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Hello, I am Rafael. Thanks for asking your question - I'm here to support you. (Information posted here is not private or confidential but public).
I am very sorry to know about your situation.
i spoke to you a little while ago
Could you please tell me for how long did you date and what was the core issue leading to the end of your relationship?
I see.
anyways, throughout that time, meeting her on the odd occasion didnt really work and we havent gotten anyway..
we had a few arguments (not shouting ones) and remember the last time i spoke to you she was working on herself
thats what she told me
but after waiting 5 months, she still says that we are done
there are mixed messages though
I m sorry to know that.
How is that?
well first she said she wanted to wokr on herself... then slowly but surely she stopped texting me, when she found a new job.. after that we didnt see each for 7 weeks, and i bumped into her at the shops, after saying that ive been thinking of us, she said we can revisit this
then at the gym on tuesdat this week, i asked her if she wanted to catch up sometime for that talk, and she said we are done, and she doesnt want me to hang onto false hope
however, for some reason i dont believe her
she still answers my calls if i call her but is very rude and defensive
and she also said that she has met someone else, which im not sure is true or not
i just dont know what to do, i cant seem to let go of this, and i feel we are meant to be together
i sent her a text saying that i wish her all the best, XXXXX XXXXX down the track she will find the light in me
What leads you not to believe her and feel hope after 5 months when she has not allowed you to work on a reconciliation and told you multiple times that she does not want and is not willing to get back with you?
becuase when i saw her at the shops, she hugged me and held my hand and i can feel that connection
its not something i have felt before with anyone
It's obvious you have attached to this person and tot the expectations you had about your relationship. Then has she continued doing that every time you have met and her hugs have been more than a simple friendship hug?
yes , but the last time i saw her at the gym, it was not very good.. because i found some half naked pics she sent to some guy 4 months ago, and i forgave her for it, but she didnt like the fact i looked through her emails.. she was friendly but as soon as i brought up the relationship she said we are over. i dont know when to believe words with actions,
i have so much faith in this.. but dont know how to handle it
and dont know how to change her reaction to me
because its not as serious as what she says, i truelly love her
but she wont believe it
I see. the problem with it is the fact that this is your subjective experience, absolutely valid for you, since it shows what and how you feel about this person, but it should not be taken as reflecting something very different from what she has been telling and showing you through her consistent actions for the past 5 months, which is about her decision not to date you anymore. Obviously to come to terms with this reality is very painful, and while nobody knows what will happen in the future, and we could say there's always hope, you also need to take good care of yourself, working on better coping with it in order not to get more hurt in case she does not change her mind.
Then that was a real, concrete situation where you saw how she is not only not thinking about you but engaging in sexual related behavior with other man, and that's not something you created in your mind, but you saw it, and it clearly confirms her decision showing you she is not working on getting back to you but on dating other people.
She sent this pictures only one month after you ended there relationship, what also shows she was not having a tough time grieving but already sharing with this other person. Mu suggestion is for you not to deny reality and attach to hopes or some nice words, but to listen to her words, which seems very clear telling you she does not want nor plan to even consider getting back together, and specially her actions, which also clearly show, that she is actively focused on dating other people.
I am afraid that the more you insist to deny what reality shows you, while attaching to your hopes for a reconciliation that does not seem to be happening at all in the present, would only hurt you even more, leading you to self-sabotage and not to take good care of your grieving process. This would not help you to be and feel better and to take good care of your life.
Does it make sense?
You could keep some hope that in the future she could happen to change, but in the present, she and her actions and words are directly telling you she does not want to work on a reconciliation at ll, and only acknowledging that and focusing on processing this painful reality, you would be able to heal , get stronger and move on with your life.
ok, so do i totally ignore this woman? or do i say hi like in a months time, or what do you recommend , because i know this woman, it will take ages for her to get intimate with anyone, as i saw when i first dated her, it took 6 months to sleep with her
she will be just mingling, but i dont know what i should do in relation to contacting her and if i see her, do i ignore her
how do i turn the tables
there has to be a way
if there is hope
I suggest you rather focus on nor trying to push her into dating you, but to develop a healthy friendship, but only as long as you feel able and willing to do it and she shows the same, otherwise it would not be a good idea, since you would be pushing her and getting even more hurt.
I see, but it took her only a month after you ended the relationship for her to send this semi-nude pictures to another man, and I think that does not show much shyness or having a hard time sharing in a sexual way.
you are right.. thats what i thought as well
If you cannot work on building a healthy friendship because of your conflcting feelings, emotions and expectations, then better you focus on setting and keeping good boundaries.
I would not say that you need not to greet her when you see her, but not to engage in nothing more than what you can handle unless she changes her approach and looks for you .
Then please start working on keeping distance from her for you to be able to heal and to enjoy your life,otherwise you could get deeply depressed, develop an anxiety disorder and undermine your health and life because of it.
yeah i do go to the gym alot , which keeps me healthy and fit, but the hearth ache is terrible because we go to the same gym and she lives down the road from me
That's a tough challenge, but you need to learn to cope with it since you cannot relocate that easily. This is why the boundaries need to be very consistent, otherwise it would not work for you. I woud suggest you to consider looking for another gym, that would help for sure.
lol well whats even more tough and really tested my strength, was when i went to the gym and she was working out with another guy right in front of me and we didnt talk, but she saw me, and i just carried on doing what im doing.. what ide like to know is would this kind of thing gain at least some respect from her? if she knows i can do this and not care
I do not think you should base your decision on that at all, since it would create a lot of stress, undermining your ability yo enjoy your life and take good care of yourself, while obsessing about her. But if you can do this not because of showing her you can and to get her respect in such a fashion, then no problem. But if that's not the case, I do not recommend doing that at all, it would no help you for sure.
yes it does... i guess what will be will be. i feel i have no control over this and ive never felt this emotional before, its not good but i dont know where to start to get better
Start by not making things even more complex and harder for you, and on sharing with other people, girl, good female friendships and enjoying it as much as you can, that way you could find a person who happens to be compatible with you and reciprocates your feelings and passion.
Do you have any further questions that I could assist you with?
well i guess no, we cant answer all the questions... i guess i will have to continue to push through this.. im sure if she really wanted it, she would come back and express herself but at the moment she is happy like she told me.
I do agree with you and fully support your plan.
Time will tell, and right now you need to take good care of yourself and enjoy your life.
yes.. well thanks for the chat
You're welcome. Thank you for your trust.
Take good care
i will
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Feb. 2, 2013 7:30 p.m. - Feb. 9, 2013
London's famed serial killer was rumored by many to have killed up to eleven women between 1888 and 1891 but only five remain widely accepted as actual victims. These are the Canonical Five. This production follows the thoughts, emotions, hopes and fears of these five women during the final days of their lives. Tickets are $17, $20 at the door.
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Growth investors have benefited from the resiliency of stocks for quite some time now. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) has traded above its 200-day moving average for 16 straight months and nearly every modest dip is bought with gusto.
However, many investors are starting to notice swirling currents beneath the surface that threaten to change the path to profits moving forward.
In 2013 the hot tickets were small-cap stocks, biotech companies and solar stocks, which all produced market-beating returns. However, the market leadership has changed dramatically in just the first three months of 2014. We are starting to see a confirmed shift to defensive areas of the market that has altered sector momentum and may perhaps even lead to more volatility.
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The Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) applied for and was awarded funding under the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Port Security Grant Program to facilitate the collection and distribution of radar track data and video as a means of protecting commercial shipping and other vessel traffic using, approaching or leaving the Port of Baltimore. The proposed action is the construction of a new communications tower to support maritime surveillance equipment in Talbot County, Maryland. The purpose of the project is to provide the NRP with the capability to detect and track small vessels moving on the Chesapeake Bay and their relationship to commercial shipping. This EA has been prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, the President's Council on Environmental Quality regulations to implement NEPA (40 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] Part 1500 through 1508), and FEMA's regulations implementing NEPA (44 CFR Part 10).


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Present: Belongia, Calef, Davis, Dimick, Hartman, Jensen, Johnson, MacDonald, McCabe, Stack, Wright, Yurgil
Handouts: None
CALL TO ORDER: D. Calef called the meeting to order at 10:03 a.m.
CHANGES/ADDITIONS TO THE AGENDA: None
MINUTES: R. MacDonald moved approval of the April 6, 2006 minutes. H. Jensen seconded. Motion carried.
The Sun Server will be installed June 14th, which will cause some downtime.
TEACH funding for telecommunications has been exhausted, which was a surprise to those attending the State automation meeting. Libraries had been encouraged to order just enough bandwidth for current needs, with the idea that they could expand as needed. That may not be possible now and some systems are already in need of more.
With regard to legislative news, both bills have finally passed. Member libraries are encouraged to send thank you notes to legislators and the governor.
Mt. Horeb has opened service to non-libraries residents of SWLS.
The Horizon migration plan has been widely disbursed to member libraries.
The SCLS Foundation planning continues.
The Milwaukee Public Library is looking for a director. Vesper, Albany and Black Earth are too.
The deadline for applications for the Associate Director is June 22 and interviews are being scheduled for July 31, August 1 and 2. Recruitment for the selection committee is in the works.
Mid-Wisconsin and Lakeshores are planning to merge into one shared automation system. Southwest may join shared systems with Winding Rivers. At a Statewide delivery advisory meeting, there was discussion of changing the way costs are divided among systems. We'll have to take it up at SRLAAW in August.
We're following the State's ILL selection process. There were some interesting items in the RFP- ownership or records, etc. Demonstrations are set for July 13, 14, 17, and 18th. Some SCLS Staff will be attending.
Nichole Fromm has been busy updating web pages for Mazomanie and Baraboo.
The TELUS print management software has been installed at Monona. It keeps track of the cost and number of copies produced.
Dan Calef, Lori Belongia, and Denise Anton-Wright volunteered to review the applications for public library of the year.
Annual Meeting Review: Twenty six libraries were represented at the Annual Meeting. It was suggested a survey be sent to the member libraries not in attendance to determine why they were not present.
Concerns were raised about the duplication of emails through scls-directors and scls-announce. A Brain Snack on setting up email filters to deal with spam, and setting preferences would be beneficial.
Patron Registration Revision from LINK: B. Dimick moved approval of the suggested procedures for the various registration situations as presented. H. Jensen seconded. Motion carried.
There was quite a bit of discussion about DOPA (Deleting Online Predators Act). Concerns were raised and libraries want to be proactive about educating the public about online safety.
Baraboo raised $3,000 at their latest book and bake sale and acquired 30 new friends of the library.
The Green County Libraries have formed a book cart drill team. Monticello will kick the first one off in July, Brodhead in August, Monroe in September, and Belleville in October.
The Spring Green library board is looking into creating a foundation.
Marshfield will begin a Jewish literature program through an ALA grant they received.
McFarland has an adult summer read with bingo cards and drawings for books.
Portage will be holding a book sale in August and the friends committee is beautifying the library grounds.
Poynette has planted a prairie garden as well as strawberries in a small plot of land behind the library.
McMillan library no longer has coffee service. The community festival is June 24th featuring a Celtic band, Reggae, and Rockabilly.
Meeting adjourned at 11:25 a.m.
The next meeting will be August 3, 2006
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team hit a massive scoring drought that spanned the two halves on Friday night, and that proved too much to overcome as the Quakers lost at Yale, 69-54.
With the loss, Penn fell to 6-14 overall and 3-3 in Ivy League play. Yale remained tied for first place in the Ivy standings with Harvard, both at 6-1, and the Bulldogs improved to 12-9 overall.
Both teams struggled to manufacture much offense in the first half. Penn held Yale without a point for nearly seven minutes, from the 16-minute mark until just more than nine minutes were left, but could only gain a four-point advantage during the Bulldogs' drought. However, the Quakers advanced their lead to as many as eight points when Tony Bagtas drove for a layup, then Tony Hicks followed a missed layup by Miles Jackson-Cartwright for the putback.
That forced a Yale timeout, but it turned out to be well-spent. There were 15 points scored the rest of the half after that, and the Bulldogs scored 13 of them. Out of the timeout, Armani Cotton knocked down a three-pointer and then set Eli out on a nine-point unanswered run that pushed them in front, 21-20.
Bagtas ended the run with a short jumper, but that turned out to be Penn's last points of the half. Meanwhile, Jesse Pritchard hit a jumper and then Cotton and Javier Duren hit foul shots to make it 25-22 at the break.
The second half picked up where the first left off, Yale scoring the first six points to push its lead to 31-22 (and its run to 19-2). Hicks finally got the Quakers on the board nearly four minutes into the period with a pair of free throws, but Yale responded with the next six points to make it 37-24 with just over 13 minutes left in the game.
Hicks again scored, this time on a jumper, for Penn's first field goal in 9:15 of game action, but Yale again put together the next six points and the score was 43-26. At this point the Bulldogs' run was a staggering 31-6, and there seemed no hope for the visitors.
And yet…
Penn made a game of it. Down, 45-29, the Quakers scored eight in a row, pushed by a three-pointer from Hicks and then Jackson-Cartwright's only field goal of the night. That left Penn down by just eight, at 45-37, and then after a Matt Townsend free throw ended the skid for Yale Dougherty immediately laid one in at the other end to get the Red and Blue within seven with 8:04 still to play.
Penn kept within single digits for several minutes after that, and even got within six points with 4:44 to play on a pair of Hicks free throws. However, Justin Sears got Dougherty to leave his feet on Yale's next possession and took him to the rack where he was fouled by the Penn senior and made both foul shots. At the other end, Dau Jok-- who had earlier hit a three-point shot-- was off the mark this time from beyond the arc, and on Yale's next possession Sears finished a Brandon Sherrod miss to push the Bulldogs back up by 10.
Following a timeout, another Penn turnover -- the Quakers committed 20 in the game -- led to Sears being fouled by Jackson-Cartwright and making both freebies. Javier Duren ended the knockout run by hitting a free throw with 2:17 left that made the score 58-45. Penn would not get within single digits again.
Hicks finished the game with 19 points to lead Penn, while Fran Dougherty had 10. Darien Nelson-Henry had 12 points and eight rebounds.
For Yale, which shot an incredible 45 foul shots, Sears ended the night with 25 points and seven rebounds while Armani Cotton had 17 points and 11 boards. Duren finished with 11 despite going 2-of-8 from the field.
Penn returns to action on Saturday night, traveling to Providence to face Brown at 6 p.m. The Bears fell to Princeton on Friday night, 69-65, falling to 12-9 overall and 4-3 in Ivy play.
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UC President Mark Yudof will step down at the end of the month. Janet Napolitano will take the helm of the UC system after five years of steep budget cuts, soaring tuition and more than a little controversy over compensation packages for UC executives, including Yudof. He came from the University of Texas, the first outsider chosen to lead UC in more than a century. Yudof started in 2008, inheriting a university beset by financial scandals and allegations of mismanagement. Host Scott Shafer sits down with Yudof in his office in downtown Oakland.
MARK YUDOF: The general contours I think I knew. We were in a recession. Budgets would be very tight. We had a strong tradition, which I appreciated, of shared governance. I knew it was a very flat, non-hierarchical type of organization, but there were dimensions to it that surprised me. And one dimension was it was the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. I didn't expect it to be that long, that deep, that severe. I didn't expect a billion dollars in budget reductions. I thought maybe a few hundred million dollars. I knew we had labor unions, but I would say the relations were more difficult than I anticipated. Prior to coming to California I had never had a regents' meeting closed down by demonstrators. Here, half our meetings were closed down.
SCOTT SHAFER: As you said, about a billion dollars in cuts, some under Schwarzenegger, most under Jerry Brown. Is that a failure of someone's leadership, or a failure to appreciate the university? I mean, we see prison spending going up, spending for other things. Why is support for UC going down the way it has?
YUDOF: Part of it was we were part of the discretionary budget. We don't have matching funds in Washington. Part of it is there is more skepticism toward higher education. Part of it is that when you are having to cut human services, like dental care for indigent young people, it really puts it to you, because people are suffering here and now, and education is more of a long-term investment. I think it's partly the demographics. We in California have more Hispanic kids. That's the demographic I'm most concerned about. Students of color who deserve the sort of break Errol Warren got. But it's an aging population that votes, worries more about Social Security and health care and a lockbox, and I think that the taxpayers, they should be saying those Hispanic kids are our kids, even if they are not in our family, and we should tax ourselves to pay for our education and not necessarily burden the families with debt and all the rest of it to get them through.
SHAFER: There was a point in early 2011 where the amount of funds from tuition surpassed the amount of funds from the state.
YUDOF: This is the first time in our history the amount of funds for tuition, not by a huge margin, but significant margin, exceeded the state contribution, this was sort of at the bottom of the trough.
SHAFER: And in your statement you said that this is a sad day for California. What were you thinking when you wrote that?
YUDOF: It was: I don't think education is a private good. It's a hybrid. If you get a good education and you get a good job, bully for you. Good for your family, good for their health care, good for your income, good for your children, but it's also great when we turn out people who are productive and pay taxes and people who do not commit crimes and people who create works of art and write wonderful books, and people who are doing research on alternative fuels and all the rest. So, it has aspects of a public good and aspects of private good. And the more you treat it simply as a private good and say, 'Hey we don't care if you want a good education, it's all up to you,' I think that's a pity. I think people ought to pay something. I am not a free higher education person because I think there is too much of a risk that people will slough it off. But on the other hand, I think we need ample financial aid and I would like to keep tuition down where we can. The final thing I want to say about that, that tuition hikes tend to hurt the middle class more because if you're affluent you can write a check, and, frankly, if you're under $80,000 we can take care of you.
SHAFER: In terms of diversity, you've had to live with Prop. 209, which was passed by voters in 1996, and we've seen the numbers of especially Latino and African-American students below where they were back then, and especially at campuses like UCLA and Berkeley. What impact has all that had on the school, and what difference does it make?
YUDOF: I think it's had differential impact. We've have campuses like Riverside and Santa Barbara and Merced that are really diverse by almost any measure, but at the more competitive institutions, it's been more of a problem. But I think it's been negative, and we've told the Supreme Court that. We've said affirmative action would be a useful tool. But my theory is a just society does not allocate things by race and ethnicity. We need Hispanics and Asians and Native Americans and African-Americans on our police forces, we need them in our boardrooms, in our banks. We need them in political office. Every aspect of American life ought to be integrated and power ought to be distributed, and wealth, across all these groups probably never evenly but at least on a nondiscriminatory basis. And education is how you get there. And we're not getting there yet.
SHAFER: Any regrets at all around how the university handled Berkeley or Davis -- the Occupy protests?
YUDOF: I think the chancellor could tell you and others would say, 'I wish we'd handled it better on the Davis campus.' And I wish they had. It's always dangerous to speak for Berkeley. I think there's some at Berkeley that would say, 'I wish we'd handled some of those protests differently,' and I agree with them. By the way, I don't want to overstate this. There were a lot of provocations, but at the end of the day, the university administration is supposed to be the adult in the room. So, I'm not saying they weren't provoked. I mean, I was locked in a building for hours at Riverside with a riotous crowd outside, so I don't see everyone else as innocent. But at the end of the day, the people of California rightly expect us to handle it well, and they shouldn't be blaming the students or the people coming in to protest. They judge us more, and that's OK. We could have done better.
SHAFER: I wonder if you feel that the university is a better place than it was when you got here?
YUDOF: You know, I think it is a better place, and it depends on your model -- look, it's not an era in which I announced $50 million programs. I consider the first victory as holding the place together. No mass exodus of faculty, we continue in the rankings to be – seven of our institutions are in the top 50 universities in the world. And we've improved the graduation rates. We've reduced the time it takes to get a degree. I'm not saying it's a sea change, but I think we kept it on the right trajectory. And last thing I would emphasize is the relationship between the Board of Regents and the president was very uneasy when I arrived, and I think the relationship is really very solid and very positive today. That will help Secretary Napolitano be a success here.
SHAFER: You are going to have some extra time – I know you're going to go to teaching now at the law school. What are you going to do with that extra time besides relax?
YUDOF: Well I think right now I'm in a mode – I've said yes too often in my life and overschedule myself. Right now, for a little bit, I'm taking some time to unpack the boxes and figure out what I want to do.
SHAFER: President Yudof, thanks so much for your service to California, and thanks for chatting.
YUDOF: Scott, thanks very much. Enjoyed it.
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text: GAJARIA, Bangladesh : Divers battled Friday to recover bodies trapped in the wreckage of a Bangladesh ferry that was sunk by a giant wave, as the death toll from the disaster rose to 29 with scores more feared drowned.As survivors blamed the captain of the MV Miraz for refusing to take shelter from a gathering storm, an investigation was launched into whether it had been carrying too many passengers. Bangladesh is no stranger to ferry disasters, with overcrowding and poor ship design and maintenance often to blame.Officials said as many as 200 people may have been on the ferry when it sank to the bottom of the river Meghna on Thursday afternoon, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) southeast of the capital Dhaka.As distraught relatives gathered by the side of the river where bodies were being laid out, hopes were raised briefly after two salvage vessels lifted a part of the sunken ship in an effort to drag it to shore. But the ropes snapped and the ship sank again. Bangladesh's water transport authority chief Shamsuddoha Khandaker told AFP the 90 feet (30 metres)-long ship capsized after it was hit by "giant waves" unleashed by an early summer storm. "Many of the passengers rushed to the lower decks of the ship to escape from heavy wind. They were trapped. I am afraid most of the bodies will be found there," he said.Khandaker said up to 40 people were able to swim to safety or were rescued by fishing boats."The death toll now stands at 29, including 16 women and children," local police chief Ferdous Ahmed said.The exact number of passengers was not immediately known as Bangladeshi ferries do not maintain passenger logbooks.Officials had initially said up to 350 people could have been on board when the ferry capsized on Thursday, but Khandaker said the number was thought to be smaller."It is a mid-sized ferry. It can carry around 500 passengers without cargo. But from what we have gathered so far, it was carrying around 150-200 passengers at the time of the accident," he said.An investigation has been ordered into whether the vessel was carrying more than its capacity or whether it had structural faults.Some survivors blamed the skipper for defying calls to abort the journey as the weather worsened."The sky became black and dozens of us pleaded with him to take the ship to the nearest shore as we saw the storm coming. He did not listen to us," survivor Mohammad Ali told AFP."The storm unleashed three huge waves. The ferry survived the first two, but the third tilted and then sank the vessel within minutes."I was holding the hand of my wife and she was tightly holding our six-year-old son to her chest," the garment worker added."After the third wave, I did not see them again," Ali, struggling to hold back tears, said on the banks of the river.Another wailed for his missing son. "My son said 'Father please save me, please save me' but I couldn't," he said.Hundreds of distraught relatives gathered on the banks of the river as the bodies were laid in lines in order to be identified. Others accompanied rescuers on boats as they searched for the missing passengers.Ferry accidents are common in Bangladesh, one of Asia's poorest nations which is criss-crossed by more than 230 rivers.Experts blame poorly maintained vessels, flaws in design and overcrowding for most of the tragedies.Many of the shipping accidents occur during the early summer months of April and May when unpredictable storms known locally as Kalboishakhi hit Bangladesh in the lead-up to the monsoon, which generally begins in the first week of June.Boats are the main form of travel in much of Bangladesh's remote rural areas, especially in the southern and northeastern regions.Some 150 people were killed in the same district in March 2012 after an overcrowded ferry carrying about 200 passengers sank when it was hit by an oil barge in the middle of the night.Officials have said more than 95 percent of Bangladesh's hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized boats do not meet minimum safety regulations.


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Selena Gomez Scores Movie Role, Takes One More Step Toward Complete World Domination
Good news, everyone; we're about to get a lot more of Selena Gomez on the big screen!
The Wizards of Waverly Place actress has just landed one of three lead roles in the upcoming comedy Monte Carlo, about a trio of American women who masquerade as wealthy women in Monaco after abandoning a cheap-o Parisian getaway.
Nicole Kidman, who is co-producing the film, was originally slated to star in the movie, until the script was retooled for younger leads. Gossip Girl beauty Leighton Meester is also being courted to take a starring role.
The film, based on the novel Headhunters by Jules Bass, begins filming in May, with locations in Monaco, Budapest and Paris. Better start packing your bags, Selena—and maybe start preparing your goodbyes to a certain special someone.
What do you think—would Selena and Leighton have good onscreen chemistry? Share your thoughts in the comments section.


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Everything you wanted to understand about Oklahoma weather was contained in a 30-second radio commercial yesterday, when Fiat of Edmond (which isn't precisely in Edmond, but no matter) announced a Pre-Dent Sale.
Wait, what?
"The hail's coming, everyone knows it, let's just get the promotion cranked up and go with it."
I'm sort of hoping this works the same way my snow pusher did: rendered itself unnecessary for two years just by my going out and acquiring it.


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Conan The Adventurer is an American animated television series adaptation of Conan the Barbarian, the literary character created by Robert E. Howard in the 1930s. Produced by Jetlag Productions and Sunbow Productions, the series debuted on September 12, 1992, ran for 65 episodes and concluded on November 22, 1993. The series was developed by Christy Marx who served as the sole story editor.
The series was produced in association with Graz Entertainment for the first 13-episode season, and Jean Chalopin's Créativité et Développement for the remaining episodes. The series also spawned a small toyline in 1992 created by Hasbro.
This first incarnation of Conan in cartoon form performed much better than its sequel, Conan and the Young Warriors, which lasted only 13 episodes.
Conan lived in Cimmeria with his parents throughout his childhood. While out with his grandfather one night on a trek, "fiery tears" or meteors dropped from the skies. Conan collected them and brought them back to his family. Conan's father, the village blacksmith, used the ore from the meteors to forge Star Metal and used it to create various tools and weapons that would never rust or break or dull. He sold them, but his finest work, a magnificent sword, he kept for Conan. It was laid in a crypt and covered over with a heavy stone slab. Conan's father told his son that only when he was "man enough" (i.e., strong enough) to push off the stone slab, could he rightfully claim the sword.
Meanwhile, the evil Serpent Man wizard Wrath-Amon learned of Star Metal and that in addition to its strength that it possessed the power to open portals between dimensions. He thus sought Star Metal to release his deity Set from "the Abyss" to which he long ago had been banished by the combined powers of virtually every living wizard then on Earth for trying to enslave the human race. As part of his search, Wrath-Amon sought out Conan's family. Conan's father told Wrath-Amon that he had sold all of the Star Metal but the wizard refused to believe it (The wizard was right for aside from the sword, it was revealed in a later episode that Conan's father had hidden pieces of Star Metal with other villagers). Wrath-Amon used the spell of living stone upon Conan's family.
Conan by then had gone to claim his Star Metal sword to attack Wrath-Amon and his followers. When the Star Metal sword got near Wrath-Amon it disrupted his magic and showed his reptilian face. To this, he said, "Those who see the true face of Wrath-Amon must perish!" (this scene is similar to one in the film). Having chased away the wizard, Conan then turned to his family and swore in the name of their god Crom to find a way of releasing them from the spell.
Conan's adventures thus begin as he searches Hyboria looking for a way to cure his family and free the land from Wrath-Amon's tyranny Wrath-Amon's henchmen are also shapeshifting Serpent Men. When Conan's Star Metal sword is close enough to them it broke the spell that disguised them and revealed their true form to be Serpent Men; when Star Metal made contact with the Serpent Men it banishes them to the Abyss with Set. Spies and agents of Set and Stygia, many of them also Serpent Men, were present in many cities, nations and tribes throughout the land in the age of Conan.
As compared with the original Conan stories and the Marvel Comics such as King Conan, Conan Saga, Conan the Barbarian, and Conan the King, the cartoon Conan displays a higher degree of modern morality. While the original Conan is a thief, a killer, and a womanizer, the cartoon Conan has more in common with sword-wielding cartoon characters such as He-Man. At one point he refuses to join a pirate crew on the grounds that it is wrong to steal, he refuses to strike unarmed or defeated opponents. He is a kind and caring character, albeit a little naive, who stands up for his friends and what he sees to be right and is very respectable. The show also reduced the violence of the original to cartoon levels, deliberately making the Serpent Men "banished" with any touch of the heroes' weapons rather than actually struck.
The main character of the story. In this version, his parents are turned into living stone and there are few hints of his predestination of becoming a king; the references come as either a private joke to those who know the Conan mythos (one episode ended with him wearing a crown on his head, to the amusement of his allies) or as a finale note (In one episode in particular, Conan rescues a princess from a one-shot villain. Her father, a king, promised his kingdom to whoever returned her safely home and naturally, Conan succeeds in rescuing her which is a spoof of the adult Conan movie's King Osric asking Conan to rescue his daughter but Conan does not rescue her from Wrath-Amon but is thrown in prison for demanding the promised payment which is his weakness here. He is rescued then by the princess he saved who comments that Conan would always be a king in her heart as the closing line). It is stated a few times that he and his Cimmerian tribe are descended from the people of Atlantis, and Conan is a descendant of Atlantean kings. He has a star metal sword that he obtained the day when Wrath-Amon attacked his village. Unlike Conan the Barbarian, he is more of a kind and caring character with Jezmine as the only woman he's involved with. He shows mercy to some of his opponents and nonetheless reconciles with friends, unlike the original Conan the Barbarian. He is portrayed to be able to break metal chains, do more unusual feats of strength as well unlike the movie Conan. He eventually defeats his long-time archenemy Wrath-Amon, the leader of the Snake Cult but was forced to face the old leader of the Snake Cult Ram-Amon as well as Set (his final enemy) in the last battle. By vanquishing Set, he had somewhat permanently defeated the Snake Cult.
Conan's fledgling phoenix sidekick and only constant companion. He possessed the ability to enter flat surfaces and magically transform into a phoenix design (although he needed his magical tail feathers to accomplish this feat, and lost this power if he lost one of them). He spent most of his time inside Conan's shield. Needle speaks in the third person giving others nicknames (i.e. he calls Conan "big dumb barbarian") and loves to eat pomegranates. He eventually learns how to harness his full power and aid Conan in battle. When in public, Needle (who has the ability to speak) is often asked to impersonate a parrot in order to not arouse suspicion, an act which he greatly resents. As a phoenix, death for him only means to rise again from his own ashes and as such, with effort, can sometimes recall useful information from his 'ancestors.' In an alternate future, Needle was turned into a statue by Set, but this timeline was averted.
Conan's willful (but loyal) horse, eventually armed with Star Metal horse shoes that was made from Snagg's grapnel. Thunder was stubborn as he is always refusing to enter cities, and threw Conan from his back on more than one occasion rather than enter a city.
Prince of the Wasai, a tribe similar to Sub-Saharan Africans, based from the original Conan literature, may have inspired T. J. Storm's character Bayu in the live series, who is a different but similar person. He is the first ally Conan makes in the show, when Conan is captured and enslaved, alongside Zula and other captives. He and Zula start a slave rebellion and free the other slaves. Zula makes Conan his blood brother. Zula's cousin Gora was a spy for Wrath-Amon, and secretly tricked Zula into the ambush where he was captured by Wrath-Amon's slavers so he could inherit the throne instead of Zula (ironically, by making Conan his blood brother, Zula made Gora third in the line of succession). Gora schemed against Conan and his friends, and was eventually discovered and captured. Zula was a master of the sign of Jhebbal-Sag, which allowed him to communicate with beasts and persuade them to aid him in whatever way possible. Originally armed with Star Metal bolas, he reforged them into a boomerang because the bolas tangled. They would return on command thanks to Jezmine using a special potion on them.
An agile and beautiful circus performer who possesses a set of Star Metal throwing stars, she started as a thief but became an honest woman for the rest of the series (but is in love with Conan nonetheless) especially where the first point is that Conan and Jezmine are seen climbing a tower where Jezmine attempts to steal some priceless treasures. Her parents are later revealed to be a nobleman and woman in the city of Tarantia. To her horror, she learns that her mother serves Wrath-Amon and her father is the serpent man Astivus, making her a half-breed. From that moment, she is terrified her Serpent Man heritage will assert itself. When her father Astivus, who loved Jezmine's mother, sides with Jezmine and her mother against Wrath-Amon, Wrath-Amon banishes her father and mother to the Abyss. A magical potion applied to her Star Metal shuriken allow Jezmine to magically summon the throwing stars to return to her. She shared this potion with Zula. Jezmine hated Astivus, despite his love for her. She and Conan were able to free her mother during a trip to the Abyss, and later Astivus escaped when Set and the Serpent-Men banished over the years were freed from the Abyss by Wrath-Amon. Once again, Astivus chose Jezmine and her mother over serving Set, and it is implied in the final episode that Jezmine might be willing to reconcile with him. Unlike Valeria, Wrath-Amon doesn't kill her.
A wizard from the magical city of Xanthus. Originally armed with a bare staff, he was given the mystical "Claw of Heaven" made of Star Metal that was mounted atop his staff and effectively doubled his magical power (as stated on a couple occasions). His brother and sister were transformed into wolves in a plot by the Stygian queen and sorceress, Mesmira. As a result, he consistently seeks a cure for their condition alongside of Conan. In the finale, he isn't able to turn his siblings back to normal, though he did manage to give them a small sampling of the cure that causes them to revert to human form once per month (on a full moon). The inability to completely cure his siblings remains as a plot dangler which never even happened in the sequel Conan and The Young Warriors which is somewhat similar to the events of Conan the Destroyer.
- "The Night of Fiery Tears"
- "Blood Brother"
- "Star of Shadizar"
- "Conan the Gladiator"
- "The Heart of Rakkir"
- "Men of Stone"
- "The Terrible Torrinon"
- "Greywolf of Xanthus"
- "Shadow Walkers"
- "The Claw of Heaven"
- "Serpent Riders of Set"
- "Windfang's Eyrie"
- "Seven Against Stygia"
- "Tribal Warfare"
- "Curse of Axh'oon"
- "Master Thief of Shadizar"
- "The Vengeance of Jhebbel Sag"
- "The Red Brotherhood"
- "Thunder and Lightning"
- "The Crevasse of Winds"
- "Hanuman the Ape God"
- "Isle of the Naiads"
- "In Days of Old"
- "The Battle of Wrath-Amon"
- "Earthbound"
- "The Treachery of Emperors"
- "A Needle in a Haystack"
- "Return to Tarantia"
- "The Book of Skelos"
- "Labors of Conan"
- "The Amulet of Vathelos"
- "The Final Hours of Conan"
- "An Evil Wind in Kusan"
- "Blood of My Blood"
- "Dragon's Breath"
- "The Queen of Stygia"
- "Nature of the Beast"
- "City of the Burning Skull"
- "Son of Atlantis"
- "Conan Rides Again"
- "Down to the Dregs"
- "Dregs-Amon the Great"
- "The Wolfmother"
- "Conan of the Kosaki"
- "Torrinon Returns"
- "The Frost Giant's Daughter"
- "Cornucopia of Grondar"
- "When Tolls the Bell of Night"
- "The Lost Dagger of Manir"
- "Thorns of Midnight"
- "The Vale of Amazons"
- "Bones of Damballa"
- "Turnabout is Foul Play"
- "The Once and Future Conan"
- " Sword of Destiny"
- "Sword, Sai, & Shuriken"
- "Full Moon Rising"
- "The Stealer of Souls"
- "Amra the Lion"
- "Escape of Ram-amon"
- "The Star-Metal Monster"
- "Into the Abyss"
- "A Serpent Coils the Earth, Part 1"
- "A Serpent Coils the Earth, Part 2"
- "A Serpent Coils the Earth, Part 3"


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With an apparent increase of harmful algal blooms (HABs) worldwide, healthcare providers, public health personnel and coastal managers are struggling to provide scientifically-based appropriately-targeted HAB outreach and education. Since 1998, the Florida Poison Information Center-Miami, with its 24 hour/365 day/year free Aquatic Toxins Hotline (1–888–232–8635) available in several languages, has received over 25,000 HAB-related calls. As part of HAB surveillance, all possible cases of HAB-related illness among callers are reported to the Florida Health Department. This pilot study evaluated an automated call processing menu system that allows callers to access bilingual HAB information, and to speak directly with a trained Poison Information Specialist. The majority (68%) of callers reported satisfaction with the information, and many provided specific suggestions for improvement. This pilot study, the first known evaluation of use and satisfaction with HAB educational outreach materials, demonstrated that the automated system provided useful HAB-related information for the majority of callers, and decreased the routine informational call workload for the Poison Information Specialists, allowing them to focus on callers needing immediate assistance and their healthcare providers. These results will lead to improvement of this valuable HAB outreach, education and surveillance tool. Formal evaluation is recommended for future HAB outreach and educational materials.
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are caused by blooms of algae known as phytoplankton; these include organisms such as dinoflagellates, diatoms and cyanobacteria [
Phytoplankton are the base of the marine food web; thus, the toxins they produce can bioconcentrate in organisms higher up in the food chain. Several human illnesses are caused by the ingestion of seafood contaminated with the natural toxins produced by the HAB organisms [
With the increasing number of persons interacting with the coastal areas (both freshwater and marine) and with the apparent increase of HABs around the world, healthcare providers, public health personnel, and coastal managers are struggling to provide scientifically-based information [
The Florida Poison Information Center/Miami (FPIC/Miami) is one of three poison centers created in the State of Florida in 1989 by an act of the Florida Legislature (FS 395.038), and it has rapidly grown into a cost-effective model of a poison center system. The FPIC/Miami is located at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Jackson Health Systems, and directly serves the residents of Southeastern Florida (i.e. Miami-Dade, Broward, Monroe, Palm Beach, Lee and Collier counties) and beyond with toll-free 24 hour/day services in several languages. For example, in 2006 the FPIC/Miami responded to over 57,340 calls; of these calls, 35,741 (62%) were for known or suspected exposures to toxic substances. Approximately 80% of the patients calling from home were managed in the home, without the need for an emergency department visit. The FPIC/Miami placed 18,833 (33%) follow-up calls to continually assess this home management. The FPIC/Miami toxicologists provided over 1,705 consultations with Florida's physicians to assist in the care of hospitalized patients. In an attempt to prevent poisonings, the FPIC/Miami educators coordinated 669 outreach and education programs for the lay public, health professional, and the media. They also distributed over 198,213 informational brochures, handouts and telephone stickers, reaching over 72,000 persons.
Since 1998, with funding from the Florida Department of Health, the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the University of Miami National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center and the National Science Foundation (NSF)- NIEHS Oceans and Human Health Center, the FPIC-Miami established a toll-free hotline (1–888–232–8635) dedicated to providing information concerning aquatic health issues. All calls are answered by Poison Information Specialists, who are highly trained physicians and nurses. All calls are reported as a form of passive surveillance of HAB-related illness and information requests to the Aquatic Toxins Program (
Recently, the Hotline was expanded to include additional options for callers. Using an automated call processing menu system, the "Aquatic Toxins Hotline," now allows callers to access information in English or Spanish about the possible health effects and locations of the Florida red tide (including the National Atmospheric and Oceanographic Administration (NOAA) Harmful Algae Bloom (HAB) Bulletin
Concurrent with this initiative, a number of academic, public health and community partners (including Solutions to Avoid Red Tide or START;
This Pilot Study evaluated whether the new automated system was used by callers and whether the callers considered the information to be useful to them, as well as to collect caller recommendations for the improvement of this service. The goal of this pilot study was to evaluate whether the Florida Aquatic Toxins Hotline was serving the self-identified needs of current callers.
The FPIC-Miami receives the telephone numbers of all callers to the Aquatic Toxins Hotline, whether the caller speaks with a Poison Information Specialist or just the automated system. In this evaluation, telephone numbers from the calls made to the Aquatic Toxins Hotline from September 2006 through January 2007 were re-contacted. Of note, throughout this study time period, there was an active Florida red tide on the West Coast of Florida.
This evaluation aimed to determine:
Basic Caller demographics
What information/services callers were seeking
Which menu selections were the most commonly chosen
Which menu options, in the caller's opinion, were the most helpful
If callers were satisfied with the service provided by the Aquatic Toxins Hotline
If callers would call again
What would, in the callers' opinion, make the Aquatic Toxins Hotline service more useful.
Trained interviewers contacted the Aquatic Toxins Hotline callers by phone in English and Spanish to explain the study, obtained verbal consent for participation and conducted a short scripted interview (available on request from the corresponding author). Specifically, the interviewers asked a brief series of questions about using the Aquatic Toxins Hotline and about the caller's perception of the system's usefulness. Study participants also had an opportunity to make suggestions to improve the system. No personal identifying information was collected. To maximize success in contacting callers, the interviewers called each telephone number three times (once during a week day, once during a week night, and once during the weekend) in an attempt to re-contact the specific person who had called the Aquatic Toxins Hotline.
This study was approved by both the University of Miami and Florida Department of Health Human Subject Committees. The data were collected into a Study Access Database. The data were analyzed using SAS version 9.1. The data were analyzed by frequencies as a descriptive process.
The Aquatic Toxins Hotline has experienced increasing use over the past few years, particularly during periods of active Florida red tides. Since its inception in 1998, there have been 25,000 calls to the Hotline, with 7,000 occurring between 2001 and 2006; during 2006 alone, 2,415 calls were made to the Aquatic Toxins Hotline. During the study period from Sept 2/06 through Jan 31/07, there were 1,163 calls made to the hotline, with 315 (27%) answered by a Poison Information Specialist; of these calls, 53% were for Florida red tide, 6% for ciguatera, 17% for jellyfish, 2% each for PSP/pufferfish, scombroid, and stingrays, and 0.6% blue green algae. This means that only 27% of the callers selected to speak with a Poison Information Specialist from the automated HAB Menu in English or Spanish, while the vast majority (73%) only accessed the automated HAB menu.
The Interviewers attempted to contact each of the callers during the study period as described above. Even though the follow-up calls were made within two months of the original contact, only a small percentage (10%) of the callers was able to be re-contacted. Inability to re-contact these individuals was due to a variety of factors such as: no answer despite repeated calls, answering machines, and no real contact number (i.e. original call made from hotel, hospital, etc). Nevertheless, once contacted, all callers (100%) agreed to participate.
A total of 118 callers were successfully re-contacted and agreed to participate. Of these, only 89 callers reported that they recalled making a call to the Florida Aquatic Toxins Hotline, and thus these 89 callers were considered the participants in this Pilot Study. Of note, both the actual number of respondents and the percentages are reported below because not all subjects answered all the questions.
The majority of the 89 participants were women (41 [61%]), self-described as white (82 [100%]) and non Hispanic (66 [94%]) whose primary language was English (80 [96%]) and with a mean age and standard deviation of 55.5 +/− 12.2 years (see
The majority of the participants had heard about the Aquatic Toxins Hotline from a website (35 [39%]), newspaper or magazine article (16 [18%]), a friend or personal recommendation (13 [15%]), or a sign (7 [8%]). Many of the participants (38 [48%]) called with general information questions; of note, none of the participants reported calling because they or someone they cared for was sick or believed they had been exposed to a toxin.
Overall, the majority of participants (59 [68%]) reported that they received an answer to the question that prompted their call to the Florida Aquatic Toxins Hotline (see
With regards to the specific information supplied by the automated system, 34 (39%) of participants reported speaking with a Poison Information Specialist; among these participants, 23 (74%) were satisfied and only two (7%) were dissatisfied (see
At the end of the questionnaire, the participants were asked if there was anything in particular they thought should be done to improve the usefulness of the Florida Freshwater and Marine Health Hotline as an open ended question. The majority of the comments can be summarized as: a) wanting more up-to-date information (particularly geographic location of the Florida red tides) on even a daily basis; and b) wanting to speak with a person directly or listening to an automated system. Specifically, the participants recommended that the Hotline provide the geographic location of the Florida red tides on a map; provide more information to tourists in hotels; and make sure that the Poison Information Specialists were up-to-date with HAB and Florida red tide information.
This study was the first known systematic evaluation of the use of and satisfaction with educational outreach materials for HABs, specifically evaluating callers to an automated Florida Aquatic Toxins Hotline of the South Florida Poison Information Center. The majority (68%) of participants reported that they were satisfied with the information provided by the Aquatic Toxins Hotline; 80% that they would use the Hotline again; and 79% that they would recommend the Hotline to others. Furthermore, even when evaluating the specific services offered by the Aquatic Toxins Hotline automated system (including speaking directly with a Poison Information Specialist), the high level of satisfaction persisted. Of interest, only 8% of participants reporting hearing about the Aquatic Toxins Hotline from signs, with the rest learning about the hotline from a website (39%), newspaper or magazine article (18%), or friend (15%). Our evaluation demonstrated that the primary advantage of the new automated system is that it provided useful HAB information for the large majority of the callers, without requiring contact with a Poison Information Specialist. By decreasing the workload of purely informational calls for the Poison Information Specialists, the Hotline allows the Specialists to focus on those persons who need immediate assistance.
As seen in previous studies using the Poison Information data [
In addition, these participants were not entirely representative of the overall Hotline caller population since a greater proportion (39%) reported speaking with a Poison Information Specialist than was reported (27%) for the entire population of callers to the Florida Aquatic Toxins Hotline during the study period. However, based on the limited demographic information, the participants interviewed were similar to those contacted in other studies which have used the overall South Florida Poison Information Center Caller Database, i.e., predominantly white non Hispanic older females [
This Pilot Evaluation Study demonstrated that the additional outreach provided by the Hotline was successful in getting information to people who wanted it. It also suggested that there needs to be increased outreach and education efforts using a range of media to inform additional target populations about the Aquatic Toxins Hotline, such as residents and tourists, and their healthcare providers. For example, it has been shown in the case of ciguatera fish poisoning, that even in an endemic area such as Miami (Florida), the majority of healthcare providers do not recognize, nor (more important from the point of view of HAB surveillance) do they report cases of ciguatera to the Health Department even though it is a reportable illness throughout the US [
Recommendations for improving the Aquatic Toxins Hotline automated HAB system include the following: 1) Existing automated materials need to be revised to incorporate an ongoing evaluation component, with a focus on tourist not just resident callers, and in coordination with ongoing efforts in providing geographic location [
We would like to thank the interviewers, Poison Information Specialists and callers who participated in this study. The funding for this study was provided by the Florida Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Florida Harmful Algal Bloom Taskforce, as well as the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Oceans and Human Health Center at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School (NSF 0CE0432368; NIEHS 1 P50 ES12736), the former National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School (NIEHS P30ES05705), and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Red Tide POI (P01 ES 10594).
Florida Red Tide, START, and Florida Poison Information Center Outreach Informational Signage.
Demographics of Participants in the Aquatic Toxins Hotline Evaluation.
|Number (%) (Total N = 89)
|26 (38.8%)
|Pacific Islander
|Native American
|4 (5.7%)
|3 (3.6%)
Participant Overall Satisfaction with the Florida Aquatic Toxins Hotline (Total N=89).
|Survey Question
|Participant Response
|Don't Recall
|22 (25.3%)
|6 (6.9%)
|17 (19.5%)
|11 (12.6%)
|8 (9.3%)
|9 (10.5%)
|6 (7.0%)
|12 (14.0%)
Note: Not all participants responded to all questions
Participant Satisfaction with Specific Information Received from the Florida Aquatic Toxins Hotline (Total N=89).
|Survey Question: With regards to the menu options that were available on the call in system. Please indicate if you selected each option and if so, please say whether you were satisfied, neither satisfied nor unsatisfied, or were unsatisfied with the information you received.
|Don't Recall
|If yes, were you
|34 (39.1%)
|38 (43.7%)
|15 (17.2%)
|6 (19.4%)
|2 (6.5%)
|46 (53.5%)
|16 (18.6%)
|24 (27.9%)
|6 (14.0%)
|7 (16.3%)
|37 (44.1%)
|22 (26.2%)
|25 (29.8%)
|3 (8.1%)
|8 (21.6%)
|10 (11.8%)
|33 (38.8%)
|42 (49.4%)
|1 (10.0%)
|0 (0%)
|11 (12.8%)
|35 (40.7%)
|40 (46.5%)
|1 (10.0%)
|0 (0%)
|28 (32.9%)
|26 (30.6%)
|31 (36.5%)
|3 (10.7%)
|5 (17.9%)
NOTE: The first series of questions have a skip pattern; if the respondent did not answer "yes," they were not to answer the satisfaction section of the question.


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|In Response To Oliver Holt
|Written by Mark W
|Saturday, 30 March 2013 17:19
If you read my trip report from San Marino you will know that I was quite forthright in my criticism of elements of the England support. I was shocked however to read this article by Oliver Holt making accusations of racism. HERE
The article makes some very serious accusations about the English supporters in the Stadio Olympico and some of the songs that were being sung.
The key song that the article refers to is the 'Bonfire' song. I was at the game and have spoken to dozens of other people that were there. Not one of us heard this song. Of course, that does not mean that it was not sung. There were England fans all around the ground and it may have originated in an area away from where everyone I have spoken to were sat. I have no reason to think that Mr Holt would have invented this song and so can only take his word for the fact that it was sung.
What I can say, however, is that if there were people in the ground singing this, there could not have been very many of them. A group of say 30 fans singing a song would have been clearly audable in that small stadium. My assumption, therefore is that if it was sung there may have been perhaps 5-10 people involved.
It is the nature of the article that upsets me. The inference is that England supporters are racist and this inference is damaging. A lot of work has gone on from the FA in 'cleaning up' the England support over the last decade or so. In many cases, I think they have gone over the top in this but without doubt they have made fantasic inroads when it comes to racism. To suggest that the England support is still racist, therefore is truely unfair.
Do not get me wrong, I am not for one moment claiming that there are not people with racist view who still follow the England national team. Of course there are. There will always be people in all walks of life who hold these views, but to say England have some racist fans is completely different to saying that England's support is racist. Every club and every nation has some racist fans be it football, rugby, cricket or syncronised swimming.
If there were a small number of fans who were singing racist songs, they need to be dealt with by the FA and by the police. We do not need these people following England. Mr Holt is right here. One person shouting racist abuse is one person too many. If it just a handful though, they should be being dealt with in an appropriate manner, ie. identified and banned. This should not have been sensationalised headline news.
Having been in Rimini and San Marino on the day of the game, I can confirm that there was a lot of anger about Rio Ferdinand's decision to comentate on the game in the Middle East rather than play for his national side. You have to remember that many fans had paid a significant amount of money and booked a week off work to follow the team to San Marino and Montenegro. Is it surprising that they were frustrated with someone who was seen to 'not be bothered to play'? At no point during the day, however, did I hear one racist comment about him.
There is, of course a secondary issue. Assuming we take the song as read, is it actually racist? On the face of it, no. There is nothing at all in that song which uses any kind of racist language and as has been well documented the somg is used at grounds around the country with no racial conotations. The only way, however, to know whether a song like this is being sung with racist undertones is to know the individuals singing it. The same song could easily be sung by two different people for different reasons. As we are yet to identify any individuals as having sung it, I do not understand how a conclusion can have been reached that it was racist.
If you wonder why this matters so much, it is not because of the threat of England playing a game behind closed doors. FIFA are perfectly entitled to investigate and I fully expect the outcome to be that England have no case to answer. The problem comes from the perception of England fans to the general population. I have already heard friends tell me "That's why I don't follow the national team". Some members of the press seem to thrive off criticising the England supporters who care passionately and will follow the team all over the world. Surely we want to be encouraging fans to support England, not turning them away. Furthermore we want to attract fans from different backgrounds. There is a small but increasing number of black and Asian fans following England. That's a good thing but inaccurate reporting like this will put others off.
I care passionately about England and I care passionately about the image of England fans. I have many friends who follow England home and away much more frequently than I do. These are good people who are helping to promote the good name of England fans. It's a real kick in the teeth when someone comes along and tries to undermine this for the sake of a headline.
|Last Updated on Saturday, 30 March 2013 18:20


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Roughneck Fest puts face on Marcellus workers
Bill Golish says one of the hardest aspects of his job as a laborer working on Marcellus shale rigs in Western Pennsylvania is the long time between visits with his family.
"Its a different world," he said. "You never know where the road is going to take you."
That road can be difficult, the men and women who work in the industry said.
Golish, 33, of Wellsville, N.Y., spent two months in Oklahoma this summer working as a roughneck, or laborer, on oil rigs in 110-degree heat.
"Like my daughter says, 'Most daddies wear suits; mine wears a hard hat and boots,' " he said on Sunday while waiting to compete in an arm wrestling match at the first Roughneck Fest at the Washington County Fairgrounds.
Golish works 28 days and is off for 14, every other month.
"It's rough on all of us; I'm tired of living out of a hotel," said Parry Rogers, 36, of Randolph, Ohio. "It gets old."
The workers don't boast a lot of modern-day flash. Their pickups bear bumper stickers such as "Oilfield Trash" and "Been There, Wrecked That."
The uniform of the day is jeans, shirts, ball caps. These are men whose handshake is like grasping a brick. They work hard — from dark to dark, they say — and play harder.
The Roughneck Fest was established to show another side of the industry, said Scott Bradley of Baldwin, one of its organizers.
"So far, the face of the industry has been the big corporations destroying the Earth," he said. "We wanted to show another face — the working man."
The day opened with the Weedrags, a bluegrass band, performing Merle Haggard's "Working Man Blues."
"Yeah, I drink a little beer in a tavern, cry a little bit of these working man blues," the band sang.
The men and women who work in the oil and gas industry say they're drawn to it because they like working outside and the pay and benefits are good.
"I've got six kids, and I needed a career," said Golish, who became a roughneck eight years ago when his construction business went sour because of the economy.
The average wage of Marcellus shale laborers in Pennsylvania in 2010 was $30,490, the state Department of Labor and Industry said. That climbed to $35,390 in 2011. Total employment in the industry in Pennsylvania is 234,000.
Randy Plants believes the growth in Marcellus shale jobs is his ticket to retirement.
"I spent 20 years on the road. I'm hoping Marcellus shale will allow me to retire here," said Plants, 42, of Claysville, who works as a pipeliner for gas transmission companies and has been able to stick close to home of late.
Jay Guthrie, 42, formerly of Franklin Park, got started by working on Texas oil rigs 14 years ago. In addition to Pennsylvania, he has worked in New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Louisiana, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Ohio.
One year, he was home three months out of 12.
The lure of the Marcellus shale is as strong as the Texas oil boom during the early part of the 20th century, he said.
"When they hear (something like Marcellus shale), they go. ... We're all here to make money," said Guthrie, who has been traveling here for the past seven years and is president of Commander Energy Services.
Craig Smith is a staff writer for Trib Total Media.


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Complementarity of Pensions and Training under Multiemployer Plans
We compare firm-optimizing and institutional models of labor contracts to investigate how different types of pension plans affect employee training. Unlike previous studies, we consider an expanded voice model of training and pension coverage in which worker and union preferences feed back on firm decisions, and we test for this bidirectional causality between pensions and training. A standard view is that firms provide pensions to optimize their training costs. However, when pension coverage is treated as endogenous in a two-stage least squares regression (the data are merged 1991 CPS samples), pensions have a negative effect on training. In contrast, when the pension is a defined-benefit, multiemployer plan, training and pensions are complements, consistent with both optimizing and institutional models.
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As promised, below you will find what we believe to be a Benghazi bombshell, published at Pajamas Media. There are no hyperlinks in the Executive Summary; they can all be found in the full report.
Executive Summary
When it comes to the Benghazi attacks, there is clearly an effort underway to avoid implicating Ansar Al-Sharia Egypt, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, or ousted Egyptian president and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Mursi in those attacks. As of yet, we can't fully answer the question as to why but we can actually refute those who refuse to entertain such notions – with what such individuals are already willing to concede.
In the now infamous July 10th House Joint Subcommittee hearing, expert Daveed Gartenstein-Ross said he knew "of absolutely no information suggesting" Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood was involved in the Benghazi attack on 9/11/12. He also dismissed the idea of Egypt's Ansar Al-Sharia branch being involved and instead pointed to the "Jamal network", headed by Muhammad Jamal Abdo Al-Kashif.
The implication was clear. Those demanding answers were to believe that while the Benghazi attacks included Egyptians, any of those attackers must have been part of a rag-tag group of terrorist freelancers and that no evidence suggested they were tied to Ansar Al-Sharia Egypt or sanctioned by a larger group.
As for Al-Kashif's ties to Mursi, Arabic sources reveal that among the charges filed against the ousted president of Egypt, at least one involves the latter's release of Al-Kashif. Other sources reveal that Mursi also pardoned Al-Kashif's leader, Tariq Taha Abu Al-Azm.[…]
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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Michael Davidson
Mel Freilicher
Marcel Henaff
Babak Rahimi
Jerome Rothenberg
Priya Venkatesan
Wai-lim Yip
Lisa Yoneyama
Yingjin Zhang published a long critical introduction, "Relationships between Shanghai Film and Literature in the Context of Cultural History," to a Chinese academic monograph: PAN Jian, Xuanze, hudong, zhenghe: haipai wenhua yujing zhongde dianying jiqi yu wenxue de guanxi (Selection, Interaction, Integration: Cinema and Its Relationship to Literature in the Context of Shanghai Culture).Hangzhou: Zhejiang U Press, 2006.
Amelia Glaser, Assistant Professor, Russian Literature
Dayna Kalleres,
Assistant Professor, Program for the Study of Religion
Margaret Loose,
Assistant Professor, Victorian Literature
Isaac Artenstein –
LTWR/110 Screen Writing
MA students who are continuing in the PhD program: Cat Gmuca and Trina Larson
UCSD alumni enrolled in the PhD program include:Zulema Diaz, who received her BA in Literatures of the World ,Leonor McCrory, who received her BA in Literatures in English,Yeesheen Yang, who received her BA in Literatures in English and her BS in Biology
Other new graduate students come to us with a variety of experience. They include:
PhD students
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Effective July 1, 2006, Professors
Ron Berman,
Page duBois,
Louis Montrose have been advanced to Professor, Above Scale, a rank that carries with
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Diego Catalan,
Masao Miyoshi,
Roy Harvey Pearce,
Jerome Rothenberg, and
Andrew Wright.
PhD Defenses: Jinah Kim – August 30, 2006 - "U.S. Racial Imaginaries",Hellen Lee-Keller – July 21, 2006 - "Working Matters: Women's Work and Culture in the United States, 1868-1898",Chong Chon Smith – June 6, 2006 - "Asian American and African American Masculinities: Race, Citizenship, and Culture on Past Civil Rights"
MA Degrees: Jessica Lopez-Vazquez – June 15, 2006 - MA Literatures in Spanish,"Feminicidio, genero sexual, representacion y diferentes tipos de violencia en 'La parte de los crimens de 2666'",Elizabeth Richardson – June 16, 2006 - MA Literatures in English
Qualifying Exams: Lillian Atteridge – May 31, 2006, Andrew Escudero – June 2, 2006 (also received an MA in Literatures in
English), Gabriela McEvoy – June 13, 2006 (also received and MA in Literatures in
Spanish),Chunhui Peng - June 14, 2006
The following prize-winners were announced at the annual honors awards ceremony
and reception held on Wednesday, June 14:
Sherley Anne Williams Prize – Estera (Tess) Meissner for "If the Silence
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Sigurd Burckhardt Award – Kristin Krogh for "Traveling Through This Part
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October 9, 6.00 pm
The documentary records the work of a team of forensic archeologists who
slowly extract human bones in Santa Cruz, Burgos, while family members of the
victims of Franco´s dictatorship ready themselves to take the remains to the
local cemetery.Literature graduate student Scott Boehm will
introduce the film with pictures of a recent excavation of a mass grave in
Spain. Luis Martín-Cabrera will moderate the discussion.
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talks will be in Spanish
Thursday, October 19 – 4:00 pm
Mary Louise Pratt
"Migrancy, Empire and the Politics of Language: Toward a Geolinguistic Imagination"Thursday, October 19, 2006 - 7:00 pm
UCSD Cross-Cultural Center
Professor Pratt is widely known as a scholar of
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modern prose fiction.
"Literature and Politics in the Philippines"
Tuesday, October 24 deCerteau Room
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"Literature and Politics in the Philippines"
Tuesday, October 24 deCerteau Room – 155 Literature Building
Professor Dalisay, who coordinates the creative writing program at UP
Dillman and is an associate for fiction and drama at the UP Institute of
Creative Writing, has won numerous awards and prizes for fiction, poetry,
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Exposure to Lady Gaga may not make one gay, but exposure to the Florida Family Association is likely to make one dumber. The group that went after ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars has gone after Office Depot for partnering with Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation using the usual run of idiocy.
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Stenciled Wall and a Sneak Peak
Today I wanted to share a project I completed before Christmas. I entered a giveaway over at DIY by Design for Cutting Edge Stencils and I won! I had looked at the Cutting Edge site when I entered the giveaway and knew which stencil I wanted to order with my $50 prize – the Anna Damask Stencil. I used it to create a focal wall in my dining room.
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My dining room/kitchen is a work in progress right now. I sold my colonial tin chandelier and lantern light fixtures on Craigslist and replaced them with new Pottery Barn lighting, which I will share with you soon. I have curtains to make, countertop to replace, would love a new stove, brassy gold door hardware to replace, and my least favorite thing to do – painting my oak kitchen cabinets. Before Christmas I picked up a dining room table and chair set at a yard sale for $45. It was in really bad shape, but I loved the table and it had a lot of leaves. Here's a sneak peak of the table so far.


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This Ipswich micro-brewery is winning hearts with beer lovers, foodies and historians alike
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Dahm, Erdmann and Rehme, Wolfgang and Wienbeck, Harald and Hammer, Cornelius and Ernst, Peter (2003) The BACOMA cod-end. History and recent developments in BACOMA cod-end regulations and a proposal for abetter specification of the BACOMA cod-end for Baltic Sea cod fishery. Informationen für die Fischwirtschaft aus der Fischereiforschung, 50(2), pp. 53-61.
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To improve the cod stocks in the Baltic Sea, a number of regulations have recently been established by the International Baltic Sea Fisheries Commission (IBSFC) and the European Commission. According to these, fishermen are obliged to use nets with escape windows (BACOMA nets) with a mesh size of the escape window of 120 mm until end of September 2003. These nets however, retain only fish much larger than the legal minimum landing size would al-low. Due to the present stock structure only few of such large fish are however existent. As a consequence fishermen use a legal alternative net. This is a conventional trawl with a cod-end of 130 mm diamond-shaped meshes (IBSFC-rules of 1st April 2002), to be increased to 140 mm on 1st September 2003, according to the mentioned IBSFC-rule. Due legal alterations of the net by the fishermen (e.g. use of extra stiff net material) these nets have acquired extremely low selective properties, i. e. they catch very small fish and produce great amounts of discards. Due to the increase of the minimum landing size from 35 to 38 cm for cod in the Baltic, the amount of discards has even increased since the beginning of 2003. Experiments have now been carried out with the BACOMAnet on German and Swedish commercial and research vessels since arguments were brought forward that the BACOMA net was not yet sufficiently tested on commercial vessels. The results of all experiments conducted so far, are compiled and evaluated here. As a result of the Swedish, Danish and German initiative and research the European Commission reacted upon this in June 2003 and rejected the increase of the diamond-meshed non-BACOMA net from 130 mm to 140mm in September 2003. To protect the cod stocks in the Baltic Sea more effectively the use of traditional diamond meshed cod-ends with-out escape window are prohibited in community waters without derogation, becoming effective 1st of September 2003. To enable more effective and simplified control of the bottom trawl fishery in the Baltic Sea the principle of a "One-Net-Rule" is enforced. This is going to be the BACOMA net, with the meshes of the escape window being 110 mm for the time being. The description of the BACOMA net as given in the IBSFC-rules no.10 (revision of the 28th session, Berlin 2002) concentrates on the cod-end and the escape window but only to a less extent on the design and mesh-composition of the remaining parts of the net, such as belly and funnel and many details. Thus, the present description is not complete and leaves, according to fishermen, ample opportunity for manipulation. An initiative has been started in Germany with joint effort from scientists and the fishery to better describe the entire net and to produce a proposal for a more comprehensive description, leaving less space for manipulation. A proposal in this direction is given here and shall be seen as a starting point for a discussion and development towards an internationally uniform net, which is agreed amongst the fishery, scientists and politicians. The Baltic Sea fishery is invited to comment on this proposal, and recommendations for further improvement and specifications are welcomed. Once the design is agreed by the Baltic Fishermen Association, it shall be proposed to the IBSFC and European Commission via the Baltic Fishermen Association.
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Simple Chignon Hairstyle ~ Simple To Style
The post-Oscar party thrown by Vanity Fair was a hit as always. The evening was made that much more special due to an appearance by super hot young actress Mischa Barton wearing her locks in a simple chignon.
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As with other updos, Mischa Barton's simple chignon will style with more ease on hair that is not freshly washed. However, one of the most important elements to a chignon is that they are known for being shiny and sleek.
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