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Will CNN's Jeff Zucker Replace 'News' With Reality TV?
Maybe the change we see at CNN has a lot to do with Jeff Zucker and his vision of what makes money rather than what CNN was and should be all about- news.
Like politics, maybe we need to get money out of the news networks.
Americans have seen the corrupting influences of money in Washington DC. Nothing is done on behalf of constituents anymore. Instead, it's the lobbyists that get the ear of our politicians.
With CNN, Zucker knows there's lots of money that will be spent on political advertising in the upcoming midterm elections by both parties so we see CNN giving Republicans that are interviewed a huge pass when they should be made to explain their anti-American policies. But, 'No'.
The GOP's positions are obvious but we see Candy Crowley asking Rep. Steve Israel to clarify his statement as to whether he believes that many Republican policies are racist on her Sunday morning show this weekend.
Jeff Zucker has had some success with reality TV shows, so apparently he apparently believes that the flagging ratings of CNN can be fixed by introducing reality TV to CNN's prime time line up.
Somebody should remind Zucker what he's president of- a news network.
And given his remarks about the GOP, you think he use his position to do something about what he believes.
"Zucker has been highly outspoken about his contempt for both the Fox News Channel and the Republican Party, having said, "the Republican Party is being run out of News Corp. headquarters, masquerading as a cable channel."
So why does CNN's Jeff Zucker allow his talking heads to cut the GOP so much slack ? R-E-V-E-N-U-E!
Zucker doesn't want to lose ad money from the GOP when Reince Priebus, RNC Chairman, is so quit to call foul should someone on CNN tell the truth about the GOP's policies.
So how much truth do we get about British Petroleum's spill in the Gulf from CNN when they advertise on Zucker's network?
CNN is now more about revenue than good, hard hitting, decisive news coverage and that's why their ratings have suffered. And will reality TV help?
CNN fires anyone that has spoken their mind or had strong feelings about what they report.
Larry King suggests that CNN starts running cartoons during their 9pm slot. With the recent departure of Piers Morgan, CNN has turned to documentaries as a way to fill the time slot.
SyFy is broadcasting wrestling on Friday nights at 9pm. It seems to be working for them, as far as revenue but as far as programming that fits with the main theme of their network?
"CNN has already axed a second hour of Anderson Cooper airing at 10 p.m. – one that barely got off the ground given how many times the network aired something from its swelling vault of documentaries or focused on breaking news during that time period. And now, with a CNN upfront presentation already scheduled for April 10, the network, and its leader, Jeff Zucker, will quickly need to have some sort of scheme to articulate.
Perhaps that plan is already in evidence. For weeks, CNN has placed increasing emphasis on a number of planned documentary series, as well as a smattering of insta-docs based on breaking news."
"February was another rough month in the ratings for CNN. "
An article from Truthout sums up CNN's dilemma :
"Mainstream Media News Is a Tragedy Because It Doesn't Report the News That Matters"
"CNN is the 24/7 media trumpet for news about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that is presumed to have crashed in the Southern Indian Ocean, southwest of Australia. On that flight were 227 passengers and 12 crew members.
CNN grabbed every iota of information, pumped it full of digital frequencies, and broadcast it to what it thought was a world salivating for every syllable of thought.
When there was news, CNN broadcast it. When there was no news, CNN broadcast it. When there were outrageous theories, CNN was the source to find out who was saying what. When there was a rumor, CNN broadcast that, only to have to retract it hours later. Through chatter and repetition, CNN kept the story alive.
This wasn't the first time the media became fixated on a story. It certainly won't be the last. There was non-stop coverage of the death of Princess Diana, the O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson trials. Fox News grabbed onto Obamacare, President Obama's alleged birth in Kenya, and the Benghazi story, even when the facts didn't support its preconceived conclusions. More recently, MSNBC's evening anchors have given non-stop wall-to-wall coverage of the Chris Christie "Bridgegate" story, another story that was hyped by constant repetition.
"All News-All Day" isn't new. During the Yellow Journalism age and circulation wars in the late 19th century, media giants William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer often sent to press several editions a day. Hearst, whose jingoistic determination helped bring about the Spanish-American War in 1898, was not adverse to publishing as many as 30 editions a day to "update" his million subscribers and millions more readers of the New York Journal, all of whom were willing to pay three cents per edition to get even more news each day.
In the early 1960s, the radio medium developed all-news stations. However, the news package was often a prepackaged cycle that ran every seven, nine, 11, or 20 minutes, with new content every now and then.
The 24/7 news cycle, as we now know it, was initiated by CNN more than three decades ago, and became a necessary part of information dissemination during the first Gulf War in 1990-1991. CNN had correspondents in Baghdad; the coverage was critical in keeping Americans, especially family members of combat troops, informed of the reasons for the war and numerous issues that developed from that war, as well as hour-by-hour coverage of the war itself.
Since then, the CNN concept of all-day coverage, which had been spoofed and held as an example of what not to do in news, has been successfully copied by MSNBC, Fox News, other cable news operations, and dozens of web-only news-commentary operations.
Newspapers, which have often lagged in innovation, began to go 24/7 by a combination of once-a-day print production and continuous updates in their web editions. Reporters at one time wrote a story, turned it in to the "desk," forgot it and went to other stories. Copyeditors often improved the story, gave it a headline, put it onto the page, and sent it to the "back shop" where it became a part of pre-press composition and the "press run." However, in the "we want news right now—and make it short because we don't have the attention span" world, reporters are writing the story for the print edition, while also recording it on cell phones and digital cameras, sometimes narrating the footage, for the web edition. If anything changes during the day, the reporter then spends the rest of the day juggling other stories and updates on the original story.
But there is a major problem when the media—print or visual—become fixated upon one story, such as Flight 370. Other stories are swept aside. "
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I love CNN! And I'd like to see her do better. But Jeff Zucker needs to get his act together. CNN is about news, Jeff, not about revenue and reality TV.
When you put out a great product and news service, people will notice. Money comes as a natural result of good service.
And stop beating the Flight 370 story to death. There's other news to cover.
What do you think of this story?
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WHAT is Social Media Marketing Good For Anyway? Part One
Posted in Seminars, SEO, Social Media
By Charlene Jaszewski
Whether you embrace it or not, social media is here to stay and affects your brand. Social media marketing must be part of your overall marketing effort. Ignore the blogosphere at your peril.
Moderator Pauline Ores, SES Advisory Board and Senior Marketing Manager, Social Media Engagement, General Business, IBM, began the seminar by stating that the Social Media Track was new to Search Engine Strategies conferences. She introduced the powerhouse panel:
NOTE: Due to massive awesome content, this seminar is split across two posts (link provided at end to part two).
Conn Fishburn began by providing an overview of social media.The New NowThere are now
Social media/the web is NOT a better version of print or TV. It doesn't behave like other media. Social media is first and foremost about people. The "killer app" of the web is other people. You need people to connect.
What is future of marketing? What will it look like in 5 years?
We've moved from mass media broadcasting (one pushed to the many) to the "we" media (sharing and interactivity).
Marketing today is creating social dialogue. Brands and companies are part of the cultural fabric.
What is social media?
- media made by and for users in communities (posts, reviews, videos, etc.)
- a business model in which our customers are our suppliers (digg ranks news stories)
- customers participate in supply chain
- an advertising system in which people articulate their interests nad passions and share marketing mesages wth each other (Facebook status shows you what groups your friends join)
- new approach to solving hard problems in networked information systems (Library of Congress is working with Flickr users to tag Library of Congress photos)
- platforms, systems and apps that connect media, technology and peopole together into a process and value-creation network
The myth of "Influencers"
The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell talks about the concept of the "influencer," a magical being (only 15% of the population) whose favor causes ideas/products/concepts to catch fire. Duncan Watts is a Tipping-point skeptic (and Yahoo! research scientist) who believes there's no difference between an "influencer" and a regular person when it comes to knowing whether something will generate buzz. The factor he says is the condition of the network.
How to play nicely in social space
- holistic approach: must be part of all marketing efforts
- FIRST: listen to what they're already saying about you and your brand
- become part of a story: the dove campaign tapped into cultural truth about women and beauty
- always bring some wine: act like you're coming to a dinner party. Don't just appear in social space and demand things. You must also cooperate and provide value.
- be good to your mother: you can no longer trick consumers into buying your stuff. They are too savvy for you.
- Don't forget! Social media is here to stay!
Goodies to check out!!
- MOMA exhibition: Design and the Elastic Mind – has a Digg arc visualization see online exhibition
- Ogilvy & Mather has created a glossary of social media terms that is supposed to be on the SES site but since SES site has no search capabilities (!!!) I can't find it right now. Will post link soon.
Chris Beland of Ogilvy & Mather was next up to speak about Web 2.0 and social media.Why is social media important? The brand is no longer the authority on what is right and good. 70% of people visit a search engine FIRST when making a buying decision. People still look to experts, but they validate with other sources. Peer to peer and user-generated content are the number one sources for trusted information. This includes things like recommendations, reviews (positive and negative), and the number of downloads or clicks.JD powers did a survey on how advertisers are getting the word out to customers in media, and following the top four (e-mail, display ads, paid keyword search and branded sponsorship) are "emerging vehicles," all of which are considered "mainstream" by user audiences:
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- listening post review
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- Listen to your customer: not just passively (reading blog discussions, forums, word on the street, etc.) but also actively listening and engaging in the discussion in a transparent manner.
Example: Starwood Hotels is a client, and they have a person who frequents the flyertalk forums and talks to customers about their experiences in Starwood hotels. He's online as starwoodlurker and he's been very well received!
- Find passionate users and give them a platform to evangelize: Once you are established in communities relevant to your brand, you should be able to identify passionate users who could provide good word of mouth for you. Don't be afraid to give them content/products/information for review. For example, the producers of Lost showed the program to teenagers in their demographic months before the program was to air, and let them blog the hell out of it!
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That opening line of "800 billion + online people a month" seems like a bit of an exageration. Mainly because theres only around 6 and half billion people in the world. I'm guessing they meant million and that even seems high.
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The Madeleine Brand Show for November 22, 2011
Occupy UC: The movement grows to address student concerns
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Occupy protestor hold signs during a demonstration at the UC Davis campus on Nov. 21, 2011, in Davis, Calif. Thousands of Occupy protestors staged a demonstration on the UC Davis campus to protest the UC Davis police who pepper sprayed students who sat passively with their arms locked during an Occupy Wall Street demonstration on Nov. 18.
Tensions have flared at the University of California Davis and other campuses after police used pepper spray on passive protesters at a UC Davis campus rally on Nov. 18. Students there and elsewhere in California say they'll continue protesting, branching out from the larger Occupy movement to address specific student concerns, like rising tuition and burgeoning student debt.
Jennifer Medina, L.A. correspondent for The New York Times, told KPCC's Madeleine Brand that while Occupy protesters and students have joined forces in California, whether movements in other states follow suit remains to be seen. She said that banding with students on UC campuses has given California Occupiers a focus.
"People have criticized the Occupy protesters – 'Oh, you don't know what your message is,'" Medina said Tuesday. "But here, they seem to have quite a clear message."
According to Medina, tuition has almost doubled at the University of California. "And at the same time, they're cutting resources," she added. "They cut student centers and extra help, and the class sizes get bigger and there are fewer classes. Students certainly feel they have a lot to complain about."
President of the UC Mark Yudof and UC chancellors have publicly announced that they sympathize. For years they have said they disagree with the cuts and requested that Sacramento lawmakers stop reducing the university's budget. However, Medina said she isn't sure how effective protesting at the campuses will be.
"One top administrator said to me yesterday, 'Well look, does it have more of an effect what they're doing now, versus if they went to Sacramento and marched in mass there?'" she said. "I'm not willing to say that."
Medina said students want to create a protest at the Board of Regents meeting scheduled for Monday, and administrators neither know what to expect or how to handle the situation.
"They certainly don't want the negative attention that the incident at Davis and one last week at Berkeley brought to them. But at the same time, I don't think they have a clear sense if they don't want the tents to stay there forever, or [if they should] just have [students] sort of protest free-for-all on campus."
In Los Angeles, the mayor has offered a deal to the Occupy protesters camped out in front of City Hall: pack up your tents, and we'll give you office space for a dollar a year and farmland. The Occupiers have yet to decide if they'll accept the offer. The offer intended to bring about a peaceful end to the two-month demonstrations is a markedly different strategy than the ones other cities and campuses have used.
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In 35 markets, equal amounts of spectrum will be swapped while AT&T will be adding to its holdings in 12 markets. T-Mobile will gain 5 to 10MHz of spectrum in 8 markets and another 10MHz in Spokane, Washington. Recently, the FCC announced that it will auction off another 300MHz in spectrum by 2015. T-Mobile will be in the bidding to pick up some of the AWS spectrum that is up for grabs.
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1. PapaSmurf (Posts: 8922; Member since: 14 May 2012)
FIRST! Lol jk.
The intro gave me a little chuckle.
Sidenote: Alan, you forgot a period on the last sentence in the first paragraph.
2. gregoryyy3 (Posts: 178; Member since: 10 Nov 2010)
No he didn't you clown
6. PapaSmurf (Posts: 8922; Member since: 14 May 2012)
He did at the time of my post you clown.
Also on a side note, 6 people don't understand sarcasm. Oh well.
9. Hlorri (Posts: 40; Member since: 07 May 2008)
3. tigermcm (Posts: 752; Member since: 02 Sep 2009)
wait a sec some help me out here. tmo and att are switching spectrum and tmo is trying to get metro........how would that work?
4. rsiders (Posts: 309; Member since: 17 Nov 2011)
Hey whatever works. I'm noticing 4g connectivity in certain parts of Baltimore already for my unlocked HTC Titan. Good news for T-Mobile customers.
5. mhiharis (Posts: 14; Member since: 27 Apr 2012)
Is it possible to use AT&T unlocked phone on Tmobile network then?
7. johnny9000 (Posts: 45; Member since: 10 Sep 2011)
Yes, although you won't get 4G service in many areas with Tmobile that you would with AT&T, but it's growing.
8. rsiders (Posts: 309; Member since: 17 Nov 2011)
Read my comment above my friend.


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"Let guns be silenced and politics dominate," said Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), as he called for a historic truce.
"This is an historic opportunity indeed; it's a bit late anouncement, because the PKK problem was born as a reaction to authoritarian policies of early 1980s, so this movement emerges as a reaction to those somehow nationalistic, somehow racist policies, of the then coup d'etat in 1980s. Turkey of today is so much different from the Turkey of the 1980s ... There was an effort to start a dialogue in Oslo, but it was sabotaged by some forces within PKK by an attack in Silvan, and this was a very big opportunity missed three years ago."
-Abdulhamit Bilici, the general manager of the Cihan News Agency in Turkey
Thousands gathered to listen to him on Thursday, as Ocalan called on his PKK fighters to put down their weapons and withdraw from Turkey. The announcement follows months of talks with officials from the Turkish government in Ocalan's prison in the Marmara sea and is part of a peace process designed to end one of the world's longest running conflicts - one that has killed 40,000 people.
As Kurdistan celebrates its new year, can the two sides maintain peace after almost 30 years of fighting? Will this ceasefire succeed where others have failed?
Joining presenter Hazem Sika on Inside Story are guests: Abdulhamit Bilici, the general manager of the Cihan News Agency in Turkey; Ian Lesser, the senior director for Foreign and Security Policy at the German Marshall Fund, who has also written a number of books on Turkey and the Mediterranean; and Ibrahim Dogus, a Kurd and the director of the Centre for Turkey Studies and Development.
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Her fingers danced slowly down the silky fabric, tracing the attractively colored pattern. On one of those fingers, a golden ring was wrapped firmly around it. Several jewels adorned one section of the golden band, glimmering lightly. She dropped the scarf to the ground, her throat constricting as the ring now brought to her heart new significance.
Cerise, her eyes watering, picked up the scarf, while her eyes remained locked on the ring.
The jewels kept shimmering, mocking her with blue and purple sparkle.
Sliding the ring off her finger, biting her lower lip, she stuck it in her jean short's pocket.
Desmond wouldn't care anymore.
Around her, in the crowded store known as Ardene's, customers swarmed the clothes rack, talking to their friends and critiquing or praising the clothes they found. One of them brushed up against her, almost knocking her off balance into the rack of scarves she'd been inspecting.
"Oh, I'm sorry!" The man that had bumped against her was actually not really a man at all, but a teenager around her age. His curly, long blonde hair was tucked under a familiar toque, while light stubble swarmed his tanned, firm jaw.
Their eyes met, hers a dark, plain brown, while his eyes were brilliantly blue.
Familiar, comforting, eyes that she had once stared at in admiration-perhaps love.
"Steven?" Cerise let out a surprised laugh, stepping towards her good friend. "What are you doing in Ardene's?"
Several people pushed gently past them, so Steven and Cerise both stepped out of the way, into a more secluded, narrow aisle devoted to jewelry and purses.
"My friend Leanne dragged me in here." He laughed, turning his head, so he could see more of the store and find his friend. "My other friend Jasper's here too, but he refused to go inside with us. I think he went to another store, Boathouse maybe." Again, his deep, rich laugh met her ears, causing her to involuntarily chuckle along.
"Jasper and Leanne? They don't go to your church, do they?" Cerise remembered when they were children, Steven had often invited her to attend church with him. Most Sundays she'd oblige, happily ready to spend time with her childhood friend, even if it was in an old, boring church.
As she'd grown older and made more friends then Steven, she began to dread those Sundays spent at church. No longer did she want to wake up early, only to be subjected to a sermon about a God she neither believed, nor cared for. Even if Steven was there, she began to make up excuses as to why she couldn't attend.
When they started to date for a short while, she'd began to go to church more frequently. Jasper and Leanne, the only other kids who went to the church, quickly befriended her and she slowly began to warm to the services.
She began to read the Bible that Steven had gifted her for her twelfth birthday.
She would even pray; though oftentimes her prayers would only bounce off the ceiling or float aimlessly into the air.
After her break up with Steven, she stopped praying all together, her Bible found a nook under her bed and all desire to attend church dried up.
"Oh right, you know them." He smiled as he also thought back on those times when Cerise had gone with him to church. "Weird, I completely forgot about that. Would it be alright, if I reintroduced you to them?" He turned his head around, his eyes finally landing on Leanne, who was at the far end of the store.
She hadn't even noticed he wasn't right behind her. Instead, she was studying a metal display, which was covered in shirts at a reduced price. Holding one in her hand, she looked at it, then met Steven's eyes and waved him over.
"Oh, I dunno. I was thinking of meeting one of my friends later on." Cerise said. Drake had suggested that they get together later in the afternoon at Kildonan Place. She'd decided to go early to the mall and spend some of her hard-earned cash on new clothes.
"Are you sure you don't just want to say, 'hi'?" He slowly began walking towards Leanne, keeping his eyes trained on Cerise, his lips sporting a half-grin. "C'mon, we wont keep you long."
Or so had been his intention, and hers when she finally agreed to say 'hi' to her old friends. She'd followed Steven towards Leanne, who was shocked to see her and wrapped her in a tight, warm hug. Surprised, Cerise returned the hug.
It wasn't long before the three of them were lost in a conversation about old times. Cerise slowly forgot, though temporarily, about Desmond and the heartbreak that he'd so ruthlessly caused. Instead, she talked and laughed openly with two people that she'd once called her closest and best friends.
The ring her pocket could no longer be felt.
For a good half hour, they walked around the mall, meeting up with Jasper and starting the introductions all over again. The four of them went to numerous stores, catching up, looking at merchandise, and quickly losing track of time.
When Steven suggested they all see a movie, Cerise automatically agreed with the idea. All thoughts about her misery, heartbreak and Desmond were washed away.
Yet, so was Drake.
She never thought once about her good friend, instead when the movie began to play, she turned off her phone and was unaware of her friend trying to reach her through texts.
Sitting in the rickety, hard theater chair, Cerise stared up at the screen and tried to let the movie envelope her. Slumping into her chair, she rested her head against her seat, letting the sounds, music and dialogue take her away.
No matter how hard she tried though, the movie could simply not draw her in.
Again, the ring in her pocket became a brick. She pulled it out of her pocket, fingering the smooth, yet smudgy golden surface. It may not have been the engagement ring that Desmond had promised to give her, but it had once meant the world to her.
Desmond had taken her up to his cabin for one hot, sunny summer weekend, a good year ago. After a day of swimming and fishing-per his request since Cerise thought nothing was worse then catching slimy fish, and he thought it was mankind's greatest pastime-and hiking, he'd taken her inside, where his parents had cooked up steak and potatoes.
His parents had gone outside to sit by the fire, while the two lovers had sat on opposite sides of a great, circular wooden table. They slowly ate their meal, which took over their conversation with deliciousness and good wine.
She'd only spoken when he gave her a ring, the one that she now held in her hand. Without an explanation, he slipped it on her fingers, a large and adorable smile on his face. "I love you," was all that he said, before kissing her fingers. Excusing himself from the table, he went to the CD player and put on their favorite song.
"Perfect" by Hedley.
He waited for in the living space, swaying rhythmically to the music. Holding out his hand, he waited for her to join in. Giggling, she came to him, dancing to the music as he held her lovingly.
In the large wooden cabin, for just a few minutes of the song's duration, Cerise melted into his arms. The ring sat tightly on her finger, reminding her of its presence and what it symbolized.
She wondered if breaking it now would complete the metaphor.
"Desmond?" Steven's soft, gentle voice startled her. Looking up at him, she put the ring back in her pocket, a forced smile on her face. "Did he give that to you?"
"Yeah." She gave a shrug as if their long relationship was a silly, two day fling.
He hesitated, then put his arm on her armrest, leaning in closer. "Is it over?"
Mint, his breath carried a strong, rather nice mint scent. "I don't know what I did wrong." Her brown eyes darted to his, while her lips shrunk into a bitter frown. "I keep asking myself what I could've done to stop the break up. So yes, it's over, but I don't know why."
"Why do you assume it's your fault?" He frowned.
"Because when you love someone, you don't leave them because you're having a bad day or having problems. You break up with someone because you don't love them. Simple."
"Or, he's a huge jerk who is too blind to see what an amazing girl you are. Trust me, nothing is wrong with you, Cerise."
"Comforting words coming from someone who treated me the same way." She folded her arms over her chest, trying not to sigh too loudly. Or cry. Instead, she closed her eyes, feeling guilt over her biting remark. "I'm sorry," she said after a long moment of silence, "I didn't mean that. We were young and stupid, I don't hold it against you."
Steven, who had shrank back into his seat only shook his head. "No, I'm sorry."
Cerise shut her eyes, angry that the tears were trying to escape their confines. "Don't be, I'm just not-" a sob erupted from her mouth, while a single tear ran down her cheek. "Ugh, I'm sorry." She got up, taking her purse off the floor. Hurriedly, she pushed past people's knees as she scurried down the aisle of occupied seats.
Steven also got up, while Jasper glanced at him curiously.
"Cerise," he pushed open the heavy, plastic doors to the doorway of the theatre and fast-walked over to her. "Hey, are you alright?"
She turned around, her face slightly hidden by her sleeve-covered arm. From what he could see, her face was bright red, while tears dampened her sleeve. Her brown eyes, red and swollen peeped out at him. "No.. I'm not."
She began to turn away from him, however, he called out to her again.
Another couple, ordering popcorn and drinks, glanced at them curiously. One of the theatre attendants walked past them, a disinterested expression on her thin, pretty face.
"Listen, I may have hurt you before, but you have to know I'm so sorry about that." He remembered telling her goodbye four years ago, his jaw set and eyes glued to the ground. They'd been outside, sitting together on the hammock.
"You're not the only one."
"Desmond was a jerk, Cerise, a monster. You should be glad to be free of him."
"Everyone's a monster, Steven. But you love them regardless, not for what you hate about them, but for what you love about them." Her voice chocked by tears, she closed her mouth and said nothing more.
"Not everyone's a monster… no one's perfect, but I can promise you that there are genuinely good, loving people in this world. Desmond wasn't the right guy, but some day, you'll meet someone who will love you, Cerise. Love you properly and selflessly." He took an uneasy step forward, hoping to break through to her.
She only shook her head, while her muffled sobs began to quiet.
Cerise just wanted to leave the theatre, find Desmond and beg him to take her back. Surely if she apologized enough he would take her back. She'd done the same thing to him, maybe he was just seeing how much she loved him.
"I have to go." She uncovered her face, turned away and walked through the centre of the theatre's lobby. Without looking back, she exited the theatre lobby, back into the mall and came face to face with Drake.
"Cerise?" Her friend, who'd been sitting on a bench outside of the theater, phone in hand, stood up. With a worried expression, he put away his phone and folded his arms over his chest.
"Drake!" She remembered telling him that she would meet him at the mall. Her heart, already battered by brutal emotions, was added to it a heavy layer of guilt. "I'm so sorry," her breaking voice did not adequately describe how horrible she felt.
Drake only frowned, studying her face with his narrow eyes. "I heard about Desmond." He came up to her, wrapping her in his arms. This time, his body odor was masked by a lovely, intoxicating body spray.
She returned the hug, wishing that he wouldn't let go of her.
However, as always, a hug ends and theirs was no different.
"I met up with old friends at the mall, Drake, I completely forgot about getting together. I feel like such a bitch." She hung her head, unsure if she should say anymore. He'd always been there for her, especially during the hard times. How could she be so inconsiderate in forgetting about him?
The only reason he was probably being so nice about it was because she was crying.
"It's fine. Just as long as you're okay." He was about to reach out for her face, but thought better of it, shoving his hand into his pocket instead. With a broken smile he said, "Take care, Cerise." Then walked down the long, crowded hall towards a set of eight doors leading to the outside world.
In her pocket, the ring weighed her down.
In her heart, she felt as if bricks had been tied around it.
Her mind, however, was left to comprehend the painful emotions swarming it. Feeling sick to her stomach, she briefly considered going back to the theatre with Steven. He'd been so kind to her, could she so easily abandon him just as she'd done to Drake?
With a miserable frown, feeling like an utter monster, she chose to leave.
Maybe Steve was right, perhaps everyone else were fine.
While she was the monster.
"I don't really want a relationship, I just want to be friends." Was all Steven had said one hot afternoon, sitting beside Cerise on the soft hammock. As it swung gently, her mouth opened a bit, while her eyes widened.
For a long, painful second, neither of them spoke a word.
Cerise ended the silence with a long, drawn out sigh. Although he could not remember what she had said in return, he did remember the tears.
His heart had burst, beating madly as he saw that he was the reason she was weeping.
It must've been contagious, for he soon felt similar pain as he realized what he was doing.
Staring at her red, puffy eyes and tear-stained face, he reached for her hand. He enjoyed holding her hand and it always made her smile.
However, she pushed him away, glaring at him before running away from the hammock.
Even as child on the cusp of teenagehood, Steven knew he had done something terribly wrong.
As he watched her go, running away from him, he was unaware it would be the last time he'd ever see her.
Years would go by before he'd ever see her deep brown eyes she called dull but he thought of as radiant. Chill-inducing, but in a good way, like when stepping into a hot, steaming bath.
Now that she was back in his life, old feelings and thoughts were slowly aroused. No matter how hard he tried to shush them, they would stubbornly fill his heart and mind.
He hadn't bumped into her accidentally that Saturday afternoon.
"Okay," Jasper who was sitting beside Steven as he drove his car, spoke up, "was I the only one who thought Cerise was freaking hot? I mean… Cerise? Wasn't she a chubby girl with braces just like four years ago?" He laughed, elbowing Steven. "And now look at her-a freaking babe."
Leanne, who was sitting behind Josh and Steven gave her eyes a roll. "Calm down, Jasper."
"No for real, Leanne! Freaking. Hot. Like I've seen hot girls before… but her? She's something else." He turned around, grinning wolfishly at Leanne.
"Jasper, do you ever forget that I'm a girl? And that you're telling this to a girl? Now seriously calm down before you get testosterone all over me." Again, she rolled her eyes.
"Oh give me a break, I've listened to you go on and on about how you're in love with Josh Hutcherson, and how hot he is-now it's my turn."
"Hey, if you want to talk about Josh Hutcherson and how hot he is, go for it." She smiled.
"Not what I meant."
"Just stop, okay? Talking about a hot celebrity is so different from talking about a hot person you actually know. Besides, she isn't interested in you. Steven, however, is a different story." She realized what she said, her face turning red, "I don't mean it like that Jasper, gosh, stop smiling! I mean, Cerise is interested in Steven. Isn't that right?"
Steven turned onto his street before answering, trying to subdue his smile. "That couldn't be farther from the truth. We're just friends, who also happen to be one another's ex-girlfriend/boyfriend. And she just broke up with Desmond."
"Single? Do I hear single? Oh I think I'm in love." Jasper laughed, clutching his hands to his heart.
Steven only laughed, pulled into his driveway and let the car idle as he stepped out of it. "I'll just let him know what's up, be right back." If not for his cell being dead, Steven would've just texted his father that he was going out for supper with his friends, and thus staying out longer then he'd originally planned on.
Also, he had to grab a gift card for Boston Pizza that he still hadn't used and would come in handy when he ate there for supper.
In his pocket, he felt his phone grow heavy.
Julia hadn't texted him since Tuesday. Since she was one of the few kids in the world that didn't have Facebook, he couldn't contact her through the internet. Her parents, she'd told him, had denied her using the social media site, since they thought it was unhealthy. Not to shelter her or protect her, but to keep her life from being one lived online.
Without Facebook, they had reasoned, she could relate with her friends in more tangible ways. Julia had explained that they only compromised on the cell phone because they needed a way to contact her if she was out of the house.
Taking out his cell phone, he stared at the screen wistfully and lifted a prayer that she would text him back. He needed to know if she was alright. That time in the dreams had only spurned horrible images and thoughts in his imagination about what had happened to Julia.
Just let me know you're alive…
He opened his front door, stepping inside before closing the door behind him. Not bothering to remove his shoes, which were dry and mostly clean, he checked the living room for his father.
The two leather, black couches were uninhabited just like his living room, except that the television was still on.
The reason that the couches grabbed his attention was because the imprint of his father's body was still visible on one of the black, leather sofas. A coffee table beside the couch held on it a plate with two pieces of pizza.
Neither of them had bite-marks on it, yet when he checked how warm they were, he found they were cool. Not cool, as in they'd been sitting in the fridge and recently taken out, but like they'd been sitting out for hours, taking on the temperature of the room.
More warm then cool.
"Shane!" One of the characters on the television raised a shotgun, firing into the body of a nearby zombie. Blood splattered everywhere and screams arose from another character who was busy fighting off the snapping jaw of a hungry zombie.
His father would never watch a show like this.
Turning off the television, he sauntered over to the kitchen and let out a shout.
His father lay face-first on the ground, broken glass near his left hand, which sprawled out next to a puddle of spilled water.
He checked for a pulse and froze.
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EAU CLAIRE — The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire will host "An Introduction to Hmong Studies: A Panel Discussion and Lectures," featuring guest speaker Dr. Mark Pfeifer, director of the Hmong Resource Center at the Hmong Cultural Center in St. Paul, Minn.
A panel discussion, "Dialogue on Hmong Studies," will take place at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, in the Ho-Chunk Room of Davies Center. A lecture, "Hmong Studies 101," will be presented at noon and then again at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12, in Davies Theatre.
The discussion will feature Pfeifer and five UW-Eau Claire panelists, all of whom have worked closely with the Hmong community. They will introduce their research, teaching and service activities and discuss the rewards of being involved in Hmong studies for people of diverse cultural backgrounds.
The UW-Eau Claire panelists are Wayne Carroll, professor of economics; Jeremy Hein, professor of sociology; Susan Moch, professor of family health nursing; David Shih, associate professor of English; and Charles Vue, Hmong/Southeast Asian student services coordinator in the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
The lectures, presented by Pfeifer, will be an introduction to Hmong history and culture. Pfeifer studied Vietnamese adaptation in the Toronto metropolitan area and Southern Ontario for his doctoral degree at the University of Toronto. Pfeifer then took the position of director at the Hmong Resource Center, where he built an institution that is now the largest centralized collection of Hmong-related materials in the United States.
Pfeifer also initiated a monthly informational e-mail newsletter in Hmong studies and is the editor of the Hmong Studies Journal. He served as a youth mentor for Lauj Youth Society in St. Paul and is currently a member of Collections Advisory Council in Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.
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Bruno GR, Carter WA. Caustics. In: Tintinalli JE, Kelen GD, Stapczynski JS, Ma OJ, Cline DM, eds. Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide. 6th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2004:chap 181.
Holland MG. Occupational Toxicology. In: Shannon MW, Borron SW, Burns MJ, eds. Haddad and Winchester's Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose. 4th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 82.
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