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The ancient Indian sages were involved in intensive study and research into the nutritional value of food and one of the upshots of this was that they divided food into three categories which became known as Sattvic, Rajasic and Tamasic.

Tamasic food can be said to be in the lowest category as far as its food value is concerned and it is classed as being without quality prana (life energy).

Rajasic food is stimulating, possesses considerable prana and forms a significant percentage of the average persons diet.

Sattvic food however, is the only category that fulfills the ideal food of the Vedic teachings. It comprises foods that are fresh and natural, and contain a high pranic or life content. Some examples are fresh fruits, nuts and vegetables.

The teachings encourage an adherence, in the main, to the Sattvic foods, balanced by a percentage of the Rajasic class, but an abstinence from foods that are classed as Tamasic; in that have little or no prana.

These ancient principles are still adhered to today and it has been amply demonstrated by contemporary food scientists at the Yogic Umachal hospital in india that the ancient teachings are, in fact, quite valid.

Although modified to some extent, a simple parallel can be seen in the conclusions of western nutritionists who recommend that people:

• avoid lowest grade foods; those that are commercially produced using artificial flavorings, colorings and that contain chemical preservatives and additives
• eat limited quantities of rich, highly spiced, highly processed and cooked food, as well as butter, cheese, eggs, chocolate, confectionery and other foods containing high levels of processed cane and beet sugar, and
• ensure that a high percentage of the diet should consist of fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, nuts and grains

The important difference is that modern diets still include great quantities of meats of all kinds. These are totally excluded in the Yoga diet for several reasons.

1. The traditional Yogic rule of nutrition excludes them as being devoid of life energy or pranathey are in fact classed as dead foods
2. Meats in quantity cause acidity and leave deposits of toxins in the blood that can cause arthritis and other diseases, depending upon the health of the animal whose flesh was consumed, and
3. Yoga adherents believe firmly that no one who loves animals would wish to kill them and eat them or even to foster their exploitation for human consumption

It is the over-riding altruistic reverence for all life that influences a tradition that precludes killing animals for food. The Yogis diet is therefore vegetarian.

This as well as other Yoga teachings and disciplines are incorporated into personal Sadhana according to the individuals choice and understanding of health and spiritual matters.

Sally Janssen is one of the best known Yoga teachers in australia, and is a former President of the international Yoga teachers Association. She runs an informational website that deals with the very spirit of traditional Yoga. To benefit from her extensive knowledge be sure to visit her site at http://www.classical-yoga.com

xbox 360 boasts hard-hitting games in its console. Utilizing its powerful processor and graphic capabilities, It has some of the best games around. These top seller games include call of duty 2, ghost recon advanced warfare, the elder scrolls IV: oblivion, Dead or Alive 4, Saints row, Gears of war and the best-selling game Halo 3. These are just a sample of the games for the new xbox and there are lots more of titles available not only in the market but also in the internet for download.

If you have these games, it will surely pass around friends that have an xbox 360. Its breath taking graphics and heart pounding action will surely make you play the game again and again. But due the fact that the Microsoft xbox360 is causing a lot of trouble on game discs like scratches due the malfunction of several dvd-drives and therefore you should be able to backup your own copy.

Here's a quick guide on how to do it:

Requirements:

1) A dvd-drive which can be easily taken apart
2) Your xbox360 game
3) Data/Movie dvd which is at least 8gigabyte in size
4) Philips screwdriver to open your dvd-drive
5) WxRipper can be found @ http://www.360-scene.org/
6) Optional: Wx360 which can be found @ http://www.360-scene.org/
7) Last but not least, some patience

1: Take your dvd-drive apart

First, we need to access the laser unit of our dvd-drive, this can usually be done by removing the screws which holds it casing.

2: Installing your dvd-drive

The hardest part is over now and we should now connect our dvd-drive to the computer and place it on an easy accessible place.

3: WxRipper

By now you should have extracted both files mentioned earlier and have them installed on your computer, and then run WxRipper.

a) Put your dvd in the drive which is over 8 gigabyte and wait until your computer recognized it.

b) From the menu select Hotswap and then "Find magic number".

c) After the magic number has been found you select "Stop drive".

d) Now comes the magic part, you need to switch the dvd which is in your drive with your original game.

Warning: this needs to be done without pressing the eject button!!

e) When everything is back in place you can select "spin drive"

f) When the drive is spinning again then it is time to dump the image. Clicking on "start dump" can do this

g) You can take a break now as this stage can take a long time depending on the read speed of your dvd drive.

h) After it's done, you have now dumped your xbox360 game.
- The dumped image is an exact RAW copy of the original game disc, which means any dummy data is copied with this.
- You can now burn this .iso file to an empty dvd-r dl.

With this you can now play your favorite game over and over again without the fear that the disc will be damaged.

Do you like video games? Almost everyone does (even those people who say they don't but secretly wish they could play them anyway.) And the current craze in video games exists in the area of handheld gaming, which may explain why Sony Inc. has created the PSP mini or handheld gaming system. All PSP units are based on the Universal media disc proprietary technology exclusively owned by Sony Inc.

With the PSP and handeld gaming growing in popularity by leaps and bounds, it is not surprising that emulators would be created. An emulator, for those who don't know, is a hardware or software product that can imitate one system's functionalities when the emulator is installed into another completely different system. Thus, emulators can come in the form of software which will be run on PCs so that a new software application can be run on such machines; or in the form of hardware which has firmware integrated into it. This hardware's firmware would be responsible for telling your PC how to function once specific game software has been downloaded into that PC.

A free emulator software that has been going around is the Neo Geo emulator. This emulator, which is now popularly installed in many PSPs, aims to permit end-users to play games which were popularized in the late 1990s in Japan and are based on the Neo Geo Game console. Obviously, Sony Inc. does not officially allow the Neo Geo emulator to be installed on its PSPs, but that doesn't prevent people from downloading the emulator software into their PSP units free of charge anyway.

It should be explained that Neo Geo Emulators don't come in one version only. One source on the internet recommends this version - MVSPSP 2.0.6 - and explains how to install it properly. See below details for the installation process:

* To install the MVSPSP 2.0.6, you need to copy the MVSPSP folder into the game folder so that you can proceed to run the program in 1.50 kernel. If you can secure some roms for yourself, look for the other folder dubbed romcnv. The romcnv folder has an exe inside that can change your roms into a cache file. This cache file is necessary (just like the roms zip file) for use on the PSP phat due to its low memory.

* After that, you have to create one folder labelled ROMS and another one labeled CACHE within the MVSPSP folder. In addition, you require the neogeo.zip that functions as the console's bios - this permits you to run the Neo Geo games.

* Once done, set it in the ROMS folder. You don't need to create a cache of that info though.

The Neo Geo emulator described here can play Metal Slug 1, Samurai Showdown, and king of the Monsters with 100% precision and functionality too. This source also disclosed that one can now get the MVSPSP 2.2.0 (applicable for the PSP version named PSP Slim) which does not need use of cache files since the PSP Slim has a doubled memory spanning 64mb.