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QDMA will hold its National Convention July 18-21 at The Classic Center in Athens, Ga. The convention includes seminars, workshops, an exhibition hall and special events. Tickets start at $50 for one-day packages. For details, go to qdma.com.
Local QDMA banquet
The Lowcountry Branch will hold a banquet at 6 p.m. Aug. 1 at Omar Shrine Temple in Mount Pleasant. Tickets are $50 for individuals; kids under 12 are free. Contact Freddy St. Laurent at (843) 330-6517 or firstname.lastname@example.com for details.
Deer seminar
The ACE Basin Branch of the QDMA will host an educational seminar 6:30 p.m. Aug. 6 at the Outback Building off Hwy. 15 in Walterboro. Karl Miller of the the University of Georgia will dicsuss how whitetail's senses affect your hunting.
Spot Charleston Angler and Haddrell's Point logos? That's a diehard angler. See antler designs or a little duck head logo from Ducks Unlimited? A hunter, no doubt.
But when you see the doe-and-buck logo of the Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) on the back of a vehicle, you can safely assume you're following a proud deer-hunting fanatic.
These are the folks who save articles on whitetail biology, debate the pros and cons of planting Austrian winter peas and learn how to use jawbones to properly determine the age of a harvested deer.
Now in its 25th year, QDMA has grown from a loosely organized group of like-minded hunters and biologists to an international organization with about 50,000 paying members. QDMA and its management philosophies have permeated the big business of deer hunting and helped improve the way millions of acres of land are managed across the nation.
Hard to believe QDMA started from humble beginnings right here in the Lowcountry.
Local roots
Shoot every buck you can, as long as you leave the does alone to restock the herd.
That was a common attitude among Lowcountry deer hunters back in 1987, when biologist Joe Hamilton was working for South Carolina's state wildlife department.
Hunters in Hamilton's region of responsibility, which included Colleton, Beaufort and other southern counties, eventually began to question the wisdom of such practices.
"Deer populations had built to extremely high levels, exceeding the carrying capacities of the properties," Hamilton said last week. "We were beginning to see browse lines in the forest from having to many deer onboard."
Despite such high numbers of whitetails, hunters started noticing the bucks they shot kept getting smaller and smaller.
"That's because they were getting younger and younger," Hamilton said. "The hunters came to the biologists and wanted some kind of solution to the problem, a different approach."
After visits to innovative deer hunting operations in Texas and even Australia, Hamilton returned to the Lowcountry with a new set of ideas about management of deer herds, deer hunters and deer habitat. These new strategies focused on allowing younger bucks to live while harvesting more does and, perhaps most importantly, creating a smarter breed of hunters and land managers.
Hamilton and a small group of volunteers founded the South Carolina QDMA in 1988 and started a newsletter. Hunters embraced their ideas, and within a few years they had dropped the "South Carolina" designation and quickly grown into a national group with a gloss magazine called "Quality Whitetails."
Today, QDMA operates a headquarters and education center in Athens, Ga., with localized branches in nearly every U.S. state and Canadian province. These local arms hold educational seminars and raise money to support local hunting communities.
"Education is the thing that brought us to the forefront and has kept us alive," Hamilton said.
South Carolina has a dozen QDMA branches, including Ace Basin, Lowcountry and Edisto River branches.
Freddy St. Laurent, president of the Lowcountry Branch of QDMA, said his organization has teamed up with Cordray's Processing to donate about 3,500 pounds of deer meat to soup kitchens and state hospitals. The group also raises money to introduce children to deer hunting and host dream hunts for young hunters with serious illnesses.
"You've got to give back in some way," St. Laurent said.


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5 Ways to Spot a B.S. Political Story in Under 10 Seconds
#2. The Headline Is About a "Lawmaker" Saying Something Stupid
Basically, It's ...
A low-level politician with no power said something incredibly stupid, and the opposing party is trumpeting it from the mountaintops to make everyone in the low-level politician's party look stupid.
Here's one: "Kansas Lawmaker Says Women Should Plan Ahead for Rape: 'I Have a Spare Tire'":
Now, that story is true. The guy did say that. But now we need to ask ourselves a two-letter question:
In every single group of human beings, you have a certain percentage of crazy shitheads. Find me an organization of a million charity workers who have devoted their lives to saving homeless golden retrievers, and I'll bet my life that within that group I can find a faction of crazy shitheads. Hell, I'll bet I can find at least one in any group of a dozen people. Liberals, conservatives, moderates, weed advocates, anti-drug advocates, cupcake bakers, window washers. They all -- all -- have their crazy shitheads that can be pointed out. I bet I can find at least one in your family.
Therefore, their existence proves nothing about the group as a whole. And, therefore, it is always wrong to dismiss a political movement by simply pointing at their craziest shitheads and saying, "See! That is what (insert group here) is REALLY thinking." It's a cheap shot, anybody can do it and it's an outright lie.
So if you see a headline citing something a "lawmaker" said, the first thing you should know is if it's someone with actual power with implications on policy (i.e., a senator stating how he or she is going to vote on upcoming legislation) or if it's simply a nobody who's being held up as the Crazy Shithead of the Week (CSotW).
For instance, in the headline earlier about the CSotW comparing rape to a flat tire, the crazy shithead was a member of the Kansas state legislature -- one of 165 members of the body that makes laws in Kansas. This guy is so hugely important that it took a whopping five thousand votes to elect him. You could fit every one of his supporters in a high school gym. Which is to say, he has just slightly more power to enact law than you do. And none outside of Kansas.
See, headlines tend to use that word "lawmaker" for a reason -- if he were a U.S. senator, by God it would say "U.S. Senator," and if he were a member of Congress, it'd say he was a congressman. They use "lawmaker" because it makes him seem prominent, like he should somehow matter to people who don't live in Kansas. Now, don't get me wrong -- if the Kansas legislature collectively passes some atrocious rape law, that's news -- a lot of people are affected. But the fact that their legislature is 1/165 crazy shithead is not news.
Actually, that would probably be a big improvement.
It's important to the voters in that one tiny district in Kansas. It's not important for a random college kid in San Diego trying to keep up with politics. But that quote will sure as hell be in that kid's news feed the next morning. And a week later, there'll be another CSotW -- hey, here's a "Missouri Lawmaker" equating gay rights to terrorism. Here's a "Democrat Lawmaker" attacking a colleague on the House floor.
Even if you disagree and think that these people do have enough power that the stupid shit they say -- rather than the legislation they pass -- should be national news, then how far down the ladder do you go before you can safely let it bypass your indignation circuits?
"Before you hand me that letter, how do you feel about capital gains taxes?"
After all, there are 7,382 state-level legislators in the U.S. -- New Hampshire alone has over 400. Some of them got their seats while getting fewer than 1,300 people to vote for them -- there are literally high school class presidents who garnered more votes. What if the CSotW is a mayor? There are more than 100,000 of those in the U.S., some elected by a small enough group of people to fit them all into one Cracker Barrel restaurant. Add in all of the city councils and such and you're surely over a million people in some kind of position that could be called "lawmaker" or "leader" or "politician" in a CSotW headline. When are you finally allowed to just let it go?
Because I'm telling you, these stories exist purely so that supporters of the opposing "team" can get that cheap sugar rush of self-righteousness, and in the process completely turn off the part of their brain that might otherwise consider what anyone in that other party might have to say. So where does it end? Do we get riled up about random members of the party who don't even hold office?
Republican Takes Last Parking Space, Democrat Compares Him to Hitler.
While You're at It, Look out for ...
Shit, yes. At the time of this writing, there is a massive firestorm over comments made by Democrat Hilary Rosen (the Obama adviser who made the "gaffe" I mentioned earlier). I referred to her as an "Obama adviser," and that's the title opponents keep using, even though she literally is not and has never been an adviser to Obama. See, that's the trick -- when the people making the controversial comments don't actually hold political power, the pundits and politicians have to invent a position for them (in reality, she's just a pundit for CNN and a former lobbyist). And you will never know, just as you didn't double check when I used it earlier.
Now, I know exactly what you're thinking: "But what does the guy who made the hit '70s rock album Cat Scratch Fever think about all of this?"
"Every political crisis can be solved by machine guns and terrible shirts!"
What's that? You weren't thinking that at all, and are confident no human has ever thought that since the dawn of the species? Well, the news media has, because every time aging musician and crazy shithead Ted Nugent says something, they put that shit right into a headline. Quick! Go get a rebuttal from Foghat!
If you're wondering how they possibly can tie a random "only still famous because he says crazy things" celebrity to an actual politician or candidate, why, it's very easy: You simply go to the candidate and insist that they "denounce" what the irrelevant celebrity said:
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Note: "Denounce" is another marker of a bullshit news headline. Feel free to make your own list, I can't cover them all.
Do you see the genius of that? If the candidate refuses to comment, then he must be agreeing with the outrageous thing the irrelevant celebrity said -- you can even phrase the headline to put the inflammatory thing in his mouth ("Obama Refuses to Denounce Kanye West Tweet Calling Romney a Voltron Made of Butts").
And if he denounces it, even better -- he's agreeing that he answers for all celebrity supporters as if they worked for him personally, and can be tagged with all of the stupid shit they say from here on out. "You denounced Kanye when he said Romney was butts, but you're not denouncing Michael Moore for saying Romney 'speaks in farts.' Therefore you must agree this time."
#1. The Headline Includes the Phrase "Blow To"
Basically, It's ...
Neglecting to explain hugely important policy changes in favor of focusing on the drama, and how it affects the personal political careers of the politicians involved.
OK, you know about the huge fight over health care reform in America, right? Whether you think it's a good or a bad plan, you can't deny that it's freaking huge (to the tune of a trillion dollars over 10 years, and 31 million people getting health insurance). It will impact almost every single human being living in the United States, either through their personal ability to get coverage, or their taxes, or changing health care costs, or changing rules to their existing coverage -- there are dozens and dozens of new regulations that completely change the landscape of one of the largest sectors of the national economy.
So, when the Supreme Court recently threatened to completely overturn this gargantuan piece of legislation, how did it get reported?
The ruling could deal a blow to the "Obama presidency"? Fuck you.
I don't give two shits about the "Obama presidency" except in terms of what legislation it gets passed and how it changes the country and my life. I'm not following this story because I think it's a freaking Barack Obama reality show and I'm really eager to see how his life turns out. I don't see no goddamned crab boat. I'm following it because I want to know what it means for my own goddamned life and for the lives of the people I care about.
Again, I apologize if I come off like I'm angry, but I'm not kidding when I say that every goddamned important political story seems to get reported this way:
A slowdown in U.S. jobs growth deals a blow to Obama? How about the millions of people who are out of work? Hey, guys, I don't know if you realize this, but the world actually exists. Those numbers on the screen represent actual humans who are actually suffering. No, really! It's not a video game! Come down to my home town, I have a neighborhood I want to show you. Bring your meth money!
And, as smarter commentators have pointed out, there's an even bigger problem with this: It actually implies that the issue itself is completely unimportant. For instance, if the courts overturn some regulation about mercury in the water or Congress blocks car mileage standards, it always gets reported as "A Blow to Environmentalists."
Oh, no, it's not a blow to the people who have to drink the water or breathe the air, or the taxpayers who have to fund the regulations, or the businesses that lose jobs over it. It's either a "blow to environmentalists" or it's not. They specifically make it sound like the effects extend purely to some fringe special interest group and absolutely no one else.
It's not only following the issue as a horse race/fight/reality show, it's actively prohibiting you from seeing it any other way. After all, if the building were really on fire, somebody would be telling me to evacuate. They wouldn't be calmly speculating about how this fire alarm is going to be a "blow to" the landlord. Not unless the person giving me the news had gone completely freaking insane.
"What a terrible blow to your insurance company!"
While You're at It, Look out for ...
It also gets phrased in the other direction. Congress passes a cut in payroll taxes. That's good news for the people paying the taxes, right? Nope, it's a "victory for Obama." Who is affected by billions in stimulus money? One man, apparently.
It's quite the burden.
And here's the worst part:
I'm telling you from experience, watching political races this way is addictive as shit. You have thousands of years of violent tribal instincts pumping through your veins, itching for a fight. That makes you an easy tool for manipulation, and every good politician and pundit knows how to push those buttons to make people march neatly in formation.
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Hint: There is no "them."
Don't succumb. Or else you'll start supporting the most bullshit legislation just because your guy is for it. Or you'll start knee-jerk rejecting anything the other "team" proposes. Not because it's bad for the country, but because you want to deny them a "win."
It's a poisonous way of thinking. It will lower your IQ, it will rot your ability to think critically about the subjects that really matter. It's bad for you, it's bad for democracy, it's bad for the world. You have to be better and smarter than the person they think you are. Or else we're all fucked.
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Residents of McCarley Gardens apartments and the surrounding Fruit Belt neighborhood near the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus want to know why the area's future is being planned by a panel that includes none of them.
The residents know that change is imminent, especially because of their proximity to the burgeoning Medical Campus.
The problem, they say, is that no one on the Economic Opportunity Panel put together by St. John Baptist Church and the University at Buffalo is from the neighborhood the panel is focused on. They want it dissolved and a new one convened.
"All these different people, organizations and corporations are making decisions for the Fruit Belt and McCarley Gardens," said Veronica Hemphill-Nichols, founder of the Fruit Belt Housing Task Force. "We're asking to be at the table. We want to speak for our future. We have to live here."
Lorraine Chambley, president of the McCarley Gardens Tenant Association, felt similarly.
"The problem is, none of the members of the panel has ever lived, worked or played in the Fruit Belt/McCarley Gardens community," Chambley said.
"How can somebody else represent your own neighborhood. That's like me going to Cheektowaga and saying, 'OK. Let's do this,' " said Leemah A. Kaaid, owner of the High Street Deli.
No changes will be made to the panel, university and church officials said, adding that it has the responsibility of assessing economic opportunities for residents and making recommendations to UB, and was not intended to be a community group.
It is a group of "professional people who deal with workforce development," said the Rev. Michael Chapman, St. John pastor.
The panel will submit a report to UB soon, but even then, the conversation will continue, said university spokesman John DellaContrada.
"EOP is finishing up its report and intends to provide it to the church and UB next month, targeting the first week in March," DellaContrada said. The panel's report is "a starting point for additional planning. It's not the end of the process."
Residents, however, are trying to short-circuit that process with a petition for a moratorium on future development in the McCarley Gardens/Fruit Belt community until a master plan is developed by a panel that includes a majority of residents, property owners and taxpayers of that community. The petition has 341 names and was delivered to City Hall on Thursday.
The current panel includes UB Vice President Dennis R. Black; June W. Hoeflich, a UB Council member and former CEO of Sheehan Hospital; and Paul E. Tesluk, a UB management professor.
St. John selected Buffalo Urban League CEO Brenda W. McDuffie; Colleen B. Cummings, former executive director of the Buffalo Employment and Training Center; and City Judge James A.W. McLeod.
"Why in the world would we dissolve [the panel] when they're about to give me a study about jobs? Once the study comes to me, then I will share it with the community, and they'll have an opportunity to have input at that time," Chapman said.
McCarley Gardens is a low-income apartment complex owned by St. John Baptist Church with 149 apartments on 15 acres bounded by Michigan Avenue and Oak, Goodell and Virginia streets. It is located within the borders of the Medical Campus.
In 2010, Oak-Michigan Housing Development Corp. – a development arm of St. John – agreed to sell the parcel to UB for $15 million. All of the tenants must be relocated to housing that is equal to or better than their current housing at no extra cost to residents. No relocation date has been set yet, because the plan still needs federal approval.
The EOP joint panel was one of the conditions of the sale. It was formed for the church and UB to engage community leaders, listen to ideas and concerns and then deliver a set of recommendations to UB for job training, skills development and educational opportunities for residents in the community.
However, community leaders have written to the UB Foundation, which is purchasing the McCarley parcel on behalf of UB, requesting a new panel that has neighborhood representation at a ratio of 2-to-1.
UB officials said the panel has held several meetings attended by nearly 100 community members and leaders, including Fruit Belt residents and McCarley Gardens Tenant Council leaders. When pressed for specific dates of public meetings, DellaContrada referred to one, which was a walking tour of the Fruit Belt neighborhood with residents in 2011.
Several residents had no recollection of the meeting.
"No, I don't remember that," said Larry Goins, a retired Buffalo police officer who has lived in two different houses on Lemon Street since 1959. He said he would have welcomed the opportunity to sit on the panel had he known about it.
A meeting was held Dec. 13 for Fruit Belt residents enrolled in a new leadership development program developed by UB. Other area residents, however, also attended after seeing a flier about it. The meeting was the first time many residents had ever met the panel members, said Hemphill-Nichols. "We never knew there was a panel," she said.
Kaaid also said she was never aware a panel existed. She has attended public meetings held by UB and St. John. However, she said she has never received straight answers or actual information, especially from the church.
She is happy about the opportunities the Medical Campus will bring to that section of the East Side.
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All over the world, I encounter both governments and companies claiming they have a policy permitting or even favouring open source software--indeed, the new President of Brazil just issued a decree on that subject. Yet when you actually look at what they are doing, you find that there's still a huge amount of proprietary software being procured.
A policy alone is not enough. To implement it, legacy procurement rules have to be changed, especially in government. Procurement rules evolve over time in the light of experience, and gradually accrete into a sizeable corpus that is inflexible by design. While these rules may provide both protection and value for procurement of products and services the enterprise has seen before, they typically discriminate against new approaches, which are the "friendly fire" casualties of unintended and unforeseen consequences. Legacy procurement rules stifle innovation.
One of the most common problems that legacy procurement rules cause is in the area of requiring indemnity for software. Procurement rules usually ask for substantial penalties to be associated with promises that the software doesn't contain any misappropriated copyright, abuses no trademarks, and does not knowingly infringe any patents.
The reason you need contractual indemnity when you procure proprietary software is you have no other way to attempt to protect yourself against careless or malicious infringement of the rights you or others can reasonably expect to be protected. You thus require the company that owns the software - the one entity that has the data to know the risk - to put their money and reputation behind the assertion that they have not allowed anything harmful to enter the software before it was delivered.
A company selling a subscription around an open source project isn't actually selling the software. The subscription may superficially resemble a right-to-use or end-user license agreement, containing as it does both a service level agreement and an agreement to continue developing the software, but there's no actual software supply involved. The software is entering their customers' enterprises under the terms of an open source license, direct from the many community participants.
As such, the company selling the subscription won't offer an indemnity for two reasons. First, they aren't the supplier of the software - the community is. Second, there's another way to mitigate the risk from the software--see if the community is happy to be using it, because as long as there's a sufficiently diverse community, this is likely to be sufficient risk mitigation. This mystifies procurement staff enforcing legacy procurement rules. The transaction looks to them like a software purchase, and yet there's no indemnity.
This is one of the key problems that needs to be fixed if you intend to move your enterprise to favour open source software. It's not enough just to say you do; you'll need to fix your procurement rules so open source software can get through your defences.
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One answer is to great lawyers who understand these complexities; The other is to educate.
I'm lucky enough to work in place that has both. Our open source procurement has taken on many different nuances- which led to a separate team for open source.
As former lead of that team, we focused on framing the acquisition process as an evaluation partnership with the requestor.
We provided informative metrics and a 'score' that would pertain to the open source world (think community size and participation, forums activity, development pace & documentation) and our requestor provided their expertise in vetting potential solutions and their ability or tolerance to fill the gaps (or not) that may exist in functionality.
Resistance was enormous at first, but it has largely eroded over the last couple years.
I agree with your comment. I find that in most cases of government procurement unless you have hired a legal team that understands the intricacies of open source procurement it really comes down to education. Most of the time in involved education of all the parties involved. This is especially true if you are a company that is offering open source support as part of a larger software bid.
Getting procurement agents to understand the law as it relates to open source software and more often than not the bigger hurdle of the process with which they normally procure software is a long road. One that takes lots of patience, lots of time, and usually lots of conference calls. :)
As a vendor of open source subscription service, we do include an indemnity clause but limit it to the obligations under the subscription agreement; and
any action by employees or contractors - not the software itself. We also have a low cap. What is more challenging for us is that government buyers do not like a disclaimer for community based code - they want express warranty which is clearly problematic when community code is involved. It is difficult to warrant against the use of 3rd party IP although insurance with regular audits is possible. We can also stand behind the quality of our support staff but warrantying the product beyond the intent of the subscription is challenging. Any thought on this much appreciated.


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A shitty "holiday" where you have to spend time with your family and act like you're enjoying yourself, when in reality you are just waiting on everyone to finish eating so you can get the hell out of there.
Johnny was in such a hurry to get out of his grandparents' house on Thanksgiving that he fell down a flight of stairs and nearly broke his neck!
de TST 23 novembre 2006
A four day "shock and awe" (q.v.) ritual of masochistic excess designed to torture Americans into some form of familial cohesion, usually imaginary. Undertaken as unconscious penance for what they done to the Indians.
Oh God! We have to go to my parents' house for Thanksgiving! Honey, where'd you put the waterboard?
de Spamarella 25 novembre 2010
An ironic holiday where millions of people who claim there is no God take time out of their lives to give thanks to some as-yet undefined scientific principle. Only in America do people celebrate a math problem with a holiday, wherein they call all their religious friends stupid while thanking an exploded fart for creating the universe. Still millions more lament the fact that everything they have in life came at the expense of another human being (the native Americans), despite the fact that every society in the history of mankind has been the same.
A holiday where a select few celebrate by being thankful for what they have, rather than reveling in a self-induced guilt trip over what others don't have.
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"Thanksgiving, that wonderful holiday that should really be called I Fucking Earned This Day by most of the people who 'celebrate' it."
de JustAnotherGuy 30 mars 2012
The annual holocaust of turkeys throughout America
"Happy Thanksgiving! I wonder how many turkeys they killed this year."
de hardrock711 21 novembre 2011
Noun: An American holiday that was originally founded to celebrate the taking over of the Native Americans. It is now an excuse for people to eat way too much, get fat, and remind themselves of how embarassing their family is.
Girl1: Thanksgiving is a dumb holiday.
Girl2: Why? You get to eat as much as you want and watch everyone else get fat too!
Girl2: Why? You get to eat as much as you want and watch everyone else get fat too!
de Kelley Lee G 24 novembre 2006
A holiday in November that takes place in the United States where everything is closed for people to sit down and watch football and eat turkey, followed by Black Friday, a holiday to physically fight people over discounts and max out their credit cards to buy gifts for Christmas.
I am going to stay home and celebrate Thanksgiving this year.
de j4991 24 novembre 2011
In 1621 A time where puritan pilgrims with pointy black leprechaun hats and Native indian americans joined together to have a feast of food to thank god for the blessings. Nowadays, fattening everyday american food, (like battered god knows what) is eaten to thank Colonel sanders for kfc and cholesterol.
Dude we should totally go to KFC for Thanksgiving!
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LEWISTOWN - Reba ambles down the wide hallways of Golden Living Center William Penn in Lewistown. She's on her way to the Therapy Room to visit friends.
Her legs may not work, but she has wheels to help her along.
She trundles at a slow but determined pace, stopping for a few seconds now and then to catch her breath or take a small sip of water.
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Joan Lichtenwalner, activities director at Golden William Penn in Lewistown, greets Reba, while Pat Furner waits to pet the dog who regularly visits residents at the home.
Reba's owner, Missy Kinzer, gives Reba a hug after the dog makes her rounds at the nursing home.
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Reba makes her way with a cart after losing the use of her back legs due to a spinal condition.
It looks like there is a smile on her face.
When she reaches the Therapy Room, she hesitates as though she's wondering if her wheels will fit through the doorway.
Encouraged by passersby, she gives it a try and easily pulls herself into the room. Heads turn and faces light up. A gentleman seated in his own wheelchair smiles, reaches out to rub Reba's head and teases, "You big moose!"
But Reba's not a moose. She's a boxer with a spinal condition that has disabled her hindquarters, rendering her back legs useless.
She's not insulted by the nickname, and eagerly gives the resident a chance to make a fuss over her and reminisce about another dog in his life. Then she moves on to the next person and the next affectionate pat on the head.
Reba's owner, Missy Kinzer, the business office coordinator at William Penn, said the dog has been visiting residents of the home since she was 12 weeks old.
"We got Reba as a baby seven-plus years ago at 8 weeks old. She was totally normal until last summer," Kinzer said.
Kinzer got Reba from Dana and Carlos Moore, boxer breeders from Lewistown. "We picked her out when she was 12 hours old because we didn't want to dock her tail." Kinzer picks up Reba's tail to show its length, uncharacteristic of boxers. Even though the dog is clearly happy, her tail does not wag. "It doesn't work any more," Kinzer said.
Reba once weighed in at about 90 pounds, and now weighs about 75 pounds. "You can see how her her back end has atrophied," Kinser said, lifting up a back leg and letting it drop.
The dog's symptoms began last summer. The vet thought it might be arthritis, but nothing helped, Kinzer said. "It got worse and by the beginning of October, she couldn't walk at all."
Reba has degenerative myelopathy, a progressive disease of the spinal cord in older dogs. Kinzer compares it to multiple sclerosis in humans. It was diagnosed by excluding other conditions, like cancer on her spinal cord. It's common in breeds like boxers, German shepherds and corgis.
As Reba's mobility issues worsened, Kinzer fashioned a sling around the dog's back end to help her get up and get around.
Holding her thumb and index finger about an inch apart, Kinzer said, "I got this close to putting her down because she was so unhappy."
But that changed when, by chance, Reba began to walk while Kinzer held her up in the sling.
"She took off. She was a different dog," the owner said.
Kinzer knew of a German shepherd who got around in a "cart," a set of wheels attached to the dog with a harness, and decided to get one for Reba.
It took about a week, a little bit of adjustment to the mechanical parts and a visit to the wide open courtyard at William Penn for Reba to adapt to the cart.
"Then she just took off," Kinzer said, believing that the level surface in the courtyard and the excitement at seeing her friends at William Penn inspired Reba to get moving in the contraption.
Reba is greeted happily by practically everyone who passes by.
Kinzer pats Reba's head. "She definitely still has quality of life."
She also improves the quality of life for the people she visits at William Penn.
She's been visiting residents at the nursing home since she was 12 weeks old, and pops in about once a week.
Even though she had no formal training as a therapy dog, Reba's "calling" in life became apparent when she was still a young pup.
She was about 6 months old or so when the family went shopping in State College. While her son was in a store, Kinzer walked Reba around outside. A lady came out of the store in a power chair and Reba went right up to her. The woman told Kinzer that Reba's reaction made her happy because most dogs were afraid of her chair and wouldn't approach her for a greeting.
At William Penn, "We had one guy, a stroke victim, who never said anything but 'yeah.' When he saw her, he said, 'nice dog.' That's when you see the magic that they have," Kinzer said.
"The staff all love her, even the people who I didn't think were dog people. The residents - it's just amazing how they react to her," Kinzer said. "They just can't believe how well she has adapted to her cart.
"It's helpful to them to see how she adapts to this."
When residents see Kinzer in the halls, they ask "Where's the dog?"
While visiting at William Penn, Reba walks the halls and visits individual rooms of those wanting to see her. Some residents call to her from their rooms, and some keep a stash of dog treats for Reba and other canine visitors.
"When she's here, I'm not sure who gets the most out of it - the residents here, or her."
Reba is "definitely a people person," Kinzer said. "If we go down to the park just to walk, she doesn't want to leave. We went to Derry Park to see the Christmas lights and she went all the way around once, and wanted to go again."
As in the past, "We will try to take her to the dog park in State College because even if she can't run around like she used to, she can still interact with the other dogs and people," Kinzer said.
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Though Congress' extension of the wind Production Tax Credit is being highly lauded, it may only be enough to revive — not save — the wind energy industry, a growing source of jobs in Colorado in the past five years.
Congress passed the plan Tuesday to avoid the fiscal cliff, which averted planned tax increases and spending cuts that could have thrown the country back into recession. Within the plan was a one-year extension of the wind Production Tax Credit, a government subsidy that has been used to prop up the growing wind industry.
Though it is only a year-long extension, it could be seen as much as a three-year extension, said U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo. The extension covers any project that is started in 2013.
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At present, the company has about 18,000 employees, trimmed from roughly 22,000 a year ago.
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Orders for 2013 at Vestas, for example, slowed considerably with the expectations that the credit would expire at the end of 2012.
Vestas decided in the fall to further intensify its cuts through 2013 to ensure they could react "fast to the uncertain market development we expect in coming years." In 2013, reported Andrew Longeteig, a company spokesman, Vestas expects to save an additional $198 million, and will have saved $527 million since 2011.
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Vestas has four manufacturing plants in Colorado, three in Weld County. The facilities are the country's only manufacturing source for the Danish company. Through 2012, Vestas cited an intake slowdown because of uncertainty on congressional renewal of the credit.
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Frieda Eastwood, 88, of Greeley, passed away Dec. 7, 2012, at Life Care Center in Greeley. She was born Oct. 30, 1924, to George and Elizabeth Winters, in Windsor, Colo.
She married John A. Eastwood on August 26, 1945, in Portland, Ore. They were married for 67 years. They met during the war, working at the ship yards in Portland, where she was a welder. They married after the war was over in 1945 and moved back to Greeley and opened Midwest Café in downtown Greeley. Five years later, they bought the Tea House, and from there, they opened the Ebony Room at the American Legion. After 10 years, they built their own Ebony Room in Evans, which was their pride and joy. She retired in 1988 after 41 years in the restaurant and catering business.
Frieda enjoyed crafts, gardening, decorating, fishing, and she loved to travel. She had been all over the world. She left a hand written note that said she would be remembered as being "opinionated, motivated, argumentative and most of all Bossy ... and if you question this to just ask her niece, Tracie."
She is survived by her husband, John Eastwood; son, Darrell (Angie) Eastwood and their daughter, Kirsten Eastwood, Denver; sister, Dorothy (Wes Howard) March, Greeley; and seven nieces and nephews: Pauletta Krum, Shelley Park, Tracie Hamilton, Jae Nickerson, Troy Denike, Kelli Dyrud and Kip March.
She is preceded in death by her parents; and her siblings, Anna Kammerzel, Betty Petrie, Esther Krum, Rose Nickerson, Ted Winters, Sam Winters and Til Denike.
Interment will be at 2 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Services are scheduled for 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, at the Allnutt Macy Chapel with a reception to follow in the Allnutt Reception Center.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Association of America in care of Allnutt Funeral Service, 702 13th St., Greeley, CO, 80631. Family and Friends may view the online obituary, sign the guest book, and send condolences at www.allnutt.com.
Lucille Josephine (Lucy) Hoffmann
May 6, 1925-Dec. 4, 2012
Age: 87
Lucille was born at home on May 6, 1925, in Lawler, Iowa. She is the daughter of John Henry (Harry) Brannon and Bridget Josephine (Josie) Colwell. In 1932, during the great depression, the family moved from Lawler to Independence. Lucille graduated from St. John's High School in 1942.
She married Norbert Martin Hoffmann on her birthday, May 6, 1946, at St. John's church in Independence.
In 1955, she and Norbert moved to Casper, Wyo., where they remained until 1961. It was at this time the family moved to Greeley, which has been home for the past 51 years.
Lucille and Norbert, along with other family members, were "founding" members of St. Mary's Catholic Church.
Lucille is survived by her sons, Michael "Mike" Vincent Hoffmann and his wife, Eileen of Las Vegas, Nev., and Alan Martin Hoffmann of Greeley; and her daughter, Janet Ann "Jan" Milenski and her husband, Rich of Greeley. She was quite fond of her grandchildren, Emerson Milenski and wife, Elena, living in Moscow, Russia and Barrett Milenski and wife, Amy, who reside in Salt Lake City. Lucille was elated to be able to know and share herself with her three great-grandchildren, Atonina "Toni", and Daniil "Dani" of Moscow, and Samuel "Sam" of Salt Lake City.
Memorial services will be held at a later date at Fort Logan Military Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of your choice in care of Stoddard Funeral Home, 3205 West 28th St., Greeley, CO, 80634.
Please sign online guestbook at http://www.stoddardsunset.com/.
Rita Wethington Husted
Oct. 26, 1921-Dec. 7, 2012
Age: 91
Residence: Denver
Rita Wethington Husted, 91, of Denver, passed away Dec. 7, 2012. She was born on Oct. 26, 1921, in Owensboro, Ky., and spent many years in Rochester, N.Y. Rita and her family moved to Greeley in 1970, then moved to Denver in 2005.
She was the beloved mother of Jim (Joan), Teri (Dan) Mack, Debi (Jon) Dertinger, Bob (Anita), Rick, and Lisa (Luke) Cyphers; loving grandmother of Rachel, Alex, Evan, Kendra, Jessica, Eliza, John, Liz, Mark, Zach, Alison, Cassie, Peter, Bennett, and Lee; great-grandmother of Lucy, Nigel, Oliver, Alexandrea, Dakota, Jameson, and Bryana. She was also survived by numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives & friends.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Ed Husted; her parents, Paul & Annabell Wethington; siblings: Mary Pauline, Bernard, Bert, William, Herman, Margaret, Betty, Helen, Anna Louise, Paul, Angela, Joe, and James.
A memorial service will be held at a future date. Donations may be made in Rita's memory to the charity of your choice.
Robin R. Thompson
Sept. 28, 1960-Dec. 6, 2012
Age: 52
Residence: Longmont
Robin R. Thompson, 52, passed away Dec. 6, 2012, at Longmont United Hospital. Robin was born Sept. 28, 1960, in Wamego, Kan., to Harris and Avis (Guilliams) Grunewald.
She moved to Colorado at a young age and graduated from Weld Central High School. She moved to Longmont in 2000 from Platteville, Colo. She worked as a manager in retail sales.
Robin was of the Lutheran faith and her number one enjoyment in life was her grandchildren and family.
She is survived by her son, Joshua Thompson (Shevone) of Longmont; her parents, Harris and Avis Grunewald of Keenesburg, Colo.; her brothers, Larry Grunewald (Amanda) and Jeffery Grunewald (Jana) both of Keenesburg; and three grandchildren, Nicholas, Deakan, and Jax Thompson.
Memorial service will be at 10 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, at Ahlberg Funeral Chapel. Cremation entrusted to Ahlberg Funeral Chapel and Crematory. Memorial contributions can be made to the American Cancer Society in care of Ahlberg Funeral Chapel. Visit www.ahlbergfuneralchapel.com to share condolences.


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Wrapping up this years Relay for Life festivites, the Lower Berkeley Relay for Life group decided to put their best face forward.
The Relay for Life beauty pageant was held at the Marquiette Municipal Court as part of the the Lower Berkeley Relay for Life festivities on May 3.
Ashton Mason was crowned Relay for Life Supreme Queen and Miss Relay for Life at the conclusion of the contest.
Other contest winners were Brett Sexton, who was crowned Teen Miss Relay for Life; Teen Miss Supreme Queen Kayla Hankammer, who raised more than $120; Abby Touron was crowned Junior Miss Supreme queen and Junior Miss Relay for Life, and raised over $200; and Young Miss Relay for Life and Supreme Queen Sydney Duke and Little Miss Relay for Life and Supreme Queen Maggie Jane Westbrook raised over $75.
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The Lisen Ridge Trail was started by the Swiss Alpine Club in 1905 and it is the piece de resistance of any Säntis hike. The balancing act that connects Alpstein and Toggenburg is impressive. After 50 minutes one has gone through the worst part and to make it even more worthwhile, the cozy mountain inn awaits one. From here there are various possibilities to get down into the valley: one can choose to go to Wildhaus, to Wasserauen or to Brülisau.
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The Lisen Ridge Trail is only recommended to persons who are absolutely vertigo-free and who are sure-footed. It is forbidden to enter the trail if there is ice or snow.
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The crash happened about 7:30 a.m. when Norlyn Ramos-Arrazola, 35, of Aurora was driving his Ford F-350 northbound on Two Rivers Parkway. As he approached 38th Street, Ramos-Arrazola went through the stop sign at the intersection and collided with a Subaru driven by Jamie Anderson, 31, of Greeley, which was westbound on 37th Street. Anderson suffered severe injuries and was transported to North Colorado Medical Center, where she underwent surgery. She remained in the hospital late Thursday, Greeley police Lt. Adam Turk said.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers played their first live show 30 years ago!
By Red Hot Chili Peppers News on February 13, 2013
30 Years of Funk The Red Hot Chili Peppers played their first live tour concert 30 YEARS ago TODAY! On February 13th, 1983, frontman Anthony Kiedis, Bass Guitarist Flea (Michael Balzary), Lead Guitarist Hillel Slovak and Drummer Jack Irons treated 30 spectators to their inimitable dose of adolescent funk rap, sex punk fusion at the [...]
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Gnome panel mania
If you're a GNOME user I expect you're more than familiar with the panels that come as standard with your desktop; if you use openSUSE you're probably also familiar with the slab menu that Novell have developed. There are, however, several other applications out there that can extend and beautify your Gnome panels.
"Gimmie is a unique desktop organizer for Linux. It's designed to allow easy interaction with all the applications, contacts, documents and other things you use every day."


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Easily create endless colors with this affordable, transportable medium! Artist Lisa Dinhofer guides you through burnishing and blending for seamless surfaces and using solvents to create a soft-focus wash effect. Quickly conquer erasing, scraping and embossing techniques to add texture and dimension to your work and dive into various methods of masking to keep your borders pristine and preserve lifelike highlights. Harness the full potential of your pencils with a still-life rendering, and establish value and atmospheric depth through strategic placement of warm and cool colors. Explore your creative instincts and expand your colored pencil confidence through color grid exercises and more.
Meet your instructor, Lisa Dinhofer, and learn more about the class. Dinhofer reviews the materials and demonstrates how to transfer the reference grids supplied in your class materials.
Using six warm colors and six cool colors, Dinhofer shows how you can create a reference grid that will help you understand how your pigments respond to a variety of treatments. Once you've created your own grids, you can refer to them again and again as you expand your portfolio.
How many different colors can you create with 12 colored pencils, a white pencil and a blender pencil? Dinhofer gets you started with the color-mixing grid and challenges you to fill it completely. You'll gain new appreciation for the medium's versatility.
Keep your borders pristine and the white of your paper clean - for highlights or later work - by using masking and framing with a variety of techniques. You'll also learn how to use erasing and scraping in your work to fix mistakes or as elements of design, and see how embossing can add texture to your drawing.
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Women 2.0 Meets Hundreds Of Women Entrepreneurs At SXSW
Founder Friday Austin Launch and official "Women in Tech" Meet Up hosted at SXSW.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
We hosted a sold-out Founder Friday Austin Launch at SXSW. Over 150 people visited the Alcatel-Lucent Trend Lounge at SXSW to find out about Women 2.0, meet our community of entrepreneurs, and discussed resources for starting startups.
We met women from the east coast (New York, Chicago, Boston) as well as the west coast (San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles). Women came from all corners of the state of Texas in hopes of meeting more like-minded women. Even Colorado and Mexico had women represent!


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Britney Spears and Jason Trawick have ended their relationship, but the pop star's ex is still planning to be a part of her life.
"Jason adores [Britney's] kids; he loves them," a source tells PEOPLE. "He was like their 'other dad,' so he's not just going to walk away from their lives. He'll be involved as much as makes sense."
As for Spears's two boys, Preston, 7, and Jayden, 6, the source says they "are doing great and [their father] Kevin [Federline] is actually a huge help and is a wonderful person in their lives."
Despite reports that the former X Factor judge's desire to have more kids was a reason for the split, the insider says, "Jason is genuinely open to kids of his own."
But the source adds, "There were so many issues in their relationship that Jason really wanted those worked out before they could ever move forward with a wedding or more kids together."
In the end, Spears, 31, and Trawick, 41, do "love each other," says the source. However, "there were some major challenges and hurdles and constant work that needed to be done. ... It just wasn't working and things weren't going to change, so it was time to let go."
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Levis: From a quick fix to the world's best-selling jeans
Levi's jeans are well known throughout the world for their quality and durablility, but do you know the history of how the jeans were were originally created by Levi Strauss for gold miners in the 1800s' California Gold Rush?
In 1853, Levi Strauss, a German Jewish immigrant, moved to San Francisco to open a branch of his brother's wholesale dry goods store. He began selling clothing, blankets, fabrics and other items to small stores throughout the region.
One of his customers, Jacob Davis, was a Latvian Jewish immigrant, in Reno, Nevada. As a tailor, Jacob frequently purchased bolts of denim cloth from Levi Strauss & Co.'s wholesale house. Davis found himself repeatedly reinfocing torn pants, and had an idea to to use copper rivets to reinforce the pants at stress points. He added rivets to the button fly and pocket corners.
Davis knew that the idea would take off, but he didn't have the money required to obtain a patent, so he wrote to Strauss suggesting that they go into business together.
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BP opts out of some gas leases
January 18, 2013
WARREN — BP America Production Co. has opted not to lease minerals on more than 4,000 acres in Trumbull County, releasing nearly 200 property owners from their signed contracts....
These lesses actually are not a big mess. The mineral rights were leased and are valid because of "production". The problem is the majority of the leases were poorly written. But who would have known 30 years ago about this marcellus and Utica shale.
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Mr. Klingingsmith was trying to double dip.
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I didn't see anything here about Mr. Klingensmith...is there a different article?
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Sorry henry, I was having a conversation and writing at the same time. That would be Mr. Marsteller.
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No, he wasnt trying to "Double Dip". it's just the old system of gas leasing was chaotic at best. Someone signed a lease on his land, maybe the last home owner and not him, and who knows what the terms of the lease is? Maybe he could get out of the lease, there's all sorts of ways you can. The problem is, like the current loan system, you sign a loan with someone, then that loan gets sold to someone else, next thing you know, your loan is owned by 10 different companies over it's life. Same with the gas leases, he'll have to track down and find out all the different companies who had an interest in it, and they're not really required to tell him much legally. His lease could really be owned by 30 different companies at the same time maybe. Each company he contacts only has to tell him what THEIR interest in the lease is, not anyone else. It could take years to sort it out, and bp only gave around a 90 day limit to sort out title issues.
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It just stinks when a landowner assumes they will receive a nice check only to find out they wont.
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I'm sure if he gets his title issues sorted out, bp will probably still let him sign a lease. It could take a while for him though.
Just one of those "***** to be you" moments. Most landowners were dreading they'd run into something like this, but it was only a very small minority of owners who did.
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easy come easy go...
maybe next oil co give up more $$$
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Exactly CCaddy. Thank You for your comments. Too many people THINK they know all about these former leases, but the truth is, they know diddly. I learned from experiance myself. I bought land from my parents over 25 years ago. My wife and I never asked for the oil royalty checks from the oil well since my parents were still getting them, and we bought the land cheap. Plus, they were my parents after all. When dad died, the checks stopped coming to mom. It took me two years of constant phone calls, letter and emails before I found the right company. The lease had been sold 24 times over a 37 year period. The name on the well was not even the company who owned it. The name on the checks were different than the name of the company that had it because they had four different divisions. They had stopped sending the checks when they went into public records and saw dad had died. We did get it figured out, and got all of our owed money. And mom now has free gas for her home.
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well, the nice thing here is, BP is a stand up company who is looking out for all americans. God bless the queen!
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A capsule look at Bill O'Brien's weekly news conference:
Opponent: Temple (1-1)
Last time vs. Penn State: Penn State won, 14-10, in 2011 at Lincoln Financial Field.
Kickoff: Saturday, 3:30 p.m. at Beaver Stadium
Television: ABC
Line: PSU is a 9-point favorite. The over-under is 45.
Walk-on tryouts: PSU will hold walk-on tryouts today. The team has traditionally held tryouts once the season gets under way, but the idea is more notable now in the wake of the NCAA sanctions and scholarship reductions. "I would say positionally, maybe there are a couple DBs in the crowd there," O'Brien said. "That's usually the position right now that we're looking for because of numbers-wise. Other than that, I just want to try to get out there and see if we can find some good football players."
Clock's ticking: Penn State has been forced into an early timeout in all three games so far, and O'Brien admitted, "We have got to do a better job of continuing to get the play in quicker."
Kicking update: O'Brien said PK Sam Ficken remains ahead of State College's Kevin DiSanto, the backup. O'Brien said Ficken, who missed an extra point in Saturday's win over Navy, kicked well in practice last week, "making I think 10 of 10" field goals. O'Brien again did not second-guess himself for passing on a 25-yard FG attempt in the first half with a 20-0 lead after Ficken had missed an extra point (he made two previously). O'Brien said if Ficken had made the extra point, he still would have gone for the touchdown on fourth-and-goal from the Navy 8. "That's a bread-and-butter play [to the tight end]. We've thrown it for two touchdowns over the first two games." Ficken is 1-for-5 in FGs this season, having missed four at Virginia. Overall, the special teams "have been good," O'Brien said. "Sam just has to get better with his technique."
Bench(ed): O'Brien was asked why he didn't get backup QB Steven Bench into the game with a 34-0 lead in the fourth quarter. Bench saw time at Virginia when starter Matt McGloin was injured, but the coach didn't feel this past Saturday was the right time. "I felt like it was still a ballgame there," he said. "I know what the scoreboard said, but I just felt like it was still Matt's game and I stuck with Matt there." O'Brien did say he wants to get more snaps for converted QB Paul Jones, now a TE.
Singing the praises of: Among the players O'Brien singled out for their improvement were safety Stephen Obeng-Agyapong, DT DaQuan Jones, WRs Alex Kenney, Brandon Moseby-Felder and the Lion coverage teams.
Injury report: O'Brien is fond of referring to the status of all injured players as "day-to-day," adding "you [media] guys will get tired hearing that." TB Derek Day (shoulder) is more probable than Bill Belton (ankle), O'Brien said, and OT Donovan Smith (ankle) is questionable. DE Pete Massaro (shoulder) and LB Nyeem Wertman (knee) are out. O'Brien did say Wertman will be out for an extended period.
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The big day is tomorrow. Well, one of the big days. The first day I'll see who has been kicking me a lot the past several weeks. And we just might find out if this is a he or she inside me.
When I had my first big ultrasound with Noah, I wanted to do everything right, so I was so upset when I couldn't get all that water down. I thought I'd be in trouble. I nervously told the ultrasound tech that I drank most of the water, but not all. She asked how much I thought I drank and I said- maybe 60 oz? Her eyes grew wide and and she said you only had to drink 32! I thought it was 64. Oops. No wonder.
So tomorrow- 32 ounces it is... and I start drinking that about an hour before- right? See, I still have to look this stuff up! And if you want to be in the know the very moment we find out boy or girl, I'll be tweeting from my phone at the doctor's office (after we call our family first, of course.)


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What to Expect When Expecting (in the Village of the Damned)
I've Forgotten Everything But Sadness. My Husband Weeps in the Attic at Night. His Gun Is Missing.
Great question, new moms! Hey, husbands, even though your wife is technically the one carrying the baby, you're both pregnant now, and you have a huge responsibility to help her any way you can. Right now she's going through a storm of emotions and impulses thanks to all those hormones; she's feeling for two now! Help make her as comfortable as possible, remind her she's beautiful and find a healthy combination of honesty and compassion.
Sure, you feel a little left out since the baby isn't technically yours, but remember that Jesus was born under the same circumstances. Imagine if Jesus never had a human father to teach him not to push people off of roofs with his mind.
The Bible could have been very different.
And though your wife's fertilization from pure, apathetic evil severely undercuts the argument for an omnipotent God, you could say that your child -- and the collective hive mind with which it will soon meld into a superweapon -- is powerful enough to be godlike, so in a very terrible sense, your spouse is giving birth to a miracle. Now get off your duffs, dads! Your wife and that team of government scientists aren't going to raise this alien baby alone!*
*Not technically true. You are unessential in the success of this endeavor.
It Is Done. I Turned to Science and Asked Why, But There Were No Answers, So Now I Turn to Heaven for Protection. Protection Against My Own Child.
After childbirth, every mom reacts differently, so don't beat yourself up because you're not feeling the "right" emotions. In fact, some moms claim that the first year of having a child is even harder than giving birth. If you feel sad or lethargic, it's important to determine whether you are suffering from postpartum depression or if you're just regular depressed because your kid is using his eyes to kill all your friends. If it's the latter, then you've landed squarely in what is arguably the toughest part of being a parent: disciplining your child, specifically with capital punishment.
Spare the rod, etc., etc.
The silver lining to the task of trying to end your own lineage before it ends you is that, one way or another, it will be over soon. Plus, you'll never have to worry about those terrible teen years (driving! dates! ugh!).
Now shield your mind to pity, to maternal instinct, to the prying red eyes of your offspring. Steel yourself. You have trained for this. Be gentle, but be firm with your punishment, and don't back down from it. Choose a method that matches your strength -- mothers really do know best.
Although exploding your baby to death with dynamite has proven to work well in the other colonies.
Good luck. Thousands of families are praying for you to succeed. But, you know, real families.
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