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LONDON � Five things to know about Saturday, Day 8 of the London Olympics:
One last splash: Michael Phelps grabs 22nd medal with U.S. medley relay win.
Britannia you rock! An Olympic day to remember for the hosts.
Oscar Pistorius makes 400 semis in Olympic debut.
LeBron James and Co. pushed in U.S. hoops win over Lithuania.
Serena Williams gets a Golden Slam, beats Maria Sharapova in tennis final.
When it was over, Phelps hugged his teammates, then headed off the deck for the final time.
Reclaiming the lead with his trademark butterfly stroke, Phelps won the 18th gold of an unparalleled career when he helped the U.S. win the 4x100-meter medley relay Saturday night.
Phelps retires with twice as many golds as any other Olympian, and his total of 22 medals is easily the best mark, too.
�It�s been a great career,� he said. �It�s been a great journey. I can�t be any more happy than I am.�
The U.S. women also won the medley relay on swimming�s final night at the games, setting a world record in the final. Ranomi Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands took the women�s 50-meter freestyle to complete a sweep of the sprints, and China�s Sun Yang lowered his own world record while winning the men�s 1,500 freestyle.
Britain�s banner day stretched from Dorney Lake to Olympic Stadium, which opened with Oscar Pistorius� debut and ended with a crowd-pleasing performance by the home team.
How to describe the action in track and field? �The Blade Runner� and Britannia.
Pistorius, a double-amputee who runs on carbon-fiber blades, finished second in his 400-meter heat to earn a berth in the semifinals Sunday night. He posted a season-best time of 45.44 seconds.
�I�ve worked for six years ... to get my chance,� said the South African, who became the first amputee to compete on the track at an Olympics. �I found myself smiling in the starting block. Which is very rare in the 400 meters.�
Team GB sent a charge through the capacity crowd with a quick series of victories, producing repeated roars that could be heard throughout Olympic Park.
The victors: Jessica Ennis in heptathlon; Greg Rutherford in men�s long jump; and Mo Farah in the men�s 10,000 meters. Three gold medals in about one hour for the host country � and the capper to a big British surge.
The hosts pulled in two more golds on the final day of the Olympic regatta, and another in women�s pursuit at the London Velodrome.
The U.S. men�s basketball team was pushed � and then some.
Two days after running and gunning to a record-shattering 83-point win, the United States needed a strong finish from James to eke out a 99-94 victory over Lithuania.
The Americans trailed 84-82 with 5:50 to play, but James scored nine of his 20 points in the final four minutes to help the U.S. remain unbeaten.
�You want to get tested. The best teams want to be tested. We love the competition,� James said. �I think we�ve got some of the greatest competitors in our league, in this world, so you want to have a game where you feel like you were tested, and we had that today.�
Carmelo Anthony also had 20 points for the U.S. (4-0), which looked nearly invincible in thrashing Nigeria 156-73 on Thursday night and breaking several records.
Linas Kleiza scored 25 for Lithuania, which shot 58 percent and outrebounded the U.S. 42-37.
There was no such test for Serena Williams, who blew away the field at Wimbledon.
The American star became only the second woman to achieve a Golden Slam, routing Maria Sharapova 6-0, 6-1 in the most lopsided women�s final in Olympic history.
The victory completed a remarkable run of domination by the No. 4-seeded Williams, who lost only 17 games in six matches en route to her first singles gold medal. She went 13-0 this summer at the All England Club, where she won her fifth Wimbledon title a month ago.
�I was so focused here,� she said. �I remember I was serving and I was thinking: �Serena, this is your best chance to win a gold medal. You�re at Wimbledon, you�re on grass, you play great on grass, pull it together, just win this.� And that�s what I thought about.�
Top-seeded Bob and Mike Bryan also won Olympic gold for the U.S., beating Michael Llodra and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France 6-4, 7-6 (2) in the men�s doubles final.
Roger Federer will try to complete a career Golden Slam when he plays Andy Murray of Britain in the men�s final Sunday.
The rest of the Olympic action Saturday:
Beach Volleyball
Two-time gold medalists Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor beat the Netherlands in straight sets to advance to the tournament quarterfinals.
The Americans beat Marleen van Iersel and Sanne Keizer 21-13, 21-12.
Reigning world champions Emanuel and Alison topped Germany 21-16, 21-14 to advance to the men�s quarters. The Brazilians, the top-seeded team at the London Games, eliminated Jonathan Erdmann and Kay Matysik.
Nicola Spirig of Switzerland won the gold medal in a photo finish with a Swedish challenger at the Olympic triathlon. The end of the race was so close that both women celebrated after crossing the line.
Spirig held off Lisa Norden to claim gold in 1 hour, 59.48 seconds. The runners were given the same time, and Spirig was declared the winner after a few minutes of uncertainty.
Erin Densham of Australia took bronze on the course through Hyde Park in central London in 1:59.50.
Thousands of spectators lined the route. Fans do not need tickets to watch triathlon events at the London Games.
The U.S. men�s team blew a two-set lead and lost to Russia in five, snapping an 11-match winning streak in Olympic play.
Maxim Mikhaylov scored 27 points for No. 2 Russia in the 27-29, 19-25, 26-24, 25-16, 15-8 victory. Sergey Tetyukhin spiked for match point.
Germany, Poland, Argentina and Italy also won.
The British boxing team is on a remarkable roll at its home Olympics, and that�s just one reason the Indian team is furious.
Second-seeded light welterweight Tom Stalker beat India�s Manoj Kumar 20-16 for the 10th British win in 11 fights in London, moving six boxers to the brink of medal qualification.
Although Stalker and Kumar appeared to be evenly matched, Kumar and his coaching staff criticized the judges and the tournament after the fifth loss for a seven-man team that arrived in London hoping to add to its single Olympic boxing medal.
India did get a nice fight from light flyweight Devendro Laishram, who posted a 16-11 upset of fourth-seeded Serdamba Purevdorj of Mongolia.
Cuba�s Roniel Iglesias upset top-seeded Brazilian light welterweight Everton Dos Santos, while top-seeded light heavyweight Julio La Cruz of Cuba overwhelmed Jordan�s Ihab Almatbouli.
China�s Wu Mingxia cruised into the 3-meter springboard final after qualifying in the top spot during the Olympic semifinals.
Wu, who is seeking her record-tying sixth Olympic diving medal, totaled 394.400 points in the five rounds, giving her a lead of 32.30 points over second-place Tania Cagnotto of Italy, who had 362.100.
Wu already owns three gold medals in 3-meter synchro, as well as one silver and one bronze. One more would tie her with retired Chinese star Guo Jingjing, as well as give China its fifth diving gold of the London Games.
Cassidy Krug of the U.S. was fifth at 345.600 in her first Olympics. Her teammate, Christina Loukas, advanced to Sunday�s final in sixth at 339.750.
American Jamie Lynn Gray won the gold medal in women�s 50-meter three-position rifle shooting, setting two Olympic records along the way.
Gray clinched gold on her final shot with a 10.8 � just 0.1 off a perfect score.
Ivana Maksimovic of Serbia won the silver, and Adela Sykorova of the Czech Republic was third.
Italy�s Jessica Rossi won the gold medal in women�s trap shooting, missing just one of 100 shots to set a world record. Her lone miss came on the 18th shot of the 25-shot final.
Zuzana Stefecekova eventually won the silver in a shoot-off, topping Delphine Reau of France.
Water Polo
Vanja Udovicic scored three goals, and Serbia beat the United States 11-6 in the men�s tournament.
It was the first loss of the London Games for the Americans, who will face three-time defending champion Hungary in their last group game.
Croatia, Montenegro, Spain, Italy and Hungary also won.
South Korea topped host Britain 5-4 in a penalty shootout to advance to the semifinals of the men�s tournament.
Ki Sung-yueng hit the winning penalty after Daniel Sturridge missed Britain�s fifth spot kick. The game was tied at 1 after regulation and extra time.
South Korea moves on to face Brazil, which beat Honduras in the quarterfinals. Japan and Mexico play in the other semifinal.
Britain is dominating the Olympic cycling slate.
The women�s pursuit team won in a time of 3 minutes, 14.051 seconds to lower the world record they set earlier in the day.
The U.S. won the silver medal. Canada beat Australia for the bronze.
The winning team pumped their fists while doing a victory lap, cheered on by Paul McCartney and about 6,000 of their newest friends.
Triumphs for Britain in men�s four and the lightweight women�s double sculls sparked more scenes of jubilation at Dorney Lake and took the host country�s tally of golds to four, one more then New Zealand.
Britain finished with nine medals � four golds, two silvers and three bronzes � to surpass the country�s record total of eight from the 1908 Olympics. Those games were also held in London.
In the two other finals raced under gloomy skies, Miroslava Knapkova of the Czech Republic won the women�s single sculls, and Mads Rasmussen and Rasmus Quist took the lightweight double for Denmark�s only gold of the regatta.
Field Hockey
New Zealand beat the United States 3-2 in the women�s tournament, preventing the Americans from advancing to the medal round.
The Netherlands sealed a place in the semifinals with a 3-2 win over South Korea. China beat Britain 2-1 to stay in the running for the semis, Australia blanked South Africa 1-0, and Belgium drew 1-1 with Japan. Argentina also won, topping Germany 3-1.
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Despite having previously established my feelings about this weekend's Quarantine, I must confess a new willingness to give it a fair shot later tonight. Regardless, this week's Cinematical Seven is all about first-person horror movies, with a couple of oh-so-subjective stipulations:
- We're leaving The Blair Witch Project (1999) out of this. It might not have been the first of these movies, but it was undeniably the most successful and influential. There are only seven slots here, and I feel like everyone has already made clear whether they find this scary or just stupid (I fall in the former grouping, though I say this having not seen the flick since my teens). If you still feel the need to take BWP to task, comment away.
- Also omitted will be The Last Broadcast (1998), which drew mild controversy at the time of its release for its similarity to Blair Witch. I'm only not writing about it because the copy of it sitting just over on my shelf here has remained unwatched. My bad.
- The previous film by the guys behind Quarantine is The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007), which -- being in the hands of the Weinsteins -- has not yet seen the light of day beyond a couple of festivals. Having not attended any of said festivals myself, I'll just sit here and guess that it'll get dumped to DVD (probably under the Dimension Extreme label), and not any earlier than next year at that.
Now, on with the list...
1. [REC] (2007) - When the trailers for Quarantine began making the rounds, many people swiftly wrote it off as "Cloverfield with zombies," as if this were merely cashing in on the trend (well, it is). However, the original Spanish film on which Quarantine is based came out overseas last November, so let's put all that to rest. It's a quick and nasty piece of work (seventy-something minutes by my count), all shot on location as a TV reporter (Manuela Velasco) and her cameraman tag along with local firefighters on a call, only to find themselves trapped in an apartment building with some sort of sickness that's turning the tenants into fiends. It's nothing if not visceral -- in this scenario, there simply isn't room for good old characterization -- but none of that matters so long as the frights keep coming. And they do. (If you still don't believe me here, Scott and Peter and the almighty Tomatometer might help change your mind.)*
2. Cloverfield (2008) - Look, I don't care that the battery couldn't last that long, or that any sensible person would just drop the camera (or girlfriend, for that matter), or that navigating Manhattan by foot as shown here is geographically suspect. What I do care is that J.J. Abrams' pet project -- the Godzilla-from-the-ground-level curio that raked in $80 million this past January -- is an efficient and effective thrill ride (yes, I mean that, with extra emphasis on 'ride') that is impressively seamless from a purely visual standpoint and impressively ambitious for any studio project. Some people didn't care for it, writing it off for much the same reasons they didn't care for Blair Witch, but even on home video, this still works like gangbusters for me. (Oh, and don't even get me started on how geeky-awesome Michael Giacchino's closing credits overture is.)
3. Diary of the Dead (2008) - Film buffs the world over will be eternally grateful for George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead (those willing to defend Day can make full use of the comments below), but with this other "Cloverfield with zombies, but completed before that film" entry, he all but amounts to the creaky old man yelling at the undead to get off his lawn. Combine the (authentically?) amateurish behavior of a bunch of film students with the arrival of a zombie apocalypse, and you have one very trying effort to keep the subtext of crawling cannibal hordes alive and relevant. (And so Romero keeps it up. It's like these things just won't die...)
4. The Zombie Diaires (2006) - A low-budget British effort to capture the life of survivors in a world overrun with those still walking, this faux anthology of home movies is a little more creepy and a lot less annoying than Diary, even if it slips into familiar and somewhat shameless 'aren't we the real monsters' territory for its climax. After two years, this one is being realized Stateside next month through (surprise!) Dimension Extreme. Don't let the misleading cover art trick you into thinking this is some wild zombie shoot-'em-up, but also don't let that keep you away.
5. Welcome to the Jungle (2007) - Two young couples -- each armed with their own handheld camera -- head off into the jungles of New Guinea on a search for the Rockefeller fortune, only to run afoul of a tribe of cannibals. This one gets the most flack for allegedly ripping off the infamous Cannibal Holocaust (which I've yet to see for myself - I know! I'm sorry! It would totally get a spot!), which is itself soon to be remade. Something tells me that the remake will stray away from actual animal slaughter; the audience for that's only so big.
6. Alone with Her (2007) - To date, Colin Hanks has displayed the nice-guy chops that served his father so well, but something tells me that he starred in this film -- shot entirely from the perspective of his stalker's well-hidden cameras -- in order to mix up his filmography a little. (Oh, and by the way: he's pretty convincingly creepy in this.) I'm not as hot on 2002's similar My Little Eye, which takes a web-cam reality show and goes all "Ten Little Indians" with it, but it does have its fans.
7. Paranormal Activity (2008) and Home Movie (2008) - The former tale of a haunting caught on camera went over well enough at this year's Slamdance Film Festival that a remake's already in the works. The latter tale of twins toying with their parents and getting it on tape didn't do too shabby itself after its Fantasia premiere this summer; it's been picked up by IFC Films. I haven't seen either myself, but I've heard enough good things from enough good people to suggest that these will each come to stand (and scare) on their own merits, and not just as Blair-Cloverfield-of-the-month fodder. And wouldn't you know it: we have reason to think that Activity won't get released from Dreamworks until its remake does. (Sound familiar?)
UPDATE: Since it's been brought to my attention, I felt it'd only be a shame to continue leaving off 2006's very clever, very fun horror-comedy Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, about a fledgling serial killer looking to establish his own legacy on film. (Okay, now I can't leave out the somewhat harsher but still worthwhile Man Bites Dog (1992), to which Behind the Mask and a couple of other films are undoubtedly indebted.)
Seven, schmeven. Got any others that we've left off that take place through a first-person perspective and/or a found-footage conceit? I mean, besides Lady in the Lake, Scott?

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Donald E. (Ben) Hedges passed away October 6, 2012 at his home in Incline Village, Nevada of a massive heart attack.Ben, as he was always known, was born July 23. 1936 to Ivan and Alice Hedges in Iowa City, Iowa. He graduated from Iowa City High School in 1954, where he excelled in football, baseball, and basketball.He went on to graduate from the University of Iowa in 1958 with a Bachelor's Degree in Business.Ben and Margo Stoewer were married in 1955 and they had three children.After graduation Ben worked for Metropolitan Life Insurance until 1965 when he joined the Winegard Antenna Company headquartered in Burlington, Iowa. Ben and his family lived in Kansas City, Missouri until he was transferred to Southern California as a Regional Manager in 1967. Sherri Goble from Burlington, Iowa was transferred to Southern California as Office Manager with the Winegard Company at the same time.Ben and Sherri were married in 1973 and continued to work for the Winegard Company until 1986 when they franchised the Incline Village 7-Eleven in Lake Tahoe.In 2002 they opened Grumpy's Saloon & Eatery in Incline Village.In 2007 Ben sold Grumpy's and became partners in the Big Water Grille in Incline Village with John Cheney, Kenny Kinsman, and Jerry Stokes.Ben loved sports and was a loyal fan of the LA Dodgers and the LA Rams. He loved to cook for his family and friends. Many have been grateful recipients of his ham and scalloped potatoes, Ham and beans, fried chicken, and fudge at Christmas time.Ben is survived by his wife Sherri, and two children, daughter, Christine Belben (Kirk) of Butte Valley, California, and son, John Hedges (Chere) of Folsom, California. His grandchildren, Abagail Whittaker, Leah Garcia, Joel Belben, Joseph Hedges and Brooke Hedges.Ben lost his oldest son, Michael Hedges in July 2011.Ben will always be remembered for his kindness and generosity in caring for all the people he loved. He will also be remembered for "stirring the pot" and his spoon will be passed down to his "Partners in Crime" Billy Stroud, Gary Pulver, and Chuck La Rock.A Celebration of Life will be held at the Big Water Grille, 341 Ski Way, Incline Village, Nevada on Saturday, November 3rd at 1pm. Please bring your memories and funny stories of Benji to share.
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that is what is making me think it isnt a tree sparrow but it is not a house sparrow without the cheek mare i wasnt sure could it be any other type of sparrow mate
Yes it is. I`m pretty certain.
I would say it is a tree sparrow mr doggie i could not do that other thing ?, jan
thanks all i will agree its a tree sparrow thanks for your help to everyone
I'm with tree due to the small bib, could be wrong
that panda link ? jan
Hi, this bird isn't right for either- the cheek spot looks absent but he head looks all brown. However there is a shadow cheek spot and there looks to be some
Grey on te crown and I believe this is a hybrid.
Was the photo taken in UK?
yes it was north wales
I was interested in Michael's remarks because it caused me to look closer at the birds in the hedge around a park home site near my patch.There were at least 2 birds like this and as the flock consists of both Tree and House Sparrows there may have been some cross breeding here,not a point I had considered before
this doesnt look like any hybrid HS TS I've seen before. To me it looks like a TS with a non existent cheek patch.
Anyone else care to comment?
I don't see any House Sparrow traits. You'd expect a hybrid to show a bit of grey on the forehead, and an intermediate-sized bib. Like Seymour says, everything looks right for Tree Sparrow apart from the plain cheeks.
Some pictureS show small bib of hybrids I've seen before. When I looked closely I felt I saw grey fleshing in the crown and wouldn't expect this, and lacking cheek patches, in tree sparrow. Also, I noticed a small White mark behind the eye. This could be nothing but I'm not sure how 'pure' this bird is.
If you can't see anything then I'll accept a pale cheeked tree spartow
My thought was Italian sparrow. No idea if people keep them in aviaries, or why it would be in Wales. Something not quite right.


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An 18-year-old man was arrested early Sunday and charged with violating the state's new gun control law after a foot chase through an East Side neighborhood ended with the recovery of a 9 mm handgun, Buffalo police said.
Darquane M. McDuffie was arrested after he reportedly jumped from the rear seat of a vehicle that police were trying to stop near the intersection of Sweet Avenue and Stanislaus Street.
Officers Adam O'Shei and Joseph Walters gave chase on foot and caught McDuffie, who they said discarded a loaded handgun while running.
The handgun, described as a 9 mm pistol with a 12-round magazine, had one round in the chamber plus 11 in the magazine. It was recovered by Buffalo Police Lt. Ivan Watkins in the driveway of 161 Stanislaus St. in the Broadway-Fillmore area.
During processing, police said, they found 10 bags of marijuana hidden in McDuffie's right pant leg.
Police charged McDuffie with unlawful possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device under the state's SAFE Act. Enacted on Jan. 15, the law prohibits having more than seven rounds in a magazine.
McDuffie also faces charges of felony possession of a weapon, obstruction and unlawful possession of marijuana.
In addition to prohibiting more than seven rounds in a magazine, the act tightens the definition of illegal "assault weapons" and requires owners of formerly legal semiautomatic guns to register them. It also includes stronger penalties for crimes committed with guns and requires mental health professionals to notify authorities about people they think may pose a danger to themselves or others. The new gun law, among the nation's most stringent, is the subject of a federal lawsuit filed in Buffalo by the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, the statewide affiliate of the National Rifle Association. The group is challenging the ban on certain semiautomatic guns defined as "assault weapons" as well as the limit on the size of magazines – a provision state officials have talked about modifying because manufacturers don't make seven-round magazines.
In a separate state court lawsuit, a judge refused to block the SAFE Act in a case brought by plaintiffs who claimed it violates the state constitution because it was passed too quickly, without the normal three-day aging period, and restricts rights.
Last month, a 32-year-old Iraq War hero from Silver Creek appeared in Hanover Town Court as the first person in the state charged under the law. Benjamin M. Wassell is accused of modifying two weapons by adding features like a pistol grip and a bayonet mount to make them more valuable in the wake of the ban, and then selling them to an undercover state police officer who, in one case, reportedly posed as a felon.
Wassell, who pleaded not guilty, is due back in court April 17. He faces up to seven years in prison if convicted on all charges under the SAFE Act.
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We in Western society tend to have a preoccupation with sex, to a greater or lesser degree. And that's every side of the sexy coin: whether you're preoccupied with getting it and looking at it, or with making sure no one sees it or knows it exists. Very few people are safe from sex in one way or another, and I applaud that. I think sex is pretty great. I would be having sex while I write this article if it were logistically possible and, you know, anyone wanted to have sex with me.
As much as we obsess over sex, however, it seems like many people have a very awful way of looking at it, which I guess makes sense. The more people focus on a thing, the more diverse and bizarre those focuses (foci? Is that a word? I like it) will be. Some will be good and, like everything in our world, many will be awful.
#5. As an Identity
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Some of the scariest people I have ever met are those who have managed to meld their identity and sexuality into one. Please never do this. If you're gay, if you're straight, if you're anything and everything else, it doesn't matter, but don't let that be the first and most important thing about you. Would you ever introduce yourself by saying, "Hi, I'm Jimmy, and I like to pork any hole that smells"? No. No! But so many people do this in an unspoken way.
Having sexuality is great. Loving sex is great. But when you let sex become your identity, you reduce yourself to a use or a user. This can really be seen in the world of "the lifestyle." Do you know the lifestyle? Hold on to your butts if you don't, and I mean that literally.
"The lifestyle" is what people in it use to refer to swing culture, or BDSM, or any sort of organized pansexual "thing." It's hard to describe, but it can and will involve orgies and get-togethers in which no sex actually happens but people exist in clearly defined roles as dominants and submissives, and they are always "on" in a weird, sexually judgmental way.
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"I submit. Now touch my teats."
Much of what I say here will be met very antagonistically by people in the lifestyle, and they'd likely say that I don't get it or it's their choice or if it's not for me then who am I to judge? It's the same sorts of criticisms any group will toss back at people passing judgment on them. But the thing is, it strikes me as creepily complicated and weird, and you can't convince me it's not.
There are people living in 24/7 submissive and dominant relationships. They may actually deprive these submissives of sex, or affection, for weeks and months as a kind of power play, which is where they get their kicks. The subs are entirely subservient at all times. They will even wear collars out in their public lives. They clean, they make dinner, they act as footstools. Shit, they act as human toilets. This stuff really happens. Meanwhile, the dominants exist in a world in which it is clear to them that they are better than the person they dominate.
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Shit's about to get kinky.
Now, some might argue that there must be genuine trust and affection between the two, and everyone must respect limits and yadda yadda -- but this is your life. Can you imagine living your life like this? Can you imagine being so beholden to your sexuality that if someone wants to poop on you, you think "Yeah, that seems swell!"
If you like being pooped on, by all means you go to a different room from me, with a working vent in the ceiling, and get pooped on. But after you have a few showers, you come back out of that room and then go plant a shrub or fix your scooter or do something that doesn't have you wearing a leash. No one is actually a sex toy, and if you think of yourself or others like that, you're kind of insane.
#4. As a Weapon
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The only thing scarier than someone who can't separate identity from sex is someone who can't separate power from sex and will then use sex as a weapon. Because that's a shitty way to be. The only way sex should be like a weapon involves things exploding, and you probably don't need me to get that grossly descriptive with you if we haven't been on at least two dates.
It's a bit of a modern cliche that dysfunctional marriages have this sort of dynamic, where typically a wife withholds sex from her husband to prove a point or manipulate him into doing something. Sorry, ladies -- it's just the popular stereotype. There's probably one or two dudes out there who have tried this same approach. I just can't imagine them having a ton of success.
Using sex as a weapon (and in this case I mean to get your way or to punish someone, as opposed to actual sexual assault and rape, because my joke book doesn't have a chapter on that stuff and I don't want the Internet to hate me) devalues sex. If sex is a delicious milkshake, weaponized sex is a milkshake someone shaved their pubes in. It's not cool anymore, and no one wants it.
I wholeheartedly believe sex is meant to be fun for two or more people. So when you ruin that and make it about teaching lessons or spite, then you may in fact be the villain from an HBO drama. Is that what you want? To be Cersei Lannister? She bumped uglies with her own brother and had the biggest asshole in seven kingdoms for a son. Don't do that.
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As much as I loved the show Married With Children back in the day, I was never able to understand Al Bundy's relationship with sex. Sure, I was just a teenager at the time, and even looking at a balloon inflated to the proper dimensions gave me a boner, but the idea of sex being a job was just insane to me. And it still is.
You'll still see this theme in pop culture, and again it's usually the woman who feels this way as opposed to the man -- that having sex with your spouse is like Taco Tuesday, a thing you do because you have to. If I ever have a sex life that boring, I want my last memory to be waking up in a fish tank while soft, caring hands hold me under to put me out of my misery.
Sex is arguably better than if you managed to magically merge Xbox with an open bar and a jet pack that has tits and a chicken wing dispenser. The day you start viewing that as mundane is the day you'd better show up to work riding a dragon while gold doubloons dribble out of your asshole, because you're the most fantastic creature in all of history, fictional or otherwise, and earthly sex is passe because you've graduated to Mecha-Sex, a thing so mind-blowing, if I were to show you a picture of it here, your brain would melt in ecstasy.


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From Newstead to Springville, Erie County sheriff's deputies arrested eight people overnight on drunken driving charges, bringing the department's total to 188 this year, authorities said.
The most serious arrests involved:
Mark T. Jones, of Buffalo, who was taken into custody about 7:30 p.m. Friday, after deputies responded to a call reporting a vehicle traveling recklessly on Main Road in Akron, according to deputies.
He was charged with felony DWI because of a prior conviction and refused to submit to a sobriety test, officials said.
Jones and a passenger, Nicholas J. Church, 27, of Rocky Point, were also charged with possession of heroin and marijuana, deputies said.
At about 1 a.m. Saturday, deputies investigated a two-car crash at Route 219 and Route 39 in Springville, and arrested Carla A. Infantino, 30, of Niagara Falls, on charges of DWI and failure to yield at a stop sign. A breath test showed Infantino's blood alcohol level was 0.12, authorities said.
The occupant of the other vehicle involved in the Springville crash did not appear to have life-threatening injuries and was taken to Bertrand Chaffee Hospital, according to deputies.
Also at about 1 a.m., Philip D. Burke, 26, of Buffalo, was arrested in Alden after he was stopped for driving through a stoplight on Broadway, police said. He was charged with felony aggravated unlicensed operation and with felony DWI because of a previous DWI conviction, deputies said. Burke refused to submit to a breath test, according to officials.
At about 2:30 a.m., deputies arrested Kirk J. Zinermon, 44, of Tonawanda, and charged him with DWI, trespassing, unlicensed operation, failure to yield to an emergency vehicle and failure to take a breath-screening test after he was stopped in Ellicott Creek Park in Tonawanda after hours, officials said.
Other arrests were made in Marilla and Clarence, including one involving an 18-year-old driver.
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A vessel made of earnest ceramic, easy to break. you can glue it back together innumerable times, but each time it's weaker than before.
Has someone stolen your heart? Sucker!
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The final element needed to summon Captain Planet!
By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!
And with the last word, he is indeed summoned!
By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!
And with the last word, he is indeed summoned!
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To love.
Origin: Use of a stylized heart symbol in place of the word "love" in writing.
Origin: Use of a stylized heart symbol in place of the word "love" in writing.
"omg! i heart that show!"
by Ian Maxwell November 03, 2002
The organ in your body that pumps blood to the lungs in the right ventricle and blood comes in from your left ventricle, there are 4 chambers in your body. These are the Left and Right Ventricles, and the Left and Right Atriums.
The heart is an organ that works with the lungs to keep you alive. So don't fucking smoke or eat high cholestrol foods you fags!
by Dr. Ivonna Phuc Allot May 27, 2004
A hard rock group from Seattle, that featured Ann Wilson on lead vocals, and Nancy Wilson on guitar.
Heart is a great band.
by Anonymous July 31, 2003
Verb. More than "to like" but not necessarily "to love." It could potentially be love, but it does not have to be. This word comes from when people write I (then the shape of a heart) Shannon, or some other name. People would always pronounce the "heart" when it was supposed to mean "love." This would always get annoying, so instead of blocking it out and telling people they are retarded and need to be shanked, it became embraced as its own definition.
I heart Shannon Marie.
by Troy Leland Shields September 23, 2004
The familiar double-lobed heart symbol seen on Valentine's Day cards and candy was inspired by the shape of human female buttocks as seen from the rear. The twin lobes of the stylized version correspond roughly to the paired auricles and ventricles (chambers) of the anatomical heart, is never bright red in color and its shape does not have the invagination at the top nor the sharp point at the base. The ancient Greeks and Romans originated the link between human female anatomy and the heart shape. The Greeks associated beauty with the curves of the human female behind. The Greek goddess of beauty, Aphrodite, was beautiful all over, but was unique in that her buttocks were especially beautiful. Her shapely rounded hemispheres were so appreciated by the Greeks that they built a special temple Aphrodite Kallipygos, which literally meant, 'Goddess with the Beautiful Buttocks.' This was probably the only religious building in the world that was dedicated to buttock worship. It was possible that the heart symbol represented both male and female glutes (the group that includes the three large muscles of each buttock that control thigh movement) but the Valentine's heart more closely fits the rounded female anatomy rather than the angular, compact and slimmer male butt. Valentine's Day-type heart symbols first became popular in 15th century Europe as a suit designation on playing cards. It is possible that the Renaissance fondness for classical literature and history brought forth the Greek interest in the female buttocks shape, which also mirrors the basic outline of female breasts.
dude: Nice heart :)
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by Veigrn February 15, 2006
the thing that you give to a boy who you think deserves it and he rips it from your chest and repeatedly stomps it into the ground causing you as much pain as he possibly can and ruining you for other men
girl: i love you soo much
boy: well then lets get on with it
~6 months later~
boy: i never promised you anything
girl: ill never trust another guy again!
boy: well then lets get on with it
~6 months later~
boy: i never promised you anything
girl: ill never trust another guy again!
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A Hamburg man was charged with driving while intoxicated during the multi-agency STOP DWI patrol on Southwestern Boulevard at Webster Road in Orchard Park late Sunday afternoon.
Timothy J. Cushman, 54, was stopped initially for failing to use his turn signal, said police. He posted a blood-alcohol level of 0.11 percent, they added.
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1. After a night out in town you go to bed with a stunner and wake up next to a cum guzzling gutter slut with greasy hair and some white shit in the sides of her mouth?? cringe.. you've just been werepigged.
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Not many people can look back and say they really enjoyed fifth-grade science, but a teacher at Midland Elementary School in Elkins is spicing up her students' experience by incorporating lots of hands-on learning to help make science a stimulating experience.
Susan LaMora has been teaching in the Randolph County school system for more than 17 years, and one of her most popular projects deals with raising and studying monarch butterflies.
"I have been a member of the Monarch Association for years, and I thought this would be a great way to help my students learn some science concepts," LaMora said. "The kids really enjoy the project, and learn while having fun."
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Students in Susan LaMora's fifth-grade science class at Midland Elementary School receive monarch butterflies for release. The entire school gathered on the playground Sept. 26 to bid the butterflies goodbye for their 2,500-mile migration.
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Full-grown monarch butterflies eat apples on a desk. The butterflies are a project that spans from eggs to full-grown butterflies as a project in LaMora's science class.
In a recent interview, the students were excited to share information they learned about the monarch butterflies.
"The caterpillars are eating machines," said Midland student Bobby Henline. "They can eat 2,700 times their body weight."
Besides working directly with the delightful butterflies, LaMora has the children learn butterfly songs, do butterfly worksheets and learn all they can.
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The following facts are about monarch butterflies, as told by the students in Midland fifth-grade science class:
Monarch butterflies have compound eyes and they can see what is coming and going.
Caterpillars only have six legs, the rest are prolegs and not real. All legs are on their thorax.
Caterpillars have six eyes and breathing holes on their abdomen.
Caterpillars tie their chrysalis up with silk that is so strong, they stay attached during rain and wind storms.
When they are a caterpillar, they eat only milkweed and only eat pollen as a butterfly.
Monarch butterflies are the only butterflies that migrate.
Other animals will not eat monarch butterflies because the milkweed is poisonous.
"One activity the children love is learning about how butterflies taste food with their feet," LaMora said. "The kids love to go home and ask their parents if they can eat dinner like a butterfly."
She said each year, the youngsters cannot wait to begin the butterfly project.
"The students gather caterpillars, eggs and milkweed at the beginning of school," LaMora said. "We learn all about them while they grow from eggs, until we release the tagged butterflies in October."
LaMora said most students find caterpillars, and in a week and a half, the students collected 146 caterpillars this year.
LaMora's classroom is filled with eggs, milkweed and caterpillars for the first two weeks. Then, the caterpillars make a chrysalis. After two weeks in a chrysalis, they emerge as butterflies.
Once the butterflies are all hatched out, the group tags the butterflies for release. The tags have information so recovered butterflies can be monitored on their progress of migration. Butterflies migrate to Mexico to avoid cold weather and to have the plants they need to eat.
This year, the class butterflies were released Sept. 26. All the school students gathered on the playground and each of LaMora's science students had one or two butterflies to release.
The students with butterflies made a circle, and when LaMora counted to three, the butterflies were released. The air suddenly was full of beautiful black and orange flapping wings as the graceful winged creatures followed their instincts and headed to Mexico.
"It is such a beautiful sight to see everyone looking up as the sky fills with butterflies," LaMora said, adding that the project isn't over. "We will track their migration as a follow-up to this wonderful project, where students learn weather and map skills."


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quote: Also, 10% sales increase would be disastrous. That's even worse then the 2012 results and would signal ever more weakening sales and growth.The only escape hatches in sight are an iWatch in world which has steadily abandoned watches in favour of mobile phones, and a cheaper iPhone unit which will cannibalize higher margin sales but let them jack into a broader market for growth.
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The trail that blondes use to find a mans penis
Blonde: But Jim, where is your penis?
Guy: See this hair? It is my happy trail and it leads you to it..
Blonde: Oh, OKAY!!
Guy: See this hair? It is my happy trail and it leads you to it..
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A line of hair from the navel to the pubic region. Most say it's only attractive on men, but these people are closed minded. When it's on a woman, it's not as dark as on a man, it's just visible.
I have a happy trail, I'm a girl, and I've been told by EVERYONE who has ever seen my stomach that it's actually quite sexy.
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1.A trail of pubic hair that starts (usually) from the belly button.
2. A trail that leads to a happy place.
2. A trail that leads to a happy place.
i followed his happy trail to the magical forest.
โดย Ahkay 05 สิงหาคม 2011
The trail of hair leading from your navel to your genitals.
I found a gray hair last night on my Happytrail
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The line of pubic hair leading from just over the belly button to the genitile area. Often on the male gender.
"Whoa, dude, did you see that girls happy trails?!" "Yeah dude, that's gross,"
The hot model fingered the guys happy trails to get him horny.
The hot model fingered the guys happy trails to get him horny.
โดย Keith101010 27 มกราคม 2006
A line of pubic hair that often starts above your belly button in the middle of your stomach and trails straight down to your pubic area and vagina (pussy). How else is a blind man gonna get there?
Blind man: "Show me where your happy trail is so I can get to that Honey Hole of yours!"
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The streak of hair (usually in men ages 16 and up) that leads from your belly button to your genitals.
I shaved my happy trail yesterday!
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We're now in Week 3 of the Brett Favre mess, but there are still plenty of developments to keep you informed of. Is Jenn Sterger going to cooperate with the NFL and tell them what she knows? What about Deanna Favre, Brett's wife, making the rounds on television this week? No. 4 spoke with a league official about his involvement in possibly sending lewd messages to Sterger, and it just so happens to coincide with his return to Lambeau Field Sunday night to take on his former team.
UFC 121 will be at the forefront later tonight, and you can even watch it as it happens this week!
Brock Lesnar will square off against Cain Velasquez in the main event in Anaheim, California.
And Erin Andrews is back in the news instead of reporting it, and for all of the wrong reasons. Seems the infamous peephole video that was taken of her has gone viral again and is creating quite a stir.
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
Psychologists have long delved into people's memories trying to identify early events that influenced later behavior or choices.
I clearly remember attending a birthday party when I was four years old. Several games were played and when I won one, the prize was a pocket-sized book about trees. All of the pictures were in full color and I spent hours turning the pages, amazed to see flowering trees. My favorite was one with big white flowers that I now realize was a Southern Magnolia.
Although there are Magnolias in Virginia where I grew up, I never encountered one in bloom until I moved to Georgia in my early 20s. There the tree that had captured my childish imagination captivated my adult heart. With its large, creamy white and fragrant lemon-citronella scented flowers, it is little wonder that the Magnolia has become such a beloved iconic symbol of the American South.
The Southern Magnolia, Magnolia grandiflora, also called Evergreen Magnolia or Bull Bay, has a straight trunk that can grow to more than 90 feet and a conical crown. Its native range is from North Carolina to Florida and west to Texas, although it has proven hardy as far north as Philadelphia.
Fast growing throughout most of the Southeast, it is valued as an ornamental but also as a source of hard heavy wood for furniture, cabinetry, veneer, paneling, doors, pallets and boxes. The shiny evergreen leaves with their rust-colored undersides are popular for floral arrangements, wreaths and garlands. A Magnolia's red seeds are eaten by numerous bird and mammal species.
Magnolias can be grown in sun or shade, adapt well to a variety of soils and have few problems with insect pests. They are excellent lawn trees, and their habit of shedding old leaves each spring and seed pods in late summer provides litter that serves as automatic mulch.
One of the first things I did when I came to Cedarleaf in 1982 was plant a Southern Magnolia near the front of the house. It is now about 20 feet tall and in full blooming glory. I look at it, inhale its perfume and think about the little girl with a book about trees.
I cannot help but wonder if that book was the beginning of what would become my life as a tree farmer.
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a alternative pronoun to the word "pussy". Hot delicious pussy that give a scent as strong as a wonton meal from a Chinese restaurant.
"Hop up in my car, then I drop my roof, smell like wonton soup, thats just how I do, then I park my car, then I fuck yo bitch, eat that wonton soup, smell like wonton soup...."
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When a female from the Chinese persuasion gags herself to vomit in a bowl, then finishes the process by eating the bowl of vomit.
I really love it when my girlfriend won ton soups and i videotape it for educational purposes.
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A few of the largest companies in North Charleston, in particular the Boeing Co., would pay sharply lower business license fees under a plan City Council is poised to adopt.
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North Charleston's proposed business license fee changes would cut in half the tax owed on gross income above $250 million. The tax on lower amounts of income would not change.
Also, the tax on income above $7.5 billion would be reduced by 99 percent. That's an amount of income the Boeing Co. could achieve based upon aircraft production goals in North Charleston. Currently, no business in the city reports that much annual income.
The move to severely reduce the tax paid by just four companies comes weeks after North Charleston adopted a new budget that raised the city's property tax rate.
Under the proposed business license fee change, which City Council has tentatively approved, the tax on annual gross business income above $250 million would be cut in half.
The tax on gross income above $7.5 billion would drop by 99 percent.
City officials initially refused to name the four companies large enough to enjoy the tax reductions, or confirm that only Boeing would likely qualify for the larger tax break.
"We've never had anybody reach that ($7.5 billion) limit," said Warren Newton, the city's director of administration and finance.
"I'm not at liberty to discuss anyone's gross income," he said. "Of course, you can do the math yourself and see what the average plane retails for."
The list price for Boeing's 787-8 Dreamliner, assembled in North Charleston, is $206.8 million. The company has said it plans to produce three of the passenger jets each month, which works out to just about $7.5 billion in potential annual sales.
City spokesman Ryan Johnson later identified the four companies that would receive a tax break, after The Post and Courier and the S.C. Press Association insisted the names were public information.
They are, in alphabetical order, Daimler Vans Manufacturing, Select Health of South Carolina, Boeing and Trident Regional Medical Center.
Boeing spokeswoman Candy Eslinger said the company had discussed the business license fee with the city. Both Eslinger and Newton described the rate cut as an incentive that will encourage large businesses to grow.
"This is an important issue for large businesses in North Charleston, and we have had discussions with the city regarding business license fees and the long-term impact to both the city and to Boeing," Eslinger said. "Even with the graduated rate, Boeing will continue to be one of the highest payers of business license fees in North Charleston, paying upwards of $1 million at full production, in future years as the graduated rate takes effect."
But if Boeing would eventually pay $1 million yearly under the new rates, that also means the rate cuts will save the company at least that much money.
The license fee reduction would join a long list of local and state incentives worth in excess of a billion dollars that were used to lure the aerospace giant to South Carolina and expand once here.
The business license fee is among the more complicated taxes. Businesses pay different rates based on the category of business they are in, and then pay different percentages of those rates on different amounts of their gross income.
For example, a manufacturer such as Boeing would, under current rules, pay a fee of $1.90 for each $1,000 in gross income — but would only pay 10 percent of that amount on income above $250 million. Companies pay between 60 and 100 percent of the tax on income under $250 million.
The proposed fee cut would allow companies to pay just 5 percent of the tax owed, on gross income above $250 million, and just one-tenth of 1 percent on income over $7.5 billion.
Newton said the changes would have cost the city treasury "less than $150,000" had they been in place during the past year.
The big impact will be seen as Boeing ramps up to full production.
For example, if a manufacturer had gross income above $250 million, under the new rates they would save $95,000 in business license fees on every $1 billion in revenue. On revenue above $7.5 billion, a company would pay a business license fee of just $1,900 per billion.
Eslinger said the fees Boeing will pay will more than cover the public services received.
"Boeing has its own fire department; we are a zero waste to landfill site; and our site is covered under the CCAA (Charleston County Airport Authority) police services," she said.
A final vote of City Council is required for approval of the plan. The initial vote for the fee reductions, on June 27, was unanimous, but Finance Committee Chairman Bobby Jameson said he's not sure that he or other members of council understood the details.
"If we did that — raising taxes on the people and then lowering them for the four largest companies — well that's as wrong as a football bat," he said.
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5 Important Childhood Archetypes the Movies Overlooked
#5. The Alien
It's not the Alien's fault that they don't understand our Hu-Man customs: They probably had hippy, new-ager, do-what-you-feel kind of parents. Maybe he was a home school kid that you always saw plunking quarters into a Street Fighter machine at the 7-11, but never saw in class. Maybe she was the girl next door that would occasionally dance naked in the yard while you were stuck waiting for the bus. The Alien's house always smelled like something you'd never experienced before, something bizarre and unique that you could never quite place, (PROTIP: It was weed) and everything else in their home life would mirror that same foreignness as well. The first hour at the Alien's house was great: It was pure anarchic fantasy, like the first hour of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Unfortunately, the second hour was also like Willy Wonka -- the part where shit abruptly gets real and psychologically scarring.
I'm still terrified of both water and purple. Oddly cool with Gene Wilder, though.
I once had a friend we'll call Nick (to protect his identity...although it's likely he's waging war with the internet right now from a hollowed out tree in the Redwood Forest, so it's probably a moot point anyway). Nick seemed completely normal at first, and indeed, we got along brilliantly. Our priorities were totally in sync: We would empty out milk jugs, fill them back up with water, string them up from the rafters of my back porch, wrap our hands and feet in ace bandages, and pretend to be Bloodsport. Not pretend to be kickboxers, or deathmatch contestants, or even any specific character (they were all muddled Frankenstein's monsters comprised of equal parts Van Damme, tubby biker, and that guy with epileptic pectoral muscles to us); no, we each pretended to be the entire movie of Bloodsport - just whichever part kicked the most ass in our minds.
You all know who I meant.
Story wasn't exactly our strong suit, all right? The important part was round-housing something until it exploded, and also getting hurt a little in the process -- because if it's painful, we reasoned, then it's no longer "playing." In other words: Totally normal, prepubescent boy stuff.
But all that was at my house, until one day Nick invited me over to his. When I arrived, I found his home entirely empty save for a futon on the living room floor. His mom thought furniture oppressive, I suppose, or maybe she just smoked all of the chair money. Most remarkable to me, however, was seeing that blank expanse of wall where the TV should have been. That's the Alien's chief identifying trait: No matter what form they may take, no matter their beliefs or ethnicity, their family never, ever owns a television. To a pop-culture addled kid with a working single parent (read: Raised by re-runs of Voltron) it was like discovering that their house didn't have a roof. It was baffling, upsetting, and seemed generally unsafe somehow, in a way I could not place. The most resounding culture shock, however, came from the fact that Nick was allowed to swear - not just in general, but directly at his mom: "Mom, stop being such a fucking bitch!" was a common complaint in their home, spoken with the same tone you'd say "but that's not faaaiiiir!" to your own parents. And she didn't even karate chop him in the neck afterward, as she totally and understandably should have done! It was a whole new world!
The lesson the Alien taught us was two-fold: One, that freedom from normalcy is a beautiful thing sometimes. It's like hopping on a plane to China once a week; it really expands your worldview. But the Alien also taught us that the normal life we felt to be occasionally confining is that way for a reason: It's awesome that Nick's mom thinks shirts and bras are like straightjackets for your torso, but the magic of seeing your first real-life breasts only lasts until you see your first real-life Tofurkey-grease burn to an exposed nipple.
#4. The Devil On Your Shoulder
The Devil On Your Shoulder was the kid with the brilliant ideas that, in retrospect, always turned out to be incredibly stupid and dangerous. He's the reason every single new game you and your friends invented always ended when somebody got hurt. You never thought to build endings into the rules - nobody invents innings, or score limits, or overtime in their youthful fantasies - so a new game only ended when it got boring, or more likely, when the Devil On Your Shoulder politely reminds everybody that there's some lighter fluid in the garage and he's pretty sure that tennis balls are flammable.
"No, I hear you: You're saying the thumb tacks hurt. But I'm saying you'll barely feel the thumbtacks if we light the whole damn thing on fire."
The Devil On Your Shoulder from my childhood was named Robert, and I actually still keep in touch with the guy to this day.
He's me.
Friends would come to my house and we'd start an innocuous enough game, like hide and seek. One or two rounds would pass, at most, before my jaded, over-stimulated child-brain needed to up the ante. Now it was hide and seek, but also freeze tag. Then it was team hide and seek. Then the boundaries expanded and expanded, eventually disappearing entirely. Three hours later and we're playing something called "night fighting" which, stunningly, is exactly what it sounds like: Night-time hide and seek where you fought everybody after you found them. That game inexplicably lasted an entire summer, and by the end, every player had jury-rigged up A-Team-esque specialty weapons. Nick built a nightstick out of PVC pipe and filled it with sand. Sean wrapped an aluminum bat in Nerf foam. Mickey had one of those flexible cable bike locks, with a padlock snapped onto each end. He called them bike-chucks. I had a golf club with the head broken off; I'd sharpened the remaining metal shaft on the pavement. It wasn't the most damaging weapon, (that was Mickey's bike-chucks, of course) but the psychological factor was not to be discounted. Once discovered, I would charge at my opponents, screaming and dragging the steel tip on the asphalt, sparks hurling up behind me into the night. It didn't matter that I'd only leave a nasty welt if my blow connected, but Mickey would knock my teeth out if his landed; for a minute there, I was half Back to the Future and half Highlander. Looking badass adds like 10 damage points to any move. Everybody knows that.
Like this, in my head. Like a chubby 11 year old in Bermuda shorts holding half a golf club, in reality.
Somehow, not a single neighbor called the cops that summer to report the epic child-war being waged every night in their backyards, beneath their decks, and on one occasion, inside of their empty pool. It went on way longer than it should have, and we all earned way more than our expected allotment of scars.
And that's why you need the Devil On Your Shoulder: To teach you the value of boundaries as a child. See, anarchy sounds like a damn fine time to a kid. Who needs these god damn rules, man? Parents telling you what to do, adults ordering you around, teachers giving you homework - screw that! We want to be free! We can rule ourselves! And the first rule is, there are no rules! But after a few days of this beautiful utopia, when every single kid on the block is sporting an eye-patch, you learn to just quietly shut your curtains when the Devil On Your Shoulder stops by at 2AM to whisper "the fights have begun" into your open window.
#3. The Enemy
Every group has one friend that seems to belong more with the Enemy: The sporty kids always had one smaller, scrawny dude in an Atari shirt who was constantly losing the hackeysack on the roof. In every gaggle of asthmatic nerds there was one kid who had to duck out of DnD in the middle of a Beholder battle to make soccer practice. Sean was the Enemy in my childhood clique, and, obviously, he was the athletic exception to our nerd rule. Sean absolutely shared our priorities: He loved Micro Machines and Transformers, and had the one single subscription to Nintendo Power that we all circulated. He wanted to belong with us geeks, and for the most part he did, but unfortunately, God cursed him with a working human body and the urge to use it.
You poor damned, accursed soul.
He would try to hang back with us during the weekly mile, after we'd all valiantly sprinted the first lap, and then lapsed into a haggardly crawling walk for the remaining three. He'd slow his pace with ours, but it wasn't natural to him. You could see it in his eyes: Athletics called to him like the Wild calls to a captive wolf. He would reluctantly shuffle along, but was always urging us to speed our pace. When that failed, he would start jogging in short bursts, then stand and wait for us to catch up. Eventually he was circling us, running ahead and running back. Finally his body simply couldn't take the passivity anymore, and Sean would inevitably disappear, legs pumping furiously, blonde bowl-cut gleaming like the sun itself, trying to make up the time he'd spent stuck with the nerds. Eventually, he would disappear from our lives entirely in much the same fashion, metaphorically making up lost distance in the great mile that is life.
The Enemy is there to teach us that the other side isn't necessarily the villains we make them out to be. There are nerds that love football, and jocks with Level 20 Paladins out there, and even if those differences pull us apart eventually, it's only our stubborn, insecure, self-set borders that turn them into animosity.


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The Sertoma Football Classic wasn't kind to a pair of area teams, but was favorable to another in the two-day event this past Thursday and Friday.
Regardless of the final scores, the classic is about raising money for local charities in an event symbolic of the start of high school football season. It's also a chance for participating teams to make late preseason adjustments before the games count.
Fans can't rely on Sertoma scores as an indicator for their favorite team's regular season outcome. First example: Wando was shut out in its Sertoma matchup and then blew by James Island two days later in its season opener.
Last season, Wando lost four fumbles. During two quarters against 3A power Hanahan on Thursday, the Warriors coughed up three fumbles in the 24-0 loss.
"Right now, what I saw is the same thing everybody else saw: we're poor fundamentally," coach Jimmy Noonan said.
Wando's first series totaled 41 yards off 10 plays – eight rushing, two passing – but was abbreviated by a fumble. Its next possession had the same result, but it occurred on the first play.
"Turnovers, by far," Noonan said when asked what was the most troubling aspect. "I hope it catches our attention."
Most of Wando's starters only played the first two series of the scrimmage, and Noonan had previously said the final score was never the main concern with the Warriors' regular season opener two days later.
"Yeah, but you want a better showing," he said. "Any time you come out to compete, you want a better showing. I don't care whether it's your first team or your fourth team."
Wando (1-0) travels to Beaufort on Friday.
Palmetto Christian
A number of teams showcased over the two-day Sertoma Football Classic hadn't hit their stride.
Not so for Palmetto Christian, which may have already hit its stride after achieving the program's biggest win a few days prior at Porter-Gaud in the Eagles' regular season opener. Palmetto Christian defeated Garrett in Friday's first quarter, 14-8.
J.T. Waters threw two touchdown passes. The first went to junior wide receiver Ben German and the second came after a lengthy scramble before he found fellow senior Andrew Johnstone sprinting down the sideline for a 65-yard score.
Coach Jim Daniel said his team's performance against Porter-Gaud makes the rest of the season more difficult. "We're not going to sneak up on anybody now. Really in the five-year history, it's really been 'who's PCA?'" Daniel said. "I think they're (opponents) are starting to take us seriously now."
While Waters draws the most attention on the team with consistently gaudy offensive statistics, Johnstone was impressive in the Sertoma quarter. In addition to his touchdown, he provided a series-ending tackle on a Garrett fourth down to seal the Eagles victory.
"Every year, we have a senior that comes out of nowhere, and that's that kid this year," Daniel said of Johnstone. "He's running sprints down field catching the football, and he's got to come back down and play defense."
Palmetto Christian (1-0) plays Williamsburg Academy on Friday.
Bishop England
The Bishop England football team lost last season's Sertoma matchup to 4A Stratford but found out who its starting quarterback would be in the process. The Battling Bishops went on to win their second consecutive 2A state championship.
This season, Bishop England lost to 4A Summerville, 17-0, this past Friday. Coach John Cantey wasn't ready to give the starting quarterback job – a competition between seniors Jack Wilson and Reed Fosberry – without first reviewing tape of the scrimmage. Cantey hopes the state-title remainder of that equation holds up this year.
Nick Shiver proved his offensive value with a 52-yard run. The Bishops were playing in a touchdown-or-nothing offense because usual kicker Matthew Mellin was hurt. Lineman Chandler Sambets assumed punting duties, while Bishop England did not attempt a field goal on two occasions where the distance was manageable for a starting kicker.
"Him (Sambets) and Hudson (Little) are our best kickers after that," Cantey said. "I really didn't even look at what the yardage was, because I knew we didn't have anybody to do it."
More than Xs and Os, Cantey was most displeased with conditioning. "We look like we were playing tired, and that really bugs me," he said. "It looks like we're not in great shape, and we should be in great shape by now."
Bishop England travels to West Ashley on Friday for its regular season opener.
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Highest-Scoring, Most Competitive Kickoff Weekend Ever [3:20 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: The NFL kicked off its 83rd season this past week, and any way you slice it, it was exciting, unpredictable and just plain wild. The New York Times said, �Never in the 83-year history of the league had there been a Week 1 like this.�
Game Ball of the Week [2:19 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: Throughout the 2002 season, the Bills and Tops will present the Game Ball of the Week to the Bills player chosen by you, the fans, as that week's MVP. This week's winner is Travis Henry.
Despite return woes, Bills showed improvement [1:09 PM]
Olean Times Herald reports: 'The understandable focus on special teams obscured the fact Buffalo did a number of good things against New York.'
The D-line passes first test [9:13 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'The Bills weren't pointing fingers Monday toward their special teams as the source of their defeat, perhaps because it was obvious.'
Bills learn how to share the blame [9:12 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Moulds' message was simple and forceful: The special teams did not lose this football game, guys. Remember, we win as a team and we lose as a team. So once those doors open, make sure there's no finger-pointing. But people pointed fingers, anyway - at themselves.'
Bad tackling blamed for kick returns [9:11 AM]
Buffalo News reports: '"We had guys that were unblocked that missed tackles," Williams said Monday. "There's the thing. Defensive guys and offensive guys are on those units. We just can't have missed tackles."'
Safety makes costly errors [8:13 AM]
Atlanta Journal Constitution reports: 'Falcons officials plan to work out safeties Jason Perry and Travares Tillman on Tuesday. Tillman, a former Toombs County High and Georgia Tech star, was drafted in the second round by the Bills in 2000, when Phillips was Buffalo's head coach. The Bills cut him last weekend.'
Bills replay [5:23 AM]
D and C reports: 'Cutting Sheldon Jackson and linebacker Fred Jones, two of the club's best special teams players, just five days before the opener doesn't seem so shrewd a move right now by GM Tom Donahoe and coach Gregg Williams. Jones had 24 special teams tackles last year.'
Bills rush to the positives [5:22 AM]
D and C reports: '"There's so many good spots, bright spots, that came out of that ball game," coach Gregg Williams said. "We overcame so many things, but we weren't able to overcome the last one. Yeah, it's disappointing, but there were some tremendous efforts on top of that."'
Billstuff: Football returns in spectacular fashion [5:21 AM]
Niagara Falls Reporter reports: 'Buffalo's defense, universally acknowledged as the team's glaring weakness (at least until Sunday) limited the Jets to 266 yards. The Bills surrendered 300 on kick returns.'
In the end, Jets do 'right' thing [5:20 AM]
New York Daily News reports: 'The call was "Wedge Right." The Jets might want to rename it "Everything Right," because for the final 14 seconds of their season-opening win Sunday over the Bills, everything went perfectly. The play went from Mike Westhoff's mind to a page in the playbook to the field at Ralph Wilson Stadium, unfolding ... well, just right.'
Not great, but... [5:19 AM]
New York Post reports: 'SPECIAL TEAMS - A-: Chad Morton was the star of the game with his incredible two KO returns for TDs. Jerald Sowell led the team in kick-coverage tackles with five. Jason Glenn blocked a punt. There were too many penalties, though.'
Bledsoe's Bills act scores big in Boston [5:18 AM]
Boston Herald reports: 'Bledsoe impressed both head coaches. The Bills' Gregg Williams said: "He was calm under pressure, which is impressive to his teammates. It was great to see Drew make some big plays, and he kept us in the game....We just gave up too many big plays with missed tackles."'
Fina, Roundtree add depth to offensive line [5:17 AM]
Arizona Republic reports: '"It adds good veteran depth to our offensive line," McGinnis said. "We've had our eyes on these guys for a while. Roundtree can play two positions, and Fina is a consummate pro who played 10 years at a high level in this league. He can be a third tackle right now, and as he gets acclimated, who knows?"'
Cards sign veteran OLs Fina, Roundtree [7:47 PM]
Sportsticker reports: 'Financial terms were not disclosed for Fina, who signed a one-year deal after spending his first 10 years with the Buffalo Bills. He was released in June in a salary cap move.'
Cardinals Add Depth at Tackle By Signing John Fina for One Year [7:45 PM]
Bloomberg reports: 'The Tucson, Arizona, resident was the Bills' first-round draft pick in 1992 from the University of Arizona. He played on the Bills' teams that went to the Super Bowl following the 1992 and 1993 seasons.'
Bills seek bright side after latest special teams breakdown [7:38 PM]
AP reports: '"Anything after the Music City Miracle' that goes wrong with the special teams, it's like, 'Oh, here we go again.' And I can understand that," linebacker Keith Newman said on Monday. "But I think nobody on this team is feeling, 'Here we go again.' I feel it's, 'Damn, we let one slip away."''
5th Down: The Look Says It All [3:17 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: "Guys, take a look at yourself," Bledsoe told his teammates on the sidelines. "Somebody in this group is going to make a play. I don't know who it's going to be, but somebody here is going to make a play to put us in position to win this game."
Bills fall as Morton turns on the Jets [1:14 PM]
Olean Times Herald reports: 'In a performance reminiscent of the special teams meltdowns under former assistant Ronnie Jones, the Buffalo Bills doused an off-season of brimming optimism with a seasoning-opening loss for the NFL record book.'
Morton's response to Edwards' challenge makes for special day [1:13 PM]
Olean Times Herald reports: 'He had just made NFL history and won the game for his team, and all Chad Morton could think about was the play that got away.' Link no longer available
Game Highlights - Video [11:13 AM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: Watch highlights from Sunday's game.
Jets 37, Bills 31 - Game Photos [11:12 AM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: Travis Henry, Pat Williams, London Fletcher, etc...
Bills' running start derailed [9:09 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Somewhere, someone must be sticking pins in a voodoo doll that represents the Buffalo Bills' special teams.'
Smith stunned by poor play on special teams [9:08 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'In a game the Bills dominated most of the afternoon, their special teams miscues gave the Jets 16 points.'
Morton takes his opportunity and runs with it [9:08 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'The Bills' season opener and the regular-season debut of the Drew Bledsoe era was ruined by a 5-foot-8, 186-pound man who had never returned a kickoff for a touchdown as a professional. Sunday, he returned two.'
Bledsoe fills the bill for Buffalonians [9:07 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'And he does remind you of Jim Kelly, doesn't he? How could you not flash back to Jimbo when Bledsoe, 6-foot-4, 240 pounds, sent 305-pound Jason Ferguson back to Friday with a shoulder block on a Peerless Price reverse?'
Close loss proves Bills are indeed a better team [9:06 AM]
Buffalo News reports: ' If you believe the Bills are a legitimate playoff contender, you fear that losing to a divisional rival might cost them a playoff berth down the road. But if you see them as a work in progress, a young, evolving team in transition, then you had to be encouraged by what you saw Sunday.'
Moulds, Price have a ball in new offense [9:05 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Moulds finished with eight catches for 112 yards and a touchdown, while Price added seven receptions for 80 yards.'
Monday billboard [9:05 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'The already popular Drew Bledsoe made a few more friends when he threw a crushing block on Jets 305-pound defensive tackle Jason Ferguson on a reverse to wide receiver Peerless Price. The only drawback was the play lost 7 yards.'
Tailgating's grandest partyer [9:04 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'The New Orleans native lives in a recreational vehicle and drives to 45 games a year. Sunday, Cahn's 2002 Tailgating America Tour brought him to the parking lots of Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park.'
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Last October, Marty Gregoire of South Buffalo ran a local 5K road race for a 5-year-old girl from Ireland named Casey Fitzgerald. He put a photo of her on his running bib, and he collected pledges, eventually raising about 400 euros that helped pay for the young girl's surgical procedure.
Gregoire still hasn't met the girl. But they share a strong bond.
Both have cerebral palsy. Specifically, spastic diplegia.
In that same race, the 2011 Dash for Dad, Gregoire's running shirt bore the names of 83 young people who also have cerebral palsy.
He's run almost one 5K race per month since 2005, about 75 races in all, raising money – and plenty of awareness – for people with CP.
"I run because I can," he said. "When I get tired, I remember others with cerebral palsy who can't run, and I run harder for them. I know they would do the same for me."
At age 37, the youngest of 16 children, Gregoire has a cause: reaching out to kids with CP and their families, whether they live in West Seneca, Buffalo, St. Louis or the United Kingdom.
With the help of some friends and family members, Gregoire also has incorporated a not-for-profit agency called Footsteps of Western New York.
"Our goal is to help people with cerebral palsy, to pay for devices, equipment and therapy, so they gain or regain mobility," he said.
Footsteps already has raised more than $20,000, and there's no shortage of need. The Footsteps website notes that the average person with cerebral palsy spends about $921,000 over a lifetime for equipment, therapy, medical care and necessary lifestyle changes.
Gregoire, who works in social media and marketing for Orville's Appliances, has his own running group, Team OMFAA (Often Mistaken For Actual Athletes), and he usually gets the same question at the monthly starting line: "Whom are we running for today?"
Last October, the answer was Casey Fitzgerald, whose only dream has been to dance and walk independently.
"What's more innocent than a kid who wants to dance?" Gregoire asked. "Kids with CP or any other form of disability, they have big dreams, high hopes, big expectations, just like everyone else. They want to get on a school bus with their friends, walk across a campus or, to fast-forward, get down the aisle on their wedding day."
The 400 euros raised for Casey helped pay for the same surgical procedure Gregoire had in St. Louis Children's Hospital, a revolutionary spinal procedure to help relieve some of their muscle spasticity.
"I may never meet her," he said. "That's the power of it, when you can change someone's world and never expect them to repay you. Just hearing about her progress and how she's doing is payback enough."
Gregoire has become a lightning rod for families dealing with CP, both through Footsteps and after having told officials in the St. Louis hospital to refer families to him.
Sometimes families just want to talk. There also are tangible needs. Footsteps already has received applications for funds from an 8-year-old Depew boy who needs a safer walker costing $800; from a 10-year-old Cheektowaga boy who needs a $4,000 transport stroller; and from people who need $90 shoe lifts or custom orthotics or physical therapy sessions after insurance payments run out.
Gregoire has no specific goals and no way to measure how much he's accomplished.
"If we help one kid, we've done it," he said.
"If we help 1,000 kids, we've done it. And if we just develop awareness about CP and connect families with similar situations so they can lean on each other, we've done it. It's not so much a charity. It's a recognition of a need."
Gregoire knows how lucky he is, and he points to the way he was raised. Born two months premature and weighing less than 5 pounds, he was diagnosed at age 2 with CP that is considered mild by medical standards.
As a young boy, he never used the term cerebral palsy. When other kids asked why he walked funny, he said he was born that way, with one leg bigger than the other one.
Now he uses the term CP.
"It doesn't define who I am, but it's part of who I am," he said.
As the youngest of 16 children of David and Marcella Gregoire, he wasn't babied or sheltered.
Even though he physically couldn't put his left heel down, whenever he played outside, his sisters would yell at him to put it down.
"Growing up, because I wasn't coddled, I wasn't afraid to try," he said. "Good things happen when you try."
Gregoire graduated from West Seneca West High School and then the University of Evansville, where he earned a bachelor's degree in business. He's also been a college admissions officer and ran an assisted-living facility before returning to Orville's.
Now he wants to give others the same chances he's gotten.
"I just want to give people hope and a reason to believe in themselves," he said.
"The greatest thing you can give anyone is a chance. So many people have given me hope and a chance.
"It's time to pay it forward."
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