Artie answers:

Try Uni-solar, http://www.uni-solar.com/interior.asp?id=102, they have solar laminates and solar shingles.

Artie answers:

Oh cool, I receive these creative flyers from time to time at home and I enjoy reading them. I think the majority of college students will read stuff on how to save money, you know especially with this economy.

Artie answers:

It might be because there's so much civil unrest in France that it's old news, or not news at all.

I did however, find articles at these American news outlets:

http://www.drudgereport.com/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22047196/

http://www.breitbart.com/detail.php?searchText=paris+riots&searchChannel=All

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,485606,00.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012103008.html

Maybe instead of looking at "The Big Three" you should broaden your search. Breitbart is an excellent source of news, as it searches hundreds of news sources around the world and compiles them in one site.

Artie answers:

Probably not from the internet, perhaps from the local newspaper, you might see some in the articles

Artie answers:

Ask them if it's that easy why hasn't he sold a master peice. And have gotten rich.

Art is all around us ad's buildings cars homes street ways signs i' mean EVERYTHING has some form of art.

But anyone who has taken a college level art class knows it's not an easy A

Artie answers:

I like jujitsu and judo but there is no best art

Artie answers:

Martial arts are not for street fights. They are for self defense. The two are a world apart. You seem to think martial arts are on a pecking order of "best to worst." This is a seriously distorted view.

Martial arts are sets of skills you learn. That is it. Plain and simple. They depend on how well you the user use them. They are only tools.

Many category hoppers on here may say "martial arts won't work against a street fighter." Who would win a cooking contest? A person who never cooks? Or a five star chef? Same thing. Styles don't mean jack. Its what you put into them.

Artie answers:

None! How dare you abuse martial arts in street fighting!

We need to draw a distinct line between self-defense and street fighting. Martial arts is an ART, not an excuse to go fight people. Good luck.

Artie answers:

Celebs are people you know, most of them do other things in public areas apart from concerts.
Maybe you could get lucky and meet one in the street.

Artie answers:

Wow, very good. That's way better then I could have done in 9th grade.
But imo if you took out "tribulations" it would make it seem more like it was human written rather then trying to show everyone that you know big words.

But I still give it a 5/5

Artie answers:

Yes i have gotten many from Steele Angel located in san marcos, right off the IH 35 hwy on Hopkins street, Right next door to the pizza hut.

Artie answers:

Modroc is plaster of Paris infused bandage and if they have drug stores among the high street shops you should be able to find it there where it is used for making old fashioned plaster casts for broken arms, etc. And if they have artists supply stores, should have it also.
Don't ask for modroc, ask for plaster bandage.
Https://www.google.com/search?q=modroc&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs

Artie answers:

It's extremely safe here compared to allot of other places.The west side is a little shady but there is nothing of interest there. So there is no reason to be in that area.

I can't really think of many can't miss things to see in Charleston. We really don't have much in the way of entertainment or site seeing. But here are a few things of interest.

The capital is a nice place to visit and If you stand in the center of the Vietnam Memorial on the light grate and say "Luke I am your father" you get cool Darth Vadar echo sounding voice. The Cultural Center is located on the same grounds has a art gallery and a few exhibits that are still open (many are closed right now due to remodeling).

The Clay Center theclaycenter.org has a planetariums, IMAX Theater, Science museum with hands on exhibits and a Art museum.

Taylor Books on Capitol St usually has music or poetry readings on the weekends and sometimes events during the week. There web site is taylorbooks.com It is a nice cozy bookstore with a coffee shop and art gallery.

Sound Factory on Kanawha Blvd. Soundfactorywv.com is one of the best bars in the area with dj's and live acts.

The Empty Glass on Elizabeth St emptyglass.com is a small but interesting place. They bring in some really odd acts musically and other entertainment and have everything from rockabilly to metal.

Look for red newspaper boxes. There are many located all over Charleston. There you will find a free newspaper called Graffiti. It has listings of things going on in town. They also have a web site grafwv.com

Really there isn't much to get excited about here. But hope this helps give ya some idea.

Artie answers:

I'm a bit drunk and have insomnia. Story dump!

The 11:57 bus always had the characters on it. I usually managed to take the one before it, but I'd been forced to stay late at the office.

I follow a simple rule on the bus. No eye contact, look through everyone, stare straight ahead. You don't want a crazy person to think that you're his best friend (or worst enemy). As the bus came to a stop at the graffiti-covered collection of benches, I let out an involuntary groan. The damn thing was full.

You always get a nice blend of smells as you walk onto the bus. Today it was particularly overpowering; the stench of several dozen unwashed bodies, weeks of cigarettes, Captain Morgan, and attempted cleansing of such by several varieties of Axe Body Spray was literally offensive to the nostrils. I ended up having to decide whether I was going to sit next to an older lady or a flannel-covered hobo who looked like he weighed at least 300 pounds. Deciding that the hobo probably smelled worse, I sat next to the lady. She was at least forty, and was wearing pink fishnets under her tiny black dress with slingback high heels to complete the outfit. Oops. I looked away and tried to stare off into space. The guy in front of me was cackling madly at nothing between swigs from a flask. He breathed in while drinking and managed to spew some variety of spirits all over the back of the head of the guy in front of him. He didn't seem to notice; maybe he was drunk too. Or maybe he was just like me, trying to get home with a minimum of fuss.

The bus lurched away from the stop. I tried to look out the windows across from me.

"How you doin' tonight?" I'd been dreading that question, but hadn't found a way to respond in a way that was both polite and unlikely to make further conversation. I sighed inwardly.

"Not too bad." Maybe if I'm curt enough, she'll get the message.
"You don't look like someone who rides this bus too often." Nope, she didn't.
"Well, I'm not drunk, homeless, or have a smack addiction. Guess I'm a rarity."
"Which one do you think I am?" She feigned offense, giggling like a sorority girl.
"All of the above?" I raised an eyebrow at her. She laughed hysterically and touched my arm. I thought about smacking it away, but I didn't care enough to do it.

The bus stopped at the next stop. I watched as a young mother and her kid got on, obviously fearful of the rest of us degenerates. She asked a young black man if he could switch seats so her kid could sit next to her. He told her that he was very happy where he was sitting, in a manner of speaking; the language he used was somewhat more uncouth. She ended up sitting there with the kid in her lap.

"Bet she's in the same spot as you." She was touching my arm again.
I shrugged. "I don't have a kid with me, at least."
"You're not married? Nice-looking guy like you?"
"Not anymore."
"I'm sorry."
"That's the way it goes."
"You must be lonely." She caressed my arm as she said it. Sales pitch in 3, 2, 1...
"It comes and goes."
"I'm pretty cheap, you know."
"Not interested, lady."
"Oh, okay."

We sat there in silence. The bus made another stop; a few people got off. A few more got on, all of them massively tattooed gangbangers. They were wearing blue, which was a good thing; all the other gangbangers on the bus were wearing blue, too. If any Bloods were on, I'd have jumped out the window.

I stared at the window, trying not to make eye contact with her. I kept thinking of Kate's face. God, it felt like a century since she left and had taken everything I held dear, even though it had barely been five years. Jack's in Babe Ruth, starting middle school, learning how to throw a curveball, starting to get to the age where a father can start talking to him as a mentor, a guide. And I'm sitting here on this bus with a hooker, staring at the shaved head of some neo-Nazi with way too much pride in Sanskrit good-luck signs while someone else does my job. I felt the blood rushing to my face and suppressed the urge to scream at the top of my lungs. If I'd been a better man, a better father, a better... Ah, what the hell. I doubted I could have done anything any better. She would have left me all the same.

Where did I go wrong?

When I came out of my thoughts, she was still looking at me. She bit her lip and smirked.

"How much?" I wasn't tactful; I didn't need to be. There was nothing romantic about it, just two adults engaging in a business transaction.
"For you, thirty bucks."
I raised an eyebrow at her.
"Fine, twenty." She must be hurting for cash. Maybe she really was a smack addict.

We went back to sitting in silence. The bus creaked into the next stop, and I shrugged. Once you've lost everything, even the simple joys in life become fulfilling. I'd go to bed happy tonight, even if only for a moment. I have someone next to me again. Close enough.

Artie answers:

Nice Photos! I'm Fourteen Too!

I really liked most of your photographs, this was my favourite one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourgayhaha27/2788155240/

It's really creative, and i'm a Fan of Macro Photography too. You take a lot of nice photographs. However, photographs of the Graffiti aren't really special, Your re-shooting art, if you know what i mean? I really like your portraits, all really colorful, Just make sure you lens has VR and you use a high enough shutter speed. Nice! You'll be an amateur for a few years, you can't call yourself anything more ( no one can, photography takes years, nice Photos! )

Artie answers:

West Hills,

Topanga Canyon,

I have an ex boyfriend who lives up there, but I forgot exactly where. I will ask him and edit my post. He lived in such a nice neighborhood-- no graffiti.

I called him (just for you!)--- He lives in Sherman Oaks. I love it there.

Artie answers:

Might i say that 3 months to kiss is moving a bit slow, but what ever floats ur boat

theres no way to know, trust me let him lead and just follow what he's doing

thats what i did with my girlfriend, i wasnt completely sure before i kissed her, but u pick it up fast... Its like remembering how to ride a bicycle after a long break, just do it and it will come to u

Artie answers:

Well it depends on the guy, if he is a nyc guy and genuinly into you. Rejection and aversion can sting for a girl lots, talking from my own experience. But if u can handle it then go ahead. I prefer a guy make the move coz their natures are just different and they think and take things much differently then we do. It's not old fashioned, it's science. But at the end of the day it's totally up to u and ur personality and strength. Just weigh up all the pros and cons and decide. Remember guys think differently then us, so even if u wanna go ahead take that into account, he might want someyhing physical and think he can use u in that way or not. Yeah I know its just one kiss probably not the worst but it is something. You don't jst give ur kisses and affection recklessly.

Artie answers:

Well Sterling is not that stupid and second Blake is under a rookie contract that keeps him there at least for 3 years.

You also have to realize that Sterling make money, he might have a bad franchise but his franchise makes money because it has a very low payroll but ticket sales are up, they are getting tv times because of Griffin and I am sure at Blake popularity grows so will the demand to see the Clippers and the demand to have the Clippers be on TV which in turn means more money for the owner Sterling.

The only way I see Griffin leaving is after his contract is up and he feels that the Clippers are not going anywhere other than that the Clippers organization will be kissing Blake's bum to keep him there.

Griffin is not just an ordinary 1 player pick in the draft, He is one of those players that comes around ever 6 or 7 years that can turn a franchise around.

Artie answers:

Be confident and natural. Quite honestly, if you're not in the zone then eh. Specific tips are don't use too much tongue...unless he says he likes that. Like I said, be confident and and it will come naturally.

Artie answers:

The only way the incumbent can score points is for a disciple whose suppose to be just an impartial moderator, not a referee, to step in the picture at a moment's request making herself look foolish as she later recanted her interference, but still blame the use of the wrong word somewhat threw her off.

Http://virginiavirtucon.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/candy-crowley-admits-she-was-wrong-on-libya-romney-was-right/

The terror act the incumbent claims he addressed wasn't aimed at the terrorist whose ideology are bent on destroying the west giving the notion it could be anyone when there have been prior attacks by Islamist. A coptic christian fed up with the injustices perpetrated by islamist in the middle east are the perfect scapegoat with this administration to adhere to UN resolution 1618 as the incumbent displayed in his U.N. Speech even appearing in 5 talk shows for weeks tauting on the video as responsible for the attack & deaths of 4 Americans on the night of 9/11, 'NOT' the policy & security measure the incumbent has implemented in the mid east, & specially middle eastern Islamist terrorist group.

A subordinate following policies put in place has balls to take responsibility before the one in charge promoting & putting in place policies that even lara logan disagrees with in tackling islamist ideologue extremist-ism, tells me that the wrong person is occupying the office who's chair has been vacant the last 4 years for leisure, fame, & glory sake whether it be in house concert, party, dinner, celebrity presence, talk show atmosphere, etc. As eye candy for the public away from security briefings & other strenuous administrative duties.

Guards armed with flashlights & batons in a very hostile environment does not indicate a competent security & foreign policy.

State secretary taking the bullet for the security failures of benghazi does not excuse the administration's attempt or scheme to redirect focus or jin up protest over a video through amb. To U.N rice who takes orders from the executive house in an attempt to water down danger & return of Al Queda in the spotlight in an attempt to be sensitive to islamist under UN resolution 1618 that essentially over rides the 1st amendment.

Http://www.policymic.com/articles/16154/lara-logan-60-minutes-reporter-openly-blasts-obama-for-being-soft-on-terrorism

http://www.examiner.com/article/benghazi-attack-becoming-white-house-cover-up-scandal

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/is_barack_obama_a_compulsive_liar.html

http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/10/bombshell-security-officer-testifies-that-state-dept-ignored-his-request-for-more-protection-in-benghazi/

Jumping the gun seems to become a habit for this administration whether it's to misdirect to a video or to proclaim victory over Islamist terrorist group that hasn't surrendered unconditionally. The incumbent should have delivered a speech on an aircraft carrier that had accomplished their mission (tour) with a banner 'mission accomplish' above the podium.

No Ma'am's posts:

If Obama wanted to call Benghazi a terrorist attack the next morning, here's how a man would do it?

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Every day, all across the world, American diplomats and civilians work tirelessly to advance the interests and values of our nation. Often, they are away from their families. Sometimes, they brave great danger.

Yesterday, four of these extraordinary Americans were killed in a TERR0RIST attack on our diplomatic post in Benghazi. Among those killed was our Ambassador, Chris Stevens, as well as Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith. We are still notifying the families of the others who were killed. And today, the American people stand united in holding the families of the four Americans in our thoughts and in our prayers.

The United States condemns in the strongest terms this outrageous and shocking TERR0RIST attack. We’re working with the government of Libya to secure our diplomats. I’ve also directed my administration to increase our security at diplomatic posts around the world. And make no mistake, we will work with the Libyan government to bring to justice the TERR0RISTS who attacked our people.

Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None. The world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts of TERR0RISM.

*Obama then goes on to talk about 9/11 and how "acts of terror" haven't weakened our resolve or whatever.*

Very soft words from a little man afraid to call a spade a spade.

Http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20121018094957AAQJrUL

Artie answers:

TRY THIS!
It is sweeping the nation and if you follow it honestly it does work. Good luck.
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Artie answers:

Julius came from a noble but poor family. His cousin Marius had been a great General and Consul. Caesar had political intentions.

Here's some brief notes on his rise to power and his subsequent fall.

C. 79 BCE: Caesar, on the staff of a military legate, was awarded the civic crown (oak leaves) for saving the life of a citizen in battle. His general sent him on an embassy to Nicomedes, the king of Bithynia, to obtain a fleet of ships; Caesar was successful, but subsequently he became the butt of gossip that he had persuaded the king (a homosexual) only by agreeing to sleep with him. When Sulla died in 78, Caesar returned to Rome and began a career as a orator/lawyer (throughout his life he was known as an eloquent speaker) and a life as an elegant man-about-town

72 BCE: Caesar was elected military tribune. (Note that Pompey and Crassus were the consuls for 70 BCE.)

68/67 BCE: Caesar was elected quaestor and obtained a seat in the Senate; he married Pompeia, a granddaughter of Sulla. Caesar supported Gnaeus Pompey and helped him get an extraordinary generalship against the Mediterranean pirates, later extended to command of the war against King Mithridates in Asia Minor.

65 BCE: He was elected curule aedile and spent lavishly on games to win popular favor; large loans from Crassus made these expenditures possible. There were rumors that Caesar was having an affair with Gnaeus Pompey's wife, Mucia, as well as with the wives of other prominent men.

63 BCE: Caesar spent heavily in a successful effort to get elected pontifex maximus (chief priest); in 62 he was elected praetor. He divorced Pompeia because of her involvement in a scandal with another man, although the man had been acquitted in the law courts; Caesar is reported to have said, “The wife of Caesar must be above suspicion,” suggesting that he was so exceptional that anyone associated with him had to be free of any hint of scandal. In 61 he was sent to the province of Further Spain as propraetor.

60 BCE: He returned from Spain and joined with Pompey and Crassus in a loose coalition called by modern historians “The First Triumvirate” and by his enemies at the time “the three-headed monster.” In 62, Pompey had returned victorious from Asia, but had been unable to get the Senate to ratify his arrangements and to grant land to his veteran soldiers because he had disbanded his army on his return and Crassus was blocking his efforts. Caesar persuaded the two men to work together and promised to support their interests if they helped him get elected to the consulship.

59 BCE: Caesar was elected consul against heavy Optimate opposition led by Marcus Porcius Cato, a shrewd and extremely conservative politician. Caesar married his only daughter, Julia, to Pompey to consolidate their alliance; he himself married Calpurnia, the daughter of a leading member of the Popular faction. Caesar pushed Pompey's measures through, helped Crassus' proposals, and got for himself a five-year term as proconsul of Gaul after his consulship was over. However, he used some strong-arm methods in the Assembly and completely cowed his Optimate colleague in the consulship, Bibulus, so that jokers referred to the year as “the consulship of Julius and Caesar” (instead of “the consulship of Caesar and Bibulus”). Caesar was safe from prosecution for such actions as long as he held office, but once he became a private citizen again he could be prosecuted by his enemies in the Senate.

58 BCE: Caesar left Rome for Gaul; he would not return for 9 years, in the course of which he would conquer most of what is now central Europe, opening up these lands to Mediterranean civilization—a decisive act in world history. However, much of the conquest was an act of aggression prompted by personal ambition (not unlike the conquests of Alexander the Great). (See the on-line article from Athena Review 1.4 on “Caesar's Campaigns in Gaul,” which includes a detailed map.) Fighting in the summers, he would return to Cisalpine Gaul (northern Italy) in the winters and manipulate Roman politics through his supporters.

56 BCE: Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus met in Caesar's province to renew their coalition, since Pompey had been increasingly moving toward the Optimate faction. Pompey and Crassus were to be consuls again, and Caesar's command in Gaul was extended until 49 BCE.

54 BCE: Caesar led a three-month expedition to Britain (the was the first Roman crossing of the English Channel), but he did not establish a permanent base there. (See the on-line article from Athena Review 1.1 on “The Landings of Caesar in Britain, 55 and 54 BC,” which includes maps.) Meanwhile, Caesar's coalition with Pompey was increasingly strained, especially after Julia died in childbirth in 54. In the following year, Crassus received command of the armies of the East but was defeated and killed by the Parthians.

52 BCE: Rioting in Rome led to Pompey's extra-legal election as “consul without a colleague.” Without Julia and Crassus, there was little to bond Caesar and Pompey together, and Pompey moved to the Optimate faction, since he had always been eager for the favor of the aristocrats.

51 BCE: The conquest of Gaul effectively completed, Caesar set up an efficient provincial administration to govern the vast territories; he published his history The Gallic Wars. The Optimates in Rome attempted to cut short Caesar's term as governor of Gaul and made it clear that he would be immediately prosecuted if he returned to Rome as a private citizen (Caesar wanted to run for the consulship in absentia so that he could not be prosecuted). Pompey and Caesar were maneuvered into a public split; neither could yield to the other without a loss of honor, dignity, and power.

49 BCE: Caesar tried to maintain his position legally, but when he was pushed to the limit he led his armies across the Rubicon River (the border of his province), which was automatic civil war. Pompey's legions were in Spain, so he and the Senate retreated to Brundisium and from there sailed to the East. Caesar quickly advanced to Rome, set up a rump Senate and had himself declared dictator. Throughout his campaign, Caesar practiced—and widely publicized—his policy of clemency (he would put no one to death and confiscate no property). In a bold, unexpected move, Caesar led his legions to Spain, to prevent Pompey's forces from joining him in the East; he allegedly declared, “I am off to meet an army without a leader; when I return, I shall meet a leader without an army.” After a remarkably short campaign, he returned to Rome and was elected consul, thus (relatively) legalizing his position.

48 BCE: Pompey and the Optimate faction had established a strong position in Greece by this time, and Caesar, in Brundisium, did not have sufficient ships to transport all his legions. He crossed with only about 20,000 men, leaving his chief legate, Mark Antony, in Brundisium to try to bring across the rest of the soldiers. After some rather desperate situations for Caesar, the rest of his forces finally landed, though they were greatly outnumbered by Pompey's men. In the final battle, on the plains of Pharsalus, it is estimated that Pompey had 46,000 men to Caesar's 21,000. By brilliant generalship, Caesar was victorious, though the toll was great on both sides; Caesar pardoned all Roman citizens who were captured, including Brutus, but Pompey escaped, fleeing to Egypt.

October 2, 48 BCE: Caesar, with no more than 4,000 legionaries, landed in Alexandria; he was presented, to his professed horror, with the head of Pompey, who had been betrayed by the Egyptians. Caesar demanded that the Egyptians pay him the 40 million sesterces he was owed because of his military support some years earlier for the previous ruler, Ptolemy XII (“The Flute Player”), who had put down a revolt against his rule with Caesar's help. After Ptolemy XII's death, the throne had passed to his oldest children, Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XIII, as joint heirs. When Caesar landed, the eunuch Pothinus and the Egyptian general Achillas, acting on behalf of Ptolemy XIII (at this time about 12 years old), had recently driven Cleopatra (at this time about 20-21 years old) out of Alexandria. Cleopatra had herself smuggled into the palace in Alexandria wrapped in a rug (purportedly a gift for Caesar) and enlisted his help in her struggle to control the Egyptian throne. Like all the Ptolemies, Cleopatra was of Macedonian Greek descent; she was highly intelligent and well-educated. Caesar saw her as a useful ally as well as a captivating female, and he supported her right to the throne. Through the treachery of Pothinus and the hostility of the Egyptian people to the Romans, Achillas and an army of 20,000 besieged the palace. Caesar managed to hold the palace itself and the harbor; he had Pothinus executed as a traitor but allowed the young Ptolemy to join the army of Achillas. When he ordered the Egyptian fleet burnt, the great Library of Alexandria was accidently consumed in the flames.

Drawing of Caesar with general's cloak; see also this statue
February, 47 BCE: After some months under siege, Caesar tried unsuccessfully to capture Pharos, a great lighthouse on an island in the harbor; at one point when cut off from his men he had to jump in the water and swim to safety. Plutarch says that he swam with one hand, using the other to hold some important papers above the water; Suetonius adds that he also towed his purple general's cloak by holding it in his teeth so that it would not be captured by the Egyptians.

March, 47 BCE: Caesar had sent for reinforcements, two Roman legions and the army of an ally, King Mithridates; when they arrived outside Alexandria he marched out to join them and on March 26 defeated the Egyptian army (Ptolemy XIII died in this battle). Although he had been trapped in the palace for nearly six months and had been unable to exert a major influence on the conduct of the civil war, which was going rather badly without him, Caesar nevertheless remained in Egypt until June, even cruising on the Nile with Cleopatra to the southern boundary of her kingdom.

June 23, 47 BCE: Caesar left Alexandria, having established Cleopatra as a client ruler in alliance with Rome; he left three legions under the command of Rufio, as legate, in support of her rule. Either immediately before or soon after he left Egypt, Cleopatra bore a son, whom she named Caesarion, claiming that he was the son of Caesar.

August, 47 BCE: After leaving Alexandria, Caesar swept through Asia Minor to settle the disturbances there. On August 1, he met and immediately overcame Pharnaces, a rebellious king; he later publicized the rapidity of this victory with the slogan veni, vidi, vici (“I came, I saw, I overcame”).

October, 47 BCE: Caesar arrived back in Rome and settled the problems caused by the mismanagement of Antony. When he attempted to sail for Africa to face the Optimates (who had regrouped under Cato and allied with King Juba of Numidia), his legions mutinied and refused to sail. In a brilliant speech, Caesar brought them around totally, and after some difficult battles decisively defeated the Optimates at Thapsus, after which Cato committed suicide rather than be pardoned by Caesar.

Coin issued by Caesar depicting military trophy
July 25, 46 BCE: The victorious and now unchallenged Caesar arrived back in Rome and celebrated four splendid triumphs (over the Gauls, Egyptians, Pharnaces, and Juba); he sent for Cleopatra and the year-old Caesarion and established them in a luxurious villa across the Tiber from Rome. In a letter at this time he listed his political aims as “tranquility for Italy, peace for the provinces, and security for the Empire.” His program for accomplishing these goals—both what he actually achieved and what he planned but did not have time to complete—was sound and farsighted (e.g., resolution of the worst of the debt crisis, resettlement of veterans abroad without dispossessing others, reform of the Roman calendar, regulation of the grain dole, strengthening of the middle class, enlargement of the Senate to 900), but his methods alienated many of the nobles. Holding the position of dictator, Caesar governed autocratically, more in the manner of a general than a politician. Although he nominally used the political structure, he often simply announced his decisions to the Senate and had them entered on the record as senatorial decrees without debate or vote.

April, 45 BCE: The two sons of Pompey, Gnaeus and Sextus, led a revolt in Spain; since Caesar's legates were unable to quell the revolt, Caesar had to go himself, winning a decisive but difficult victory at Munda. Gnaeus Pompey was killed in the battle, but Sextus escaped to become, later, the leader of the Mediterranean pirates.

October, 45 BCE: Caesar, back in Rome, celebrated a triumph over Gnaeus Pompey, arousing discontent because triumphs were reserved for foreign enemies. By this time Caesar was virtually appointing all major magistrates; for example, when the consul for 45 died on the morning of his last day of office, Caesar appointed a new consul to serve out the term—from 1:00 p.m. To sundown! Caesar was also borrowing some of the customs of the ruler cults of the eastern Hellenistic monarchies; for example, he issued coins with his likeness (note how the portrait on this coin, celebrating his fourth dictatorship, emphasizes his age) and allowed his statues, especially in the provinces, to be adorned like the statues of the gods. Furthermore, the Senate was constantly voting him new honors—the right to wear the laurel wreath and purple and gold toga and sit in a gilded chair at all public functions, inscriptions such as “to the unconquerable god,” etc. When two tribunes, Gaius Marullus and Lucius Flavius, opposed these measures, Caesar had them removed from office and from the Senate.

February, 44 BCE: Caesar was named dictator perpetuus. On February 15, at the feast of Lupercalia, Caesar wore his purple garb for the first time in public. At the public festival, Antony offered him a diadem (symbol of the Hellenistic monarchs), but Caesar refused it, saying Jupiter alone is king of the Romans (possibly because he saw the people did not want him to accept the diadem, or possibly because he wanted to end once and for all the speculation that he was trying to become a king). Caesar was preparing to lead a military campaign against the Parthians, who had treacherously killed Crassus and taken the legionary eagles; he was due to leave on March 18. Although Caesar was apparently warned of some personal danger, he nevertheless refused a bodyguard.

March 15, 44 BCE: Caesar attended the last meeting of the Senate before his departure, held at its temporary quarters in the portico of the theater built by Pompey the Great (the Curia, located in the Forum and the regular meeting house of the Senate, had been badly burned and was being rebuilt). The sixty conspirators, led by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Brutus Albinus, and Gaius Trebonius, came to the meeting with daggers concealed in their togas and struck Caesar at least 23 times as he stood at the base of Pompey's statue. Legend has it that Caesar said in Greek to Brutus, “You, too, my child?” After his death, all the senators fled, and three slaves carried his body home to Calpurnia several hours later. For several days there was a political vacuum, for the conspirators apparently had no long-range plan and, in a major blunder, did not immediately kill Mark Antony (apparently by the decision of Brutus). The conspirators had only a band of gladiators to back them up, while Antony had a whole legion, the keys to Caesar's money boxes, and Caesar's will.

Caesar probably did want to be emperor although he often denied it. He was in a catch 22 situation with Pompey. He could return to Rome and be tried as a criminal or fight for his life. He chose the latter. He was very manipulative and full of his own importance. He was an expert orator, propagandist and led a life which was like a comic book adventure.

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The first of the journeys associated with the Age of Discovery were conducted by the Portuguese under Prince Henry the Navigator. These voyages were different than those previously conducted by the Portuguese because they covered a much larger area. Earlier sailors relied on portolan charts which are maps created for navigators based off of land features. Because these charts relied on the ability to see land, the voyages prior to those conducted by Prince Henry stayed along the coastlines.

In challenging this form of navigation, the Portuguese sailed out of sight of land and discovered the Madeira Islands in 1419 and the Azores in 1427. The main goal for the Portuguese voyages though was to discover a trade route to West Africa without having to go through the Sahara Desert. By the mid-1400s, this goal was realized and a trading port was established at Elmina in West Africa.

Http://geography.about.com/od/historyofgeography/a/ageexploration.htm

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/teachersguides/pdf/worldhistory/ul/the_great_age_of_exploration_1400_to_1550_tg.pdf

The influences upon the development of Renaissance art in the early 15th century are those that also affected Philosophy, Literature, Architecture, Theology, Science, Government and other aspects of society. The following list presents a summary, dealt with more fully in the main articles that are cited above.

Classical texts, lost to European scholars for centuries, became available. These included Philosophy, Poetry, Drama, Science, a thesis on the Arts and Early Christian Theology.
Simultaneously, Europe gained access to advanced mathematics which had its provenance in the works of Islamic scholars.
The advent of movable type printing in the 15th century meant that ideas could be disseminated easily, and an increasing number of books were written for a broad public.
The establishment of the Medici Bank and the subsequent trade it generated brought unprecedented wealth to a single Italian city, Florence.
Cosimo de' Medici set a new standard for patronage of the arts, not associated with the church or monarchy.
Humanist philosophy meant that man's relationship with humanity, the universe and with God was no longer the exclusive province of the Church.
A revived interest in the Classics brought about the first archaeological study of Roman remains by the architect Brunelleschi and sculptor Donatello. The revival of a style of architecture based on classical precedents inspired a corresponding classicism in painting, which manifested itself as early as the 1420s in the paintings of Masaccio and Uccello.
The improvement of oil paint and developments in oil-painting technique by Netherlandish artists such as Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden and Hugo van der Goes led to its adoption in Italy from about 1475 and had ultimately lasting effects on painting practices, worldwide.
The serendipitous presence within the region of Florence in the early 15th century of certain individuals of artistic genius, most notably Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Piero della Francesca, Donatello and Michelozzo formed an ethos out of which sprang the great masters of the High Renaissance, as well as supporting and encouraging many lesser artists to achieve work of extraordinary quality.[1]
A similar heritage of artistic achievement occurred in Venice through the talented Bellini family, their influential inlaw Mantegna, Giorgione, Titian and Tintoretto.[1][2][3]
The publication of two treatises by Leone Battista Alberti, De Pitura (On Painting), 1435, and De re aedificatoria (Ten Books on Architecture), 1452.

Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_art

During the Middle Ages, European artists painted in a way that emphasized religious images and symbolism rather than realism. Most paintings depicted scenes holy figures and people important in the Christian religion. Even the most talented painters of the Middle Ages paid little attention to making humans and animals look lifelike, creating natural looking landscapes, or creating a sense of depth and space in their paintings.
Http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Arts/painting/paint-late-mid/paint-mid-age/paintmidage.htm

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If getting in shape, improve your bance, and coordination are your main things you want for a martial art then you have a pretty open field of choices.

Tae Kwon Do - It is a Korean system.It is the one of the most prevelant type of martial art out there. It has lots of kicks above the waist, some handstrikes, usually some sparring that is normally point sparring (putting on gloves and foot pads and using light to medium contact against your opponet to score a point, stop, then do it again until you get 3 points). It gets you in decent shape works on balance and coordination with the kicking mainly. I started off in Tae Kwon Do, most people do. It doesn tend to cater to little kids though. Even though you are 14 this can be annoying because I started Tae Kwon Do when I was 14 and found it annoying. You have to be careful of them try to take money from you too. This is the common term you wil hear of the McDojo. They like to spring up and take people's money while teaching them watered down (poor) martial arts. They love little kids too. They are their favorite customers! But, despite this, Tae Kwon Do may work for you. I got really flexible doing Tae Kwon Do and improved my fitness.

Karate - It is a Japanese system. Karate is pretty much like what I described with Tae Kwon Do. It just emphasis hadnstrikes a it more and not as much above the waist kicking as Tae Kwon Do. It has the same advantages and disadvantages of Tae Kwon Do normally.

Kung-Fu - Kung-Fu is pretty good. It is a Chinese system. It has a lot of weird, exotic moves that are usually styled after animals (tiger, crane, dragon, praying mantis, snake, etcetra). It is a pretty deadly system in the right hands of someone. It would fit all of your goals too. It mainly focus on handstrikes, kicks, a few throws.

Kenpo - Kenpo is a Chinese system with American influence. It has a lot of quick handstrikes, and kicks to areas like the groin and eyes. It is really brutal like that. The ones I've seen sometimes use point sparring like Tae Kwon Do and Karate normally do. It works all the areas you would like to improve.

Hapkido - Is a Korean system. It is a lot like Tae Kwon Do but has deals also with throwing.

These are some of the more common types that are probably in your area to learn. They all will help you in your goals you stated. Their self-defense value varies from fair to good (You didn't list self-defense as a top goal so I don't know how important it is to you). They will get you you in shape, improve your balance and coordination.

The other martial arts out there can be really brutal and tough. If you aren't into all that rough and tumble stuff then you should probably be cautious about taking these arts: Judo, Brazillian Jiu jitsu, Boxing, Mixed Marial Arts (Cagefighting), Sambo, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, etcetra.

There are other ones outside that list I have above that may work for you too but they usually aren't as common Krav Magna being one that comes to mind. I have never seen a Krav Magna school in my area (the USA) yet but everybody on here seems to think it's one of the best for self-defense. It may be really intense I don't know. It may be worth looking into also if you have one in your area.

Aikido is another martial art that may work. Aikido is a complicated martial art and takes patience. I'm not sure if I would recommend to a beginner like yourself. It is about throws but uses a real subtle approach to it. It is complicated and I'm not really sure it would be for you at this point. But people on yahoo answers will recommend it to you. I just think a punch-kick martial art probably would fit you better.

I personally think Tae Kwon Do is probably the best place for you to start. It fits your goals, is a good beginner martial art, is popular with women, good for a 14 y/o to start a martial art. There will probably be several schools in your area that teach Tae Kwon Do. Try them out. They usually have a free class for you to try. See which one fits you.

You may want to look into learning Yoga too. Of course Yoga is not a martial art but will get you in shape, develop balance, and coordination. It may be a good option too.

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If you major in graphic design, you can take motion graphics classes, photo classes, art classes, etc as electives.

For graphic design itself you can do a lot of things, including book layout, magazine layout, package design, toy design, merchandise design, interior design, signage design (for store fronts, etc), illustrations for magazines (some drawing ability is required here... I don't mean realistic either. If you can draw like a five yearold, and do it in a way which makes sense, then it's good too). Many graphic designers work in fashion industry too if you're into that. Some do troubleshooting for companies, art directors can hire teams to solve problems. Can do graphics for commercials, stuff for mtv clips (like the weird animations they show from time to time). There's a lot of stuff you can do as a graphic designer if you take the time to learn this stuff. You can either limit yourself to a few things, or you can learn about many things. Either is fine.

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Surrealism is pretty much painting what comes to you in your dreams and it can be in any medium.,

When deciding if a piece is Surrealist or not, you can decide basically by how weird it is.

Some Surrealists include Kahlo (Look at "Two Kahlos" and tell me if that is not dream-like), de Chirico (He's a metaphysical surrealist. His paintings just look strange. Something is off in them), Magritte ("Dominion of Light" has a dark house, in a sunny day. Something bizarre).

Surrealism is strange to look at. It frequently challenges what we know about art, and, more accurately, what we know about the world. In Magritte's "This is not a pipe", he draws a pipe with the text "This is not a pipe". And he's right. When does the art stop being art and become something real. We're looking at this painting and actually seeing a pipe, but it's not, it's just a painting (a theme repeated later in Jasper John's "Flags" and "Three Chairs"). Another of Magritte's pieces "La Clairvoyance" shows the artists painting a portrait of an egg, but drawing a bird on the canvas, showing us that the egg is the bird. Dali's "The Persistence of Memory" shows us the Theory of Relativity. Khalo's "Two Khalos" explore two different sides of a person.
My personal opinion of surrealism is conflicted. In general, I don't like modern art (which starts near the end of the 19th century), but Surrealism is so bizarre that it is intriguing and I enjoy that.

I hope this helped you.

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I used a gello mixture for texture once on a wall painting.
It was all that I had at the time...
It worked great...
A little weird...but hey..
>>> Thats art!~

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2 days ago – In The Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan writes that the president's problem is ... Please register to gain free access to WSJ tools. .... They say Republicans can't get over Reagan, but really it's Democrats who aren't ...

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I live in bismarck, North Dakota, and you cant drive down a main street without seeing a now hiring sign, there is many jobs available here in north dakota!

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Interesting questions. Sound waves don't really have a weight to them. Sound is a different type of wave than light because it has to have a medium to carry the wave. Light does not need such a medium. You might want to say that sound waves are related to the amount of air (or water or any other substance) that is compressed to form the wave but this doesn't really end up as a useful concept. Sound waves to have a pressure associated with them that you could translate into a weight per unit area, but this type of use doesn't come up in basic physics and engineering classes.

In the simplest analysis, sound waves do travel in straight lines until something causes that to change. Naturally, they can be reflected. The obvious way is by bounding off a hard surface. However, submarines routinely make use of the fact that sound waves can bounce off a layer of water that has a different density. These "thermoclines" come about because of comparatively sudden changes in water temperature. Hiding underneath a thermocline can cause sonar waves to bounce off this layer and mask your sub.

Sound can also be diffracted, which is a way of describing how waves of all types spread out after going through a small opening or bend around a small obstacle. As I alluded to above, sound can change course due to changing pressure. If the pressure changes are subtle, the sound wave could travel a gently curved path. Overall, though, for common uses, we can think of them as traveling straight.

Finally, the change in frequency when an ambulance goes by has nothing to do with the sound waves bending. That's called the Doppler Effect and has to do with how many waves per second you hear when the source of the sound is moving toward you as compared to when it's moving away from you. Wikipedia has an article on this.

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That's likely yes.

The immediate line-up of both parties and the media behind the bailout plan for Wall Street stands in the starkest contrast to their indifference and inaction in regard to the plight of millions of American working people, who face a rising tide of home foreclosures, layoffs and sinking living standards. When it comes to the social needs of the people, the universal cry from corporate America and the two parties is, “There is no money,” but when the fortunes of the financial elite are threatened, the full power of the government and unlimited resources are marshaled virtually at a moment’s notice.
There was no suggestion in the statements of Bush and Paulson of any relief for the working class—nothing to stop home foreclosures or help those who have already lost their homes. Rather, hundreds of billions—and more likely trillions—of dollars in public funds will be used to prop up the banks.
The resulting bankrupting of the government will be used to justify a brutal assault on what remains of social programs, including Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security, and demand even greater financial “sacrifices” from workers, whether the next administration is headed by Obama or McCain. Nothing could more clearly demonstrate that behind the façade of American democracy there stands a dictatorship of big business.
Http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/sep2008/econ-s20.shtml

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Torrents a way of distributing items over the internet in a easy,automatic and normally fast way.
It is not illegal to download FREE software and free media via torrents eg. Open source software, free games eg. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.
But if you download ... Say ..... COD BLACK OPS then THAT would be piracy and illegal.
So if you dont want to do any thing illegal stay away from sites like pirate bay

some free AND LEGAL (not against the law)
Legaltorrents.com distributed 90 terabytes of Creative Commons-licensed content in the last seven months alone. The site features lots of music downloads, but also has some good video content like the South African TV show Go Open and the Firefly-Documentary Done The Impossible. All the files are centrally seeded, so your downloads will always have a happy ending.

Public Domain Torrents features hundreds of Torrents from out-of-copyright films in numerous formats. Unfortunately there is no central seeding, so you better stick to the recently posted items.

Legit Torrents is a new site that aggregates freely available Torrents, including video, games and Linux distributions.

Bittorrent has taken a beating for its recently launched download store, but the site still offers lots of freely downloadable content as well. Unfortunately the free stuff gets buried under the rentals and sales, which are for some reason deemed more “relevant.”

SXSW.com features music and video downloads to promote the South by Southwest festival. This year’s film trailers aren’t up yet, but there’s 3 gigabytes of MP3 music to get an idea of what’s gonna go down in Austin this March.

Speaking of music: Etree is hosting live recordings of bootleg-friendly artists in the lossless FLAC audio format.

The soon-to-be-relaunched Azureus home base Zudeo offers a mix of music videos, user-generated content, professionally produced movies and short films. Worth a look because of its extensive list of fan films and HD content. All downloads are centrally seeded.

Torrentfreak is known for its up-to-date coverage of the BitTorrent scene, but the site also operates an own tracker and regularly features legal downloads like the official Bittorrent release of the movie The Corporation.

Revision3.com is technically not a Torrent site, but the online video network utilizes BitTorrent like few others. Every episode page features a multitude of Torrent links, and you can subscribe to each show with an RSS-Feed including proper Torrent enclosures.

Finally, no list of legal Torrent platforms would be complete without a Linux ISO site like Linuxtracker.com. Advocates of the free operating system have been using BitTorrent for a long time to spread the latest releases of their preferred distribution. Linuxtracker lists all major flavors of Linux, including video-specific releases like the open source DVR system KnoppMyth and the multimedia production platform 64 Studio.

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I'm not sure he specifically stole any songs, it was more that he stole the African-American style of singing. Sam Phillips (Elvis 1st producer and the founder of Sun Records, early home of Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins) always said he just needed a handsome white man that can sing like a black man and they would make a billion dollars...Well the rest my friend is history.

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MIDTOWN (Midtown Houston is a district southwest of Downtown Houston, Texas, bordered by the Montrose area and U.S. Highway 59.)
Midtown has become one of the hotest nightspots in town, and is filled with a number of restaurants, bars, theatres, and art galleries.
Some notable restaurants are:
Julia's Bistro
The Fish
The Breakfast Klub
Farrago World Cuisine
Ponzo's Italian Food
T'afia
Van Loc
The Ensemble Theater in Midtown Houston. Also seen are the two kinds of street signs on the same pole (one for Midtown and one for the Main Street Corridor) that are seen along Main Street in Midtown.Bars include:
Pub Fiction
Red Door
Front Porch Pub
Wet Spot
Little Woodrow's
Tipsy Clover
Theatres, art galleries, and museums, which include:
The Ensemble Theater (a theater that focuses on African-American themed plays)
The Community Artists' Collective
Houston Fire Museum
Houston Center for Contemporary Arts
Lawndale Art Center
Midtown Art Center
Destiny's Child's Recording Studio

THE GALLERIA (just outside the city's I-610 inner beltway)
Anchor Stores:
Macy's
Neiman Marcus (opened 1969)
Nordstrom (opened 2003)
Saks Fifth Avenue {opened 1997)
Other notable stores in the Galleria include:
Adrienne Vittadini Anne Fontaine Apple Store A/X Armani Exchange Baccarat Bally of Switzerland Bang & Olufsen
Barneys New York CO-OP BCBG Max Azria Betsey Johnson
Brooks Brothers Bulgari Burberry Cartier Chanel CH Carolina Herrera Christian Dior Christofle Club Monaco Coach
Cole Haan David Yurman Discovery Channel Disney Duo Emporio Armani Energie Fendi Fila Forth & Towne French Connection Gianni Versace Giorgio Armani Gucci Jacadi Jessica McClintock Jimmy Choo Kate Spade Kenneth Cole Lacoste
Lalique Louis Vuitton Luca Luca Marmi Max Mara Michael Kors
Miss Sixty Montblanc Movado Oakley Puma Ralph Lauren
Salvatore Ferragamo Sony Style St. John Stuart Weitzman
Swatch Tiffany & Co. Tourneau Tumi Wolford Yves Saint Laurent Zara
There is also an ice skating rink inside!

THE MUSEUM DISTRICT (http://www.houstonmuseumdistrict.org/def...
The Houston Museum District is an area of Houston, Texas where many of the city's museums are located. The district is centered on the Hotel Zaza (currently being renovated) and the adjacent Mecom Fountain. The Museum District also houses Rice University, the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research and Hermann Park which includes the Houston Zoo and the Miller Outdoor Theatre. The Museum District is also near the University of Saint Thomas.
Some of the museums and institutions include:
Holocaust Museum Houston
Children's Museum of Houston
John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Natural Science
The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
Houston Center for Photography
John C. Freeman Weather Museum

THE THEATRE DISTIRCT (DOWNTOWN)
The Houston Theater District, a 17-block area in the heart of Downtown Houston, is home to Houston's nine world-class performing arts organizations, the 130,000 square-foot Bayou Place entertainment complex, restaurants, movies, plazas and parks.
The district is ranked second in the United States for the number of theater seats in a concentrated downtown area and is one of only five cities with permanent professional resident companies in all of the major performing arts disciplines (the Houston Grand Opera, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Ballet, and The Alley Theatre).
One of the several attractions in the district is the Bayou Place Entertainment Complex—a large multilevel building that is home to full service restaurants, bars, live music, billiards, multiple theatres and art house films. The Houston Verizon Wireless Theatre stages a variety of live concerts and the Angelika Theatre presents the latest in art, foreign and independent films.

NEARTOWN--AKA MONTROSE (Neartown is bounded by U.S. Highway 59 to the south, Allen Parkway to the north, Bagby Street on the east, and Shepherd Drive to the west.)
Neartown is an area located in west-central Houston, Texas and is one of the city's major cultural areas. The location comes with distinctive character of eccentricity and diversity. The location and boundaries of Neartown is colloquially referred to as Montrose. Once a magnet for the hippie movement, Houstonians would consider it as a hybrid of San Francisco's the Haight-Ashbury and The Castro.
Museums
Menil Collection art museum
Rothko Chapel
Houston Center for Photography
Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum
Museo Guadalupe Aztlan
Museum of Printing History
Dan Flavin permanent exhibit

CLEAR LAKE

http://www.spacecenter.org/

NASA

GALVESTON
Galveston is known for its historic neighborhoods and a ten-mile long seawall designed to protect the city from floods. It is also home to the infamous Balinese Room, a historic nightclub and former illegal gambling hall located on a 600-foot pier extending into the Gulf of Mexico.

The city houses many tourist attractions. The attractions include the Galveston Schlitterbahn waterpark, Moody Gardens, the Lone Star Flight Museum, a downtown neighborhood of historic buildings known as "The Strand," many historical museums and mansions, and miles of beach front. The Strand plays host to a yearly Mardi Gras festival, Galveston Island Jazz & Blues Festival, Texas Beach Fest, Lone Star Bike Rally, and a Victorian-themed Christmas festival called "Dickens on the Strand" (honoring the works of novelist Charles Dickens, especially A Christmas Carol) in early December. There are lots of shops along The Strand that you can have fun in.
Other attractions in Galveston include Moody Gardens, the Galveston Island Railroad Museum, Schlitterbahn, the Strand and the Lone Star Flight Museum. Galveston is also home to several historic ships: the tall ship Elissa at the Texas Seaport Museum and USS Cavalla and USS Stewart, both berthed at Seawolf Park on nearby Pelican Island. Galveston is also home to a symphony orchestra and a small ballet company.

Artie answers:

It's a certain segment of black American urban culture that is unfortunately infiltrating other segments of black culture from other areas and men from other races...and women too!

I think it stems from the cycle of feeling disrespected themselves so picking on those who are even more defenseless than them.

Artie answers:

Often because of their upbringing, people suffering from BPD lack the ability to regulate their moods, tend to see things in terms of black and white, rather than shades of grey, and often idealise, then devalue, in relationships. They also tend to have a great fear of abandonment, and sometimes go to extreme lengths to prevent it. They often become involved in alcohol and/or drug abuse, and/or high risk activities. Closely examine the http://1-800-therapist.com/ & http://www.metanoia.org/choose/ websites. Contact the local & national organisations of clinical psychologists, therapists, and/or psychiatrists, to find a therapist who uses Dialectical Behavio(u)ral Therapy, or get a good book on the subject, and give to a therapist using Cognitive Behavio(u)ral Therapy (fairly common, and probably nearby) and ask that it be incorporated into your treatment. Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT) http://www.priory.com/dbt.htm & http://www.behavioraltech.com/downloads/dbtFaq_Cons.pdf Some locators are via the index page, at your-mental-health.8m.com below.

Workbooks that offer good coping skills are: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, & Distress Tolerance (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) by Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood, and Jeffrey Brantley, & Marsha Linehan's Skills Training Manual (a DBT Workbook). Read "I hate you: don't leave me." by Jerold J. Kreisman, M.D. And Hal Stras. Also: NEW HOPE FOR PEOPLE WITH BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER, by Neil R. Bockian, Ph.D., & The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide - Paperback (Nov 2007) by Alex Chapman and Kim Gratz, & Borderline Personality Disorder For Dummies (For Dummies [Health & Fitness]) by Charles H. Elliott and Laura L. Smith, & "Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified" by Robert O. Friedel, & The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook: Practical Strategies for Living With Someone Who Has Borderline Personality Disorder, by Randi Kreger and James Paul Shirley. Try www.amazon.com for these, and others on BPD. View: http://www.sane.org/information/factshee… & http://www.2knowmyself.com/uieforum?c=sh… Check out: www.borderlinepersonalitytoday.com/main/chat.htm & www.mhsanctuary.com/Borderline/board2d.htm & www.psychforums.com/borderline-personality/ & www.ehow.com/how_2154549_find-borderline-personality-disorder-support.html & www.borderlinecentral.com/articles/bpdsupportgroups.shtml

Practice a relaxation method, daily, and when needed, such as http://www.drcoxconsulting.com/managing-stress.html or http://altmedicine.about.com/cs/mindbody/a/Meditation.htm or http://www.wikihow.com/Meditate or Yoga Nidra, (a series of easy mental exercises only; no flexibility required) on page L, at 8M.com. Hypnosis is merely a heightened state of suggestibility, in which you are better able to communicate with your subconscious mind. 85% of people are suggestible, to some degree, so you could either seek professional hypnotherapy, or more alternatives along such lines are at http://your-mental-health.8m.com/blank_11.html and see page X about BPD.

Artie answers:

It's physiological abnormalities of the brain.

Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-psychopath-means

http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/psychopathy

http://jennifercopley.suite101.com/causes-of-psychopathy-a62417

No, I didn't know what your acronym meant. Now that I know I don't care. But I can go in circles around you when it comes to mental health knowledge.

There are several disorders that can crop up due to childhood trauma, one very interesting one is borderline personality disorder. There's also PTSD.

You can have an excellent book about a psychopath. Especially if you are writing in the first person POV in the form of a diary your book could be excellent. But first you have to understand the nature of psychopathy.

On the last link under nurture please note that a psychopath raised in a loving home will still be a psychopath, but a different kind of psychopath than one raised in an abuse home. In either case psychopaths are defined by their lack of remorse and lack of emotion.

Artie answers:

It sounds as though you need a therapist (either clinical social worker or psychologist) with experience in trauma related disorders in general as it isn't possible to tell what you actually have based on your post. All the disorders you listed require far more symptoms than what you identified (though I realize you may have only listed a few things) and it's very possible that you may not have any of those disorders you listed.
For your information and reference only, here is an excerpt from some of my previous posts on DID, but this is in no way meant to suggest that I think you have this based on the info you provided but it may help you clarify it more yourself:

DID is the existence of two or more separate personalities or personality states within one person, with each alter having distinctly different ways of thinking, feeling, behaving and relating to the world and distinctly different memories, each part having amnesia for the other parts' memories. It is born from repeated and severe abuse and involves the defense mechanism of dissociation and generally develops before the age of 10 as children are far more likely to dissociate.
DID is often misdiagnosed and it is very common for a person to have had multiple different psychiatric diagnoses before it is definitively identified as DID. The symptoms frequently overlap with symptoms of schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Anxiety Disorders (all), PTSD, other Dissociative Disorders and Somatoform Disorders as well as Borderline Personality. It requires extremely careful assessment and a high level of trust by the patient before alters reveal themselves. The diagnosis cannot be finalized before a therapist has actually made contact with another alter and observed the switch between alters.
The hallmark symptom is amnesia, which can be partial or complete depending on the level co-consciousness that exists between alters. Folks with the disorder describe the amnesia as "missing time" or blank periods, often daily or weekly, where they cannot account for their whereabouts or behavior. It is this amnesic barrier between parts that often leads to the most bizarre and distinctive signs and symptoms: not recognizing familiar people; not remembering highly significant events in their lives (like the birth of their first child, for example); finding purchases or articles of clothing/possessions, writings or drawings that they have no recollection of having bought or created. They are frequently accused of lying because they disavow their own behavior which is remembered by one part, while the amnestic part is completely unaware of it. Other unusual symptoms include: an exceptionally high tolerance for physical pain (they split off physical sensation which becomes encapsulated in one or several alters without others feeling it); not recognizing themselves in a mirror; using different names; having dramatically different skills and abilities that seem to be alternately present and then vanish (one alter may be able to drive a car while the sudden emergence of a child alter results in complete loss of this ability until the adult alter re-emerges); completely different opinions and behaviors (leading to the mislabeling of Bipolar or Borderline Personality.
Often communication across between separate alters takes place in the form of hearing voices, hence these folks frequently get misdiagnosed as schizophrenic. The key distinction here is whether the voices are experienced as coming from inside the person's head (DID) or outside one's head (Schizophrenia/Bipolar Disorder).
The separate identities develop in response to traumatic experiences which the child is unable to integrate and so they become "split off" from awareness and begin to take on a life of their own.
Folks with DID often self-injure, frequently a result of internal battles between persecutor alters and weaker alters and there are continual battles for control of the body and "time out" in the body between competing alters.
Symptoms of depression and anxiety are frequent and common and the picture is further complicated by the fact that one alter can meet all clinical criteria for Depression, while another part experiences no symptoms whatsoever. One part can be psychotic and experience no side effects from meds while another non-psychotic part has all the side effects and will stop taking meds. You can imagine that attempting to medicate such a disorder becomes an absolute nightmare.
Other symptoms include flashbacks and nightmares, hence the confusion with PTSD. Sometimes there are fugue states and clients will switch and "come to" in the body and have no idea how they arrived in the situation they are in, not know the people they are with and be completely disoriented. I had one client call me from another state after being away for a few days and having no idea how she got there or how to get home. Depersonalization and trance states are common and hence the overlap with other Dissociative disorders.
Folks with DID frequently experience multiple somatic symptoms for which there is no organic basis. They experience partial body memories of abuse without the actual memory of the event and thus exhibit strange physiological symptoms and are often labeled as Somatoform disorders or hypochondriacs.
I could go on and on, but suffice it to say that virtually any symptom of any disorder can be found at some point in a person with DID. Treatment is almost exclusively through psychotherapy as medication is merely palliative and an adjunct during periods of acute anxiety or depression. Treatment aims at initially contracting against suicidal and self-destructive behavior and attempts to establish safety first. Many DID folks enter treatment in horrendous circumstances where they are frequently in highly abusive relationships or are themselves abusive. Given the multiple alters, they may be both victim and perpetrator both within themselves alone and in the context of their relationships. The second primary goal is establishing communication and negotiation among alters to decrease amnesia and contradictory, self-defeating behavior. Ultimately the goal becomes integration of alters into one cohesive whole which involves sharing of memories and feelings across alters and a merging, where all parts continue to be present, but constant.

Artie answers:

In many situations, reading encyclopedia articles is a good way to start reading about a subject. The Wikipedia is convenient because you can quickly acquire basic facts about a tremendous number of areas quickly and inexpensively, but you have to remember that anyone is allowed to write and edit Wiki articles. I wouldn't cite a Wiki article if I were writing a paper.

The place to start is to see the difference between the two basic approaches: evidence-based therapy (such as cognitive-based therapy) and the various approaches of psychiatry.

Popular books that explain CBT: The Feeling Good Handbook by David D. Burns and A Guide to Rational Living by Albert Ellis. Marsha Linehan, who founded a form of CBT for people with a serious mental illness, borderline personality disorder, wrote a training manual for treating this disorder. Although written for professionals, the book is popular.