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(The North-West Passage - John Everett Millais)
Europeans begin exploring the world's oceans and landmasses during the Age of Discovery (15th to 18th century). Some sail east, some sail west. Europeans expand their influence eastwards across the known world and start making discoveries in the new.
At first it's assumed that this New World is joined by land to the old. However, as South America is circumnavigated this starts appearing to not be the case. As explorers travel even further up the west coast of the Americas, this time well into North American territory, the case for separation becomes even stronger.
This belief or speculation that the Americas are indeed a separate landmass leads explorers and mapmakers to start dreaming of the very real possibility of a "Northwest Passage" - a passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via sea routes above or through the North American continent.
However, discovery of this short cut between the two oceans is continually thwarted by the impenetrable icy seas of the Arctic Ocean. Consequently no-one can prove or disprove any theories about this part of the world, and no accurate map can be produced.
Meanwhile, settlers from the old world are constantly spreading across the new, claiming land, safe in the knowledge that what they are claiming is virgin territory. With just the unorganised, newly discovered Native Americans standing in the way of their progress.
"America", with its manifest destiny, is envisioned before it's even conquered. Around the same time Alaska is "sold" from Russia to the U.S. even though knowledge of the region is so limited that no-one can really be one hundred percent certain what they're even buying or selling.
Areas in the region are claimed and re-claimed, fought over, discovered and re-discovered by countless people, companies and countries. All of whom are making maps as they go along. Filling in the blanks with speculation and anecdote, possibly even mapping and naming areas that have already been mapped and named and claimed by others.
It would therefore be easy to imagine how a mapmaker in say, Europe, hearing two tales - one from a Russian explorer speaking of a newly discovered island, complete with a Russian sounding name. Another from an English sailor with tales of an Island newly discovered and christened with an English name. It would be easy for the mapmaker to simply assume he was hearing two stories about two different and completely separate places. Both may make their way onto his latest "world map".
But, what if they were in fact the exact same island? Or the same piece of land? How would he know? How would either the Russian or the Englishman know, given that they were making discoveries in such an uninhabited and unknown region of the world. A part of the world so incredibly difficult to map and to penetrate to begin with.
What if the World Map became bloated in this region with duplicate places and territories? What if North America, Russia and North East Asia were all much closer than they'd convinced themselves was the case? What would happen if one party discovered this? Or if the populations in general gained knowledge of this huge catastrophic mistake?
Would the world leaders simply admit their error and renounce their claims to land? Or would there be countless backdoor discussions, deals and cover-ups? I would guess the latter.
Next Up: EARTH HOAX; Korean Revisionism


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The 2cd book in the Stella Batts series has been released!
In this book, not only does Stella have an unfortunate incident involving gum and her hair, but she has to cope with a friend who's moving across the country. Written by Courtney Sheinmel, this is a fun series if you have a little girl in your life.
Like the first book, this one is packed with illustrations. Here are a few of my favorites...
Look for book 3 this July!
You can read more about the books at www.StellaBatts.com.

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The Tantus Echo marks the start of my journey into the world of textured dildos! It's 6.5″ long, 1.5″ diameter, and made of some very, very firm silicone. It's the same formulation as my Acute, but because the Echo is thicker, it's slighty less bendy. Both dildos have very little squish to them. The Echo attracts dust and lint much more easily than the Acute for some strange reason, I can't figure out why.
I got the Echo as part of my attempts to explore my G-spot. One trend in G-spot toys that I have never understood is having a long toy (6-8 inches) with a G-spotting head at the very end. The G-spot is located only a couple of inches (1-3) into the vagina, so if you're actually targeting the G-spot with this long dildo, most of the toy will be sticking out of your vagina and going unused. I liked the idea of the Echo because I wanted a dildo that would fill up my vagina length-wise, so that I didn't feel empty, and would still target my G-spot. I'm happy to say that the Echo does both of those things.
This dildo is very firm, very textured, and for me, pretty large, so it can be really intense. On the days when I'm very aroused, very wet, and thoroughly warmed up, the Echo is like a dream. If I line it up right, one of the ridges pushes directly on my G-spot, providing a good amount of pressure. I like to insert it as far as it goes, then wiggle it back and forth in very small motions. This way, I feel very full and the wiggling causes one of the ridges to rub my G-spot firmly, which feels excellent.
On the days when my vagina is less receptive to penetration, it can become overstimulating very quickly. If my vagina isn't quite ready for it, the Echo becomes an uncomfortable hard thing lodged inside of me. It can feel like it's jabbing at my G-spot, like having someone's elbow shoved in your side. This may be more of a personal problem, but it's definitely something to consider when using the Echo. G-spots (and vaginas in general) tend to respond much better to intense stimulation when they're very aroused and warmed up. One trick I've learned is to warm up with something that's both larger than the Echo and untextured, so that my vagina is more accommodating. This helps to make the ridges feel good instead of uncomfortably pokey.
One of the issues I had with the Acute was that it was so bendy I couldn't really get enough pressure on my G-spot. I don't really have that problem with the Echo because it relies on those stiff ridges for G-spot stimulation rather than on a curve. While still fairly bendy, here the bendiness isn't a detriment to its ability to target my G-spot.
We've established that my butt is not a fan of toys with intense bloops, or of the popping sensation they tend to create. I don't get that same kind of discomfort when using the Echo vaginally. The ridges aren't quite as dramatic as bloops, so if I thrust the Echo enough so that one of the ridges slides in and out of my vaginal opening, I can feel it, but I don't get an intense pop. Keep this in mind, whether you want to avoid popping altogether or think that it's the best sensation in the world.
Personally, I love the Echo- sometimes. It's not an everyday dildo for me, I have to be in the right mood for its intensity and my vagina has to cooperate. Trying to use the Echo on an off day or when I'm not completely ready for it has always been a really, really bad idea. When my G-spot is feeling it, though? Absolute heaven.
You should try the Echo if you like texture or firm G-spotting, or if you want a toy that will fill you up and target your G-spot just as much as I did. If you hate texture, very firm silicone, or G-spot stimulation, probably stay away.
You can get your very own Echo from Tantus here!
You can also find the Tantus Echo at SheVibe!
The Echo also comes in a cool handled version that I haven't tried: find it at Shevibe here, and at Tantus here.


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Looking for suitable age appropriate resources across the age range – books, movies, apps, websites, games: Commonsense media provides a database as well as advice and reviews. Saves a lot of hunting around.
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Film and TV teaching resources
Everyone enjoys watching movies and adding multimedia to the classroom is a great motivator. Using movies as a teaching tool generates interest and enthusiasm and 21st century learners spend more time connected to media than ever before so why not join them! Spreading the power of great movies has been a goal of The Heartland Truly Moving Pictures and the National Collaboration for Youth, and in collaboration with the Finding Inspiration in Literature and Movies (F.I.L.M.) Project, they have devised free curricula based on Truly Moving Picture Award-winning films to promote positive messages and life-affirming themes for young people and designed to encourage reading and watching quality content, provoke thought and exploration of valuable and important themes and issues, and inspire participation in theme-based activities. Free F.I.L.M. Curricula has resources for movies such as Flipped, How to Train Your Dragon, My Sister's Keeper, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Bridge to Terabithia, Freedom Writers, Everyone's Hero, Flicka, Saving Shiloh, Ramona and Beezus and more. It also has a guide for developing resources for other movies and books: Teaching with Movies: A Guide for Educators and Parents. Great resources and ideas for identifying teachable moments in movies and sharing them with students.
Another useful and helpful site e is 'Based on the Book', a resource for finding books by genre, year or title that have been made into a movie.
Free movie scripts available at The Internet MovieScript Database, and Drew's Script-O-Rama.
Thanks to Marvan Glavac, How to Make a Difference for forwarding this information to me.
In updating this post I am adding EnhanceTV which has a plethora of teaching resources (many of them free for download after free joining) for TV and film content. These are available via Screenrights, the not-for-profit organisation that licenses educational institutions to copy from TV. Nearly all schools, TAFEs and universities in Australia have a Screenrights licence. For more information on the licence, visit www.screenrights.org or email email@example.com.
Metro Magazine, Australia's media and film magazine, again, have a number of study guide resources for film. They are linked to the Education Shop which has additional resources for sale.


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The executive director of SIBA, Wanda Jewell, explains why she supports Binc, and why all of us should join her
For nearly 20 years, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc) has served as booksellers' safety net, providing short-term financial support for booksellers (and their families) when they face an unexpected financial hardship.
Binc's first assistance grant was given to a single mother struggling to pay her bills almost 20 years ago. Since that modest grant of $323, the level of assistance has grown, and the average grant today is more than $1,500. Whether the need arises from a natural disaster, serious medical expenses, domestic violence, the threat of eviction, or loss of utilities or household income, Binc works with each bookseller to return to a state of financial equilibrium.
Binc also offers higher-education scholarships for bookstore owners, employees, and their dependents, to help them reach their dreams through post-secondary education; professional-development scholarships are awarded so that bookstore owners and employees can attend industry education programs, gaining knowledge that strengthens their businesses.
Today, the Binc Foundation is a well-respected charitable organization, earning a silver seal from GuideStar and the top-rated designation from Great Nonprofits. Binc works closely with publishers, distributors, bookstores, booksellers, and bookstore customers to ensure the foundation remains relevant, strong, and sustainable.
Independent Bookselling is a noble pursuit. Those involved are not robots with algorithms but superheroes, people who are committed— and maybe should be committed, but that's just the kind of crazy we need. And we must make sure that the needs of these superheroes are met, so that they can keep doing what they do so well.
This is my 25th year with the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA). Books gave me my life. Ever since childhood, books have sustained me (I turn 60 this year). They have taught me how to live, how to treat people, how different we all are, and how much we have in common. Books have educated me, entertained me, enlightened me, and empowered me to live a good life in a great job. And as the books came, so did the people: the parents, the teachers, the librarians, the readers, the writers, and the booksellers. I can never repay the debt that I owe books.
My first hardback purchase with my own money was in an indie bookstore. I cannot tell you how grateful I am for the hours I would spend in that bookstore, just soaking up words. With so little money, I'd finally purchase a comic book, or a book mark, as payment of sorts for letting me look and look and look. And when I had saved $12.50, I purchased a hardback copy of E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems, and I still prize that book; it established me as a book collector.
Some might say I have given my life to books, but I'd have to say that books have given me my life. And with a granddaughter on the horizon, I think about the importance of a world where people will show her the reading way. May there be healthy bookstores—and healthy booksellers, people who are not worried about how to pay their rent, or their medical bills, but instead can turn to me, my children, and my grandchildren with that light in their eyes, the one that inspires readers to discover new books, new writers, and new ideas.
That is why I am a sustaining member of Binc. With the upcoming launch of Binc's Campaign to Sustain, I am increasing my commitment to $40 per month in celebration of SIBA's 40th Anniversary, and I invite all of you to join me. Whatever you give—$5, $10, or $12.50 per month—it can make a huge difference to a bookseller out there in need. Let's make sure Binc is there whenever it's needed. I enjoin booksellers, publishers, authors, and readers to take a moment to become sustaining members of Binc. I want to support noble booksellers who face challenges and need help. We all need help sometimes—and we are all in a position to give help sometimes. So let's do it.
Wanda Jewell, a former librarian, is a tireless promoter of indie bookstores and the literary South.
Reposted from the April, 17 edition of Publisher's Weekly Soapbox. Many thanks to Publishers Weekly and Wanda Jewell for their support of Binc and our Campaign to Sustain.


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Big red fire engine, handsome fire fighters, and Sparky the Fire dog along with his best friend McGruff came together to take a bite out of crime the evening of October 4. King William celebrated NNO in style, joined by Texas Lodge #8. These gentlemen grilled over 100 hotdogs with all the trimmings, add a six-foot sub and you've got the makings of a celebration. Mr. Ramos with KONO kept those oldies but goodies coming while everyone enjoyed visiting with neighbors and friends. Thanks to all who came out and enjoyed a lovely evening.
A special thanks to Sheldon Shed, NNO organizer for Texas Lodge #8 and to the KWA Social Committee for all their time and efforts in organizing this event. We also want to thank everyone who showed their support of the SA Food Bank by bringing a jar of peanut butter. We collected 14 jars and a cash donation! This is awesome! Thank you! - Josie Garcia


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Seniors who are socially isolated report a lower quality of life than those with sufficient social contact. If your senior loved one has been withdrawing from social interaction, it's vital to encourage him or her to get out of the house and spend time with others. Henderson, NV, in-home elder care experts want to share 5 ways you can prevent your loved one from feeling isolated.
1. Utilize Local Senior Resources
The local senior center is likely a top meeting place for older adults in your loved one's community. Encourage your loved one to visit regularly and engage with other seniors. Centers often provide opportunities for recreation, outings, and regular meet-ups for people who enjoy hobbies like knitting, quilting, and stamp collecting.
2. Adopt a Pet
Caring for another life provides a sense of purpose for seniors. By walking a dog and visiting pet supply stores, pets can also be a great way to get out into the community and connect with other people. If a younger pet would be too difficult for your loved one to manage, he or she can adopt a senior pet instead.
3. Provide Transportation
Many seniors are no longer able to drive, limiting their ability to leave the house and interact with others. Providing your loved one with transportation can be a great way to help him or her stay engaged. For urban seniors, this can be as simple as making sure they always have a valid bus pass. You can also hire a Henderson hourly caregiver to drive your loved one to social engagements.
4. Teach Social Networking Skills
Though connecting online is different than spending time with others in person, it can still satisfy the human need for connection. For seniors with poor health and limited mobility, being able to chat with friends, exchange emails, and view family pictures can be a great source of socialization. Teaching your loved one to use social media may require a lot of patience at first, but it will likely pay dividends in the end.
5. Encourage Participation in the Community
Well-established social connections shouldn't be neglected. If your loved one has always been involved in the community, encourage him or her to maintain those ties, even if he or she can no longer do as much as when he or she was younger. Volunteering to attend social events with your loved one may prove especially helpful.
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This toy tractor hangs out in our backyard - it's one of those oversize ones, best for toddlers. Thing is, I don't have any toddlers any more. I mean, they still play with this, but not the same amount or in the same way. It's well on the way to getting donated to a real toddler.
While sketching it - and seeing it a lot more deeply of course while I did that - I got all melancholy about how this toy sitting there represents just how fleeting childhood is. I know, total sappy goop. Sorry. Sigh.


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I've seen it all now. This news item, from Adelaide Now, tells of the disappearance of lamb shanks from a healthcare facility. These had been used to practice injecting and suturing – fair enough. However, they had been injected with Lignocaine (a local anaesthetic), rendering them toxic.
This begs the question – why? In case the lamb shanks are capable of feeling pain? Or is water now so precious that it is now better to use drugs for practice?
To me, this makes about as much sense as the armed forces conducting all exercises with live rounds.
If ever I needed confirmation that the healthcare profession has its share of total idiots, now I have it. Our life in their hands? Scary.


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These are from one of my favorite books that I had as a child. My mom dropped them off for me last week and I'm so happy to have them! They bring back such wonderful memories...
There are several books in this series with illustrations by Swiss artist Eugen Hartung (who also did the Dressed Cats series of postcards for the Mainzer company during the 40s, 50s and 60s) and text by Joerg Schneider:
Merry Cat Adventures (Die Froehlichen Katzenabenteuer)
The Merry Year of the Cat (Das Froehlichen Katzenjahr)
The Merry School for Cats (Die Froehlichen Katzenschule)
These are from The Merry School for Cats.
|"On the way to school"
Notice: mother cat on the left eyeing scene with disdain.
|"Art Class" Notice: student goofing in teacher's spot
+ student drawing mouse on peer's back!
|"A Class Interruption" Notice: taxidermied studies ironic?
|"Home Economics" (my personal favorite!)
Notice: taunting mice in window overlooking Alps.
|"Smoking out Back" Notice: Teacher's coming!
Cat on the right..."I don't feel too good"...
|"Chimney Sweeper"
Notice: Woman Cat knitting + Old Cat smoking a pipe!
There are several opinions on these illustrations out there. I think they're very funny...lovely, even. They are definitely taking "animals personified" a step further than Beatrix Potter, which is why they speak to me still as an adult.


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As the Southwest and South Central regional finalist, Renfro Foods and the other regional finalists, along with 100 Blue Ribbon Award winners, will be recognized by the Chamber during the 10th annual America's Small Business Summit, June 11-13 in Washington, DC. During the Summit, one regional finalist will be named Small Business of the Year and receive a $10,000 cash prize by the Chamber.
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A beaming, attractive woman appeared before Western journalists to speak on behalf of the winners on the evening after the Islamists' election victory in Tunis. No one will be forced to wear a headscarf in the new Tunisia, she said. She was wearing light makeup and had a colorful headscarf wrapped tightly around her face. She seemed self-confident and intelligent, and when asked what the Islamist win meant for women, she said that she saw no contradiction between Islam and women's rights.
The woman was Soumaya Ghannouchi, the daughter of Rachid Ghannouchi, the leader of the Islamist Ennahda party and the country's new strong man. She grew up in London, where her father lived in exile for 20 years, and where she worked as a journalist, writing for the Guardian, among other publications. She is a politically engaged, independent Muslim woman who supports her father's movement, as does her sister Intissar, who works as an attorney in London.
Ghannouchi's four daughters do not fit Western notions of the downtrodden Arab woman. Is this what female Islamists are supposed to be like?
The Ghannouchi daughters, who have become role models for some young women in Tunisia, are not the only evidence that it is possible to be a Muslim woman, wear a headscarf and still be strong. For years, the Arab satellite broadcasters in the Gulf region have also popularized the ideal of pure female beauty throughout the entire Arab world.
Muslim Emancipation
Self-determined women don't necessarily have to look the part envisioned by the West. Years ago, researchers with the Washington-based think tank the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace identified a movement that could be characterized as Muslim emancipation within such organizations as the Egyptian Muslim Sisterhood. Even this group of conservative Muslim women encompasses a new generation of self-confident activists who are educated, claim their rights and insist on being heard within their organizations.
Many of them were at the front of the protest marches last winter, and now they are there again, side-by-side with secular female protesters. Together they are facing off against the most noxious adversary of Egyptian women: the military. During the revolution on Tahrir Square, many young Egyptian women experienced gender equality for the first time. They protested together with the men and were just as instrumental in bringing down Mubarak, and there were no sexual assaults during that period.
Since then, it has been primarily the security forces and Egypt's military council that have sought to put women in their place through violence — not the Islamists.
At the same time, the radical Salafis have become increasingly influential in Egypt. Salafists are fundamentalist Muslims who want women to remain in the home and cover their bodies from head to foot. The Salafist Nour Party's campaign posters depict seven bearded candidates. There is no photo of the party's eighth candidate, a woman, only the image of a rose.
But the Salafis are not in the majority in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood, which is also Islamist and will likely win the elections, are more pragmatic in their position toward women. They are conservative, and yet an interpretation of Islamic law based on the misogynistic Saudi Arabian model is not to be expected.
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In Tunisia, the Islamists under Rachid Ghannouchi purport to be more favorable to women than anywhere else. In the election campaign, they insisted that they would not seek to scale back equal rights, and they are not interested in polygamy or making it compulsory for women to wear the headscarf. They cite the moderate Islamist governing party in Turkey, the AKP, as a model.
But many conservatives feel emboldened by their election victory, and there has also been worrisome news coming from Tunis. Women report that they have been criticized in public for their style of dress. At the university, male students prevented female lecturers who were allegedly dressed immodestly from entering lecture halls.
Nevertheless, it is not to be expected that the strong position of women in Tunisia will change soon. It is too firmly established, especially in cities. In Egypt, on the other hand, women are not just forced to defend their rights against Islamists, but also against an alliance of macho men of widely differing ideological stripes.
After last week's assaults, the young activist Lara El Gibaly wrote on Twitter: "At the risk of sounding like a feminist, 2day in particular, I am really sickened by the patriarchal, testosterone-driven society I live in. Egypt is a terrible place to be a woman."
Part 1: Arab Women Fight to Defend their Rights
Part 2: A New Model of Female Islamists
Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan
Puplished in SPIEGEL ONLINE on 29 November 2011
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Title: Sex, gender and risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) across Europe
Date: 2-3 February 2015
Location: Maastricht (The Netherlands)
Host: Department of Health, Ethics and Society, University of Maastricht
The focus for this workshop will be: Sex, gender and risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) across Europe. NCDs such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancers and diabetes, are the leading cause of death in the world today and modifiable risk factors are responsible for the majority of NCDs. Addressing highly prevalent and relevant risk factors is a significant primary prevention topic: in this workshop, by concentrating on risk factors for NCDs we not only aim to make a connection with the conditions addressed in EUGenMed's first workshop (i.e. sex and gender in clinical research and clinical pharmacology), but we will also discuss topics that are relevant for a large range of conditions. Risk (or protective) factors will therefore constitute our entry point for assessing the state of the art concerning the inclusion of sex and gender aspects in public health and prevention. Risk factors such as unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, alcohol and tobacco use have to be conceptualised as influenced by sex, gender and their intersecting factors. Likewise, context(s), whether in terms of e.g. geographical location (Eastern or Northern Europe) or occupation, shall be accounted for.


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Hong Kong authorities said on Thursday that a fish sample from one of the city's 113 accredited fish farms was found to contain mild amount of a carcinogen.
A spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) declined to reveal the name of the farm, but said the department has contacted the farm keeper to trace the source of malachite green found in a sample, Apple Daily reported.
There has not been any sale of the contaminated fish in the market, the spokesman said.
According to AFCD, which has been regularly conducting tests on fish at local farms, the fish in question is hapalogenys nitens, known locally as Trout sweetlips, which are often imported from the mainland.
Legislator Kwok Ka-ki, who is a doctor by profession, said malachite green has been used by fishermen as germicide. If ingested in significant quantity, it can cause cancer among humans.
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The public shouldn't worry about the latest announcement by the government, Kwok said.
Tommy Hui Hon-man of the Hong Kong Kowloon and New Territories Freshwater Fish Wholesale Association said the chemical is very hard to get as it has been banned in Hong Kong and the mainland for many years.
The tainted fish might have come from China or elsewhere, he said.
Lai Tak-chuen, chairman of Ma Wan Fisheries Rights Association, said the contamination might have stemmed from residues in the sea or fish-transport equipment.
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I did an online tarot card reading, and the question I asked was show me a sign, and of course it started talking about god the holy spirit and the serpent.. Just what I was looking for..
Now I'm thinking about buying a magical deck of my own, and only have my energy on it, to experiment with it more.
Your opinion please?
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As far as books on the topic, any books by Eden Grey are great. (I have his book Mastering the Tarot– and it's very helpful)
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I thought that it was just whatever day and month you were born and, that would tell you your sign.
But, what is the "house" or something all about. Could someone explain how horoscopes work, please.
Also, I was born on November 4th, so I think I am a Scorpio.
Answer by Chrissy
I'm a Scorpio… I was born on Nov.10. And yes you are a Scorpio… you know you are a Scorpio if you were born between Oct.21 to Nov.21 think I don't remember but I'm pretty sure youre a Scorpio cause my friend was born on Nov.4 and she is a scorpio
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Astrology and horoscopes are all about analysing people's personalities.
It is believed that most of the people born in a particular range of dates, share the same traits and have almost the same personality.
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Question : Do you think most people who are religious have ever literally seen and spoken with God or an angel?
Answer by Secular Humanist
No. But, they think they have.
Answer by Susanna LIVES
well, for me personally, I have not seen God (yet) but I have had a great Many experiences that support and strengthen my Faith:-) Happy Sabbath:-)
Answer by Mike Briggs
No can't wen it's not there
Answer by Moon Clobber
I've personally known a few people who say they see angels and demons and god(s) all the time.
All of them are (unfortunately) mentally ill.
I've read about people who claim to have seen and spoken with angels, demons, gods, aliens, and all sorts of other things who don't seem to have any chronic mental illness. However, I don't think they actually experienced what they think they did. That doesn't mean they don't sincerely believe it.
Answer by † Marcia J †
Sure, it's possible to speak with an angel, but none has talked to me. Mohammed claimed that Angel Gabriel spoke a lot to him, but I don't believe it was that angel. Demons can appear as angels of light. Jesus said we will know them by their fruits, so if someone claims to be talking to or seeing angels and their lives show they are not close to God at all, then you don't have to believe them.
But all things are possible with God. We do hear the voice of he Lord if we are close to the Lord. Jesus said, "My sheep hear my voice."
John 10:27-29 (GOD'S WORD Translation)
27My sheep respond to my voice, and I know who they are. They follow me, 28and I give them eternal life. They will never be lost, and no one will tear them away from me. 29My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than everyone else, and no one can tear them away from my Father.
Answer by Brian daniel i am this
Yes, everytime, every second, every moment, atheists don't believe because they have never seen God
Answer by HCSpirituality
Definitely not, and what most people believe about God reflects this.
A small subset of people however become mystics, and some of them have had direct experience of the Divine.
Answer by Mr. Spork
No! No one has EVER seen or spoken either to God, or an angel. This I guarantee!
Answer by Don R
I am not mentally ill, and have a very high intellect; I have both seen and spoken to Christ. And, He showed me the weapon used during the Apocalypse. Christ and the Angel of the Lord have often appeared to His people and prophets. It's your reasonable choice to believe otherwise. Both visits with me were via spiritual dreams.
Answer by Skippy
not personally, but then i aint religious…religion never ends well…=P i do have a relationship with my creator God, and iv had a lot of experiences that have proved to me that he's real…that for me is enough, so its my personal choice to live my life for him, everyone has their own choice and everyone has different experiences!!!=)
Answer by Randie
It does't matter how religious you are or how strong your faith is, we will never see God.
Exodus 33:20
"And God added: "You are not able to see my face, because no man may see me and yet live."
As for God or angel speaking to us— It is not God Almighty nor a good angel that is speaking to us..
To mislead people, the demons–wicked or fallen angels, use spiritism. The practice of spiritism is involvement with the demons, both in a direct way and through a human medium.
The Bible condemns spiritism and warns us to keep free from everything connected with it. Galatians 5:19-21
Spiritism does for the demons what bait does for fishermen. A fisherman uses a variety of baits to catch various kinds of fish. Similarly, wicked spirits use different forms of spiritism to bring all sorts of people under their influence.
One type of bait used by the demons is divination. What is divination? It is an attempt to find out about the future or about something unknown. Some forms of divination are astrology, the use of tarot cards, crystal gazing, palmistry, and the search for mysterious omens, or signs, in dreams.
Although many people think that practicing divination is harmless, the Bible shows that fortune-tellers and wicked spirits work together. For instance, Acts 16:16-18 mentions "a demon of divination" that enabled a girl to practice "the art of prediction." But she lost this ability when the demon was cast out of her.
Another way that the demons mislead people is by encouraging them to inquire of the dead.
People grieving over the death of a loved one are often deceived by wrong ideas about those who have died. A spirit medium may give special information or may SPEAK in a voice that seems to be that of a dead person.
As a result, many people become convinced that the dead are really alive and that contacting them will help the living to endure their grief. But any such "comfort" is really false as well as dangerous.
Because the demons can imitate the voice of a dead person and give a spirit medium information about the one who died. 1 Samuel 28:3-19
So "anyone who inquires of the dead" has been misled by wicked spirits and is acting contrary to the will of God. Deuteronomy 18:10, 11; Isaiah 8:19 T
herefore, be careful to reject this dangerous bait used by the demons.
Wicked spirits not only mislead people but also frighten them. Today, Satan and his demons know that they have only "a short period of time" left before they are put out of action, and they are now more vicious than ever. Revelation 12:12, 17
Even so, thousands of people who once lived in daily dread of such wicked spirits have been able to break free.
If you would like to keep reading about this I will leave a web site. It will be well worth your effort.
Chapter 6 is "Where are the dead?" and chapter 7 is "Real hope for your loved ones who have died."
Answer by 2worldsin1
Uh…I have to say something about seeing and what you call them mentally ill. I'm am not criticizing you for not believing but not all people who have seen are mentally ill. My house is haunted and many, many people have seen and had experiences in my home. Some have left in tears, some have left in fear. We have a nurse who comes and helps my brother n law who is paralyzed and she came running to the back of our home to me scared. She stood in our hallway and looked in our living room for what or who was slamming things loudly around in our living room. She heard it there but saw no one. I had to tell her of all the things which happen in our home. I was glad when she came back the next day. I honestly thought she wouldn't. Just last week she saw one of them. She saw a black shadow floating across the room behind my brother n law's bed on a bright sunny morning. It's not like in the movies where the spirits only come out at night. They don't care what time it is.
There were several people who didn't believe like you and now they do after witnessing events taken place in our home. You would have to classify over 30 people mentally ill who have all witnessed and seen things in our home.
As to your question….yes I do believe people have spoken with God.
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Warren Kibbe
Warren Kibbe, Ph.D.
Northwestern University Biomedical Informatics Center
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
750 Lake Shore Drive
Rubloff Building 11-162
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: +1-312-503-3229
Postdoctoral fellow in Molecular Genetics, Max Plank Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany, 1990-1992
PhD in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA,1990
BS in Chemistry, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, 1982
Research Synopsis
Dr Kibbe is a Research Professor in the Feinberg School of Medicine and is also the Director of Cancer Informatics and CIO for the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University. Dr. Kibbe received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Caltech, and was a visiting scientist at the Max Plank Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany before joining the faculty at Northwestern. Dr. Kibbe is an active member of the open biomedical ontologies community and is part of the Gene Ontology Consortium, a member of the CTSA Ontology Working Group, and was a founder as well as PI of an NIH-funded project to build the Human Disease Ontology. Dr. Kibbe was the PI of the caBIG Patient Study Calendar module software development project, which developed a syntactically and semantically harmonized interoperable patient study calendar using CDISC Study Data Tabulation Model and BRIDG terminology standards. Dr. Kibbe is the co-PI of the NIH-funded Dictyostelium Model Organism Database dictyBase (http://dictybase.org) with Dr. Rex Chisholm serving as PI. He is a proponent of Agile software development methodologies and the Agile Unified Process Framework and the application of these to biomedical research problems. Dr. Kibbe's group has developed NOTIS and the open source eNOTIS cloud-enabled clinical trial information management system used to track clinical study participation at Northwestern, with more than 4000 studies and 100,000 participants, and by the 10,000 patient genotype/phenotype biorepository NUgene (http://www.nugene.org). Dr. Kibbe was an active member of the NCI-funded caBIG project, and was a member of the steering committee for the caBIG Clinical Trial Management Systems Workspace. He is also a key participant in building a computable research representation of clinical data, through his work with the Northwestern Medicine Enterprise Data Warehouse, and ontology efforts. Dr. Kibbe is the PI of the National Children's Study NCS Navigator Information Management Hub, which is used as the data management and coordination system for ten National Children's Study locations. Dr. Kibbe was named a Top 25 Innovative Healthcare CIO for 2012 by InformationWeek.
Recent Projects
Personal Projects
Disease Ontology (DO) sourceforge site; DO wiki
LatticeGrid Collaboration Assessment and Publications tool
- Documentation [1]
- Downloads github repository
- Feinberg Publications public site
- RHLCCC Publications public site
Cancer Center Clinical Trials Abstracts production
Cancer Center Members Profiles production requires login
NUCATS Assist - internal competitions page production
Oligonucleotide Properties Calculator
Collaborations and Projects
NUBIC open source project sharing site
NCS Navigator Information Management Hub
VST/RSN microarray analysis package for Illumina data
caBIG™ Patient Study Calendar Project demo site NCI Wiki
IPBS Prostate SPOREs/caBIG™ caTISSUE Suite Adoption NCI Wiki
Publications 2004-2013
- Basu S, Fey P, Pandit Y, Dodson R, Kibbe WA, Chisholm RL. dictyBase 2013: integrating multiple Dictyostelid species. Nucleic Acids Res, 41:D676-D683, 2013. [PubMed ID 23172289]; PMC3531180; 10.1093/nar/gks1064
- Peng K, Xu W, Zheng J, Huang K, Wang H, Tong J, Lin Z, Liu J, Cheng W, Fu D, Du P, Kibbe WA, Lin SM, Xia T. The disease and gene annotations (DGA): an annotation resource for human disease. Nucleic Acids Res, 41:D553-D560, 2013. [PubMed ID 23197658]; PMC3531051; 10.1093/nar/gks1244
- Hinchcliff ME, Just E, Podlusky S, Varga J, Chang RW, Kibbe WA. Text data extraction for a prospective, research-focused data mart: implementation and validation. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak (2012) 12:106. [PubMed ID 22970696]
- Zhang X, Wallace AD, Du P, Kibbe WA, Jafari N, Xie H, Lin S, Baccarelli A, Soares MB, Hou L. DNA methylation alterations in response to pesticide exposure in vitro. Environ Mol Mutagen (2012) 53:542-549. [PubMed ID 22847954]
- Zhang X, Wallace AD, Du P, Lin S, Baccarelli AA, Jiang H, Jafari N, Zheng Y, Xie H, Soares MB, Kibbe WA, Hou L. Genome-wide study of DNA methylation alterations in response to diazinon exposure in vitro. Environ Toxicol Pharmacol (2012) In process. [PubMed ID 22964155]
- Feng G, Shaw P, Rosen ST, Lin SM, Kibbe WA. Using the Bioconductor GeneAnswers Package to Interpret Gene Lists. Methods Mol Bio. (2012) 802:101-112. [PubMed ID 22130876]
- Schriml LM, Arze C, Nadendla S, Chang YW, Mazaitis M, Felix V, Feng G, Kibbe WA. Disease Ontology: a backbone for disease semantic integration. Nucleic Acids Res (2012) 40:D940-D946. [PubMed ID 22080554]
- Good BM, Howe DG, Lin SM, Kibbe WA, Su AI. Mining the Gene Wiki for functional genomic knowledge. BMC Genomics. (2011) 12:603. [PubMed ID 22165947]
- Weber GM, Barnett W, Conlon M, Eichmann D, Kibbe WA, Falk-Krzesinski H, Halaas M, Johnson L, Meeks E, Mitchell D, Schleyer T, Stallings S, Warden M, Kahlon M. Direct2Experts: a pilot national network to demonstrate interoperability among research-networking platforms. J Am Med Inform Assoc. (2011) 18 Suppl 1:i157-i160. [PubMed ID 22037890]
- Gaudet P, Fey P, Basu S, Bushmanova YA, Dodson R, Sheppard KA, Just EM, Kibbe W, Chisholm RL. dictyBase update 2011: web 2.0 functionality and the initial steps towards a genome portal for the Amoebozoa. Nucleic Acids Res. (2011) 39(Database issue):D620-4. [PubMed ID 21087999]
- Du P, Zhang X, Huang CC, Jafari N, Kibbe WA, Hou L, Lin SM. Comparison of Beta-value and M-value methods for quantifying methylation levels by microarray analysis. BMC Bioinformatics (2010) 11:587. [PubMed ID 21118553]
- Feng G, Du P, Krett NL, Tessel M, Rosen S, Kibbe WA, Lin SM. A collection of bioconductor methods to visualize gene-list annotations. BMC Res Notes. (2010) 19:3:10. [PubMed ID 20180973]
- Wen J, Wang X, Kibbe W, Lin S, Lu H. Visual annotation of the gene database. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. (2009) 2009:4175-7. [PubMed ID 19964623]
- Gene Ontology Consortium. The Gene Ontology in 2010: extensions and refinements. Nucleic Acids Res. (2010) 38(Database issue):D331-5. [PubMed ID 19920128]
- Desai J, Flatow JM, Song J, Zhu LJ, Du P, Huang CC, Lu H, Lin SM, Kibbe WA. Visual presentation as a welcome alternative to textual presentation of gene annotation information. Adv Exp Med Biol. (2010) 680:709-15. [PubMed ID 20865558]
- Osborne JD, Flatow J, Holko M, Lin SM, Kibbe WA, Zhu LJ, Danila MI, Feng G, Chisholm RL. Annotating the human genome with Disease Ontology. BMC Genomics. (2009) 10 Suppl 1:S6. [PubMed ID 19594883]
- Du P, Feng G, Flatow J, Song J, Holko M, Kibbe WA, Lin SM. From disease ontology to disease-ontology lite: statistical methods to adapt a general-purpose ontology for the test of gene-ontology associations. Bioinformatics (2009) 25:i63-8. [PubMed ID 19478018]
- Fey P, Gaudet P, Curk T, Zupan B, Just EM, Basu S, Merchant SN, Bushmanova YA, Shaulsky G, Kibbe WA, Chisholm RL. dictyBase--a Dictyostelium bioinformatics resource update. Nucleic Acids Res. (2009) 37:D515-9. [PubMed ID 18974179]
- Lin SM, Du P, Huber W, WA Kibbe. Model-based Variance-stabilizing Transformation for Illumina Microarray Data. Nucleic Acids Res., (2008) 36:e11. [PubMed ID 18178591]
- Du P, Kibbe WA, Lin SM. lumi: a pipeline for processing Illumina microarray. Bioinformatics (2008) 24:1547-8. [PubMed ID 18467348]
- Gene Ontology Consortium. The Gene Ontology (GO) project in 2008. Nucleic Acids Res. (2008) 36:D440-4. [PubMed ID 17984083]
- Osborne JD, Lin SM, Zhu LJ, Kibbe WA. Mining biomedical data using MetaMap Transfer (MMtx) and the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). Methods Mol Biol. (2007) 408:153-69. [PubMed ID 18314582]
- Du P, Kibbe WA, SM Lin. nuID: A universal naming schema of oligonucleotides for Illumina, Affymetrix, and other microarrays. Biol. Direct. (2007) 2:16. [PubMed ID 17540033]
- Arshinoff BI, Suen G, Just EM, Merchant SM, Kibbe WA, Chisholm RL, Welch RD. Xanthusbase: adapting wikipedia principles to a model organism database. Nucleic Acids Res. (2007) 35: D422-D426. [PubMed ID 17090585]
- Du P, Kibbe WA, SM Lin. Application of wavelet transform to the MS-based proteomics data preprocessing. Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering. (2007) I-II:680-686.
- Osborne JD, Zhu LJ, Lin SM, Kibbe WA. Interpreting microarray results with gene ontology and MeSH. Methods Mol Biol. (2007) 377:223-42. [PubMed ID 17634620]
- Kibbe WA. OligoCalc – an online Oligonucleotide Properties Calculator. Nucleic Acids Res. (2007) 35:W43-6. [PubMed ID 17452344]
- Osborne JD, Lin SM, and Kibbe WA Other riffs on cooperation are already showing how well a wiki could work. Nature (2007) 446:856. [PubMed ID 17443163]
- Ge X, Jung YC, Wu Q, Kibbe WA, Wang SM. Annotating nonspecific SAGE tags with microarray data. Genomics. 2006 Jan; 87(1):173-80.
- Gene Ontology Consortium. The Gene Ontology (GO) project in 2006. Nucleic Acids Res. 2006 Jan 1;34(Database issue):D322-6.
- Chisholm RL, Gaudet P, Just EM, Pilcher KE, Fey P, Merchant SN, Kibbe WA. dictyBase, the model organism database for Dictyostelium discoideum. Nucleic Acids Res. 2006 Jan 1;34(Database issue):D423-7.
- WA Kibbe "The Bioinformatics of Biobanks – designing Next Generation Biobanks", book chapter in Nutritional Genomics: Discovering the path to personalized nutrition, Editors: R. Rodriguez and J. Kaput; J Wiley, 2006.
- Osborne J, Zhu LH, Lin SM, and Kibbe WA. Interpreting Microarray Results with Gene Ontology and MeSH Ontology. In Korenberg M. ed. Methods in Microarray Data Analysis. Humana Press (2006).
- Lin SM, Devakumar J, and Kibbe WA. Improved prediction of treatment response using microarrays and existing biological knowledge, Pharmacogenomics (2006) 7:495-501.
- Du P, Kibbe WA, Lin SM. Improved peak detection in mass spectrum by incorporating continuous wavelet transform-based pattern matching. Bioinformatics (2006) 22:2059-65.
- Osborne J, Zhu LH, Lin SM, and Kibbe WA. Interpreting Microarray Results with Gene Ontology and MeSH Ontology. In Korenberg M. ed. Methods in Microarray Data Analysis. Humana Press (2006).
- Kaput J, et al The case for strategic international alliances to harness nutritional genomics for public and personal health. Br J Nutr. 2005 Nov;94(5):623-32.
- Lin SM, Kibbe WA. Irrational exuberance in clinical proteomics. Clin Cancer Res. 2005 Nov 15;11(22):7963-4.
- Lin SM, Zhu L, Winter AQ, Sasinowski M, Kibbe WA. What is mzXML good for? Expert Rev Proteomics. 2005 Dec; 2(6):839-45.
- Kreppel L, Fey P, Gaudet P, Just E, Kibbe WA, Chisholm RL, Kimmel AR. dictyBase: a new Dictyostelium discoideum genome database. Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 32: D332-3.
- Harris MA et al. The Gene Ontology (GO) database and informatics resource. Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 32: D258-61.
- Bult C, Kibbe WA, Snoddy J, Vitaterna M, Swanson D, Pretel S, Li Y, Hohman MM, Rinchik E, Takahashi JS, Frankel WN, Goldowitz D. A genome end-game: understanding gene function in the nervous system. Nat Neurosci. 2004 May; 7(5):484-5.
- Kaput J, Klein KG, Reyes EJ, Kibbe WA, Cooney CA, Jovanovic B, Visek WJ, Wolff GL. Identification of genes contributing to the obese yellow Avy phenotype: caloric restriction, genotype, diet x genotype interactions. Physiol Genomics. 2004 Aug 11; 18(3):316-24.
- Goldowitz D, Frankel WN, Takahashi JS, Holtz-Vitaterna M, Bult C, Kibbe WA, Snoddy J, Li Y, Pretel S, Yates J, Swanson DJ. Large-scale mutagenesis of the mouse to understand the genetic bases of nervous system structure and function. Brain Res Mol Brain Res. 2004 Dec 20; 132(2):105-15.