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People fighting obesity often look for treatments that will quickly help them lose weight. Lately, an increasing number are achieving that goal by having intragastric balloons placed in their stomachs to reduce their appetite. But can they maintain their weight loss over the long term?
In our study, my colleagues and I found that people using the intragastric balloons began regaining substantial weight just a couple of years after treatment. We determined that a well-rounded supportive approach is needed to achieve lasting weight management. We presented these findings to our colleagues at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) 2017, the largest international gathering of physicians, researchers, and academics in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy, and gastrointestinal surgery.
With the intragastric treatment, at least one balloon is placed in the stomach—with an endoscope or by swallowing a capsule—and is then inflated with liquid or gas. The intent is that patients will eat less because they feel much fuller, much faster since the balloon takes up space in the stomach.
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So as I was working my way through a tube of hydrocortisone cream, and whining to myself about how annoying rashes are, I wondered what it was in this particular deodorant that I am allergic to. That of course made me think of my "other known allergies." None of them led to a likely culprit, but thinking about it did remind me of something kind of funny.
When I was admitted to the hospital before having my daughter, the nurse who did my paperwork took a very thorough history, and it took a really long time, because I have so many things wrong with me. But she was determined not to miss anything. So when we got to the "allergies" section, I said something to the effect of "No. Nothing relevant." To which she replied "Oh, no. I'm not leaving anything blank on you." (Thanks for the subtle dig about how complicated I am, by the way. That's a wonderful thing to do to a pregnant woman.)
So I kind of rolled my eyes, and said "Well I'm allergic to horses, but I don't think that's going to be an issue here in the hospital." The sarcasm was apparently lost on her, because my hospital records now include an alert that I am allergic to horses.
Thanks to the many complications I encountered during the pregnancy, that hospital stay lasted nearly three weeks before my daughter was finally born. So that was three weeks of every new nurse, or aide, or anyone else that walked into my room with my chart saying "Ok, and you're allergic to..." [looks down at chart, then up at me with a confused look] "...horses?"
The confused look, coupled with the am-I-talking-to-a-crazy-person? tone of voice suggested that they thought I was the one who felt like my horse allergy was a necessary component of my hospital records. Like I was afraid that there was a good chance that I would encounter a horse during my stay, and was thus trying to prevent it. So each time I explained why it was in my chart, hoping that they would understand the sarcasm and stop looking at me like that.
In retrospect, it probably would have been a lot funnier if, instead of explaining the back story, I had just pulled the blanket up over my head and yelled "Yes! Please don't let them come in here again!" On the other hand, that just might have landed me in a different ward of the hospital, so I guess it's probably best that I didn't do it.
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Laughed out loud - for real! 'Cause I remember how you found out you were allergic to horse SALIVA, as I'm sure you were even more averse to mentioning! This was great timing. I'm going to be in the hospital for a few hours tomorrow.ReplyDelete
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Yeah, telling people that I'm allergic to "horse spit" usually comes out sounding really wrong, and I always have to follow up with "No. Horse sPit! With a P!" So I just go with a general "horses" for convenience. :)ReplyDelete
Glad I could help brighten your day. Good luck tomorrow. (And don't mention anything to the intake nurse that you don't want on your records forever!)
I missed this post a couple weeks ago. *LOL* Awesome. This is why I get so annoyed with some of the people who are in charge of your records.ReplyDelete
I am far too familiar with the deodorant allergy issue. I am apparently allergic to something that is in a lot of solids. Sometimes I'll break out immediately, but most times it has taken a couple weeks for it to build up in my system.
I can only buy a couple brands of solid and even then I play it safe and alternate with gels.


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According to the Muslim law board talaq thrice is 1,400-year-old practice. The board is protecting the practice of talaq thrice.
Kapil Sibal, the former law minister is appearing for the Muslim board has given an example comparing the triple talaq practice with Hindus trust that Lord Ram was born in Ayodhya and if someone carries faith that Lord Ram was born at Ayodhya, in that case, it is the matter of trust and legitimate ethics question does not arise.
He also added that triple talaq is in existence since 637. The practice is a matter of trust so no question arises of legitimate ethics and equity.
The basis of triple talaq can be reached in Hadith and it came into existence after the period of Prophet Muhammad, he added further.
Chief Justice of India asked that is e-talaq also there in existence. Kapil Sibal told that e- talaq is also correct and it is coded too in a daintier mood.


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Some people are visual learners. I am one of those people. My whole life I was most effective when I combined what I was doing or learning with some sort of visual stimulus. I could sit in a lecture hall for 45 minutes and not remember a thing when I left. I could read that same lecture on my computer and remember it forever. That's just how I am. If I can see it, I'll never forget it. Tell me your name, I'll forget it. Show me your face, I'll remember you forever. That's just how I am.
It's the same when I work out problems. I can't think through it in my head. I need some sort of physical representation of it. When given a math problem, I always had to write it down. When I was in a spelling bee, I was the kid of drew the word out in the air. When I'm managing projects at work, I need to create some sort of visual breakdown of the personnel resources that I have to allocate. And when it comes to breaking a story, I've found writing things down on a text file to be missing some sort of tangible element that I subconsciously need.
Yes, I was looking at something (the words on the screen), but I wasn't always able to feel the story, if that makes sense. I couldn't see it as a whole. I could only see all the beats that could be displayed on my screen at one time. It was hard to get a taste of velocity in my story. To get a taste of what the rhythm was. To get a sense of where the gaps were. I'd always been able to work past these issues (otherwise I would have never been able to any of my scripts), but I always wondered if there was a better way I could be doing this.
Enter… the board.
I'd tinkered with note cards in the past. But I never had anywhere to stick them. I'd keep them collected in their own little "acts," and sometimes spread them out on a table, or the floor. But even doing that only showed me parts of the story. I couldn't see the whole thing. Until I started to stick them up on the board.
I've been able to beat out three stories using the board so far. Two of which I was able to realize that, while they were good ideas, there wasn't enough there to make it a story. I was able to realize this much sooner than I normally would. Weeks instead of months sooner. And on my current project I was able to figure every element out, until I had enough beats to put together a complete story.
It started fast. I knew a few big beats. Some twists. Some turns. A few key scenes I knew had to be there. I stuck them up on the board where I thought they'd go. Roughly two lines per act (with act 2 getting split in half, and thus 4 lines). I was able to see where my holes are. I was able to see if my major twists seemed too far together. I was able to see when I had too much happening too fast. Or when I didn't have things happening fast enough. But most importantly, I was able to see it all at once, and for me that made the difference.
I'm still not 100% finalized on all the big beats. I've tinkered with and played around with a few of the cards. But there are no gaps anymore. It's more or less fine tuning pacing. Making sure that everything feels like it's where it's supposed to be.
When I'm done, I'll take everything I've got up on the board and put them into the text files I usually use. I'll then begin my regular outlining process, going more in depth to each of the beats. As I work on that I'll likely change up some of the stuff I've got on the board, but I'll make sure to keep the two pieces of info in sync.
Will this method work for everyone? I don't think so. It can be a little tedious. And if you don't have somewhere you can hang up a decent sized cork board, you're already off to a bad start. But if you're a visual learner, and a tactile kind of person, you might want to give it a try. I'd never found the notecard thing to work for me in the past. But once I started to stick them up on a wall and look at all of them at once, it clicked in my head and suddenly made sense. I've got a feeling it'll be the same for other people out there as well.
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I know that must come as a surprise. The men's team just won back to back national championships. The program has never been better. I'm not in any financial strife. I wouldn't have thought twice about it, had I not caught a throwaway comment from Sandelin during a photo op with Governor Walz. He was asked about a White House visit, and mentioned they were trying to work something out.
I cannot tell you how quickly that sucked all the joy out of the national championship. You'll recall how appalled I was when Amsoil Arena was host to a fascist rally last year, but that was simply the building. Anyone can pay the fee to rent it out. This is the team. The idea of seeing the team I've spent my whole life (and a good chunk of my money and time and heart and soul) following standing as a backdrop to god knows what kind of monstrous rant about one of his political opponents, or the media, or about — well, anything. Doctors "ripping" babies from uteruses after birth. His love for the dictators of North Korea and Russia. How rich he is. How great he is. How Totally Exonerated he is. Him him him him him. It's sickening to think of. I don't know why anyone would voluntarily subject themselves to be a potential backdrop for an incoherent word salad of hatred and ignorance delivered by someone who is facing impeachment and/or criminal indictment once he leaves office, and I don't know why an organization would ever want to take the risk. You think you're going to the White House to be congratulated on an achievement and honored by the President, but instead you're fed cold fast food and used as a prop.
I wish for the days when we had presidents who acted like adults, and who could pull themselves together and behave like human beings. Imagine if George W. Bush had used tUMD women's visits to the White House after their championships as an opportunity to whine about how unfairly he was treated after the government's disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina or to sneer at Al Gore and lead chants to have him jailed. I am sure many of the women on the team and staff had issues (to say the least) with some of his policies and may have had apprehensions about attending. But they knew they were not risking an unhinged rant full of monstrous lies and demagoguery. They knew they were not being asked there to genuflect to Dear Leader.
I'm sure there are people out there who wish for the halcyon days when sports weren't political, while standing for the national anthem at games in taxpayer funded arenas, while cheering for professional athletes who are union members, while watching on-field/ice re-enlistment ceremonies and "hero of the week" honors that are always law enforcement officers or military members and never volunteers at homeless shelters or legal aid workers, while tearing up over the Miracle on Ice, while watching the Olympics in countries with horrendous human rights records…
Showing up to the White House and showing tacit support for this president undermines the efforts of people of color and other minorities who have been treated with deliberate cruelty by this administration. Red Sox manager Alex Cora chose not to accept the White House's invitation in response to the abhorrent and anemic relief "efforts" in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Adam Rippon and Gus Kenworthy skipped a White House event honoring Olympians due to the administration's virulent anti-LGBTQ policies and rhetoric. The Minnesota Lynx did not even receive an invitation. Accepting this invitation when people of color, queer people, and women have bravely stood up in protest of this cruel and inhuman administration is simply wrong.
There's not much I can do about it, if the team and the athletic department want to go. Frankly, I don't know why the athletic department and the university would support such a visit. They just lost a discrimination lawsuit; sanctioning a visit to a divisive president who is an admitted sexual assaulter certainly wouldn't do much to build up the university's credibility as an inclusive and welcoming institution. Last year, the vice president congratulated the team for winning the state high school hockey championship, so it's not like the executive branch of government can even be bothered with the pretense that they actually respect the team.
All I can do is express how I feel to the athletic department with my words and my wallet. I waited as long as I could to determine whether or not the Bulldogs would be accepting the invitation or quietly letting it pass by due to scheduling conflicts (real or otherwise). The renewal deadline came and I chose to gamble that the visit will not happen.
When I tweeted about it yesterday, I got this response from a former player.
That's nice. I renewed, so I suggested he redirect that money toward a charity and offered some options. Biddco pledged to match his donations, as did I, but we haven't heard which charity he chose. It's nice to know former players are keeping such close tabs on me!
What's not as nice is what happened this morning:
Look. I am fully aware that most former and current players and staff think I'm a lunatic at best. It's why I try to minimize my interactions with them. I'd like to maintain the illusion that I fly under the radar. I'm also fully aware that the majority of them run the spectrum from neutral to enthusiastic about this current administration and many probably relish the opportunity to bask in his orange sickly glow. I'm not interested in picking fights with anyone associated with the team (other than Bruce) and I certainly am not happy to call their attention to myself in this way, but I can't pretend not to notice.
I didn't expect confirmation from a player that I'm unwelcome in the Bulldog fanbase. And that's perfectly fine if he (and others) feel that way. I suppose it's good that I found out, in the long run. Maybe I can save $800 and cancel my season tickets order if this is the position of the team and the athletic department. I've certainly been critical in the past and won't hesitate to be in the future. Perhaps there's not a place for that in Bulldog Nation. I feel like a fool, sitting here in my cubicle full of Bulldog gear, after attending the Twins game on Tuesday honoring tDogs pre-game, writing on my fifteen year old Bulldog hockey blog, but I suppose that's the cost of trying in some way to hold on to my principles and take a stand.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Obviously if they do announce a White House visit, I will be calling the ticket office to cancel. But now I'm weighing canceling anyway. It's a lot of money, time, and effort on our part to drive up to Duluth for home games as it is; to know that I'm cheering on people who have such disdain for me they couldn't just write it in their diaries or bitch about it to their therapist or even address me like a human being — well, that makes that drive feel longer, and the tickets feel more expensive, and the effort feel… not worth it.
I'm not going to pretend this diatribe is anything more than sound and fury, but that's who I've always been, and that's why the two or three or ten of you out there still read, isn't it? I'm sure most people would be happy if I kept my mouth shut and let this blow over, and I probably should have, but it's too late for that now.
Heroes and Villains
It has been strange to watch the evolution of the Bulldog men's hockey program. To go from 2011, when everyone was excited to see a team win their first championship, to yesterday, when we crushed the dreams of a team looking to win their first championship. (Technically we also crushed dreams in 2018, but the Potato Farmers only really care about football anyway.) The program has gone from hero to villain in less than a decade.
I. Freaking. Love. It.
I understand this indicates I am a truly terrible, rotten, soulless person, but we already knew that. So when I read things like "I don't want UMD to win because of their awful fans, I'm just like
because I know those people are talking about me. I personally am taking some of the fun and enjoyment out of college hockey for a small subset of the fanbase. That's almost like winning a second national championship, but in the sport of Sea Witchery instead of hockey.
I've read a lot about how lucky tUMD has been, as if that's a bad thing. No one wins a championship without a lot of good luck. No one loses a championship without a lot of good luck, either. This program has certainly dealt with a lot of bad luck along the way. A puck hitting a seam in the boards in 1984 was bad luck. A disallowed goal on a phantom high stick in 2004 was bad luck. Missing the tournament on a single loss to Vermont in 2010 was bad luck. Maybe scoring a goal against Boston University in 2015 was bad luck.
But no one wins on luck alone. The best teams make plays that put them in a position to capitalize on good luck along the way, and to minimize the impact of the bad luck they encounter. It's not lucky when a guy lifts a stick at the last possible second before a shot at a wide open net. It's not lucky when a goalie makes a save on a breakaway. It's not lucky when a player squeaks a puck through a tiny little opening between the goalie and the post. It's skill, it's practice, it's hockey intelligence. Every team has good luck and bad luck in every game. It's just amplified in a single elimination game, and the difference between a good team and a bad team is what those players do with the hands they're dealt, the die they roll, etc.
And how do you define luck, anyway? It gets a little comical when people are trying to call everything that happens lucky, in order to downplay the accomplishments of this team. tUMD made the tournament by the slimmest of margins in 2018, but they won four games with skill and strategy, not by accidentally farting a puck into the net. tUMD didn't have to play St. Cloud in the tournament thanks to AIC (somehow it's assumed that if St. Cloud had beaten AIC, they would have had a bye into the championship game, as if Denver and UMass weren't waiting to get a crack at them), but they did beat St. Cloud twice this year, and two of the losses were close. It's not impossible to think that tDogs could have beat them again. Contrary to popular opinion, a team doesn't have to beat every single team in NCAA men's D1 ice hockey, or even every team in the field of 16. There's no asterisk for not facing St. Cloud, or North Dakota, or whoever.
Now that we've gotten all the reactionary stuff out of the way, let's talk about what really happened these past few days!
I didn't go to Buffalo this year, so I had the new experience of watching the Frozen Four on television. It wasn't great to watch on TV, but I also feel okay about the decision. I never felt any real pull to go to Buffalo, probably because I'm cheap, I like sleeping in my own bed, I had a lot of other stuff going on in my life that I needed to take care of (work, a trail race that ended up getting canceled), and a winter storm that cooked itself up practically out of nowhere. Obviously a lot of other people dealt with those things and still made the choice to go, so those are most just reasons/excuses. I suppose one major deterrent was the fact that I have actually made the drive from Minnesota to Buffalo in one day (it was actually Duluth to Buffalo), less than two years ago, and it's not something that I cared to repeat.
Thursday I watched from home with just the Aaaahj and the cats, but Saturday we decided to meet up with MeanEgirl and go to a watch party. We tried to go to Bennett's, but it was full of old people having dinner unrelated to hockey, and also the Vulcans were there when we pulled up. So we decided to head over to Tom Reid's. Reid's was full (especially because they had some kind of private party in the back room), and the Vulcans also showed up there (fortunately I escaped both groping and greasepaint), but the three of us (the cats did not come) set up camp at the Golden Tee game, which had good views of the TVs, a place to set our food, and a nearby rail to set our drinks (two for ones!). The bar was packed with Bulldogs fans, and it was the perfect place to watch the game.
I have never, ever, ever been so calm during a hockey game. Sure, there were a few moments of nerves, but overall, tDogs came out flying and they really didn't look back and I could just tell they were going to win. All of the things we complained about during the season – bad penalties (ok there was one of those, but Krieger just got excited for a minute, I can't blame him), losing face-offs, failing to clear the zone, mixed up coverage in front of the net – they somehow fixed all of those for the championship game. The Minutepeople never got a chance to establish their scary speed and sneakiness, which was key to their win against Denver (and likely to the other 30 or so wins they had along the way). I was pretty nervous to face an unknown team, especially after seeing their excellent passing and deadly power play. I guess maybe I shouldn't have worried as much because tUMD is a better team than Denver (despite splitting the regular season with them).
Of course nothing will ever compare to the first win, or to an OT win, but I don't need to compare those things. It's not fair. Each championship has been incredibly special. I never dreamed that I would ever see my team display such dominance. I'm used to cheering for underdogs, scrappy upstarts that somehow claw their way into a great season here and there. I don't even quite understand how to be a fan of a team that wins a lot, that wins back to back championships and makes the title game three years in a row and gets to play another year with a target on its back. This makes me wish I was enlightened enough to be a fan of tUMD women's hockey back when they were in their dynastic phase and went back to back to back (could tUMD become the first program to accomplish 3peats in men's AND women's D1 hockey? Let's make it happen, I am officially greedy).
This has been an incredible season, and a testament to the coaching and support staff for being the backbone of this program. Sandelin sets the tone, and Herter, Krause, Hoppe, Garner, Koelling, Nicklin and Hoagy (among others) carry out that mission, keep that continuity, and help the older players pass along the culture and the expectations that come along with being a Bulldog player. I thought it was telling that Parker Mackay told my friend Jashvina (of Men's College Hockey News) that they didn't want the freshmen to feel like they were left out because they didn't win a championship. So many "traditions" seem to involve hazing of freshmen/new players, but here's the captain talking about how the philosophy from the team leadership was to make the new players feel included. (Much better than literally leaving their freshmen for dead due to alcohol poisoning, not that any *northdakota* teams have ever done THAT.) I guess the best way to make freshmen feel included is to win another championship. I'll look to next year's captains (Tufte???) to make that happen again.
Congratulations on another championship, Bulldogs. Thanks for all the fun, agony, anxiety, rage, and joy you bring me every year, for reasons I can't explain and don't really care if I ever understand.
Remembrance of Things Past
Last week was Old Home Week over here at the RWD World Headquarters!
It started last Tuesday. If you recall, I started this whole blogging thing back in 2004 by ripping off the concept of my friend's Minnesota Twins blog, Bat-Girl. The writer behind Bat-Girl since moved on to writing real books instead of uproariously funny blog posts, and while we lost touch over the years, we reconnected last year when my friend Laura retweeted something from Anne into my timeline that caught my eye. My worlds collided. The inspiration for RWD, retweeted by the editor in chief of a super profesh sports blog. It makes sense – they both love cats, sports, and libraries. Last Tuesday, I went to the book launch party for Anne's latest book, and because I am an extremely big deal, my signed copy was personalized.
My week of reunions and nostalgia continued once I headed up to Duluth. About a month ago, I got an email from venerated elder Puck Swami, informing me that he would be gracing Duluth with his presence, along with the Godfather and Let's Go DU founder, DG. I was extremely excited to see them. They have been longtime Comrades of the Blog, and DG was the OG – the Original Gauntletter. If you are unfamiliar with The Gauntlet, that's because I don't do it anymore since I don't like talking to people and also AIM is no longer a program. It was an interview feature in which I asked antagonizing questions of various college hockey personalities, including Dirty, Bruce Ciskie, and MeanEgirl.
I met up with DG, Swami, Franklin, and Smiley Dave (and also Biddy, Dan of the Week, and Mrs. Dan of the Week, but I see them all the time so it's unremarkable) at The Sports Garden. I haven't been to tGarden before a game in a long time; I think the last time I set foot in there was either for a 5K or for a Soul Asylum concert that I enjoyed at the time but found out later from Dave Pirner himself was kind of a [feces]show. But what better place to relive my misspent youth?
And what better way to relive my misspent youth than with shots paid for by DG? That's always a great idea, especially for someone like me who mostly gave up drinking several years ago. Wheeeeeeeee! But how else would we console Smiley Dave, whose luggage was lost and who had to procure an entire wardrobe, including the anti-stink underwear, from Duluth Trading Co.? They were all dismayed to learn it is not a local company.
It was also nice to relive the good ol' days when tUMD actually beat Denver on occasion. Friday's game was a pretty darn good beatdown once DU got their goal out of the way. And then, because I really wanted to show I could hang like I always could, I went out after the game, to Hoops (although I didn't have anything to drink and we mostly went there to wait until our dinner was ready for takeout). Going out before and after the game? What is this? 2009?
I don't really want to talk about Saturday's games because I saw six periods of tUMD hockey and zero goals. I did take the DU folks over to meet Bruce, who they referred to as a "legend," which I found puzzling. Now that they've met him, perhaps their perception has been adjusted. Other than Bruce, we had several celebrity sightings, including Derek Plante, Keegan Flaherty, Rob Bordson, Scott Kishel, Dean Blais (wearing transition lenses), Beethoven, Bill Watson, and some DU scrubs. While waiting for Bruce to make his as-timely-as-Axl-Rose appearance, a DU fan not in our group got extremely rowdy, started screaming "LET'S GO DU!" while banging on some metal, and shouting at Franklin that he was not an actual fan because… I don't know, because he wasn't also trying to destroy property? It was unclear. I was about to send my "Where the F are you" text to Bruce when he finally materialized.
During the women's game, the Fan Favorite was presented (Rooney, obvs) and there was an extremely long post-game video dedicated to the seniors (I watched a bit but realized I could either watch the video or eat dinner, but not both). After the men's game, we were told to stick around for a special presentation that I assumed would also be Fan Favorite and hoped would not be a long tribute video. Instead, it was a recognition of Sandy for amassing the most wins as a men's hockey coach (this explains Blais's presence but not his stupid glasses). Sandy looked even grumpier than usual, probably because his players failed to score any goals.
Despite tDogs going 1-3 and the double shutout on Saturday, the whole week was a blast. I was reminded of what college hockey was like during the Belle Époque, when people participated on message boards and wrote blogs for fun and road tripped and partied together. I miss that sometimes, but I also feel like the important relationships have survived the changing times, I've always got this little square of the internet to unleash my tirades on the world. Life was good then, but it's great now, too.
FTSTFS 2018 Update
Anyone else excited to see how pledging is shaping up? I know I'm like a kid on Christmas morning every time I open up my tracking spreadsheet and see there's a new pledge. There was even a new pledge while I was writing this paragraph! I also know that once folks see how many other people are participating, they'll be inspired to join in if they haven't. It's fun!
Unaware of what #FromTopShelfToFoodShelf is all about? Read here to learn all about it. Inspired to make a pledge? Here's the form. And surprise! You've already contributed $5 to the cause, because I've pledged $5/participant.
Here are the amazing, generous people who have made a pledge so far, and the organizations they are donating to. There's plenty of time to make a pledge! You can even wait to see how the weekend shapes up, and make a retroactive pledge by Sunday.
Spencer – flat donation of $64.50, $20/win, $10/tie, double donation if UNO sweeps to Open Door Mission
Lori – $5/goal, $10/win to Foodbank for the Heartland
Connor – $10/UNO goal, $10/tUMD women's goal, $5/major by UNO or SCSU to Maverick Food Pantry
Jolene – $10/goal, $100/shutout to Together Omaha
Mullet – $1/goal, $5/win, $5/shutout, and $5 for a sweep to Open Door Pantry of Eagan
Anonymous – 1 package of TP/goal to Champ's Cupboard
John – $1/goal by a D1 hockey team in the state of Minnesota to Pillager Family Center
Anonymous – $2.50/men's goal (minimum $25) and "some clothes" to Northern Lakes Food Bank and Goodwill
Biddy – $10/win, $10/sweep to CEAP
RWD – $5/goal, $5/FTSTFS participant, 1 item/freshman goal to CHUM and Second Harvest Heartland
Rebecca – $5/goal, $10/point by her fantasy team to Northern Lakes Food Bank
Dan of the Week – $5/win, $10/Soucy penalty, $1/pledge retweet to CHUM
Wayne – $10 x total margin of victory, $5/Twitter argument I get into to Northern Lakes Food Bank
Angel – $5/men's goal, $10/Shep shutout to Salvation Army
Ben – $10/men's win, $10/men's SHG, $15/Cates on Cates goal to Chicago's Food Bank
Anonymous – $10/goal to Friends in Need Food Shelf
Alex (UND women's hockey only) – 1 non-perishable item/point scored by former UND women's hockey player, 1 lb of pet food/5 saves, 10lbs/shutout (goalie statistics include Maddie Rooney) to EGF Food Shelf and Circle of Friends Humane Society
Anonymous – $5/goal to Catholic Charities of Boston
Emily – $1/Gopher women's hockey goal, $20/point from TJ Polglaze to Second Harvest Heartland and UMN Aurora Center
Melmac & Nezzy – $5/goal, $25/shutout to Western UP Food Bank
Joe – $3/goal against BU to Greater Boston Food Bank
Laura – $1/goal, $3/David Cotton goal to Greater Boston Food Bank
Adam – $10/women's win, $15/men's win, $1/each time the BC fan group says "Donna?" to Greater Boston Food Bank
Bobby Mo
Ashley – $3 and 1 food item/goal to West Hills Food Pantry and Light of Life Rescue Mission
Jeremy – $5/goal, $10/win to CEAP MN
Dave – $50 to his local food shelf
Erik – 5¢/save,$2/goal to Southwest Carver Food Shelf
GOHUSKIESWOOOOO – some complicated pledge I am not transcribing here to Division of Indian Work Horizons Unlimited Food Shelf, including letter of apology re: UND fans.
Tom – $10/men's win, $5/men's goal to Salvation Army
Neil – $200, $25/men's shutout, $50 if the women upset UW to Catholic Charities of Central Minnesota
Heather (SCSU AD) – $5/goal to Anna Marie's Alliance and Pathways 4 Youth
Mike – $100 to Feeding South Dakota
Lake Superior Circle Tour
Brandon – $2/even strength goal against the Lake Superior Circle Tour schools ($1/PPGA, $5/SHGA) to CHUM
Alan – $50/men's goal to San Antonio Food Bank
Anonymous – $10/women's goal to Second Harvest
Rob – $5/goal against Dartmouth, $10/win, $5 if the margin of victory > 3, $5/shutout, $50 sweep to New Hampshire Food Bank
Oswego State
Jen – $5/goal to Oswego County Catholic Charities Food Pantry
Caissa – $1/goal, $5/shutout to St. Vincent de Paul
Nicole -$1/goal, $5/shutout to Hunger Task Force
Drew – $5/goal, $5/win to Mom Helps
Jimmy – $2/goal vs BU to Greater Boston Food Bank
John – $5/goal, $25/shutout to Moisson Estrie
Mankato/Notre Dame
Andy & Cayden – $5/win, $20 if both MSU teams sweep,$15 if Notre Dame sweeps, $3/hatty to Second Harvest Midwest
All of Women's Hockey
Gabs – 1 item/women's player with a multi-point game, 5 items/shutout or hat trick to People's Pantry
From Top Shelf To Food Shelf Year Six Six Six
By now, #FTSTFS is part of college hockey lore, but in case you recently came out of a nuclear fallout shelter where you've been living since 1975, let me assist you with an explanation of what this is all about:
Comrades, the time has come once more for the annual From Top Shelf To Food Shelf pledge drive. Unfamiliar with how this started? Read the origin story here.
You make a pledge. Your team plays hockey. You fulfill your pledge. It's so easy.
Did you know that last year, as a group, we surpassed the $10,000 mark? Cumulatively, college hockey fans have come together to raise $10,624.65 and 594 ancillary items. This is officially a big freaking deal, thanks to some really cool people. People like you!
My own pledge this year is $5 per tUMD goal and $5 per FTSTFS participant. So simply making a pledge of your own is worth $5 before the weekend has even started!
Here are the rules of engagement:
- Dream up a pledge based on the performance of your hockey team on the weekend of December 7/8/9. The pledge can be related to anything that can be quantified (and something I can easily look up). Goals, wins, saves, PIM, etc. Most pledges are money, but some are cans of food, hams, jars of peanut butter (warning: PB is expensive), or clothing items (socks, hats, gloves, etc). Please refrain from making the pledge overly complex.
- Choose a charity in your community or in the community in which your team plays. I live in St. Paul, but my teams are in Duluth. I chose a charity in Duluth (CHUM). If you live in Kampala, Uganda and cheer for AIC, you could choose a charity in Kampala or one in Springfield.
- Click this link to go to the official pledge form! It's so easy! Answer a few simple questions and your pledge is recorded. I will do my best to handle pledges made in other ways, but I would hate to miss one, so please just use the form. There is an option to make your pledge anonymous as well. I will know you've made the pledge, but won't share your name.
- Spread the word. Evangelize on your blog, your social media platforms (#FromTopShelfToFoodShelf!), and even in real life, if you interact with others in that way. This is a great way to help even if you have made contributions elsewhere or you are unable to contribute materially.
- Tally up what you owe. I keep track on a spreadsheet, but I don't send out reminders or updates. If you ask directly, I can verify your total. If you choose to round up or if you need to modify your pledge, please tell me.
- **Donate directly to the charity you've selected.** I don't collect the money. I trust that you will make this donation.
(I know not every team plays next weekend, so if you would like to participate anyway, we can work something out, whether that's making a pledge this upcoming weekend, or hitching you up to a team's bandwagon.)
Please join in the festivities in any way you can, whether that pledges or publicity. No contribution is too small! It is so fun to be part of something bigger than one's self – watching my friends across the college hockey world getting into the spirit warms my cold black heart.
Can You Hear Me, Major Tom?
All told, this was not a great weekend for tUMD sports. On Friday, the volleyball team lost in the regional semi-finals, then women's hockey lost to duhOSU, and then the men were shut out by Denver. Saturday, the football team lost their home playoff game, the women's hockey team was swept, and the Wild blew a 2-0 lead, letting former Wild player Jason Pominville score the game winner with a minute and a half left – not a Bulldog game per se, but certainly a game that many Bulldogs fans watched and were disappointed by. (The good news for us here is that while Phil Housley may have won in Minnesota, his wife didn't!)
So it's understandable that most Bulldogs fans were in A Mood by the time the men's hockey game began on Saturday evening. Obviously I was, since anyone who follows my Twitter feed knows that I am a glass case of emotion during hockey games. I imagine for some it's a form of entertainment itself, watching my violent mood swings. tUMD hasn't beaten Denver in awhile, they were shut out the night before despite reports that they were playing well, and with all the bad sporting news occurring over the weekend, I guess I started watching the game already in a black hole of despair. There's really only one way to deal with that kind of attitude, and that's with pessimistic, sarcastic, dark humor.
I'd like to point out that 4 of the 6 Yes votes came after tUMD had already scored a goal.
A couple things added to my general frustration/inability to enjoy the game that had nothing to do with the game itself. First, I was very hungry, which as we are all aware, leads to hanger. No, not like a coat hanger, that's what Americans are going to need in order to exercise their right to reproductive freedom once the fascists in government fully execute their misogynistic plan. In this context, hanger = hunger + anger. And that shizz is real, people.
The second problem I was having was a technological problem. One of the serious downsides to moving away from Duluth was losing access to some of the various media forms I used to consume tUMD hockey. Specifically, local simulcasts and actual radio. There was no local simulcast this time, so I didn't miss out on that, but the livestream I was forced to listen to started out several minutes behind the actual game. I understand there's going to be a lag between the live game and any broadcast of the game – I often see a tweet about something happening in a Wild game many seconds before it is shown on the television. But there is at least a 2 minute delay between what happens in tUMD men's hockey games live, and when it is broadcast on the internet stream. This is absurd.
Finally, there was a sub-problem to problem #2, one that I don't normally experience but that cause a major issue last night. Multiple times during the broadcast, the game did not return from commercial break. The first time it happened, tUMD was already down 2-0, and Denver was going on the PP, because of course they are angels who never do anything wrong and simply sneezing near a DU player is going to result in a penalty. Never mind that the most egregious and destructive penalty I've ever seen live was committed by a Denver player… After enduring 8-9 minutes of commercials, the feed returned and went right into the intermission report. So I missed several minutes of actual game play. While I didn't want the game to continue to lag farther and farther behind, I also didn't like missing any of the action. There's no point in staying off Twitter to avoid spoilers when I'm not going to get any of the action anyway. People had to suffer, deprived of my caustic wit, and for no earthly reason!
After it got to be 3-0, I decided to just give up and go all in on stupid jokes, GIFs, and mocking those less fortunate than me (Gopher football and their jejune head coach). Being unkind and snarky is endlessly enjoyable to me, because I am a small, sad person with a heart two sizes too small, and proud of it.
Eventually things started to come back around for me. It was still 3-0, but there are certain points where I don't care so much that an inflection point is reached, and I go from not caring to not not caring, which is not the same as caring. It's difficult to explain, but I'll illustrate with a tweet from last night:
What does this even mean? No one knows. I was actually looking for a gif of my fave, the Night King, because I was trolling Let's Go DU, and I happened upon this one instead. There's probably a German word for this feeling I experience from time to time, but the best I can say is it's the feeling you get when you have absolutely nothing left to lose from supporting your team. I don't know, some people feel like it's a breach of fan etiquette to cheer for a team when they're losing, like you're supposed to file away quietly or switch to sheepishly complimenting the other team. If there's one thing I do NOT like to do, it's give credit to opposing teams when it is due. I will leave things like "sportspersonship" and "classiness" to the plebes.
Eventually Nick Swaney scored a goal, so I figured oh, tDogs got their requisite Goal In Denver, we can pack it in and go home satisfied. I suppose it helps that tUMD didn't beat Denver in 5 tries last year on their way to winning a national championship. That puts things in perspective. Then Billy Exell scored and there was somehow still half a period to go!
The worst thing about the feed being behind during a game is the nagging feeling that in that gray area between the present and the moment in time the broadcast is in, the opponent has scored. This was intensified when Roehl took a penalty and I was sure Denver would score on the PP and dagger our hopes of a comeback. Of course it didn't happen but it is a constant fear. Those readers from the early days of RWD, back before texting, recall that I used to have to work evenings during my career as a makeup counter jockey (a job I'm supposed to feel ashamed of, but do not, because it was a great job! and also because people shouldn't be ashamed of their work unless it is unethical or illegal) and would have my father call me on the sales floor to give me score updates. So if tDogs were losing then, and the phone wasn't ringing, that was basically torture – things have improved since then, but still. We Have The Technology. The feed doesn't have to be so far behind.
This means that I didn't get to celebrate the last second, game-tying goal from Scorin' Scotty – partially because I was behind the internet celebration, and partially because I was spoiled on it by both Twitter and by my phone blowing up with texts from Dan of the Week. It was pretty exciting though! That's part of what I like about this team so much – they may have off days, and their play may be frustrating to watch at times, but I never ever think it's because they aren't trying or doing their best (bests?). I don't remember the last time I was ever annoyed with the level of effort being put out by members of the team. So it is really great to see that kind of character rewarded with crazy last minute shenanigan goals!
Then Bruce went to a commercial break, promising to come back in "90 seconds" with the overtime call.
And I waited.
And waited.
And waited.
Commercial after commercial after commercial after commercial.
I finally gave up and went back to Twitter to see what was going on, and the game was already over. Cole Koepke, hometown hero, had scored less than a minute in, and tDogs had completed a comeback that will go down in history. It was about as dramatic as they come for a regular season game against a non-heated rival. According to Bruce, the last time tDogs overcame a deficit was in the 03-04 season, against CC, but the comeback had started earlier (also they won 5-3 and not in OT).
I'm happy about the outcome, but annoyed with the technical difficulties. I didn't even get to hear the goal call until the postgame show replay, because the feed never actually played the OT. When it finally stopped playing commercials, the postgame show was on. I get that this is "free" and I am lucky and privileged to have internet and such, but at the same time, as a listener, I'm a product being sold to advertisers. "We have x people tuning in online," etc. And hey, the advertisers sure got their money's worth! So good for them.
Still. WHAT A COMEBACK. WHAT A TEAM. I was grinning all night about the game. It took a LOT of the sting out of the other losses on the weekend, and now that it's over, of course I'm excited about how it played out. It may be agony in real time (or slightly delayed time), but that payoff is sweet. I love low-stakes, high-drama entertainment!
Nobody Likes Denver
Many people get caught up in hating the Gophers, or the Effing Hawks, or Wisconsin, but I'd like to remind you that Denver is a very unlikable team. Exhibit A.
A typical Denver post-season experience: showing up to the NCHC tournament and winning in front of… the coaching staff and athletic trainers. What a thrill!
Just how unlikable is Denver? I'll tell you. In 2017, the day of the national championship game, Biddy, Tim, and Kleiner went to a bar to watch a footy match. A British gentleman was there watching the match as well, and noted their maroon and gold attire. When he inquired as to tUMD's opponent in the game, upon learning it was DU, he responded thusly:
"Denver? Fook Denver."
Except he didn't say "fook." He didn't even pronounce it "fook," that's just Dan of the Week's poor attempt at a British accent. A side benefit of this is that now he and I have a way to swear on Skype for Business without having our conversations flagged for inappropriate content. Anyway, if a complete stranger, from another country, who likes another sport, knows how much Denver sucks, we know it's true.
tUMD is, of course, the reigning national champion, but a little-known fact is that Denver is the 2017 national champion. They managed to eke out this win in front of a surprisingly large (for them) contingent of fans, but I know for a fact that these fans were paid operatives of former Let's Go DU editor in chief, DG Goddard. I believe there were more UND fans cheering for Denver because they were mad at Neal Pionk than there were Denver "fans" in attendance. They also brought their band, seen here in this recent clip:
Despite having no fans, until recently having a Secret Skinhead as a coach, and generally being abhorrent, Denver has managed to go 10000000*-0-0 against tUMD in their last 10000000* games. This is a problem. It's a total waste for a team with no fans to win a game! If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does anyone even care if it makes a sound? NO.
So, Bulldogs, it's time to prey on St. Cloud's sloppy seconds for the second week in a row, and bring a big sweepity sweep with you when you return to sea level*.
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This course is designed for students who plan to work in firms that market to consumers or who plan to work in companies that offer support to these firms (e.g., consulting).
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Please note that this is a 14 session course. This course focuses on the challenge of creating meaningful brand strategy in consumer markets, particularly in firms targeting millennials. The course will examine both traditional and emergent brands in the areas of consumer products, technology, services, fashion, and entertainment. Grading will be based on in-class participation and a series of weekly written assignments.


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turn off update message after firefox 62
As of about firefox 63, it will no longer be possible to prevent firefox from checking for updates as the preference (option) to do so is being removed. In the past, it was simply a matter of setting the option to never check for updates. This is important in an organization as you want everyone to be at the same level. In such organizations, the latest firefox would be obtained once, checked out, then rolled out to the organization from it's support system team/person. Is there going to be a way to prevent the message "an update is available, please install?"
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also refer to the release notes at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/63.0beta/releasenotes/ :
Never check for updates option removed from about:preferences. If a substitute is needed, we recommend using the DisableAppUpdate enterprise policy
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also refer to the release notes at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/63.0beta/releasenotes/ :
Never check for updates option removed from about:preferences. If a substitute is needed, we recommend using the DisableAppUpdate enterprise policy
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It's the update to firefox itself that I wish to disable - the option is currently available - going in FF63
The only way to disable updates in via a policies.json file like posted above.
Note that Firefox will show a banner on the Options/Preferences page if you use a policies.json file.
See also:
- Bug 1420514 - Remove or hide the update features in the preferences
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That policy stuff is too much to read for a simple thing like disabling updates, so I found an easier way: go to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox (or Program Files (x86), if using the 32-bit version) and open the update-settings.ini* with Notepad++. Remove the part after the = symbol (firefox-mozilla-release) and save it. Here you go - now Firefox will never update again.
- It's better if you backup the original file somewhere, in case some day in the future you decide you wanna let the browser update.
And if that's not enough for you, you can always do the ultimate blocking: Windows Firewall, Advanced Settings, add rules for inbound and outbound connections to block the updater.exe located in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox.
Or, as a friend of mine suggested, simply delete the updater.exe. Without it the browser won't be able to update, no matter how hard it tries.
Bottom line is - it doesn't matter that Mozilla decided to go with Microsoft's policy to enforce updates on the users, there's always a way to disable updates, one just has to be persistent in trying.
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AuthorUniversity of Arizona. Water Resources Research Center.
Przybylowicz, Stephan
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Issue Date2011
KeywordsArid regions -- Research -- Arizona.
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Abstract"It's a promise to be a good citizen of the world, protecting the Earth's natural resources through innovation and more efficient use of land, energy, water and packaging in our operations." – PepsiCo, on their environmental sustainability promise Environmentalists and corporations have not always seen eye-to-eye on matters of how our natural resources should best be used. In fact, many people see corporate industry as inherently anti-environmental. However, without industry, we would not be able to enjoy many of the comforts of modern day living. Corporations have many responsibilities including: to gain profit for their investors, to keep costs low for their consumers, to use natural resources efficiently, and to maintain decent pay and working conditions for their employees. So, how should corporations balance these differing needs with protection of the natural environment? Many corporations now have developed multiple ways of creating this balance. These include water stewardship plans, partnerships between corporations and environmental groups that help both parties agree on a water management strategy, implementation of environmental best practices, and new ideas for the future of water accountability and transparency.
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Yield and Water Use of Barley Cultivars Compared Under an Irrigation Water Gradient at Marana, 1987Ottman, Mike; Ramage, Tom; Brown, Paul; Thacker, Gary; Ottman, Mike (College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1987-09)This study was initiated to determine how barley cultivars perform outside the environment for which they were selected. Also, a comparison was made of water use by a one-irrigation barley with water use of a commercial cultivar selected for high yield conditions. Six barley cultivars bred for differing growing conditions (Westbred Gustoe and Westbred Barcott - high input; Arivat and Prato - medium input; and, Seco and 2-22-9 - low input) were compared under 12 water regimes delivered by a line -source sprinkler system. Water use of Seco, a one-irrigation barley, and Westbred Gustoe, a commercial barley, was monitored with a neutron probe. The barley cultivars bred for high, medium, and low input conditions performed best in their respective optimum water levels with the exceptions of Westbred Barcott and Prato. Westbred Barcott (high input) yielded relatively well over all water levels, and Prato (medium input), performed similar to a high input barley. Seco (low input) used slightly less water than Westbred Gustoe (high input), primarily due to its earlier maturity. The water extraction pattern with depth was similar for both cultivars due to the frequent shallow irrigations applied in this study. The water extraction pattern of Seco needs to be investigated under one- irrigation conditions.
The Arizona Water Commission's Central Arizona Project Water Allocation Model SystemBriggs, Philip C.; Arizona Water Commission, Phoenix, Arizona (Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, 1977-04-16)The purpose and operation of the Central Arizona Project water allocation model system are described, based on a system analysis approach developed over the past 30 years into an interdisciplinary science for the study and resolution of complex technical management problems. The system utilizes mathematical and other simulation models designed for computer operations to effectively solve such problems as the CAP faces including those concerned with social and economic considerations. The model is composed of two major components: (1) a linear program designed to determine the optimal allocation of all sources of water to all demands and, (2) a hydrologic simulator capable of reflecting the impact of distribution alternatives on per-unit cost of delivery. The model, currently being use, has substantially contributed to a greater understanding of water usage potential in Arizona.


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Matthew 20:16 - "So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen." (NKJ)
This passage has been rolling around in my brain and heart for the past month or so. During our recent travels to North Carolina, and then to Phoenix, it struck me that we always want to be first. We want to be "A listed" on the airplane so we can get the "best" seats. Ken pulls an "A" boarding pass and then saves me a place since I'm still in the B line. If you have flown Southwest recently, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Instead of trying to get to the front of the line every time, I decided to yield to the person that seems to be in a bigger hurry than me. This yielded some interesting conversations.
In January, we were stuck in Charlotte, NC for 3 days more than what we had planned due to weather and inability to get connecting flights back to Denver. We could have paid $1200 per person to be home first, but why? Instead, we enjoyed those 3 days with my sister and her husband in their cozy little condo working off a dining room table. We built memories.
An elderly couple sat patiently awaiting to deplane upon arrival in Chicago but couldn't quickly get into the aisle and make their way off the plane because his cane was in the overhead bin and he needed that before he could get up and accompany his wife out. I stood on the seat and got his cane and handed it to him so he could prepare. His eyes lit up and they thanked me.
As we stood in line for fast food, I stood aside to allow someone else to go in front of me. No big deal. It was just a few more minutes. It really didn't matter if I got my food in 3 minutes or 5 minutes. I wasn't that hungry anyway. It generated a smile.
We stood in line for more than an hour to get our shuttle back to the parking lot after the Phoenix open golf tournament. We enjoyed conversations along the way. One guy dropped his credit card that appeared under my foot as I was walking along. I picked it up and returned it. Once we arrived at the parking lot, we departed only to be rear-ended in our rental car on the highway by a 19-year-old girl who was heading home from the tournament after cooking burgers all day with her sister. Lauren was tired, having conversations with the 3 other girls in the car and simply failed to keep her eyes on the road and hit us not once, but twice. As we sat along the freeway awaiting the arrival of the Phoenix state patrol, I had a chance to visit with her as she cried and apologized profusely for her inattention.
But we had a conversation. Her jeep (as well as her insurance) was in her Dad's name, and they were estranged following her parent's divorce and she desperately wished that they could be reunited somehow. Her mom showed up and said that she had not spoken to her ex for several years. I told them that I believe that everything happens for a reason. I told her not to worry about the car, we'd figure it out. But more importantly, I would pray that perhaps this "run in" would result in a reconciliation with her father. I don't know if that will happen, but I told them all that Jesus loves them and that I would continue to pray for her. When we returned the crashed rental car, the agent was very kind, "Just attach the police report and we'll take care of it from there."
Take time for conversations with people by yielding to those who are hurried. After all, why are we all in such a hurry? Our destination is our heavenly home and we will arrive when it is the right time. Not our time; God's time. While we remain here in our human form, I want to yield more to those who want to be first. When it's my time, my room is reserved. My mansion awaits. I'm in no hurry and I choose to yield today. Think about it. And say a prayer for Lauren.
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DADE CITY, Fla. — After a day in court in which a grainy video of his deadly encounter with a fellow moviegoer was shown, a retired Tampa police captain was denied bail on Friday on charges of second-degree murder.
The retired captain, Curtis J. Reeves Jr., 71, who is accused of fatally shooting Chad Oulson, 43, at a theater outside Tampa on Jan. 13, was led away by Pasco County sheriff's deputies.
Mr. Reeves, dressed in a navy blue sweater, fixed his glance on his family as he walked out.
The decision by Judge Pat Siracusa came after two days of emotional testimony, highlighted by the playing of the surveillance video, taken from motion-activated infrared cameras inside the theater, and audio of interviews of Mr. Reeves and his wife and the victim's wife, Nicole Oulson.
The video from the Cobb Theater in Wesley Chapel, about 20 miles northeast of Tampa, shows the encounter in its extreme right corner. Mr. Reeves is shown tapping Mr. Oulson on the shoulder and talking to him. Mr. Reeves then gets up and leaves. When he returns and sits down, he speaks to Mr. Oulson again. A few seconds later, an arm can be seen in the frame, and something appears to be airborne.
The two men got into an argument after Mr. Oulson began texting his daughter's babysitter during previews before "Lone Survivor," a movie about a covert Navy SEAL operation.
Mr. Reeves's lawyer, Richard Escobar, has said that the shooting was self-defense and that Mr. Oulson had struck Mr. Reeves with something, possibly his cellphone, before he was shot in the chest.
In an audio recording of a police interview, Mr. Reeves said Mr. Oulson "kept on hollering."
"Whatever he was saying was threatening, it was enough for me to look for a way out," Mr. Reeves told detectives. "My wife said we should've just moved."
Mr. Reeves told detectives something hit his left eye.
"I think he had his cellphone in his hand because I saw the blur of the screen," he said, adding that "it happened so fast."
"I don't know, it was dark... after he hit me, my glasses came off," he said. "When I shot, he should've been pretty darn close."
Mr. Reeves's wife of 46 years, Vivian, said in her interview with detectives that she had seen no indication that her husband had been hit or injured. She only saw "their popcorn was on the floor."
"I don't know how it got on the floor," she said.
Other witnesses have said that Mr. Oulson threw a bag of popcorn at Mr. Reeves.
"I was defending myself," Mr. Reeves told detectives. "It don't make it easier to accept, but that's what I did. I was defending myself."
Mr. Reeves, who retired from the Tampa police in 1993, said: "No one has ever scared me. This guy scared me."
In an interview with detectives at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa after the shooting, Mr. Oulson's wife described holding her left hand on her husband's chest during his argument with Mr. Reeves, telling him "it's not worth it, to sit down and watch the movie."
Then, she says, the shot rang out, with a single bullet first striking her ring finger and then her husband's chest, killing him.
"The guy just leaned back and sat there," she said. "He didn't do anything or try to help as the chaos was going on."
Ms. Oulson attended both days of the hearing.
"If he had left his firearm in the car, we wouldn't be here today," an assistant state attorney, Manny Garcia, told the judge in requesting that bail be denied. "This would have never happened."
The Reeves family exited the courthouse silently, without speaking to reporters.
"Mr. Reeves was prepared for this, this is a homicide case," his lawyer, Mr. Escobar, said of the judge's decision. "In the vast majority of homicide cases, unfortunately, bond is not granted."
Mr. Escobar said the defense planned to appeal the decision.
"We're going up to the Second District Court of Appeal," he said. "We're confident, and we'll be back."
The appeals process could take 30 to 60 days, he said.
"I'm very happy and relieved by the judge's ruling," Ms. Oulson told reporters outside the courthouse. "I have no doubt in my mind that it was the right decision. I want to thank the state very much for all their hard work to get us to this point."
If convicted, Mr. Reeves faces a minimum 25 years in prison.


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"Every day some of my students were coming to me and saying, 'Ms. Folk, do you have any food that I can have; do you have any lunch money that I can borrow; do you have a snack that I can have?'" So, Academic Coach Sara Folk decided to do something to help. She stocked her filing cabinet with snacks and breakfast food and passed out lunch money to kids in need, but she wanted to do more. She wanted to help all the students in need at Floyd Middle School.
Folk and other Floyd staff members joined together with MUST Ministries and the Cobb County School District to cut the ribbon on the school's new pantry August 28. The Floyd Middle School pantry is the twenty-fifth food pantry MUST Ministries has opened inside schools in the Cobb County and Marietta City school districts.
Folk along with ESOL teacher Alicia Lyles teamed up to open the food pantry at the school. The two enterprising teachers sought advice from the counselor at McCleskey Middle School, who helped launch a food pantry at that school in 2016.
Following McCleskey's model, the Floyd teachers partnered with MUST Ministries to open the school doors to families in need. They spent the next several months raising funds, installing shelving and refrigerators, stocking the shelves and collecting applications of need from Floyd families.
"I think what makes this food pantry stand out is not only is it the twenty-fifth food pantry, but it is also the eighth one that we get to open up that has client choice, meaning that rather than us choosing for our clients what type of food they want, they actually get to come in and do the shopping," explained Dr. Ike Reighard, President and CEO of MUST Ministries.
Schools like Floyd make ideal locations for food pantries because of their close proximity to the families requesting assistance. Families in need don't have to rely on public transportation when they shop at local school pantries.
"If you have a pantry in a school where the children are attending, in all likelihood [the families] are within walking distance, and they can get [to the pantry] to get the products they need," Dr. Reighard added.
The MUST Ministries CEO also credited the school social workers for knowing which students most need the pantry as a resource.
"We are excited that within the first month we were able to serve eight families at Floyd," Folk said. "We are actually going to be able to help 20 to 30 families."
Folk and Lyles may be responsible for coming up with the idea of a food pantry at Floyd, where families have the opportunity to shop once per month, but community members, other school staff and their family and friends all joined in to make the food pantry possible.
Although MUST Ministries provides enough food for the number of families that shop at the Floyd pantry, available toiletry items run out quickly. So, the Floyd pantry team asks for donations of toiletries and cereal from the community to supplement what they receive from MUST Ministries.
"When children are living in poverty, there is enough stigma with what they are trying to deal with. Poor hygiene would only add to their difficulties," explained Dr. Reighard.
According to Folk, about 80 percent of Floyd Middle School students are on free and reduced lunches.
Even on free and reduced lunches, the students still complained to Folk about being hungry. Lyles told those in attendance at the ribbon cutting that the new food pantry will help curb the students' hunger because they will have more food at home versus only one full meal at school.
"They can focus on their education when they have full tummies," she said.
Lyles hoped the food pantry shows Floyd students how much the teachers care about them.
This isn't the first time Folk and Lyles teamed up on a kind-hearted project. They worked together on Relay for Life to raise money for cancer research and started a Helping Hands club at the school. The club includes 60 students who perform random acts of kindness. The students offer a helping hand, just like their teachers did, when they pushed to open a food pantry at Floyd.
For school administrators and teachers looking to take a que from Folk and Lyles and open a school food pantry, contact Chris Fields, senior vice president of programs and administration for MUST Ministries.
For a closer look at the Floyd Middle School food pantry, watch the Cobb edTV video here.


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Well, she's really fed up today. The spots have doubled and she just wants them to go away. It would be too cruel to let you see her face. Poor thing. I've to take Spud to the fracture clinic this afternoon. He broke the end of his finger in the hotel bedroom door while we were in England at the weekend. Bossy didn't realise Spud's finger was in the door and she was repeatedly trying to close it!…. I know!
I have an eye infection and so does Pencil. She woke up yesterday with a swollen eye. Red and itchy. We both are prone to eye infections and seem to get them at the same time.
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