Hi , i am a 17 years old and i think i love her. It all started when i was 14. Me and Her brother use to be best friend’s. i always noticed her and couldn’t leave without saying good night. Soon it developed into a flick. Where i use to go to the parks with her with her brother joey. I never had the guts to kiss her. But we shared something emotional. Soon me and her brother had a fight. He alienated me from her. After 1 year i still cannot stop thinking about her. i dont have her myspace , telephone. and they moved away, don’t know any of her friends. I finally found her cousins myspace, he treathned me, but i don’t rly care since she means so much to me. Soon he tolled me over myspace that she has a boyfriend and a child, she dropped out of high school. I still cannot contact her since there is no way i know of to reach her. I… love her…. without any doubt in my mind. Me and her came from broken home’s. Someone did something terrible to her when she was young, and my father died , these are the things we spoke about. I cannot stop thinking about her. And i think i ruined her life because if i was with her she would be in high school and not have a kid (that’s if its true) anyone have any idea how i can get in touch with this person ? or what would you recommend i do? please help, its been 1 year and imm going nut’s each day i think about her, and cannot stop no matter what. i miss her so much….

Hi i am 17 years old and i fell in love with this girl. When i was in 8th grade me and her brother useto be best friends. bassicly like brothers. I fell in love with his sister and she loved me to, i useto do bad things, she would pray for me nightly. I remember being in a park with her and just looking her in the eyes and feeling something i have never felt before. That was when i was 14 or 15. I useto sneak out at night with her just to hang around. One night her brother cought us and he tolled me he would kill me. Soon they moved away somewhere in chicago still. a year later she found me on yahoo mssnger. I was so happy to hear from the girl i love. But i think her brother found out and he canceled her yahoo mssnger. its been 2 years now and i still cannot stop thinking about her. I love this girl to death, i found her cousins myspace he said that he would kill me to if i tried to see her. Soon he wroteArnold ma cusin nigga and i dnt think he would appreciate u trying to halla at his sis and especially when she got a babydaddy i mean ill tell her but i dnt think she would like that then he wrote she wanted my number, but its been 2 days and nothing. i love her so much and i only want to be with her. then he wrote she dropped out of high school. And i feel like its my fault… if only i was with her i could protect her. She is the most wonderfull person, and i know i love her. There is no way i can find her…. i can’t say her name and last name incase this could reach her brother. i miss her so much…. cant stop thinking about her even after 2 years……

Man’s Injustice Towards Providence
by Anne Kingsmill Finch

A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained,
In little time a mighty Fortune gain’d.
No Pyrate seiz’d his still returning Freight;
Nor foundring Vessel sunk with its own Weight:
No Ruin enter’d through dissever’d Planks;
No Wreck at Sea, nor in the Publick Banks.
Aloft he sails, above the Reach of Chance,
And do’s in Pride, as fast as Wealth, advance.
His Wife too, had her Town and Country-Seat,
And rich in Purse, concludes her Person Great.

A Dutchess wears not so much Gold and Lace;
Then ’tis with Her an undisputed Case,
The finest Petticoat must take the Place.
Her Rooms, anew at ev’ry Christ’ning drest,
Put down the Court, and vex the City-Guest.
Grinning Malottos in true Ermin stare;
The best Japan, and clearest China Ware
Are but as common Delft and English Laquar there.
No Luxury’s by either unenjoy’d,
Or cost withheld, tho’ awkardly employ’d.
How comes this Wealth? A Country Friend demands,
Who scarce cou’d live on Product of his Lands.
How is it that, when Trading is so bad
That some are Broke, and some with Fears run Mad,
You can in better State yourself maintain,
And your Effects still unimpair’d remain!
My Industry, he cries, is all the Cause;
Sometimes I interlope, and slight the Laws;
I wiser Measures, than my Neighbors, take,
And better speed, who better Bargains make.
I knew, the Smyrna–Fleet wou’d fall a Prey,
And therefore sent no Vessel out that way:
My busy Factors prudently I chuse,
And in streight Bonds their Friends and Kindred noose:
At Home, I to the Publick Sums advance,
Whilst, under-hand in Fee with hostile France,
I care not for your Tourvills, or Du-Barts,
No more than for the Rocks, and Shelves in Charts:
My own sufficiency creates my Gain,
Rais’d, and secur’d by this unfailing Brain.
This idle Vaunt had scarcely past his Lips,
When Tydings came, his ill-provided Ships
Some thro’ the want of Skill, and some of Care,
Were lost, or back return’d without their Fare.
From bad to worse, each Day his State declin’d, ‘Till leaving Town, and Wife, and Debts behind,
To his Acquaintance at the Rural Seat
He Sculks, and humbly sues for a Retreat.
Whence comes this Change, has Wisdom left that Head,
(His Friend demands) where such right Schemes were bred?
What Phrenzy, what Delirium mars the Scull,
Which fill’d the Chests, and was it self so full?
Here interrupting, sadly he Reply’d,
In Me’s no Change, but Fate must all Things guide;
To Providence I attribute my Loss.

Vain-glorious Man do’s thus the Praise engross,
When Prosp’rous Days around him spread their Beams:
But, if revolv’d to opposite Extreams,
Still his own Sence he fondly will prefer,
And Providence, not He, in his Affairs must Err!

Say you borrow a dollar from a friend to buy a candy bar. If the value of the dollar increases the next day, so that you can buy two candy bars with one dollar, you could sell the candy bar for two dollars and pay your friend back the one dollar you owe him, because technically you only borrowed one dollar, right?

Now what about the opposite? Remember in pre-WWII Germany how hyperinflation caused people to take their paychecks home in wheelbarrows, and a loaf of bread to cost over a million Deutsch Marks? Imagine a situation like that. If you borrowed 50 thousand dollars from a friend to buy a candy bar, but the next day everything went back to normal, and the candy bar was only worth one dollar, would you still owe your friend 50 thousand dollars, or would you owe him the price of a candy bar?

Surely no one would expect you to pay them back enough money to buy a luxury vehicle when the loan in its time could barely buy a piece of food (ignoring the concept of interest). But then why is the opposite true? From what I remember from high school economics, the government encourages inflation because it makes it easier to pay off debts. That seems to me to be the only merit of inflation. You would think, though, that in a global economy, we would want to deflate so that we could turn what little money we have left into something of value.

But then, both seem like methods of cheating your way out of paying what you owe. Wouldn’t it be easier to say that four strawberries equals one apple, and we’ll give you a new tank for every billion pounds of corn you export to us? I understand that paper currency holds each of those items to a certain value. However, when that value fluctuates from day to day, doesn’t that defeat the purpose?
1. i get that the point of money is liquidation, but then it just becomes another good you have to barter for. if i have a 100-year old piano that i want to sell so i have enough money to buy a new car, i have to find someone i can sell the piano to for a price i like so that i can get the money i need to take to the dealership to buy the car. to me, thats just as bad as trading apples for oranges so you can get mangoes. what say you?

2. the hyperinflation example was just an exaggeration to prove a point. if you dont expect someone to pay you back the ridiculous sum of money when the value of the currency deflates, how can you expect someone to only pay you the dollar amount of a loan when the value of the currency inflates? shouldnt the price of a loan inflate too?

Will God reward my two friends (one rich and one poor) equally?

My rich friend is a big city woman and she is wealthy businesswoman working for a public relations company and she owns a condo overlooking a huge lake, owns a nice luxury convertible, owns lots of nice clothes, expensive jewelry, nice furniture, nice stereo equipment, gets to go to alot of nice vacations, rock concerts, professional sporting events and she gets to have lots of nice gifts from her friends cause her friends absolutely adore her, she is a really laid back girl and she has alot of common sense, a strong sense of awareness and she has a personality like a grown woman.

My poor friend is a small town man who has a learning disability and he still lives at home with his parents and his only means of transporation is getting around by bus or bicycle and he usually gets his clothes from thrift stores, my poor friend has a really big heart and takes alot of pride in his friendships and he shows alot of compassion towards his friends but he gets really overly hyperactive and wound up easily which causes people to overlook his kindness cause of him getting overly hyperactive and sadly the very few friends he does have rarely ever give him nice gifts cause they’re too poor to do so, plus he is also quick to anger and has a very short fuse and has a personality like a little boy.

My rich friend is a Catholic girl and is close to God and Jesus and I do believe she has accepted Jesus as her Lord and Saviour, I am uncertain towards my male friend’s religious beliefs

Will both of my friends experience the same amount of peace, joy, love and happiness when they’re both in the Kingdom of Heaven

I’m am an adult in my 30’s and my mother tends to be manipulative. She’s a nice person and I love her dearly but she doesn’t want to work and I know the market is bad but even before she wouldn’t really work either. When I got in college I found a decent paying job and we got an apartment where I paid all the bills and she did not work at all but would then get mad if I wanted to go out with friends after I’ve worked hard all day and then had to go to class. I am an only child and fill she still acts like I’m a kid. My husband gets so upset because I have to constantly give her money then the other problem is that she calls me all day long. Even when I tell her I’m at work she will still call back to back to back.. On the weekends she starts calling my phone at 6 and 7am and sometimes at 2 am eventhough I tell her to stop doing this. She lives at my cousins house, my cousin had this house built but ended up having to move closer to her job and let’s my mom stay there. To the point I can’t do too much because when I helped her before my credit got wrecked and end result was when my husband and I went to buy our home I couldn’t go on the loan. The othervproblem is she dates this guy on and off and this has gone on for 8 years but he’s worthless and doesn’t work either just does carpentry here and there so she was over to his place for a fees weeks and I barely heard from her then they fall out and she’s back to calling me every 5 minutes. She said her reason for going over there was because my cousin she stays with daughter stole her jewelry, my mother had 10k worth of jewelry stolen from her because someone got in the house and stole it when I feel in the first place she should have sold it and used it to live off of and found a job.Then lastly this loser guy she’s is with whenever they fall out she wants me to stay on the phone with her all day and talk about him then she will keep asking doesn’t that sound strange and do you think he has another woman. I just feel I have done so much for her I have even given her 2 luxury cars that belonged to my father whom passed away lastyear

ok, so tuesday came and i went in the hospital with contractions. When i got back home he txd and asked if i was still gonna meet him, i told him to come to my house because i was still in pain and medicated after leaving the er. He then said that he had something else to do and couldn’t come to my house. My thing is if he had SOOO much to do, why set up time to meet with me and go as far as to see if i was still going to be there? Like always he stood me up so I got fed up and told him exactly how i felt. because he keeps using the excuse that he’s scared to come to my house because he thinks my family hates him. I told him my family has nothing to do with him stepping up and being a man. He turned it around- as usual and said he’ll be a better father when the baby arrives but i don’t see how when he’ s scared to come to my house now, how is he gonna over come this fear when the baby arrives? What do i do now? Do i allow him the luxury of letting him just make his shining debut when my baby comes or do i just become the man that he won’t be and raise my son to be a better man than his sperm donor? where do i go from here?

Next year I will be moving into a small dorm room in New York. Provided I can find a caregiver for him while I am at home, I want to buy a male betta. Normally, I would opt for the maximum space, but sadly, I won’t have this luxury next year.

Can anyone suggest an inexpensive tank set up that would be reasonable for a betta?

I am using a PenPlax filter in my current betta set-up*, and it seems to work well enough. I would like to find a tank that is both compact and ergonomic– yet will still have sufficient space for a filtration unit

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http://www.petco.com/product/12147/Penn-Plax-Small-World-Pump-and-Filter-Kit.aspx

I already have a lot of the equipment when it comes to gravel, lights, and air pumps (It feels like I’m starting an air pump COLLECTION)– is there an attractive desktop aquarium out there that doesn’t require me to buy the whole kit?
I also love the look of Mini-Bow and tanks, do they come in 5 gallons?

Mini Bow
http://www.petco.com/product/10313/All-Glass-Mini-Bow-2-5-Little-Lagoon-Starter-Kits.aspx?CoreCat=FishFC_Tanks

Sea Candy
http://www.petco.com/product/11266/Red-Sea-Candy-AquaVase-Combos.aspx?CoreCat=LN_Shopping_FishSupplies_BettaShop
I have also heard good things about Art Nano Filters.

http://www.petco.com/product/12148/Red-Sea-Deco-Art-Nano-Filter.aspx

Does anyone have experience with them? I read they don’t have carbon. Is it still ok?

At the moment I go to the gym 3-5 times a week. I have a child and so am limited to 45min-1 hour sessions - don’t have the luxury of long runs etc as at the moment I work at home in the evenings and weekends.

At home, I often stretch in the evenings, do some crunches till it hurts.

In the gym, I used to do 2 classes a week - aerobics and spinning, but now I just go to the gym. I do weights 2-3 times a week, and was doing 30 minutes on the reclining bike as well but this has hurt my knees. I was working up my time on the treadmill, I can comfortably do 30 minutes run average speed 10.8km per hour. I know I could push myself more but it is difficult when I am so tired!

I also walk 1-4 hours a day depending on where I am going, we don’t have a car.

Despite all this I still have a slight tummy pouch. I am slim but weigh more than I’d like - prob a stone heavier than pre-pregnancy weight. 5 ft 10, athletic build. I try to eat healthily but do have a sweet tooth.

Any ideas to improve?

They say everyone is different and I suppose we are but I still feel a different kind of different if you know what I mean. It’s something that’s difficult to put into words - You just don’t feel like one of them (society) you feel distant and sometimes disconnected.

You don’t live a life of luxury and fame yet you feel within you that you have potential untapped even if you do feel weak and disconnected at times. Seriously, I feel more intelligent and relaxed at home then I do in a school setting or in public.

Especially late at night when it’s very quiet that’s often when my mind is at it’s peak formulating brilliant ideas, making others laugh and fall out of their seats laughing online, being witty, clever. I feel all of this online when I chat with people yet when I verbally communicate with people in reality I don’t feel this same wittiness and intelligence.

Is it possible my mind is wired to be more intelligent visually and through words then verbally communicating to others in a public setting?