heel- turning into the bad guy.
Think about this for a moment. Wright has given Obama the freedom to win over white voters, and distance himself from Wright without offending the black community. I have seen it in many answers where they say something along the line of: Obama had to distance himself now, Wright threw HIM under the bus, Obama needed to disagree with him. Wright no longer represents the black community…. ect ect. Its a brilliant ploy, blacks now hate Wright, and support Obama’s decision to distance himself, and whites have always been nervous about his failure to disown Wright, so by turning Wright into a heel Obama may have saved his sinking campaign. This is genuis, I generally don’t give Obama’s camp much credit, but this was a great political move. What do you think? Smart move by Obama camp?

I totally agree. Obama had him do this. Just in time for Indiana and NC. He was getting desperate with the white voters and "uncle" Wright helped him out.

This year im on my gap year, i have worked Full Time since Jan. Over the last 2 years i have saved over $10,000. I am about to going into a hairdressing apprenticeship next year (i have to find someone to take me on).

I have decided and have thought about it for the past few months that i want to do a month overseas. I have done all the figures, worked out the dates and everything for a trip around europe on a topdeck tour bus. I told my mum the idea today and she loved it, she was getting me so excieted for it. I tell my dad a bit later on and he HATES the idea with a passion, saying that the buzz from the trip will be over in 2 seconds, and i dont appreciate the value of money (im paying for it all not them) etc, they will foot the bill for me next year and that they had to save for years to go on a trip.
I have worked out the costs and i will still have $2000 left over for next year, so i have something for my apprenticeship where i will be paid near to nothing.
Am i in the right or wrong. I feel like i want to do a trip to make something out of my year and i think that it will be brilliant for me. I want to push myself out of my comfort zone, and explore areas i have always loved. I ned to do this for myself.
Would it be completely fucked up for me to just buy the tickets anyway. He said at the end of the convo "you know what, if you want to go then go. Its your life" and gave me a pissed off father look.

Im paying for this all myslef, i think i need to get the travel buy out of my system for a bit and that way aftre i have finished my apprenticeship i will have something to look forward to.

Advice/opinions?? I need as many as i can get.

Thank you in advance.

(oh and it would be for the chirstmas period which dad has said he doesnt mind if im not with the family because im 19)

instead of spending all that cash on a one month tour, why dont you take a few months and backpack around europe? take a friend and work while you travel. that way you can really travel and explore without spending so much money. it will be hard, but trust me, its soooo worth it! you will grow so much as a person, save a ton of money and it looks great on a resume! think of it like this- is it REALLY worth it to spend 8 grand on a month tour when you wont really be able to explore and experience the different cultures and fully appreciate the travel? hope everything works out for you! x

I have been looking at some people’s pictures and I don’t know how they get the picture to be so sharp and brilliant. Is it their camera? what kind of DSLR can create these kind of pictures? If it’s mostly software, what kind of software is it? I have tried to shoot in manual, automatic and tried to use all the settings in my Nikon D5000. How do I get my pictures to look like that?

I came accross this blog that has those brilliant pictures I am talkin about.
blog.carlycarlson.com

Get to know your camera by focusing manually.

Be aware of the settings of the aperture (that results in paper-thin depth of field).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/little_pooky/4261101450/

LIVERPOOL hopes to land a number one hit single to mark the 20th anniversary of Hillsborough.

Former Reds players and music stars are launching a bid to top the charts on on April 15.

Famous faces and Hillsborough families have recorded a version of classic Kop anthem Fields of Anfield Road .

Liverpool legends including John Aldridge, Kenny Dalglish, Bruce Grobbelaar, Alan Kennedy, Howard Gayle and Phil Thompson feature on the record.

Ex La’s and Cast singer John Power provided the lead vocal for the track which was recorded at the city’s Elevator studio, in Cheapside.

Fomer Farm frontman Peter Hooton has composed a new poignant fourth verse for the much-loved anthem

Part of it goes: “…I hear the Kopite mourning. Why so many taken on that day. Justice has never been done, But the memories will carry on.”

The Picket’s Phil Hayes, who lost a cousin at Hillsborough, was project manager for the recording and worked alongside Kevin McManus from creative company Merseyside ACME.

Scouser Ken Nelson, who produced Coldplay’s hit albums, is involved in the project.

Also featured on the record is a member of Echo & The Bunnyman and Gary Daly and Eddie Lundon from pop act China Crisis.

The track will be released on March 26.

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Liverpool Mayor Cllr Steve Rotheram, who went to the ill-fated FA Cup semi-final clash against Nottingham Forest, said: “Our ambition is to get to the top of the charts to commemorate the loss of 96 lives.

“It’s about telling a story of how these people went out to watch a football match and never came home.

“It’s a contemporary version, a bit faster than the original so people can sing along to it.

“It was an emotional experience recording the song in the studio. There were a lot of people crying.

“We hope everyone in Merseyside will get behind it, Red and Blue.”

Phil Hayes, from The Picket, said:

“It’s a joyous song and it was brilliant to get everybody there and even some of the families.”

The single will be available to download and could be sold in music stores.

The owner of the copyright to both Fields of Anfield Road and the original Irish classic Fields of Athenry both waived a fee for the Liverpool single.

And the cost of hiring out the studio was met by the Lord Mayor’s charity.

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This is a link directly to the official song
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=308605562&id=308605527&s=143444

This is a link directly to the official album
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=308605527&s=143444

you gaylord get a life idiot

i am 16 in grade 11 and have taken science.
i take tuition for physics and chemistry somewhere far away from my house…i believe i am wasting my time there….coz the teacher always tell the other brilliant students to teach us….she teaches very rare. and its like 3: 30pm class or either 5 or either 6:30 its never fixed….and when i get late she scolds me. yesterday i got late too. she said she wants to talk to my mom i gave her a wrong number she slapped me yes she did….in front of everyone very embarrasing i knw..i went out and told one of my female frnd to call her and say u are my mom. she did and its all fine now..i never entered back into the tuition center….i feel like i am wasting my time there infact i can study my own very good….now you tell me what should i do…should i go back? or not? i studied today….self study and i feel i understood myself…..i am not even getting good result from that tuition.
what should i do??
hw i tell my mom i dont need tuition

Go and talk to your mother, quietly and rationally - she wants the best for you. Print off what you have written above and let her read it and then discuss the problem perhaps you can find another more suitable tutor as you will need tuition for a complicated subject such as science. Your Mom needs to sort out the timetable so a better routine can be set so that you can get the best out of what she must be paying for.
It is your future - fight for it.

Read books to clear your basics and then pursue advanced ones.In that way you can solve all problems and you won’t have to go for Brilliant Tutorials.

So, in high school everyone praised me for having such a high GPA, getting into a great college, and playing baseball while also editing the yearbook and being in Honor Society. I had few real friends and kind of just blended in, coming home to mess around and study. I worked extremely hard on my writing, getting tutors to ensure A’s and high SAT scores, and I was a total detail-oriented person in every way, even diligently studying the Driver’s Ed book…and cropping photos for the yearbook like it was for National Geographic. I thought that as long as I did all those things then everything would be great in my life. Unfortunately, not the case…

Fast forward 2004 to now, I’ve had friendships start, end…I’ve been hated, loved, praised, mocked. I’ve done masterful work in college, I’ve also done lazy work in college. I’ve been so anxious to get a 4.0 at times that I took Xanax to dull the nervousness but since about a year ago I just feel like I want to graduate and get out of there and I don’t stress the classes or my grades that much, just care about passing as it’s my last semester.

I smoked almost 2 packs a day for half a year due to school/interpersonal anxiety. I quit that 1.5 years ago. I got into shape and dropped 50 pounds while cutting my body fat to about 12% and looking really ripped. I became disillusioned with the fact that it didn’t get a nice girlfriend so I put back some of the fat from before and it’s kind of like that time and effort was wasted at the gym. I tried to transform myself into a Pickup artist from reading ‘The Game’ to find strategies to get women at bars to like you. I became very outgoing with women and they responded, but again, it was either superficial banter at the bar or a superficial relationship that hurt me more than helped me.

I tried to find the Lord recently and bring myself to Jesus. I was saved (hopefully) and baptized at a Baptist church. I thought I would fit in there…but I didn’t, they taught all these rules on what I could and couldn’t do and I couldn’t understand their hatred of all things ‘normal’ as well as Catholics and things like that. After having found a haven in the Church and being an active member like 2 or 3 days week for several months, I ended up telling them goodbye and never looking back. I do love Jesus and have a cross tattoo on my arm that I absolutely love, but I guess I don’t love him as much as I should since I don’t pray, repent regularly, or even pick up my KJV Bible.

My best friend of 11 years basically cut all ties with me for no apparent reason. My other friend just graduated with a degree in Econ from a great school but he was just taken to a psych ER for having semi-delusional thoughts and anxiety…I feel bad for him, but he’ll be straight. My other friend is a 33 year old pick up artist who lives with his parents and always wants me to club with him to meet girls, yet he is very awkward but sort of good at getting laid. I’ve tried to become a Jersey-shore type character where I dress with a huge cross and all fancy clothes, girls tell me I’m cute but that makes me feel even worse cuz I’ve been told that for years but I haven’t had a relationship that has made me happy…just random, physically-satisfying sex that makes me feel miserable afterwards.

I go to a therapist and he’s the only person in my life who I trust wholeheartedly. He guides me in the right direction and understands that I’m at times brilliant. Most people think I’m a goofball…a lot of people think I’m highly intelligent, but perhaps somewhat silly. No one at school really knows me other than as a superficial character that I portray. I tend to open up to people too quickly, put myself out there and be a people pleaser, and also tend to idealize people and put them on a pedestal after not having known them that long, just because they “seem” nice.

Now, everywhere I go…bars, clubs, strippers, prostitutes, girls off Craigslist who want nothing but sex, I keep getting questioned as to where I work, why did I quit a cushy govt job where I couldve been making 70 thousand in 5 years, and where I work now. I tell them I’m just studying full time, directing student films. They ask me why I still live at home. Why I’m not applying to grad school or looking to make something of myself? What is my drive…am I gonna move out to L.A. to become a big-time filmmaker? I don’t have the answer to any of these questions.

I’m just existing…trying not to die, not to hurt people in any way other than my occasional rudeness which I’m working on…I want to feel good, avoid pain, have sex, be loved, make videos that touch people in some way, show people that I’m creative, prove to people that I’m smart who think I’m silly. What does it mean to be a success? When I had a job at SSA no one wanted me…now no one really wants me either who I consider relationship-worthy, but they taunt me with these questions as to what I’m doing with my life as if they

Actually, I think your problem is that the modern day definition of success DOESN’T elude you.

Pity. Maybe it should.

Have you ever thought about the fact that you are actually asleep right now? I know you think you’re not because you compare this state (ordinary "consciousness") with the FIRST state, that state we call ’sleep’, in the ordinary meaning.

And then, after 8 hours, you wake up. But not really. You simply ascend into the second state of consciousness.

The third state of consciousness is your BIRTHRIGHT. But you are so involved with "A" influence, you can’t get there. Very few people can. What persons in history have penetrated the third state of consciousness? Abraham Lincoln; Walt Whitman; William Shakespeare; Benjamin Franklin; Johann Goethe; Hans Christian Andersen; Lewis Carroll; Elizabeth the First;

"In the country of the blind, the man with one eye is king."

For persons who reach the fourth state of consciousness, their mind is raised to a level almost inconceivable. With those persons, their passing (like the wake of a ship) often creates RELIGIONS. Not that that was their aim. Their aim was to teach people to lift their consciousness into another realm.

And here YOU are, dicking around with THINGS. With idiotic pursuits as if they had any value whatsoever.

You’d better wake up brother. None of this shiit is free. You don’t know how many recurrences you have left. But you will always be re-living THIS life. The only one you know. Perhaps that seems rather tedious, metaphysically, to you. If you don’t start using the proper tools for waking up, making the correct efforts, getting help from some person, somewhere, who has already woken up, then you’re chances of escape are slim and none.

Pay attention to my sources. I’m not saying them for my health.

Im a 17 year old girl, and I feel like there must be something wrong with me.
My mother is always screaming at me, telling me I have no friends, no-one cares about me and that I’m selfish and nasty.
On my seventeenth birthday last week she told me not to expect any birthday cards or presents off of anyone other than my father, as no-one likes me.
I dont understand what I do wrong, sometimes shes chatting to me normally, then sometimes she just starts shouting at me, telling me that Im ‘getting on her fucking nerves with my patheticness’ and that she hates me.
If im upset about anything,or If I am crying she laughs at me, and tells me Im a mess, yet if my dad is around, or another parent from school or grandparent, she acts like shes a brilliant mother who dotes on me. I feel like Im going crazy, cause she acts so different when in front of other people.

Whats wrong with me that makes her hate me so much?
I know im not pretty, and not the most socially confident person, but I get good grades and Im her daughter - isnt that enough?

She must be your stepmom

What I mean is do you think it compares to all those big anime like DBZ, Naruto, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Pokemon.
I think so, because people on here always ask "I need a good anime?", and Death Note is always the first to be suggested. Also how could something that has been made into a movie so many times not be? And the plot was brilliant. But thats just my opinion. What do you think?

CLASSIC - 1. of the first or highest quality, class, or rank: a classic piece of work. 2. serving as a standard, model, or guide

Classic? Well, We all view classics from our own generation,
(i mean i remember when lupin the 3rd was popular) So to claim something is a classic has to bridge generations. To withstand time and fads.

Some classics are anime’s like Evangelion, Cowboy Beebop, Princess Mononoke (or any Miyazaki for that matter), Ranma 1/2, AKIRA, Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell (original movie), Ninja Scroll, etc. etc.

No, I dont think it has achieved classic status. I dont even think naruto has. I would think Full Metal Alchemist would probably be closer than Death Note. (and yes i have watched DN)

Please help! I am a total novice to using MIDI

I have played keyboards for many years using a multiple keyboard setup, but have never used the midi facilities on the premise that if I can’t play it live of my own ability I won’t play it at all as I have always considered using tapes or any other form of recorded music as cheating. However, I have reached a point where I want to be able to use Midi, both in a live situation and in my home recording setup.

My keyboard setup is mostly antique and largely cheap and cheerful but the band I play in has a very retro sound. I use:

Yamaha DX7
Yamaha YS 200
Yamaha TQ 5 which I use purely as a sound module. (Don’t know how to use it as a sequencer and have never bothered to work out how to!)
Yamaha KX 5 (linked up to the TQ 5 & DX 7)
2 X Yamaha PSR E313
Moog Prodigy
Minimoog
Roland SH101 (1st generation original 1970’s)
Roland FP 4 Stage Piano (my newest baby)
Roland TD 5 Electronic drum kit

My recording facilities are:

Boss BR600 Digital Recorder (Brilliant piece of kit)
Sony ACID Music Studio 7.0 (only just bought it, therefore haven’t figured it out yet)
Steinberg Cubase SL/SX2 (had it about 2 years but never used it. Bought it from a mate who upgraded. Don’t really understand it as it came without instructions)

How do I link these keyboards up to my computer to enable Midi recording using ACID or Cubase, (if I ever find the user manual). I know that the FP 4 can connect using USB to USB cable and I have a Midi to USB adapter, but I don’t know how to link up the other Midi keyboards or appliances to enable me to use my software programs effectively as either a sequencer or a recording studio.

I want to use my computer as a sequencer for solo live performance as I have composed a full electronic music set, (similar in style to Jean-Michele Jarre, but more up to date), which I want to be able to play live using one or two of the keyboards (and the monosynths which are not Midi compatible anyway), while the sequencer plays the other keyboards and the drums as an accompaniment or complimentary performance.

How would I achieve this?

With all the equipment that you have and what you do not have you will either have to take a course in MIDI or hire someone to come in and help you set it up.