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Can you believe it?
Catagory:Facts
Author:Encyclopedia
Posted Date:04/08/2025
Posted By:utopia online

 A female oyster produces 100 million young in her lifetime, the typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year, and it is possible for one female cat to be responsible for the birth of 20,736 kittens in four years. Michelle Duggar holds the record for largest human family, having given birth to 17 children.  A spider's web is not a home, but rather a trap for its food. They are as individual as snowflakes, with no two ever being the same. Some tropical spiders have built webs over eighteen feet across.  Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface do not have eyes.  The Morgan's Sphinx Moth from Madagascar has a proboscis (tube mouth) that is 12 to 14 inches long to get the nectar from the bottom of a 12 inch deep orchid discovered by Charles Darwin.  The top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour. Some moths can fly 25 miles per hour!  Babies are born without kneecaps. They do not appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.  A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.  Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.  Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.


Type:Technology
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A Different Olympic Games
Catagory: History
Author:BILL O’NEILL
Posted Date:04/08/2025
Posted By:utopia online

The Olympic Games have been around for over a century, and during that time have included different sports that you would not even think were actually a sport. Some have only appeared once before then vanishing into oblivion, and one such example has to be the 1904 Olympics that were based in St. Louis. Now, the games were not on the same scale as they are now, with fewer countries and substantially fewer competitors, but it is the actual events that we are more concerned about. At these games, you were able to represent your country in 3 events that just defy belief. First, there was the pole climbing event. Yes, pole climbing. Next, there was rock throwing—and imagine trying to win a gold medal by throwing a rock. Finally, there was mud fighting, which has to win an award for the most bizarre event ever. Also, they would aim them at what were classed as ‘tribal’ people, and it’s no surprise that the Olympic Games in 1904 ended up being a complete and utter disaster.


Type:Technology
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The Lost Lands of Mu and Lemuria
Catagory: History
Author:Brian Haughton
Posted Date:04/08/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Lemuria and Mu are interchangeable names given to a lost land supposedly located somewhere in the southern Pacific Ocean. This ancient continent was apparently the home of an advanced and highly spiritual culture, perhaps the mother race of all mankind, but it sank beneath the waves many thousands of years ago as the result of a geological cataclysm of some kind. The thousands of rocky islands scattered throughout the Pacific (including Easter Island, Tahiti, Hawaii, and Samoa) are said to be the only surviving remains of this once great continent. This theory of a physical and spiritual lost land has been put forward by many different people, most notably in the mid-19th century by scientists in order to explain the unusual distribution of various animals andplants around the Indian and Pacific Oceans. In the late 19th century, occultist Madame Blavatsky approached the idea of Lemuria from a spiritual angle and influenced many thereafter to do the same, including psychic healer and prophet Edgar Cayce. The popularization of Lemuria/Mu as a physical place began in the 20th century, with exBritish army officer Colonel James Churchward, and the idea still has many adherents today. But is there any physical evidence to back up these claims of an ancient continent under the Pacific Ocean? Or should these lost homeland stories be interpreted in another way entirely, perhaps as the symbol of a mythical vanished Golden Age of man? The land of Mu does not actually have a particularly long history, nor is it mentioned in any ancient mythologies, as some writers have suggested. The title Mu originated with eccentric amateur archaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon (1826-1908), who was the first to make photographical records of the ruins of the archaeological site of Chichen Itza in Yucatan, Mexico. Plongeon's credibility was badly damaged by his attempted translation of a Mayan book known as the Troana Codex (also known as the Madrid Codex). In his books, Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayans and Quiches (1886) and Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphinx (1896), Plongeon interpreted part of the text of the Troana Codex as revealing that the Maya of Yucatan were the ancestors of the Egyptians and many other civilizations. He also believed that an ancient continent, which he called Mu, had been destroyed by a volcanic eruption, the survivors of this cataclysm founding the Mayan civilization. Plongeon equates Mu with Atlantis and states that a "Queen Moo," originally from Atlantis, traveled to Egypt, where she became known as Isis, and founded the Egyptian civilization. However,Plongeon's interpretation of the Mayan book is considered by experts in Mayan archaeology and history as completely erroneus. Indeed, much of what he interpreted as hieroglyphics turned out to be ornamental design.


Type:Technology
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Get Clear On Where Do You Want to Go
Catagory:Reading
Author:Dean Graziosi
Posted Date:04/08/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Here’s a story that will help you think about where you want to end up versus the place you don’t. A dear friend took a church group of 18 boys on an adventure trip to Durango, Colorado, where they planned to go whitewater rafting. When they arrived, the guide informed them that the rapids were higher and stronger than they had been in many years. Rapids range on a scale from 1 to 5, and most of the ones they were going to experience were 4’s. Anxious about their safety, the guide made them do practice drills many times during the first mile of the adventure. The guide kept hammering into their heads one idea: the “positive point”. He said, “Boys, when I point, I will always be pointing to where we want to go. I will never point at the downed tree we could get caught on or the jagged rock that could puncture the raft. If I pointed to what we didn’t want to hit, that’s where all your focus would go, and I assure you we would run right into it. Don’t worry if we get even inches from the rocks, you just focus on the positive point and use all your energy and attention to get us there.” With this positive point to guide them, their minds focused on the solution (steering into a clearing) rather than the obstacle (crashing into the rocks). The chances of them actually getting in trouble decreased substantially. And yes, it’s easier said than done, but once you begin focusing on what you do want rather than on what you don’t want, it becomes a success habit that can completely change the outcome of so many things in your life. When this chapter’s lesson becomes a part of you, you may look at the jagged rocks for a second when something goes wrong, but then you’ll immediately look for that clearing, the “positive point”. And the more you practice this, the more likely you’ll look only at the clearing when life puts you in a spin. For years I’ve taught this truth: When you focus on the outcome rather than the obstacle, your life will never be the same. How do you think John Paul DeJoria and the richest men and women in the world became so successful? By having a clear vision of where they wanted to go and then taking action towards it. Most of us want more out of life, but we aren’t specific enough with our intentions, so we don’t know how to get there. That’s why you may be sidetracked by phone calls and e-mails. It’s why you may feel disorganized, stressed, or overwhelmed. It’s why you may have the feeling that America is just not the same as it used to be and there is no opportunity for you to go to that next level— completely false beliefs.There’s more opportunity now than ever before! This might be one of the greatest times in history to get ahead of the curve. However, first and foremost, you must have your destination locked in and create the map you need to get to that next level of life. Once you find a truly crystal-clear vision, things that once bugged you or slowed you down no longer have any power to stop you from achieving your goal.


Type:Technology
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When Started ? Part 2
Catagory: History
Author:-
Posted Date:04/07/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Drill: From 35,000 bc The earliest drills were probably pointed stones that people spun between the palms of their hands.Later, sticks were spun like this to make fire.People also discovered that they could spin the drill faster by wrapping a cord around it, tying the ends of the cord to a wooden bow, and pushing this back and forth. This bow drill was used in some parts of the world until recent times. Matches: were invented by John Walker in 1826 when he discovered that certain chemicalsm sparked when scraped. Fish hook: From 35,000 bc The earliest method of catching a fish was with a piece of stone, pointed at both ends, baited, and tied to a line.This gorge, as it is called,simply jammed in the fish’s throat. The first real fish hooks were developed by the earliest “modern” humans, the CroMagnons. They caught their fish using a barbed bone hook,one of the many small,specialized tools they made using the versatile burin that they had perfected. Writing: The earliest writing consisted of symbols marked on clay and it was in use for a long time. This clay tablet (dating to around 2350 bce) was engraved with a count of goats and sheep. Written language (as opposed to symbols) began to emerge in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) in 3200 bce and in Mesoamerica (modern-day Central America) in 600 bce.


Type:Technology
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The Nebra Sky Disc
Catagory: History
Author:Brian HaughLon
Posted Date:04/07/2025
Posted By:utopia online

The Nebra Sky Disc is one of the most fascinating, and some would say controversial, archaeological finds of recent years. Dated to 1600 B.C., this bronze disc has a diameter of 32 centimeter (about the size of a vinyl LP) and weighs around 4 pounds. It is patinated blue-green and embossed with gold leaf symbols, which appear to represent a crecent moon, the sun (or perhaps a full moon), stars, a curved gold band (interpreted as a sun boat), and a further gold band on the edge of the disc (which probably represent one of the horizons). Another gold band on the opposite side is missing. The object was discovered in 1999 by treasure hunters using a metal detector at a prehistoric enclosure encircling the Mittelberg hill, near the town of Nebra in the Ziegelroda Forest, 112 miles southwest of Berlin, Germany. Unfortunately, the treasure hunters caused considerable damage to the disc during its crude removal from the ground, which included splintering its outer rim, losing one of the stars, and chipping a large piece off the gold disc. The looters subsequently attempted to sell the disc, along with two swords, two axes, a chisel, and fragments of armlets, to local archaeologists. But they discovered that, by law, the objects belonged to the state of Sachsen-Anhalt, where they were unearthed, so they could not be sold legally. In February 2003, they tried selling the disc to an antiquities collector in Switzerland for $400,000. However, the collector was actually working for the Swiss police as part of a sting operation to trap the group, which played out in the basement bar of the Hilton hotel in Basle. The group was subsequently arrested and the disc was recovered. It is now the property of the state of Sachsen-Anhalt.The disc illustrates the crescent moon, a sun or full moon, three arcs, and 23 stars dotted around (apparently at random). There is a further cluster of seven stars, identified as the Pleiades constellation. X-rays have revealed two more stars underneath the gold of the right arc, suggesting that the two arcs were added later than the other features. The blue-green background of the night sky was once colored a deep violet-blue, apparently by applying rotten eggs, causing a chemical reaction on the bronze surface. Running along the edge of the disc is a ring of holes punched through the metal, probably for attaching the disc to something, perhaps a piece of heavy cloth.So what exactly is the Nebra Sky Disc and what was it used for? Many researchers believe it is the oldest known realistic representation of the cosmos yet found, perhaps a kind of astronomical calculation tool to determine planting and harvest times. For thousands of years, all across northern Europe,monuments were aligned to mark the summer and winter solstices: Stonehenge in England, and Newgrange in Ireland, are good examples. As Bronze Age people were an agricultural society, a method for finding out the time of year (and thus the correct times for planting and harvesting crops) was obviously vital. One way of doing this was to identify the position of the sun at sunrise and sunset.


Type:Technology
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Keep your eyes on the prize
Catagory:Reading
Author:Chandler, Steve
Posted Date:04/07/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Most of us never really focus. We constantly feel a kind of irritating psychic chaos because we keep trying to think of too many things at once. There's always too much up there on the screen.There was an interesting motivational talk on this subject given by former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson to his football players before the 1993 Super Bowl:"I told them that if I laid a two-by-four across the room, everybody there would walk across it and not fall, because our focus would be that we were going to walk that two-by-four, But if I put that same two-by-four 10 stories high between two buildings only a few would make it, because the focus would be on falling. Focus is everything. The team that is more focused today is the team that will win this game." Johnson told his team not to be distracted by the crowd, the media, or the possibility of losing, but to focus on each play of the game itself just as if it were a good practice session. The Cowboys won the game 52-17.There's a point to that story that goes way beyond football. Most of us tend to lose our focus in life because we're perpetually worried about so many negative possibilities. Rather than focusing on the two-by-four,we worry about all the ramifications of falling. Rather than focusing on our goals, we are distracted by our worries and fears.But when you focus on what you want, it will come into your life.When you focus on being a happy and motivated person, that is who you will be.


Type:Technology
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Effective Strategic Management
Catagory:Reading
Author:Fred R. David
Posted Date:04/04/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Failing to follow certain guidelines in conducting strategic management can foster criticisms of the process and create problems for the organization. Issues such as “Is strategic management in our firm a people process or a paper process?” should be addressed.Even the most technically perfect strategic plan will serve little purpose if it is not implemented. Many organizations tend to spend an inordinate amount of time, money, and effort on developing the strategic plan, treating the means and circumstances under which it will be implemented as afterthoughts! Change comes through implementation and evaluation, not through the plan. A technically imperfect plan that is implemented well will achieve more than the perfect plan that never gets off the paper on which it is typed. Strategic management must not become a self-perpetuating bureaucratic mechanism. Rather, it must be a self-reflective learning process that familiarizes managers and employees in the organization with key strategic issues and feasible alternatives for resolving those issues. Strategic management must not become ritualistic, stilted, orchestrated, or too formal, predictable, and rigid. Words supported by numbers, rather than numbers supported by words, should represent the medium for explaining strategic issues and organizational responses. A key role of strategists is to facilitate continuous organizational learning and change. R. T. Lenz offered some important guidelines for effective strategic management: Keep the strategic-management process as simple and nonroutine as possible.Eliminate jargon and arcane planning language. Remember, strategic management is a process for fostering learning and action, not merely a formal system for control. To avoid routinized behavior, vary assignments, team membership, meeting formats, and the planning calendar. The process should not be totally predictable, and settings must be changed to stimulate creativity. Emphasize word-oriented plans with numbers as back-up material. If managers cannot express their strategy in a paragraph or so, they either do not have one or do not understand it. Stimulate thinking and action that challenge the assumptions underlying current corporate strategy. Welcome bad news. If strategy is not working, managers desperately need to know it. Further, no pertinent information should be classified as inadmissible merely because it cannot be quantified. Build a corporate culture in which the role of strategic management and its essential purposes are understood. Do not permit “technicians” to co-opt the process. It is ultimately a process for learning and action. Speak of it in these terms. Attend to psychological, social, and political dimensions, as well as the information infrastructure and administrative procedures supporting it. An important guideline for effective strategic management is open-mindedness. A willingness and eagerness to consider new information, new viewpoints, new ideas, and new possibilities is essential; all organizational members must share a spirit of inquiry and learning. Strategists such as chief executive officers, presidents, owners of small businesses, and heads of government agencies must commit themselves to listen to and understand managers’ positions well enough to be able to restate those positions to the managers’ satisfaction. In addition, managers and employees throughout the firm should be able to describe the strategists’ positions to the satisfaction of the strategists. This degree of discipline will promote understanding and learning. No organization has unlimited resources. No firm can take on an unlimited amount of debt or issue an unlimited amount of stock to raise capital. Therefore, no organization can pursue all the strategies that potentially could benefit the firm. Strategic decisions thus always have to be made to eliminate some courses of action and to allocate organizational resources among others. Most organizations can afford to pursue only a few corporatelevel strategies at any given time. It is a critical mistake for managers to pursue too many strategies at the same time, thereby spreading the firm’s resources so thin that all strategies are jeopardized. Joseph Charyk, CEO of the Communication Satellite Corporation (Comsat), said, “We have to face the cold fact that Comsat may not be able to do all it wants. We must make hard choices on which ventures to keep and which to fold.” Strategic decisions require trade-offs such as long-range versus short-range considerations or maximizing profits versus increasing shareholders’ wealth. There are ethics issues too. Strategy trade-offs require subjective judgments and preferences. In many cases, a lack of objectivity in formulating strategy results in a loss of competitive posture and profitability. Most organizations today recognize that strategic-management concepts and techniques can enhance the effectiveness of decisions. Subjective factors such as attitudes toward risk, concern for social responsibility, and organizational culture will always affect strategy-formulation decisions, but organizations need to be as objective as possible in considering qualitative factors.


Type:Technology
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