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Campi1 — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:17:15 +0000

Oldest Known Mayan Calendar

Campi1 — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:44:07 +0000

Hidden treasure. In a ruined residential compound in the ancient Maya city-state of Xultún in Guatemala, archaeologists found three elaborately painted walls—one with the portrait of a king, others with painted hieroglyphs (inset) that comprise the astronomical notations of Maya skywatchers.
Credit: Tyrone Turner; (inset) Illustration by William Saturno and David Stuart/© 2012 National Geographic

On 21 July 1561, a crowd of indigenous farmers cried out in the town square of Maní, Mexico, as a Franciscan missionary set fire to dozens of fragile Maya books, or codices. Condemned by the missionaries as "the Devil's trickery," these written texts preserved knowledge gleaned from centuries of Maya science and mathematics. Similar acts of destruction followed, obliterating hundreds of other Maya codices. Today, only a handful of readable, precolonial codices survive.

Now a team of American researchers has discovered a small trove of ancient Maya texts in a surprising place. In a paper published online today in Science, William Saturno, an archaeologist at Boston University, and his colleagues, report finding Maya astronomical tables and other texts painted and incised on the walls of a 1200-year-old residential building at the site of Xultún in Guatemala. The newly discovered astronomical tables are at least 500 years older than those preserved in the Maya codices, giving researchers a new glimpse of science at the height of the Maya civilization. "I think we are all astonished by this find," says Stephen Houston, an archaeologist at Brown University who was not part of the team.

Looters have extensively targeted Xultún, which was once a sprawling Maya city-state. But in March 2010, a member of Saturno's team, Boston University student Maxwell Chamberlain, discovered part of a painted wall exposed by the illicit diggers. Subsequent archaeological excavation revealed three intact room walls within a residential compound: the walls bore paintings of human figures—including an elaborately attired Maya king—as well as vertical columns of numbers written in Maya hieroglyphs.

The team scanned all of the paintings and numbers, digitally stitched them together, and sent the images to epigrapher David Stuart of the University of Texas, Austin, who specializes in studying Maya inscriptions. Stuart's analysis revealed that at least five of the numerical columns were topped by hieroglyphs that Maya scribes once used to record lunar data. These "moon" glyphs, as well as the patterns of numbers below them, suggest that the columns represent astronomical notations similar to the Eclipse Table in the Dresden Codex, a Maya book now housed in a German museum. Other numerical groupings in the recently discovered room appear to represent calendrical cycles involving the planets Venus and Mars.

Maya scribes used their knowledge of astronomical cycles to plan important public ceremonies such as the accession to power of a Maya king or the naming of a royal heir. "The Maya liked to anchor their historic events in cosmic time," says Saturno. So Maya scribes relied on calendrical knowledge to schedule key ceremonies on the most appropriate dates, such as a day when an important mythical event was said to take place or an astronomical phenomenon such as an eclipse occurred.

But why did someone record the astronomical tables on residential walls rather than on bark paper, as Maya scribes generally did? One of the incised texts suggests that the room was in use around 813 C.E., and Houston thinks this date may offer a clue. During the early 9th century, political turmoil wracked parts of the Maya world, with some city-states imploding as others seemed to rise. Perhaps, Houston suggests, the Xultún scribe wished to make a more permanent record of calendrical data. "It could be kind of a drive toward archiving," he says.

All in all, it looks like a remarkably prescient decision given the later loss of most Maya books. And the fresh view that this unusual archive affords into the minds of ancient Maya scientists is a particularly enthralling one, says Houston. "What you are looking at here is a fundamental human drive to make sense of the disparate patterns of nature, and somehow harmonize them into an elegant mathematical structure."

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/05/looting-leads-archaeologists-to.html?ref=hp

Konsort Arcade IPB game scores

SoThunder — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:44:05 +0000

If anybody is having trouble with your konsort ipb arcade games on your phpfox website here is what you need to do to get all your v32 games working. Once you compete these changes you will have score posting. Do not forget to say thanks, it took my buddy killbill a long time to figure this out. Do not forget to register and start playing in my arcade

Open index.php

find:

require(PHPFOX_DIR . 'include' . PHPFOX_DS . 'init.inc.php');

after add:

include(PHPFOX_DIR . 'file/arcade/scoretype.php');

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open your .htaccess

find:

# Image Access Protection
# RewriteRule ^file/pic/photo/(.*)\.(.*)$ static/image.php?file=$1&ext=$2

after add:

RewriteRule ^arcade/game/id_(.*)/arcade/gamedata/(.*) file/arcade/gamedata/$2 [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=Arcade&do=newscore$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^autocom=arcade&do=savescore$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^autocom=arcade&do=verifyscore$
RewriteRule ^arcade/game/id_(.*)/index\.php$ index.php?do=newscore [L]

and upload new file -> file/arcade/scoretype.php
scoretype.zip

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SoThunder — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:24:33 +0000

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The Future Of Food (2007) Full

Campi1 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:48:30 +0000

The Future Of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.

Which Way Home (2009) Full

Campi1 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:38:19 +0000

Traversing more than 1,450 miles upcountry, Mexican freight trains routinely are boarded by migrants hoping to reach America. Among the thousands who ride the trains, many are children traveling alone.

Mayan Prophecies and Crop Circles

Campi1 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:36:31 +0000

Scholars and researchers have discovered an extraordinary connection between rare, ancient 6000 year old Sumerian symbols from the mysterious Mayan calendar and a group of amazing signs and symbols found among Crop Circle formations.

Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story

Campi1 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:33:53 +0000

Director Allan Moyle helms this drama that captures dichotomy of one of the most controversial entertainers of all time -- pop megastar Michael Jackson, aka "The Gloved One." From legions of adoring fans and multi-platinum albums to over-the-top plastic surgeries and recent scandals, The King of Pop (played by Flex Alexander) has become a fascinating enigma. And this movie, like its subject, treads a fine line between outrageous comedy and drama..

The Striking Truth (2012)

Campi1 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:29:38 +0000

This dual-subject documentary charts the careers of two compelling professional fighters: Georges St. Pierre and David "The Crow" Loiseau. One is an Ultimate Fighting Champion; the other is one of the most exciting fighters in mixed martial arts.

Guns and Roses: Appetite for Destruction (2012)

Campi1 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:27:21 +0000

American Pickers Season1 Ep1

Campi1 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:19:18 +0000

The Client List 0103

Campi1 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:14:56 +0000

The Client List 0102

Campi1 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:13:10 +0000

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