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I want the length of my hair to be just below my shoulders. So should i tell the hairdresser to layer my hair using the razor or the scissors?
Suggestions with links to pictures of suited hair cuts would be greatly appreciated:)

A razor cut and a scissor cut are the same cut, with a different tool. Like you can use colored pencils, or crayons on a picture. They make the same picture, but the texture is different. A razor cut is much more choppy, a scissor cut is more smooth and more blended. Hope that helps :)

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I am trying to find new bands to listen to, but the problem is I am VERY picky about what I like and I have unusual taste in music.

For example my favorite bands are:
Spoon
My Chemical Romance
Vampire weekend
Scissors for Lefty
Panic! at the disco
Black Kids
Ludo
Yellowcard
Phantom Planet( Only their newest album "Raise the Dead"
Maroon 5
Fallout boy

As you can see my interests do not fit well into one particular genre, I don't know what I will like until I hear it and I usually know after just one or two songs if I Iike them. A bands' sound has to really grab my attention for me to be interested. I tend to prefer stuff that is fairly fast paced and fun with a good beat ( not too much screaming or loud jumbled music, My Chem is where I draw the line) and I like lyrics that are slightly sarcastic and don't necessarily make a whole lot of sense grammaticaly ( a little cussing o.k. but not really sexually explicit or crude.)
So If any one has any suggestions I would appreciate it.

P.S. Please respond only if you are familiar with most of the bands on my list so you get a good idea of my sound preferences.

Thanks

Saves the Day: "This is Not an Exit," "Bye Bye Baby," "Through Being Cool"
Midtown: "Become What You Hate," "Like a Movie," "There's No Going Back"
Motion City Soundtrack: "The Future Freaks Me Out," Capitol H," "Make Out Kids"
Armor For Sleep: "The Truth About Heaven," "Stars in Your Eyes," "Dream to make Believe"
Head Automatica: "Graduation Day," "Beating Heart Baby," "Dance Party Plus"
Taking Back Sunday: "Timberwolves at New Jersey," "MakeDamnSure," "…Slowdance on the Inside"
The Starting Line: "Left Coast Envy," "Best of Me," "Cheek to Cheek"
The Get Up Kids: "Out of Reach," "I'm A Loner Dottie, I'm A Rebel," "High As The Moon"
Garbage: "Only Happy When It Rains," "#1 Crush," "Special"
The Ataris: "Road Signs and Rock Songs," "San Dimas High School Football Rules," "Radio #2"
Envy on the Coast: "Paperback," "Sugar Skulls," "Mirrors"

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im writing a story can u read it and tell me wat u think? u can just read the prologue but im putting ch. 1 and 2 in also. i also need help with 2 names. a boy name (for rosie's bf) and a girl name (for aaron's gf) thanks in advance. xoxo

Prologue

I was running… Running as fast as I could possibly go. As I turned the corner I could feel my body screaming in protest. I was sprinting through a deserted building, but I didn’t know what I was looking for.
That’s when I saw the door. It was a tall black door, very spooky looking, but it also looked safe. Safer than standing out here, I thought. I ran inside and slammed the door shut. Then I turned around.
As I turned I resisted the urge to turn back and sprint out of this room. The reason? Because I was staring at someone that frightened me… and they were staring back! As I looked closer I noticed that the girl in front of me was standing in the exact same position that I was and watching me as carefully as I was watching her. This girl reminded me of someone…she reminded me of me!
She had the same body structure, hair, clothes… everything! That girl was me…except it wasn’t. My skin was pale but it wasn’t that pale. And the eyes! My eyes were a soft brown, not bloodshot. But the thing that terrified me the most was the blood-thirsty look she had on her face.
I decided that this girl was not going to move, so I took a step toward her and reached out my hand. Then I screamed.
That girl was a reflection…a reflection of the only thing in the tiny room. It was a reflection of me!

Chapter 1

I woke up screaming. It was only a dream, I told myself over and over again. I could feel the adrenaline pounding through my body. My heart pumping twice as fast as it normally does. All in response to my horrid nightmare. I began to calm myself. I concentrated on breathing slowly.
Once I was quiet I wondered why I’d been having this nightmare for the past month, but I couldn’t think of anything. I turned around and looked at the clock. It read 5:32. I couldn’t go back to sleep, I’d just have to wake back up in an hour. And I didn’t want to have the nightmare again.
I started to think about Rosie and Aaron. They are my older siblings. But both of them are gone. They both ran away the night they turned eighteen. The really weird thing is that they weren’t that type. They aren’t the kind of people that would run away with their boy/girlfriend the day they turn legal, except they did. They (Rosie especially) did really well in school and everything. But the night of their eighteenth birthday they both suddenly ran away, no notice or anything. At least, that was Aaron’s method.
Rosie was a little more rational. She left me and my parents a note. A note that didn’t say where she was going or why she was leaving. Just a note. But I guess that’s better than just leaving. I’ve always been really close to Rosie. The note she left me said:
Nikki,
I’m so sorry for what I’m about to do. Just leaving you and Mom and Dad like this. But there’s no other choice. Remember that I will miss you everyday I am gone!
Love you always and forever,
Rosie
Like I said not much information but at least it’s something I can remember her by. Her note to mom and dad was just as vague.
The three of us are all separated by three years. Aaron is 24, Rosie is 21, and I am now officially 18. My birthday is today. Everyone has been watching me very carefully this week. Like I’m about to do something wrong, but what could I do?
Oh no! I can do something wrong…something I can do tonight! They think I’m going to leave, just like Aaron and Rosie. Well, they are all wrong! I couldn’t just leave Mom and Dad like that…could I?

Chapter 2

“Nikki, come downstairs and eat breakfast,” called Mom.
“I’m coming!” I shouted back.
I tripped and scraped my arm on the tile as I ran down the stairs. I should know better than to run down the stairs, being the klutz that I am. I picked myself up and looked over my right arm. It was bleeding…a lot.
I walked back up the stairs and locked myself in the bathroom. I took a towel and wrapped it around the cut. I sat down on the edge of the bathtub as I waited for the bleeding to stop. I began to think why I hadn’t gone to the downstairs bathroom, but I already knew the answer. My parents are really sensitive to blood. I learned that the hard way. When I was five I accidentally cut myself with scissors. I went up to Mom and she fainted! So I asked Dad to get me a bandage. He threw the box at me and ran out of the room. It’s really weird but I didn’t want a repeat today.
I unwrapped the towel and examined my arm. It wasn’t bleeding as much as I thought it was. The cut wasn’t even deep and the bleeding had already stopped. I threw the towel in the hamper and went to change my clothes because the blood had stained my shirt and dripped on my pants. I pulled on my deep blue long sleeve shirt and a pair of jeans. I decided to
i dont care if u are harsh or write a lot i want feedback.
btw im going to use the prologue scene later on in the book
thank u guys soo much but i need names…

So first off, it seems like it has a lot of potential but I'll give you my 2 cents on what I think.

Grammatically: You should revise your story a bit and make sure things flow, some of the sentences are choppy and a few aren't needed. Try to make things flow more, combine sentences, don't be afraid to kinda go out there ya know, add some interesting words make it a bit more spicy. Also, don't add too many ! marks, maybe its just me but I feel a nice "." would suffice, exclamations should really be used when something extreme is being said (but that's just what I feel)

Your prologue is good but some of the sentences kinda jump back and forth in their wording make it a bit clear.

And one more thing don't put things in your story that are irrelevant or not that important like this, "I pulled on my deep blue long sleeve shirt and a pair of jeans." It's not really important unless the clothes have some sort of meaning, like for example, the sisterhood of the traveling pants, in a story like that the sentence which you wrote would be relevant but in your story its not really all that important.

And just wondering, is this supposed to be a fan fiction of some sort? Or well like a story you're posting on a site like fanfiction.net, quizzilla.com etc. etc?

Sorry I kind of wrote alot, but I hope nothing I wrote sounded harsh, just what I feel you could do to improve your story alot better, but those are just structure mistakes other than that your story sounds really good and the best of luck with it!

:)

As for names for Rosie's bf and Aaron's gf.
I'm not really good with names so I wouldn't be of much help, and the names I do like are usually eccentric but I think these names sound nice:

Guys:
Demetri and Darius are ones I really like.

As for Girls:

Andrea, Mira, Aurora, Emma

Yea I'm bad with names sorryy D:

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bending moment diagrams (B.M.D)

Engineering help on B.M.D?
can anyone give me an idiots guide to calculating and drawing b.m.d or any sites that can explain it SIMPLY

i provided an example of a question if it helps you

question
a simply supported beam of length 8m carries a uniformly distributed load of 5kn/m. it aso supports a load of 6kn at a distance of 2m from the left hand end and a load of 18kn at a distance of 6m from the left hand end

note: you dont have to use this example if you dont want to, this is just the level of difficulty im expecting in exams
i already know how to find out unknown reactions and how to draw shear force,
I JUST NEED TO KNOW HOW TO CALCULATE B.M.D

thanks

Going from Left to Right you can draw the BMD by finding the area under the curve at the corresponding spot of the Shear Diagram. Where the shear diagram crosses to zero you will have the maximum Bending moment.

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All my life I have had dogs and cats with coat, lots of coat.  I never shaved a dog down, with the exception of the occasional rescue Sheltie for whom a buzz cut was far kinder than any effort to de-mat a coat that was basically a layer of felt against the skin. A few years ago, though, I started having my neighbor Judy give Heather a “Lab look” for the summer. In her old age nad post spaying, Heather’s coat is thick and wooly, and when she swims, it take hours to dry.  With her joints not wor