All categories - 17 July 2007

This is my question for the non-English speaker. What

does the English language sound like to you. How does it

sound to you? Is it harsh, soft, mincing, crackling? How would

you describe it? Plus, How does it compare with other

languages?

2007-07-17 13:39:11 · 9 answers · asked by Sapphire-by-the-sea 2 in Languages

I have a cousin who is four years old. She is undergoing chemotherapy(she finished 4 rounds and needs one more) She has nueroblastoma however even though it reappered it never spread. Before they even start the 5th round they want to do a scan to check for any lympnodes. (note after the second round the mass was shrinking we are not sure how it looks right now only after this scan then we will know) If they find any lympnodes then they will perform a surgery. Is chemo supposed to kill the lympnodes. Is there any alternative to surgery? Right now she is at Sloan Memorial Kettering Hospital. If you know about any other hospitals please give me some info. She already went through 2 surgeries and we want her to live a normal life

2007-07-17 13:38:57 · 3 answers · asked by UR MOM 2 in Cancer

tell me what you think....if you have the same problem as me

2007-07-17 13:38:53 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Women's Health

Not that i speed...

2007-07-17 13:38:52 · 32 answers · asked by Answer Man 5 in Polls & Surveys

it was an investment property for her & her renters did her really wrong (long story) & she just went through a bout of cancer & a lengthy hospital stay. She ended up losing the house. She had 2 mortgages on the house & the 2nd mortgage company is contacting her now telling her they are going to put a lien on her primary residence. By law can they legally do that? What would be her best line of defense against this company? Is bankruptcy the only way out? She does not have the money to pay this as she is single & lives paycheck to paycheck. Any other ideas or suggestions? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

2007-07-17 13:38:51 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Renting & Real Estate

I have sugar and red food coloring. How much of each do I mix to make hummingbird food?

2007-07-17 13:38:50 · 14 answers · asked by Love Life 2 in Garden & Landscape

What is that? I'm sure you have to go through med school and residency and all, but how many years of residency? Also, what is the average pay for developmental peds? Thanks.

2007-07-17 13:38:48 · 1 answers · asked by me 3 in Medicine

YOUR OPINION ONLY>>>>NOT A WEBSITES OR MAG'S OPINION!

2007-07-17 13:38:11 · 7 answers · asked by tigerbaby99 3 in Nintendo Wii

Mostly on new shoots. Besides that it is growing fast and well. What is it? Do I take it off the shoots?

2007-07-17 13:38:10 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Garden & Landscape

2007-07-17 13:37:59 · 3 answers · asked by ghette2005 1 in Motorcycles

2007-07-17 13:37:58 · 3 answers · asked by getusedtoit 4 in Polls & Surveys

as in if you havent seen an ex for 5 years, after a pretty bad split and then you bump into hinm in a nightclub would it tell you anything???

2007-07-17 13:37:46 · 10 answers · asked by abbie b 2 in Singles & Dating

2007-07-17 13:37:46 · 8 answers · asked by nativextisc 1 in Ford

Besides the obvious, no hot tubs, no tighty whiteies, is there anything my husband can take (non prescribed) to help INCREASE his sperm count?
I told him to cut down on caffine, drinking and he doesn't do any kind of drugs.. As I know there are a bunch of different things us gals can take that are not prescribed to help us to ovulate.. but what about my man... What else can I do to get the count up.
Also, has anyone else with their other half had low sperm count and conceived? if so, what were your numbers?
THANKS SO MUCH for your answers!!

2007-07-17 13:37:26 · 11 answers · asked by MrsO 2 in Trying to Conceive

2007-07-17 13:37:02 · 17 answers · asked by Amo 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-17 13:36:51 · 1 answers · asked by nopecme 2 in Security

ive got this zit under my nose and HURTS!!! does anyone know of any remedy that i can just get at a drugstore? thanks!

2007-07-17 13:36:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Skin & Body

i was just wondering for some one who is religious and it is against their religion to cut their hair or shave would the armed forces reject them?

2007-07-17 13:36:34 · 18 answers · asked by aaaaaa 3 in Military

I find this show pretty amusing, although he takes his compulsory thing a little too seriously I find myself doing alot of the same stuff and adjusting the angle of certain things haha great show.

2007-07-17 13:36:29 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Drama

I really don't know....

2007-07-17 13:36:23 · 43 answers · asked by ♥Saw Dust♥ 7 in Polls & Surveys

I am thinking of buying an electric car but all the ones of seen look too "different", and I wouldnt be caught dead driving them in public. Are there any normal looking ones?

2007-07-17 13:36:22 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Buying & Selling

What do they mean?

2007-07-17 13:36:00 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Friends

i recently had rims and tires stolen off my tahoe. i only had them for 3 days. while filing a police report the officer asked me for the serial #. i did not have this so i contacted the rim shop i bought them from they had no idea. they told me they never give out the serial #. i thought this was strange. can anyone tell me what's up with this?

2007-07-17 13:35:54 · 4 answers · asked by lynne 2 in Insurance & Registration

I heard that it is but it isn't toxic to humans?

so is it toxic to other things? and is it the most poisonous even if it isn't toxic to humans?

2007-07-17 13:35:54 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Zoology

Since Mike Vick is likely to get suspended for the season and maybe even go to jail who will be qb. They cant honestly play joey harrington can they...?

2007-07-17 13:35:08 · 18 answers · asked by pmac366 2 in Football (American)

WASHINGTON — One of two known Al Qaeda leadership councils meets regularly in eastern Iran, where the American intelligence community believes dozens of senior Al Qaeda leaders have reconstituted a good part of the terror conglomerate's senior leadership structure.
That is a consensus judgment from a final working draft of a new National Intelligence Estimate, titled "The Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland," on the organization that attacked the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The estimate, which represents the opinion of America's intelligence agencies, is now finished, and unclassified conclusions will be shared today with the public.
The classified document includes four main sections, examining how Al Qaeda in recent years has increased its capacity to stage another attack on American soil; how the organization has replenished the ranks of its top leaders; nations where Al Qaeda operates, and the status of its training camps and physical infrastructure.
The judgment that Iran has hosted Al Qaeda's senior leadership council is likely to draw some criticism from those outside the government who doubt Iran plays a significant role in bolstering Sunni jihadist terrorism. Iran's Shiite Muslims are considered infidels by the Salafi sect of Sunnis that comprise Al Qaeda.
While there is little disagreement that a branch of Al Qaeda's leadership operates in Iran, the intelligence community diverges on the extent to which the hosting of the senior leaders represents a policy of the regime in Tehran or the rogue actions of Iran's Quds Force, the terrorist support units that report directly to Iran's supreme leader.
In the estimate's chapter on Al Qaeda's replenished senior leadership, three American intelligence sources said, there is a discussion of the eastern Iran-based Shura Majlis, a kind of consensus-building organization of top Al Qaeda figures that meets regularly to make policy and plan attacks. The New York Sun first reported in October that one of the Shura Majlis for Al Qaeda meets in the federally administered tribal areas of Pakistan, one of the areas the Pakistani army this week re-engaged after a yearlong cease-fire. Both Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, participate in those meetings.
The other Shura Majlis is believed to meet in eastern Iran in the network established after Al Qaeda was driven from Afghanistan in 2001.
Following that battle, a military planner trained in the Egyptian special forces, Saif al-Adel, fled to Iran. Mr. Zawahri then arranged with the then commander of Iran's Quds Force, Ahmad Vahidi, for safe harbor for senior leaders.
The three main Al Qaeda leaders in Iran include Mr. Adel; the organization's minister of propaganda, Suleiman Abu Ghaith, and the man who some analysts believe is the heir apparent to Mr. bin Laden — one of his sons, Saad bin Laden. The locations of the senior leaders include a military base near Tehran called Lavizan; a northern suburb of Tehran, Chalous; an important holy city, Mashod, and a border town near Afghanistan, Zabul, the draft intelligence estimate says.
In 2003, Iran offered a swap of the senior leaders in exchange for members of an Iranian opposition group on America's list of foreign terrorist organizations, the People's Mujahadin.
That deal was scuttled after signal intercepts proved, according to American intelligence officials, that Mr. Adel was in contact with an Al Qaeda cell in Saudi Arabia.
In the aftermath of the failed deal, Al Qaeda's Iran branch has worked closely in helping to establish the group in Iraq. The late founder of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, had multiple meetings with Mr. Adel after 2001. In the past year, the multinational Iraq command force has intercepted at least 10 couriers with instructions from the Iran-based Shura Majlis. In addition, two senior leaders of Al Qaeda captured in 2006 have shared details of the Shura Majlis in Iran.
"We know that there were two Al Qaeda centers of gravity. After the Taliban fell, one went to Pakistan, the other fled to Iran," Roger Cressey, a former deputy to a counterterrorism tsar, Richard Clarke, said in an interview yesterday. "The question for several years has been: What type of operational capability did each of these centers have?"
A senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Iran expert, Vali Nasr, said he did not know that the Shura Majlis had reconstituted in eastern Iran, but he did say his Iranian contacts had confirmed recent NATO intelligence that Iran had begun shipping arms to Al Qaeda's old Afghan hosts, the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Mr. Nasr, however, said Iran's recent entente with Al Qaeda could be simply a matter of statecraft. "Iran and Al Qaeda do not have to like one another," he said. "They can hate each other, they can kill each other, their ultimate goals may be against one another, but for the short term Iran can unleash Al Qaeda on the United States."
Mr. Cressey said the Iranian regime's relationship with Al Qaeda is one of tolerance as opposed to command and control.
"I think the Iranians are giving these guys enough latitude to operate to give them another chit in the game of U.S.-Iranian relations," he said.
An intelligence official sympathetic to the view that it is a matter of Iranian policy to cooperate with Al Qaeda disputed the CIA and State Department view that the Quds Force is operating as a rogue force. "It is just impossible to believe that what the Quds Force does with Al Qaeda does not represent a decision of the government," the official, who asked not to be identified, said. "It's a bit like saying the directorate of operations for the CIA is not really carrying out U.S. policy."
Some intelligence reporting suggests, the source said, that the current chief of the Quds Force, General Qassem Sulamani, has met with Saad bin Laden, Mr. Adel, and Mr. Abu Ghaith.
The link between Iran and Al Qaeda is not new, in some cases. The bipartisan September 11 commission report, for example, concluded: "There is strong evidence that Iran facilitated the transit of Al Qaeda members into and out of Afghanistan before 9/11, and that some of these were future 9/11 hijackers."
According to the commission, a senior Al Qaeda coordinator, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, said eight of the September 11 hijackers went through Iran on their way to and from Afghanistan.
In 2005, both Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns and the then ambassador at large for counterterrorism, Cofer Black, disclosed that America believes that senior Al Qaeda leaders reside in Iran.

2007-07-17 13:35:04 · 20 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1 in Politics

2007-07-17 13:34:55 · 8 answers · asked by toughguy2 7 in Polls & Surveys

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On the tricycle above, the pedals are locked to the wheel.
What happens when the Force pulls in the picture above and why?

- I think that the wheel will spin the other way, making the tricycle drive backwards. Is this correct?

Thank you for the help

2007-07-17 13:34:38 · 4 answers · asked by blazin rabbit 2 in Physics

I find jeans that fit great the first time I wear them, I can even wear them even more than one day in a row. I than wash and dry them thinking everything is fine and when I wear them again after washing and drying them them fit bigger and I have to return them. It some times works if I wash them in the warm warm water cycle. Why does this happen? They should fit right the second time and so on if they fit so good the first time.

2007-07-17 13:34:36 · 3 answers · asked by Mrs. Zepol Nives 2 in Fashion & Accessories

I want to get an acting agent, but I don't know if I will even get signed because I have very little experience.

2007-07-17 13:34:34 · 10 answers · asked by tarynxo3 1 in Theater & Acting