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16/10/2012 - Giant harvestman yet to be named
Frankfurt, 16 October 2012. A scientist at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt has discovered a harvestman with a leg span of more than 33 centimetres. The creature found during a research trip to Laos is one of the largest representatives of the entire order worldwide. Experts have so far failed to properly identify it to species level.
The reason Dr. Peter Jäger from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt (Germany) originally flew to Laos in April was to film a major TV production. In between takes I collected spiders from the caves in the southern province of Khammouan, the Frankfurt arachnologist explains. In doing so, he made a sensational discovery. In one of the caves I discovered a harvestman that was absolutely huge. The leg span of the gigantic male harvestman was more than 33 centimetres and therefore one of the worlds largest. The current record is just over 34 centimetres leg span for a species from South America.
Initially the discovery lay hidden among other organisms and was only recognised as unique when sorted and labelled. In attempting to categorise the creature properly, however, and give it a scientific name, I soon reached my limits, says Jäger. The Frankfurt scientist deals mainly with huntsman spiders harvestmen are not his particular field. Even the specialist he consulted, Ana Lucia Tourinho from the National Institute for Research of the Amazon (INPA) in Manaus, Brazil, who is currently a visiting academic at the Senckenberg Arachnology lab, could only conclude that it is probably the genus Gagrella in the Sclerosomatidae family.
Its a shame we cant identify such an exceptional discovery correctly, i.e. its species, says Jäger, we havent dealt with these and related genera from China and neighbouring South East Asia before. Specialists are also unavailable due to the fact that descriptive taxonomy is no longer the main focus of research funding
They could serve as an indicator of the ecological state of the natural and cultural scenery. These long-legged creatures are also of interest to behavioural scientists and evolutionary biologists. For example, during courtship the male presents a nuptial gift to the female, which is intended to demonstrate his fitness. Only when the female accepts it do they mate.
The Senckenberg arachnologist would now like to investigate the Sclerosomatidae family in a detailed case study using conventional and molecular methods along with his Brazilian colleague and in collaboration with other scientists in Germany, China and Japan. The findings should then be applicable to other groups and regions. We want to avoid a situation in future where we again lack the experts to classify such unique creatures, says Jäger.
Meanwhile, Laos has turned out to be a veritable land of giants. Other arthropods with similar huge dimensions have been found in the same region the Laotian huntsman spider Heteropoda maxima with a leg span of up to 30 centimetres, the whip scorpion Typopeltis magnificus with a span of 26 centimetres and the predatory centipede Thereuopoda longicornis with a total span of almost 40 centimetres.
All these organisms are more or less closely linked to caves in these karst areas. What mechanisms or factors are responsible for this frequency of gigantism is still unclear, says Jäger. One possible explanation is the potentially slower rate of growth in the caves. But the only thing that seems certain is that there is a limit to growth either due to the lack of oxygen supply to the long appendages or because when fleeing or catching prey long legs can no longer be moved quickly enough.
Whatever the case, Laos offers enough potential to discover great things!
Judith Jördens
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The research of life forms in their diversity and their ecosystems, climate research and geology, the search for past life and finally the understanding of the entire earth/life system that is what the SENCKENBERG Gesellschaft für Naturforschung works towards. Exhibitions and museums are the windows to natural history research, by which means the Senckenberg shares the latest scientific knowledge with the public and provides an insight into past ages and the diversity of nature. More information is available at www.senckenberg.de.


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That's a good question. I suppose the simplest answer is, you don't, at least not in any sort of comprehensive way. In some cases you can -- a person who is warm, engaging, and able to hold up their end of a lively conversation in an interview setting is always going to be near the top of my list. But I make a lot of allowances for people in their interviews -- they are nervous, know they are being watched and judged, it is a high-stakes encounter for them, and most people are a lot more constrained in an interview than they are in their day-to-day lives. I make the interview as informal as possible, bring a casual, conversational tone to the meeting and do everything I can to encourage them to open up and just chat. We usually take them to lunch and see how they hold up in a more social setting. (In one case we took a guy to a bar and filled him with beer before interviewing him -- but that was a special case.) I typically spend three hours with a prospective candidate. In most cases I get a sense of the sort of person they are, but many interviewees are still reserved enough that I come away with no clear sense of their interpersonal skills.
So we check references. Thoroughly and exhaustively.
A lot of people have been surprised by this -- they say "well, everybody just picks references that like them so what are you ever going to learn from reference checking?" To some degree that is true -- every residency director has a real interest in getting his residents jobs and they tend to give a positive appraisal of their trainees. So you've got to work it. The key here is to call all the references; don't just accept a letter of reference, and ask very detailed questions. You start off letting the reference free-form about the candidate, which is usually positive. But I follow up with a structured questionnaire which asks about their stress management skills, their relationship with the nursing staff, their frustration tolerance, their ability to make decisions, their ability to move the department, their strengths and their "areas for growth." It's amazing how a general "Yeah, this guy is solid" reference can open up in details when you delve a little deeper. Better yet, when one reference gives me a piece of information, I can cross-check that with the next and ask them to expand on it. Also, having been doing this job for a few years, I have gotten to know some of the key referrers and have a relationship with them where they are more comfortable giving me frank insights into their residents.
The most valuable tool, however, it to check nursing references. Nurses are startlingly candid and will usually give you the inside story on a candidate. I ask all potential recruits to provide at least two nursing references. Better yet, I call the nursing station at two AM and ask for the charge nurse. The most accurate predictor of how well a doc does in our group is how they treat and get along with the nursing staff. The clinical quality of most new residents is exceptional; they all seem to graduate with the essential knowledge base. But those that can't understand that Emergency Medicine is a team sport, those that can't play nice in the sandbox, they are the ones that tend to flame out early in almost any practice setting. The best reference I ever got was to call a nursing station and tell the charge nurse I was checking on Doc X. In an anguished voice, she exclaimed "You can't have him!" Done -- hired. (Yes, I ask permission before calling.)
None of this is fool-proof, of course, and references can always just lie to you. For that reason I tend to prefer candidates who are referred by people I know (and especially those I work with) since those referrers put their credibility on the line and can be better trusted. I swear by the process, though, since I have had more than a few people who looked fine on paper, and comported themselves well enough in their interview, and I was expecting to make them an offer. After the reference check, however, there were red flags all over the place and we decided not to hire them. However, I find that since most of the people who apply with us are good people, I do less as a detective to suss out the Bad Stuff, but rather to positively sort the candidates. The references which are consistently glowing and full of superlatives rise to the top over those which are merely solid.
But Oh Boy is it a lot of work. (BTW this entire post was composed while waiting for a reference to call me back. Grr.) It pays off in the end, though. A bad hiring decision is very hard to undo.


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Personal Bests
60m, 7.10
1,000m, 2:50.50
60h, 8.04
High Jump, 6-9 (2.06)
Pole Vault, 16-8 3/4 (5.10)
Long Jump, 24-2 1/2 (7.38)
Shot Put, 48-2 3.4 (14.70)
Heptathlon, 5,894
100m, 11.02 (10.93w)
400m, 49.49
1,500m, 4:44.05
110h, 14.37 (14.31w)
High Jump, 6-8 1/4 (2.04)
Pole Vault, 16-7 1/4 (5.06)
Long Jump, 24-10 (7.57)
Shot Put, 47-2 1/4 (14.38)
Discus, 151-9 (46.27)
Javelin, 176-4 (53.76)
Decathlon, 7,897
2012 Outdoor Decathlon
2012 Indoor Heptathlon
2011 Outdoor Decathlon (Second Team)
2011 Indoor Heptathlon (Second Team)
2009 Outdoor Decathlon
2009 Indoor Heptathlon
Big Ten Champion
2012 Outdoor Decathlon
All-Big Ten
Indoor: 2012 (second-team)
Outdoor: 2012 (first-team)
Big 12 Champion
2011 Indoor Heptathlon
School Records
Outdoor Decathlon (7,897)
Indoor Heptathlon (5,894)
First Four-Time CoSIDA Academic All-American in Nebraska History Across All Sports
First-Team CoSIDA Academic All-American (2011, 2012, 2013)
NCAA Elite 88 Award (2010)
Third-Team CoSIDA Academic All-American (2010)
First-Team CoSIDA Academic All-District VII (2010, 2011, 2012)
USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Nebraska Male Student-Athlete of the Year (2013)
Big Ten Medal of Honor (2013)
First-Team Academic All-Big 12 (2010, 2011)
Academic All-Big Ten (2012, 2013)
Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2012, 2013)
Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2011, 2012; Spring 2012, 2013)
Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll, Spring: (2009, 2010, 2011), Fall: (2009, 2011)
NCAA Championships
2012 (O): Decathlon, 7,769 (8th)
2012 (I): Heptathlon, 5,894 (4th)
2011 (O): Decathlon, 7,651 (12th)
2011 (I): Heptathlon, 5,779 (9th)
2010 (I): Heptathlon, 5,565 (11th)
2009 (O): Decathlon, 7,689 (6th)
2009 (I): Heptathlon, 5,795 (3rd)
Big Ten Championships
2012 (O): Decathlon, 7,897 (1st)
2012 (I): Heptathlon, 5,792 (2nd)
Big 12 Championships
2011 (O): Decathlon, 7,417 (5th)
2011 (I): Heptathlon, 5,816 (1st)
2010 (I): Heptathlon, 5,710 (3rd)
2009 (O): Decathlon, 7,244 (6th)
2009 (I): Heptathlon, 5,679 (3rd)
2013 (Senior)
Björn Barrefors (pronounced Bih-yurn BAR-eh-FORSH) completed his Husker career in 2013, competing during the outdoor season... posted a fourth-place finish in the decathlon at the 2013 Big Ten Outdoor Championships with a total of 7,369 points... became Nebraska's only four-time Academic All-American as he was named to the Capital One Academic All-American Team... earned academic All-Big Ten honors... was selected as the 2012-13 Nebraska Male Student-Athlete of the Year... earned the Big Ten Medal of Honor and was a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar... notched season-best times of 11.26 in the 100 meters, 52.13 in the 400 meters, 5:14.89 in the 1,500 meters, 14.58 in the 110-meter hurdles... also notched a season-best vault of 15-11 (4.85) in the pole vault and a season-best jump of 23-5 1/2 (7.15) in the long jump... also recorded a season-best throw of 47-2 1/4 (14.38) in teh shot put, 146-0 (44.51) in the discus and 161-10 (49.33) in the javelin.
2012 (Senior/Junior)
Barrefors completed an impressive season for the Huskers, earning two first-team All-America honors, while also finishing as the 2012 Big Ten men's decathlon champion... finished second in the heptathlon at the 2012 Big Ten Indoor Championships, recording a total of 5,792 points... set a personal best in the pole vault at the 2012 Big Ten Indoor Championships with a vault of 16-8 3/4 (5.10)... finished fourth in the heptathlon at the 2012 NCAA Indoor Championships, posting a personal-best total of 5,894 points to break his own school record... tied his personal best of 7.10 in the 60 meters at the NCAA Championships... posted a personal-best throw of 48-2 3/4 (14.70) in the shot put at nationals.. won the 2012 Big Ten decathlon title with a record-breaking 7,897 points to earn the first decathlon title of his career... with that total, he broke the school record of 7,707 points that was set in 1992...he was the first Husker to win the decathlon since Aaron Henrichs claimed the Big 12 decathlon crown in 1998...also broke the Big Ten outdoor meet record and the McClimon Complex facility record... recorded a personal-best throw of 151-10 (46.27) in the discus at the 2012 Big Ten Outdoor Championships... also recorded a season-best pole vault of 16-7 1/4 (5.06) and a season-best javelin of 151-10 (46.29) at the conference championships... sealed the conference title with a season-best time of 4:53.51 in the 1,500 meters... finished eighth in the decathlon at the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Championships, posting 7,769 points... opened the outdoor championships with a personal-best time of 10.93 in the 100 meters, also posted a season-best throw of 44-10 3/4 in the shot put... unleashed a season-best throw of 172-02 in the javelin... earned first-team outdoor All-Big Ten honors and second-team indoor All-Big Ten honors... First-Team CoSIDA Academic All-American in 2012 and a First-Team CoSIDA Academic All-District VII selection... also earned Academic All-Big Ten accolades, the Big Ten Distinguished Scholar award and was named to the spring and fall Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll.
2011 (Junior/Sophomore)
Barrefors competed at both the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships in 2011... earned All-America honors in the outdoor decathlon (second team) and the indoor heptathlon (second team)... captured Big 12 Indoor heptathlon champion and earned All-Big 12 honors... recorded 5,816 points in the heptathlon at the 2011 Big 12 Indoor Championships, breaking the school record that he previously set in 2009... finished fifth (7,417) in the decathlon at the 2011 Big 12 Outdoor Championships... recorded personal bests in the indoor 60 meters (7.10), indoor high jump (6-9) and indoor heptathlon (5,816)... recorded personal bests in the outdoor shot put (46-6 3/4) and discus (136-4)... finished ninth in the heptathlon at the 2011 NCAA Indoor Championships and 12th in the decathlon at the 2011 Outdoor Championships... earned first-team CoSIDA Academic All-America honors in 2011 and was a first-team CoSIDA Academic All-District VII selection.
2010 (Sophomore/Redshirt)
Barrefors made a repeat trip to the NCAA Indoor Championships in 2010, but then redshirted the outdoor season due to a foot injury... made his season debut at the Husker Multi Challenge... scored just 3,762 points after not finishing the hurdles and passing on the pole vault... bounced back to place third in the heptathlon at the Big 12 Indoor Championships for the second straight year with an NCAA automatic-qualifying score of 5,710 points... did not repeat as an All-American at the national meet with an 11th-place finish (5,565 points)... was honored with the NCAA Elite 88 Award during the indoor season and was named a third-team CoSIDA Academic All-American.
2009 (Freshman)
Barrefors made an immediate impact on the Husker program in his first year, as he earned All-America honors in the indoor heptathlon and outdoor decathlon, while also breaking the school record in the heptathlon... set personal bests in six of the seven heptathlon events during the indoor season... competed in his first collegiate heptathlon at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, finishing third with 5,679 points, topping the NCAA automatic-qualifying mark of 5,650... broke Bill Vacek's 1996 school record of 5,766 points in the heptathlon with a season-best score of 5,795 points at the NCAA Indoor Championships to finish third and become the first Husker on the men's side in school history to earn All-America honors in the event... set or tied four personal bests at the NCAA meet, including the 60-meter dash (7.13), 1,000-meter run (2:50.57), long jump (24-2 1/2) and shot put (46-10)... opened the outdoor season at the Arizona State Invitational where he set personal bests in the shot put (46-6 1/4) and discus (134-3)... earned a decathlon victory one week later at the Jim Click Shootout, running a season-best time of 11.11 in the 100-meter dash and posting an NCAA provisional-qualifying score of 7,448... battled through a foot injury to finish sixth at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships with 7,244 points... earned All-America honors in the decathlon at the NCAA Outdoor Championships with a sixth-place finish and a wind-aided score of 7,689 points (non-wind-aided score: 7,648)... set season bests in the 400-meter dash (49.96) and pole vault (16-0 3/4) at the national meet.
Before Nebraska (Teknikum HS)
Barrefors joined Nebraska as a multi-event athlete from Stockholm, Sweden, where he was coached by Agne Bergwall at Teknikum High School... was the 2008 Swedish senior champion in the indoor heptathlon (personal-best score of 5,577) and outdoor decathlon after finishing third in both events the previous year... posted a personal-best decathlon score of 7,405 at the 2008 European Cup in Jyväskylä, Finland, to finish seventh... ranked No. 14 on the under-20 world list in 2006 with a decathlon score of 7,012... finished 11th in the junior decathlon at the 2006 IAAF World Junior Championships in Beijing, China, with a score of 7,332... competed for the Hammarby IF Club under Coach Peter Wikstörm... chose Nebraska over Georgia and Mississippi State.
Parents are Peter Barrefors and Gia Cronebäck... born on Oct. 27, 1987... majored in computer science... earned bachelor's degree from Nebraska in May 2013.


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'It's like we're raising drunk kids'
Doug and Denise Finnell have four adopted children. The kids were taken from their biological mother because she abused alcohol during her pregnancies. The oldest child, their daughter, is in a teen detention center.
Their other three children, all boys, live with the Finnells. As the Finnells sit in the yard of their rural home near Lennox, South Dakota, Denise describes her children this way.
"It's like we're raising drunk kids. It's so true," she says.
The yard is a blur of activity. There are bikes, there is a trampoline and there's a pool -- and they're all getting good use.
The three brothers look alike with blond hair and blue eyes, but their personalities are distinct. Lucas, who is 4, bounces from one activity to another. Anthony is 8 and he's a thinker. He likes boats and the bugs he finds in their country yard, and smashing walnuts.
Matthew, the oldest boy, is 11. Like his brothers, he's small for his age. He has the stereotypical facial features of fetal alcohol syndrome. His eyes are set close together and the skin between his nose and mouth is flat. But it's his behavior that's most concerning.
Denise and Doug Finnell say when something doesn't go the way Matthew wants, things can go bad, quickly.
"It all boils down to the fact that he's frustrated and he doesn't know how to verbalize something, or doesn't like it when he's failing," Doug says. "His IQ is up there, but he struggles socially with fetal alcohol."
"His mind just stops and we tell him he has to turn it on," says Denise.
The Finnells say Matthew can be mouthy and mean. Matthew describes what's happening in his brain a little differently.
"For fun I kind of like to screw around. But it always gets me in trouble because I kind of get a little hyper after I get worked up," Matthew says. "When I get hyper I just can't think straight and I go flying around the house. I try to stop, but I just can't."
Matthew and Lucas both have full fetal alcohol syndrome. Anthony's diagnosis is alcohol-related neurological defects, somewhat less severe on the spectrum of FAS disorders.
The Finnells consider themselves lucky that their boys' cognitive abilities are good enough for them to learn basic skills. Denise says they can read a book and tell you about it two months later. But they can't apply what they know.
For example, Matthew can read a recipe and tell you what it says. But, Denise says, he can't understand how to make the cookies.
The same is true for their behavior. Denise says it's difficult to discipline the boys because nothing works for long. Rewards and punitive measures aren't successful, because those techniques require an understanding of cause and effect -- and that's what children who were exposed to alcohol don't have.
Denise says it's easy to sum up her boys' personalities by the way they watch television together.
"Anthony is a sober kid, and he can watch something and process it and say, 'Oh, that was funny.' Matthew and Lucas? They'll watch the whole thing, and Lucas will be rolling on the floor belly-laughing, and Matthew will ask why it happened and we'll have to explain every piece. Now the third time he's (Matthew) watched it he might laugh," Denise says.
Denise and Doug Finnell laugh often about their children and how they behave. Their sense of humor helps get them through each day.
But when the frustration grows and the boys' behavior is uncontrollable, the Finnells open up a cupboard door in their kitchen. Inside, there's a picture of two brain scans. One has normal ridges and valleys, the other is smooth. The smooth brain is the brain of someone exposed to alcohol before birth.
That picture reminds the Finnells their children can't help how they behave.


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I Hab A Bad Code
Since I've had the cold, everyone who knows me has offered all sorts of ridiculous remedies. You ever notice how that happens? My mother thinks I should pour peroxide into my ear canal because, according to something she read on the Internet, cold germs actually live inside your ears and the peroxide will kill them. I said, yeah and it will kill your hearing too. No thanks. My Eastern Medicine father has this little device I call the nose teapot. You stick the spout of the nose teapot into your nostrils, tilt your head and proceed to drown yourself. He believes this washes all the snot away and makes you instantly better. Other people recommend echinacea. I've read several studies that say it does nothing and I have taken it in the past and it has indeed, done nothing, but right now I'm drinking the echinacea tea just in case the studies were wrong, because at this point I'd drink gasoline if it would clear my sinuses. I'm not kidding you. I'm that desperate.
By tomorrow I'll start coughing. My mother likes to tell people I have chronic bronchitis. The doctor told me it was actually bronchial asthma that has periodic flare ups caused by irritants. I think this came from growing up without a single non-smoking family member. The reason I never touched a cigarette was because I spent my childhood trapped in the backseat of an olive green Chevrolet with parents and grandparents in the front seat who refused to put down the windows. I guess they didn't want to waste all that good smoke. If they could just sit and stew in it, recycle it, breathe it all in, then they could wait ten minutes before lighting up again instead of five. It was more economical that way.
Now my family calls me Hackie. That's my actual, real nickname, but please don't call me that. Horrible isn't it? It's because I've spent long portions of my life hacking and coughing. My mother says it's hereditary, except that the people she thinks I got this from were all smokers. She also blames it on the cold. She swears that if I ever move I'll have to live in an iron lung. I think she's trying to keep me around, but God knows why because all I do is ride her ass about smoking. If I could change one thing about my mother it would be that. I wish she didn't smoke.
My dad stopped smoking when he was 40. He quit cold turkey - no patch, no pills, no gum. He just quit. Then for about six months he got really mean and we all wished he'd go get an apartment somewhere. He developed an obsession with his tweezers, and kept accusing everyone in the house of taking his damned tweezers. I never did find out what he was so intent on plucking hairs out of. I don't want to know. After about two months of his tweezer tantrums and generally terrible mood we were just ready for him to start smoking again already. We begged him "PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!! PLEASE HAVE A CIGARETTE AND STOP WORRYING ABOUT PLUCKING HAIRS!!" But he held out and a couple months later he calmed back down again and no longer obsesses over where the tweezers are and what parts of his body are sprouting errant hairs. He hasn't smoked in 15 years.
I'm still coughing though. I'm like some Consumptive Victorian. I'm flippin' Keats over here. If I lived a hundred years ago I totally would have been dead of tuberculosis by now. I know that's a morbid thought but I told you I AM IN A BAD MOOD.
My nose looks like a baboon's ass. My lips are so chapped I feel like Napoleon Dynamite. Today I really understand why Napolean wanted to get picked up from school because his lips hurt real bad. My lips hurt real bad too. I did not want to be at school today and it is honestly a miracle that I did not stick a pen in somebody's eyeball because there wasn't a soul on planet earth that did not get on my last nerve.
I'll tell you who gets on my nerves the most though...
In every single solitary college class I have taken in the past five years there is always without fail the Middle Aged Woman Who Will Not Shut Up. I hate this woman. I can not escape her in her seemingly infinite incarnations. She always shows up to every class. She never, ever fucking stops talking.
At one point I thought it was just me. Then I asked some other students and they too confirmed that in their classes, in all departments, there is the requisite Middle Aged Woman Who Will Not Shut Up. I began to think it was a conspiracy. Perhaps the school hires these women as sorts of narcs to make sure that teachers are never able to let their classes out early.
It's good that older people, women especially, want to go back to school. It's fine that they want to audit classes and even get real degrees. I applaud this. I really do, but please, all I'm asking is for these women to be quiet. For fifteen minutes even. Just a little while. Just please don't force me to listen to any more incessant, usually off topic rambling yacking.
The Middle Aged Woman Who Will Not Shut Up monopolizes every class, every lecture and every group project. She acts as if the rest of the class does not exist. The spotlight shines on her alone and there she is - just her and the teacher. Those other 30 people in the room? They're no one. They have nothing interesting to say. They haven't lived as long as the Middle Aged Woman Who Will Not Shut Up, so they obviously know nothing about the topics covered. TMAWWNSU loves to talk about her own personal experiences. If the professor brings up some period in history - she was there or knew someone who was or knew someone who knew someone who was. Then she'll go on and on about her own education way back when and then talk about her kids oblivious to the 60 or so rolling eyes around her.
She's also a notorious ass kissing grade grubber. I despise grade grubbers. They won't hesitate to derail a good discussion to ask if something's going to be on a test. Now in grad school we don't have tests, but there are other more subtle forms of grade grubbing and the Woman Who Will Not Shut Up is an expert at all of them.
The Middle Aged Woman Who Will Not Shut Up is essentially an attention whore. She's a narcissist who likely has no voice or means of expression in her everyday life. With the captive audience of a class who can not leave until dismissed by the teacher, this woman seizes on the chance to force people to listen to her against their wills. It's like being intellectually ass raped. I say intellectual because this woman has read and heard of every obscure, french, feminist, post-structuralist, blind, poet, theorist, lesbian, transgendered activist that ever lived. The professor can say a name and this woman will inevitably pipe up with fifteen names of theorists and books that no one in the Harvard English department has even heard of. She will then prattle on about all of them until the entire class is slipping in puddles of its own drool.
The worst thing of all about the Middle Aged Woman Who Will Not Shut Up is her total lack of compassion for people who just want to go home. Personally, I don't enjoy three hour classes. I want to go home after about 45 minutes. I'm into effective and efficient use of time. When the teacher asks if anyone has any questions he or she usually means "if y'all would shut up we could go home early." This is lost on the MAWWWNSU. She ALWAYS has twenty more questions, concerns and solliloquies which have nothing to do with the topic. She causes the class to get out late. I often have terrifying visions of picking up my three ring binder and beating her over the head with it repeatedly
One of my biggest motivators in seeking a PhD is because I want to be a professor. I want to teach this woman in one of my classes and I want to call her out. I want to get revenge on Middle Aged Women Who Won't Shut Up everywhere by not putting up with their crap. I am dying to just stand up at my podium with the ability to say "If you utter one more senseless word I am failing you. Have consideration for your fellow classmates woman and realize that we don't care about your boring life or your kids or your difficult pregnancies! We want to get our work done and go home!!"
Usually these women are pathetic. I imagine them all having health problems, being divorced or never married, caring for ailing, elderly and cruel mothers, in homes with lots of cats and piles and stacks of paper everywhere which have cat pee and hairballs on them. I understand that school is probably their only social interaction. I understand that they want their money's worth out of a class. I don't lack compassion. I lack patience. Especially when I have a head cold.
48 comments:
- Jennifer said...
Oh, poor thing you! I reccomend local honey in ecchinacia tea, just so you know.
I have a middle aged woman who will not shut up in my classes, as well. We call her "prozac" behind her back. The worst class I ever had with her was victimology, where she felt the need to bring up her abusive, alcoholic husband who used to beat her ass and how she left him and raised her kids all by herself and blah blah blah in class EVERY class.
And she calls the professors by their first names. That annoys me for some reason!
Feel better!
My mom was similar to your aunt kiki and I always wanted a prada purse.
ok, it's possible that I work with middle aged woman who won't shut up, her husband left her for a younger woman and now she lives in a trailor which makes me sympathetic but sometimes i want to go home too.
also, i think you curse more than you used to. i like it
- Tiffany said...
I'm not quite sure about all those other cures, but one thing I'll stake my soul on is good Chinese medicine. Visit a Chinese herbalist; they work wonders. Very natural, but foul tasting stuff. Hope you get better soon!
- Green said...
So sorry to hear about your cold. I am a huge fan of those Kleenex that have lotion on them when I'm sick. Sure you feel like you're wiping snot ONTO your nose, but it keeps your nose from getting red and raw each time a tissue touches it.
BTW, I have no fancy cures, but I do believe in not re-infecting yourself. The very first day I feel well enough to get out of the house, I empty all the garbages with the mountains of tissues, Clorox Wipe things like remote, light switches, doorknobs, handle of fridge, and Lysol the whole place, then leave for a couple of hours.
At my college almost all students were uninterested in anything being taught, except in Biology. Then we had Hot Girl Who Had Every Disease. Maybe she's the daughter of your middle aged woman.
Feel better! (Sorry such a long comment.)
- Pumpkin said...
I want to say something sympathetic, maybe throw in my own piece of 'head cold ridding' advice.......but I can't, I'm laughing too hard at your post and the MAWWWSU to come up with anything!
I do hope you feel better soon though.
Oh. Em. Gee. You have just put a whole semester's worth of my feelings into this one post.
I have just come back from what should have been a glorious university English class - but it wasn't, because I had to sit through (who we call) the Mature-Age Student, waxing lyrically about every vaguely literary topic in the known universe. (I never really understood why this particular Middle Aged Woman, who apparently knows everything there is to know about English literature, felt the need to take a first-year 'Introduction to English Literature' subject.)
At least they make good stories, and great fodder for gossip over coffee after class. And your blog, too.
- Opening Stanza said...
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was also in a blazingly bad mood yesterday after that class. You are not alone.
- SavvySunshine said...
I so feel you on this one. Fall 06, Social Anthropology - the women would not shut up and what she said, made no sense - none whatsoever. I will say though, if you take a smaller class (8 or so), you might be able to avoid said woman. I managed to miss said woman last year, but then, I took a women's studies course and the teacher was the woman who would not shut up...
Try Burt's Bees lip salve for the chapped lips/ face. It really works and is worht the almost three dollars it costs here in SC...Try the herbalist for the cold. (Any nationality as long as they are knowledgable.) My favorite one here has this stuff that you make a tea out of..It tastes nasty but makes you feel better. There's always a hot toddy too..You might get drunk but sometimes that makes you feel better if you don't get too drunk. P.S. I hope all is well with your granddaddy.
The nose teapot with mild saltwater actually does work for congestion. It's just of a question of whether you want to spend several minutes in agony from snorting water up your nose in exchange for a few hours of breathing easier. Choices, always choices.
- LaLa said...
You have my sympathies for the cold - I hate them too, and in my experience nothing makes them go away but their own sweet will. Don't be tempted to try those Shower Soother things either - it's like basting your eyeballs in lye PLUS having a bad cold.
TMWWWNSU has sisters in my workplace. It's SO HARD not to tell her to put a sock in it.
- gulfsidebo said...
Now, I'm not a doctor and I don't play one on TV, but I am a patient who has the same problem as you. My issues stem from being allergic to everything that grows out of the ground. Right now, the ragweed is so bad that even with daily medicinal measures (allegra) I am still hacking. I can't imagine how i'd be without it. normally, it does the trick, but ragweed is my arch-nemesis.
your dad isn't too far off on his teapot remedy. when i am really bad off, i use a saline solution and squirt everything out of my nose and basically drown everything. it's no fun, but it does work! you might actually want to try it. it depends on how bad you are and how desperately you want to feel better.
good luck! i feel for you because i'm right there with you.
Is the Middle Aged Woman Who Will Not Shut Up the older version of the Twenty-something who asks the same question over and over and then still doesn't get it? I had one of those in every class when I was in college and she (and it was ALWAYS a she) would ask the same darn question 5 times in various ways that kept us there for an extra half hour that we could have left early!
- JTN said...
As a professor, one of my favorite lines is "no talking in the cheap seats."
Almost like a mantra, I've found myself chanting "if you want to talk about it, that's what office hours are for..."
You poor thing. I hope you feel better soon. No remedies here, just sympathy.
As a middle aged woman myself, I find those women annoying too. I have a life, and want to get home and we have one of those at every office meeting, grrrr.
Thanks for the laugh, get well soon.
- Erin Elizabeth said...
I'll add my voice to those promoting the "nose teapot," and also add that steaming your face also helps, (you can buy little personal steamers at the pharmacy for like $20), plus, you end up with great skin!
Also, the Middle Aged Woman is alive and well in the upper midwest classroom....
God, I know that woman. She was in all my music classes in college. Not only would she interupt for the most inane reasons, but even the most simple of theories were beyond her. The professor had to explain everything at least 20x.
- Mim said...
Coldeeze and Zycan. They're lifesavers. I get sick every three months and after finding these wonderful products my sickness only lasts 2 or 3 days instead of 2 or 3 weeks. I'm a petri dish...I know
Also, When class was obviously over and the MAWWNSU started her tirade, I would get up and walk out. Because when she started it was obvious I wouldn't be learning anything else during that class session.
- Jenny said...
What about the middle aged guys who ask incessant questions to make sure he understands something? Repeating the question and the answers over and over again, on something that is relatively simple? I think they be the midwest version of the one who will not shut up... he doesn't shut up, and just asks tons of questions...
- Nata said...
I second the Coldeeze (or, since I too grew up poor in the South, the generic brand works just as well). The Shower Soothers worked for me, but, I grew up with a gramma who rubbed vicks vaporub on me every time I sniffled, so I'm used to the burning eyeballs.
And, you can rest assured: The Middle Aged Woman Who Will Not Shut Up is alive and well here in Southern California--not only was she in all of my English & Journalism classes, my husband reports that he had her (and her male counterparts) in all of his Computer Science classes.
- Chiada said...
I just read about the nasal teapot (I think it's called a "neti") in the recent issue of Natural Health. It said that people should put different herbs or spices into the water depending on their dosha or something like that. I don't really know about all that kind of stuff, but that's what it said. For instance, me, being a big boned, easy going, methodical person, I'm supposed to put cinnamon and cloves into my water to help me feel better. Maybe I'll try it next time I'm sick.
But one thing that does help my husband and I is to take probiotics regularly. They are pills full of the good bacteria that helps your gut have a healthy balanced flora of bacteria. The good bacteria helps kill all the bad stuff, including sicknesses, and keeps your health at optimum levels. So, if you're sick or new to probiotics, you should take like 5 a day until you get better. After that, just 1 a day for maintenance is good. It's not an instant cureall fixit magic pill thing. But I have been pretty healthy since the beginning of the year when I started taking them.
As to the MAWWWNSU, I hate them, too. Although, in my experience, they are usually of the slightly ditzy/moronic sort who have to ask questions about every assignment and every topic to make sure they understand. And then they usually still don't understand and they have to completely pick apart the subject for 15 minutes while the rest of us are all thinking, "Shut up! We get it! Just read the dang book already!" She always makes things more difficult than they really are. And she always has her hand in the air with this simpering little voice "um, I don't understaaaaand!" (I hate whiners).
I hope you feel better soon.
- Sparkling Cipher said...
Sorry to hear about the cold. I have no miracle cures to offer, but I'm sympathetic. Currently, allergies have my nose stuffed up and red from blowing and my eyes watery with ugly scaley patches at the sides where my tears dried as I slept. It wouldn't be so bad if we could at least look pretty while feeling like crap, right?
My mom is also a heavy smoker. I blame her for my bouts with bronchitis. She stopped trying not to smoke around her children just after I was born, and amazingly my younger brother and I are the only two of her kids who've had lung problems. Go figure.
OMG that lady's all over the place b/c she was in my classes here in Texas, too!
Here's hoping you get well soon!!!
- iambe said...
The peroxide thing is for wax build up in your ears. If you have excessive wax the peroxide bubbles and dissolves it. I have no idea why that would have anything to do with a cold. The nasal irrigation really does work. The saline helps kill the bacteria, so if you can stand it, doing it once or twice a day would end your cold quickly.
However, it does hurt like an SOB, so I've never managed to do it more than once per cold, and only then if the cold was really, REALLY bad.
I think I was that middle aged woman once. The teacher started talking about something that only he and I had been alive to witness and we ended up talking about it for a few minutes while the rest of the class looked at us like we were dinosaurs. The boring ones, not the T-Rex or anything. I did get an "A" though.
- MP said...
Crazy ass people make the world go around. What would you blog about if they didn't exsist.
Charlie the cat was our topic of conversation in our house last night!
I'm a hacker too!! I'm sure it's allergies..smoke etc. I've been good lately...knock on wood.
Drink lots of water..hock a luggie if you have one, don't swallow it.
Stange but a little alcohol does work..
I agree w/ Connie. That Burts Bees is better than carmex for chapped lips!
- Benita said...
I wish there was an emoticon for a standing ovation. That's what I would type for this story. Fabulous and spot on! I, too, am sorry you are sick. My remedy: get a pneumonia shot. It cleared up my acute bronchitis. I haven't been "hackie" for 4 years now. Hope you feel better soon!
oh oh oh pick me!!!
i know that woman,too. She used to show up at the evening public lectures when i was in architecture school.
she always wore a jaunty hat with a pom pom,had a bazilion jangly bracelets around her wrist, and farted like dog that has just ate possum. she'd loudly shush us if we talked at all during the lecture.
then, after some fabulous famous architect would complete his or her lecture, there would be a request for questions. most of us were eager to go home or back to studio, so we always prayed for NO Questions. Invariably the jangly farting woman would raise her hand and ask some incredibly arcane question about what type of low e glass was used in the project on the fifteenth slide, and what was the r-value. Massive groan - and the visiting architect left convinced that we were all insane.
"Good to know" that she infects other disciplines too. I'd hate to think we were keeping all that intellectual rigor to ourselves.
- Aarwenn said...
SNM, I can't believe I was just in Miami and never emailed you or found you on Gchat or anything. I am consumed by guilt. Yes, that was totally off-topic, sorry.
I'm so sorry you are sick! If it makes you feel better, my head is in a really weird space--I haven't been home in two weeks, have traveled for business, vacation, and then business again, and am really fucking tired. Blargh.
I don't know if you have a similar product there, but one thing that is great for congestion is Vicks Vapour Rub, it's like a eucalytus vaseline-y rub. You can rub it on your chest, or put it in a bowl with boiling water. Then, put your head over it, with a towel on your head, so you have like a little steam bath. Stings a bit but clears everything up. Good luck anyway!
- Subservient No More said...
Tina yes we have this and I am using it. I like it.
Thankfully, now I'm in grad school and most of my classes are with the same 5 people that came in with me. However, there is a Middle Aged Woman Who Won't Shut Up emerging in our statistics class. How she even manages to understand what he is saying long enough to ask inane questions is beyond me...
That woman is alive and well in Georgia. Thank God I finished my degree so I don't have to deal with her anymore.
Poor Hacker, I can relate. My mother is a heavy smoker too and I remember sitting in an olive green Ford trying to hold the shoulder part of the seat belt over my nose to filter the air.
You have a better nickname though, mine was Snotgurgle.
For a split second I worried that I might be a MAW, but then I remembered complaining with you about a never-ending class. I hate the MAW that ask stupid questions that they already know the answer to so they can then point out their boring little spin on the answer in an attempt to look smart. Worse than MAW, however, is Weird Older Woman who doesn't seem to "get" social conventions, is a close talker, cackles oddly at her own strange jokes, writes (often) about dead pets, and has obsessions with mildly distasteful subjects that she brings up in class despite being completely off topic. The reason I think WOW is worse than MAW is that WOW is well-intentioned but has no clue that she freaks people out a little so you can't really yell at her. You are nice to her because she really isn't a bad person and your mother taught you to be nice to people regardless, but then she sucks onto you and makes you wish you'd kept your big mouth shut.
- Subservient No More said...
JG you are NOT middle aged first of all and second of all you do not talk incessantly. Your words are well chosen, entertaining, interesting and meaningful. When you talk you actually say something and it's almost always brilliant.
- Subservient No More said...
Oh and Connie, I got the Burts Bees stuff!
Chiada - because of your comment and excessive time sitting on my ass because I'm sick and don't usually ever sit on my ass, I have now discovered that I am a Vata with a really bad Pitta imbalance. I have no idea what to do about this. I think it's a serious problem.
- Stacie said...
Hope you feel better soon!
Wow, the Middle-Aged Woman Who Will Not Shut Up moves around a lot...a few months ago, she was in Pittsburgh, taking a class taught by my husband. She not only loved to regale the class with stories about her children and her adventures as a historical reenactor, she believed those experiences qualified her to help him teach biology labs and instruct the other students. I believe her boundless wisdom caused something to explode once.
My Master Gardener class is ALL those middle aged chatterboxes with a couple of them being men! The class is already 3 hours long and then I have to sit through them interrupting the instructor to ask about their personal lawns and landscaping! Questions that have nothing at all to do with the current topic. I just really needed to vent that to someone who understands.
- LunaChickNYC said...
Amen - i thought I was the only one who noticed those old women who wouldn't shut up! In an economics class (that ran from 7-10 pm 4 nights a week in the summer)I had a teacher who finally said "Miss we are all fascinated by your stories which have nothing to do with economics, however the other 70 students would appreciate leaving before the exact stroke of 10 at least once this summer" She never opened her mouth again - although she did begin to roll her eyes obnoxiously and make it a point to not answer anything and look put out and upset when required to answer anything. Believe me it was worth it to be home by 10 instead of midnight because we would get out an hour earlier once she shut the hell up
I have had that woman in class before. Once a year or so after graduation one of them wound up being my BOSS! And I don't mean in general, I mean a specific woman we all panicked about getting stuck with in a study group wound up telling me what to do even though she had no training or experience in my job.
the Weird Older Woman has asperger's syndrome. this is a high-functioning form of autism. it's a neurological difference/disability. please be kind to her. they try their best, and every single day is a struggle, because they know they don't "get it" or "fit in". all the best, sunny
- auronsgirl said...
Get some Gypsy Cold Care tea. You can find it in the teas or the natural foods sections of most grocery stores. It doesn't taste the best, but it works wonders when you're sick.
Second, have yourself checked for adult onset asthma, sometimes called reactive airways disease. Like you, I am the only non-smoking member of my family, and lucky me, I got the lung disease first from all the damage their smoking did to my lungs and immune system. My dad and FIL both have late-stage COPD now, but I'd bet you that if my FIL wasn't on oxygen and fully aware that his next cigarette is his last, he'd still be lighting up today.
Third, I think those women clone themselves. They're like college level pod-people. I had one in an early tax accounting class that had the rest of us ammortizing the cost of the gun and silver bullet it would take to kill her off.
- LJ said...
Poor thing! That cold is the WORST! I have it, too. It kept me out of work for THREE DAYS last week. I'm still sick, but I have a doc appointment tomorrow. I agree that the neti pot is wonderful, though, as a treatment. I use it all the time.
As for the asthma, get it treated. My mother smoked all of my life, heavily, and as a result, my sister and I can't breathe today. (Our brothers can't breather either, but they don't admit it. Men, y'know.)
Get yourself to a pulmonologist and get treated. I have, and it's WONDERFUL to breathe again, even with That Cold.
I spent 16 years in college (parttime), and many times I wanted to carry a gun and shoot the next person who said, 'Will this be on the test?' ARGH! I have dreams of someday being a teacher and cheerfully saying 'NOW it will' every time I hear that question, knowing that the asker will get jumped after class. (insert evil laughter here)
Alas, in some classes, I have to admit to BEING That Woman. Today, I cringe at how rude I was. I'm sorry, folks!
For your raw nose, buy "Nose Better" at your local pharmacy. (Yes, that's the real name.)
About the middle aged women, either be assertive and speak up yourself, or have the prof. speak to her.
Feel better,
- Thiltetu said...
The peroxide in your ears thing? It does work, but not for what your mother is suggesting.
My immediate family and myself are all hearing impaired- the peroxide is used for ear infections. Pour some in your ear, let bubble until warm, and dump into a towel. I think it also prevents wax build-up.
Oh, and I've never had MAWWWNSU in any of my classes- it's always a Douchey Offensive Frat Boy.
- Karada said...
I completely feel your pain with the breathing cold issues. I don't have a cure but I do have a sudo-remedy that really helps me when I can't breathe and it helps clear up my sinus's even for just a little while (works on people with bad asthma too)
Boils some water and put it in a cup, take a quater bit of a teaspoon of Vick vapor rub and melt it into the water. Add a little rosemary to cut the WHOA effect and toss your head over the cup with or without a towel (personally i don't like throwing a towel over my head for this when it's already pounding enough as is) and breathe. This stuff clears up my eyeballs too boot LoL
Hope it helps with any future colds
-A new reader via Violent Acres,
She's in my art history class! My favorite class, and she has to go and ruin it because the room is too cold, or the blinds are down too far, or we need to take a break so that she can get coffee. Also, she's has a French accent, so she sounds extra snooty when she is telling us all how much better she is than us. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has one of them!
E-mail me!!! That woman is in my class right now! lol
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The Raiders are one day away from boarding a plane for Atlanta in advance of their game against the Falcons on Sunday. This time, they are hopeful of faring better than they did the first two times they left the friendly confines of the Oakland Coliseum.
In the first road game, the Raiders led the Miami Dolphins 10-7 at halftime, only to watch the Dolphins outscore them 28-3 in the second half. The Denver Broncos scored all 27 points in the second half in turning a 10-6 lead into a rout.
"We have to do a better job coming out after halftime and establishing something, whether that be offense, defense or in the kicking game," Raiders coach Dennis Allen said.
The biggest culprit is the way the Raiders performed on third-down plays in both games, Allen said.
"When you don't get off the field on third down on defense, you play a lot of plays. When you play a lot of plays, you get tired, you get worn down. Then, offensively we've got to find ways in the second half to sustain drives and that will help our defense."
Defensive tackle Richard Seymour said he wishes he had the answers as to why the Raiders played well in the first half of the team's first two road games and so poorly in the second half.
"In the first half of games, we've definitely been right where we needed to be," Seymour said. "It's still a ball game. The second half, we haven't come out and executed as well."
The Raiders worked hard on finding out ways to carry the momentum from the first half of road games into the second half, Seymour said.
"If I knew all of it, I would definitely pass the word along to my teammates and we would get it done," Seymour said. "That's some of the things we're working through at this point. As a player, you have to look yourself in the mirror, first and foremost, and say, 'I have to do a better job,' and everyone has to take that same approach."
— Allen said he is hopeful of seeing defensive end Andre Carter make his Raiders deubt on Sunday. However, he isn't certain if that's going to happen just yet.
"He's getting closer every day," Allen said. "He's had 2 ½ weeks of work getting back into football shape. (Wednesday) was the first time he actually practiced in pads. I'm getting more comfortable with where he's at."
Carter said he's ready to roll. It says here, the Raiders use Carter sparingly, predominantly on third-down passing downs or obvious passing situations.
— Allen, defensive coordinator Jason Tarver and offensive coordinator Greg Knapp are fond of talking about the need for more explosive plays on offense and cutting down on the number of such plays defensively.
The so-called "explosive plays" are runs of 12 yards or longer and passes of 16 yards or longer.
Through four games, the Raiders defense allowed 34 explosive plays — 25 passes, 9 runs. Three in each category resulted in touchdowns.
The Raiders offense amassed 26 explosive plays during the same games — 22 passes, 4 runs. Two of those plays resulted in touchdowns, both on runs.
— Knapp said he is confident that the Raiders run game is on the verge of breaking out, and it has more to do with the way the players are looking in practice than the fact the Falcons allow an average of 5.4 yards rushing through five games.
Allen sounded just as confident, when asked a day earlier about the status of the run game.
"It's more from our self-examination," Knapp said. "We've done a good job of really diagnosing, OK, what are our strengths and weaknesses in the run game? What should we do more of in our strengths?
"And then having two weeks of practice, we had two good days during the bye week and the bonus day on Monday, of our line working together and really doing a fine job. So I'm excited. I'm looking forward to it to see the results of the good work that's been put in."
Right offensive tackle Willie Smith said he and his linemates are looking forward to an offense geared more toward the run.
"Any lineman, you would love to run the ball," Smith said. "Definitely we should run the ball more. Hopefully we'll do that. I don't know what the game plan is, but just keep working and whatever they call be ready to go out and perform it."
Running back Darren McFadden is champing at the bit hearing about the call for more runs from quarterback Carson Palmer.
"Oh, yeah, I'm always up for that," McFadden said. "You want to put it in my hands more, I'm loving it. It's something a running back likes — the more carries, the better the chances are of getting big runs."
— Defensive tackle Tommy Kelly missed practice today with a foot injury he suffered in practice a day earlier. Allen doesn't seem too concernd about the severity of the injury.
"We chose to keep him out today," Allen said. "I fully anticipate that he'll practice tomorrow and be OK to play. But, again, we'll evaluate that tomorrow and see where we're at. He seems to think he's going to be alright."


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I think it becomes time to write about great loli Anime's.
Anime's which are certainly just for loli, series with just one loli character and the rest extreme characters and Anime's with mixed characters nya.
I begin with the Anime with the for me hottest loli character, Chika Itoh from Ichigo Mashimaro desu yo~
I love Chika!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She is the cutest boyish girl character for me and no other character can displace her nyan~
Oh Jun, I want to kiss Chika!!!!!!!!! I am not able to do this, but good that exist other annoying cute loli who do that for me desu yo~
Horny……ehh I mean honestly, I should change now the Anime before I get a too ecchi lolicon by boyish girl.
Okay, now it comes Popotan.
Honestly scenes and flat chest nipples to the same time, that can just Popotan nyan~
I must show you one of many delicous Mii pantsu shots desu yo~
The world needs more fetishs. Why doesn't can everyone find that hot, swimsuite with loli backpack nya?
For me is it not an option to forget Unagi!!!!!!!!!!!! Hano hano~ Satiro loves Unagi hano~
After 10000 used tissues for nosebleeding, I change to the next Anime, Kodomo no Jikan!
Oh yeah, Rin and Kuro-chan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's very hot yuri!!! And I like Kuro-chan's bottom a lot!
If you believe it or not, this is a normal scene in the 1st OVA and it is not a pervert scene. But if I stop there and make a screenshot…….it looks like, as would Reiji anything from Rin……. and Rin does looks greedy nyan…..
I am though a bit sad, that Kojikan is not a Anime where aren't nipples, but the ecchi scenes are though very hot!!! Hot because of this great flat chests, which are very very loli like…..
The next is Nurse Witch Komugi-chan nya!!
Sleepy Komugi-chan in the morning is a good reason to get up. Every morning a Komugi-chan would mean every morning wake up with a smile of moeness desu yo~
Komugi-chan as ghost, mega moe!!!!!! And she has a free shoulder, very hot!!!!!!
Other cute second character loli by taking a bath in Onsen nyan. Together with other female characters, but those characters are currently not interesting nyan. Just Komugi-chan and the other loli desu yo~
She's so cute, so little and soft.
Magical pantsu nurse, nyahahaha. I love her kemono mimi here nyan.
Anyways, Komugi-chan is my favorite idol loli character nyan.
The next is Moetan. In Japanese TV would never showed the 6th episode and I make the screenshots there. nyahaha
Yay, Ink has a nice loli bottom nyan. It does red shining and is so cute!
My favorite pantsu scene in Moetan desu yo~ It is perfect….
One scene more why this episode never came in the Japanese TV nyan.
I must say, my nosebleed can't stop, equal what I'll post as next…
Rizelmine, they tried to hide extreme nipples and from the half of the series on, nipples will be showed nyan.
Rizel, uber moe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cute chibi Rizel and explosions after it are important elements on this Anime desu yo~
Rizel in swimsuite and what's to see? Yeah, mosquito bites, not more and that's very cute!
Still a normal Anime….
The last thing from Rizel must be a Pantsu shot nyan.
The next is Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.
Random pantsu by Nanoha, I love it!
The transformations are the most delicious transformations in all Anime's nyan.
Ippai, but actually she is like an operation with an flat iron, but though hot desu yo~
Enough from Nanoha for now and now it comes Maka Senki Disgaea. Flonne is actaully too you for loli and Etna would be too old for loli, but they are both very hot loli!
Cute little sister loli while the story.
The artwork is sometimes a bit weird, but I love those characters!
Etna is akuma loli, uber moe!!!!!!
And then my favorite scene with Flonne, she has very cute shoulders nyan. She takes a bath in front of everyone. She is too young to have sense of shame desu yo~
The final Anime is Magical Pokaan nyan.
Loli does look on other loli's flat chest~
To Pachira I must not say anything, but Shino, you shall hype her in your comment!!!!!!!!
Pantsu and Pantsu!
And as the last thing I want to show, great loli ecchi pictures I own nyan.
So, now I used the complete day for this post I am tired but happy nyan.
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I bullied at school when I was junior high school. I dunno know why people around me can be so wicked like that just because I'm a little bit poor people than the others. I think, people awarness should be increase, both teacher and students.
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I bullied at school when I was junior high school. I dunno know why people around me can be so wicked like that just because I'm a little bit poor people than the others. I think, people awarness should be increase, both teacher and students.
Hi Mihael,
Sorry to hear that you were bullied - we hope you were able to get some help at the time. We completely agree, everyone's awareness needs to be raised about this issue!
Best wishes,
LearnEnglish Teens team
In my city having a decreasing rate of school bullying . 10 years ago My city having a increasing rate of school bullying . Teacher pay more attention to aware a issue in the school .as a result school bullying issue in school is decreasing right now .
Basically , In school bullying is common especially physical ,verbal problems. I and a friend of mine had bullying in school . Teacher do not aware what happened after school of between class. I'm very disappointed for issue and It is misery continue for me .
People around me doesn't aware of issue ,because they think next bullying is me .
Nowadays, bullying is a global problem and, Colombia isn't out of this issue. Here, bullying has increased exponentially in the last years. We can see this behavior principally in the schools, between partners and, sometimes among teacher and student. In our country, we have had some cases of suicide of kids and teenagers because of the bullying. Some programs to prevent bullying has been created but it hasn't been enough. In my opinion, this problem must be attacked from a general perspective. The programs to prevent and avoid bullying have to involve all the actors of the situation, the family, the students, and teachers. We should realize the psychological problems that can suffer who are submitted to bullying and, we should learn to respect all people and treat them in the same way we would like to be treated.
I think a main point to write correctly depends on the accurate use of linkers. They introduce sentences as well as separate ideas.
With regard to bullying, it really means a quite hard and difficult experience. Children or teenagers who suffer it must receive support from teachers, parents and mates
I think this exercises are very useful.
You know what? One of the best ways to get rid of the bully is to ....
show them bully dance!
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A few of my classmates got bullied by 2 boys and they complained of the boys last year.
This year, my friend got bullied by one of the two boys. In my opinion, I think bullying is bad for international schools or others and
The key is to stop the bullying, I think that We support the people who got bullied, respect and love each other.
Teachers should be aware of stopping the bullying in schools or their classes.
Hi Genius_Girl. It's sad to hear about the bullying in your school. But it sounds like you're responding in a really supportive way for your friends. You're right that teachers can help!
Jonathan (LearnEnglish Teens Team)
Bulling takes place where people feel stressed more or less.
Sometimes I come across people who are apparently impatient to bully someone just to work off. In such a case, I just keep off!
I don't feel I'm coward, but I feel poud, because I don't have to laugh the bully in their face! ;)))
In my school , there is a lot of bullying. But I doesn't get it ! Why are people bullying ? Only they have a another religion or another skin color. This is a very weird situation. I think people must realize what bullying is. And people must respect each other. That is the key to stop bullying.
Greetings, Greatest123
I don't have notice bulling in my school.Except one day that a boy made a comment about a girl's letter.He didn't want to hurt her but you can't be sure about how other people understand what you say.Bullying has to be stopped and I agree that teachers can do more about it.But I think that a person that has been bullied,has to ignore bullies.Talking to someone might help a lot.
Bullying is also common at my school,I think the reason why are people bullying at my school is the difference.People have different styles, different labels of shoes and many thinks like that.
I had been bullet at my school for once by some girls,The girls we're year 8 and I am year 11 .I did not want to argue with them to make it worse ,and also because they are younger,So I goes to my head of year and had told him everything what just happens.
My head of year sorted everything for my. Now I am grateful to my head of year that's I did not had to deal with it alone . My advice is, If anyone any where any time and any age is bullying you tell that to the person you trust to and ask for help .It has not to end badly .After the storm comes the sun.
Hi Chujsajeny,
Thanks for your comment. I was sorry to hear that you've been bullied but it's great that you told the head of year and that it has been sorted out. That's really good advice to share with other readers.
Best wishes, Jo (LearnEnglish Teens Team)
Bylling is a serious problem in my school. There are many student who call other students name,or others that try to put somebody in conflict. They find it like a game,but they don't know how that have effected in the psychology or self-confidence. I think that teachers should be more strict with this problem and should try to solve the problem and inform the parents of both bullied and bullies students. However,even we should do something to make the bullied to feel better. We can stay with them and help them to pass this difficult situations. If we all were against the bylling,then I think the byllies wouldn't repeat this behaviuor. Bylling is a nigtmare,as is written in the end of the magazine,so we should get up immiedately.(in figurative way)
Hi sona,
Thank you for your message. It's good to hear that you find ways to help people who are being bullied. I'm really sorry to read that it's such a serious problem in your school. Could you find a teacher that you like and trust and tell him or her some of the examples of bullying that are aware of. It would be good to get one of the teachers to see the situation from your point of view and to realise how serious the problem is.
Best wishes, Jo (LearnEnglish Teens Team)
I think bullying isn't OK! We've talked about it a lot on our English lessons and I have also seen some bullying in my school. Bullies are pathetic and all you have to do is to ignore them!
May I have a question? Is it OK for us to write "Another thing teachers could do is prepare lessons." I mean, is and prepare are both verbs, and can they come together? Because what I've been taught is that "is to prepare" or "is preparing". I'm so confused :(
Thanks in advance.
Hi Lavender. This is quite a difficult question but let me try to explain. The sentence is trying to emphasise the verb 'prepare'. (In comparison, Preparing anti-bullying lessons is another thing teachers could do - 'preparing' is less emphasised because it's at the beginning of the sentence.)
There are many sentence beginnings like this.
After all these, put the verb we want to emphasise. It can be with 'to' or without it.
We can also put a noun there instead of the verb. That's why it's also ok to say the sentence below (because the -ing form functions as a noun).
Does that make sense? :)
Jonathan (LearnEnglish Teens Team)
Thank you Lavender, that was a good question! And thank you, Jonathan for the sensible answer! Now I really realize that language is a creature!! :))
I'll study harder and would like to try to ask a question even it seems to be a minor detail…!
Really though, where I live there are no bullies, but at school there are lots of bullies.Every day they just hit us,insult us on the Internet,even when I am in the holiday, they still not give me a break. For real, I would say that at school, if there are bullies,just kick them out of the school
Hi Tony2003. I'm so sorry to hear that. :( That is completely wrong and unacceptable. Have you taken any action yet? This must be very upsetting for you but it may need some action from you to put a stop to it.
Tell an adult who you trust that you are being bullied. It could be a teacher or a family member.
You have had some bullying online, so protect yourself. If you use email, Facebook or some other app, you can block bullies so they can't contact you anymore. Don't share any photos, videos or messages outside your trusted friends.
I know it's painful to look at insults on the internet. But, don't delete them and don't reply to them. Save a copy of them because you may need to give them to somebody like a teacher as evidence of the bullying. Then they can take action to stop it.
This must be a terrible time for you but I really encourage you to be strong and follow this advice to keep yourself safe. Best wishes,
Jonathan (LearnEnglish Teens Team)
I have been bullied at my old school. I don´t know why, they where calling me names it wasn´t much but i was sad because they where doing that. and when the bullies moved to another school som stupid boy started to bullie my little sister. and they where trying to scare her and said thing to her...
Is internet going to become our real life?
Internet addiction is real problem nowadays. We use it everyday. When we just get up we go to check our e-mails, social networks etc. We even use it when we're in public transport. Of course it's good when we use it to get some information or for work and study. But bad thing is that we often try to make our time go faster by playing stupid games or just surfing internet for no reason. It's completely wasting of time.
What's wrong with us? Why is it so? The answer everyone can find out be checking own life out. In my opinion, the most common reason of internet addiction is our laziness. We think it's much more easier to do our life just in front of PC using internet. We play sport games and think "Wow I'm good at tennis! I won last game!". We even become happy when we get some virtual points or virtual gifts like "gold cube" in out screens. In this ways we just lie to ourselves and try to avoid real competition, to avoid real life.
Obviously, it's big problem especially for young people. What can we do to solve this problem? Personally, I think our relatives and teachers have to involve children and pupils in real active life such as different kinds of sport, camping, interesting school's journey etc. It'll open entire world for young people full of interesting things to do. Even simple conversation between schoolmates the same age will definitely make them happier than typing messages in front of screen.
Hopefully, one day more pupils and adults will use every opportunity to be a part of real life than now.
Hi kyvalda
thank you for this comment . I agree with you for all what you said. Unfortunately, internet becomes a very special and serious thing in our lives and it Seized our lives . AND We have to do something to involve this problem for our teens and children . Personally I think that parent have to control their children well and talk with them in this subject with a responsive method which can help them to stay away or we can say use internet rationally.
Wow! Your essay is quite fantastic! :)
Wow, great wrting with good observation, although it seems as if you had used to....!?
Afriend of mine have been bullied . Obviously this problem affected his performance in school and they was hate go to school.
there some teachers dont deal strictly with bulling so it get more and more.
I still haven't notices bullying in my school or around.
As first we have to respect ourselves. We all get mean words, even and we use it. Sometimes that is a joke, but other don't feel those words like we do.
Usually, people who are bullying make suicide. Many of them do it because they think that none understands them. Unfortunately, that is true. In my opinion if someone is bullied, that person should go to some psychiatrist. Also, there is some families who don't have money. If you don't have you can go somewhere and find some strange person and talk to the person. It's easier to talk about your problems to some stranger, than to talk to someone you know and doesn't care about it.
If I was bullied I'd what I just said. :)
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Marie Kessler loves to quilt. If she had her way, she would quilt 24/7 — and she almost does.
However, on March 12 she took time off from Kessler Kreations in Hillsboro to go to Topeka with her husband, Lynn, and a group of other 2013 Kansas Small Business Development award winners.
"I never dreamed my business would get to be this big," Kessler said. "My success has to be a God thing because I never even thought I would do something like this."
Kessler once dreamed of being a writer, but work experiences at AGCO, Ratzlaff Draperies, and Odds 'n' Ends prepared her for a career of quilting and sewing that she accepts as her life work.
"When I worked at AGCO I met a lady, who is still my dear friend, and we started doing some crafts together," Kessler said. "I remember her saying it would be so cool if someday we could own a quilt store, and now I do. I've learned that if you can sew, you can do almost anything."
Financing an expanding business, based on sewing and quilting, 18 months ago was not an easy undertaking but somehow Kessler made it work.
"My banker flat-out told me I would never be able to make it with the expenses I had projected," she said. "He was pretty much right, but I had the help of the South Central Kansas Economic Development District, and without them I never would have gotten this far."
Kessler said Hillsboro Economic Director Clint Seibel helped her get on board with SCKEDD, and helped her see how her business success was beneficial to Hillsboro and the broader community.
"This year I am going to be part of a South Central Shop Hop in October," Kessler said. "The ladies that will come here to shop for quilt fabric and block kits will also be stopping somewhere to eat, they might need fuel, and most likely will check out the local antique stores too. It's all part of bringing business to town that leads to success for all of us."
Kessler said that, even with help from business development groups, paying the bills at the end of every month was still a struggle.
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Kessler said winning the 2013 Existing Business of the Year award from KSBDC has already opened up new doors for her in marketing.
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