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They've used this orchestral music a few times in Masterchef, in several series, and I've never managed to find out what it is. Any ideas? It's not Palladio (that was suggested in the past). It's in this clip from Episode 22, at 30 minutes, 17 seconds (I've set it to start playing immediately): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XSynhpzYuc&t=30m17...

A few days ago, we took our 9 month old dog for a walk and she was off the lead for a while (she's part greyhound and needs space to run). It's a safe area so we weren't concerned about her getting into trouble.

When she ran back to us at one point I discovered that she had a LOT of fleas on her. We treat her with Frontline Plus - the correct doseage and she's one month in to her 2 month cover from the last dose.

I presumed that the fleas would all die and drop off... which they have.

My main question concerns how on earth so many fleas got onto her. she'd been chasing rabbits but she's so hopeless at it that she never gets near to them. She'd also met three dogs but I'm surprised at so many fleas getting onto her so quickly... unless she spent a lot of time rolling around with them without us seeing...

Yesterday she went on heat for the first time - three days after the flea incident. Do you think there's any chance that she got so many fleas because a male dog mated with her? Would that be likely so early in her heat cycle? Or do fleas normally jump en-masse between dogs when they only meet very briefly?

I'm weaning my dog onto either a BARF or prey model diet and I'd like to be able to grind meat for her. I'll still give her some bones but I also want to be able to mix mince in with rice and vegetables.

I'm thinking that grinding up chicken or breast of lamb might be a good route to take. What would I need to do it?

I'm looking for advice from people with experience in feeding dogs a BARF diet.

I've been feeding my 19 week old pup on a mixture of complete food and raw chicken wings - following her breeder's instructions.

This morning she was sick and vomited two whole bones, stripped, of course, of meat and marrow. This hasn't happened before. She's always digested everything very well.

I switched suppliers for my chicken wings a week ago, and the second batch weren't complete wings, but smaller sections sections, almost like drumsticks. I'm wondering whether this is the problem - she isn't chewing them thoroughly, as she did with the larger, 'stretched letter 'N' shape' wings.

I've tried her on mince, too, but it went straight through her.

If you have experience with BARF, what do you recommend?

a) women were meak and long suffering

b) things were just better then

This isn't just a joke question. I'm interested in what kind of views this raises.

Thanks!

The www.parliament-square.org.uk website isn't up to date. Wiki isn't up to date. I've found news articles suggesting he's still there but the lack of recent information on his site suggests he's not.

Can you give me the latest on it?

I asked a question recently about how much you feel you can tell your spouse about your past sexual relations. The responses were very split.

I'd like to ask a similar question, based more upon my own history...

My husband and I met on holiday and kept in touch via email for a year.

In those emails, he told me all about his previous sexual relations, right down to the woman who squeezed so hard that he found it hard to walk afterwards (sorry!). There are things he's shown no interest in doing with me, even though we're married, and we can't talk about it.

We've just had our 4 year anniversary. Sex is a little mundane, but nice in the usual way. There are other stresses too (for reference see the news any and every day).

He doesn't want to hear about my sexual past, even though I know his. To me, it's natural to be very open about things, but I accept that it might not be the same for him, even though he was open via email before we were together/married.

He never tells me he loves me, unless asked - despite this I know he does, although I'm not sure exactly why ( I can think of nice things about me but I'm not sure what his reasons would be). We married because he's American and needed the visa to stay in England. In spite of this, we really did want to stay together.

The whole thing making me feel as though I'm unattractive and makes me worried at the lack of communication.

It's vague, I know, but what is your advice?

I'm interested in what you feel you can say and can't say.

I'm also interested in whether you're in the US or in England.

Some members of my family (in laws) are Texan - extreme right wing supporters. They see it as a person's duty to discuss politics. Their main sources of information are Fox news and Limbaugh (including his magazine, to which they subscribe).

They're lovely, generous, kind-hearted people. But I can't let them know what I really think (which is open-minded) when it comes to politics. They've been know to disown family for that reason.

Here's a secret... I'm in the UK, and over here, I'm open to the right-wing point of view. But in the US, right-wing politics seem to be soooo extreme - it's different to English politics.

When I spoke to my in-laws the night before the presidential election, they said they'd been stocking up on weaponry. This shocked me. They're really quite afraid.

So, what I want to know is, what do you think of people like this, who refuse to consider other sources for their ideas and beliefs? They seem to invest all of their faith in the one road, at the expense of all of the other routes.

I wonder whether, if I could do this, I might be happier than I am while I can see so many different routes. It wouldn't matter whether I were right or left wing, so long as I were totally committed to one or the other.

But a stronger feeling is that of my own fear: a fear of pursuing such a tunnel-visioned track through life, at not acknowledging its many possibilities. To me, that would be like being severely colourblind - seeing a rainbow but only knowing the colour yellow.

I'd like to stress that I do understand the right wing point of view - concerns about protecting the country from threats, about your savings, about protecting the American dream and the American way of life, to name just a few.

But please, tell me:

What you really think of people who buy into their chosen media to such an extent that they're unwilling to acknowledge any other ideas.?

How is it that such nice people can be so unwilling to entertain other poeple's points of view?

I do have my own theories, but I'd really like to know what you think.

Some members of my family (in laws) are Texan - extreme right wing supporters. They see it as a person's duty to discuss politics. Their main sources of information are Fox news and Limbaugh (including his magazine, to which they subscribe).

They're lovely, generous, kind-hearted people. But I can't let them know what I really think (which is open-minded) when it comes to politics. They've been know to disown family for that reason.

Here's a secret... I'm in the UK, and over here, I'm open to the right-wing point of view. But in the US, right-wing politics seem to be soooo extreme - it's different to English politics.

When I spoke to my in-laws the night before the presidential election, they said they'd been stocking up on weaponry. This shocked me. They're really quite afraid.

So, what I want to know is, what do you think of people like this, who refuse to consider other sources for their ideas and beliefs? They seem to invest all of their faith in the one road, at the expense of all of the other routes.

I wonder whether, if I could do this, I might be happier than I am while I can see so many different routes. It wouldn't matter whether I were right or left wing, so long as I were totally committed to one or the other.

But a stronger feeling is that of my own fear: a fear of pursuing such a tunnel-visioned track through life, at not acknowledging its many possibilities. To me, that would be like being severely colourblind - seeing a rainbow but only knowing the colour yellow.

I'd like to stress that I do understand the right wing point of view - concerns about protecting the country from threats, about your savings, about protecting the American dream and the American way of life, to name just a few.

But please, tell me:

What you really think of people who buy into their chosen media to such an extent that they're unwilling to acknowledge any other ideas.?

How is it that such nice people can be so unwilling to entertain other poeple's points of view?

I do have my own theories, but I'd really like to know what you think.

Gordon Brown isn't even worth writing about. Cameron's power to affect people, compared with that of Obama, is really rather slight.

My opionion: Anyone who smacks of public school isn't going to cut it - not that I'm saying private education isn't a good thing, only that the v-neck-jumper-over-a-shirt look doesn't really reach out to the grassroots. We also need a really good speaker, who's level headed, and who really makes sense.

What are we going to do?

I know some of you think other nations should mind their own business.

But you're part of our economy, part of our media and part of our social consciousness (even our TV shows are largely influenced by America).

Many nations have been hurt by what they've felt to be a necessary withdrawal of sympathy for the US. They didn't want to cut off from you.

It's like cutting off a cousin that you always used to play with.

And then, here, on Yahoo answers, some of you reinforce that when you say that we should mind our own business. We aren't interfering. We have no effect on the outcome of your elections. But we do care, because as a western nation, we are related, like it or not. Like that cousin, we do care.

Personally, tonight I feel as though someone threw open the doors. There is still hope. Good people can still achieve great things.

I'm sure that many great future figures will have been influenced by tonight's events. It will be written about in many biographies as a pivotal moment. It is for me, too.

To any of you who are still influenced by the doom and gloom rhetoric of the anti-Obama campaign. Please allow a little room in your minds for possibility. The entire world is now feeling re-energised. The international community is behind you, willing to poor money back into your industry and to talk with you about how we can make all of our countries better places to live in.

And a note to Obama, in case he ever reads posts like this -

Thank you. Thank you for what you have done for me, and for the many all over the world who are like me.

And the question? Well, I'd like to know your thoughts too.

I'm sooooo happy that Obama's won. Sooooo happy.

But now, I actually feel oddly sorry for McCain. It must have been exhausting, campaigning for so many months, even though it's par for the course. I can't imagine how numb he must feel for it to all be over now. And as he himself said, this was his last shot at it.

There are things about him that I really don't like, but as a person instead of a president, I can excuse that.

Anyone else bothering to feel bad for the guy?

My husband grew up in Texas, in a very right-wing, republican family. He couldn't wait to leave. He then lived in Denver and LA. He couldn't wait to leave. (Apparently LA wasn't so bad in many ways - lively, fund, etc - but the girls were superficial and the place was too full of 'actors'. I'm generalizing here because there isn't room for a more fair explanation).

He moved to Europe and lived at first in apartments and then in tents. Much of the time, he had no money. He lived on apples from local trees and powdered food he'd been sent.

He preferred it to living in the US. He could have returned but that would have been worse than eating only apples and living in a tent.

He's also a rational, intelligent, interesting person.

What I want to know is, what are your thoughts on this?

I know it might seem annoying because most people feel defensive of their own country in some way.

Personally, I love the US - I just can't make him see it.

This election seems to be so pivotal, and almost in an indefinable way. It's as though the things that have happened in the recent past are combining with the things that will happen in the months and years to come. And when they meet, right now, in the present, in this election, they form some kind of historically significant mass. I hope that makes sense.

Do you feel that sense of urgency? Like this day will be written about again and again - analyzed and analyzed. Like we can't quite know, right now, just what the significance of it is, only that it is?

Or do you feel more like it's a regular day, when you'll probably grab a coffee on the way to work, answer a few calls, deal with some irritating people, and maybe get a pizza later when you sit down in front of the TV to watch all the presidential stupidity?

Personally, I feel as though I live in my down to earth reality, and that this 'historical reality' is existing alongside me. How about you?

Both candidates are promising change. It's a very general term, until you get into specifics.

What kind of change do you want? What kind of change do you think the country needs? Do you believe that these things match with the things either candidate is talking about?

Are you worried that the electronic voting system will be flawed, questioned, and that all of this will drag on until December. How embarrassing will that be?

Reporters are already anticipating an issue with flawed technology on election day. I'd go as far as to say it's on many people's minds. Why is this even an issue? After all the weeks of campaigning in this, most advanced of nations, how can the credibility of the voting system be in doubt... again? Please.... no....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081103/ap_on_el_ge/20...

Will it affect it at all?

I'd like to add that this would be awful for any presidential candidate - so close to the election. I'm sure all you could think would be 'just one more day'.

I'm 5ft tall and weigh 96 pounds (7 stone). Being small and slim, some rucksacks just don't go tight enough for me.

I'll be touring Thailand for four weeks. I'll need a daypack as well as a main backpack/rucksack so I'm looking at ones that incorporate this.

I'd rather have too much room and have to compress than too little. I'm hoping to have some clothing made by the renowned, cheap, Thai tailors, and to buy a few oddments as well. I'm aware that I might need to ship these separately.

My local stores don't have much in the way of choice so I'm considering buying over the internet, even though I'd rather try them on first.

What do you recommend?