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Girlfriends ignored in World Cup mania

Many female college students seem to have a love-hate relationship with the ongoing 2010 FIFA World Cup.

They say male classmates are so obsessed with the World Cup that they overlook their girlfriends.

Eager to watch the opening ceremony on June 11, law student Li Ou at Neijiang Normal University in Sichuan Province urged his girlfriend Wang Xue to wow power leveling, hurry up and finish dinner that evening so he could race back to the TV set.

Wang was upset that her boyfriend left wow power leveling with only an apology. When the ceremony was over, Li felt guilty and tried to apologize to her. Wang didn't accept his explanation, shouting, "Do you want to stay with football for the rest of your life!"

Just like Wang, many female students hate the World Cup because their boyfriends are so absorbed in the soccer matches that their girlfriends feel totally ignored.

A college blogger calling aion kinah, herself Zhong Heyong wrote an article on qq.com titled, A letter to the World Cup: No.1 Rival in Love for Female College Students.

The letter expressed the student's jealousy of the World Cup in aion kinah the rivalry for her affection. "Why do you, World Cup, let me witness this intimacy between you and my boyfriend? From high school to the third year in college, he looks forward to you and is prouder of you than me."

She poured out replica rolex, her disappointment with her boyfriend, saying that her heart was broken because after being with him four years, she couldn't compete with a football.

At the end of the letter, the author surrenders to replica rolex the World Cup but still hopes her boyfriend will love her forever.

"I totally lose. I present my boyfriend the World Cup. I hope it will give him amazing memories and hope he will get tired of it after a while. Then he will love me again forever."

To avoid his girl friend when the games are in progress, a freshman at Wenhua College, Huazhong University of Science cheap aion kinah and Technology in Wuhan, Hubei Province set down 10 rules for his girlfriend.

The regulations stipulated the times they could hang out, date, or even pick up the phone when the World Cup is on TV.

One of the regulations cheap aion kinah, said, "Football matches are my life. We can't hang out, have dinner or call each other when I'm watching the World Cup. We must cancel all kinds of entertainment."

The telecommunication freshman, Zhu Xiaofeng, said he wrote the rules for fear of quarreling with his girl friend, Wang Xiaoxiao, when the games are under way.

"So I set the regulations for the purpose of enjoying the World Cup and reminding my girlfriend in advance," Zhu said.

Wang surrendered and agreed to obey the rules.

"The World Cup is once every four years. Compared to the time we are together, it's a small percentage. I should permit several days' leave for my boyfriend to watch the match," she said.

Meanwhile, the World Cup has inspired a new kind of dating game. Some single female students make full use of male fascination with football to hunt for a partner.

Xiao Dou, a female student at maple story mesos, the School of Foreign Language, Neijing Normal University, is a soccer fan. She asked a young man whom she recently met to send her chocolates. She explained that she needed something sweet to eat while watching the matches at night.

As a reward, Xiao Dou maple story mesos invited the young man to watch the World Cup with her.

A short while later, they announced to the world that they were falling in love.



History and sex in the city

Tongli is located on the outskirts of Suzhou, just 40 minutes from downtown, and like Suzhou, it has several lush gardens featuring traditional Chinese architecture and horticulture. Tongli's most prominent garden is the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911AD) Tuisi Garden. In Chinese, the word tuisi means "retreat" and "reflection," so, as expected, the garden boasts a number of pagodas and towers perched above a large goldfish pond, ideal for facilitating contemplation. While the hordes of tourists milling about may detract from this purpose, the views are cabal alz, pleasant, and lingering in the quieter spots still leaves time for thought. In the Gathering Beauty Pavilion, designed for observing the moonlight, one can ponder the meaning of poems written in ancient Chinese about the differing nature of rocks high on the mountainside and those deep under water.

Pearl's a singer

Those tired of seeking inspiration in the nooks of gardens can choose to watch a performance of traditional Wuxi opera staged during weekends and holidays from 10 am to 11:30 am and 3 pm to 4 pm. These shows re-enact various scenes from The Pearl Pagoda, a melodrama once serialized on Chinese television cabal alz and which details the love affair between Fang Qing and Chen Cui'e. So the story goes, Fang wished to marry Chen, but didn't have the money or status required to win her family's approval. In order to improve his chances, Fang hoped to take the imperial examination, but didn't have enough money to travel in order to do so. To help Fang, Chen wrapped a miniature tower made of pearls in a box of sweets for his trip. Today, travelers to Tongli can still see the compound where Chen lived, and the Pearl Pagoda where she allegedly gave Fang the treasure that funded his journey.

Red-hot Chile favorites despite our rout of Spain, says Swiss coach Hitzfeld

Chile will start as favorites against Switzerland in today's World Cup Group H match, Swiss coach Ottmar Hitzfeld said.

The 61-year-old German - one of only three coaches to have won the Champions League with two different clubs - said that despite his side having beaten European champions Spain 1-0 in their opening match they did not merit being favorites.

Hitzfeld based his World of Warcraft power leveling, claim on Chile's opening 1-0 win over Honduras and their qualifying campaign.

"Switzerland are not favorites, it will be Chile," said Hitzfeld, who World of Warcraft power leveling won the Champions League with Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich.

"This team really impressed me, firstly in qua l i f y ing . Not many teams end up finishing above Argentina."

"Against Honduras, the Chileans were unbelievable and they could have 3-0 or 4-0 instead of 1-0. They are a solid unit, with very fast players."

Hitzfeld said he expected last chaos gold, a more complicated match than against the Spanish where a second-half goal by Gelson Fernandes accounted for the tournament favorites last chaos gold.

"It will be above all more difficult on the mental front. It is imperative that we are totally focused."

"In terms of strategy, we will have to be even more compact than we were against Spain."

"The victory against Spain was an extraordinary moment but will be pointless if we fail to reach the second round."

Hitzfeld, whose contract runs till 2012 and has hinted he would not return to club management, said that he had been hugely proud of his aoc power leveling, players, who grabbed the win despite the absence of two of their most influential players in striker Alexander Frei and West Ham midfielder Valon Behrami.

"They were utterly fantastic, surpassing themselves. If we aoc power leveling look at the statistics, they ran a total of 120 kilometers to the 115 covered by the Spaniards," said Hitzfeld. "There has been no sense of euphoria among us. We took three points against Spain."

"It is the type of present that one doesn't expect. Nothing is decided in this group. But we have nevertheless a real chance to finish top of the group, which would give us an extra day's rest before the second round," he said.

Switzerland, twice quarterfinalists, round off their group matches against Honduras in Bloemfontein on Friday.


Rommedahl flies high over lopsided Cameroon

Samuel Eto'o was left speechless on Sunday when Cameroon, arguably one of Africa's strongest sides, became the first team to crash out of the aoc power leveling, group stage in the tournament after 90 minutes of open, exciting and frantic football.

The African lions bounced back from a passionless first match against the Netherlands by opting for a more aggressive 4-3-1-2 formation, with Achilles Emana playing behind Eto'o aoc power leveling and Pierre Webo, while fullback Geremi supported Alexander Song and Eyong Enoh to their right-hand side - but left back Benoit Assou-Ekotto was left alone.

The shape worked well early on as Cameroon totally dominated the central midfield, allowing Eto'o and Webo to continually make good runs behind the Danish backline.

Cameroon were pressing much better than in their first match and Eto'o deservedly gave his team the lead in the 10th minute when he slotted home after Emana intercepted Christian Poulsen's careless pass and squared the ball to the Inter marksman.

Denmark, who lost to the Dutch 2-0 five days earlier, had no choice but to bounce back immediately. Unlike their African counterparts, the Danish side, playing with a 4-2-3-1 formation, chose to exploit both flanks with their lightning-quick wingers. When Jesper Cronkjaer found Final Fantasy XI GIL, himself no space on the overcrowded left side, the natural next step for the Danish players was to switch the ball diagonally to the right, where Dannis Rommedahl was facing the isolated Assou-Ekotto.

And that decision changed the outcome of the match.

The weak point of Cameroon's lopsided shape was all too clear and the quicker Denmark put the ball there. A 60-yard lob from Simon Kjaer found Rommedahl and the Ajax winger then Final Fantasy XI GIL skipped past Assou-Ekotto before setting up Nicklas Bendtner for the equalizing goal midway through the first half.

Denmark punished Cameroon in the same way 15 minutes after the break when Rommedahl found space again in his area. This time he was up against aion kinah, substitute John II Makoun, when Assou-Ekotto was pushing deep to join the attack. The on-form player easily cut inside and curled a superb goal into the far corner.

A passionless first match and a tactical blunder in the second dented Eto'o aion kinah and Cameroon's hope of reaching the last 16. You are never going to progress far if you expose your weakness so clearly to your opponents and they were unable to change after being out-minded for long.

Denmark showed their tactical flexibility in this match, placing veterans Gronkjaer and Jon Dahl Tomasson behind frontline and outplayed opponents on the right flank after conceding an early goal. The Danes are now given another must-win task in their last group game against Japan, who enjoy a goal-difference advantage to stay second in Group E.

Poles vote for new leader

Poland kicked off its general election Sunday as the Central European country remains traumatized by the loss of its former president and high-ranking officials in an April plane crash in western Russia.

Roughly 30 million Poles headed to 25,774 polling stations nationwide that opened at 6 am Warsaw time (0400 GMT) and closed at 8 pm (1800 GMT).

The United States was the earliest among 263 voting areas set up overseas.

The latest opinion poll indicated replica sunglasses, that Bronislaw Komorowski, 58, the acting president and former defense minister, who represents the pro-EU Civic Platform (PO), held a safe lead among replica sunglasses the 10 candidates, with support from 56 percent of those polled.

His archrival, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, 61, the twin brother of the late president Lech Kaczynski and the former prime minister heading the largest opposition Law and Justice Party (PiS), was in second with 33 percent of voters.

Li Jun, an aoc gold, expert on Poland at the Institute of European Studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, was optimistic about the prospects for the PO.

"The PO pursues moderate aoc gold and pragmatic policies, and stresses a balance between the West and Russia. Whereas, the PiS is relatively conservative, it has ties with both the EU and Russia, and lacks grass-root sbacking," Li said Sunday.

The PO trounced the PiS in the 2007 election.

None of the rival parties, mired in power wrangling since 2005, could secure 50 percent of the vote for an outright win, and the two aforementioned groups are expected to vie for power in a July 4 runoff, according to analysts.

"The two major parties represent different interest blocs. The PO primarily fights for the interests of the working class, while the PiS age of conan power leveling, represents middle and upper echelons," He Maochun, director of the Research Center for Economic Diplomacy Studies at Tsinghua University, told the Global Times age of conan power leveling.

Colombians go to the polls

Voters in Colombia went to the polls Sunday to elect a successor to popular conservative President Alvaro Uribe, with his choice, ex-defense minister Juan Manuel Santos, heavily favored to win.

Uribe served two consecutive terms, from 2002. But the constitutional court rejected his bid to seek a third term. That has helped rally his aion gold, sup-porters around Santos, who is representing the conservative Social National Unity party.

The conservative, a staunch US ally, leaves power with an approval rating of more than 70 percent, largely on aion gold the back of his tough "democratic security" policies that have aggressively taken on the leftist insurgencies that have destabilized the country for more than four decades.

At 57, Uribe remains hugely popular among Colombians, whom he has urged to "keep (Colombia) on course" by keeping in place "democratic security" measures while encouraging foreign investment.

Thus, Santos' goal has been made very clear: In his own words, "to keep in place the legacy of Uribe, the best president Colombia has had."

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And on the route to the runoff, Santos has locked up the support of the Conservative Party and right-wing Radical Change, both part of Uribe's ruling coalition.

Polls forecast he will draw more than 60 percent of the votes, compared with about 28 percent for Mockus.




China raises emergency response level for floods

China's disaster relief departments raised the emergency response to level-three from level-four Saturday morning for the floods that have hit southern China, as authorities forecast more rain to fall over coming days.

The Civil Affairs Ministry dog clothes, and the State Disaster Relief Commission made the decision.

As of 10:00 a.m. Saturday, downpours that began pounding southern China Sunday had left 88 people dead, 48 missing, and forced the evacuation of 757,000 residents from their homes, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said dog clothes in a statement.

About 9.27 million people in Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guizhou and Sichuan were affected by the heavy rains, the ministry said.

Direct economic losses caused by the heavy rains have topped 10 billion yuan (about 1.46 billion US dollars).

The State Council has dispatched work teams to the floods-affected areas in Fujian to guide the disaster relief work. The team is being led by Vice Civil Affairs Minister Sun Shaocheng and consists of officials from seven ministries.

Also on Saturday, the National Meteorological Center reiterated the rainstorm orange alert - the second-highest level - it issued Friday, warning that more rains and very possibly heavy rainstorms are likely to hit southern China over coming days.

Valuable calligraphy works 'lost' by officials

A Chinese man who donated valuable calligraphy works to the public in northwest Shannxi Province in the 1980s has alleged that authorities now illegally possess the works that he estimates are worth some 40 million yuan ($5.8 million).

Zhuo Deng, 62, handed a total of 122 pieces of a renowned calligrapher's works to the local committee of the country's political advisory body in dog clothes, Xianyang city in 1986, in the belief that they would be assured better preservation.

Zhuo inherited the works from his father, who served as dog clothes chief security guard of Yu Youren, a renowned calligraphist and writer, and who left the 122 calligraphy works to Zhuo's father before moving to Taiwan in 1945.

In a seperate case, in an auction held in Beijing by the China Guardian Auction Corporation last month, another 138 items of Yu's calligraphy works were sold for around 45 million yuan, a reminder for Zhuo of how valuable the works are.

"I estimated my donation would be worth some 40 million yuan," Zhuo told the Global Times Sunday.

"Many of Yu's cheap aion kinah, items were damaged during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), and the 122 pieces he donated include a well-known 'thousand-word calligraphy work,' and which were saved because they were well kept in cheap aion kinah a secret cabinet in my mother's home," Zhuo said.

Despite a certificate of donation with details of each of the calligraphy works he donated, Zhuo claims that the whereabouts of the items were not clear, as he was informed that the authorities had taken the works away.

A former staff member of the Xianyang committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), speaking on con-dition of anonymity, told the Global Times Sunday that she could confirm Zhuo's donation.

She said the items had replica rolex, been brought to Shenzhen in southern China for public exhibition.

She was told the calligraphy works replica rolex were kept at a cultural center in Sanyuan county, administered by Xianyang city.

Lu Hua, 77, former secretary-general of the Xianyang committee of the CPPCC, also witnessed the donation, according to the Beijing News.

Lu told the paper replica rolex, that some of the works were taken home by staff members and that some suggested he also take some of the items home, but he refused to.

Lu retired in 1992 and had no idea of the relics' whereabouts, and he heard there were replica rolex only about 10 pieces left in the possession of the Xianyang Committee.

Jin Zhizhong, deputy secretary-general of the China Association of Collectors, told the Global Times that there are no specific laws or rules governing the donation of cultural relics by individuals.

"The most important thing is to identify the source of the donations in order to determine whether they are obtained legally," he said.

If the items were not flyff penya, unearthed by the donator himself and came from where he claimed them to have come from, then these donations are legal and valid, he said.

The Xianyang committee promised to flyff penya return 10 calligraphy scripts to Zhuo - but so far, Zhuo said, he hasn't received any. Soon after the donation, Zhuo was offered a job at the committee.

Jin said the recipient of the donation has the responsibility to register the number of donations, appraise and verify the items, valuate donations and issue a certificate to the donor, including the list of donations if they are genuine.

However, Zhuo said none of the above had been carried out by the Xianyang committee, except that he was given a list of the donations he made.

The current chairman of Xiangyang committee, Li Xiaomin, said that since he was newly appointed, he had no idea of the whereabouts of relics donated.

"The authority has maple story mesos, attached importance to this issue, which is investigating this case now," he told the Beijing News maple story mesos on Friday.

China has witnessed a craze for antique collecting in recent years. Television programs on antique collections are also gaining audiences.

More than 900 collections were auctioned off, with the total transaction worth 1.09 billion yuan, at a three-day Beijing Council Spring 2010 auction, which ended June 6.