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Lt. Brad Snyder, blinded by an IED explosion in Afghanistan, is now training for the London 2012 Paralympics.
Lt. Brad Snyder slices through the watery warmth with powerful movements and methodical rhythm. Each arm stroke is tallied, each breath measured as he glides forward in a sharp, precise line. He knows that a coach is watching, that a big clock is ticking, that a concrete wall is looming.
He sees none of it.
But away from the hard edges and surprise bumps of his dark, new world, Snyder senses, finally, he is gaining some serious ground.
"In the pool, I feel efficient, comfortable, like I know what I'm doing. Such an amazing feeling," he said. "Everything else, I've had to figure out all over again — like being a child again, and you suck at everything. It's so refreshing to be good at something."
Blinded last September by a dirt-cloaked bomb in an Afghan ditch, Snyder, 28, slowly is creating a fresh vision for a life once blazed at high speeds and even higher tension. The former bomb defuser is, for now, interning at a Baltimore software company, staying at a corporate apartment and navigating with a cane. He also is logging 4,000 yards per day at a local pool and — this week — dreaming of London.
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Brad Snyder laughs with co-workers of RedOwl Analytics during their lunch break. Snyder, blinded last September by an IED blast in Afghanistan, is competing for a spot on Team USA for the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.
On Thursday, Snyder competes at the U.S. Paralympic Swimming Trials in Bismarck, N.D., aiming to capture one of the 14 spots allotted for American male swimmers. A quick time in the 400 meter freestyle — about 4 minutes, 48 seconds, he and his coach estimate — will earn him a ticket to Great Britain this summer for the Paralympics, an international sports festival for disabled athletes held after the closing of the London Summer Games, using the Olympic venues.
No sure thing
Based on his practice times, Snyder believes he has strong shot at hitting — or nearing — his 4:48 goal on Thursday.
"I'm very hesitant to say," Snyder said. "I don't want to jinx myself."
Snyder is quick to emphasize, as well, that he is in no way a lock to make the American team. Unlike the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, where roster slots are handed to swimmers who win their designated distances at that critical meet, Paralympic spots are determined by how a swimmer's personal best ranks against the top international times recorded since Jan. 1, 2011 at that distance — and within each disability category. That's literally a world of pressure: the Navy officer versus the best blind swimmers on the planet.
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Lt. Brad Snyder lost his sight in an IED explosion in Afghanistan last September. The Navy officer is now training to represent the U.S. at the London 2012 Paralympics.
One byproduct of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is a deeper talent field among American Paralympic hopefuls. Consequently, the competition to make Team USA is tighter in 2012 compared to prior years. About 220 athletes will comprise the 2012 U.S. Paralympic team roster bound for London. About 15 percent of them (roughly 33 men and women) will be military veterans and active-duty soldiers — most of those in track and field, said Beth Bourgeois, associate communications director for U.S. Paralympics.
At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, Team USA sent 16 athletes with military backgrounds, spanning wheelchair rugby, wheelchair tennis, track, rowing, archery, sitting volleyball, and cycling. Just one was a swimmer.
Finding his groove
"Part of getting an injury like this is the idea that you've lost a part of you, and now you are — for lack of a better word — weird. I can't do things the way I used to do," Snyder said. "It's a hard hit to your confidence, a hard hit to who you are. So being able to excel at something, to do it very well, is huge in gaining your confidence back, and gaining back that piece of you that you lost."
It's quite natural, actually, for Snyder to dive into the water to find himself. Back in his hometown of St. Petersburg, Fla., his father first coaxed him into a pool at a young age, back when Snyder's smarts left him bored with schoolwork, often too chatty in class, and perhaps a bit directionless.
"Brad was a little bit of a trouble maker when he was a kid and our dad was just looking for something for Brad to put some energy into, instead of just wandering on his own," recalled Mitchell Snyder, the Navy officer's 25-year-old brother.
At first, the rigid discipline of swimming intrigued Brad Snyder. Soon, the sport consumed him. In high school, he helped his team capture conference and district championships, finishing second in the state of Florida during the 2000 and 2001 seasons.
But his dad, Michael, had other lessons waiting for the oldest of his four children. The father routinely preached motions such as "leave something better than you found it" and "everything is about service to something bigger than yourself." Snyder remembers how his father once spied a stray hamburger wrapper drifting through a McDonald's parking lot. He instructed his son to pick it up simply because it was the proper thing to do.
Those bits of parental wisdom ultimately inspired Snyder to seek to serve his country. He applied for an appointment to the Naval Academy. The coaches there were equally interested in the talented prep swimmer. Snyder was accepted in the fall of 2001 and by late 2002 he was swimming for Navy.
American bad ass
His initial pool style in college matched his high-octane personality: Storm off the blocks as hard and fast as possible and dare the other swimmers to try to keep up. He didn't know how to pace himself — in the water or when it came time to choose a Navy career following his 2006 graduation. For active duty, he opted to become an explosive ordinance disposal officer, or EOD. Defusing bombs appealed to his problem-solving nature, and the job allowed him, occasionally, to swim.
In Iraq and Afghanistan, where the anti-American weapon of choice often was and is an improvised explosive device, EODs were in high demand. Snyder was deployed to Iraq in October 2008, staying until March 2009. He was redeployed to Afghanistan in April last year.
"The [EODs] are really the front line," Mitchell Snyder said. "They might trip wires. Or, when trying to defuse a bomb, it might blow up in their face. Knowing that he was the first man to go and check things out really frightened me. His uniform had some extra level of protection but there was nothing on his face but sunglasses.
"Every person on his team, from tip to toe, is a bad ass. And he fit right in with them."
The bomb that took his vision, however, was not one Brad Snyder ever saw. While rushing to help two Afghan soldiers wounded in an initial IED blast last Sept. 7, Snyder stepped on a second, hidden device in an irrigation ditch spanning a farm field.
"My right eye was effectively popped, like a flower almost, and there were pieces of fragmentation that had gone into my left eye," Snyder said. His face was burned and lacerated from chin to hairline. The rest of his body, however was untouched. He had one final moment of vision before the world permanently went pitch black. In that second, he looked down and saw that his arms and legs were still attached.
Lucky to be alive
A little more than a week later, at Bethesda Naval Hospital near Washington, D.C., doctors told Snyder they could do nothing to salvage his sight, not even restore a faint sense of light. His damaged eyes were surgically removed and replaced with prosthetics.
"I knew the risks I was assuming. I knew I was very fortunate to be in that hospital bed and not in a coffin in the ground. And I knew I could not control the past," Snyder said.
"At that point, I made a decision: OK, so now we move forward. How do I start to gain my independence back? How do I get to the bathroom? How do I feed myself? Where is the fork and spoon? I had to figure out how to eat spaghetti out of cup. That was the only way I knew how to eat it. But I was adamant: I want to do this myself."
By late October, Snyder needed a refuge of sorts from the walls he repeatedly smacked with his body and face while learning to walk with a cane. He stepped back into a pool and swam, pounding out a few hundred meters.
The water and the strokes felt so natural, so normal, he ached to race. He playfully challenged non-competitive swimmers — yet opponents who nonetheless could see. He beat them. Next, Snyder wanted to take on other blind swimmers. The Paralympics, he knew, could offer him that chance. In Baltimore, he began training with a coach. He began kicking again.
"I'm going to show people that I'm not going to let this beat me. I'm not going to let blindness build a brick wall around me. I am going to find a way forward."
COMING FRIDAY: How do you swim — and challenge world records — when you can't see the lane dividers, your competitors or the finish line?
Bill Briggs is a frequent contributor to MSNBC.com and author of "The Third Miracle."
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Lil Wayne.
Lil Wayne is right above it, all right. The rap superstar has topped the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Mr. Elvis Presley himself, for charting the most Billboard Hot 100 hits for a solo artist.
Now that should put a smile on his face.
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Per Billboard, the 30-year-old Wayne's latest entry is the Game's single, "Celebration," in which he's a featured artist along with Wiz Khalifa, Chris Brown and Tyga, which entered the chart at No. 82. With that milestone, "Tha Black Is Hot" MC now has 109 Hot 100 songs under his belt, surpassing Presley's mark of 108 that began with the chart's inception in 1958.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
"The Strange Man" Commentary (Part II)
Like before, this commentary comes with a HEAVY SPOILER WARNING. Read no further if you like surprises.
Page 59--So, this is probably THE most controversial and debated scene in the book among readers and even my editors. Lindsey cries out for Jesus to save her from the bogeyman. All fine and good, except...she dies. This has raised some questions: "If she genuinely called on the name of the Lord, why did He not rescue her? Why did she die? Did God abandon her?" One review even went so far as to say I was condemning her for what I, the author, viewed as a sinful lifestyle. In a Christian book where demons are involved, it's awfully easy to just have the hero "rebuke the devil in the name of Jesus" and then, wham, instant relief from danger. But I don't think it works quite like that in real life and it definitely doesn't work like that in The Coming Evil Trilogy. People die. Sometimes good people, who call on the name of the Lord. I think of the story of Job. The Lord forbade the devil from killing Job, but said no such thing about all of Job's kids. They all died in one horrible afternoon. Now, most Christians want to cast themselves in the role of Job--believing that the devil can never harm them. But maybe, sometimes, we're Job's kids. But, even in the death of Job's children, God was given the glory and it eventually strengthened Job's faith. That's a victory of a kind. I love Lindsey and certainly was not stepping in as Author and condemning her or passing judgment on her. In fact, I think there was a line that was eventually cut that said the spilling of her "innocent" blood is what affects the lake at the end of the book. Nor was I suggesting that God abandoned Lindsey or that He didn't forgive her or save her soul.
What was most important about this scene to me is to show that the "rules" of The Strange Man are different than, perhaps, what people might expect from a "Christian book". Evil will not be banished from the world by a simple "I cast you out, Satan!" You're gonna have to dig in and fight harder. And sometimes, you're just going to lose. No one is safe.
Page 65--Chapter Five. I guess there are always things that you read back over and think "Aw, man, I wish I could do that differently." Well, folks, welcome to Chapter Five. This was another really old scene and no matter how many times I edited it over the years, it just doesn't ring right to me. Aw, well. Sometimes you just gotta let it go.
Page 67--Jeff's sermon went through many rewrites in the past decade. I have dissected his sermon more than, probably, any other thing in this book, save for Dras' last conversation with Rosalyn at the end of the book. It's hard because this is a preaching scene, but I didn't want it to feel like the Author was preaching to the Reader. That was never my intention. Jeff changed a lot as a person through this scene, too. When I first wrote it, he was this really loud televangelist mega-church kinda preacher. All shouting and with the weird affectations that seminaries teach preachers to use so they don't sound boring. Yet, when we saw Jeff in his "off-time", he didn't talk like that, so the character just seemed two-faced. I stripped a lot of those pulpit theatrics and made him real. He's a good (though definitely flawed) guy with good ideas and he's trying to tell people who really don't care. I also trimmed down his speech here. He used to go on and on in some of the earlier drafts, pretty much laying down the foundation of the Garden of Eden and Original Sin and all of that. It was bad. Really bad. I focused it in more on Greensboro and what they're going through as a people. I'm actually at peace with where this scene's at now.
Page 70--With the bike ride through Greensboro, I wanted to capture youthful innocence. This is like a Spielberg movie right now, with the kid on his bicycle looking at his picturesque town. Except it's not so picturesque anymore. Everything that Dras holds dear is gone, which I can relate to. Originally "Greensboro" was "Greensburg". I changed it to "Greensboro" once I realized that the old country backroads I spent many an afternoon driving down while working through the story in my head was "Greensboro Road". Incidentally, there was a field by that road with an abandoned shack, hedged by tall grass and a mysterious age-scarred wooden sign that read "Old Greenesboro", with the odd "e" and everything. Some have mistakenly assumed that this story is set in Greensboro, North Carolina, but no. Just named after a scenic drive in northeast Arkansas.
Page 75--Chapter Six and Franklin Whitaker. Another later addition. I actually wrote this a long time ago, then cut it, lost the file, and had to rewrite it from scratch.
Page 79--Chapter Seven. A lot of things going on here, a lot of mixing of old and new. Dras and Jeff's argument has been in the story since the beginning. The ladies gossiping about Rosalyn was fun because it's a great character moment for Rosalyn. By now, we've seen Rosalyn, we (hopefully) like Rosalyn. To hear what the town thinks of her and says behind her back should make us mad. That it's coming from church ladies should be even worse. Look, I know there's going to be people reading this book who think that churches are full of hypocrites and judgmental types. I get it, okay? And you know what? Yeah, those people are there, and I wanted to be honest about that.
Page 83--But then I introduce Leonard Fergus, ideally played by the great character actor Bill Cobbs! I love Fergus, and having him chastise these "good sisters" in his playful manner hopefully breaks some stereotypes about church folk.
Page 89--Enter Sheriff Hank Berkley. Originally, he had very little to do in this book, but I found myself writing more and more scenes for him because I just love him. This is also where we meet Deputy Dane Adams.
The real Dane Adams is a salesman who has worked on and off with my dad in the screenprinting business for twenty some-odd years. Way back in the day when I told people I wanted to write a novel about monsters, the real Dane Adams said he wanted me to put him in the book and kill him off. Done! The fictional Dane and the real Dane share little in common. Also, Dane's another character who had very few scenes (other than dying), but I found myself putting him in more and more. He and Hank make a good pair.
Page 93--Chapter Nine. This chapter has been through a lot of rewrites. I always loved this chapter, but I had a nasty habit of bouncing around between Dras' POV and Rosalyn's. I probably still didn't catch all of it, but I tried. It's only been recently that I've had to discipline myself into sticking with one character in a scene. I come from a screenwriting background, which has a very detached eye. In a room full of people, I've got to be able to move freely and zero in on each thing a character does. Despite my best efforts, I've carried that over into my fiction writing, so when I get a couple characters in a scene that both have things going on in their heads, I really have to restrain myself from ping-ponging between the different POVs. I'm trying to do better at trusting the characters to communicate what they're going through internally by how they act.
Page 100--The kiss! I'm a sap for the whole "guy didn't know his true love was beside him the whole time" stories. I just re-watched the tail end of Some Kind of Wonderful (a boyhood favorite of mine) last night and was nodding and all, "Yeah, man. Yeah, that's good stuff." A sap I tell you! A sap!
Page 101--Groundhog Day Part XII is going to leave a few people scratching their heads (including my editor). No, don't bother Googling to see about that Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day. This fictional movie is a nod to The Monster Squad, a major inspiration to me as a young lad and to this series. Groundhog Day Part XII is the slasher movie that the main character in The Monster Squad--Sean Crenshaw--wanted to see at the drive-in.
Page 105--Chapter Ten. New scene created for the Realms version. All of these deputies play a role (some big, some small) throughout the trilogy, so I decided to introduce them all here. I love their banter and had a great time coming up with these different variations on the Strange Man legend. Plus, I really love writing "good ole boys", for some reason.
Page 108--Earl is one of my new favorite characters. I don't think he even appears in the Xulon Edition, but he'll be a major player in Book Two, so I wanted to introduce him here. While he's an antagonist, I totally see where he's coming from. With the Realms Edition, I wanted to mature the overall story--I wanted to include characters whose struggles with God's justice and sovereignty are complicated, and maybe even justified. Looking back, the Xulon Edition was very clean cut. Very "trust in God and everything is okay". While I do believe that, you've got to sometimes alter your definition of "okay".
Page 113--Chapter Eleven. Our introduction to Deputy Ryan Stevenson. This guy is a bad guy. There are very few human villains in The Coming Evil Trilogy. Most of them are just hurting people lashing out, but Stevenson is a thug, through and through. Some people just like being mean. More "good ole boy" exchange between Hank and Dane.
Page 127--Dave at the video store. This was a Realms Edition addition. Dave is also featured in the short story "The Coming Evil: Clown Time...The Remake!" available to read for free on this very blog.
Page 127--Garden Tool Massacre is the name of the fictional movie playing at the theater in the 1988 remake of The Blob--another favorite of mine and an inspiration for the kind of tone I wanted this book to have.
Page 132--She-Vampires From Mars is actually an original title, as opposed to a nod to another film. I have plans of writing a real script for She-Vampires From Mars one day and trying to get it made as a direct-to-video "gem" :p
Page 135--Chapter Thirteen. A new scene for the Realms Edition. I really played Jeff as a foil for this book. He's a jerk. But, because he plays such a huge role in the rest of the series, I wanted to write a scene that, hopefully, warmed audiences up to him a bit. Also, this is another red herring as we think maybe Jeff is about to step in and become the hero. But, no. Our hero is busy nodding off while watching She-Vampires From Mars. We have some mention of Everett Greene and the fate of Old Greenesboro. Oooh, mysterious. You'll have to stick around for the whole trilogy to find out what happened.
I've also considered writing the story of Old Greenesboro one day. Hm...
Head over to Part III of our commentary where we explore the dangers of "preaching" in Christian fiction and other theological musings!
4 comments:
- Tim George said...
I appreciated the realism of that cry to God that seems unanswered. People do die - sometimes with little fanfare. How God answers those cries is often a mystery from our point of view.
- March 30, 2011 at 9:30 AM
- The Gill-Man said...
I also liked that moment. I also thought it established that the Strange Man was something a bit more than an incorporeal demon. He seems to be a monster, with a flesh-and-blood presence. While he is repelled by the Word of God, that seems to be in the same vein as Dracula being repelled by the cross. He IS an evil entity, but he has a physical component that makes him a threat on our mortal plain as much the spiritual.
On a lighter note, I actually got the reference to "Groundhog Day Part XII", as "Monster Squad" is a favorite of mine (I know, shocking!). I got quite a chuckle out of that one! The one I couldn't place, although it seemed familiar, was "Garden Tool Massacre", so thanks for clearing that up!
Now, I think I speak for everyone when I say that "She-Vampires From Mars" is one we'll all line up for!!!
- March 30, 2011 at 11:33 AM
- Jessica Thomas said...
It's very interesting to see your take on the story. I have noticed some "ping-ponging" but it could also be called third person omniscient. :) You do it in a way that isn't confusing. The story flows naturally. I've got 1/4 left and so far...it's very creepy. (The demon's at her? ouch.)
- March 30, 2011 at 4:44 PM
- Greg Mitchell said...
Agreed, Tim. One of my favorite passages in the Bible is the LAST half of Hebrews 11--about the righteous men who *weren't* delivered. That's powerful stuff.
David, believe me, I'm always trying to think of ways to bring "She-Vampires" to life. Maybe a comic book?
Jessica, thanks for commenting and for taking the time to read the book! I hope you enjoy it :)
- March 30, 2011 at 5:44 PM


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Because I need to get some sleep tonight, the DVR will capture periods two and three for me and I'll watch them sometime tomorrow. My only challenge will be to avoid any place I may see scores or may run into a person who will tell me the score. Hopefully, this is all avoided and the Avs wrap this game up in the first period.
Peter Budaj is getting the start. It'll be interesting to see how he plays now that the team has finally figured out how to win games. If he can put together a solid performance, his #1 spot is safe. If he continues to be below average, watch out, the goaltending discussion will only get worse.
Oh, and a few calls for you:
Budaj will make exactly 26 saves.
David Jones will score a goal.
Joe Sakic will have a multi-point night.
Arnason will finish with more than two shots on goal.
Avs win 4-3.
I'm proud to say that against the Flyers, I called goals by both Hejduk and Stastny through text message and was a Joe Sakic assist/goal away from getting his exact point total. Will my luck continue?
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Thank you, DVR
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3 comments:
- Jibblescribbits said...
Well You should have stopped at 2 predictions
- October 21, 2008 at 1:23 AM
- Geoff Rosenthal said...
Bleh, i got 3/5....that's decent considering I predicted Arnason to be effective.
- October 21, 2008 at 6:42 AM
- Jibblescribbits said...
Well predicting that is just playing with fire
- October 21, 2008 at 10:26 AM
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Should top leaders seek innovation from the front lines?
Everything old is eventually new again, to borrow a phrase. In the 1990s, Vice President Al Gore's re-inventing government initiative obsessed with the idea that great ideas were trapped on the front lines of the federal workforce. The reinventors in his office tried a variety of ways to spin those ideas for improving operations into practice.
Gore issued thousands of his signature Hammer Awards to recognize and encourage front-line individuals and teams to implement cost-saving and efficiency-boosting measures in their agencies. His team asked agency heads to approve employee requests for waivers from internal rules, and fostered several hundred "reinvention labs" throughout government that allowed front-line offices to experiment with new ways of doing business.
The Obama administration has revived the notion of front-line empowerment. The president announced in August that an "innovation competition" would take place at the Veterans Benefits Administration-the agency that processes veterans' requests for disability payments. "We're going to fund the best ideas and put them into action, all with a simple mission: cut those backlogs, slash those wait times, deliver your benefits sooner," Obama said. Employees have been asked to submit ideas via a Web site by Veterans Day. The heads of VBA's 57 regional offices then will review the ideas and submit the ones they like the best to headquarters, where a review team led by VA's undersecretary for benefits will pick its favorites. The winners will get a pot of money to try out their ideas as pilot projects at the regional offices-much like Gore's reinvention labs did in the previous decade.
VBA is no stranger to such efforts. Indeed, Gore's very first Hammer Award went to the agency's New York regional office for a new way of doing business that the office's chief, Joe Thompson, had put in place. Instead of an assembly-line process, Thompson created a case management system that reduced paper shuffling and allowed veterans to keep track of their claims by talking to assigned service representatives. The office went on to rack up two more Hammer Awards for innovations. In 1997, Thompson was promoted to head VBA, on the strength of his record of improving employee and veteran satisfaction with the claims process. He pushed his new system across VBA, but fate was not kind to his reform efforts. After a change in federal law that required a new review of a host of old claims, the backlog of claims skyrocketed.
When the Bush administration took over in 2001, Thompson's successor undid the shift to a case management system and returned to an assembly-line process for most cases. Through both changes, the backlog has remained a concern.
Regional VA managers have tried various ways to improve customer service and speed in the claims process-many of those ideas recommended by front-line workers. Administrations, Congress and commissions have done the same. Indeed, the problem at VBA doesn't appear to be a lack of ideas. It appears to be a failure of sustained commitment to a process. Unearthing innovation can be done through a competition of ideas submitted online. It also can be done by looking to the past at what's been tried before. History tends to repeat itself, even if it's packaged as innovation or reform.
Brian Friel covered management and human resources at Government Executive for six years and is now a National Journal staff correspondent.


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PJ Sharon here. March is an exciting month for authors. Springtime is around the corner and this year's conference circuit begins. Since I've been at this a few years, now…eight to be precise, I've come to learn the value of attending at least a few hands-on workshops and major conferences every year. There are so many great opportunities out there, how does one know which conference is worth the time, effort, and money? I've narrowed down my favorite, and most productive conference experiences. I'd love to share my take on a few of them.
I'll start with the CTRWA sponsored events. I may be biased since this is my home chapter, but the events planners for CTRWA manage to consistently offer fantastic programming at very reasonable prices. With a smaller, more intimate gathering of authors, you can enjoy getting to know other writers, networking, and learning from such greats as Michael Hague and Kristan Higgins. Michael Hague's teaching on story structure and the heroes' journey revolutionized my writing. I can't wait to hear him speak again this coming weekend! CTRWA also puts on an incredible Fiction Fest conference in the fall. These two events are on my MUST attend list.
This will be the first year I'm attending the New England Conference April 24-26, so I'll be anxious to see how that one is. I've heard good things, and I'm looking forward to presenting, as well as seeing some of my CTRWA pals giving workshops as well. If expenses are tight–which is the case for most of us writers–presenting workshops can be a great way to attend conferences at a discount and also get your name in front of a a good number of people.This will be my first time presenting to a crowd this size, but with a workshop on Ergonomics and Self Care for Writers (Subtitled: Is your writing killing you?), how can I go wrong?
One of the funnest parts of attending conferences is that you never know who you're going to meet. I rode an elevator with Nora Roberts three times before realizing who she was…my bad. I also got some amazing and very sound advice from Bella Andre at the 2013 National conference. She was open, warm, and honest–just like her books.
Me and Bella Andre at the 2013 National RWA conference, where she rightly told me to set aside the third book in my Lily Carmichael trilogy and go home and finish another contemporary YA romance. I did as she suggested and produced PIECES of LOVE last summer before finishing HEALING WATERS which released in December. In doing so, I was able to keep my contemporary readers happy, add a box set and novella to my bookshelf, and still finish up the trilogy before the end of 2014. I don't think I would have written and recorded my PIECES of LOVE theme song if I hadn't been pushed to write that book at that time. I needed that time away from writing the last book in the trilogy to regroup and get organized again before bringing the series to a close. Writing something totally different and using my music in a new way gave me the creative boost I needed and offered my contemporary readers new content.
I'll always value the opinions of others who have done it before me and done it well. Conferences are rife with good advice from the pros!
When it came to deciding between RT Booklovers and the National RWA conference this year, it was a no brainer for me. I've been to RT twice, and both times found it to be a bit disorganized and chaotic. There were some good workshops and the schmoozing is always fun, but overall, I get much more bang for my buck at Nationals. One caveat, is that RT is a great place to meet readers.
The YARWA folks do an amazing job putting together a Day of YA, where hundreds of young readers show up to meet and chat with authors. I might have to go back again for just that event! I took this pic of me and one of my YA readers who actually recognized my name and had read my books! One of those perfect moments I'll never forget.
Meeting awesome people and rooming with others is one of the greatest parts of conferences for me. I've had the best roomies and it saves me a bunch of money! That's me and my Scribe's pal Katy Lee at the 2013 National conference below. I've had the great pleasure of bunking with some top notch ladies who are always up for an impromptu brainstorming session or a late night cocktail. The hotel bar is a hot spot for agents and editors, so be ready with those elevator pitches and always be professional.
Since my focus has shifted a bit this year toward creating visibility, opening myself up to educational opportunities, and writing my non-fiction book, I figured offering my workshop at the National RWA conference in July would be an excellent way to spread the word about my first passion–health and wellness. How much fun will it be for me to share my best life balance and self care tips with hundreds of authors–all of whom are suffering from the sedentary lifestyle syndrome that is sweeping the globe? (My story about how this idea came to be and my celebration of 10 years as an entrepreneur is up at my website, along with my three best exercises for improving posture.)
For those of you who spend hours a day at your desk or in your car, or find yourself imprisoned by your computers and perpetually attached to your cell phones, i-pads and e-readers, you know the pitfalls of the sedentary and chair-bound lifestyle all too well. Do you suffer neck and back pain, poor posture, symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome, or even significant weight gain from all the sitting you do? With today's fast paced, digitized world, we're all finding ourselves in this predicament and there seems to be no end in sight to the perils of techno-overload and the inevitable decline of our health as a result. Having the experience and knowledge to help others navigate their way back into a health body is a privilege and I take the responsibility seriously. The more people I can reach with positive messages about proper ergonomics and self care, the better.
We won't even talk about all those gorgeous (and non-ergonomic) shoes we'll all be wearing! Conferences are a mecca for fashion and glitz…an opportunity to feel like a princess a few times a year.
The last conference I'll attend will be CT Fiction Fest in September. That should round out my year nicely with an affordable way to advance my writing, meet some new people, and hang out with my pals for another fun-filled weekend of replenishing the creative well. I had to skip all the conferences last year in lieu of finishing two books and a novella in 2014. This year, I'll be making up for it!
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Hellstern Middle School shuts down; more than 200 students get sick in one day
A local school has been shut down by a virus, but it isn't the flu. So 40/29 News went to find out what's making kids sick and what school officials are doing to stop the spread of the virus.
More than 900 kids attend Hellstern Middle School in Springdale. On Thursday, nearly a third of them went home sick.
"During the course of the day, over 200 kids checked out of school. While other cities and towns and communities are dealing with the flu, we haven't really had that situation in Springdale. So to have this many kids get sick in one day is definitely unusual," Springdale Communications Director Rick Schaeffer said.
Schaeffer says it was a stomach virus that caused vomiting. One by one the students were sent home, leaving school nurses baffled by how fast the virus hit.
"We consulted with Washington County health officials, spoke with the state department of health, and after visiting with all of them came to the conclusion that it would be best to close Hellstern Middle School for one day," Schaeffer said.
Signs are now posted on both sides of the front doors to let everyone know about the closure, the first of its kind in a long time.
"Dr. Rollins is a long-time superintendent. He's been here for 30 years. It's the first time in his tenure that this has ever happened," Schaeffer said.
Closing the school on a Friday gives the cleaning staff ample time to make sure everything is disinfected as they try to find the source of this virus.
"They clean the school every night anyway, but they will do an extra cleaning, make sure they sterilize everything," Shaeffer said.
The school will also be closed on Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Schaeffer said they hope to resume at full speed on Tuesday morning.


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This year was undoubtedly a banner year for LGBT people in the U.S., as the Supreme Court struck down part of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, and people came out all over the Internet. But so many events that captured headlines and eyeballs had a larger context than bite-size chunks typically relegated to Year in Review types of news recaps. Here we look at the big ideas that captivated us in 2013 and how they will drive what happens next year.
Immigration Is an LGBT Issue
For nearly five decades, anyone applying for a green card in the U.S., would be required to disclose whether they were a "sexual deviant." If the person's answer was "yes," the applicant would not be welcome in the States. While that question was dropped from the green card application, it wasn't until this year that the Supreme Court's decision striking down a section of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act made it possible for immigrants in same-sex couples and their families to enter the U.S. just like their straight counterparts.
Still, this doesn't mean that the work is done on immigration.
Rachel Tiven, executive director of Immigration Equality, says that while her organization receives many more happy phone calls than it did a year ago, requests for asylum are still increasing. In fact, since Russia instituted its notorious so-called gay propaganda law in the summer, the number of requests for asylum in the United States from Russia and former Soviet nations has increased by 366%.
"For so long, our number 1 country for asylum had been Jamaica, we have an enormous number of people from Jamaica who are fleeing terrible antigay persecution," Tiven says. "We knew that the situation was bad when Russia knocked Jamaica out of line in our monthly hotline intake statistics."
The problems for LGBT immigrants don't stop there. Tiven says that detentions and deportations have skyrocketed during the Obama administration, putting vulnerable populations at risk of violence, harassment, and extreme treatment.
"More people have been detained without a lawyer in the last few years, than in the last 100 years combined," she says. "We have an epidemic of detention and deportation. Applies to many many people, but the vulnerability of LGBTs particularly transgender immigrants in detention, is unfortunately unique and extreme."
National Center for Transgender Equality executive director Mara Keisling says that the attempts to improve detention conditions for transgender women and gay men, in particular, have been largely inadequate. After a meeting with a senior immigration detention official, Keisling says she was shocked to learn the conditions most transgender women and gay men were subjected to.
"One of the things that happens is that when a gay man or a transgender person goes to detention, they go to solitary confinement automatically, because of this misguided understanding that, 'Oh, we can't put them in with the general population,'" Keisling says. "And so we had this moment where this [detention official] says, 'Well, we've reduced the problem because we've gotten it down from more than 100 days to 28 days.' But even then, science — the psychological, and medical field — sees this as torture. And then his assistant says, 'Actually, that's true for everyone except gay men and trans women. For them it's nine and a half months.'"


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Pollution Halves Visitors to Beijing
Beijing residents aren't the only ones turned off by how smoggy their skies get. According to a state media report, the city's notorious pollution is also deterring tourists.
Visitors to China's capital declined by roughly 50% in the first three quarters of the year compared to a year earlier, according to a report in Beijing Youth Daily based on a survey of domestic travel agents (in Chinese).
The decline was steeper than in the first half of the year, when tourists to the city fell by only 14.3% year-on-year to 2.14 million, the report said, citing the Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development.
"We had a total of 20,000 inbound tourists last year, but only 10,000 in the first three quarters of this year," the report quoted Guo Lingmei, head of marketing at travel agency BTG International Travel and Tours, as saying. "There are still two months left in the year, but because the majority of overseas tourists book their flights and hotels in advance… this year looks to be dismal," he added.
If the current trend holds, Beijing will see its first decline in inbound tourism since 2008, when much of the world was mired in financial crisis.
One of the main factors in the decline, according to the paper: extreme air pollution in the first half of the year "hyped by foreign media."
The Great Wall, Tiananmen Square and other historic sites in and around Beijing still draw mobs of domestic and foreign visitors, but they are often wrapped in smog. Meanwhile, criticism of the capital's suffocating air and congested traffic continues to spread. Though Beijing Youth Daily blames foreign news organizations for being overly critical, the newspaper's sister state-run media outlets have been equally vocal.
The municipal government of Beijing adopted an emergency-response plan for air pollution in early October, including alternate driving days for cars with even- and odd-numbered license plates on days of "serious" air pollution, but analysts say the levels of pollution required to trigger the ban are so high that the new policy might only come into play a few times a year.
Poor air quality isn't the only reason for a decline in visitors to Beijing. The yuan, having appreciated more than 2% against the U.S. dollar this year, is making traveling to China more expensive. Some foreigners are also coming from countries where their own economies haven't fully recovered from the European debt crisis.
Similar factors are putting a damper on tourism in the rest of China. The first half of the year saw the number of inbound tourists to China fall by 4.2%, the report said, citing the Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development. Overseas tourists (excluding Hong Kong and Macau) declined by 7.1%. The number of visitors to China from Japan and Korea fell especially hard. Escalating tensions between Japan and China, including a territorial dispute in East China Sea, helped push down the number of Japanese tourists by 54.5% in the first half.
Still, the growing incomes of Chinese citizens and their increasingly sophisticated ways of spending money for leisure is more than holding up the country's tourism industry. Revenue from the industry grew 10.7% to 1.4 trillion yuan ($228 billion) in the first half of the year, according to the National Tourism Administration.
In fact, the total number of people arriving at major tourist sites in China over the first two days of the "National Day" holiday was up 18.8% this year, compared to last year, according to an economist with Bank of America-Merrill Lynch. It was a slowdown from the 21% rise during the holiday week last year, but comparable to a 8.8% rise in 2011 and 6.5% rise in 2010.
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Session management from a code review perspective should focus on the creation, renewal, and destruction of a user's session throughout the application. The code review process should ensure the following:
Session ID
Authenticated users should have a robust and cryptographically secure association with their session. The session identifier (Session ID) should not be predictable, and generation of such should be left to the underlying framework. The development effort to produce a session with sufficient entropy is subject to errors, and best left to tried and trusted methods.
- Applications should check if the session is valid prior to servicing any user requests. The user's session object may also hold authorization data.
- Session ID should be applied to a new user upon successful authentication.
- Reviewing the code to identify where sessions are created and invalidated is important. A user should be assigned a new unique session once authenticated to mitigate session fixation attacks.
- Sessions may need to be terminated upon authorization failures. If a logical condition exists which is not possible, unless the state transition is circumvented or an obvious attempt to escalate privileges, a session should be terminated.
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Applications avoid or prevent common web attacks, such as replay, request forging, and man-in-the-middle.
- Session identifiers should be passed to the user in a secure manner such as not using HTTP GET with the session ID being placed in the query string. Such data (query string) is logged in web server logs.
- Cookie transport should be performed over a secure channel. Review the code in relation to cookie manipulation. Verify if the secure flag is set. This prevents the cookie being transported over a non-secure channel.
Session Lifecycle
- Session Timeout - Sessions should have a defined inactivity timeout and also in some cases a session hard-limit. The code review should examine such session settings. They may be defined in configuration files or in the code itself. Hard limits shall kill a session regardless of session activity.
- The log-out commands must do more that simply kill the browser. Review the code to verify that log-out commands invalidate the session on the server. Upon the logout request, be it a parameter or URL, one must review the code to ensure the session is invalidated.
Example for Session Invalidate:
import java.io.*; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; import java.sql.*; public class doLogout extends HttpServlet { public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req,HttpServletResponse res)throws ServletException,IOException { res.setContentType("text/html"); HttpSession ses =req.getSession(); ses.removeValue("Login"); ses.removeValue("password"); ses.invalidate(); res.sendRedirect("http://company.com/servlets/login.html"); } }
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Description of Session Management Vulnerabilities
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|Forecasting Realized Volatility Using A Nonnegative Semiparametric Model
|January 2009
|Daniel Preve, Anders Eriksson, Jun Yu
|Causality between Foreign Direct Investment and Tourism: Empirical Evidence from India
|January 2009
|Saroja Selvanathan, E.A. Selvanathan, Brinda Viswanathan
|Financial Leverage and Market Volatility with Diverse Beliefs
|January 2009
|Wen-Chung Guo, Frank Yong Wang, Ho-Mou Wu
|Financing Strategy for Achievement of the MDGs and Implementation of the Tenth Five Year Plan
|January 2009
|M. Govinda Rao, Anuradha Seth, Chewang Rinzin
|Japanese FDI in China - Determinants and performance
|January 2009
|Shiro Armstrong
|Currency Regime and Monetary Autonomy
|January 2009
|Hiroyuki Taguchi
|Explosive Behavior in the 1990s Nasdaq: When Did Exuberance Escalate Asset Values?
|January 2009
|Peter C.B. Philips, Yangru Wu, Jun Yu
|Comparing GDP in constant and in chained prices: Some new results
|January 2009
|Jesus C. Dumagan
|Real Exchange Rate Dynamics in the Presence of Nontraded Goods and Transaction Costs
|October 2008
|Inkoo LEE, Jonghyup SHIN
|China's Sovereign Wealth Fund: Weakness and Challenges
|January 2008
|Zhang Yuxuan, He Fancass
|An Analysis of Life Insurance Demand Determinants for Selected Asian Economies and India
|January 2008
|Subir Sen
|Volatility Dynamics in Foreign Exchange Rates: Further Evidence from the Malaysian Ringgit and Singapore Dollar
|January 2008
|Kin-Yip Ho, Albert K Tsui
|Tax Law Asymmetries and Income Shifting: Evidence From Japanese Capital Keiretsu
|January 2008
|Kazuki Onji, David Vera
|Impact Of Proposed Commodity Transaction Tax On Futures Trading In India
|January 2008
|Pravakar Sahoo, Rajiv Kumar
|Chinese Education Finance: Issues and Challenges
|January 2008
|Wang Rong
|Stock Returns-Inflation Relation in India
|January 2008
|K.R. Shanmugam, Biswa Swarup Misra
|Tsunami in New York Earthquake in Beijing?
|January 2008
|FAN He
|Cost of Holding Excess Reserves - The Indian Experience
|January 2008
|Abhijit Sen Gupta
|Finance, State Capacity, Privatisation, and Transparency in SE Asian Higher Education
|January 2008
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Aurora German Shorthaired Pointers
Services: Puppies
Exceptional litter of GSP puppies from CKC GCH/AKC/UKC RBIS CH Whisperfield Out On A Limb, FDJ, JH and AKC GCH Auroras Lunar Eclipse. Show, field and family dogs. This litter has been sold.
Country Breeze German Shorthair Pointers
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Were are a small kennel striving to breed puppies for great temperment, health, and correctness.WE HAVE 2 OLDER PUPPIES AVAILABLE. A 3 MONTH OLD AND A 5 MPNTH OLD FEMALE. PLEASE CALL FOR 610_390_2684
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HHH Shorthairs on FB.Bred to Bring Home the Birds AND the Ribbons, puppies are available from multi titled parents, CHIC level health clearances, pups available to screened homes. AKC Breeder of Merit
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We are a small family owned breeder in Mohrsville PA that specializes in German Shorthaired Pointers and Hungarian Vizslas. Our dogs are an important part of our lives and family.
Huckle Hill German Shorthaired Pointers
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Beautiful AKC German Shorthair Pointers. Bred for exceptional conformation,field,and most of all a cherished companion
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RiverEdge breeds GSP's on a limited basis for temperament, health, correct structure, willingness to please and hunting ability. We are proud to announce Flame and Draxx's litter born Jan 18, 2020
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Our dogs are bred to be Great family dogs and hunting dogs. PUPPIES Were born today 12-23-19.Taking deposits now puppies are $1000 deposits are $500. Thank you for looking junipers GSP's
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Pinecrest German Shorthair Pointers
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The goal of our breeding program is to produce quality, healthy show dogs. We take the time to place our "pet puppies" in the home that best suits their needs. Our puppies are raised in our home.
Claxton Quail and Pointers
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Beautiful roan female. Tails docked, dew claws removed, dewormings current and ready for pickup on March 15. Both parents are on site and registered Akc. 800. Text or call 228-380-0344
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We are a Hobby/Show KennelLimited breeding, focused on Health, Temperament, Structure & Field InstinctShowing German Shorthaired Pointers since 1998Breeding & Raising German Shorthaired Pointers Since 2000
Blue Line Gun Dogs
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Producing Quality, Genetic Tested German Shorthaired Pointers in Central Kansas. We can ship your puppy anywhere in the US using United Airlines Pet Safe Program!
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Pearl Ashley (January 10, 1916 - November 26, 2008)
Pearl Ashley, age 92, died November 26, 2008 in Hot Spring County Medical Center. She was born in Antioch Community on January 10, 1916 to William Thomas Hall and Iva Garrett Hall and lived in Antioch her entire life.
She married Freeman Ashley on September 11, 1937 and associated with Caddo Valley congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. She was a farm wife and loved flowers, gardening, animals, her family, and lively music.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; two brothers, Clyde Hall and an infant brother; two sons, Kenneth Ashley and Carl Ashley; a granddaughter, Candy Ashley; a sister, Verna Beason and a great-grandson, Alex Larimore.
She is survived by one daughter, Mildred Galindo of Antioch, AR; a son, Doyle Ashley of Antioch, AR; four granddaughters, Lisa Porterfield of Friendship, AR; Becky Roy of Benton, AR; Trish Cook and Phyllis Bricker both of the Houston, TX area; six great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; a daughter-in-law, Judy Ashley of Malvern, AR and a sister-in-law, Effie Seward of Antioch, AR.
Funeral services are scheduled for 1:00p.m. Tuesday, December 2, 2008, in the chapel of Atkinson Funeral Home by David Overturf.
Visitation will be held from 5:00p.m. to 7:00p.m. on Monday, December 1, 2008 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Upper Antioch Cemetery. Pallbearers are Bobby Crabb, Philip Crabb, Darren Young, Arvin Booy, Leonard Hodges, and Joe Pence.
I will be leaving Houston in the morning and will be coming back some time on Wednesday. I, as always, will have my phone. Feel free to text or call me....it's a 7 hour drive....boring.


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Be careful what you wish for,
You may not get what you want
Only a week or so ago, when patch 3.2.2 landed with a thud, it brought a few changes to the battlegrounds.
One of those changes I was uncertain about.
On the positive side I would always be entering numerically equal battlegrounds.
On the negative side, the price I would pay is having to wait longer for the BG queue to pop.
But wait, there's more
Combined with these other two changes, I was left will time on my hands.
Bad news if both queues filled the moment before I joined… Hello 30 minute wait.
Bad news if I decide to put the kettle on or anything else that takes longer than 40 seconds. Hello re-queue.
Numerically Unbalanced
But, but something has changed. I think since my wonderful Saturday night (thanks again Blizz!).
I am getting into BGs that aren't numerically balanced… or even full…
Of Alliance anyway!
This BG scoreboard shot was taken at the height of the Alliance population.
We started at 4 to 10
Long odds even for uber PvPers like myself (cough cough)
- Needless to say the BG was over long before the 25 minute timer.
- Needless to say we lost.
- I probably don't even need to tell you that we lost 0/3.
Of course when 50% of your potential BG population is waiting to respawn at the GY, and that 50% actually comprises 100% of your forces, there isn't much to stop the Horde grabbing and capping your flag.
Props to the Alliance (I've been throwing them around like sweets lately), we didn't give up and no one left the BG till it was all over.
Of course the BG finished before we could have hearthed anyway…
#IBlameSyrana Oct 6 666
These days we all blame Syrana, but I have evidence that she is involved.
Well her and 665 of you…
Gnomer and Out, Squidly and Stout!
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Sales open for gourmet luncheon series tickets
PRINCESS ANNE, MD - (Feb. 12, 2014) - The University of Maryland Eastern Shore's Hospitality and Tourism Management program (formerly Hotel and Restaurant Management) has announced that tickets for its luncheon series on select Mondays and Wednesdays throughout the spring semester will go on sale Feb. 13.
Served at noon in the Bailey Thomas Room of the Richard A. Henson Center, the gourmet meals feature an appetizer, entrée and dessert prepared by students and faculty of the program. Tickets must be purchased in advance.
"Entrees are selected from a wide range of seafood, beef, chicken, pork and lamb dishes to please the varied palettes of our guests," said Dr. Ernest Boger, chair of UMES' Hospitality and Tourism program.
"Participation in the luncheon series and special events help our management students gain valuable banquet production and service experience in real-life settings," he said.
"UMES is known as one of 'the places' to sample up-scale food," said Boger. "If it is a gourmet lunch you're looking for, at everyday prices, get your tickets now as sales move quickly."
The lunches are on Feb. 24 and 26; March 10, 12, and 31; April 2, 21, 23, 28 and 30; and May 5 and 7. Tickets are $12 per person and must be purchased in person.
Check or money order should be made payable to UMES. No cash sales.
For more information, call 410-651-6563. No reservations will be taken by phone or mail.
Gail Stephens, assistant director, UMES Office of Public Relations, 410-651-7580.


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Hello folks, call me dizzydroup. I am retired and have a 1996 chevy express van(2500 cargo) that I am covering to a camper. I want to lower the front end and have not been able to find a dropped spindle or even shorter springs --any idea's?/ I am about to cut the springs as a last resort but am afraid it will affect the ride and bottom out??


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Chipotle Stuffed Meatballs {GFCF}
Posted on April 7, 2012
Chipotle Stuffed Meatballs {GFCF} 1 lb ground beef 1 egg, lightly beaten 1 Tbsp uncooked long-grain white rice 1 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 c onion, finel diced 3 hard boiled eggs, quartered 1 1/2 c chicken broth 1 c tomato sauce (canned is fine) 2 chipotle chiles in adobo sauce (canned) 1 garlic clove, minced Continue Reading »
Hot Cross Buns {GFCF}
Posted on April 2, 2012
A traditional Good Friday treat, Hot Cross Buns are a relatively simple, elegant sweet bread– and perfect for brunch! Gluten Free Hot Cross Buns {GFCF} 1 cup sorghum flour 1 cup potato starch 1/2 cup brown rice flour 1/2 cup tapioca starch 2 teaspoons xanthan gum 3/4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon baking Continue Reading »
Butternut Squash & Sage Latkes {GFCF}
Posted on December 17, 2011
Latkes are a Hanukkah essential. Whether you are settling down for a quiet dinner with family and friends, or throwing a fabulous holiday bash that will make your dreidel spin, these latkes are perfection on a plate. Golden-fried, crispy, delicious perfection. Whether you're a fan of straight-up potatoes, potato flakes or sweet potato — Continue Reading »
Italian Polenta Cookies {GFCF} {Day 10} 12 Days of Holiday Cookies
Posted on December 14, 2011
Orange Polenta Cookies Yields 2 dozen cookies< // Gluten free & Milk/Casein/Lactose/Dairy Free {GFCF}/i> 6 Tbsp unsalted butter (or non-dairy butter), well chilled 1/2 cup polenta 2 Tbsp gluten free all-purpose flour 1/3 cup sugar Zest of one orange, finely chopped 1 large egg In a medium bowl, combine polenta, gf flour and sugar. Cut Continue Reading »
Holiday Meringues 5 Ways {GFCF} {Day 9} 12 Days of Holiday Cookies
Posted on December 13, 2011
Psst! Are you allergic to eggs and/or vegan? We found an interesting (GFCF) Vegan Meringue Recipe — now, we haven't tried it– yet– but it looks rather promising! Holiday Meringues Yields 2 dozen 1-2 inch meringues // Gluten Free & Milk/Lactose/Casein/Dairy Free {GFCF} 2 egg whites 1 1/2 cups sugar 1/2 tsp cream of tartar Continue Reading »
Linzer (Stained Glass) Cookies {GFCF} {Day 8} 12 Days of Holiday Cookies
Posted on December 12, 2011
I'll be honest, I'm pretty excited to share this recipe with you. I love Linzer cookies, or Stained Glass Cookies — heck, call them lima beans and they'd still be my favorite! Essentially, you're making a super cute (and tasty) cookie + jam sandwich. Cookie + jam + cookie with a cute shape cut out Continue Reading »
Gingersnaps! {GFCF + Vegan} {Day 7} 12 Days of Holiday Cookies
Posted on December 11, 2011
Gluten Free, Dairy Free & Vegan Gingersnaps Yields 3 dozen half-dollar sized cookies 1 cup sorghum flour 1 cup tapioca starch 1/2 cup almond flour 1 cup brown sugar 1 tsp ground ginger 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp freshly ground nutmeg 1/4 tsp ground cloves 1/4 tsp kosher salt 1 1/4 tsp xanthan gum Continue Reading »
Chewy Almond Cookies {GFCF} {Day 6} 12 Days of Holiday Cookies
Posted on December 10, 2011
I have to tell you, I've been looking for this cookie recipe for years. Years. I tasted their amazing deliciousity for the first time at a dinner party when I was still in high school — they were amazing, and I asked for the recipe and was graciously rewarded — and then I lost it Continue Reading »
Old Fashioned Spritz Cookies {GF & GFCF} — {Day 4} 12 Days of Holiday Cookies}
Posted on December 8, 2011
It's already Day 4 of our 12 Days of Holiday Cookies! I don't know about you, but I just can't believe it! Going the traditional – if not retro – route this morning, we're talking Spritz Cookies or Spritzer Cookies. A simple, buttery dough, often flavored with lemon, almond or straight up vanilla and colored Continue Reading »
Best Ever Sugar Cookies 2 Ways {GF & GFCF} – {Day 3} 12 Days of Holiday Cookies
Posted on December 7, 2011
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Starting July 4th, 2010, Senate Bill 75 finally goes effect and We The People of Indiana gain our Sunday beer independence. Here's what you need to know.
1. An Indiana microbrewery can sell its beer for carryout on Sundays only at the address at which the brewers permit is filed. This means that the brewing and the selling have to be done at the same address. Locations that fit this description and that will participate in Sunday sales include:
- Three Floyds (Munster)
- Shoreline (Michigan City)
- Crown (Crown Point)
- Figure Eight (Valparaiso)
- Mad Anthony (Fort Wayne)
- Brickworks (Hobart)
- People's (Lafayette)
- Lafayette Brewing Co. (Lafayette)
- Half Moon (Kokomo)
- Barley Island (Noblesville)
- Oaken Barrel (Greenwood)
- Ram Downtown (Indianapolis)
- Alcatraz (Indianapolis)
- Rock Bottom (both Indianapolis locations)
- Broad Ripple Brewpub (Indianapolis)
- Wilbur (by appointment only, Martinsville)
- Lil' Charlie's (Batesville)
- Upland (Bloomington)
- Bloomington Brewing Co. (Bloomington)
- Big Woods (Nashville)
- Powerhouse (Columbus)
- Great Crescent (Aurora)
- Turoni's Main Street (Evansville)
- New Albanian's Bank Street Brewhouse (New Albany)
2. Places where brewing does not take place are not eligible for carryout sales. Some places where you will not be able to purchase beer for carryout include:
- Ram Fishers
- Upland's College Ave. Tasting Room
- Barley Island Broad Ripple
- Mad Anthony's Warsaw and Auburn locations
3. Breweries are not required to sell beer on Sundays, so if a brewery does not hold regular hours on Sundays, it may or may not open on a regular basis for Sunday sales. The following breweries are not currently participating in Sunday sales.
- Sun King (Indianapolis), not open on Sundays
- Brugge (Indianapolis), not participating currently, will participate soon
- Back Road Brewery (LaPorte), not participating currently, will re-evaluate later
- New Albanian's Pizzeria & Pub (New Albany), not open on Sundays
4. Grocery stores, liquor stores, or other stores selling craft beer are not eligible for carryout Sunday sales.
5. You will still be able to purchase drinks at bars and restaurants on Sundays, just like you have in the past.
6. You are limited in the amount of beer you can purchase in a single transaction to two cases (or 576 ounces).


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Just when the new pope had me feeling all hopeful about Catholicism, Fontbonne Academy goes and rescinds a job offer to a food services director because he's married to a man.
Really, I have to ask: Who are they to judge?
I get that the church opposes gay marriage. But Matthew Barrett was going to manage the cafeteria at the prep school for girls in Milton, not remake the Theology Department.
Even if he were so inclined, it's hard to see how he could push a gay agenda from the kitchen: same-sex meatballs in the Italian wedding soup? Barrett has filed a discrimination complaint.
Refusing to hire him would be overzealous in any Catholic school. But it's especially jarring at Fontbonne. For decades, this school has been a beacon of acceptance, a place where young women are empowered and taught to question everything, alumnae say. There, the Sign of the Cross is a gender-neutral affair. Instead of naming Father and Son, it goes, "In the name of the Creator, The Redeemer, and the Holy Spirit."
Under the late, beloved Mary Baker, the Theology Department was Fontbonne's beating heart — a challenging, intellectually rigorous, sometimes provocative enterprise.
Though she is Jewish, Nikki Tishler felt embraced at Fontbonne. "The Theology Department is where I found my home," said Tishler, who graduated in 2007. "The social justice mission of the school spoke to me, it fostered me to become an activist.''
Some teachers were gay, though they didn't make it official like Barrett did, naming his husband as emergency contact. None of the former students I spoke to recall much of a focus on social issues. When Massachusetts legalized gay marriage in 2003, Tishler recalled it as "a moment of celebration," for gay and straight students, and for teachers, too.
Run by the Sisters of St. Joseph, Fontbonne has long fostered the values the new pope has been voicing with such captivating eloquence. Which is why Barrett's complaint has been such a seismic event for Fontbonne and its alumnae. They are angry about his treatment. And they are angry that the school is being cast as an intolerant place. Many of them believe Catholic higher-ups must have directed school leaders to rescind the job offer.
The school did seek guidance from the diocese before acting, said Greg Chambers, assistant head of the school. Though the diocese has no official sway over the school, it's easy to imagine the nuns who oversee Fontbonne — the kind of nuns who have been the target of chilling papal scrutiny in recent years — not wanting to take the risk here.
In any case, Chambers toed the official line Friday afternoon. "We are a school guided by the beliefs of the Catholic Church, and marriage between persons of the same sex is contrary to the teachings of the church," he said.
It's hard to reconcile some of those beliefs with a social justice mission as strong as Fontbonne's. Many who love the school don't try, choosing the latter over the former without hesitation.
They're like many Catholics in this country, embracing the church's messages of love and justice, but parting ways with it on social issues. The pews are full of them: gays and lesbians; people who use birth control; abortion rights supporters; people who are divorced; those who long for the ordination of women.
Their ranks will grow in coming decades. Fissures like the one opened at Fontbonne Academy will be more frequent, and more damaging. If the church is to thrive, it will have to embrace, or at least adapt to, the change those parishioners represent.
I held out little hope of that when Benedict was pope. I'm convinced Francis is leading his flock toward a place where the Matthew Barretts of the world will find not just love — and jobs — but full lives in the church.
And when it gets there, the loudest cheers will rise from women who found their life's mission at a prep school in Milton.
Yvonne Abraham is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at email@example.com.


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Friday, August 31, 2012
Hell Yeah...
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Trike Thursday...The Darktown Strutters
A couple of Roth's VW trikes made it in this fine piece of cinematography. Unfortunately I missed this one.
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The Chatterbox...
We hit up the Chatterbox last Sunday in Augusta. The food is good, great atmosphere. The cars on display in the center of the restaurant change month to month. They had a kit Cobra on display while we were there. There's also a fed, and alot of auto related movie stuff on the walls. Always alot of bikes and rods in the lot. If you're ever in the area check it out.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The Babe's Ride...Lead East
Laid out some Watson style panels. I've always loved his Grapevine paint job.
I fabbed some lake pipes out of stainless that have to be mounted, and still have to upholster the seat, pinstripe etc. I've got 2 days to get her done!
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Enough Already...I'm Back!
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Labels: I've been a naughty boy
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Showrod Sunday...Later
I'm taking the first stagecoach out, killing off this blog today. I just don't have the time for it anymore. Thanks for supporting Righteous Machine Corp.!
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
Saturday's Denver Omelette...
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Labels: 750, Denver's Choppers
Friday, August 24, 2012
tIt's Friday...The Shaggin' Wagon
Back in the day my ol' man had a custom van with a captains chairs, wet bar, bed, custom paint, etc. Typical custom van stuff for the day, but cool none the less. He would never let me drive it, and when he did, I'd have to get the speech about not getting chicks pregnant. I had alot of good times in that van!
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Labels: good times, road apple, tits, van'n
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Wednesday's Words Of Wisdom...
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Labels: tits, words of wisdom
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
In The Still Of The Night...
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Monday, August 20, 2012
Digger Monday...Kick That Bitch!
or get your brother to do it!
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Labels: Digger, magnacharger, Ness
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Showrod Sunday....Have A Coke
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Saturday, August 18, 2012
Mini Apes...
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Labels: it's three for me, tits
Last Night...
Both these guys play over 200 dates a year worldwide, so if there anywhere near you, check these fuckers out.
|Popa Chubby
|Walter Trout
|Popa Chubby
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Labels: Chuck don't give a fuck, Mexi Cali, Popa Chubby, Walter Trout
Friday, August 17, 2012
tIt's Friday...Sporty Love
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Labels: bike babe, biker tits, ironhead givemehead, tits
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Trike Thursday...Mail Call
The mailbox section of "Big Daddy's" Choppers magazine needed a logo for the beginning of the column which Newt did for him. This logo was fashioned after a hot rod panel truck except it had one wheel in front. And the "Mail Box" was born.
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Labels: choppers magazine, ed roth, fink it, motorcyclepedia museum, Trike
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Wednesday's WTF...Lions, Bikes, Sidecars Oh My!
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Labels: lion king, motorcyclepedia museum, WTF
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
On Point...
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Labels: fantastic facial hair, sidecar
Monday, August 13, 2012
Digger Monday...Taste The Rainbow
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Labels: Denver's Choppers, Digger, I heart Skittles
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Showrod Sunday...Captain Pepi
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Labels: ed roth, megacycle, motorcyclepedia musuem, showrod
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Saturday's Shovel Lovin'...Turbo's
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Labels: shovel, shovel lovin', turbo