The Way Forward

We have to bite the bullet at some point in time, unless we believe that the Mayan calendar will work through to its predicted conclusion! Either we have less than a year to go, or some outside help will come from the heavens to rescue humanity and release us from all ills! But what price we would have to pay for such deliverance? We have hope and fear in us; but when all are in the same boat, does it matter? However, if December 22 dawns with life as it is; then, we have to pick up the pieces to rebuild and get ready for the long haul, all by ourselves! It could well prove a rude awakening to be again left to our own devises!

Basics are Forgotten

Overpowering greed: Greed knows no bounds! There is clear lack of oversight and will. Few make hay when the sun shines and when storms appear on the horizon due to their follies, they desert en masse with ordinary citizens left to bear the burden for no fault of theirs. The best brains are being attracted to making money out of thin air, through financial engineering; but those activities needed to improve our general well being are left in the back burner.

Lack of focus: Whoever is in power are unable to tackle hot button issues due to endemic political strife. The leaders, who are elected with much fanfare, are soon busy fighting the fires deliberately set. Old issues are raked up to stymie their efforts and make them impotent. The irrational exuberance of democratic overkill puts paid to solution of problems that affect the most disadvantaged. Leaders are reduced to mere followers of pollsters and those they are beholden to.

Overall system failure: One step forward and soon back in hasty retreat! Pleasing all and sundry is not the way to govern to progress and solve the issues that cannot wait any longer. The debt clock is ticking and reaching stratospheric levels but we are blissfully ignorant of its consequences. How the whole issue will pan out seem to be beyond our comprehension. It looks like we have an attitude that water levels have gone above our heads; does it matter, whether by six feet or six thousand feet! We are truly done for, anyhow!

Portents of Wider Crisis

 None can escape the continuous tooting of the financial mess we are in. Everyone is affected; ordinary citizens, debtors and creditors. Who stands to lose more in the end is a tough call. It is plain logic; bigger the amount owed, the lender loses more sleep than the borrower. The former is promised repayment while the debtor can plead hard luck, say sorry, and wash off his hands! There is inherent risk in lending and it has been an endless story from time immemorial!

Seven Surprising Facts about Bones

1. Bone is alive.
Bones may seem hard as a rock, but actually bone is alive. A group cells called osteoblasts, are constantly making new bone. There was also a group of cells called osteoclasts, which serves to destroy the bone.

The process of destruction and creation of new bone called bone remodeling. The bone grow rapidly over the young. At the old age, new bone formation is balanced by the destruction, so thinning of the bones can occur.

Best and Affordable Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas

Valentine’s day is coming soon and many may be thinking about what gift to give, on this special holiday. I am here to help you and these gifts are special, easy to find and from my personal gift giving experiences. Here are some best and affordable Valentine’s day gift ideas.

For the movie lover, nothing says love more than movie tickets. This gift is fun, unusual and helps the recipient enjoy their favorite movie. What could be better? Give two tickets to a single person, so they can take the love of their life to a movie. If the gift is for your sweetie, present them a few days before the movie, so you two can make plans together. Knowing the movie preferences is a must, but you can always give a movie gift card, too.

Things You Should Know About Energy Drinks

Athletes, young adults, and even students studying for exams rave about energy drinks. The brands and varieties that are currently available in the market are countless, including Red Bull, Pimp Juice, Rage, Monster, etc. These drinks claim to boost your sports performance or make you more alert – or both.

So, where lies the danger? What makes the energy drink kick are the stimulants in it, such as caffeine, ginseng, guarana, ginko biloba, and taurine. According to Kathleen Zelman, MPH, RD/LH, a nutrition expert, some energy drinks have as much caffeine as five cups of coffee—or ten times as much as a can of cola. Sugar in large amounts is a definite ingredient in many of these drinks.

Career as a Successful Freelance Writer

Start Out Small and Work Your Way Up as Your Portfolio Grows

Websites like Wikinut.com allow new freelance writers to earn money while building a strong portfolio. Start out small, writing only articles about topics you already know. Researching is one of the hardest jobs a freelancer has so get into the flow of writing about familiar topics before jumping into topics you need to research.

Top 10 American Idol 2011 Albums

Scotty McCreery debuted at the top spot of the Billboard Hot 200 with his post-American Idol album "Clear as Day," with the first week sales of 197,000 copies. The recent sales update (first week of 2012) showed that the album is close to selling a million copies after 14 weeks since release. It also went straight to the top of the Billboard country albums charts.

Kelly Clarkson's fifth studio album 'Stronger" was released on October 24, 2011 and was the second bestselling album among the 2011 alumni releases.

Buddhist and Arabic era

Vagbhata, another Buddhist physician living in the Indus region (Second century AD) wrote two classics in "Ayurveda Ashanga Sangraha" and "Ashtanga Hridaya". Vagbbata emphasised the principles of medicine, Susruta dealt mainly with surgery and anatomy, while Charaka emphasized therapeutics. The Yoga concept of physical and mental culture to preserve the health of the body and the mind developed in India. Even when the Aryan influx into India brought in Ayurveda, other systems of medicine such as Siddha and Chintamoni existed in this sub-continent, especially in the South from pre-Aryan times. The Buddha (6th Century BC) and his disciples practiced medicine and consequently healing of the sick was given a great importance.

Scientific Era

 From these ancient times medicine progressively emerged as a scientific discipline, under going periodic changes in its content and approach. The sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries witnessed the growth of the modern physical sciences and its scientific methods of study and analysis. Vesalius, born in 1514 in Brussel, made extensive observations in anatomy and produced his classical work on anatomy "De humanis corporis fabrica" in 1543. William Harvey, a British Physician, published his classical work on circulation of blood. "De mortu Cordis" in 1628. It was Harvey who established the scientific basis of medicine.

Asclepiad Hippocrates era

Hippocrates embodied the ideal virtues of a physician such as knowledge, readiness to help, purity of life, compassion, skill and patriotism. Hippocratic medicine was based on practice as well as theory, with little emphasis on anatomy. The history of Indian medicine dates back to 3000 BC and the excavations of Mohanjadaro and Harappa throw light on medical practices that flourished at that age which consisted mainly of religious, magical and empirical procedures.

2011 Twelve Biggest News

January
Southern Sudan - Southern Sudan or Republic of Sudan got it independence and Juba, the largest city of Southern Sudan , become the capital.
Arab Uprising - Government of Tunisia falls , when President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabia after 23 years in power.

February
Arab Uprising - Government of Egypt collapsed when President Hosni Mubarak finally resign after 30 years of presidency and dictatorship .

Things Life is Too Short to Tolerate

• People who bring you down. – Relationships should help you, not hurt you. Spend time with nice people who are smart, driven and like minded.

• A work environment or career field you hate. – Don’t settle on the first or second career field you dabble in. Keep searching. Eventually you will find work you love to do. If you catch yourself working hard and loving every minute of it, don’t stop. You’re on to something big. Because hard work ain’t hard when you concentrate on your passions.

Learn about heratworm infestation

Heart-worm is a parasite that has made huge inroads into our canine and feline population in the past years causing serious health concerns for pets across the United States.

The most unfortunate aspect of canine and feline heart-worm infestations is that they are almost completely preventable. I will discuss the history of heart-worms, infection, clinical signs, treatments, and most importantly, prevention.

using more punctuation

When teaching kids to use punctuation I make a pyramid and flip it upside down. 

Level 4 . ? , ! : ; ( ) - ...
Level 3 . ? , ! :
Level 2 . ? ,
Level 1 . 

Create a pyramid. 
Hide level 2,3,4 
Ask who can write something using level 1 (just a period) 

Mark Feehily Announces Split

"Sadly, Kevin & I are no longer together. We've had an amazin 7yrs & are both so thankful for the love & support u have shown us from the start. We won't be answering any questions about this as its a very private matter. Thanks in advance for understanding that. Lots of love, Mx." This was a statement posted by Westlife Star Mark Feehilly on Twitter.

Steps on How to Avoid Stress in Your Life

You often hear people say to you, ” don’t call me because I’m in a lot of stress right now”. When you’re at work, you hear your co-worker talking about being stressed at work. When you’re at home you’ll hear your daughter complaining because of stress related activities from school. And once in a while, if not most of the time, you’ll hear yourself saying, “I’m too tired and too stressed to go to the gym to workout”. It’s seems like stress is all around us and cannot be avoided, but that’s not true. You can reduce stress if you want to and here are some steps to follow. 

Destressing By Pinpointing Stress Factors

Pinpoint what your biggest stress factors are by keeping a pen and paper handy and jotting down every time something occurs that stresses you out over the course of two to three days. Write it down as it occurs so you won't forget what you were stressed out about and why.

Find A Workable Solution

Now that you have pinpointed the things that stress you out, focus on the top three stressors and try to find a workable solution. If your stress is coming from rushing in the mornings and still being late, set your alarm clock to go off 30 minutes earlier or prepare some things the night before. If your stress is coming from being over-scheduled in the afternoons and evenings with chauffeuring duties and household chores, what can you say "no" too or what duties can you delegate?

Prioritize

Make a priority list of what has to be done today, this week, this month. Stick with the listed items and mark them off your list as you accomplish them. Sometimes the feeling of panic and stress comes from the thinking you have 567 things that must be done by Friday. When you break those things down and list them in order of priority, you may see there's only three things you absolutely must get done today, only five things done by Friday and a little leeway for the rest of the month.

Stress Kills

If you can catch up to any woman for a moment between her cooking, cleaning, working, chauffeuring and other duties to ask her if she's stressed out, it's good guess that she will answer "Yes!"

Benefits of Apple juice

• A glass of apple juice can help those who suffer from indigestion problems because of the fibre content it has.

• The anti-oxidant nature it carries helps in fighting the toxins in our body and best fruit for both prevention and cure.

• Apple helps in muscular relaxation when our body is stressed out completely.

Getting Started

Professional bloggers already know several money making blogging secrets that has helped them earn a good income from blogging. For instance, I recently read an article that was published by Writer’s Digest about an avid blogger that was earning $5000 per month posting content on her blog about advertisers’ products and services. After reading the article, I was truly astonished you can make that amount of money each month from blogging. I wanted to know more on how I could increase my blog’s earnings potential too.

Money, Money, Money

What makes you think you can get rich with Adsense?

That’s an unpleasant question. And most of people would come up with an answer: “because I work hard or I’m smart.” Are you one of those people? If that’s the way you are thinking right now, then I can easily guess that your daily Adsense income is below $20 a day, isn’t it?

best website for yourself to earn

Introduction

Many website guarantee you to make hundreds of dollars per day income but trust me there is no short cut to success . Just like in real life you have to do hard work , internet earning is no difference . However, we should understand this , it is not for everyone , as every one of us do not have same qualities.

Its Forever Never Ever to Part

For when it is true love it is meant to be,
For he will do ANYTHING to break free.
To be the one and only for the love true,
Glad that love is happening in form of you.

Safety

Among the moral and legal obligations of a corporation
To ensure its workers safety from injury or impact a present debilitation
Thus could be an added expense which may deplete those profits
But this could be minimal compared with that of litigation if this they neglect

Microsoft essential

Version 1 was focused only on anti-virus and anti-spyware protection, which was the basic protection needs. But with time it as extended to better protection.
Version 2 comes with network protection only for windows 7 and windows vista user. Windows xp couldn't get this feature, you can use avast which gives you web protection.
Version 4, Microsoft skips version 3 and had released version 4 beta. It’s only available in limited.

voice controlled playing

The voice command system of Siri is another benefit for your video experience. With this intelligent assistant, you can play video or music without your touch of any buttons; all you have to do is giving a command. For instance, if you are in the mood to play the movie Thor, just talk to Siri as you would to a person: “Play the Thor.” Then Siri will find the right video to play. Sounds good, hah? On the other hand, iPhone 4S has outstanding battery life, which supports10 hours' video playback and 40 hours' music enjoyment. The great enhanced battery life gives you much more entertainment of video playing.

Share 1080p stunning video recording

Thanks to iPhone 4S’s advanced backside illumination sensor, larger aperture and improved auto white balance, you can shoot amazing 1080p HD videos everywhere, and all these videos you record outside by iPhone 4S look much better than you remember.

Skip Megavideo Time Limit

All of you guys may be knowing about the website megavideo. A place to watch movies, videos etc. Some say’s megavideo is better than youtube. Anyway the biggest trouble with megavideo is it has a time limit of 72 minutes. After watching 72 minutes of a video you have to wait some time to watch the next. This is very disturbing if you are watching a movie. But I have found a way to skip the megavideo time limit. You will need google chrome for this and a google app called mega skipper. You download it from google.

The Top Three Comma Errors

Commas Before a List

When a sentence flows naturally into a list, a comma is not needed.

I like to eat, sheep, cows, plums, and dragons.

The above sentence is incorrect because of the comma between “eat” and “sheep.” Eliminate the comma to make it correct.

I like to eat sheep, cows, plums, and dragons.

10 steps for the year 2012 to good health

1. Check and examine your BMI(Body mass index) by calculating weight divided by height in metre squared. The ideal value is 23, you should train and aim for at least 25. The mathematics of BMI is a dynamic equation between calories consumed and burned.

2. Don’t be stationary but get moving. Doctors now recommend walking or running for at least 50 minutes every day moving your arms vigorously. You can also try climbing stairs for 30 minutes at least.

3. De-stress your mind by trying methods like Tai-Chi, Yoga or meditation.

Nine Easy Ways to Flatten Stomach

1. Drink plenty of water. Actually, when you drink water, you are providing your intake of calorie-free food. Another additional benefit is to provide a lubricant to facilitate the body's metabolism.

2. Eat a bowl of raspberries. The fruit is safe to be used as a snack because it is rich in fiber, so it saves you from constipation.

Checking Your Profile Name in Search Engines

Having an online profile name is an image that you portray, therefore, look at your profile as a brand name that you need to manage, promote, and establish a good image for social reputation and credibility.

1. It is important that you check your profile name (or googling yourself) from time to time in search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, and many others. In this way, you will be able to monitor how your profile rates publicly.

chlorine table best for purifying water

The best as well as the most reliable strategy to sanitize drinking water is by utilizing the 3 inch chlorine tablets. These 3 inch chlorine tables offer an alternative to gaseous chlorine and also bleach and other non-dependable methods of purifying water. They are totally harmless but at the same time provide safety against bacteria, infection as well as other microorganisms and toxins found in normal drinking water.

Revise past papers

Go through the previous examination papers. This is very vital as it enables you to have a feel of how examinations in that course are set. Sometimes you might even come across a question similar to or the same question as was the previous year’s paper. Going through the past year’s papers also increases your confidence if you are capable of answering the questions. Be careful here as the same past questions can

Hard topics of the course last

Study the tough aspects of the course a few days before the examination date. Be careful here however, because if it so happens that you fail to understand them, then you will end up being in trouble if a question is set on that topic. In view of this strive to understand the tough aspects of the course much earlier and then polish up a few days before the date of the examination. The essence of this technique is

Grasp the simple aspects of the course first

Start by studying the simple aspects of the course and make sure you have really understood them. This is a very pertinent technique if you are to get into the examination with enough confidence. Remember you need enough confidence and a lot of it when going into the examination room. When you come across questions on the simple aspects of the course you can easily answer them and this instils confidence in you. You begin to feel more capable of handling even the tough questions of the examination.

The objectives of the course are vital

Check the objectives for each course. This is very vital. Sometimes lecturers do not issue out objectives to their courses but would simply hand out course outlines. Follow them up for course objectives as these provide you with the aim of the course and what you really need to know within that course is well documented. The problem associated with using course outlines for studying is that they do not really pin point the relevant concepts of the course and those required to grasp. All they do is to inform you that study on this and that. They are just like an individual showing you the direction of a city where you are heading to, but without really telling you how far you have to go in that direction in order to arrive at that city. Thus study along with your course objectives and you will see yourself grasping the relevant material of your course outlines.