2012 Mayan Apocalypse A No-Go

Archaeologist William Saturno recently discovered a new Mayan calendar that debunks the myth that the world will end in December 2012.

According to LiveScience, the discovery was made in 2010 by one of Saturno’s undergraduate students during a field study of Xultun, an ancient Mayan city in Gautemala. The student noticed black and red paint in a trench that was most likely dug by looters. Saturno decided to investigate the room that the looters had failed to penetrate.

Saturno was pleasantly surprised to find a well-preserved painting of a Mayan king and his subjects. On the east wall of the room was a set of hieroglyphs that would later be analyzed as a new Mayan calendar. It’s been suggested than an ancient Mayan scribe must have used this room to work and wrote the calender on the wall as a reference. [Read more...]

Stephen Dattels On Asteroid Mining

Stephen Dattels Weighs In On The Possibility Of Asteroid Mining

Some big name billionaires have announced that they are starting a company to mine asteroids, but is that business idea feasible? Is there an opportunity waiting to be taken in outer space? Stephen Dattels, with over 25 years of experience in the mining exploration and resources financing industry, weighs in on the subject.

Any minerals mined in space would not be economically feasible for use in our planet’s factories due to the immense cost of transporting them back to the earth’s surface. Stephen Dattels still finds an abundance of terrestrial opportunities for mining and financing, which is why he founded Polo Resources Limited: to find and invest in the numerous undervalued resource companies and projects waiting for intelligent investment.

Stephen Dattels On The Opportunities Available On Earth

Stephen Dattels has a proven record as a chief executive in mineral exploration. For example, as the CEO of West African Minerals Limited, Stephen Dattels is overseeing the exploration of over 6,000 square kilometers of mineral rich ground. Why should investment dollars be chasing opportunities in space when they exist on Earth?

While celebrity billionaires look to the stars for mineral exploration and financing, Stephen Dattels continues to make sound investments on Earth that increase value for his shareholders.

Pentagon Instructor Urged Total War With Islam

A red-faced Pentagon has conceded that an instructor at its Joint Forces College in Virginia for military officers was until recently teaching a course advocating “total war” with Islam that could require obliterating the holy cities of Mecca and Medina without concern for civilian deaths.

The material in the course, which officers could elect to take but was not obligatory, flew in the face of repeated assertions by the Obama administration that the war on terrorism is just that and should under no circumstances be read as an assault on a religion observed by 1.4 billion people around the world.

Details of the course were obtained by a blog on Wired.com, drawn from a presentation given by the teacher, Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley, in July last year.  He suggested that destroying Islamic holy sites would follow the precedents of the nuclear strike by the allies on Hiroshima in World War II and the firebombing of Dresden. His course was called ‘Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism’. [Read more...]

U.S. Embassy Calls Syria Bombings “Unacceptable”

The U.S. embassy in Beirut called a double bombing that killed 55 people in Syria on Thursday “reprehensible and unacceptable” but said it would not change U.S. demands that the Syrian government implement a UN-backed peace plan.

The bombings were the deadliest attacks in the Syrian capital, Damascus, since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began 14 months ago.

“The United States condemns in the strongest terms the attacks that took place today in Damascus,” the U.S. embassy said in statements posted on Twitter. [Read more...]

Facebook To Make It Easier To Become Organ Donor

Users in the United States and the U.K. can enroll as organ donors via links to official registries on the world’s biggest social networking site, said CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The links should make it easier for people who want to donate their organs to sign up.

Facebook users who are already organ donors can add that information to their profile page, now known as their timeline.

Zuckerberg said his friendship with Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, who had received a liver transplant before he died last year, helped spur the idea, as did talks with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan, a medical student. [Read more...]

Thought & Reflectiion

Let it be known that happiness is a product of positive thinking and positive action, with good fortune lending a helping hand. To most people, it is a product of will in relatively favorable circumstances. But isn’t it peculiar to imply that happiness can be of one sort or another? Are there not simply happiness and unhappiness? Well, when you begin dating, there are a lot of free dating sites and with it, try to know what you want from your dating partner as all of us date for different reasons. Sometimes these reasons are unknown to our conscious mind. Hence, with application of thought and reflection, we can find out what we want from our dating partner.

Nevertheless, there may be many other wants that one desires the dating partner to fulfill. Once you know what precisely you want from your dating partner, then your choice will narrow down and you’ll get better results. Life is by definition a dynamic state that presupposes a perpetual tension between desires and their satisfaction, and knowing about our requirement always helps in satisfying our needs. Though the limits imposed upon worldly happiness may initially stick in our craw, but after due consideration, as we realize that life without these limits would be death, we accept them, and better still we welcome them.

Doing Business The Way You Want

We cannot deny the fact that the recent advances in technology have almost changed everything from health care to communication. And now, as the latest technology becomes more accessible to a broader market, the business field is changing, too. Few years ago, you could plan your advertising campaign around a few television commercials and print advertisements. And most companies would never have considered spending a sizeable portion of their advertising business budget on the Internet. But such was changed; online ad expenditures are expected to reach over hundred billion dollars.

Meanwhile, businesses who want to reach their target audience and remain competitive in this high-tech world have to change with the times. They need to keep up with emerging technologies, what media types are most popular, and how consumers use what’s available to them. If you want to remain competitive now and in the future, senior living software will be your key to success. It is designed to adapt to do business the way you want, and measure goals against the actual results. You should consider it when putting together your business strategy, because traditional media outlets just aren’t as effective as they once were.

In a nutshell, while it’s difficult to predict exactly where the trends are headed, when you keep an eye on new technology, you and your service won’t be left behind. By understanding what features of your site is most likely to draw maximum attention of the customers, it is more desirable to have websites with accessibility web design and rich in content than which are simply attractive to look. Visitor’s measure the quality and effectiveness of your website based on the content that you provide. Further, it is vital to create a lasting impression on the customers to improve your traffic and visibility on the internet. Hence, it becomes necessary to design the website from the customer’s point of view.