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Carlene and Raylene Worthington of Oregon County are currently on trial for allowing their 15 month old daughter Ava to die of a pneumonia and blood infection. Rather than seek out medical attention as would any right-minded parent would do, they depended on traditional faith-based methods to nurse her back to health. Rather than having the expected salutary outcome of eliminating their daughter’s afflictions, she died. Aw, too bad. These parents were obviously of the strong-willed core of fundamentalist Christians who would, instead of calling a doctor, defer the survival of their infant child to an illusory god. Grasping at straws aplenty, they tried such effectual methods as prayer and fasting, as we are all aware that not having food in one’s stomach has the slightest effect on the outside world. Alas, when these, did not work, they found it apropos to sit on their hands, or administer doses of wine. It’s not their fault, though, since they believed it work and that modern medicine is all conspiratorial evil.

IN responding to whether or not she would have transported Ava to the doctor if she knew that she was dying, she stated, “I don’t know.” You see, she did not know that her daughter was dying, and probably did not reckon she was dead until three days after the fact. If she kept praying even after she was lying there on the floor, maybe god would have revived her still. Or maybe this parent let slip from her mind the infinite power of god. In any event, her god gamble was unsuccessful, and she is not standing trial, the jury having heard the testimonies of their interviewers as well as the medical examiner Dr. Christopher Young.

These people deserve to have diseases injected into them as part of an experiment to hypothesize the reality of a god. Say, septicemic black plague or something of that sort. After all, they could then perform a miracle by invoking their god and living to tell the tale, in which case they will be well on their way to becoming saints. Any reasonable believer would do this.

The embattled history of protection of faith-healing in Oregonian law was modified in 1999 to strip away some of the rights granted to parents who murder their children because of their beliefs as described in archives of the same publication.

“The Oregonian investigated the deaths of three children and found that of the more than 70 children buried since 1955 in a Followers of Christ cemetery just outside Oregon City, at least 21 would have lived with medical intervention.”

I played some Dungeons & Dragons today with a few people I know. It was alright, and semi-enjoyable for specific moments of time, but by and large I seldom understand enough mechanics of the game itself to reap full satisfaction. My character’s stats are comparitively inutile, my special “encounter powers” and class feats cryptic to my non-lateral thinking mind, and my dysphonic attention span a stumbling block to me as well. I’m dubious that anyone in my cadre of warriors is fully immersed in the world of the game, though this may be due to the dungeon master’s nondescript storytelling and poor raconteur skills. Nonetheless, it’s an experience, and while the initial excitement of just beginning to play has far become threadbare, I’ll play along.

Harry Potter comes out on July 15th. Meanwhile, Harry Potter on posted YouTube has been revoked for the time being in order to make emendations that will comply with the stringent copyrighted material of the book series. I suppose that this hang up is something minor since they will be reposted, despite having everything to do with the HP series, peppered with divers references to the series as well as pop culture. When I was binge-watching this production, as it is sliced intomany contiguous segments, I could not find the last clips, only to find out, to my dismay, they day that they had been rolled back for the reasons explained. The musical shall, though, push through this legal tripwire undeterred, and I would be remiss not to rewatch it in its entirety. It’s that good. The complaints at hand concerning the rights to the characters is baseless, anyway, since the entire book series is freely available for download on site like The Pirate Bay, and the musical can be considered a product of the incredible fandom the books have enjoyed. I see no problem in allowing it online seeing as there are so many breaches of copyright policy that abound throughout the internette, whether it be plagiarizing Wikipedia or using someone else’s idea found on the Web. The blogosphere is just a turbine of garbage and recycled comments to begin with, starting from professional publications and snaking its way down to the cesspool of personal microblogging through sites like Twitter. Thus, putting videos that contain vague effigies of the original characters from a nonpareil commercial success such as Harry Potter is not only an ingratiating tribute to the creator, but is to be expected. I’ll post a video or two from the play when it resurfaces from the black waters of copyright convention.

For more information regarding how the bizarre statutes of copyright law are in need of overhaul, I found this blurb about the new patent and trademark director. I am aware that with PC related content, software is usually kept under warps typically is not open source. A related example would be the Amazon Kindle’s secret recipe for its product, in contrast to programs that bring together a community of developers to work in unison. I cannot now provide any thorough citation on any of this, as it is a bit involved in terms of complexity. For example, with respect to “derivative works,” they belong wholly to the original author of the content on which they are based, unless it is criticism or parody. I would contend though that the Harry Potter muscial is just that, a parody, since it pokes fun at elements of novels. It satirzes, for instance, the impossiblity of being able to find the horcruxes of the sixth book unless they happened to have been stashed away in landmark locations, as opposed to being tossed into the ocean. Many of the characters speak with muggle parlance instead of how they would as characters in the books. Perhaps this is why the videos will be allowed to be reposted under certain conditions. Even so, copyrighted material in the first place is enforced centrally to protect the commercial stakes of the work, and HP has generated enough millions, in my opinion, such that this could be disregarded. This is according to certain of the odd copyright provisions on this article expounding upon the myths commingled with copyrights.

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For my own pleasure, as well as the edification of my friend Alyssa, I wish to set down the specificities of my predilections towards girls. I had been lying in bed just the other night thinking about this very imminent issue, and concluded the basis on which I think might be the reason why I like certain girls. A paradigm, if you will, of who I like and to what origin I can trace this affinity, for whomever it may be.

I have posited that I am liable to develop a crush on a girl on two major criteria. Superficial beauty being one, which itself can be broken down and further defragmented something which is too difficult for me to endeavor to do. How they make me feel is another, or their interaction with me. Both of these components are requisite if I’m to have any crush on a person I’ve met in real life. So, for example, though I may not think that a girl is particularly pretty upon first impression, the primacy of our relationship can blossom into something that becomes, for me, a crush, or liking. This has happened with me more than once.

If, on the other hand, I saw glimpses of girl, such as in school, that I thought was pretty, I would think solely that, noerically and with no emotion directed towards her whatsoever. If, then, I saw that person in or talked to her in a more personal context, and she was pretty in my book, then I would of course have an insta-crush on that girl. Kind of like “just add water” to a hot, sexy, and delicious, meal. That, in a nutshell, is the long and short of it.

There you have it folks, the anatomy of a crush, a la Dylan.