[sourcecode language='vb']String ls_rownum., ls_return

ls_rownum = String(dw_1.GetRow( ))
ls_return = dw_1.Describe(“Evaluate(‘LookUpDisplay(dept_id)’,” + ls_rownum + “)”)[/sourcecode]

Another Example:

[sourcecode language='vb']astr_parms.s_worker_nm = dw_1.Describe(“Evaluate(LookUpDisplay(day2_off_wrkr_id)’, 1”)[/sourcecode]

One more example

[sourcecode language='vb']s_res_nm = dw_res_grp.Describe("Evaluate('LookUpDisplay(res_grp_id) ', 1)" )
ls_pos_nm = dw_pos.Describe("Evaluate('LookUpDisplay(pos_rsrc_id) ', 1)" )
ls_pos_nm = ls_res_nm + " / " + ls_pos_nm[/sourcecode]

In the ItemChanged event, I want to Reject the value of a column with a DDDW and allow the focus to change. But Return 2 does not seem to work.

Return 2 is changing the column item back to the original value, but the Display Item does not change. The DataWindow has rejected the value, but it is still displaying the changed value. Here is script which deals with this problem:

ItemChanged event:

[sourcecode language='vb']Integer li_rc

If data<> is_normal_trade_on_shift then
li_rc = MessageBox(“Warning”, “~”” + istr_emp.trade_off_shift + &
‘”shift normally trades with “’ + is_normal_trade_on_shift + ‘” shift “, &
Information!, OkCancel!, 1)
If li_rc = 2 then // reject the value, allow focus to change
This.event Post ue_refresh_display()
Return 2
End if
End if

Wf_EmployeeFilter(data)
Wf_ShiftOrLocationChange()

Return 0[/sourcecode]

Ue_RefreshDisplay event:

[sourcecode language='vb']String ls_shift

ls_shift = this.GetItemString(1, “shft_cd”)
This.SetItem(1, “shft_cd”, ls_shift)[/sourcecode]

How do I dynamically change a dddw properties?

Peter Louis wrote an interesting user object for holding a simple datawindow with two colums, one for string, the other for a long. This function sets the dw and its associated dddw for either the String column or the long column. The column not being used is turned invisible.

[sourcecode language='vb']/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
//Event/Function: of_set_datawindow
/
//Access: Public
//
//Arguments: al_data_type {Use the “Long” or “String” column}
// as_dw (The name of the dddw)
// as_data_col (The id column of the dddw)
// as_display_col (The display column of the dddw)
// ab_filter_required
// as_err_msg
//
//Returns: true if successful.
//
//Description: sets the datawindow.
//
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Revision History
//
// date by Comment
// -------- --- ----------------------------------------------------
// 08/26/02 pl Created.
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

boolean lb_return = true
string ls_result, ls_filter
datawindowchild ldwc

if al_data_type = icl_datatype_string then
is_column = "string"
is_data_col = as_data_col
dw_generic.Modify("long.visible = 0" )
elseif al_data_type = icl_datatype_long then
is_column = "long"
is_data_col = as_data_col
dw_generic.Modify("string.visible = 0" )
else
as_err_msg = "of_set_datawindow: The specified data type is not supported."
lb_return = false
end if

if lb_return then
is_display_col = as_display_col
is_dw_object = as_dw

dw_generic.InsertRow(0)
dw_generic.SetItem(1, "enabled", 1)

// static style
dw_generic.Modify(is_column + ".dddw.Required=No" )
dw_generic.Modify(is_column + ".dddw.AllowEdit=No" )
dw_generic.Modify(is_column + ".dddw.Line=10" )
dw_generic.Modify(is_column + ".dddw.ShowList=No" )
dw_generic.Modify(is_column + ".dddw.UseAsBorder=Yes" )
dw_generic.Modify(is_column + ".dddw.VScrollBar=Yes" )

ls_result = dw_generic.Modify(is_column + ".dddw.name = '" + is_dw_object + "'" )

if ls_result <> "" then
lb_return = false
as_err_msg = "of_set_datawindow: Failed to set the dddw.name: " + ls_result
end if
end if

if lb_return then
ls_result = dw_generic.Modify(is_column + ".dddw.datacolumn = '" + is_data_col + "'" )

if ls_result <> "" then
lb_return = false
as_err_msg = "of_set_datawindow: Failed to set the dddw.datacolumn: " + ls_result
end if
end if

if lb_return then
ls_result = dw_generic.Modify(is_column + ".dddw.displaycolumn = '" + is_display_col + "'" )

if ls_result <> "" then
lb_return = false
as_err_msg = "of_set_datawindow: Failed to set the dddw.displaycolumn: " + ls_result
end if
end if

if lb_return then
dw_generic.GetChild(is_column, ldwc)

if not IsValid(ldwc) then
lb_return = false
as_err_msg = "of_set_datawindow: Failed to obtain the child datawindow."
end if
end if

if lb_return then
if ldwc.SetTransObject(SQLCA) <> 1 then
lb_return = false
as_err_msg = "of_set_datawindow: Failed to set the transaction object."
end if
end if

if lb_return then
if ldwc.Retrieve() = -1 then
lb_return = false
as_err_msg = "of_set_datawindow: Failed to retrieve the child datawindow."
end if
end if

if lb_return then
if ab_filter_required then
ib_filter_required = true

ls_filter = is_data_col + " <> " + is_data_col

if ldwc.SetFilter(ls_filter) = -1 then
lb_return = false
as_err_msg = "of_set_datawindow: Failed to set filter string."
end if

if lb_return then
if ldwc.Filter() = -1 then
lb_return = false
as_err_msg = "of_set_datawindow: Failed to filter the dddw."
end if
end if
end if
end if

return lb_return[/sourcecode]

Dot Notation

[sourcecode language='vb']ls_data = dw_bd_job.Object.bd_tp_cd.dddw.lines
MessageBox("", ls_data)

dw_bd_job.Object.bd_tp_cd.dddw.lines = 5[/sourcecode]

What are the DDDW properties?

• AllowEdit
• AutoHScroll
• Case
• DataColumn
• DisplayColumn
• HScrollBar
• HSplitScroll
• Limit
• Line
• Name
• NilIsNull
• PercentWidth
• Required
• ShowList
• UseAsBorder

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

Now I know that two weeks ago I said there would be a shiny new intake ready for all of you to see this week, but the adaptor plate still hasn't arrived so we had to jump to plan B. Plan B, as you may have figured out for the title, was to install Jaycar's Smart Fuel Mixture Display for Fuel Injected Cars. Basically a big complicated way of saying Air-Fuel Ratio Gauge.

This particular gauge is not only a DIY install but a whole DIY expierence, you physically have to assemble the circuit board yourself (small lie, you can buy them pre-made but they are over double the price and really isn't all that hard to make).  The kit is bought from Jaycar for just under $30 and as long as you have minimal soldering skills and can read instructions, even you can assemble it. No it isn't as accurate as the brand name gauges, it isn't as pretty and it doesn't have some of the other fancy features, but it does cost 10% of the price and it still does the same basic job. The Jaycar gauge has an array of 10 LEDs, which run from yellow (rich/too much fuel) to green (Air/Fuel ratio of roughly 14.7:1) to red (lean/not enough fuel).

The gauge reads from the stock oxygen sensor in the exhaust. Obviously enough, after gasses are expelled from the engine they travel through the exhaust and as they run past the oxygen sensor, it reads the gasses and knows how much air and how much fuel was used. The computer that controlls the car (the ECU) can then adjust the injectors to vary the fuel levels.

Below is a quote from AutoSpeed's atricle on Air/Fuel Ration Gauges that does a much better job of explaining why monitoring your air/fuel ratios is a useful thing way better than I ever could.

The main reason for installing an in-car air-fuel ratio gauge is to be alerted if the engine is running lean at high load. In these conditions, the chance of detonation increases, exhaust gas temperature shoots through the roof and you can expect broken valves, damaged spark plugs, damaged pistons, blown head gaskets, melted cat converters – all sorts of nasties.

 

On the other hand, an overly rich mixture can also cause damage. In extreme cases, this can cause accelerated bore wear, spark plugs will get covered in carbon and you can expect poor fuel consumption.

Excessively lean or rich mixtures can also cause drivability problems.

See, knowing = good

So, the first stage is to assemble the kit and like I said earlier, it really isn't that hard. If you've ever used a soldering iron before, you can probably manage this. I won't go into the details on how assemble it, just follow the instructions and you should be right. The only difference I'd suggest is not directly mounting the LEDs to the board. Instead get some extra wires to extend the LEDs, that way you can put them where ever you like and board where ever it fits. The only catch is that each wire must retain the same order, otherwise the LEDs won't work. I used a strip of rainbow wire simply because it makes keeping the order a whole load easier. 

The gauge needs four inputs; 12v+ power, a ground, the signal from the oxygen sensor and the load sensor. The power and ground should both be fairly self explainatory and we've already explained what the oxygen sensor does, but what about the load sensor?

Jaycar currently produces two Air/Fuel ratio gauges, the basic model and the smart one. The basic model still has the same 10 LEDs but the Smart version also includes an auto-dimming feature for night time driving and a lean out alarm. The alarm sounds when the car is running lean under full load, which can cause a whole world of problems. This where the engine load sensor comes in.

The power and ground wires were both tapped into at the cigeratte lighter, but there are so many options for these two you can get them from almost anywhere. The two sensors were both taken from the ECU itself. Find a wiring diagram/ECU pinout for your car and then back probe the ECU with a multimeter to make sure you have the correct wires. Once you're sure you have the right wires, strip off a small piece of the shielding and tap into the signal here. You can get the signal right from the sensor itself but I thought it would be easier to get them both from the ECU.

Now comes time for testing and adjusting. I'm sure you could do this by yourself but seriously, I had a friend to help me and it still sucked, GET SOMEONE TO HELP YOU. Connect everything up but make sure the board is within reach, grab a screwdriver and go for a drive. Again, I'm not going to go into detail here, just follow the instructions. It should only take you a few minutes of driving and adjusting after the car has warmed up.

Once it's all adjusted and working correctly, you can put it all back together. You can put the LED's almost anywhere you want but I chose to drill 10 individual holes in the plastic trim piece just above the steering collumn and mount them there. That way it's nice and visible but not incredibly in your face and there was room just under the steering collum to mount the board.

And there we have it folks, one Air/Fuel Ratio gauge, installed and working for under $30. While technically it took me two days (as you can see in the photos below) I didn't start until about 4pm on the first day. If you started nice and early you should be able to knock the whole thing over in a day.

Have fun kiddies, Joe

Side note: I also threw in a small switch on the power wire. While the gauge will spend the vast majority of the time on, I thought having the option of turning it off would be a useful thing. I bought a simple backlit button switch from Jaycar because it suited where I wanted to put it, but any kind of switch would be fine.

(मान-स्म्मान या

(मान-स्म्मान या

अपमान)

आप स्वंय ही देखे ओर हमे बताये। क्या ये अनुचित हें।

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.

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.

I know it's nothing special to look at as it was 100% stock standard when I bought it with the only modifications being seriously faded paint because it had been left sitting in the sun for the 2 years since it'd been imported into Australia (if you could call that a modification).

But the reason I spent my cash on the thing is that it had only 60,000 kays on the clock, had only one Japanese owner before I'd bought it from the importer and apart from the sunbeaten paint, was in pristine condition.

I know many people who won't even consider buying an import unless it's already been modified to save them some money, however I'm the total opposite. I won't even think about spending money on a vehicle that I intend to modify unless it's exactly as it left the factory.

The reason for this is simple enough, especially if you've seen the way that many cars are modified in Australia. Think ill-fitting and horrendously-styled bodykits that look as if they were installed on the car by a schizophrenic octopus, cheap home garage installed parts that work about as reliably as a government employee, and hastily-applied budget canary yellow or purple paintjobs that do nothing for the car apart from making it look like...well, shit.

If I modify a car, I want to do it once, do it right, and do it the way I want to do it.

The fact is, I could deal with a little sun-damaged paint (which you can clearly see in the photos) but apart from that it was perfect. I mean, look at how clean the engine bay is! And that's after it had been sitting in a car yard for two years.

Sadly, I never got the chance to modify this precious as at the time, I was in some severe financial shit (thanks, GE Finance) and had to sell it to pay off some debts. Hopefully the guy who bought it did it proud, however I lost contact with him so I never did find out what the fate of my old workhorse was.

Anyway, that's a little of my motoring history with some photos attached for those of you who have the attention span of a gnat, can't read, or just like pretty shapes and colours.

- Leon.

रेल,सडक, पुल, बाँध बनाये, उद्योगो के जाल बिछाऐ।अस्त्र शस्त्र हथियार बनाये, भव्य भवन भंडार बनाये।धन-दोलत की दोड में, घर परिवार बचाना भूल गए

सब कुछ बना लिया हमने पर देश बनाना भूल गए।

गाँव की सौंधी मिट्टी छोडी, शहर के पत्थर चुनने में।बरगद, नीम की छांव छोडी कोरे सप्ने बुनने में ।हरी

-हरी पगड्ण्डी छोड कर पहँउच गये हम जंगल में ।कुछ ना मिला करने को तो पहुच गये सन्तों के परवच्नो के आडम्बर में

भरे परिवार तोड के दीवार बना ली आँग़न में।भाई-भाई के खून का प्यासा आग लगा ली सावन में ।टी

वी ने तो निक्म्मा बनाया ओर बनाया बेरोज़्गारी ने ।खडे कर दिये नये बेरोज़्गार रोज़ हमारी मेहेगाई ने।

सत्य न्याय बेहोश पडे हे न्यायालय ओर राज दरबारो में ।शर्म- हया तक गिरवी रख दी पच्छिम के बाजारो में ।मय

खानो मे डुब गए गंगा मे नहाना भूल गए।सब कुछ बना लिया हमने पर देश बनाना भूल गए।

न्ग्न नारीयाँ न्ग्न त्माशे न्ग्न नुमाइश लगती हें

जाने क्या क्या होता हे तब विश्व सुंदरी बनती हें ।ये ही सुन्दरी टी वी पर फ़िर विज्ञापन मे भी दिखती हे्।मल्टीनेशनल कम्प्नी के नाम पे साबुन तेल भी बेचती हे्।

न्याय की खुल कर बोली लगती, दलालो की मण्डी मे।न्यायाधीश भी बिक जाते हे हरे नोटो की गड्डी मे।सँसद

बना राजनीति का कोठा,नेताओ का इमान बिका।चंद रुप्ये की खातिर वोट बिका इंसान बिका।

सियासत के गलियारों मे घर बिका गाँव बिकाअमर शहीदो के भारत मे बिसिम्ल का नामो निशान बिका।गाँधी

बिका, अश्फ़ाक बिका, राम बिका ,रहमान बिक्।ओर कुछ ना मिला तो धर्म बिका इन्सान बिका।विदेशी पहनावे कि फ़िराक में नोटो मे हिन्दुस्तान बिका।

ज्न्मी नही फ़िर कोइ लश्र्मी बाई इस धरती की माटी ने।सँसद मे फ़ूलन भिज्वा दी पर चम्ब्ल की घाटी ने।चम्ब्ल

मे रही सुरक्षित पर दिल्ली मे हार गई।राजनीति की छ्दम गोलियां फ़ूलन को भी मार गई।आग

लगाना सीख गये हम आग बुझाना भूल गये।सब कुछ बना लिया हमने पर देश बनाना भूल गए

by Rohit Sharma

रोद्र रुप धर कर class मे आते हो।आते ही

Quite please का नारा लगाते हो।कोन कोन home work कर के नही लाया।

हमारे चेहरे पर प्रश्नचिन्ह लगाते हो ।जल्दी से बाहर आओ ओर मुर्गा बन के दिखाओ। रोद्र रुप धर कर class मे आते हो।आते ही Quite please का नारा लगाते हो।

कोन कोन home work कर के नही लाया।

क्या घर से झगड के आते हो ।ओर आते ही मुर्गा बनाते हो । अपनी frustration के farts हम बच्चो पे निकालते हो ।

ओर हम पर अपने रुप का भाव दिखाते हो ।

कभी घर से हास्य-वयंग भी साथ लाया करो ।

45 मिनिट के पिरियड मे 2-4 जोक्स सुनाया करो।

द्वेश की भावना से हमे ना पढाओ।

हमे थोडा सा प्यार ओर तुम भी सम्मान पाओ। कभी तुम भी तो Retired होगे।

ओर तुम्हारे बच्चे भी इसी school मे होगें ।हम मे से कोइ,

तुम्हारे जैसा टीचर हो जायेगा ।वो भी यही tradition अपनायेगा।

ओर तुम्हारे बच्चे को भी कोइ मुर्गा बनायेगा।

अरे कभी तो प्यार से पेश आया करो।हम पर भी थोडा तरस खाया करो।सुबह सुबह मिठे सपनो की नींद तोड के आते हे।

5 फ़ुट के शरीर मे 10 किलो किताबो का वजन ढो के लाते हे।

इस के बाद भी तुम्हे चेन नही आता रोज़ homework दे जाते हो।

ओर कुछ नही मिला तो सुबह सुबह अपना रोद्र रुप दिखाते हो।

हम छोटे बच्चो को डरा-डरा के पढाते हो।

हमारी भी इच्छा का थोडा मान करो।

ओर अपनी पत्नि का थोडा सम्मान करो। ना सुबह सुबह घर से झगड के आया करो।

कुछ तो लिहाज करो 2 बच्चो के बाप केहलाते हो।

क्या घर पर भी बच्चो के साथ ऐसे ही पेश आते हो।

तारे ज़मीन पर नही देखी क्या?

अभी तक नही देखी तो आज ही DVD ले आयो।

खुद भी देखो बाकि टीचरो को भी दिखायो

अपनी Teaching मे कुछ तो नयापन लायो।

ये रोद्र रुप धारण करना छोडो।

मित्र रुप का पालन करो। ना दो हमे ऐसा ज्ञान, करना पडे जिस पर पस्चाताप्।

ना बेचो अपने ज्ञान को, ना करो हमारे भविष्य से खिलवाड।

ना करो अपने ज्ञान का व्यव्साय, यही हे हमारी तुम्हे नेक राय।

रोद्र रुप धर कर class मे ना आया करो।

आते ही Quite please का नारा ना लगाया करो।

कभी तो शिष्टाचार से पेश आओ

थोडा अपने चेहरे पे मुस्कान तो दिखायो।

ओर हमारे दिल मे अपने लिये कुछ तो सम्मान जगाओ।

यही हे हमारी छोटी सी Request।

नही होगा फ़िर कोइ Protest।

दो हमे भी थोडा सा ज्ञान ओर मान।

मिलेगा तुम्हे भि खूब भरपूर सम्मान मिलेगा तुम्हे भि खूब भरपूर सम्मान

धन्यवाद्।

मेरी पत्नि बोली आज का खाना तुम ही बनाना।

ओर तुरन्त अपनी सहेली के यहा हो ली।

वहा बोली, हमारे पति इस उम्र मे सढिया गये हे

ओर कुछ नही मिला तो हास्य कवि हो गये हे।

शब्दो के बाण शेया पे लेटे लेटे अपनी सुध बुध खो गये हे।

वेसे ही हास्य कवि कम थे जो ये भी add हो गये हे।

 क्यो कर ते हो भेजा फ़्राइ, क्या तुम्हे रात भर नीद नही आयी।

 जो सुबह सुबह शुरु हो गये हो। 2 पन्नो की कविता पे इतने मुग्ध हो गये हो।

 क्या teaching profession से उब गये हो । क्या अपने आप को अशोक चक्रधर समघ रहे हो।

फ़ोक्ट मे ही अपने आप को हास्य कवि बोल रहे हो।

क्या घर का राशन कविता सुना के लाओगे।

हास्य सम्मेलन मे जा के अपनी कविता पे वाह वाहि पाओगे।

 क्या लोगो से ताली बजवाओगे।

 ओर घर वापिस खाली हाथ आयोगे।

छोटु की स्कूल फ़ीस भरनी हे। गेस का cylinder भी खाली हे।

 घर मे राशन आज ओर कल का हे, 2 दिन बाद वो भी खाली हे।

 कुछ सोचा हे या मन मे अभी भी दुविधा हे

 कवि बनने का भूत उतरा या अभी भी सर पे चडा हे।

 कुछ तो भविष्य के बारे मे सोचो। ओर हास्य कवि बनना छोडो।

 2-4 साल बाद retired हो जाओगे। ओर आधी pension ही घर लाओगे।

 मेह्गैई का inflation ऐसे ही बढता जायेगा।

 ओर रुप्या dollar के आगे गिरता जायेगा।

 आलु प्याज का दाम युन्ही बढता जायेगा।

 क्या तब तुम्हारा घर हास्य कवीता से चल पायेगा।

 तुम तो चले जाओगे कवि सम्मेलन मे्। ओर गुद गुदा आओगे सभी को कवि सम्मेलन मे्।

चन्द तालीयो की आवाज़ ओर वाह वाहि से खुश हो जाओगे कवि सम्मेलन मे्।

पर घर से गरिबी ओर मेहन्गैइ का दानव ले जाओगे कवि सम्मेलन मे्।

 इस सच्चाई से कब तक भाग पाओगे।

 ओर life insurance कहा से कर पाओगे।

बुढापे मे जब लाठी चाहीये होगी

 तो premium कहाँ से लाओगे।

 हास्य कवि का ज़नुन छोडो ओर अधयापक ही रहो।

 बच्चो का भविष्य सुधारो।

ओर घर मे राशन तो भरो।

कविता बाद मे लिख लेना।

अभी तो घर मे ध्यान धरो।

खाली वक़्त मे तुम पढ लेना।

अभी मेरे साथ चलो।

अभी मेरे साथ चलो।

by Rohit Sharma

The Window" (Author:-Rohit Sharma)

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man  was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour a day to drain the fluids from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and   families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military  service, where they had been on vacation. And every afternoon when the  man in the bed next to the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.

The man in the other bed would live for those one-hour periods where  his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and  color of the outside world. The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake, the man had said. Ducks and swans played on the water while  children sailed their model boats. Lovers walked arm in arm amid flowers of every color of the rainbow. Grand old trees graced the landscape, and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance. As the man by the window described all this in exquisite  detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene.

One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by.  Although the other man could not hear the band, he could see it in his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window p