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Is FDI good? Bad? The devil? Honestly, I have no idea.
This week, I'd like to talk about a controversy of national importance, one that has sparked furious debate, and one that could remap India's economic future; Barfi or Wasseypur, who should have gone to the Oscars? (The correct answer is of course "I don't care but can we please put Madhur Bhandarkar in a rocket and send him to space forever?") I'm kidding. I'd actually like to talk about FDI. The government's decision to allow FDI in multi-brand retail and aviation has led to much discussion in some of India's biggest states like Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Vijay Mallya.
But let's not get ahead of ourselves. I understand that finance and business is not a forte for some of our readers, and the folks who own the Deccan Chargers, so let's start at the beginning. The first question that comes to mind when dealing with FDI is "No seriously, why not leave Bhandarkar up there forever, so he can never hurt us again?" The second question is "What exactly IS FDI?" According to a senior analyst (Wikipedia), FDI is the direct investment into a country by a company that is originally located in another country. Let's use a hypothetical (latin for "actually true, but let's use this word so we don't get sued") example. Say, hypothetically, you have a company called the UPA, and it's based in India, and it takes all its money and invests it in say, hypothetically, Switzerland, then that is FDI.
The second question is of course, what is the full-form of FDI? That's an easy one. FDI stands for "Goodbye Mamatadi." Which brings us neatly to question three, which is "Is FDI good or bad?" This is where things get complicated. The pro-FDI argument is that it will help farmers, because it'll cut out the middle-man and get them better prices for their produce. This argument is suspicious for three reasons:
1.This is India, middle-men are like fingernails. You cut them off, and they just grow back. We will never lose middle-men. Just like love, some intrepid babu will find a way.
2. This news is about farmers. The Indian government cares for farmers roughly as much as Anurag Basu cares about originality.
3. This argument has been made by the UPA, who are about as trustworthy as Prem Chopra in the third act of an 80s film.
Those analogies are not re-assuring. But if the system works, FDI will get farmers better rates for their crops, which in turn will allow them to plant better crops, which in turn will let them make more money, and this will improve the lives of several people, all named Ajit Pawar.
One of the biggest arguments against FDI is that it'll kill the local kiraana store, with people choosing to shop once a week at Walmart or Tesco instead. It's a depressing thought, losing Ramnik bhai from down the road to a soulless warehouse I shop at once a week. But (speaking from a consumer's POV strictly) I don't think that'll happen. Because Walmart won't come to my doorstep at 7 pm for one chocolate. I can't leave Walmart with 1,983 bucks worth of stuff and tell them I'll send someone over with the cash tomorrow. But mostly because Walmart will never remember my name, ask how my parents are doing, and send me those amazing little Diwali boxes with badaam, pista and kaaju in them (Ramnik bhai, this year salted please!)
The UPA has, rather conveniently allowed states to chose whether they want FDI or not. Uttar Pradesh is skeptical, Punjab says no ("We already have Black Label, that's all the foreign stuff we need"), West Bengal says "Your mother is maoist" and Maharashtra, which has a whopping 50 per cent of all major cities that could benefit from FDI-funded retail, has said "YAY SHARAD KAKA! MORE MONEY FOR US!"
So in the end, is FDI good? Or is it bad? Honestly, there's really only one answer, and it is this; Screw FDI, Madhur Bhandarkar needs to be shot into space forever. Now.
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This year, I was blessed with the opportunity to teach geometric solids for 2nd grade children at the same school my daughter studies.
They are about forty 7/8yo children that surprise each time I was among them! I encouraged them to watch some buildings on the streets so they could design and assemble a city with paper models using only the solids we've learned together – spheres, cones, prisms, pyramids, cylinders, rectangular solids, and cubes.
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VEVEY, Switzerland -- Nestle, the world's biggest food and drink company, on Wednesday posted a first-half net profit of 2.84 billion Swiss francs ($2.28 billion), up 0.02 percent on the year-earlier figure of 2.78 billion francs (then $2.03 billion).
"These results were achieved in the face of higher prices for raw materials such as milk, coffee, sugar, energy and packaging materials, poor weather conditions, and a difficult business environment in western Europe," a company statement said.
The cool, rainy weather contrasted sharply with a heat wave last year, it said. "This had a particular impact on ice cream and water," the company said.
Nestle, which reports earnings only for the half year and full year, said six-month sales were 42.45 billion francs ($34.13 billion), up from 41.44 billion francs (then $30.22 billion) for the first half of last year.
The owner of global brands such as Nescafe coffee said earnings before interest, taxes and amortization, or EBITA, rose to 5.12 billion francs ($4.1 billion) from 5.05 billion francs ($3.68 billion), but the operating margin slipped to 12.1 percent from 12.2 percent.
Nestle failed to meet its target for organic growth, one of its main performance yardsticks. This measure of volume growth, which includes price increases but not the effects of acquisitions, fell to 4.6 percent from 5.5 percent.
However, the company repeated previous projections that it will achieve full-year organic growth of 5 percent to 6 percent. It also said it expects to increase its full-year EBITA margin in constant currency terms.
"Our efficiency programs are on track," said Chief Executive Officer Peter Brabeck.
Nestle share prices were down 5.8 percent at 295.50 francs ($237.62) by late afternoon on the Zurich exchange.
Nestle plans to cut costs by more than 6 billion francs ($4.82 billion) by 2006, with most of the savings coming in 2005 and 2006.
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We've posted another clip from this week's The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion special and it poses a philosophical question that has been debated by mankind for years:
Which is the more disgraceful act, posing in Playboy or starring in softcore porn?
The issue is raised on the Bravo series because Camille Grammer is asked about the hard time she gave to Faye Resnick a couple months ago. Among other reasons, Grammer said she took issue with Resnick's spread in Hugh Hefner's magazine. This prompts an easy reply from Kyle, as shown below.
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Shaun Murphy dodged a Belgian bullet as Luca Brecel ran into pink peril and bowed out in the quarter-finals of the williamhill.com UK Championship in York.
Seventeen-year-old Brecel was twice on the brink of a famous victory at just his second major tournament.
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The second steal clinched a 6-5 victory for the 2008 UK champion, setting up a semi-final today against Stuart Bingham's conqueror Ali Carter.
Murphy pointed to strong words at the interval from his manager Brandon Parker as a key factor in his victory.
"Brandon gave me a good talking-to at the interval that would have rivalled one of Sir Alex Ferguson's half-time talks, and it really knocked me into shape," Murphy said.
"It's lucky there were no hairdriers in that dressing room. I think I'd have got one. Without Brandon's words I would have lost the match."
He would have gone out anyway if Brecel had been able to put away his chances.
"I thought I'd lost the match a couple of times, I really did think I was out," Murphy said.
"I think the adrenaline and maybe a little bit of inexperience cost him in the end.
"He over-hit and under-hit a couple of shots, and I'm just relieved.
"The sense of relief and sense of pleasure is probably twice as much as if I'd won 6-0 with four maximum breaks."
Murphy can see a future champion emerging, and pointed to shades of Stephen Hendry in Brecel's temperament.
"He's just not bothered, and as long as he can keep that, that's what the best champions in the game forever have all had in common," Murphy said.
"When everyone else is under pressure and feeling it, they just waltz through it like it's a walk in the park.
"Hendry never used to show any nerves at all and Luca looks like he's got the same attributes.
"He doesn't seem to show any nerves, he doesn't seem to feel any pressure just until the last minute, and it was lucky for me he did."
The deciding frame had been tipping Murphy's way before he missed the final red, blaming a kick.
Brecel stepped up and looked to be on a victory march until one bad positional shot caused another.
He could not get close enough to the pink to make it a formality and rattled it around the jaws of a corner pocket. The ball rolled kindly for Murphy who seized the unexpected chance to stay in the tournament.
Brecel said: "Shaun said I played well which was very nice of him.
"I expected to get to the quarter-finals and I had a good chance to win (yesterday) but Shaun deserved to win in the end.
"I'm ready to compete, but I'm only 17 and I've got so much time to get better and better," added Brecel, who became the youngest player to appear at the Crucible in the World Championship in April, beating Hendry's long-held record.
Carter came through 6-4 against fellow Essex potter Bingham, firing a total clearance of 134 before holding off a charge from the Premier League champion.
Carter reached the UK Championship semi-finals in 2008, losing to Marco Fu, who went on to be beaten by Murphy in the final.
The world No 15 has concerns over his form, and said: "I don't feel like I've played particularly great yet but I'm in the semis and I'd take that.
"I'll definitely need to play better. I'm going to have to find some form to go on and win the tournament.
"The game got a little bit bogged down but when you're playing for a semi-final place it's never easy to get over the line."
Bingham said: "I think Ali was lucky to go in at 3-1. He just put me in trouble and then he punished me.
"That's what happens when you get to the quarter-finals – it's tough because everyone's sharp.
"It's always disappointing to lose but I'll try to take the positives," he added.


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On Nov 28, 10:42 pm, Sandy80 <svarshneym..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a query in which I have a value that is repeated a number of
> times in the where clause. If I use the 'in' clause it returns only 1
> value no matte how many no. of times the value is repeated. For eg.
> select legacy_emp_no from Table 1
> where
> emp_no in
> (1234,
> 1234,
> 1234,
> 2345,
> 2345)
> Now what this query returns is one row per emp_no i.e.
> 456
> 789
> What I want the query to return is:
> 456
> 456
> 456
> 789
> 789
> I mean I want the return value to be repeated the same no. of times it
> is repeated in the 'in' clause.
> Please help ASAP.
> Regards,
> Sandy
While Charles gave you a workaround, the question must be asked: WHY?
Why do you expect 5 return rows?
SQL implements SET algebra. (well relational algebra but that's getting really picky)
So why would you expect to get 5 rows in your result set for that query? The IN operator says basically:
return this row if the emp_no value matches any value in the list that follows.
Once SQL finds a match it returns that ONE row. So you obviously have only one row with each of those employee numbers.
Why would you want to return multiple rows? let's assume for a brief moment there were two rows in Table 1 with emp_no=789, would you want the result to include 2 rows, 3 rows, or 4 rows?
You may have a valid business reason for wanting the results described. If you do, it would be interesting and helpful for you to describe those needs in your post.
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As more and more users start to explore and use Oracle VM Manager, more troubleshooting and tweaks will come up. This is by no way an exhaustive list and is also not intended to be. Please do participate as much as possible in forums and contribute your tips and tricks with the community.
Oracle VM Manager login takes too much time
I have faced this issue very often and normally if you are unlucky you ought to get this type of error while installing. For instance this error message says nothing about the memory issue:
Failed at "Could not get DeploymentManager".
This is typically the result of an invalid deployer URI format being
supplied, the target server not being in a started state or incorrect
authentication details being supplied.
More information is available by enabling logging -- please see the
Oracle Containers for J2EE Configuration and Administration Guide for
Please see /var/log/ovm-manager/ovm-manager.log for more information.
Deploying application failed.
Please check your environment, and re-run the script:/bin/sh scripts/
Aborting installation. Please check the environment and rerun
But when you upgrade your VM Manager OS with more memory you'll be able to continue with the installation.
Sometimes, you may also get all kinds of errors, such as the following one:
Internal Exception: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
And they clearly point to the memory issue. This suggests that your OC4J may need more memory.
Let's run the following commands to check the log information:
cat /var/log/ovm-manager/oc4j.log | grep "heap"
If your OC4J ran out of memory you would typically get that heapsize error. To fix this go back to the console and examine the values of the following OC4J_JVM_ARGS function in the /opt/oc4j/bin/oc4j configuration file:
Edit the following OC4J_JVM_ARGS="-XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m function and give more memory to the OC4J.
Save the information and quit:
Restart the service OC4J:
service oc4j stop
service oc4j start
HVM guest creation fails
Normally there are many actions and functionalities within Oracle VM Manager that require the host to be truly HVM-aware, which means that 64-bit (preferably) Oracle VM Servers must be running with hardware virtualization support on the chipset level. Having said that, both Intel and AMD support it and it is highly unlikely that you will come across new machines that do not support that. However, always check the compatibility within a specific family and check whether the support is turned on or off.
Nonetheless, you could be using some reusable older hardware that may or may not support HW-assist virtualization.
If you are confronted with the following message:
"Error: There is no server supporting hardware virtualization
in the selected server pool. "
Then you'll have a reason to worry and check your hardware, and carry out the following commands on the VM Server that does not allow you to create a HVM:
Cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep –E 'vmx|smx'
Use the preceding command if your hardware is HVM-aware, then you should get some reply as shown in the following screenshot:
If you don't get a response, then you might have a problem. For instance we pick up another VM Server which we for sure know does not have a HVM support or HW-assist virtualization:
Also ensure that the virtualization support is enabled at the HW level in the BIOS. Then run the following commands to see if the Operating System supports HVM:
As you have seen in the preceding screenshot, we then quickly logged into the VM Server which we knew does not support HVM and did not get a reply from the 172.22.202.111 VM Server. Whereas, the x64 bit version with built-in, BIOS-enabled HVM support returns the values in the form of xen_caps.
So if your CPU does not support HVM, use the PVM (Paravirtualized Method) to create your VM.
Not enough disk space available for ISOs and Templates
You are naturally bound to run into these sorts of troubles. As more and more excitement seeps in and as you start installing all the versions of Windows and Linux machines to your Oracle IntraCloud farm, the more you are bound to run out of disk space. The kind of error you might run into would be very difficult to troubleshoot. I simply ran out of space when I was pushing VM templates to the Oracle VM Server.
In any case to resolve this you will need to reduce the consumed space by either cleaning up your repository farm or your disk space. Alternatively, you can also add another repository, obviously the other disk must be available to create the additional repository.
To add a new repository, simply run the following command on your VM Server:
/usr/lib/ovs/ovs-makerepo source shared description
Where, source is the block device or NFS path to the file system to be added. The shared parameter could carry a value of 0 or 1. If the value of the shared parameter is 0, it means that the disk will not be shared, whereas when the value is 1, it would imply that the repository will be shared. The description parameter is displayed in the Oracle VM Manager and must be a readable value for the functional users.
You get the value of the repository you just created upon running the following command:
cat /etc/ovs/repositories
The makerepo script identifies the file system or shared virtual disk as a repository. It also updates the repository configuration to enable it.
It is also a good habit to occasionally check the file system using the "df" command. This command greatly helps in understanding how our volumes are doing and what the usage and mountpoint is:
The df–h–T command helps us make the values more readable. If you type the df–help command, you will get more information on using the df command effectively.
The -h argument ensures that the values are readable to us in amounts of GBs or MBs and not blocks such as –T prints the file system type as well. We have all our VMs running on OCFS and that is one place you must watch out for constantly in case of oversubscription, usage, and disk contention.
This newly added repository will have the following directories created automatically: /OVS/seed_pool, /OVS/running_pool, and /OVS/iso_pool directories. Let's take a quick look at them:
As you can see in the preceding screenshot, it's not just the directories but the other necessary binaries as well that are placed at the same location by default. Here the repository is placed under the OVS and the large value is its UUID.
Cannot login to the VM remotely
Logging into the VM can be a problem, and the best way to solve is to get TightVNC viewer and also install the ovs-console plugin (rpm), when we went ahead to manage the VMs within the Oracle VM Manager.
I have the plugin working perfectly on my MacBook Pro, another Windows machine, and also within the Oracle VM Manager.
Normally, an installation of an older version of Oracle VM Manager and Server throws the following exception when freshly upgraded.
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: VncViewer.class
Shut down all the web pages and reload the page to bypass the error.
After the successful installation or correction of the VncViewer.class, you can log into the console:
Voila! You can now work remotely on WinXP running in your Oracle VM IntraCloud environment!
This article discusses troubleshooting in Oracle VM Manager 2.1.2
Oracle VM Manager is clearly an optimal, cost-effective IntraCoud environment which any organization can use to its advantage.
Oracle's own VM templates make a wonderful case to be tested while you can also go ahead and test all Windows flavors on it. There already are organizations choosing the Oracle VM platform, slowly and gradually. Oracle, with its careful and strategic investments in the Cloud Computing space and Virtualization, stands a better chance to go after the highly aspirational low-cost driven consumer market, and with Oracle VM Manager we have just begun scratching the surface of Oracle VM.
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It depends on your definition of Enterprise Dev. Most of the mobile applications we have worked with have become web applications or are based on web services anyway. The only exception (a remote controller for some robotic equipment) requires constant connection, so a DB wouldn't help.
Your set of applications seems to have some characteristics that make them not very generic:
- It is ok to work with stale data (this is often a big no-no).
- It is critical that information is constantly available, but it's ok to queue up anything you need to send.
- It must work in areas where connection is non-existent, and will stay such for a long time.
I don't doubt such scenarios exist, but I cannot see them as being the most common in the industry, so my answer to your post title is "no, thanks".
Thanks for the reply.
I'm not saying that no enterprise apps can be written using the WindowsPhone platform. I am saying that a lot of "out in the field" apps will not work if they have to hit a live server for data all the time. Also after listening to Charlie Kindle's WindowsPhone Intro webcast, it was immediately made clear in the question and answer period that I am not alone in the concern about no local db. Thanks you devs for speaking up.
Charlie talks about user experience.
Will the data come back faster from the device or a server?
- obviously the device;
Will it take more battery power to get the data from the server or the device?
- obviously hitting the server will take more time and battery power and lower the user experience.
He made it clear they are targeting the consumer in this release in the presentation. I just hope he realizes Apple might eat Microsoft's lunch in the enterprise while he plays catch up with the consumer.
Dave K


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Francis: Jay Bouwmeester caught Canada brass's eye at worlds
Jay Bouwmeester #19 of the St. Louis Blues moves the puck up the ice against the Columbus Blue Jackets at the Scottrade Center on April 5, 2013 in St. Louis, Missouri. Photo by: Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images/AFP
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Ken Hitchcock can understand why people think Jay Bouwmeester's return to the Olympic team has everything to do with the fact he left Calgary for St. Louis.
Going from a struggling franchise to one of the league's top outfits with world-class teammates, it only stands to reason Bouwmeester's stock would rise in conjunction with his plus/minus and point totals.
Fact is, Hitch says Team Canada brass fell in love again with the smooth skating blueliner overseas, where his play at the world championships caught everyone's eye.
"I think what people don't recognize is how well he played at the worlds," said Hitchcock, a longtime Team Canada assistant coach, before his Blues practised Wednesday at the Saddledome.
"Some of it is because he gets to play with us, and some of it because he gets to play with Petro (fellow team Canada defenceman Alex Pietrangelo). But the bigger part is what he did on his own at the worlds. The two times that he went there (2008 and '12) he ended up being the best defenceman there. I think everybody saw how valuable he was on a big surface.
"I'd say (his selection to Canada's Olympic team) was (due to) 80% what he did at the worlds."
A member of the Canadian Olympic team in '06. J-Bo was passed over in '10, when his first of four unfulfilled seasons in Calgary began.
Despite being just 26 at the time, some figured he was likely off Team Canada's radar for good.
Guess again.
"Our look was in '10, he wasn't having a good year for whatever reason, so we went a different direction," said Hitchcock, who counts on nearly 25 minutes a night from Bouwmeester, which is consistent with the blueliner's career average.
"In fairness to him — and he deserves a lot of credit during that time — he went back to the worlds and played there a couple times, played well and really impressed the coaches. I think a lot of guys started speaking up for him. They did that even before he came to St. Louis (at last year's trade deadline). He was already well entrenched as a guy who could play on a big surface."
Few in his era have represented Canada as much as the 30-year-old Edmonton native. A three-time participant in the world junior tourney, Bouwmeester won consecutive world championships in '03 and '04 and has played in one World Cup, as well as in the Turin Olympics.
Hitchcock says it has yet to be determined how prominent a role Bouwmeester will play on a star-studded back end in Winter Olympic Games next month in Sochi, Russia.
"We're all debating that, but his ability to play against top players and kill penalties, I think, is something everybody is really focused in on. At the worlds, they played him over there 20 minutes a night, and it was all five-on-five against top players and on the penalty kill."
In other words, he may not play alongside his usual blueline partner, Pietrangelo, in Sochi, as many suspect he will.
"I think the other thing about Bouwmeester is he plays as well on the left side as he does on the right side, so depending on which seven defencemen they go with, if they need a guy to move over, he can — and that wasn't lost on anyone," said Hitchcock of the lefty who has 27 points, just two shy of matching his best season-long point total with the Flames.
"He's the one guy on the (Canadian team) roster who is a left shot who can play just as well on the right. Guys were enamoured by that, because to me he's probably the guy who has the most flexibility of anyone there."
Hitchcock and the coaching staff have focused heavily on the desire to have four left-handed and four right-handed defencemen, making for an interesting scenario locally as Flames captain Mark Giordano is a lefty who may be first on the list to replace Bouwmeester, Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Duncan Keith or Dan Hamhuis if any one of them is injured before the tourney starts next month.


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Just a quick heads up about two upcoming events in Ontario featuring Through closed doors performed from its antique wooded door score. The program, performed brilliantly by Thin Edge New Music Collective, will also feature fantastic works by Ana Sokolovic, Anna Hostman and Brian Harman. If you know me and would like to come to the Toronto fundraiser, get in touch with me please.
September 20, 2014, 8:00 pm (Waterloo, ON, Canada)
The Button Factory (Waterloo Community Arts Theatre), 25 Regina St. Tickets available here.
September 21, 2014 (Toronto, ON, Canada)
A private fundraiser in Rosedale. Entrance by invitation.
I will be selling high-quality copies of four of the pages from the paper manuscript of Through closed doors. They are printed on nice 12×15″ watercolour paper and will be available for $40 each (or $140 for the set of four). I also have 5×7″ postcards for $5 each (just the first two pages). Bring cash or cheques!


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Luge Death 2010 Video Youtube (luge death 2010 video youtube)
It makes me sick to listen to the Olympic Committee's response to this tragic accident. At least they could have said, yes this was because the athlete didn't make a correction during the run, but we are making the necessary changes to the track to better protect our athletes around the world. It's just unbelieveable. This could have very well been an American. Would we have gotten the same response?
"Luge Death 2010 Video Youtube : While Nodar Kumaritashvili, the Georgian luger who died in Friday's horrific crash, was memorialized during the Opening Ceremonies, the Olympic luge tragedy video, showing Kumaritashvili colliding with an upright pillar after coming off his sled, spread across Youtube as those not glued to early coverage were just finding out about the luge crash.
The IOC moved quickly to get the various luge crash videos and photos off the Internet, but there's a point at which they were fighting a losing battle. Aside from the tragic loss of life, the luge death video showed a gaping hole in common sense in the design and build of the Olympic luge track, which is the fastest luge track in history.
Our own Scan tool showed just how many iterations of the luge crash video had spread across the web- for every clickthrough met with "This video has been removed…", there would be another that was still playable. The takeaway lesson here for the IOC, besides the concept of plexiglass, was that controlling coverage of the Games would be impossible: if a major event like the death of an athlete takes place, the world will find out right away, and that's exactly what happened."
Source: http://www.abreakingnews.us/luge-death-2010-video-youtube.html


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Years ago (when I was 26-lol), I worked at a movie trailer company as an editor. This, I thought, was the epitome of success in my field (save for maybe editing actual movies). But I lasted six months before packing up my stuff and moving back to Seattle.
One of the biggest factors for calling it quits was because of a producer I worked for named Jack*, who was the Amanda Priestly to my Andy Sachs, if you read or have seen The Devil Wears Prada.
He was/is that quintessential producer-type who drove a fancy car and lived in a fancy house, and in general was just a huge du…unlikable person.
One day while he was sitting behind me while I was editing, he put his feet up on the desk right next to me and told me that one day I could be successful like him, and have a big house and a maid. I'll seriously never forget that, because my thought was, "well then may I never have a maid if being successful means being like you."
Obviously this is an extreme example of how one person defines success. In between jerky Hollywood producer and living out of your car (either by choice or not), is a gigantic success sea to explore.
Begin With the End in Mind/Have a Clear Vision of What You Want
The first technique comes from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, but it wasn't until I listened to the audio book, Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins, that I began to combine these two tools into my own "success plan."
I think to find your own version or definition of success, you have to look both forward (exercises from Tony's book) and be extremely clear about what you want out of life, AND be able to project in the future to your funeral, about what kind of person you want to be remembered as, and reverse engineer your life to fit that description.
How I Define Success
So I've been doing both exercises. And here are some things I've come up with on how I define success in my own life.
Looking back: At the end of my life I want to be remembered as someone who was kind. Not necessarily nice all the time, but kind. Someone who was there for her friends and family and listened to them, and was open-minded, caring, patient, and had lots of love to give to the people she cared about.
Looking forward: My goal is to spend more time with friends and family in high-quality settings, and cultivate my listening skills more (aka stop my own yapping). Also to constantly work on accepting people who are different from me or who have different points of view (like people who voted for Trump :)).
Looking back: I want to be remembered as that 97-year-old woman who could still play beach volleyball (hey, it's my fantasy!), and was very vibrant, active, and took care of her mind and body.
Looking forward: To maintain this level of wellness, I need to eat as healthfully as possible. I need to exercise to maintain a healthy body weight and muscle mass, and incorporate more flexibility training. I also need adequate amounts of water, sleep, rest, and sunshine, and I need to practice stress management (um, daily!).
Looking back: I want to be remembered as someone who was financially savvy. Who had enough money for the years she was "retired," to enjoy travel, leisure activities, good food, etc., but was also well-off enough to donate her money to causes she cared about, and who could help people freely without jeopardizing her own finances.
Looking forward: I want to be super conscious of the spending choices I make and that they only fit into needs, or things I really, really want that are aligned with my values and what I want to get out of life. This requires that I make sure I always save as much as I can (50% would be ideal) and that I'm always challenging myself to see how I can either cut back on spending and/or earn more.
In Conclusion
I should say that there is a lot more to say about the categories I have written about, but they are for my eyes only. And there are other categories to do this exercise with including: travel, romantic relationships, spirituality, work, home, leisure, children, etc.
Because it's your life and your definition, you can categorize it however you like.
Going back to the d-bag producer I worked with years ago. I knew back then that my definition of success was not "having a maid." Nor is it necessarily a fancy car, gigantic house where the square footage is barely utilized, or on the flip side of that, it's not necessarily giving away everything but 30 items, or never going to see a movie (even though I love films) just because "you shouldn't ever pay for entertainment."
Life becomes more freeing when you eliminate "should," especially someone else's "should" from your life.
Have you ever done any kind of looking forward or looking back exercises?
*not his real name
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Sa: She.
Sabda: Sound; word; Vedas: Omkara.
Sabdabheda: Difference in word (name) only.
Sabdabrahma: Word-Absolute; Omkara or the Veda.
Sabdantara: Difference of words or terms; another word.
Sabdapramana: Scriptural proof.
Sabdatanmatra: Subtle principle of sound.
Sabha: Assembly.
Sahija Samadhi: Savikalpa Samadhi wherein the seed of Sarnskaras is not destroyed.
Satchidananda: Existence-knowledge-bliss Absolute. (Also, Sat-chit-ananda.)
Satchidanandasagara: The ocean of Existence-knowledge-bliss, a metaphorical expression suggesting the indescribable Absolute Reality.
Sachetana: Possessed of consciousness.
Sadachara: Right conduct.
Sadaikarasa: Eternal homogeneous essence.
Sadajagrat: Ever wakeful.
Sadbhashana: Right speech.
Sadguna: Good quality; virtuous quality.
Sadharana: Ordinary; common.
Sadharana-karana: Common cause.
Sadhaka: (Spiritual) aspirant; one who exerts to attain an object.
Sadhana: Self-effort; tool; implement; spiritual practice.
Sadharmya: Becoming of one law of being and action (with the Divine).
Sadhanachatushtaya: The four kinds of spiritual effort: discrimination, dispassion, sixfold virtues and desire for liberation.
Sadhu: Pious or righteous man; a Sannyasin.
Sadi: With beginning.
Sadrisaparinama: Homogeneous change; change in its own given conditions; a change which is not different from the original, like gold into an earring.
Sadrisyata: Similarity.
Sadvichara: Right enquiry; enquiry into Truth.
Sadyomukti: Immediate liberation.
Sagunabrahma: The supreme Absolute conceived of as endowed with qualities like mercy, omnipotence, omniscience, etc., as distinguished from the undifferentiated Absolute.
Sah: He.
Sahaja: Natural; true; native.
Sahaja-kumbhaka: Natural retention of breath.
Sahajananda: State of bliss that has become natural.
Sahaja-nirvikalpa-samadhi: Natural non-dual state of Brahmic Consciousness.
Sahajanishtha: Natural and normal establishment; establishment in one's own essential nature of Satchidananda.
Sahajavastha: Superconscious state that has become natural and continuous.
Sahakarimatra: A helping factor only. (Maya is Sahakarimatra of Brahma's world-projection.)
Saham: She I am (Mantra of Saktas).
Sahasrara: A region in the top of the head in the form of a thousand-petalled lotus, where Kundalini Sakti unites with Lord Siva.
Sahastita: Co-existence.
Saiva: One who considers Lord Siva to be the highest Lord; pertaining to Lord Siva.
Sajatiyabheda: Difference by which one individual of a species is distinguished from another, e.g., the difference between one man and another man.
Sakala: With parts; all; everything.
Sakamabhakti: Devotion with expectation of fruits, and with selfish motives.
Sakamabhava: Attitude or feeling where there is desire as motive force.
Sakara: Having form (as opposed to Nirakara).
Sakha: Division; branch.
Sakhya: The attitude of a devotee, expressing the relationship of a friend with God; examples are Arjuna, Uddhava and the cowherds of Brindavana.
Sakshatkara: Direct realisation; experience of Absoluteness; Brahmajnana.
Sakshi: Witnessing principle; seer; Kutastha which passively observes the actions of the body and the senses; witness.
Sakshi-bhava: The attitude of remaining as a witness.
Sakshi-chaitanya: Witnessing intelligence or consciousness.
Sakshi-chetana: Witnessing soul; Kutastha; same as Sakshi-chaitanya.
Sakshi-drashta: Witnessing subject; witnessing seer.
Sakta: One who worships the Divine Mother Sakti as the most supreme deity; pertaining to Sakti.
Sakti: Power; energy; force; the Divine Power of becoming; the apparent dynamic aspect of Eternal Being; the Absolute Power or cosmic energy.
Saktipata: Descent of power (through Upasana).
Sakti-sanchara: Transmission of power to the disciple by the Guru.
Salabhasana: Locust-pose of the Hatha Yogins; Salabha means a locust.
Salokya: Being in the same plane or world as God.
Sama: Tranquillity; control of mind; calmness of mind; the mind is kept in the heart and not allowed to externalise; it is the constant eradication of the mental tendencies, according to 'Aparoksha-Anubhuti' of Sankara.
Samabhavana: Feeling of equality.
Samadhana: Equal fixing; proper concentration.
Samadhi: The state of superconsciousness where Absoluteness is experienced attended with all-knowledge and joy; Oneness; here the mind becomes identified with the object of meditation; the meditator and the meditated, thinker and thought become one in perfect absorption of the mind.
Samadrishti: Equal vision.
Samana: One of the five Pranas or vital airs of the human body, that does the function of digestion.
Samanadhikarana: Co-ordination; the relation of abiding in a common substratum, Brahman; the ether in the pot and the ether in the cloud have a common substratum, viz., the universal ether, where only the limiting adjuncts differ.
Sainanvaya: Unification; the agreement of all Upanishads in proving the Highest Reality.
Samanya: Common; ordinary; having common characteristics or common nature.
Samanyaguna: General quality; common nature or characteristic.
Samanyavastha: Undifferentiated condition; unmanifested state.
Samanyavijnana: Pure consciousness; homogeneous intelligence; Kutastha; Brahman.
Samarasattva: A term which is ordinarily applied to sexual union, but used symbolically to the union of Kundalini Sakti with Siva in the head; merging of 'becoming' into 'Being'.
Samashti: An integrated whole of the same class of entity, e.g., Samashti-buddhi (cosmic intelligence).
Samata: Balanced state of mind.
Samatva: Equanimity (under all conditions); equanimity of outlook (making no distinction between friend and foe, pleasure and pain, etc.)
Samavaya: Combination; union; conjunction; constant and inseparable connection or inherence; existence of one thing in another.
Samavayakarana: Concomitant cause.
Sambandha: Relationship; connection.
Sambhavimudra: The vacant externalised gaze of a Hatha Yogi where the mind is directed inwards; the Yogi appears to be looking at external objects but is not actually perceiving them as his mind is indrawn.
Sambhuti: Birth; origin; production.
Samhara: Destruction.
Samhita: Collection; one of the two primary sections of each of the Vedas, containing hymns and sacred formulae, the other section being the Brahmanas.
Samipya: Being near God.
Samit: Sacrificial fuel.
Samjnana: Consciousness; intelligence.
Sampat: Perfection; wealth; virtue.
Sampatti: Same as Sampat.
Sampradaya: Sect; custom; conventional procedure or course of action.
Samprajnata-samadhi: Cognitive trance; state of superconsciousness, with the triad of meditator, meditation and the meditated; Savikalpa-samadhi.
Samprasada: Peace; serenity; calmness; tranquillity.
Samprayoga: Contact of the senses with the objects.
Samsara: Life through repeated births and deaths; the process of worldly life.
Samsarachakra: The wheel of birth and death.
Samsari: The transmigrating soul.
Samsaya: Doubt; suspicion.
Samsaya-bhavana: Feeling of doubt or suspicion.
Samslesha: Mutual embrace; intimate connection.
Samskara: Impression; ceremonial purification; prenatal tendency.
Samskara-skandha: The group of old impressions.
Samvriti: World-process; same as Samsara.
Samuccayavada: The doctrine that Karma and Jnana are both necessary for Self-realisation.
Samvara: A Buddhistic religious observance; restraint.
Samvit: Knowledge; consciousness; intelligence.
Samvriti: Relative truth; covering; concealment; suppression.
Samyagdarsana: Proper perception; equal vision; highest Advaitic realisation; complete intimation; perfect knowledge.
Samyama: Perfect restraint; an all-complete condition of balance and repose, concentration, meditation and Samadhi.
Samyavastha: State of equilibrium; harmony of the three Gunas; the state of the unmanifested being.
Samyoga-sambandha: Relation by contact, e.g., the stick and the drum.
Samyukta: United; combined.
Sananda: With bliss (a kind of Samadhi).
Sanatana: Eternal; everlasting.
Sanatana-dharma: Eternal Religion.
Sancharana: Movement.
Sanchitakarma: The sum-total of all actions done by the Jiva during countless previous births, out of which a portion is allotted for every new birth.
Sandhyavandana: A religious ablution and prayer among the twice-born of the Hindus performed in the morning, noon and evening.
Sandilya-vidya: The process of meditation on Brahman as the ideal effulgent indwelling spirit in its all-pervading aspect.
Sanga: Attachment; company.
Sanga-tyaga: Renunciation of company or association.
Sangraha: Collection.
Sangraha-buddhi: The intellect that wants to accumulate and possess.
Sankalpa: Thought, desire; imagination.
Sankalpamatra: Mere thought; existing in thought only.
Sankalparahita: Without thought; without idea.
Sankalpasunya: Devoid of thought.
Sankalpavikalpa: Thought and doubt.
Sankhya: A system of philosophy propounded by Kapila.
Sankocha: Contraction; involution; hesitation.
Sanmatra: Mere existence; mere Being; only That which is; mere Be-ness.
Sannyasa: Renunciation of social ties; the last stage of Hindu life, viz., the stage of spiritual meditation.
Santa: Peaceful; calm; tranquil.
Santirupa: Of the form of peace.
Santosha: Contentment; joy; happiness.
Sannyasi (or Sannyasin): A monk; one who has embraced the life of complete renunciation; one belonging to the fourth or the highest stage of life, viz., Sannyasa.
Sarana: Refuge.
Saranagati: Self-surrender; coming under refuge.
Saranagati-yoga: Yoga of self-surrender; Bhakti Yoga.
Sarira: Body.
Sarpadevajanavidya: The science of snake-charming and fire arts.
Sarupya: Having the same form as God.
Sarva: All; everything.
Sarvabhokta: All-enjoyer; an epithet of the Supreme Lord.
Sarvabhutantaratma: The Inner Self of all beings.
Sarvadesika: Pertaining to all places; present everywhere.
Sarva-duhkha-nivritti: Removal of all pains.
Sarvagata: Present in all (things); omnipresent.
Sarva-himsa-vinirmukha: Against injury of all kinds.
Sarvajna: Omniscient; knowing everything.
Sarva-kalyana: All auspicious qualities.
Sarva-karana: Cause of everything; causality of creation, preservation and destruction.
Sarva-karana-karana: The cause of all other causes.
Sarva-karta: All-doer; doer of everything.
Sarvangasana: Pan-psychical pose of the Hatha-yogin; it influences the thyroid gland and through it the whole body and its functions.
Sarvaniyantratma: The Inner Soul that controls everything.
Sarvantaryami: The Inner Ruler of everything.
Sarvapindavyapi: He who permeates all bodies and also who permeates the entire body.
Sarva-prani-hite-ratah: Ever rejoicing in the good of all beings.
Sarva-sakshi: Witness of everything.
Sarva-sakti-samanvita: With all powers; omnipotent.
Sarva-sankalpa-rahitah: Devoid of all thoughts or resolves.
Sarva-sastrartha-vetta: Knower of the meaning of all scriptures.
Sarvatitavadi: Transcendentalist; one who argues that Truth is transcendental.
Sarvatmakatva: Universality; the state of being the soul of everything.
Sarvatva: State of being everything.
Sarvatyaga: Renunciation of everything.
Sarvavit: All-knowing.
Sarvavyapi: All-pervading; omnipresent.
Sarvesvaratva: Supreme rulership over all.
Sarvopadanatva: The state of being the material cause of all.
Sarvosmi: I am all.
Sasmita: With the feeling of individuality or the egoistic feeling of "I exist" (a kind of Samadhi).
Sastra: Scripture; words of authority.
Sasvatapada: Everlasting abode.
Sat: Existence; being; reality; Truth.
Satavadhana: Doing or paying attention to one hundred things at a time.
Satkama: Pure desire (of a liberated sage); desire for Moksha.
Satkarma: Righteous action.
Satkaryavada: The doctrine which holds that the effect is inherent in the cause and that the effect is only a change of the cause.
Satsamanya: Common substratum; homogeneous essence; Being; Brahman.
Satsanga: Association with the wise (good).
Satsankalpa: True resolve; pure desire; perfect will.
Sattasamanya: Homogeneous existence; Existence Absolute; Brahman.
Sattva: Light; purity; reality.
Sattvaguna: Quality of light, purity and goodness.
Sattvagunapradhana: Sattva-prevailing; Sattva-predominating.
Sattvapatti: Fourth state of Jnana where there is an abundance of Sattva or purity and light.
Sattvasamsuddhi: Purity of heart; purity of feeling; increase of light and purity.
Satya: Truth; Brahman or the Absolute.
Satyakama: He who longs or desires for Truth. Satyasankalpa: Pure will.
Satyatva: State of Truth.
Saucha: Purity (internal and external); cleanliness; one of the five Niyamas in Ashtanga Yoga.
Savayava: With limbs or members.
Savichara: With deliberation and reasoning or enquiry.
Savikalpa: With doubt and change.
Savikalpa-samadhi: Samadhi with the triad of knower, knowledge and known.
Savisesha: With distinction; distinguished by qualities; associated with attributes.
Savisesha-brahman: Brahman with attributes; Saguna Brahman.
Saviseshatva: Presence of distinctive attributes.
Savitarka: With logic and argumentation.
Savitarka-samadhi: Samadhi with argumentation.
Sayujya: Becoming one with God.
Sesha: Balance; remainder.
Seva: Service.
Shad-ayatana: The abode of the six (senses).
Shad-darsana: Six systems of thought; six philosophies of the Hindus, viz., Nyaya, Vaiseshika, Sankhya, Yoga, Mimamsa, and Vedanta.
Shad-linga: Six lingas or signs of a perfect exposition or a text viz., 1. Upakranza-Upasarnhara-Ekavakyata (unity of thought in the beginning as well as in the end), 2. Ahhyasa (reiteration or repetition), 3. Apurvata (novelty or uncommon nature of the proof), 4. Phala (fruit of the teaching), 5. Arthavada (eulogy, praise or persuasive expression) and 6. Upapatti (illustration). Some consider Yukti (reason) as the sixth sign instead of Upapatti.
Shad-urmi: Six waves, viz., grief, delusion, hunger, thirst, decay and death.
Shad-vikara: Six modifications of the body, viz., existence, birth, growth, change, decay and death.
Shatchakranirupana: Investigation into or ascertainment of the six Chakras.
Shat-karma: Cleaning processes in Hatha Yoga, viz., Neti, Dhauti, Nauli, Basti, Kapalabhati and Trataka.
Shat-sampat: Sixfold wealth, viz., Sama, Dama, Uparati, Titiksha, Sraddha and Samadhana.
Shodasi: A particular aspect of Goddess conceived of in a sixteen year old maiden; the Brahmavidya of the Saktas, consisting of 16 letters; a modification of the Agnistoma sacrifice.
Siddha: Realised; perfected; a perfected Yogi.
Siddhanta: Established tenet or doctrine.
Siddhantavakhyasravana: Hearing of scriptural conclusions or established truths, as by study of Vedanta; coming to the ultimate right conclusion.
Siddhasana: A meditative posture.
Siddhi: Perfection; psychic power.
Siksha: Phonetics; instruction; teaching.
Sirovrata: Vow of the head; a vow in which fire is carried on the head or in which the head is shaven; Sannyasa.
Sirshasana (or Sirasasana): Topsy-turvy pose; king of Asanas; the headstand of the Hatha Yogins.
Sivapada: The state of Lord Siva; blessedness.
Sivo'ham: I am Siva.
Sloka: Verse of praise; a verse generally consisting of 32 letters.
Smarana: Remembrance.
Smarta: Pertaining to or enjoined by the Smriti.
Smriti: Memory; code of law.
Smritihetu: Cause of memory.
Sneha: Adhesiveness; friendship.
Sodhana: Cleansing, by the six processes or Shatkarmas, (the first part of Hatha Yoga).
Soka: Grief.
So'kamayata: He (God) desired.
Soshana: Drying.
Spanda: Movement; vibration.
Spandabhasa: Reflection of vibration or movement.
Spandavastha: State of vibration or motion.
Sparsa: Touch; feeling with skin.
Sparsana: Touching.
Sparsatanmatra: The essence of the sense of touch.
Sphota: Manifestor; the idea which bursts or flashes on the mind when a sound is uttered; the impression produced on the mind on hearing a sound.
Sphurana: Throbbing or breaking; bursting forth; vibration.
Spriha: Desire; hankering.
Sraaddha: An annual ceremony when oblations are offered to the manes.
Sraddha: Faith.
Srauta: Pertaining to or enjoined by the Sruti.
Sravana: Hearing of the Srutis or scriptures; ear.
Sreyas: Good; blessedness; Moksha.
Sri: Goddess Lakshmi; wealth; prosperity.
Srishti: Creation.
Srishti-bheda: Difference in creation, i.e., one ego is the result of the predominance of Sattva, another of Rajas, and a third of Tamas, etc.
Srishti-kalpana: Creative ideation.
Srishtisthitilaya (samhara): Creation, preservation and destruction or absorption.
Srishti-unmukha: Ready or prone to create.
Sruti: The Vedas; the revealed scriptures of the Hindus; that which has been heard; ear.
Srotra: Ear; organ of hearing.
Srutipradhana: Superiority or the supremacy of the Srutis over all other proofs of knowledge.
Srutipramana: Testimony or proof based on the Veda.
Stabdhavastha: Stunned state of the mind wherein its movements are arrested; this is a negative state which is an obstacle in meditation.
Stambhana: Arresting; stopping.
Sthanumanushya: Man in the post; a simile used to describe false superimposition due to wrong imagination.
Sthavara: Immovable; immobile; stationary.
Sthirata: Steadiness or firmness either of mind through concentration or of body through Asanas, Mudras, etc.
Sthitaprajna: He who is unshakably established in superconsciousness.
Sthiti: Steadiness; condition or state; existence; being; subsistence; preservation.
Sthulabuddhi: Gross intellect.
Sthulasamadhi: The state of Samadhi which is of a Jada type in which there is no intuitive awareness.
Sthulasarira: Gross body; physical body.
Sthulavairagya: Gross dispassion; dispassion or renunciation of a lower type.
Sthula-avidya: Gross ignorance that envelopes all objects.
Stuti: Praise; glorification.
Subha: Auspicious; blessed.
Subhavasana: Pure desire or tendency; good impression of the past.
Subheccha: Good desire; right aspiration to cross Samsara; the first Jnana-bhumika or stage of knowledge.
Suchi: Pure; untainted.
Suddha: Pure; clear; clean; untainted.
Suddhabhakti: Pure devotion to God.
Suddhabhavana: Pure feeling or attitude.
Suddhabrahma: Pure Brahman, free from Maya; Nirguna Brahman.
Suddhakalpana: Pure imagination (as that of "I am Brahman".)
Suddhamanas: Pure mind.
Suddhaprema: Pure love; divine love devoid of carnality.
Suddhasankalpa: Pure resolve.
Suddhavichara: Pure enquiry into the nature of Brahman.
Sudra: Of the fourth Varna or caste; of the servant class.
Sugamata: The faculty of reproducing the passage after reading it once or a few times.
Sugupta: Well-concealed; very secret.
Sukha: Pleasure; happiness; joy.
Sukhachintana: Thought of happiness; happy thinking.
Sukhi: One who is happy.
Sukla: Semen; white.
Sukrita: Good act; merit.
Sukshma: Fine; subtle; invisible; belonging to a subtler order of existence than the physical.
Sukshmabhuta: Tanmatra; subtle essence or state of elements.
Sukshmadarsi: Seer of the subtle essence of things; one who has developed the subtle inner eye; a man of wisdom; a sage.
Sukshmadhyana: Subtle type of meditation such as on abstract ideas.
Suktika-raj ata: Silver-in-the-mother-of-pearl, an example of superimposition where one thing is wrongly taken for another thing.
Sulohita: Very red.
Sundara: Beautiful.
Sunya: Void; nothingness; zeroness; vacuity; nullity.
Sunyavada: Doctrine of nihilism; doctrine of non-existence of anything.
Sunyavadi: Nihilist; a follower of Nagarjuna.
Suryanadi: Another name for the psychic nerve, Pingala.
Sushka: Dry; essenceless.
Sushumna: The important psychic nerve current that passes through the spinal column from the Muladhara to the Sahasrara or the thousand-petalled lotus, through which the Kundalini is made to rise through the Yoga process.
Sushupti: Deep sleep without dreams.
Susila: He whose nature is purified, i.e., the man who regularly practises Yama and so forth and has trained himself.
Sutra: Thread; string; an aphorism with minimum words and maximum sense; a terse sentence.
Sutradhara: The holder of the string; Hiranyagarbha or the Lord of the universe.
Sutratma: The immanent deity of the totality of the subtle bodies; the lower Brahman; Hiranyagarbha.
Suvichara: Right enquiry.
Svabhava: One's own nature or potentiality; innate nature.
Svaccha: Pure; transparent; clean.
Svadha: Offerings made to the manes; an exclamation made when offering oblations to the manes.
Svadharma: One's own prescribed duty in life according to the eternal law.
Svadhisthana: The second of the six Chakras according to Hatha Yoga.
Svadhyaya: Study of religious scriptures, especially the Vedas.
Svagatabheda: Intrinsic difference as the difference between waves, eddies, etc., in a mass of water; the difference between parts like hands, legs, head, feet, etc., in a person; difference between fruit, flower, twigs, leaves, etc., in a tree; that by which one part of a substance is discriminated from another.
Svaha: An oblation or offering made to gods; an exclamation used in offering oblations to gods.
Svajatiyavrittipravaha: The constant flow of the idea of one's own essential state, i.e., of the idea of "I am Brahman".
Svamahimapratishthita: One who is established in or is dependent on his own greatness or glory.
Svanubhuti: Direct experience of one's own Self TER' Svapna: Dream; illusion.
Svapnakalpita: Imagined in a dream; dream creation.
Svapnamayasvarupa: Of the form of a dream illusion.
Svapnavastha: Dream state.
Svapnavat: Like a dream.
Svaprakasa: Self-luminous.
Svara: Sound; accent; tone.
Svarabhanga: Falling of the voice; choking of the voice; one of the marks of divine emotion.
Svarasadhana: Regulation of breath; a particular kind of Sadhana where the flow of breath is continuously watched and regulated.
Svargaloka: Heaven-world; the celestial region.
Svarupa: Essence; essential nature; the essential nature of Brahman; Reality; Satchidananda; True Nature of Being.
Svarupadhyana: Meditation on the Reality, i.e., on one's own essential nature.
Svarupajnana: Knowledge of one's essential nature; knowledge of pure consciousness, which is the highest end of life.
Svarupalakshana: Definition of the essential nature of Brahman; Satchidananda or Existence-Consciousness-Bliss Absolute.
Svarupanyathabhava: Being other than one's own real nature.
Svarupapratishtha: Being established in one's own Self.
Svarupasambandha: Connection with one's own essential nature.
Svarupasthiti: Getting oneself firmly established in one's own essential nature.
Svarupavastha: State of being one with Brahman; resting in the Absolute Reality or Brahman.
Svarupavisranti: Resting in one's own essential nature.
Svasa: Breath.
Svatahsiddha: Self-proved; self-obtained or realised.
Svatantra: Independent.
Svatantrasattabhava: Possibility of independent existence.
Svatantratva: State of (Absolute) independence.
Svayam jyotih: Self-illumined; self-luminous.
Svayambhava: Feeling of independence.
Svayambhu: Self-existent; self-created; self-born.
Svayamprabhasamvit: The self-luminous consciousness.
Svedaja: Organism born spontaneously or generated automatically from inorganic matter through the action of moisture and heat, such as the maggot in decaying flesh or bugs out of sweat; sweat-born.


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'Three Stages of Amazement,' by Carol Edgarian
Published 4:00 am, Sunday, March 6, 2011
Three Stages of Amazement
By Carol Edgarian
(Scribner; 298 pages; $25)
It's hard to feel sorry for the superrich, even (maybe especially) when they lose a lot of money. Those of us with no ties to Bernie Madoff probably didn't lose much sleep over the clients he defrauded. Madoff is a frequent subject of conversation in Carol Edgarian's timely new novel, "Three Stages of Amazement," set in the Bay Area during the recent recession.
This is a story about what happens when the wheel turns, and those who have been on top tip from their perch. Cutting between the mansions of Pacific Heights and the investment firms of Sand Hill Road, the book explores what occurs when expectations don't deliver and entitlement gives way to disappointment.
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At the heart of the novel is Lena Rusch, a young mother married to a surgeon who has sunk their family assets into developing a surgical robotic device, for which he is seeking a $20 million investment. But this robot is years from completion, and investors aren't taking the kind of risks they used to. Just when he's getting desperate, Lena's astronomically wealthy uncle, a banker named Cal Rusch, dangles an offer of assistance. The problem is, Lena holds him responsible for ruining her father's life, and she forbids her husband from considering the offer. No matter what he does, the family's stability is at stake; and things were already wobbly.
When we first meet Lena, she is deeply in grief. "It lurked in the china cabinet and in the waiting room at the dentist's and behind the switch on the hall light. It twined itself inside the tongue of sneakers and the click of pens and the heels of socks." She recently delivered premature twins, one of whom died at birth. The other survived, but barely, with underdeveloped lungs and a host of complications and accompanying worries. Lena's husband is almost never home, leaving her alone to deal with trips to the emergency room so frequent they're almost tedious, but no less terrifying.
Edgarian beautifully captures the fierceness of this mother's love for her chronically sick baby, as well as the toll that the monotony and anxiety take - all those hours spent sitting in a steamy bathroom, trying to clear the tiny blocked passageways of her lungs.
In an achingly memorable scene, Lena overhears a cluster of competitive mothers gossiping about her daughter, calling her a vegetable, and accusing Lena of being obtuse to the fact that she will never be OK, let alone normal. They're being cruel, but also honest, and only then does Lena recognize the truth of what they're saying. Lonely, frightened but still spirited, passionate at the core, she is tempted back into the arms of an old lover who reappears, offering the possibility of an escape from the life in which she's ensnared.
Edgarian dips gracefully into different points of view, enlarging the scope of the story, which becomes about a community of interconnected people as much as it's about the individuals who make it up. We get insight into the minds of Lena and her husband, their toddler son and the Central American nanny, who takes a pay cut to keep her job.
One of the most vivid characters is Cal Rusch, Lena's estranged uncle. Walled off in his fortress, he surveys the city, his family and minions with sneering contempt. The man doesn't seem to love anyone, not even his wife - a gaunt society matron whose life accomplishment is her closet of couture - or his children, at least the legitimate ones. When his daughter comes to his firm, seeking investment for a nonprofit venture, he advises the partners to turn her down.
Discussions of contemporary fiction too often focus on the tepid question of whether a character is "likable," as if the goal of reading a novel were to have a merely pleasant encounter. Edgarian doesn't waste too much time worrying about whether you're going to like her characters. They are larger than life in their ambitions and longings, and while you might not want to hang out over tea, they are fascinatingly flawed, both as people and as representatives of a certain social class that was not used to making compromises or being let down, until recently.
Cal Rusch cuts the figure of an aging monarch from one of Shakespeare's later plays, the ones interestingly caught between tragedy and comedy. "Three Stages of Amazement" is equally hard to classify. While it's hard to feel genuinely sorry for these characters, Edgarian doesn't ridicule them or their sorrows. The fall from privilege is both humbling and humanizing. Rich or poor, disappointment is part of growing up, learning to accept a less-than-perfect outcome, to tolerate ambiguity. In the end, these are just people living their lives, struggling to get by like the rest of us.


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Michael Greenlee and Matt Brown of Cal-State Fullerton Media Relations put together an excellent series of videos on remembering Rosenblatt Stadium which held their final College World Series in June. The documentary gets fans and other peoples opinions on the old stadium closing down. I highly recommend checking out the videos below.
Remembering Rosenblatt: Part I – First Memories from Matt Brown on Vimeo.
Remembering Rosenblatt: Part II – Memorable Moments from Matt Brown on Vimeo.
Remembering Rosenblatt: Part III – The Move from Matt Brown on Vimeo.


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NHL Rumors: Latest on Top Free Agents Still Looking for New HomesJuly 3, 2014
We've all been there. Everybody else is getting a date to the dance while you're coming to terms with the fact that your Saturday night will entail binge-watching the most recent season of Sherlock.
So you know what some of the NHL free agents are going through.
Although the free-agency period is only a few days old, almost every big name has already been scooped up. The negotiating window opened last week, which helped pave the way for many of Tuesday's and Wednesday's deals.
The three players below, though, are still on the market.
Martin Brodeur
Time moves on, and Martin Brodeur is figuring that out the hard way. Despite being one of the greatest goaltenders in NHL history, the 42-year-old remains without a team.
By now, there's little in the way of star power available in the free-agent market. Almost every top player has already agreed to terms on a new deal.
And then there's Brodeur.
Still being unemployed has done nothing to break his resolve, though, per ESPN.com's Katie Strang:
Brodeur is currently evaluating a few different options, but is content to wait longer than originally anticipated if the right fit does not present itself, a source told ESPN.com.
How long exactly? It may behoove Brodeur to wait until training camp, when an untimely injury could prompt a team to seek immediate help. And maybe there is still a chance (albeit very slim, we would think) that he goes back to New Jersey. After all, Scott Clemmensen was signed to a one-year, two-way contract, and who knows how Keith Kinkaid will fare as backup to Cory Schneider?
ESPN.com's Pierre LeBrun reported that the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Pittsburgh Penguins signaled their interest, but that's as far as things have gotten:
Sooner or later, Brodeur will find a new team. Perhaps, as Strang posited, it will be around training camp, when somebody's hand is forced.
Tomas Vokoun
Another goaltender without a job is Tomas Vokoun. A blood clot cost him the whole of the 2013-14 season, but with a clean bill of health, he's available to the highest bidder.
According to Chris Johnston of Rogers Sportsnet, the 38-year-old has some offers on the table:
Rogers Sportsnet's John Shannon also reported that Vokoun had at least one concrete contract offer but was planning on making a decision Wednesday:
At time of writing, Vokoun was still without a team. The blood clots will be a bit scary as long as he's playing, but it would seem that they don't pose an immediate problem.
Not many teams are looking for a goaltender at this stage of the offseason, but the 15-year veteran should find a new home fairly soon.
Steve Ott
Some team might want to sign Steve Ott before he starts beating up general managers because of it. Ott has a reputation for being an enforcer/annoying pest, but he's a necessary evil for most teams.
His ability to play on both ends should make him fairly marketable, but he has yet to sign.
The Buffalo Sabres, for whom Ott played in 2012-13 and part of 2013-14, are taking themselves out of consideration, per Lauren Brill of News 4 Buffalo WIVB:
Michael Russo of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis-St. Paul reported that the Toronto Maple Leafs may be interested, however:
ESPN's Pierre LeBrun -- the great Pierre LeBrun, I may add -- reports the Wild has shown interest in Steve Ott, the former Dallas Stars agitator/smack talker and Sabres captain who was dealt with Ryan Miller to St. Louis last season. He once fought Cal Clutterbuck twice in the same game after Ott ran Josh Harding either that game or the game before, I can't remember (video of that incident on bottom of blog). Ott can play center and wing and kills penalties.
Toronto has also shown interest in Ott, I have heard.
Perhaps Ott's style has turned off potential suitors, but there's no question players like him have a role in the league. He's one of those players you hate to play against but tolerate when he's on your team.


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TEL AVIV (May. 19)
Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's Foreign Minister, left today for a six-week tour of Latin America, during which she will visit the capitals of seven countries, where she will confer with leaders of the governments as well as with leaders of the Jewish communities in those countries.
Her first stop will be Buenos Aires, after which she will go to Montevideo, Santiago de Chile, Mexico City, Guatemala, Caracas, and Rio de Janeiro. After she has concluded her Latin American tour, on June 30, she said she hopes to go to the United States for a few days' rest, before returning home via Britain and France. Mrs. Meir, who had been affected by fatigue, was released only yesterday from a hospital to which she had been sent by her physicians for a brief rest.
Asked whether any friendship agreements might be signed with any of the Latin American countries during her visits, she replied that "nothing has been pre-arranged, although something might result."


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Something to truly look forward to, Prepare Your Heart for the Midnight Cry is R. T. Kendall's proclamation of a hope for the future, a hope of Jesus' coming and a knowledge that the midnight cry will bring peace, love, and a change like no other to have ever come before.
In true Kendall fashion, the book focuses on a single passage as it's anchor, and then proceeds to draw out truths that speak to all of Christianity. The Sermon on the Mount left no word unturned, God Meant It For Good opened Joseph's story as a source of Godly hope, and now, for his latest release, R. T. Kendall examines Jesus' parable of the ten virgins. Drawing on threads of what this means for the Church, for individual Christians, and for the future ahead of all.
This isn't a book of empty prophecies, mind you. It's a look at the promise to come, the unfolding of, and outpouring upon, the Church in the last days. It looks a Biblical evidence to show a picture of tremendous power and change to come.
It's a call to be ready now, to Prepare Your Heart for the Midnight Cry.
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Veterinarian Responds to Simi Valley Horse Rescue Story
Every so often, the media gets it wrong. Really wrong. Recently, Care2 ran a story about a horse rescue situation in Simi Valley, California. Our story relied on information from several press accounts. However, we've learned since then that many of the facts were incorrectly reported.
Rather than perpetuate inaccurate information, we want Care2's readers to know what sources close to the situation have told us.
Shortly after our story ran, Care2 was contacted by Dr. David Ramey. Dr. Ramey is a veterinarian in Encino, California with over 30 years of experience specializing in the care of horses. His expertise includes equine welfare, a topic on which he has written books and articles and lectured around the world.
Some may remember that Dr. Ramey was quoted in the stories on this incident as saying all the attention was an "overreaction." He had much more to say than just that, but his explanation of what was really going on wasn't reported.
We have that story now, supported by confirmation of key facts by the abuse investigators of the Humane Society of Ventura County (HSVC).
According to Dr. Ramey, the situation in Simi Valley occurred because an elderly horse lover tried to do a good deed and bit off more than he could chew.
The owner of the property, who lives on site in a simple trailer with no power, apparently was told by someone that there were nine horses needing an immediate home, or they would have to "be killed." Since the property is quite large enough for horses to roam, the owner, a lifelong horse lover, agreed to take them.
"Unfortunately, the old man did not have the means — and perhaps not the strength or stamina — to adequately care for the horses," Dr. Ramey told Care2. "The old man, lacking the resources to buy enough feed for all of the horses, and probably the energy to take care of them, got in over his head."
It is our understanding that HSVC was told the same thing.
Contrary to press reports, the horses were fed daily, not three times per week, says Dr. Ramey. Friends of the owner stepped in when it became apparent that the property owner couldn't handle things himself. They even bought hay at their own expense to be sure the horses were fed, he says.
"However, since the horses were fed together, over time, the more dominant horses kept their weight, while the less dominant ones got thinner," Dr. Ramey told Care2. Importantly, he says, "None of the horses were emaciated, and none of them met the legal standards for abuse or neglect."
Care2 confirmed this point with the Director of Investigations for HSVC , John Brockus, who was also present on June 29th. He said HSVC saw nothing at the site that day that they would consider abuse or neglect.
HSVC employs Ventura County's only humane officers, so Mr. Brockus' office would conduct any investigations into neglect or abuse allegations, where necessary. In this case, they determined, based on the situation, that it was not necessary to seize any of the horses that day.
Dr. Ramey says he became involved at the site in a limited way when he was called in by friends of the owner to examine the leg of one of the horses in late May. At that time, he says he was told about the horse that had slipped on some rocks and had been found dead. (He notes that there was no foal nearby, as has been previously reported).
The horse Dr. Ramey examined apparently had a fractured leg. He says he was told the horse would be, and was, appropriately euthanized. This horse is believed to be the second carcass found on the property. Sad and distasteful as it is, Dr. Ramey says there's no law in California requiring that the carcasses be disposed of, and the owner couldn't afford to have them moved.
A couple of weeks after his first visit, Dr. Ramey says he was called by friends of the property owner to examine a grey gelding with a large wound to its right shoulder. The wound, which appeared in some press photos, looked bad, but was in fact "not serious, and posed no threat to the horse." It couldn't be sutured and had to heal naturally. Photos provided by Dr. Ramey show that the wound is indeed healing. Dr. Ramey reports that this horse is fine and well cared for in a new home.
"I also told the helpers that given this, the third accident, homes needed to be found for the horses, or I would have to call Animal Control," Dr. Ramey told Care2. "Frankly, the third accident was the straw that broke the camel's back, and I thought that the situation was too much for the old man, as well as for the people who helped him. The next day, I was told that two of the horses were being adopted by friends of the old man, and I was asked to help find homes for some of the other ones."
An organization Dr. Ramey called had no room for more horses, but they in turn called Auction Horses Rescue, who then called HSVC and the media, according to Dr. Ramey. HSVC confirmed for Care2 that they were called to the scene by Auction Horses Rescue. The story spiraled into a media event from there.
As things ended up, two horses were taken in by friends of the owner, four were voluntarily given to Auction Horses Rescue, and another four remained on site. HSVC revisited the site during the week of July 15th to check on the horses that are still there. These horses are fine, according to John Brockus.
"I think that the current times, where there are so many unwanted horses, are awful for horses," said Dr. Ramey. "They need all of the help that they can get. It seems to me that the welfare of horses would best be served if we all worked together."
We can't argue with that!
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The Times Square Alliance held its annual Solstice in Times Square on June 20th, the day of the Summer Solstice. Thousands of people descended onto the crossroads of NYC to participate in free yoga classes throughout the day. One of the classes offered during the day was a Bikram class and this year, Bikram yogis got a special treat: Rajashree Choudhury, the wife of Bikram Choudhury (creator of the series) taught the class.
A preliminary count of 3,260 people participated in last Wednesday's class, arguably making it the largest Bikram class ever assembled. And I was there in attendance! I ended up practicing in the fifth row from the stage with a clear view of Rajashree and the backdrop of Times Square behind her.
Practicing yoga in the heart of Times Square with thousands of yogis was a unique and exhilarating experience. The sea of yogis stretched from 42nd to 48th Streets. The added challenge was to find stillness in the total chaos. Cars honked, sirens roared, large TV screens flashed, the subway rumbled underground, and passerbys took pictures with their phones. For more than 3 years, I have practiced concentration and focus in the serenity of a yoga room. I was pleased to discover that after several "Oh-my-God-I'm-on-TV-Do-I-Look-Cute?" moments, I set aside the distractions and found my focus.
Lying in Savasana, Dead Body Pose, on Broadway in Times Square
View of the Sky from Savasana, Dead Body Pose
Stillness of the mind starts with stillness of the body. The most effective way to still the body is to still the eyes. As Bikram teachers, we like to say "Where the eyes go, the body follows." When my students struggle to find physical balance, I encourage them to pick one spot with their eyes and focus on it.
In Times Square, the best focal point in my line of vision was ironically a billboard sign of a Corona bottle. I stared at it and found my balance. I successfully managed to tap into my inner stillness amidst the chaos. If I can find peace in the middle of Times Square, I can do it anywhere especially in the midst of the chaos of life.


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Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb, and one of the last to fade.
Beautiful Beginnings was created out of our passion for massage. Specifically, the many benefits massage can provide for babies.
We wanted to create an environment of nurturing and warmth, a place where parents can come to learn this ancient art.
Infant massage deepens the bond between baby and parents, and helps you to feel more confident in the care of your child.


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Construction worker injured in Mission Hill fall
Posted by Swati Gauri Sharma January 19, 2011 11:26 AM
A construction worker fell about 30 feet in a scaffolding at a building in the Mission Hill neighborhood this morning, but only suffered what appeared to be minor injuries, Boston fire officials said.
Firefighters responded to 10 Vining St. at 9:11 a.m. The worker was found outside at the fourth-floor level of the building, the Boston Fire Department said in a series of official tweets.
Firefighters reached him via the fourth-floor windows. He was lowered to the ground and taken by by Boston EMS to the hospital, the department said.


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Chocolate, mmmmmm! Everybody loves it, well, almost everybody. I certainly do.
Chocolate comes in many many different forms. Some good, some, not so much.
People love to grab a chocolatey snack in the afternoon. Some people grab a Kit kat, and some people, like myself, grab one of these chocolate almond energy balls.
This is a much healthier option of course, and a whole different type of delicious.


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For a while now I've been wanting to try some High Dynamic Range photography. My choice of subject for my first attempt probably shows my lack of experience. I cannot explain it, but I have an abnormal fascination with kiwi fuzz. If I ever get into macro photography, you can bet that kiwi fuzz will be one of the first things I attempt a close-up of.
The problem with HDR photography is that it's so easy, and fun, to make freakishly surreal photographs with weird colors and lighting. The unreality of most HDR photos initially turned me off to the practice, but I've come to respect those photographs that use the technique properly, to overcome the limitations of the camera and make photographs more real.


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No security changes expected at Victoria airport
May 2, 2011 at 12:02 a.m.
No changes in security measures are planned at Victoria Regional Airport in the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden on Sunday.
"We have not received any additional guidance at this time," said Jason Milewski, airport manager. "We are in constant contact with the Transportation Security Administration and, of course, remain on a high level of awareness."
As at other airports across the country, passengers boarding a commercial flight at the Victoria airport go through a metal detector, as well as a body screening by a TSA employee who also searches luggage as needed.
"We also have a private area if additional searches are necessary," Milewski said.
Two flights a day depart from Victoria to the Houston Intercontinental Airport.