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The implosion of Mike Daisey's Foxconn stories may have, in the short term, returned focus to Apple's suppliers of their electronic products. Now Foxconn, the notorious Chinese manufacturer, has announced a series of changes to working conditions at the plant.
Responding to a critical investigation of its factories, the manufacturing giant Foxconn has pledged to sharply curtail working hours and significantly increase wages inside Chinese plants making electronic products for Apple and others. The move could improve working conditions across China.
The shift comes after a far-ranging inspection by the Fair Labor Association, a monitoring group, found widespread problems — including at least 43 violations of Chinese laws and regulations, and numerous instances where Foxconn defied industry codes of conduct by having employees work more than 60 hours a week, and sometimes more than 11 days in a row. The group released a report Thursday with its findings.
The monitoring group, which surveyed more than 35,000 Foxconn employees and inspected three large facilities where Apple products are manufactured, also found that 43 percent of workers had experienced or witnessed accidents, and almost two-thirds said their compensation "does not meet their basic needs." Many said that the unions available to them do "not provide true worker representation."
Critical investigations from international organizations led to these shifts. Apple recently joined the Fair Labor Association, making it more difficult for Foxconn to deny the investigations.
But really, Foxconn is complying with Chinese law, which limits hours to 49 per week. They claim that overall wages will not decline, because they will increase hourly rates. But some Foxconn workers are skeptical. [cont'd.]
But at the Foxconn factory gates, many workers seemed unconvinced that their pay wouldn't be cut along with their hours. For some Chinese factory workers – who make much of their income from long hours of overtime – the idea of less work for the same pay could take getting used to.
"We are worried we will have less money to spend. Of course, if we work less overtime, it would mean less money," said Wu, a 23-year-old employee from Hunan province in south China.
Foxconn said it will reduce working hours to 49 per week, including overtime.
"We are here to work and not to play, so our income is very important," said Chen Yamei, 25, a Foxconn worker from Hunan who said she had worked at the factory for four years.
Obviously, the Fair Labor Association and others monitoring Foxconn will have to be vigilant. There's a subset of Chinese workers who come to Foxconn to make as much as possible working ungodly hours for a few years, and then return to their villages with the proceeds. The shift of hours with increased wages simply occasions a shift to a different standard of living, with more leisure time and the ability to create a life around these kinds of factory jobs, rather than a suicide mission of gathering up as many hours as possible. It remains to be seen whether Chinese workers will respond positively to that shift. But I would argue that it's better for society as a whole.
The other hope is that this will have the effect of raising standards at other factories in China. That was the whole point of focusing on Apple, a distinguished brand that would be more susceptible to activism than more obscure Chinese factories. Global labor standards should be a focus of any labor movement. It brings us closer to a level playing field for trade, and just as importance, it puts value on work everywhere in the world, and forces management to share their success with those who toil.


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Norman Cantor
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|Norman F. Cantor
19 November 1929
Winnipeg, Manitoba
|18 September 2004
(aged 74)
Miami, Florida
|Historian, essayist, teacher
|Ancient Greeks, Middle Ages, Judaism
|Mindy Mozart (1957)
|Howard Cantor, Judy Cantor
Norman Frank Cantor (19 November 1929 – 18 September 2004)[1] was a historian who specialized in the medieval period. Known for his accessible writing and engaging narrative style, Cantor's books were among the most widely read treatments of medieval history in English. His textbook The Civilization of the Middle Ages, first published in 1963, remains an all-time bestseller in the field.
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Cantor received a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Manitoba in 1951. He moved to the United States to obtain an M.A. degree (1953) from Princeton University, then spent a year as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. He returned to Princeton and received his Ph.D. in 1957 under the direction of eminent medievalist Joseph R. Strayer. He also began his teaching career at Princeton.
After teaching at Princeton, Cantor became a professor at Columbia University from 1960 to 1966. He was a Leff professor at Brandeis University until 1970 and then was at SUNY Binghamton until 1976, when he took a position at University of Illinois at Chicago for two years. He then went on to New York University, where he served as Dean of NYU's College of Arts & Sciences, as well as a professor of history, sociology and comparative literature. After a brief stint as Fulbright Professor at the Tel Aviv University History Department (1987–88), he returned to NYU where he taught as a professor emeritus until his retirement in 1999, at which time he devoted himself to working as a full-time writer.
Although his early work focused on English religious and intellectual history, Cantor's later scholarly interests were diverse, and he found more success writing for a popular audience than he did engaging in more narrowly focused original research. He did publish one monograph study, based on his graduate thesis, Church, kingship, and lay investiture in England, 1089-1135, which appeared in 1958 and remains an important contribution to the topic of church-state relations in medieval England. Throughout his career, however, Cantor preferred to write on the broad contours of Western history, and on the history of academic medieval studies in Europe and North America, in particular the lives and careers of eminent medievalists. His books generally received mixed reviews in academic journals, but were often popular bestsellers, buoyed by Cantor's fluid, often colloquial, writing style and his lively critiques of persons and ideas both past and present.
Cantor was intellectually conservative and expressed deep skepticism about what he saw as methodological fads, particularly Marxism and postmodernism, but he also argued for greater inclusion of women and minorities in traditional historical narratives. In both his best-selling Inventing the Middle Ages and his autobiography, Inventing Norman Cantor, he reflected on his strained relationship over the years with other historians and with academia in general.
Upon retirement in 1999, Cantor moved to Miami, Florida, where he continued to work on several books up to the time of his death, including the New York Times best-seller "In the Wake of the Plague." He had been editor of Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (1999)
Select bibliography of Cantor's publications[edit]
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- The Medieval World 300-1500 ('Norman Cantor, Civilization of the Middle Ages, p. 2')
- Perspectives on the European Past
- The Civilization of the Middle Ages A revision of his earlier Medieval History: the Life and Death of a Civilization (1963) (ISBN 0-06-017033-6)
- How to Study History (with Richard I. Schneider) (1967) A textbook that lays out fundamental methods and principles, including the uses of primary and secondary sources
- The English
- Western Civilization: Its Genesis and Destiny
- The Meaning of the Middle Ages
- Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century, (1991) A historiography of views of the Middle Ages, in twenty vitae of seminal historians and other shapers of contemporary perception, including C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien
- Medieval Lives
- Medieval Society, 400-1450
- The Age of Protest (1971)
- Twentieth-Century Culture (1988) (ISBN 0-8204-0358-X)
- The Sacred Chain: History of the Jews (1994) Harper/Collins
- The American Century: Varieties of Culture in Modern Times (1997)
- In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made (2001)
- Antiquity (2003)
- The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era (2004) A look at John of Gaunt
- Alexander the Great (2005) Published posthumously by HarperCollins (ISBN 0-06-057012-1)
Cantor published a memoir in 2002, Inventing Norman Cantor: Confessions of a Medievalist.
External links[edit]
- New York Times News Service obituary
- The Telegraph newspaper, 1 October 2004 Norman Cantor
- About Inventing the Middle Ages
- Review of Inventing the Middle Ages in New York Review of Books


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She was a native of Bristol, TN and had lived in Washington County for many years. Mrs. Herndon was the daughter of the late Henry and Florence Littleford Hood. She had worked as Program Director for the Jonesborough Senior Center before retirement. Mrs. Herndon was a member of the First Baptist Church of Jonesborough.
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Economics can't explain it all.
That's the insight that flows from a close look at how much morality we can get out of economic theory. In Sunday's New York Times, Tyler Cowen makes a strong case that economic theory can gets us quite a lot of morality. He starts out on solid foundations:
Economic analysis is itself value-free, but in practice it encourages a cosmopolitan interest in natural equality. Many economic models, of course, assume that all individuals are motivated by rational self-interest or some variant thereof; even the so-called behavioral theories tweak only the fringes of a basically common, rational understanding of people. The crucial implication is this: If you treat all individuals as fundamentally the same in your theoretical constructs, it would be odd to insist that the law should suddenly start treating them differently.
Though every argument in a Sunday column comes sample-sized, it becomes clear that no matter how solid the economic foundation for moral egalitarianism, there's a thing or two of great moral significance that's missing. At CNBC, John Carney identifies one:
Preferring your fellow countrymen's interests over those of foreigners is not equivalent to saying that other people do not count. It is saying that, when not fully compatible, their interests do not count equally.
Attempting to claim that economics cannot—or should not—recognize the moral weight of citizenship is a smear against economics that its friends should avoid making.
Yet we should go even further. If economic theory isn't very good at capturing why equal people might not receive — or deserve — interchangeably equal favor, economic theory is even worse at understanding moral events that transpire outside the realm of interests altogether. Even moral interests on the level of national affinity characteristically amount to a transaction. Like the mutual reallocation of resources that animates exchanges among "natural equals," mutual preferences for co-nationals fit within a framework of self-interest that's familiar enough to economists.
Pick away at this idea of natural equality, however, and the moral limits of economic theory begin to emerge. Cowen insists that the key conceptual contrast "is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various alternatives — common around the globe — that postulate natural hierarchies of religion, ethnicity, caste and gender, often enforced by law and strict custom." As Alexis de Tocqueville observed, however, in a world like ours, where the equality of conditions spreads inexorably and political culture comes increasingly to be defined by a love of equality, the few with naturally exceptional merit experience extremely rapid success, while the many with more ordinary capacities experience the profound frustration of sharply limited ambitions despite the apparent disappearance of hierarchical obstacles to success. Economic theory is perpetually in danger of being morally hamstrung by this phenomenon.
Rather than responding to the danger by doubling down on an economics-explains-it-all view of the world — whether Hayekian, Keynesian, or other — economists could consider looking beyond the moral frontier of their theoretical frameworks at the realm of transformation, a far different space than the one in which transactions transpire. There really is no economics of transfiguration, or conversion and deconversion in a spiritual or poetic sense, or surprise, or tragedy, or redemption. And that's okay — so long as we do not get hung up on the idea that economics needs to explain it all because human beings are fundamentally natural equals endowed with basically the same species capabilities.
We can trace the foundation of economic theory in a species anthropology of basically equal capabilities back to Aristotle. Right now at First Things there is a lot of intelligent agonizing over whether Aristotle is right or neoliberals are right about the sustainability of our current economic system. In an important way, this debate takes us down a tunnel without any cheese at the end. All three of Aristotle, neoliberals, and Marx presume that the most important thing about us humans is our shared species being as pretty much naturally equal organisms. Though it's true that all humans are equally human, this is a necessary but insufficient insight to grasp what it is that makes us human: the possibility of transformative relationships that is always to us an unknown unknown — something that intercedes into our lives through us in a way that we can never understand or experience authentically as a capability that pertains to our individual self. It is much more revealing to think of ourselves, if we have to at all, as sites or spaces where the possibility of transformation and transfiguration can occur — not just for ourselves, but for others, and never just for predictable or foreseeable others.
Grasping this allows us to step away pretty firmly from Aristotle's burdensome legacy — and toward an ecumenical moral space that stresses the similarities among thinkers in a different lineage (in the west, people like Plato and Jesus) without descending into the naiveties and weak inspiration characteristically found in ecumenical spirituality. That might be offputting all by itself to proudly secular economic scientists. But at some point, even they might get bored running one another in intellectual circles over issues that will never be resolved so long as people believe that being human can be fully accounted for with economics.


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Tony McPhee
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|Tony McPhee
McPhee with The Groundhogs, London, September 1991
|Background information
|Birth name
|Anthony Charles McPhee
|Also known as
|"TS" McPhee
23 March 1944
Humberston, Lincolnshire, England
|Blues rock, blues
|Associated acts
|The Groundhogs
Tony McPhee (born Anthony Charles McPhee, 23 March 1944, at Redlands House, near Humberston, Lincolnshire) is an English blues guitarist, and founder of The Groundhogs.
The Groundhogs backed Champion Jack Dupree and John Lee Hooker on UK concerts in the mid-1960s,[1] evolving into a blues-rock trio that produced three UK Top 10 hits in the UK Albums Chart in the early 1970s.
McPhee has also released many solo acoustic blues records, as well as duets with Jo Ann Kelly. He is often credited as 'Tony (TS) McPhee'. He was dubbed TS by the producer Mike Vernon in the mid-1960s. Apart from the Groundhogs, McPhee has played with Herbal Mixture, the John Dummer Band, Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, Tony McPhee's Terraplane, Tony McPhee's Turbo, the Tony McPhee Band and Current 93.
In 2009 McPhee suffered a stroke which affected his speech and ability to sing.[2]
The definitive biography & discography of Tony McPhee was published in 2012. Eccentric Man: A Biography & Discography of Tony (TS) McPhee by Paul Freestone. Incompetent Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9568652-0-5
Solo discography[edit]
- 1966 Ain't Gonna Cry No More – Someone To Love Me
- 1966 You Don't Love Me When You Gotta Good Friend
- 1968 Me and the Devil
- 1969 I Asked for Water
- 1971 Same Thing on Their Minds
- 1973 Two Sides of Tony McPhee
- 1984 Razor Edge
- 1991 The Blues And The Beast
- 1993 Foolish Pride
- 1996 Slide, T.S., Slide
- 1996 Herbal Mixture-Groundhogs
- 1997 Bleachin' The Blues
- 2000 Live In Poland At Blues Express
- 2004 Blues At Ten
- ^ Eder, Bruce. /artist/tony-mcphee-p104709/biography "Tony McPhee: Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2010-12-05.
- ^ "News". www.thegroundhogs.co.uk. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
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Last month, the Osprey team helped to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Appalachian Trail Days. In just 3 days, we repaired more than 60 packs, fitted hikers for new ones and sent dozens of thru-hikers on their way. The following video captures just a bit from the event. We hope to catch up with y'all there next year!


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Toward an Asset Orientation in the Study of U.S. Latina/o Youth: Biculturalism, Ethnic Identity and Positive Youth Development
Latina/o youth have had limited studies conducted from a strengths perspective to aid in prevention efforts of adverse outcomes. This article examines a study of two specific asset variables (leadership and responsibility) to determine the role of biculturalism in healthy psychological functioning among Latina/o youth. Results of the study and implications for practice are thoroughly discussed.
- Explain the differences among cultural adaptation, cultural identity and ethnic identity.
- Comprehend the deficit and nature of research on asset variables among Latina/o youth.
- Discuss the two tested hypotheses around leadership and social responsibility and their relationship to bicultural involvement and bicultural identity.
- Incorporate implications for practice when working with Latina/o youth.
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Majority of iOS application developers will eventually want to develop their apps not only for iOS but also for the Android OS. Creating the same app on both OS opens up a huge opportunity for businesses and developers. I'm sure a lot of developers are wishing for one button conversion software. Unfortunately, there is currently no simple way to create an Android app from an iOS app. Creating an Android application will require developers to basically start from scratch because of the differences between the two OS. There are a few important things an iOS app developer should keep in mind when starting to create an android version.
First, now that you will be using an Android platform, you are not restricted to just the Mac OS. Windows and Linux can also be used for development, since the development tool for android is Eclipse IDE. Eclipse is available on all three OS.
Second, most developers should know that Android apps are programmed in Java, while iOS apps are programmed in C. Switching between coding languages isn't hard, but will take some getting used to. Java is a more widely used language so developers can get a lot of help from online examples and documents. With these change in language, a user will also have to learn to use intents, fragments, and many more API's that are used to create Android apps.
Thirdly, since you can't just copy and paste code from your original iOS app, you will want to keep in mind the architecture and flow of your application. You want it to work the same, but you have to program in a different language.
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Following the previous problem, Android phones will also have various screen sizes. An app on the iOS is guaranteed to work once tested on one iPhone since the screen sizes do not vary. For Android every device has a different screen size. It is the developer's responsibility to test their app for all screen sizes to make sure users can use the app no matter which phone they are using.
Lastly, developers should want to create widgets for the application on Android. The iOS doesn't use widgets, but widgets are used in a lot of successful applications on Android. Learning how to create and design these will benefit your app a lot.
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JACKSON, Miss. — Tate Taylor, the Mississippi native who directed "The Help," said Monday that he'll make a biographical feature film about James Brown in the state, starting this fall.
"Every frame will be shot in Mississippi. We're even doing Paris, France, in Mississippi. ... Vietnam, as well, in Mississippi," Taylor said at the Mississippi Coliseum on the state fairgrounds in Jackson, where some scenes will be shot.
Filming will take place in November and December in and near Natchez, a Mississippi River town in the southwestern corner of the state; and in January and February in the capital city of Jackson, said Taylor, who grew up in Jackson and now has a home near Natchez.
Brown, who died in 2006, was known as "the hardest-working man in show business" and as the "Godfather of Soul." He was born in Barnwell, S.C., and grew up in Georgia. Taylor said Mississippi provides a similar look because it is "on that same line of latitude."
Taylor said he could know within the next week who will play Brown.
"Those are tough shoes to fill," he said.
Asked if a well-known actor or a newcomer is likely to land the role, Taylor said: "I tend to go toward relative unknowns."
Taylor will direct the biopic. His co-producers for the movie are Mick Jagger and Brian Grazer, he said.
"James Brown, really, was the first real dancer that broke the ground of how people move," Taylor said. "And Mick Jagger has complimented that and tipped his hat to that forever."
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant joined Taylor in announcing the project and said the state will provide incentives, including rebates of up to 30 percent of the payroll for state residents hired on the project. It's not yet possible to put a dollar figure on the state incentive package, Bryant said, because the movie is still in the planning stage.
Mississippi lawmakers earlier this year increased the incentives that the state offers to moviemakers. The new law, signed by Bryant, says the state could provide rebates of up to $10 million per project for nationally distributed feature films, documentaries and TV shows.
The film will begin when Brown was about 5 years old and will extend to about 1993, Taylor said, declining to give details about what parts of Brown's life will be depicted: "You have to buy a ticket and come see it."
Brown performed a concert at the Mississippi Coliseum in February 1969, although it was not immediately clear whether that concert will be depicted in the movie. Taylor said the coliseum's interior will stand in for Boston Gardens, where Brown played a concert and calmed an audience after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968; and downtown Jackson will stand in for downtown Cincinnati, home of King Records.
"The Help," released in 2011, was filmed in several Mississippi locations, including Greenwood and Jackson. Taylor said he wants to develop the film industry in the state.
"I think with all of our hard work, we will soon see great talent rising up from our native soil," Taylor said.
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Old school term for a skilled pickpocket.
"Stumpy is a real class cannon - he can clean out a vic's pockets faster than a flatfoot can eat a donut!"
автор: VerbalGimp 14 мая 2007
A joint (or blunt) that starts skinny at the mouthpiece, and gets fatter towards the end where you spark it.
Guy 1: "Yo u wanna go twist up a cannon?"
Guy 2: "WORD!"
Guy 2: "WORD!"
автор: SMELLZlikeKUSH 28 декабря 2010
A common misspelling of canon.
"You only like that pairing because it's not cannon."
"No no, you mean CANON. Oh, and... That's not true."
"No no, you mean CANON. Oh, and... That's not true."
автор: Ravenwolf 5 марта 2006
v. to deny, shutdown, or reject
n. a statement made rejecting a particular person
n. a statement made rejecting a particular person
Dude, I just got cannoned by that girl! She wouldn't give me her number.
автор: Gangster A 24 июля 2008
when you want to trick somebody in to believing something you say your joke this shout out "cannon"
For example...." hey you dropped your pencil" they look down forgetting that they dont have a pencil and then you scream CANNON!
автор: MonjiBOo 13 августа 2008
The person doesn't mean it
The person doesn't mean it
Josh says,"i love you.", he don't mean it. So he says, "Cannon!"
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Early 2008 24" Imac Video Card Upgrade
After two replacement video cards and logic boards, I'm thinking there is a problem with the heat removal in the Imac. I'm probably wrong...In any case, the diagnostics show the video card is fried, so I'm now looking for a replacement that is as fast as the Nvidia FX3600 and does produce less heat than the Nvidia factory replacement
I have found several boards which will match the Mac layout, but I assume the PC bios will need to be flashed.
With that said, Apple should have a list of video cards and there power usage vs their performance. I sure can't find it.
On another note, my investigations have found the Nvidia Model P398 used in HP's and IBM's and other lesser known laptops. They don't seem to have the problems plaguing the 2008 Imacs. Same video card and less heat.
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Which Mac do you have? You mention iMac above but then talk about replacing the video card with another of a different type. It sounds like you're referring to a Mac Pro?
Also, flashing the video card BIOS or firmware seldom works when attempting to use a PC video card in a Mac. The instruction set is different.
Imac A1225 Video Card Upgrade
To be honest, I'm testing new territory with the Mac-rom Bios switch. From what I can gather, the Nvidia Geforce 88000 GS card will accept the Mac change. The card is identical to Mac and PC, so the software should be the only hangup. I am doing this to prove a point. If the Bios can be flashed to Mac, I will figure that out. I plan on using a USB video adapter and setting up the Bios with Nvflash followed by mac-rom, which should accomplish the task. The Nvidia boards are pretty much generic for all platforms with only the Bios being the difference.
The problem is how advanced of a card will the 2008 Imac 24" 2.8gig (MB325LL/A) take? Apple will never venture into the philosophy of PC's. It is forbidden to allow after market or tailored boards to enter their frames. If I can overcome the Apple Bios, then the fun will begin on finding the fastest and coolest running card for the Imac. Nothing gained, but then nothing lost.
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Pope Benedict XVI has officially joined the Twitterverse, and is looking to add followers on Twitter to the already 1.2 billion real life followers he has.
Pope Benedict XVI will tweet under the handle @Pontifex, but not before December 12th.
Still, over 70,000 people chose to follow the 85-year-old Pope Benedict XVI since his Twitter went live this morning.
The Pope's first tweet will coincide with the feast of the Madonna of Guadalupe.
Greg Burke, senior media advisor to the Vatican, said @Pontifex is an appropriate Twitter handle for a number of reasons.
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Amazing! I made them with vanilla extract instead of raspberry extract since i didn't have any and they still turned out great. Some of the best cookies i have ever had!
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The Carolina Panthers did the expected with the first overall pick in Thursday night's 2011 NFL Draft, selecting Auburn quarterback Cam Newton to fill their most glaring positional need.
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- The study of mental health constitutes one of the eight divisions of Ayurveda. Due to various historical circumstances this study is now confined to a few families scattered all over the country, and now survives mainly as an oral tradition.
- Even a cursory glance at the symptomatology of any physical disease will reveal that many symptoms are not purely physical. Similarly, psychological diseases also exhibit a lot of symptoms which are not purely psychological. The line defining something as 'Purely physical or psychological' is indeed very thin. Therefore one must realize that the body and the mind, though different, are inseparably linked to each other.
- The important qualities of the mind are satwa, rajas and tamas. These three balance each other, giving rise to a healthy situation of the mind.
- Satwa is responsible for knowledge, acquisition, distribution and reasoning/analyzing.
- Rajas is the initiator and provides the impetus essential for initiation of thought. This gets converted to a deed/word after a judicious use of desire, effort and memory.
- Tamas due to its occluding nature provides a calming, soothing effect and in a normal stage becomes the brake which controls the overactive rajas and reasoning satwa.
- A balance of these three is essential for a healthy state of mind. When this balance is lost totally we have mental disorders, or if it tilts in any one direction we have conditions like anger, anxiety and trepidation, which are normal emotions but exhibited in an intensive manner.
- In Ayurveda, stress is laid on prevention of diseases and curative aspects play a secondary role. Therefore great emphasis is laid on correct behavior, proper diet, attending to natural urges, control of psychological activity and the observance of daily as well as seasonal regimen to prevent diseases. Any compromise or failure to observe any of these measures culminates in disease.
- The modality of treatment for the management of manasroga has been classified into three categories daivavyapashraya, satwavajaya and yuktivyapashraya.
- Daivavyapashraya includes chanting of mantras, performances of various homas (sacrifices) prescribed where herbs along with various ingredients like rice, ghee and raisins are offered to fire. Also upavasa (fasting), niyama (strict behavioral regimen like observance of celibacy, eating certain things while avoiding others), pranipata (offering salutation or prayers to the deities and penance) and prayaschitta (atonement) play an important role in controlling the tamas and rajas activity of the mind, establishing a satwa predominant state which is essential for the normal and healthy functioning of the mind.
- Satwavajaya involves efforts to control the abnormal mental activity by practice of yama (code of conduct), niyama (strict behavioral regimen), asana (various yogic postures which are helpful in imparting stability to both body and mind) and pranyama (control of breath) which make it easier for the prana to circulate freely throughout the body thereby removing various blockages which causes disease and dhyana (meditation and concentration).
- Yuktivyapashraya, this modality involves the judicious use of medicines and diet. It is broadly classified into two groups namely shodhana and shamana.
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SAN ANTONIO - Lots of folks spent the holiday on the job but perhaps no group feels the impact of celebrating Thanksgiving away from home more than the military.
Valero employees have been working for weeks now to make sure some Army and Navy troops get a memorable meal on Thanksgiving.
Some 400 troops, 200 Valero employees and their families, and hundreds of pounds of turkey mixed together for the eighth-annual Thanksgiving with the Troops.
"I think it's wonderful and awesome what these young people do," said Valero employee Jackie Robertson. "They dedicate their lives to service and it's the simplest thing that I can do to say, 'Thank you.'"
There's even a 12-year-old serving the troops.
"I am thankful that these people are serving my country and I'm happy because I have family that is serving too," said Annabelle Martinez, the daughter of a Valero employee.
The food served with pride and quickly enjoyed by the troops hungry for the meal -- and the hospitality.
"I think this is a good experience just because people have a chance to get out of the barracks to have some sort of a family-oriented environment with cake and food," said Seaman Travis Richards.
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INTRODUCTION - ------------------- While browsing gamefaqs.com one day and reading the Ruby/Sapphire message boards, I found a few different topics regarding glitches in the game. I have decided, therefore, to compile a guide to all these glitches so that each game player will be aware of them. Some of the glitches are for fun, some are glitches which can screw up your game, and some are just plain weird. And now without further pointless yacking, on with the guide! --------------------------- - 2. GLITCHES IN THE GAME - --------------------------- Here is the list I have compiled of the glitches. the format is: Name of Glitch Type of glitch (either Game Screwers or Weird) Place where it occurs How the glitch occurs Information/Glitch Glitch Contributor(s) A) Slateport City Boat Glitch - Weird - Occurs in Slateport City near the boats - Walk, do not run or bike, up and down next to the boats. - The Slateport City Boat Glitch is a strange glitch which does not alter gameplay. This glitch is just weird and strange to look at. As you walk up & down the left (or right) side of the boat(s), take a look at the boats. As you walk, the boats will have a weird pixel glitch and there will be a messed up line of pixels down the front (or back) of the boat. - Contributed by: drobb, harle1012000, B) Save Game Glitch - Weird, Possible Game Screwer - Occurs wherever there is a tree that you can use CUT on. - Cut down a tree, move to that spot, save the game. - The Save Game Glitch is a classic glitch which has been around to the best of my knowledge for Pokemon Red/Blue/Green/Yellow/Gold/Silver/Crystal. What you do is go up to a tree and use CUT on the tree. After the tree is cut down move over the spot where the tree used to stand. Save your game. Then turn off the gameboy. Turn it back on. When you continue your game you will find that you are stuck on top of the tree and cant move until you supposedly use cut again. I'm pretty sure it's in these games also. - Contributed by: Gundam Fan C) Thunderbolt Glitch - Weird, Possible Game Screwer - Can occur in battle. - Use the move THUNDERBOLT in a battle. - The Thunderbolt Glitch occurs when the player uses the move Thunderbolt in a battle. Sometimes, (I stress the word sometimes) the sound of the move will linger on until you turn off your gameboy. - Contributed by: MidgetSnowman D) Walk Through Walls Glitch - Weird - Occurs in different Place - Use PAR to put in the walk through walls. - If you use the Pro Action Replay device and put in the code for walking through walls, here are somethings that can happen. 1 - If you use the walk through walls code, go up in Sky Pillar to the top where Rayquazza was, go through the rocks and drop in one of the holes, you'll in up in the city where your "Dad" is a gym leader. Contributed by: Shin Kaiser Dragon E) Aroma Lady Rose Glitch - Weird - To the right of Mauville City - Before you battle Aroma lady rose, dont jump the thing - Go to Mauville city. Exit out at the East Entrance. It is near the ocean. If you have never defeated the aroma lady there just stand by the ledge* where she can see you. ( be sure to leave a few spaces for her to walk). A ! point wiil appear above her head and she will walk over the ledge to challenge you. - Contributed by: Linkinparkgrl975 *the ledges that you jump over but cant walk up again. F) Mawile Glitch - Weird - Mawile's Entry in the Ruby PokeDex - Look at the entry - Go to the entry of Mawile and you'll see that it reads "MAWHILE's huge jaws are actually steel horns that have been transformed. Its docile looking face serves to lull its for into letting down its guard. When the least expects it, MAWHILE chomps it with its gaping jaws." The PokeDex entry reads MAWHILE but the Pokemon's name is actually MAWILE, without the "h" - Contributed by: NotBob101 ------------------- - 3. JUST FOR FUN - ------------------- In this section I will list a bunch of different things that you can do in the game that have no point whatsoever and are... well... "just for fun!" Just For Fun Thing #1 """"""""""""""""""""" Go and participate in a POKeMON contest in any of the four cities: Verdanturf, Fallarbor, Slateport or Lilycove. After the first round of judging is over, the voting begins. When the second round of judging begins, take a look at the people in the background. Right in the middle of the audience, you can see Whitney, one of the gym leaders from Pokemon Gold/Silver. All the way on the right side you can also see Pryce, another gym leader from Gold/Silver. This just proves that the old gym leaders do make an appearance Contributed by: Flame060 Just For Fun Thing #2 """"""""""""""""""""" Fly to Littleoot Town and enter your rival's house. If you climb the staircase to the top floor of the house (your rival's room) and walk to the bed, you can climb "into" the bed an it looks like you're sleeping in their bed. Also, go to Verdanturf Town and go into Wanda's House. You can do the same thing in Wally's bed. If you go to Lavaridge Town, you can sleep next to the old man in the sand. Contributed by: mudkip, Linku Just For Fun Thing #3 """"""""""""""""""""" Not only is this Just For Fun, it also helps you find the PKMN you are looking for. For this thing, you can go to any town that has a Pokemon Center. Go to the PC and go to access Someone's/LANETTE'S PC. Go to either Move Pokemon or Withdraw Pokemon. Move the Cursor to the box which tells you the name of the current box. Press A and go to Wallpaper. Then choose a style. Make all of the POkemon that stay in that box the same type as the background, give different types different backgrounds. For example, I used all 14 boxes as follows: Box Name Real Number Background '''''''' ''''''''''' '''''''''' Grass 1 Forest Water 2 Seafloor Flying 3 Sky Fire 4 Volcano Fighting 5 Cave Normal 6 Plain Psychic 7 Pokecenter Electric 8 Machine Poison 9 City Ground 10 Crag Dark 11 Cave Ghost 12 Beach (couldn't find something better :) Ice 13 Snow Special 14 Pokecenter My box called "Special" is a box reserved for special things. It currently contains the following pokemon: Regice, Registeel, Regirock, Rayquaza, Castform, Shedinja, Anorith, Azurill, Igglybuff, and 2 Pokemon Eggs Contributed by: soapman87 Just For Fun Thing #4 """"""""""""""""""""" In your secret base, there are a couple of items which are a little bit odd. These items break when you do something to them: Red Balloon: When you walk over this thing, it pops. Resests when you leave. Yellow Balloon: See Red Balloon Blue Balloon: See Red Balloon Mud Ball: See Red Balloon Breakable Door: When you pass through the door, it breaks. Resets when you leave. Sand Ornament: If you press A next to it, it crumbles. Resets when you leave. You can get the Balloons at the Slateport City Market. The other 3 can be purchased at the Lilycove Department Store Rooftop Sale. Contributed by: soapman87 Just For Fun Thing #5 """"""""""""""""""""" Use a link cable, go into a Pokemon Center, and mix records. Come out and disconnect the link cable. Go to the person's Secret Hideout and they will be there. Talk to them, and you will battle them. You must have beaten the elite four first. Contributed by: gambit444; Lc71135 Just For Fun Thing #6 """"""""""""""""""""" As you travel through the different routes of the game, you can sometimes hear the cries of some of the pokemon that reside on that route Contributed by: soapman87 Just For Fun Thing #7 """"""""""""""""""""" 1. Go to a body of water and face it. Have a Pokémon with surf. 2. Set bike to select button. 3. Press select, then QUICKLY keep tapping A while facing the water to surf. The surf music will start before you get on the water! Crazy huh? Contributed by: djflipstarx Just For Fun Thing #8 """"""""""""""""""""" When you catch a Spinda you'll notice that each and every one had a different & unique pattern of spots on its skin. Contributed by: r_mage ---------------- - 4. MISSINGNO - ---------------- I have now determined that Missingno needs his own section in this FAQ. I have browsed through the many, many, many, many pages of Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire topics, and have cut and pasted some of the pages on Missingno. Here they are: From: Tsukasas Kite | Posted: 4/29/2003 7:54:37 PM | Message Detail For those of u that arent pokemon junkies, Missing0 was a virus u would get if u talked to the old man in Viridian City then sail on the edge of Cinnibar Island. Missing0 would sometimes battle u (otherwise it was a lvl 99 snorlax) and it was like a disformed rectangle of static. It glitches up ur hall of fame and a bunch of other things. It turned my Mew into a Snorlax! >_< It made pidgies lvl 1 but they could kill any pokemon in one hit. There were two forms of Missing0, the otherones name constantly changed, it was all gibberish though. DONT FIND HIM, TAKE MY ADVICE! So the point is, is he in the game or not. BTW for those of u that have seen him, look closely, u see the old man's drawing faintly in the static. From: ShinyCelebi | Posted: 4/29/2003 8:02:40 PM | Message Detail There were 3 versions in R/B, not 2. 2 of them were Missingno, but 1 (Forgot what type) was a ok missingno that didnt glitched, the other 2 (2nd version of Missingno and ~~M~~) was bad. Then in G/S/C, there was a hacked missingno, you fight a egg and catch it and your game freezes. And theres 3 Missingno's in R/S. The first one looks like a question mark in a ball (Its the same picture as it looks like the one in the empty pokedex slot). Its name is "????????" and is not a perminent pokemon, it will disappear sooner or later. It has its own pokedex data that aint glitched surprisingly, but it freezes the game too. The 2nd one is the same as on top but acts as a real pokemon. The 3rd one is a VERY GOOD AND SAFE missingno. Its name is "?", and it looks like 2 HUGE white blocky question marks. It doesnt glitch, and the only glitch thing about him is his pokedex data, which aint a problem. If ya want to use a missingno, stick to the "?" 2 question mark one. I use him and NEVER had a glitch. Unfortunatly, he only knows 1 attack and cant learn anything else and no TMS and HMS work for him. From: ShinyCelebi | Posted: 4/30/2003 8:37:52 PM | Message Detail http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse.asp?selected=246609 Pik pik carrot took those pictures. And heres a quote from somebody else with the codes : "GS/AR v1/v2 ----------------------- MissingNo. Egg Ruby: 320B31B9 8795B1B9 Sapp: 16903EAB 2789E501 AR v3 ----------------------- MissingNo. Egg Ruby: FD78F257 F6D1C816 F8A224A7 5C90B52B Sapp: 9B78FA02 2FF826E7 F8A224A7 5C90B52B This is the safe MissingNo. (the image is the double '?'). Get the egg from the lady, hatch it, viola, a new little bundle of joy. And, to save you the trouble of finding the other codes you need to get this to work: GS/AR v1/v2 ----------------------- (m) Ruby: 9E6AC862 823AB7A8 46B7D9E4 A709E9E1 Sapp: 9E6AC862 823AB7A8 8365F8FA 817CF3E9 Lavaridge Egg Enabler C6500699 A423FC68 Fast Egg Hatch D7A2E463 9F64ABFA AR v3 ----------------------- (m) Ruby: DE00AAFD 2EBD05D0 530823D9 16558191 Sapp: DE00AAFD 2EBD05D0 B4564EFE 23F44BF2 Lavaridge Egg Enabler 46813A10 82A13FB1 Fast Egg Hatch 9E17B966 367DE205 Put the MissingNo. Egg, (m), Lavaridge Egg Enabler, and the Fast Egg Hatch codes in your cheat device that correspond with the game and cheat device version you have." OR ? Pokemon : CE97AB70 EC01B132 ?? Pokemon : CBD2E675 36131AFD The 2nd code is for the good one. From: FireBrand | Posted: 4/28/2003 3:28:22 PM | Message Detail The Missingno, or the whatever I ran into didnt have a name. All I can figure out was that it was some error with the new GS and its codes. I had the M code, the Rare Candy code, and was trying out the One Hit KO code out. Went into the cave before the elite 4 from the exit and every random encounter I had was with a "wild " i.e. "wild appears!" No name when it appeared, no name up by the HP bar, same ? Ball, and on the next turn even if you just switch pokemon you would win. Every encounter was like that but I wasnt brave enough to try and see what would happen if I caught it. Basically I was being thrown into a fight with a monster that wasnt actually there. I hoped that Helped! ---------------------------- - 5. LETTERS I'VE RECEIVED - ---------------------------- Here's some letters I've gotten from fans reading this FAQ and have requested that it be put on the FAQ. ok I used that cheat on my pro action replay were it says to battle in the pokemon center with the go thru walls cheat if you do the battle center glitch in any pokemon center then you will lose all of your items in your inventory but not in your personel pc thing I know because it has already happened to me before twice now please post that on your glitch thing for pokemon ruby so nobody else Signed email@example.com hi mr soapman.. well as you what i have mention earlier in the subject,i read the FAQ that you wrote down..it was a nice FAQ and i have to admit that i do have seen all those rare glitches...i didn't know if my eyes had spotted the MissingNo glitches when i played the game... But i do remember a type of glitch that really screwed up my game totally..it really freaks me as all my pokemon were lost,all the data in my pokedex lost just like having a new pokedex without any pokemon info in it,and getting a new pokemon that i never had caught before..I think it's better for me to tell a little bit further about this glitches so that ( i hope ) you could tell me what is actually wrong with it.. I play the Gameboy Advance's Pokemon Sapphire ( i think that the glitches happen bout two or three weeks ago ),and using Torchic as my Pokemon starter and using 'boy' as the trainer's gender..and finishing the game for about 3 to 4 days.After beating the Elite Four i continue my journey by challenging the Battle Tower,and try to catch the legendaries ( 3 Regis,Rayquaza and Latias ) and of course i catched about 170 pokemon ( according to my pokedex data ) from about 190 pokemon that i have seen.The only thing that really freak me is an egg named as " Bad Egg ". I think you know what is this so called " Bad Egg " as its existence in my Pokemon Storage Box without my knowing ( coz in the entire game i only hold one egg which is given to me by the old lady in the Lavaridge town ) and guess what,it screwed up my game each time i defeat the Elite Four...usually i will level up my Pokemon by challenging the Elite Four and using the Exp share..i think i challenge them about ten times ( i guess so... ) Since i get that damn egg,this is the list of what happening to me when i challenge the Elite four.. -i lost all my Pokemon that i caught in the Safari Zone. >_< -as exchange to it,i receive a few pokemon,some of them i never caught in my entire game and thou i had it in my Storage box,the pokedex never recording down its data.for example i never have the fire type pokemon Camerupt ( but i do have its devolution type which is Numel ),but when i lost all my Safari Zone pokemon,Camerupt and few other Pokemon ( without knowing where are they coming from ) exist in my Storage box..but their data (especially the new one) can't be seen in my pokedex. -usually i didn't arrange my pokemon in different box or give a name to the box according to the type of pokemon..i put all of them in the same box until its full then change to the next box.After the Bad Egg screw up my game,all my pokemon being 'transported' to the other box...and a few of them lost just like that.And usually the new pokemon that i didn't know where i caught it exist in box 12. -Sometimes i received both of the ressurected pokemon thou in one game a player could only have one type of ressurected pokemon depending on which type of fossil we choose..i didn't know if there is any codes for having both of the fossils.But from the beginning of the game i never used any kind of cheat..not even Gameshark or PAR..or using any e-reader. The more i defeated the Elite Four,the glitches became more weird as all my effort began to disappear one by one..this is the last thing that i remember happening to me when i defeated the Elite Four for the last time. -I lost all the data in my pokedex..not a single data of pokemon can be seen in my pokedex.it's completely empty. -At the credit part after defeating the champion ( in the credit part, May/Brendan will riding a bicycle followed by the image of the pokemon that we have caught being show one by one ),i still can see the trainer that i choose ( which is a boy ) riding a bicycle..except for the image part where i all that i have see a big "?" came down one by one and two pokemon image that couldn't be caught in any Ruby or Sapphire versions showed up...those two pokemon are Charizard and Spearow..it really suprised me as i have to delete that infected game and start to play a new game.. Well that is all that i could say to you...hoping that one day you could put this in your FAQ..and solving this problem..i think almost all glitches that i could find,i think this one is the worst one.. Thanks Dear soapman87, Here's what happened for documentation purposes. 1: I Entered battle in the Fiery path vs a level 15 or 16 Grimer. I sent out a level 48 Alakazam. 2: I used Thief(7 pp out of 16) on the Grimer. 3: The Grimer's Hp goes to Zero. 4: A meassage appeared saying "wild Grimer's sticky hold made Thief useless" 5: Alakazam got around 216 Experience for winning the battle. 6: I then found myself in the Fiery path free to hunt down more grimers. As for your first question as to why this counts as a bug. (sticky hold is supposed to keep you from stealing items after all) The "Wild Grimer Fainted" Message never appeared and the Fainting animation didn't happen either. Thank you and Good Day. (mark hawkman) -------------- - 6. CREDITS - -------------- The following people have contributed to this FAQ/Guide drobb - Slateport City Boat Glitch harle012000 - Slateport City Boat Glitch Gundam Fan - Save Game Glitch MidgetSnowman - Thunderbolt Glitch Flame060 - Just For Fun Thing #1 mudkip - Just For Fun Thing #2 Linku - Just For Fun Thing #2 soapman87 - Just For Fun Thing #3, #4, #6 gambit444; Lc71135 - Just For Fun Thing #5 Shin Kaiser Dragon - Walk Through Walls #1 Linkinparkgrl975 - Aroma Lady Rose Glitch djflipstarx - Just For Fun Thing #7 r_mage - Just For Fun Thing #8 NotBob101 - Mawile Glitch pik pik carrot - some clarification stuff ------------------------ - 7. OTHER INFORMATION - ------------------------ This FAQ is written by soapman87. I can be e-mailed at firstname.lastname@example.com My AIM name is supersoap87. This FAQ can be hosted only www.gamefaqs.com If you want to place this FAQ on your site, all you have to do is e-mail me before you put it on. UNTIL NEXT TIME, I SHALL SEE YOU!!!


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Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla is known for his outspoken views on venture capital and he didn't disappoint while speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference Wednesday.
Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures, and former cofounder of Sun Microsystems and former investor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, said most venture capitalists do not add anything of value in advising entrepreneurs. "90 percent of VCs add zero value and 70 to 80 percent add negative value to startups in advising them," Khosla said.
Most venture capitalists don't have enough experience themselves to really know how to really help entrepreneurs, Khosla said. So Khosla prefers not to go to board meetings. "That's why I don't go to board meetings. Everyone is there from venture firms talking as if they've earned the right to give advice when they haven't done sh*t."
In a question from interviewer Michael Arrington about why Khosla hired former Square COO Keith Rabois as a venture capitalist, Khosla said Rabois has real experience building companies. "Doing things at edges is what venture is about. Doing things that seem likely to fail, not being afraid of failure, that's very much the philosophy of Khosla Ventures…. You have a lower probability of success when you try crazy things. You need people to help entrepreneurs increase their probability of success… Keith was at LinkedIn LinkedIn, Paypal, [Slide and Square]. He knows why things succeed or fail."
For entrepreneurs, the toughest thing is knowing whose advice to take and whose not to, since many investors don't give great advice, Khosla said.
Instead of going to board meetings, Khosla prefers to advise entrepreneurs in other settings. He also tells entrepreneurs that he's not sure about his advice. "Most of the time I give advice I tell them what I'm uncertain about. I'm confident I've screwed up more often than most people in this room."
Khosla said he was excited about his vegetarian egg company, Hampton Creek Foods, which creates egg substitutes cheaper and with much less energy and more safely than a real egg.
He's also interested in robotics, such as a company that makes a device that can manage agriculture and farming to yield better results from crops. The downside: farm laborers could be out of work.
Khosla's also very interested in health care. He showed an app from Ginger.io, which is a kind of virtual EKG machine on an iPhone. He also showed another that takes photos of the inside of your ear and analyzes that data.
Khosla said computers and robotics can do 80% of the work of traditional doctors at a fraction of the cost with decent quality. "This kind of software with sensors and wearables is changing the practice of medicine," Khosla said.


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