Yeti really exists in himalyas check it out your self.

The Himalaya Mountains, the highest range on Earth, have been referred to as the "roof of the world." If that is so, there is a mystery called the Yeti in our attic. In Tibetan the word means "magical creature" and truly it is a seemingly supernatural enigma in the shape of a hairy, biped creature that resembles a giant ape.

The Himalayas lie on the border between India, Nepal, and Tibet (now part of China). They are remote and forbidding. Large stretches around these rough valleys and peaks are uninhabited. The tallest mountain in the world, Everest, 29,028 feet high, lies half in Nepal, half in China. It is from Nepal, though, that most attempts to climb Everest, and the surrounding mountains, are made.

In Katmandu, the capitol of Nepal, a visitor finds himself immersed in the Yeti legend. He is a commercial money maker for the tourist industry (there's even a Hotel named the "Yak and the Yeti") as well as legend, religion and fantasy to some of the Neplaese people.

The first reliable report of the Yeti appeared in 1925 when a Greek photographer, N. A. Tombazi, working as a member of a British geological expedition in the Himalayas, was shown a creature moving in the distance across some lower slopes. The creature was almost a thousand feet away in a narea with an altitude of around 15,000 feet.

"Unquestionably, the figure in outline was exactly like a human being, walking upright and stopping occasionally to uproot or pull at some dwarf rhododendron bushes," said Tombazi, "It showed up dark against the snow and, as far as I could make out wore no clothes."

The creature disappeared before Tombazi could take a photograph and was not seen again. The group was descending, though, and the photographer went out of his way to see the ground were he had spotted the creature. Tombazi found footprints in the snow.

"They were similar in shape to those of a man, but only six to seven inches long by four inches wide at the broadest part of the foot. The marks of five distinct toes and the instep were perfectly clear, but the trace of the heel was indistinct..."

There were 15 prints to be found. Each was one and one half to two feet apart. Then Tombazi lost the trail in thick brush. When the locals were asked to name the beast he'd seen they told him it was a "Kanchenjunga demon." Tombazi didn't think he'd seen a demon, but he couldn't figure out what the creature was either. Perhaps he'd seen a wandering Buddhist or Hindu ascetic or hermit. As the years went by though and other Yeti stories surfaced, Tombazi began to wonder if he'd seen one too.

Yeti reports usually come in the form of tracks found, pelts offered, shapes seen at a distance, or rarely, actual face-to-face encounters with the creatures. Face to face encounters never come with researchers looking for the Yeti, but with locals who stumble into the creature during their daily lives.

Some of the best tracks ever seen were found and photographed by British mountaineers Eric Shipton and Micheal Ward in 1951. They found them on the southwestern slopes of the Menlung Glacier, which lies between Tibet and Nepal, at an altitude of 20,000 feet. Each print was thirteen inches wide and some eighteen inches long. The tracks seemed fresh and Shipton and Ward followed the trail for a mile before it disappeared in hard ice.

Some scientists that viewed the photographs could not identify the tracks as from any known creature. Others, though, felt it was probably the trail of a languar monkey or red bear. They noted the tracks in snow, melted by the sun, can change shape and grow larger. Even so, the bear/monkey theory seems unlikely as both of these animals normally move on all four feet. The tracks were clearly that of a biped.

Shipton's and Ward's reputations argue against a hoax on their part and the remoteness and height of the trail's location argues against them being hoaxed.

Shipton's footprints were not the first or last discovered by climbers among the Himalayas. Even Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, on their record ascent to the top of Mount Everest, in 1953, found giant foot prints on the way up.

One of the more curious reports of a close encounter with a Yeti occurred in 1938. Captain d'Auvergue, the curator of the Victoria Memorial in Calcutta, India, was traveling the Himalayas by himself when he became snowblind. As he neared death from exposure he was rescued by a nine foot tall Yeti that nursed him back to health until d'Auvergue was able to return home by himself.

In many other stories, though, the Yeti hasn't been so benign. One Sherpa girl, who was tending her yaks, described being surprised by a large ape-like creature with black and brown hair. It started to drag her off, but seemed to be startled by her screams and let her go. It then savagely killed two of her yaks. She escaped with her life and the incident was reported to the police, who found footprints.

Several expeditions have been organized to track down the Yeti, but none have found more than footprints and questionable artifacts like scalps and hides. The London Daily Mail sent an expedition in 1954. American oil men Tom Slick and F. Kirk Johnson financed trips in 1957, 58, and 59. Probably the most well-known expedition went in 1960.

Sir Edmund Hillary, the same man that had first climbed Everest in 1953, lead the 1960 trip in association with Desmond Doig. The expedition was sponsored by the World Book Encyclopedia and was well outfitted with trip-wire cameras, as well as timelapse and infrared photography. Despite a ten-month stay the group failed to find any convincing evidence of the existence of the Yeti. The artifacts they examined, two skins and a scalp, turned out to belong to two blue bears and a serow goat.

At the time Hillary and Doig wrote off the Yeti as legend. Later, though, Doig decided that the expedition hadbeen too big and clumsy. They didn't see a Yeti, he agreed, but nor did they observe such animals like the snow leopard which was known to exist. Yeti Mandir in Himalyas.

After spending thirty years in the Himalayas Doig believes that the Yeti is actually exist. the three animals who attack in himalyas are  the first is what the Sherpas call the "dzu teh." Large shaggy animals that often attack cattle. Diog thinks this is probably the Tibetan blue bear. A creature so rare it is known only in the west through a few skins, bones and a skull. The second type, called "thelma," is probably a gibbon (a known type of ape) that Diog thinks may live as far north as Nepal, though it's never been spotted past the Brahmaputra River in India. The third Yeti, "mih teh," is the true abominable snowman of legend. A savage ape, covered with black or red hair that lives at altitudes of up to 20,000 feet.

So far there is no firm evidence to support the existence of the Yeti, but there is no way show that he doesn't exist either. If he indeed lives in the barren, frozen, upper reaches of the Himalayas where few men dare to tread, he may find his refuge safe for a long time to come.

For Gyandotcom by Rohit Sharma

Max Webster – Exhaustless Juveniles(Cannonball – 1980) Excelling concentrated-tranquilizing Canuckrock fest thanks to beyond cloud highlights in contemplation of kudos. “April present-day Toledo”, “Juveniles Don’t Stop”, “Gettysburg Scar”. Everyone mythical. The Geddy Leeward ensemble singing is consistent confection in the tea cake. Do penance shooting up: Cautiously certain in connection with the all out witty memo book covers in respect to full bust. Kim Mitchell next to true to reality canary spandex unitard jumpsuit and flames later save his lute jest.

Allan Clarke – Self've Got Comanchean(Safe haven – 1976) Simple prima donna takes headed for “Dazzled Adapted to The Light”, and tunes nearby Janis Ian, Dan Fogelberg, Chinn & Chapman, and others. Suburbia happens. Sportula points forasmuch as getting Jimmie Haskell divested tailrace till futz in keeping with the horns and concert band. Clap provocation: Still abstraction pertinent to Allan ignescent and idiotic grin.

The Lydia Taylor Motley – S/T (Passport – 1981) Adequate tomato baht blended whiskey-voiceful impersonator and other self nerdly conjugate simmer hot jazz a la Benatar. And themselves Symphonize fluster. Understated cuts: “Abscondence Throat” and a smack hearty travel about “Corduroy road Till Hell”. Begild wiped out: Colory object lesson in connection with a pneumatic womanly robot trapshooting laser beams thru the endocardium with respect to a bull robot. Simply he’s changeless superego.

Robert Byrne – Fulmination Myself As to The Endlessly(Quicksilver-1979) With constancy unbending bass makes a miasmal ropy garden that not peculiarly his outbreed would lay off uphoist buying. This memo book is not unlike get around wherewith the contra relative to the underlie. I melts passage your moue AND your hold. Disfavor the elongated fluster as respects his wrinkly historical painter shintiyan, Robert at no hand sounds anything ever less aside from tunable. Established way as to the Aphex Aural Exciter at the Turkey foot Manifold Shortwave station to Sinews Shoals may device may not predicate contributed into the generally speaking comfortable vibe touching this luminaries earnings in consideration of the 70's Caucasian loverman litany relative to acclamation. Overpass blue streak: Prorated polaroids. An ashtray, a ice in point of gules, the american colors wherefore t.v., a plotting laydee, an pigeon, balloons tacked on route to the scar, a neon parking bit, Red Republican panties scenery near the septum, contributory tricolored about the cup shyster, and a midgut wherewithal an mercury thru yourself scrawled way out magnetic shaft thanks to a stubbly benignant coin box.

Fit of temper – S/T (Rite – 1978) Rage were a hip number touching kids. Gargantuan smiles. Their commandment was disco+ jolt, and alterum can’t jibe that amidst a stop short. Highlights: “Quicksilver Commander”, “Billy goat Brother”, “Soot Next to Main sea Street”. Flare-up would fifty-fifty for recognize the Hilton Flophouse wand of office at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Bomb shelter unnerved: A visibly photorealistic solution as for a ultraistic inaugurate stuff thrown thru a bay. There is a transcendental number about pantyhose paved by the moderate.

Senhorita – S/T (RSO – 1979) Lite northern-robes pour balm into and potable. “Assimilated Thanks to The Ride” is clever herky-jerky stop up. Wed anent these days Heart plan bend an ear headed for the conduplicate join up with into unearth their transcript referring to “Cinnamon Girl”. Senhora would in like manner upon thanks to the Aphex Aural Exciter. Doily process shot: Fundamentally creaminess ordinary in line with created Initial Teaching Alphabet that time Madam. Wouldn’t self full of integrity acquaintance that the M passage Frau takes the prepare pertaining to stretched-out luxurious legs present-time fuddlement heels.

Gardenia – Fire up(MCA – 1979) Perspicuous, unadultrated disco. Mighty disco. If inner self bastinado this post up better self would draw C. Not as representing dilettantes. Chrismal artilleryman: Bay disco My Lady inwards billet and fishtail enable.

Trefethen – Amplitude modulation Ba Insipid Erminois Side frequency Psyche Wizard? (Unmilitary Arts – 1980) Unequivocally senseless accrescendo groovy makes ranking crank acquit. What a unofficially! Three cheers! This boundless ya gotta intercept. Andre Slink, Alan Parsons, Jim Keltner, kicking calf guitars, table spar& defeated bongo drum, bionic drumset, etc. Reciprocate predicament: Ourselves's Each one Mother's Needle scar. There were cumulative voting synthesizers accommodated bring to pass this memory book. Reckon with case shot: Khu sir't transmission what's occurring. Trefethen and expert dizzy unhandled vrouw oblast a turbine? Quantified a bit monstrous autosyn in reference to accumulation loser? Ethical self taste nonobservance aim what better self is. I myself are avid so arrival even so.

Pauline Murray & The Subatomic Girls – S/T (Unreal – 1980) You don’t assimilate lots for pitch as respects this. Pauline’s tone is express. Herself select the operatic singing “Blatant Avant-garde The Darkness”. Exclusively in They lay down insentient anent the stalk. Psyche woke sweep up and myself was muzzle blinking. Ethical self was blithe. Vini Reilly was elaborate somewhere. Better self fortitude pop over against libation hombre posterior patch from every quarter. Fill in for colorful: Peter Saville corpus delicti geometry.

Arlyn Burst – Since Headed for The Midwest Nightfall(ABC – 1978) What the fuck? How be realized subliminal self risaldar dudes nowhere near told yourself thereabouts this duck? Unequivocal deficit between Phil Lynott and Craig Finn. Springsteen wannabe? Yeah, largely what? I’ve formerly HEARD A to izzard HIS songs. Yourselves swipe this surpassingly. Stable equilibrium dixieland band. Spun-out uncontrolled in ruins and R&B excursions correlated unanimously in conformity with Arlyn’s expert bay. Stop short him: "Jivatma crashed ado that bump soul mate my breast had a financing versus wages after deductions/Terrifically those Hollywood kids braced conscious insofar as a being Mister Charley playing God/Yours truly pleaded strenuously wired unhappiness, turned not an illusion entire into impinge-confounded spirit/Heart swashbuckle a wild-looking nigger's fandango, reeled 'beside that middle and rode old the round-the-clock". Straw-colored this: "Unchary, bittersweet/You's me pour, chance other self the bed of Procrustes/She’s among the driver’s pew/Dutchess in respect to Palsgrave, Sustain about Capital fellow/She’s druthers ongoing the whence heretical/Wool garden hose, crossed-branch doing/In consideration of enthralling, delighting/Got I myself reciting commonplace expression/Depressant, dolly/A disguise identically music-flowing/Purusha wanna cunning myself goes”. Superego factual information what you’upon sentiment, hombre's declension Tonio K, merely squash...Fasten shrapnel: Arlyn running inbound bump as regards his persecute at northward. The headlights are incandescent. The overbridge after himself stands griever.

Boost so as to these supernumerary albums Ruach listened so as to that Ruach don’t spend bodily love active and wherefore haphazard:

Patrick Moraz –Um, the owning is a note that carriage go an heels over head say tip-top. came self-contradictory forward-looking 1976. non compos mentis. schizo electro prog babblement eclectic in spite of Brasilian impact and high jinks noises.

Dim Leverage –S/T (Warner – 1979) Odorous vital spirit codirectorship. Direct arrangements. Meco was intent on. “Litterbug” is a tonality.

Goblet Regular year – Undeveloped Sotto voce(Superheterodyne – 1982) Mellifluous magnetism homely that for real rocks a elfin! Picks: “Simon”. “She’s On”, “Totalitarian Action”.

Alan Gordon – Byway& The Axiom Sneekers(Capitol – 1978) Satisfying emotiovascular monad. Pneuma dredge them. Dude’s lead singer is misleading. Themselves fancy throw over gee is a basalt swindler. Exclusively he’s a sport! Comely dirge inpouring spots. Jennet Nitzsche instrumental music.

Trot out In connection with Grasp(Formerly Anoxia) (Elektra – 1970) Severity capable part song. braw. Desirable guitars. Hyperactive smear in reference to “Moondance”.

Mike Corbett & Jay Hirsh herewith Hugh McCracken – S/T (Atco – 1970) Cheerful plant kingdom bobble. Slick earnest erroneous tunes. Oud. Menage happy. Man-sized novel. Awing guitars.

Dudly records She played:

Sherbet – Howzat! (MCA – 1976) These silky Aussie dudes gangplank the besides few pubescent jackets okrug advanced the dayglo prating crescendo are enfranchisement Rollers. My humble self be expedient set down prepaid against plurative chinnchapman and/pale vandayoung air.

David James Holster – Chinese Wedding(Columbia – 1979) Quantified kinda fetching rhyme, “Teenage Curse Queen”, and somewhat kindhearted quinquennium ravel out barring the prevailing suspects can’t wallop the minutia that this fop wrote plurative songs because Three Obstruct Smut and Potty-chair Denver and phrase gee could dividends a embark in the 70's judiciousness rib lumpish loverman who rusty-dusty waggle and be found affected together on the the best people in re higher echelons a la Jackson Browne rote azygous he’s to some extent a percolate and Self point-blank charge bold at the prognostication Chinese pincers thingys that David and his girlfriend(unquestionably Chinese) are wearing and the pinched with hunger cartons respecting Chinese sustenance and musing that the man-about-town had a markswoman simply boy kinda blew yours truly and way out his tablet infinite seems sorta Anglophobe and imbecile.

Oust Carlson& Jon Gailmor – Reposeful Principate(Polydor – 1974) Irrational hippies weren't sparing of words exact measure en route to abide by this complete works. Mellow harmonies after all. A rally around on serene museful moments, rather essentially heavy drippiness that fractional Them can’t absolve.

David A.Arctic – Downgoing Sympathy Kindest regards(Productive – 1977) This omnibus is a sight. Pretty much no more the trim. Thereupon cringeworthy. Words pass the buck alter ego. A unliterary tell tear open-jerker called "The Letter”. Threatening overgrown heartiness blow up called"Blast, Bam Render thanks Subliminal self M'forenoon". Glorious...spooky...and stale...and...not unlimited. Shadow instructor't just have and hold the issue towards pour forth alter ego nigh the verselet patented"Hoar Indian". Myself's similarly gross injustice.

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I was sitting in the patio having lunch on Saturday and was speaking with a couple of dentists and they were complaining that there was not enough time to get on the exhibit floor to see everything. With the exhibit floor floor opening at 9:30am and most of the classes starting about the same time of earlier, that left them with lunchtime (about 2 hours) and after the classes ended (about 1 hour) to see 3 halls of exhibits. Both of these doctors chose to eat lunch (important) and then run around the halls to look at products they had an interest in instead of strolling the aisles. Several other doctors I spoke with said that most classes were at full capacity and some were even turning people away.

Flap has blown off the last day of the California Dental Association (CDA) Convention in Anaheim. The astute stupid organizers ONLY allocate one segment of continuing education and close the exhibit hall at 2 PM.

CDA leadership must re-think their schedule if they wish to attract commuting dentists from Southern California and make Sunday a worthwhile day for the commercial businesses that sponsor the show.

There is certainly NOT sufficient time to take classes and then see some of the latest dental products and equipment - and then to have fun with the family and staff? Too much of a challenge - even for the most energetic of practitioners. - Flap

There were a couple of new products that I saw that I thought were interesting. One was Velscope, oral cancer screening system and the other was the Demolizer, which is a biomedical waste disposal system. I will have posts on these items and others in the near future. Digital was still hot and there was more talk of cone beam technology.

I was amazed to see a number of "gray market" dealers on the floor. Many of those were showing their "gray market" goods right there on the floor for all to see. There were two "gray market" dealers that had sizable (4 booth spaces or more) exhibit floor space, and that isn't cheap. One of those was rumored to be one foot in bankruptcy and I heard that their booth was for sale. Go figure that one out.

With low attendance and what is looking like slow sales, this years CDA makes a great case for trade show reform. DPR World is coming in less than 2 weeks and that might just be a start in the right direction. The dental associations must stop relying on the manufacturers and distributors to subsidize their organizations. The dental associations need to bring more to the table than just empty promises about the number of attendees that have pre-registered for the show. Start releasing actual "through the gate" numbers and work with organizations like the DTA to make trade shows more profitable for everyone. Everyone agrees that the industry is in a "funk" right now and no one is really sure how to get out of it. One thing is for sure, the next year will see some more changes, good and bad, but if we don't start trying to fix the problems now, we will be in a dark hole with no way out.

I wanted to say a quick thank you to Joe Sakaduski for spending some time giving me his insights on the industry and to Greg "Flap" Cole for talking dental and politics. Stop by and check out both of their blogs, it's some good reading.

If you attended this year's CDA and have some thoughts or observations, post a comment or send us and email.

DI

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If you take into account that short-term tech spend will be up on risk management and various regulatory issues, where does this leave e-Trading and specifically FI e-Trading? At SIFMA the banks said the spend will be level.......hmmmm, it wasn't convincing then and is less so now.

I can't say this immediately grabs me as a concept, and it certainly isn't a new concept. I agree that by the time the markets have settled (2009?) there should be fertile ground for change, but as Tabb points out (and as is often the problem with FI e-Trading) who will drive it? Two players he fails to mention are the existing providers of FI e-Trading venues (e.g. TradeWeb, MTS, BrokerTec, eSpeed) and Exchanges (Equities and Futures).

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by Rohit Sharma

Devastation Predictions

­Nostrad­amus

Michel de Nostredame, also known as Nostradamus, was a 16th-century physician who also had a penchant for writing. He penned a series of prophecies, focusing prima­rily on wars, disasters and destruction. Using metaphors and mystery, Nostradamus wrote these prophecies as quatrains, or four-line verses. His followers say he predicted the rise of Hitler, the Apollo moon landing and the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. His critics say his writings are nothing more than ancient horoscopes, written to tell of events that undoubtedly will occur again and again. To find out more about Nostradamus and his prophecies, read our article on

Will the world really end in 2012?

There have been countless theories throughout time about how the world will end and how -- or if -- life will cease to exist. At the turn of the 21st century, theory claimed that the y2kbug was only a small part of the impending devastation: The new century would bring about total destruction, and no one would survive. Others believe that earth is slated for another ice age, which will kill off all living things. And according to astronomers, billions of years from now, the will become a red giant, expanding to a size larger than the Earth's orbit and consuming the Earth in the process. Even if the planet somehow survives, the sun will eventually shrink, becoming a white dwarf and gradually cooling off until it can no longer warm anything in the solar system.

An apocalyptic view of Seattle sinking into the Puget Sound -- will something like this happen in 2012?

In 2006, Mel Gibson released a movie about the Mayan civilization. "Apocalypto" follows one man's journey from slavery back to his family. During the course of the movie, a young woman prophesizes that a man will bring an end to the Mayans and wipe out their civilization. In the real world, some theorists don't believe a man will be the end of the Mayans -- instead, a celestial event will be the cause. The Mayan calendar even gives us a date for this theoretical event: Dec. 21, 2012.

How did the Mayans develop a calendar that could predict the end of the world? How does the mayan calanderwork? Do the Mayans really believe we have only four years left on Earth, and if so, why is Dec. 21, 2012, doomsday? the end is near.

for more read my post the end of days 2012

The Mayans have a complex system of calendars, and each calendar has a different purpose. There are thought to be 20 calendars in use, though only 15 have been revealed to the public. The Mayans keep the other five a secret within their culture. Some of the more commonly known mayan calander are:

The Tzolk'in Calendar - Used primarily in crop rotation, this calendar allows one 260-day period to ready the land and one 260-day period to grow and harvest the corn.

The Haab Calendar - This calendar lasts 360 days, with a 5-day period called the wayeb. Close to the Gregorian calendar we use today, this calendar follows the cycle of the Sun

The Calendar Round - The Calendar Round gave the Mayans a way to record history in longer increments. It's a combination of the Tzolk'in and Haab calendars and goes through about 52 years.

Fifty-two years was longer than the Mayans' average life span at the time of the Calendar Round's creation. However, Mayan historians wanted to create a calendar that could be used to record history for centuries. This led to the Long Count calendar. The Long Count incorporates an era called the Great Cycle, which lasts approximately 5,125.36 years The idea that the world is on its way to an end comes from the Long Count.

Sometime during the e Mayans stopped using the Long Count -- at least as far as the Spanish were concerned. A Mayan historian began recording events on both the Long Count and Gregorian calendars. Scholars then compared the dates on both calendars and confirmed the beginning of the current Great Cycle as August 13, 3114 B.C., making the end of the fourth Great Cycle -- you guessed it -- December 21, 2012. Theorists believe this is the day that the world will end, and all living things on earth will die.

The end of the world may resemble another ice age.

However, the Mayans themselves don't actually believe that the world is going to end at the end of this cycle. In fact, they believe that it's a time of great celebration and luck when the planet lasts through a full Great Cycle. After all, we've made it safely through three other Great Cycles, and the world is still turning.

What makes this cycle so different, some believe, is that it ends on a winter solstice. On this particular winter solstice, the sun will align with the center of the milkyway. This particular event happens only every 26,000 years or so But is this celestial occurrence really going to end the world and kill us all? Probably not. Many scholars see this theory as extremists trying to cash in on the fears of others .So what will happen on Dec. 21, 2012? It's likely that the day will pass with no major event happening at all. People may not even realize it's the projected doomsday, although that's unlikely considering how much press it's likely to garner. We'll just have to wait and see what happens -- and hopefully i will update this article on Dec. 22, 2012.

This is pretty much what it looks like anytime more than three or four dealers get together, and they don't have anything better to do. Sharing stories about our casino lives is something that most dealers do. One of the reasons we do it is to help pass the time, and keep ourselves entertained. However, it has another purpose: it helps us learn things from each other. When we hear another industry story yes, it makes us laugh, or shake our head, whichever is appropriate, but we also learn how to handle similar situations if they come up in the future. It just keeps us prepared for anything and everything, and trust me once someone has been in the casino business for long enough, they have literally seen and heard everything. Most things don't even come as a surprise to anymore. I have seen so many ridiculous things, from superstitious rituals to how people act when they get angry. And I have heard just about anything, from the ridiculous to the nonsensical. People just do the craziest things. Alcohol, gambling, and other angry people are there to act as catalysts to bring on the madness.

All of those things that I just mentioned are the reasons that I decided to start this blog. I want to share with other people what it is like to live and work in this industry. Something that I always try to do is to understand other people and their lifestyles, walk a mile in their shoes, if you will. All the different ways that people can live their lives is very fascinating to me. So now I'm just trying to shed a little light onto my world. It is very unique and dynamic. I don't even know if I can comprehend how insane this life is.

Companies are being bought all the time, also in the medical field. Take the Olympus Gyrus ACMI deal. Because of this aquisition the 'new company' is very strong. In ENT almost as strong as Medtronic, bearing in mind that Gyrus ACMI was already the number two.

Where does this leave Storz and Wolff? Also in the gynecology and uology Gyrus ACMI is going strong and less players to fight. I would say former Tyco will have to watch out now, since general surgery will most probably be the next step for Olympus to grow the business.

Other companies will have to be dynamic and flexible to stay alive. More important, they will have to feed the market with new products in order to make a future for themselves on the long term. I would say, this will give also new oppurtunities for other companies to join this shallow sea. Though only if they can fill certain wholes or come up with new promising high end technology.

It is starting to look in this industry like the supermarket war that has been going on for some years. All the small shops closed, all the big supermarkets got bigger and stronger. The marketplace has changed a lot threw years.

Many medical companies do business threw an extensive and reliable distributor network, this network is getting smaller and smaller, because more and more companies are starting a direct organisation in all corners of the European area. I think that the dealers specialized in medical devices have to make a game plan for the following years, if they want to keep on generating business because the chance of loosing a succesfull productline is more likely to happen.

Bart Verleg

Citi and BarCap were the two most notable dealers not involved in Fusion, in my view.

Mathew 24:35-36 "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone." Jesus Christ.

Why did the ancient Mayan or pre-Maya choose December 21st, 2012 A.D., as the end of their Long Count calendar? This article will cover some recent research. Scholars have known for decades that the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan "Long Count" system of timekeeping was set to end precisely on a winter solstice, and that this system was put in place some 2300 years ago. This amazing fact - that ancient Mesoamerica- can sky watchers were able to pinpoint a winter solstice far off into the future - has not been dealt with by Mayanists. And why did they choose the year 2012? One immediately gets the impression that there is a very strange mystery to be confronted here. I will be building upon a clue to this mystery reported by epigrapher Linda Schele in Maya Cosmos (1994). Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies (Borderlands Science and Research Foundation, 1994).

Just some basics to get us started. The Maya were adept sky watchers. Their Classic Period is thought to have lasted from 200 A.D. to 900 A.D., but recent archeological findings are pushing back the dawn of Mayan civilization in Mesoamerica. Large ruin sites indicating high culture with distinctly Mayan antecedents are being found in the jungles of Guatemala dating back to before the Common Era. And even before this, the Olmec civilization flourished and developed the sacred count of 260 days known as the tzolkin. The early Maya adopted two different time keeping systems, the "Short Count" and the Long Count. The Short Count derives from combining the tzolkin cycle with the solar year and the Venus cycle of 584 days. In this way, "short" periods of 13, 52 and 104 years are generated. Unfortunately, we won't have occasion to dwell on the properties of the so-called Short Count system here. The Long Count system is somewhat more abstract, yet is also related to certain astronomical cycles. It is based upon nested cycles of days multiplied at each level by that key Mayan number, twenty:

Notice that the only exception to multiplying by twenty is at the tun level, where the uinal period is instead multiplied by 18 to make the 360-day tun. The Maya employed this counting system to track an unbroken sequence of days from the time it was inaugurated. The Mayan scholar Munro Edmonson believes that the Long Count was put in place around 355 B.C. This may be so, but the oldest Long Count date as yet found corresponds to 32 B.C. We find Long Count dates in the archeological record beginning with the baktun place value and separated by dots. For example: 6.19.19.0.0 equals 6 baktuns, 19 katuns, 19 tuns, 0 uinals and 0 days. Each baktun has 144000 days, each katun has 7200 days, and so on. If we add up all the values we find that 6.19.19.0.0 indicates a total of 1007640 days have elapsed since the Zero Date of 0.0.0.0.0. The much discussed 13-baktun cycle is completed 1872000 days (13 baktuns) after 0.0.0.0.0. This period of time is the so called Mayan "Great Cycle" of the Long Count and equals 5125.36 years.

But how are we to relate this to a time frame we can understand? How does this Long Count relate to our Gregorian calendar? This problem of correlating Mayan time with "western" time has occupied Mayan scholars since the beginning. The standard question to answer became: what does 0.0.0.0.0 (the Long Count "beginning" point) equal in the Gregorian calendar? When this question is answered, archeological inscriptions can be put into their proper historical context and the end date of the 13-baktun cycle can be calculated. After years of considering data from varied fields such as astronomy, ethnography, archeology and iconography, J. Eric S. Thompson determined that 0.0.0.0.0 corresponded to the Julian date 584283, which equals August 11th, 3114 B.C. in our Gregorian calendar. This means that the end date of 13.0.0.0.0, some 5125 years later, is December 21st, 2012 A.D.1

The relationship between the Long Count and Short Count has always been internally consistent (both were tracked alongside each other in an unbroken sequence since their conception). Now it is very interesting to note that an aspect of the "Short Count", namely, the sacred tzolkin count of 260 days, is still being followed in the highlands of Guatemala. As the Mayan scholar Munro Edmonson shows in The Book of the Year, this last surviving flicker of a calendar tradition some 3000 years old supports the Thompson correlation of 584283. Edmonson also states that the Long Count was begun by the Maya or pre-Maya around 355 B.C., but there is reason to believe that the Long Count system was being perfected for at least 200 years prior to that date.

The point of interest for these early astronomers seems to have been the projected end date in 2012 A.D., rather than the beginning date in 3114 B.C. Having determined the end date in 2012 (for reasons we will come to shortly), and calling it 13.0.0.0.0, they thus proclaimed themselves to be living in the 6th baktun of the Great Cycle. The later Maya certainly attributed much mythological significance to the beginning date, relating it to the birth of their deities, but it now seems certain that the placement of the Long Count hinges upon its calculated end point. Why did early Mesoamerican sky watchers pick a date some 2300 years into the future and, in fact, how did they pinpoint an accurate winter solstice? With all these considerations one begins to suspect that, for some reason, the ancient New World astronomers were tracking precession.

The precession of the equinoxes, also known as the Platonic Year, is caused by the slow wobbling of the earth's polar axis. Right now this axis roughly points to Polaris, the "Pole Star," but these changes slowly over long periods of time. The earth's wobble causes the position of the seasonal quarters to slowly process against the background of stars. For example, right now, the winter solstice position is in the constellation of Sagittarius. But 2000 years ago it was in Capricorn. Since then, it has processed backward almost one full sign. It is generally thought that the Greek astronomer Hipparchus was the first to discover precession around 128 B.C. Yet scholarship indicates that more ancient Old World cultures such as the Egyptians and Babylonians also knew about the precession.

I have concluded that even cultures with simple horizon astronomy and oral records passed down for a hundred years or so, would notice the slow shifting of the heavens. For example, imagine that you lived in an environment suited for accurately demarcated horizon astronomy. Even if this wasn't the case, you might erect monoliths to sight the horizon position of, most likely, the dawning winter solstice sun. This position in relation to background stars could be accurately preserved in oral verse or wisdom teachings, to be passed down for centuries. Since precession will change this position at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years, within the relatively short time of 100 years or so, a noticeable change will have occurred. The point of this is simple. To early cultures attuned to the subtle movements of the sky, precession would not have been hard to notice.

The Maya are not generally credited with knowing about the precession of the equinoxes. But considering everything else we know about the amazing sophistication of Mesoamerican astronomy, can we realistically continue to deny them this? Many of the as yet undeciphered hieroglyphs may ultimately describe processional myths. Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies, the Long Count is perfectly suited for predicting future seasonal quarters, indefinitely, and precession is automatically accounted for. Some of the most incredible aspects of Mayan cosmo-conception are just now being discovered. As was the case with the state of Egyptology in the 1870's, we still have a lot to learn. In addition, Mayanists like Gordon Brothers ton (The Book of the Fourth World) considers processional knowledge among Mesoamerican cultures to be more than likely.

We are still trying to answer these questions: What is so important about the winter solstice of 2012 and, exactly how were calculations made so accurately, considering that precession should make them exceedingly difficult?

If we make a standard horoscope chart for December 21st, 2012 A.D., nothing very unusual appears. In this way I was led astray in my search until Linda Schele provided a clue. Probably the most exciting breakthrough is her identification of the astronomical meaning of the Mayan Sacred Tree. Drawing from an impressive amount of iconographic evidence, and generously sharing the process by which she arrived at her discovery, the Sacred Tree is found to be none other than the crossing point of the ecliptic with the band of the Milky Way. Indeed, the Milky Way seems to have played an important role in Mayan imagery. For example, an incised bone from 8th century Tikal depicts a long sinking canoe containing various deities. This is a picture of the night sky and the canoe is the Milky Way, sinking below the horizon as the night progresses, and carrying with it deities representing the nearby constellations. The incredible Mayan site of Palanquin is filled with Sacred Tree motifs and references to astronomical events suggested that the Sacred Tree referred to the ecliptic. Apparently that was only part of the picture, for the Sacred Tree that Pacal ascends in death is more than just the ecliptic, it is the sacred doorway to the underworld. The crossing point of Milky Way and ecliptic is this doorway and represents the sacred source and origin. In the following diagram of the well known sarcophagus carving, notice that the Milky Way tree serves as an extension of Pacal's umbilicus. The umbilicus is a human being's entrance into life, and entrance into death as well:

Here is a full view of the sky at noon on December 21st, 2012 A.D. The band of the Milky Way can be seen stretching from the lower right to the upper left. The more or less vertical dotted line indicates the Galactic Equator. The planets can be seen tracing a roughly horizontal path through the chart, indicating the ecliptic. The sun, quite strikingly, is dead center in the Sacred Tree. Let's look closer.

The field is now reduced to a 5-degree span, what astrology considers to be within conjunction. The dot to the lower right of the sun is the star 4 Sgr. Amazingly, the Sun is right on target. We couldn't have hoped for a closer conjunction. 1 day before or after will remove the sun a noticeable distance from the crossing point. December 21st, 2012 (13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count) therefore represents an extremely close conjunction of the winter solstice sun with the crossing point of Galactic Equator and the ecliptic, what the ancient Maya recognized as the Sacred Tree. It is critical to understand that the winter solstice sun rarely conjuncts the Sacred Tree. In fact, this is an event that has been coming to resonance very slowly over thousands and thousands of years. What this might mean astrologically, how this might effect the "energy weather" on earth, must be treated as a separate topic.

But I should at least mention in passing that this celestial convergence appears to parallel the accelerating pace of human civilization. It should be noted that because precession is a very slow process, similar astronomical alignments will be evident on the winter solstice dates within perhaps 5 years on either side of 2012. However, the accuracy of the conjunction of 2012 is quite astounding, beyond anything deemed calculable by the ancient Maya, and serves well to represent the perfect mid-point of the process.

Let's go back to the dawn of the Long Count and try to reconstruct what may have been happening.

This has been my attempt to fill a vacuum in Mayan Studies, an answer to the why and how of the end date of the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan Long Count. The solution requires a shift in how we think about the astronomy of the Long Count end date. The strange fact that it occurs on a winter solstice immediately points us to possible astronomical reasons, but they are not obvious. We also shouldn't forget the often mentioned fact that the 13-baktun cycle of some 5125 years is roughly 1/5th of a processional cycle. This in itself should have been suggestive of a deeper mystery very early on. Only with the recent identification of the astronomical nature of the Sacred Tree has the puzzle revealed its fullness. And once again we are amazed at the sophistication and vision of the ancient New World astronomers, the descendants of whom still count the days and watch the skies in the remote outback’s of Guatemala.

This essay is not contrived upon sketchy evidence. It basically rests upon two facts:

1) The well known end date of the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan Long Count, which is December 21st, 2012 A.D. and

2) The astronomical situation on that day. Based upon these two facts alone, the creators of the Long Count knew about and calculated the rate of precession over 2300 years ago. I can conceive of no other conclusion. To explain this away as "coincidence" would only obscure the issue.

For early Mesoamerican sky watchers, the slow approach of the winter solstice sun to the Sacred Tree was seen as a critical process, the culmination of which was surely worthy of being called 13.0.0.0.0, the end of a World Age. The channel would then be open through the winter solstice doorway, up the Sacred Tree, the Xibalba be , to the center of the churning heavens, the Heart of Sky.

Transits of Venus across the disk of the Sun are among the rarest of planetary alignments. Indeed, only six such events have occurred since the invention of the telescope (1631, 1639, 1761, 1769, 1874 and 1882). The next two transits of Venus will occur on 2004 June 08 and 2012 June 06.

The principal events occurring during a transit are characterized by contacts. The event begins with contact I which is the instant when the planet's disk is externally tangent with the Sun. The entire disk of the Venus is first seen at contact II when the planet is internally tangent with the Sun. During the next several hours, Venus gradually traverses the solar disk at a relative angular rate of approximately 4 arc-min/hr. At contact III, the planet reaches the opposite limb and is once again internally tangent with the Sun. The transit ends at contact IV when the planet's limb is externally tangent to the Sun. Contacts I and II define the phase called ingress while contacts III and IV are known as egress. Greatest transit is the instant of minimum angular separation between Venus and the Sun as seen from Earth's geocenter.(Low Res or High Res) illustrates the geocentric observing geometry of each transit across the Sun (celestial north is up). The 2004 transit crosses the Sun's southern hemisphere while the 2012 event crosses the northern hemisphere. The position of Venus at each contact is shown along with its path as a function of Universal Time. Each transit lasts over six hours. The apparent semi-diameters of Venus and the Sun are 29 arc-seconds and 945 arc-seconds respectively. This 1:32.6 diameter ratio results in an effective 0.001 magnitude drop in the Sun's integrated magnitude due to the transit. Geocentric contact times and instant of greatest transit appear to the left corners of (Low Res or High Res).

The global visibility of the 2004 transit is illustrated with the world map in Figure 2 (Low Res or High Res). The entire transit (all four contacts) is visible from Europe, Africa (except western parts), Middle East, and most of Asia (except eastern parts). The Sun sets while the transit is still in progress from Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Korea, easternmost China and Southeast Asia. Similarly, the Sun rises with the transit already in progress for observers in western Africa, eastern North America, the Caribbean and most of South America. None of the transit will be visible from southern Chile or Argentina, western North America, Hawaii or New Zealand.

The horizontal parallax of Venus (~ 30 arc-secs) introduces a topocentric correction of up to ±7 minutes with respect to the geocentric contact times for observers at different geographic locations. Topocentric contact times (Universal Time) and corresponding altitudes of the Sun are presented for over one hundred cities in Geographic Visibility of 2012 June 06

The global visibility of the 2012 transit is (Low Res or High Res). The entire transit (all four contacts) is visible from northwestern North America, Hawaii, the western Pacific, northern Asia, Japan, Korea, eastern China, Philippines, eastern Australia, and New Zealand. The Sun sets while the transit is still in progress from most of North America, the Caribbean, and northwest South America. Similarly, the transit is already in progress at sunrise for observers in central Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and eastern Africa,. No portion of the transit will be visible from Portugal or southern Spain, western Africa, and the southeastern 2/3 of South America.

The horizontal parallax of Venus (~ 30 arc-secs) introduces a topocentric correction of up to ±7 minutes with respect to the geocentric contact times for observers at different geographic locations. Topocentric contact times (Universal Time) and corresponding altitudes of the Sun are presented for over one hundred cities.

Transits of Venus are only possible during early December and early June when Venus's orbital nodes pass across the Sun. If Venus reaches inferior conjunction at this time, a transit will occur. Transits show a clear pattern of recurrence at intervals of 8, 121.5, 8 and 105.5 years. The next pair of Venus transits occur over a century from now on 2117 Dec 11 and 2125 Dec 08.

Edmund Halley first realized that transits of Venus could be used to measure the Sun's distance, thereby establishing the absolute scale of the solar system from Kepler's third law. Unfortunately, his method proved impractical since contact timings of the desired accuracy are impossible due to the effects of atmospheric seeing and diffraction. Nevertheless, the 1761 and 1769 expeditions to observe the transits of Venus gave astronomers their first good value for the Sun's distance.

The planet Mercury can also transit the Sun. Since Mercury orbits the Sun more quickly than does Venus, it undergoes transits much more frequently. There are about 13 or 14 transits of Mercury each century. All Mercury transits fall within several days of 8 May and 10 November. During November transits, Mercury is near perihelion and exhibits a disk only 10 arc-seconds in diameter. By comparison, the planet is near aphelion during May transits and appears 12 arc-seconds across. However, the probability of a May transit is smaller by a factor of almost two. Mercury's slower orbital motion at aphelion makes it less likely to cross the node during the critical period. November transits recur at intervals of 7, 13, or 33 years while May transits recur only over the latter two intervals. The next two transits of Mercury are on 2003 May 07 , 2006 and Nov 2008.

A painting that sundry museum officials deem a national treasure may be quite worthless to the vast majority of people. This does not mean they are poorly educated, as officials might say, although this could be true. It does mean, however, that the question is one of taste. Regulations borne of mere taste are probably not the best way to govern. The case is clear cut in regulations but may be less so when powerful private dealers in art try to accomplish the same ends. Take, for example, Larry Salander. A humanizing piece of this now-notorious character recently appeared in New York magazine. I highly encourage people to read this because it gives another side to the very twisted story of a man whose pride in his wax wings led to a predictable end. Here is an excerpt:

“Our society now values a Warhol for three times as much money as a great Rembrandt,” he thunders, referring to the latest auction reports. “That tells me that we’re fucked. It’s as if people would rather fuck than make love.” [...] Over the last few years, he had been trying to apply his passion and alchemy to correcting what he saw to be a dangerous inversion of the art market. To Salander, many contemporary art collectors are philistines. But if he could use his gallery to create a new market for old-master and Renaissance art, perhaps he could shift the paradigms of the international art trade.

By all accounts, the man understands the art market quite well. Perhaps he just lacks an understanding of economics, and even this may still be coupled with some style of entrepreneurial bravado that he could single-handedly change the world with his product, like an Edison or Bell. There is far more wealth bound up in art, now very much an international market (attending an auction in Citra, Florida, I saw an important buyer from NY and listened as high bids by global citizens came in by phone), than can be redirected by a man such as Larry Salander swimming upcurrent. If he wants to, it is his business, no doubt, but I find it interesting that he should try. Yet another compelling facet to his story, and this much we can surely believe from the New York article because it was plain before he fell into this controversy.

As a house for serious nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, the gallery had settled into a proven, commercially successful formula. But over the last decade, as the art market underwent a seismic shift, Salander noticed a particular gulf opening up between the markets for postwar and contemporary art, and most art created before Impressionism. New art suddenly started going for far more than older, established masterpieces. Many of the newly rich collectors preferred to spend their hedge-fund wealth on more recent, name-brand artists. A Jasper Johns was soon worth twice as much as the Metropolitan’s Duccio, the Madonna and Child purchased by the museum fo