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I experience romantic moments all the time then...like every second...As i am a romantic.

Sounds relly excisting. Id really jump on youre idea gevo, sounds like fun!AH!! Though, I'd have to find somewhere i can ride it, perferably in a mountainous evviroment and not at the backyard of my house. Yeah I can feel the most lonely in a crowded enviroment...like for example in the subway, its so depressing sometimes---people looking like zombies...i m not sure if its only like this in the swedish subways that it is like this, but they make me bloody depressed sometimes just beeing surronded by angry and sad faces glanzing at you as if it was my responsibiliy to make them happy or something..:party1:parasites i call them- jelous old women and men who have completly failed with there lifes...and wants to suck out all youre energy you have got in your body.

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Rafael Davtian is a young man in a hurry. A big hurry. At age 16 - when students are normally still in high school - Rafael is studying for his doctorate at the University at Buffalo. He has, in effect, skipped eight grades of school. Rafael doesn't have his driver's license yet, but he already has earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees. Even though he won't be old enough to vote for another two years, he is a teaching assistant in UB's political science department, helping instruct students years older than he is. "I like to learn and was motivated to advance," said Rafael, a native of Armenia who came to this country with his parents at age 8. "The two main components were constant hard work and determination to keep going." Academic acceleration hasn't hurt the quality of his work one bit. Rafael has never - not once, at any grade level - earned a grade lower than A. He was valedictorian of Utah State University's College of Humanities with a perfect 4.0 grade point average. And in less than a semester, Rafael has earned a sterling reputation at UB. "He's extremely mature and extremely bright," said Franco Mattei, director of graduate studies in political science. "He's just at the top of the class." Rafael hopes to teach at the college level, work for the State Department or an international agency or get involved in electoral politics. His academic accomplishments are even more remarkable because he arrived in the United States at age 8, knowing just a few words of English. In search of better opportunities and a Western lifestyle, his family moved from Armenia to West Germany when Rafael was 3 and then to Salt Lake City five years later. Rafael's progress was meteoric. For example: • He skipped grades 4 and 5 and went directly from sixth grade to ninth grade. • He tackled the last three years of high school in two years and still managed to accumulate 40 college credits. • He earned an associate's degree from Salt Lake Community College at age 13, finished his undergraduate requirements in three semesters instead of four and earned his master's degree in one year rather than two. • Even though he studies from six to eight hours a day, Rafael finds time to play tennis, soccer and chess and to read books for pleasure. Most accelerated students skip just a year or two of school, and Rafael's academic career is highly unusual but not unique, said Nicholas Colangelo, director of the Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education at the University of Iowa. Colangelo, an advocate of acceleration for gifted students, said even dramatic advancement can work with the support and planning of parents and schools. "The bottom line is, kids develop at different rates, and some very much so," he said. "The question you have to ask is: What would it have been like for this young man if he stayed with his age group?" Well-spoken, personable and impeccably polite, Rafael said he doesn't think about age and feels perfectly comfortable with his classmates. "For me, it has become more or less normal," he said. "I simply accept the fact that here I am. It could be no other way." Armin Davtian, a manufacturing engineer while in Armenia, said he advocated for Rafael's acceleration based on his progress in the early grades and his love of learning. "I saw how quickly he grasped almost everything," Davtian said. "He was really fast, capable and brilliant." Neighbors, teachers and guidance counselors questioned that strategy and raised concerns about the social and emotional pressures Rafael would face. Some argued that we was being robbed of his childhood. But the determination and confidence of both son and father never wavered. "I faced lots of blame and condemnation, but I knew I was doing the right thing," said Armin Davtian. "He proved he could overcome. He produced excellent results. Whenever I was asked the question: "Why?,' the answer would be: "Why not?' " Rafael agrees. "I was able to adapt well," he said. "I get along with everyone. I think it was stranger for the people around me than it was for me, actually." Rafael's academic success has been a family effort. Armin and his wife, Gayene, moved with Rafael from Salt Lake City to Logan, Utah, so their only child could attend Utah State, and then to Amherst for Rafael's doctoral program. At Utah State, Armin Davtian enrolled in and graduated from the same master's program as his son. "He was 14, I was 41, and we were sitting together and taking classes together," Davtian said. UB provided Rafael not only a paid assistantship, but also a Presidential Fellowship, the highest academic recognition accorded by the College of Arts and Sciences. "He's one of the most outstanding students we've had in recent years," said Frank C. Zagare, chairman of UB's political science department and one of Rafael's professors. "He more than competes with older students in the class." Rafael loves UB, and college officials said his adjustment backs up the confidence they showed in him. "We made the right decision," UB's Mattei said. "I'm glad we did, because otherwise it would have been our loss." e-mail: psimon@buffnews.com http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20041130/1028399.asp

I recently saw Love story Great movie!Everyone should see it. Quote: love is to never to say you're sorry

I've seen the piano teacher. I am not sure if it was the actual movie who made me feel like it was awful, and discusting. I really disliked it. Im not sure If i was just very sensitive and was in a bad state of mind at the time as when i was watching the film.But i only remember thinking that NObody should see that film!It was just a lot of violence without any reason to show it really... It was a long time ago I did see it, but I just remember how absurt it was. She was clearly a psykopath.she slept wit her mother, for what reason! ? the most stupid and most voilent film i ever saw, wich was really really bad!

hahahha bavakan What on earth were they thinking naming a child enough? lol... Ive never heard that... I dont like the name Arine, because everytime i hear it I think they are calling me, Karine,,,but the K is gone every time.

Beautiful Girls names Ani, Tamar or Tamara, Aida, Lusine (moon) Anoush (sweet), Zabel/Izabel Siran, Gayane, Ovsanna, Nvart, Mariam have you ever heard of "Hamas" as a armenian girls name? I just saw it in a list of armenian girls names... :huh:what can it mean, hm. "The bomb"?

Depends on how he sais it ... If he is only flirting with...or if he is really good looking. I wouldn't mind if he proposed jk. (you can always turn him down.)

I thought id make a little contribuation to this thread... About shoes and high heels. the most important thing is not the high heels but that you feel comfortable walking in youre shoes. Now this might be easy to say. But always remember that when trying on shoes!! It is your actual walk that makes you look more beutiful. to feel comfortable and you are able to walk in them nicely.

Thoughts and actions...well no one can be exacly like YOU or even have the same opinions about everything thati s teh same as you have. And of course, to be with someone who obeys your every command, or cant make up his own mind, or be independent is mostly a very boring person.

Anahit was known as the Godess of fertility and birth in ancient Armenia.

Armenia has a good educational system at least what ive seen of it, send your kids to school in armenia, and your problem would be solved!

TB: "Let's go over it again. If: Father=he can't be bothered with the lowly task of being involved in the nitty gritty Mother=left alone by the father to raise her sons; appears to raise replicas of the father (who is not involved in the business) Then: The mother, who is doing the tango alone, has to change something in how she raises her boys, since it won't be coming from the father, who has been raised and trained to be uninvolved in such lowly activities. (that's where the tango fails, you see) The virtuous cycle of ever-better males would never take off without a coherent change in Armenian maternal attitudes towards their boys. That's assuming that Armenian culture is isolated, which of course it is not. Then we can all sit on our butts, and assimilation (in the diaspora) and globalization (in the homeland) will take care of the whole thing." I actually agree with you, though i know that not all armenian fathers are like that though! but this isnt a gender matter, but both children becomes equally" screwded up" , be it a the dauther or the son , as they are rasied in the same family. true true!!!? If the father doesnt care about the chidlren, then i think a divorce between the parents would be very appropriate.

This is a family issue. YOu cant blame only the mother, or only the father. it takes TWO to tango, as it is often said and this is the case in raising children..

"It's true that Armenian guys often are insufferable jerks. However, it gets on my nerves when the Armenian women, who in the whole are responsible for raising those jerks complain about their collective creations. And no, "what about the father" won't cut it, because he is also mostly raised by his mother. The solution lies with how Armenian boys are raised. To the extent that the Armenian culture is an isolated, distinct entity (which of course it is not *), the first move inescapably has to come from the females, and most relevantly from the mothers. Raise your boys well." wait a minute! youre telling us that the ameniian woman are responsible for raising yerks , do they have the entire responsibliity? or could it be that the father and the mother have both equal responsiblitity on how to raise their children

My PC has a line in jack, i think its a line in jack But im wondering weither or not my stereo needs a special out put jack?Because it only has right and left cable input... ? Its already connected to the PC- when i listened to audio files from the computer...is that the same line in jacks? I Only changed and put the cable into the line in jack you mentioned im totally confused now. How am I going to start recording from the tape into the computer?

maybe if the armenian guys would mature a bit...they wouldnt have any trouble finding a life -partner...

and everyone who points out people and call them satanist or non belivers and therefore not worthy ,and who boast about their religious nature... should not so rightfully call themselves christians...as they are the worst chrisitans usually...

So, this does not exclude someone of being smart, it just means that they can use

haha omg...what a stupid bunch of people ...the students and the professor!? although i think ive got it...when Domino said roses...i thought i got it...im to tired for this game right nowww im retiring.

i got it right the first time and i it took me about two seconds...ban chem haskanom well...this is fun, though. its quite llogical isnt it..some times...