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It's been a long wait, but on Friday, Parsons will open its own skatepark.
"We want to invite everyone to help us celebrate this addition to our community," Parsons Park Board Secretary Kennetha Greenlief said. "I feel the town should be proud of this accomplishment."
The grand opening of the skatepark is slated for 6 p.m. Friday, as part of Go Skateboarding Day.
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Bobby Nestor enjoys skateboarding at the new skatepark in Parsons. The park's grand opening will be at 6 p.m. Friday.
Founded by the International Association of Skateboard Companies, Go Skateboarding Day gives passionate skateboarders the opportunity to drop everything and get on a skateboard.
"The event will feature a skating demonstration, free food, games, music and door prizes," Greenlief said. "We will also sponsor a skatepark naming contest that night.
"We want to make this a unique park," Greenlief said. "We are working on a split-rail fence to surround the park and bring it into the same theme as Corrick's Ford Park."
"This is something I have wanted since I was 16 years old," said Parsons resident Kurt Daniels. "To finally have a skatepark is great."
The skatepark features rails, funboxes and vertical ramps.


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5 Awful Side Effects of Insomnia No One Talks About
I have insomnia -- the "I haven't been able to sleep regularly in 25 years" kind. It's extremely hard to talk about, because most people attach the term to any random night that they had trouble sleeping. "Sorry, I'm kind of loopy today. I had insomnia last night." Mara Wilson can back me up when I say that as a disorder progresses, it becomes increasingly harder to not spin kick someone in the throat when they lay claim to it like some twisted badge of honor. For the 1/3 of you who have actual insomnia, maybe you can show this to your friends the next time they treat it like an annoyance rather than the hope-shredding personal hell it is.
#5. "Just Take Some Sleeping Pills!"
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What Normal People Think:
"You can't sleep? Well, there's an easy solution. Just about every store on the planet carries sleep aids -- you don't even need a prescription for them. That's what I do when I'm having a restless night, and it works just fine. Ten bucks: problem solved. You're welcome, pussy."
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"I can't believe I never thought of that! Thank you, Dr. Friend!"
But the Reality Is ...
Sleeping pills don't work. Yes, in some cases they can help, but it's a temporary fix that doesn't last long. Not only does your body eventually build up a tolerance to the medication, but coming off of it can induce even stronger insomnia. It's called the rebound effect, and it's a lot like a playground bully finding your hiding spot, grabbing your underwear, and pulling it around your neck while yelling, "You think you can hide from me?! There is no escape, bitch! I will wedgie your fucking corpse!"
Of course, you could always go the prescription route. What could be safer than medication, closely monitored by a doctor? Not taking any medication at all. According to that link, "Researchers found that people taking prescribed sleep medications were almost five times more likely to die over the 2.5-year study, compared with those who didn't take sleep medication." Given, I don't know the details of the actual deaths. For all we know, those could have been people mainlining Ambien while watching Pink Floyd the Wall.
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"It's like ... the wall wasn't just a physical wall, man. Wild."
But the point is that if you're the one handing out advice to someone who has the disorder, the chances of your "it's obvious to me" solution being 1) something they haven't already tried, or 2) something a doctor hasn't already thought of are pretty close to zero. If the solution were easy, insomnia wouldn't even be a thing. We'd all be sleeping so hard, our beds would have bruises.
#4. "It Could Be Worse. At Least It's Not Life-Threatening."
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What Normal People Think:
"You're going to have to pardon me if I don't burst into tears over your little sleep problem. I've had two back surgeries in the last year as a direct result of carrying around this enormous penis. My wife left me because she couldn't handle the constant orgasms, and every time I get a boner, I have to take emergency blood pressure medication. I've got real problems to worry about. Be happy yours only makes you tired and doesn't present an actual threat to your health."
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"I have to wear chaps now because normal pants can't contain it."
But the Reality Is ...
Even outside of the prescription medication problem I mentioned earlier, insomnia can kill your face right off. Is it likely to kill you? No. Thankfully, the fatal form of the disorder (fatal familial insomnia) is so rare, you have a better chance of Christina Hendricks flashing you multiple times in one day than having it.
The real problem comes from the effects of insomnia. Fatigue and even the medication used to treat it can cause auto accidents. It's closely related to sleep apnea, which in basic terms is your body saying "Fuck breathing!" Unchecked insomnia can turn into sleep deprivation, which carries a pretty large arsenal of ways to kick your ass, including diabetes, stroke, and heart failure.
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"Dude, he finally fell asleep. Leave him alone!"
The heart problem isn't a small one, either. Studies have found that people who don't get sufficient sleep have a 63 percent higher risk for cardiovascular disease than people who do. It makes sense: Your heart is working its ass off all day, and sleep is the only time it gets to slow down and take a break. If it doesn't ever get one, it's eventually going to throw down its time card and walk out, yelling, "Fuck this whole factory! I'll be at the bar if anyone else wants to walk out with me!"
#3. "At Least Treatment Is Awesome."
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What Normal People Think:
"So you get to do a sleep study? Man, that sounds awesome, taking a couple of days off work to do nothing but sleep. I'd give up one of my own children to do that. And then at the end, they hand you a bottle of kickass drugs that knock you on your ass? Jesus, what are you complaining about? They couldn't make that any more awesome without filling the room with hookers and free money."
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But the Reality Is ...
A sleep study means you're lying in bed, still not sleeping. Especially since you know you're being monitored (if you're in a lab setting). Most of the time, though, a sleep study is nothing more than going about your daily routine and keeping a "sleep diary," which sounds like it was made up by a 14-year-old girl.
And those kickass drugs? Those are kind of a last resort or emergency effort. Most of the time, insomnia is treated with cognitive-behavioral therapy, which can involve denying you sleep. That's right, the treatment for insomnia is more insomnia. That sounds insane, but it makes sense when you understand the ridiculous cycle that the disorder puts a person in. You may sleep for two hours, and then wake up at 2 a.m. as if you're totally fine. You go about your day until mid-morning, when you find it catching up to you, and now you're as tired at 9 a.m. as most people are at midnight. If you have a normal job, you're just fucked. If you don't have one or you work from home, you can get a nap. Since you can't do that all day, you set your alarm for two hours and lie down. Four hours after that, you're dead tired again. You give in to it because you know you're not going to be able to fall asleep at a normal human time, so you take it when you can get it. Kind of like sex for a single person, only with sleep.
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"I've got a king-size bed at home. I'll be back after I go use that for a few hours."
Your body gets used to sleeping in little bursts, and retraining it to not be a sporadic asshole is next to impossible without help. Meanwhile, anyone who knows about your nap schedule is looking at you like you're the laziest piece of shit in the world, and there is no way to make them understand what's actually going on. So instead, all you can do is shout, "Get off my back, Mom! I am an adult! You never loved me!"


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The act of stretching one's scrotal skin and bouncing the penis repeatedly on it for a large audience, preferably unsuspecting churchgoers...or an elementary school.
The sermon was interrupted when a man stood and entertained the congregation for hours with his mouse on a trampoline.
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Wow, what a class act; he really screwed over the Devils here. He cost them millions of dollars in fines, a first-round pick, and the chance to re-sign Parise, and now he jets almost a week after free agency began.
Kovalchuk cost them millions in fines and a 1st round pick? Lamoriello and the owner, who structured the backdiving deal, had no part in it?
Here's his statement on the Devils website (emphasis mine). Sounds like he's going back for family.
"This decision was something I have thought about for a long time going back to the lockout and spending the year in Russia. Though I decided to return this past season, Lou was aware of my desire to go back home and have my family there with me. The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me."
Lou's statement:
After many conversations with Ilya over the past year on his desire to retire from the National Hockey League, Ilya's decision became official today. On behalf of the entire organization, I wish Ilya and his family all the best in their future endeavors.


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That movie was so fantastic!
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Rose...Before I go, I just wanna tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And d'you know what? So was I.
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Usually stands for an event which involves "battle of the classes". Taken place during high school events. battle between classes of the freshmen, sophomore, junior, and seniors. Each class devises about a 20 minute skit which tie together with an overall theme. schoos judges evaluate each skit and determine the winner, winning spirit points for that class. What makes fantastics unique is that students from each class have to gather classmates, write a skit, choreograph dances, make costumes... etc basically devise a mini show.
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This mr.facchin is fantastic and has a fantastic graph
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An adjective used by a co-worker constantly because he is unable to use his tiny brain to think of another word.
Dumbass: The position is with company A or company B; is this something you can see yourself doing?
Person A: Yes it is
Dumbass: Fantastic! You will be a fantastic person to work for this fantastic company
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To exist only in dreams; in a fantasy;
unreal; nonexisting.
unreal; nonexisting.
Person 1: OMGZ U R SUCHA GAI EMO FGT
Person 2: You have a fantastic sense of creativity.
Person 2: You have a fantastic sense of creativity.
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Often said with emphasis on the 'faan' part...as heard in 'Features For Print..'
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Hierarchy and Heterogeneity: How to Read a Statute in a Lower Court
Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl
William & Mary Law School
April 2, 2012
Cornell Law Review, vol. 97, p. 433, 2012
University of Houston Law Center Paper No. 1925396
Is statutory interpretation an activity that all courts should perform the same way? Courts and commentators implicitly so conclude. I believe that conclusion is wrong. Statutory interpretation is a court-specific activity that should differ according to the institutional circumstances of the interpreting court. The U.S. Supreme Court is not the model all other courts should emulate.
I identify three kinds of institutional differences between courts that bear on which interpretive methods are appropriate: (1) the court's place in the hierarchical structure of appellate review, (2) the court's technical capacity and resources, and (3) the court's democratic pedigree, particularly as reflected in methods of judicial selection. Attending to these institutional factors would yield insights for both judicial practice and academic theory. In terms of prescriptions for courts, the differences justify a heterogeneous regime in which courts at different levels of the judicial hierarchy use somewhat different interpretive methods. But even apart from my specific recommendations, the larger point is that scholars need a normative account of what lower-court statutory interpretation should look like. Such a normative framework would help us evaluate the lower courts' output (which is becoming the subject of an important and growing body of descriptive work) and determine which of the Supreme Court's practices should – and should not – be followed in the lower courts.
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Vintage heirloom necklace and bracelet.
A present on our ten year wedding anniversary today.
This day a beautiful gift was born to my dear friend Donya (Crooked Eyebrow). Welcome her to the world!
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Happy Anniversary :)
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Happy Anniversary! My daughter shares your anniversary. Your jewelry is beautiful. Hope you did something fun tonight.ReplyDelete
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Absolutely stunning.. and happy anniversary Steph!ReplyDelete
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Congrats! It's my partner's grandparents 50th tomorrow!!ReplyDelete
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I am jealous.
That is ridiculously amazing jewelry.
You deserve it and I know you look lovely in it:)
Do you feel like Marie Antoinette?
Um, GORGEOUS! I love that your wedding pics (I think) are in the background of the pic. :). Happy anniversary (it's our 5 year too)! :)ReplyDelete
It is stunning. Happy 10th! I felt honored to babysit while you went out to celebrate. Love, momReplyDelete
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Love the vintage. LOVE.
Beautiful on you, I'm so sure.
Very Pretty!
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Congrats! We are celebrating 10 this year as well.ReplyDelete
Beautiful necklace!
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Stephanie, that is beautiful! Yesterday was seriously a great day.ReplyDelete
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Beautiful! I love vintage jewelry and wore it at my wedding....
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That is stunning.
And you simply glow.
Happy anniversary. This is the good stuff.
happy anniversary! ten is a big one! My hubby and I celebrated our 5th anniversary on the 9th.
I thought of you, actually, as we were trying to figure out how we would celebrate our anniversary. (does that sound creepy? I hope not! :) )We have a five month old, our first, and he does not take a bottle. It was tricky going out for a date and working around his nursing schedule. I was about to feel discouraged with myself for not getting him to take a bottle, for needing me, but then I remembered the commitment that you have to nursing. I think I remembered that you have said that your little ones don't take bottles, either. So I felt good about my little nursing baby boy, and we just went to dinner at 9, after he was in bed.
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To support high-performance, cost-effective project outcomes through an early analysis of the interrelationships among systems.
Site Selection and Energy-Related Systems (1 point)
Starting in predesign and continuing throughout the design phases, identify and use opportunities to achieve synergies across disciplines and building systems. Use the analyses described below to inform the owner's project requirements (OPR), basis of design (BOD), design documents, and construction documents. Conduct analyses in site selection and energy-related systems (1 point).
Site Selection
Before site selection, analyze project goals to identify and select the building site that will provide the most opportunities and fewest barriers for the tenant improvement project. Assess at least two potential locations or base building options, taking into consideration at least the following:
- Building site attributes. Assess the base building's location and site design characteristics.
- Transportation. Assess the tenant occupants' transportation needs for commuting to and from the site, including convenient access to alternative transportation that meets occupants' needs.
- Building features. Assess the base building's envelope, mechanical and electrical systems that will affect tenant space (e.g., controls, HVAC, plumbing fixtures, renewable energy supply), adaptability to future needs, and resilience in the event of disaster or infrastructure failure.
- Occupants' well-being. Assess the base building's ability to provide daylight and views, indoor air quality, and other indoor environmental quality characteristics.
Document how the above analysis informed selection of a building site for the project's tenant improvement and informed the OPR and BOD and site selection for the interior design project, including the following, as applicable:
- suitability of the base building for meeting project goals relative to the building's site attributes;
- suitability of the base building site location for meeting daily occupants' commuting needs;
- suitability of the base building's mechanical and electrical systems for meeting project goals;
- capability of the tenant space for meeting the project's goals related to indoor environmental quality and occupants' well-being; and
- other systems.
Commit to the establishment and use of ongoing feedback mechanisms that provide information about tenant space performance and occupants' satisfaction. Provide documentation of methods planned to gather feedback on occupants' satisfaction.
Energy-Related Systems
Perform a preliminary energy analysis before the completion of schematic design that explores how to reduce energy loads for the interior design project and accomplish related sustainability goals by questioning default assumptions and testing options. Assess at least two potential options associated with each of the following in terms of project and human performance:
- Basic envelope attributes. Insulation values, window-to-wall ratios, glazing characteristics, shading, window operability.
- Programmatic and operational parameters. Multifunctioning spaces, operating schedules, space allotment per person, teleworking, reducing building area, ongoing operations and maintenance issues.
- Lighting levels. Interior surface reflectance values and lighting levels in occupied spaces.
- Thermal comfort ranges. Assess thermal comfort range options.
- Plug and process load needs. Reducing plug and process loads through programmatic solutions such as equipment and purchasing policies or layout options.
Document how the above analysis informed interior design decisions in the project's OPR and BOC and the interior design of the project, including the following, as applicable:
- building envelope and façade conditions;
- elimination and/or significant downsizing of building systems (e.g., HVAC, lighting, controls, exterior materials, interior finishes, functional program elements);
- methods planned to gather feedback on energy performance and occupants' satisfaction during operations.; and
- other systems.
- Fixture and fitting water demand. Assess flow and flush fixture demand volumes, calculated in accordance with WE Prerequisite Indoor Water Use Reduction.
- Process water demand. Assess kitchen, laundry, cooling tower, and other equipment demand volumes, as applicable.
- Supply sources. Assess all potential nonpotable water supply source volumes, such as on-site rainwater and graywater, municipally supplied nonpotable water, and HVAC equipment condensate.
- plumbing systems;
- sewage conveyance and/or on-site treatment systems;
- process water systems;
- methods planned to gather feedback on the performance and efficiency of water-related systems during operations; and
- other systems.
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Perform a preliminary water budget analysis before the completion of schematic design that explores how to reduce potable water loads and accomplish related sustainability goals. Assess and estimate the project's potential nonpotable water supply sources and water demand volumes, including the following:
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5 Things Girls Don't Seem to Understand About 'Nice Guys'
Hi, ladies! It's good to see you all here, and in your underwear, no less. To thank you for your thoughtfulness, I'm pulling back the curtain to reveal five secrets you always suspected about those male friends you would take home to ma, but never home from the bar: the nice guys.
First, let's define terms. The word "nice" originally meant "foolish or senseless." So right there: core concept. It later acquired such meanings as "delicate," "careful" and "agreeable" before becoming "too great a favorite with the ladies, who have charmed out of it all its individuality and converted it into a mere diffuser of vague and mild agreeableness."
Really, it's the perfect summary of guys like your best male friend, and formerly me.
Not much more Mr. Nice Guy
Very formerly.
Thankfully, niceness can be corrected with a newspaper smack on the nose, or a couple of solid heartbreaks. I'll explain why ineffectual schlubs act a certain way, and what you can do to correct them. These are my tips for turning the sweet guy you say you want into the brute you actually do.
#5. Nice Does Not Equal Good
A great number of nice guys are -- to use the polite term -- hollow-balled shitbirds. Too timid to grab what we want, we rely on coy tactics. A nice guy will ask you out via cutesy note, call your dates "hangouts" and say he just wants you to be happy when you leave him for a jerk (which is sensible of you). They think this is noble and selfless.
It's not. As Friedrich Nietzsche famously said, "Hey, you! STOP HITTING THAT HORSE! WHHAARRRRGGARHABLGLL!" (Nietzsche suffered a lot of mental decay.)
But before syphilis ate his brains, he more famously said, "Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
Mr. F. Hartmann
Nietzsche's mustache had little sympathy for people who labeled their weakness a strength.
This army of clumsy lovers means well, but always manages to drop the ball in the clutch. Worse still, nice guys think their good intentions make up for their pathetic failure to deliver. They're the Democratic Party of boyfriends.
The point is you can be the nicest guy on earth and still be a total dick. I used to have a sweet, sensitive pal who spent most of his time waiting for his chance with my girlfriend. When I wasn't around, he set himself up as her proxy boyfriend and enjoyed the intimacy of her friendship without ever making a move on her -- after all, only a jerk would hit on his buddy's girl! He was happier in the safe, lonely position than he ever would have been risking rejection for something real.
They want to be liked. They see themselves as gentle, balanced and honest -- and to preserve that image, they suffer a surfeit of consideration. Nice guys hate to think they've caused any trouble. They don't make decisions that require unwavering certitude. They'll let a huge train wreck happen just to avoid causing a fender bender.
What you want to do here is encourage some cocky behavior. A jerk would have no shortage of this, because he never questions his decision, no matter how many other people's loved ones it kills.
You have to show him there's no ledger accounting the good we do against the harm. He'll soon realize most people talk great game but do very little to help others, and many are awful bastards in private (again: Democrats).
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If we as a nation can only agree on one thing, let it be that possessing John Edwards would give Pazuzu food poisoning.
I suggest a sharp rap on his skull from the reality stick. Try breaking up with him a week before you take a spring break trip together. Then, while he tries to wear the mask of sanity, hook up with a mutual friend. If his dedication to you remains strong, you may have to subject him to a 24-hour bus ride home staring at the back of your snuggled heads.
Sure, it sounds cruel. But believe me, in the weeks that follow, he'll wander zombielike through the most vicious neighborhoods at dim hours, seeking his own destruction. When he can wake up without gasping like a drowning swimmer every morning, balance is restored, and he is now a man willing to roll the dice. Or your new boyfriend will, as Community pointed out sometimes happens to adults who assert themselves, get the back of his head grabbed and pushed through a jukebox. Either way: No scuff on your shoes.
NBC and Community are in an abusive relationship
That's not nice.
With time, he'll realize there are no "good" or "bad" actions -- only those that benefit or threaten his own interests. In the middle lies his pH-neutral former nature. In fact ...
#4. Nice Guys Are Utterly Passive
When the action starts, nice guys wait quietly for someone to do something. Give them an instruction and they'll pursue it doggedly, but ask them for a decision and they'll want your opinion, plus deep analysis from every angle. That's great for some things: democracy, pharmaceutical research, cunnilingus. But it is absolutely awful for courtship, which is what nice guys call negotiating the tongue-mining rights to your wisdom teeth.
They overanalyze. Nice guys pit worst-case scenarios against unattainable ideals, and can't accept the gap between. Like NASA engineers, they're not going to launch until the odds of success exceed 97 percent. Before that happens, a more aggressive authority usually forces their hand. Then what happens? Years of dedication explode in your face.
The nice guy is exemplified here by the courtly love of Cyrano de Bergerac, who was so devoted to his beloved Roxane's happiness that he fed his best lines to his rival, Christian. And this, by the way, was after he saved Christian's life, only to stand there smiling while the ungrateful prick made fun of his nose. For this
neurotic romantic, it was enough to know that his intended liked his poetry.
Yeesh, who drank from the ugly fountain?
If Cyrano didn't use a mirror to shave, he'd never see any pussy.
But it gets worse! When Christian de Handsome died in battle, he left the key wide open for an easy layup. All Cyrano had to do was tell Roxane that the man she loved was still alive. Instead he let the bereaved damsel join a convent and lied about his affections for years, even after she had figured it out on his deathbed.
Oh, for -- this is the kind of utter devotion people call purest love, and Nietzsche calls some serious slave-value bullshit. It's selfishness of the worst order: denying the person you supposedly care about a chance to be happy because it's safer to live with your fantasy than face your fear.
What you want here is to direct his selfish nature to a place where he can act without overthinking the situation.
Haw! You thought it would be confidence, didn't you? No, self-assurance is like whiskey neat: great the first half-dozen times, then a very steep endurance challenge.
We've all been there, girls: 2 a.m. at Shaky Jake's Tavern on a summer night, the moon is half full, and you throw a Hail Mary glance at a guy who normally pings your douche-radar so hard that the president has to call Russia and assure Putin it's just a flock of geese.
Not so fast! Women are better off with the shy guy, says a bunch of mathematicians no one believes. But let's pretend that Tennessee math whizzes aren't heavily invested in convincing you that this is true. We can still report that a nice guy is a high-pressure canister of pent-up lust in a steel shell of fear.
Since he sees you as a pure angel (more on that in a moment), he fears his own corrupting fantasies of you ... or maybe he fears your disgust, should you learn his gruesome desires. But you, me and the sales figures on Fifty Shades of Grey know that women's only problem with dirty sex is the same one circus elephants have with peanuts: there's not enough, and the only way to get any is to obey some jerk with a whip.
Getty agrees with me
Idealistic, sensitive, respectful of women ... God, teenagers are the worst.
Ladies, your grandma marched all up and down the '70s to give you other options. (Your grandma is Gloria Steinem.) Exercise your rights and help some nice guy find his inner slut. Let him into your bed, and once he has your permission to uncap Pandora's box, he'll be just as self-centered and stupid as Christian. O, glorious day!
Nice desire is a good combo for you! If love whispers, "I would do anything for you," lust grunts, "I'ma use you like a fast food napkin." Together they're the Starsky & Hutch of desire. When you love someone enough to let them eat coleslaw out of your armpit (Hi, Allison!), you build trust for tomorrow, when it's your turn to reduce them to a fantasy.
It's beautiful, really. You get all the thrill of a selfish mauling, but none of the bleary dread when a one-night stand asks if your blood's polluted by inferior races.
Hey, speaking of selfish ...
#3. Nice Guys Have You on a Pedestal
Nice fellows think women want someone to worship them -- and to an extent, that's true. Many a dame wants a guy who holds her in awe for who she is, flaws and all. But that kind of romanticism has to be earned, or it's untrustworthy. It's way less creepy to treat a woman like a goddess when you view her as an equal.
Just because this is public domain doesn't mean any of you can have her!
100 percent creepy: treating her like a concubine.
More to the point, you can love anyone, but being in love requires permission -- or at least vulnerability, which is why, to make someone love you, you need either a patient heart or some really good blackmail.
They're romantics who fall short of their own ideals. As we've seen, nice guys are too timid to approach their crushes directly, so they flood in a lot of missing details. Until they actually date a woman, they're in love with who they imagine her to be, not who she is. And who they imagine you to be is who they wish they could be.
Sure, we all lie to ourselves a bit to embrace the best in our partners: You imagine that your boyfriend is a great guy when he's not drinking, Romeo had to pretend that Juliet had hit puberty and my girlfriend doesn't ask questions about all those scratch marks on the inner door of the shed.*
*I'm totally kidding. I don't have a shed, because it would be larger than this Manhattan apartment, and I don't have a girlfriend, because New York women get angry if you don't try to have sex with them by the third date.
But that's not what nice guys do. They mix up a batch of Ideal Mate and pour it into a you-shaped pitcher. It's usually an updated version of the Victorian elegant creature -- noble, graceful and more boring than a box of rocks, which are at least capable of hurting people. Not so, the idyllic angel that is fantasy-you! On your proud bosom rest the values he wishes he had for himself: purity, goodness, quiet honor, no-mess orgasms.
Visit Wikipedia! They have women on camels!
You can tell how badly a culture treats women by how high a pedestal it puts them on.
A nice friend of mine used to moon around school sighing heavily wherever we could hear him. After much coaxing nobody wanted to do, he'd "reluctantly" share how heartbroken he was because he was in love with our classmate -- let's call her Ruth so you don't find out that her real name was Ann.
It didn't matter to him that they barely talked, she didn't love him back, he didn't know her as a person, or they'd never even shared a moment. All he cared about was how pure and beautiful this angel was, and that she didn't know his passion for her. All her boyfriends were jerks because they weren't him. And most inconsiderate of all, she never read the poems he didn't show her.
He wasn't in love with her; he was in love with the idea of her. He preferred the drama of longing for her to the high-fivery of sliding a hand under her shirt. And unless you're thwarting a nuclear disaster, declining second base* is a serious cause to question your values.
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Exactly HOW BAD a nuclear disaster are we talking about?
*I use the commonly accepted bases here. In my stadium, second base is sex with a time-traveling ninja, and third base is giving her my real name.
Break the spell! You don't want to be loved for who you're not, so teach him to loathe you for who you are!
I know, I know -- it's completely counterintuitive. But his disrespect must exist in order for you to defeat it. You know how every movie says that without darkness there can be no light? And how every particle physicist says that's just not true? Well, that's why movie stars get laid while physicists get killed by their experiments in the first act of every sci-fi film: because love does not give one damn for truth or logic.
So break down his illusions in order to build up his perceptions. Stop dishing to him about your crush on the varsity quarterback, and instead tell him horrifying stories about the time you traded sexual favors for cigarettes to the quarterback's dad (who's in a coma).
When you're done with your nice guy, his smoldering gaze should pierce a heart at 200 paces. Only after he can criticize you honestly should you trust his deep devotion. And even if that's completely facetious advice you shouldn't follow, isn't it better he disrespect who you are than quiver loyally to who you ain't?


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Jim Santella, a Buffalo Broadcasting Hall of Fame inductee, is retiring from his Saturday night blues show on WBFO-FM 88.7. He talked about his decision with his audience this past weekend.
Santella's final blues show will air at 7 p.m. Dec. 1. Santella began hosting the show on Nov. 22, 1997.
Known as the "Father of Progressive Radio" in Buffalo, Santella began his radio career as a student DJ at WBFO when it was affiliated with the University at Buffalo, hosting five hours of jazz. In January 1969, he began his professional career as one of the first underground rock radio DJs at WYSL-FM.
Santella will continue to be part of "Theatre Talk," with Anthony Chase, in which they discuss and review shows being presented on Buffalo stages, each Friday morning during "Morning Edition" on WBFO.
Expect new episodes of "Thomas & Friends" on PBS Kids this fall, WNED-TV has announced. The animated series, which airs at 7:30 a.m. weekdays, features tales of friendship and adventure on the Island of Sodor. One of the upcoming episodes, "Welcome Stafford," will introduce a new character: Stafford, an electric shunting engine.
"Thomas the Tank Engine" is inspired by "The Railway Series" books by the Rev. W. Awdry, who started writing them in the 1940s; it became a children's television series in Great Britain in 1984.
A new automotive television program, "America's Car Show," hosted by Tom Torbjornsen, can be seen at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays on WBBZ-TV, announced John DiSciullo, executive director of production and promotion.
The program - featuring automotive advice, topical guests and car enthusiasts - will be rebroadcast at 9 a.m. Thursdays and 11 a.m. Saturdays. Weekly topics will include: improving gas mileage, selecting a trustworthy garage, understanding your owner's manual and how to winterize your car.
Torbjornsen is a car repair expert, and host of a national weekend satellite radio program. He is also the author of "How to Make Your Car Last Forever."
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Magnolia Plantation offered a one-stop-shop in all things Charleston history Saturday at its first history fair.
The plantation collaborated with about 40 local organizations, institutions and businesses to inform people of the rich culture in our area.
Neighboring plantations Drayton Hall and Middleton Place also participated, sharing their historical significance.
Lisa Randle, Director of Research and Education at Magnolia, said the event brought together resources and attractions that people, even locals, may not have known about. She said it was a great way to plan a "stay-cation" or itinerary for visiting relatives.
Shelia Harrell-Roye of the College of Charleston's Avery Research Center said having a table at the fair allowed the center to demonstrate "how far reaching education is." Avery provided information about African-American and Gullah culture, preservation efforts and center research.
Lowcountry Africana, with locations in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, was there to help people find their own history, by offering free genealogy sessions. Founding director Toni Carrier said sometimes it's difficult for African-Americans to get past a certain point when charting their genealogy, but Lowcountry Africana is there to help.
"It's important to research family history now while there is a living older generation," Carrier said. "Our goal is to get records out there and raise awareness of our resources."
Lowcountry Africana Senior Editor Ramona La Roche said people should keep in mind when trying to trace their genealogy that relatives name's may be listed under different spelling.
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Randle said the event was more successful than they expected and they are already planning for next year.
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The Stetson women's soccer team heads back on the road this weekend to take on a pair of teams near the top of the conference standings. The Hatters will take on Jacksonville on Friday, October 5 at 7:00 p.m., and then challenge North Florida on Sunday, October 7 at 1:00 p.m.
Jacksonville welcomes Stetson to town with an overall record of 5-4-2, and an undefeated mark of 2-0-1 in league play. The Dolphins are also undefeated in their last four contests, topping College of Charleston, Northern Kentucky, and Lipscomb before tying North Florida 1-1 last Friday. Marie Weckhurst leads JU with four goals and two assists for 10 points in 2012, while Raquel Weckhurst has added four assists for the Dolphins.
North Florida will host FGCU on Friday before taking on Stetson on Sunday. The Ospreys are currently 4-6-2 overall, but are an undefeated 2-0-1 in conference action. After five straight games without a victory during the middle part of the season, UNF has gone three straight without a loss, topping NKU and Lipscomb before the 1-1 tie against Jacksonville last Friday. Thea Linkfield and Carolina Lencina lead the way so far this season, each tallying four goals and three assists for 11 total points.
Jacksonville holds a 10-7-2 advantage over Stetson in the all-time series, which began in 1995 when Stetson won 9-1 at home. Jacksonville has won the last two tilts, defeating the Hatters 1-0 in 2010 and 3-1 in 2011. In the eight times that Stetson has matched up with UNF, both teams have come away with four wins. The Ospreys took the first ever game, a 1-0 decision in 2005, but Stetson has won the last two, including a 1-0 victory in the 2010 A-Sun Tournament.
Fans can follow @StetsonWSoccer on Twitter for in-game updates, keep up with Live Stats at JUDolphins.com and UNFOspreys.com, or watch both games on ASun.TV.


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on March 25, 2013 - 2:43 PM
Registered nurses at Kenmore Mercy Hospital and hospital officials plan to meet with a federal mediator on April 9 after the nurses rejected a tentative contract for the second time.
Kenmore Mercy is part of Catholic Health System, and CWA Local 1133 represents about 270 nurses at the hospital.
The nurses have twice decisively rejected tentative contracts. In the latest vote, on March 19, 88 percent of the member nurses cast ballots, and 70 percent of them voted against the tentative deal. In the first vote, on Feb. 11, 87 percent of the nurses participated and 94 percent of them voted against that deal.
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Route 220 corridor safety study to begin
By SAVANNAH DEMPSEY
June 12, 2013
LINDEN — "A little bit of schizophrenia," is what Mark Murawski, county transportation planner, calls the section Route 220 which runs from Linden to Jersey Shore....
Just build the bypass!
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"Just build the bypass!" - eriklatranyi
So (you) 'Baggers will have THAT to complain-about???
Maybe you could partner-up with local Libertarians, and get the job done...so there are no tax-dollars involved!!
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NOT ANOTHER STUDY!!! You've got to be kidding me. There have been at lest 6 studies in the last 10 years. Study the accident logs and unfortunate fatal accidents. Here's what they should do...take lawn chairs to the Harvest moon bowling alley parking lot. Sit there and watch the traffic from 6 AM until 6 PM. Rediculous! Build the bypass. It was about 10 yrs ago when they decided to build a bypass and Crazy Eddy Rendell took office and squashed it, saying no money to build it. Now we are going to study it again?
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Unlike SHS, the state don't like to use "by eminent domain" to build a highway. Rt. 220 will stay the same for another 20 years or so.
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Rt 220 - is a highway.
Rt 15 - through S Williamsport is a highway.
Rt 15 - through S Williamsport is 35 MPH w/ traffic lights.
Rt 220 - can be made 35 MPH w/ traffic lights.
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The answer is simple. There is an exit at 4th st. and a crossover near 287. Just close all the entrances/exits in between like a normal highway. Problem fixed. The local municipality can build some side roads to connect the existing roads on each side of 220. Best of all I'll save the tax payers a ton of money and only charge $100,000 for coming up with this solution.
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I live along 220 and the increase in traffic is significant and they seem to go faster and faster. The last study had them put at turn around in that requires drivers to go down hill in snow and ice and then go up hill and try to get up to speed before they get run over. It was safer to have the flat crossover where you could cross two lanes and wait at least you were on level ground and could see. They need to do something like they did up in Old Lycoming but that will take years and millions of dollars. I don't see anything changing anytime soon.
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I have to agree with billybob. This highway was designed and built as a four lane divided highway. Not as someone's front street. Not a single driveway should have ever been attached to the highway. The state learned that lesson numerous times by doing so. The least expensive choice is to build township roads behind houses, parallel to the highway, with connection at major intersections. Right now they need a traffic light at Pine run. The last little upgrade at Pine Run should have included a traffic light. All the studies done there cost more then the traffic light, cost to install it, and power to run it for 10 years. grrrr
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Using Classroom Demonstrations in Familiar Nonlegal Contexts to Teach Unfamiliar Concepts of Legal Method to New Students
Charles R. Calleros
Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Legal Writing, Vol. 7, p. 37, 2001
In their first semester of law school, students are quickly immersed in a sea of appellate opinions, punctuated with scattered islands of statutory text. With guidance from their classroom instructors, and especially from their instructor in legal method and writing, they begin to see patterns emerging from the judicial opinions, and they eventually begin constructing a working knowledge of the elements of legal method and analysis. Students eventually come to realize that their assimilation of the current landscape of settled legal rules is secondary to their mastery of legal method. To help students understand their academic task, we can try to build on their schemata, their existing foundations of knowledge. By relating a new concept to a student's existing intellectual foundation, we can help the student to assimilate the new concept more quickly.
This essay gives two examples of classroom demonstrations designed to introduce first-semester law students to concepts of legal method that tend to cause difficulty for some of them if expressed only in abstract terms. These demonstrations illustrate: (1) the inherent uncertainty or indeterminacy in most legal questions, particularly in the problems that we are likely to assign as vehicles for developing skills of analysis and advocacy; and (2) the process of deriving a larger legal picture from a series of cases by synthesizing the cases, each of which may build on previous ones in the process of incremental judicial decision-making.
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Walking is one of the easiest ways to get the exercise you need to stay healthy.
Experts recommend at least 2½ hours of moderate activity (such as brisk walking, brisk cycling, or yard work) a week.1 It's fine to walk in blocks of 10 minutes or more throughout your day and week.
- If you're worried about how brisk walking might affect your health, talk with your doctor before you start a walking program.
- Start with a short-term goal. For example, walk for 5 or 10 minutes every day. Or increase your number of steps by 300 to 500 each day.
- After you've made walking a habit, set a longer-term goal. You may want to set a goal of walking briskly for at least 30 minutes a day or work up to 10,000 steps a day. You can try to do this 5 days a week or more.
- You can wear a pedometer to track your steps each day.
- To stay motivated, find a walking partner, such as a family member, friend, or coworker. Daily dog walks are also a great way to keep up your walking routine.
How can you make a walking program part of your life?
Think of walking as an easy way to burn calories and stay fit while you go about your daily routine. You can make walking an important part of your life by getting friends and family to join you and by finding new ways to put steps in your day.
Walk with others
- Ask family members, friends, and coworkers to join you. Set goals together.
- Join a walking group or club.
- Set a goal to take part in an organized fitness walk.
- Walk a dog every day.
- Plan family outings around walks together. Being physically active with kids sets an example they'll follow as they grow older.
Add steps whenever you can
- Schedule walks on your daily calendar.
- Buy a pedometer at a sporting goods store. A pedometer counts how many steps you take. The first time you wear it, count how many steps you normally take in a day. Wear your pedometer every day, and set a goal for increasing the number of steps each day. At first, try to add 300 to 500 steps to your day. Then work toward 2,000 more steps a day. A good long-term goal is to get 10,000 steps a day.
- Instead of watching TV or going out to eat, go out for a walk.
- At work, get up and move around once an hour.
- When possible, walk to the grocery store, doctor appointments, work, school, or shopping. You could walk a lap around the grocery store before you start shopping.
- Park your car farther away from work or other places you're going.
- Walk around your neighborhood or around a park.
- Walk during TV commercials.
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- Know your surroundings. Walk in a well-lighted, safe place.
- Carry a cell phone for emergencies.
- Wear comfortable shoes and socks that cushion and support your feet.
- Pay attention to your walking surface. Use sidewalks and paths.
- If you usually walk outside and the weather is bad, take comfortable shoes to the mall and walk several laps inside.
- Drink plenty of water before, during, and after you are active. This is very important when it's hot out and when you do intense exercise. Take a water bottle with you when you walk.
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Assassin's Creed Review
Assassin's Creed should certainly be played by anyone who's taken the jump to next-gen, but don't expect to be playing something that will go down in history as one of the greatest games of all time.
It's been a huge year for video games, and we've got more to come. Sadly they can't all be masterpieces, with many coming in under par or simply being good games that don't quite live up to expectations. Assassin's Creed is a good game, a game that I'd recommended everyone with a next-gen console experiences, but it's not the magnificent experience I and many others hoped it would be.
Right up until release the one thing that Ubisoft has been sure not to reveal is the twist in the storyline. This review won't spoil too many aspects of this, meaning you're safe to read on unless you absolutely don't want to know anything about the game prior to release. You play as Altair, an assassin who lived through the Third Crusade in 1191, but you don't exclusively play as him - I'll say no more.
The core goal is to restore your master's faith in you as an assassin by carrying out nine assassinations, which take you across the Holy Land, to Damascus, Acre, Jerusalem and Maysaf - with Maysaf being your initial gateway to the rest of the game world. This is really just a brief outline of the game. The full storyline is far deeper, featuring the expected twists and revelations, plus some infrequent and rather unexpected gameplay that will likely polarize opinion.
One of the most impressive aspects of the game is its size. The three main cities are huge, split into three distinct districts and full of citizens, guards, speakers, thugs, merchant stands, buildings, and just about everything you'd expect to see in a city from that era. The streets are full of people, and by full I mean packed. The first time you see Maysaf your jaw will hit the floor due to the game's beauty, but it's not until you walk the streets of one of the three main cities that you'll see what the game engine is really capable of. We've seen crowds in games before, but in Assassin's Creed it's been taken to a new level.
'We've seen crowds in games before, but in Assassin's Creed it's been taken to a new level.'
It's not just cosmetic either, although why that's the case needs a little explanation. When you enter a city you do so in order to find and assassinate a target. The process is practically the same throughout the game. Firstly you go to the Assassins Bureau in order to get some tips on where to look for clues about your target. You then head off into that area, which is usually in an area of the game map that's lacking detail. In order to draw this information onto your in-game map you need to scale numerous view points, which in turn displays the location of investigations.
Investigations are essential to your preparation, with each assassination needing a handful of investigations before you can carry out the deed. They can take a number of forms: eves dropping, pick pocketing, carrying out tasks for informants (collecting flags, stealth killing people) and interrogation (beating people up). I found pickpocketing and eves dropping to be by far the easiest, with both barely requiring more than pressing a button at the right time. The others are more difficult, especially the informant missions that require you to stealth kill people while walking the busy streets.
All the time you have to be aware of the guards and your current social status. Act like a normal citizen and you'll be fine, but act like a crazy man and the guards will get suspicious and start watching you. If your on-screen status starts flashing red it's time to take a low profile, and if that red dot gets bigger it's time to leg it. It's here that the game's huge number of citizens come into play. Imagine running through Oxford Street in London over your lunch hour, and you'll get some idea of what trying to outrun guards in Assassin's Creed is like - except you can take to the roofs.
Altair is highly agile, meaning he can leap from rooftop to rooftop, scale buildings and generally run across anything. When this works Assassin's Creed is at its brilliant best, with the feeling of freedom being unlike anything I've played, but it sadly doesn't always work as you want. Climbing can itself cause problems, with Altair often unwilling to lift himself up to a ledge that is clearly within reach. The guards are also great at throwing things at you, so you'll often be moments from pulling yourself onto a rooftop and then fall off after being hit by a rock or arrow. It might be smart AI, but it makes for highly annoying gameplay.
It doesn't help that the free-running aspect is a little hit and miss. Altair will run and jump in whichever direction you're pointing, so if you accidentally point off a building that has nothing beyond it except for a huge drop, you'll be falling - although it's never to your death - and even when you do die, you usually don't lose too much progress. Part of the problem stems from the way free-running works. You have to hold Right Trigger (Xbox 360) or R1 (PS3) as well as A (Xbox 360) or X (PS3). This then prevents you from manually controlling the camera with the right analogue stick, which in turn causes a few awkward camera angles and wayward jumps.


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HAGERSTOWN, Md. - The Washington County Arts Council invites all art educators in Washington County's public and private schools to enter work for the February exhibit. This is an invitational exhibition and all work will be accepted. Each educator is allowed to submit two works that have been completed within the last two years. Artwork may be dropped off from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today.
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A women named Amanda is typically very beautiful with an incredible body and nice eyes. They are known to be very loveable. Amandas are envied by other women.
1. Damnnn, Amanda's lookin' fine today, as usual.
2. I wish I was Amanda, shes so pretty and nice!
2. I wish I was Amanda, shes so pretty and nice!
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A girl who is worthy of love, as her name means. Intelligent, kind, and witty; she can light up a room simply with her smile. Her sense of humor is amazing, only fully appreciated by a few; if you can truly make her laugh then hold on to her, because she's special, and she knows you are too. Although quick to boast an air of confidence around others, she has a much more tender and meek side that she only fully exposes to individuals she's quite close with. She's an old soul with a youthful spirit; her wisdom mixed with her child-like playfulness makes her one of a kind and can only bring a smile to ones face. Amanda has a beauty of her own comparable to none (Natalie Portman comes close; just to give you an idea). Her beauty is as natural as the beauty of the sun, beaming through the breaking mammatus clouds after a silent storm; powerful and awe inspiring. She is loving, free, and wild. Amanda will also have an amazing butt.
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Amanda does NOT mean "A man DUH" it is a name which means
"Love" in the definations of name books.
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Hi my name is Amanda yourself?
โดย antonea 12 กรกฎาคม 2006
a woman who doesn't take shit from anyone, even her own parents. She does things her way when she wants where she wants how she wants with who she wants
i love lucy's attitude. it's an amanda attitude.
โดย millamobradley 21 เมษายน 2008
A fantastic person that takes your breath away with how alike you are, because she loves all the same things you do.
Even on your darkest days she'll put a smile on your face.
She's extremely gorgeous, caring, thoughtful, ridiculously smart, always knows exactly what to say. She's extremely talented in every direction.
and, she is quite possibly the best person I have ever met.
Even on your darkest days she'll put a smile on your face.
She's extremely gorgeous, caring, thoughtful, ridiculously smart, always knows exactly what to say. She's extremely talented in every direction.
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Amanda is the best.
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Most have a nice and big butt. They grow into their boobs and are really sweet and kind. You could never stay mad at an Amanda. They are loveable and kind. They never miss a chance to say sorry for anything. Everyone loves Amanda.
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Typically the name for a very good looking person. Generally athletic, well kept, and very very friendly. Always a nice, beautiful person who you can talk to whenever in need. Aswell as having an extremely nice body, they tend to have the best personality around.
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Yeah, she's so nice.
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LORETTO - It's been a long time since a player of C.J. McCollum's caliber visited St. Francis.
As it turns out, Saturday afternoon wasn't the first time the Associated Press, Lute Olsen and The Sporting News preseason first-team All-American was in DeGol Arena.
McCollum - a 6-foot-3 senior for the Lehigh men's basketball team - made an unofficial visit with his family during his senior year of high school as a prospect of the Red Flash.
And the bad news - for St. Francis, obviously - was that the young phenom said the university had a "legitimate shot" to persuade a committment.
"They had a shot," McCollum said. "It depended a lot on what my family liked and what I liked, but they definitely had a legitimate shot.
"I felt they had the potential to be a good team. I liked what the coach [former coach Don Friday] presented to me, getting playing time right away. I thought it was a good university, but I felt I had better opportunities, and I liked Lehigh a little bit better."
Both visits went well, but neither of them were in St. Francis' favor.
McCollum had a game-high 29 points in Lehigh's 83-67 win over the Red Flash on Saturday.
"We recruited the kid," St. Francis coach Rob Krimmel said. "He was a kid that everyone knew was going to be good, but I don't think anyone expected him to be this good.
"We got in a little bit late [on the recruiting process]. We went out to visit him. But Lehigh did a tremendous job. They were probably a couple of months ahead of us in that process."
McCollum and the Mountain Hawks jumped into the national spotlight last March when 15th-seeded Lehigh upset second-seeded Duke in the South Region of the NCAA Tournament.
It was only the sixth time in history that an upset of that magnitude occurred in the national tournament - 15th-seeded Norfolk State did it the same day when it held off second-seeded Missouri in the West Region - and McCollum's 30 points led all scorers in the game.
Lehigh also got 17 points from Gabe Knutson and 11 points from Mackey McKnight.
And because of that win, a lot of extra attention has been given not only to McCollum, but the entire team as well.
"It's been fun," McCollum said. "This is my last year of college basketball. I'm enjoying every moment of it. There's a lot of media attention, a lot of exposure and notoriety, but with all of that being said, we've definitely enjoyed the ride. We're trying to not put too much pressure on ourselves and just try to have fun and get wins."
"I actually have to give them a great deal of credit for their maturity," Lehigh coach Brett Reed said of his team. "Fortunately, we have a pretty strong senior class. That makes a big difference. There is the appreciation of what we've been able to do as a program, even through the start of this year."
Lehigh (8-2) is off to its best start since the 1938-39 season, and even with its balanced offense, the team may not necessarily be in its current position if McCollum would have remained eligible for the NBA draft.
But everyone is grateful he came back - maybe except for everyone Lehigh plays.
"It's rewarding to be on the same team and wear the same jersey as him," McKnight said. "I'm enjoying every moment learning from him. It's makes us a better team."
"I'm very appreciative [he stayed in school]," Reed said. "He makes me a better coach. I'll be the first to admit that. It helps me, it helps our program because our team is a better team with him there. I think ultimately it has helped him as well. His stock has continued to rise, even from a noteable performance in the last postseason."
Every time St. Francis found a little momentum on Saturday, McCollum, Knutson or McKnight were there to preserve the lead.
Knutson finished with 18 points, and McKnight had 13.
"Give their guys credit," Krimmel said. "When they needed to make a play to stop one of our runs, they did. McCollum and Knutson were very good tonight. They had some big plays.
"I think that if we have guys that can sit back and look at the game and how certain players play and how certain players prepare, hopefully they see what a great player looks like."
Even Umar Shannon's 26 points and Dom Major's 15 for the Red Flash (0-8) were overshadowed by the buzz generated by McCollum.
There hasn't been a first-team All-American, preseason or postseason, to play in Loretto since Feb. 5, 1966 when Providence's Jimmy Walker was in town.
"C.J. McCollum has continued to be grounded," Reed said. "Even with his personal accolades, he always deflects praise. He always comes in the gym early and spends extra time - he's set the model for that.
"When we do go on the road, I know he does get a lot of attention not only through opponents and their game plan, but the fans have been able to enjoy and appreciate a pretty smooth and fluid player that is an excellent, excellent basketball player at the college level and will be even at the next level."
McCollum could have easily opted out of his senior year of college to play in the NBA, but his education was more important.
Several sources project him from being selected anywhere from ninth to 15th overall in next year's draft.
"Getting my degree was the biggest thing for me and my family," McCollum said. "We pride in our education. That was the most important thing.
"And then games like this - being able to be a senior, travel with your friends and your teammates, just enjoy the college experience. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I wasn't quite ready for the real world, so-to-speak, so I figured I'd come back and enjoy being a kid with minimum responsibilities."
Even if meant delaying playing basketball professionally, Reed says there was another reason the nation's third leading scorer came back.
"The most impressive thing, though, is that you're talking about a young man who played extremely well on a national stage, had an opportunity to go to the NBA - which is a life-long dream for him - yet he put enough value on his education that he really wanted to come back and get his degree," Reed said.
"He put enough value in the relationships in the teammates that he had to help them continue that journey. He put enough value in himself that he wasn't afriad to come back, even though he would be scrutinized because, to his own credit, he said he had unfinished business."
LEHIGH (8-2): Greiner 2-3 3-4 8, Knutson 6-11 4-4 18, D'Orazio 1-5 0-0 2, McCollum 8-15 11-11 29, McKnight 4-8 2-2 13, Carter 0-1 0-0 0, Schaefer 0-1 0-0 0, Cvrkalj 2-4 2-3 7, Goldsborough 0-0 0-0 0, Baltimore 2-2 2-2 6. Totals 25-50 24-26 83.
ST. FRANCIS (0-8): Ritter 0-4 4-4 4, Drinnon 1-2 0-0 2, Mosley 4-7 0-0 8, Shannon 8-19 7-9 26, G. Brown 2-5 0-0 4, Whyatt 1-5 0-0 2, Millaud-Meunier 1-4 0-0 2, Major 5-12 0-0 15, Peters 0-0 0-0 0, Ervin 0-1 4-4 4. Totals 22-59 15-17 67.
Halftime-Lehigh 43-28. 3-Point Goals-Lehigh 9-20 (McKnight 3-6, Knutson 2-3, McCollum 2-5, Cvrkalj 1-1, Greiner 1-2, D'Orazio 0-3), St. Francis (Pa.) 8-25 (Major 5-9, Shannon 3-7, G. Brown 0-2, Whyatt 0-2, Millaud-Meunier 0-2, Ritter 0-3). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Lehigh 35 (McCollum 9), St. Francis 29 (Mosley 5). Assists-Lehigh 14 (McKnight 5), St. Francis 17 (Whyatt 5). Total Fouls-Lehigh 12, St. Francis 18. A-1,526.