| The Pros and Cons of Bringing Your Kid to a Con
Kids in costume, kids on leashes, kids running amok, kids behaving politely, kids not even old enough to care. It led us to thinking: there seem to be quite a few pros on cons on each side of the argument (cons, get it?). Should people bring their kids to conventions? Here's a few thoughts we put together: Why You Shouldn't Bring Your Kid to Dragon*Con: Are you comfortable explaining BDSM to your child? Yeah, just think about it. Crowds, germs; germs, crowds. Con crud is pretty much guaranteed, and recuperating after a con is hard enough without a sick kid. Loud hotel rooms. With all the drunken revelry going on any given night, it's hard to get sleep. But add a child into the mix who keeps you up, asking what every noise is, and then consider what they'll be like the next few days without sleep… yeah, not exactly bliss.
Natty Nation skanks at attention
We went with two military women, and as soon as we got out of the cab, it was all little kids running up to us, trying to sell us stuff and take us here and get us kat. It was just seeing the people and how happy they were in their poverty, it's great. When you think of poverty, you think of how it is in Madison, the people sitting in Peace Park or whatever. There, because that's how it is, I guess people just are happier about it.
JB: Dubai's a whole different spectrum of rich compared to being in Africa. You get sheiks walking around with the whole white headgear. I was walking through on the way to the gig and one guy got out of a car and went, "Rasta!" Wow. You know? They know what's going on. At ease, soldier?
AK: Basically, the Navy is a lot less restrictive on drinking.
Reynoldsburg football concentrating on the positive
"Previously, we would have track kids running cross country to stay in shape, but that isn't the case for most who would have to pay $500 for cross country in the fall and $500 for track in the spring," Hammond related."It's tough to compete as a team with our numbers. We have only six girls running and that makes it tough to compete when schools like Upper Arlington have as many as 100 runners to choose a team from."He noted that three of the top five runners on the boys side are sophomores, meaning the long term prospects are good.Leading the boys contingent is sophomore Tsehaye Hiluf. He led the Raiders to a third-place team finish at the Sept. 5 Lebanon meet. Others earning points for the local team were: senior Lamar Booker, 11th; sophomore Khalid Omar, 15th; sophomore Jeremy Richard, 19th; senior Yemane Abebe, 25th; and senior Josh North, 32nd.The Raiders finished just 12 points behind winning Fairmont, but had a sizable 39-point advantage over third-place Lebanon.Junior Hiruy Abraha finished first in the open competition where competitors run unattached with a team in the meet.The girls team is led by senior Dani Watson, who finished fourth in a strong field.
Bombers come up short
Midway through the first period, SHS senior running back Justin Miller suffered a serious injury to his left leg and was taken away in an ambulance. Miller entered Friday's contest with 543 yards on 97 carries. "We were throwing kids around out there," Sears said of his team's physical play. "We hung right there with them. With two minutes to go in the ballgame, they made a play and we didn't." Most of the action took place in the first two drives of the game. Sherrard scored on the opening possession with Justin Miller's 1-yard run just little more than two minutes in to make it a 7-0 Tigers' lead. On the Bombers' initial possession, senior running back Brian Elliott found the end zone on a 2-yard plunge, capping off a seven-play drive to knot it up at 7-7 with 6:39 showing in the first. Up until the final three minutes of play, both teams struggled to get momentum.
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