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This week's six quick takes on Christian Persecution include one that I'm not entirely sure about, another that deals with a 100-year-old genocide, and the usual dismal roundup of wanton killings, abductions and imprisonment of Christians around the globe.
I think there are two reasons why Christianity is attacked. First, as President Obama said in a speech a few years ago, it is revolutionary. His complaint at the time was that the Sermon on the Mount, would, if it was followed, lead to disarmament.
Governments the world over have tried to control the revolutionary message of Christ in one of two ways: Co-opt it, or attack it. Hitler was an example of co-opting coupled with attacks against those who didn't buy into his program, while Stalin and the Communist states are examples of outright attack.
That division seems to hold up right to this day and even here in America. Right wing politicians are more prone to claim their religiosity while attempting to twist the Gospels to support their goals and left-wing politicians tend to veer toward limiting religious freedom with ironic claims of inclusion and tolerance.
Christianity has a better record of standing up to outright attack than it does co-option. I suppose that's only natural. If somebody punches you in the nose, you know you've been hit. But if they flatter you and tell you how great you are while they ask you to sign the title to your house away, it's harder to catch. Or, at least it is for some people.
The second reason is that Christianity is attacked is that it is true. Jesus really is the Son of God. He really did die for our sins and He really did rise again on the third day. He really is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
It is politically incorrect to say that, but taking offense to the truth does not make it untrue. People resent the claims that Jesus makes on their hearts and their lives. They want to be their own little gods, but they are unwilling to admit what that means. So … they attack the only hope they have.
Pope Francis talks about satan more than is politically correct, even for a Pope. But he is right to do this. Christianity is attacked because it is the Light, and the darkness hates it.
This week's quick takes focus mainly on the nose-punching type of attack on Christians, rather than the soft-soap of the co-opters. As always, there's a heavy dose of persecution from the Middle East. I decided to include the Armenian genocide because these people have been forgotten in the name of political expedience. I've read that out of a population of 2 million Armenian Christians, 1.5 million were murdered. Their blood, like Abel's, cries out from the ground.
I also included a story about the Pentagon blocking the Southern Baptist web site. I had read about this in several places, but only decided to take it seriously (I'm still confused by it.) because Fox News carried it. Note: I was wise to doubt this story. The Pentagon has explained that their computer detected malware on the SBC website. They say they were not blocking the site. You can read about that here.
Here are the Six Quick Takes about Christian Persecution this week. I hope that you read each of them prayerfully.
18 More Followers Of Christ Slaughtered By Muslim Attackers In Christian Village Of Mile Bakwai
Morning Star News – "Hosea Mashaf was resting in his village of Chirang Mangor, Nigeria, when area Christian youths told him that armed, Muslim Fulani herdsmen were attacking the Christian village of Mile Bakwai.
The 45-year-old farmer and other Christians rushed to Mile Bakwai, three kilometers away in the Bokkos Local Council Area of Plateau State, the night of March 27 to see how they might aid the Christians there, he told Morning Star News.
'When we got there, the gunmen had already retreated,' Mashaf said. 'I saw dead bodies scattered all over the village. I counted the dead bodies we recovered, and in all we had 18 Christians who were killed by the Muslim attackers.'
They found five of those bodies in a minibus, he said.
'They were travelling in a bus back to our village when they ran into the attack going on at Mile Bakwai village,' Mashaf said. 'They were killed by the attackers when they shot at the bus, which crashed into a building, but the attackers went to the place where the bus was and shot the occupants. Five of them were killed, while two others were injured.'
Dead were Geofrey Mafuyai, 35; Mahana Jamok, 50; Arandon Yusuf, 18; Dung Dalyop, 38; and, Mbata Machif, 36. Maju Mahana, 25, and Nanle Enoch, 18 were wounded and received treatment at the ECWA Evangel Hospital in Jos, he said.
The 18 slain were members of Nigerian Baptist Convention, Christ Apostolic Church and Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) congregations, sources said. The Rev. James Danladi Mahwash of the Bishara Baptist Church in Mile Bakwai village said five of his church members were killed, including the financial secretary of the Men's Missionary Union of his church, 25-year-old Jamle Benjamin Sunday. (Read more here.)
Pentagon Blocks Access to Southern Baptist Website
By Todd Starnes
NOTE: A reader passed along the Pentagon's response to this. They say that the problem was a result of their software detecting malware on the SBC's website. You can read that story here.
The U.S. Military has blocked access to the Southern Baptist Convention's website on an unknown number of military bases because it contains "hostile content" — just weeks after an Army briefing labeled Evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics as examples of religious extremism, Fox News has learned.
The Southern Baptist Convention is the nation's largest Protestant denomination known for its support of the pro-life movement and its strong belief in traditional marriage.
Southern Baptist chaplains reported that SBC.net had been blocked at military installations around the nation. An Air Force officer told Fox News that when he tried to log on to the website he received a message that his Internet usage was being logged and monitored for trying to access a blocked site.
The censorship was made public after an Army officer tried to log onto the denomination's website and instead — received a warning message.
"The site you have requested has been blocked by Team CONUS (C-TNOSC/RCERT-CONUS) due to hostile content," the message read.
Team CONUS protects the computer network of the Dept. of Defense. The SBC's website was not blocked at the Pentagon.
It's unclear what the "hostile content" might have been. The SBC is pro-life and opposed to same-sex marriage. (Read more here.)
Egyptian Muslims murdering Christians with impunity
Ten people are dead following clashes between Muslims and Coptic Christians in Egypt. The people have been killed over the past few weeks which have seen spates of violence between Christians defending their churches and homes from angry Muslims. Few Muslim attackers ever face justice.
CAIRO, EGYPT (Catholic Online) – Clashes between Muslims and Christians have claimed 10 live in Egypt where sectarian violence between the groups has been renewed in the face of Mohammed Morsi's administration.
The most recent spate of violence started after children drew crosses on the walls of an Islamic institute in Khosoos, just north of Cairo. That acts of children's vandalism sparked a bloody retaliation from Muslims in which four Christians and a Muslim were killed.
At the Christian funeral, Muslims struck again, this time carrying on until they reached the Coptic cathedral and damaged the structure. More Christians were murdered. (Read more here.)
The Armenian Genocide and Turkey's Attempt to Deny It
From 1915 to 1917 the Young Turk regime in the Ottoman Empire carried out a systematic, premeditated, centrally planned genocide against the Armenian people. One of the documents authenticated by Turkish authorities in 1919 is a telegram sent in June 1915 by Dr. Sakir, one of the leaders of the secret organization that carried out the planning and implementation of the Genocide. He asks the provincial party official who is responsible for carrying out the deportations and massacres of Armenians within his district: "Are the Armenians, who are being dispatched from there, being liquidated? Are those harmful persons whom you inform us you are exiling and banishing, being exterminated, or are they being merely dispatched and exiled? Answer explicitly…."
The evidence of intent is backed also by the outcome of the actions against the Armenians: it is inconceivable that over a million persons could have died due to even a badly flawed effort at resettlement. Moreover, the pattern of destruction was repeated over and over in different parts of Turkey, many of them far from any war zone; such repetition could only have come from a central design. Further, the reward structure was geared toward destruction of the Christian minority: provincial governors and officials who refused to carry out orders to annihilate the Armenians were summarily replaced.
More than one million Armenians perished as the result of execution, starvation, disease, the harsh environment, and physical abuse. A people who lived in eastern Turkey for nearly 3,000 years lost its homeland and was profoundly decimated in the first large-scale genocide of the twentieth century. At the beginning of 1915 there were some two million Armenians within Turkey; today there are fewer than 60,000.
Despite the vast amount of evidence that points to the historical reality of the Armenian Genocide, eyewitness accounts, official archives, photographic evidence, the reports of diplomats, and the testimony of survivors, denial of the Armenian Genocide by successive regimes in Turkey has gone on from 1915 to the present.
The basic argument of denial has remained the same, it never happened, Turkey is not responsible, the term "genocide" does not apply. (Read more here.)
Kidnapped bishops raise fears of Christian nightmare in Syria
ICC Note: Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi, condemned the kidnapping of two archbishops and said Pope Francis is "following [the] events with deep participation and intense prayer." The bishops were abducted by armed rebels on Monday in the village of Kfar Dael, near Aleppo, Syria while carrying out humanitarian work. The bishops are the most senior church leaders abducted in the conflict which has now killed more than 70,000 people across Syria. The kidnapping "is a dramatic confirmation of the tragic situation in which the Syrian people and its Christian community are living," Lombardi said.
By John L. Allen Jr.
4/23/2013 Syria (National Catholic Reporter) – Rome on Tuesday reacted with alarm to the kidnapping of two Orthodox bishops in Syria, fearing it may mark the beginning of the nightmare scenario: that Syria will become the next Iraq, meaning the next Middle Eastern country where Christians emerge as primary victims of the chaos following the disintegration of a police state.
A Vatican spokesman called the kidnappings "a dramatic confirmation of the tragic situation in which the Syrian people and its Christian community are living."
According to a report from the Asia News agency, the two bishops were stopped at gunpoint by armed men Monday on their way to the city of Aleppo. A catechist traveling with them was shot to death while the two bishops were forced out of the car and taken away.
The prelates involved are the Syriac Orthodox bishop of Aleppo, Msgr. Youhanna Ibrahim, and the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Aleppo and Iskenderun, Msgr. Boulos al-Yaziji. Both are well known in Rome as veterans of ecumenical dialogue with the Catholic church.
The identity of their kidnappers remains unclear, but sources in Syria say kidnapping of Christians has become a growth industry as various armed factions look for ways to fund their activities. (Read more here.)
Seven House Church Leaders Sentenced to Prison
4/21/2013 China (ChinaAid) – Also in Henan, seven house church leaders were sentenced on April 1 to prison sentences ranging from three to 7-1/2 years, according to the well-known Christian lawyer Li Baiguang. Their defense lawyers received the verdict and sentencing papers just last week.
Han Hai, 7-1/2 year sentence, male, aged 60, previously administratively detained twice, was also sentenced to a labor camp for three years. Now held in the Ye County Detention Center.
Hu Linpo, seven year sentence, from Singapore, male, aged 49, the house church's main preacher, was detained in 1989 for 30 days. Criminally detained on April 18 and is now held in the Ye County Detention Center.
Yang Lianbing, three-year sentence, male, aged 23, working in Zhengzhou. Now held in the Ye County Detention Center.
Zhang Mian, four-year sentence, female, aged 37, owner of the residence where the church meets. Criminally detained on April 20, now held in the Pingdingshan Detention Center.
Cao Xia, 3-1/2-year sentence, female, in her 50s, owner of another residence where the church meets. Police seized from her home CDs of Hu Linpo preaching and a computer used to make copies of the sermon CDs. Police also confiscated a Chinese-made Liebao SUV parked outside Cao's home that belonged to a Christian man who was there to listen to the preaching. Cao was criminally detained on April 20 and is now held in the Pingdingshan Detention Center.
Wang En, three-year sentence, female, in her 20s, taken from Cao Xia's home, said to have helped make copies of Preacher Hu's sermon CDs. Held in the Ye County Detention Center.
Li Dan, three-year sentence, female, in her 20s, taken from Cao Xia's home, probably for copying CDs. Held in the Pindingshan Detention Center. (Read more here.)


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A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette narrates the following incident as having occurred recently down on the Tennessee river:–
A rebel Captain was taken by a Yankee ruse that must have struck him as exceedingly unchivalric. He was out on picket duty. – One of our scouts came suddenly on him at a point where two of his pickets were posted. – Fortunately the scout was quick witted, or the capture might have been on the other side. – "Who are you?" he boldly inquired of the first rebel he reached. "I'm a picket." "Well, so am I, but a little off my post, looking around for the Yankees." "Where is your post?" asked the Captain; "You have no business to be away from it." "Come this way and I'll show you," responded the scout. The moment he got out of sight of the two privates, he quietly informed the officer that he was a picket on the other side, and would have to take him along! And he actually marched the Captain in, sword, pistols, shoulder straps and all.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 5, 1862, p. 1

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Review | Lily's Philippine Restaurant & Bakery
Updated 10:11 pm, Friday, November 2, 2012
The crown-shaped bread almost seemed like an afterthought, something to pick up on the way out from a satisfying lunch.
That is, until you taste it. Slightly sweet, similar to a brioche, with a generous topping of butter, sugar and shredded cheese, it rocked a weekday afternoon. But it would make for a good snack with coffee any time of day.
It was called ensaymada, and it's one of many tasty dishes at Lily's Philippine Restaurant & Bakery.
This restaurant has been around since 1996, serving home cooking from the Philippines to a loyal clientele.
Just keep in mind that it is a business with a family feel, so sometimes items run out and service may have some inconsistencies. On the other hand, folks here were happy to answer questions about the dishes, as if they understand the importance of serving as ambassadors of their cuisine. It's all part of the charm.
The dishes here are solid, such as lechon kawali, deep-fried pork that is happiness on a plate. Lechón, in Spain and in many of its former Spanish colonies (including the Philippines), refers to a roasted whole suckling pig. But lechon kawali consists of pork — usually pork belly — that has been either steamed or boiled and then deep fried to produce nuggets of crisp skin and tender meat. Here, the meat is cut first and then deep-fried, so the effect is almost like pork cracklings. It's served with plain white rice and paired with either a soy sauce-based dip or a thicker sauce that almost has dried fruit overtones.
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Along those same lines is the crispy pata. Pata refers to an animal's foot in Spanish. In this case, it meant a ham hock that has been steamed and then deep-fried. Maybe this is rationalizing eating such fatty food, but eating a good amount of white rice while enjoying these fried dishes doesn't leave a heavy feeling in the gut.
One dish that spotlights whole fried fish, the daing bangus (also called daing na bangus), is first marinated in a vinegar-based sauce and then served with sliced tomatoes and diced green onions, and it's satisfying.
The lumpia, the Philippines version of egg rolls, are also very good. The combination of the crisp wrapper with flavorful filling of pork, shredded carrots, onion and garlic works. Be aware, this dish sells quickly. It was sold out when we returned for a dinner visit.
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Lily's Philippine Restaurant & Bakery
8210 Glider Ave., off Loop 410 between U.S. 90 and Marbach Road
Hit: Lumpia, kaldereta, lechon kawali, biko, meche flan.
Miss: Dry meat in adobo pork.
Noteworthy: Dessert selection based on availability
Lighter Choice: Sinigang Bangus (fish soup in tamarind and ginger broth)
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Food: ***
Service: ***
Ambience: **1/2
Price range: Most items $4.59-$9.95; whole fried fish dishes $9.99-$12.99. Hours: 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday (dining area closes at 6:30 p.m.), 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday
Ratings key: **** Excellent | *** Very good | ** Average | * Poor
Express-News dining critics pay for all meals.
But this place is more than just fried items. After all, what's more home-style than a good stew?
Perhaps the best, the kaldereta, brings together beef with tomatoes, potatoes, olives, chiles and other aromatics to produce a stew of deep, rich flavor.
The kare-kare, a different stewed beef dish, adds bok choy and eggplant in a mild peanut sauce, and is served with a salted shrimp paste. For some, it may be an acquired taste.
The chicken adobo, a soulful classic, entails slowly stewing the meat in a mixture of soy sauce, vinegar, water and spices until the liquid reduces into a sauce. The version here is absolutely lovely. Pork adobo, while using a similar sauce, yielded dry meat.
Then, there are the desserts. The most familiar to a South Texas palate, leche flan, is a rich version of the classic flan that includes a sweet caramel syrup.
Biko was easy to love. It's a sticky rice cake made with coconut milk and sweetened with brown sugar. It's a little like a sticky rice dessert but amped up.
The sapin sapin takes the basic elements of rice flour, coconut milk and sugar to yield a layered, multicolored dessert with almost a gelatin texture. It's not as sweet as the biko, but it sure was a lot of fun.


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Submission + - CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL
An anonymous reader writes: Lance Davis, the main project administrator for CentOS, a popular free "rebuild" of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux, appears to have gone AWOL. In an open letter from his fellow CentOS developers, they describe the precarious situation the project has been put in. There have been attempts to contact him for some time now, as he's the sole administrator for the centos.org domain, the IRC channels, and apparently, CentOS funds. One can only hope that Lance gets in contact with them and gets things sorted out.


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Submission + - China censor software team verging on collapse (bbc.co.uk)
katarn writes: Apparently domestic and international pressure, security vulnerabilities, and a 2.2Bn lawsuit over alleged stolen code have taken their toll on China's Green Dam software censorship program. Green Dam is a separate program from the "Great Firewall of China", which remains firmly in place. According to Green Dam program partners, funding for the project has not been renewed. The project development team has been shut down and the installation and aftercare team is facing closure. Unsurprisingly there has been no official comment from official Chinese authorities.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Poets Todd Davis and Julia Kasdorf will give a reading of their works Nov. 15 at 5 p.m. in the Stadler Center for Poetry in Bucknell Hall at Bucknell University.
The reading is free and open to the public.
Davis is the author of four books of poems, The Least of These (2010), Household of Water, Moon, and Snow: The Thoreau Poems (2010), Some Heaven (2007), and Ripe (2002). He edited the nonfiction collection, Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball (2012) and co-edited Making Poems: 40 Poems with Commentary by the Poets (2010).
His poetry has been featured on the radio by Garrison Keillor on "The Writer's Almanac" and by Ted Kooser in his syndicated newspaper column "American Life in Poetry."
Davis teaches creative writing and environmental studies at Penn State University's Altoona College.
Kasdorf is the author of three collections of poetry, Sleeping Preacher (1992), which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize; Eve's Striptease (1998); and, most recently, Poetry in America (2011).
She also has published a collection of essays, The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life, winner of the 2002 Book of the Year Award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature, and a monograph, Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American.
With Michael Tyrell she co-edited the anthology, Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn.
An associate professor of English and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University, Kasdorf teaches in the MFA program in creative writing.Contact: Division of Communications
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- Oil and natural gas production did rise in the past four years, much of it on private land
- Romney: The whole rise in U.S. gas and oil production "happened on private land"
- Romney: Obama "cut the number of permits and licenses in half" -- which isn't quite true
The facts show, and President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney agree, that U.S. production of oil and gas has increased over the past four years.
But is this rise because of Obama, or "in spite of his policies," as the former Massachusetts governor said at Wednesday night's debate?
"All of the increase in natural gas and oil has happened on private land, not on government land," Romney said. "On government land, your administration has cut the number of permits and licenses in half."
The facts:
The Republican nominee's assertions can be broken down into two parts. The first has to do whether "all of the increases in natural gas and oil" under Obama are attributable to drilling on private land, rather than federal and Indian lands and offshore areas.
This statement raises a few questions. Firstly, has there been more oil and gas production, relatively, on private lands versus federal lands? Secondly, does the federal government, through regulations and license approvals, have any impact on oil and gas production on private land? And last, can "all" the increase in production be tied to production on private lands?
There is no dispute that natural gas production on private lands has increased. Adam Sieminski, head of the U.S. Energy Information Administration, told a congressional subcommittee in August that it went up "by 16.4 billion cubic feet per day" from fiscal year 2005 to fiscal year 2011, which ended September 30, 2011 -- a period that includes parts of the administrations of both President George W. Bush and Obama.
Meanwhile, natural gas production on federal and Indian lands has steadily fallen, a trend that began around fall 2002. This is due to a consistent decrease in offshore gas drilling, though such gas production onshore, on federal lands, is actually higher now than it was at the end of the Bush administration.
Overall, the percentage of U.S.-produced natural gas from federal lands -- relative to that produced from private ones -- fell significantly over the past eight years, from 35% to 21%, reported Sieminski.
Oil production is more a mixed bag. On state and private lands, oil production was actually going down in the 2000s, leveled off between fiscal years 2007 and 2010, then went up by 385,000 barrels a day in fiscal year 2011, when the most recent data are available, Sieminski said.
On federal and Indian lands, as well as federally approved offshore drilling sites, oil production went up from 1.6 million barrels per day to 2 million barrels per day between fiscal years 2008 and 2010. But it dropped to 1.8 million barrels per day for the last fiscal year available, a decrease that the U.S. Energy Information Administration attributes to the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Despite the one-year drop in production, oil production on federal and Indian lands from 2009 through 2011 totaled 2.027 million barrels. That's an average of 675,000 barrels per year during Obama's term, compared to an average annual production of 609,000 barrels annually during Bush's last term.
Now, moving onto the second part of Romney's statement -- that Obama's "administration has cut the number of permits and licenses in half."
The Institute for Energy Research, a nonprofit research and advocacy group that has been critical of Obama, asserted in a September 26 report that the rate of oil and gas leasing (or licenses, as Romney stated) "has slowed by about half."
It then directs readers to a chart on the federal Bureau of Land Management's website.
This chart does show that fewer leases have been granted under the first three years of Obama's administration, compared to the last few years under Bush. Fewer drilling permits have also been issued, for these lands.
During the last three fiscal years totally under Bush, there were 9,661 "new leases" granted for federal lands. For the three most recent fiscal years (which includes a few months of Bush's administration), there were 5,568 such new leases. This works out to a 42.4% decrease.
Take the same comparable periods for drilling permits on federal lands. There were 20,479 for the last three years under Bush, then 12,821 for the most recent three including much of Obama's first term. This is a 37.4% decrease.
There has been more oil and natural production on private lands than in federally controlled areas. So Romney is correct in pointing out an imbalance.
But it is an overstatement to say that "all of the increase" has been on private lands -- since, by definition, new permits and licenses have been granted for federal lands (bringing in more gas and oil).
Romney's claim that Obama's administration has "cut the number of permits and licenses in half" for federal lands is also not on the mark.
True, there has been a significant drop -- one tied, in part, to the unprecedented Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Yet the actual numbers of permits and licenses haven't been "cut ... in half." As mentioned above (and including data from part of the Bush administration), there has been a 42% decrease in leases and 37% decrease in drilling permits -- not 50%, as Romney implied.
Even the Institute for Energy Research acknowledged that "this decrease isn't a result of President Obama's policies exclusively, but it is the result of decades and policies that have systematically reduced energy production on federal lands."


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Hey EDV! I finally got my hands on a Roomba robot that I could try with the Nav programs. I went through all of the items and tutorials. When I placed the robot in the NAV mode, it moved. All others did not move unless I used the arrows to train them. The Nav by map mode showed the progress, but I could not get it to move by clicking on Left mouse. When I clicked on Left mouse it did not do anything. I would like to make that work. Can it work on it's own, or do I have to train it in one of the other modes?
This is quite different from autonomous robot navigation.
Can you explain more about how the system would determine what video interests the user?
it does not invariant to rotation or mirroring


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I'm installing Slackware from the LXF66 coverdisc (DVD). I've done everything exactly as the magazine tells me to. The only thing I did differently was that I chose to install the KDE internationisation package as well.
fc-cache has been sitting there for over half an hour. Is it still working or has it hung?
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The independent film studio The Weinstein Company announced its own video game label today, called TWC Games. The new division will work with developers and publishers on mobile, social, and console games based on the movie properties of TWC and Dimension Films. TWC Games is consulting with Beefy Media, a game production and consulting company, to find publishing partners for their games.
Though the announcement today didn't name any games in development, it did mention a few examples of TWC and Dimension properties like Scream, Hellraiser, Scary Movie, and Children of the Corn. This means we might finally see that horror-based Farmville knock-off we've always wanted.
"The video game marketplace is changing at such a rapid rate," said TWC co-chairman Bob Weinstein. "With all of the digital platoforms, there are so many opportunities to broaden our audience with compelling, high quality, cost-efficient, video game entertainment." Because if one phrase gets gamers excited, it's cost-efficient.


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DOWNERS GROVE – Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill this week allowing the Illinois Tollway to publish the names of toll violators who owe more than $1,000 on the agency's website.
The bill follows a crackdown by the agency last September when it filed administrative judgments against the scofflaws in court. The Tollway filed 187 administrative judgments and collected nearly $500,000, according to the agency.
It began publishing the violators names this week with an initial "Super Scofflaw" list of 157 businesses that the Tollway filed lawsuits against in circuit court, as well as an estimated dollar amount for each. In all, these scofflaws owe the Tollway nearly $3.7 million.
The lone Downers Grove business on the list is Workman Land Survey, which the Tollway said owes $26,699 in fines and missed tolls.
Its owner Bill Workman and several other business on the list dispute claims made by the Tollway that it contacted each of the violators at least nine times and offered multiple opportunities to enter into a settlement agreement, including the option to use a payment plan to settle their debts.
He said in a phone interview that the unpaid tolls occurred when he cancelled a stolen credit card that he forgot was linked to an I-Pass transponder.
"We called them and told them the situation – 'We forgot to update our credit card, can we just pay the tolls or whatever?'" he said. "They said they were going to set up a hearing. They never set it up. They never contacted me."
Businesses in other cities told the Chicago Tribune similar accounts, and said they were not contacted by the Tollway, nor offered payment plans.
Most of the businesses on the list are trucking companies and transportation businesses like limousine and taxi services.
The list includes 47 businesses who owe less than $5,000, 36 who owe from $5,000 to $9,999, 34 who owe $10,000 to $24,999, 17 who owe $25,000 to $49,999, 15 who owe $50,000 to $99,999 and eight who owe $100,000 or more.
The top violator on the list is Linda Transport of Frankfort, which the Tollway claims owes $214,859.10.


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I think it's safe to say that almost everyone on the planet has been hurt in a past relationship. If you haven't yet, then you will at some point. Heart-break happens. It will either be a personal relationship, or a business partnership or a friendship. It's not always in the love and relationship category, but many times it is.
Today I want to talk about trusting even after you've been hurt.
As a man, I believe that it is important to show up and to be consistent – to be THERE for your woman. This is one of my primary commitments to Jenna.
I think that one of the most valuable things in the whole world is the heart of the woman you love (Jenna, I love you baby!). And I believe that it is a man's duty as part of loving his woman to protect her heart and never let it break.
Ladies, how many of you have been hurt in the past? My guess is, most of, if not all of you. Because of this, it's vital that we guys understand that you are protecting your heart.
I've learned that women really want a man who is consistent, who shows up for her and who doesn't waiver. It's a man's grounded, single-pointed focus on following his purpose, plus showing up for his woman that proves to her that she can open to him. A woman just can't open herself and give herself fully to a man she doesn't trust. (Editor's note: This article is written about "men" and "women" but applies to all relationships; if you are in a gay relationship, substitute "man" and "woman" for "masculine" and "feminine" energy. Each person occupies one of those energies, even in a gay relationship.)
Given that many women have been hurt in the past, many of them have closed down to protect themselves. This doesn't mean they don't want love. Au contraire. All women truly want is to be loved, to be seen, to be felt and to be INTIMATE. But none of those things are possible without first establishing trust.
This is why I think it's important to develop a solid friendship and base before diving deep into sex. I've seen that a woman who has been hurt in the past will sometimes rush to bed or have a fling with a guy that she doesn't have feelings for. BUT – when there are feelings, when there's chemistry, many times that is scary and she closes up even more. But really, deep down, I believe that she is waiting for the right man to see her, let her test him and to remain solid.
There is a fine line between what I just described and her not being into you. So know the difference.
But many times, amazing love could blossom on the other side of having patience and just showing up for her. When a woman gives her heart, it is her everything. It is so strong and capable of such love, but at the same time it is so fragile and can be hurt very easily.
So, today, don't give up on her. Give into love. Get to know her. Don't rush. Remember, when it comes to Love, sometimes the patient path is the fastest way. You can have amazing intimacy without sex. And when you build a friendship and intimacy up and let the energy build, you are preparing yourself to be in the most fulfilling, wonderful and sexually exciting relationship you could imagine. Sex without love is fun, but sex WITH love is Divine and the highest form of union between two people.
Call her bluff. See her hesitancy not as rejection, but as a test to see if you are going to leave or stay. She will open up and give herself to the steadfast man whom she trusts. Be that man. Sometimes you have to fight for love. And sometimes you just have to show up, be present and let it emerge.
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It looks like there must be some global creationist group that is directing traffic to the story, as every comment makes just that same arguement. I guess the creationist party line is that the "flood" wiped out the dinosaurs.
65 million years is crazy-talk, that's 64,994,000 years before God made the Earth!
Ever wondered what god the dinosaurs fought wars and slaughtered each other in the name of?
Finally, as a Christian myself, I humbly ask that slashdotters stop seeing every article that deals with dinosaurs, evolution/Darwin, stem cells or genetics as an excuse to slap me in the face with it. The only thing worse that pushing your religion on others is trying to take other's religion away.
Maybe if you read TFA, you'd recognize that the reason there's such a hubbub on Slashdot regarding this article is that a large percentage of the comments on the article were left by ultra-conservative fundamenta
You're confused. That was the synapsids in the Permian with their unchecked Volcano Maker Pro users.
The KT Event was a case of the dinos getting waaaaaaaaaaaay too excited over their Orbital Dynamics for Dummies books.
A tad bit more seriously. Take that Gerta Keller [wikipedia.org]!
I was *not* a meteor impact that killed the dinosaurs, it was global warming.Nice try, there, Q, but I still think you did it.
He is Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. He was born in 65,000,000 BC in the village of the Cephalopods on the shores of Loch Shiel. And he is immortal.
The interest in the article is that they have found a single sediment with both the K-T boundary marked by loss of marine plankton species and debris from the impact at the same level. So they can look at date difference without needing absolute dates and without the errors possible in isotopic geochemistry.
This is really misleading- there may be other craters out there, but there is certainly nothing else out there like Chicxulub. The Chicxulub crater is one of the largest meteorite craters ever discovered; vastly larger than anything we've ever seen in human history or anything that's happened in the past 65 million years. The rock or comet responsible for it is thought to have been about 10km in diameter, travelling at tens of thousands of miles per hour; in terms of energy released by that blast, we're talking about something that would have made a full-scale nuclear exchange between the US and USSR look like a couple of kids playing with fireworks. It is estimated that a Chicxulub-scale impact occurs on the order of once every 100 million years, if that often.
The end-Cretaceous mass extinction, meanwhile is one of the five largest mass extinctions to occur in the past half-billion years. In other words, a 1-in-100 million year event. What are the odds of two such large scale, exceptionally rare events occurring simultaneously? Pretty much nil. True, there may be a few scientists out there who debate whether the K-T extinction was caused by the Chicxulub, and they try to poke holes in the Alvarez extinction hypothesis. But they haven't been able to present a compelling alternative to it.
Finally, ammonites go right up to the K-T boundary. In a paper in PNAS, Pope et al. show stratigraphic ranges of ammonites; the majority of ammonites extend to within a few tens of thousands of years of the K-T boundary and many go extinct right at the boundary.
there may be other craters out there, but there is certainly nothing else out there like Chicxulub.
Oh? What about the Shiva crater [wikipedia.org]?
The Shiva crater, along with the Boltysh crater [wikipedia.org] and the Silverpit crater [wikipedia.org], are all dated to about the same time as the Chicxulub crater [wikipedia.org], and this brought up the multiple impact theories.
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Karachi: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), in a first, has issued short term four month contracts to six cricketers who were not included in the original list of players to be given central contracts earlier this year.
A official in the board confirmed that pace bowlers, Mohammad Talha, Mohammad Sami, Tabish Khan and Umaid Asif, all-rounder Fawad Alam and leg-spinner Yasir Shah have been given four-month contracts worth Rs 40,000 per month from September to December.
"These players were given the short term contracts after the board committee and selectors reviewed their performances of late," the official said.
"These players were not included in the original list of players given central contracts and retainers in May," he added.
The players with central contracts and retainers are being paid a much higher monthly retainer as compared to the ones given the short term contracts.
For instance, category 'A' players in the central contracts get 313,000 monthly, while those given retainers also get paid around 75,000 per month.
This fact obviously has left the six players unhappy. The board had faced criticism for omitting Sami and Talha in particular, from the original list after their fine performances in domestic and international cricket.
Sami was neither given a central contract nor a retainer despite being named in the squad for all three formats of the game for the tour of Sri Lanka in July.
The PCB, in a major blooper, also announced a retainer for Peshawar batsman Bismillah Khan who had already been banned for an altercation in a Grade-II match last season.
The criticism led to the PCB chief Zaka Ashraf asking a special committee to review the whole matter and the matter was also raised at the last governing council after which the board decided to award the short term contracts.
One of the players noted that they had suffered for no fault of theirs.
"Now even when the board has tried to make amends it has done it half heartedly giving us four months and a low retainer. There is no mention about the months wasted this year," a player said.


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An amazing World Cup ends today in Brazil, with Argentina and Germany playing for the coveted crown in the world's biggest sporting event.
An amazing World Cup ends today in Brazil, with Argentina and Germany playing for the coveted crown in the world's biggest sporting event.
When the teams meet on the pitch in Rio de Janeiro, I'll be thinking of Gunter Konold.
Now retired, the Stocktonian is what I would call a very discerning newspaper reader and overall consumer of news.
Over the years, we've swapped emails or phone calls about Pixie Woods (one of his passions), the stock market, local government and more. Oh, and soccer - football to Gunter.
An occasional letter to the editor writer, he even penned one about the differences between the two sports to coincide with Super Bowl weekend in February.
When this World Cup began, Gunter was in Germany visiting family. When it ends today, he hopes to be celebrating a championship.
The passion and patriotism of the World Cup is riveting. As is the competition.
Yet many Americans will brush aside soccer for another four years - sort of the way they do Olympic figure skating and gymnastics - after today's match. It's not that way everywhere. Major League Soccer is beginning to thrive throughout the United States, and smaller club teams - one recently started in Sacramento - are playing to sellout crowds.
There also is increased American interest in the prestigious European leagues, as well as the Mexican leagues.
There's an interesting dichotomy between much of the rest of the world and many Americans in regards to different facets of the sport. Much of the world thinks soccer is as it should be. Many Americans see big problems with World Cup and international soccer.
I'll admit to being one of the latter. The timing probably isn't good here - sorry, Gunter - but on the day the championship is going to be decided, I'm going to pick some soccer nits:
� The problem: Is every player on every World Cup team the soccer equivalent of Vlade Divac? Flop, flop, flop, flop. Oh, yeah, and flop ... There certainly is real contact (just ask Brazilian superstar Neymar Jr.) but, for the most part, some of these athletes would drop to the ground if they were brushed with a feather.
� The solution: Yellow - and then red - cards for blatant floppers. That is currently an option, but it's rarely, if ever, called. Referees should have limited video review of flops to see if the foul is real or imagined. There's enough time for a look at the replay, considering how long many players writhe in pain after falling to the turf.
� The problem: It happens five or six times every game. A player slips behind the defense and either scores or is in position to score. But then "the flag is up." And, sadly, defenders often will help intentionally create an offsides violation when they appear vulnerable to giving up a goal.
� The solution: Eliminate offsides. Period. If an attacker gets behind your defense, then that's on you. Yes, hockey also has offsides. But in basketball, if you get behind the defense, you make a slam dunk or layup - you don't look to see if the flag is up.
� The problem: After the teams playing 90 minutes (plus stoppage time), if the score is tied, teams play two 15-minute overtimes. It doesn't matter if one team scores, they will complete the 30 extra minutes. This often leads to one - or both - teams trying to tread water for a half hour so the game will remain tied.
� The solution: The so-called "golden goal." First team to score wins. This works. Trust me. It's been tried in other sports.
� The problem: I wanted to scream at my television as the Netherlands and Argentina played to a scoreless - sorry, nil-nil - tie for 120-plus minutes and then decided who would meet Germany for the championship with penalty kicks. This is akin to deciding the World Series by playing Home Run Derby; or deciding the NBA Finals with a slam-dunk contest.
� The solution: For the semifinals and finals, if the score is tied, play until someone scores. It doesn't matter - 120 minutes, 240 minutes, until September, until 2015 - play until someone scores an actual goal.
Thus ends my arguably pedestrian quibbles with the wonderful specter of World Cup soccer. To paraphrase the British announcers on ESPN, "Klocke are through."
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Rick Rieder, BlackRock's CIO of fundamental fixed income, says that if the economy stays on its current track, the Federal Reserve could announce the timing of its first rate hike as soon as next month, and that the rate-hike process itself could get underway in March.
"If the August payroll report shows continued labor market improvement, watch for a policy transition announcement at the Fed's September meeting," Rieder writes in a blog post this week. "Assuming that the upcoming jobs report, due out September 5, confirms the recent improving employment trend, the Fed will have room to potentially lay out its transition game plan, including the metrics to focus on regarding the pace of rate normalization, at its September FOMC meeting. The press conference for this meeting provides the Fed with much explanatory potential."
Rieder says a September transition announcement could lead to rate normalization beginning as early as March; otherwise he expects the rate rise to begin in May or June of next year and proceed slowly until the federal funds rate moves "closer to 3%" from the 0%-0.25% range where it's been since late 2008. He says Fed's pace "will most likely be very deliberate, and much slower than any exit strategy (rate hiking cycle) in the past" while topping out at a neutral federal funds rate lower than the 4% it has been at historically. More from Rieder:
In short, we're at the beginning of a sooner-than-expected, and very significant, period of transition for Fed monetary policy, and given today's slow economic growth, the path toward normalizing rates is likely to involve a slower pace and a well-defined lower rate destination than past exits.
As for what this means for markets and the economy, news of a rate rise plan could disrupt markets in the near term, but I don't expect to see another market reaction like the 2013 "taper tantrum" following the Fed's taper announcement.
Rather, assuming the Fed clearly lays out its transition plan and key metrics and articulates that this exit strategy won't look like the rapid ones of the past, the long-end of the interest rate curve should move up only modestly and remain relatively stable in coming months as the yield curve flattens, and markets should be able to adjust fairly smoothly.


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Just wondering why this seems to be the case.
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Just wondering why this seems to be the case.
If that's true, then debt is most likely the reason. States can spend money to prop things up for a bit but when the debt needs to be repaid, see what happens.
Define higher education rates.
Just because a higher percentage of kids are graduating doesn't mean they are actually educated. Most of the time they grade kids on a curve based on the dumbest kid in class. This is socialism of grades. Robbing from the intellegent and giving to the idiots. I would have to imagine that this Halle s more in a socialist state in order to make themselves and public education look better. For the children of course.
You need to check out a district map. Generally, but not always, blue districts are more densely populated. This leads to more opportunity.
For example, if you have a job requiring an advanced degree, where do you put it to use? Usually in a city.
As far as people below the poverty line, I'd have to see your data.
"And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works." - Bastiat
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire
I'm specifically looking for a chart of states by their debt in order.
You might try and transpose the word "education" with the word "indoctrination". Which union is the most left? The teachers union.
War; everything in the world wrong, evil and immoral combined into one and multiplied by millions.
higher taxes, higher debt, more social services, what's surprising about it?
"Below the poverty line" is misleading as it just measures income, a person without income can be either farming and eating on his own, or homeless and begging, which would vary widely from blue state to rural red state.
California vs. Texas...where would you rather be if judging based solely on the state's economy?
Part of the poverty part is that blue states tend to have higher cost of living and wages, and the poverty level is calculated on a national, not regional, basis.
"Integrity means having to say things that people don't want to hear & especially to say things that the regime doesn't want to hear. -Ron Paul
"Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it." -Edward Snowden
People who are educated from the red states often move to blue states because the opportunities for jobs are usually found there, while many of the red states are more agricultural/working class.
For instance--someone I knew from rural WV got her degrees, then moved to DC for her job.
Just speculation though.
Those who want liberty must organize as effectively as those who want tyranny. -- Iyad el Baghdadi
There is a slight correlation to red states having less debt, but not a strong correlation.
For instance (against the trend), Delaware and Maryland (blue states) are low on debt. Kentucky, South Carolina, and Kansas (red states) are all pretty bad.
In fact, KY is the second worst behind NY. Rand and Massie should really yell at the state legislature there.
(And for the record, I am defining red and blue based on how each state fell in this last presidential election. Yes I know that red-blus is oversimplified.)
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Higher education rates does not have a direct bearing on poverty line. Think India.
http://www.timbro.se/bokhandel/pdf/9175665646.pdf - This is a must read for you intellectuals. Written by a Swedish Think Tank, it points out that "poor" Americans have more appliances, bigger houses and bigger TVs than middle class Europeans.
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* Enforce Border Security America should be guarding her own borders and enforcing her own laws instead of policing the world and implementing UN mandates.
* No Amnesty - The Obama Administrations endorsement of so-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform, granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, will only encourage more law-breaking.
* Abolish the Welfare State Taxpayers cannot continue to pay the high costs to sustain this powerful incentive for illegal immigration. As Milton Friedman famously said, you cant have open borders and a welfare state.
* End Birthright Citizenship As long as illegal immigrants know their children born here will be granted U.S. citizenship, well never be able to control our immigration problem.
Reprinted from http://www.ronpaul2012.com/the-issues/immigration/ [Nov. 29, 2011]
Not necessarily. You "develop" a more liberal outlook during college, perhaps you haven't been there? Often that's where people start forming political opinions, because of friends, courses, etc.
The example I gave you, this girl got her master's degree, went to DC, met her husband at work--they both have high-paying jobs. Now they have a $900,000 home and two kids.
Her "conservatism" was left behind. I'd say she's a "conservative" democrat, as is the rest of her new family. And they'll all stay in a blue state, vote democrat, kids will be educated at a private school.
As I said though--that's what makes sense to me.
My father was educated, very conservative, same with my mom. And I grew up in a blue state, went to college and grad school. I'm not working right now, but if I stay in my field (biotech/analytical chemistry), there aren't many options in red states.
Those who want liberty must organize as effectively as those who want tyranny. -- Iyad el Baghdadi
You get educated (indoctrinated) in the Empire to learn how to spend other people's money. University degrees, licenses, official titles, etc are basically licenses to steal. That's why more "educated" people tend to make more money.
And a number of other states are almost as scary. And the bluer, the scarier.
In other words, you can liquor up for quite a while with seemingly "free" or nearly "free" education, generous "anti-poverty" programs, etc. etc.
And he party is great - while it lasts. But when it's over and keg runs dry, the hangover will be a cast-iron bitch.
For further on this matter, I would refer you to the fable of the ant and the grasshopper.
Insanity should be defined as trusting the government to solve a problem they caused in the first place. Please do not go insane!
Those who want liberty must organize as effectively as those who want tyranny. -- Iyad el Baghdadi
This is like asking, "Why is it that more chocolate coming out of Hershey factories are stamped "HERSHEY"?
Education, with all its massive subsidies, government controls, accreditation scams and such, is hardly a free market. The old adage, "Follow the money" applies here perfectly. One might just as easily ask, "Why does academia attract more fiscal progressives than fiscal conservatives?" It's not exactly a head scratcher if you get it out of inane aggregate-thinking, and break it down.
The word 'Education' is meaningless without a breakdown of who is attracted, what is being taught, and more importantly, to what end. Education is NOT an homogenous blob, but it certainly gets counted that way, as we look at "more education" and "less education" only -- which in turn is supposed to imply informed vs. ignorant, or 'smarter vs. dumber'.
A PhD in the liberal arts is counted as being the equivalent to a PhD in business. All PhD's have ties to careers, and all careers have ties to public and private sectors. An education that applies to a strictly private sector career, with no economic advantages or ties to state funding of any kind, is likely to result in someone voting for a party or candidate that is more favorable to their own funding, their own careers, their own survival and personal interests.
If we had a truly free market, and education was just another perfectly competitive industry player in that free market (and it most certainly is anything but), with no economic distortions, all of the results would be different.
I present papers at the Geological Society of America. I am an anomaly there, as all of my research is self-funded. These are all "educated", often HIGHLY educated, individuals. In that field. It's mostly a bunch of tenured college professors and their students, and out of the thousands that attend the convention, I would be absolutely shocked if I learned that more than 5% were politically conservative. Most of the buzz is about the latest hot-spot sources of government funding opportunities, with many of them trying desperately to find a "free market" angle to their knowledge.
So I don't scratch my head and wonder why a state-paid educator, a state-paid geologist, and someone with a degree in French comparative literature who is looking for grant to fund her next paper might be more likely to vote Democrat. They are indeed "more educated", and even "better informed"--about where their own bread is buttered.
The "educated" are the very FIRST to realize Alexander Fraser Tytler's prophetic axiom, that a Democracy "...can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury." It is precisely because of their educations that they become The First Aware Majorities that actually cause a Democracy to devolve into nothing but a kleptocracy.
As for red states and blue states, think population sizes versus higher education centers only, and where they tend to be located in the largest numbers. Not GDP (which includes government), not income levels, or anything else. From there you only have to quantify what "education" really means.
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Big cities attract Socialists, you have poor , working poor and wealthy , the wealthy run for office and hand out stuff to the large populations of poor to gain power , get elected and remain overlords of the doofuses. Think , Chicago , LA, etc , welfare cities. States with these, have a population that can out vote the rest of the ordinary , more fiscally reasonable population. The Republic is dead, the Socialists out number the remainder of the population, think , California , Penn ( Philadelphia ) , Illinois etc.
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The American Sentinel-Archangel, Russia
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G.A.F. The Gazette of the Archangel Force (English)
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The Hatchet, Tuesday, August 19, 1919
Thanksgiving Proclamation by Pres. Woodrow Wilson Published in Archangel, Nov. 25, 1918.
Letter from Embassy of the U.S.A. thanking Capt. Roger L. Lewis, A.R.C. for his work in publishing The American Sentinel.
Carbon copy of report of work of Red Cross, perhaps that referred to in above letter. (pages missing)
Letter from Brig. Genrl W.P. Richardson in thanks for The American Sentinel.
Report on trip to Railroad Front-April 30th, 1919 Lt. Fred Mason, A.R.C.
American Red Cross Mission to Russia-General Order No. 3 Sept. 23, 1918.
Safe conduct pass from Embas sy issued to Roger L. Lewis as special messenger. Oct. 13, 1917.
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Letter to Roger Lewis from Geroge Creek, Dec. 22, 1917. (Committee on Public Information)
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9 recognized as CSAT Dean's Scholars
To celebrate the College of Science and Technology's nine 2013 Dean's Scholars, more than 60 faculty members, family members and friends joined Dean J. Orion Rogers for a ceremony and reception on Saturday, April 27, in Reed Hall.
"The Dean's Scholars are students who have taken advantage of the opportunities provided by our faculty and made success happen," Rogers said. "They are an impressive and inspirational group of whom we are very proud."
Each CSAT Dean's Scholar is a graduating senior nominated by a faculty member representing one of the college's nine degree programs. Dean's Scholars have demonstrated success in the classroom, laboratory and other activities related to their chosen disciplines.
Beyond excelling in the classroom, the CSAT Dean's Scholars have been active in undergraduate student research—evaluating the hurricane wind damage in the Mississippi Delta, exploring molecular biology and researching biodiesel production, among other projects. They have also contributed by serving as a departmental system administrator, setting up and operating the college's seismograph and weather station.
"One of the most rewarding things for me as a teacher is to see a student develop from a tentative freshman to an eager scientist," Assistant Professor Kimberly Lane said as she introduced the Department of Chemistry's scholar, James Corwin Johnson. He and each of the other scholars were awarded a plaque and crimson stole to be worn with their caps and gowns at commencement.
Other 2013 CSAT Dean's Scholars are:
- Christopher Blanton, computer science.
- Ryan Bond, geology.
- Kimberly Filcek, biology.
- James Grenier, mathematics.
- Kathryn E. Grogan, physics.
- Eric Pidcock, anthropological sciences.
- Britta Sherman, geospatial science.
- Travis Smith, information science.
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ODELL — The late John Hazlett received a unique honor Sunday at Odell Fire Hall, with about 100 people gathering in the hot sun to observe the occasion.
The department dedicated its new $118,000 tender truck to the memory of Hazlett, a firefighter who in August 2001 died in the line of service.
"It's kind of extra special," said John Hazlett's mother, Arlene Hazlett of Odell. "John liked the idea of going out and helping people. He was very dedicated."
The occasion was the department's second annual memorial service to fallen firefighters, held at the memorial plaza that had been dedicated on Aug. 19, 2002, the one-year anniversary of Hazlett's death when his fire truck crashed en route to a fire.
"We keep our memories alive to remember those who left us too soon," said Odell chief Jeff Walker, before he and other firefighters unveiled the plaques bearing Hazlett's name, mounted on the side of the bright-yellow vehicle. A Federal Emergency Management Agency grant, one of just 500 nationwide, paid for the truck. Rep. Greg Walden presented the department with a U.S. flag that flew over the U.S. Capitol in honor the county's firefighters.
Hazlett's daughter, Echo, his parents Rufus and Arlene, and his brothers Gary and Dennis, of Prineville, and Larry of Hood River, and other family members attended the ceremony and preceding barbecue. One family member who was absent was John Hazlett's son, Matt, who is fighting fires in Montana.
"It's already in the family," said Dallas Hazlett, Dennis' wife.
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GRAYSON COUNTY, Tex. -- Grayson County officials handed out some much needed funding for community organizations on Monday morning.
The money includes a three-year contract with Sherman, Denison, and Rural County Fire Departments. The Fire Chief Association will disperse the lump sum of $375,000 each year to the departments based on number of runs, population, and distance traveled.
Another $32,000 was given to non-profit agencies, including $5,000 to the Crisis Center.
"I never cease to be impressed and thrilled with the community outpouring support of what we do," the Center's executive director, Kathy Crenshaw, said.
The Meals On Wheals program received $15,000, Frontier Village received $6,000, and over $6,000 will go to child welfare.


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I actually got the idea from TWGOK and Oreimo. Which, both main characters, are otakus. When I mean "us" above, I mean anime fans and otakus. I live in Malaysia and otakus are pretty open about their hobbies, boys or girls. So I never had problem adapting in the environment even if everyone around me hates anime. When I saw Oreimo, even Kirino's best friend couldn't accept that she was an otaku and she was afraid to let anyone know about it. I'm curious, did any of this happen on any of you?
Another is Keima Katsuragi from TWGOK. Does reality have to do with anime? No, it doesn't. I hate people saying "Anime and manga is fake." No, it's not fake. It exists in our hearts. I just want to hear everyone's thoughts about this.


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Crackdown on 'pill mills' puts genuine pain patients in a hard spot. Could medical marijuana be a solution to some of the suffering?
It might be the agony of bone cancer, a spine mangled by an auto accident, or unrelenting diabetic neuropathy.
It also could be the misery of Lou Gehrig's disease, which led Parrish's Cathy Jordan to use marijuana to make her days bearable. She was in the news last week when law enforcement officers, some in ski masks, raided her home over some marijuana plants.
Chronic pain can be a torment, driving some patients into clinical depression and even suicide. Many will try anything to find relief.
But marijuana is illegal here, and, in a state zealously working to shut down its so-called "pill mills," legitimate pain sufferers are finding it increasingly hard to find relief.
"Patients are ostracized and criminalized," said Paul Sloan, who runs two pain management clinics in Sarasota and Fort Myers. "There's a complete war on these suffering people."
Sloan helped develop Florida's prescription drug registry in 2011; doctors use it to see if the patient on the exam table asking for pain relief is instead making the rounds to build up a stash of highly addictive oxycodone or Vicodin.
Such seekers are the true targets of the crackdown, along with pharmacists and doctors who write and dispense prescriptions without checking anything on a patient but the depth of his or her financial wherewithal.
But what began as a legitimate attempt to erase Florida's embarrassing reputation as the epicenter of the nation's prescription drug epidemic has backfired, Sloan said.
"If you are a new patient trying to get your first prescription filled, you might as well move out of the state," he said. "It helps if the pharmacist knows you."
Even big pharmacy chains are under scrutiny by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
When the state began closing down the pill mills, some of their legitimate customers turned to chain pharmacies and mom-and-pop drug stores.
The jump in prescriptions filled at these pharmacies triggered even more raids — on them.
Last April, the DEA inspected six Walgreens pharmacies in Florida, including ones in Hudson, Port Richey, Fort Myers and Fort Pierce, as well as its state distribution center.
In September, the DEA called the distribution center an "imminent danger to the public safety" for failing to better control distribution of oxycodone and other controlled substances.
"All DEA registrants have an obligation to ensure that medications are getting in the hands of legitimate patients, and when they choose to look the other way, patients suffer and drug dealers prosper," said DEA Special Agent in Charge Mark R. Trouville.
Robert Florio, a Sarasota pain management specialist, says some patients began coming to him in tears because they could not find anyone willing to fill their prescriptions.
"Some of these people don't have easy access to pharmacies or easy transportation," Florio said. "Some of them have trouble ambulating from pharmacy to pharmacy because of pain."
Some drug stores began raising the price of pain medications due to supply and demand, Florio said
"Many patients have become very stressed and depressed over this," he said.
Both physicians say their patients are too frightened to speak up, fearing backlash by the DEA or local law enforcement.
When Sloan's patients began to report that Walgreens had refused to fill their prescriptions, he asked a pharmacist there why.
He was told the chain has a "secret policy" to decide who will get pain medication and who will not.
"You know, not all of these patients wear suits and drive nice cars," Sloan said. "Some of them are out of work because of their injuries."
He was recently at a Walgreens store in Venice when a longtime customer was handed a prepared statement.
It read: "Walgreens is working hard to ensure the safe dispensing of controlled pain medications. Based on my clinical review and professional judgment, the prescription does not meet the requirements we have put into place for dispensing these medications. Therefore we cannot fill this prescription in good faith at this or any other Walgreens. I apologize for any inconvenience."
When Sloan asked the pharmacist what the rules were, the pharmacist replied that they were secret but developed with the help of the DEA.
Jim Graham, spokesman for Walgreens corporate offices in Illinois, said he could not speak about these incidents without knowing the specifics.
However, he said by email, "Part of the professional role of a pharmacist has always included determining whether the prescription was issued for a legitimate medical purpose and whether it can be filled in good faith.
"That role also has always included the ability to decline filling a prescription that the pharmacist determines to be outside the usual course of professional practice," Graham said.
Sloan said some of his patients have reported feeling humiliated about going to the hospital in pain, sensing they are under immediate suspicion as drug addicts.
North Port's Joseph Majorino, 48, fell from a roof while on a construction job in 2007. The pain in his feet and ankles continues to be excruciating.
He now takes Vicodin every day, finding oxycodone too strong and other drugs too weak.
"I'm always looking over my shoulder," Majoriono said. "Even though I cut back on the Vicodin if I have to drive, I worry that if I'm pulled over for something, the cop will arrest me."
In an effort to help some Floridians in pain, legislators are introducing a bill, named for Cathy Jordan, to join the 18 states that already have made marijuana legal for medical purposes.
Although polls show the idea is growing in acceptance nationwide, some don't believe marijuana is the panacea for those in pain.
In a February article in The New England Journal of Medicine, Gary Reisfield, chief of pain medicine in the department of psychiatry at the University of Florida, wrote that pot isn't medicine and shouldn't be used in that way.
"Simply to allow a patient with uncontrolled symptoms of metastatic breast cancer to leave the office with a recommendation to smoke marijuana is to succumb to therapeutic nihilism," he wrote.
In a counterpoint article, Michael Bostwick, a psychiatrist at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, said that federal policy has not kept pace with scientific advances, and that "largely anecdotal but growing literature supports" the efficacy of marijuana for pain and nausea that do not respond to ordinary treatments.
Florida's Republican-dominated Legislature is unlikely to approve the medical marijuana bill, at least not on this first go-round. But if it passes, some patients say they will try marijuana and dump their legally prescribed pain medication.
Joan Marino Maser says she suffers from a number of physical problems.
"I live in extreme pain," she wrote in the online comments section on the Herald-Tribune's website, following a story on Jordan's situation. "I fall all the time and I keep getting worse, not better. Smoking a little marijuana would be a lot easier on my body than the 30-plus pills I take."
An advocacy group in support of medical marijuana conducted a poll that said 70 percent of voters supported this use.
An unscientific poll this week by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune showed 92 percent favored making medical marijuana legal.
Almost all of the comments on the Herald-Tribune website were in support of Jordan.
Deborah Lee expressed sympathy for those living in chronic pain.
"Anyone who is suffering should be allowed anything that relieves their suffering," she wrote.
Information from the Los Angeles Times was used in this report.


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Dr. T. Glen Reeves, 72, died Sunday, December 23, 2012, at Oktibbeha County Hospital in Starkville, MS. A memorial service for Glen will be held on Saturday, May 4, 2013, at 10:00 AM in the Chapel of Memories on the Mississippi State University campus. The Reverend Lynn Phillips-Gaines of the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in Starkville, MS, will officiate. Glen was born on August 11, 1940, in Wellington, TX, and raised in the Shinnery Community near the Texas-Oklahoma state line. His parents, William Coker Reeves and Pearl Bulls Reeves, owned and operated a gas station and general merchandise store twelve miles east of Wellington. Glen enjoyed his early childhood in Shinnery with his sisters, Gay and Jerry. Upon the closing of the school in Shinnery, Glen continued his education in the Wellington Schools, graduating in 1958. He was president of his senior class and president of the Student Council. During his high school years, he worked at Whites Auto and for D.C. Lacy & Sons wheat harvest crew. After high school graduation, he earned his bachelors and masters degrees in Education at West Texas State University in Canyon, TX, and his doctorate at East Texas State University in Commerce, TX. At East Texas, he was named the first Truax Scholar, awarded annually to the outstanding doctoral student in Counseling. While pursuing his doctorate, he was employed at East Texas as Director of Student Financial Aid. Glen began his teaching career as Assistant Professor of Counseling at Mississippi State University in Starkville, MS, in 1968, remaining there for thirty years and retiring as Professor Emeritus and Clinical Director of the Counseling and School Psychology Laboratory. He was a Licensed Professional Counselor and was appointed by the Governor to the State of Mississippi Licensure Board for Professional Counselors, serving a three-year term as Chair. Glen took a years leave from teaching to pursue a life-long dream of becoming a truck driver. He graduated from the Commercial Truck Driving Program at East Mississippi Community College in Mayhew, MS, in the fall of 1979 and drove an 18-wheeler until returning to the classroom in the fall of 1980. After retiring from MSU, Glen enjoyed a part-time job with Hi-Gain, a division of MFJ Enterprises in Starkville, MS, where he worked from 2000 until 2009. Former students attest to the profound impact Glen has had on their personal and professional lives and many became lifelong friends who loved, admired, and respected him. He was a master at teaching people to communicate in positive ways and to examine their own feelings. Glen was known as fun loving and a great story teller with a gentle spirit and kind words for all. He was a modern day Renaissance man, able to drive an 18-wheeler, counsel persons in distress, fix a tractor, tend a garden, and engage in scholarly discourse. He loved the challenge of a difficult crossword puzzle, reading nonfiction, and learning something new. Glen was preceded in death by his parents, Bill and Pearl Reeves; son, Lynn Reeves; and two brothers-in-law, Bob McAlister and Ed Dempsey. Glen is survived by his wife, Gloria Howell Reeves of Starkville, MS; daughter, Rhea Ann Reeves Pace of Starkville; grandson, Michael Pace of Starkville; granddaughter, Chelsea Pace of Starkville; great-grandson, Jayceon Yarbrough, born on April 11, 2013; former wife and mother of his children, Carolyn Reeves Kazelskis, and her husband, Richard Kazelskis, of Hattiesburg, MS; sisters, Gay Reeves McAlister of Wellington, TX and Jerry Reeves Dempsey of Odessa, TX; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, William and Mary Golde Howell, of Jackson, MS; nephew and nieces, Billy McAlister of San Antonio, TX, Patti McAlister Williams of Stephenville, TX, Shelley Dempsey Dash of Odessa, TX, Susan Dempsey Hendrix of Midland, TX, Melanie Howell Leonard of Jackson, MS and Shelley Howell Crunk of Ridgeland, MS; and dearest friends, Jim Bowman of Greeley, CO, and Adele Crudden, Curt Alford and their daughter Abby of Starkville. In lieu of flowers, gifts in memory of Glen may be made to the charity of your choice. You can go online and sign the guest register at: www.welchfuneralhomes.com.
Appeared in The Commercial Dispatch on May 1, 2013
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Quite often, on SP, I see good pages (albums, peaks, routes), in most of such case when created by a recent member, which are not attached to anything, for various reasons. Some do not fully understand how to attach pages, some are not aware of this feature, some people focusing too much about the content forget about this aspect. In some cases the owner(s) of the parent or related objects can remedy to it, but in some other cases they were absent for a long time, do not often connect, which doesn't allow fixing it.
This thread is not to be mistaken with bad pages. The goal would be to put SP in better order and to leave less good pages apart.
I'm waiting for some feedbacks about this ideas, and precisely if elves would be OK to help about it, to start giving a couple of links.


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Éric Cartier describes himself as a self-taught voyeur. He made his debut in 1989 with 'La Mer à Boire' (written by De Naegelen), and, in the same year, the science fiction story 'Caste Magnétique'. After a long stay in the United States, he illustrated James Rose's 'Tompkins Square Santera'. When in Jamaica, he created and self-produced 'Flip in Paradise'. Back in Europe, he teamed up with artist Joan and founded the International Stakhano Association. This association promotes small-press productions and organizes exhibitions.
Apart from his editorial activities, Cartier created albums like 'Tutti Frutti Music', 'Tutti Frutti Pin Up' and 'Europiccolo'. He also worked for Spirou magazine. After producing 'Drylander' for Soleil in 1999, he teamed up with Lewis Trondheim and pursued the series 'Kaput & Zösky' at Delcourt from 2002. Cartier's style is fast and colorful, and displays a definite sense of fun in his drawing.


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Camille Jania is 2-0 in singles and doubles play during dual matches in 2012 (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard women's tennis team plays its lone weeknight match of the season Thursday, when rival Boston College visits the Murr Center. The contest is slated for a 5 p.m. start.
The Crimson, which is playing its first of five consecutive home matches, is led by junior Camille Jania and senior Samantha Gridley, who are each 2-0 in dual match play this season and have combined for a 2-0 start in doubles play. Gridley has accumulated a 7-3 overall singles record, while Jania is tied for the team lead in wins with a 9-3 record. Sylvia Li (9-4) also has won nine singles matches.
Harvard, which is ranked No. 60 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) poll, has been strong on the doubles side this season. Five of the six tandems that the Crimson has used are .500 or better in 2011-12. Hideko Tachibana and Kristin Norton have been the most productive duo, as the pair of captains leads the team in wins (8) and winning percentage (8-3, .727). Harvard's top doubles team was ranked tied for No. 25 in the Jan. 3 ITA double rankings.
Last Time Out
Jania, Gridley and Hannah Morrill led Harvard to a 3-3 split in singles play, but the Crimson dropped two of three doubles contests and fell, 4-3, to Maryland Feb. 4. Harvard built a 2-1 lead early in the match but Maryland, which is ranked No. 40 in the latest ITA rankings, followed with three straight victories of its own to secure the match.
Boston College
The Eagles returned five letterwinners from the 2010-11 squad which finished 9-14 overall and 3-8 in the ACC. Boston College is led by freshman Jessica Wacnik, who enters with a 14-3 singles record and 13-4 mark in doubles play alongside senior Erina Kikuchi. Other than Wacnik's 27-7 (.794) record this season, Kikuchi has the highest career winning percentage for BC, taking 62-percent (71-44) of her matches. The Eagles are ranked No. 55 in the Feb. 2 ITA poll.
Series History
Harvard leads the all-time series against the Eagles, 30-8, including a 5-2 win at the Murr Center last season.
Next Up
The Crimson continues its stretch of five straight home matches with Syracuse (Feb. 12), Boston University (Feb. 24), Furman (Feb. 25) and St. John's (March 10) before traveling to Orlando, Fla. during spring break.


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Welcome to KumoTek
Robo-Penguin Meets Prince William
William just met the Robo-Penguin.
Penguins: Spy in the Huddle
In Fall of 2013, KumoTek teamed up with UK based John Downer Productions and the BBC to launch the world's first high tech penguin documentary - Penguins: Waddle All the Way - filmed with the help of robotic penguins.
The bi-pedal robots were designed and built by KumoTek staff in Richardson, Texas, and along with onsite wranglers, the robotic birds were used to infiltrate the exclusive penguin colonies from an entirely new angle. The team successfully recorded the emotional and oftentimes amusing behaviors of the pen-guins in both Peru and the Falkland Islands.
The show is available on DVD in both the U.S. and U.K.
Interactive Dinosaur Experience: Robots with Personality!
We are pleased to announce the successful launch of our next generation interactive robotic dinosaur exhibit: Red Dirt Dinos.
These fully interactive robotic dinosaurs are controlled exclusivley by KumoTek's Human Interaction System and incorporate all of the capabilities seen in previous interactive dinosaur shows, plus full body recognition, blazing fast Intel processors and never before seen behaviors.
Previous versions of KumoTek's Human Interaction System combined facial recognition software with our interactive behavior program to animate robotic dinosaurs that would detect and track guests in real-time. This technology was first deployed as RoboSUE at The Field Museum in Chicago in 2010 and welcomed over 500,000 guests during its first year of operation. RoboSUE was a huge success for KumoTek as it was featured prominently on the Discovery Channel and PBS.
Red Dirt Dinos is a significant step up in interactivity and technology. Through advanced sensor technology and recently added behavioral features, the interactive robotic dinosaurs are now capable of detecting full bodies, as well as hand, arm and leg gestures, while responding based on the location, size and respective behaviors of each guest.
Loud noises and movement around the dinosaur's field of view also play a part in determining how the creatures react and adds to their animal-like personalities. The effect is a much more immersive and seemingly realistic interactive experience.
Experience the cute and cuddly Tenontosaurus:
...hold a camera in front of her and watch her rear up on two hind legs and put on a spectacular show.
...hold out your hand and see her respond like horse eating from your hand.
...gather around closely with your friends and watch her shy away into the nearby bushes.
These and many other interactive behaviors can be seen within the Red Dirt Dinos experience at the Science Museum Oklahoma or the Oklahoma Museum Network.
About Our Company
KumoTek is a robotics engineering and interactive software design company, located in the North Texas technology corridor of Richardson, Texas. We provide cutting edge interactive robot applications to schools, museums and government agencies around the country.
We employ a handful of talented designers and engineers to deliver robots with style, function and interactive utility. KumoTek has continued to set industry standards by delivering truly interactive and entertaining robotics technologies.
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Some of our noteable products include the KT-X, KT-X Gladiator, and the KT-X PC.
Visit our products section to learn more about our interactive robots, artificial intelligence, humanoid robots, bipedal robots, animatronics dinosaurs, interactive entertainment systems.


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By Ben Levisohn
It was a big week for funds flows–and no category had a better week than emerging-market funds, which hauled in a record $9.5 billion the week ending Jan. 9, according to fund-flow research-company EPFR Global.
How big were those flows? EM debt funds took in $2.04 billion, 1% of such fund assets and well above last week's 0.7% and the 0.5% average over the past four weeks and 12 months, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch research.
The debt flows were almost evenly divided so-called hard-currency funds, which invest in bonds issued in dollars and euros, and local-currency funds, with $1 billion and $1.2 billion, respectively. Local market debt funds received flows equal to 1.4% of assets under management, while external-debt funds total 1.2%. Both are well above recent averages.
The iShares JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Bond (EMB) exchange-traded fund has returned 1.7% during the past three months, while the Market Vectors EM Local Currency Bond ETF (EMLC) has returned 4.92%.
Emerging-market bond funds have returned 4.4% during the past three months, according to Morningstar, with the best performing funds including the Van Eck Unconstrained Emerging Markets Bond Fund (EMBUX), which has returned 7.4% during that period, and the Hartford Emerging MArkets Local Debt Fund (HLDAX), which has returned 6.6%.


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Yes but alone maybe not lol just sayin......Oh but don't get me wrong it depends on the situation.
Of course they can.
More or less it's figuring out whether the other person is attracted you.
If they are...then there's a risk that being "just friends" probably won't work.
But...there's always a chance that they are attracted to you but value the friendship more.
(In a way that they can handle).
And sometimes there isn't a merit to dating someone whom you're too good of a friend with anyways.
(Too awkward at times).
死んでる。Hic nunc est hodie, cras absit. Ad praesens, nusquam quasi nihil.
I assume so, this is based purely on conjecture as I have no friends to have experienced this situation with.
A relationship between any two people is always a unique situation. Each and every person has their own personality, and each time those personalities meet the interaction will be different. Factor in the reality that all relationships evolve over time and it makes any broad statement like, "men and women can't be just friends", ridiculous. This is stereotyping, and its not a very healthy way of thinking.
BTW, with regards to the original poster and his situation. I can only try to make inferences based on what you've told us, but it sounds to me like you were being used as emotional support while this girl's BF was gone. Especially since she stopped calling the moment he was back in town. Are you wrong that she was starting to have some connection with you? Probably not, but she also likely had no intention of carrying it further. Don't be surprised if she resumes calling if he leaves again. If that happens, you have to decide what you want to do. Are you okay being in a relationship with someone who (whether she was consciously doing it or not) was turning you into the equivalent of an emotional bookmark to suit her needs, and just as easily put you aside when her "real" relationship resumed. I know that sounds harsh, but there was one other thing that I really picked up on from your post. Your hurt. This girl and what happened have really hurt hou, and you're lashing out here where the internet makes you somewhat anonymous. I wish you the best of luck, and try to be more open in your thinking and your view of the people around you. You might find there's a wonderful woman who's already near you that honestly does want to be more than just your friend.
I think one problem with men and women being friends is that people tend to want to have friends of the opposite sex that they are physically attracted to. If you make friends with someone based on who they are as a person, it would be a whole lot easier to befriend the opposite sex.
I believe there's a God above, I'm just the God of everything else!
You can be just friends, that is completely fine and is wholly acceptable. Yes, at points it is almost guaranteed that feelings from one of the given individuals will rise yet whether these feelings are lustful or contain a deeper meaning meaning of love is questionable. Given the latter option and considering that the given other holds feelings of similar value, then there are chances that the current friendship is capable of expanding into something larger. Lustful feelings, on the other hand, will come and go, it is wise not to let these feelings become the source reason for ruined friendship between male and female. I personally, have many a female friend, i have also become attracted to 2 of them, but my feelings passed as i realised that i only viewed them as friends, nothing more, nothing less. We continue to be just friends to this day. So yes, it is possible to be friends with the other gender, sometimes though, being friends with the other gender will require an alteration of mindset.
I'm sah tired x_x
Honestly, they can't.
I mean, they can be, but, that man will always have some sort of an attraction to his lady friend. No matter what. She might as well. Unless he or she is homosexual. The maybe it's possible.
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I think you can be friends if you love someone else more like i ended up falling in love with this girl and she was my best friend but because of that i can be just friends with other girls no matter wat happens just friends.
They can.
Even teleportation is possible in principle
Searching a demoness from hell or goddess from heaven...
Yes they can. The majority of my friends are men. I get along with them better and have more in common.
Yes I think they can, I have female friends but most of my friends are male.
Sometimes friends can become more than that but it doesn't always go that way. I know from experience that you can be friends with the opposite sex and no one developed any stronger feelings for each other.
Not in my world.
yeah, why not i used to have a best friend who was a guy but then we started dating and we broke up and know we dont talk to each other.. but it's fine if u r friends but try not to be in a relationship with each other
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Why not?
I have a lot of friends who are boys. And they're just friends.
But it does tend to get awkward when that friend who is a boy gets a girlfriend who doesn't like their men talking to other girls. That's really annoying!!
Dilly Bisket!