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A myriad issues about Satyam Infotech are being written about. A million words being spoken on media. The Chairman resigned admitting that the accounts were fudged to the tune of Rs. 7,106 crore over “several years”. Speculation ranges on how the Company Directors may have carried out the fraud, as much as how much they may have swindled etc. Satyam is already being called India's 'Enron'.
Satyam, India's fourth biggest IT company, was the darling of not just the Sensex but of the national and international corporate world. Its dazzling client roster included no less than 185 of the corporations on Forbes 500 list. Satyam was honoured with an award for good corporate governance. But the real damage done by the Satyam blow-up is to the credibility of Brand India as a whole and not just in terms of Information Technology.
The Information Technology Sector is one of the country’s most pampered, but it is also one of the exemplars of Brand India. Satyam is one of the top names, having worked its way up diligently to reach these lofty heights. Along the way, Satyam reaped all the benefits of state and central government concessions for years. Then, a couple of days ago, in a complete turnaround, it proposed to change its very business from IT to real estate. The company was plunged into a crisis following an aborted attempt to acquire Maytas Infra and Maytas Properties. Now let us consider Satyam and Maytas. Maytas is Satyam reversed. The glaring lesson that can be learned is that Satyam cannot be reversed.
Many people analyzed the undoing of the Satyam management as the result of excess ego or greed. But I was prompted by the inner conscience to analyze the various definitions of Truth in this context for the benefit of the viewers of this photoblog to throw more light on this Satyam fiasco.
Truth 1 : Most of Bhagwan Sai Baba’s message and life point to the importance of truth. The chief duty of man is investigation into the Truth. Truth can be won only through dedication and devotion, and they are dependent on the grace of God, which is showered on hearts saturated with love. Truth is more fundamental than the atom. Every atom and every star manifests the Truth to those who have the eyes of wisdom. What is the special nature of man? If he too lives and dies as an animal, how can his supremacy be justified? His supremacy lies in his capacity to become aware of his Truth.
Truth 2 : Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote "The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market," in one of his most famous dissertations.
Truth 3 : When a drop of water falls into the ocean, it loses its narrow individualities, its name and form, and assumes the form, name and taste of the ocean itself. If it seeks to live separately as a 'drop,' it will soon evaporate and be reduced to non-existence. Each one must become aware that he/she is part of the one Truth that encompasses everything in the Universe. Love wears the mantle of Truth. And one wedded to Truth is ever young and vigorous. The Upanishads have declared that the votary of truth will not know old age. The Bible declares that the body gets fortified by adherence to truth. Truth should not be confined to speech. It must express itself in action.
Truth 4 : Even a building can be truthful. This truthfulness derives its essence from the pragmatism and minimalism of the architectural elements within the broader socio-economic and ecological contexts. The approach of an architect can be radical in the sense that it assimilates indigenous traditions, eco-friendliness, economy and simplicity in a truly modernist style. Architectural design usually must address both feasibility and cost for the builder, as well as function and aesthetics for the user.
Truth 5 : When a drop of water falls into the ocean, it loses its narrow individualities, its name and form, and assumes the form, name and taste of the ocean itself. If it seeks to live separately as a 'drop,' it will soon evaporate and be reduced to non-existence. Each one must become aware that he/she is part of the one Truth that encompasses everything in the Universe. Love wears the mantle of Truth. And one wedded to Truth is ever young and vigorous. The Upanishads have declared that the votary of truth will not know old age. The Bible declares that the body gets fortified by adherence to truth. Truth should not be confined to speech. It must express itself in action. Buddhism also lays down that everyone, irrespective of sex or country, must live up to truth. They have to move beyond the bounds of the limited 'I,' to break loose from the entanglements of the senses. They have to jump over the battlements of the fort called 'body,' and enter enthusiastically the wide world beyond.
Truth 6 : Life is the gathering of truth. Any truth we discover must not be allowed to remain isolated in one area of our lives, and certainly must not be allowed to remain merely in our minds. Rather, any truth life reveals to us must filter into every aspect of our lives, like blood to the cells of the body life is one. Truth should be lived.
What we do in the span of our lives may bring us financial rewards, status, fame, power, and unimaginable possessions, but lasting happiness and fulfillment are not the byproducts of doing and having. The truth is a startling contrast to the present culture’s credo. Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do or what you have. The meaning and purpose of life is for you to become the best-version-of-yourself.
Truth 7 : Truth Is Experimental, Experiential and Existential :
The following words from Professor Anil Kumar’s lecture illustrate the qualities of Truth : “Baba said long back, "Come, examine, and experience." Just three words: "Come, examine, and experience." He never said, "Come here and then experience." He never said, "Come here, experience, and then examine." It is not the reverse order. He never said, "If you don’t believe Me, you’ll be finished tomorrow!" He never said that. On the other hand, He gave you an option. "Come, examine, and experience." That’s all. Your experience is the witness. It is final. "Don’t go by the experience of others." That’s what Bhagavan repeatedly tells us. Therefore, even to develop trust, we should experiment. We should experiment because Truth is experimental, experiential, and existential - these three beautiful words or points. Truth is existential. It is existence. You are not importing Truth. You are not exporting Truth. You are not generating Truth. You are not preparing Truth in the laboratory or manufacturing it. Truth is existence, so it is existential. Secondly, Truth is experimental. You can experiment and know the Truth for yourself. I say, "Baba will come to your rescue." "Yes?" You experiment yourself. "Baba is the embodiment of Love." Experiment yourself and find out. "Baba is everywhere." Experiment and see. So, Truth is experimental and existential. You can experience it also. So Truth is experimental and helps us grow. The nature of Truth is existential and experimental. You know Truth by listening to the words of awakened people. The third one is, when we want to develop trust in Him, to experiment with Him whom we want now and whom we need. There were two points mentioned earlier: one is prathyaksha pramaana, the direct cognition. The second one is anumana pramaana, based on doubt or inference. The third one is to follow the words of the awakened people, agama pramaana. Agama pramaana means you follow those who are enlightened who are close to you. But who is it whom you have to follow? Who is near and dear to you? It is clearly said: the Master. Now comes the need for a Divine Master. First comes weakness, "I do not know." Second feeling is "I don’t know and I am not able to know." Then who will help you to know? The Teacher or the Master. Am I clear? So, when the first one, direct cognition (prathyaksha pramaana) fails and the second one, inference (anumana pramaana) also fails, then the third one, listening to the words of the dear and near (agama pramaana) comes. This is the teaching of a Master. The teaching of a Master will help you. When you do not know, when you are not capable of knowing, when you cannot know the Truth, all by yourself. Then the Master will help you. The Master is a necessity.”
Truth 8 : Know Truth Through Innocence :
Again let us hear the beautiful words of Professor Anil Kumar differentiating truth and Philosophy, “Philosophy is that to which the mind attaches itself. Mind clings to it. Mind labels it. Mind claims to belong to a particular philosophy. I think I am clear. Mind always claims to belong to a particular school of philosophy. But Truth is non-philosophic. Truth is not philosophy and has got nothing to do with it. Why? Truth is born in innocence, while philosophy is born out of the mind. Sathya Sai Baba wants us to know the Truth from the state of utter, total, complete, and absolute innocence. That’s the reason why Jesus said, "You shall not enter into the Gates of Heaven unless you are a child." Can I be a child now? Let me not take it literally. Let me understand that 'child' stands for 'innocence'. What is the innocence of a child? When I kiss a child, the child kisses me back. If I kick a child, after a couple of minutes, the child comes back to me. Even if I beat a child, after a couple of minutes the child will return to me. A child is not revengeful. A child is not rebellious. A child is not reactionary. A child never retaliates, never rebels, and never reacts. A child is innocent and pure. So, Truth is born out of innocence and purity, whereas philosophy is not like that. Philosophy is a dogma and hence, it is so narrow. It is a doctrine to which you get attached.”
Truth 9: Every truth has its opposite truth
The above is a statement of Sri Aurabindo. Though it is a truth of life, it sounds somewhat strange to us. Karmayogi beautifully explains the significance and validity of this statement. How this can be is a question that arises in the mind. Most rules have exceptions. Some are absolute rules. They have no exception. We believe we must be good. It is true. But there is a desire to extend it. We say next that if you are good, you will prosper. This is not always true. We see that people of bad character also prosper. Maybe they prosper more than good people. When a rule is not absolute, its opposite is also true. The very first step in creation is Sat emerging out of Brahman. As soon as Sat emerged, Asat came into existence. Therefore, each valid truth has an opposite that is valid.
Let us consider some such statements. One who reads voraciously becomes wise. Its opposite is also true. Some of the wise men were illiterate. God is just. The world knows of innumerable injustices which God permits. Great souls are adored by the society. They were persecuted often. A rich man is generous. There are misers among rich men. A poor man is debt ridden and America is the richest country. Therefore many nations have invested their money with America with the result that America owes money to a lot of nations. Truth wins. The truth of Jesus was defeated. Education enhances one’s income. Uneducated people often earn more than educated persons. We see spirituality goes with cleanliness. We also see often the opposite. The most spiritual nation in the world, India, is also a dirty nation.
Tradition says Paramatma is final. Others say Jivatma is final. Brahman includes Paramatma and Jivatma, and therefore Brahman is final, says Sri Aurabindo. There are times when a very just man is finished. Sometimes we receive such a punishment. To know that a punishment is of higher justice is a spiritual view of life. It is here the above rule or principle is valid. There is a story about Vigneshwara and Vasishta. Someone who was carrying food to Vigneshwara was stopped and questioned where he was going. He answered, “I am carrying food to Vigneshwara who is on eternal fasting. He sits on the other side of the river bank where Vasishta, the eternal brahmachari (bachelor) with a hundred children resides.”
Truth 10 : The definition of truth does not come by logic. Whatever will do good to whomsoever it is intended, that should be stated lovingly: that is truth (Satyam)
Hope I have done my part in accordance with the last definition.
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Homelessness describes the situation of an individual or family without stable, permanent, appropriate housing, or the immediate prospect, means and ability of acquiring it. It is the result of systemic or societal barriers, a lack of affordable and appropriate housing, the individual/household’s financial, mental, cognitive, behavioural or physical challenges, and/or racism and discrimination. Most people do not choose to be homeless, and the experience is generally negative, unpleasant, stressful and distressing. Homelessness describes a range of housing and shelter circumstances, with people being without any shelter at one end, and being insecurely housed at the other. That is, homelessness encompasses a range of physical living situations, organized here in a typology that includes
1) Unsheltered, or absolutely homeless and living on the streets or in places not intended for human habitation; 2) Emergency Sheltered, including those staying in overnight shelters for people who are homeless, as well as shelters for those impacted by family violence; 3) Provisionally Accommodated, referring to those whose accommodation is temporary or lacks security of tenure, and finally, 4) At risk of homelessness, referring to people who are not homeless, but whose current economic and/ or housing situation is precarious or does not meet public health and safety standards. It should be noted that for many people homelessness is not a static state but rather a fluid experience, where one’s shelter circumstances and options may shift and change quite dramatically and with frequency.
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Posting late, very late and I will post tomorrow my "todays" photo and also my tomorrows photo, at the moment, just like well, not much motivation... sorry...
I wish you a great night and weekend to you all!
My daughter Jessamyn makes mossariums. I have one that is close to a year old that I have never had to water. It just sits on a shelf adding a touch of greenery and life to the room.
Thanks to Jessamyn for the original image.
A mug one of my students gave me. Apparently I say “…so we need to get a little more clever” a lot when explaining how to do tricky problems.
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My latest inspiration has been the tv programme 'axe-men', not only is it hillarious, because the father figure just gets fucking livid all the time, but they are all MEN.
So this is my interpretation of what people would call a 'real' man haha
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Low activity from me lately. Too much work and too little time to sit at my computer and edit pictures. But I got squeezed a few out here the other day and this is one of them.
Took this picture on my way up a very interesting valley that I will be visiting more later this year. I like these weeds that grow in the foreground, they make excellent subjects. :-)
I've been pushing the contrasts in Lightroom harder and harder lately, and this image is the best example of that. I think global contrast is at 100 and I even have some elements which I have used adjustment brush to further highten contrast on them locally. When I edit my pictures, I edit them to the point where I think that they look good. However, when you're working a long time on one photo you somethimes "look yourself blind" on it (Norwegian expression, not really sure it works in English...)
So, what do you guys/girls think? Too much contrast?
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This is my Christmas gift to Brandon. I didn't have any wrapping paper, so I wrapped the box in regular printer paper. As an extra touch, I printed out the definition of "love" from dictionary.com and wrapped it around the box.
It's unique, romantic, and very inexpensive, all at the same time!
insert photo Suzanne Joneson with permission - fungal hyphae wrapt around algal cells
two definitions from Hawksworth et al. 1995:
1. "A lichen is a stable self-supporting association of a fungus (mycobiont) and an alga or cyanobacterium (photobiont)"
2. "A lichen is an ecologically obligate, stable mutualism between an exhabitant fungal partner and an inhabitant population of extracellularly located unicellular or filamentous algal or cyanobacterial cells." This definition excludes such things as marine algae with inhabitant fungal partners.
Hawksworth and Grube 2020 - www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7497170/ :
We can therefore re‐define the lichen symbiosis as: ‘A lichen is a self‐sustaining ecosystem formed by the interaction of an exhabitant fungus and an extracellular arrangement of one or more photosynthetic partners and an indeterminate number of other microscopic organisms’.
from Simon Schewendener's book on lichen published in German in Basel, Switzerland, 1869:
“As the result of my researches, the lichens are not simple plants, not individuals in the ordinary sense of the word; they are, rather, colonies, which consist of hundreds of thousands of individuals, of which, however, one alone plays the master, while the rest, forever imprisoned, prepare the nutriment for themselves and their master. This master is a fungus of the class Ascomycetes, a parasite which is accustomed to live upon others’ work. Its slaves are green algae, which it has sought out, or indeed caught hold of, and compelled into its service. It surrounds them, as a spider its prey, with a fibrous net of narrow meshes, which is gradually converted into an impenetrable covering, but while the spider sucks its prey and leaves it dead, the fungus incites the algae found in its net to more rapid activity, even to more vigorous increase....”
The word symbiosis was coined by Heinrich Anton de Bary, botanist, mycologist and lichenologist, in the monograph "Die Erscheinung der Symbiose" (Strasbourg, 1879) as "the living together of unlike organisms".
from wikipedia:
Although lichens had been recognized as organisms for quite some time, it was not until 1867, when Swiss botanist Simon Schwendener proposed his dual theory of lichens, that lichens are a combination of fungi with algae or cyanobacteria, whereby the true nature of the lichen association began to emerge.[120] Schwendener's hypothesis, which at the time lacked experimental evidence, arose from his extensive analysis of the anatomy and development in lichens, algae, and fungi using a light microscope. Many of the leading lichenologists at the time, such as James Crombie and Nylander, rejected Schwendener's hypothesis because the common consensus was that all living organisms were autonomous.[120]
Other prominent biologists, such as Heinrich Anton de Bary, Albert Bernhard Frank, Melchior Treub and Hermann Hellriegel were not so quick to reject Schwendener's ideas and the concept soon spread into other areas of study, such as microbial, plant, animal and human pathogens.[120][121] When the complex relationships between pathogenic microorganisms and their hosts were finally identified, Schwendener's hypothesis began to gain popularity. Further experimental proof of the dual nature of lichens was obtained when Eugen Thomas published his results in 1939 on the first successful re-synthesis experiment.[120]
cited - Rosmarie Honegger (2000) Simon Schwendener (1829–1919) and the Dual Hypothesis of Lichens, The Bryologist 103(2):307-313.
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definition of, as deemed so, by urban dictionary
human (head) hair on some leftover organza and a vintage napkin with some re-purposed lace.
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Clumps of bulrushes rise above the water; clumps of concrete define the boundaries of Karle SEZ (Special Economic Zone) in the distance. The SEZ abuts the Outer Ring Road, connecting Hebbal to KR Puram.
Kyori models with a diorama piece I found on ebay Germany a few weeks ago, the high definition sofa :)
I really like how it is made, very detailed and true to the original design. It even comes with pillows and a carpet which is nice when you do not have a large fund of diorama pieces :)
And, I must mention how much I like this Kyori, especially when she wears pink ;) Se just photographs sooooo well!
From the Daily Mail, Tuesday 15/02/05. As my colleague pointed out, "If by 'athletic' they mean horse then maybe I can see where they're coming from".
I love black and white. I love my cousin. I love how this was perfect weather, perfect lighting. Ahhhh, I'm so glad this turned out amazing.
Kyori models with a diorama piece I found on ebay Germany a few weeks ago, the high definition sofa :)
I really like how it is made, very detailed and true to the original design. It even comes with pillows and a carpet which is nice when you do not have a large fund of diorama pieces :)
And, I must mention how much I like this Kyori, especially when she wears pink ;) Se just photographs sooooo well!
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Each participant wrote a word or phrase on a speech bubble that they felt should be considered in a definition of social inclusion.
The group then brainstormed examples of factors leading to social exclusion. e.g. age, gender etc.
These were then considered by the group and each group arrived at their own definition of social inclusion to work with for the day.
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Definition: Technical:
1. Of, relating to, or derived from technique.
2.
a. Having special skill or practical knowledge especially in a mechanical or scientific field: a technical adviser.
b. Used in or peculiar to a specific field or profession; specialized: technical terminology.
3.
a. Belonging or relating to a particular subject: technical expertise.
b. Of, relating to, or involving the practical, mechanical, or industrial arts or the applied sciences: a technical school.
4.
a. Abstract or theoretical: a technical analysis.
b. Of, relating to, or employing the methodology of science; scientific.
5. According to principle; formal rather than practical: a technical advantage.
6. Industrial and mechanical; technological.
7. Relating to or based on analysis of market indicators, such as trading volume and fluctuations in securities prices, rather than underlying economic conditions such as corporate earnings, inflation, and unemployment: a technical correction in the stock market.
Idea: I was pretty confused with this one, because everyone seems to take this to mean technology, but it doesn’t. So with that definition in mind I realised that this tree could be made out of just about anything that was systematically placed or worked to form the shape of a tree in a far more skilled/difficult manner, or it could be number meaning no 6 "Technological". I thought I’d cover both.
This is my "Technological" or "Technology" tree.
Process: I made this tree from a whole lot of CDs that I placed on a table to form the shape of a stylised tree. Then I turned off the lights and tried to use the camera flash from above them to get a the best colour and light reflections from the CDs. The hardest part was getting the flash angle right.