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I model a lot of my writing on bronze age and stone age mythology. People living today may have evolved considerably on a physical level, but I believe the biggest difference between us and our ancestors lies in our ability to store information outside of our own minds.
Writing. Records. Books. Decent filing systems. Databases.
Otherwise, we very much resemble the people who lived at the beginnings of our known history although it seems most of us want to believe that our intelligence or our humanity, our civilization, outshines cultures that practiced human sacrifice or cannibalism. We're much better than that, right? Not biologically. No. We may not be superior, but our ability to communicate is more advanced. We can share photos of our cats anywhere. Instantly. Ancient Egyptians would be SO jealous.
I think a lot about what the ancient world must have been like without information. Even before the internet, we had encyclopedias and libraries and telephones and broadcast television and newspapers keeping us from lacking knowledge of history as well as current events.
During my research for the second book in my Immortal Coffee Series, which is a post apocalyptic narrative, I was ravenously devouring documentaries about Mesopotamia, where civilization began in the Western world, when I ran into the same problem.
No one is objective about the origins of human civilization
On one end of the spectrum, you find archeologists making assertions that what cannot be proven doesn't exist and lay persons on the other, sometimes accrediting their preconceived theories with degrees, trying to show that the evidence supports events in their religious text. Everyone has a personal agenda. Objectivity is rare regarding this region of the world, because the early myths and cultures gave rise to Judaism, Islam and Christianity.
In general, I notice the academics interviewed in documentaries tend to maintain complete skepticism and avoid acknowledging the possible historical value of the writings combined to form religious texts. They're quick to cry, "Confirmation bias!!" at anyone drawing a connection between an event in the Bible or Quran and archeological evidence in modern Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the surrounding regions.
Unfortunately, both parties are equally guilty of treating the writings used by current religious communities as something other than documents from an early era of human history. Avoiding those records is as bad as relying on them entirely to tell us what the world of was like around the time writing was invented in 3200 BCE. That happened in Mesopotamia. People began writing in China in 1200 BCE and in Mesoamerica in 600 BCE. People generally accept the idea that ancient Mexico invented writing independent of the ancient people of the Middle East, but people just as quickly believe that ancient China was taught. It had two thousand years to filter over there, but that distance between Asia and Alaska? Impassable!
As a writer, I like to challenge myself to imagine how people without our access to information reasoned about the world around them and to the best of my ability, I try not to bother with historical fact. Although, I have one main guideline, I assume that people living then were as intelligent as people living today. You can take that however you want.
The World Before Literacy and Public Libraries
I was watching the series Secrets of the Bible on Netflix this week. This series, produced in Britain, some ways lacked the American passion for fundamental interpretation and extreme refutation of Biblical scholars. They focused less on the people's conclusions as on the journey each layman and archeologists with religious motives took to confirm evidence of the Bible. Most episodes proposed solutions to Biblical events that were contradictory. It seems everyone wants the story of Exodus to be true, unless you're an academic, then the ancient people of Israel borrowed the story from another culture and there is no connection between the development of monotheism and an enslaved population of semites in ancient Egypt.
I remember being amazed by the poor quality of the special effects in Cecil B. DeMile's Ten Commandments (1956) as a child where a pillar of fire appeared out of nowhere and somehow managed to prevent Egyptian chariots from steering their horses around it. A man with the staff and robe of a wizard performed some magic. I could hardly distinguish Moses from Merlin or Gandalf.
The actual text of Exodus referred to a god leading some recently freed Hebrews with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. Cecil B. DeMile envisioned a pillar of fire in the day. No smoke. No leading. While, in fact, a better interpretation of the text may have been that the people in the story followed a massive volcanic eruption. Why not? If you'd never seen or heard of a volcano, wouldn't you mistake it for something incredibly awesome worth investigating?
Natural wonders are sublime, because they force us into a higher awareness of our own insignificance. We marvel at the awesome forces required to create the natural world. They're beautiful. Even the destructive forces of flooding or tornados or earthquakes demand some respect. It stops us from thinking about the petty interpersonal disputes of our lives and places our lifetime in a broader context.
I believe we all interpret all rely on faith to interpret what we cannot explain. Many people living today firmly believe that the scientific method can and will explain everything eventually. Maybe this sounds like simple good reasoning, but it's actually just inductive reasoning. Science has provided many explanations in the past so we can induce that it will continue to do so in the future. Unfortunately, we have to use induction to prove that inductive reasoning is valid reasoning, which is known in philosophical circles as the problem of induction. At best, it's been claimed that science doesn't rely on induction, but those arguments rely heavily on semantics. And no matter. Induction works. It's just not perfect. Most people accept that the current collection of scientific theories do not represent perfect knowledge of the world. That is easy to accept. But, the belief that science will eventually provide all answers as merely a strong conviction derived from inductive reasoning similar in almost every meaningful way to religious faith? Much less easy to accept.
I'm not trying to undermine the philosophy of science in favor of current religious belief systems. I'm trying to demonstrate that all belief systems depend on rational thinking, creative insight and faith in uncertain theories operating within the context of the information available to them.
This is the premise for my speculation about the Knights Templar
Who Were the Knights Templar?
Episode 11 of the Secrets of the Bible was the most ridiculous of the series, because it lacked a concrete conclusion. They followed a man who followed the activities of the medieval knights established to protect pilgrims from Europe to Jerusalem in 1108, but then got tangled up in stories about a Holy Grail and during their steep ascent to power and ruthless disbandment and may have a century later, merged with the Freemasons.
They purportedly excavated the Temple of Solomon, which was and still is assumed by many to be the Temple Mount where the Dome of the Rock was built. This holds significance, because Orthodox Judaism believes they can have only one Temple, which is why the places where they gather their congregations are referred to as shuls, Yiddish for school. In Christianity, Jesus would have knocked over a table and got the attention of the authorities who killed him at this very important temple. The Ark of the Covenant would have been kept in it. It was filled with a lot of gold and statues of angels.
Anyway, the episode draws a quick connection from the discovery of something in the Temple that led to the sharp increase in power of the Knights Templar. Presumably, it was the grail, but scholars know it wasn't necessarily a cup. After visiting a few cathedrals displaying the Black Madonna and talking about Freemasonry, the person interviewed for the episode concludes that the Knights Templar did indeed find something at the Temple Mount.
They found brotherhood.
What an obvious conclusion! So easy to miss! The quest for the Holy Grail was always really just a quest for spiritual enlightenment. There never was a cup of immortality that caught the blood of Jesus and held wine at the last supper. Nope. They dug and dug and dug and found brotherhood.
In some ways, it's a better theory than Dan Brown related in The Da Vinci code. In his extremely popular novel, the great secret of European Christianity was that the grail was a woman. Mary Magdalene. She carried the DNA of Jesus forward to our time. Real actual descendants of Jesus are alive today. That's um, great.
How You Could Mistake a Woman for a Chalice in Medieval Europe
Jerusalem was captured by European crusaders in 1099 and the Knights Templar formed in 1118. The first mention of a graal occurred in an unfinished romantic story about a guy named Perceval, written sometime between 1135 and 1190, maybe 1180.
It should be understood that literacy wasn't the priority in the past in the same way it is today and a lot of time and distance separated the first mention of something like a grail. The work written by Chretien, who may have been a member of the Order of the Knights Templar, was clearly a fantasy story. A romantic fantasy story that happened in the time of King Arthur, which would have been the 5th or 6th century CE. Five hundred years before the crusades during the Saxon invasion.
From the original source, we can't tell what the graal is supposed to be.
In the story, a squire brings a white lance, which is bleeding, to a meal where the Fisher King is present. He is accompanied by a beautiful young girl who is carrying an elaborately decorated golden graal past Perceval and another servant carries a silver serving platter. The room is illuminated by the contents and they pass by him again on their way out.
The next day, a woman admonishes Perceval for not asking why the lance bled or who was served by the graal. It wasn't said to be a holy graal and it wasn't more significant than the bleeding white lance, but whatever it was, it wounded the king in the thigh region. It is implied that Perceval could have prevented the injury if he asked about it. The women then tells him that she is his first cousin and that his mother is dead.
In the next known graal story, written in 1210, Parzival, not Perceval, has to go on a quest, because he did not ask the healing question. The graal is assumed in this story to have the power to heal, because if Perceval had asked about it, then the Fisher King would not have been wounded in the thigh region. In the Parzival story, the Fisher King gets a name and it is explained that the wound is a punishment for taking a wife, because the person who keeps the grail was supposed to remain chaste.
The Christian part of the story isn't added until later on by the guy who wrote Merlin, Robert de Boron. He establishes that the grail was a vessel given to Joseph of Aramethia.
In its original unfinished Perceval form, the popular romance with lots of sex and many female characters had a single mention of a bleeding lance and a golden serving dish or vessel, which is best understood as something carried by a processional salver. The beautiful woman would have been carrying some item of food tasted for poison in a vessel and perhaps the room lights up, simply because the platter is gold.
These stories were popular at the same time that the Knights Templar rose to prominence, a very secret and very powerful group of people, but if they found something in the Temple Mount in 1099 or so, it was not in the possession of the Fisher King in the 5th or 6th century CE.
What we know from other sources that two centuries after the conquest of Jerusalem, people claimed that the Knights Templar were denying Jesus Christ, spiting on crucifixes during their initiation rites and worshiping idols. Specifically, they called them Baphomet, a word that may be derived from the Greek words baphe and metis meaning absorption of knowledge. Since the 19th century, Baphomet has often been associated with an Egyptian goat or fertility god. This Goat of Mendes is associated with the snake in the Garden of Eden story via the Babloyian version. One way or another, the Knights Templar were accused of dismissing Christ and worshiping some form of knowledge, like the pursuit of knowledge was a sin of some sort, maybe an original one. And fertility.
The Knights Templar were supposed to be chaste, they couldn't have physical contact with any women, including members of their own family. They gave all their possessions and wealth to the Order when then joined, which explains their increasing influence in Europe in a short period of time. Publicly, the Knights Templar erected many churches to the Black Madonna or Black Virgin and were said to carry many of these figures back with them from Jerusalem.
The Queen of Heaven
Uh-huh, brotherhood.
Well, I bet they found figures of Asherah. I know many people would prefer to interpret the black madonnas as a statement about race, but semites from the region known as Canaan depicted in Egyptian art have light skin and light hair. Other people would say that the crusaders learned about a black goddess of wisdom from the mystic sufis, a dimension of Islam. Of course, the Hagia Sophia translates as Holy Wisdom, which is an ancient Greek personification of Wisdom, but also an important Byzantine church visited by the crusaders. They could have learned about a goddess from the gnostics. They could have learned about goddesses from their contemporaries in Europe. Regardless of what sources they sought to increase their knowledge of a female deity, I believe they would have required a significant catalyst to adopt the concept with enough enthusiasm to erect hundreds of statues, as they did.
It seems likely to me that they arrived in their Holy Land and found at least one of the extremely common, but ancient figure of a woman in the location where they expected to find sacred artifacts like the Temple Mount.
The Queen of heaven. God's wife. Asherah, the Canaanite goddess, was everywhere in Mesopotamia, because no one had gone there and sat the people written about in the Bible down and explained they were supposed to have always been exclusively monotheistic since around 1300 to 1500 BCE when Moses supposedly lived. In the early texts of the Bible, the Torah, and the stories written by prophets of ancient Israel, people are constantly trying to wipe out and destroy images of Asherah and Baal. El is often assumed to be the same as Yaweh. Lots of Canaanite gods are mentioned in the Bible. Yep, the god of Abraham was a jealous god that wanted no other gods before him, because there were a lot of other gods at the time.
I don't think the crusaders would have thought of the discovery of a female figure as heresy, but rather an expansion of their truth.
People have always ascribed to more than one system of thought or faith and generally been more flexible than they claim. Today, people who believe in primarily in science often find themselves praying as their car crash or face other life threatening situations. Religious people find evidence supporting another religion and convert. Agnostics discover neo-pagan movements that allow them to experience spiritual community without supporting the larger organized religions. Many churchgoers attend services weekly, but often do so out of habit or familial obligation, while firmly convicted of the theories of science and rationalizing it with a humanistic perspective.
We are, if anything, we are very complicated and so was humanity at the beginning of history and so was the time of the crusaders.
At some point in Biblical history, apparently Jeremiah 44:15-18, First Kings 14:23; Second Kings 17:10, First Kings 14:15, Second Kings 16:3-4 and Second Kings 17:1, the female deity that accompanied the main male deity of the Canaanite tribes was regularly translated as the grove and there was a big thing about her being associated with trees. While the Bible talks about the people destroying images of other deities, like the Canaanite Baal, in surges of monotheistic outrage, it seemed that a lot of people may not have been completely on board with the idea.
Figures of Asherah are still found buried all over what is today Israel and Palestine, which makes it likely the crusaders dug around and found some.
The Israelites wouldn't have been likely to destroy them anyway. Imagine you're a clergyman at a temple a few thousand years ago. You're surrounded by cherished images of your deities. Some radicals come tearing in demanding you destroy the ones they feel are destroying society.
Okay. Imagine it's today. You're a museum director who just finished giving investors a tour of the Renaissance collection when a bunch of radicals, powerful radicals, march in and demand that you remove and destroy all evidence of Issac Newton, because they consider his legend scientific dogma. They claim that scientific inquiry was not discovered or invented, but one of many processes of determining knowledge used as early as Aristotle and developed by multiple theorists in a variety of cultures. These people believe that the narrative of Newton's apple hinders human progress by creating a mythology around science and an ethnocentric distraction from the corporate bias that has increasingly driven the pursuit of knowledge, muddying science, and generally bastardizing it.
Maybe you don't totally disagree with them, but what about Ibn al-Haytham? Why should the museum maintain the mythology of great dead European male geniuses as if they acted in isolation and ascribe them godlike status. You know Leonard Da Vinci was a great artist attributed with inventing many great developments in engineering during the Victorian era that we know now were recorded in earlier publications by other people of his time. He just drew them well. You sort of agree.
Right or wrong. You probably also, as this museum director, remember force equals mass times acceleration and the story of the apple from your childhood. You don't want to destroy the Newton collection. Instead, you hide it in the basement where most of the items deteriorate, except that magnificent bronze bust.
Many of us maintain lingering respect for what was considered to be true even in the face of reasonable skepticism and valid argument. We still love the stories of Newton and DaVinci. They still inspire us. It is normal to mythologize history just as it would have been normal for people to hide the statues of Asherah.
When the Knights Templar discovered female figurines, they would not have been expert scholars of their time who somehow might connect the figures to the forbidden Asheroth. The excavation of the Temple Mount would have been just as much of a religious experience for the crusaders as traveling to Israel is today for many Jews, Christians and Muslims. However, they would have believed their god was actively guiding their life and naturally would associate the figures with their current system of belief and the most prominent woman in the Christian narrative, the mother of Jesus, Mary.
And they might even assume that the people of their Bible venerated Mary. So, they may have done likewise, because the people living in the time of Jesus must have known something, a purer version of the ultimate truth of our existence. In fact, this is the same line of thinking that created the myth of the Holy Grail. The Knights Templar must have found something or learned something truly exceptional to be accepted as an Order by the Pope of their time and rise to power and influence so quickly.
But, then after a lot of veneration of Mary and a lot of accumulation of money and power, it might just have easily been misunderstood that they had been worshiping the ancient European goddess associated with Spring and fertility from which the word Easter is derived or some other European female goddess that had not been completely eradicated by the presence of Christianity.
By Victorian times, their goddess worship may have been interpreted as fertility god worship or worship of an ancient Egyptian god, because Victorians had more access to knowledge of ancient Egypt.
In the end, none of that really matters.
Wait, Why Does This Matter?
People love to recycle old themes when they write. In the Chronicles of Narnia, Aslan sacrifices himself to save everyone just like Jesus. In Harry Potter, Harry sacrifices himself to save everyone just like Jesus. We have to face facts. People continuously retell the same themes making adjustments to suit the cultural atmosphere of the time they live in, borrowing from new sources, reworking old ones. That is what writers do. We don't work in isolation. We use stories and actual events and theory like a palate of paint to create something original.
We also use myth and legend to shield ourselves from the uncertainty of our own systems of thought, our methods and the real horror that is a human existence. Birth. Conflict. Aging. Death. Stories help us cope with uncertainty and give us numerous convulsions of facts and ideas so that we don't have to question the tenets of our systems of belief and they keep us from overthinking the questions we can't answer so we can get on about the business of life. We believe the impossible of our heroes and events we never witness personally, because it is practical to do so.
Many people, lots of feminists, believe Asherah was systematically removed from the Bible as an act of chauvinism rather than monotheism. Many academics do not draw a connection between the Knights Templar and Asherah, but they do bypass her and make a connection between the ancient Egyptian god Isis or ancient Greek Virgo and the Roman Catholic veneration of the Virgin Mary.
I think a direct line between Asherah and the Knights Templar makes the most sense, but I can also see why it would make a lot of people uncomfortable.
Asherah, along with other local gods, were vilified and outlawed in Israel. But, after the life of Jesus, during the decline of the Roman Empire, Christianity sought to incorporate Jesus in their new religion, not as a teacher or prophet, but as god. Since there could only be one god, the monotheistic god was decided to be consubstantially three distinct persons. A father. A son. A spirit, which is holy. Without diving into a theological debate, it's interesting to note that the worship of Asherah in Israel likely ended around the 2nd century BCE and the issue of the relationship between the father and the son in the Christian movement existed for sometime before the concrete establishment of trinitarian doctrine in modern Turkey, which occurred around the 3rd century CE at the First Council of Nicaea.
Basically, within a few hundred years, the wife was kicked out and a new son brought in and the new followers of Jesus, were not looking very monotheistic at that point, having at least two apparent deities. It took centuries for Europeans to spread and maintain the illusion of monotheism by driving out pre-Christian European gods.
However, for Christianity, the era of crusades must have felt like a time of incredible certainty much like we experience today with science.
Today, old religions are typically viewed as quaint traditions or irritating backward thought. Faith in a god is debatable. Faith in the scientific method or the body of knowledge derived from the community of scientists, who are venerated by academics much like the saints of medieval Europe, is much more likely to cause a controversy. People who believe in science confidently attempt to incorporate the practice of older religions as being beneficial to mental health under the umbrella of psychology, but there is an intense unwillingness to consider that science, as a system and set of beliefs, could be replaced as the most unquestioned, most blindly accepted philosophy. Replaced by something new. Not something old.
Let's face it. Science does make better technologies and it explains things better than religion. It's a bit weak on morality, but it's better than monotheism for life-saving technology. Besides, if you really need some spirituality, most scientists don't feel threatened by archaic religions.
That is exactly what believing in Christianity must have felt like one thousand years ago. No cannibalism. No human sacrifice. The weak and the poor have an honored position. Christianity brought in a code of laws and behaviors that required a stable social order. Christianity wasn't typically threatened by what it considered pagan beliefs and practices. It incorporated them into the religion to make people more comfortable.
Based on this similarity, we should not compare the faith of the Knights Templar to Christians today. We should compare it to the faith of the dominate philosophy today, which is science. So, if they found something in Jerusalem that challenged the tenets of their faith, I do not believe they would not reject it. Like anyone today, who believes in science, they would try to incorporate it and make sense of it within Christianity. The Christians today that reject scientific developments have typically practiced ignoring ideas that conflict with the Bible. It's hard work ignoring fact and evidence, but the Knights Templar lived before the Renaissance. Christianity was progress, the framework of their civilization and they would most likely assume that anything and everything could be explained within the doctrine of Christianity. So, if the statues of Asherah were unearthed in the ground at the Temple Mount, the real quest would have been to make sense of what would clearly have been a sign from god.
If Asherah was the Holy Grail of the Crusades, how would that change our perception of history?
Maybe the manliest of European men at the height of chivalry in the era of the chivalrous weren't obsessed with immortality or the legacy of Jesus. Maybe they were simply awestruck by simple figures of women they found digging in Jerusalem and they even found immense inspiration through the process of incorporating the mystery into their understanding of the world. Maybe the consulted sufis and gnostics and pagans. Maybe the borrowed enough ideas to make them figures make sense to them.
What we do know is that they erected churches to Mary and carried "fertility" figures with them. They were chaste and refused to even touch women. Within a few decades, perhaps it was their discovery that ushered in a movement toward chivalry, exemplified by the romantic stories of Camelot, complete with a code of conduct for the treatment of women.
Maybe the Holy Grail was a woman. These soldiers may have believed their god led them to find the figure of a woman, because in the religious thought, the discovery of figures of women at the Temple Mount could not have been an accident. God didn't make accidents. So, perhaps for a few centuries, the discovery of a female deity changed the Western world, because the manliest of men had been faced with the very real possibility that their own god was not simply made in the image of a man with a son that once lived as a man. They believed their god showed them a woman and there is no reason to believe they had a quick answer for it, but they embraced the mysterious woman completely.
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Following the deadline for adhering to Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) back in July last year, you couldn't have blamed European banks for putting a tick in the box, breathing a sigh of relief and turning their attention to the next regulatory hurdle. But they'd be wrong.
Once the initial implementation is over with, things don't just stop there. Surveillance is a 24/7 activity and financial firms continue to evolve and change, as do the regulations. As a result, legal and compliance teams cannot sit back and relax once they have implemented a surveillance system – new requirements constantly emerge and have to be programmed into the everyday running of the business.
The introduction of the Senior Managers' Regime (SMR) in March last year has added a new dimension to business as usual (BAU). It means the threat of conviction amongst the senior team for breaching trade surveillance regulation has grown considerably. The SMR stipulates that financial firms must draw up lines of responsibility for trading activity, meaning activity has to be monitored, so the people responsible know if the areas that fall within their remit are at risk or in danger of being non-compliant.
So what are the best practices a financial firm can put in place to ensure the organisation stays on the right trade surveillance track when a system is up and running? Some key ones:
- Establishing ownership: to avoid ambiguity and get the right trade surveillance solution in place, it should be an initiative that is owned by the front office, driven by compliance and delivered by IT. In terms of defining requirements, setting parameters and establishing the right reporting, the business has to "own" the trade surveillance operation, especially as they are the ones who will live with the consequences of getting it wrong.
- Governance: generally, it's the onus of the legal and compliance teams to monitor the regulation, be mindful of the advice from regulators and see what's happening in the industry, so they can keep up to date with any changes. There has to be an ironclad governance structure in place, with clear lines of responsibility.
- Picking the right technology and processes: to keep trade surveillance systems running on a day to day basis, the right systems and processes have to be in place. For example, automated surveillance is invaluable. The level to which firms automate trade surveillance will largely be down to the budget and size of the firm, but generally speaking, automated systems can support statistical metrics and be used to establish trade monitoring thresholds, a vital measurement for ensuring compliance.
- Understanding the risks: lots of new people with compliance backgrounds have entered the fray with MAR and MiFID II. They are not quantitative analysts, so do they understand trading mechanics? Do they have a real understanding of the business? They need to if they are to operate a trade surveillance system.
The head of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, recently admitted that his number one concern was contravening regulatory regimes through the misbehaviour of a rogue employee. This highlights the issue that even with all the regulatory processes in place, if an errant employee is determined to break the rules, a firm might not be able to stop them.
But asking the right questions, conducting the right risk analyses and putting best practice systems and processes – like governance – in place to make sure trade surveillance runs like clock work is a good step towards firms having the confidence they are doing the right thing. One things for sure – the regulators will be watching.
Read the report from TRG on "Keeping a watchful eye: best practices for maintaining trade surveillance."


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Sauber team principal Monisha Kaltenborn will have to use all of her legal expertise as she faces a potential contractual row with driver Adrian Sutil.
Over the past few days Sauber have signed Marcus Ericsson and Felipe Nasr as their drivers for next season, even though Sutil has a deal for 2015.
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Kaltenborn's first position with Sauber was as head of corporate and legal affairs before becoming team principal.
Standing firmly behind her decision to hire Ericsson and Nasr, Kaltenborn said: "We've announced our drivers.
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Suggested to Kaltenborn Sutil could pursue a legal case through the Contract Recognitions Board, Kaltenborn reiterated: "The situation is clear."
With Sutil and Esteban Gutierrez now on the way out, Kaltenborn has intimated the team were forced to act due to issues surrounding young Russian Sergey Sirotkin.
With Russian backers behind him, Sirotkin was being groomed to enter F1 next season, but Kaltenborn concedes the plug has been pulled.
"This has a lot to do with his situation, but I don't expect that to go on next year," added Kaltenborn.
It would appear without the money from Sirotkin's backers a big hole was left in the finances of a team struggling financially.
It is understood Ericsson and Nasr bring to the table a combined sum of around £15million from their personal sponsors, with the latter funded by Banco do Brasil.
"You have to look at the overall situation in Formula One, which is very challenging," said Kaltenborn.
"When private teams make decisions they have to take financial aspects into consideration, otherwise it gets very difficult to survive.
"That's the situation, but it's now different for us. This is a step in the right direction."
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Date Submitted:
May 19 2008 11:14 pm
Chanh Ong is a volunteer at OpenSourceCMS.com
Chad and Cem is team member and core developer of MiaCMS project.
1) Who are you and tell us a little about the MiaCMS team?
MiaCMS team:
The MiaCMS project was initiated by four individuals with profound knowledge of the Mambo CMS system. The founding team includes Al Warren (alwarren), Chad Auld (cauld), Ozgur Cem Sen (ocs), and Richard Ong (arpee). Together we have held the following roles within Mambo over the years; project leader, board member, steering committee member, core team leader, quality team leader, documentation team leader, and server administration. Those who know the project well will recognize those listed as what was the majority of the current core Mambo development team prior to this fork.
My name is Chad Auld. I am a Yahoo! Software Engineer by day and a MiaCMS hacker by night. I spent 3+ years on the Mambo CMS team helping push the 4.5.3 through 4.6.3 releases out the door. I wrote much of what will eventually be Mambo 4.7, the portability database installer which may eventually be used in Mambo 5 if they continue down the roadmap as it stands today, and I am the author and/or a contributor on a number of popular extensions like MOStlyCE, MOStlyREST, MiaCMS Sitemap, Byte, etc. Enough about me though... this should be about MiaCMS
And this is Ozgur Cem Sen here. I'm with S1 Corp. as a Software Engineer by day, and like Chad, a MiaCMS hacker by night. My daily duties are mostly based on C/C++, and sometimes Python and I get my PHP-kick out of Mia during the dark. After doing my time with Mambo project for just over a year, I hopped on to the MiaCMS train (they said, it's gonna be lighter and faster). As the other folks in the team, I also had several roles with Mambo; QA & Release Lead, Translation Team (Turkish Translation), and finally Core Team Lead. Even though the titles sound pretty intriguing, the excitement of the titles rapidly diminish when you cannot do much with them in certain environments. Aside from my core MiaCMS involvement,I have a few goodies that I develop and/or contribute to, such as moseasymedia, a few PayPal extensions, MiaCMS Sitemap, MOStlyREST & Bridget... next...
2) Tell us a little about MiaCMS? Why Mia? Why fork?
MiaCMS team:
MiaCMS is a fork of the Mambo CMS. Why a fork? We felt that the policies, processes, and priorities of the official Mambo Foundation were having a negative impact on the code and the community. Innovation, creativity, and team spirit have all but been eliminated. Thus the fork. Much of the same crew that built you Mambo 4.5.3 through 4.6.3 are here now continuing development on the same award winning software base that everyone has come to know and love. Let us make clear we never gave up on the product or the community, but rather just the Foundation which controlled it.
Ozgur and I have also blogged a bit more about the fork on our personal blogs for those interested:
3) Why did you want to create MiaCMS in the first place?
MiaCMS team:
Chad: We loved Mambo. If not we would not have helped make it the CMS is has grown to be today. However, it can and should be better. We aim to do just that, but don't feel that it can be done in its current environment. So MiaCMS is an attempt to remove the barriers preventing advancement, creating distractions, and destroying motivation. Simply put... we want to get back to making the best CMS on the planet.
Cem: I am still trying to figure out the reasoning behind the uptightness, the heavy politics and power struggles in an Open Source project. Clearly, those are the top motivation killers, and still unavoidable. Why would anyone, especially when donating time, put up with with those? This is one of the reasons, we established the MiaCMS without any hierarchical structure. Now that, we all are pretty much addicted to Open Source, we gotta do it. And we wanted to give ourselves at the least "some fun" while doing it.
4) What do you consider are some of the strongest features of MiaCMS?
MiaCMS team:
Here is the base feature set:
* Simple Installation
* Graphical Content Editors (automatic code generation)
* RSS Content Syndication
* Powerful/Extensible 3rd Party Extension System
* Flexible Site Theming Capabilities
* Free & Open Source (GPL v2 License)
* Site Search
* REST enabled
* User Management
* Multilingual
* Stable, Secure, and Mature
MiaCMS is built on the strong CMS base that we helped build over the last 3 years. For reasons noted in question #2 we decided it was time break away from the Mambo Foundation and get back to building a state of the art CMS. Outside of reasons that have made Mambo a very popular and powerful CMS over the years, MiaCMS also offers a number of unique features. Much time for the first releases was spent rebranding, building out our SVN, the new sites, the forums, etc. We did however work in a number of nice enhancements and new features, but expect many more in the upcoming releases. More information on the initial release can be found here - http://wiki.miacms.org/wikka.php?wakka=ReleaseNotes.
5) What are some of the features you want to incorporate into future MiaCMS releases?
MiaCMS team:
First up was the release of 4.6.4 which was to finally get long awaited security fixes and bug enhancements in to the hands of the community. In addition to the those items the team also focused on fixing many of the XHTML validation issues found in prior Mambo releases. There is still work to be done in this area, but we invite you to compare Mambo to MiaCMS in this respect to see the improvements we made in just 2 weeks time. We also reimplemented quite a few of the Mambo 4.7 enhancements that many have been waiting for, but that have still not been released to the community. The wait is now over, convert and enjoy (http://docs.miacms.org/wikka.php?wakka= MamboToMia).
Perhaps the largest set of visual changes in the first release was the implementation of the YUI Library (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/). YUI is now the official library of choice for Mia and where possible it will be used throughout the system over other 3rd party libraries to create a consistent, robust, and maintainable system. The YUI implementation will also have the positive impact of simpler cross-browser development and equal support of all A-Grade browsers. There is still quite a bit of YUI related work to be done, but you can already see it in action in 4.6.4. 4.6.4 utilizes YUI dom, events, grids/css, the rich text editor, menus, tabs, plus more. For more information about the major changes in 4.6.4 you can see the release notes here - http://wiki.miacms.org/wikka.php?wakka=ReleaseNotes.
Here are some of the new features we are looking into for future releases:
Improved ACL's (User/Group Permissions)
Database Portability
LDAP Support
Dublin Core
N-Level Content (remove the two tier section/category limitation)
Content Versioning
Multilingual Content Management
Writeable REST Interface
Multi-Site Management
Better File/Image Manager (Tighter integration with the editor)
We have started a discussion about these on our forum to solicit feedback from the community (http://forum.miacms.org/viewtopic.php?id=47). Anyone is welcome to chime in with their personal votes, suggestions, and/or recommendations.
6) What do you find to be the most challenging aspect of creating an open source CMS?
MiaCMS team:
Chad: One of the biggest challenges of developing Mambo was the political mumbo jumbo that went into the effort. We are developers and we love to code. We aren't about politics, slowdowns, rules, meetings, etc. MiaCMS is back to focusing on the basics. We feel that through close communication with the community and a great friendship between the developers a best of breed CMS will emerge. Gone are the monolith six month releases of the past. We are going with release early release often approach. Perhaps the most challenging aspect to developing MiaCMS will be combating bloat. MiaCMS will be used to build sites of all sizes and types. Each with its own set of requirements, some requiring more functionality and some requiring less. New features bring more code and additional complexity. It is the nature of software. This will be combated by building out a solid core and developing functionality through core extensions that can be enabled/disabled at will by system administrators.
Cem: As Chad said above, we loved Mambo. A good amount of sweat and tear went in it. But today Mambo is so stuck at looking back to its bright past. "Past", it happened, done, fin. With MiaCMS, We're over it. Today's web and CMSs require a richer feature/function set. We are holding a good core in our hands to enhance towards those goals, yet better surpass them with newer and better.
7) There is a plethora of open source CMS's available out "there" for people to choose. Why should people consider MiaCMS?
MiaCMS team:
Chad: The MiaCMS team is focused on producing an simple, yet powerful content management system. The team is focused on stability, security, innovation, web standards, performance, and our users. We are community focused and take pride in our product. MiaCMS is not a toy, an experiment, or a hobby. It is a robust CMS which can be used for sites of all types and sizes. Furthermore, MiaCMS has a very powerful extension system which can be used to develop custom extensions to enable functionality not found in the core by default.
Cem: One of the good things that we inherited from Mambo is the mindset of "simplicity". Can we make it simpler, yet better! We are working on it.
Thank you your for your time!
The MiaCMS Team (http://miacms.org)
Thanks to MiaCMS team for the o pportunity to get to know MiaCMS.
Chanh Ong
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I am listening to Adam Curry's podcast at Gnomedex and he is bringing up some great, amazing points.
He talks about how normal people are quickly becoming the media and how they will soon be the media. Really great points and insight into the future and where we've come from. I really enjoyed the podcast and it just shows that we are going to start seeing more and more podcasts and with iTunes 4.9 getting podcasts is a lot easier.
Everything will start becoming very interesting over the next few months and years. I can't wait to see where it all leads.
Terrorism and Double Standards Americans
I am sure that most Americans watched the President speak at Fort Bragg or if they didn't they caught a recap of it on a national network. To be honest, I am not a fan of Bush's public speaking, it's not his best quality. However, I don't see that as a reason to bash the guy. Not everyone can speak well in public places, so what.
About Iraq and terrorism. Those who don't believe that there was and now is a terrorist presence in Iraq are horribly misinformed. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has had a presence in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria since before the Iraq war. He was actually a "competitor" to al-Queda till he decided that to further his cause he needed to partner with bin Laden.
We have people talking about how poverty/AIDS need to be dealt with yet the suffering of a people is no big deal. Last time I took a philosophy or political science class I could have sworn they taught me that poverty in the U.S. and the world is a necessity and cannot be stomped out. For society to work, there has to be an inbalance, it's basic. The level of inbalance is dependent on the type of society and the level of autonomy the people have over their own lives. A movie star can think whatever they like about helping a few hundred people in a village in Africa but their actions, no matter what amount of input/cash they have from the outside are not going to affect the entire world. Am I say it's wrong to help the needy? No, of course not. Help them any way you can but saying that it should be the "number one priority" is a little much.
People will say that helping a single child is a "huge victory" and you know what, that's fine. It's kind of like a bunch of people saying that finding a single rocket in Iraq that contained nerve gas. The only difference of course is the people who heard about the rocket being found shot it down as not being a big deal and saying things like "It's just one rocket"…
If you are against the campaign in Iraq, ask yourself why. Is it because it's cool to be different and rebel against something? Attacking Bush's words is the
Can there be a free society in Iraq? Yes. Why is this so difficult for people to understand? A free society does not mean free from crime or terrorist problems. It means freedom from oppression, which, last time I checked, under Saddam the Iraqi people weren't very free from oppression. As an example the Israeli's and for the most part the Palestinians live free from oppression yet they still deal with terrorism everyday. The Iraqi people want to govern themselves, they have made that very clear. The only thing standing in their way is the simple fact that there is a number of people who want chaos and death to the rule country. They will have no power if a government comes to place, so their best bet is to try and stop it. This isn't about terrorists fighting Americans because if it were, there would be a lot less Iraqi deaths and a lot more American ones. They are killing people who want to bring structure to the nation, policemen, governors, ambassadors, and people standing in line to sign up for a government job.
These people don't want a structured government to come to Iraq because it can and will (if you know anything about Middle Eastern politics) stir up problems in other nations. People in other countries will realize that it is possible to have a free society in a very religious part of the world where there are religious rules and regulations. They will stand up for themselves and there are people who do not want that.
And please, for the last time, would people please stop saying that this is a "Christian vs. Muslim" thing. I'm tired of it. You know and I know that this is not about religion.
I am the type of person who likes my weekends laid back and filled with reading, watching tv, and just enjoying myself. This weekend was definitely one of those.
Saturday night was spent with a good sized group of Shell interns downtown. We went up and down Main street checking out the different types of nightlife. Sadly, I wasn't able to take any pictures as most of the people were pretty spread out.
Sunday turned out to be a lounge around type day with me spending my early afternoon at the baseball fields watching my little brother's baseball game and talking to some folks I have not seen in 3 yrs.
I then spent yesterday evening watching TV (Family Guy) and messing with my new Motorola WR850G wireless router with Elizabeth.
Just my kind of weekend. No working out, no physical labor, no staring at computer screen (unless I wanted to). Just an all around good time.
I have been reluctant to post anything about Guantanamo Bay and the detainees there. My reasoning behind this is the unknown of what happens there. No matter what the news reports, what the committees find, and what the government says, we'll never truly know the nature of what is taking place there. To add to that we will never really know if the men held there are innocent or guilty, though a lot of them were captured engaging U.S. and Pakistani troops.
The subject is a touchy one and frankly I'd like to stay away from it. I believe the men there deserve a trial, eventually. We don't need to try these men quickly by any means. They are not subject to the rights given by the Geneva Convention because they were not in uniform, they tried to blend in with the civilian population, they did not carry their arms openly, and they did not wear a recognizable distinctive sign. They should not be tried as U.S. citizens because:
- They aren't U.S. citizens
- They were arrested on foreign soil by U.S. soldiers
To me their status is in limbo and that's the best way to describe it.
People say we should set them free or be better to them. Why? Because if we were in a similar situation we would want to be set free… No, I'm sorry, if I committed a crime and attacked innocent people or reigned a country with tyranny then no, I wouldn't expect to be treated great or even well for that matter. When you commit an act then you have to face the consequences whether good or bad. If I go out and shoot someone then I better be prepared to face the consequences.
Patrick has hinted at starting a podcast. I say go for it Patrick!
I have been listening to a few podcasts lately and I'm excited to see where the one at Pro-PHP goes. I do have a few quirks with podcasting though. A lot of podcasters feel that their background music/noise is ok… It's not. Give me some introduction music and a little soothing background music but at least check the audio levels before you upload the file. I am listening to your podcast to hear you. I could care less about what elevator music you chose this week.
If you are going to be interviewing someone on your podcast please make sure that you have good software to record the conversation. I know it is hard to conduct interviews with people who are far away but I have listened to a few podcasts where the interviews were conducted over Skype and they were horrid. I couldn't understand a single thing in some of them and sadly they were people who I really wanted to hear interviewed.
As soon as iTunes 5 comes out and the ability to add podcasts becomes a lot easier the number of podcasters is going to jump significantly. If you want listeners make sure that you create a professional, fun and enjoyable, and creative podcast. People won't stop listening to you if you're good.
The Weekend
Weekends go by much too fast. Working a 9/80 schedule I was supposed to have Friday off but things don't always go as planned. A meeting was scheduled for mid-Friday morning and so I made my way into work, forced to fight the traffic.
Instead of fighting my way home, Elizabeth and I went to the Galleria and looked around. I of course visited the Apple store and with Elizabeth being a fellow Apple nerd had no problems tagging along.
I have spent the rest of the weekend eating mexican food and relaxing. I saw "Batman Begins" this evening and have to say that it is definitely worth seeing. I won't give any spoilers or ruin anything but it was amazing. From what I've read this is the start of a whole new take on the Batman series. Hopefully we'll see new characters like Clay Face and Madhatter!!
Getting off the Caffeine Train
Caffeine has been one of my downfalls for a while now and over the last few months I have been trying to wean myself off of it. Progress has been made but I have always had an addiction to Iced Tea. Coffee was not hard at all to give up, plus I can drink decaf and be just fine, but Iced Tea has a completely different flavor when it is decaffeinated, well, to me at least.
I also have trouble with sodas. With Pepsi being one of my favorite drinks it's hard for me to just give it up. Over the last few days I have been drinking decaffeinated versions of it as well and while the taste is a little different, it's not half bad.
So why am I trying to get off of the caffeinated stuff? Lately I have not been sleeping well and I attribute it to using caffeine to keep myself alert most of the day. I have also been drinking everything but water lately and I think I need to get back to the basics and drink more of that, maybe it will make me feel better. Mostly it's just to have a goal this summer. Give myself something shoot for before I head back to Lubbock and see if I can keep doing it when I get back up there and in my routine.
PostgreSQL; Time to Move?
I am still waiting for MySQL 5.0 to be released before I actually move my data over to PostgreSQL. The reason is the simple fact that PostgreSQL has the advanced features I want and MySQL has implemented a few in its recent 4.1 release, but it just left me wanting more. When 5.0 is released I will evaluate it to see if it fits my needs and has the features and the speed that I want. If it doesn't then I will be making a switch to PostgreSQL.
My reluctance to switch is the overwhelming use of MySQL on most hosts and by a lot of small/medium application developers. With 4.1 I am able to implement a true relational database with foreign keys and CASCADE statements, I just want more…
Updated Reading List
I have been looking for a few more blogs to add to my list of daily reading and I've compiled a list of the new sites that are now in my bookmarks folder.
- Lunar Adventures – A great blog by fellow Texan Andrew Kaufmann.
- DonnieJeter.com – A simplistic but interesting blog by moleskine addict Donnie Jeter.
- JohnZeratsky.com – A great read for designers. John and I have had a few conversations about an easy to use centralized calendar application.
- NicholasJon.com – I really like the look of this blog and the content is great.
I am always looking for new reading material. Any suggestions? E-mail me! s [at] badice dot com.


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Italian Steak Pot Pie
1 photo of Italian Steak Pot Pie Recipe
Jennifer Bass
I recently made my first pot pie and wanted to experiment with steak. This turned out great, however, I did have a little trouble with the crust cracking a little during baking. It still turned out delicious!
★★★★★ 2 votes5
30 Min
1 Hr 20 Min
- 1 lb
- strip steak, fat trimmed, & thinly sliced
- salt & pepper, to taste
- 4 c
- beef stock
- 2
- beef bouillon cubes
- 6 Tbsp
- butter
- 2
- onions, chopped
- 3/4 c
- all-purpose flour
- 1/4 c
- milk
- 1 c
- medium-diced carrots, blanched for 2 minutes
- 1 pkg
- frozen peas (10 oz.)
- 1/2 c
- frozen chopped broccoli
- 2 medium
- potatoes, peeled & diced
- 1/3 c
- chopped green bell pepper
- 4 oz
- sliced fresh baby portobello mushrooms
- 4 Tbsp
- fire roasted tomatoes (from can)
- 4 large
- cloves garlic, minced
- 3 tsp
- italian seasoning
- 1/4 c
- freshly grated parmesan cheese
- 4
- refrigerated pie crusts
- 2
- green onions, sliced (optional for garnish)
How to Make Italian Steak Pot Pie
- 1Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- 2Boil water in in a medium-sized pot and cook potatoes for about 15-20 minutes. Once potatoes are fork tender, drain in a colander.
- 3In a small saucepan, heat the beef stock and dissolve the bouillon cubes in the stock.
- 4In a large pot, melt the butter and saute the mushrooms, garlic, green bell pepper and onions over medium-low heat for 10 to 15 minutes, until translucent. Add the flour and cook over low heat, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes. Add the hot beef stock to the sauce. Simmer over low heat for 1 more minute, stirring, until thick. Add 2 teaspoons salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Add the sliced steak, carrots, peas, potatoes, mushrooms, onions, broccoli and fire roasted tomatoes. Add the Italian seasoning and mix well.
- 5Slowly add in the milk and Parmesan cheese. Mix well.
- 6Lightly spray two 9-inch pie dishes with non-stick cooking spray. Carefully unroll one pie crust and press down and onto sides of pie dish. Using a pastry brush, spread butter on the crust. Pour mixture into crust until it almost reaches the top of the dish. Carefully unroll the second pie crust and place on top of the chicken mixture. Pinch edges together. Brush the top of the pie crust with butter. Using a knife, make a slit about 1 to 2 inches on top of pie crust. Bake for 1 hour or until crust is light golden brown. Brush more butter on top of crust, if desired. After slicing and plating the pot pie, garnish with green onions, if desired.
- 7Makes 2 9-inch pot pies.
About Italian Steak Pot Pie
Course/Dish: Beef, Steaks and Chops, Savory Pies
Regional Style: Italian


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In an April ruling affirming Stockton's eligibility for Chapter 9 protection, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher M. Klein declared that Assured had "voted with [its] feet" and acted as a "stone wall" during negotiations with the city, and he wrote Wednesday that careful reflection persuaded him his original findings are...
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Susan Eaves is a graduate of Southern Illinois University and Texas Woman's University with B.S. and M.A. degrees in Parks and Recreation Administration, respectively. She is married to Dan, a graduate of Texas Tech University in Engineering. They met during college while working at Canyon Village in Yellowstone National Park. They have four children – Kelli, Daniel, Lisette and Mark and three grandchildren – Briana (22), Lucas (17) and Lotus (6).
Susan has been a Certified Parks and Recreation Professional (CPRP) for 49 years. She began her career in Arlington, TX, as a Center Manager, Recreation Supervisor and Recreation Superintendent-working in Arlington 14 years. In 1982, Susan was selected as the first full-time Executive Director of the Texas Recreation and Park Society (TRAPS), serving in that position for six years. After TRAPS, Susan joined the Fort Worth Parks and Community Services Dept. for four years as District Superintendent. During her tenure in Fort Worth, the Department won the National Gold Medal Award and two Texas Gold Medal Awards.
Susan left Fort Worth in 1996 to become the Director of Parks and Recreation in Lancaster, TX. During the 6+ years in Lancaster, the PARD built numerous parks and recreation facilities valued at over $20 million and included a $9.7 million, 60,000 sq. ft. recreation center with and indoor waterpark on a 270 acre community park. Susan negotiated with the Texas Rangers and the Royce Clayton Foundation to build the first municipal Texas Rangers Youth Baseball Field in Lancaster and wrote six grants totaling over $5.2 million.
Susan served on the APRS Board for two 3-year terms. She is a Past-President of TRAPS and has received the TRAPS Young Professional, Fellow, President's Awards in 1988, 2012 & 2015 and Honorary Life Membership in 2009. She also received the NRPA Southwest Region Young Professional and Fellow Awards. She is a Founding Charter Member of the Texas Parks and Recreation Foundation from 1979 to present and as Secretary, Vice-President and President. She continues to serve on the TPR Foundation Board as Scholarship Chair and Fund-raising Co-chair to create an additional Endowed Memorial Scholarship Grant for former Board member Al Johnson.
Susan is also a Founding Member of the Texas Senior Games Board for 16 years and the Co-Founder of the North Texas Recreation Association in 1970. She was recognized as the "Distinguished Recreation Alumni at Southern Illinois University.
After Lancaster, Susan was the Grant Writer for Dallas Parks and Recreation Department's 49 recreation centers and then retired from Dallas in 2007. During her first year of retirement, she was appointed to the Arlington, TX Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and the River Legacy Parks Foundation Board. She served a total 16 years on the Arlington Parks and Recreation Advisory Board. In 2009, Susan chaired the City of Arlington Park Bond Campaign Committee, which was successful in passing a $15.5 million park bond package. In 2017, she chaired another Arlington Park Bond Committee which was also successful in passing a $45 million bond package to build an Active Adult Senior Recreation Center by 69% of the voters!
In May, 2010, Susan returned to part-time work (29 hours/week) as a Recreation Programmer and Special Events Planner for the Summit with the Grand Prairie Parks, Arts and Recreation Dept. Grand Prairie won the National Gold Medal Award in 2008 and has been a Finalist in 2016 and 2017. The Summit – built exclusively for active adults 50 years and up. She created a Red Hat Chapter with over 75 active members and has taken groups on trips to New York City, New Orleans, Las Vegas and to Tuscany, Italy this Fall. Susan is still very active in TRAPS and chaired the 75th Anniversary Celebration Activities in 2012. Susan is also an alumni advisor for the Kappa Eta Chapter of Sigma Kappa National Sorority at Texas Christian University and Past President of the Arlington/Ft. Worth Sigma Kappa Alumni Chapter. [updated July 2017]


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So I went out for the second time with a guy (I know him for about months now) and we're great friends.We went out and he told me about a one week trip he had ,lots of stories,we laughed,we kissed only on the cheek.We actually had fun on the date.We used to talk almost everyday (we'd take a 1day break ,max.2)After that he didn't text or anything. WHen we didn't talk for more than 2 days ,he would give me a message :hey,we haven't talked since... I gave him a text 2 days ago saying: hey,what are you doing,still living? :)) and he responsed with "a little bit" . After that I said "why haven't you given me a sign that you're stil living (ok in English it sounds weird,i'm from Romania) ,followed by "you wanna talk,or you want me to leave you alone" ,he didn't answer so I said "i guess you don't" and he sent a message "i;m playing" (He's obsessed with LOL). And still no message,he usually initiates contact,it's not just me. My bff says I should wait until he says something,but I miss us talking. He said he loves talking to me. Sometimes he's flirty and talks about us,then he says he doesn't want a girlfriend right now,then back ,then friends.I don't get it. A friend of mine tried to talk to his best friend ,who said : you're not gonna convince me to say if S.(the guy I like) likes her :)) "ANd when his best friend made some jokes about me and S.( on Facebook he said after a check-in :Aww look at them! :> and S responsed with :> and some other stuff at one of my pictures) I'm afraid some oof his shallow girl/boy friends (he's popular and lots of girls are around him ) saw the check-in and probably they told him "you went out with HER? "(sorry,my mind is doing this,i have a problem with my self esteem). Should I wait,or should I ask him what's wrong? We were more relaxed the last time, I wouldn't have the guts to kiss him though,i'm afraid he doesn't like me (I am more curvy around my hips and thighs than the other skinny /"planks" girls I know and I don't wear a kg of makeup because I have a nice face) ,i'm super shy.. So ,please I need help :(.
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Im assuming maybe he could be busy. If you and him text a lot then sometimes you have to give a guy space to respond back. If you send to much texts then it could make a girl seem to clingy . Even though he is popular and has other girls around him doesn't mean that he likes every girl that hangs around him. He told yo uhe lieks talking you and that he doesn't want a girlfriend now. He is very honest and open with you. Just try to give him some space. If he doesn't respond within a day or two or even three days then text him just to check up on him. Try not to be afraid or self conscious. He had to like hanging out with you because he wouldn't had text you back if he didn't.00|00|0
Thank you,but the same day I asked this question he texted me and we talked for like 2 hours. And the next day for 3 hours. So he was probably busy. I was just scared because we stopped talking after the date and I kept wondering what I have done wrong. :) In this 4-day talking break I texted him on the second day and since he said he was playing I left him alone. But he texted me the 4th day,so I'm happy :)
Thanks for selecting my answer as the best answer. I'm very glad that he is texting you back. :) You seem like a very nice girl. I think with the texting thing is you get used to a routine and when the routine gets broken then it does seem like somethign bad happen. I'm glad that he was just busy. I hope things work out between you and him. Keep me updated on what happens if you can.