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Instead, be original. This may also serve you very well in the long run.

If you show something of the genuine you, then there’s no need to pretend at any time in the relationship. Before writing that title, think hard and long about how you perceive yourself and how your mates see you. Try and remember what they assert are your best qualities.

Select the ones you agree with, and then write them down. Remember not to ramble continuously. As for your screen name, the same applies. It can take you some time, but in the end it’ll all be worth it if you truly desire a match. Whether to put a photograph or not? That is the question. Some people tend not to be comfortable with putting their footage on the Internet. The explanation is this : it should not matter what I look like, people should like me for who I am. That is well and good. However, online dating web sites testify to the proven fact that folks who include a flattering photograph in their profiles get replies eight times more than those that don’t.

If you need to get more replies, then have a picture taken from your most flattering angle and include it in your profile.

Emphasise your unique traits. What makes you different? Help the other person understand you a little bit. Contribute detail to the point of avoiding obscurity. It is fine for you to give some private information but desist from being too private. It is not necessarily the greatest idea to start spewing all of the issues and problems that you have been dealing with. Make your expectancies clear. That is just perfect? Is this merely a one night stand or something more secure? Mention what the other person can expect from you too. Talk about your hobbies and things that you want to do with your other half.

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- You have to give the impression that you are positive, affluent, powerful, (and tender in private with her). If you don’t have these characteristics, fake them. Women need to see potential, and the origin of the word potential is the Latin ‘potentia’, meaning power.

– Most crucial: You must not embarrass your escort in public. Women hate to be the centre of attention for the wrong reasons. If you’re play-acting like a little boy or an obnoxious brute you’re using up your credit every second that ticks by.

– Social skills: A man should ideally be gregarious, with a coterie of jovial acquaintances. He ought be able to hold learned discussions on a wide variety of subjects. A man should be observant. He ought to notice when a woman has modified her appearance. He should notice when she is distressed. When called for he should not stay silent, but offer compliments or sympathy. He should, however, also be aware that no knight ever won a fair maiden by being servile. You’re not obliged to tolerate unreasonable behaviour. Don’t take women’s ‘crises’ too seriously. They certainly don’t. One day all is lost, the next day all is well. A strong man holds it all in. A strong woman (or a nutcase!) explodes. Regularly.

– A terrible habit: smoking. If you smoke, you’re cutting yourself off from the company of legions of women. I know the weed is deucedly difficult to kick. The brain craves it. But many women won’t go out with you if you smoke. Apart from the burden on your health, it causes your hair and clothes to smell terrible, and your mouth to taste like an ashtray. Give the filthy habit up, and spend the money you save turning yourself out nicely.

– Don’t over-think it. We are drawn to a certain type, with whom we can make a better baby; more hardy, fitter, brighter, better adjusted to its environs. Other types just don’t click with us, ‘though we can acknowledge intellectually they are attractive. It’s a heart thing, a guts thing, and parts lower down. The head merely gives its acquiescence to a decision already made.

– Professional online dating sites are a better bet. Better yet is a specialist one. You think you’re open to all offers. In fact, in the back of your mind, you have a very specific set of criteria. Bring them to the foreground. Do you like slim or plump, tall or short, blonde or brunette, college-educated or not, extraverted or introvert? It’s smart also to go for people who are of the same faith as you. You might think it’s not crucial now, but when her kinfolk start getting involved in your kid’s rearing, it will matter a very great deal.

– Women want you to like and admire and cherish them. Casanova was successful with women not because he was handsome or exuberant (he was rather plain in looks), but because he truly appreciated them. The archetypical latin lover is very thoughtful and complimentary to his quarry, and treats her like a princess, a donna. He says she is the most gorgeous woman in the world, and means it. Oh, she laughs at this, but see how she shines too. Most men treat women like an alien specie, or objects to be acquired, as s-x toys, or as sullen disordered nuisances. A man that accepts a woman precisely as she is, with authentic admiration, can have any woman he wants.

– Conspicuous consumption shows that you are not tight with your money. Show this by spending some on her, or giving her some! Don’t be a sap, however; if the chemistry ain’t there, on BOTH sides, move on. You can’t pester or bribe a woman into loving you, ‘though they may be reluctant to reject a ’sugar daddy’ entirely. When true love strikes, you’ll both know it; accept no substitute!

I hope these few basic tips will be of some use to you in finding a nice girl via dating online or offline.

About the author: Nicky Svengali is an author for dating service and personal growth internet sites in London, Great Britain.

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NAME: PATRICK CHIA SIEW CHECK

POSITION: MARINE MANAGER

NATIONALITY: MALAYSIAN / PR SINGAPORE

DATE OF BIRTH: 29 AUGUST 1967

QUALIFICATIONS: MASTER MARINER CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCY
DECK OFFICER CLASS 1
ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN MARITIME TRANSPORTATION
COMPANY SECURITY OFFICER
ISM INTERNAL AUDITOR
FLAG STATE INSPECTOR

Experience in: MARINE INDUSTRY
-Carrying out the duties and responsibities as per the Shipboard Management System.
-Complying with STCW 95 convention, IMO – SOLAS, MARPOL, ILL convention, Class requirements during sea service on board the ship. Keeping up-to-date with latest IMO circulars.
-Central planning for optimization of cargo capacity with due regards to stability, most economical bunkering port, IMDG segregation, minimum restows and overstows, keeping vessel’s schedule and liaise closely with terminal planners at all times.
-Carrying out flag state inspections for pre-registry, condition survey, casualty investigation, bunker survey, initial survey for the issuance of interim trading certificates and exemption certificates.
-Carrying out Classification surveys for Hull & machinery on vessels and floating objects.
-Dealing with Port State Control regarding the rectification of deficiencies issued against a ship that was detained due to serious deficiencies.

PREVIOUS COMPANY’S WORK SCOPE

Throughout the term of my employment with ISClass, I was authorised to issue the following certificates to vessels and companies.

§Cargo Gear Certificate
§Cargo Ship Safety Construction Certificate
§Cargo Ship Safety Equipment Certificate
§Cargo Ship Safety Radio Certificate
§Certificate of Fitness – Bulk Cargoes
§Certificate of Fitness – Dangerous Goods
§Certificate of Fitness – Grain In Bulk
§Certificate of Fitness – Solid Bulk Cargo
§International Air Pollution Prevention Certificate
§International Garbage Pollution Prevention Certificate
§International Load Line Certificate
§International Oil Pollution Prevention Certificate
§International Sewage Pollution Prevention Certificate
§International Ship Security Certificate
§International Tonnage Certificate
§National Tonnage Certificate
§Safety Management Certificate
§Seaworthiness Certificate

Carried out various surveys and audits.

§Annual Audit
§Annual Survey
§Classification Survey
§Docking Survey
§Initial Audit
§Initial Survey
§Intermediate Audit
§Intermediate Survey
§Pre-registration Survey
§Renewal Audit
§Renewal Survey
§Statutory Survey

I was recognized for my efforts and was selected to be the overall in charge of the Marine Services Department and the Marine Management Systems Department. My responsibilities are mentioned below.

Marine Management Systems Department Head
§Act as internal quality auditor (if required)
§Attend to ship-owners’ enquiries for vessel’s audits
§Conduct of shipboard and company audits
§Conduct safety / security investigation with relevant Flag Authority
§Monitoring of customer complaints and feedback
§Plan with auditors on ISM / ISPS matters and Flag State Inspections
§Review and approve ship’s safety management manuals and ship security plans
§Review qualifications of outsourced / non-exclusive auditors
§Support the Management Representative (MR) in ISO 9001 implementation

Marine Services Department Head
§Act as internal auditor (if required)
§Assist in developing new business opportunities
§Attend to customers’ enquiries and job quotations
§Conduct accident investigation with relevant Flag Authority
§Conducting of courses such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, ISO 7799, ISM, ISPS, etc.
§Handle customer complaints and feedback
§Liaise on training matters with government agencies, training institutions, etc.
§Manage marine related projects
§Management of courses such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, ISO 7799, ISM, ISPS, etc.
§Marketing and sale of marine services
§Marketing of courses such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, ISO 7799, ISM, ISPS, etc.
§Support the Management Representative (MR) in ISO 9001 implementation

Try contacting some of the marine survey companies and ask what their requirements are. You should be able to get their information on line.Also try Boat US.Marine insurance companies require certain companies do the surveys, so check with marine insurance companies.

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For many, the start of a new year means the start of a new job search using the internet to research employers. For up coming college graduates in particular, it is opportunity to get a head start in getting their careers off the ground using online resources. At the same time, many employers are also researching potential job candidates through Google, Myspace.com and Facebook.com and what they are finding could be used as reasons not to hire you.

A recent poll conducted for Careerbuilder.com showed that 26 percent of hiring managers admitted to using the Internet to perform background checks on job candidates. A further 12 percent admitted to using social networking sites such as MySpace.com and Facebook.com as a screening tool.

For many college students, social networking sites such as Facebook.com and Myspace.com are a core part of their cyber profile used for networking. However, many students are surprised to learn that their candid and sometimes sexually explicit photos and the details of their drinking and dating lives in their profiles can negatively affect their job search. Those disparaging comments, risqué photos, inappropriate language and lewd jokes posted on their profiles could be viewed as a reflection of their character by a potential employer.

According to an HR director, people should carefully consider their potential audience and the impression they may have based on your pictures, personal opinions, and ideas posted online. “We were in the process of extending an offer to a great candidate, until his myspace.com page was brought to our attention. He had a great resume, went to an elite school and had impeccable references. However, our review of his myspace profile highlighted his recreational drug use. This made us immediately reconsider hiring him,” says an HR Director for a financial services company in Toronto, Ontario. “Our company is very conscious of client relations and our public image and we could not risk this candidate’s background being taken as a reflection of our organization. “

A recent poll of Resume Solutions student clients showed that over 60% of the respondents were unaware that their profiles on social networking websites could be viewed by potential employers. This is surprising, despite the increased media attention focused on employers reviewing Myspace and Facebook prior to making hiring decisions.

Prior to starting a new job search, it is recommended that job seekers perform a Google search on their names to find out what a potential employer may read or see about them online. If any questionable content is discovered, content you would not feel comfortable if an employer or your parents view, then request that the site’s webmaster remove it immediately. Questionable content may include nude photos, slanderous comments or photographs that show you in inappropriate situations. Keep in mind you may encounter resistance in getting the content removed, however, you can let them know that they may be affecting your future job prospects and you may have no choice but to seek legal recourse. For that information, that you absolutely cannot have removed due to lack of control, construct a plausible answer to counter or explain away to a hiring manager.

We are not advocating that social networking sites are to be used solely for job searching or building a web portfolio of your resume and job skills, but it makes sense to remove as much of the negative content about yourself as is possible. You should be smart and discreet in your online communications and consider creating private profiles for just your family members and friends.

There are many ways to create a “positive cyber profile” that does not affect your career prospects. College students can create personal web pages and profiles at social networking sites that include their resumes, hobbies and interests, details on leadership activities or academic successes. You can also include photos of yourself but ensure they do not include explicit materials. Job seekers can use their online profiles to demonstrate their excellent communication skills, establish a professional image of themselves prior to an in-person meeting, demonstrate their creativity and diverse interest – things that can set them apart from other job seekers.

As more and more users flock to social networking sites, the affect these sites have on the job search and candidate screening may include employers going even deeper into candidate’s personal and professional lives. It is therefore advisable to put nothing online that have the potential to hurt your future job prospects and include anything that would help you in landing a new job. Use common sense when creating an online profile. Remember that employers who do online searches are looking for reasons not to hire you.

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Michael Yon, perhaps the most reliable observer of troops in Iraq, labels the “Diarist’s” stories as “garbage.” Most of the other comments I have seen, especially by soldiers and Marines who are serving or have served in Iraq, describe the stories in less polite terms.

Nonetheless, the “Diarist’s” stories remind me of the sort of shocking and outrageous statements young men like to tell to credulous listeners. As the late Harry Summers, a veteran of two wars once remarked, such stories are intended to have the same impact as the sight of two Hell’s Angels French kissing in front of a group of bystanders: shock and awe. They also remind me of the predisposition of the American press to believe the worst about American soldiers, a predisposition that dates to the Vietnam War.

NRO readers may recall that I wrote a number of articles about atrocities, real and alleged, during the run up to the 2004 election. I was especially critical of John Kerry, who, despite honorable service during the Vietnam War, essentially smeared all of his comrades as war criminals after he left active duty. Who can forget his 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee? Here he invoked the so-called “Winter Soldier Investigation,” organized by such antiwar celebrities as Jane Fonda and conspiracy theorist Mark Lane, in which:

over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia. These were not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command. . . . They relived the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do. They told stories that at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.

As with the TNR case today, most Vietnam veterans took these confessions with a grain of salt. When I read Mark Lane’s 1970 book, Conversations with Americans, and the transcripts of the Winter Soldiers Investigation, I was struck by how implausible most of the atrocity claims were. I was apparently not alone. Lane’s book was panned by James Reston Jr. and Neil Sheehan, not exactly known as war supporters; Sheehan demonstrated that many of Lane’s “eyewitnesses” either had never served in Vietnam or had not done so in the capacities they claimed.

In an earlier NRO piece, I recounted a personal anecdote that made me question the Winter Soldier Investigation stories — and makes me skeptical of the “Scott Thomas” story being pushed by TNR. I began by noting that I didn’t commit or witness atrocities during my tour in Vietnam as a Marine infantry platoon leader. As far as I know, neither did the other officers in my regiment and battalion. But I heard of an atrocity just after I joined the unit. A Marine who was scheduled to rotate soon recounted an incident that he claimed had occurred shortly after he had arrived in the unit about a year earlier. According to his story, members of a sister company had killed some North Vietnamese soldiers after they had surrendered.

Some months later, I happened to overhear another Marine who had joined my platoon after I took it over relate exactly the same story to some newly arrived men, only now it involved me and my platoon. I had a little chat with him and he cleared things up with the new men. But that episode has always made me wonder how many of the stories have been recycled and how many accounts of atrocities are based on what veterans heard as opposed to committed or witnessed.

In Iraq, we have seen evidence of the press’s predisposition to believe the worst about American soldiers in its coverage of Abu Ghraib, Fallujah, and most recently Hadithah. It is now on display, not only in the TNR story, but also in “The Other War: Iraq Veterans Bear Witness“ in the July 30th issue of The Nation, which bills the Iraq war as “a dark and even depraved enterprise.” The article is based on interviews with some 50 Iraq war veterans and purportedly describes “disturbing patterns of behavior by American troops in Iraq.” According to the piece, the war has “led many troops to declare an open war on all Iraqis.”

I have news for the editors of The Nation: War, especially the sort of war we are waging in Iraq — a war in which a man or boy who waves at American troops during the day may plant an IED at night — can desensitize even the most decent individual. History proves that in the absence of leadership and enforced rules of engagement, war can lead one to the depths of moral depravity. But no military in history has attempted to limit civilian casualties and collateral damage to the extent that the U.S. military has. The Nation lays civilian casualties in Iraq at the feet of the US military. But this is nonsense. The very fact that Sunni sheiks in al Anbar province and elsewhere are turning against al Qaeda indicates that they know who kills indiscriminately, even if The Nation doesn’t.

Of course, the approved version of this predisposition is to attribute the bad behavior of troops in Iraq not to moral depravity per se, but to the policy that put them in Iraq in the first place. Thus John Murtha (D., Pa.), while publicly convicting Marines in Hadithah of “kill[ing] innocent civilians in cold blood,” then absolved them by claiming that the alleged incident “shows the tremendous pressure that these guys are under every day when they’re out in combat.”

TNR’s record on this sort of thing is not particularly good. There is of course, Stephen Glass. But the predisposition of which I speak was on full display in the September 6, 2004, issue of TNR. There Peter Beinart suggested in “Apocalypse Redux” that those who criticized Kerry were somehow denying that atrocities occurred in Vietnam. Beinart then went on to cite a number of historians who, sure enough, assured us that atrocities did occur in Vietnam. Of course, no one disputes the fact that Americans committed atrocities in Vietnam. But as Jim Webb observed at the time, the “stories of atrocious conduct, repeated in lurid detail by Kerry before the Congress, represented not the typical experience of the American soldier, but its ugly extreme” (emphasis added).

The press’s predisposition to believe certain stories was nicely dissected by Rachael Smolkin’s piece on the Duke-lacrosse rape story in the June/July issue of The American Journalism Review, “Justice Delayed.” She quotes Daniel Okrent, a former New York Times public editor, who, in words that apply directly to coverage of the war in Iraq, states that

[The Duke lacrosse story] was too delicious…. It conformed too well to too many preconceived notions of too many in the press: white over black, rich over poor, athletes over non-athletes, men over women, educated over non-educated. Wow. That’s a package of sins that really fit the preconceptions of a lot of us.

But then she gleans from Newsweek’s Evan Thomas an admission that captures the essence of what’s wrong with the American press when it comes to reporting not only on the Duke-lacrosse case, but also on Iraq:

We fell into a stereotype of the Duke lacrosse players. It’s complicated because there is a strong stereotype [that] lacrosse players can be loutish, and there’s evidence to back that up. There’s even some evidence that that the Duke lacrosse players were loutish, and we were too quick to connect those dots. It was about race. Nifong’s motivations clearly were rooted in his need to win black votes. There were tensions between town and gown, that part was true. The narrative was properly about race, sex and class. . . . We went a beat too fast in assuming that a rape took place. . . . We just got the facts wrong. The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong (my emphasis).

Smolkin writes that “often, the preconceptions — rather than the facts — dictated not only the tone of the coverage but also its volume and prominence.” For TNR, “Scott Thomas” provides the approved, preconceived, narrative — facts be damned.

yawn, yawn….sigh, sigh.
making generalizations about any group of people makes your premise futile!!!!!

i will make it simple: Bush has created more terrorism than Bin Laden could have ever dreamed of!!!! and we are less safe than pre 9/11!!!!!!!!

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PS he said he's only done this with gf's and never a stranger. im thinking maybe i shouldnt meet him! but he seems so nice….

WOW!!!! if he sent u those pix BEFORE u met, I would DEFINITELY rethink about that. I don't know, I'm a guy, in my 20's, but that's HELLLLLLLA weird….LOL. no offense, but this dude sounds too desperate!

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Dating Fraud Overview (september 2006)

About dating scam

This article is a warning for typical fraudulent scenarios devised and successfully employed by dating scammers. In general they want “money by deceit”. So you should be warned !
In this article we will review;
- scam scenarios
- recognize warning signs
- how to avoid being scammed

1. Scam scenarios

1.1 The fake online dating services
You will be paying for a membership of a non existing dating community and maybe you also could be charged extra for non existing contact addresses. On the pages of such agencies there are profiles of false look alike models, which were taken from the Internet. Most likely the agency will exist a few months and the websites are frequently on free hosts

1.2 The false full service dating services
Full service could mean you pay for the ‘non existing additional service’ as you will only receive meaningless replies with no actual information and an absolute disregarding of your questions — just blah. False dating bureaus and dates let you pay for organized fake and mass production on internet like matching, mediation, translations, visa’s, tickets, hotels ect.

1.3 The begging for money
After a while the scammer begins urgently to ask money for covering expenses for using Internet, translator payment, foreign languages courses, driving courses and so on.
Be sure: a sincere dater would never beg for money

1.4 The faking trouble and sick
After a while your date turns out to be paying enormous money for fake urgent needs and only a miracle — you — could help your date! Most common are the stories of children, parents, relatives, that got ill and need expensive operation or/and medicines or land-house problems, buffalo and tractor

1.5 The visiting opportunity
A very expensive kind of scam and in this kind of scenario you will not be suspicious with the scammer and the shallow requests as other scenarios ! Your date has to be perfect in all way. But suddenly there is the opportunity of some weeks of holidays for visiting you.
Now your date all has planned and has help from friends and relatives but you have to decide quick — to pay for a cheap trip, a passports, visa, insurance, etc.

1.6 The visiting problems
It can be worse if the scammer succeed and will go on with the next stage of the scam. Proved by look alike ‘official registration document’, travelling and visa problems occur and there will be a need for more money; visa can be received in another city, expensive travelling costs, additional cost for living and food, ect.

1.7 The travel preparation
Your date will insist on visiting and meeting worried and inpatient family and parents. Cash will be need for organise your staying, a special program and gifts.

1.8 The bubble fairytale
You have met and your date is perfect and a wonderful host. You will overload your date and family with gifts, luxury and overspend as you can not resist. The fairy could end as she suddenly disappear. Needless to say, you are staying at a hotel and have no idea where your date actually lives.

2 Recognize warning signs

Here you will find the main “alarm bell”- warning signs to watch out for. If you recognize your situation here, it does not necessarily mean that the lady is a scammer. An “alarm bell” is just a sign that you have to be more cautious than ever. But don’t go throwing stones at your date. Keep your eyes open and ask your date subtle questions – if your date is not sincere, you will unmask.

2.1 The photo seems too good to be true
Well, your date might have had it taken at a photographic studio. Professionals make people look at their best on photos, so it could be a fake.

2.2 The agency is blacklisted
Here you need a thorough investigation. Your date may not know anything about it or is just an agency’s hooks.

2.3 Addresses with wrong name, misspells of your name
Your date might have problems with spelling or bad memory for names but it can also be a sign that she is corresponding with an army of singles. Possible your date never use your name, as you are ‘honey’ or any synonym. Be aware; your date could be not caring or is a group of net-swindlers or a fraudulent agency.

2.4 Vague letters with no or few questions about you
You date does not seems to care. How can a date that seriously considering in having a long-term relationship have no questions?

2.5 Your questions are never or rarely answered
A serious date will understand that you have questions and try to answer them. A scammer might not even read your email.

2.6 Loves comes too fast
Well, your date might be that inflammable but it is very unlikely. Most probably, your date is not sincere.

2.7 Letters contain repeated paragraphs
Most likely, your date is writing same things to again an army of singles and use copy-paste letters. Bad sign because a date that is sincere is interested and will write personal letters.

2.8 Letters may seems like “form” letters
Scammers usually sent letters out in order – reply 1, reply 2, etc. with still some marks left. Or you can receive letters that are addressed to someone else. Seems just bad quality control of the scammer

2.9 Seductive photo’s and letters
Progressively sexual language and pictures are common themes throughout the varying scams.

2.10 Your date openly asking for gifts or money
Obvious! No comment.

3 How to avoid being scammed

If you want to be absolute certain do not start at all. But if the temptation is attracting; here some tips for a strategy you can use in your correspondence. For more firmness; check and double check.

3.1 Do not sent money and valuable gifts
The best way to avoid being scammed is not to send your date any money or valuable gifts. At least not until after you are 100% sure that your date is real.

3.2 Do not accentuate the fact that you have money
Talk about your hobbies, movies, plans for the future, anything. The subject of money will only attract scammers and gold-diggers.

3.3 Find mutual interests and talk deeply about those
Your date has to do an effort that scammers most likely will not do

3.4 Mention to visit your date
Make clear from the beginning of your correspondence that you will visit your date. This will scare off any potential scammers or they will get reckless. You find out soon and will not waist effort and time.

3.5 Talk with your date on phone
Mention that you would like to talk your date over the phone. This could be ineffective, as your date might decline due to poor English skills or lack of a phone. Anyway it will make a scammer feel uncomfortable. And if you speak to your date a reaction or the surrounding sounds could make a lot clear.

3.6 Check the internet
Perhaps you find that you are in touch with a professional dater or scammer that uses same profile, same description and name on other websites. Check also the reputation of the dating site. You even can find and make use of specialized databases and detective services!

3.7 Get her home address
Could be false so she will never receive your post letter, flowers or small gift.

3.8 The blank letter trick
Send your date a blank letter or two pages of nonsense (like ‘aldj afleifej; feijfai eniaf’) and wait your dates reaction.

3.9 Take a second profile
Not nice but highly effective. Just take a second profile and other email address and try to contact your date.
(note; Common is that for dating the computer of friend or the office is been used. If not there are Internet cafes in almost every city where e-mail can be sent and received very inexpensively)

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There are 100 people in a room. Each person states his/her birth date (month and day, excluding Feb 29). Let N be the number of different birth dates. What is the expected value of N? (Assume that the 365 birth dates are equally likely)

So, hints please?

The expected value in this case is the sum from N=1 to 100 of N*P(N), where P(N) is the probability that there are exactly N distinct birthdays.

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