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Recently my car started making a noise. It sounds like a sort of scraping sound that accelerates at the same rate as the car so that when I'm doing 20 it's very noticeable and when I'm doing 70 it's essentially not there. I have found that when I'm turning, if the steering wheel is turned and I'm moving, there is no sound. But as soon as I straighten out it starts again.

Also, as I decelerate, especially from higher speeds, it affects the whole car and I can feel the steering wheel and the brake pedal shaking from the sound and whatever is causing it.

I saw somewhere that I may just need to rotate my tires. Is it perhaps something more serious?

I'm just looking for some examples. I wouldn't mind some examples of the accent over an [a] either.

I'm doing a research paper for a political science class and need a little help finding the data I need. My research design boils down to this.

Economic Growth = Domestic Military Consumption + Investment + Net Arms Trading

Economic growth is simply the rate of change in GDP, those stats should be easy to find.

Domestic Military Consumption is tricky. It is only the spending that a state devotes in the budget to all functions of it's domestic military, to make it distinct from the arms trade. Which brings me to...

Net arms trading. This is the net import cost and export gains a state incurs in it's arms trading.

And finally, investment. This is the level of foreign investment in a country.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I really just need to know where these stats are compiled (if they are at all). Just in case you're wondering, I'm doing a case study because I only have a week and I'm not good at statistical things, and my two cases are China and India (although if you can make a case for two better cases of developing states that spend heavily on their military, I'll listen to reason).

A couple questions.

1. Is that grounds for dismissing the charges?

2. In the State of Virginia, does that carry a points penalty?

I need a fantasy play for make-up class and everyone does Midsummer, so I don't want to use that.

I have the opportunity to direct a one-act at the end of next semester, and I would love to do something by Shakespeare. I'm racking my brain trying to think of a play he wrote that has a natural cutoff at any of the act breaks that I could use and I can't think of anything. The only other qualification is that it can't have more than 8 characters.

I'm thinking about applying for my school's Investigative Studies Program, which provides housing and a stipend for 6 weeks for a number of students to perform research and do some sort of project with a concrete result. The problem is, that format is difficult to fit as a theatre student.

My question is, what sort of project would be possible for me to do in 6 weeks with limited resources (i.e. what proposal would I submit to the committee as my "idea" for my investigative study session?)

Some of my thoughts...

~Do a collaborative experimental acting session (probably not enough time for this, I'd need a fairly talented ensemble, and what kind of concrete result would I get?)

~Some sort of comprehensive acting theory report (probably not impressive enough)

~Write a play (Once again, probably not impressive enough)

The only example I know of is a fellow student who spent the summer researching Egyptian hieroglyphs from the Book of the Dead, transliterated that into a text, and set it to choral music, and it is now being premiered by our college's concert choir.

So, any ideas?

Another manager has proposed that I trade Fred Jackson for Steve Slaton. My league awards 6 pts for TD's, 1 pt for every 20 rushing yds, and a 5 pt bonus once you hit 100 yds rushing. Scoring is the same for receiving except you also get 1 pt for each reception.

Fred Jackson will be giving way to Marshawn Lynch once he returns, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Slaton suffer a sophomore slump.

Good trade?

I can start 2 WR's, 2 RB's, 1 TE, and 2 WR/RB/TE

Currently starting I have

WR- Steve Breaston (WR-Ari) vs. Jax

WR- Braylon Edwards (WR-Cle) vs. Den

RB- Frank Gore (RB-SF) vs. Sea

RB- Fred Jackson (RB-Buf) vs. TB

TE- Benjamin Watson (TE-NE) vs. NYJ

W/R/T- Torry Holt (WR-Jax) vs. Ari

W/R/T- Nate Burleson (WR-Sea) vs. SF

And on the bench I have

Kellen Winslow (TE-TB) vs. Buf

Antonio Bryant (WR-TB) vs. Buf

Derrick Ward (RB-TB) vs. Buf

LenDale White (RB-Ten) vs. Hou

Cedric Benson (RB-Cin) vs. GB

My league is set up to reward return numbers (Breaston and Burleson?) fairly significantly, and has bonus points for 100 yds rushing and 100 yds receiving.

I'm trying to settle a debate among siblings, many of Eddie Izzard's recent shows have been performed in a suit with a goatee. Is he still mainly an action transvestite or has he moved on?

I'm looking to buy a used violin for under $200 and craigslist has presented a couple of options. I'm wondering if a Gibson violin is a good choice.

Also, is 23.5 inches a full size violin?

or other types of macular degeneration?

I know that for Stargardt's specifically they're been experimenting with some acne drug high in Vitamin A, but could retinal transplants bypass the whole treatment aspect or would the genetic mutation simply ruin the new retina?

Everybody is always thinking of new, innovative things and never following through on those spur of the moment ideas. Tell me some of your best invention ideas so that when somebody inevitably beats you to it, you can point to this question and prove that you thought of it first.

Because there's almost no strategic advantage to having a catcher if there's no one on base and there's less than 2 strikes? Couldn't a team theoretically take their catcher, have him take off his mask and switch gloves and stick him behind 2nd base until someone gets a hit or there's 2 strikes?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090530/ts_alt_afp/us...

California has developed a super-laser that can supposedly create fusion ignition conditions. Does this mean we've finally achieved a controlled artificial fusion reaction?

www.simeonmagic.com/triangle/triangle1.htm

With the wildcard that is the current economic crisis, would most Republican voters find Romney a better choice of presidential candidate?

And unbiased answers only, please, don't waste your time and mine.

1. What to do about the economy

2. Abortion

3. Nuclear Power

4. Energy Conservation

Imagine you own a large plot of land somewhere on in Texas on the border of Mexico. What if, for some reason or another, you decided you wanted to donate that land to Mexico. How could the government justify seizing that land and telling you you couldn't give (or sell for that matter) that land to Mexico making it part of their country.

The next question of course, would be, couldn't we hypothetically buy another country in this fashion?

Does anyone else think that his performance is the single best acting job in at least 2 decades, if not ever.

I'm honestly not trying to exaggerate, it was incredible.