Desk Shell

What is a five lobed hard shell fruit (?) with light brown seeds inside that look like maple tree seeds? I found it on the street - five sided plant parts are very rare in nature - I don't know if this one is in any way edible - maybe not - I'm not going to try unless I know it is! The hard shell came apart on my desk - it split the five shell parts apart on the deep lobe lines - the seeds are covered in a papery light tan material that reminds me of maple tree seeds - like helicopter blades, but thin and soft - the seed is somewhat visible inside at one end of the covering.

How do you get a mac with a colored shell like Rob Dyrdek has? On an episode of the fantasy factory they show his mac on his desk, I think it's the behind the scenes uncut footage episode.. but its got a blue and yellow shell. How do you customize a mac like?

Transfer insides of eMac to a new shell? I have an eMac circa probably 2003, and the display has gone bad. The insides are all fine, but I have to have and external monitor hooked up to use it, I hate having both monitors on my desk, so I was wondering, is there anyway to take the insides of the eMac and put them into some kind of store bought pc shell?

where can i find a white desk for my office? i want a beach themed office.? i want a beach themed office and when i picture it, it is with white furniture. so i want a desk thats beachy looking, i guess antique. like old white wood. and of course i have a small budget, so nothing too pricey but not plain either.i want to be able to incorporate a lot of shells and vases. its also my guest room so i wanted people to feel like they were on vacation. so its a mix of both.so any help i can get will be great. especially pictures! i dont work well with reading or writing. i need visuals! thanks.

What from my desk drawer can I use to crack pistachio shells? I can't seem to crack them with my fingers.......not strong enough I guess. I tried pinching them with a staple puller......didn't work. I tried hitting them with the end of my pen........no luck. Tried prying them with a screw driver.........phillips head no good! I have a nutcracker but it's in the kitchen and I'm not. Please HELP! I'm really hungry here.

leaving laptops without casing or shell for long periods of time? I have an Apple iBook G4 that i recently stripped of it's casing, with all hardware exposed. It's neatly sitting on my portable desk and on a blanket. Is it okay to leave a notebook pc, mac, or laptop like this for long periods of time, say, 4 to 6 months?

My coworker always leaves her food just out on the counter instead of cleaning up so I dumped it on her desk? Now my boss wrote ME up, even though every person in that office complains about her leaving like boiled egg shells just laying on the counter. It's disgusting, so I took them all and just plopped it on her desk. She went ballistic, told the boss, and he wrote me up. How is this fair?

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What are these little hard shell bugs crawling around my office? they creep across my desk. They are tiny, light brown in color and crunch when I smoosh them eww, no not the dredded potato bug. Those are suppose to be big. These little pest are the size of crumbs

What is a good substitute for an aquarium cover? I have a 10 gallon aquarium on my desk. My desk already has a Florescent light so I don't want to shell out the money to buy a Aquarium cover + florescent light. What is a good replacement for an aquarium cover? I don't think I want the terrarium covers because they're wire screens- and they let dust through. Any suggestion?

Any ideas for an Aussie themed room? I'm redecorating my room with an Australian theme. The walls are a light pastel green, and I have some green and blue tropical flower sheets by Lilu on my bed. I have a boomerang above my bed and some shells on my desk. I've just recently ordered some prints of koala bears, sydney harbour, etc. I also have a raffia-like curtain on my window. It's starting to come together, but I still feel like it needs something. I would like to get a new lamp, but not sure what kind. Any ideas for what to add? I have ordered a print with koalas, a landscape of sydney harboar, a kookaburra print, and I'm waiting for a print of an 1890 Aussie Map. Planning on getting some more prints of native animals and ayers rock as well as the great barrier reef.

How Do I Force My Self To Come Out of My Shell? Very Introverted, and in my 2nd year of college. I am involved in two clubs, I do go to the movies, but usually by myself. I do have an on campus job. At the library circulation desk, where I'm in contact with people. But I still don't seem to have any close friends. I always carry a paperback book with me, so I have something to read. I usually eat dinner alone, while reading my book. I think I use the book as a buffer or shield or something and it might be putting people off. Or turning them away. How do I force myself to come out of my comfort zone(books)?

How can I tell if a pick is real tortoise shell? I found a guitar pick in an old desk, and I believe it might be tortoise shell. There is no logo on it or anything, and it's pretty heavy. I've heard that if rubbing it until it's warm doesn't produce a smell, then it might be tortoise, and it doesn't seem to smell like anything, but I'm not sure if I'm getting it hot enough. Do you know of any other tests that won't damage the pick? Thanks. Heh, thanks Ryan, I'll keep my eyes open for one. Yeah, I'm fairly familiar with the restrictions on them, and just the fact that it was in a desk doesn't mean it's pre-ban tortoise, and I'd still have no way to prove it. More than anything, I'm just curious, you know? Whether or not it's fake, it's a fine pick, lol.

How do I catch a freakishly smart mouse/rat? I work in an office with many rooms. We have been having a mouse problem. I come to work in the morning and there are droppings on my desk. I set glue traps and we found one across the room from where we had placed it with hair. So hes strong and smart. Ok so two days in a row we come in the morning to find a half eaten candy with a torn candy wrapper right next to my door. A coworker of mine keeps a basket with candy in her office which is also closed at night. We found droppings in the basket. So in a nut shell: The rat raids her basket and manages to fit itself and its candy of choice (its chosen two different candies) under her door and carries the candy across the office to my door. However, I have carpet in my office so he cannot fit himself and the candy under the door. So he eats his candy and when hes full he goes into hiding, leaving all his mess behind. He likes eating in my office i guess b/c he drags his snacks to my doorway. HELP!!

Is my turtle's shell deformed? I have a juvenile RES (red eared slider) turtle who's shell is 4" and he is 6 years old. I've read that he is severely stunted and that his insides are extremely crowded. The scutes on his shell are flat and they stand up a little up in the middle of his shell. It means his shell stands up a little bit in the middle like a baby turtle. The end of his shell is basically a thin layer which slightly bends. He can't tuck his whole body into his shell so his his shell deformed? I keep him in a 9 gallon plastic tank with a turtle dock, a desk lamp, and water which covers half the tank. Is his shell deformed? I kept him in this setup for 1 year. I had him for 6 years and when I got him, I didn't know how to take care of him so I kept him in a small, plastic container with a tiny bit water and no basking area. He was in there for 5 years and I'm amazed he survived. I now know everything on how to take proper care of my turtle and is his shell deformed? How much longer can he survive because I'm getting him a proper habitat in Christmas. Will he die before Christmas?

Hermit Crab shell switching? I had two hermit crabs at my desk at work (it's a really laid back work environment and I love having them there. I have a key to go in on weekends and maintain a good temperature and humidity level). I had them for about 3 months when out of the blue one was dead. So I got a new one to keep the original one company. As soon as I put the new one in he took two steps, found a new shell and tried it out. Then he walked around to every other shell in the tank and switched to them, sometimes switching back. He ended up in the shell of the one who had died (it was thoroughly cleaned first). So the problem is that as soon as he switched my original hermit crab who was in too small of a shell but wouldn't switch ran over and took the new crabs original shell. I wasn't even going to leave that shell in because it was painted (that was all the pet store had for crabs). But the shell the new crab has picked looks too small for him- smaller than the original. I have bigger and smaller shells but he seems to have made his choice. Should I get more shells? Trust his judgment? What if he wants his old shell back? Thanks!

Why did a AA battery on my husband's desk explode? I was sitting at my desk in my office when I heard what sounded like a gunshot. I walked over to my husband's desk to find that a used AA battery that had been sitting under one of the books on his desk (along three other batteries) had exploded. The other three batteries were intact. The "shell", by which I mean the outer container of the battery that has the maker's name and info, was lying across the room. There was a gooey blue substance on his desk and on the back of the book that had been on top of it. Also on the desk was two other pieces of the battery; a thin metal-looking tube piece and a round, thin disc with a thin metal rod attached to the center. Also, there was a charred mark on his book. Any ideas?

Should I take my dog to the vet immediately after he ate a full meal from Taco Bell that was left on my desk? My boyfriend left me a meal from Taco Bell on my desk to surprise me when I got home. However, when I got home my dog had somehow managed to get on the desk and eat all of it (a burrito supreme and a taco minus some of the shell). He is only an 8lb mini dachshund and I'm scared this may greatly harm his health. Should I take him to the vet immediately? Or will he only just get diarrhea and be ok once it's out of his system? Help!

How can i make my cat comfortable? she is almost 9 and i want to make her comfortable i put a white fur rug under my desk were my snake tank is (fake fur of course lol) and she seems to like it better then juming up and down of the bed and everything wat else can i do to prevent any injury her breed may or mite have she is a tabby or american short hair < but i know her coat is tortise shell/hair < srry i cant spell lol

Need a color/theme for new room!?!?!? i'm a 13 year old girl and i'm re-doin my room. i have 2 ideas but need your opinion and ideas. Idea 1:i use color theme of blues and turquoises. and an underwater shell theme. i'd have shells all over and an aquarium fish thing. Idea2:i use color theme of all shades of pink and paint my walls light pink and have bedding that's light pink and magenta and dark pink and have pink decorative things. Other details: i have a cherry wood desk,vanity, and drawers but there's white built-ins in the room. i need a head board/bed, bedding, and any decorative things, and a chair/chaise longe to go by my window. I have a queen matress. i want one thing in my room that's unique and cool like a mini fridge or a big aquarium on a shelf etc. either pick one of the above ideas and say why u picked it or give me a website with some cool ideas or your ideas. i'm worried that i'll grow out of a theme so i wanna make it last through my teen yrs. thanks in advance♥♥♥

Why does this person keep grabbing my stuff without my permission? Sometimes, at school, when I put my papers onto my desk, my "friend" keeps grabbing them (before I can even stop her) so she can look at them (if she sits nearby). I'm really irritated when she does this, but I can't bring myself to say "STOP TOUCHING MY STUFF" (even though I want to). Whenever I confront her about this, she berates me for my ethnicity and berates me further if I don't come up with a comeback faster. Then she gets personal by saying that I'm rascist towards her. I end up withdrawing into my "shell" (just like a typical Cancerian-for those of you who know astrology, you know what I mean) and I feel hurt b/c my secrets are being invaded. I can tell that she (either subconscously or conscously) likes to have some sort of power by trying to investigate my "secrets". However, I can't lug a safebox around school, b/c it is obviously inconvenient...how can I solve this "problem?" Plus, I really, really don't like her b/c she seems really rascist, but I can't say it to her face b/c I can't stand feeling hurt (although I wouldn't mind making her feel bad O_o). So I need some advice on how to make a friendship die without inflicting way too much pain or causing too much drama...! P.S. don't berate me further about my being "weak" or "overly sensitive". I know that, and I've beat myself up (figuratively speaking) for it already... Plus, I'd like to know of the most painful way(s) & the most painless way(s) of breaking a friendship.

Whats on ur desk? I saw this online and thought it was fun...so Whats on your desk?MY desk:left to right.Sub woffer,speekers,car speekers hooked to computer,water bottel,hand cream,lock box with pencil,thempel ,pads,tampons,sewing string,bbs,astrojax,maches,mach strikers,needel,notepad,incense. keyboard, paper,frosted flakes bowel with coco pebbels in it,mascara,black nail polish,rubberband,budweiser band,pices of coca cola can,pencil,candy rapper,note peper,sugar anap pea seeds,serum,pice of cable wire,mouse pad,mouse, cap off a water bottel, spoon,cotten,cup,mecanial penical,dryerace marker,powder from something,pealed off paint,pice of plactic,hair tie,cup with tea,duck tape,deodorant,tweezers,box with 2 note pads,3 mecanial pencels,10 dry erace markers.dirtbike key,2 other tweezers,tool thing,4screw,key to a bike lock,eracer,3 containers of led,AA batery,empty shells to 22 rifel,7 hylighter,yellow ink pen,black ink pen,tag. on top of box digital camera,measuring tape,needle nose plyers bits of electrial tape,q tip,braclet,eye drops,another pice of coca cola can,notes,tv remote,remote to computer speekers,2 mecanical pencels,writing on box,paper,pen,monitor,wireless remote signal reader to speekers.Dust everywere.thats it

whats the chance of hp giving me a new or refurbished computer or refund? first computer out of the box was broken 2nd computer the plactic shell came off and was sent to hp for repairs that took seven weeks to crazy gule plastic the screen is starting to die because of a loose connection so sometimes it sporatically flashes and the space bar on the kayboard broke to a point where i cannot fix it the computer has never been dropped and not moved to frequently most the time it was left on my desk any ideas or opinions?

Where can i find a white desk for my office? i want a beach themed office.? I want a beach themed office and when i picture it, it is with white furniture. so i want a desk that is beach theme looking, i guess antique. like old white wood. and of course i have a small budget, so nothing too pricey but not plain either.i want to be able to incorporate a lot of shells and vases. its also my guest room so i wanted people to feel like they were on vacation. so its a mix of both.so any help i can get will be great. especially pictures! i don't work well with reading or writing. i need visuals! thanks.

Snail? The shell is transparent? Eggs? I Didn't buy it? It must have hitch-hiked on one of the plants i bought is really small about 3mm long and about the same tall on my grass like plant ridding the leaf of algae. I saw it just today in my new Shrimp Tank Nano Cube form Dennerle Really nice and cute sitting on my desk as we speak i sare at the tiny snail... The tank has been set up just over a week and has three shrimp two of which are Almano or Japonica some say and the other a Red Cherry Shrimp. Oh yes another thing... About 100 eggs tiny 1mm in size strewn in bundles all across the glass in the corner? I presume this is the hitch-hiking snail(s) I hear hundred of these on the internet but all i want to know is if they are good if they arn't snails what are they, as shrimps eggs hatch at birth they are not layed. How long untill they hatch? Will the snails infest (Yes)

What should I give my cleaning lady? How much should I give my cleaning lady for cleaning my office this year? She comes in once a week to vacume and wipe my desk clean. I do make a mess sometimes with sunflower seed shells and crumbs under my keyboard. I forget what I gave her last year.

What is on your desk along with your computer? me - books, papers, hair clips, a notebook, 2 pens, sunflower seeds, baked lays, 2 washcloths, aspirin, bills, a spare mouse pad that I use as a coaster, a cup to spit the shells, in a diet coke, tape, a candle, a broken locket, court papers, my cell phone....

is it okay to eat these peanuts I found? that I put in my desk drawer a week ago? They're still in their shell, but they were in a bowl. I forgot about them, and I'm really hungry. haha

There bulling me and I cant do anything!!!? I get bullied at my school AND I DONT NO WHAT TO DO this is what they do btw im short skinny and usless at everthing including defending my self! MIKI: when I was away sick she licked my lolli pop when she nos i hate germs and stuff and she always black mails me like if you don't give me choclate than ill tell soso you like them RACHEL: Also licked my lolli pop and shell put her feet and stuff on my desk cos shell no i hate it and shell threten me by holing a pen over my work and shell say shell mark my work if i dont do what she wants me to. BONNIE: Punched me today HARD in the arm cos i put my hand up to give her a high five. Plus her and rachel held me down one day and stole all the chips i was eating. ANNIKA: Is nice to me when its just us but when were with other people around she treats me like im a piece of junk SOPHIE: I somehow just annoy her naturally so she says i would make a bad wife that a bird would be the only pet i could handle and one day she was trying to steal my cheese from my cracker dip so i ran of and she came after me (with someone else) and picked up a pencile and showed it down my top then both of them wouldnt let go of me a sophie even said to the other 1 go get that glad wrap (to shove down my top as well) but i got away but i had to stay in a class room were there was a movie playing and a teacher! SAM (the other one): by her being the other one i think explains enough. Georgia: she told a boy in my class who i liked and she knew he would gossip! and the guy i like isnt like my age hes like 17 18 and comes to our school to learn to be a teacher! And i no some of it little stuff but its anoying and today when i got home from school i just started crying and i couldnt stop and by writing all this im crying again i cant help it i mean why do they have to pick on me im there stupid fun fiddle toy that they twidel arond and poke when there bored its like they dont relise im real and have feelings! today miki even 2 feel good about herself had 2 out beat at skipping i mean come on then in class she was saying how she was so good at skate boarding when she sucks she has a thing like she has 2 no that ever1 nos shes better than them. its all cos her mum pays no attention 2 her buts its no need 2 pick on my what the hell can i do 2 get them to stop bulling me!!! AND IF U SAY TELL THE FUCKING TEACHER THEN I WILL DELETE UR ANSWER!!! i cant even run away cos thell come after me!!!

Long Story But Please Please Read I Need Help? So theres lots of girls in my class at school and there all stronger than me cos im skinny and short and i'm compleatly useless. The thing is I have no friends they all think that their my friend but they don't relise that there really being mean to me Is it just me or is what there doing actually mean MIKI: when I was away sick she licked my lolli pop when she nos i hate germs and stuff and she always black mails me like if you don't give me choclate than ill tell soso you like them RACHEL: Also licked my lolli pop and shell put her feet and stuff on my desk cos shell no i hate it and shell threten me by holing a pen over my work and shell say shell mark my work if i dont do what she wants me to. BONNIE: Punched me today HARD in the arm cos i put my hand up to give her a high five. Plus her and rachel held me down one day and stole all the chips i was eating. ANNIKA: Is nice to me when its just us but when were with other people around she treats me like im a piece of junk SOPHIE: I somehow just annoy her naturally so she says i would make a bad wife that a bird would be the only pet i could handle and one day she was trying to steal my cheese from my cracker dip so i ran of and she came after me (with someone else) and picked up a pencile and showed it down my top then both of them wouldnt let go of me a sophie even said to the other 1 go get that glad wrap (to shove down my top as well) but i got away but i had to stay in a class room were there was a movie playing and a teacher! SAM (the other one): by her being the other one i think explains enough. Georgia: she told a boy in my class who i liked and she knew he would gossip! and the guy i like isnt like my age hes like 17 18 and comes to our school to learn to be a teacher. And theres more but i dont want to bore u 2 much they all think its funny to steal my chips and do things they think is harmless any way my question was are they really being mean or am i just a bit over the the top? PS everthing ive written is true they do do all that to me!

is my room too cold for my hermit crab? i think my room is too cold for my hermit. in the store (under a heat lamp) he was roaming around and being all interesting. but now he just balls up in his shell most of the time. when i touch him he feels pretty cold. i keep my fan on and the ac is in the high 60s low 70s. so should i get a heat lamp or desk lamp to accommodate him?

How to clean keyboard? I used to snack on sunflower seeds (not shelled) at my desk, and probably have at least 3 of them down inside my keyboard. I've turned the keyboard upside-down and shook it, and have tried the can of air. They have not come out. I'm told it's probably not a good idea to remove buttons. This is bugging me, 'cause some buttons act like they're sticking. Any help? Thanks alot.

Dog shaking for no reason, no loud noise and not rabies? shes just cowering under my moms desk and shaking. we try to draw her out but shes so scared for some reason. if we sit down shell come to us and make us hug her whats the deal anyone know?

Why won't my headphones work on my desk-top PC? Is it my soundcard as I've checked all the vol. controls etc. ? My hardware is : Microsoft UAA Function Driver for High Definition Audio - Realtek 880/860 USB Audio Device & have Window XP. The headphones work fine on my stereo system and I think I can v faintly hear a test sound on the computer with them on. I've never used speakers on this computer and am completely stumped as to what to do next. Really do not want to be shelling out to fix this problem either! Can anyone help me please in simple lay-man terms??!! I've been told that I have no drivers....I have no idea what an OS is also. According to Belarc my drivers are: 137.43 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity 125.51 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space SONY DVD RW DRU-720A [CD-ROM drive] TDK CDRW4800B [CD-ROM drive] 3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive] Maxtor 6L160P0 [Hard drive] (163.93 GB) -- drive 0, s/n L30ST6HG, rev BAJ41G20, SMART Status: Healthy I really have no idea what this all means or how to even begin to fix this !!! sorry, I was told that I have no drivers for a graphics card.....and that "The system is using the standard Windows VGA driver, which would not allow you to run the program. You need to get these drivers installed before going any further." Is this all linked to the sound also? and according to Belarc re: my Network Drivers there are "none detected" Is any of this info useful to anyone to help me please?

I just found out that the person I work with makes a buck 50 more than me? I am in shell shock because I have been working longer than him. We both work front desk. and we just recently went under new ownership I recently got done the 90 day period. I need a raise bad I just got married n I have a daughter and Im moving into a house. I make 7 an hour he makes 8.50 how can I ask for a raise???

I'm thinking of fixing my room.. who has the best idea/images for this task? i need ideas for desk, vanity mirror, shell...

Why does she keep poking my wee wee? im 5'10 and the desk at school lines up directly with my wee wee. while shes sitting ill come over and talk to my friends, then shell say, "joey where is it" then she pokes my wee wee. then she smiles. but i cant help but get a woody off of this. she does it like twice a week. is it that im so damn handsome

Does this girl like me? I sit next to her in 2 different classes and in the first one she gets really close, like shell sit on my desk with her legs spread, play with my hair, and feel my muscles. And in the second class she just touch my muscles and laughs a lot. Thanks

Does anybody else get idiotic messages from people about your questions? Yup, they have the same right to an opinion as I do, and I delete theirs. I hope these people paid attention when the highway ramp collapsed from the burning fuel tanker, no explosives were planted, concrete and steel collapse from burning fuel, just like on 9/11. Saddam Hussein was universally agreed by democrats with the same info. Bush was given, as a threat and in clear violation of UN treaty, in addition to the WMD issue, and a war criminal. Artillery shells containing nerve/mustard gas are WMDs, and have been found and destroyed, in Iraq. Who really thinks others would be sitting on a desk all gift wrapped waiting for us when they have great value on the international blackmarket? Bush made bad decisions, no doubt, I won't defend that, nor should I. Electing Gore would have been far worse.

spider bite im freakin out man? so i was chillin at my computer desk and all the sudden i felt a little prick on my arm. theres is a bump but no obvious fang marks and there is a rash but it has no color. it hurt to the touch at first, but not anymore. im a hypochondriac and im freakin out. my moms asleep and i dont think shell be happy if i wake her up and its nothing. should i worry?

I Like a girl that has a boyfriend, i think? (this is a long story,if you not gonna respond. DONT READ!!!)? I can always just talk to a girl, like conversation,make them laugh or stuff like that. But as far as liking them they would never know, i always put up a defensive shield to seem cool i guess. Im not a jerk or asshole by know means, but act like i just want to be friends nothing more. Theres a girl i see one time a week in my class for 2hr 45min. God she's is gorgeous, pretty, fit, shy, polite, the whole nine yards oh and spanish!!! Basically my dream girl. Anyways i can talk with her and when we do talk shell always face me smile, play with her hair and give me a nice long response to my questions. And she always laughs around me. And shes not that talkative in class. Like shell sit at her desk during breaks, and text on her phone. But i can get up go over and talk to her and shell put her phone down face me lean in little, and always smiles, and keep the conversation going. So i decided today i had enough i was going to finally ask her out or something to let her know i was serious. I mean so far things been going my way so far bought a car ( 1997 Trans Am Ram Air Black T-Tops 6-Spd 45,693 miles for 5,400 cash) doing good in school and helping out around the house. Not bragging but this was all to help me finally build up the courage to ask her out. So i see her seating by herself in the middle of break. So i was talking to my friend and seen her pear over a couple times. So i cut off the conversoin and go over to "just" talk. Again she sits her phone down and pay attention and leans towards me. So we start talking and she starts laughing, etc. I finally start asking her to come with me on an amusement park. When i did the dumbest ******* things ever, i was like " yea me and my girl goes to amusement park with my friends who have season passes", I DONT EVEN HAVE A ******* GIRL!!!!!! Before i said that stupid line, she said she really want to go to an amusement park and asked me when do they open. I was like WTF did i just say, i mean my mouth was literally hanging open after i said that. So i decided to change the subject about cars which i know alot about. So i told her that i was going to install a new transmission in my car and she said "i know nothing about cars i always get scammed when i go to the dealerships", i said take your boyfriend. She said he know less then her about cars". I mean when she said that my heart literaly sunk, i felt tears in my eays ( i know i know, bigggty, bigggty *****) but i really like her way too fast. The other day i was sitting on the hood of my car, looking at the clouds thinking about marrying her, having kids, going in a walk in the snow on a cloudy. Real romantic thoughts it kinda scared me. Anyways we talked a bit more than class resumed. Then class let out and i grabbed my stuff to hurry and walk her out but she was way ahead of me. I wanted to call her name run up to her and just confess all my emotions, but didn't want to come off creepy. So as i was walking to the parking lot i seen her get in her car real quick and slam it in reverse and speed off. I usually have a chance to walk her to her car and just walk and talk. I know i wanna think i made her mad or something, but thats just way to convince ya know? So what the **** do i do know. This is the kinda girl i would kill for, sell my car and all posses ions for. But at the same time wanna see her happy. I keep her in my prayers asking god to just make her happy and not worry about what i want, but whatever makes her happy. I never felt like this about anyone i always wanted them to my self. Im not going to break up a relationship. So should i befriends and wait out or just move on.

true story i buried my turtle? it had died for from old age. so then i put it in a shoe box then buried it in my backyard. after 5 weeks there is hole in the place where i buried it.i come into my room and the turtle is on my desk. btw i know its mine because there is red dot on its shell freaky or not

What's the greatest prank you've ever pulled when you were(are) in school? I put c*m in this guy's chair, he sat in it! (9th grade year) One time I put a condom in a hazelnut shell and got a very innoncent looking person to ask him to crack it for them. Then he cracked it with his mouth and people said "First you had nuts in your mouth, now there's a cond*m too! And then I took a v*brator and put a c*m filled c*ndom on that and stuck it on the teacher's desk.Good days, I tell ya, good days.

Will i get in trouble for this? The day before Christmas break, I brought my ipod to school. Then, a teacher found out and she took it away. Right after, spanish came and i got one of my friends to take it back off the teachers desk. We were scared out of our wits for the rest of the day, but it was the day b4 christmas break and she is a new teacher this year. do you think shell find out or even remember after 2 weeks of christmas break? and if she finds out, do you think shell give me a break? need answers quick

Girl help im in grade 8? In class this girl always comes over to my desk and says shes bored and then shell talk to me for the whole period i like her but do you think she likes me? Also she always gets me to go get a drink with her and alsways wants me to go different ways to class with her. Also she is trying to hook me up with her freind to but i dont like her

how do i know if my ex still likes me? ok so i have a ex when we went out i was to shy so i messed up there but now im not shy around her no more and we get into sum fights just cuz i guess over stupid things but then were friends agian but see i havent been payin atteion too her nemore so she trys too get my atteion by always goin near my deska t skool and canstanly sharpens her pencil or shell slide her finger by my desk now idk if she still likes me or those are sighns but we stopped tlakin since after halloween but shell try too make jokkes and try too get me too laugh with ehr and stuff but i got life issues so i gave her a dirty look doesnt mean anything towrds her but i give evrybodt that its not my fault but we jsut stopped tlaking and stuff so i wondering if she still trys and play footies with me and trys thing what does it mean and why does she always want me too lsiten too her love songs cuz does that she till likes me or also why does she always make me read her love stuff and makeme say i love i just wanna kno

I just got two hermit crabs, but they're scared of me?!? I got them last night and I had them out for a while just sitting on my desk but they just stay in their shell. Then when I turned out my light to go to sleep (they were back in their cage) I start hearing noises and I can see from a little light that they're all over the freaking cage and like on the sides and like all over it. Why are they so scared of me?! What can I do to make them more used to me?!!? um yeah how do you become friends with a crab.

Should I give away my turtle? I'm in grade 6 and I have a red eared slider for 6 years. I now measured and he was not in a 9 gallon or an 8 gallon, but a 2.5 gallon. His tank has 4 inches of water, a turtle dock, and a 60 watt desk lamp. My parents don't even buy a cheap underwater thermometer. He was bought as a hatchling and is 7 years old right now, and he is a male turtle. He should be grown up by now but I think he is permanently stunted and his shell is only 3.5 inches. The desk lamp is on for less than 7 hours a day now because my parents think it's enough time. He is fed turtle pellets, shrimp, and ocean krill. I try to take good care of him all by myself but it's really hard when I just have a few dollars in my allowance. I had $400 but I can't find it now since it was packed away after we moved. My parents and my even more ignorant grandparents don't have a single clue on how to take proper care of him, and although I know lots, I still need money which my parents won't give me. I made a deal with my parents said that they would give the turtle a proper habitat by Christmas, they now extended it to January because of my dad. He says the turtle is in a good habitat and that he was 50 years old when we bought him, so this tank is sufficient. I know he's NOT 50 because how can he be 50 when he was only 1-2 inches long when we bought him! When I keep telling my parents and giving them proper care sheets, they just say that I'm looking for trouble. Anyways, my questions are: Is my turtle permanently stunted? He hasn't grow much for years. Should I give it away? Am I being cruel?

Where is my Turtle?!?!?!?!?!? I lost my baby red eared slider turtle on 11/14/06 on my desk when I wanted it to walk and I took it out of its cage its was on my desk then i was paying to much atention to my computer and 15 minuts later I didn't see it.How long will it live without water.I have a heater thats atached to the house could my turtle fell trough the heater or could it be a little hole on my door could it crawled out.I have no dogs or cats so nothing ate it.Can I still find it even if it will past 5 days or more and will it live?How long should I wait until I get a new turtle?How long can it live without food and water?Where are good hiding spots that turtles can reach?Will a turtle move from the hiding spot because my turtle usaly just hinds under its shell when its in its cage and only move when I grab it or hold it?How long until my red eared slider dies?If it has no water can it still live for a few days?If I checked all over the desk I lost it where is a nother place it may go?what spots it may hide? I move evrything next to or on the desk I even mowed the desk but it is not there where is it? I don't have mouth holes just a hole on the back door it verey small a turle can fit in it but a mouse can't.

laptop into a desktop.? After a rather unfortunate mystery accident in the night i woke up to find my much loved laptop on the floor, wounded. As it turned out a rather large part of the screen has cracked.Being reluctant to shell out £140 for a new screen, using much guess work, I have successfully managed to connect it to my TV via HDMI cable and turn it into the primary monitor. So I was wondering, would it be possible to, as it no longer is of use, completely remove the flickering screen and lid and leave the laptop on my desk as a desktop?

Really easy 10 points please? The descriptive essay is on a walnut (seriously). Please rate and tell me if you have any suggestions. The descriptive paper is: The object sits idly on a desk. It looks like a brain with a skull for a shell. The sun-kissed shell is as wrinkly as a grandma. It's shaped like a heart. It's as if it used to be a grand handsome actor but now he's just balding and wrinkling. It's like an orphan left to rot on the ground by its parents. But the hard rock-like shell helps it survive the fall. The object is as smooth as a baby's butt. It feels as if there is a minature valley of rolling hills. Bumpy yet the silky grass keeps it smooth. (((((((((((Transition suggestions))))))))))))))))

Does this narrative essay contain philosophical meaning and is it A,B,C,D, or F quality? I am in 11th grade AP English Literature and would like to know if the essay seems appropriate for a coming of age narrative. Also: is it interesting, meaningful, does it bring any questions to mind, believable (in which it is a true personal narrative), clear, or descriptive? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated, thank you. A Wild Pack of Wolves The surging air flowed freely from the gaping wound of a door behind me. A blanket of humidity greeted me now with a suffocating intoxication, quickly reminding me how nice the air-conditioned the department store had been. Trudging along, I began my exile through the parking lot to my car. I left the store behind me and filtered through other corpses that stick baked to the asphalt. My skin glistens and reflects the unforgiving yet naïve sun, the same light that gives the moon its shallow glow. The sun seemed to give this day an individual energy and reality, a true ecstasy giving a hope to those banished from the gaiety of life. Any other day I would have hurried to my car, but today I let the sun’s inescapable veracity sizzle and soak me through, as do novelties a consumer. The tint from inside the car induced the purging of what existed beyond the window from out of what withered inside. Bliss, no matter how much I thought I had wanted it, and tried to get, ended in misery. Who was I fooling; I’m no more human than a puppet that will dance with the flick of a social conformist’s wrist. It’s days like this one that the red curtain retreats before me, giving way to life’s actors who seem to dramatize the same play repeatedly while I watch and recite their next words. I could no longer eat of the apple in all its décor of waxy perfection while this picture hung vainly rotten before me like a day’s till. Is having never tasted the sweetness of truth worse than the infinite dream of a false beauty? I twisted the ignition and cranked the air-conditioning, drinking in my artificial air until I was hydrated enough to adjust to the new light of the car. I sat there, fleeing far from the recesses of the parking lot; from where I sat, I could quietly add up my whole life. However this is no more than what could be fitted inside the plastic bag that lay strewn across the adjacent seat. I sat and wondered about past memories, surfaced from spotting The Jungle Book inside the department store. I wondered, if the boy in the story had continued living with the wolves and lived a lie his whole life, would it be better or worse than living with humans. If his life continued with the wolves he would never know responsibility, love, or religion. On the other hand, is living with humans and knowing hate, jealousy, malice, and vanity better? The time for my innocence had come and left, ripped out of my cradle before I knew whom good, evil, Adam, or Eve was. As I drove away from all that wilderness of the parking lot, all the cries and howls of long ago seemingly transmuted into nothing more than the glimmers of light, reflecting from the stream of asphalt that grew longer, until it became nothing more than the infinite luminosity of the sun that trailed past the distant mountains. “Travis…Travis…--oh there you are. Hello my name is Doctor Newton and I’ll be your doctor for the next couple of weeks. Now you just come right through this door and we’ll get started with our first session—O.K.?” I nodded, leaving the quiet emptiness that can only come from a group of people each silently enduring the weekly pain of a not so anticipated doctors appointment. The only detectable manifestation of this pain was the occasional crinkle of a magazine page being turned. As I passed under the ominous arch of the doorframe overhead I prayed silently that I would never have to read any of those magazines again. Doctor Newton’s office was littered with pictures of babies crawling in diapers and clowns with face paint. One clown had a sad face painted on him with a single real tear on his cheek--only the tear had been caked down from all the paint. A long pause passed before the doctor’s and my eyes met somewhere on her desk; I was sitting on some Playskool desk with paper and crayons. “So…” the doctor said, “can you tell me why you are here today?” Another pause passed by without a word. I questioned myself why I was here in the first place and also whether her question was entrapment. Finally, I answered, “I can’t really say, my dad wouldn’t tell me.” After the brief conversing I was told to “draw a picture—any picture I wanted.” So I began to draw the clown I saw earlier and a couple other familiar things. I drew for ten minutes and she complimented me on the art. I began to take quick glances at her eyes, for they said what we both knew but only one of us would admit. I wanted to leave. I could feel a stinging pain on the back of my eyes and a queasy sensation in my abdomen. Doctor Newton cracked the edges of her lips, paused and finally asked, “How do you feel about your mother?” I uttered silently, “I don’t know—fine I guess.” “You don’t have any problems you want to share--you know nothing leaves this room,” said Doctor Newton. I knew she was going to ask, and it came like a reflection in a broken mirror. “Could you tell me a little about your relationship with your mother and how you feel about her illness?” The whine of the Ford in the driveway and the horn blow immediately following the clap of a door usually sent happiness through me, enough to send me sailing towards the front door of the house. This evening carried no such melody, only torture. There I sat, listening to the strikes of thunder from her high-heals tear through my heart, and to an awareness of a screaming ever so true. Yet it filled me like a dream that comes like a shadow and all I could do was sit there, paralyzed on the ground next to the door. I knew something was wrong when it should have been right; I could feel the warmth of harmony’s momentary embrace grow desolate as it covered my eyes as I sat crying. The door slammed shut sending a flash of light through the room and then silently returning back beneath the door from where it had abruptly entered. I know not of money, jobs, worry, responsibility, hate, rape, illness, divorce, and now I know not my mother’s eyes before me. These things were cold and sunken, empty shells of the loving and pretty world through which I learned of good and evil. They were dead, destroyed, from another world I had not learned of but heard so much about. I moved down her face to black rivers that tainted the shores of her cheeks. Further down rested a set of vicious white edges, made visible by the panicked wrinkles that made a martyr of her face. I searched violently for my mother, but the closest thing I would ever find to her would be found only in a mirror. Night came in, relieving shame from the earth and its creatures. I always liked the night for it unmasked the ambiguities of day and gave true shape to what had previously been blinded so childishly by the sun. Tonight I sat in bed and adjusted my eyes enough to see past the glare of the lamp out into the light of night. There was a tall eucalyptus, hunched from the irregularity of its large branches and lack of roots, which grew centered in the lawn and around it was the rest of the backyard lawn. This sanctuary of infinite youthful possibilities tonight would not find relief from the usual cry of laughter, but host the paths of two lives, each tied to survival dependent on the other’s death. The two shadows unveiling themselves, circumvented around the corners of my eyes to find one another at the base of the eucalyptus. There they scratched, bit, tore, and capsized until they became one snarled mess of the same shadow among the sea of grass. I picked up deafly howls and cries, but neither sound belonged to a definite shape. Not until the hissing stopped and one shadow floated erratically back in the direction it had came from could I tell. It was my aged smitten cat Chelsy, but she was the mound of flesh that remained. She had seen night before day, child after parent, prey facing predator, and now she and her tree would see life after death—but never would the roots be less uneven or the leaves greener. “ ‘And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and domestic animals according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the earth was good and He approved it. God said, Let Us make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the tame beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth--,’ ” “Why did God create us?” “I don’t quite know, maybe God got lonely or maybe he just wanted praise,” Mommy answered. I bent my neck backwards and gawked at her. Her eyes were recoiled and wounded as before, but a little warmth still radiated in the sparkle I always remember her having. I have seen her look at others but the glint of light never shows itself. “Honey why don’t you just let me finish so we can go to bed,” said Mommy exhaustingly. “O.K., but I have already heard this part tell another,” I cheered. “How about this, ‘And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she gave some also to her husband, and he ate. Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves apron-like girdles. And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden—’ ” “Why did God make the tree? And was God angry at them?” “Honey, how can a parent ever be angry at a child, except for when that child is no longer one anymore. Even then a parent’s love never dies. God doesn’t create bad people only bad situations. If you remember anything I ever tell you remember this, Love is what you don’t give not what you do give. Maybe truth is supposed to be glorious because you know what love is and you are closer to God for it. So maybe Bliss is what defines innocence and choice is what defines love. If a person doesn’t have choice can they ever really know true love?” I was now asleep, only I was dreaming dreams that have no place inside a child. Murky dreams where I could feel my teeth come loose and scrape the sides of my mouth, then dangle from the veins that give them life. All the while I watch helplessly the scene of my Mommy willingly feeding herself to a pack of wild wolves. I feel no pain, no emotion, I only watch while I frantically try to understand why I don’t stop her. Upon waking, I could see the door to my now dark room, it was cracked transcending a long triangular light across my bed and up onto the edge of my pillow next to my face. On the illuminated sliver of my pillow I could see pools of dampness that had been absorbed into the inner depths of the cushioning. I sat there, face down wondering if the wet was from tears or saliva, for I had none on my face. I had already been seated along side the cul-de-sac curb when the shadow of Dad’s Bronco screeched and eased to a halt, blocking the evening sun from my view. The faint circular outline of the moon could already be seen directly overhead. The curb upon which I sat was still warm, the only remnant left of the Sun’s presence in the horseshoe shaped neighborhood that crowned the hill on which it rested. I placed my right hand on the curb for I no longer needed to shield my eyes from the glare angled off from the side-view mirror on the Bronco. The brown cardboard box of memories that lay between my legs lined up with the back tire of the Bronco. These few random objects I managed to salvage before my Dad told me we had to go held no value, but they were the best I could find. A stuffed wolf Mommy had given me for Valentine’s one year sat on the surface of the opened box. Wolves for as long as I could remember had been my favorite animals but now the stuffed sentiment left me with a sickening feeling inside. The sensation wrenched onto my heart, turning it black with blood, until the failure of it all floated down to the pit of my stomach. I flipped the wolf on its face after having seen my opaquely convex reflection in the wolf’s testing eyes. Dad’s words still rung loudly in my fragile skull, forever trapping the question of what my Mommy really was. How could she be? My Mommy of six years could not have a mental illness. Could I still love her? Did she still love me? And ever more troubling, whom could I believe, my Dad or my Mommy? The only truth I could decipher was through the back window of my Dad’s Bronco, for I could see my mother’s face as it grew smaller. She was kneeling down against the garage door, each hand covering one eye; and so the sparkle was gone forever and so was I. Although I could not bear to look up into Doctor Newton’s eyes I knew from her utter silence that she too was on the verge of tears. If she could see through all that saturation she would have found a boy who once knew the sweet clap of a rubber ball on concrete, a boy who could have told her the difference between the way a blue crayon and a red crayon smells, and too a boy that once knew the sweet taste that fruit could give in the shimmering presence of an ice-cream truck’s innocent call. But today she only found what made all those memories so precious. Doctor Newton whispered, “that’s enough for today, you may go.” And so I did, leaving her with nothing to look at but all those frowns of babies and clowns.

Long Story But Please Please Read I Need Help? So theres lots of girls in my class at school and there all stronger than me cos im skinny and short and i'm compleatly useless. The thing is I have no friends they all think that their my friend but they don't relise that there really being mean to me Is it just me or is what there doing actually mean MIKI: when I was away sick she licked my lolli pop when she nos i hate germs and stuff and she always black mails me like if you don't give me choclate than ill tell soso you like them RACHEL: Also licked my lolli pop and shell put her feet and stuff on my desk cos shell no i hate it and shell threten me by holing a pen over my work and shell say shell mark my work if i dont do what she wants me to. BONNIE: Punched me today HARD in the arm cos i put my hand up to give her a high five. Plus her and rachel held me down one day and stole all the chips i was eating. ANNIKA: Is nice to me when its just us but when were with other people around she treats me like im a piece of junk SOPHIE: I somehow just annoy her naturally so she says i would make a bad wife that a bird would be the only pet i could handle and one day she was trying to steal my cheese from my cracker dip so i ran of and she came after me (with someone else) and picked up a pencile and showed it down my top then both of them wouldnt let go of me a sophie even said to the other 1 go get that glad wrap (to shove down my top as well) but i got away but i had to stay in a class room were there was a movie playing and a teacher! SAM (the other one): by her being the other one i think explains enough. Georgia: she told a boy in my class who i liked and she knew he would gossip! and the guy i like isnt like my age hes like 17 18 and comes to our school to learn to be a teacher. And theres more but i dont want to bore u 2 much they all think its funny to steal my chips and do things they think is harmless any way my question was are they really being mean or am i just a bit over the the top? PS everthing ive written is true they do do all that to me!

If the media is not liberal then why are they not reporting the progress in Iraq? Evidence of improvement in Iraq. By Bill Crawford An important step in stemming the violence in Iraq is to find a formula to share the country’s oil revenues fairly between the three main groups: Shiite, Sunnis, and Kurds. Iraq is preparing to take a step in the right direction by providing opportunities for foreign oil firms to invest in the country, thereby increasing its output and revenues: The production-sharing agreements (PSAs) would allow oil giants to sign 30-year contracts for extracting Iraqi oil. Under PSAs, the state retains legal ownership of its oil but gives a share of the profits to companies that invest in infrastructure and in operating the wells, pipelines and refineries. The newspaper [the Independent] said that under the draft law, oil companies could recoup 60 to 70 per cent of revenue until initial costs had been recovered, which compares to around 40pc usually. Along the same lines, Lt. General Graeme Lamb, Deputy Commander of Multinational Forces-Iraq, sees 2007 as the year that Iraq moves forward, and says he sees plenty of progress to base his optimism on: Let me give you an example. I was out at Hit the other day, Ramadi. The battalion commander out there, young battalion commander — actually, I suppose he's not that young; he just looks it — had been in Ramadi two years before, had done a full year's tour. As far as he was concerned, he always just seemed to be going backwards. When I saw him the other day, as far as he was concerned, they were making huge progress. Ramadi. Four months ago I don't think there was any policemen in the town. Seven hundred and ninety-one now. They were shot at from a building. Two hundred policemen drawn together surrounded the building, cleared it. Now, that's just an example of some progress. I then look at some of the economic issues. I look at the megawatts of power that are coming on line. I see some of the reconstruction programs that are going out. Now, that gives me a degree of optimism. I see this prime minister. I see this government. I see the challenges they face, and I'm not trying to dismiss the difficulties or trying to give you some sort of political upbeat spin. I don't do optimism. I don't do pessimism. I just do realism as I see it. And I do spend a lot of time out here. I spend a lot of time out here. I got a feel for the Arabs. So it's just the way I see it, and it's not sort of in effect trying to — I don't know — make something out of nothing. I think the situation here — you know, as someone once said — I think it was a field marshal of ours said things are never as good or as bad as you think they are. I just see these in fact at a point in turning. Mosul and al Qaim are other areas where significant progress has been made over the past year. In Mosul, Iraqi police and army forces have brought law and order to a historically violent area: “Yes, there is violence in this city. But, there is violence in American cities that have nearly two million people in their population as well,” said [Maj. Gen. Benjamin R.] Mixon. Recognizing the similar levels of violence in a comparable city in America, Twitty paints an optimistic picture of the current state of Mosul and Ninewa Province. “Amidst the turmoil and issues that persist in Iraq, there is a semblance of peace and normalcy in the north. Ninewa’s leadership works hard to provide its citizens security, build its economy, and implement programs that will continue to keep sectarian violence from the province,” said Twitty. “One thing we cannot do is attempt to put an American standard on any Iraqi city,” said Twitty. “We have to remember that this country lived under a dictator for more than 30 years. The major and significant difference between U.S. cities and Mosul is the use of improvised explosive devices, rocket-propelled grenades, and other military - grade weapons. Anti-Iraqi forces persist in their attacks, but the Iraqi security forces, consisting of the Iraqi Army, border patrol and police, continue to quell those attacks daily,” Twitty continued. Al Qaim was frequently called the “Wild West,” but the Marines cleaned the area up in 2005, and the situation is improving daily: Two years ago, the same streets were fraught with roadside bombs and snipers, and sellers and buyers stayed away. The area was considered too dangerous even for a quick tour by a U.S. general in his armored Humvee. The Al Qaim region routinely was described as an out-of-control "wild west" where the Marines were fighting, with only limited success, to control the smuggling of insurgent fighters and weapons from Syria. Today, Marines walk the downtown beat, chatting with residents, fielding their complaints, encouraging them to contact the Iraqi police if they suspect insurgent activity. In a country studded with areas where the United States either has failed or had only limited progress toward stabilization, Husaybah and the surrounding Al Qaim region stand out as a success, officials said. Unfortunately, the American people aren’t hearing about this, as Army medic Corporal Ignacio Garza observes: Based on his experiences in Iraq, events there are not as bad as the news media make it seem, an Army medic from Adrian said. Cpl. Ignacio Garza, a medic in the 1st Armored Division home on leave after serving in Iraq for six months, said the troops don’t watch television news for war updates because they think none of the networks show an accurate depiction of what’s happening. He said they ignore large parts of the country, including the Kurd-dominated north, that are stable. In fact, if the mainstream media isn’t ignoring a story in Iraq they could just as easily be making one up. For the second time in six weeks, the Associated Press has put out a story from Iraq that isn’t backed by the facts: The Associated Press has again put out an Iraq story detailing events that did not happen. This time, it involves an airstrike that, " killed a family of four during a firefight." However, according to the press desk of Multi-National Forces-Iraq, no air strike happened during that firefight, and MNF-I also reported that which six insurgents were killed by American troops in Baghdad on January 1. This is the second time in roughly six weeks that the AP has been caught fabricating events. Iraqi Security Forces In an operation on January 7, members of the 6th Iraqi army division captured the leader of a cell responsible for kidnappings, murder, IED attacks, and car bombings. Near Baqubah, soldiers of the 5th Iraqi army killed three insurgents during an operation to capture a cell leader. The Iraqi patrol came under fire from men exiting a mosque. They returned fire, killing three. The 1st Iraqi army division assumed tactical command of the 2nd Brigade on January 9. The brigade will operate within Fallujah: “We will be loyal soldiers to defend our precious country and to implement security and stability,” said Brig. Gen. Khalid Juad Khadum, the commanding general of 2nd Brigade. “And this will hit the pages of history in godly words, and we promise Allah that we will take care of this handover and to protect it, God willing, until the last drop of our blood, and Allah is a witness of what we say.” The Iraqi police enlisted 301 recruits during a recent recruiting drive in Fallujah and Habbaniyah. The new recruits will undergo six-week basic training in Jordan. Another 400 were enlisted during a recruiting drive in Ramadi. The situation was far different last year: One year ago a murderous intimidation campaign prevented local Iraqis from enlisting in Ramadi. Recruiting numbers for police were insignificant. More than 1,000 enlisted in the police force last month. Over 800 are expected to enlist in Anbar Province this month. “The local tribes stood up to the intimidation campaign and are taking back their city from the terrorists,” said the Coalition spokesman in Ramadi Marine Maj. Riccoh Player. “Hundreds of Iraqi Police are holding areas cleared by Iraqi and American forces in recent operation in the worst neighborhoods of Ramadi,” said Player. “Building and manning a police station in Ramadi is what progress looks like in a counterinsurgency.” Based on tips from Iraqi civilians, the Iraqi national police, with Coalition forces, detained ten and uncovered several weapons caches during an operation in Baghdad: The operation was the result of tips from local citizens of possible insurgents and weapons caches in the neighborhood. The national police seized three large weapons caches containing one rifle fitted with a silencer, one machine gun, one sniper rifle, assorted small arms ammunition and bomb-making materials. In Fallujah, Iraqi police and army troops captured 47 insurgents during Operation Ar Bead. The operation was planned and executed by Iraqi troops, who have tamed the once restless city: “The district police chief – this was his idea,” said Lt. Col. Race Roberson, the RCT-5 police implementation officer. “It was (an Iraqi Security Forces) operation; they were the owners of it.” ”The police are a strong force, and they will go anywhere at anytime in the city of Fallujah,” Roberson said. The Iraqi army has begun a major operation in Baghdad. Thirty terrorists were reported killed on the first day, including five from Sudan. The 2nd Division of the Iraq army is now operating independently of Coalition forces. In Qasaiba, soldiers of the 5th Iraqi Army Division captured the leader of an insurgent cell operating in the area: The insurgent cell leader is suspected of limiting the travel of Iraqi civilians in the area through intimidation and violent criminal activities. It is also believed the cell leader coordinates and conducts kidnapping, torture and murders of Iraqi civilians and security forces in the area. On January 10, Iraqi soldiers rescued a kidnapping victim: Working on a tip, Iraqi troops from the 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division (Mechanized) searched for the kidnapping victim’s vehicle. They discovered it on a farm. Upon conducting a cordon and search of the farm, the soldiers found the kidnapped Iraqi in a farmhouse unharmed, with his hands tied. Iraqi Special Security Forces captured two leaders of an insurgent cell during an operation in Al Doura. The cell is responsible for car bombings against civilians in Sadr City and IED attacks against Iraqi security forces. In Tal Afar, Iraqi police killed four insurgents after they came under attack while on patrol. A later search of the area found a weapons cache consisting of 12 RPGs and two mortar shells. Iraqi army special forces captured 19 during an operation targeting the leader of an insurgent cell responsible for attacks against Iraqi civilians and Coalition forces. During two operations in Fallujah, Iraqi soldiers captured six members of al Qaeda. The men are suspected of involvement with IED attacks against Coalition troops and weapons trafficking. Iraqi security forces joined Marines and U.S. soldiers in conducting a successful operation to clean up Ramadi: Iraqi Army, police and Coalition forces seized hundreds of weapons and explosives during the operation, including three mortar systems, 101 mortar rounds, 90 pounds of explosives, eight rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 47 AK-47s, five Dragonov sniper rifles, 26 grenades, 26 mines, 34 artillery rounds, 12 rockets and other items used to attack Ramadi’s security forces and civilians. During the operation 44 enemy combatants were killed and 172 suspected insurgents were detained. The Iraqi army captured a high-level insurgent leader during a raid in Hajjan: The suspect is allegedly an experienced IED builder and an illegal armed group member. He was believed to be training other illegal armed group members how to construct and employ IEDs. Prime Minister al-Maliki has finally been convinced to drop his protection of the Mahdi army. The move came after U.S. officials convinced al-Maliki that the militia was infiltrated by Shiite death squads. In related news, Sadr’s political block is ending its two month boycott of parliament. Two tips led Iraqi national police to a kidnapping victim and a sizeable weapons cache in Baghdad: “This raid was planned and executed entirely by the Iraqi national police,” said Maj. Blaine Wales, the team chief for the 1st Battalion, 7th Brigade, 2nd Iraqi National Police Transition Team. The weapons cache consisted of 31 mortar and artillery rounds, 12 rolls of detonation cord, one can of ball bearings, three blocks of C4 explosive, 100 blasting caps and fuses, two completed improvised explosive devices, multiple batteries of all types, four handheld radios, nine cellular phones and seven completed electronic circuit boards similar to those found in roadside bombs. In eastern Baghdad, an Iraqi patrol found an IED before it could be detonated. In Baghdad, an Iraqi army patrol successfully fought its way out of an ambush: While conducting a routine patrol in Baghdad’s Fahhama neighborhood, an element of the 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army was ambushed by a group of insurgents armed with pistols and AK-47s. The patrol immediately returned fire on the men attacking them. Two insurgents were killed and four others wounded in the fire fight. Tips from citizens led Iraqi police to two large weapons caches: The first cache included fifteen 9mm TNT rounds, a dozen 90mm Composition A3 rounds, five 155mm High Explosive rounds, four artillery fuses, six 20mm rockets, and nine RPG rounds among other items. The second cache included two 105mm rounds rigged as improvised explosive devices. Iraqi Police captured the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq’s cell in Samarra during an operation on January 18. Iraqi forces captured two high-level insurgent commanders in separate raids: Special Iraqi army forces, with coalition advisors, captured a high-level terrorist leader today during operations in eastern Baghdad, military officials said. The suspect is allegedly affiliated with Abu Dura and other Baghdad death squad commanders, and is responsible for assassinating numerous Iraqi security forces members and government officials. Military officials said he has also organized kidnappings, torture and murder of Iraqi civilians. During operations in Samarra yesterday, Iraqi police forces with coalition advisors captured the suspected leader of several al Qaeda in Iraq terror cells. The suspect is responsible for directing several IED and small arms attacks against Iraqi security forces, coalition forces and Iraqi civilians. During the operation, combined forces captured an additional insurgent and confiscated IED components, assault rifles and ammunition. In Morocco, security forces have disrupted a cell responsible for recruiting terrorists to fight in Iraq: Moroccan security forces have dismantled a radical cell recruiting volunteers to fight in Iraq and arrested 26 people, the government said on Thursday. In Tal Afar, Iraq forces discovered a tunnel leading below a house where they found a weapons cache consisting of 200 pounds of explosives, more than 125 rockets, and 2,500 rounds of ammunition. Over at the Department of Defense website, a map of Iraq shows the progress made by Iraq’s army over the last year. “Green areas” indicate areas under control of Iraqi forces. The “green areas” increase significantly as the year progresses. Check it out. Security Operations Raids across Iraq targeting al Qaeda resulted in the capture of 25 suspected terrorists. Nine terrorists were killed in a series of raids in Baghdad over the weekend: Nine terrorists, including an al-Qaeda leader, were killed during raids conducted by coalition forces in Baghdad today and yesterday. Also, one terrorist was wounded, and three were detained during the raids. A known al-Qaeda weapons dealer was among those killed during today's Baghdad raid, according to officials. Another terrorist was wounded in the action, while two more were detained. The wounded terrorist was provided first aid and transported to a nearby medical facility. Coalition forces had targeted the weapons dealer, whose body was identified by his wife. In other news, coalition troops killed six terrorists and detained one suspect during a fierce morning firefight in Baghdad yesterday, officials reported. Intelligence reports indicated the targeted location was used as a possible al Qaeda in Iraq safe house for terrorists to conduct operational planning. Another 90 al Qaeda terrorists were killed by American and Iraqi forces during a ten-day operation near Baghdad. A patrol consisting of troops from the 1st Cavalry Division uncovered seven weapons caches in the village of Arab Salman Salman: …uncovered the caches, which included 51 rocket-propelled grenade rounds; 11 RPG launchers; two assault rifles with 13,000 rounds of ammunition; six 57mm rockets; eight plastic explosives; two 120mm artillery shells; two 137mm missiles; 225 pounds of explosives; and other IED-making materials. Iraqi and Coalition troops discovered a weapons cache in Yusufiyah consisting of materials used in the manufacture of IEDs: The cache, which contained a variety of improvised explosive device making items and weapons included six 120mm mortar rounds, a directional charge, five rocket propelled grenade launchers, seven RPG charges, nine RPG rockets, 150 small metal cylinders filled with plastic explosives, 1000 7.62mm rounds, 200 ft. of detonation cord, seven hand grenade fuses, five hand grenade shells, five long-range antennae, 22 transformers, four cordless phones, two cordless phone base stations, two cell phones, 12 cell phone cases with assorted parts and 12 60mm mortar round casings. Twenty-eight suspected terrorists were captured during raids across Iraq which targeted the safe houses of foreign terrorists. Over the past month, paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne have found more than 500 artillery rounds that could have been used to make IEDs or VBEIDs. Reconstruction & Economy If it were any other country, the reconstruction of Iraq would be a huge story. As of December 31, 2006, there are 658 projects underway at a cost of $2.67 billion, 3,026 projects have been completed at a cost of $7.11 billion, and 94 more projects are planned. A $43 million upgrade to the Al Basrah oil terminal is expected to be completed by April. The upgrade includes an emergency shutdown system, control valves, metering system, and fire protection. The upgraded terminal will meet all international safety and metering standards. Twenty hospitals throughout Iraq are currently undergoing $103 million in renovations. A small water project was completed in Dahuk Province. The new water storage tank and pipeline serves more than 1,000 residents of Dahuk. An $8.6 million renovation to the Samawah Railroad Maintenance Center has been completed. The Samawah site is one of two railway maintenance centers in Iraq, and employs more than 250 Iraqis. Iraq’s power grid is now being monitored by a central control system, called SCADA: “The main function of SCADA is to create and maintain a digital connection in order to check the provinces’ power loads and control them easily by connecting them to the central power distribution points,” Perry said. The SCADA system includes input and output signal hardware, controller networks, and communications software. There are 47 primary health-care centers under construction in northern Iraq. The first completed center recently opened in Salah Al Den Province: More than 112,000 people in the Salah Al Den Province are receiving healthcare from the first completed Primary Healthcare Center (PHC) in the north. Built by local construction companies with quality assurance managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, this $3.35 million dollar facility provides routine and initial emergency care to patients including X-ray, laboratories and dentistry. Medical supplies and laboratory equipment were included in the contract to make this facility complete and operational. On January 15, three new schools were opened in Mushahidah: an elementary school for girls, a secondary school for girls, and an elementary school for boys: “This is a great example for the projects in this area,” said Shiek Naif Moutlak, the chief of the city council. “We thank the coalition for all they have done and hope for other projects in the area to help the people.” The Pentagon is helping fight unemployment in Iraq by reopening factories that were once owned by Saddam Hussein: Under a new program, the U.S. Defense Department is already helping reopen factories that were owned by Saddam Hussein's government and abandoned by occupation authorities shortly after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. The Pentagon may also start providing them with contracts to support U.S. troops. One factory restarted operations in the past two weeks, and nine more are to open by the end of this month, adding some 11,000 Iraqis to employment rolls, a Pentagon official said Wednesday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the information had not been released yet. The president’s speech this week put Iran on notice that the U.S. was going to work to prevent its interference in Iraq. Iraqi forces took the first step in confronting Iran when they raided Iran’s diplomatic mission in Irbil: Iraqi officials said today that multinational forces detained as many as six Iranians in an overnight raid on Tehran's diplomatic mission in the northern city of Irbil just hours after President Bush gave details about his new military plan for Iraq. The forces stormed the Iranian mission at about 3 a.m., detaining the five staffers and confiscating computers and documents, two senior local Kurdish officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information. Irbil is a city in the Kurdish-controlled north, 220 miles from Baghdad. Japan is preparing to loan Iraq $3.5 billion for reconstruction. In the city of Al Qosh, Medics from the 1st Cavalry Division treated more than 80 people during a humanitarian mission to the city: During the mission, one female physician’s assistant and one female pediatrician medically examined over 80 people; 65 percent children, and 35 percent women. Three dozen soccer balls were distributed to the children of the town, courtesy of a donation from a radio station in the United States, as well as clothing, toys, shoes, and school supplies.

really easy 10 points please? The descriptive essay is on a walnut (seriously). Please rate and tell me if you have any suggestions. The descriptive paper is: The object sits idly on a desk. It looks like a brain with a skull for a shell. The sun-kissed shell is as wrinkly as a grandma. It's shaped like a heart. It's as if it used to be a grand handsome actor but now he's just balding and wrinkling. It's like an orphan left to rot on the ground by its parents. But the hard rock-like shell helps it survive the fall. The object is as smooth as a baby's butt. It feels as if there is a minature valley of rolling hills. Bumpy yet the silky grass keeps it smooth. (((((((((((Transition suggestions))))))))))))))))

physics question? Assume that a can of soda was held at a steady temperature (say 4°C) in a fridge for a long time. Then it is placed on a desk in a classroom. Describe the temperature evolution in the can. In your model, what is the temperature in the center of the can after 10 seconds, 1 minute. 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and 30 minutes, after it was taken out of the fridge? (Find the numerical values of the temperature, not just a formula!) Discuss, whether the answer obtained (and model used) is reasonable or not. Furthermore, you may want to discuss the influence of parameters of the problem (size of the can, classroom temperature, different outer shell materials, pressure in the can, drinking from the can, etc.) on the process.

Where were you when? ...JFK was assassinated ...Challenger exploded ...the World Trade Center was destroyed ...Columbia exploded For me, I wasn't born until 1980. I just got dropped off at PM Kindergarten when Challenger exploded. I was working at the Shell gas station on US 250 in Perkins Twp, OH when a Perkins Police Officer told me. We turned on the radio and listened even though it was against company policy. I was working the front desk at the Sleep Inn in Perkins Twp when Columbia exploded. For the record our gas station did not raise prices on 9/11 until people started jamming the gas stations. I was done with work at 3 p.m. and I filled my tank at the price I was instructed to lower the rate to that morning BEFORE the attacks. The Perkins Police Officer told me about 9/11

why puberty? why now? my godmother diana has another goddaughter samantha were the same age(12) well since samantha had her period 2 years ago diana treats her nicer ex(samantha has her own desk for when she stays over there but i dont she yells at me when i do the wrong thing and not samantha) well they talk about puberty well i started puberty 7 mounths ago should i tell diana so shell treat me the same as samantha? plz help

Can't identify these bugs that keep appearing in my room, anyone know? It's like brown, the size of a penny, and has a very hard shell around it making it hard to squish so I have to put it outside if I'm nice or just flush it. I've had 3 appear in my room throughout the year and I think it actually can fly based on how the last one hit my desk. They are easy for me to catch and get rid of since they are slow and don't react. Well anyways, the shell is hard enough to hear the clank when it hits the desk which is why I generally am alerted of it's presence. Any identification of what this and how to make them stop appearing? Thanks feeKITTY, I googled an image and that is exactly what it is. Any tips on preventing those?

IDEAS PLEASE!! - How to deal with a negative and difficult/in the way work colleague? SCENARIO: I had a slight disagreement/power struggle with a female work colleague earlier this afternoon. In a nut shell, we are currently sharing a full-time post. We share one room/office environment with a well proportioned desk/pc. I've been at the work-place for 3 months and apparently, she has been there for 20 years. Although I am installed as one of the main in my role as she is also employed to serve in another area, when I come into work, or ever since I have 'clocked in', my personal belongings head straight for the this particular room. I do admit, it's a little personalised and I treat the desk as my own. Having ssaid that, I am considerate and self sacrificing and whenever she's on the same shift as me, I always give her the 'hot seat' to the desk, plus the PC. She often leaves paperwork and promotional material on the desk. WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED: This week, we have been or rather, I have been doing a bit of a 'tidy up' off my own back. In addition, since I've been here, I've been building a resource folder for everybody in the library concerned. I leave these items on the desk as we share or meant to be sharing the desk. She dealt with a client earlier and because she couldn't find (probably misplaced herself) a piece of information to aid the client, she eventually chose to nitpick at the materials I had placed on the desk. She just kept going on and on and in the end I lost my patience. I didn't shout or lose my temper, but I did make a point of showing my exasperation/annoyance. I don't know if this was a wind up but she then became patronising towards me and then tried to play if down with a smug look on her face after me being defensive and telling her why I reacted the way I did. She didn't really speak to me much after. The boss is away and won't be back till next week. She's in her late 30's early 40's. I one the other hand am a vibrant 31. We both work as Career Advisers. Although she does carry out here duties to help her clients, she often comes across as negative, a little rigid and all in all, a knuckledragger. She doesn't always smile and doesn't know how to have a laugh. Any ideas on how I should approach this person from now on?? She feels threatened I think. I do like the thought of having my own desk/empire. All in all, I'm finding it difficult to work with this colleague of late. It seems like double standards. For example, she's alright to leave her paperwork lying around etc, but if I leave a couple of ringbinders of which are informative, she gets all finicky and throws a hissy when she can't find her own pieces of information. Any ideas I have, anything productive I do, she perceives it all as a negative. Cheers Numark 6 hours ago - 4 days left to answer. Additional Details Nope, I'm not smug and assuming, also, the mess she's always made leaving 'her' paperwork all over the place, I've never complained about - EVER! So it's a bit rich for her to nit-pick on piles on 'my' material that's left on the desk that WE both are really meant to compromise like grown ups!! - Sounds like hypocracy and double-standards!! 5 hours ago I have to laugh at some of the female answers on here - girl power and all that - charming - please READ the scenario - it wasn't as though I started this - CHEERS!!