Heart attack, also known as cardiac arrest, is the event in which your heart stops beating. This can obviously be quite problematic. A wise person knows that, just like death and accidents, cardiac arrests are unpredictable. Therefore it's a good idea to have the basics of cardiac arrest knowledge covered.

InsideCardiacArrest.com offers a fair bundle of information on sudden cardiac arrests. If you have a history of heart problems, you'll also want to familiarize yourself with the ICD Implant that helps deal with dangerously fast heart rates, a precursor to cardiac arrest.

Leaving within the hour. It just dawned to me that Siva-ratri is right behind the corner, and Varanasi is approximately on the way... And obviously a place of choice for the event. Then, I'll be spending a week or thereabouts at Varanasi before moving on towards Orissa.

I've been very underexposed to India. Perhaps in the name of Vraja-nistha or such, there's a world of context out there I am unfamiliar with. Context for Gaudiya Vaisnavism, context for everything. Perhaps, if I look carefully enough, I'll find the house of Tapan Mishra or the headquarters of the controversial Prabodhananda-Prakasananda!

I'm picking up Malati's mom from the airport (she's coming to India) a bit after midnight, seeing that she gets well on her way with the taxi, and continuing towards downtown Delhi to visit some bookstores. And in the evening to the train station, onto a train towards Varanasi...

POS means Point of Sale, the location where a business transaction occurs. And it doesn't happen automagically, you need the right equipment to get those bar codes scanned and the such. Equipment that can be on the pricy side, and if you're running a new business you may want to look at second-hand equipment to cover your needs.

Vision POS offers a fair selection of related products and services on their site. In the line of popular products you'll find Fujitsu POS systems, IBM Surepos POS, NCR point of sale and a good deal more.

On the other hand if you're looking into getting new equipment and selling away the old machines, Vision POS also buy old point of sale equipment. The stuff they sell doesn't come falling from the sky after all, right?

The man at the general store downtown Radhakund would be the proudest man of the village if he got the cheapest of these setups!

Two months of Bengali lessons with Sakhicharan and Bisakha came to a conclusion today with the last chapter of the textbook discussions finished. William Radice's "Teach Yourself Bengali" turned out to be a decent and thorough textbook, even if I would have personally wanted to see simple past tense and conditional sentences dealt with a bit earlier on.

In what turned out to be a pretty intense crash course of what came to around a total of a bit over 50 hours of teaching, we covered the whole of Bangla grammar and the 15 or so discussions in the text along with a good number of other practical and useful applications of the language. I guess people usually spend a lot more time on covering the whole of Bengali grammar than we did!

Some of the textbook exercises we did together, and many more we skipped. On some days I was reading from books of their choice and translating with brief explanations of why things were said the way they are. We could have used more time for discussion practice. I imagine they'll be digesting all that information for a while!

The period also left me with much useful experience; for one, I finally got to the bottom of the grammar myself and familiarized myself with related terminology once again, and perhaps properly for the first time. Assets that'll undoubtedly come in handy when I move on with my studies of Hindi and Sanskrit.

This is actually the first time I've ever taught a language to anyone. No doubt one could have spent much more time in preparing a proper curriculum and exercises tailored better to the environment the language is applied in. But then again, to justify going to such lengths one would need to have a plan for more than a single short course. For this situation, the second part of Radice's work featuring discussions and grammar was quite sufficient.

Never heard before? Me neither. However, GojiBerries.Us offers a good deal of information on Goji Berries, "Authentic Tibetan Himalayan Goji Berries" that is. A quick exploration reveals that Goji berries are also known as wolfberries, and are a product gaining increasing foothold in the health food market.

From GojiBerries.Us, you can get a selection of different Goji berry products including dried Goji berries, Goji berry seeds and Goji Berry Juice.

Unlike many products on the market, Goji berries seem to be a time-proven old product, used in traditional Chinese medicine for at least two millennia. They are particularly noteworthy for their nutrient richness and antioxidant qualities. There's a helpful entry in Wikipedia that tells a great deal more on this berry.

I might just be heading up north for the hot season after returning from Orissa. Let's see if I bump into some of them berries up there on the mountains!

This section of Vraja Journal will come to eventually host my entire archive of photos. The first batch features the images that were hosted in the Raganuga Visions gallery at the Raganuga.Com website. Photos are bundled into PDF files by theme and annotated where relevant.

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All original content at Vraja Journal is now officially licensed for sharing under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0. CC licensing has been a part of my content production ideology for long, and it was about time to roll it in here, too.

People who spend excessive periods of time in meditation and other spiritual practices tend to generate a certain otherworldly halo, a radiance that often finds artistic expression as the aureola painted around saints. So much so that it can actually hurt the eyes even with slight exposure (though permanent damage is rare) to an unexperienced lay person with low spirit ray tolerance.

If you happen live near a Hare Krishna community or a Buddhist meditation center, you may want to get a pair of good Sunglasses. To combine benefit and community service, you may consider getting Wholesale Sunglasses and selling them on for profit. CTS Wholesale Sunglasses offers a decent array of Wholesale Replica Sunglasses for people in need of shielding their eyes.

According to some reports, people also wear sunglasses to ward off sun rays, or just to look hip and trendy without furthering any pragmatic objective related to eye shielding. Some celibate monks supposedly wear sunglasses to protect their renounced image from claims of excessive staring at members of the opposite sex. I don't do customer surveys however and can't give you any percentages on who does what and why; I just review and report curiosities that cross my horizon. There!

Raganuga.Com and Raganuga.Org are available if someone wants to take the domains over and begin something anew. They have been static for a small eternity. The contents will be archived under Gaudiya.Com and the domains will be let to expire. (We need to streamline costs, there are a zillion domains out there and we only really want and need to keep active domains with unique content going on.)

If you are interested in taking over the domains before they expire, please e-mail me and let me know what you'd like to do with them. Transferring a domain to your name is a fairly painless process (I'll help you out), and domains cost annually in the range of $10 USD. Raganuga.Com is registered until 1/17/2009 and Raganuga.Org until 10/13/2008. I suggest however not procrastinating until the expiration dates.