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MzzJoplin
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Happy Birthday to Eastendgirl!
« on: Jun 11^th, 2002, 10:17am »

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Hope you have a wonderful day, K-A!!

Happy Birthday!

Just for fun ... here's some info about your sign, Gemini:

The Twins
May 22 to June 21

Traditional Gemini traits:
Adaptable and versatile
Communicative and witty
Intellectual and eloquent
Youthful and lively

On the dark side....
Nervous and tense
Superficial and inconsistent
Cunning and inquisitive

About Your Sign...
Gemini, the sign of the Twins, is dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory. On the one hand it produces the virtue of versatility, and on the other the vices of two-facedness and flightiness. The sign is linked with Mercury, the planet of childhood and youth, and its subjects tend to have the graces and faults of the young. When they are good, they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for being the charmers they are. Like children they are lively, and happy, if circumstances are right for them, or egocentric, imaginative and restless. They take up new activities enthusiastically but lack application, constantly needing new interests, flitting from project to project as apparently purposelessly as a butterfly dancing from flower to flower. To them life is a game which must always be full of fresh moves and continuous entertainment, free of labor and routine. Changing horses in the middle of the stream is another small quirk in the Gemini personality which makes decision making, and sticking to a decision, particularly hard for them.
Since they lack the quality of conscientiousness, they are apt to fight a losing battle in any attempts they make to be moral (in the widest sense of the word). Their good qualities are attractive and come easily to them. They are affectionate, courteous, kind, generous, and thoughtful towards the poor and suffering - provided none of the activities resulting from expressing these traits interferes too greatly with their own lives and comforts. They quickly learn to use their outward attractiveness to gain their own ends, and when striving for these they will use any weapon in their armory - unscrupulous lying, and cunning evasiveness; escaping blame by contriving to put it on other people, wrapped up in all the charm they can turn on. In their better moments they may strive to be honest and straightforward, but self-interest is almost always the victor. If things go against them, they sulk like children. Also like children, they demand attention, admiration, and the spending on them of time, energy and money, throwing tantrums if they don't get what they want. They reflect every change in their surroundings, like chameleons, and can become pessimistic, sullen, peevish and materialistically self-centered if circumstances force them to struggle in any way. If the conditions of life become really adverse, their strength of will may desert them entirely. They can become uncertain of themselves, either withdrawn, or nervously excitable worriers, sullenly discontented, hard and irritable, with "Self" looming ever larger in their struggles. On the other hand their versatility can make them very adaptable, adjusting themselves to control the world around them by means of their inherent ingenuity and cleverness.
Most Gemini have a keen, intuitive, sometimes brilliant intelligence and they love cerebral challenges. But their concentration, though intense for a while, does not last. Their mental agility and energy give them a voracious appetite for knowledge from youth onward, though they dislike the labor of learning. They easily grasp almost everything requiring intelligence and mental dexterity, and are often able to marry manual skills to their qualities of mind. Their intellect is strongly analytical and sometimes gives them so great an ability to see both sides of a question that they vacillate and find it hard to make decisions. But their intelligence may very well be used to control and unify the duality of their natures into a most efficient unit. If faced with difficulties, they have little determination to worry at a problem until they find a solution - they will pick the brains of others. In their intellectual pursuits, as in other departments of their lives, they risk becoming dilettantes, losing themselves in too many projects which they follow until they become difficult.
In love they are fickle, not intentionally so but because of the basic inconsistency of their emotional nature, which has an amoral aspect to it. Their is a side to Geminians which can become deeply involved emotionally, and another, hostile to sentimentality, which stands back from a romantic situation, laughing at it and the protagonists in it, including themselves while analyzing it intellectually. Gemini subjects take nothing seriously. So, in love, in spite of their temporary depth of feeling, for the intensity of involvement lasts only while it is new, they are superficial, light-hearted, cool, flirtatious and unimaginative in the understanding of the pain they may give others. They like intrigue, the excitement of the chase, but once they have caught the prey, they lose interest and look around for the next creature to pursue. In less serious situations they make witty, entertaining companions, good acquaintances rather than friends. Even at their worst they are never dull - there is usually playfulness below the surface, and they can be brilliant conversationalists - but they can also be quarrelsome, prattlers, boasters, liars and cheats.
Geminians can be successful in many walks of life though their general characteristics tend to make them unreliable. They are often skilled manipulators of language, in speech and writing, and may be: debaters, diplomats (though in politics they are more interested in theory than practice), orators, preachers (brilliant rather than profound), teachers, authors, poets, journalists, or lawyers. In business any work which combines quick-wittedness with a change of surroundings suits them; working as a traveling salesperson, brokerage work, or dealing with the public in any capacity is right up their alley. Because they are dispassionate, logical, rational and analytical they make good scientists, especially in the fields of medicine and astronomy. They can also make excellent members of the Armed Forces, for they take danger no more seriously than anything else and can earn themselves a reputation for devotion to duty and heroic acts. In the arts they may excel in music, painting and sculpture. They make good psychic researchers of a sceptical kind. Negatively they can degenerate into confidence tricksters, thieves and even adepts in the black arts.

Possible Health Concerns...
Gemini rules the arms, shoulders, hands, lungs and nervous system and its subjects need to beware of diseases and accidents associated with the upper part of the body, as well as nervous and pulmonary disorders such as catarrh and bronchitis. Their mercurial nature may also affect a constitution which is not strong if it is put under strain.
You are prone to taking unnecessary risks and wind up harming yourself or others in the process. Sometimes pursuing pleasure too vigorously could also qualify as risk taking.

LIKES
Talking
Novelty and the unusual
Variety in life
Multiple projects all going at once
Reading

DISLIKES
Feeling tied down
Learning, such as school
Being in a rut
Mental inaction
Being alone

Your ruling planet is Mercury

Some more interesting facts about your sign:
While no animal appears to be associated with your sign other than the wolf in which is seen to be the nurturing force for another set of 'twins', romulas and remus. The twins themselves are their own sign representatives.

The color of choice for Mercury in Gemini is GREEN

Your birthstone is the moss agate. It has been shown to be beneficial to the health of Geminis who are suffering from circulatory problems and has been shown as an aid to getting your intuitive feelings tuned to a higher pitch. It is also an aid to relieving depression. There is another gemstone which is used for Gemini and that is the emerald, but the moss agate vibrates to the levels of your ruling planet, Mercury, and therefore is much more beneficial for you.

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Re: Happy Birthday to Eastendgirl!
« Reply #1 on: Jun 11^th, 2002, 10:52am »

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Happy, Happy Birthday! Cheesy

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« Reply #2 on: Jun 11^th, 2002, 1:31pm »

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Happy Birthday K-A!!!! Grin

I hope that this will be your Best Birthday ever! May this new year be all that you hope it will be!

Kiss

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KA!

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Re: Happy Birthday to Eastendgirl!
« Reply #3 on: Jun 11^th, 2002, 3:57pm »

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Have a great day East!

Cool

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Re: Happy Birthday to Eastendgirl!
« Reply #4 on: Jun 11^th, 2002, 4:11pm »

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Happy Birthday K-A! I hope you had a great day.

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Re: Happy Birthday to Eastendgirl!
« Reply #5 on: Jun 11^th, 2002, 8:10pm »

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thanks you amazing people! i have had a great day. i was going out for dinner tonight but postponed it not to mess up my energy ~ it was a busy morning/early afternoon. i know this sounds lame, but i am starting to get used to balancing things a wee bit better.

i still have three birthday meals to attend and one joint party! Grin

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Happy Birthday to Eastendgirl!
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HAPPY

BIRTH DAY!

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KA.. You said that you had "3 meals to attend and one joint party.".... Huh

? And you didn't invite all of us to the last one?? HMMMM...And I thought that you were our friend.... Wink

J/K Have a great time Sweetie!! Kiss

L&H

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many joints and a birthday for two! lol Lips Sealed

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War on pot-growing 'a failure'
Police have failed to reduce marijuana operations, study says

Kim Pemberton, with files from Brian Morton
Vancouver Sun

Friday, June 14, 2002

Vancouver Sun
Plants and equipment inside a house in East Vancouver where a grow-op was discovered recently. The house contained artificial lighting and potted plants.

Police have devoted significant resources to battling illegal marijuana-growing operations in B.C., but have yet to produce visible results, says a study by researchers at the University College of the Fraser Valley.

"At best, it would seem, they have succeeded in some cases in producing a slight displacement of the problem from one area to another, or from one neighborhood to another," says the report, released Thursday.

The project, described as the first comprehensive study of the justice system's response to marijuana-growing operations and marijuana trafficking in B.C., involved a review of all cases of alleged marijuana cultivation coming to police attention between Jan. 1, 1997 and Dec. 31, 2000.

The study found B.C.'s illicit marijuana-growing operations jumped 222 per cent between 1997 and 2000.

"If our objective so far was to reduce the availability of marijuana in the province, we are not succeeding," said UCFV professor Yvon Dandurand.

"In spite of the fact that we are devoting more law enforcement and other resources each year to address the problem, there is more marijuana grown and available in British Columbia from year to year.

"It is perhaps time to try a different response."

Vancouver police Inspector Kash Heed agreed there has been an increase in marijuana growing operationss in B.C., but he noted that since 2000, police have been targeting the problem much more aggressively. He said they have been "highly successful" in removing growing operations from the city.

"In Vancouver we investigated 23 grow-ops in 1991, resulting in 36 charges. In 2001, we investigated 609 grow-ops, resulting in 375 charges, with a value of $150 million," he said.

"The reports we're getting is the number of grow-ops in Vancouver have decreased. . . . Given our economical division of labour, we've had a lot of success."

The study lists the 10 top communities that accounted for 60 per cent of all cases that came to the attention of police in 2000.

On average, each community dealt with 290 cases and all had experienced "huge increases" in the number of cases since 1997 -- on average more than four times what it was in 1996.

In total, there were 2,901 cases investigated in B.C. in 2000.

Vancouver had the largest number of cases, with 663 growing operations investigated in 2000, while Delta and Coquitlam experienced the most dramatic increases between 1997 and 2000. Delta had 209 cases in 2000, up 1,293 per cent from 1997 and Coquitlam had 353 cases, up 700 per cent from the previous four years.

The seven other top marijuana growing communities are Burnaby with 454 cases in 2000; Surrey with 317 cases: Nanaimo with 199 cases; Richmond with 188 cases; Abbotsford with 181; Chilliwack with 177 and Langley with 160.

The study found that as illicit marijuana growing operations become larger and more sophisticated in B.C., the risks to communities also increase because of the potential for fires.

"Indoor marijuana operations were sometimes discovered because the property involved had caught on fire, usually as a result of tampering with the building's electrical installations to bypass the B.C. Hydro meter and divert electricity," states the report.

It found that during the period of the study, 3.5 per cent of all indoor cultivation operations resulted in a building fire.

As well, another 2.1 per cent of buildings where marijuana growing operations were discovered had other dangers, such as explosives, dangerous chemical products and even booby traps.

"The evidence indicates that, over the period studied, marijuana grow operations became larger and increasingly sophisticated, often involving greater technological enhancements. This, in turn, has led to greater risks to the communities in which these illicit operations took place due to the increased risk of fire," the report states.

The study was conducted by faculty and students in the department of criminology and criminal justice of the University College of the Fraser Valley in partnership with the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice.

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