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Question: Where do I start in building electronic gadgets? Since christmas is coming up I've already found something to get my girlfriend, but next year I want to give her something I've made and I was looking at doing something electrical. This is where the problem is I have no clue about building electronics, the only thing I roughly know about is the Arduino micro processor which I plan to use in the project. Many thanks.

Answer: That depends on a ton of thing here. What kind of circuit are you trying to make? Something that's cool and has flashing lights, but serves no real purpose? Or something more practical? The fact that you're talking about using uP (presumably) without much electrical engineering background worries me. You can make a uP do a ton of things with logic and a little bit of coding, which is a whole 'nother side of building electronics. If you want to start really simple, make an LED array that slowly flashes your GF's name or something. I did that before, she thought it was the coolest frickin thing in the world. If you really want to use the uP, start playing with some assembly code and you can make the uP randomly output some cute sayings to a little LCD screen whenever you push a button or something. If you're really looking into electronics as just a hobby, you can get a radio kit. Some of the most important circuits today were developed for radio and communication purposes. The kits also will help you with soldering techniques, basic design ideas, and familiarize you with components. My advice would be to start small and work your way up to using a uP.

Question: would replacing wheat four with rice flour in a cookie recipe work? I have celiac disease, which means that i can't eat anything with gluten in it. would replacing regular flour with sweet or plain rice flour work in a cookie recipe or like, a banana bread or something?

Answer: YES................here is a website for gluten free cookie recipes...hope these help :o) http://www.celiac.com/st_main.html?p_catid=54

Question: how do you replace toilet bolts in a slab floor? one of the bolts that mount the toilet to the floor broke off. bolts are attached to what looks like a steel ring in the slab. any ideas? it doesnt look like it has any slots in the ring.

Answer: most brass bolts will slide into the closet flange. there should be a larger oval opening on the metal flange that allows the bolts to slip out. if the bolts where actually driven into the concrete floor, then simply break it off and reattach to the flange.

Question: How do I drive my girlfriend wild in the bedroom? I want to give my girlfriend mind blowing leg shaking orgasms, but although I don't believe I am horrible in the sack I am obviously lacking something. Tips please especially from ladies u know what u like and anyone Just wanting to send me a link to buy something FORGET IT!

Answer: half of the girls who answered this question sound like guys... oral as foreplay is good, kiss her lots, over and over, behind her knees, all over her back, all during the act.

Question: How to loose weight in couple of days or weeks the healthy way? I need to know how to loose weight in a couple of days . I cannot actually go dog walking or stuff like that any exercises to do in my bedroom would be great.

Answer: I believe that weight loss always starts from mindset. This is the reason why i am able to lose 15kg in 2 months and maintain for 3 years straight, all the way till my pregnancy. 1) What is my goal? I want to lose __kg in __ time. 2) Why do I want to achieve this goal? (if possible, come up with 50 reasons) 3) If I do not achieve it, what pains will I have? (come up with as many reasons as possible) 4) If I achieve it, what happiness will I have? (come up with as many reasons as possible) 5) What will happen to me if I continue my current situation for the next 10 years? 6) Then when do I want to take action? Some solutions I can offer you for diet: Breakfast: eat fruits/drink fruit juice Lunch: Less carbo, more veg and fruits, less seafood, meat and eggs Dinner: Same as lunch but no solid food after 8pm. Soups are great dinners If you want to exercise to enhance the speed of weight loss. Go for some light jogging or do something you enjoy like an aerobic class or kick boxing class...

Question: I will be getting a BS degree in Biology. How can I become a CRNA? I will be graduating this spring with a BS degree in general biology. I am very interested in becoming a CRNA (certified registered nurse anesthetist). What steps do I need to take to become a CRNA?

Answer: You'll need to get into a BSN first. It would be a little accelerated since you already have the general education and hard sciences of the BS. Expect about 2 years. Then you take and pass the NCLEX-RN exam to be licensed as an RN in your state. There are some direct entry MSN programs for BS Biology grads that can result in qualifying you for the RN but not for the CRNA at the same time. You'd essentially collect two master's degrees to get there. There is no way around the clinical nursing education component to getting your RN and that RN license from your state is a requirement to getting into an MSN Advanced Practice program. Then you'll need to get into an MSN program specifically for advanced practice nursing in anesthesiology. There aren't a lot of those and they are VERY competitive. Most will require that you have some general duty or med/surgical nursing experience first. Expect it to take between 2-3 years for that master's. Most work in a clinical setting while they're getting the degree. Then you'll take the certification exam for RN Anesthetists and, if you pass and license, will be a very valuable commodity in most communities with an income that makes all that education worthwhile. http://www.aana.com/ has more information for your reading pleasure. Medical school and Physicians Assistant programs might be faster and cheaper. There are master's level direct entry PA programs that a BS in Biology should qualify for. http://www.musc.edu/chp/pa is an example.

Question: Who else is completely in shock about the ending of Mockingjay? I never expected her to kill off Prim. One of the boys, maybe, but not that little girl and not in so horrible a way.

Answer: the thought of getting to read this book kept me motivated for the last year. i went and got it at midnight and finished it right away. this book killed me. i swear prim and my little sister are the same person. my little sister came to talk to me about how much she agreed she was like prim and to get the second book from me, then i turned the page and prim died. that was the point where i no longer functioned. i lost it when peeta wasn't him self anymore, but the shell of the guy i love was still there; the girl who was everything my little sister is, is not. it hurts for me to think about this book because i let myself wonder and hope for a happy ending, and that isn't what i got. i LOVE peeta, but i wasn't happy. he is no longer the boy in the cave, or the boy on the beach, he isn't PEETA. he is in too much pain to ever be the same again. that was the hard part. katniss had accidentally caused him pain over and over again throughout the series, but he loved her too much to care. the fact that the capitol could make peeta not know he loved katniss destroyed all my hope. i think that could have been the whole point; no one is ever going to beat the capitol, they always win. and they did. although the rebels claimed the victory, the capitol claimed the victors. they took their lives, all of them. they made them go through the games first of all then when they tried to rebel they left them missing things that could never be replaced. the rebels won freedom for the future, but they lost what they had to live for. katniss lost prim, who was the reason the ENTIRE series took place, and peeta lost himself, the one thing he wanted to make sure he didn't do before he died. without katniss' love for her sister she wouldn't have gone in the games and she wouldn't have been the mockingjay. she was lost, so was hope. although many people hated this book, i have to admire it. though there was nothing happy about it all the damage and pain taught me a lesson; don't take what you have for granted. i am trying so much harder now not to snap at people and to tell the people i love how much they mean to me and how much i need them as often as possible. it's been four days and i am still crying about it. i know it is only a book, but the damage caused by the fictional reign of the capitol made me realize so much. i didn't find closure in the ending, and the book made my sad, but i am grateful for it. suzanne collins is a genius for writing this. it hurt, but it was worth it. knowing how fragile a human life is and how soon someone you love can disappear has changed me for the better. the wait may not have been worth it to some, and the cover may have been misleading, but if you can realize all else there was to take away from the story, then it served it's purpose. sometimes they gotta break you to build you, isabelle.

Question: Can you play different games in a Gameboy advance? I have got a game boy black and white and three games and now I have just got myself another game boy but this time its a game boy advance will the games from my first game boy fit into my new game boy ? In my picture of my new game boy the games look different from each other so I was just wondering do the games have to be from the advance?

Answer: you can play a game boy advance game on a old game boy (unless u brake the game boy and force it to work) but just go buy a Nintendo DS or a Game boy SP that can play ANY game boy, and game boy avance games.

Question: What would be some good ways to spend a summer in Itlay? Okay so high school graduation is in a year, and for a graduation present my parents are taking me to spend a summer in Italy. We have to start planning now considering how big this is, so any ideas for how to spend all my time there? (I LOVE pasta and site seeing)

Answer: Italy sounds like a good choice for you - there's lots of great pasta for you anywhere you go as well as sightseeing opportunities. If you find yourself here in Emilia Romagna, be sure to try the tortelli di zucca con burro e salvia (pumpkin filled pasta with a butter & sage sauce). With a full summer, you'll be able to see quite a lot of the country. What you should see and do really depends on your specific interests. Certainly the major tourist destinations like Rome, Florence, Venice, and Naples are all worth seeing; you can find information on them in any of the many tour guide books available in your local bookstores. Then there are the scenic places like the Amalfi Coast, Cinque Terre, the lakes and the Alps. I would highly recommend that you take advantage of some of the interesting possibilities in the smaller towns. There are good day trips from any of the major cities. From Venice, you could easily visit Padova, Ferrara, Treviso, or Verona. In Verona, you can see an opera in an old Roman colosseum. From Florence, you can see Pisa & Lucca, Siena, San Gimignano, or Voltera. From Rome, there's Tivoli or Orvieto. From the area of Naples and the Amalfi Coast, you can visit Capri and Pompeii. Look for local festivals that will be running while you're here. Perugia has the Umbria Jazz Festival in the summer and there are many other music festivals all over the country. A good site for finding things going on is: http://www.whatsonwhen.com/sisp/index.htm . If you visit the beach at Rimini, you can go inland a few kilometers and visit San Marino - a small country completely surrounded by Italy. The trains are a good way to get around here if you don't rent a car: http://www.trenitalia.com/cms/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=ad1ce14114bc9110VgnVCM10000080a3e90aRCRD I use this site for hotels when I'm out exploring: http://www.venere.com/

Question: Does Masturbation in the morning reduce the chance of coming during sex that night? I had a wank in the morning and sex at night, if i hadn't of wanked and came would there have been more a chance of ejaculating during the sex?

Answer: No. Wanking as often as possible will enhance your staying power, you may not have a large volume during the real thing, but if you aren't trying to get your partner PG then this is not a problem either. the sensations and feelings will still be awesome.

Question: How do you get a hamster to run in a ball? My hamster hes about medium length on 4-5 inches and he refuses to run in his new ball. Its actually given to me by a friend, so its old, but new to me. Washed the ball hundreds of times, put the hamster in. He just tries to bite his way out and he poops like 10 times. We leave him there for 30 minutes and try nudging the ball and putting food in front of the ball nothing is working D:

Answer: Don't make him if he doesn't want to, but mine used to be like that and i gave him a little nudge and he was off hahahaa, Then when i had 2 i used to race them, so funny they loved it and its great exercise

Question: In history, has there been a slave that rose to power or significantly changed something? I'm doing a report on slavery around the world and I thought it would be good to mention slaves who somehow rose to power, but I can't find anything about it. Does anyone know if a case like this ever happened in history? Anywhere in the world, not just one specific place.

Answer: Shahabuddin Ghori ruler of India subcontinent 1202 to 1206 had no offsprings, but he treated his Turkic slaves as his sons, who were trained both as soldiers and administrators and provided with the best possible education. Many of his competent and loyal slaves rose to positions of importance in Shahabuddin Ghori's army and government. When a courtier lamented that the Sultan had no male heirs, Shahabuddin Ghori retorted: "Other monarchs may have one son, or two sons; I have thousands of sons, my Turkish slaves who will be the heirs of my dominions, and who, after me, will take care to preserve my name in the Khuṭbah (Friday sermon) throughout these territories." Shahabuddin Ghori's prediction proved true. After his assassination, his Empire was divided amongst his slaves. Most notably: * Qutb-ud-din Aibak became ruler of Delhi in 1206, establishing the Sultanate of Delhi, which marked the start of the Slave dynasty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutb-ud-din_Aibak * Nasir-ud-Din Qabacha became ruler of Multan in 1210. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir-ud-Din_Qabacha * Tajuddin Yildoz became ruler of Ghazni. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajuddin_Yildoz * Ikhtiyar Uddin Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khilji became ruler of Bengal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikhtiyar_Uddin_Muhammad_bin_Bakhtiyar_Khilji

Question: How can you get real-time mouse coordinates in Matlab? I have read forums that tell you how to read mouse coordinates in Matlab over a picture or graph. However, I am trying to read the mouse position in real-time where ever on the screen, even if Matlab is minimized. Please help! Thank you!

Answer: To "continuously" measure coordinates, I suggest using a timer object that reads the mouse position at discrete intervals. This does work even if Matlab is minimized. Here is an example where you simply print the coordinates to screen. You may want to store the coordinates in the field 'userdata' of the timer object instead. The timer object below executes until you type 'stop(timerObj)'. Read the help to 'timer' to find out more about its options. For example, you can have the object trigger a set number of times. 1. create a callback that reads and prints (or stores) the coordinates function timerCallback(timerObj,event,str_arg) % this function is executed every time the timer object triggers % read the coordinates coords = get(0,'PointerLocation'); % print the coordinates to screen fprintf('x: %4i y: %4i\n',coords) end % function 2. create a timer object % the timer object triggers every second. If you need it faster, decrease the value for Period timerObj = timer('TimerFcn',@timerCallback,'Period',1,'ExecutionMode','fixedRate'); 3. start % this will run until you type stop(timerObj). You may want to have the stop callback implemented in a GUI button. start(timerObj);

Question: Are there really such thing as popular and unpopular students in school? Are there really such thing as popular and unpopular students in school? I just don't get it. I mean i watched movies about high school students thaat are either popular or unpopular. Are there really such a thing in every school?

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Question: What is a good and easy course to do in college? In the last 2 years i did Business and ICT and i absolutely loved it. It was easy for me and we always used computer everyday so we just had enough free time. This year i want to do Motor Vehicle but i didn't get a place. Now im looking to do something else which is easy and you have free time. Does anyone know of any good courses?

Answer: Good ones are not easy. Easy ones are not good. Make up your mind which one you want better. :)

Question: Is it a good time to visit Rocky National Park in November or early December? Going on a 3 week holiday to Colorado this November and want to visit the Rocky mountain national park.What is the weather like in November then? I know the roads close but can you still get around,camp and enjoy it then?

Answer: I wouldn't it is very cold and snowy that time of year. In fact I wouldn't go to Colorado that time of year at all, I'd go in the summer when the weather is much better