All categories - 25 February 2007

2x + 4y = 9

-2x + y = 5

2007-02-25 06:49:13 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mathematics

My son is 15 mos. old and has had chronic constipation since Dec. 2, 2006. I've told his Peds about this but they have not given me any advice on how to deal with it. We have changed his diet to eliminate binding foods which has not helped at all. I've consulted his pharmasist reguarding fiber suppliments but they do not carry anything for children under the age of 12. He eats oatmeal, cereals that are high in fiber and pleanty of fruits and veggies. Yet he is still going through this. I'm at my whits end. I do not know what else to do. We even resorted to Glycerine Suppositories, but it only helps for a day and I cannot give them to him daily!

Please Help if you can!

2007-02-25 06:49:12 · 11 answers · asked by luvmuhkiddies 1 in Newborn & Baby

2007-02-25 06:49:12 · 1 answers · asked by rahul r 1 in Other - Politics & Government

Hi.
I noticed that some schools in my field (Communication Studies)have a PhD program where prospective students can apply only with their BA. In other words, unlike most PhD programs where you need a MA to apply, these ones state that all you need is a BA. Once you get accepted into the program you do a Masters in Philosophy on the way to completing the PhD.

My problem is that these programs are very competitive and only accept 10 people. I have o.k. grades, o.k. GRE scores, and I can get 2 great recommendation letters and 1 so-so letter. I don't have any conference experience because most of the ones I've looked into only accept abstracts from grad students. And I don't have any work experience in the field either.

Would it be in my best interest to get a MA first from another school, THEN apply for this PhD program that only requires a BA to get accepted? What do you think.

2007-02-25 06:49:08 · 3 answers · asked by Dixie D 1 in Higher Education (University +)

first love....that also means that first person that you kissed..gave all your heart out..promised forever..talked about your future with..did everything for that person..and yeah..first love! do you think..if you broke up with that person even though you still love him but you think it's the right thing to do..to set him free because you felt that he doesn't love you back anymore and that it would make him much happier.....someday you two are still gonna be together? please explain your thoughts, ideas, suggestions, advises..and other stuff you want to share... :'(

2007-02-25 06:49:05 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

i turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champane bubble.
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.

*please dont answer "i dont know" or "nope... dont know it". i jus really wanna know the answer for real and i asked it b4 and almost all the responses were like that. thx.

2007-02-25 06:49:04 · 8 answers · asked by babyleo91_09 2 in Jokes & Riddles

What is you favorite sport of all time?

2007-02-25 06:49:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Sports

Bank of America offering ILLEGALS Credit Cards? Who else would NEED a credit card that doesn't have a SS Number but Illegals. And PLEASE no Gee why shouldn't hard working people just looking for a Job be denied a Credit Card. What about the Terrorist NUT Job that just wants to kill??? Or the Drug smuggler. I think that the Government should step in and put an end to this Stupid Policy and slap bank of america with a Hefty fine.

2007-02-25 06:49:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

I mean NEVER. That means while sleeping too, which seems to rule out most things. :-)

Oh, don't include things we would be dead without, because that... Well, just don't bother syng something like air please.

2007-02-25 06:48:56 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

I knew a lay living near my house.i had dialoge with her serval times in common issues.after a period of time she said i love u. and she know that l have agirlfreind.i dont wont to cheet my gf.

2007-02-25 06:48:55 · 4 answers · asked by King 2 in Singles & Dating

if you went to war and you lost a limb what limb would you rather lose; your arm or your leg and right or left one

2007-02-25 06:48:52 · 16 answers · asked by kogagrl 1 in Polls & Surveys

BRIGIT OF THE CELTS
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Brigit was one of the great Triple Goddesses of the Celtic people.
She appeared as Brigit to the Irish, Brigantia in Northern England,
Bride in Scotland, and Brigandu in Brittany. Many legends are told
about Brigit. Some say that there are three Brigits : one sister in
charge of poetry and inspiration who invented the Ogham alphabet,
one in charge of healing and midwifery, and the third in charge of the
hearth fire, smithies and other crafts. This catually indicates the
seperate aspects of her Threefold nature and is a neat division of
labor for a hard-working goddess.
Brigit was probably originally a Sun Goddess, and a charming story
of her birth is that she was born at sunrise and a tower of flame
burst from the forehead of the new born Goddess that reached from
Earth to Heaven. It was likely She who inspired the line in the famous
Song of Amergin: "I am a fire in the head." Her penchant for smithcraft
led to her association by the Romans with Minerva/Athena. As a warrior
Goddess, She favored the use of the spear or the arrow. Indeed, various
interpetations of her name exist including, "Bright Arrow," "The Bright
One," "the Powerful One" and "The High One," depending upon the region
and the dialect.
As a Goddess of herbalism, midwifery and healing She was in charge
of Water as well as Fire. I don't beleive that anyone has ever
counted all teh vast number of sacred wells and springs named after
or dedicated to this Goddess. A story is told of how two lepers came
to one of her sacred springs for healing and She instructed one Leper
to wash the other. The skin of the freshly bathed man was cleansed
of the disease and Brigit told the man who was healed to wash the man
who had bathed him so that both men would be whole. The man who was
healed was now too disgusted to touch the other Leper and would have
left him, but Brigit herself washed the leper and struck down the
other arrogant fellow with leperousy once more before he could leave.
Offerings to the watery Brigit were cast into the well in the form
of coins or, even more ancient, brass or gold rings. Other sacrifices
were offered where three streams came together. Her cauldron of
Inspiration connected her watery healing aspect with her fiery poetic
aspect.
Brigit is clearly the best example of the survival of a Goddess
into Christian times. She was cannonized by the Catholic church as
St. Brigit and various origins are given to this saint. The most
popular folktale is that She was midwife to the Virgin Mary, and thus
was always inviked by women in labor. The more official story was
that She was a Druid's daughter who predicted the coming of
Christianity and then was baptised by St. Patrick. She became a nun
and later an abbess who founded the Abbey at Kildare. The Christian
Brigit was said to have had the power to appoint the bishops of her
area, a strange role for an abbess, made stranger by her requirement
that her bishops also be practicing goldsmiths.
Actually, the Goddess Brigit had always kept a shrine at Kildare,
Ireland, with a perpetual flame tended by nineteen virgin priestesses
called Daughters of the Flame. No male was ever allowed to come near
it; nor did those women ever consort with men. Even their food and
other supplies were brought to them by women of the nearby village.
When Catholicism took over in Ireland, the shrine became a convent
and the priestesses became nuns but the same traditions were held
and the eternal flame was kept burning. Their tradition was that
each day a different priestess/nun was in charge of the sacred fire
and on the 20th day of each cycle, teh fire was miraculously tended
by Brigit Herself. There into the 18th century, the ancient song
was sung to her : "Brigit, excellant woman, sudden flame, may the
bright fiery sun take us to the lasting kingdom."
For over a thousand years, the sacred flame was tended by nuns,
and no one knows how long before that it had been tended by the
priestesses. In 1220 CE, a Bishop became angered by the no-males
policy of the Abbey of St. Brigit of Kildare. He insisted that nuns
were subordinate to priests and therefore must open their abbey
and submit themselves to inspection by a priest. When they refused
and asked for another Abbess or other female official to perform
any inspections, the Bishop was incensed. He admonished them to
obediance and then decreed that teh keeping of the eternal flame
was a Pagan custom and 6rdered the sacred flame to be extinguished.
Even then, She remained the most poular Irish saint along with
Patrick. In the 1960's, under Vatican II modernization, it was
declared that there was insufficient proof of Brigit's sanctity
or even of her historical existance, and so teh Church's gradual
pogrom against Brigit was successful at last and She was thus
decanonized. It is very difficult to obtain images or even holy
cards of ST. Brigit outside of Ireland anymore.
Her festival is held on Febuary 1st or 2nd. It corresponds to
the ancient Celtic fire festival of Imbolc or Oimelc which
celebrated the birthing and freshening of sheep and goats (it really
is a Feast of Milk). This festival was Christianized as Candlemas
or Lady Day and Her Feast day, La Feill Bhride, was attended by
tremendous local celebration and elaborate rituals. Her festival
is also called Brigit. Brigit (the Goddess and the Festival)
represents the stirring of life again after the dead months of the
winter, and her special blessings are called forth at this time.
Since She was booted out of teh Church for being Pagan, it is
incumbant upon us Pagans to restore Her worship to its former glory
especially those of us of Celtic ancestory. Here is an ancient rite
to invite Brigit into your home at the time of her Holiday:
Clean your hearth thoroughly in teh morning and lay a fire
without kindling it, then make yourself a "Bed for Brigid" and
place it near the hearth. The bed can be a small basket with covers
and tiny pillow added as plain or fancy as you like. If you have no
hearth, you can use the stove and put the bed behind it. Then at
sundown light a candle rubbed with rosemary oil and invite Brigit
into your home and into er bed; use the candle to kindle your
hearthfire if possible. Make your own poem to invite Her or use
the ancient song mentioned earlier. Let the candle burn at least
all night in a safe place. You might even want to begin the custom
of keeping the eternal flame; it is a popular custom in some
magickal and Wiccan traditions. AFter all, it's up to us now to
keep the spirit of Brigit alive and well for the next thousand
years at least!!!


By Morning Glory Zell from AMARGI Vol I. No.3 Feb. 1st 1989
Used By permission

2007-02-25 06:48:45 · 12 answers · asked by Terry 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I have a poem and I want to publish it. My dad says there is a site where I would be able to do that. What is the site?? And after I get there....how do I publish my poem???

2007-02-25 06:48:43 · 1 answers · asked by Chrissygal12 3 in Internet

Provided that no one eats you ;)

2007-02-25 06:48:43 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-02-25 06:48:42 · 2 answers · asked by ibid 3 in Other - Entertainment

and to make it difficult (suspensful music) choose ONE one one one (that's the echo) :D

2007-02-25 06:48:41 · 14 answers · asked by <H3R0!n3> 2 in Music

2007-02-25 06:48:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Horoscopes

2007-02-25 06:48:37 · 4 answers · asked by yugiismyname18 1 in Singles & Dating

2007-02-25 06:48:34 · 3 answers · asked by Goldy S 1 in Motorcycles

I have DSL and my computer is a Gateway2000.

2007-02-25 06:48:33 · 3 answers · asked by FrankieCG 2 in Video & Online Games

I have red eared sliders and there's alot of they're shell in the bottom of the tank... is this normal?

2007-02-25 06:48:26 · 6 answers · asked by Mercy... 1 in Reptiles

Hiya, i dunno how to wear my hair to my prom. Im wearing a blue cinderlla style ball gown and a beautiful swarsoki (dont think thats spelt right) crystal tiara. I have natural fairly long golden blonde hair, any suggestions please
Thanx x x

2007-02-25 06:48:25 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Hair

2007-02-25 06:48:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Garden & Landscape

It is very frustrating when I am viewing a website, and without any effort on my part, the computer clicks over to a GATEWAY search page. It does this several times a day and it is disruptive. How can I stop this from happening?

2007-02-25 06:48:14 · 2 answers · asked by Terry 1 in Internet

Based only on personality, not looks, or anything. 'cause mine would be Lucas Grabeel but it was his looks 1st, then him. So based on personality, who would be your ideal celeb crush? I know he's too young but based on that, I'd say Nick Jonas. He's the "grown up" of the Jonas Brothers and he is kind of quiet and shy and likes looking at the stars, which I love, and we have some stuff in common

2007-02-25 06:48:13 · 16 answers · asked by ♥#1 Miley Cyrus Fan♥ 5 in Polls & Surveys

so i like this guy & i know he likes me.. i dont know if i shoudl give up on him.. well were set up as a blind date but were not going on a date until march 16th..but like i havent heared from him for like 4 days now..i know he had lots of stuff to do friday and yesterday..& wenesday he was supos eto call me but he didnt. which i know he must of feel alseep doing his homework..he always calls me when he says.if he dont which happened 2 times he like fell alseep..well.. sinc ei havent heared from him and i have tried calling yesterday 1 time left a voicemail and then i called today and i am not planning to call again..but shoudl i give up on him?

2007-02-25 06:48:12 · 10 answers · asked by Andrea 3 in Singles & Dating

2007-02-25 06:48:12 · 3 answers · asked by Audge 1 in Decorating & Remodeling

I need some advice on talking my parents into letting me dye my hair not even my hair its just hight lights and it will look cute so w.e so anyone got any advice?????pppplllllzzzzzz

2007-02-25 06:48:08 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Hair

2007-02-25 06:48:08 · 13 answers · asked by Libby 1 in Dancing