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I have a hedgehog that i got in mid March. He was 10 months old when i got him. I bought him from a breeder and she and he husband said he was very friendly ( i think they were lying!). He seemed friendly when i picked him up and played with him. After a day or two of being settled into his new cage, he started biting. He bites fingers toes, and knuckles. I read up on it and discovered a tactic such as blowing in his face when he bites. I read that after some training he will stop biting. I have been socializing him a lot. Over an hour a day, at the least! But the longer i have this hedgehog the more aggressive his bites are. Now, he bites elbows, door stoppers, and really anything he wants... Sometimes he'll grip things so tight he'll hang from them. All along i've been blowing in his face. He doesn't like the blowing, and he hides from it, but it hasn't stopped him from biting again. I don't know what to do anymore. It isn't pleasant. I'm afraid for him to get close to exposed skin. I still play with him, but there is a constant fear of being bitten. And as amusing as it is to see him attack a door stopper, i don't want him to do it.. Any advice?

What is an early word for a suitcase. I am told it must start with a "G." I thought it would be a grip, but allegedly it is not.. Any ideas?

A friend says that if she can answer that question, she can have her grandpa's old Samsonite suitcase.

She has metal plates in it after surgery. She is a little girl (120 Lbs) and is on pain medication, but is still in pain. The problem is that she cannot eat ANYTHING. Everything she eats comes right back up. It has been 3 days since the surgery, but she can't keep any food down. What is the problem?

The engine will not start on a prime. No matter how much i prime. The spark plug is new and sparks great. If i open the throttle and squirt some gas into the carburetor, it starts on two pulls, and runs fine. I i kill the engine and start it within a minute it will start with no prep. But if it sits for 2 minutes or more i have to squirt gas in the carb again. What's the problem?

I was watching The tonight show with Jay Leno and a band played that was absolutely terrible. My brother has a band that is actually pretty good. Where should I start to try to get them on Leno, or Late night with Jimmy fallon?

I am riding a fixed gear bike. It is a Pake semi-track geometry frame. I have been riding pretty hard on it lately and I jumped a set of 3 or 4 stairs and bent my fork. It is slight, and still ridable, but I definitely don't want to hit anymore jumps with it in this condition. Does anyone know of any Heavy Duty forks that will fit a 700c wheel and take a beating?

I have an HD movie file that is near 5GB on my computer. I want to transfer it to my external hard drive that has well over 60GB of free space. When I try to drag it over to the external hard drive, it says, "This file is too large for the specified location." What do I do?

My xbox 360 stopped working recently. It DOES NOT have red rings of death but when i power it up there is sound but no video...It gradually got to this point, occasionally it would cut out of video, but now it doesn't work at all. I took it apart to see if i could do anything to fix it, but no luck. I got it working for 20 minutes but the problem persisted. I called microsoft before opening the xbox and they told me it would be 100 just to ship it because it is out of warranty. What would happen if i just told them i had 3 red rings even though i don't. I assume that they would probably tell me that they will send me a box, but i am afraid that they will say something when they receive it and there are no red rings. advice?

I am painting my bicycle frame. I started by sanding the entire frame so that all of the blemishes were smoothed out and most of the bike still had primer on it. I used 2 full coats of rust-oleum primer, and let it dry 18 hours..I sanded any imperfections that were left over. Then i applied 4 coats of rust-oleum orange about 15-25 minutes apart. The paint job looked great, but i wanted to add a little protection. So i got rust-oleum specialty lacquer. The color coat had been drying for about and hour and a half. I read somewhere that when applying a clear coat you should apply it within 1-2 hours of the last color coat. So that is what i attempted, but as soon as i began to spray the lacquer on, the orange color coat started to wrinkle and looked absolutely horrid! I am curious....Should i let the color coat fully dry and try the lacquer again, or is the lacquer not compatible with the color coat that i have? I am afraid to take the time fixing the damage done and then mess it up all over again. Please...advice will help.

I have a single-speed road bike and am soon converting to fixed gear, although that is irrelevant to my question. Right now i am riding with a 52t chainring in front and 16t SS in the back. If you know anything about single speed, that is a really high gear ratio. I want to go to a lower ratio, but the problem is, i cannot change my chainring...I forget what it is called, but the chainring is pressed to the crank arms. I want to just get a 19t cog when i get my new fixed hub, but i am afraid it might just be too big! I understand that the gear ratio and inches are good, but i don't know about having such a long chain. If you have any advice, or an opinion....let me know! The one good thing about riding 52/19 is that i will have 19 skid patches and like 73 gear inches. Pretty much all i am wanting is for some people to confirm that it will be smart to get a 19t cog instead of paying for a new crank set and bottom gasket.

How many grams of aluminum at 80 C would have to be dropped into a hole in a block of ice at 0.0 C to melt 20 g of ice?

A violin is tuned by adjusting the tension in the strings. Brian's A string is tuned to a slightly lower frequency than Jennifer's, which is correctly tuned to 440.0 Hz. (a) What is the frequency of Brian's string if beats of 2.0 Hz are heard when the two bow the strings together?

(b) Does Brian need to tighten or loosen his A string to get in tune with Jennifer?

A piano string of length 1.5 m and mass density 26 mg/m vibrates at a (fundamental) frequency of 460 Hz. The speed of the transverse string waves is 1380.

(a)What is the Tension.

(c) What are the wavelength and frequency of the sound wave in air produced by vibration of the string? The speed of sound in air at room temperature is 340 m/s......I already found that frequency is the same as before, 460Hz

How long a pipe is needed to make a tuba whose lowest note is low C (frequency 129.8 Hz)? Assume that a tuba is a long straight pipe open at both ends. (Take the speed of sound to be 343 m/s.)

(a) What should be the length of an organ pipe, closed at one end, if the fundamental frequency, at a temperature of 20.0 °C, is to be 247.5 Hz? (b) What is the fundamental frequency of the organ pipe of part (a) if the temperature drops to 0°C?

In order to decrease the fundamental frequency of a guitar string by 2%, by what percentage should you reduce the tension?

At a baseball game, a spectator is 60 m away from the batter. How long does it take the sound of the bat connecting with the ball to travel to the spectator's ears? The air temperature is 26 Degrees Celcius.

A spring is hung from the ceiling. A 0.394-kg block is then attached to the free end of the spring. When released from rest, the block drops 0.213 m before momentarily coming to rest.

(a) What is the spring constant of the spring?

(b) Find the angular frequency of the block's vibrations?

The period of oscillation of a spring-and-mass system is 0.52 s and the amplitude is 4.7 cm. What is the magnitude of the acceleration at the point of maximum extension of the spring?

In the Netherlands a dike, holding back the sea from a town below sea level, springs a leak 3.2 m below the water surface. If the area of the hole in the dike is 1.2 cm2, what force must the Dutch boy exert to save the town? (For the density of sea water use the value 1025 kg/m3.)