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Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into The Mayan Prediction About Civilization’s End

Why did the Mayan skywatchers choose December 21st, 2012 A.D., as the end of their Long Count calendar? We know that the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan “Long Count” system of timekeeping was set to end exactly on a winter solstice. The story began 2300 years ago. What is really incredible is that these ancient Mayans skywatchers were able to predict a winter solstice so far off into the future.

After exhaustive research, I have determined that the following is the definitive explanation for why and how the Mayans chose December 21, 2012.

It all has to do with the Mayan Sacred Tree ~ the crossing point of the ecliptic with the band of the Milky Way. There is further evidence of this in the ancient monument that references the “end date” 13 Baktun of the Tortuguero Monument 6. If you realize that a transit is “When Mercury or Venus passes in front of the Sun’s disk as seen from Earth.”  “Mercury transits happen about 12 times in a century.”   Not so important. But, the transits of Venus — the planet about which the Mayans were particularly interested — are “a very rare sight, about 12 times per millennium!”   Several scholars have suggested that the 2012 transit of Venus is all part of the 2012 A.D. end of the world scenario. Basically the “1 degree every 72 years” rule of precession is extremely important. In this way, back in 3114 B.C. the sun conjuncted the Sacred Tree on Oct 10th, which is 72 degrees, or 1/5th of the ecliptic from the winter solstice.

So, there you have it! Any questions?

Other possible Conclusions

OR…

As one Mayan said to another,

“Do you think they’ll be smart enough to figure out that we only had enough room up to 2012. If not, this could really lead to some great end of the world theories!”

When in doubt…

Two Great Gifts For Valentine’s Day

For that Special Valentine in your life,

you might want to consider the following two GREAT GIFT IDEAS.

They are free

No tax

No special equipment needed,

No batteries or parts

Always arrive on time

Guaranteed to please

Extremely Personal

Shipping is free

Great for last minute gift ideas

and they are returnable

A MASSAGE

AND A HUG

Just open up your arms

And open up your hearts.

Research shows that our skin is teeming

with nerve fibres which spring into action when we are

cuddled, hugged, massaged or gently touched. 

They transmit the information back to the brain’s emotional hub,

creating feelings of pleasure.

Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone? ~ Shelly Long

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it’s from the heart. ~ Steve Irwin

A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away. ~ Bil Keane

But remember,

a hug without a squeeze

is like apple pie without cheese.

Who is Jeremy Lin and What is Linsanity?

What a great inspiration for all players who sit on the bench!

You don’t have to be a basketball or NBA fan to love the Jeremy Lin story.

If you like sports, or stories about underdogs, or Fairy Tales like Cinderella, then you’ll enjoy following this fascinating developing story.

Full name: Jeremy Shu-How Lin

Jeremy Lin scored 109 points in his first four NBA starts.

This is the most by any player in league history.

INCREDIBLE!

The Fairy Tale Continues

BELOW: YOUTUBE VIDEO OF JEREMY

SINKING WINNING BASKET AGAINST RAPTORS!

Notice how excited the Toronto Raptor Crowd is?

Tuesday February 14 ~ Valentine’s Day (great gift for basketball fans)

Against the Raptors, infront of a sold out crowd, Lin, ball in his hands, game on the line, counted down the seconds before drains a game-winning three-pointer with 0.5 seconds left.  Knicks sixth straight win since Linsanity began.

“I just wanted to make sure I got a good shot at the end of the clock,” he said on the television broadcast afterwards. “Jose Calderon backed up a half a step and I thought that was a good look for me.”

Lin created interest in Toronto on a weeknight in February.

If not for Linsanity, I would not have watched the game!

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Jeremy Lin Quotes:

“I was only 5-3. Luckily I grew. Maybe I was meant to be a basketball player.”

“I have a job again, yesss!’

 ”Coach D’Antoni is an absolute offensive genius,” said Lin, whose 38 points represented half his season total from 29 games last year for Golden State. “He makes us look good.”

“I don’t think anyone, including myself, saw this coming,” Lin told The Times.

“My whole thing as I try to live my life is have fun, explore your opportunities, your dreams, find something you’re passionate about, and then just go after it,” Lin said. “And I think that’s true for kids whether they play basketball, or they want to do whatever they want to do. So, hopefully, I can be an inspiration to them.”

Quotes about Jeremy Lin

• “To see an actual live Asian American hero unfold before our eyes, it really is something special to us,” said Jerry Ma, 36, a Taiwanese American who works for a company that creates Asian American superhero characters. “It means a lot more than anyone could ever imagine.”

• “If you love sports, you have to love what Jeremy Lin is doing. Getting an opportunity and exploding.” ~ Steve Nash

• “I was like, ‘Wow, he had 25 in one game and everybody was going crazy.’ New York media, you know? And then it happened two more times and I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, it’s good. It’s good.’ … Looking from the outside in, everybody’s pretty happy for him. It’s good to see something special for the first time.” ~  Metta World Peace — Ron Artest

• “I know who he is, but I don’t really know what’s going on too much with him.” ~ Kobe Bryant

• “I hope he continues to play great basketball, because in my short time with him, he was class and quality.” ~Mark Jackson

• For all of their star power, for all of their wealth, the man who may save the Knicks’ season earns the NBA minimum, sleeps on his brother’s couch and less than a month ago wore a uniform with “Erie” across the chest. ~ Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated

• So rare, so improbable. Everyone stayed inside the Garden, listened to Lin’s on-court interview over the Garden sound system. M-V-P, they chanted. M-V-P.People stayed in seats, screaming, yelling, snapping photos. Out there, all alone, those gangly arms, that baby face…well, Lin hardly looks the part.That’s the beauty of him, of this story. That nothing is how it’s supposed to be, how we’ve ever witnessed a star burst onto the scene. ~ Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo

• I didn’t know he could dunk,” teammate Tyson Chandler told The Times. “When he’s going in for it, I go: ‘No, Jeremy! Just lay the ball up.’ And all of a sudden he dunks it.”

• He’s the type of guy who should wear leather pants.” – Metta World Peace — Ron Artest”

  Just call him Linderella 

  “Linderella story of the year,” O’Neal 

Jeremy Lin is the sensational point guard ( 6 feet three inches tall) who is sparking the NY Knicks of the National Basketball Association

No athletic scholarship out of high school

Harvard-educated

Jeremy Lin Harvard Stats

Lin finished his Harvard career as the first player in the history of the Ivy League to record at least 1,450 points (1,483), 450 rebounds (487), 400 assists (406) and 200 steals (225).

Undrafted

Signed, but later dropped, by the Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets without getting much of a chance to play, he was bought by the Knicks as a reserve point guard to help put their first choice through his paces.

The first American-born Asian player in the NBA since Wataru Misaka donned the orange and blue with the Knicks in 1947-48

Ratings on MSG network are up since Lin joined the lineup, and the NBA said some of its Asian TV partners have added Knicks games to their broadcast schedules so fans can see the league’s first American-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent.

Is very religious ~ like Tim Tebow!

Plays like Steve Nash

From wikipedia:

Lin had a career night on February 4, 2012, when he scored 25 points, grabbed 5 rebounds, and dished out 7 assists (against only 1 turnover) in a 99-92 Knicks victory over the Nets. The statistics for points, rebounds, and assists were all career highs for Lin. After the game, Knick coach Mike D’Antoni, while being interviewed by the MSG Network, said Lin has a point-guard mentality and “a rhyme and a reason for what he is doing out there”^[79]. In the subsequent game against the Utah Jazz, Lin had 28 points and eight assists, new career highs.^[80] On February 10, 2012, Lin scored a new career high 38 points and had seven assists, leading the Knicks in their victory over the Los Angeles Lakers with a score of 92–85.^[81] He scored 89 points in his first three career starts, the most by any player since the merger between the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the NBA in 1976-77.^[82]

Jeremy Lin slept on NY Knicks teammate Landry Fields’ couch before he became famous!

He will be able to afford a FEW couches of his own, now!

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Source: Infographic World

GRANDPARENTS DAY

Also known as National Grandparents Day

it is celebrated on the first Sunday after Labor Day,

which falls in the month of September.

In 2012, Grandparents Day will be celebrated on September 9

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.  ~Author Unknown

Grandmothers are just antique little girls.  ~Author Unknown

Grandfathers are just antique little boys.  ~Author Unknown

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.  ~Welsh Proverb

HAPPY GRANDMA AND GRANDPA DAY

HAPPY CHOCOLATE DAY TO ALL CHOCOHLICS

February 9th IS HAPPY CHOCOLATE DAY ~ A day worth celebrating!

The phrase Happy Chocolate Day began trending across the United States on Twitter. Good for you Twitter!

 Chocolate in moderation is healthy for the heart and could reduce high blood-pressure.

NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT IT IS BEST TO EAT CHOCOLATE IN THE MORNING. 

If it ain’t chocolate, it ain’t breakfast!

Famous Quotes About Chocolate

After about 20 years of marriage, I’m finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want.

And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate. Mel Gibson

Chocolate Wisdom
Good Living

is an act of intelligence,

by which we choose things

which have an agreeable taste

rather than those which do not.

Brillat-Savarin

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. Charles M. Schulz

Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate. Jo Brand

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces Judith Viorst

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good. Mariska Hargita

A LITTLE HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE

The Aztecs held the COCOA bean in high regard, using it for currency. They also used it to create a luxury drink. The Mayans harvested cocoa bean from rain forests and worshiped the intoxicating substance as an idol. SMART PEOPLE!

Columbus became the first European to discover cocoa during his fourth voyage to the New World. He returned to Europe with the beans, but they were overlooked for other treasures. DUMB PEOPLE!

Grandchildren, Grandparents and Valentine’s Day

Winter in Canada

WINTER  POEM

It’s winter in Canada

And the gentle breezes blow

Seventy miles an hour

At  thirty-five  below.

Oh, how I love Canada

When the snow’s up to your butt

You take a  breath of winter

And your nose gets frozen  shut.

Yes, the weather here is wonderful

So I guess I’ll hang around

I could  never leave Canada

Cuz I’m frozen to the ground!

Have a great day…

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98% OF CANADIANS SAY “OH  SHIT” BEFORE GOING IN THE DITCH ON A  SLIPPERY   ROAD.
THE OTHER 2% ARE FROM NEWFOUNDLAND AND THEY SAY, “HOLD MY BEER AND  WATCH THIS.”

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Please check out the following Winter In Canada Humor.

http://www.e-forwards.com/2011/01/winter-wonderland-fail-moving-to-florida/

HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY

Groundhog Day is a holiday (not official) celebrated on February 2 in the United States and Canada. 

Groundhogs are woodchucks, members of the squirrel family, marmots, sometimes called “whistle-pigs.” 

According to folklore,

if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day, it will leave the burrow, signifying that winter-like weather will soon end.

If it is sunny, the groundhog will supposedly see its shadow and retreat back into its burrow, and the winter weather will continue for six more weeks.

The largest Groundhog Day celebration is held in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. ~ wikipedia

Full name of Punxsutawney Phil

~ ”Punxsutawney Phil, Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages,

Prognosticator of Prognosticators and

Weather Prophet Extraordinaire.”

In Canada, it was 1956 before Wiarton Willie ( Canadian cousin to Punxsutawney Phil ) became a household name for his early February prognostications. Wiarton is a pretty town of 2,300 on the Bruce Peninsula between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay.

In Scotland, the tradition may also derive from an English poem:

As the light grows longer
The cold grows stronger
If Candlemas be fair and bright
Winter will have another flight
If Candlemas be cloud and rain
Winter will be gone and not come again
A farmer should on Candlemas day
Have half his corn and half his hay
On Candlemas day if thorns hang a drop
You can be sure of a good pea crop

The Groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, is right about 40% of the time!

What day is today?

Over breakfast one morning, a woman said to her husband, “I’ll bet you don’t know what special day this is.”

“Of course I do,” he answered as if he was offended, and left for the office.

At 10:00 a.m., the doorbell rang and when the woman opened the door, she was handed a box of a dozen long stemmed red roses. At 1:00 p.m., a foil-wrapped, two-pound box of her favorite chocolates was delivered. Later, a boutique delivered a designer dress.

The woman couldn’t wait for her husband to come home.

“First the flowers, then the chocolates and then the dress!” she exclaimed. 

“I’ve never had a more wonderful Groundhog Day in my life!

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Best Super Bowl Ad Ever – Mean Joe Greene Returns

The Best Super Bowl ad of all time is making a comeback — with a little help from comedian Amy Sedaris and Downey Unstopables.

Mean Joe Greene, the former Pittsburgh Steeler star, recreated his 1979 Super Bowl ad for Coca-Cola in a spot for Downey Unstopables In-Wash Scent Booster.