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Bad Play No. 8: Washington's Tripper Johnson, rear, and Donald Butler, left, break up a pass intended for Notre Dame's Kyle Rudolph. The Huskies' Nate Williams ended up with the interception, for better or worse. A football was snapped into the ...

The 10 plays this season that have made the Seahawks, Huskies and ... - Seattle Times

The only real comfort in the spartan accommodations will be in your pocketbook. But rooms are completely inhabitable nonetheless. The tiny private "suites" include queen double beds or bunks dressed with bleachy-white linens and two wafer-thin ...

Elements Hotel beats at S.F.'s hipster heart - San Francisco Gate

Tony-award-winning actress Rondi Reed, who hails from tiny Dixon, Ill., has been with Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company for nearly 30 years. Acting has taken her around the world, and this month she is traveling to London with Steppenwolf to ...

CELEBRITY TRAVELER: Rondi Reed - Chicago Tribune

SHE is huge in Britain and Australia, adored in Europe, and now Kylie Minogue has a new legion of fans as she prepares to perform in Colombia. Despite the country's reputation for drug barons, kidnappings and bombings, the pop princess has stunned ...

Kylie Minogue to perform in Colombia - News.com.au

Tinto House ... 'Civilised, that's how this place feels. We like it enormously, at once.' This is my friend Cat's recommendation. Not that she has stayed here, mind; she's just spotted it through the tidal wave of bookish visitors which swells the ...

Tinto House, Hay-on-Wye - Guardian Unlimited

Experts identify daytime sleepiness gene Getting enough sleep? Sleeping better your ticket to live longer Sleeping too much? Better not... Stockholm - Adjusting the clock forward to summertime increases the risk of a heart attack, while turning the ...

Is daylight-saving dangerous? - Star

Researchers in Sweden have found that the twice yearly ritual of resetting the clock according to daylight savings time can affect one’s chances of suffering a heart attack . Support for euro rises in Sweden (28 Oct 08) Mourners seek lessons from ...

Swedish study: heart attack risk and daylight savings linked - Local

LAS VEGAS (AP) ― Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama looked to pick up three red states on the final Saturday of the campaign, while Republican John McCain defended GOP turf before breaking to appear on "Saturday Night Live." The ...

As Clock Winds Down, Candidates Head To Red States - KPIX-TV5

Since February, the Hardin Center has been all things sports. The Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel designated 2008 as the Year of Alabama Sports, and the Hardin Center has taken that ball and run with it. The Advanced Imaging Press Box and main ...

Game clock winding down for the Art of Competition exhibit - Gadsden Times

As the investigators of the Assam serial blasts pointed the needle of suspicion towards HuJI, the issue of continuous illegal immigration from Bangladesh has again come to fore with the Centre saying that citizens of the neighbouring country enter ...

Resolved Question: If i travel around the world, what time will it be when I get back. ?

Lets say I go counter clock wise more

Open Question: If one were to travel away from a clock at the speed of light, would time stand still?

Open Question: help finishing my essay for history, it the railway mania essay. the effect on Britain because of it?

How did the Railways Affect Britain? In this essay I will be writing about the changes to railways that occurred from 1840 to 1872 , also known as railway mania, and how they affected life in Britain from that time to the present day. I will also be comparing the changes to see which are the most important and which are the least important. Before railway mania there were trains of sorts, these were iron wagons pulled by horses to transport coal from mines. Because they were pulled by horses they were not given kinetic energy by steam so these weren't not steam engines. Often George Stevenson is credited as being the inventor of the train, but its evolution was a complex and protracted one. The ancient Greeks had rickety carts on wooden rails, which is not that dissimilar to the London to Southend end line today. Because it was the first working attempt it didn't work perfectly and lots of people tried to improve upon it. A team including Christopher Blackett did manage to improve it and they created a steam locomotive that had a twin cylinder in it. A twin cylinder is two cylinders in it instead of just one so it would move smoother and faster. One thing that changed because of these new models of trains is the time. Before the railways were created the time was different in most places and you had to add 1 minute for every 10 miles you travelled. The time had to be changed because the trains set of at a particular time and another train set off at a different time from a different place they might crash because the times couldn't be calculated correctly. E.G a train set of at 10 o'clock from a town heading north and another train set of from a town 30 miles at the same time away heading south and they should miss each other by a minute but because they are 3 minutes different they crash into each other. The time was changed to GMT (Greenwich mean time). GMT is a time that the whole country used, and it is the time that Greenwich (a part of London) had always used. This change is quite important. Another good change for Britain with the emergence of the railways was a increase to the variety of food. Before 'railway mania' you could only get perishable foods if they came from close to the town you lived in. As the railways started to be made and used, perishable foods could be transported a longer distance faster, therefore making them available to everybody. These foods included fish, more milk, fruit, meats, and flower. Because you could now get fish the working classes cheap meal of pigs trotters was replaced with fish and chips. The greater variety of food's means the got a more balanced diet. Another good change to Britain in accordance with the railways is the ability to travel anywhere in the country fast. The ability to travel anywhere fast was great for the families that weren't rich as it meant that they could go on holidays. The places that most people wanted to visit were seaside resorts. As a result of this small fishing villages on the coasts were built up into big seaside towns, some that were affected are: Blackpool, Scarborough, Whitby, Skeggness and Brighton. everyone could take the trips as they were fast and you could there within 1 – 2 days meaning you didn't have to pay as much for food while you are travelling or for the travelling expense . The speed was now so fast in comparison to horses or coaches because they could travel from London to Edinburgh in twelve and a half hours but the coaches took forty-three hours which is just under three times the speed. As a result of being able to travel more people lost there accents because they were talking to people from different parts of England and therefore slowly losing there accents. While people were losing there accents they were getting to understand people more. Before the railways and smooth roads you could only pull half a ton for ten miles a day by horse. You could only transport so little a day so little distance because it was rough terrain so it was bumpy and uneven. When the turnstile roads were created they charged people money to go past the turnstiles and with the money they got from it they improved the roads and started to make macadams roads. A macadams road is a road that is in a slight curve over the top with ditches ether side so that when it rains it flows of ether side into the ditches. The roads were also smooth and horses could pull two tons twenty miles a day which is more weight and further a day than on the rough terrain but still not as much as on the trains that could transport forty tons two hundred miles a day. As a result of being able to pull that much weight so much further things started to cheapen because now the suppliers didn't have to get a ride on a horse for part of the distance then get on a canal boat, then on a horse, then walk twenty miles, then get a horse and finally be in the destination you could just get on a train and go from point a to b. this was cheaper becaus more

Open Question: Electric usage in the Dominican Republic?

I'll be traveling to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in January (from the US) and would like to take along my alarm clock and some other stuff. Can I plug my stuff in directly or will I need an adapter? more

Open Question: how many kilometers does the bottom end of the pendulum travel in one day?

a clock pendulum swings back and forth once every 2 seconds. if its length is one meter and the greatest angle that it makes with the vertical is 12 degrees, more

Open Question: Can anyone solve this?

A clock pendulum swings back and forth once every two seconds. if the length is one meter and the greatest angle that it makes with the vertical is 12 degrees, how many kilometers does the bottom end of the pendulum travel in one day? more

Resolved Question: how to guess what time zone you're in?

let's say you are in Seattle and you get onto a plane at 1pm but you have no idea where you are going. you arrive at the unknown destination and you see that you have travelled for 10 hours. Your watch now says 11pm. but the clocks where you have arrived say 5:30 and it's evening. what reasoning would you use to figure out what part of the world you might be in? thanks! more

Open Question: I am traveling. How do I change the time on the analog clock?

using Yahoo Widgets transparent analog clock. more

Resolved Question: 10 pts! How would you end/or change this poem, it's a rough draft?

Dust Coated clocks tick Time has a memory-- Still-brained vegetable Wanton fruity melon thoughts I have been forgotten deemed rotten Gathering dust--encrusted micro jewel Segmented glorification Of a larger whole called Family. Cooling heels dug beneath the dirt Resisting ghostly kissing games Melancholy memories and mayhem Nostalgic specks--hardly a thing to grasp Pearls of paneled faces Cursing a ghostly choir of melodic dances Memories of mistaken chances there was a time when… Papery petals drifted--languid upon imagined gusts And I was still Without moisture in my voice. Collecting tilted thoughts, though filtered I has gone utterly mad in the sun that summer Jumping the tears of happier times Rose printed in my best pressed dress and black patent leather Mary Janes That hurt for I’d outgrown them, poor that we were. Through those orange poppy summers I sprinted honeydews Glistening green orbs were hurdled by twos Where there was an end to my childhood--I didn’t dash... I ran like Hell ! Off an Arkansas road of dry silt Slick as a dream when rained for the land was molded By flood and by fortold fame cinched in at the waist by the wide Bible belt If your honeydew roots began there too My kindred Amazon Queens--yes, You! Huntresses we became And just like me you may have sent the ole ‘68 Chevy in a flutter Like I did my grandma’s ticker She knew my hillbilly heart wore high heels As I drove the stick in the floor My pigtails let loose and became lovely ladybug wings Having once begun A tiny speck of transformation stained my high cheeks flushed--Crimson as the blood of my family tree she hid a sad smile and turned away from me She spun a tale that I am still A lot like she used to be rather...like she still secretly IS Habitually silent Running against the grain She said: ‘I had the inner workings of a beetle rolling dung’ finger shaping clouds like cotton candy My Augustial dreaming Such boring, neurotic sensibilities giving birth Contractioned like eddies of heat from my heart brushing the dust off my brain now turned glitter With my own secret smile, my loved ones grew bitter That summer of my sixteenth year... One by one They scattered like atoms beneath my tongue One by one I fractured many a heart to find my special 'One', for fun And found it here. in Oregon at forty With two granddaughters hand-in-hand To tell the tale of tails that twitch I see their pigtails unraveling Imagine where their heart may end up traveling as I palm the keys to my remodeled Jaguar I visualize the fire on the horizon Breathe deep, the tendrils of smoke from the heels of my two creations who plan to reshape the Nation learned their ABC's and their 123's jumped started my car to escape bigotry Oh, this family tree is stunted--no more my little angels broke into their 'curse' while the old folks follow in their hippie hearse their haloes are tilted slightly off to the side While some of us cried The dust has settled The path will be easy for them For I cut a good trail When my heels dug in At their age, I cut the apron strings just for them and gave them an easy out of the mayhem One by one I watch them scatter and run One by one I freed them to ??? **copywrited, from my upcoming book entitled, "Saline Smiles", by Michelle R. Boleyn 08/08. When published, I'll give you partial credit for the poem, aka your name mentioned on the Contents page. good luck. [not finished] more

Resolved Question: a geometry problem about clocks?(please point our my error i thought i got it right)?

A giant circular clock has a minute hand, which measures 30 feet from the center of the clock to its outer tip how many feet does the outer tip of the minute hand travel in one hour? give your answer to the nearest foot okay so first i did the circumference of a circle because the minute hand is from the center to the numbers and so its 60 pie than you do 60x60 because there's 60 minute in an hour so the answer is 3600 pie feet? more

Resolved Question: Survey anyone? Want to Tickle your brain a little?

Okay kiddo's I am not bored, but I came across this survey and I think its pretty cool...and yes I am going to post my answers too. Okay here we go....ready? Whats your middle name? Rita How big is your bed? Queen Size Bed What are you listening to right now? The Detroit Piston game LoL. We're crushing Indiana!! ha ha What are the last 4 digits in your cellphone number? 1422 What was the last thing you ate? Mini Almond Joy (I had 2 lol) Last person you hugged? My mom. I♥Her How is the weather right now? Cold and Crappy Who was the last person you talked to on the phone? My cousin Heather What is the first thing u notice in the opposite sex? His smile Favorite type of Food: Anything Italian or anything seafood Do you want children? Hell Yeah! I want 6 Do you drink? Yes and No...but if I do I will have a Gin & Tonic with lime please Ever get so drunk you don't remember the entire night? Nope Never been drunk. What? I havent. Hair color? Black with a few Dark Plum Highlights....yum Eye colour? Light Brown Do you wear contacts/glasses? nope. Neither. Favorite holiday? Thanksgiving and Christmas. I have two so sue me! Favorite Season? The earlt fall time where its still warm but the leaves have already changed colors. Its so beautiful. Have you ever cried over a girl/boy? Don't remind me please. Last Movie you Watched? The Cure. Omg so sad. :( What books are you reading? 1453 and Soverign Piercings? just my ears Favorite college football Team? MSU-Michigan State What were you doing before filling this out? watching the basketball game...can you tell I like sports? lol Any pets? my kitty Pebblez Dogs or cats? cats. But I love dogs too. Favorite Flower? Tangerine Roses...they are so beauiful. And not to mention my fave color. Have you ever loved someone? I have loved a lot of people. The question is...have I ever been IN LOVE with someone....Yes. Who would you like to see right now? Stinky. I miss him. Have you ever fired a gun? Yeah, I have been to the range a couple of times. Do you like to travel by plane? Omg I love it Right-handed or Left-handed? Right If you could go to any place right now where would you go? To the moon Are you missing someone? mmmhhhhmmmm Do you have a tattoo? nope. Do you still watch cartoons on Saturday mornings? No. Who the hell has time?! Are you hiding something from someone? No. WHAT IS THE WALLPAPER ON YOUR CELLPHONE? Dolophins DID YOU GET ENOUGH SLEEP LAST NIGHT? Not really. Kept waking up. FIRST THING YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THIS MORNING? What should I wear and how cold is it outside? WHAT DO YOU HAVE HANDY AT YOUR BEDSIDE? Chapstick and Water and my remote control. GRILLED OR FRIED? depends what kind of mood I am in. WHAT MAKES YOU UNIQUE? That there is only one of me ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK? Who told you?! FAVORITE HANGOUT? HOME. 3 THINGS YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT? The people I love, cellphone and money. FAVORITE SONG? Tracy Chapman- Give me one reason WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? the dark and spiders. ARE YOU A GIVER OR TAKER? I think both. But I am more of a giver. WHAT ARE YOUR NICKNAMES? Naynay and Newsee and my Grandpa's used to call me Renew.... :( WHAT IS YOUR DADS MIDDLE NAME? Akram-his fathers name WHATS YOUR MOTHERS MIDDLE NAME? Salim-her fathers name STUCK ON A DESERTED ISLAND & COULD TAKE ONE THING? my boyfriend...well ex...he makes me laugh and lol he can entertain me lmfao FAVORITE T.V. COMMERCIAL? the vonage commerical....wahoowahahoo wahhooowahhaaahooo WHO'S YOUR CELL PHONE PROVIDER? AT&T FIRST THING YOU'LL SAVE IN A FIRE? MY Cat!! Whats your favorite color? Orange and Lavender WHAT ARE THE THINGS YOU ALWAYS TAKE WITH YOU? Cell phone,gum,money,purse,credit cards,mase,book,make-up.....where am I going? Lmao WHAT DID YOU WANNA BE WHEN YOU WERE A KID? a teacher WHAT DO YOU USUALLY DO WHEN THE CLOCK TURNS 11:11? Make a wish THE COLOR OF YOUR BEDSHEET? Lavender WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT BEFORE YOU GO TO BED? Him. more

Voting Question: Radar gun at truck stop/weight stations Speeding ticket by CHP?

Hello everyone I’m new to this web site and I need some advice. It was 1:00 am on 10/25/08 just got off of work from Sacramento downtown. I was going home on I-80 towards Reno E/B .once I got on the highway I set my vehicle at 65 MPH on cruise control since there were only a few cars on the road, and I was ill with a cold but was still capable to drive. About 2/3 of a mile from my exit their was a truck stop/weight station I just passed. When I got in the exit lane I turned off my cruise control & was slowing down to 25 mph to a sharp turn, I saw CHP in my mirror coming from the weight station. (The weight station exit lane and the exit lane from I-80 to ***** street, meet up as one lane.) When I was on the street from I-80 about 1 ½ miles later CHP then pulled me over. One of the CHP officer told me back at the weight station on I-80 they clock me at 86 MPH but slowed down to 80 mph right before I got on the exit lane . I said can I see the radar gun because I believe it’s completely incorrect I was not speeding. The officer he simply said well, I will be back with your ticket!!! The officer would not give me an answer or to explain. ???? I want to fight this in court because if this is true from what the officer said and wrote that I was doing 80 mph when I was about to exit I would have drove off the ramp from the exit!!! When I got home I read the ticket carefully. On the ticket it reads: Speed: 80 MPH in P.F. / max speed: 65 MPH Beat 183 Radar unit/patrol vehicle No.: N/A I truly believe the CHP unit did not have radar, but may have a radar at the truck weight station or maybe not. I read some where that someone said: Radar measures the speed in relationship to the unit, meaning the most accurate speed is if the vehicle is travelling directly towards, or directly away, from the unit. A clock from the side would not be a true reading. Of bigger concern, this reading from the side would be lower, not higher, due to what is called a "cosine error". My question is Can radars at a truck weight station make a common mistake more

Resolved Question: Please help me with this Pre-Calculus math problem (+10 points)?

can someone please help me set up and solve this problem: A minute hand on a clock is 4 inches long. Determine how far the tip of the minute hand travels between 10:15Am to 10:30Am. Find the linear velocity of the tip. i WILL vote best answer. more

Resolved Question: Help with Pre-cal Math Problem (+10points)?

Resolved Question: Why do we have to Close the Windows While Traveling from Daund to Kurduvadi (Pune to Chennai Trains) by Train.?

Eg. If we catch Train @ Pune at 6:10 pm. Police men asking us to Close the Shutters At around 8 O Clock. Could any one please tell me the reason. as soon as Train Reaches Daund. Security is hight. Please Answer. more

Resolved Question: so my question is can you read this and tell me if this personal narrative is good ( i need a really good grad?

This past summer my family and I went to Dubai. Dubai is located along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf. I had heard about Dubai but didn’t know a lot about the place. One thing I knew was we were traveling from Amman, Jordan. My mom had told me a few activates that we were going to do. One thing she had told me is visiting the only seven star hotel in the world! I couldn’t wait to go on the Emirates airplane! The first step of getting to Dubai is going on the Emirates airplane. The first step I entered the airplane, smelled like recycled air. While I was on the airplane I entertained myself. I watched TV, played games, and listened to music. I remember the appetizing airplane food. Most airplanes have unappetizing food but the Emirates airline had good tasting food. I still could remember the smell of the chicken wrap sandwhich, bananna, and snickers. My family and I had a lot of fun on the airplane. After my family and I got off the plane we went to the hotel where we were going to stay at for a few days. When we got to the hotel we got some rest then went to a restaurant .The restaurant had mouthwatering food. After we were done eating we went to visit the only seven star hotel in the world. When we got to the hotel it was the most luxurious hotel I had ever. During the visit at the hotel I remember asking my dad a question. “Baba why aren’t we staying at this hotel?” “Because its one thousands dollars a night.” The last thing we did at the hotel is take pictures inside and outside of the hotel. The Last exciting thing going to a desert safari. The first thing we did was go dune bashing. Dune bashing is riding in a four wheel .It was a lot of fun. The next thing we did is ride a camel. I was terrified of falling off the camel, so I went last. The second to last thing we did was eat barbeque and watch a belly dancer. And finally the last thing my family and I did was get henna designs on my hand. My sisters and my mom only got them. The next day my family and I woke up and went to the airport. We had to wake up so early. At the airport we did some duty free shopping it was so much fun. Even though I like shopping I didn’t enjoy shopping at five o clock in the morning. When it got to be six o clock in the morning we got to go on the airplane. While on the airplane I thought about all the cool things I got to do. After we got on the plane heading to New York. When I heard the pilot say welcome to Cleveland I was happy. I thought now I have to wait a few years to see my family. The second thing I thought I thank God for this opportunity. After two months being away from home I thought this is the best summer I had ever experienced. thanks more

Resolved Question: Would we be better off leaving the clocks alone?

Now look folks we change the time and so come monday morning off go the workers in nice light but come home in darkness. a survey recently conducted showed that 25% of people didn't like travelling this time of year as they felt less secure and felt more prone to criminal activity this time of year, so why change the times surely not just for the farmers? Views tvm Actually scrooge its a fact that if we left the clocks alone, more work hours could be gained thus increasing GDP. stephen h: me thinks sleep deprivation is having an effect on you. more

Resolved Question: Hard riddle. First to answer correctly gets best answer.?

Mr. Moody grumbles about bad time-keeping trains from morning till night!. On one particular morning he was quiet justified. His train left on time for the one hour journey, to Clarksville, and it arrived 5 minutes late. However, Mr. Moody 's watch showed it to be 3 minutes early, so he adjusted his watch by putting it forward 3 minutes. His watch kept time during the day, and on the return journey in the evening the train started on time, according to his watch, and arrived on time, according to the station clock. If the train travelled 25 percent faster on the return journey than it did on the morning journey, was the station clock fast or slow, and by how much? more

Resolved Question: i want to catch a 2 o clock flight from mumbai airport to Goa, if i reach borivali at 10 is that enough time ?

i will reach mumbai by 10.30, do u have enough time to travel to sahar airport to catch a flight to Goa at 2. how long it take to reach airport by the max more

Voting Question: barbie like film about a girl band 80s/90s when they travel back in time in a jet? I can't find anything!?

can anyone remember a film about a girl band in the 80's or 90's. All i can remember is they travelled back in time in a jet or plane and when they did it showed warped watches/ clocks OMG thank you..thats been bugging me for weeks!! i couldn't figure out was film it was. I just remember getting so annoyed when im sister taped over it. more

Resolved Question: Name of a time travel book I read as a kid?

this book i read in like grade 5 or 6 (2000-2001), it had something to do with time travel? the book was blue and had a clock on the front. my teacher made us read it and then we watched the movie or something!? i had a dream about it last night and it's been bugging me all day :( it was about this watch that you could travel back in time and stuff, and i remember the first chapter was about some tv or something in a tv store maybe? it might have been set in england? or australia! i can't remember! HELP! Sorry, I am Australian! I think it might be an Aussie book :S more

Resolved Question: Answer only if you are familiar with traveling through the fourth dimension?

Do you think, that in a 3D world, our tesseract/wormhole would be our temporary unconsciousness of time from a point in time to another point in time (no limitations on the amount of time, think of time as on an x-axis.) For example, you know how you get really busy at work and you look at the clock, suddenly, and see that it is a lot later than you thought it was? Well, during that time, you were kept so busy that you were totally unconscious of time as it existed. Would not that state of being be your tesseract/wormhole through the fourth dimension? Algebraically speaking, if you are traveling on the x-axis from one single point to another point, the line between those two points would be your tesseract/wormhole, but in a 3D world, that tesseract/wormhole would be your state of being. Is this legitimate to physics? I am defining "tesseract" as it was defined in A Wrinke Of Time. A tesseract would basically be a wormhole. Sorry, it would metaphorically be a wormhole. more

Resolved Question: Fastball: the speed of a baseball traveling to the home plate?

nolan ryan has been clocked throwing a baseball 100 mph. at that speed, how much time does it take for the ball to reach home plate. the pitchers mound is 60 feet 6 inches (726 inches) from home plate. more

Resolved Question: facts u probably didnt know ?

Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969! In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes! There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo! Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution! Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second! The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card! There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos! There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants! The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off! Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500! The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad! Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating! Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult! One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year! The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye! more weird facts u didnt know: http://strangebuttrue.net/ ohh, and i just wanted to say.. wat do u think about them? comments? and btw i did this randomly and got them from a random site haha =] more

Voting Question: have bought on ebay a 125 hanglong scooter it runs like a 50cc how do i derestict it its 2008 model . thanks j?

allso the speedo goes off the clock 60mph when travelling around 30mph max i now its chinese rubish but only being 6 months old i shouldnt be this slow any help appreciated more

Resolved Question: I am a fifteen year old author and I want to see if anyone thinks this is any good?

The Mercenary Chronicles Chapter 1: A few jobs The wagon lumbered across the path as the horses kept their steady pace. They traveled a path surrounded by dense forest on either side. A route used by traders and farmers to transport goods to the nearby cities. The one driving the wagon noticed a man walking along the path towards him. He squinted to see this stranger on the path. As he strained to see the who it was, he suddenly noticed the outlandish clothing. The rider wore a green clock with what looked like scales, and the shoulders were decorated with skulls of men. The driver soon realized that this person must be a necromancer, a master of death magic. He stumbled with the reins as he tried to work things out in his mind. He could charge forth and try and run down the necromancer. He could try to turn back although surely a master of the dead could reach him. He was still thinking of possibilities of escape but it was too late. The necromancer was upon him. “Well met!” cried the stranger nervously. “Hello sire,” he started trying to flatter the necromancer “please, allow me to leave and I will tell no one . . .” he had begun before the master of the dead spoke to him. “I could simply kill you, that would keep your mouth shut. I’m sure you never thought I wouldn’t realize that unless you thought of me as a fool!” the necromancer cried sounding insulted, although truly he enjoyed playing with his victims first. He was a man with many wrinkles and stark white hair. His eyes had grown gray from age and he looked rather frail. “No sire, I swear I did not think of you as such. Indeed you must be brilliant to . . .” he was interrupted again by the necromancer as he was stammering through his sentence. “Silence!” he roared “I have decided that you shall become another addition to my ranks of undead warriors. Be thankful that I simply kill you and not imprison your soul in one of the skeletons, trapped forever in undeath.” he said as he made a hand signal. Out from the shadows leapt a dark figure. It was the shape of a man, but with long menacing fangs. A vampire. It had almost successfully bitten into the man as he stood up with speed and grace and pulled out a unique sword. It was as black as midnight and was very long. It was broad and a little thick but the man who brandished the blade knew how to use it. As quickly as he had drawn it he used it to lop off the head of the diving vampire. The head rolled away into the shadows as the necromancer looked surprised. The traveler tore away his village close to reveal a long black cloak with silver lining around the middle where it buckled together. He tore away a hat that had covered his face and hair to reveal long white hair. But not that of an elderly person, for his face was hansom and resembled a man just exiting his youth. He had no facial hair and had a strong build. His hair dropped beyond his shoulders and he truly looked like a dangerous warrior. He had dark green eyes. He smiled at the petrified necromancer. “Expecting another helpless farmer?” he said in his now cool and even voice. He drew a long, wide sword that was as dark as night. “You are a. . . a scourge!” he yelled. “I have a name, it’s Zerith.” he said cooly as he finished by leaping down and slashing at the still unmoving necromancer. “Ha!” he laughed as Zerith’s sword had simply gone right through “I would not endanger myself by coming here. You think you are the first one to try this? Many have attempted such a rouse before, and as you see, none have succeed.” he said with a wry smile on his face, but he noticed Zerith bore no emotion upon his face as well. “Why do you smile even tough you have no chance against my armies?” just then skeletons garbed in armor and carrying swords and shields and all other tools of war. Vampires appeared too, these ones likewise armed and armored. “I knew you would not be here,” said Zerith calmly “you are at your fortress in the woods, being tracked down right now.” “By the gods, you really think you won, haven’t you?” said the necromancer as he burst out laughing and Zerith simply kept his face emotionless and stared quietly. “Who told you this?” “The Brotherhood,” said Zerith calmly. “Well then, you must also know that my fortress is hidden and protected by dozens of my creatures. And did you also know that the fortress can only be entered if I will to be or I do not sustain the magic containing it? You are a fool!” The creatures waited in the shadows for the command to attack. The necromancer made a gesture with his hand and soon the creatures leapt upon Zerith. Zerith spun quickly with his sword, keeping the monsters at bay, then leapt at a skeleton warrior and made a downward slash, splitting the skeleton in two. He turned fast enough to cut off the arm of a probing skeleton holding a spear. A vampire came at him from behind with unnatural s more

Resolved Question: can you summarize this for me please?

we have created a number of ways to move ourselves and send products all over the world.there are many kinds of transportation available.alot of people still depend on walking and using animals for transport.in time,we may all be whisked along on moving sidewalks, but right now bicycles,cars,trucks,trains,ships,planes, and pipelines are the major people and/or product movers.in some parts of the worlds,there is great dependence on the bicycle.it is the main means of transportation.millions of people use bicycles to travel to work and other places.bicycles thus create movement patterns that are high in volume but short in range,that is there are a lot of them but you can't travel far.the car has become the most commonly used form of transportation in the western world.it has both short and long range capability.in response to this invention,toads have been built over farmland,across deserts,over (and under) mountains,through forests, and over plains.the desighns of our urban places have been greatly affected by roads.some cities have built ring roads around the city to move people rapidly and avoid the congestion of the core (like Paris and Boston). this tends to keep people out of the downtown area.some interior road patterns are often desighned with curves,crescents,and dead ends, to discourage traffic from residential neighbourhoods.many people who live in quiet areas of the city don't want major roads built near them.for both short and long hauls,huge amounts of freight are moved by trucks.the eighteen wheeler on North American highways is now almost as common as the car.companies building these trucks (like those in Chantham and St.Thomas,Ontario) have become "around-the-clock" operations,in the attempt to keep up with the demand.some trucks pull two trailers,or are outfitted with more axles to carry greater loads.as rail service declines,trucking fills the gap.to accommodate the various vehicles we use,there is a wide range of road systems --- from narrow dirt lanes to complex networks of expressways.since trains can move people and huge loads long distances they are an efficient mode of transportation.the development of railway systems has been very important in the spread of setlement and growth in many countries.in Canada,transcountinental railways moved large numbers of people and great quantities of materials across the continent.this helped to open up new areas and build our nation.today,most Canadian rail traffic is freight,not passenger trains.our large cities use subways,a form of rail transport,to move millions of people daily.they work well over rather short distances where population density is high.As trucking (those eighteen wheelers) increases,rail faces high competition.ships have the ability to move great quantities long distances at low cost.this makes them the cheapest way to move bulky products like cars,wheat,or iron ore all over the globe.thousands of ships travel the world's major shipping routes daily.ship traffic occurs both on inland waterways (rivers and lakes ) and on the oceans.to shorten distances and increase traffic,several major canals were built to permit ship traffic from one ocean to another.the Panama Canal joins the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.the Suez Canal joins the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.at any moment during a normal day in the air space abot North America,several thousand aircraft are flying.many types of aircraft carry people,mail,and cargo to all points around the globe.most of us are unware of how much we rely on pipelines.every time you get water from a drinking fountrain or flush a toilet,you use a pipeline.we use pipelines to move water,wastes,oil,gas,chemicals, and coal.foods such aas grainds (mixed with a liquid)can be pumped through pipelines.pipelines have the advantage of moving materials continously with little labour involved.the movements are direct from point to point and require little maintenance.the big problem is the cost of installation.large pipelines (up to 120 cm in diameter) move oil in huge quantities.in Canada,our largest pipeline is the Interprovincial Pipeline from Alberta to Ontario.it moves the crude at speeds averaging nearly 16 kilometres per hour.our urban areas have many pipleine patterns within them.there are networkds water,storm sewers,and sanitary sewers running under our cities.commercial enterprises supply our homes with piped natural gas. ok guys i know this is friken hard to summarize but please help me do this =).after you guys summarize this ill choose the best answer.thank you very much =].=). more

Resolved Question: I locked my mother in, what should I do?

My mother does not live with my father, and I rarely see her. My mother is all about money, status, nice clothes, vacations, cocktails, art. She told me she was coming here, and I skipped the evening class I attend (I study Italian in the evening, with a woman who lived in Italy for 26 years, and I am good at it) to meet her, and asked my boyfriend to lend me money for the taxi, because she hated travelling by bus. Last time she came she had so many friends around, they took all her time, and I thought that it'd be different this time. Then she arrived and everything was wrong. She laughed at my flat. She said it was too funny and asked could she go now that she’d seen it. She said I’d never let the taxi go and marooned her in this neck of the woods, had I? I had her supper ready. It was chicken livers and a miniature of sherry, and I had the rice all ready too. I showed it to her and she laughed again. I don't have a lot of money, and I tried so hard to buy all these things and please her! She said she had only called in to keep me quiet. She was going to some art gallery, some opening, some exhibition. She’d be late. She tried to push past me. So, I couldn’t take it any more. I locked the door and threw the key out the window. I said now you have to stay and sit and talk to your daughter. I said, now you can’t get out and run away as you’ve run away from us all, all your life, from Daddy, from the rest of us. She got into a terrible temper and kept screaming and beating the door and saying I was cracked and like my father. Then she wore herself out, and eventually she did have supper. She was worried in case the house went on fire and we’d be burned to a crisp. That’s what she kept saying, burned to a crisp. And she is still there. She slept in in my bed, and I slept in the chair. When she was in the bathroom, I went out through the window. She came here yesterday, at seven o’clock, and she is still there, locked against her will. What else could I do? She never has a moment, always in a rush… to go somewhere else, to meet other people, never caring about me. What should I do? more

Resolved Question: Have you ever appealed a speeding ticket?

I need to appeal a speeding ticket because i cant pay it. I was thinking of appealing and saying that the cop clocked a different car going at 60 in the 35 zone because i was traveling along side a car. When you appealed what did you say was it true or not? Whats the worst thing that could happen to me and did your cop show up at court? more

Resolved Question: Have You heard of "The Book for the Hour" ?

The Book for the Hour Beyond all question we are living in the most momentous period of history. We are living in a time of rather vast and rapid changes. Human thought an progress which for several millennia, has advanced very slowly, somewhat moving like a Glacier. This Glacier has now thawed into a roaring rapid of intense activity, moving us toward a tomorrow that would frighten even the most hard hearted of us. The Great Clock of destiny is striking even now, and with each new clang, some new epoch making even occurs. Long pent-up hatreds have busted through with horrible results in a Flaming revolt. Old Empires totter and collapse, Science breaks through another barrier into the unknown. We have entered into an age of revolution in every phase of Life. Everywhere we look there is ferment and turmoil as the 9 billion or so inhabitants of this Planet seem to choose sides or polarize around the self appointed Champions of east and west. During this past Century mankind has witnessed Changes that are unprecedented in both it’s nature and extent. During this brief period of time More and greater changes have taken place than in all the Centuries between the Time of Christ and this present age. This is also an age of discovery and invention that has no parallel. We have swiftly moved from the Steam age, to the Atomic age and now the Space age. Having virtually conquered the last frontiers of Earth, man is reaching for the stars. Already mankind has landed on the moon and explored it several times and has lived in oribit about this planet many months traveling at speeds unheard of just a half century before. The harnessing of the Atom has placed more power within man’s grasp than he has possessed since the dawn of time. So enormous are the new sources of energy now available that they could turn the World into a paradise or a shambles. They could carry men to the highest pinnacles of creative achievement or to destruction. Unfortunately, mankind has achieved the ability to destroy all life on earth many times over. More and more nations bulge with these weapons of mass destruction and weapons of new and horrible destructive power proceeds and a frenzied pace. Just a half century ago half realized dreams that were burgeoning in laboratories all over the world are now fact and a part of everyday life . As Isaac Newton said , we are merely picking up pebbles on the beach while the great ocean of truth lies undiscovered before us. Tragically, despite these glowing electronic and mechanical prospects we have moved also into an age of lawlessness for which there is no precedent that even equals or exceeds that which prevailed in the antediluvian world. It is seen not only in the mounting statistics of murder rape and robbery, but in the seemingly hope battles being fought by Police and other public authorities against Juvenile gangs and drug cartels and other forms of Organized Crime syndicates and youthful vandalism, Crowded Prisons and reformatories tell the same sad story as do the daily reports of cruel sadistic crimes that crowd the pages of our newspapers and television screens, Lying and perjury are so common place that truth and honesty seem to well have nigh vanished from the earth. In some lands contending factions have cast off all restraints and know no law but violence. As a result we live in an age of fear, never have people been so afraid of the Future, describing the pall of fear at present dims the hopes of mankind. Bertrand Russell said once “Never before. Has there been valid reason for such fear, never before has such a sense of futility blighted the visions of youth, never before has there been such a reason to feel that the human race was traveling along a road ending only in a bottomless pit. During the mid- 1950’s in the U.S. Senate, Chaplin Frederick Brown Harris uttered this prayer “ Our Father God, with whom a thousand years are one day, in this Volcanic hour of History, save us we beseech thee from panic and despair .” What an apt description of our time ! This is indeed a volcanic age with the whole world rumbling with age old discontents and frustrations throwing white hot hatred and fury with ever increasing force and frequency, Fumes from the constant eruptions stifle all hopes of peace and prosperity and choke every worthy effort for human betterment and fill every heart with fear that a final crowning catastrophe may be at hand. The Chaplains Prayer “ Save us we beseech thee from panic and despair” could not be more timely. It expresses the inner most thoughts and longings of all hearts in these tremendous and troubling times. There comes a time in everyone’s life when we turn to a mother, brother, father, pastor, and ask the question, “is this all that I am ? Is there nothing more ?” Beyond question, we all need help from some source outside ourselves. We need peace of mind , we need courage and hope, we need guidance and direction. In the gatheri In the gathering storm we need a light that will not go out. Amid the increasing darkness and confusion, we need a voice to say with certainty “ This is the way” But where shall such help be found ? In some local discussion group ? A Political Forum ? On a Psychiatrist’s couch ? There is a better place, That Place is in Jesus . The Jesus of the Bible. If You take the Time to read this God inspired God breathed literature , you will discover that it is indeed the book for this hour. It has a message for our day, for all mankind and for you. So remarkably does it anticipate the present world situation that it seems to have been written especially for our generation, Though centuries old, it is amazingly up to date. It deals with matters of universal interest toady. It offers a solution for our current perplexities. It even draws back the curtain of the future revealing things to come. Open it now, see how marvelously it speaks the words of comfort and courage and inspiration and challenge, that the times demand and your own heart needs. more

Resolved Question: french translation Help!!!!?

hey. i need someone to translate the following passage into french for a letter im writing for my languages class. Hello, my name's Austin Winkler,i am the lead singer of the band HInder. Due to my profession i lead a very busy life.Normally i wake in the early hours to do a moonlight jamming session. I then have breakfast, prepared by my chef. I will then invite my band round for rehearsal as it is the key to our success. At 12 O'clock my girlfriend will come round and expect me to take her out in my flashy car as i buy a new one every weekend but she will be surprised when she finds out i sold all my cars to pay for new instruments. we will then fight and she will go home and i will call her later asking her to forgive me. as you can see i have no time for fun. well....almost no time. im limited to weekends. Last saturday i went to to theme park and went on all the rollorcoasters. it was amazing. i would love to do it again, but maybe when i get some new underwear.On sunday i travelled To my hometown of oklaholma to see my mother and father and the rest of the family. We ate a roast that my mother had prepared and played cards. i hate cards but my father likes to play so i like to try and be part of it. Many thanks. i really don't need people telling me to do my own work okay coz it's just wasteing my time and your own. i would like help!!! more

Resolved Question: Does your dog wake you up at the same time every morning?

If your dog is your personal "alarm clock"- what time does he wake you up? Is it always the same time, or does he let you sleep in on weekends? How does he wake you up? Barking, nudging you, or does he jump on the bed and push you out of it? :) My dogs wake me up at about 7:00 AM, Central time (US), every morning. As some of you may know we are truck drivers & the dogs travel with us...they do not respect time-zones! They will wake me up at 7 AM Central, even when we're on the Pacific coast and it's only 5:00 and dark out! They wake me up by jumping on the bed, off the bed, on the bed, off the bed.....lol. My male dog will "dig" at the covers (ouch!). My female will play-bow and "slap" me, drummer style, with her paws. Then she launches herself off the bed and proceeds to jump on & off me again. My female has pogo sticks for legs, because even after I wake up she bounces all over the place, rears up and "slaps" me in the back of the legs, until I set down her breakfast! My male has a little more dignity and just sits and watches intently until he gets fed :). Just a fun question.....I wanna see what funny routines other people's dogs have :) Weim Mom, that is interesting. Hadn't considered that, about the pack leader thing- will give it some thought! Mostly I just look at it from a "gotta pee!" standpoint. When I wake up, I gotta go to the bathroom right away, LOL. I figure my dogs probably feel the same way....so I go ahead and get up so they can go potty! They are otherwise well-mannered and don't have any issues with respect, so I suppose I can let this one thing slide :) Will keep that in mind for future reference if I ever end up with a "difficult" dog, though! Thanks everyone for your answers so far! more

Resolved Question: Rate this poem please from Downunder ?

Travelling around with no boundries Just like the hands of a clock Going around and around With no set time to stop Doing the things we like, Seeing the utmost unusual sights From the full moon in the Egyptian sky, To the big orange sun on a hot Kenya day Wild, wild animals having a play. Birds of the sky riding air waves Africans on the streets trying to make ends meet. So many sights to see , so many things to do. I can only pray that this clock keeps ticking a life time through. more

Voting Question: What if I was pulled over by a different officer than the one that clocked me?

I was recently pulled over on my way home here in MI. As the vehicle next to me was about to merge directly into my vehicle I quickly accelerated to avoid the collision. This was a 2 lane road of which I was located in the right lane and he in the left. Apparently the police officer which was located in the parking lot on the far side of the road clocked me doing 37(reg speed limit 40) headin into a school zone. I had not yet reached the school zone and the officers parked car was also several hundred feet short of the school zone(25 mph). I had slowed down to the speed limit upon entering the school zone and also now out of harms way from the the other driver merging directly into me. This officer did not pull out behind me rather once I exited the school zone and travel over a a bridge again into a 40mph zone and continued down the bridge there was another officer in a driveway at the base of the brige. Mind you this officer could not see me what-so-ever during the whole incident. I proceeded to turn left into my complex and the officer then pulled straight across the road behind me and flashed his lights. He said I was clocked at the above speed of 37 in the school zone. I am wondering what I should do about this citation. I do not believe I was speeding at the time of being in the school zone and in doing so (if I was speeding) it was to avoid an obvious accident that would have occured from the driver merging into me. If I would have braked harshly I would also have been hit from behind due to traffic directly behind me. I tried to explain this to the officer but as I stated he did not see any of this occur nor wether I was in or out of the school zone. He then stated to me he wasnt going to mention he was ticketing me in a school zone rather just a 30/25 zone and a 2point violation. If anyone that can actually help me with this please respond. I have always taken responsibility for any previous ticket but I do believe I am totally innocent in this matter. if I take it to court will both officers be required to show up or just the one that pulled me over and didnt see anything he ticket me for actually happen. Thanks to any help!!! more

Voting Question: Moving with the expansion of space as opposed to moving through space?

When something travels at very high velocities, near the speed of light, relative to something else, there are relativistic effects such as time dilation and Lorenz contraction involved. But does this hold for something moving _with_ the expansion of space, such as distant galaxies, or only for things moving _through_ space? If we could see clocks on distant galaxies, would they seem slow to us? more

Resolved Question: Help with these trig problems? PLEASE?

If anyone could show me how to correctly solve the following it would be greatly appreciated: 1) If the minute hand of a clock is 3.27 inches long, how far does the tip of the hand travel in exactly 30 seconds? 2) What is the angular velocity of a stone embedded in the tread of a tire with a 22 inch diameter when the car is traveling 50 miles per hour? (1 mile=5280 feet) 3) If csca = 17/8 and tana<0, find sec a exactly 4) sin 0 = .238(find two angles for 0 in degrees) b) find 0 in radians in quadrant II thanks for your time more

Resolved Question: Can anyone recommend a way to make this simpler? It's to calculate the total time and cost of running ferries.?

import java.util.*; // for Scanner public class VancouverIslandFerrySystem { public static void main (String [] args) { //Declare new scanner variable Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); //Input travel times in hours and minutes System.out.print("Input hour (24 hour clock)==>"); double hours = input.nextInt(); System.out.print("Input minutes ==>"); double minutes = input.nextInt(); //Outputs new time in hours double newTime = convertHoursMinutesToDouble(hours, minutes); System.out.println("Total time in hours = " + newTime); //Outputs total daily run time double totalRunTime = RouteTotalOperationalTime (input); System.out.println("Total operational time = " + totalRunTime); //Calculating total operational times and costs for each vessel double vesselOneTime = RouteTotalOperationalTime (input); double vesselOneCost = vesselOneTime * 485; System.out.println("The total operational cost for vessel one is " + vesselOneCost); double vesselTwoTime = RouteTotalOperationalTime (input); double vesselTwoCost = vesselTwoTime * 595; System.out.println("The total operational cost for vessel two is " + vesselTwoCost); //Calculating total time and cost both vessels double totalTime = vesselOneTime + vesselTwoTime; System.out.println("Total time of runs = " + totalTime); double totalCost = vesselOneCost + vesselTwoCost; System.out.println("Total cost of runs = " + totalCost); } // Converts minutes and hours to a single double (time in hours) public static double convertHoursMinutesToDouble(double hours, double minutes) { double time = hours + minutes / 60.0; return time; } //Calculates each route's total operational time public static double RouteTotalOperationalTime (Scanner input) { double TotalRun = 0; System.out.print("Enter the number of runs: "); double numberRuns = input.nextInt(); //Input individual run times in hours and minutes, these statements repeat for every run for(double i = 1; i <= numberRuns; i++) { System.out.print("Enter duration of the run that is hours: "); double durationHours = input.nextDouble(); System.out.print("Enter duration of the run that is minutes: "); double durationMinutes = input.nextDouble(); double hours = durationHours; double minutes = durationMinutes; int loadingHours = 0; int loadingMinutes = 30; //Converts duration hours and minutes inputs into a single value (double) double runDuration = convertHoursMinutesToDouble(hours, minutes) + convertHoursMinutesToDouble(loadingHours, loadingMinutes); TotalRun = runDuration; } return TotalRun; } } I have to add 30 mins to each run for unloading and loading the ferry. The duration has to be entered in hours and minutes for each run, then converted into hours. I have to use scanner. This program runs, I just want it to be simpler. more

Resolved Question: Do time intervals change as you move away from Earth?

A man uses his pulse as a clock to measure time intervals by counting the number of heartbeats. If he were in a spaceship traveling moving uniformly at the speed of light, would he notice any change in his heartbeat assuming the travel did not put any physiological stress on him? Would someone on earth looking at him in a telescope detect any change in his heart rate compared to the resting heart rate on earth? more

Resolved Question: Need Help-Trig problem on quiz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

Suppose the tip of the minute hand of a clock is 2 inches from the center of the clock. Find the distance traveled by the tip of the minute hand for a duration of 20 minutes. Thanks in advance more

Resolved Question: Do you like my book? " first chapter included"?

it is a fantasy. I know that I made spelling mistakes and I will fix em. Srry bout it being so long. ohh and tell me what you think. Would you read it. Let me take you back a few hundred years or so to a long forgoten town that goes by the name of Ridling Groves. In this town there is but a few stores and even fewer houses. Not many people travel through Ridling Groves and not many people leave it. There is only one school house and only one market, neither get much use because a well educated young man was hard to come by in that time and women where seen unfit to teach. As for the market, well no one really bought food there for no food could be grown in Ridling Groves, the soil was salted and for six miles round there was lime in the earth. To get their food the Men and Women of Ridling Groves had to walk to the nearest town which was a staggering eight miles north. The children of Ridling Groves were much like the adults, under feed and very dull. The only form of fun or entertainment came in the mail, and most of the mail carriers did not make it into the town because of the dead wooded swaps surrounding it. If you didnt know your way through it, it would swallow you up. But there was one thing worth doing if you ever found yourself in the dull grey town of Ridling Groves, and that would be to find the old man named James Ryder. James Ryder has many stories, and like most old men repeats them a few times over. One story that he rarely tells is of his childhood. I was lucky enough to catch this story as I walked through the dust covered streets of the dull Ridling Groves. He was telling it to a group of children as he usually does, because the adults of Ridling Groves are not much for stories and do not believe half the words that fall out of James Ryder's mouth, but this is one story that a man of his age could not make up, and that is why I chose to listen. "I woke up at seven o'clock sharp" said James in his raspy old voice which seemed to carry the words he spoke through the air for quite some time before they stopped. " It was a Wedsneday as I recall, and I was getting ready for a day in the town ( The school house still didnt get much use back then ). I got up and made some eggs, then left the house. If I remember correctly it was about eight o'clock when I left. I was going to meet my friend Dave Stuart, and we were going to go get some bait to fish with at the general store." he said with warm smile on his face. " Dave never did have a good memory and like usual forgot his money. I told him I would loan him some of mine but he said he also forgot his pole. He said he'd run back to his house and get them and meet me at the fishing hole. I went to the market and bought my bait. As I was leaving the store an older man came from the ally beside the market and told me to come near. He was oddly dressed in a bright red suit with a black trimmed collar and six bright golden buttons going down the front. " here my boy take this." The strange man said. He held out a bottle with a blue ribbon around the neck. It didn't seem like much so James took it. " what is it?" James said. " Thats not important" said the old man, " what is importan is that you drink it's contents at twelve o'clock sharp tonight" James looked at the bottle and then at the man. " I'll see" said James to please the old man. "good" said the man " I best be off". "Wait" snapped James. The old man looked back " your not from around here are you " asked james. "No, I'm not" said the man. He walked away and seemed to just dissapere into the streets. James went fishing with Dave and they caught nothing. He went home and went strait to his room. He took the bottle and put it behind a loose tile on the wall. He ate dinner and went to bed. He dreamt of the old man in his bright red suit with the golden buttons and awoke with his hands sweaty and cold. He remembered what the old man had said and went to look at the bottle. He uncapped it and looked inside. The botttle seemed to contain normal water. He poured some into his hand and stired it around a bit. All of a sudden it started to glow and change from the glassy clearness of water to a bright red. He stirred it some more and it changed color, t went from a red to a purple to a blue. He had never seen such vivid color before. The water seemed to glow too, as if it were amiting it's own light. All of a sudden the water changed back from the glowing colorful swirls of light to water. At the instinse the water changed back he felt it emmit heat. The heat kept growing until it burrned so much he had to let go of the water. It fell to the floor and burned its way through the floor of his bedroom and kept going. He held his i=hand in a tight fist and tried hard to hold in the screams he bottled up. When he opened his hand there was a burn that looked like a pitch fork, but unlike a pitchfork it had seven spikes instead of four and the handle part of it looked mmuch thicker then the bra opps copied wrong hold on. cant add more the chapter exeeds the character limit... sorry. and I know i should banch it off in paragraphs. pay no attention and dont answr cuz its not leeting me put up full story. more

Voting Question: Can you answer these?

1.Why is an alarm clock going “off” when it actually turns on? 2.Why is Grape Nuts cereal called that, when it contains neither grapes, nor nuts? 3.In the song Yankee Doodle, is he calling the horse or the feather "macaroni"? 4.Why is it that on a phone or calculator the number five has a little dot on it? I 5. Is it legal to travel down a road in reverse, as long as your following the direction of the traffic? 6.What does PU stand for (as in "PU, that stinks!")? more

Resolved Question: Insomnia , Time-Management and the University Student!! HELP!?

i have a huge problem!! huge!!! i dunno what to do! i am a night person... yes, not by choice! but really. i try to go to bed early many many times and turn off lights and lie down and honestly.. my brain doesnt shut off. i cant drift off to sleep.. my brain keeps running! especially when i am saying i need to go to bed.. exam tomorrow or something.. it will be running and by the time i look at the clock its 30 minutes... 1hour 2 hours and i am still not asleep. eventually i fall asleep tho i dont remember the time but it is hard on me. i dont like light so in the summer whne i have the choice i sleep when the sun comes up at about 5 and awake about 12 pm. and go about my business from there. now i am in college.. i could get away with lateness in my highschool, but after 6 weeks of college i see that my lateness is wearing me out and i am gonna have serious issues! i go to be the earliest 11 pm. if i try for 9 pm.. it just doesnt work.. normally at 9 pm my mine is the widest.. open for learning so i usually study here. so its like routine.. so i go to sleep anout 12 pm to wake at 5 30... it doesnt happen!!!! i end up waking at 7!! somehow i manage to turn the alarm off.. throw the fone at the wall or something. i have to wake at 5 30 to get an 8 o clock class because: 1: i have to take two buses to school 2: i live in the middle of the city so its some WICKED traffic 3: the bus terminus is ALWAYS rammed, so it always hard to get a bus even when i get there early.. i have to fight to get on a bus (all students travel on the buses all of them are late with me so..) aww boy. is there a way to stop insomnia? how can i make sure i sleep at 9. maybe if i find this way i could sleep at 8 or 9 pm and awake 3 or 4.. my study time and do so for 2 or so hours. if i could just find a way to rest. more

Voting Question: How to aviod a speeding ticket in tempoary speed limits?

I have a "notice of intent" for travelling on the A1 Belfast/Newry Road, was clocked at 56mph while a temporary speed limit of 40 was in effect. This was done in a works van and the letter came to work, though it was handed to me by a secretary and the letter specifically states "YOU MUST NOT PASS THIS DOCUMENT TO THE DRIVER TO COMPLETE". Is there any way to avoid this fine/points or even get the company to shift the problem as they are in breach of the terms of the document? Not normally a speeder btw just got caught in a temp restriction on a road usually signed 60mph! more

Voting Question: Has anyone seen a UFO that looked like this?

Once I was outside with my mom at about 9-10 o'clock at night, when we both saw a UFO traveling lower than most air crafts usually do. Its travel was completely silent and the craft was transparent. The only reason we were able to see its shape was because the stars looked closer than they normally do within its perimeter as it moved. It traveled slower than familiar air crafts and was a shape like a triangle with the wings stretched out further and the nose angle was obtuse while the wing angles were very acute. It may have had an indent in the rear, but I don't remember for sure. It was like there was a video recorder on the top of the space craft that displayed the stars directly above on the bottom of the space craft to travel unnoticed. My mom put it out of her mind later on as a bird, but I am absolutely positive that it was either a secret government aircraft or an extraterrestrial spacecraft. more

Resolved Question: if the hand of the clock is 7 inches long, how far would its tip travel while you are taking your test?

does anyone know how to solve this problem? Plz show me details! Thank you more

Resolved Question: Can you guys please help me with my hw and answer some multiple choice Q's?

1. ______ is a type of nonvolatile memory into which data can be stored and retrieved. a. SDRAM b. Flash memory c. Register d. RAM 3. With bitmapped images, the color of each _____ is represented by bits, the more bits used, the better the image quality. a. Pixel b. Map c. Byte d. Vector 4. System software is usually divided into two categories: operating system software and Programs. a. Planning system b. FAT system c. background d. utility 5. _______ was originally developed in the late 1960s at AT&T Bell Labs as an operating system for midrange servers. a. Linux b. Solaris c. Mac OS X d. UNIX 6. A(n) ____ instruction might look like a meaningless string of 0s and 1s, but it actually represents specific operations and storage locations. a. Programming language b. Machine language c. COBOL language d. ASCII 7. Similar to the way an IP address or domain uniquely identifies a computer on the internet, a _____ uniquely identifies a web page. a. Uniform resource locator (URL) b. WEB ID (WID) c. universal resource identifier (URI) d. Web resource identifier (WRI) 8. _____ is the version of windows designed for handheld PCs, smart phones, and portable media players. a. Windows server 2003 b. Windows mobile c. Windows Vista d. Windows Embedded 9. When data is processed into a meaningful form, it becomes _______. a. A program b. Code c. A database d. Information 10. A ______ is the hardware where data is actually stored. a. Storage medium b. Storage Memory c. Storage Processor d. Storage device 12. The _____ is the section of the CPU that performs arithmetic involving integers and logical operations. a. Register b. Decode unit c. Internal cache d. arithmetic/logic unit (ALU) 16. To keep files organized, related documents are often stored in ____ (also called directories) located on the storage medium. a. Labels b. Indexes c. Programs d. Folders 17. In the early 1980s, things began to change. _____ were invented and computer use increased dramatically. a. Networks b. Microcomputers c. Printers d. Computers 18. Filenames almost always contain a _ at the end of the filename. a. file extension b. file subname c. file subscript d. file attachment 19. ____ means that data can be retrieved directly from any location on the storage medium, in any order. a. Online access b. Sequential access c. Random access d. Indirect access 20. Unlike magnetic and optical storage systems ___ have no moving parts --- a property that makes them a solid-state storage system. a. Flash memory storage systems b. USB memory storage systems c. Bluetooth memory storage systems d. Zip memory storage systems 21. _____ is a method of storing data on two or more hard drives that work in combination to do the job of a larger drive. a. Holographic storage b. RAID (redundant arrays of independent disks) c. Network Attached Storage (NAS) d. Storage Area Networks (SANs) 22. One measurement of the speed of a CPU is the _____, which is rated in MHz or GHz a. System rpm b. CPU clock speed c. system speed d. CPU rpm 23. An important task that the operating system performs is____, which keeps track of the files stored on a PC so that they can be retrieved when needed. a. File management b. File listing c. File recovery d. Disk management 24. In addition to the four primary computer operations, today's computers typically also perform ____ functions. a. sorting b. programming c. calculations d. communications 25. A ____ is a place to store something temporarily. a. Sector b. Cache c. Track d. Tape 26. A ___ is an electronic path over which data can travel. a. bus b. lane c. cache memory d. word 30. The means by which an operating system or any other program interacts with the user is called. a. user login b. program front-end c. user interface d. programming interface 31. CD-ROM discs and DVD-Rom discs are ___ optical discs and come prerecorded with commercial products a. read-only b. write-only c. rewritable d. recordable 33. Terascale computing is the ability of computers to process one ___ floating-point operations per second (teraflops) a. million b. billion c. trillion d. quadrillion more

Resolved Question: Can you guys please answer this multiple choice questions for me?

It is actually a part of my homework assignment which is due today and I lost my book. Please help me guys!! 1. ______ is a type of nonvolatile memory into which data can be stored and retrieved. a. SDRAM b. Flash memory c. Register d. RAM 3. With bitmapped images, the color of each _____ is represented by bits, the more bits used, the better the image quality. a. Pixel b. Map c. Byte d. Vector 4. System software is usually divided into two categories: operating system software and Programs. a. Planning system b. FAT system c. background d. utility 5. _______ was originally developed in the late 1960s at AT&T Bell Labs as an operating system for midrange servers. a. Linux b. Solaris c. Mac OS X d. UNIX 6. A(n) ____ instruction might look like a meaningless string of 0s and 1s, but it actually represents specific operations and storage locations. a. Programming language b. Machine language c. COBOL language d. ASCII 7. Similar to the way an IP address or domain uniquely identifies a computer on the internet, a _____ uniquely identifies a web page. a. Uniform resource locator (URL) b. WEB ID (WID) c. universal resource identifier (URI) d. Web resource identifier (WRI) 8. _____ is the version of windows designed for handheld PCs, smart phones, and portable media players. a. Windows server 2003 b. Windows mobile c. Windows Vistad. Windows Embedded 9. When data is processed into a meaningful form, it becomes _______. a. A program b. Code c. A database d. Information 10. A ______ is the hardware where data is actually stored. a. Storage medium b. Storage Memory c. Storage Processor d. Storage device 12. The _____ is the section of the CPU that performs arithmetic involving integers and logical operations. a. Register b. Decode unit c. Internal cache d. arithmetic/logic unit (ALU) 16. To keep files organized, related documents are often stored in ____ (also called directories) located on the storage medium. a. Labels b. Indexes c. Programs d. Folders 17. In the early 1980s, things began to change. _____ were invented and computer use increased dramatically. a. Networks b. Microcomputers c. Printers d. Computers 18. Filenames almost always contain a _ at the end of the filename. a. file extension b. file subname c. file subscript d. file attachment 19. ____ means that data can be retrieved directly from any location on the storage medium, in any order. a. Online access b. Sequential access c. Random access d. Indirect access 20. Unlike magnetic and optical storage systems ___ have no moving parts --- a property that makes them a solid-state storage system. a. Flash memory storage systems b. USB memory storage systems c. Bluetooth memory storage systems d. Zip memory storage systems 21. _____ is a method of storing data on two or more hard drives that work in combination to do the job of a larger drive. a. Holographic storage b. RAID (redundant arrays of independent disks) c. Network Attached Storage (NAS) d. Storage Area Networks (SANs) 22. One measurement of the speed of a CPU is the _____, which is rated in MHz or GHz a. System rpm b. CPU clock speed c. system speed d. CPU rpm 23. An important task that the operating system performs is____, which keeps track of the files stored on a PC so that they can be retrieved when needed. a. File management b. File listing c. File recovery d. Disk management 24. In addition to the four primary computer operations, today's computers typically also perform ____ functions. a. sorting b. programming c. calculations d. communications 25. A ____ is a place to store something temporarily. a. Sector b. Cache c. Track d. Tape 26. A ___ is an electronic path over which data can travel. a. bus b. lane c. cache memory d. word 30. The means by which an operating system or any other program interacts with the user is called. a. user login b. program front-end c. user interface d. programming interface 31. CD-ROM discs and DVD-Rom discs are ___ optical discs and come prerecorded with commercial products a. read-only b. write-only c. rewritable d. recordable 33. Terascale computing is the ability of computers to process one ___ floating-point operations per second (teraflops) a. million b. billion c. trillion d. quadrillion more

Resolved Question: I just got 10 points for best answer about speed limit?

last Friday i got a speeding ticket, the same day my answer about speed limit zones was picked as the best answer. I just moved to a new big city and was in an unfamiliar neighbourhood travelling with the flow of traffic about 70km in 60km/h zone. as I was going downhill about 100 metres, the sign suddenly changes from 60 km/h to 50Km/h(school zone about 200 metres ahead). I had no time to react to the sign. the cop clocked me at 73Km/h in 50Km zone. set fine is $111.25 and 3 demerit points if guilty. Should I fight the ticket? How much will my insurance increase? 26 years of driving, this is the first and only traffic violation ticket I received. more

Voting Question: Can I use my T-Mobile cell phone while travelling in France to text message & to call stateside?

Is it possible to use my prepaid T-Mobile cell in France for more than text messaging and as an alarm clock? more

Resolved Question: i need cell phone help?

these are the pones i am looking at MOTO Q9c lime and the info is PRICE Retail Price $429.99 Instant Savings -$230.00 Mail-in Rebate -$100.00 Sale Price 99.99 Premier Phone Features * Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard * 1.3 MP camera with video * Stereo Bluetooth®-capable * Ergonomic QWERTY keyboard * Use your phone as a modem for your laptop while traveling * Windows Media Player lets you bring your music & videos with you * Expandable memory slot * Speaker-phone * Voice-activated dialing Tools & Gadgets * Documents to Go allows customers to create and edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents * Customize your phone with productivity applications or your favorite ringtones and games from the Alltel Shop. Premier Services * Messaging capabilities: Text, Picture and Video * Office Sync E-mail and Good Mobile Messaging-capable * Preloaded Documents to Go lets you edit Microsoft Office documents i am also looking at he Glimmer by lg Retail Price $419.99 Instant Savings -$190.00 Mail-in Rebate -$100.00 Sale Price 129.99 Premier Phone Features * Touch-screen interface * Hidden keypad * 2.0 MP camera with video * Music player supporting MP3, WMA, AAC and AAC+ * Expandable memory slot * GPS-capable Tools & Gadgets * Calendar * Alarm clock * Calculator * Notepad * World clock Premier Features * Download games, ringtones and more in the Alltel Shop * Messaging capabilities: Text, Picture and Video * Preloaded with Alltel TV, Alltel Search, Alltel Navigation, MyCast, RealTone Jukebox and CityID and also the black berry 8703e- Retail Price $519.99 Instant Savings -$320.00 Mail-in Rebate -$100.00 Sale Price 99.99 Premier Phone Features * QWERTY keyboard * GPS Capable with TeleNav GPS * Bluetooth® wireless technology * Speakerphone Tools & Gadgets * Integrated attachment viewing for popular file formats * Access up to 11 email accounts (1 BES and 10 BIS) * BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) * BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) * BlackBerry Messenger * Personal Organizer * TeleNav GPS Navigator capable so are they worth it and i am really liking the moto q the most a the time so do you like them? pros and cons and is the micsoft on the phones like on the computer??? all of the but the glimmer have a key board. so that rellay helped but the glimmer has a touch screen well ok so no glimmer what about a black berry pearl to take its place feedback more