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I have to do a report on the junior college world series and i need ideas? I have to do a 15 minute speech on the Junior college world series, which takes place in Grand Junction, Co every summer. The speech has to be broken up into three different 5 minute sections, i already have two of the topics picked out (history and how teams make it to the world series) but i need ideas for the third section and i've been stuck trying to think of something.

who will win the junior college world series in grand junction, colorado?

Do You think howard junior college will win the JUCO world series? Why?

strictly for LSU baseball fans-college world series? Chad Jones: should he have more time on the mound? is he better than just a reliever pitcher? he pitches flawlessly, but is 2 innings ever other game enough time for Jones? should Mainieri give him more play time? can he handle it? do you think that being a junior next year will allow him more play time?

College baseball players & drug tests? Does anyone know at what point does the NCAA randomly drug test junior college baseball players? Do they drug test during regionals or only if they make it to the world series? I'm obviously a girl so I don't play baseball for junior college but I have a very talented friend who got drunk and smoked a crap load of weed at a party and he's really worried. Any help is appreciated. :)

I am gossiped about constantly, and I am almost a junior in college! What can I do to put this to an end? Hi, I am a rising junior at a university and I couldn't feel more hurt or attacked at my school. I may be different from the typical student at my college, but I always make sure to be friendly to everyone I meet, and I always work hard and do my best, but I have been talked about on FOUR separate threads on an anonymous college gossip website. (Please note that there are over 6,000 undergraduates at my school!) I can't even describe the feeling of seeing my full name on that website for the whole world to see, and it certainly doesn't help that i'm already a bit insecure. Although I know that girls are the chief posters on this site, it still hurts. About a year ago, someone started a thread saying I was the "easiest freshman girl," which couldn't be further from the truth. Luckily some of my close friends defended me. Later, someone wrote my name on a thread that listed the "hottest girls in you year," but once it was up, a series of harsh comments followed saying I was "nice but 'too californian'" and that i "wore too heavy makeup." It was extremely embarrassing. In the past week, now, I was posted about two times! Someone wrote that my group of friends is "notorious" but "at least we're hot." (I have no idea what we have supposedly done to be notorious...) Now, Someone wrote that my best friend and I were one of the cutest sets of best friends on campus. While this is a great and welcomed compliment, I am absolutely terrified of the mean and hateful comments that I know are soon to come, just knowing from past experience. My question is, what on earth have I done to make people think they have the right to pass such judgment on me? It honestly keeps me up at night and I really wish they knew how much it can hurt. Is there anything I can do to try and prevent it? I seriously can't take it anymore, I have become so conscious of everything I do, and so suspicious of everyone. Please help, I really can't take this pressure..

acheiveing your college and career goals questions?!? 1. Which of the following is a subjective factor that colleges might consider when evaluating your application? (Points : 3) how well you score on a College Board AP exam how you conduct yourself during an on-campus interview how many college prep courses you take in your senior year how your cumulative GPA compares to other applicants 2. Which of the following is not a component of your high school transcripts? (Points : 3) courses you have completed courses you have enrolled in for the current year varsity sports you have played your cumulative GPA 3. Which of the following steps in the college application process should be done as a junior, rather than as a senior? (Points : 3) Obtain your final high school transcript. Register for the PSAT. Gather letters of recommendation from teachers and mentors. Write the essay that will accompany your application. 4. Which of the following statements is true of a restrictive admissions policy? (Points : 3) You cannot ask to receive an early decision. The application deadline is later than for other admissions. You must commit to attending the school if it accepts you. You can apply to as many colleges as you like. 5. Which of the following individual achievements is not suitable to include in a college application? (Points : 3) varsity letter in track and field Chamber of Commerce outstanding volunteer award grade 6 spelling bee champion president of high school debate team 6. Which of the following sections of the Common Application is optional for students to complete? (Points : 3) secondary schools attended disciplinary history ethnic background extracurricular activities 7. Which of the following is not a commonly used supplemental form to a standardized college application? (Points : 3) arts supplement community service supplement home or international school supplement athletic supplement 8. Which of the following statements is true? (Points : 3) A college may withdraw its offer of acceptance if it finds out you have lied on your application. Any sort of disciplinary infraction in high school will disqualify you from being accepted to college. Having someone else fill out your application shields you from legal responsibility for the information it contains. Colleges have no way of finding out any more about you than what is included in your application. 9. Which of the following is not a reason colleges ask applicants to submit a personal essay? (Points : 3) to evaluate an applicant’s writing skills to learn something unique about an applicant to determine whether an applicant would fit in to assess an applicant’s academic qualifications 10. Why is it important to show your application essay to members of your support group or family before you turn it in? (Points : 3) because some of them may have done this themselves and can offer helpful advice because you want to impress them with what you’ve written about yourself because they might offer to write the final draft of the essay for you because your relatives will remember things about your childhood that you have forgotten 11. Which of the following is the most appropriate topic to address in a college application essay? (Points : 3) your family’s trip last summer to Yosemite National Park your experiences learning to drive a car why you decided to volunteer your Saturday afternoons at the local senior center why you think the Yankees aren’t likely to win the next World Series 12. Which of the following topics should be avoided when writing an application essay? (Points : 3) experiences that molded you into the person you are today people who have exerted a strong influence on your life extremely personal matters involving members of your family your hopes for obtaining a postgraduate professional degree 10 points to whoever actually helps

What should i do...im stuck between two guys? So ive been dating logan since the 8th grade and my freshman-sophomore summer we broke up and i dated this boy named craigan (we dated for about 3 months). Now, i always tried to impress him and i just wasn't myself around him, but i liked him so much, and started to love him. Then he kissed another girl, which isn't a big deal, but i just didn't want to put up with it. Time passed, then school started again, me and logan started to date again and now its the summer of my Junior-Senior year. I am so comfortable around logan, i can say anything, but i cant do much, im on a leash. Ive lost many friends, but i also gained friends, like his family. I ran into craigan at the college world series just the other week and we hugged and then i got a lovely text, that actually made my day. It said "i miss you so so much." im the only girl that craigan has dated throughout high school. hes graduated and going to UNO, so hes going to be living the college life here soon. :( His friends tell me all the time that he talks about me so much, and cant stand to look at me, cuz it makes him want me more. As of right now, my heart is torn into two pieces, i believe that you can love two people at a time. I am scared to loose my four years that ive had with logan to take a chance with craigan. I would loose something so great in my life. But then again, i dont have a clue what its like to date other people really. Ive been glued to logan this whole time. Please, im looking for a long and great explaination on what i should do.

How to tell if this girl likes me, or considers me a really close friend? Please read the entire thing cuz i really need help. Will pick a best answer so please help me out. Well this girl and me have been talking for like 6 months or so. We're both seniors in high school, but she has a boyfriend that is a junior. We talk about close and personal things pretty often like our emotions and stuff that just gets deeper from there. We go to stuff one on one sometimes, and other times with my friends. She knows that i have feelings for her, and she doesn't want me to deny them. Recently we went to a Cws(college world series) game with a few of my friends. We had alot of fun together at the game, and she got a ride with me on the way back. Well along the way her bf called and she lied to him and said that she was on the bus. She lied to him while she was sitting right next to me in my car. On the walk to my car she said she was scared so i had my arm around her too. I really like her. She makes me feel like the happiest person on earth and i want to be with her. Please help me decode this girl and see if she likes me or not? Thanks :) If you think that she does in fact like me, please leave some details on what you think my next move should be. Thanks again :)

How should I go about this? I'll try to explain this as quickly as I can. I'm 17 I home-school I'm a senior this fall. I've played Babe Ruth baseball the last few years because I couldn't play on the HS team wanted to but my mom wouldn't let me go to school. Babe Ruth baseball isn't that competitive I've been the best player in the league for the last two years. I hit home runs, rarely strike out, high batting average in high school sized fields. Me and my hitting coach think I could play on a Junior college team if I could get recruited. My mom told me if I could find a traveling team within two or three hours of where we live she would take me to the practices and games( This is how bad she wants to keep home schooling me) So anyways I found the best of both worlds It's a competitive home-school high school team two hours away. That plays other high schools public, private, and other home school teams. This team will play in a home school baseball world series. They have had players recruited from this team to Junior colleges. So my question is how can I get my mom to keep her word and let me play on this team(I can even drive myself)? Should I just tell her that I found this team and I want to play on it? If she says no should I drop the "If you don't let me play on this team I'm going to High school" bomb? Thanks

One C in junior year algebra, colleges? I'm a junior, and I'm probably going to get a C in Algebra 2. I've never ever gotten a C before in my life, so it makes me SO sad. You have no idea. =( Last semester I had no C's. My other grades for this semester: 0 period : Teacher's Assistant (A) 1st period: AP Spanish 4 (B, but weighted to an A) 2nd period: Algebra 2 (C) 3rd period: Wind Ensemble (A) 4th Period: World History (A) 5th Period: Anatomy and Physiology (A) 6th Period: Honors English (B....weighted to A) Here is my explanation. So, I own this website, and I'm only 16. It's the number one website about Twilight, the massively popular book series that is now being made into a movie. It gets over 20,000 unique visits per day, and I handle the advertising, news posting, and we are in direct contact with the company making the movie. Last year I got invited to the premiere of the film and got to interview the stars (http://www.youtube.com/hisgoldeneyesdotcom) and this year I got invited to the set of the film. It was an amazing experience. I got to watch the movie be filmed and talk to the director of the film (Chris Weitz) and the main actors there. This summer I am invited to a fundraiser with all the cast there and they are paying for my plane ticket, and I am going to two other Twilight conventions. The set visit caused me to miss a LOT of math, which I struggle in. So now I have a C almost definetly. I took the final today and think I did awesome, but I need over a 100 percent on it to raise it to a B. (bonus questions) I want to go to college and major in film/marketing, multimedia communications, advertising, or something that I'm already doing and enjoy! Will be C kill my hopes and dreams? Ughh. =(

A question about normalicy.? A question about normalicy.? When people are called weird or creepy or dorky. The choice of these words indicates a separation of exclusion from something else; normal icy. Is being 'normal' something that is defined; or is it relative? Is something that is normal for someone abnormal to someone else? If that is the case, then aren't we all weird in our own ways? If that is the case, then where do people get off at calling others weird or dorky? How is that morally justifiable What is normal anyway? Could it be defined by a series of personality traits? -A college junior, trying to figure the world out.

Should I listen to my college adviser or not? I am a (applied) math major and plan to be doing some form of research in the future (I'm not sure what yet but I'm also have an interest in physics, chemistry, and astronomy). I attend Hunter College and will be a junior next year. For requirements I am required to take 3 high level math elective courses. I can take one more 3 credit course before my credit limit is reached and I actually think the course is interesting. The course I have in question is: Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences The course will concentrate on the solution of linear partial differential equations and boundary value problems. Solution techniques such as separation of variables, Fourier series, Green's functions, and Laplace transforms will be covered. These will be applied to several equations which occur in physical applications such as the heat equation, the Laplace equation, and the wave equation. Unfortunately I talked to the adviser in the math department and he said that the class is useless for applied math because it teaches you stuff that was used back in the 19th century and won't be useful at all. There is no other high level math class that is offered next term that I'm interested in. The question is should I take his advice or take the course anyways? How important are partial differential equations in the math world? Appreciate if you guys can give me some advice. Devin, I don't remember what my adviser exactly said, all I know is that he said something about the methods not being modern enough and that i should take both math analysis 1 and 2 (only 1 is required for the major) instead. I was shocked at what he said myself.

Rate: how my transcript is shaping up.. also some other things...? Hey guys! I'm just a junior in high school in new york city, but I'm looking at universities already. So lets cut to the chase. I want to go into Business as well as Journalism My cumulative, weighted average is currently at a 90.3. My grades keep going up every single year. I just got my report card that covers 1st/2nd quarter and mid term grades. Best I've ever done at the half way mark. I'm a minority, first generation hispanic student. I'm in the honors classes. One of which includes Latin 3. Next year as a senior I'll be taking AP english. I'm ranked in the top 10% of the graduating class. But I'm holding on to that honor by a thread. I'm ranked 17th, and if I dropped to 18th, that puts me top 11% xD. hopefully I can hold onto that until it's time to apply to university. SATS? Not so great. But I've only taken it once.. got a 1510. Extra curriculars.. I've done some pretty sweet stuff. - Wrote for school newspaper in all 3 years, and I'm editor in chief now as a junior - This is my first year in mock trial, and I am playing the lead witness for the defense, next year I'll be a lawyer (it's reserved for seniors >_<) - Currently I am attending a highly selective inner city job program.. where I do training for interviews/resumes/etc. Hopefully I do land a job, that'll help my transcript a lot. Though being in this program is quite the honor. - Probably the thing that stands out most... I attended an 8 day youth leadership conference in Rochester University before this junior year. It's highly competitive. Rochester also gives all students I think a 1000 dollar scholarship automatically, so I can say "hey, look what I got from a major university :]." National Hispanic is also associated with over a hundred major universities such as NYU, Boston, Duke, etc. A major connection. - Over the summer before senior year I'll also be attending another National Hispanic program, called the Collegiate World Series. This is NYU, and again NYU sponsors some of the money. Here I'll be doing interviews and working on skills with real admission reps from major universities. As well as competing with other students. This can be a good chance to make some connections, and also the program looks great on my transcript. - Last.. I did community service from 9-11:30am every Saturday in freshman and sophmore years as an aide at my church for bible classes. This year as a junior, and also as a senior (I'll be doing the same) Saturday volunteer is dropped in favor of helping out as an asisstant, youth leader, and part time teacher when needed on tuesdays and wednesdays for high school confirmation classes. Well that covers it guys. Based on my grades, SAT, activities, how am I shaping up? As it stands, my number 1 school right now is Northeastern. I've been looking at it for months and really love it. As well as Boston University.. and boston college, way too far of a reach? Also I really do need scholarship money.. so hopefully wherever I go I am offered something. Based on what I want to do and my current profile, can you recommend some universities? I'm in new york and don't want to go any lower than say, North Carolina, don't wanna go far west past Chicago. I want a good, name brand school that I can look into. Thanks!

Am i good enough to play D1 baseball? I know its long but any feedback would be greatly appreciated. I was just curious if i was good enough to play D1 baseball, i have played baseball since the age of 6 and played in numerous federation leagues and played in high school my freshmen year, but due to the poor baseball program at my high school i decided to resign from high school baseball, my arm was being torn apart, i live in Michigan and the season began in early April, which is still very cold, i was a closer because i lacked control at that age, which is a issue that has passed as i worked with a pitching coach and grew in height. However i was given no warm up and told on the spot to pitch i did good but it was very taxing on my arm, which has a history of getting hurt. I have always been a dominant pitcher and have only had one pitch a 4 seam fastball, i never threw a change up or breaking ball and only on a few occasions experimented with a 2 seam fastball. I never needed to throw anything else in federation ball, high school ball and recreational ball. I have never had anything past a double hit against me (no joke). However what concerns me is that i haven’t thrown in awhile i played recreational ball my sophomore and junior year of high school and didn’t really feel the competition was up to par, there were some teams that provided a bit of a challenge such as teams that in their local area didn’t have federation leagues and only had recreational leagues. I was averaging 10-18 strikeouts a game in a 7 inning game and my era my sophomore year was around 0.50 I was also technically playing up a division, however I faced no opponent that could actually hit me, the most hits I allowed in a game I believe was 3. I also threw a no hitter/shutout against the #1 ranked team in the regional finals. My next year of pitching I actually had a fan base, people would come out to see me throw in the playoffs such as league officials from other leagues. I was also featured in my local paper for the game I pitched. However I sustained a early injury to my rotator cuff and I lost the zest of my fastball, which probably dropped 10-15 mph, and I lost a severe amount of stamina. I never allowed my arm to heal, however I was still a dominant pitcher in the league. After that season, I gave up on baseball I figured my arm was shot, and I focused on other things, such as weight lifting. However about 3 weeks ago I was watching the Little League World Series and I got inspired to throw again, I threw with my dad and my fastball was harder then ever, it exploded I would say it picked up 10-15 mph from my sophomore year, it was so fast my dad couldn't catch me and he had done so for the past 12 years. I found that my college was having open tryouts Sep. 9th and am thinking of trying out. I do not look like a typical pitcher, i am 6"1, 240 pounds i basically look like a football player, since i bulked up a lot, which i think has added to my fastball velocity. I’m just thinking when i go to try out everyone will being throwing harder then me and I will realize I am nothing special. I have never been clocked so my speed remains a mystery which is a large influencing factor, since everyone always asks me how hard i throw. I guess my arm has that wow factor. Thank you for reading and any feedback will be greatly appreciated.

Can you critique my college application essay please? I don’t know how I ended up in a bathroom stall, essentially recreating the infamous scene from “Mean Girls.” With a paper-bagged lunch on my lap, I was awkwardly looking around, hoping that anyone who walked in wouldn’t notice that the same shoes were under that stall for the past 15 minutes. They could think I had an atrocious case of the stomach flu for all I cared. Anything and I mean anything was better than people knowing that you don’t have friends. A semblance of “I’m too cool to eat in the cafeteria” was easier than “I don’t have anyone to sit with.” This was supposed to be my fresh start. I could finally get away from everything that held me back. It was the middle of freshman year; my first experience at a private Catholic school. It was a strange and newfound feeling to be wearing a skirt all the time. I was self-conscious of my ordinary pale legs against dozens of tanned and toned ones. I found it difficult to relate to my peers. I was making small talk about how we were supposed to get 10 inches of snow on Thursday, or how unappetizing the school chicken caesar wraps looked. Their faces, subtly laced with indifference, went back to conversations about what their dresses for the upcoming semi-formal looked like and who was going to ask who. It was no secret that I was an Audrey Hepburn girl in a Paris Hilton world. Throughout high school, I found it difficult to make friends. I didn’t quite understand why. I wasn’t unattractive or socially awkward. Although looking back, it has become clearer. I was modest and humble; reserved and polite. My best friend became my journal. I wouldn’t speak unless someone spoke to me first. I stayed home on Friday nights reading or blogging instead of going out. However, I let things hold me back. I couldn’t ever “just be myself” because I didn’t know who that was just yet. I let what people’s opinions of me hold me back. The past and useless details were choking my existence. I found myself falling into a series of depressions. My sadness consumed me. I didn’t know how to deal with it, so I let it out on myself. I knew that this wasn’t the way high school was supposed to be. There had to be something else out there that could make me happy. Life just couldn’t be this constant sadness and a longing for the future, for something better. I felt like I was wasting my life away. I knew something had to change. If not now, then when? October 2010, during my junior year, I went to a school sponsored retreat. It changed everything for me. I found acceptance, and even love, in my flaws. I found friends in places I wasn’t able to see. I found my wit and self-worth. The day I opened up to my classmates was the day they began to see me a little differently. I realized I needed to look at myself the way others looked at me. Afterward, people told me I was an “inspiration.” They told me that they “were proud to know me.” That I was “the definition of fearless.” I started looking in the mirror and realizing that they were right. As the year progressed, I began to break out of my shell. I made high honors. I started making new friends. I laughed more, and I truly enjoyed school and learning. I can’t remember a single weekend when I stayed home by myself, or didn’t have something to do. For once, I embraced life. Things really started to turn around. Come April, I did something that would have terrified the girl in the bathroom stall freshman year: I ran for student council. I had to make a speech in front of the whole class. The truth is, I found it easy. I found a comfort at that podium. I worked very hard for the election, and though I lost, it’s okay because I did something I never would have two years, or even one year ago. I did something that initially scared me. I finally found myself. I know who I am and I’m not afraid of it. My past is just a small part of my journey. It doesn’t define me. No matter where my path takes me, I’ll always be thankful for the painful road that helped get me there. People talk about depression as if it’s something weak, but going through it I know it’s something strong. I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn. You can’t wear a catcher’s mitt on both hands. In life, you have to be able throw something back, too. I’m ready to learn, to grow, to progress. I’m ready to throw something back.

Could you suggest some books for me to read? I'm a 14 year old girl with a reading level of a junior in college. Here are some of my favorite books: Matched - Ally Condie Dreamland - Sarah Dessen Anthem - Ayn Rand Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick The LAst Treasure - Janet Anderson Silent Echoes - Jablonski The Princess Bride - Goldman Lord of the Rings Karma - Cathy Ostlers Under the Dome - Stephen The Perks of Being a wallflower - Stephen Chbosky Dragon Rider - Cornelia Funke Carrie - Stephen King The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury The Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling Diary of Anne Frank To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter Around the World in 80 Days - Pierce Bronson Dr. Jerkyll and Mr. Hyde Treasure Island Dracula Les Misreable Here are books I've read so you won't suggest them :): All of Sarah Dessen's Books The Entire Pretty Little Liars Series The Entire Goose Girl Series The Ashley's Series A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket Holes - Louis Sachar Jane Eyre Bad Girls Don't Die Animal Farm A Catcher in the Rye PLEASE don't suggest Twilight.

Could you suggest some books foor me to read? I'm a 14 year old girl with a reading level of a junior in college. Here are some of my favorite books: Matched - Ally Condie Dreamland - Sarah Dessen Anthem - Ayn Rand Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick The LAst Treasure - Janet Anderson Silent Echoes - Jablonski The Princess Bride - Goldman Lord of the Rings Karma - Cathy Ostlers Under the Dome - Stephen The Perks of Being a wallflower - Stephen Chbosky Dragon Rider - Cornelia Funke Carrie - Stephen King The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury The Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling Diary of Anne Frank To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter Around the World in 80 Days - Pierce Bronson Dr. Jerkyll and Mr. Hyde Treasure Island Dracula Les Misreable Here are books I've read so you won't suggest them :): All of Sarah Dessen's Books The Entire Pretty Little Liars Series The Entire Goose Girl Series The Ashley's Series A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket Holes - Louis Sachar Jane Eyre Bad Girls Don't Die Animal Farm A Catcher in the Rye Please don't suggest Twilight

What can i do about my best friend? I am in love with her!? Ok so here i am sitting here typing this while the love of my life is probably dreaming about her boyfriend or talking to him on the phone saying how much they love each other and talking about their future.... shes a senior in high school (so am i) he is a junior in college. he is down rite now for break and i am really depressed. I am in love with her beyond a shadow of a doubt. I know i love with her... my friend always says i am whipped cause of all the things i tell him about her and everything i do for her and with her. But she is dating this guy who she really loves... i cant compete with that. They have been dating for THREE YEARS. I have known this girl my whole life and we have been best friend for at least 6 years. I cant stop loving her, i am always with her cause of school and activities and am even going to college close to her. I dont want to stop loving her.... ever since i fell in love i have had the best months of my life... even though she doesnt love me back just the thought and hope that deep down she may have feel something is worth evertyhing in the world to me. I wont stop loving her... But what can i do? This guy and her are very series. I sit on my computer nite after nite thinking about her i am thinking about her constantly and when i am with her i feel amazing. How is it possible to love someone SO much and not have them love you back? I want to spend my life with her i truly cant see my self living without her... but what can i do? There has to be something i can do!

Are my friends parents too overprotective, if so, what if anything should we do? We are all juniors in high school, and have known each other most of our lives through church. One of our friends, I'll call him Jake, is sheltered, extremely sheltered. He is seventeen just like the rest of us. He is allowed to go over to one of our houses, but he must call his parents when he gets there and when he leaves. His parents then call whoever parents to make sure he was there and ask what we did. We know this because we've answered the phone then given it to our parents. Furthermore, his parents will not let him watch any rated R or even most PG-13 movies. For example, in 2008, we all went to watch The Dark Knight, he was grounded for two weeks when they found out it was PG-13 for the content. The only things he is allowed to watch on TV are educational (if its approved by his parents) or a sporting event (it is DVR'd unless its a special circumstance like the Super Bowl or World Series and even then they tell him to leave the room during inappropriate commercials). He is only allowed to use the computer for school work, it is a family computer so I'm pretty sure his parents check and not too mention he is home schooled. He has a cell phone, but no texting and very, very limited calling. The only friends he has our us and everyone else in our church's youth group. He hates this, but he knows fighting it will only make it worse, he's tried to explain himself and his parents always say that they know what's best for him because they're his parents. Jake's parents are allowing him to go off to college, its the same Christian university that we're going to. We are concerned for him, he had a sister who his parents did the same thing to her. She killed herself a month after she went off to college, my sister was her roommate and the note said "It's too much, I can't take it", we were told she had killed herself, Jake was told by his parents she died in a car accident. We told him the truth. He didn't know anything had happened on 9/11 until that Wednesday, he didn't did actually find out what happened until the next year. That Indonesian Tsunami, he didn't know the truth about that until this Tsunami that hit Japan. He doesn't act childish, but you can still tell he has that innocence because his parents don't want him to know about anything sad, non-Christian, or anything that they see as bad in the world. We're trying to help as much as possible, but we can't do a lot. Our parents have expressed concern but his parents write them off. We're considering getting some minister in our church to intervene because we don't want him to end up like his older sister.

Should I stay at CC then transfer to 4year, or just go to 4year right away? Right now I'm doing my first year of college at a community college for my AA degree which I plan on using to transfer to a four year college. I'm on financial aid, so I'm doing fine on tuition and other fees. However, what I'm doing at the CC currently doesn't really fit in to what I want to do at a University, or rather, there are a limited amount of classes related to the area, which is music. My current plan involves taking as many music classes as I can, which isn't that many (Theory series, Piano class, World Music), as a pre-music major and then after I have received my AA degree, transfer as a junior to do 2 years for a Bachelor of Music. The only problem is, my main intent is the Bachelor of Music Composition, which has its own special requirements. One of the requirements for admittance to the program is to take certain 200 level and 300 level music courses before becoming a Composition major. Like I said, though, my CC only offers a minute selection of music courses, some of which are the important ones such as Music Theory that, unfortunately, became full before I had the chance to take them. Of course, if I transferred to a four-year university after this year, I could take a plethora of music courses, and apply for the school of music. So I have thought of the option of transferring to a four-year college after this year at the CC, though, doing this without finishing my AA degree has a risk to it. I'm on financial aid currently, and while I plan on applying for aid yearly, I do not know exactly how long I am going to be eligible for grant money. It could turn out that somewhere along the way, I could be cut off from financial aid. If this happens after I have received my AA degree, however, and transferred to a university, I would still have a college which would give me an advantage in the workforce. But the truth is, if I transfer to a university before finishing my AA degree, I would have no degree, no way of paying to finish my education, and would have to end up finding someway to earn the money to finish the degree. I've been told that I will most likely receive the grant money if my financial status does not improve, which it isn't, but at the same time, I don't want to rely 100 percent on getting grant money. So the question is: Should I stay at the CC, be economically safer, but suffer not taking classes to my liking or should I jump the gun and transfer after after one year at the CC, be happy with my classes and fulfill my degree requirements, but take a gamble with federal aid?

Have you ever wished you could return to your childhood for just a day? I remember when I used to go over my grandma Louise's house and my uncle would play PC games with me. We would play Total Annihilation (with The Core Contingency and Battle Tactics), Carnivores, Total Annihilation: Kingdoms, Planet Hot Wheels, Civilization II (with Conflicts in Civilization and Fantastic Worlds), Descent (with Levels of the World), Descent II (with Vertigo Series), Descent FreeSpace: The Great War, RuneScape (we only played this a few times), Star Wars: X-Wing versus TIE Fighter, and various other games. We would also watch movies in his basement, I remember when we used to watch the first Alien movie. I was like 8-12 when we used to do this stuff. I remember when we went to a baseball game that was sponsored by his work and there was like this festival thing before the baseball game that was for employees (and friends and family) of his work only, I had so much fun. We used to do all this awesome stuff together and I looked up to him as a role model, and I used to spend the night at grandma's house like every other weekend. He even got me into a community college at the age of 13, where I still attend schooling at (separate from the two high schools and one junior high school that I currently attend; what can I say, I guess I'm a prodigy). He also taught me how to SCUBA dive (he is a professor at the college and one of the classes he teaches is SCUBA). He also took me to World War II reenactments, where I got to dress up as a n American (or was I British, I forgot) soldier and got to use a real gun (blank adapted). He also taught me how to fire a real gun. But now my uncle and like never do anything. I'm 17 now and we haven't really hung out like we used to (which is explanatory since I'm a teenager and have been for several years so now I'm more interested in girls, hanging out with friends, the SS Free, Facebook, computers, and video games, than spending time with family members). But I kind of miss doing all that fun stuff with my uncle, now I have torn him away from me too, just like I have torn everyone else who cares about me away. I tore my parents away (we never talk unless we are arguing or yelling at each other), I don't want to do anything with them (obviously), I don't even want to be seen with them in public (what teenager does). The only people I had were my friends, but even then I partially blew that when I fell in love with my best friend and she didn't love me back, which I am still recovering from). Do you ever wish you could just go back to the simple times of your childhood, just for like a day?

Will these courses prepare me for the MCAT? I'm a freshman will-be-biology major, starting next semester. I want to do really well on the MCAT and I've compiled a four-year schedule over the past few days that meet the course requirements of my core curriculum, my degree requirements, the pre-med requirements of my college (attuned to MCAT and medical school general requirements), and the course requirements of my preferred graduate college. So this is what I have. I'll take the MCAT near the end of my junior year, but senior year is also included for feedback: Fall, Freshman Year -- Elementary Spanish II, Survey of US Government, English Composition II (took an AP course junior year to cover ENGL 1101), Introduction to Sociology, and Critical Thinking. Spring, Freshman Year -- Principle of Biology I, Survey of Chemistry I, Intermediate Spanish I, Survey of Economics, College Algebra. Fall, Sophomore Year -- Precalculus, World Literature II, Principles of Biology II, Survey of Chemistry II, Survey of World History Spring, Sophomore Year -- Introductory Physics I, Principles of Chemistry I, Elementary Statistics, Global Issues, Genetics Summer, Sophomore Year -- Human Anatomy I, Principles of Chemistry II Fall, Junior Year -- Organic Chemistry I, Introductory Physics II, Physiology, Cell Biology, Calculus I Spring, Junior Year -- Medical Physics, Ecology, Organic Chemistry II, General Microbiology, Human Anatomy II -TAKE MCAT- Summer, Junior Year -- General Botany, Ethics Fall, Senior Year -- Biochemistry I, Immunology, Human Histology, Histology Lab Techniques, Evolutionary Biology Spring, Senior Year -- Biochemistry II, Clinical Pathology, Bioinformatics, Vertebrae Zoology, and POSSIBLY Independent Study Research. I would take Biochemistry earlier, but to take Biochem, you have to take the Organic Chem series, and to take Organic Chem, you have to take the Principles of Chem series, and to take Principles of Chem series, you have to take Survey of Chem, so I don't really have a choice on that; I won't have Biochem before the MCAT. Any feedback would be great! Also, I know course requirements could change between now and then, but hopefully my schedule will look SOMETHING like this. And before I get any comments to the extent of, "Courses won't prepare you; you prepare yourself through studying!" Go shove your pseudo-wisdom up your ass; you know what I mean.

Can I get into UC Berkeley or Cornell? I have a 3.72 unweighted, 4.2 weighted GPA that features an upward trend. The weighted should be more like 4.3 by next year when I apply. I got a 2260 on my SAT (770M, 790CR, 700W) and took the US History and English Lit. subject tests, although I have not yet received my scores. I have only taken two AP tests thus far (11th grade English and US History), and although I do not know my scores yet, I am confident that I received two 5s (when I took the practice tests, I got 5s easily). I have taken the most rigorous classes that my school has to offer, provided that I can fit Band and sports. I actually go to three different high schools (one for band, one for academics, one for sports), and my academics high school is on a block schedule, so taking band every day actually encompasses two full periods at my academic high school. Freshman year I took a required technology course, Biology (honors was not offered), Honors English, Honors Geometry, Wind Ensemble, and ran Cross Country and played baseball. Sophomore year I took Honors English, Honors World History, Honors Algebra II, and Honors Chemistry. Junior year I took AP English, AP US History, Physics (band nixed my opportunity to take AP), and Honors Trigonometry/Calculus A. Senior year I will be taking AP English, AP Government/Honors Economics, AP Calculus BC, and AP Biology. In my sophomore, junior, and senior years I ran Cross Country and Track and Field, Varsity in both. My academic high school is a magnet school ranked in the top 150 high schools in the nation. I have also taken a few classes at our local community college. I took Spanish 1 and 2 during the summers preceding my Sophomore and Junior years, and a Jazz Harmony course during my Junior year. I am the Debate Captain of the Political Action and Awareness Club, and co-founder and Music Director of our new Glee/a Capella club. I am in the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, a high level high school group that is affiliated with the Santa Barbara Symphony (I play clarinet). I am a past member of the All-State Honor Band here in California (which, I hear, is one of the best in the nation) and the MERIT summer chamber music camp. I am also a co-founder of the Ventura Woodwind Quintet, which made a small profit. I worked as an Assistant with the Junior Lifeguard program during the summer preceding my Junior year, and I plan to volunteer with the organization this summer. I volunteered with the Tigres Youth Track and Field program and the Harbor Lights race series. My volunteer hours should add up to considerably over 300 hours. That's about it. What do you think?

What marimba mallets do you recommend? I'm a junior in high school, and it's time for me to invest in a set of marimba mallets that will help me to grow as a musician. I'm looking for mallets that: will last a long time, create variations of colorful sound throughout the instrument, are good for both solo and ensemble work (both 2 and 4 mallet pieces), are good for college auditions, and will ultimately be able to bring me into the world of professional percussion later in my life. So let me know what series you use or what you recommend the best mallets to get are. preferably not TOO expensive, no further than $40 a pair. I've looked at the Malletech Concert Series, and also the Michael Burritt series, but I'm not sure. Please let me know what you think, all opinions are helpful! Thanks a bunch!

What does this document tell you about this moment in American history? Joseph McCarthy, “Speech at Wheeling West Virginia” (1950) Background: "When the junior Senator from Wisconsin spoke before the Ohio Country Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia in February 1950 he claimed to have a list of 205 communists who worked in the U.S. State Department, shaping American foreign policy. Though McCarthy’s numbers would fluctuate, the charges would propel him to the forefront of American politics. During the following four years, McCarthy made increasingly wilder accusations. As chairman of the investigations subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations, he launched a series of highly publicized investigations, including one into communists within the U.S. Army. In 1954, in a series of televised hearings McCarthy’s opponents managed to portray him as a bully, and his public support began to diminish. In December 1954, four years after his accusations began, McCarthy was censured by the U.S. Senate for his conduct. Though McCarthy was by no means the only politician to alert Americans to the alleged dangers of communist subversion of American institutions during the late 1940s and early 1950s, historians tend to label the Red Scare of mid century, “McCarthyism.” While others may be cited for their role in creating the Red Scare, McCarthy’s lack of concern about the truth of his accusations and his willingness to use tactics like guilt by association, place him at both the forefront and the extreme of the politics of domestic anticommunism of the early Cold War period." Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.... And, ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down – they are truly down.... Six years ago... there was within the Soviet orbit 180 million people. Lined up on the anti-totalitarian side there were in the world at that time roughly 1.625 billion people. Today, only six years later, there are 800 million people under the absolute domination of Soviet Russia – an increase of over 400 percent. On our side the figure has shrunk to around 500 million. In other words, in less than six years the odds have changed from 9 to 1 in our favor to 8 to 5 against us. This indicates the swiftness of the tempo of communist victories and American defeats in the cold war. As one of our outstanding historical figures once said, “When a great democracy is destroyed, it will not be because of enemies from without, but rather because of enemies from within.”... The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because our only powerful potential enemy has sent men to invade our shores, but rather because of the traitorous actions of those who have been treated so well by this Nation. It has not been the less fortunate or members of minority groups who have been selling this Nation out, but rather those who have had all the benefits that the wealthiest nation on earth has had to offer – the finest homes, the finest college education, and the finest jobs in Government we can give. This is glaringly true at the State Department. There the brightest young men who are born with silver spoons in their mouths are the ones who have been the worst.... In my opinion the State Department, which is one of the most important government departments, is thoroughly infested with Communists. I have in my hand 57 cases of individuals who would appear to be either card carrying members of certainly loyal to the Communist Party, but who nevertheless are still helping to shape our foreign policy.... As you know, very recently the Secretary of State [Dean Acheson] proclaimed his loyalty to a man guilty of what has always been considered as the most abominable of all crimes – of being a traitor to the people who gave him a position of great trust. The Secretary of State [Acheson] in attempting to justify his continued devotion to the man who sold out the Christian world to the atheistic world, referred to Christ’s Sermon on the Mount as a justification.... When this pompous diplomat in striped pants, with a phony British accent, proclaimed to the American people that Christ on the Mount endorsed communism, high treason, and betrayal of a sacred trust, the blasphemy was so great that it awakened the dormant indignation of the American people. He has lighted the spark which is resulting in a moral uprising and will end only when the whole sorry mess of twisted, warped thinkers are swept from the national scene so that we may have a new birth of national honesty and decency in government. In a similar speech later in 1950, McCarthy repeated many of the same ideas and added the following: The great difference between our western Christian world and the atheistic Communist world is not political, gentlemen, it is moral.... The real, basic difference... lies in the religion of immoralism – invented by Marx, preached feverishly by Lenin, and carried to unimagi

Why am I gossiped about so much? What can I do to make it stop? Hi, I am a rising junior at a university and I couldn't feel more hurt or attacked at my school. I may be different from the typical student at my college, but I always make sure to be friendly to everyone I meet, and I always work hard and do my best, but I have been talked about on FOUR separate threads on an anonymous college gossip website. (Please note that there are over 6,000 undergraduates at my school!) I can't even describe the feeling of seeing my full name on that website for the whole world to see, and it certainly doesn't help that i'm already a bit insecure. Although I know that girls are the chief posters on this site, it still hurts. About a year ago, someone started a thread saying I was the "easiest freshman girl," which couldn't be further from the truth. Luckily some of my close friends defended me. Later, someone wrote my name on a thread that listed the "hottest girls in you year," but once it was up, a series of harsh comments followed saying I was "nice but 'too californian'" and that i "wore too heavy makeup." It was extremely embarrassing. In the past week, now, I was posted about two times! Someone wrote that my group of friends is "notorious" but "at least we're hot." (I have no idea what we have supposedly done to be notorious...) Now, Someone wrote that my best friend and I were one of the cutest sets of best friends on campus. While this is a great and welcomed compliment, I am absolutely terrified of the mean and hateful comments that I know are soon to come, just knowing from past experience. My question is, what on earth have I done to make people think they have the right to pass such judgment on me? It honestly keeps me up at night and I really wish they knew how much it can hurt. Is there anything I can do to try and prevent it? I seriously can't take it anymore, I have become so conscious of everything I do, and so suspicious of everyone. Please help, I really can't take this pressure... knowital: i love what you said about people not being able to make you feel bad without your permission. it's so true but i've never had it put like that. thanks so much, now i'll try to keep those words of wisdom in mind :)

What are my chances of getting into Princeton? [International Student] + Help with extra curricular activity? It's been my lifelong dream to get into Princeton. I've been stalking princeton.edu for the last couple of months, you could say and I was left enchanted. So that dark corner in your head where all your secret wishes are? It sprung its wings and now I am practically obsessing over it so I figured I could ask before I get my hopes up >_> I am 17, I am from a country in Europe and I am currently an exchange student residing in Iowa, USA. I guess it's useful to mention that I am here on a US Government sponsored scholarship meaning I had to complete a series of tests in order to be selected as one of the few finalists that got to come here in USA for a year. My academic background so far has been great, dare I say. Through my 8 years of education in primary school I've always had 5.00 GPA (the grading system in my country is on a 1-5 grade scale; 5 being the highest). I was also selected student of the generation, the highest recognition my primary school offered. Through my two years of high school education in my country I also maintained a 5.00 GPA. In addition my (now ex) high school is ranked 3 in the country. During those two years there are some achievements I've had that are worth mentioning (I believe): -placed first in an essay competition where the reward was a dinner with the American Ambassador in my country as well as a written certificate by the American Embassy -placed first in the national English as a second language competition -was selected to attend the traditional breakfast branch with the mayor of my town (the capital of my country); only a few schools got to send 4 students (one from each graduating class) As I've mentioned before, I am currently a senior student (even though I am technically a junior since I am 17 and I'll be required to complete one more year of high school education in order to graduate in my country) in a small town in Iowa. So far I am maintaining a 4.0 GPA. My high school here doesn't offer AP or IB classes so I am taking some dual credit college classes such as Psychology, Government, Social Problems and Human Relations. My study of focus would be the Social Studies field. I am not sure what precisely that would be but I am trying to find out by taking the College Credit classes I've listed so hopefully I'll know soon. I understand that volunteerism plays a very important role in getting admitted and therefore I complete at least 10 hours per month. I do wonder though if there are some preferred clubs or organizations I should join? Does getting involved in already laid out volunteering actions suffice or am I supposed to take the initiative to organize some kind of event? Like raising money for a certain cause, for example? I guess my question is that IF I do get 2250+ score on my SAT and score well enough on the TOEFL exam, what are my chances of getting admitted? In addition, if my main focus of study are social sciences, what are the three subject tests I should take? I was thinking world history, US history and maybe Literature or Mathematics I? Also, thanks for reading this (: I know I can get carried away with writing sometimes so kudos for getting to this part. Thanks for answering so fast and for the words of encouragement. :) I do appreciate it greatly. Regarding the Mathematics Level 1&2...what is a test curve exactly?

How Likely Is It For Me To Get Into A Good University? I am a 20 year old who graduated from high school with a 3.6 GPA two years ago, putting me in the top 12% of my graduating class, and whose previous score on the SAT equals to 1610 out of 2400. I'm also interested in returning to college to obtain a Biology bachelors before then applying for grad school. The catch is that when I was a 18, I had attempted to go to a a university before but had dropped out, with an extremely poor academic standing (2 F's and 1 B), in order to dedicate myself fully to a small business that I had been working on. The reason that I had a low GPA was because I had foolishly attempted to run this business while also pursuing said degree. In addition, the catch to my slightly above average SAT score is in the fact that it's largely due to my Reading score of 630 and my Writing score of 520, a category that most colleges don't bother looking into anyway. My Math score on the other hand is abysmal at 460, some 31% of the national percentile. This is by far the lowest that I have ever received on a PSAT or mock-SAT, on which I've often received scores above the 95th percentile, so I'd be extremely surprised if I couldn't do far better by seriously retaking the SAT this fall. In terms of extracurricular, I was a member of the debate team during my Freshman and Sophomore years of high school and was the president and founder of the Cooking Club during my Junior year. During the summer prior to attending my first university I shadowed the genetics lab of a professor and was almost guaranteed a position working within the lab by my Sophomore year. I should also be able to obtain a series of recommendations from my previous customers, high school teachers, and from the managers at my current job. I am currently studying French, Japanese, and German for my future travels, which should also increase the amount of schools that I can go to as an international student. What are the chance of me getting into a top 200 or even a decent university and what should I do to make it so? The current plan is to enter a community college and obtain straight A's for the next few semesters in order to prove that I can perform more effectively than I've already demonstrated. Is this necessary and if it is what else should I do in order to get into, for instance, Boston University or even any of the top 400 schools on the site linked below? http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities/articles/2010/09/21/worlds-best-universities-top-400-?PageNr=1

Was I wrong to leave a good friend? I know this is foolish, but i would like other peoples opinions. There was this girl i met back in high school. I met her in my history class but never really spoke to her. The next year, however, was when we really got close. She told me she had got a boyfriend over the summer.It was nothing to me at first. But, after time went by, one thing led to an other and we fell in love. After a year of being together, she and her boyfriend had broke up. I thought we would finally be able to be with each other,but I was painfully wrong. Then I realized that her love for him was far greater than ours could have ever reached. After some time went by and through some reconciliation, they got back together. That tore me apart to an extent to where I wanted revenge. Why? I felt like she was getting the best of both worlds. She liked all of the pleasure and none of the commitment. I felt like an abandoned toy that was quickly discarded because it was of no further use. Bitter feelings became vengeful hatred. After having the agony of watching her rediscovered love entwine, I wanted out of our friendship and out of her life. I went through a series of mental plans on how to lose her without her realizing my manipulations. None of them panned out. I was stuck in my own protective web. Then one day, like a gift from the heavens themselves, she sent me a vulgar picture via cell phone. I lost it; not because of the picture, but because of all the pent up emotions i had tried to hide for all that time. I ended the friendship there and then: we were through. She wasn't through with me though; she cried to her brother and her boyfriend. I got various threats from both of them. My parents got wind of her boyfriends threats and called the police. After some peer counseling, the charges were dropped and we separated permanently under my direction. I still love her, but i hate her. She was my first love and I was her friend. Then again, I was her puppet. That was three years ago when we were juniors in high school. Now I'm a freshman in college. Was I wrong in leaving her or was it something else that I've yet to realize? If it helps we are both Scorpios. My birthday on Halloween and hers between november 10-16. What's your thoughts? P.S. I'll be re-posting this in different categories to get the best results. So if you see this again, please bare with me.

College baseball players & drug tests!? Does anyone know at what point does the NCAA randomly drug test junior college baseball players? Do they drug test during regionals or only if they make it to the world series? I'm obviously a girl so I don't play baseball for junior college but I have a very talented friend who got drunk and smoked a crap load of weed at a party and he's really worried. Any help is appreciated. :)

How to tell if this girl likes me, or considers me a really close friend? Please read the entire thing cuz i really need help. Will pick a best answer so please help me out. Well this girl and me have been talking for like 6 months or so. We're both seniors in highschool, but she has a boyfriend that is a junior. We talk about close and personal things pretty often like our emotions and stuff that just gets deeper from there. We go to stuff one on one sometimes, and other times with my friends. She knows that i have feelings for her, and she doesn't want me to deny them. Recently we went to a Cws(college world series) game with a few of my friends. We had alot of fun together at the game, and she got a ride with me on the way back. Well along the way her bf called and she lied to him and said that she was on the bus. She lied to him while she was sitting right next to me in my car. On the walk to my car she said she was scared so i had my arm around her too. I really like her. She makes me feel like the happiest person on earth and i want to be with her. Please help me decode this girl and see if she likes me or not? Thanks :) If you think that she does in fact like me, please leave some details on what you think my next move should be. Thanks in again :)

What can i do about my best friend? I am in love with her!? Ok so here i am sitting here typing this while the love of my life is probably dreaming about her boyfriend or talking to him on the phone saying how much they love each other and talking about their future.... shes a senior in high school (so am i) he is a junior in college. he is down rite now for break and i am really depressed. I am in love with her beyond a shadow of a doubt. I know i love with her... my friend always says i am whipped cause of all the things i tell him about her and everything i do for her and with her. But she is dating this guy who she really loves... i cant compete with that. They have been dating for THREE YEARS. I have known this girl my whole life and we have been best friend for at least 6 years. I cant stop loving her, i am always with her cause of school and activities and am even going to college close to her. I dont want to stop loving her.... ever since i fell in love i have had the best months of my life... even though she doesnt love me back just the thought and hope that deep down she may have feel something is worth evertyhing in the world to me. I wont stop loving her... But what can i do? This guy and her are very series. I sit on my computer nite after nite thinking about her i am thinking about her constantly and when i am with her i feel amazing. How is it possible to love someone SO much and not have them love you back? I want to spend my life with her i truly cant see my self living without her... but what can i do? There has to be something i can do!

Why am I gossiped about so much? What can I do to make it stop? Hi, I am a rising junior at a university and I couldn't feel more hurt or attacked at my school. I may be different from the typical student at my college, but I always make sure to be friendly to everyone I meet, and I always work hard and do my best, but I have been talked about on FOUR separate threads on an anonymous college gossip website. (Please note that there are over 6,000 undergraduates at my school!) I can't even describe the feeling of seeing my full name on that website for the whole world to see, and it certainly doesn't help that i'm already a bit insecure. Although I know that girls are the chief posters on this site, it still hurts. About a year ago, someone started a thread saying I was the "easiest freshman girl," which couldn't be further from the truth. Luckily some of my close friends defended me. Later, someone wrote my name on a thread that listed the "hottest girls in you year," but once it was up, a series of harsh comments followed saying I was "nice but 'too californian'" and that i "wore too heavy makeup." It was extremely embarrassing. In the past week, now, I was posted about two times! Someone wrote that my group of friends is "notorious" but "at least we're hot." (I have no idea what we have supposedly done to be notorious...) Now, Someone wrote that my best friend and I were one of the cutest sets of best friends on campus. While this is a great and welcomed compliment, I am absolutely terrified of the mean and hateful comments that I know are soon to come, just knowing from past experience. My question is, what on earth have I done to make people think they have the right to pass such judgment on me? It honestly keeps me up at night and I really wish they knew how much it can hurt. Is there anything I can do to try and prevent it? I seriously can't take it anymore, I have become so conscious of everything I do, and so suspicious of everyone. Please help, I really can't take this pressure...

Was I wrong to leave a good friend? I know this is foolish, but i would like other peoples opinions. There was this girl i met back in high school. I met her in my history class but never really spoke to her. The next year, however, was when we really got close. She told me she had got a boyfriend over the summer.It was nothing to me at first. But, after time went by, one thing led to an other and we fell in love. After a year of being together, she and her boyfriend had broke up. I thought we would finally be able to be with each other,but I was painfully wrong. Then I realized that her love for him was far greater than ours could have ever reached. After some time went by and through some reconciliation, they got back together. That tore me apart to an extent to where I wanted revenge. Why? I felt like she was getting the best of both worlds. She liked all of the pleasure and none of the commitment. I felt like an abandoned toy that was quickly discarded because it was of no further use. Bitter feelings became vengeful hatred. After having the agony of watching her rediscovered love entwine, I wanted out of our friendship and out of her life. I went through a series of mental plans on how to lose her without her realizing my manipulations. None of them panned out. I was stuck in my own protective web. Then one day, like a gift from the heavens themselves, she sent me a vulgar picture via cell phone. I lost it; not because of the picture, but because of all the pent up emotions i had tried to hide for all that time. I ended the friendship there and then: we were through. She wasn't through with me though; she cried to her brother and her boyfriend. I got various threats from both of them. My parents got wind of her boyfriends threats and called the police. After some peer counseling, the charges were dropped and we separated permanently under my direction. I still love her, but i hate her. She was my first love and I was her friend. Then again, I was her puppet. That was three years ago when we were juniors in high school. Now I'm a freshman in college. Was I wrong in leaving her or was it something else that I've yet to realize? If it helps we are both Scorpios. My birthday on Halloween and hers between november 10-16. What's your thoughts? P.S. I'll be re-posting this in different categories to get the best results. So if you see this again, please bare with me.

How to tell if this girl likes me, or considers me a really close friend? Please read the entire thing cuz i really need help. Will pick a best answer so please help me out. Well this girl and me have been talking for like 6 months or so. We're both seniors in highschool, but she has a boyfriend that is a junior. We talk about close and personal things pretty often like our emotions and stuff that just gets deeper from there. We go to stuff one on one sometimes, and other times with my friends. She knows that i have feelings for her, and she doesn't want me to deny them. Recently we went to a Cws(college world series) game with a few of my friends. We had alot of fun together at the game, and she got a ride with me on the way back. Well along the way her bf called and she lied to him and said that she was on the bus. She lied to him while she was sitting right next to me in my car. On the walk to my car she said she was scared so i had my arm around her too. I really like her. She makes me feel like the happiest person on earth and i want to be with her. Please help me decode this girl and see if she likes me or not? Thanks :) If you think that she does in fact like me, please leave some details on what you think my next move should be. Thanks in advance :)

Was I wrong to leave a good friend? I know this is foolish, but i would like other peoples opinions. There was this girl i met back in high school. I met her in my history class but never really spoke to her. The next year, however, was when we really got close. She told me she had got a boyfriend over the summer.It was nothing to me at first. But, after time went by, one thing led to an other and we fell in love. After a year of being together, she and her boyfriend had broke up. I thought we would finally be able to be with each other,but I was painfully wrong. Then I realized that her love for him was far greater than ours could have ever reached. After some time went by and through some reconciliation, they got back together. That tore me apart to an extent to where I wanted revenge. Why? I felt like she was getting the best of both worlds. She liked all of the pleasure and none of the commitment. I felt like an abandoned toy that was quickly discarded because it was of no further use. Bitter feelings became vengeful hatred. After having the agony of watching her rediscovered love entwine, I wanted out of our friendship and out of her life. I went through a series of mental plans on how to lose her without her realizing my manipulations. None of them panned out. I was stuck in my own protective web. Then one day, like a gift from the heavens themselves, she sent me a vulgar picture via cell phone. I lost it; not because of the picture, but because of all the pent up emotions i had tried to hide for all that time. I ended the friendship there and then: we were through. She wasn't through with me though; she cried to her brother and her boyfriend. I got various threats from both of them. My parents got wind of her boyfriends threats and called the police. After some peer counseling, the charges were dropped and we separated permanently under my direction. I still love her, but i hate her. She was my first love and I was her friend. Then again, I was her puppet. That was three years ago when we were juniors in high school. Now I'm a freshman in college. Was I wrong in leaving her or was it something else that I've yet to realize? If it helps we are both Scorpios. My birthday on Halloween and hers between november 10-16. What's your thoughts? P.S. I'll be re-posting this in different categories to get the best results. So if you see this again, please bare with me.

how do i get a second chance with my girlfriend? well i have been with my gf for almost 2 yrs. It has been off and on 3 times. im gonna be a sophmore in college and my now ex girlfriend is going to be a junior in highschool. If you are going to say something about the age gap just stop reading now because I am sick of people saying stuff about it. We love each other and that is what matters. We have been through alot i broke her up with her previous boyfriend because he was controlling and abusive. Also i have helped her grandma and grandpa move down close by them it was a series of moving their stuff. Lastly her mom passed away november 5th of last year. I have actually snuck home to stay weekends when her when i was an hr away at college. I was an hour away at college and I came down for it and stayed a couple nights. after her mom passed i switched colleges because i felt i needed to be there for her. Losing her mom was hard on me as well she was like a second mother. She cares so much about me all the things she does. Without her I would probably wouldnt of graduated highschool because I was depressed and had no friends. She came in and changed my world. She helped me through the rough classes of college by encouraging me and saying I could do it. If not for her caring about me I would have probably have been dead. I was thinking about sucide on and off my highschool years because people were so mean to me. I am the luckiest guy in the world to have her in my life. Even though she doesnt have much money she still does little things for me. money does not matter to me love trumps it. she gets me small gifts and just makes me laugh and enjoy the time we have together. she is so pretty, cute, smart, charming, funny, fun and loving that I dont know if anyone can top her. she knows how to pick me up when I am down. she calms me down if I am angry at my family. I will do anything for her I love her so much and she cares about me and makes me feel needed. No one has ever made me feel needed my friends have left me for no apparent reason and I tried so hard and they just didnt care. I cared about them and they just walked out of my life. She just recently broke up with me because she wanted a make up summer and didnt want to be tied down. She said we could still hang out and be friends with benifits. We have been broken up for almost two weeks. I even took her to a katy perry concert at summerfest as an early birthday present. We were broken up during that time n still r but it was amazing. She has been friends with this guy for 4 years and an ex and she just started dating him last night. I am going to get a locket engraved wit her fav picture of her and her mom and give it to her on the next aniversary of her moms death. I want her to feel that her mom is still with her. Her mom is still with her, just in spirit. This locket can be around her neck and if she is gone and does not have a picture of her mom with her its around her neck. Losing her mom has had a big effect on her life. She has to babysit her 8 year old brother a good chunk of the day because her dad works. She has to help clean up the house. She has to drive her brother and herself places. She has had to become independent doing alot of things on her own without much help. Losing her mom has effected her life, her families, the way she views the world, our relationship and most importantly her self esteem. How can I get back together with her? Like what can I do to show i am more important than this guy she has recently started to date?

why do people like ANN COULTER? An Evening with Ann Coulter - Al Franken eviscerates the hate-spewer - MVP, 4/4/06 This is what Al wrote about the debate afterwards: Last May, as I left the stage after debating Ann Coulter in Hartford, my wife Franni took me aside and whispered: "The poor thing." Last Monday, after my debate with Coulter at the Universal Amphitheatre in L.A., there was no sympathy from Franni. Just a strong sense of disgust. Because Coulter had chosen a strange strategy. Offend the audience and then act the victim. The event was part of a lecture series sponsored by the University of Judaism. The previous debate had featured Newt Gingrich and John Edwards before a crowd of about 5000 subscribers. About 5500 had gathered for me and Ann. The extra five hundred presumably were fans of mine and of Ann's. Before the debate, there was a dinner for about 75 sponsors – mainly middle-aged-to- older Jewish couples. Between dinner and dessert Ann and I were to each make three minutes of remarks. I had planned to open with my usual at such Jewish events: "I'm going to start by answering the question I've been asked most tonight – Yes, I've had enough to eat." But Ann went first, and set her tone for the entire evening. "It was fascinating being here for the demonstrations this weekend," she said with a snotty Darien sneer. "I guess that's why I didn't get clean towels in my hotel room this morning." There was an audible gasp from the Jews. Ann continued: "I haven't seen so many agitated Mexicans since the World Cup Soccer Games were in L.A." As offended as the diners were, the waiters were pissed. Ann was actually dumb enough to drink her coffee afterwards. I answered by saying that I hadn't seen so many agitated Mexicans since 1846 when James K. Polk invaded Mexico because he thought Santa Ana had weapons of mass destruction. I wasn't sure of the year, but I thought the different approaches to our "agitated Mexican" jokes might give everyone an idea of what to expect. Fortunately, the debate had something of a formal structure to it. I led off with a twenty minute speech in which I eviscerated Ann, followed by her twenty minutes in which she defended herself by saying she was a flawed person and then proceeded to accuse Democrats of being traitors. Then there was about an hour with the president of the university leading a discussion during which she lost everyone but her most dedicated fans, of which there were maybe fifty by the end of the evening. At one point, when I was talking about making sure our returning veterans got proper medical care, one of her nutcase followers yelled, "Boring!" Anyway, I'm kind of proud of my opening statement. I put it on the website of my new political action committee, Midwest Values PAC. Drop by and check it out. So I did, and here is Al's opening remarks...absolutely priceless: COULTER DEBATE OPENING STATEMENT – UNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM Thank you. First of all, I know I join Ann in thanking the University of Judaism for hosting this event. We’ve had an opportunity to spend some time with President Wexler and have dinner with many folks from the University community. And I’d like to answer the question that I actually get asked the most when I do an event for a Jewish organization. Yes, I had enough to eat. You know, in these kinds of debate forums, someone has to go first. It’s always preferable to go second, because you can react to what’s been said, giving you something of a tactical advantage. More importantly, it pretty much spares you the chore of writing out pre-prepared remarks. Both Ann and I said we preferred going second, but I didn’t insist on it, because I understood somebody had to go first. And being a liberal, I just wasn’t tough-minded enough to insist on a coin toss. So, I’ll try to use my time to define the terms of the debate – if you will. “Whence Judaism?” No. I think we should talk about the Bush Administration and the Republican Congress and what it has accomplished over the past five years. I’m talking, of course, about well over two trillion dollars added to the national debt, the increase in poverty in our country and the added millions of Americans, including children, without health insurance. I’m talking about the sale of our democracy to corporate interests that pollute our water and our air. I’m talking about the widening gap between the haves and the have nots in this country. And I’m talking about the war in Iraq. I’m talking about an increasingly corrupt, secretive, and incompetent federal government that rewards cronies, a Republican majority in Congress that’s acted as a rubber stamp, that has performed virtually no oversight and which excludes the minority party from the legislative process in a way unprecedented in our recent history. I also want to discuss with Ann the coarsening of dialogue in this country. I want to discuss values with Ann. Values like love, of family, of your fellow man, of country. Ann has said repeatedly that liberals hate America. I disagree. Last year I had the honor of speaking at West Point. It was an audience not so very different from this one. Except that instead of you, the audience was made up of about twelve hundred cadets. Many of whom will be going to Iraq in the next year or so. The occasion was the Sol Feinstone Lecture on the Meaning of Freedom endowed by philanthropist Sol Feinstone. It’s an annual event and Sol Feinstein’s granddaughter, who is about my age, attended. After telling a number jokes and getting the cadets on my side. I told them that we had been lied into the war in Iraq. I had just published a book entitled The Truth (with jokes), and I told the cadets that you can’t have freedom without the truth. You can have freedom without jokes, as has been proven by the Dutch and the Swiss. I proceeded to prove that we had been lied into war, citing example after example of President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and Condi Rice, who had been National Security Advisor in the lead-up to the war, telling the public information that they knew not to be true. At the end of the speech I received a standing ovation from the cadets. Sol Feinstone’s granddaughter told me she had gone to every lecture for the last thirty or so years, and that I received only the second standing ovation. The other was for Max Cleland, who lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam. By the way, Ann has written that Max Cleland was lucky to have lost his legs and his arm in Vietnam. I disagree. More importantly, I know Max, and he disagrees. I believe I received the standing ovation because the cadets knew that I was speaking from the heart, and that the information I had given them was all true. And as I said, you can’t have freedom without the truth. You can’t have good government without the truth. During the crafting and passage of the Medicare prescription drug bill, the chief actuary of Medicare was told to withhold from Congress the true cost of the bill. He’d be fired if he told the truth. The bill costs so much, in large part, because the bill prohibits Medicare from negotiating with the pharmaceutical companies on the price of drugs. As a result, seniors now pay on average 44% more than veterans getting the same drugs through the VA which is allowed to use its size to negotiate with the drug companies. To get the bill passed, the vote was held open for three hours. Tom DeLay was later admonished by Republicans on the ethics committee for attempting to bribe, and then extort, Republican Nick Smith of Michigan to get him to change his vote. The chairman of the Commerce Committee Billy Tauzin who ushered the legislation through, soon left Congress for a two million dollar a year job as the chief lobbyist for the pharmaceutical industry. Obviously, a complete coincidence. During the 2000 campaign George Bush ran for president by saying repeatedly, and I quote, “by far the vast majority of my tax cut goes to those at the bottom.” Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the president continues to ask for and sign tax cuts that go primarily to those at the top. By the way, until George W. Bush, our country had never cut taxes during a time of war. As a result, our deficits grow and the cuts – in Medicaid, Pell Grants, food stamps, low-income housing subsidies, community block grants – are targeted at the poorest in our society. George W. Bush famously said that Jesus was his favorite political philosopher. Frankly, I don’t get it. I’m Jewish. Thank you. I’m not an expert on the New Testament. But I know that if you cut out all the passages where Jesus talks about helping the poor, helping the least among us, if you literally took a pair of scissors and cut out all those passages, you’d have the perfect box to smuggle Rush Limbaugh’s drugs in. I don’t understand when the Christian right says that equal rights in marriage threatens marriage. I’ve been married 30 years, many of them happy. I don’t think that if my wife and I were walking around in Boston, where we met, if we saw two men holding hands with wedding bands… I don’t think I’d say “Hey, that looks good. Y’know, honey, you don’t like watching football on Sundays. Maybe I could marry a guy, watch football with him, and then if I wanted to have sex, I could come over and have sex with you.” I was just talking to Newt Gingrich the other day. And I said to him, “Don’t you want for a gay couple what you had with your first wife? Don’t you want that bond that comes with the pledge of fidelity that you had with your second wife? Don’t you want what comes with that lifelong bond that you may or may not have with your third wife – I have no idea what’s going on there.” You know, Bill O’Reilly always talks about his “traditional values” – as opposed to “the far left’s secular humanist values.” I didn’t realize phone sex was a traditional value. I didn’t think the phone had been around long enough. Maybe telegraph sex. In her book Slander, Ann referred to Democrats and our “Marquis de Sade lifestyle.” I’ve been married for thirty years. Ann, you’re an attractive woman. And I know you support the president’s abstinence-only sex education. I want to congratulate you for saving yourself for your one true love. When my daughter was six years old, her teacher asked all her students to write about how their parents had met. We told Thomasin that we met at a mixer freshman year of college. I saw Franni across the room, gathering up some friends to leave. I liked the way she was taking control and I thought she was beautiful. So I asked her to dance, and then got her a ginger ale, then escorted her to her dorm and asked for a date. My daughter wrote, “My dad asked my mom to dance, bought her a drink, and then took her home.” Now all the facts were accurate, but what my daughter wrote was extremely misleading. Now my daughter wasn’t lying. She didn’t realize that what she wrote made her mom seem like a slut. Ann, however, is not six years old. And she has developed her own techniques for misleading, by leaving out important facts. Let me give you an example of Ann lying by omission. Also in her book Slander, Ann tells her readers that Al Gore had a leg up on George W. Bush when applying to their respective colleges. Harvard and Yale. Ann writes: “Oddly, it was Bush who was routinely accused of having sailed through life on his father’s name. But the truth was the reverse. The media was manipulating the fact that – many years later – Bush’s father became president. When Bush was admitted to Yale, his father was a little-known congressman on the verge of losing his first Senate race. His father was a Yale alumnus, but so were a lot of other boys’ parents. It was Gore, not Bush, who had a famous father likely to impress college admissions committees.” What does Ann omit? Well, that Bush’s grandfather Prescott Bush was also a Yale alum and had been Senator from Connecticut, the home state of Yale University. That Prescott Bush had been a trustee of Yale. That Prescott Bush had been the first chair of Yale’s Development Board – the folks who raise the money. That Prescott Bush sat on the Yale Corporation for twelve years. That Prescott Bush, like George W. Bush’s father, George H. W, Bush, had been a member of Skull and Bones. That the first Bush to go to Yale was Bush’s great great grandfather James Bush, who graduated in 1844. That in addition to his father, grandfather, and greatgreatgrandfather, Bush was the legacy of no less than twenty-seven other relatives who preceded him at Yale, including five great great uncles. Seven great uncles. Five uncles, and a number of first cousins. Now why did Ann leave out these somewhat relevant facts? Ann grew up in Connecticut. Ann, did you really not know that Prescott Bush had been your senator when you were born? Ann, is it possible that when Prescott’s son George H. W. Bush became president, it totally escaped your notice that his father had represented your state in the United States Senate? Did neither of your parents mention it in passing at the dinner table? Did no one at home in Darien make any comments about the new president’s lineage? Understand. This isn’t sloppiness. This is deliberate. For Ann’s purposes – to claim that the media that was manipulating facts here – Ann herself had to manipulate facts – in such a shameless way. This is what she does. And she does it over and over and over again. Let me give you another example. On page 265 of her book Treason, Ann writes of Tom Friedman, the New York Times columnist. “He blamed twenty years of relentless attacks by Muslim extremists on- I quote – ‘religious fundamentalists of any stripe.’” This didn’t sound like Tom Friedman to me, so I found the one Friedman column that contained that phrase – “religious fundamentalists of any stripe.” It was from a December 26, 2001 column called “Naked Air,” about an airline where everyone would fly naked. “Think about it,” Friedman writes, tongue firmly planted in cheek, “If everybody flew naked, not only would you never have to worry about the passenger next to you carrying box cutters or exploding shoes, but no religious fundamentalists of any stripe would ever be caught dead flying nude.” Let me repeat. Ann wrote of Tom Friedman, Jewish by the way, that “he blamed twenty years of relentless attacks by Muslim extremists on – I quote – ‘religious fundamentalists of any stripe.’” She bothered to put “I quote” in there for emphasis. Friedman actually wrote “no religious fundamentalists of any stripe would ever be caught dead flying nude” in service of a conceit that illustrated our dilemma of either becoming less open as a society or learning to live with much higher risks than we’ve ever been used to before. Friedman was not blaming 9/11 on the Lubavichers, as Ann suggests. Now this sort of deliberate misrepresentation contributes to a coarsening of our nation’s dialogue. Ann recently told an audience: “We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens’ creme brulee,” Coulter said. “That’s just a joke, for you in the media.” Here’s my question. What’s the joke? Maybe it’s a prejudice from my days as a comedy writer, but I always thought the joke had to have an operative funny idea. I’ll give you an example of a joke. Like they do every Saturday night, two elderly Jewish couples are going out to dinner. The guys are in front, the girls riding in back. Irv says to Sid, “Where should we go tonight?” Sid says, “How about that place we went about a month ago. The Italian place with the great lasagna.” Irv says, “I don’t remember it.” Sid says, “The place with the great lasagna.” Irv says, “I don’t remember. What’s the name of the place?” Sid thinks. But can’t remember. “A flower. Gimme a flower.” “Tulip?” Irv says. “No, no. A different flower.” “Magnolia?” “No, no. A basic flower.” “Orchid?” “No! Basic.” “Rose?” That’s it! Sid turns to the back seat. “Rose. What was the name of that restaurant…?” That’s a joke. What exactly is the joke in “We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens’ creme brulee?” Is it the crème brulee? Is that it? Because Stevens is some kind of Francophile or elitist? Is it the rat poison? See, I would have gone with Drano. I’m really trying here, Ann. Please, when you come up, explain the joke about murdering an associate justice of the Supreme Court. One who by the way, was appointed to the Supreme Court by Gerald Ford, and who, also, by the way, won a Bronze Star serving in the Navy in World War II. What is the joke? ‘Cause I don’t get it. Now in Ann’s defense, she doesn’t always make horribly offensive remarks or knowingly craft lies. Very often Ann is just wrong out of ignorance or pure laziness. Take this from the MSNBC Show – Saturday Final – on August 30, 2003 – MSNBC. She is talking about how well the war in Iraq is going. COULTER: I think the rebuilding is going extremely well. Douglas MacArthur was in Japan five years after V.J. Day. There were enormous casualties in Germany after World War II. The rebuilding is actually going quite well compared to past efforts. And really, all we’re getting from Democrats is constant carping. Ann, do you know how many combat fatalities the American military had in Germany after V-E day? Zero. You know how many in Japan after V-J day? Zero. Ann and I have debated once before. In May of 2004, and Ann still felt the war was going amazingly well. Let me quote her from that debate: “…. This war is going amazingly well… the casualty rate is incredibly small for the rebuilding. It is going better than can be expected. You cannot read about how well things are going against Al Sadr, where you have Iraqis protesting against Al Sadr; all these stories about how Al Sadr had (this) vast support among the Iraquis… oh no no no. They recently held a protest march saying, ‘Al Sadr, get out.’” As you know, Ann, Moktadr al Sadr, recently picked the Shiite choice for prime minister for the new government, Mohamed al Jafaari. Sadr has thirty-two seats in the Iraqi assembly compared to Ahmed Chalabi’s zero. And remember, it was Chalabi to whom we were going to turn over the Iraqi government. Things are not going amazingly well in Iraq. And they haven’t been going amazingly well since we allowed the looting of Baghdad. A week ago, former prime minister Ayad Allawi said that Iraq was already in a civil war. And as George Bush said in September of 2004, we should listen to Allawi because – and I quote – “he understands what’s going on there – after all, he lives there.” The first thing this Administration needs to do in Iraq is to start acknowledging the truth and level with the American people. I think the one lesson we can all agree on from Vietnam is that we cannot blame the troops. By and large, the vast, vast majority of our troops have performed heroically. And they deserve our gratitude and support. And that means supporting them after they’ve come home. Two thirds of the wounded in Iraq now have brain injuries. That’s because so many of the casualties are from IED’s, and the injuries are concussive and not ballistic. Each one of those brain injuries is going to cost a million dollars over the course of that veteran’s life. And we need to fund programs for those who come back with post traumatic stress disorder – a higher percentage than in any previous war. Now another value I believe in is love of country. For some reason it rankles Ann that I’ve done six USO tours and have had the nerve to talk about it. I do so because I want people to be aware of the work that the USO does. I want anyone here today who is a Hollywood celebrity to think about giving up a couple weeks of your life to entertain our men and women in uniform. I think it rankles Ann that I’ve talked about going on the USO tours because she can’t conceive that anyone would actually do something for anyone else. I didn’t go to Iraq to prove that Democrats are patriotic, Ann. I did my first USO tour in 1999, when Clinton was president. We went to Kosovo, a war that was vehemently and vocally opposed by many Republicans. Even so, we didn’t call them traitors. I was invited by the USO to go to Iraq because they know I do a good job and that it means a lot to the troops when anyone comes over to show them we care. My daughter is 25. She teaches inner city kids in the Bronx. And that makes me proud. She hates when I say it, and that makes me even more proud. My son is an engineering student. He wants to build fuel efficient cars. He’s a junior in college and got a job at Ford this summer working on a new manufacturing process for power trans. I don’t know what that means either. But he got there because he works his butt off. But my son doesn’t feel that he got where he is because he is some kind of rugged individual. That he did it all himself. He knows that he stands on the shoulders of those who stood on the shoulders of those who stood on the shoulders of those who stood on the shoulders of those who stood on the necks of Indians. My wife and I tried to instill certain values in our kids. But we don’t love them because they’re perfect. We love them because they’re decent, loving kids. Kids who care about others and care, by the way, about the truth. One last thing. Speaking of the truth. A few months after my last debate with Ann, the following appeared in a New York Observer story about Ann. From the September 13, 2004 issue.. The writer asks Ann in the article: “She debated Al Franken recently? “’Yes,’ she said. ‘It’s not an interesting debate, because liberals can’t argue. So it’s never like point-counterpoint; all we do is hear about his fucking U.S.O. tours for three hours. Excuse my French.’” Ann, let’s see if we can have a point-counterpoint, and an interesting debate. And by the way, Ann, I have here a DVD of that entire three hour debate – And I’ll bet you my speaking fee tonight that I spoke about my USO tours for less than a grand total of three minutes. How about it Ann? My speaking fee against your speaking fee? I mean we care about the truth, don’t we?