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On January 7, 2013 Nathan Mondloch of Montana wrote us:
"My name is Nathan Mondloch, I am 29 years old and have lived and hunted in southwest Montana my entire life. This success story starts when I was seventeen years old. I won a rifle in a game called "Cut the Cards" at a Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Banquet.
The story: As my father and I walked into the banquet, I told him that I have saved ten one dollar bills from my weekly lunch allowance and was determined to win a rifle. He proceeded to try and talk me out of doing this of course and to play some of the other games instead. I however knew that this night was going to be my lucky night. When the time came to buy the playing card I made my move, buying a two of clubs insured that I had at least a chance for the rifle. When the drawing started I waited in anticipation as the gentlemen running this raffle narrowed down the list. Finally I was standing with one other person as the announcer stated "will the person holding the two of clubs please raise your hand and come up here to verify that you in fact have won this rifle." I had won a Tikka model 695 whitetail chambered in a 300 Win Mag, and could not stop smiling for hours.
The next challenge was to find a bullet that would not only work in the rifle, but kill fast and effectively. My father had shot a 300 for several years before this and had good success with the round in harvesting game. I however didn't like the bullets that he was using because in my mind they didn't kill as quickly as I thought they should. So I began doing research and found that the bullet I used in my 30-06 would work in my new rifle and did what I wanted it to. The quest for a bullet I liked was over.
The bullet was a .30 caliber Sierra 165 grain Spitzer boattail (#2145). I picked IMR 4831, a moderate burning powder, out of the 50th Anniversary Edition reloading manual and started loading. Turns out that I hit the jackpot on the first batch, the rifle and load where a perfect match. I am able to shoot a 3 round ½" groups and a 5 round 1" groups at a hundred yards.
This year I finally got my chance to fulfill my life long goal of harvesting a Rocky Mountain Elk. On November 17, 2012, I was hunting with my father in southwest Montana when we spotted two bulls (only one was legal). I pulled up the rifle, aimed and shot. The 5×5 bull dropped in its tracks. After getting the animal dressed out and back home it hit me that where I harvested this bull was the exact same spot that I harvested a mule deer buck with my bow the year before.
The next day, my father and I were on a mission to fill his elk tag and went back to the same area. I found my tracks from the day before and from the exact spot I took the shot to where the bull met his demise was exactly 297 yards according to my Leopold Range finder. The shot angle is between 60 and 80 degrees on an uphill angle.
For years I have dreamt that my first elk would be a bull and that my father was by my side to see the shot and share the mood, excitement, and joy of the kill. That being said, I want to thank the bulletsmiths of Sierra Bullets for producing a high quality bullets and data. Of all the factors and players that where involved in this story you played a vital part by designing the bullets that flat out work and I will continue to use nothing but Sierra bullets."
Thank You,
Nathan Mondloch


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Discovery Program Learning Centers have been partnering with business leaders and community foundations for over ten years. We are grateful for the partnerships we've had with the following organizations:
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Discovery Program Learning Centers collaborate with the Newsome Bailey Project to pilot a public school partnership in Newport News.
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Server Memory: Types and Performance
Memory that is designed to be used in servers comes in several different types with different performance profiles.
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ECC and non-ECC memory
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Memory can also be registered or unbuffered. Registered memory has a register between the DRAM modules and the memory controller. The register holds requested data for one clock cycle before it's sent on. This places less electrical load on the memory controller and allow the system to remain stable with more memory modules than would otherwise be possible. This causes a slowdown in data rates. You can increase server performance by choosing memory that interleaves the data across three channels. There are also fully buffered memory modules, which buffer data lines, in addition to the control lines.
The opposite of registered is unbuffered, meaning that there is no buffer between the system and the DRAM. Buffered is an older term for registered. It is possible to buy unbuffered ECC memory, but its use is limited to very small servers that need an insurance policy against the possibility of flipped bits.
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Last night, in the middle of fixing dinner I got the call. "MOM! I NEED HELP!"
When I went upstairs to see what my older son needed, I found him standing in the center of his room with the huge Fathead of Russell Wilson he had gotten for Christmas all tangled up in a sticky, messy ball.
Normally this would be a yelling situation for me. Number one, I was in the middle of fixing dinner. Number two, Fatheads are not cheap. And number three, he had not used common sense in trying to do something so big without asking for help.
But thankfully - and this is the first thing on my list of what I am grateful for today - one of my guides or The Universe or my Higher Self tapped me on the shoulder and invited me to do it differently this time. To focus on the good.
My husband volunteered to finish making dinner and I set my sights on making this a positive learning experience for my son.
Working together, we managed to untangle Russell's legs, and then his mid-section and finally his head. And then we were able - after a couple of attempts - to get him up on the wall and to smooth him out enough to almost completely disguise the fact that we had partially ripped his head in the process.
After we were done my son started to berate himself (as I know he has seen me do to myself on many, many occasions) for being so stupid. I stopped him immediately and reminded him that he could not have known how hard it was going to be because he had never done it before. And then I told him I was proud of him for having the confidence to try and the courage to ask for help when things weren't going well.
I was proud of him, and I was proud of myself too, for listening to that still, small voice that is so easy to ignore, but always has the right answer. And for focusing on the good when it wasn't that easy to do.
Here are a couple of other things I am grateful for today:
3) A few hours of truly "free" time downtown while on jury duty.
[I am calling this photo, "All's Well That Ends Well."]


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Chapter 38: Climate change
Upon walking into Charlie's house on that freakishly warm early evening, Tammy heard Todd yelling at his father.
"I get it, Dad, okay? You think I'm a loser. You know, you really should learn a new song. That one is just so old already!"
Frank was on his usual stool at the kitchen counter. "Could you be a little more dramatic, Todd?" he said. "And loud, too? I don't think the neighbors heard you."
"Tammy!" said Charlie. "Boys, Tammy is here. Let's try to act civil, shall we?"
Tammy put her purse down on the coffee table. "What's going on? Todd, what's wrong?"
Todd plopped himself down on the couch. "Nothing," he murmured.
"Didn't sound like nothing," said Tammy. "Frank?"
"What are you looking at me like that for? I'm not the one who's leaving you and me here."
"Is this about what I think it's about?" said Tammy
"Probably," said Charlie.
Going into the kitchen to pour herself a glass of wine, Tammy said, "So you took the job, Todd?"
"Of course he took the job," said Frank. "Why wouldn't he take the job? He thinks it's going to make him a star. He wants his own TV show. 'Cooking With Fruits.'"
"Did you really just say that?" said Charlie.
"Of course he did," said Todd. "That's my dad."
"Oh, quit your whining," said Frank. "Good Christ, since when did 'gay' mean 'no sense of humor'?
"Frank, stop it!" said Tammy. "What is the matter with you?"
"What is the matter with YOU?" said Frank. "Not that any of this has anything to do with you anyway."
"Really? Let's find out. Charlie, are you and Todd moving to L.A.?"
"Yes," said Charlie.
"Oh, so, gee, this actually has a lot to do with me, doesn't it, Frank?"
"But of course it does," said Frank. "How could I forgot that everything revolves around the world's greatest artist?"
Todd wearily covered his face with his hands. "Dad, will you please just stop?"
Tammy went and sat on the couch beside Todd. Putting her arm around him, she said, "Todd, I can't believe it took me this long to say this, but congratulations on your new job. That is so, so wonderful. What an accomplishment. I'm so happy for you. We're all so proud of you. Aren't we, Frank?"
"I'd be prouder of him if he stuck to one thing," said Frank.
"Really? You couldn't just—" said Tammy.
"What are you TALKING about, Dad?" said Todd. "I'm a chef. Okay? That IS what I do! That IS my thing."
"Then be a chef here. Finish what you started here. Don't let all your employees down here. I know you're gay, but can't you still be a man?"
"Oh my God!" said Todd.
"You're always quitting one thing and moving on to another," continued Frank. "Try stick-to-itevness sometime, Todd. You might like it."
"You've been married THREE TIMES!" said Todd.
"Okay, stop it, you two," said Charlie. "Just stop now. Everybody take a deep breath. Frank, I believe I speak for all of when I say, with respect, that you are being a colossal dick."
"Well, that's something you'd know about, isn't it?" said Frank.
"Not as much as I'd like to know about it, but that's another conversation. Now can we please just talk about what Todd's new job is going to mean to all of us?"
"Well, I'm only sort of moving," said Charlie. "I'm going to spend half my time in L.A., and half my time here."
"Oh, you are?" said Tammy. "Not to be completely selfish about keeping you near me. But that's the plan? Todd, does that work for you?"
"As much as it can," said Todd. "But it's the only way to do it. For the first three months, at least, I'll basically be living at the restaurant. And Charlie's got so much going on here."
"I certainly do," said Charlie. "And probably more work coming down the pike, too. This is a wonderful time to be in the hotel design business in Asheville, North Carolina. Which is why I'll be spending half the week working here, and the other half in L.A., being wined and dined by my award-winning, Chef to the Stars husband."
"Great," said Frank. "And what am I supposed to do, live out in the streets?"
"Now, Francis, don't be ridiculous," said Charlie. "You're perfectly welcome to live in the woods out back."
"So, I was right. Being gay does mean no sense of humor."
"What ARE me and Mr. Personality here going to do, Charlie?" said Tammy. "Sounds like it's time for us to move out. Not TOGETHER, of course. But it seems like maybe it's time for me, anyway, to find a place of my own, right? And I can afford that now, so it's no problem."
"Well, Todd and I have been talking about that very thing," said Charlie. "And either one of you, or both of you, are welcomed to continue living here. In fact, our choice would be that you both stay right where you are. But there is one catch."
"There always is," said Frank.
"You must promise, Tammy, to, every so often, throw a piece of fruit out to Frank in the back yard. We don't want him dying of rickets out there."
Todd snorted.
"No, but, alas, it's about rent," said Charlie. "I'm afraid that we just can't afford two houses—especially not if one of them is in L.A. But if you guys can swing paying us some rent here, we'd love it if you'd stay."
Tammy's first thought was, No. This seemed like the perfect time for her to strike out on her own.
But then she remembered the rental market in Asheville. She'd be lucky to get an old tool shed for $1,000 a month. And Charlie's house was, after all, in East West Asheville. She could walk to her studio from there—not to mention to Hole, Short Street Cakes, All Souls Pizza, Taco Billy, and Burger Bar, the greatest dive bar in the history of the human liver.
Back on the other hand, though, was Frank. The good news was that he had so recovered from his stroke that he no longer needed any care. The bad news was that he was still Frank.
"Frank, what do you want to do?" said Tammy.
Frank stepped off his stool. "I wanna go take a nap." He looked back and forth between Charlie and his son. "I assume that's okay? I still have a place to live for the next hour, right?"
"Oh, of course you do," said Charlie. "But it couldn't hurt to set your alarm for forty-five minutes. I'm kidding! It's a joke! Mi casa, su casa!"
But Frank, grimly walking out of the room, wasn't having any.
Tammy looked out the sliding glass doors, past the back porch at the bare woods beyond. She wondered if it was still as warm outside as it had been. It probably was. Then again, with the weather being what it had been lately, it could already be near to freezing out there.
Chapter 39: Whatever's happening is happening
"Don't you just love that they have rocking chairs at the airport?" said Charlie.
"I do," said Tammy. "What next? Stewardesses serving beverages on the porch of the Thomas Wolfe house?"
"I know! This makes me think that when I look into the cockpit as I'm boarding, I'm going to see the pilot and co-pilot knitting doilies. Or whittling."
Tammy laughed. Then she said, "So, I've been thinking. You can't leave. I know I said I could handle it. But, I was wrong. I can't. You're just going to have to change your plans."
"Just like that, huh?" said Charlie.
"Just like that."
"But we're already at the airport. I've checked my bags."
"We'll buy you new stuff."
"But what do I tell Todd?"
"That blood is thicker than bouillabaisse."
"But he's waiting for me in L.A. He's my husband. He'll be so sad without me."
"Pfft. Like husbands last. Besides, you don't have to worry about Todd, or anything like that. He's beautiful. And he'll be hobnobbing with the rich and powerful. He's bound to meet someone new."
Tammy shrugged. "I don't make the rules."
Charlie put his hand on her shoulder. "Are you okay?"
Tammy smiled through the tears welling in her eyes. "No. You're leaving."
"Now, don't cry. You'll make me cry. See? Now I'm crying."
"I'll miss you so much."
"I'll miss you too," said Charlie. "I already miss you."
Tammy smiled a sad smile. "So it's settled then. You're staying."
"You know," said Charlie, dabbing his eyes with the handkerchief he'd pulled from his pocket, "it's not like I'm actually leaving Asheville. I'll still be here at least half the time."
Charlie took Tammy's hand in his. After a long moment of silence between them, he said, "It will be nice to be in L.A. again. As liberal as Asheville is, I'm still a gay man living in the South. And Putin is as viciously anti-gay as they come. With his boyfriend now occupying the White House, I'll definitely feel safer living in a big city. More places to hide when the Orange One unleashes his brownshirts."
"But I'm hardly the one we should be worried about. You're the one who's going to be living all alone with Frank. Are you sure you're gonna be okay with that?"
Tammy nodded. "Yeah. Frank's okay. Now that he can take care of himself, I probably won't even see him all that much. And Maggie'll be there more often. And whenever he gets too Frank-like, I can always go to my studio."
"Okay. Well, just so we're clear about this, you can move out of the house any time you want to. You know that, right? No notice necessary. Okay?"
"Okay. But I won't want to move out. I love my downstairs apartment. It's perfect."
"Hey, so, speaking of your studio, how's your painting going?"
"Good. Insane. I have no idea. I'm doing a lot of it. That's about all I know."
"It does seem like you're always at your studio anymore."
"I know. And, honestly, I don't really understand what exactly is happening between me and … whatever it is inside of me that's always apparently lived beneath the surface, and is now definitely wanting out. I almost can't work fast enough."
"That sounds like a good thing."
"I guess. I mean, yes, it is. It's just that …"
"I don't … I don't know. Never mind. Whatever's happening is happening."
"I am so going to put that on my tombstone. 'Whatever's happening is happening.'"
"Cool. Then I'll put on my tombstone, 'What Charlie said.'"
Charlie laughed. "But you're the one who said it!"
"But you say everything so perfectly. Everything."
"No," said Charlie. "You do. Everything about you is perfect."
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In the airport parking lot Tammy sat in her car. Charlie's plane was up in the sky somewhere, heading for Los Angeles. Maybe he'd run into Ryan and Bikini Girl at the beach sometime. She hoped so. Because she knew that, out of his love for her, Charlie would drown them both.
She smiled a little, and started her car.
And as soon as she had smiled, she started to cry.
In her idling car in the parking lot of the Asheville Regional Airport, she let it all out.
Not that she could have stopped it. What was happening was happening.
When it was done happening, she dried her eyes, blew her nose, and collected herself for the drive home.
Ready for the next, she slipped her car into drive.
The darkness of the night was just beginning to give way to morning's first light.
Chapter 40: What had she just agreed to do?
Tammy was in her studio, painting.
Mostly. Maybe.
Maybe she was eight years old, lying on her back on a Saturday afternoon beneath the hump of a small metal slide on the playground of her school, eyes closed, listening, the slide keeping her dry as the rain poured down everywhere around her.
Maybe she was in her backyard, screaming as her enraged father hurled hard against the fence the orange kitten she'd found abandoned two days before.
Maybe she was home alone, sitting in the pitch dark inside her closed bedroom closet, a big drawing pad on her lap, holding her favorite drawing pen poised above it, waiting to see what she would draw if she didn't try to draw anything at all.
It was now, for her, there, all there, all of everything she'd ever continued to be beneath the person she now understood she'd had to become in order to survive it all was there for her now, still present, still whole, still alive, still witnessing, still knowing everything through the knowing of nothing—and all of it now rushing forth, gushing out, now mindlessly and with shameless urgency exploding itself onto canvas after canvas in her little white box of a studio in the River Arts District, so near the great dark snake that was the French Broad River she could feel the monster's ancient spirit poised above it all.
Hail to that art! God love that art. God knows she had always loved that art. For as far back as she could remember, that art had been a primary lifeline for her, had always been that wondrously good thing, made of technique and history and painstaking precision, upon which she could always depend to lift her a little higher, send her a little deeper, make of her a little more.
But now, for a reason she knew not to blow apart by trying to understand it, all of that was gone. Now, instead of filling her up, what it was to be an artist was emptying her, draining her, using her. Now she was drowning, exuberantly drowning, in what art must be and what art must do when it moves in and through a person who, for whatever terrible reasons have led them to that helplessly alive state, is primed to let it be everything to their nothing, everywhere to their nowhere, the one moment into which all of their moments breathe.
All she had to do was keep up with it, be there for it, get out of the way and watch it happen.
So that's what she did. And that's what she was doing when she finally became aware of the soft knocking upon her closed studio door.
She ignored it. They'd leave. Art happening. Nobody home. Closed door.
Except then her closed door was slowly opening up.
"Hello?" It was a man's voice.
She would kill him. Whomever it was, she would kill him with the brush in her hand.
It was Stan, the painter from down the hall. He had the nerve to open the door to her studio, and then to poke only his head inside, as if his head, all by itself, wasn't all that intrusive.
"Sorry to bother you," he said. Tammy only stared at him. Pushing the door open a bit more, he slowly scanned the filled canvases leaning against seemingly every available space in the room. "Wow. Have you been working here for a solid week now?"
Tammy involuntarily tightened her grip on the handle of her brush. "Can I help you?"
"I've come to ask if you're planning on participating in the Welcome to the Neighborhood Party."
"The what?"
"The Welcome to the Neighborhood Party. It's this Thursday. Noon till seven."
"No. I don't know. I'm sorry, but I'm—"
"It's not mandatory or anything. But it's a nice way to show your work. People wander through all our studios, maybe see something of yours they like, maybe buy something of yours they like. I can tell you, I've had some really nice sales from these kinds of—"
"Sounds great, count me in. But I need to get back to what I was doing, so—"
"Say no more. When the muse calls, eh? I'll leave you to it, Tammy. See ya' on Thursday."
The moment Stan restored her solitude, Tammy was back in the eye of the hurricane, holding her brush out, touching its bristles to the sky-high wall of the tempest swirling everywhere around her, catching its infinite colors and through some magic of current flowing them onto her canvas.
Somewhere in the midst of it all she realized that her hand was stuck in midair, the tip of her brush hovering just off the canvas.
What had she just agreed to do?
Chapter 41: Showtime
The following Thursday afternoon found the door of Tammy's studio propped wide open.
And what does a door propped wide open say? It says, "C'mon in! Look around! Assess my artwork, person I've never seen in my life! It's all for sale! It's like a product you buy! This isn't awkward at all!"
That's what it seemed to Tammy that her open door was broadcasting, anyway.
She was facing that door, sitting behind her recent purchase from the Habitat for Humanity thrift store, a dark, handmade, rustic little workhorse of a desk, like something she might have come across at an open-air market in Tijuana, its sides and drawers festooned with big tropical flowers carefully carved by some obvious artisan about whom she knew she'd never know a thing.
She tried to remember how in the world she had ever agreed to participate in this "Welcome to the Neighborhood Party" being thrown by the Riverview Station, ostensibly as a way of celebrating the opening, just behind the Riverview building, of the Wedge brewhouse and 12 Bones chewhouse, both of which she had already personally welcomed by becoming a regular customer.
Then she remembered what had knocked her so far off-track that right now, instead of painting, she was at her desk, unnerved, apparently incapable of coming up with a single sane-sounding thing to say to randoms who nonchalantly wandered into her space from the hallway outside, strangers who, while she tried not to look at them, looked at her work, which they of course had no way of knowing was her latest and greatest, was her everything, was the distillation and expression of all she'd ever known and nothing she could ever put into words, one large canvas of it after another, with each one set around her studio for their E-Z Viewing Pleasure.
And, so far, not one of the visitors to her studio had said a single word to her about her work. Not one. Total silence. They came in; they looked; they maybe smiled at her; they left.
It was torture.
Kind of.
She didn't really know what it was.
Part of her cared, a lot, about what people thought of her work. Another part of her thought that part of her was ridiculous.
The two parts were at constant war with each another. Nobody was winning.
Stan! She had Stan to blame for putting her through this. She thought: Stan was the man who could derail Cezanne.
And then—what with no one being around and all—she let herself laugh a little.
"Havin' a good time, I see."
"Makayla!" said Tammy. "Come on in, please! How are you?"
"All right. Now you gotta tell me what were you laughing about, all by yourself in here."
"Oh, it was nothing. It was just something that popped into my head about Stan."
Makayla arched an eyebrow. "Stan down the hall Stan? Our Stan?"
"That's the man."
"Well, I'm just gonna let you keep that to yourself." Like any would-be customer of that day, Makayla took her time surveying Tammy's paintings. Unlike anyone else, though, she offered an opinion. "Damn, girl," she said. "You are the shit." Then she turned to Tammy. "How are you doin'?"
"Well, I'm doing fine now. That was nice. Thank you."
"I don't do nice. I do honest. And I gotta tell you that while I don't know if you've sold any of your new stuff yet, I am certain of one thing. You will."
"That face isn't saying nothing."
"It's just that . . . I don't know. The whole selling thing is something I've never really dealt with before. You know that I taught art at a junior college in San Diego for ten years. Well, it sure never came up there."
"You've never shown your work?"
"Yeah, but not necessarily to sell it. Just at little school shows, or at the county fair, that kind of thing. But this is different. Artists here in Asheville actually sell their work."
"Not as much of it as we'd like to, I can tell you that."
"But it's part of what you're doing. It's part of what everyone in the RAD is doing."
"Not everyone. A lot of people keep studios out here so they can have a place to work away from their home. And, speaking for myself, I find it inspiring to be around other artists. Also, I need the socializing. When I worked at home, I'm talkin' about I never came out of the house. It wasn't good. I was headin' towards pretty much forgetting how to socialize altogether."
"Oh, my God. You are totally describing me. People have been coming in here all day, and I think they think I'm some kind of hand-wringing mute or something. What do you even say to someone who's standing there, staring at your work? 'Please buy it'? 'Please love it'? 'I'm sure it'll match your couch'? 'Does my pain bring you pleasure'?"
Makayla laughed. "You might not want to open with that one."
"But you know what I mean?"
"Yes, I do. Listen, it's hard. Your work is your life. Every painting is a birth. It's not easy, selling your children."
"But you do it, right?"
"I do."
"And your work is amazing. You're the best painter I've seen here; you're one of the best painters I've seen anywhere. If I ever painted one of your pictures, I'd take that picture, run away with it, and never come back. I'd just sit in some motel room out in the middle of nowhere, staring at it all day. How can you stand to sell even one of your paintings?"
"Because I know that people wouldn't buy that painting if they didn't love it. I don't want to sit talking to my paintings all day. I want other people to talk to my paintings, to be with them, to make them a part of their lives the way they've been a part of my life. Don't you love the idea of something you made becoming a part of someone else's life? Of it bringing them the same joy it brought you?"
"Yeah. I guess so. Right. You're right. I've just never thought of … well, any of this. And I don't know how it works for you, but I gotta say, I don't find doing my paintings particularly joyful. It's more like actually giving birth, you know what I mean?"
Makayla laughed. "I do."
"What are you two laughing about?" It was Stan, now standing at the door.
"About giving birth," said Makayla. "And how much it hurts."
"Oh," said Stan. "Yikes." He came into the room. "Been a good day for me today. How 'bout for you two? I had a guy come in who's the owner of this new restaurant they're opening in town. He's gonna buy some of my stuff for his restaurant, and maybe one of my largest pieces for his banquet room."
"How wonderful, Stan," said Makayla.
"No kidding!" said Tammy. "Congratulations. We were actually just talking about what it's like to sell your own artwork. Do you ever have any trouble selling yours? Emotionally, I mean?"
"Why would I have trouble selling my work?" said Stan. "I don't paint to not sell my paintings."
"That's the exact attitude I'm lacking, right there," said Tammy.
"Well, nobody says you have to sell your work," said Stan. "An artist is an artist is an artist."
"Exactly," said Makayla. "Your work is yours to do with whatever you want."
"But I do want to sell it," said Tammy. "I want to be a working artist. That's one of the reasons I moved out here. And I can't do that—I can't be an actual, real working artist—if I don't even want to sell my stuff."
Stan looked around himself. "Then it's time to slap some price tags onto these paintings. And don't underprice them, either. These are good. They'll sell."
"But you don't have to rush into anything," said Makayla. "You can take your time."
"If I keep taking my time," said Tammy, "I'll end up running out of time."
"All right, then," said Makayla.
"Well, my time for today is over," said Stan. "I'm closing up. Beer's on me if you two care to join me at the Wedge."
"I'm afraid I can't," said Makayla. "Got somewhere to be."
"I think I'll just stick it out till the event is over," said Tammy.
"So I'm on my own," said Stan. "Okay, well, if either of you changes your mind, you know where I'll be."
About ten minutes after she was again alone in her studio, Tammy heard a group of people coming up the stairs down the hall.
"C'mon, there's some more studios up here," she heard a woman say.
"Oh, goody," said another woman. "This place is fabulous!"
Tammy came out from behind her desk, quickly and quietly moving towards her door. But once she'd pushed it halfway shut, she stopped, head down.
Then she pulled her door back open, all the way, and retook her seat behind her desk, which someone had made and sold and she really, really loved.
She dropped her hands to her lap, and clenched them tight together. Then, relaxed, she rested them atop her desk.
The group was just outside her door. They were going to come inside.
"Showtime," she whispered.
Chapter 42: Dance to the music
Friday night, and Tammy and Makayla were sitting together over beers at a table inside the new Wedge behind Riverview Station.
"Okay, so he just took your money?" said Makayla. "He cleans you out, just like that? You're at a jazz festival, and you go to an ATM for a little cash, and that's when you find out that he's taken all your money?"
"That's how I find out," said Tammy. "Account balance: zero. None. Empty. Drained. Left me as broke as … as . . . —"
"As his own sense of decency?"
"Yes, that's how broke!" Tammy laughed—but then stopped herself. "Not that it's funny. It's not. It's terrible that Ryan's the way he is. I don't know how he lives with himself. And actually, more importantly—more important to me, anyway—I don't know how I lived with him for as long as I did."
"Maybe he wasn't always that bad? People do change."
"But do they, really? I mean, you're right. Like, for sure, the more successful Ryan's business got, the more attention he paid to it. If he had been less successful in business, maybe he would have become a nicer person, a better husband and father. I'd like to think that, anyway, because it would make me seem like less of a fool."
"You're not a fool."
"Maybe. But I've spent a lot of my life—I think maybe all of my life—blinded into seeing only what I wanted to see. I wanted Ryan to be a good, loving man. And what I've been lately coming to realize is that my desire for Ryan to be that good loving man was so powerful that I kind of continuously willed myself into failing to see the man that he actually was. Does that make sense?"
"Oh, girl, I wish I didn't know how much sense that made."
"Oh, no! You, too?"
"Yes, me too. Yes, most women, I think. What woman hasn't fallen for a man, and gotten involved with him, and given him everything it's possible for her to give—only to find out, or, like you say—and this is really so much worse in a way—just plain ol' come to realize, that he's really only in the relationship for the good it does him. That all he's ever really wanted from the two of you being together was everything he could get for himself."
"Yes! It's always been about him."
"And all you were was just a means to an end, baby. That's all. When all along—or certainly at the beginning, anyway—you thought that you were the end, that you were the reason, that you were the purpose."
"That you were the prize."
"Yes! That you were the prize. That's what you thought. That's the dream you were livin'. That's the lie you were living. That's the lie he was helping you live."
"Yeah, they give you just enough."
"Just enough! Just enough to keep you going, to keep you in the game, to keep that fire burnin'."
"Not—at least not in my case, that that took a lot of, well, wood."
The two of them threw back their heads and laughed so loudly that people at the Wedge's other location heard them.
"Sometimes I think we don't even know what we want. We're so programmed, right from the beginning, to give men what they want, that we don't even know what our own wants are."
"That's right. We just start right in, playin' the hand we're given. We never even think to say, Wait a minute! What is this game? Who the hell wrote the rules to this game?"
"Exactly! Why do I only have four cards, and all the men have ten?"
"That just doesn't seem right. And why do all their cards have colorful pictures on 'em, and all I got are these sorry lookin' two's and three's?"
"We can't win!" said Tammy.
"We can't."
"The game is rigged!"
"Crooked as a dog's hind leg."
The two women beamed at each other from across the table.
Then Tammy slapped the table, if a little bit harder than she'd meant to. "Well, no more. I'm tired of playing that game. I've got a new game now."
"Oh, yeah? Tell me, now. What's the new game called?"
"It's called, Tammy Gets Her Groove Back."
Makayla put her hand in the air above the table. Two people never did a happier high-five.
"Yes," said Makayla. "That is the only game worth playin'."
"It's the only game I've got time left to play. God knows I'm not gettin' any younger."
"Speakin' of time, it's late. I gotta git. As wrong as men are, they're not entirely useless. I got one who does the thing that he does in a manner which I do not find particularly unsatisfying, if you know what I mean."
"Oh, my. I believe I do."
"And that man is waitin' for me at home right now. Walk me back to my studio, so I can turn off my lights and all that?"
"You bet," said Tammy.
Five minutes later they were walking into Makayla's art studio.
"It's so weird being the only ones in the whole building," said Tammy.
"Close the door," said Makaya. "It's freezing in here."
"It is. It's so cold in here, I don't know how you stand it. You should trade studios with me. Tonight."
Makayla laughed. "I don't see that happening."
"But you have a couch in here."
"You can get a couch."
"In my studio? I can barely fit my butt in my studio."
"Oh, stop. I like your space."
"But yours has a couch! And music! You have such a great stereo in here!" Then Tammy stopped talking. She was listening. "Whoa, whoa, whoa," she said quickly. "Turn it up."
"Oh, I'm on it," said Makayla, already reaching behind her desk. "This is my all-time jam."
Sly and the Family Stone's "Dance to the Music" filled the room.
If ever two women had clearly never lost their groove, it was the two dancing together in the little space between the couch and the bookcase in Makayla's studio.
Tammy felt, through and through, like all she'd ever wanted to do—and maybe, in the realest and most wonderful way, all she ever had done—was dance to the music.
As the song was winding down, she stepped closer to Makayla, put her hands on her shoulders, and said, "Thank you."
"Thank you," said Makayla softly.
And then, for the first time in her life, Tammy kissed a woman on the mouth.
Chapter 43: A kiss is but a kiss
"What do you mean, you freaked out after kissing your friend?" said Leslie. She had come over to the house that day to talk to Frank about something, and Tammy had asked her if she wouldn't mind coming downstairs afterwards for a chat and a visit with her. Tammy figured that if anyone could help her make some sense of her kissing Makayla the night before, it was Leslie.
"Well, 'freaked-out' isn't quite what I meant," said Tammy. "It's not like I started to scream or anything."
"Well, did she?"
"Okay. So how did she react, then?"
"I don't know. She just kind of . . . stood there. Oh, God, I feel so awful."
"Why? I don't get it. What happened that was so bad?"
"What was so bad was that I kissed her. That's the thing. I kissed her. She didn't kiss me."
"Still not gettin' it. Did she like the kiss?"
"I don't think that's the point."
"Seems like it might be some of the point."
"Not to me it's not." Tammy rubbed her hands through her hair, which was still a good deal shorter than she'd ever worn it before. She was trying to bring to her thoughts some kind, any kind, of order. "I've never kissed anyone."
"Darlin', I have a hard time believing that."
"No, I mean, I've been kissed, of course. And that's the whole point, right there. I have been kissed. Me. Men have kissed me. I've been the receiver of the kisses. But I have never, ever been the one who does the kissing, do you know what I mean? Who initiates the kiss. Who makes the kiss happen. I've never been the man before."
"That's never been good for me."
"What, sweetheart? What's never been good for you?"
"Men!" Tammy blurted. "I mean, not all men. But men. And maybe all men. I don't know. But, yeah, men. All my life, men have been kissing me, and wanting to kiss me, and . . . kissing me whether I wanted them to or not, and grabbing me, and just being so, so—"
"So like men?"
"Yes, so like men. And it's not like there's ever much, or anything, you can do to stop it. Men are so aggressive. They just do whatever they're gonna do. They want what they want, and pretty much just take what they want." Tammy's eyes so quickly filled with tears that before she'd finished her next sentence they were running down her cheeks. "They just take what they want. They don't ask. They just take."
"I'm sorry," said Tammy, holding the tissue to her nose. "I don't mean to dump all this on you."
"You're not dumpin' anything on me, darlin'. Not at all. I know a little bit about what you're goin' through."
"Do you?"
"I think so, yes. You spent your whole life being the kissee. And last night you were the kisser. If that's not a major role-reversal, I don't know what is."
"Honey, it's okay."
"No, it's not. It's not okay. It's not okay for me to treat her the same way all those aggressive, creepy men have treated me all my life—the same way I know they've treated her all her life, too. Oh, Leslie. The whole time before I kissed her, when we were out together, we were talking about that exact thing—about how hard it is to live in a world where men dominate everything. And then I treated her exactly like a man would treat her if he wanted the same thing from her that men are always wanting from women. How could I do that?"
Tammy was crying for a bit before Leslie said, "But darlin', you're forgettin' one thing."
"You're not a man. You're not even close to being a man. You're a woman. So it's not possible for you to want from Makayla what a man might want from her. Even if you had desired her in a purely sexual way—which, by the way, it doesn't sound to me like was happening in that moment, at all—you would be desiring her as what you are, which is something that no man could ever be."
"Being a woman. Being a good, kind, sweet, loving woman. And a straight woman at that, as far as I know."
A little laughter broke through Tammy's tears. "I guess I don't know about that anymore. Good lord. I don't know what I know anymore."
"Well, that's not true. You do know the only thing that matters. You know that you're a good person. And Makayla knows that you're a good person. You didn't do anything wrong, or offensive. You just kissed a friend of yours."
"It wasn't that kind of kiss," said Tammy.
"Well, then it wasn't. And from what you said, she didn't hate it. She didn't give you any reason to think that you had offended or upset her, right?"
"I don't know. I don't think so, but I don't know."
"Well, besides just standin' there, how did she actually react to your kiss?"
"I dunno." Despite her best efforts, a smile was now making its way onto Tammy's face. She'd also turned red as a raspberry. "What? What are you looking at me that way for?"
"What way?"
"That way!"
"I'm not looking at you any way."
"Yes, you are."
"No, I'm not. All I did was ask you how Makayla reacted to your kiss."
"Well, I'm telling you that I don't know."
"She seemed—I mean . . . who knows? She was, I guess—I don't know. How can you tell a thing like that?"
"Well, golly gee, now. If you're tellin' me that you have virtually no idea how to tell if a person you're kissing is enjoyin' that kiss, then who am I to doubt you?"
"Oh, my God!" laughed Tammy. "I am telling you! I don't know how she felt about it! I'm pretty sure she just thought I was molesting her!"
"Well, did she kiss you back?"
"I dunno."
"I think you do."
"But I don't."
"But I think you do. And I think she did."
From behind her hands, with which she was now completely covering her face, Tammy said, "Oh my God!"
"I'll tell you what," said Leslie. "Move your head no if you are sure that Makayla did not enjoy your kiss. Nod your head yes if you are sure that she did."
In the darkness behind her hands and tightly closed eyes, Tammy stopped, then, and waited. She waited until she was absolutely, one hundred percent, no doubt about it sure.
And then, once she was, she definitely, if ever so slightly, nodded yes.


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Employee turnover is crippling many organizations.
Here are some thoughts on this subject from Leigh Branham, Author of the book titled: Keeping the People who Keep you in Business. http://www.keepingthepeople.com/ (excellent book)
Which is more expensive, the cost of doing the things necessary to retain your most valuable people, or the cost of losing and replacing those people?
The companies that achieve dramatic reductions in turnover are often the ones at which the top executive or owner makes the commitment to do something about it.
When the CEO is committed, the organization usually falls in line.
If your CEO is not committed enough to retaining the right people as a long-term business strategy, it may be only because he or she has not yet realized the cost implications and long-term business consequences of continuing turnover. If you run the numbers, most CEO's and CFO's, of course will pay attention to them.
In my experience, I have found this to be true, because as I often say,
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click photo to enlargeI grew up in the Yorkshire Dales, an area of upland Carboniferous Limestone. Around the small market town where I lived the geological phenomena known as the Craven Faults produced a fractured landscape that, in places, marked the separation of the light grey rock from darker Millstone Grit. The limestone quarry at Giggleswick was in full production, its crushed stone being taken by overhead buckets to wagons at the nearest railway station. Bigger quarries still could be seen up the Ribble Valley near Horton-in-Ribblesdale. However, I discovered as a boy that wherever I walked, whether it was on limestone or Millstone Grit, there were old, small quarries dotted about the landscape where people had cut and broken stone from the plentiful outcrops and cliffs. This had been used to make the drystone field walls, the barns, farmhouses and domestic buildings of the locality. Because they were small they often looked like natural features, and in most cases they blended in with their surroundings very well. This was in strong contrast with the big, commercial quarries that produced aggregate in large quantities and had associated vehicles and industrial plant to facilitate the process. Their impact on the location was (and still is) in the nature of enormous, disfiguring scars.
On a recent visit to Breedon Hill in Leicestershire I was reminded of the quarrying that was familiar to me in my childhood. Though not on the scale of those in Ribblesdale, this limestone quarry is also making a significant and damaging mark on its location which is an area of ancient settlement and the site of an important medieval church. It's ironic that the main product here is a "gold" coloured aggregate that is marketed as suitable for maintaining and enhancing the appearance of historic buildings!
That said, I did find photographic interest in the stone crusher that I could see from the wall at the edge of the churchyard above the quarry. Stone is being delivered to the machine's hopper by the digger at the right of the image, and is then passed though its bowels and broken into aggregate of different sizes which are deposited in separate piles ready for collection. Looking down on the scene that resembled an alien landscape I reflected that the price of stone is much higher than the cost per tonne to the customer.
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- Your digestive system breaks down foods and liquids into their chemical components—carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and the like—that the body can absorb as nutrients and use for energy or to build or repair cells (http://www.health.harvard.edu/topics/digestive-health ). Your choice of foods can affect the way your body digests the foods you eat. Want to avoid indigestion and bloating? Follow these few easy steps.
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Predictions about various areas of life are being provided through different Nadi Chapters. The chapters are also called as Kandams. Chapter 1 deals with general predictions and personal details of an individual like name, parent's name, spouse's name etc. Chapter 2 talks about family and finance and likewise there are different chapters to focus on various aspects of your life.
Chapter 13 and 14 provides remedies for your problems. Readings for 1, 13 and 14 Nadi chapters are considered essential before proceeding with other chapters.
A remedial Nadi Jothidam Chapter which guides you on the sins you had committed in your previous or significant births, and its impact on your current life.
Another important remedial Nadi Jothidam which identifies the current negative influences due to unfavorable planetary positions, and casting of evil eye by jealous persons, which are the prime reasons for the crisis or obstacles in your life.
Chapter 2 describes your current financial status and future predictions in terms of finance potential, family and education. The chapter also highlights your health issues and prescribes measures to lessen your financial burden. By reading this chapter, you redefine your life to lead healthy, wealthy and blissful life with your loved ones.
Whether you are in search of your sibling or need to understand the compatibility with your siblings, Chapter 3 is the perfect choice for you to apprehend your future with your brother or sister.
Chapter 4 is ideal for those who are property owners or wish to own a property. It reads vital information about one's parents, especially that of the Mother whose blessings are indispensable to accumulate wealth and comforts. It contains readings upon your possessions such as buildings/houses, vehicles, land and material pleasures.
Are you longing for a child? Want to know the reason behind your sterility? Chapter 5 explains the reasons for you not having progeny so far and prescribes appropriate remedies. It also highlights information about your children, their birth star and horoscope and few of their future predictions.
If you are looking out for the idyllic solution for your financial crisis, chronic illness or legal battle, then Chapter 6 is the shelter for you. This chapter reveals measures to evade from your debts, overcome your illness to live a healthy life and overpower your enemies and win over legal issues.
Find out the right time for your wedding bells (1st Marriage)by reading Chapter 7 Nadi Astrology. This chapter explains the reasons for delay in your marriage and proposes remedial measures. It also reveals when you will be married and for how long will you be married.
Satiate the curiosity to know your life span by reading Chapter 8 which speaks about longevity. The chapter contains valuable information about any mishaps in one's life, accidents and dangers that one may encounter and the exact details of one's death such as age, date, time, lagna, location and nakshatra.
This chapter helps to know and understand your father better in terms of his wealth, spiritual perception, fortune and philanthropic activities.
Are you finding it difficult to settle down in your dream job? Then this chapter will greatly help you. It gives you information about your profession/career and predictions upon any ups/downs you may face in your professional life and changes in jobs.
If you wish to be an entrepreneur or would like to have an idea about your business profit, this chapter summarizes it all. The chapter also reveals the chances of second marriage in one's life.
Every one of us will be excited to know about our next birth or incarnation. It is a blessing to attain Moksha and liberate self from the continuous cycle of birth and death. This chapter contains information about your future births and also makes you aware of your upcoming expenditures and losses. The chapter is helpful to know about your chances of overseas travel as well.
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Charlie, the "price" and "discount" makes sense for a non-stabilized property, purchased for cash. For a stabilized or near-stabilized properties my clients can pay pretty good purchase price if the interest rate is low. This is accomplished with owner-financing.
How big of an investment property? I've found the larger the price the larger the necessary discount because the investor pool shrinks with the higher prices.25% might be fine for a $500,000 property50% might be required for $5,000,000 propertyIt all depends. I would recommend speaking with a CCIM in your area that knows the property type.
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The Scottish Diabetes Foot Action Group(SDFAG) is made up of Health-care professionals and service users who are dedicated to improving foot care for patients with diabetes across Scotland. It is chaired by a consultant in Diabetes (Prof Graham Leese), and there is a seconded National Diabetes Foot Co-ordinator (Duncan Stang) who is a retired specialist podiatrist and employed 2 days per week.
• Encourage the Recording of Foot Screening on the SCI-Diabetes system: 80% of all patients in Scotland • Develop and maintain consistent patient information nationally• Develop and maintain Risk Stratification Triage System• Implement the CPR for Feet campaign in all care settings across Scotland• Develop on line training programmes to support the implementation of CPR for Feet• Encourage the use of the SCI-Diabetes Ulcer Management System• Collect consistent and accurate data regarding Diabetes Foot Ulceration across Scotland
CPR for feetThe Scottish Diabetes Foot Action Group (SDFAG) is currently working on a National initiative called CPR for feet. This initiative is to try and make sure all patients with Diabetes who are admitted to hospital have their feet Checked on admission, if they are at risk of developing a foot ulcer their feet are Protected and if they have a current foot ulcer they are Referred appropriately. This is a simple concept to try and address a problem which was highlighted following an audit of 1,048 in-patients with diabetes which showed that:
• 2.4% of in patients with diabetes developed a new foot lesion whilst in hospital
• 57% of in patients had not had their feet checked
• 60% who were discovered to be at risk of developing a foot ulcer did not have any pressure relief in place
(Scottish Diabetes Foot Action Group 2013) A LearnPro module is available to support this initiative and can be found at nhs.learnprouk.com and is under the CPD section.
A new online training resource to support CPR for Feet has been developed in conjunction with NHS Education for Scotland and the Remote and Rural Healthcare Education Alliance and can be found at:
Further resources to aid the implementation of CPR for Feet include:
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• CPR for Feet poster algorithms (see right-hand column)
• CPR for Feet training manual (download here)
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• Filmed CPR for Feet presentation at the London Diabetic Foot Conference October 2018
• CPR for Feet mirrored badges available from firstname.lastname@example.com
Foot Health Information Leaflets for People with DiabetesWe have just completed the update of our Nationally agreed patient Foot Health Information Leaflets, and our Risk Stratification and Triage System which are downloadable from this website.Diabetes Foot ScreeningAn online diabetes foot screening website is available free of charge to any Health Care worker who wishes to ensure they carry out foot screening in a standardised evidence based fashion and is available at www.diabetesframe.orgThe SDFAG has worked collaboratively with Mydiabetesmyway to enable the private podiatry community to become more actively involved in diabetes foot screening and further management of foot health and contributing to national statistics via the SCI-Diabetes foot screening tool.Podiatry competency frameworkThe SDFAG worked in collaboration with Foot in Diabetes United Kingdom (FDUK) and Wounds UK to produce a Podiatry diabetes competency framework which can be accessed at www.wounds-uk.com.
• The SDFAG is working very closely with the Scottish Diabetes Group in relation to collecting accurate national data regarding Diabetes foot ulceration rates and patient access to appropriate services. This information will be collected from each Health Board as part of a 'Diabetes Dashboard' and will contribute more accurate data for the Scottish Diabetes Survey
• Encourage the use of the SCI-Diabetes Ulcer management System through education, training and awareness raising
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Shields Maidens were fierce Viking women warriors who in legend and life shared the bloody business of war side by side with their fellow male Vikings. Leif Erickson pregnant half-sister supposedly took up a sword and bare breasted stood her ground among attacking Native Americans on Leif Ericson's trip to America. While Ms. Fredydis Eirksdottir was never identify as a shield maiden in Viking's writing, her legend would indicate that she played the role of Shield Maiden perfectly.
In Cedar Rapids, modern day Shieldmaidens do battle on the Rugby field as they plunder and pillage their way through their opponents. It has been said that soccer (or as the rest of world will describe it, Football) is a gentleman's game played by Hooligans but Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen and ladies. One example of this act of sporting plunder was last fall when the Shieldmaidens' slaughter the Omaha Goats 26 to14. Leading the charge was Nicole Roth with two Trys and Amanda Brown who added another Try. (Try is the equivalent of scoring a touchdown. ) Rugby as sport is more than competition on the field but solidarity off the field for it is not uncommon for opponents to hoist a few beers after the match with each other. Nicole Roth noted, "Playing in out-of-town tournaments. It is fun to travel with the team and meet other rugby players from different states."
For many years, Cedar Rapids has been home to one of the better amateur men team in the Midwest, the Head Hunters but in 2011, the talk started about forming a woman team. Nicole Roth, who played Rugby in her college days, was invited to help form the team along with Zach Cramer and his wife, Melissa. Ms. Roth, who still wished to continue playing Rugby, jumped at the chance. When asked how she got interested in the sport, she quipped, "I started playing my freshman year in high school in Minnesota. The team was brand new at the time and I figured since nobody knew what rugby was, I couldn't be any worse than any of the other players. The idea of being able to tackle and play a full contact sport was really appealing. " For Ms. Roth, the contact and challenge that goes with a physically demanding game still reaches inside her but she is not the only one. Erin Detterbeck added, "I have always been a competitive person, but Rugby seemed to be a step above the other sports. I have a tendency to be attracted to things that other people might shy away from, and Rugby seemed to fit into that category." The final push to join the Shieldmaidens came from her 80 year old father, who found a recruiting flyer in a local grocery store. "My father told me that it was something that I should look into doing. He always is trying to get his 6 children to do things that are challenging, and sometimes dangerous," joked Ms. Detterbeck.
Rae Antonelli was recruited to the sport at a wine tasting Party. Like Detterbeck, she had not played Rugby and knew very little about the sport but joined five other women along with the founder of the Shieldmaidens, Melissa Cramer for cross training and preparation for the initial season. If the dangerous aspect of the sport appealed to Detterbeck, Ms. Antonelli finds the sport more representative of life itself. She mentioned to me, "I've learned that rugby is pretty much life. I think it was best described when someone said, so if Rugby is Life then the pitch is your stage; the scrums are your struggles, each match is a page, the line-outs your high-points, the rucks are your low. Each half is a battle, each battle you grow."
All of these women find that energy of the sport intoxicating as Winger Amanda Brown observed, "The high energy, and contact nature of the sport. And the fact that it is a party along with a sport-you will never met another group like a rugby" group!" Maybe the one aspect of the sport is the camaraderie that exists beyond the playing field. For in team sports, in particular the more physical sports, there exist a shared passion and shared sacrifice that comes with it. Rae Antonelli stated that she and her fellow Shieldmaidens' play with our hearts, not for money and fame."
For these women, they bring a competitive spirit from their past sports efforts. Nicole Roth played Rugby through high school and college but she also played basketball. Erin Detterbeck was not just a competitive swimmer but a golfer and competitive volleyball player. Rae Antonelli participated in triathlon, running, swimming and cycling throughout her life before devoting her weekends to Rugby, Amanda Brown participated in track, cross-country and high school basketball as well as Rugby at Iowa State. These ladies still have the competitive spirit from their past athletic achievements.
These ladies are as different off the field with different interests and job but somehow they coalesce as a unit on the field. Rae Antonelli is a practicing Buddhist, who exhibits a quiet reserve personality while holding a job at Timberline manufacturing, which specializes in production of radios. (It has been noted that the reserved Rae often turns into a fierce warrior when she grabs the oblong Rugby ball.) Erin Detterbeck works with Verizon but is an Air Force veteran and learned to speak Farsi while serving her country. Amanda Brown works as a Cedar Rapids Community School District Dietitian and Nicole Roth works at Great America Financial Services. . Yet these women bring not only a diverse set of skills from previous sports but work in variety of employment but on the Rugby field, they will tell you they are one.
Rugby is a essentially a year round sport as Shield Maidens play a Spring and Fall season plus work out throughout the year to stay in shape and sharpen their skills.. Amanda Brown reminisced, "Playing in our first "Ruggerfest" in Missouri last spring when it had been a monsoon during and leading up the tournament. There was so much standing water on our field the ball actually floated. Come Sunday they had to move our game to a different field as a safety precaution to not get held underwater on a tackle. We were a muddy mess! It was a blast, a quote of the trip was "This is how memories are made" and we still laugh about it!" Rae Antonelli quipped "I find it funny that there's so many men and women that think they're tough enough to do MMA but you ask them to play rugby and they think you're nuts. And I suppose maybe that's what we should be looking for! … girls that are crazy…not tough." Often the Shieldmaidens find themselves on the road traveling throughout the Midwest including much of Iowa.
Soon the Shieldmaidens will begin their 2013 Spring season at the end of March where they will once again imitate the Vikings women of legend as they hope to plunder and pillage their opponent on the field while enjoying a few adult beverages off the field. Like life itself, every match plays out differently with a new hero waiting to set up her moment of glory and Rugby is as much about the friendship formed on the field that matters years later as the success on the field.
After a grueling race in which our relay won while setting a new school record, my track coach came up to me and stated, "The pain you feel will soon go away but your accomplishment will last a lifetime." He was right and I suspect that Erin Detterbeck first Try will stick with her throughout her life but the pain it took to get there will long since dissipate. All the stories she will be able to tell her children as they grow older. The modern day Shieldmaidens are now creating their legend and who knows, someday, these modern day warriors will be celebrated in stories and poems like their Norse namesake.
As for the sport of Rugby itself, it is unique sport for every game is like a party both during the game and after. It is as much a social event as a sporting event for many Rugby players and the Shieldmaidens enjoy both the party side of the game as well as the athletic side of the game.


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US Cartridge Co .32 Long For Colt's Revolver Box
Guns International #: 100609450 Seller's Inventory #: 29242
Category: Ammo - American Collectible -
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Seller: JoeSaltercom
Company: Down East Antiques - Joe Salter
Member Since: 9/10/10
First Name: Garrick-March-Jim-Joe
Last Name: Salter
State: New Hampshire
Zip: 03031
Country: United States
Phone: (603) 732-4000
Fax: (603) 732-4200
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Number of Active Listings: 729
Total Number of Listings: 13747
Seller: FFL Dealer
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
30 day Inspection Period and NOT a 3 day Inspection. We have had our own website for 14 years
Payment Types Accepted: Personal Checks, Visa, Master Card, Discover with NO CREDIT CARD FEES!
This two piece half split empty blue label box shows very light soiling on top label, no side sealing label was ever applied. Side of box shows handwritten notations 'Belt Hole Bushings March 1900" in black ink with red "8" in circle. This top label is from around 1880 and it shows one tiny chip in center. Boxes with similar notations are known to have come from the Winchester factory, they also had no side sealing labels. A very interesting box with a very nice label.
Price: $195.00
Manufacturer: U.S. Cart. Co.
Model: Ammo
Caliber: .32 Colt
Gauge: .32 Colt


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Thanks - I wish I was today!Ah well, will have to rely on the TV and web streams.
Wow great pics we were gutted when GB did not get their gold today in the sailing but are pretty happy about Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah!
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