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  • What are sports more suited for my shorter and bulkier body type?

    I like sports more like Olympic sports, i'm not all that into stuff like basketball, baseball and football.

    I'm a little on the shorter side, 5'6". I have a bit of a v taper, broad shoulders, large broad rib cage and have bulky type muscles from all my weight lifting. So pretty much the complete opposite of a swimmers body.

    Most sports seem to give an edge to lankier people though, what are one's that I would have the edge in?

    4 AnswersOther - Sports8 years ago
  • How do private security companies work?

    and why would someone want to work for one?

    I know very little about them, but I believe someone hires the company's services, and then the security company pays you to go do the job and they get a cut, a large cut.

    Why would they want this middle man involved and take less pay?

    and please feel free to fill in any missing imformation

    1 AnswerOther - Business & Finance8 years ago
  • What is the art theme in Bioshock and in the other examples listed in details?

    Is it some sort of 50's greek art deco?

    Here's some examples

    -----WARREN THEATER VIDEO (this will give you a good look a the style)

    http://www.warrentheatres.com/moore-video1.asp

    ------BIOSHOCK EXAMPLE

    http://www.game-archivist.com/rapture/img/exhibits...

    -----ANOTHER BIOSHOCK EXAMPLE

    http://www.google.com/imgres?q=bioshock+rapture&um...

    --------WARREN THEATER LOGO

    http://www.google.com/imgres?q=warren+theater&um=1...

    1 AnswerOther - Visual Arts8 years ago
  • Are herbalife shakes really effective and safe?

    I have been doing herbalife for about 2 months now

    I've lost probably 20-25 pounds, while still doing all my weight lifting

    I don't know my fat % change yet

    Mind you, that is with a LOT of exercise, i've been working extremely hard on this.

    Since I started this though, I feel like the shakes really have helped to control my hunger

    I eat far less now, I use 2 shakes a day and only one small lunch sized meal which maybe a few snakes.

    So i feel like they have helped a ton on helping me learn to control my appetite, and is easy to replace meals with.

    Problem I have been having from the start is that I damn well know a scam when I see one

    Warning signs are EVERYWHERE, in almost everything

    For example, herbalife is never on the store names, it's always "nutrilife" or something like that

    Walking into a nutrition place and seeing only one brand shouts bullshit at me

    a tea that burns 200 cal? Calling huge bullshit on that too.

    and just everything they say sounds like part of a giant pyramid scheme, and they always want me to buy things I know I don't need

    (I only use the shakes formula 1 by the way, I mix it with my own protein)

    It seems like it has helped, but I don't know if i'm making a huge mistake here that I will pay for

    Any advice? Or do the formulas actually work and the rest is just overpriced add-ons they want you to buy for extra profit?

    I'm fine with the company as long as the shakes are legitimate and they just to sucker some more people into their cell activators.

    2 AnswersDiet & Fitness8 years ago
  • Is my heart rate normal, or am i still very out of shape?

    Just sitting here my heart rate at the molment is about 72. When i start walking briskly around my college it goes all the way up to 110. (I have on a heart monitor for cal counting). I weigh a lot 240, but excersise often, I lift weights a lot and started getting a lot more into cardio in the past couple months.

    I heard it should not go up a lot from just walking, but for me it does. Is it just because im heavy or am i that out of shape?

    3 AnswersDiet & Fitness8 years ago
  • What are the best techno type songs that give you energy?

    Music is big for me while working out, Techno-ish music seems to give me the most energy over other genres. I want more songs that give you energy and make you want to move. My favorite is real techno, but I will also accept dubstep and all those other weird ones people keep coming up with like "nightcore," no idea what those mean but if it's awesome and energetic I will take it.

    7 AnswersOther - Music8 years ago
  • Which enyzme seperates your DNA, Polymerase, or Helicase?

    I believe I was thought that it was Polymerase, and it separates them for replication, but i've been hearing Helicase with that joke, "if i were an enzyme i'd be DNA helicase so i could unzip your genes"

    3 AnswersBiology8 years ago
  • What types of scientists are typically astronauts?

    I would imagine that they get a group of different specialties together, but which one's are typically needed on expedition? Astronomers? Biologists? Physicists? Aerospace engineers?

    2 AnswersAstronomy & Space8 years ago
  • What is the name of this theory of particles coming into existence only when observed?

    It's some quantum mechanics type thing they found by shooting particles and they found that it seemed they could be in multiple places at once, or an infinite amount of places but only full snaps into existence when observed. What is the name of this theory, i'm not sure what to call it.

    1 AnswerPhysics8 years ago
  • How to root a Kyocera Rise to work for month to month?

    I wanted to use a Kyocera Rise I have, so I went to best buy and the guy there told me that it's a contract phone, and I'd have to root it for it to work with something like Boost or Virgin. How do I go about doing this, anyone have things to the programs I need? How do I install then, ect. ect. I'm new to phone stuff, don't really even know the start of how to do this but I would like to get this working ASAP

    1 AnswerCell Phones & Plans8 years ago
  • Dog choosing to drink salt water over fresh, how has he not died yet?

    My friend has a German Shepard and something mix, he looks like a big white wolf. When I come over, I like to take care of the dog, brush him to get all the loose fur out, walk him, train him, ect. since they don't really do those things. The thing is he does not like to drink fresh water, he drinks the pool water in their backyard, a salt water pool. I try giving him fresh water all the time and he'll take maybe two licks to get me off his back and then go straight to the pool. Apparently this has been going on for 6 years, salt water being really his only water. How is he not dehydrated and dying of kidney failure or something?

    2 AnswersDogs9 years ago
  • Teaching jobs, from most to least, which are and will be the most in demand subjects for HS and college?

    I'm assuming science like chem/bio and math are and will be the most in demand, but where do things like Psychology stand?

    3 AnswersTeaching9 years ago
  • How dangerous are the fumes from a construction tar(asphalt?) machine?

    On my way to class this morning in the construction zone they had a big machine coated in black gunk spewing out fumes, I knew that crap had to be terrible for people and just had to run through it with my clothes over my face (didn't really help). Now, my campus has a no smoking policy and they will ticket you for it, so i can't imagine why they would let this be going on all day while people are going to class. So does anyone know this machine and if the fumes are dangerous?

    1 AnswerOther - Health9 years ago
  • What does DNA actually look like up close?

    All i can find are those very fake looking cgi pictures, I want to know what it actually looks like. Is it just so small that no types of microscopes have ever gotten a picture up close enough for the average person to study? Post a pic if your know of one. And yes I know that it is actually a double helix but I just want to really see it for my self and how it is actually made up.

    3 AnswersBiology9 years ago
  • (details inside) Any advice for a lost college student deciding his future?

    This is going to be a bit long, good answers need good details though, so no tl;dr.

    It's my second year and my mind has been flip flopping for about 6 months now and I don't have much more time to keep doing this but I can't seem to decide. I've broken it down to a few I think i'd like to do, feel free to give any input on these.

    --- Biology/Public Health. Here the goal would be one of 3 things since biology is such a large field, Epidemiologist, Geneticist, or Behavioral Neuro-biologist. Pros: Pay is typically high in these fields, there's always jobs open in science, possibly very interesting work. Cons: May consist of tons of long tedious dull lab/office hours with tons of number crunching and so on, never seeing the light of day. Schooling will have relatively difficult amounts of math. (i'm not always to big a fan of math, although I love science I have to fight not to make math my enemy)

    --- Geology/Geophyics. This would mainly be for the goal of getting exploratory jobs in petrol companies. Pros: Very high paying, in high demand, travel to remote places, getting to ride around in a helicopter in the name of science? Cons: All the math, tons of it, possibly to much for me handle in schooling.

    --- International Relations/Political Science. In this I would probably be trying to work as a career diplomat. Pros: Not necessarily all math based! Live a life of travel to interesting places and throwing cocktail parties for important people (pretty much what it says on the state department site). Average to very high pay depending. Spent my high school years in competitive debate, in model UN and giving foreign extemporaneous so i know it's something i'm good at. Just generally a prestigious job. Cons: I will be occasionally stationed in danger zones with disease and people wanting to bomb my embassy. Really, really, really competitive to become a diplomat. I'm not even sure this is a realistic goal. Have to work with and apply to the government and deal with their screening for top security clearance and just general bureaucratic ritualism.

    --- I have other things in my mind but these are the three areas standing out the most to me right now, feel free to comment on them or add any I may also be interested in.

    2 AnswersOther - Careers & Employment9 years ago
  • Complications with the WOW switch to Battlenet, help please?

    I know my log in and password for WOW but not the battlenet email or anything, any chance i'll be able to find my account? if so where can I find it using the old stuff?

    1 AnswerVideo & Online Games9 years ago
  • In an astrology natal chart, what does it mean when planets are opposites of your sun?

    For example, my sun and mercury are in cancer, these two conjunct in opposite with Neptune and Uranus in Sagittarius. When these two planets are opposites, does this suggest I have opposite characteristics of these planets, or something else?

    2 AnswersHoroscopes9 years ago
  • Can you tell me the probability of this? one in . . .? (details inside)?

    you have 8 choices, only one is right and you have 10 chances to guess it

    you guess the correct one 6.25 out of the 10 times

    what is the chance of that happening since you should've scored a 1.2 or something since it's 1 out of 8

    1 in ____

    1 AnswerMathematics9 years ago
  • Dream interpretation, is there any meaning behind dreams about arenas and fights to the death?

    I keep a dream journal and I like to try and do this myself for the fun of it being a psychology major. I still got some ways to go so see if you can help me out with these. I have dreams about me being in some sort of arena or competition that involves me fighting to the death or near death with other people. I think it happens to often to be random but their all different, not reoccurring.

    -My latest one was rather dark, I was in a fake, very small house that was barely lit and we were being watched over by 3 judges. I could never really fully see the people, the judges and my competitors just looked like shadow people with how dark it was. I try hiding but one finds me, he has a fire-poker with a strange trident end on it and foil wrapped around the other end as a weapon, i'm unarmed at first and I can't remember how but i win by going back and forth dodging, bashing and blocking with some children plastic wagon I hastily picked up to have something to take the hits. and then finish him by somehow grinding the palms of his hands down almost to the bone (pretty big blur how that happened), the judges pull him out for not being able to continue. Somehow I know in this world those wounds are no problem and he will be fine in no time though. The last guy I see emerge from the shadows and see that he has an iron rod in his hands, also with foil wrapped around one end, one that is thin and light enough that it can be easily whipped through the air. This guy is someone I know but because of how dark it was I can't remember who it was because I couldn't see his face, in the dream I knew though and knew that he moves far more aggressively than the person that I know. we go back and forth with me using the fire poker to catch the rod and deflect him, we keep getting caught in gridlock and he tries to use the extra length to gouge my eye out a couple times while in these gridlocks, the last time he gets really close, I feel like I can feel the pressure of it but I break free. the dream ends without a conclusion.

    I think most of them end without a conclusion and it's also important to note that this is not a nightmare. In all the dreams i'm typically winning at a decent advantage and am not afraid, in this one I was a little afraid because I started out at a disadvantage without a good weapon and being in a bad area of the house, one that was barely more lit than the rest, but only just enough were I could potentially be spotted more easily.

    2 AnswersDream Interpretation9 years ago
  • Fashion career advice, what jobs can I get in my description, what does it take to get there?

    Currently i'm working at express, getting into their stylist program. At the same time i'm also going to school and am going to transfer to an art institute where I would like a degree most likely in fashion and retail management. that's a bachelors. I would love to do some international work with a fashion company, These would most likely be in Italy Japan or France. I'm currently learning japanese now. I still consider design but it seems like very harsh competition with little room for advancement so I would like to stick with the stylist aspect but I know little about what it takes to be those higher up stylists. Just anything you can think of that you think would be important for me to know or that I would find interesting. Also, I would prefer to stay in the stylist aspect but am willing to switch to a more business and management aspect of industry if international work is big in that particular job or branch.

    1 AnswerOther - Careers & Employment9 years ago