and without decent benefits. I agree with Shawn Fremstad at CEPR, who takes on the problem this way:
- Why is OK to pay the mostly female workers who take care of other people's children and of seniors and people with disabilities so little? (Average wages for workers in care occupations are less than half of average wages for workers overall: for child care workers, average annual wages are $21,320 compared with $45,230 for workers overall. And, it's not just about education—nearly half of all child care workers have either some college or a college degree).
- After an operation for cervical cancer, Shairer wasn't able to take the time off recommended by her doctor because it would have been unpaid. Why is it OK to not provide the vast majority of care workers with basic employment benefits like paid sick and disabilty leave? Do you want a worker who is ill caring for your children just because they can't afford to take unpaid leave? (Just 27 percent of child-care workers have access to paid sick leave. By comparison, among workers in the top quartile of the wage distribution, 90 percent have paid sick leave, and lots of other benefits.)
- Both Mr. Faulkner and Ms. Faulker have 4-year college degrees and, except for their gender difference, appear to be demographically similar. Why does he, a computer programmer, earn more than twice as much as she does as a manager/director of a child care center?
Why, for God's sake, do half the country's workers have no paid sick days? (Check out Gloria Steinem's campaign for mandatory paid sick days in New York City here.) That's just appalling. No one in the policy-making class faces this issue, because the higher-income jobs all have paid sick leave. Even if Jessica had someone else's income to lean on, the family would still have taken a hit if she had stayed home.
And how much of this divide is because of the disappearance of good jobs for working-class men? Men who don't have an income are less likely to marry.
I've seen, close up, how much the chaos of red families can hurt the children. All the studies show that it is better for children to have two stable parents in a low-conflict partnership, who together have enough income to support the family and provide some extras. The parents can juggle responsibilities, which means each of them can work harder in their respective jobs and make it further while still attending to the children. They have more money and are less likely to be poor. That doesn't mean a mother should remain with a bad mate; a high-conflict marriage, a violent marriage, a marriage to an alcoholic or drug addict can drag the children into misery and, in the language of the social scientists, lead to "bad outcomes"—more impulsiveness, less success in school, worse health, and all the rest. I don't know that the key divide is marriage; the divide seems to be an impulsive or accidental pregnancy early in a woman's life, which interrupts her education or career progress (and yes, I'm calling childcare and other service-industry work a career) and keeps her stalled at the level she was living in during her poorest and least-stable years.
Since we're not going to turn back the clock on sexually active teenagers, we need more widely available contraception—can you say "over-the-counter Plan B"?—and more easily available early-term abortion. That would help those children who do arrive on the planet have a better chance at thriving. "Women's" caregiving jobs need to be paid a family wage, since the reality is that they are supporting families—and since families like mine won't be able to afford childcare or eldercare if those workers are paid more, as a society, we need to underwrite those workers' wages. Finally, we need mandatory paid sick leave laws, and health insurance that travels with you whether or not you have a job.
Thu, 2012-07-19 20:01
"Do we really need a front-page story in the Sunday New York Times to tell us that a woman with a college degree and a good solid marriage is better off than a college dropout raising three kids alone?"
Uh... This is really hard... After 30 years of promoting women's lib (as in bicycles and fish) and the "legitimacy of single motherhood" the answer is Yes. More like Hell Yes. In fact, the NYT should have a "failed single-mom of the day" page as penance for decades of promoting social destruction as "liberation".
"Well, if only we could ... put great big Good Guy and Bad Guy signs on young men so that naïve college girls could tell which slacker boys are exploitive louts and which ones just need a nudge to become prime husband material."
In real life, guys go to great pains to scream "hopeless loser" versus "hard worker and potentially committed parent". Girls (too many) ignore these (unsubtle) signals because Hollywood glamorizes bad boys (try criticizing rap if you doubt this) and girls are taught to that looking for a stable provider is "retro", reactionary, unliberated, and probably racist to boot.
Thu, 2012-07-19 19:43
Fri, 2012-07-20 16:10
A couple of thoughts:
1) My Father was a college Prof in the UK and then moved to the US to teach at a state school. He quite after three years because he was frustrated at the lack of a safety net for students that got pregnant. In the UK a pregnant student would receive tutoring and a ton of support to ensure that she did NOT drop out and become a burden on anyone.
We need that here.
It's basic math really, I'd rather my tax dollars go to ensuring a pregnant student graduates and can get a good job, than having my tax dollars pay her food stamps and subsidized housing.
2) It's easy to say we should just pay healthcare and childcare workers more, but it begs a question: where does that money come from?
I work in the technology field as a management consultant, only reason I get paid more than someone working at a daycare is because there are fewer of me than there are people who can work in daycare centers. Plus the money involved in the things I contribute too is higher, it's not a simple case of someone merely deciding my labor is worth more, it's just the economics of the situation.
But let's say that we dictate by rule of law that all daycare workers get paid $45k/yr, where does that money come from?
For several months I was helping to care for my nephew and paid for his daycare, it cost me about $250/week or $13k.yr. To my knowledge (a friend worked for another location in another city), the workers were often getting less than $10/hour, closer to $7-8/hour.
$7-$8/hour is about $15-16k/yr.
If we were to double or triple that, what does that do to the costs of the parents (or Uncles) paying for Childcare when you have then paying $26-$39k/ - i.e. amounts around what a lot of people make in a year?
Even with tax credits, deductions or even subsidies, it would be hard to generate the revenue needed to enable these providers to pay that much.
Economically, it would probably push people to use say an unlicensed family friend who can charge a lot less, or hire a nanny from Craigslist for $10/hour.
All that being said I agree with the rest of your points, I just think the ones around salary need some additional thought.
We can't just "pay" daycare workers more without raising the money from someplace, and Childcare is expensive enough as it is.
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The Losses of Dan Gable
Read it. This was phenomenal.
The Losses of Dan Gable
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
Yes, incredible article. iAt the risk of being savaged by Gable fans, he comes across as a very haunted individual in this article. Honestly, the article made me sad. The destructive meltdowns in front of his children, especially, are pretty disturbing. Comparing his college loss to a death in the family, while knowing exactly what that means, was eye opening as well. I'm left to wonder- how much of this (somewhat self destructive) single mindedness is necessary in order to reach the highest levels of success in wrestling?
The Art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Comparing his loss to a death in the family is very dramatic. But, it makes it even more difficult for Gable when he probably did all of this FOR the sister that was taken from him. Everything he did was for his sister.
After reading this article I was shocked as I thought it was incredible. I feel like he was so taken back by almost losing everything that his wrestling career was almost therapy. Giving up wrestling came hand in hand with dealing with his sisters loss: I feel like he has finally dealt with losing her and overcame most of the pain.
I think you guys are nuts. Ask his daughters if they wish he didn't wrestle. I'll bet they would laugh at you. This is his story. It's extreme but thats what it took for him to get where he wanted to be. Hell, I didnt cry when St. John won, but I almost did when Ramos lost.
I don't know why you would wish this article would have never been published. It's one of the best magazine articles I've ever read.
"I like to relax with a chainsaw." Tom Brands 12/4/09
My brother brought this article to my attention yesterday and I was glued to the computer reading it. I agree that it offers incredible insights into what drove this man to unequaled success as a competitor and coach. I also feel sorry for him that he must live his life in such a strict fashion that he doesn't feel that he deserves a good meal if he hasn't "earned it." This is the thinking that produces champions, but it also produces a mindset that makes true happiness and peace difficult to achieve. To repeat my my coaching mantra, sports are not an end in themselves but a means to an end. We each have our own barometer of how to measure our success in life, and it is my belief that success in sports is meaningless if it doesn't lead to growth as an individual. Gable was once quoted as saying that he passed up a good high school recruit because he had other interests besides wrestling. This may be the way to win NCAA championships, but it's not, in my humble opinion, what coaching is about (true, I have never wrestled or coached at the DI level).
I have tremendous respect for Dan Gable's achievements, but I sincerely hope that he is able to lighten up a little more, enjoy more time with his family, and allow himself and those around him to make some mistakes.
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By Claire Walla
A record store? On the East End?
It started with the Japanese.
Record collector and East Hampton native Craig Wright had been running a successful music business on eBay for five years, regularly sending used records to buyers both locally and internationally. But, last year he suddenly began receiving visits from music store owners on record-buying missions from half-way around the world.
"I had at least six or seven guys from Japan looking through my storage facility over the last year," Wright exclaimed. "And I thought, this isn't the way to do it. I've gotta make this available to everyone."
The result is Inner Sleeve Music, a full-blown record store in the heart of Amagansett, which sells everything from rock and jazz (which happens to be the favored genre among Japanese buyers), to new releases, reggae and even spoken word.
Wright said his original intent was to set up shop here in Sag Harbor, which he had targeted for its thriving nightlife. But, after 10 years of eying spaces that never seemed to fit the bill, he settled on Amagansett.
But he has no complaints. Within walking distance to Crossroads Music and Stephen Talkhouse, Inner Sleeve has completed a veritable music trinity on Amagansett's Main Street.
Since the store opened last month, Wright said sales have been pretty steady.
"I've been selling a bit of everything," he noted. "I've had country sales… even classical sales, which really surprised me."
Perhaps unsurprising, however, is that Wright's biggest request thus far has been for The Beatles. (He has to re-stock Beatles and Rolling Stones sections on a regular basis.)
While Wright said his store certainly caters to music aficionados — he also sells rare items and collectibles — his customer-base runs the gamut.
Shoppers have been old and young, music snobs and vinyl newbies. It's really unpredictable.
"I've been surprised at some of the things I've sold this week," Wright said. "Like Hall and Oates. Five years ago you couldn't give away LPs of Hall and Oates! The whole record-buying phenomenon has changed the way some people look at some of those guilty pleasures."
Customers have even come in exclusively for album art.
"Just last week a guy came in an bought several AC/DC albums to frame and put up in his office," Wright said. He added that once a customer came to him for images to put up on his bathroom walls. "He wanted any albums with a Hawaiian or beach theme," Wright recalled.
What's been most common thus far, however, are those who come in for the nostalgia.
On a recent afternoon, a woman and her mother stepped into the store with one thing on their minds: "I want a record player!" the younger woman pleaded to Wright, who calmly assured her they would be in-stock soon.
When asked why she was so adamant about the dated device, she said her attraction was simple.
"I grew up with record players," she explained.
"And now that he's here," she continued, motioning to Wright, "and she got me crazy over them," she added, motioning to her mother, "it's nice that they're coming back. They're just so much fun!"
Her mother went on to explain the thrill of the tactile listening process, which Wright punctuated later on.
"You realize that the experience is about being involved in your music," Wright explained. "I mean, you're forced to hold the record, you have to flip it half-way through, you're moving the arm and the needle on top of it…. You're part of the process.
"When you're listening to an MP3," he added with a hint of disdain, "you're usually doing something else — it's just background music."
Of course, even for Wright, it wasn't always this way.
There was a time when the avid record collector, who held his first job at Long Island Sound on Main Street in East Hampton, actually gathered his entire record collection — which at the time was heavily bent toward artists with big hair: KISS, Quiet Riot, Def Leopard — and chucked it at the East Hampton dump.
(Strictly for reasons of taste, Wright said he said he doesn't regret that decision.)
It's the same familiar story of new technology trumping old ways of being.
Back in the '80s, the art of the mix tape was gaining prominence, and with double tape decks so easily accessible, LPs were seen as cumbersome and unnecessary.
It took relocating to California to get Wright back on track.
"I was in my early 20s at the time, and this guy in his mid-40s kept telling me: Records! Records!" Wright recalled. "He was the guy who was saying what everyone's saying now, that the sound quality of a record is just better because that's the way these recordings were meant to be heard."
"A CD is just ones and zeros and a laser reading that back and translating it into music."
Twenty years and one record-toting cross-country trip later, and Wright is still strictly vinyl.
To build his stockpile — which is well over 10,000 records, not including Wright's personal collection, which at this point is a few thousand — Wright goes to yard sales and estate sales, buying masses of old LPs the way an antique book dealer scours homes for old books.
Sometimes he finds a rare collector's item, but that goes right in the store with hula-themed album art and Hall and Oates.
"As a collector, I used to always be frustrated by walking into a record store and feeling like I was only getting access to the B- and C-level stuff," Wright said. "Sometimes you just get that feeling, that the primo stuff is being held somewhere in a back room, waiting to be sold on eBay, and the person walking through the front door has no access to that."
This goes back to the driving force behind Wright's brick and mortar shop.
"I don't want any collector to feel like he or she doesn't have access to a premium piece," he said.
Collectibles may be displayed, like artwork, on the walls of the building, but Wright said it's never off-limits.
"Everything in the store should be available to everyone who walks in the door."
Wright said the taste for records on the East End still remains to be seen. (He's waiting for the height of the summer season to figure that one out.) But he remains positive, adding that the store may shift to accommodate the community, depending on what people long to buy.
"There's certainly nowhere else on the East End to get this stuff. As a collector, I would drive two hours to find a good record store, one I hadn't been to before," he said.
And with a grin, he added, "The people who want it will find me."


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The Keene Sentinel | March 25,2013
Baybutt on Avon St.KEENE, N.H. The downfall of the Baybutt Construction Corp. the now-closed lead contractor on several uncompleted Vermont projects including Brattleboros state office building and Rockinghams public library began last year and quickly snowballed, according to its owner.
Company President Frederick L. Baybutt told a bankruptcy court last week it took one project to set his familys nearly 50-year-old company on a path of debt.
Recently, a number of the companys subcontractors came forward saying they have not been paid for projects they worked on. Some have filed lawsuits.
Within months, Baybutt Construction lost four multimillion-dollar projects. And the company is broke, Baybutt said at a hearing on his personal bankruptcy filing last Thursday in a federal court in Manchester, N.H.
Its only assets are a handful of construction equipment, including forklifts, trucks and trailers, he said.
Baybutt told the court how his company continued to work while not being paid, how an insurance bond for a Vermont project was waived before the project started, and how he did everything he could to keep the family-run business afloat.
Several of his Vermont clients, however, tell different stories.
First sign of trouble
In 2010, Baybutt Construction was awarded the $13 million construction project for the new Brattleboro Food Co-op store and two floors of apartments on top for the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust.
And thats when the problems started, Baybutt told the court.
Baybutt said food co-op officials refused to pay his company, which he attributes to financial difficulties the co-op was facing because the new stores sales did not meet projections.
This was a developer who backed out on us, he said. We were wronged. That project started the snowball.
In response, co-op officials refute Baybutts claims, noting they secured all loans and grants through a public fundraising campaign before the buildings groundbreaking so they could pay bills as they were submitted.
All completed requisitions were turned around in quick order, and the co-op has consistently fulfilled all of its obligations, co-op spokeswoman Sabine Rhyne told the Brattleboro Reformer. The final resolution of the project is now in the hands of the bond company.
Co-op officials added that any trouble they had paying Baybutt was because the company wasnt submitting all of its paperwork for subcontractors on time, said project manager Tom Appel, who has worked with Baybutt Construction on other projects over the years and was hired by the co-op.
We were always waiting on Baybutt, Appel said.
In January 2012, complaints about subcontractors not being paid first started surfacing, co-op General Manager Alex Gyori previously said. In all, between 25 and 30 subcontractors were making claims.
Originally, the co-op was supposed to open in November 2011, Gyori said, but construction was delayed by about seven months. After another delay, the store opened in June. But earlier this year, the co-op laid off 11 employees, and Gyori said the layoffs were due to additional expenses and lower-than-anticipated sales after the project was delayed.
Baybutt said, despite troubles receiving payments, the company continued with other projects to soldier on.
But the problems rippled.
After the food co-op, the company had contracts for a $2.6 million renovation project for the Vermont state office building in Brattleboro, a $2.9 million renovation project at the Rockingham Free Public Library in Bellows Falls, a $1.2 million project for a new Antrim, N.H., police station and an approximately $4 million project at the Nantucket Memorial Airport in Massachusetts.
All four were terminated in December and January, and three of the contracts ended because subcontractors werent paid. Antrim officials decided to end the contract before construction started because of the financial difficulties the company was facing.
When Rockingham officials terminated their contract with Baybutt, it was also on grounds that Baybutt did not secure a performance and payment bond on the project, even though the town paid $21,000 for the bond, they said.
The bond ensures subcontractors will be paid the money theyre due for their work.
But Baybutt said that before the project started, officials decided a bond could be waived to save money.
At the bankruptcy hearing, Baybutt said he is not sure why the company was given $21,000 for the bond since it was waived. Pressed by attorney Howard Myers, representing Bradford, Vt.-based ARC Mechanical a contractor owed more than $190,000 for the library project Baybutt said there was some confusion.
But Janice Mitchell-Love, the chairwoman of the librarys board of trustees, said that although she remembers talks about the company not getting a bond, the trustees wanted one, and they believed a bond was purchased.
When Myers asked Baybutt where the $21,000 went, Baybutt said hed have to check records.
ARC Mechanical was not paid for work done in September, October and November 2012. Myers asked Baybutt if it was his decision, the project managers or the companys accountants who decided to not pay subcontractors.
It was a team effort, Baybutt said.
Bidding low
Baybutt said the construction industry has been turned upside down since 2008.
The demand for construction services has been down and projects are extremely competitive, he said in court.
And Steven Horton, the project manager for Keenes new fire station another recent Baybutt effort said construction companies only make a small profit after they pay for on-site work, such as rubbish removal, temporary power and project supervisors. Subcontractors are usually paid about 85 percent of the project, said Horton, who has decades of experience in the construction industry.
For companies trying to stay afloat in a tough economy, they usually get jobs by reputation or bidding lower than others, Horton said.
Baybutt was the lowest bidder on a few significant projects.
For the Brattleboro Food Co-op project, the company bid $9,195,725, more than $1 million less than the next company, according to information provided by Appel. The next-lowest bidder was MacMillin Co. of Keene, which bid $10,247,000. Bread Loaf, based in Middlebury, Vt., was next, with $10,268,000.
In the bids for the Rockingham library project, Baybutt listed its costs lower than other companies, which included MacMillin and Colchester, Vt.-based Engelberth Construction.
For example, the company said its general conditions costs which includes rubbish removal, superintendent fees and more would be between $97,281 and $145,292, while other companies ranged from $139,480 to $255,000. And the company agreed to provide pre-construction services including attendance at design review meetings and suggestions for cost savings for no cost.
The fact that Baybutt had the lowest cost was enough to sway Rockingham officials, said Municipal Manager Timothy Cullenen.
Nantucket airport Commissioner Chairman Daniel W. Drake said the company was awarded the project because it was the lowest bidder, as was also the case with the Antrim police station.
Baybutt said that by December, only one subcontractor was owed for the Nantucket project and would be paid through the bonding company. Baybutt said he believes Nantucket officials terminated the contract without grounds, and he is contemplating legal action.
A family firm rises
In 1964, Richard Baybutt, with 11 years of construction experience, left what would become a rival construction company and founded his own.
Baybutt was vice president at MacMillin, where hed worked for four years, before leaving to start Baybutt Construction Corp., according to archives at New Hampshires Historical Society of Cheshire County.
By the late 1970s and early 1980s, the company became one of the top construction firms in the area, said Keene Mayor Kendall W. Lane, and was eventually passed down to Richards youngest son, Frederick Baybutt, although other family members remained involved.
Among the firms projects were renovations at the Historical Society of Cheshire County, at the Bellows Falls police and fire stations and at Keene State College.
In 1999, the company started one of its biggest projects, a roughly $19 million renovation and expansion project at Keene High School. The project was completed in 2004, said Business Administrator John R. Harper, and shortly after the company won the contract for the $6 million renovation project at the high schools technical and career education center, known as Cheshire Career Center. There were no complaints on either project, Harper said.
Though MacMillin was later tapped to build the districts new $36.7 million middle school on Maple Avenue, other Keene municipal projects came Baybutts way.
In 2010, when Keene officials were choosing a construction company to build a new fire station, they had the companies do presentations to an appointed board, rather than bid, said Fire Chief Gary P. Lamoureux.
The board took into consideration how long a company had been in existence, how many municipal buildings it had done in the area and its financial stability. The new facility, which opened in the fall 2012, cost $5.9 million.
Baybutt Construction stood out from the other companies for a few reasons, one being that it had just finished building the Portsmouth, N.H., Fire Station earlier that year, Lamoureux said. Portsmouth Fire Chief Christopher LeClaire said there were no problems with that project.
So far, about 40 subcontractors have made claims they have not been paid for work on the Keene station, according to the insurance company, Merchants Bonding Company of Iowa. Nearly half of them have been paid, according to the insurance company.
Sad outcome
Right now, Baybutt Construction is broke, Baybutt said at his bankruptcy hearing.
Foreclosure proceedings against the family-run Granite Gorge Ski Area and the Baybutt headquarters on Avon Street in Keene were called off shortly before the properties were to be auctioned, with the debt holder only saying that the matter had been resolved.
The company has no value, except for some construction equipment, and those have liens, or attachments, against them from TD Bank. TD Bank has filed a lawsuit against the company, saying the company owes more than $1 million and its bank account is overdrawn by more than $300,000. Baybutt said Thursday the account is overdrawn because checks were made to subcontractors for the Nantucket project.
We did everything we could do to keep the business going, Baybutt said.
He said he even cashed in his own retirement fund to help with the companys finances.
Baybutt said he has not received a paycheck from the construction company since Dec. 24, and has been only receiving a salary of $3,500 a month from the Granite Gorge Ski Area, where he is a partner in the business.
Many in the community who have done work with Baybutt Construction were disappointed to see whats happened.
I was saddened to hear about their difficulties, Harper said. They and MacMillin were always our local companies.
With MacMillin Construction merging with the Vermont-based D.E.W. Construction Corp. last year, its a real issue that the city has lost these two companies, said Lane, who has known the Baybutt family for years.
Both used area subcontractors when doing work, Lane said. Now, that boon to the local economy is gone.
Baybutt Construction will fondly be remembered for their work, Lane said. The company also donated to a number of charitable groups and nonprofit organizations over the years.
When asked by attorneys at last weeks hearing if the company is finished, Baybutt said it was sidelined existing but not doing business right now. When the Avon Street headquarters closed in late December, only a handful of employees were left with the company.
Baybutt said its been difficult to go through the losses of a second-generation family company.
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@Redbull I can't buy new and wouldn't anyway, for financial reasons. I haven't even started working yet and a car is just the first item on the list of expensive things I'll need to buy in the next couple of years.
I've pretty much settled on a sub-10000$ Versa, and there are literally hundreds of them selling everywhere, it's hard to pinpoint any particular one. The one I'm eyeing most atm is a 9987$ grey SL 2009 with all the options, cruise control, deluxe audio system, abs brakes (rare on older Versas), etc, but there are dozens others.
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Since everybody seems to be throwing around suggestions, I highly recommend early 2000s at the latest. Newer cars are too dependent on their computers in my opinion. They've gone beyond just putting computerized sensors and fuel injectors and have actually started replacing mechanical parts with computer chips, and it causes problems. The Toyotas that would randomly take off, my own 2006 Ford Explorer that tried to take off by itself because of the computerized gas pedal, it's just not worth chancing it in my opinion. Head out into the boondocks and find some guy (Craigslist might be a good place to look) who has rebuilt his late 90s model car and wants to get rid of it for $1,500-$3,000. It might have over a hundred thousand miles on it, but you won't have to worry as much about your computer going haywire and you won't have to go incredibly deep in debt until you get established in a good paying position.
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Going out for test drives is on my to-do list
I'll tell you what car NOT to buy: The Versa.
Also, I've driven the Kia Rio5 back in the days. Worst car ever. I'd rather take the bus than to drive that horrible piece of crap. As far as most Korean cars are concerned, 99% of the fanboys will tell you about how amazing their warranty is, how their specs are 10x better than any other brand for the price, etc. but at the end of the day, their cars have terrible engines and transmissions that underperform miserably (In power and in fuel economy) Yes, they are better than they were 10 years ago, but it is nowhere near its Japanese or European competitors. My recommendation is go test drive the cars first hand and ignore the reviews you read in mags and rags. I kept an open mind and test drove many Hyundais and Kias made in the last 5 years (I test drive cars for fun in my free time lol) and I'm still not convinced at all to buy one. I have taken out the Sonata, Elantra, Genesis Coupe, Kia Rio, etc etc and none of them are any good imo.
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They are annoying for a reason - it's called *contract enforcement*.
If all that keeps you tied to a carrier is your word (in short, if all carriers had the same hardware standard, which is pretty much the situation in the UK or EU), the moment another carrier dangled a lower price in front of you, despite the terms of your extant contract, how long would it realistically take for you to change carriers? Just going by what I see on most forums having to do with cellular device usage (anywhere), most folks would bail ASAP - in other words, those contracts would not be worth squat.
The carriers know this - they aren't stupid. Carrier locks are there because (as much as you won't say so) most of us want to get things as cheap as possible, even if it means breaking existing contracts.
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Then I had a light bulb moment (If you haven't seen Despicable Me, it went something like this.) where I decided to use an old picture frame instead. More brilliant!
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There is no prohibition against bringing a digital representation of Hashem's name into a bathroom per se, but to have it displayed visual would not be respectable (similarly to the way we do not wear a talis gadol into a beis kisei even though technically it is permitted). Furthermore we are not supposed to think about holy matters in the bathroom (excluding halachos relevant to our conduct there) so it would not be appropriate to display such material in such a location.


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So the bike-giveaway idea started with your 14-year-old cousin in your hometown of Racine, Wisconsin?
Yeah, it was probably six years ago, and my cousin Little Richard had his bike stolen off my grandma's porch on the south side of Racine. So she called the police and they came out and reported the theft, and they told us there was a real shortage of bicycles in the city, period.
And you thought you'd do something about that.
Over the last couple years we've given bikes out 400 to 500 at a time, to encourage kids to start riding for exercise, instead of the video games--that's something they love, video games. But we're also trying to get people on bikes as a means of transportation.
The first time [in 2005], I just went to the Walmart and gave fliers to 500 kids telling them to come to the Boys' Center and I had the truck dump the bikes in the street. Now we do a ride with the Racine Police Department. [To get a bike now] you gotta make a peace pledge, swear that you'll ride safely and be a pillar in the community.
Your own childhood was no picnic. You never knew your dad and were arrested 15 times on drug and weapons charges before you turned 15. I'm guessing you didn't have a bike back then?
I didn't have a bike; I didn't have a lot of things. But I tried to weather the storm the best that I could. So the feeling I get seeing kids on bicycles, riding through the neighborhood safely, saying thank you--I can't even describe it. It's something I'm going to do wherever I'm at.
When your cousin's theft occurred, had you been riding much?
That was one of my main methods of training. A year earlier, I had one of the best years of my career, and it was because of less wear and tear on my body. I've been really successful ever since I started riding.
How did you get into it?
By watching other people and asking about training. There were so many challenges out there. I'd go, "I wonder if I can do that bike trail, that's 20 miles, or that trail, that's 30." I like the challenge.
Give us a sense of the off-season rides you do now.
In Fairfax [County, Virginia] I'm usually on Route 50 going to Hoop Magic [a court complex] or down to Loudoun County and back. It's great exercise, I feel great afterward, and I got the whole family riding with me. I do that four times a week. But the ride I look forward to most is back home, from the drive-in in Kenosha 4.5 miles to Racine. I get to ride through my city and see a lot of people as I'm getting my work in. You know, you go through the history--it's like the stages of your life as you fly through the areas that you grew up in.