MAFIA SPIRIT: 01/29/12

Sunday, January 29, 2012

FACEBOOK GOING PUBLIC? AS WE AWAIT TIMELINE

FACEBOOK, The social-networking website could file for its initial public offering (IPO) as early as Wednesday. This could coincide with the world-wide release of the Facebook Timeline, which is due to be made mandatory to all Facebook users soon.

According to Facebook.com Statistics, there are more than 800 million active users of the service and more than 50% of those users log onto Facebook everyday. Approximately 80% of Facebook’s users do not reside in the United States. Facebook is estimated to be worth between $75 to $100 billion. This all makes Facebook an attractive investment.

According to Sean Parker, creator of Napster and former president of Facebook, “CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to keep the company private as long as possible to build it.” He also stated that “It is “inevitable” that Facebook will go public.”

The rumors and news stories are flying in anticipation of what could be “one of the largest IPO offerings in history,” as also stated by Sean Parker.

Here are a few videos from CNBC.com

Napster Co-Founder on Facebook IPO
The Facebook IPO is "inevitable" said Sean Parker, Napster co-founder in an interview at Davos on CNBC.com

Facebook’s biggest investor does not think there is a tech bubble, and said he’s “pretty sure” the company can continue to grow for a long time once it becomes public. CNBC.com

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STRANGER’S SWAG – TAROT READER

The Tarot Reader Is The Next Stranger’s Swag.

Tarot Reader

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Tarot reading revolves around the belief that the cards can be used to gain insight into the past, current and possible future situations of the subject (or querent), i.e. cartomancy. Some believe they are guided by a spiritual force, while others believe the cards help them tap into a collective unconscious or their own creative, brainstorming subconscious. The divinatory meanings of the cards commonly used today are derived mostly from cartomancer Jean-Baptiste Alliette who was also known as Etteilla.

The tarot ( /ˈ t ær oʊ /; first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi, tarock, and others) is a pack of cards (most commonly numbering 78), used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play a group of card games such as Italian tarocchini and French tarot. From the late 18th century until the present time the tarot has also found use by mystics and occultists in efforts at divination or as a map of mental and spiritual pathways.

The tarot has four suits (which vary by region, being the French suits in Northern Europe, the Latin suits in Southern Europe, and the German suits in Central Europe). Each of these suits has pip cards numbering from ace to ten and four face cards for a total of 14 cards. In addition, the tarot is distinguished by a separate 21-card trump suit and a single card known as the Fool. Depending on the game, the Fool may act as the top trump or may be played to avoid following suit.^[1]
François Rabelais gives tarau as the name of one of the games played by Gargantua in his Gargantua and Pantagruel;^[2] this is likely the earliest attestation of the French form of the name.^{[citation needed]} Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play card games. InEnglish-speaking countries, where these games are largely unknown, tarot cards are now used primarily for divinatory purposes.^[1]^[3]Occultists call the trump cards and the Fool "the major arcana" while the ten pip and four court cards in each suit are called minor arcana. The cards are traced by some occult writers to ancient Egypt or the Kabbalah but there is no documented evidence of such origins or of the usage of tarot for divination before the 18th century.^[1]