Yoga, Ayurvada, Jyotish and Gems – India’s Greatest Exports to the West

In the middle of the 20th century Yoga started gaining popularity among the young people in England, Europe and the USA. When gurus such as Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Muktananda, Yogi Bhajan and A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada began their movements from TM to the Hare Krishnas, Indian Vedic philosophy started to interest western youth.

Today yoga is almost a household word and although not everyone in the west knows there is a deep philosophy behind its practice it is readily accepted as one of the greatest ways to bring health to the body and mind. Most yoga teachers concentrate on teaching the physical postures, called asanas, and some also teach the breathing exercises called pranayama. Fewer also delve into the deeper yoga philosophy of self-realization, but from those that do came the interest in India’s other Vedic sciences of Jyotish (Vedic Astrology), Ayurveda (India’s ancient system of medicine) and Gem Therapy, which is used in some form in both of them.

Vedic Astrology’s philosophy of being able to affect outcomes of one’s karma uses particular mantras and sacred geometry, but the most popular among the Indians and now westerners as well, is the use of gemstones to increase what may be a weak planetary influence. Vedic astrologers, also called jyotishis, will recommend a person to wear a particular gemstone that is said to carry the cosmic vibration of the planet’s they want strengthened. This may be to bring better health, give impetus to career success or attract good fortune to a person in various areas of life. The Vedic Cultural Fellowship in the USA is one organization that has had much success in their astrological services to Americans from all walks of life. Their associates at Planetary Jewels have become well known for the remarkable results gained from clients wearing the gems purchased from them in the forms of rings and pendants.

The Ayurvedic gem therapy seems to be the most intriguing and effective means of utilizing the potencies of gems. Natural precious gems from ruby and sapphire to diamond and emerald are placed within a specialty lamp and connected to an electronic instrument that imposes a frequency on the lamp. A copper coil embedded in the lamp carries the impulses, which vibrate within a range of 1 HZ to 16 HZ, the same frequencies emitted by the human brain during sleep to waking states of consciousness. The therapy first began gaining enthusiastic practitioners in Europe in the early 1990s and by the late 90s had crossed the Atlantic and a few natural health practitioners began implementing its use. As they began to see the positive results gained by treating everything from skin problems like eczema to digestive disorders and anxiety as well as other emotional problems by using gem lamps they began to incorporate it more and more into their everyday practice.

It was the recent launch of Balaji Gem Instruments’ GL108 Navaratna Gem Lamps to the Resort and Medical Spa industry that is now getting this therapy into the mainstream. The lamps show obvious healing and regeneration of skin cells, which is one of the biggest areas of interest by estheticians. Many clients are testifying to the beautifying results of their “emerald lamp facials”, which bathe the face in cooling rays of emerald and to their “blue sapphire massage”, which seems to have immediate calming effects when beamed on the forehead and virtually relaxes muscles. Joint pains become immediately lessened and with all the back complaints seeming to be #1 on many people’s “complaint list” the blue sapphire treatment is becoming one of the favorites at spas offering these treatments.

With such relaxing and healing therapies coming from the world of Ayurvedic medicine and interest in the astrology and yoga of the “Vedic world” we expect that India’s contributions in the form of their arts science and history are here to stay and will gain greater and greater popularity the world over.

Discount Large Format Scanners

Large format scanners are used in a lot of places today. Many of them have become as common as the small format scanner as their use and applicability continues to increase by the day. Besides, there are many companies now that make large format scanners. This means that the cost of large format scanners has come down considerably. Interestingly, the features and the applications of the scanners have increased as costs have gone down.

It would not be wrong to say that it has become considerably easier to find huge discounts on large format scanners. However, with so many places to choose from?ranging from a local store, to wholesalers, to even the Internet?it may not be easy for someone to find the cheapest possible option. Keeping a few things in mind will certainly make the task much simpler.

One can surely find a cheap large format scanner directly from the manufacturer. However, the problem is that most of them do not encourage single purchases. So, if you are looking for just one scanner, a manufacturer may not be able to help you. However, it must be noted that a lot of manufacturers do encourage sales of their scanners online which means that if you visit their website, you are bound to find that they are selling single pieces as well. Most of these websites have addresses of wholesalers and distributors who do not hesitate to offer good discounts on large format scanners because of the cut throat competition across the nation.

The second place where one can find a significant discount on large format scanners is the wholesaler. These wholesalers operate in mainly two modes. One is that they do not have a brick and mortar store meaning that they sell their scanners only online and will be able to give more discounts than anyone. The second type is the local wholesaler who has a store but sells the scanners at a discount.

One can also find large format scanners on shopping sites like E-bay. One can easily manage to find a good discount on large format scanners here as well. However, must always remember that more important than the cost is the usability feature. One should first consider his or her needs and only then go in for a large format scanner.

Batman Villains – The Story Behind Poison Ivy

It’s sad that Pamela Isley, or Poison Ivy, became the way she did because of experiments. While she was taking Biology, her professor seduced her and injected her with poisons and toxins. This caused Poison Ivy to transform into a plant-like menace to society. One of the Batman villains, Poison Ivy started out as a wealthy girl with parents who could care less.

After this has happened, her boyfriend suddenly passes away, and she drops out of school. She is gradually changing from Pamela Isley to Poison Ivy. Moving from Seattle to Gotham City, she threatens the city with toxic spores unless they meet her demands. Batman, who has just entered the city the same year, is the only one who can stop her. She is one of the Batman villains that uses her potions to make other super heroes fall in love with her. Batman stops her from hurting the city, and Poison Ivy gets locked inside a mental institution for the criminally insane.

Over the years, her plant-like powers develop until she is super human. One of her weapons is the fact that her lips are poison, so she is the only one of the Batman villains who can literally give the ‘kiss of death.’ She was introduced in the Batman comics for a better female super villain when people began to identify with Catwoman, and even sympathize with her. Poison Ivy gave readers and audiences another sexy female nemesis to hate. Clothed in leaves, with flaming flower bedecked red hair, she was one of the greatest villains that Batman ever had.

How to Secure Your Small Business with a PIX Firewall

One of the more popular firewall products for the small business market is the Cisco PIX 501. Out of the box it requires just a few configuration entries and you are up and running.

In this guide, we will walk through the steps for configuring your brand new pix at the network edge.

This guide is written for the user who has no knowledge of the PIX firewall. As such, it is not a treatise on network security, but a quick, by-the numbers guide to configuring a PIX firewall with as little jargon as possible.

We are assuming that you have an internet connection with at least one static IP address. While the PIX can easily handle a dynamic IP address (that is the default configuration), you won’t be able to easily configure remote access, VPNs, Mail, or web servers without a static IP address.

Your PIX should have come with an AC adapter, a yellow CAT 5 cable, an orange CAT5 cable and a flat, (typically) baby blue cable with a 9-pin serial connector on one end and an RJ-45 plug on the other.

The yellow CAT5 cable is a standard Ethernet cable and is used to connect your pc or server to the 4-port Ethernet switch built into the PIX. The Orange CAT5 cable is a cross-over cable and may be required to connect the outside interface of the PIX to your ISP’s router (if your PC’s or workstations are plugged into a Cisco switch inside the network, you will also require a cross-over cable for connecting to one of the switch ports on the PIX).

What we are going to use for our configuration is the baby blue rollover cable. Insert the serial jack into one of the serial ports on the back of the PC or laptop you will be using to configure the PIX. Then, insert the RJ-45 plug into the port on the back of the PIX labeled “console.”

Windows has a built in application that is used for (among other things) configuring serial devices. Using the start menu, go to Start > Programs > Accessories > Communications > Hyper Terminal.

Choose the Hyper Terminal application. You may get a dialog box asking if you’d like to make Hyper Terminal your default telnet application. Unless you have a preference, go ahead and choose yes.

Then you will be asked for the area code from which you are dialing, although it isn’t applicable here, the program still wants to know, so fill it in and click ‘next’ or ‘ok.’

You can call the connection anything you’d like; in this example we’ll use PIX. Click ‘ok’ to move on.

Next, we’ll be asked to enter the details for the phone number we’d like to dial. Since we aren’t dialing a phone number, use the drop-down selector at the bottom of the box to choose COM1 or COM2 (whichever is applicable). If you have no idea which one is which, you may need to try it both ways.

Now, you will be expected to tell the application some specifics about the port settings so that it can effectively communicate with the PIX.

Luckily, it isn’t too complex, just remember 9600, 8, none, and 1. Enter these settings into the drop down selectors of the box on your screen.

Now we are ready to set up the PIX. Insert the power cable and you will be greeted with the startup monologue (it’s not a dialog in this case; it’s just informing you of what is occurring).

Then, you will be greeted with a screen that asks if you’d like to program the PIX using interactive prompts. For the purpose of this exercise, type no and click ‘enter’.

You will now get a prompt that looks like this: pixfirewall> Type the word ‘enable’ (no quotes), when prompted for the password, just click ‘enter’ as the default is no password.

The prompt has changed to a hash mark: Pixfirewall# Type the phrase ‘configure terminal’ (no quotes); you are telling the PIX that you want to enter the global configuration mode and you will be doing your configuration via the terminal window.

Your prompt will now look like this: pixfirewall(config)#

The first thing we want to do is give your pix a host name. The PIX command syntax is: Variable name

Thus, to set the hostname we will enter: pixfirewall(config)# hostname mypix

Now, the domain name; it’s alright if you don’t have a domain set up on your network, you can call it whatever you like. However, give some thought to whether a domain might be a possibility at some point and plan your naming scheme appropriately. pixfirewall(config)# domain-name mydomain.com

As you can see from the configuration above, the ethernet0 interface is the outside interface, with a security setting of 0, while ethernet1 is the inside interface with a security setting of 100. Additionally, you can see that the interfaces are shutdown. All we need do to bring them up is enter the speed at which they should operate. As they are Ethernet interfaces, any software version after 6.3(3) will take 100full, prior to that, use 10full.

pixfirewall(config)# interface ethernet0 100full pixfirewall(config)# lnterface ethernet1 100full

Now to assign an address to the inside and outside interfaces; the ip address command sets the ip address of an interface. The syntax is as follows: Ip address

An example might be as follows: Ip address outside pixfirewall(config)# ip address outside 12.25.241.2 255.255.255.252 (this IP address, netmask combination should not be used, it is shown here for example only. Use the IP address/mask given to you by your ISP).

Then the inside IP address ip address inside pixfirewall(config)# Ip address inside 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0

A brief word about IP addressing is in order here.

One way that is used to conserve public IP addresses is through the use of non-routable IP addressing blocks specified in RFC 1597. You may sometimes hear them referred to as “private” IP addresses, which is fine, but not quite technically accurate. There are three different blocks to choose from: 10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255 with a netmask of 255.0.0.0 172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255 with a netmask of 255.255.0.0 192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255 with a netmask of 255.255.255.0

as long as your internal network’s IP addresses are all within one of those blocks of address space, you will not need to introduce the complexity of routing within your LAN. An example scheme for those who are not familiar is shown below: PIX – 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 File/DHCP server – 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 Workstations – 192.168.0.10 – 192.168.0.254 netmask (each) 255.255.255.0 * I intentionally skipped over the 192.168.0.3-9 addresses to plan for future expansion and the possible need for additional servers, you don’t have to do this. * Configure your DHCP server to hand out addresses in the specified block using your ISP-provided DNS servers for name resolution. Make sure to change this should you ever decide to install a name server within your own network. * If you don’t want to set up a DHCP server, just configure each PC with the IP address, default gateway, netmask & DNS servers

It is very important now to add a default route to the PIX configuration. Another term for default route is the “default gateway.” You need to tell the PIX that if it receives traffic destined for a network that isn’t directly connected, it should send it to the connected ISP router. Your ISP should have given you the IP address of your default gateway when you received your setup information.

Here is the syntax: Route The English translation is “if packets destined for interface on the network specified by network address are bounded by mask then route it via a next hop at the optional command is used to give an indication of distance.

For example pixfirewall(config)# Route outside 0 0 1 (if packets are destined outside the network to any ip address with any netmask, send them through the ISPs default gateway, which is one hop away, meaning it is the device to which the PIX is connected on the outside interface).

To password protect your PIX in order to prevent unauthorized access, use something that is secure and hard to guess. Try to stay away from the names of spouses, children, pets, birthdays or other easily guessed variable. Whenever possible, use a combination of letters and numbers. The syntax is as follows (but please don’t use cisco as your actual password) pixfirewall(config)# Passwd cisco (note the abbreviated spelling of the word password) this will set a password for basic access (rembember the pixfirewall> prompt?) pixfirewall(config)# Enable password cisco this will set the password for administrative access

Now that your PIX has been given a basic configuration, you should be able to access the internet, while preventing unauthorized access to your resources.

Millionaire Adsense Make Money Tips

There is an increasing realization that AdSense has the potential to make a great deal of money for bloggers and other publishers to the extent of creating an increasing number of millionaires, especially amongst those who are willing to implement critical tips and secrets to maximize their earnings.

So what are some of the most critical millionaire AdSense make money tips that somebody can implement? It actually starts with content. The more pages of content you have the more money you’ll make from Adsense. The problem of course is that it takes time to build adequate number of pages and yet understandably those seeking millionaire AdSense make money tips are in a great big hurry. The solution is to mix your own original content with other people’s content. Here you have to be careful because search engines are really clamping down on duplicate copy by heavily penalizing guilty sites. There are ways and means of using other people’s content and still making your pages unique and safe from being branded duplicate content.

Always remember that the really critical millionaire AdSense make money tip has to do with content because the AdSense program is designed for content rich sites and the chances of clicks increases dramatically the more the pages that are available of valuable content served with relevant AdSense ads. Never take this millionaire AdSense make money tip lightly.

Formatting Your Forum Signatures For Best Exposure

Online forums are now a common feature on the Internet. Some websites have even broken the traditional definitions of a website and feature only forum, where the main index page is a list of forums and active discussions. These websites offer content not in the traditional form of static webpages but dynamic user submitted posts and content. With an active community continuously contributing to the content of the website, the website develops into popular place for the latest news and acts as a grapevine for forum members.

In addition to participating on forums and gaining new knowledge from other members, forums are an excellent place to promote your websites. This is done through the forum signatures that most forums will allow each member to have. These forum signatures are automatically attached into the post made by the member. Forum signatures have traditionally been used in mails and then in electronic mails and then in bulletin-board/newsgroups discussions. It is no surprise that the signature system also progressed into the online forum and is widely supported by popular forum software such as VBulletin, phpbb, Invisionboard, etc.

Your forum signature can be a useful tool to do a bit of advertising for your website and products. Most forums will have some regulations on forum signature lengths or forum signature formatting. Common forum signature formats that are approved by mature forums are text-only forum signatures and specifying a maximum of number of lines in the forum signature. Always abide by the forum rules and especially in the forum signature rules as many forums are particular about members not joining their forums for the specific purpose of spamming their links through their forum signatures or posts.

So, as a contributing member to the forum discussions, you have the privileges of including your forum signature in your posts. How do you ensure that your forum signature is read and not ignored like the tens of forum signatures of the other members who have posted in the same discussion? How do you use your forum signature for maximum benefit?

Here are some tips for optimizing forum sigatures:

1. Do not post more than 3 links. Anything more than that is certaintly viewed as spam and most people will ignore your forum signature.

2. Do not post something like: ” http://www.buildtolearn.com – Webmaster community “. Instead, if possible, post your link with “anchor text”. The word webmaster community should be the link enclosed by the tags. This would benefit your link in SEO.

3. Include more than just a link. Be more descriptive around your forum signature and links. For example, use something like “Over 10,000 members in the best webmaster community” (with link from the keyword ‘webmaster community’). Or something to entice the viewer to click through to your website, eg. “Submit articles to our article library and stand to win $100″.

4. Use at most 3 colors in your forum signature. It is a good idea to highlight the keyword/link with color such as blue or red. Leave the rest of the text in black.

It takes some experimenting to find the best forum signature format for each forum. With these 4 tips in mind, your chances of improving click-through rates from your forum signature will increase tremendously.

Pug Care and Breed Information

Pug dogs are perky, small dogs that have a short, sleek coat and cute inquisitive face. These loyal dogs are extremely smart and sensitive to commands. They are sturdy and rugged, love to play and are fantastic with kids. They are not yippy like some small dogs tend to be and are great for a small house or apartment. They typically are outgoing and sociable with humans as well as other animals. They do need attention, like any other pet, and will reward you with their loyal companionship.

History

Pug dogs are an Ancient Asian breed. In the sixteenth century Pugs were all the rage in European high society and a Pug is rumored to have saved the life of William, Prince of Orange when the dog barking gave them notice of the Spanish invasion. Many pugs were found in Chinese Imperial palace in the mid 1800′s. The AKC recognized pugs in 1885.

Breed Standards

Pug dogs should be 12 to 14 inches tall for males and 10 to 12 inches for females. They grow a short coat in black, fawn, apricot or silver. These dogs are stocky with a round eyed face, prominent eyes and curly tails. Pugs should weigh in between 13 to 20 pounds.

Medical Concerns

Pugs often have respiratory and skin related problems. Their “button” ears which fold overcan create a friendly environment for mites – therefore their ears should be checked frequently. These little dogs have flat faces with protruding eyes which might make them prone to ulcers on the cornea. Pugs are also prone to colds and should avoid harsh weather- either very cold or very hot.

Grooming and Care

Bathing pugs is recommended but care should be take to be sure you dry them completely after bathing as they can catch cold easily. Care must be taken with Pugs to insure their ears do not harbor pests and the folds of skin on their faces should be cleaned. Pug dogs are rather easy to care for and groom because of their short hair.

Pugs make loving and loyal companions but like most toy breed dogs do take extra care and attention. Before you adopt a pug, you need to make sure that you can provide him with a proper home. Pugs should not be kept outdoors for any length of time so you will need to provide suitable housing inside the home. Also, make sure you have the time to devote to your dog as he does require your attention.