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Lab Quest, 99 Highway 37 West, Toms River, NJ 08755
Community Medical Center, an affiliate of RWJBarnabas Health System, is a 592-bed, fully accredited acute care hospital offering area residents world-class medical treatment with the comforts of hometown care. Opened in 1961, CMC has evolved into the state s largest non-teaching hospital and Ocean County s largest and most active health care facility caring for over 24,200 inpatients, 142,500 outpatients and 81,400 emergency department patients each year. Our core values include: Compassion, Quality, Accountability, Integrity, Diversity and Teamwork.
Performs and interprets routine diagnostic assays on blood and body fluids. Performs all duties related to the preparation, identification, and testing of specimens. Performs all related documentation tasks. May be required to obtain patient blood samples by venipuncture, or capillary puncture using aseptic techniques and collection skills appropriate to the age and level of difficulty of the patient. Participates in evaluating, documenting and implementing technical assays. Provides technical guidance to non-certified personnel.
Position requirements: ASCP MT, MLT, CLS, CLT or eligible, contingent upon successful completion of exam within six (6) months of eligibility. Proficiency in all sections Hematology/Coagulation, Chemistry, Microbiology and Blood Bank experience preferred.
Scheduling: Full time/Days. Weekend and Holiday rotations required.
At Community Medical Center, you will find a progressive health care organization offering a comprehensive array of wellness and medical services including world-class cancer, diabetes, emergency, and cardiac care. We are one of the area s most trusted providers of maternal and child health services, offering superior obstetric services, a Level 2 special care nursery, and a dedicated pediatric unit. We maintain award-winning centers of excellence for women, children and seniors. The centers offer support groups in addition to fitness and wellness programs, to enhance the overall health of every member of our community.
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Fifteen mobile telecom carriers in seven ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries had started LTE commercial operations as of the end of the second quarter of 2014, and Singapore ranked first with LTE subscribers accounting for nearly 30% of all mobile communication subscriptions, according to Digitimes Research.
In the whole ASEAN market, LTE and WiMAX subscribers accounted for only 1.3% of mobile communications subscribers at the end of 2013, compared to 70.5% for 2G and 28.2% for 3G, Digitimes Research indicated.
In view of decreasing revenues due to market saturation, SingTel, StarHub and M1, three mobile telecom carriers in Singapore, have made large investments to set up LTE networks, with network coverage much higher than that in the other six ASEAN countries. In addition to data communications, SingTel launched VoLTE (voice over LTE) services in May 2014.
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On a recent episode of Main Street Mavericks Radio with Joel Helfer, Craig Petronella, Raleigh, NC, top cybersecurity expert and IT authority, discussed the importance of employee computer security awareness training.
When host Joel Helfer asked about the definition of computer security awareness training, Petronella answered, "Computer security awareness training is a process for educating employees about computer security. A good training program should educate the employees about corporate policies and procedures for working with IT in an ongoing training process."
During the interview, Petronella shared the process that employees should use to protect themselves from email hacks, explaining, "There are a series of tests, or trust factors, that each employee should complete when receiving an email to ensure it is safe to open. First, check to see if you recognize the person and email address that has been sent to you. Second, if there is an attachment, determine whether you were expecting an email with an attachment from that person. Third, look at the type of attachment to see if it is formatted with a recognized program (Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, etc.). Fourth, look at the links in an email and ensure that they are going where you expect them to go by hovering your mouse pointer over the link to see the destination and make sure it matches. Fifth is to look at the language used in the email and determine if it matches the sender's normal language pattern. If you fail to follow these trust factors and your system is breached, it may be months before you discover the breach and the ramifications of a breach."
Petronella added that another level of protection against malicious software or malware is to use next generation antivirus technology that protects against 99% of the threats. However, these solutions are typically only available to corporations with 5,000 employees or greater. Petronella noted, "We have developed a partnership to deliver this type of protection to much smaller businesses to avail them of the same protection afforded to large corporations. When combining this software with security awareness training and good data backup, the lower the risk your business has for a breach."
Craig Petronella, Raleigh, North Carolina's top cybersecurity expert and IT authority, has authored multiple books, including How HIPAA Can Crush Your Medical Practice and Peace of Mind Computer Support. He has spent thirty years advising clients and protecting computer information. Petronella is frequently quoted in the local Raleigh news and appears on local TV news for his expertise in protecting local businesses and medical practice owners from hackers halfway around the world in places such as Ukraine, Russia, and China.
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Interplanetary trajectories
Travelling from one planet to another is not at all like travelling between towns or even countries on Earth. On the surface of the Earth, everything is fixed in its place and, for all practical purposes, never moves.
Imagine how much more difficult it would be if, say, Paris was constantly changing its distance and direction from Amsterdam. Every time you made the trip, you would have to calculate whether you had enough fuel to make the journey and how long it would take in order to know where Paris would be at the time you wanted to arrive. You might even have to wait until it moved close enough to make the journey viable.
This is the situation in space; everything is in motion with reference to everything else, because everything is moving through its own orbit. Journey times are also a major factor as some spacecraft can take many months or even years to cover the distance to their destinations.
So space journeys must launch at exactly the right time in order to arrive at the point in space when their target is passing. The 'right time' to launch is known as the 'launch window'.
Interplanetary trajectories are usually whole or partial orbits around the Sun. When a spacecraft launches it must first fight to break free of the Earth's gravitational field. Once it has done this, it enters interplanetary space, where the dominant force is the gravitational field of the Sun.
The spacecraft begins to follow a curving orbit, around the Sun, which is similar in many ways to the orbit of a comet. When this orbit brings it close to its target world, the spacecraft must fire a retrorocket, to slow it down, and allow itself to be captured by the gravitational field of its target. The smaller the target, the more it must slow down.
Sometimes passing a planet without firing a rocket can result in the spacecraft being speeded up. This is known as the 'slingshot' effect.
For example, Mars Express will follow a small portion of a complete orbit during its six-month journey to Mars. On the other hand, Rosetta will make a number of complete orbits around the Sun as it uses a 'slingshot' manoeuvre to guide it towards its 2014 rendezvous with comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Ion engines, such as those used on ESA's Moon mission, SMART-1, can continually fire – if only with minute thrust – constantly nudging the spacecraft into a new orbit. Over time, such changes build up to make big changes to the spacecraft's interplanetary trajectory and represent an efficient way to reach certain celestial objects that conventional rockets find almost impossible; orbits around Mercury, for example.


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One of the objects at Knole currently undergoing conservation treatment is the so-called 'spangled bed'. This bed may have been created in the early eighteenth century using an Elizabethan or Jacobean royal canopy of state which was sewn with silver sequins.
The silk curtains of this bed are being analysed and treated at the National Trust's Textile Conservation Studio. The Knole Conservation Team Blog has recently shown these images of the initial findings.
It turns out that the curtains are a patchwork of different elements, including six different types of silk damask, a plain silk section and a linen section.
All these patches seem to have had previous uses before they were inserted into the bed curtains, as they show additional seams and darning.
There are a number of different types and styles of seams, suggesting that there were several successive repairs.
At some point the curtains seem to have been turned upside down, so that the damaged and patched hems would be at the top and therefore less obvious.
All this gives some glimpses of the life of this venerable bed, as well as of the thrifty housekeeping methods of previous generations.


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(ColoradoRapids.com)- The Colorado Rapids the US Soccer Foundation Passback program and Soccer Dreams Without Borders will be collecting new and slightly used soccer gear during the Rapids vs. New England Revolution match this Saturday September 20 at 7pm at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
Every family donating will receive a buy one get one free ticket voucher to the Rapids vs. Houston Dynamo home match on Saturday October 4.
This will mark the fourth and final Rapids soccer equipment collection during the club's 2008 season. All equipment will be collected outside Gates B and G beginning an hour and a half prior to kickoff.
The Rapids' Passback Program is a joint effort between the Rapids the U.S. Soccer Foundation Eurosport and Major League Soccer to assist in meeting the soccer needs of all communities.
Since its inception soccer gear has been collected and distributed to schools clubs and organizations throughout the country. Equipment collected has also been distributed to countries as far away as Africa and the ultimate goal is to collect and distribute a million items of soccer gear in the U.S.
The Rapids ask all fans to clear out their closets and bring their new or used cleats balls shin guards jerseys and any other outgrown or unneeded soccer gear to the game! Thanks for helping us donate equipment to kids in need!


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New SuicideGirls Safe For Work blog:
I'll let them have the exclusive for a couple days, then repost here. That is, if I remember.
New SuicideGirls Safe For Work blog:
I'll let them have the exclusive for a couple days, then repost here. That is, if I remember.
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I've had to cancel my retreat at Benediktushof. I apologize to everyone who signed up and to the staff at Benediktushof. But right now I'm in no condition to fly. With any luck, I'll be able to make the rest of my European dates.
Here comes the over-sharing part. Please do not read the following if you get grossed out easily. I'm sharing this mainly so that I do not have to keep telling the story over and over and over to the many people who are asking about it. If you're not curious, I suggest you not even read. This isn't pleasant.
Some people were guessing I had a colonoscopy Friday. You were close, but wrong. You missed by about six or seven inches. I don't want to brag, you see.
I had a little camera inserted into my weenie to have a look around up there. It's supposed to be a routine procedure with few complications other than discomfort. I was one of the lucky few for whom the procedure had some unexpected side-effects. No one yet seems to know why, but the procedure led to an inability to urinate.
Thus, screaming like a baby in agony, I had to be driven to the emergency room at about midnight by a long-suffering and very good friend. They placed a catheter in my thingy (hey all you people in San Francisco who don't like me not saying "cock" or "penis" -- Go suck my dick! But not yet. Wait about a week.) It's still there now and I will have to endure this for the next two days.
I can't say the catheter is painful. But it is extraordinarily uncomfortable in a way I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy. It's just wrong to have a rubber tube up there. Consequently, although the folks at the ER said I could live a more-or-less normal life with this thing in, I have so far not really done so. If I sit very very still, I can let the thing sort of rest and then kind of forget about it. When I move around, it moves around too. It has subtle ways of reminding you that it's still there. Little pinches that I react to as if a crazed bald eagle were champing on the end of my wang -- although in truth the pain really isn't that bad.
I've always said that we should be aware that our independence is largely an illusion. We are not really independent at all. Nothing will remind you of this more clearly than having a medical procedure. I have been reduced to pure dependency. Though when you really look at it, your life is pretty much pure dependency no matter how healthy you are.
Friday was my first experience with anesthesia. It wasn't my first visit to an emergency room. I've taken other people to ERs before and I've been to the ER when I had kidney stones. But last night was my first visit to the Akron, Ohio General Hospital ER. Emergency rooms in Japan are quite different.
As for the anesthesia, that was the easy bit. I went out like a light at the first hint of drugs introduced to mys system. All I really remember was getting light headed then waking up. I initially thought the procedure went really well.
I didn't feel most of the pain they'd warned me I'd feel after the procedure. I was told I'd have a sore throat from the intubation. I barely felt anything. I was told I'd have pain urinating. But the first two times I went it wasn't that bad. It was a little sore. But I've had kidney stones, baby. That kind of sore is nothing!
But the third time I tried to go, nothing came out. I tried and tried for about two hours. You know how it feels when you hold your pee like in a long car ride or something? Imagine that times about 10,000. When at last I finally accepted that I was gonna need to be catheterized I was hurting bad (I'd called the ER & they told me about that possibility, I did not want another thing shoved up my weenie so I resisted).
The long-suffering and saintly Erin drove me to Akron General's emergency room. I was not in a good mood when I arrived. I guess they deal with a lot of distressed people in the ER. So the first person I spoke to had all of her professional defenses up. It was interesting to note. She was prepared for me to go off on her, as I'm sure others have in the past. But I didn't. I tried as best I could to articulate my problem.
Pretty soon I was in a room, waiting to be seen. Luckily the ER was not too crowded. But it still took them forever to get to me. I suppose having to pee really bad is not considered one of the more urgent concerns. Unless you're the one who has to pee real bad.
Finally a doctor came in an accessed my situation and the decision was made to insert a Foley catheter. Much as I dreaded that, I knew it would relieve my pain so I was all for it.
I shook like a maniac as the insertion was done. I'm not really sure if I started shaking before or during the insertion. But by the time they were finished it was like I had the most uncontrollable shivers you can possibly imagine. They said that was a common reaction and that it would subside. It did. But nearly two days later I still ache.
I nearly died on Friday night. Seriously. Without the ER I would have been dead, and it would have been a very bad death. But I'm not dead. So that's good. It's interesting how many things we consider to be fairly minor ailments these days are actually deadly. A wild animal in my predicament would have died. A person living in more primitive conditions would have too -- although such a person wouldn't have had the procedure that led to my ER visit in the first place. Still, a blocked bladder is actually pretty serious stuff.
The fact I could have died makes me very aware that I am extremely dependent upon others. I'm a guy who prides himself on independence, so this is something I often attempt to deny. But there ya go.
I've been reading a book lately called God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World. The book takes the standpoint that the stuff we've been hearing for years about all religions being basically the same thing is bollocks. They aren't really the same at all. A Christian who tries to be nice by saying that Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists are also saved is missing the point. Those other religions don't consider it important to be saved.
Anyway, according to the author the goal of Islam is to free us from pride and arrogance and the feeling that we are independent of God. The ordeal I went through the other night has gone a long way to accomplishing that for me. It's hard to be proud when you're walking around carrying your day's accumulated urine in a big plastic bag connected to a garden hose shoved up your dick.
I'll just end there since I've gone on a very long time. I hope your weekend was better than mine!
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I'm gonna go to the hospital in a few hours and be sedated. I do not want to be sedated.
The last time a doctor recommended a procedure for which sedation was required, I cancelled at the last minute. Actually, at that time I didn't know sedation was required. As soon as I heard it was, that's when I cancelled. As it turned out the reasons for the procedure turned out to be spurious (trust me, you don't want any further explanation than that). So I was fine. This time I feel like it may be necessary for them to go have a look at what they want to have a look at. Although I'm pretty certain it'll turn out to be nothing very serious.
The timing for this could hardly be worse. I'm doing this stuff on Friday and leaving for nearly two months in Europe on Sunday. People ask me how I prepare for these trips. The answer is "very badly."
I don't earn enough to pay for an assistant. So I have to set everything up myself. Luckily some very kind people over on the continent are booking me trains and planes and stuff. But I still have to coordinate it all. And I am very bad at that kind of thing. I'm not the kind of guy who really knows much about how to plan ahead.
Which is one of those weird questions I sometimes get. "If zen is all about being in the moment, are you allowed to plan ahead?" Yes, you are allowed to plan ahead. You plan ahead in the moment. You plan for two months in Europe now. Or at least you should. But if you're me, you barely do.
Plus a this week Zero Defex started recording what will eventually be its second album. I laid down some sitar on Wednesday. I be that's the first time a sitar was used by a hardcore band! The rest of the band will finish the tracks off while I'm away.
So I gotta go get sedated and still manage to pull together all the last minute stuff. Which is why this blog entry is short and messy.
I'm not a fan of drugs, as I think everybody who reads this knows. That includes even drugs that are "good for you," like the sedatives they give you in the hospital. I really don't want them. But I've heard what the procedure I'm going for is like without sedation and opted to get knocked out. Well, apparently not fully knocked out. They call the thing they're doing to me "twilight." I guess that means you're mostly knocked out. Knowing me, it'll put me under. Since I so seldom partake of drugs, whenever I do they knock me for a loop.
Anyhow, I figure if I write about the procedure maybe I can claim the whole thing as a tax write-off. Plus it may have some zen appeal. It is an altered state of consciousness after all. Not that zen is about altered states. But people who read about zen seem to like to read about altered states.
Good luck to me! See you on the other side!
P.S. Here's an interesting article by Susan O'Connel of San Fran Zen Center. Someone posted the link in the comments. Thanks.
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Well, I give up folks. They've now made a drink that does exactly what Zen practice is supposed to do. I'm just gonna buy that stuff from now on. Lots easier!
According to the website:
When your mind is both calm and clear and your body relaxed, you will experience that sacred state of being called BLISS. The reason why most of us are denied the experience of BLISS is directly related to our lack of one, two, or all three states necessary for BLISS: calmness, clarity and relaxation. The miracle of a 2.5 oz. shot of I AM BLISS® is that it naturally, safely, and effectively promotes all three states of being. The result is BLISS.
The BLISS Experience: Although everyone's experience of BLISS is different there is a common theme. Almost immediately after drinking I AM BLISS® you feel a deep sense of relaxation, a letting go, as it were, of the problems and stressors that may have seemed overwhelming just minutes ago. Curiously, as you relax, your energy level noticeably increases. I AM BLISS® does not work like a typical relaxant that can make you drowsy.
Within ten to fifteen minutes the real miracle begins. The chatter, self talk and background noise that usually dominates your awareness subsides and you become more present. You may notice your surroundings more intensely. Colors, sounds, and shapes are more vivid, more interesting, more beautiful. You are now deeply rooted in the present moment. This may be the first time you have really experienced how it feels to be totally present.
Wow. Who knew? A one month's supply is only $120!
I'm working on my European jaunt. It starts this Sunday when I go winging off to Amsterdam. The full itinerary is at the following website:
The date listed as Rotterdam on October 9 (John Lennon's birthday) has been moved to Amsterdam. And a date in Manchester, England has been added. I'll get the info up as soon as I can.
This is the last time I do one of these tours without some kind of secretary, assistant or jisha to help. Getting all the schedule right has just about made my head explode.
If I write about a medical procedure on this blog can I claim the procedure as a tax write-off? Cuz this shit I have coming up on Friday's gonna cost me two grand and probably won't amount to anything at all.
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I recently bought a book called The Making of Buddhist Modernism by David McMahan. It's a pretty neat book about the way Buddhism has been transformed and "Westernized." The author also contends that this process of Westernization is not confined to Americans and Europeans who have misinterpreted Buddhism through their own cultural conditioning. It also includes Asians who have interpreted Buddhism according to their modern Westernized points of view. He cites DT Suzuki, Thich Naht Hahn, the 14th Dalai Lama and others as good examples of Asians who have Westernized Buddhism. He doesn't seem to think this is a bad thing. He feels that we Westerners tend to accept what we learn of Buddhism as being present in its most ancient sources. But he questions whether that's true.
I've said several times that I feel like Buddhism is sort of like advanced physics. Albert Einstein pioneered so much of advanced physics it might be considered appropriate to call it "Einsteinism." But if we did that we would not want to stop all of advanced physics at the point of Albert Einstein's death and say anything that came after is not legitimate.
Same with Buddhism. Buddha never claimed to be a prophet or messiah. So to say Buddhism stops with the death of the historical Buddha would be a grave misunderstanding of Buddhism. Westernization and modernization of Buddhism is inevitable and helpful.
McMahan cites a passage by Jay Garfield regarding translation. Garfield says:
"When we translate, we transform in all of the following ways: we replace terms and phrases with particular sets of resonances in their source language with terms and phrases with very different resonances in the target language; we disambiguate ambiguous terms, and introduce new ambiguities; we interpret, or fix particular interpretations of texts in virtue of the use of theoretically loaded expressions in our target language; we take a text that is to some extent esoteric and render it exoteric simply by freeing the target language reader to approach the text without a teacher; we shift the context in which a text is read and used."
I was going over the galleys of Nishijima Roshi's translation of Nagarjuna's Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way. It's due out in about a month. In the translation, Nishijima Roshi insists upon translating the Sanskrit word shunyata as "the balanced state."
Everybody knows that the word shunyata means "emptiness." This is the accepted translation of shunyata and has been for many years. Nishijima himself is well aware of this. But he also felt that the word "emptiness" in English really did not convey what Nagarjuna was talking about when he used the word shunyata.
McMahan talks about the way the Sanskrit word moksha is translated as "freedom." This is an accepted and approved way of translating the word. But moksha means, in McMahan's words, "liberation from rebirth in samsara as an embodied being, as well as liberation from destructive mental states (klesas), craving, hatred, and delusion and from the suffering (dukha) they produce."
On the other hand, the word "freedom" conveys to Western readers such things as, "individual freedom, creative freedom, freedom of choice, freedom from oppression, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom from neuroses, free to be me — let freedom ring" and so on. "Freedom" is a proper translation of moksha. But it means something very different from moksha.
"Balanced state" is an improper translation of shunyata. No doubt about it. But it may convey more of the meaning of shunyata than the word "emptiness" is able to. That was Nishijima's feeling anyway.
The translation is idiosyncratic. It does not match other English translations. But there are several more standard versions easily available to anyone who wants them. There is no reason for yet another one of those.
People worry themselves far too much about the Westernization and modernization of Buddhism. It's nice to have faithful versions of ancient texts. But we also have to be aware that even the most faithful versions we can produce are not faithful. Even if we read the texts in their original languages, we come from such a different place culturally we still won't be able to get what the people who wrote them meant exactly. Even the people who read those texts during the authors' lifetimes may not have fully understood what their writers meant.
It's hopeless!
Good luck.
Here are some helpful examples from the Nishijima text (slightly out of order from how they will appear in print):
Chaoter 4, Verse 8
vigrahe ya˙ parīhåram krte sunyatayå vadet
sarvam tasyåparihrtam samam sådhyena jåyate
* vigraha: m. keeping apart or asunder, isolation; division; independence. parīhåra: m. avoiding, shunning, caution; disrespect. kr: to do, make, perform, accomplish, cause, effect, prepare. sunyatayå: I. of sunyatå. sunyatå: f. emptiness, loneliness, desolateness; absence of mind, distraction. vadet: 3rd pers. opt. 1st conj. of vad. vad: P. Å. to speak, say, utter. parihrta: mfn. shunned, avoided; abandoned, quitted; taken, seized; n. what has been wrapped round or put on. sama: mfn. (connected with sa and with sama and samåna) any, every. sådhya: mfn. to be subdued or mastered or won or managed. jåyate: jan: to generate, beget, produce, create, cause.
[When one exists independently, one can keep one's attentive attitude and can speak from the balanced state.
In actual situations although nothing is shunned, all things and phenomena can manifest themselves in the state of regulation.]
--- If a person can live in the state of being truly independent, that person naturally prefers to keep an attentive attitude and can speak of everything in a stable manner. We cannot shun anything. Our lives are such that we are obliged to accept everything that occurs, whether we like it or not. Yet if we can maintain this truly independent attitude, it is possible for us to accept our circumstances in a balanced and regulated way.
The real universe should manifest itself clearly. If it were impossible for the real universe to manifest itself clearly, then the real universe could never become clear at all. The reason that the real universe does not seem to manifest itself clearly, comes from the unbalanced situation of our autonomic nervous system.
I am not a medical doctor or neurologist. But as a Buddhist teacher I value the work of these scientists. Their findings and theories are often useful in helping to clarify Buddhist philosophy and make it comprehensible to today's audiences by removing the air of mysticism that has surrounded these teachings for far too long. I have come to believe that what has been called satori or "enlightenment" by Buddhist masters of the past can be expressed in more contemporary terms as the balance of the autonomic nervous system.
One does not need to be a scientist or a physician in order to understand the basics of scientific theory or the basics of physiology. These days the basics of science and physiology are part of the common framework of human thought and understanding. Nor must one be a scientist of physician to use these terms. I am not trying to advance some new theory of science here. I am only using the theories science has already provided as a means of expressing Buddhist philosophy in more contemporary terms.
Science tells us that the human autonomic nervous system consists of two parts. These are called the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous systems. These two nervous systems, they say, work in opposition to one another. It is my belief that the workings of the sympathetic nervous system are the true basis for the philosophy we call materialism while the workings of the parasympathetic nervous system are the fundamental basis for the philosophy we call idealism or spirituality. When the sympathetic nervous system is in ascendancy we tend to feel materialistic. We become more involved with body than with mind. When the parasympathetic nervous system is stronger we feel spiritual. Our mind becomes clearer but we lose contact with our body.
The practice of zazen brings the two nervous systems into balance, allowing each one to function at equal strength. When this occurs there is what Master Dogen called "dropping off body and mind."
We will return to this idea again and again throughout the commentary, and I hope it will become clearer as we go along. For now we can just note that if we were to use our contemporary terminology, Nagarjuna appears to me to be saying here that until the autonomic nervous becomes balanced, it is impossible for the real universe to become clear. ---
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Yesterday David Chadwick, the author of the books Thank You and Ok!: An American Zen Failure in Japan and Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki was in Akron, Ohio and we hung out. I video recorded some of our conversation and here it is as my first ever video blog.
If you can't see that, go to this link:
David also put together a great book of anecdotes about Shunryu Suzuki called Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" and he maintains a very cool and incredibly extensive website at cuke.com
And one more thing! This morning Patricia Snodgrass sent me a link to this great review of my latest book Sex, Sin, and Zen: A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between on facingnorth.net. Thanks Patricia!
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The other day this video popped up on my Facebook page:
Those of you who aren't seeing that link, click here or type http://youtu.be/R37zkizucPU into your browsers. The clip came courtesy of Waylon Lewis who posted it as part of this article in his online journal Elephant.
Lewis drew the connection between what Louis C.K. says in this clip and the idea of having a teacher in Buddhism. I thought it was a brilliant and very apt connection. What Louis C.K. says he learned from George Carlin reminds me a lot of what I learned from my teachers Tim McCarthy and Gudo Nishijima. Louis C.K. did not set out to remake himself in the image of George Carlin. He didn't copy Carlin's offstage behavior. He didn't tell jokes that Carlin made up. He didn't set himself up as the new George Carlin.
And yet he learned the deeper truth embedded in Carlin's work and he learned how to make that truth his own. He learned how to express George Carlin's approach to comedy in his own way. If Carlin had had a lineage to pass on, he would have been right in passing it on to Louis C.K.
As Shunryu Suzuki said in 1962:
"If you want to meditate you must have (the) instruction of (the) right teacher, especially when you want to meditate at home. It will take at least six months before you get your own right posture. Everyone has their own right posture but without instructions you cannot find it. For it to be your true posture, there must be (the) spirit which is called (the) Essence of Mind. Without spirit it cannot be your own. So we say, 'When you become yourself then Zen becomes Zen.'"
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People wanted to know what Tassajara was like. That's an easy one so I'll tackle that now.
For me, this time, Tassajara was mostly like chopping vegetables and washing dishes. I was invited down by Greg Fain who is the tanto (practice leader) of the place and a good friend of mine. Each summer guest season the tanto and various other staff members can invite people down on a work exchange basis. These folks come to Tassajara and get to enjoy the place for a few days in exchange for doing some kind of work. One guy was a masseuse and gave free massages to residents, one guy was an accupuncturist. I was invited down to give some talks to the students.
The first time this happened was last year. But last year I decided that it was kind of boring just to lounge around for a few days and then give some talks. So I asked Greg if I could enroll as a Tassajara student for a month and give my lectures during that time. He said OK, so that's what I did. This year I did the same thing, but for just three weeks instead of four. I figured I needed a bit more time at home to get ready for my upcoming European tour.
Last year I got assigned to the dining room crew wherein I was basically a waiter most of the time. This year I was on kitchen crew where I mostly chopped and washed (see above).
How Tassajara works is like this. During the Fall/Winter and Winter/Spring its a full-time Zen monastery. Only those enrolled as monastic students are allowed in. They follow a strict monastic schedule, rising at 3:40 AM, sitting lots of zazen, working to keep the monastery running, and studying the classic Buddhist texts.
In the Summer, the place is open to the public as a hot springs based resort. Tassajara was operated as a resort from sometime in the late 19th century until the late 1960s when it was bought by the San Francisco Zen Center. The Zen Center is now funded in a large part by the money brought in during Tassajara's summer guest season.
The costs of running Tassajara are kept down by staffing the place entirely with unpaid Zen students. These students can earn credit to attend the Fall or Spring practice periods free of charge by working as resort staff. There are also other benefits. The students eat great food (albeit not always as great as the guests), get free room and board, and get to experience most of what Tassajara offers its guests.
Students also adhere to a modified version of the practice period schedule. They're woken up at 5:20 AM to sit an hour of zazen and attend a service. There are two other services during the day and a 40 minute period of zazen in the evening. In between they work at various jobs to keep the resort running. They may make beds, clean rooms, fix the gardens, or, like me, prepare the food, among other jobs.
There is no Internet access in Tassajara. Your cell phones won't work. There is one communal telephone, but this is shared with the guests. There's another phone in the porch behind the office that students can use in the evenings. But you risk your call being heard by everyone else hanging around out behind the office playing board games or reading.
Most students have a room to themselves. The rooms are small, but mostly nice. You're almost always going to have a few rodent friends in your room. But Tassajara is deep, deep in the wilderness. You soon learn that you're in their world, not the other way around. It's not so bad as long as you don't leave lots of food laying around your place.
Students are required to follow Tassajara's monastic rules. These are not nearly as strict as the Southeast Asian vinaya rules for monks or even the kind of rules one must follow during training at a Japanese monastery. But there are rules. You're supposed to keep silence during the hours after evening service and before breakfast. You must attend zazen and services. And you can't have sex unless you either enter Tassajara as a couple or both members of the couple have been there at least six months. They don't want their monastery being used as a place to hook-up.
My days were usually spent in the kitchen. The kitchen is run according to the model provided by Dogen in his Instructions to the Cook (Tenzo Kyokyun). Work is done in silence except for functional speech. Each day near the start of work a portion of the Instructions to the Cook is chanted by all members of the kitchen staff in unison. Then the tenzo (head of the kitchen) gives a short talk about the passage and what it means to him or her.
In reality the work isn't done in complete silence. There's always a bit of chatting. But not much. This is a great relief actually. You don't feel the need to constantly come up with things to say. Awkward silences are no longer awkward. It's much easier to pay attention to the work at hand.
If you want to socialize there' always ample opportunity. The work schedule is very humane and you always end up with free time during the day. It's really not that much different from working a secular job in some respects except that the day is much more structured than most people structure their own working days. It's a lot like my days at home actually. Except with less mindless viewing of stupid YouTube clips about cute animals.
I learned to bake cookies. The last time I baked cookies at home for myself it was a catastrophe. But I baked several batches of delicious cookies at Tassajara without burning any of them. The cooks are generally amateurs. This surprised me because I'd always assumed that they were pros. But normally the chief cooks on any given day are pretty new to the job. But there are enough experienced people around to keep things from going terribly wrong.
The main inhabitants of Tassajara, though, are blue jays and squirrels. There are always far more of them than people. The jays are extremely clever and can dive bomb food right out of your hand if you're not careful. The squirrels know they're cute and work that to their advantage. Many of them walk right through the enclosed student dining area and sit there munching on whatever gets dropped on the dirt floor. Mice and rats are a bit more cautious, not having the cute factor to work with.
In addition to my two lectures, I led two services. One was a memorial to the people killed in the shooting incident in Akron last month. I also led evening zazen once. I had to wear robes for that stuff.
I attended dharma talks by several of SFZC's priests. One of those, by Norman Fischer, was about the Garrison Institute's Buddhist conference earlier this year. I found Reb Anderson's talk a bit confusing. It was something about his taking a vow to study delusion. But I never quite got what he meant by that. Linda Ruth Cutts played us a song about the Zen Hokey Pokey.
Loads more happened but that was all internal. Hope that explains things a bit.
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Chris (Fallout)
|The following is based on Fallout cut content and has not been confirmed by canon sources.
We believe that if everyone, mutants and humans, could learn to work together, then a great many problems could be resolved."
Chris is an intelligent nightkin thinker in 2161.
The nightkin thinkers shared a belief that there could be harmony with humans.
Interactions with the player character
The Vault Dweller was supposed to be able join this group, and forge a better future for the wasteland.
Chris was supposed to appear in the original Fallout.
- ↑ Fallout script description: "ThSupMut.int ; Generic Thinker Super Mutant in the Boneyard"
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December 03, 2012
The Broadway League's 15th annual demographics report, The Demographics of the Broadway Audience 2011-2012, compares current theatergoing habits to previous seasons in predicting trends for the future.
The analysis is based on extensive survey data gleaned from audience questionnaires distributed throughout the 2011-2012 Broadway season in New York City. It includes highlights on the demographics of the audience and their ticket purchasing habits. The report is part of an ongoing series that profiles Broadway theatergoers each season.
Of note, the newest study reveals that tourists accounted for 63.4% of all Broadway tickets, up from 61.7% in the 2010-2011 season. Overall, international tourists accounted for 18.4% of all admissions to Broadway shows in New York City.
"This was our strongest 52-week season in history in terms of attendance and grosses with over 12.3 million admissions," commented Charlotte St. Martin, Executive Director of The Broadway League. "We are pleased to see growth in international market, as New York City continues to show strong tourism numbers. As well, the 2011 – 2012 season saw an increase in the diversity of our audience. Word of mouth continues to be the greatest influence for show selection, with a notable uptick in the power of social networking posts."
The report also shows that the use of the Internet for the purchase of tickets has increased from 44% to 47%. Online purchase continues to be the most popular method of ticket buying.
Reflecting a trend of the past few decades, 67% of the audiences were female.
Playgoers also tended to be more frequent theatregoers than musical attendees . The typical playgoer saw six shows in the past year, compared with four for the musical attendee. Those who saw fifteen or more shows comprised 5% of the audience, but represented 29% of all admissions (3.6 million admissions).
The Demographics of the Broadway Audience is published annually by The Broadway League, the clearinghouse for information on the business, demographics and economic impact of Broadway theatre throughout North America. The League compiles various statistics and publishes extensive reports on a number of topics. Printed versions of the reports are available for purchase online athttp://www.broadwayleague.com/orderform.php.
The Broadway League thanks Theatre Development Fund for its generous support in co-funding this ongoing research project.
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The Uruguay striker has hit top form this term with 25 goals, 18 of which have come in the Barclays Premier League, but his performances have not always been matched by Liverpool's results. The Reds' inconsistent campaign has increased speculation over Suarez's future - even though he signed a new contract at Anfield just last summer.
He has been heavily linked with a number of clubs, including Manchester City and Bayern Munich. However, Suarez said on liverpoolfc.com: "I always say the same thing, every kid or young player growing up dreams of playing here at Liverpool, and today, here I am, highly privileged doing just that."
The Bayern link is given added weight by the fact their incoming coach from next season, Pep Guardiola, is the brother of Suarez's agent, Pere.
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers nevertheless is confident the club's probable lack of Champions League football next season - they sit eighth in the standings, 10 points off a top-four place with 11 games remaining - will not persuade his star man to leave.
Suarez added: "I enjoy every minute to the maximum because it's a great opportunity that my life has presented me and for which I am very pleased.
"I'm here at a club where I always wanted to be and where I always wanted to play, and for that I'm extremely happy.
"I don't know if it's my best form but I do know that I continue to feel comfortable and happy in a side where my team-mates help me a lot.
"That's an important thing for a player. I also think that when you feel good out there on the pitch it shows that things can go well."


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Remote tweaking
categories: Uncategorized tags: general tools
A long time ago in 2010, I have read an interesting article about Remote game editing by Noel Llopis, but it was just last year that we have implemented something similar and I must admit it makes a big difference during development. Basic concept is the same, although we've made some implementation choices that I think are really interesting.
First of all, our primary intent was to tweak global constants. Let's say that there is something like this in the code:
namespace { const float EnemyKillRadius = 36.0f; }
It might take a few "edit-compile-run" cycles to find an optimal value for that variable and it takes that precious development time that could be better spent. To speed it up, we can register it in Tweak Server like that:
namespace { WOMBAT_TS_FLOAT(EnemyKillRadius, 36.0f); }
But hey, what this line of code actually does? Well it depends. In release builds it evaluates to simple constant variable, but in debug/test builds it's a little more complicated:
#define WOMBAT_TS_FLOAT(name, value) WOMBAT_TS_FLOAT_INTERNAL(__FILE__, __LINE__, name, value) #define WOMBAT_TS_FLOAT_INTERNAL(file, line, name, value) \ float name = value; \ static Wombat::TS_RegisterFloat WOMBAT_COMBINE(registerFloat, __LINE__)(file, line, #name, &name, value); class TS_RegisterFloat { public: TS_RegisterFloat(const char* file, int line, const char* name, float* ptr, float value) { TweakServer::Instance()->RegisterFloat(file, line, name, ptr, value); } };
TweakServer instance is created by the first Instance() call and it stores information about all registered variables (including variable name, source code file name, line number, pointer to the variable and initial value).
Communication between the server and a GUI client is handled with protobuf messages over network socket. When the Tweak Client is running, it looks like this:
One of the most important features is the magical Apply button — as each variable is registered with an additional information about the place in the source code, GUI tool can put the new value directly into the code, so it will be there during the next compilation.
First tab in the GUI tool allows us to pick files which should be included in the tweaking process. It helps to see only the things you are about to change and minimizes unnecessary scrolling.
Our Tweak Server / Client implementation allows us to use it with floats, ints, colors and also execute of simple actions. The next screen shows a little more real example of actions and variables:
There is still a lot that can be improved and added, but the current solution just works and we are very happy with it. It already saved us a lot of time and effort.


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I mentioned chipping brush piles was going take longer than I thought?
Yep, some of the piles are still there.
I haven't had time to do much on the fiction front for awhile now.
Real Life was busy throwing in including trips along Highway 1 and work conventions and tests for promotion (still waiting to hear) and one friend of mine says she feels guilty now for helping me get back to work in the first place.
I'm not sorry she did--health care costs being what they are--but I would like to get back to a more leisurely pace.
This may not happen, as more friends of friends are scheduled to come pouring through here this summer, but we will see.
Ont he positive front, I have a link to lots of great writing resources, a link to website by Storm Grant, gakked from her post on live journal.
http://www.stormgrant.com/storm_work/no ... _calls.htm


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When it comes to lawsuits and sanctions, the SEC's strategy has long been to push for settlement long before trial, thereby conserving time and resources. But more executives are "calling their bluff," and the agency is struggling to cope with a surge in the number of executives and companies willing to go to trial to defend themselves.
The SEC's office in Washington is actively litigating about 90 cases, up more than 50% in the past year, Matthew Martens, the SEC's chief litigation counsel, said in an interview with Bloomberg. At the same time, Martens' trial unit staff has stayed relatively flat at about 36, according to the news service. He recently added three more lawyers to his group and is looking to hire more.
Martens told Bloomberg it's critical that his unit present a credible threat.
"At the end of the day, if we can't win cases, then people don't settle. That's the reality," he said.
The wave of litigation has two main sources, he said: more complex cases stemming from the 2008 financial crisis and a related increase in lawsuits filed against individual executives.
"The agency has brought more financial crisis lawsuits against executives—more than 50 so far—and individuals are often inclined to fight claims that could damage or end their careers. Those cases, which have required years of investigation, are central to the agency's effort to restore its reputation after being battered for more than three years by lawmakers, judges and investors who claimed it hasn't been tough enough in holding Wall Street to account," Bloomberg notes.
"Prolonged courtroom battles could sap resources from the SEC, which has said funding gaps have already diminished its ability to regulate securities markets. That puts regulators in a bind: They need to demonstrate to Congress that they need more resources while not showing any weakness to defendants."
"If you don't have a legitimate trial threat, if you don't communicate to the targets of your investigation that you're prepared to go to trial, then you can be exploited," SEC Enforcement Director Robert Khuzami said in recent testimony before the House Financial Services Committee. "Defendants will simply hold out for a softer settlement and not fear the alternative."
The SEC is litigating at least four cases related to complex financial products linked to residential mortgages.
"It doesn't take many cases to eat up limited resources," Mark Schonfeld, the former head of the SEC's regional office in New York who is now a partner at law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, told the news service. "It's not just an expenditure of resources in the near term; these cases go on for years and years."


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Design connoisseurs and casual collectors alike are sure to find something special at this week's Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville. Held in the nation's Music City February 8 through l0, the event boasts more than 150 renowned dealers and exhibitors from the worlds of antiques and horticulture. This year, the show honors the late legendary interior designer and Nashvillian Albert Hadley, longtime business partner of Sister Parish in the firm Parish-Hadley Associates.
Hadley (1920–2012), who died last spring, played an integral part in helping launch the show, which is now in its 23rd year. Fittingly, this year's honorary chair is Hadley protégée and AD100 designer Bunny Williams, who will pay homage to her former employer with a lecture, "Under the Influence of Albert Hadley," on Friday.
"This is a wonderful show Albert helped start many years ago," says Williams. "There is a great variety of antiques and garden elements, and it has become a Southern tradition for many to enjoy." A number of homages to Hadley will be on display, including the show's signature entry space and garden: Inspired by a Hadley sketch of an outdoor garden room, a trellised garden transitions into an elegant open-air terrace created by interior designer Jonathan Savage and architectural designer Stephen Wells, both of whom are from Nashville. Five additional gardens whose designs were influenced by Hadley's wallpaper designs will also be on view throughout the show.
The Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville benefits the Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art and the Economic Club of Nashville. For more information and tickets, visit: antiquesandgardenshow.com


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Ask any guitarist and they will tell you that a great effects pedal can take your performance to the next level. Able to enhance or completely reinvent your sound, an effects pedal will completely revolutionize the way you play your instrument forever.
Take a minute to think about some of your favorite guitar riffs of all time. What comes to mind? How Soon is Now by the Smiths? Welcome to the Jungle by Guns and Roses? Iron Man by Black Sabbath? Whether it's one of these riffs or something entirely different, the odds are an effects pedal had something to do with making them truly special. Now you've got the opportunity to recreate some of these riffs, as well as unleash your own on the masses.
With well over 1000 pedals available here, you'll have no trouble finding the one that is perfect for you. The reality of the situation is that your choice simply comes down to personal preference. What kind of sounds are you interested in making? Do you want to transform your guitar into a powerful, full-bodied electric organ? If so, try out the B9 Organ Machine Guitar Effects Pedal from Electro-Harmonix. Maybe you're interested in replicating that classic soul vibe of the late-60s and early 70s? Then plug into the Soul Vibe Pedal from BBE. Or is it far out effects to really captivate listeners that you have in mind? Then stomp on the M169 Carbon Copy Analog Delay Guitar Effects Pedal from MXR and watch the room come to life like never before.
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The constraint is that .fw should not be capable of overwriting the device firmware, bootloader, or partitions (the 3 files that are flashed). The "slot" system was removed to allow complex/large applications (Doom, MicroPython, etc) to be packaged without source code modifications (maintenance). Since some applications rely on specific offsets, the partition size is a necessary parameter. This allows deterministic partition layouts that do not change each time a binary is built (file length changes).briansm wrote:Does the size need to be a parameter though? It would save trouble if it was just worked out from the size of the binary file, something like:
1) When the above error is encountered, turn the device off and back on. The application list will be displayed again.
2) Press "Menu".
This error has been corrected, and the fix will be included in the next device firmware update.


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By Hu Dalconzo, Certified Life Coach
This is our LAST Relationship article. The next series of articles will be focused on Money Mastery, which is especially important in this recessionary market.
An emotionally mature, conscious marriage is the closest thing to heaven that any couple can experience on earth.
An emotionally mature marriage is formed when two people get married knowing that they are equals, and that their main purpose for being together is to support each others conscious, emotional and psychological growth.
Within this type of loving relationship, both partners agree that nothing is more important than their holistic evolution. Consciously based loving relationships create a synergy, which enables both partners to evolve faster than they could alone.
Relationship mastery is not something that happens on a secluded mountaintop; that's renunciation. Relationship mastery creates an environment that fosters the development of emotional intimacy, which make's life feel more like living in heaven than on earth.
Conscious partners DO NOT commit to having "perfect" behavior. What they are committing to do is to own their "imperfect" behavior… as quickly as humanly possible.
Conscious partners recognize that they are both in the process of emotional and psychological growth, and that is why their commitment to be emotionally honest is essential.
Emotional honesty takes a lot of courage. This courage is built upon trust, which develops as the couple learns that within their relationship it is safe to share their inner most feelings. Trust and emotional safety allows the conscious couple to be emotionally intimate, which is the cornerstone of all healthy marriages.
If the conscious couple can accept the fact that their marriage is primarily designed to help them to grow and mature, and is not some 'magical guarantee' for happiness, then their marriage will become an empowering mastery tool that will keep aligning them with their higher purpose for living.
Namaste, my fellow life coaches and anam caras!
(We are all one, my soul friends)
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Back in September, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note 4 along with the unique Galaxy Note Edge smartphone at the IFA 2014 in Berlin. The Galaxy Note 4 was released in October, however the Note Edge was delayed for quite some time. Samsung recently announced that the much-awaited Galaxy Note Edge will finally go on sale from next month in India.
Galaxy Note Edge features a curved 5.6 inch display, 2.7 GHz Quad-Core Processor, 16 megapixel camera and much more. Unlike the Galaxy Round, the display of Galaxy Note Edge bends on the right side. The extra space can be used to access the frequently used apps and alerts. This handset comes with a price tag of INR 64,900. Check out the complete specs below.
"Samsung continues with its legacy of pioneering extraordinary innovations and setting new benchmarks in the mobile industry. The Galaxy Note Edge is a stunningly beautiful device equipped with a unique curved screen which not only makes the smartphone distinctive but also delivers a unique way to access information and optimizes functionality."
– Asim Warsi, VP, Mobile & IT, Samsung India
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Specifications:
- 5.6 inch Super AMOLED display
- 1600 x 2560 pixels resolution
- 2.7 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 Quad-Core Processor
- Android 4.4 (KitKat) Operating System
- 16 megapixel autofocus camera with Smart OIS
- 3.7 megapixel front-facing camera with Wide Selfie
- 32 GB internal memory
- 128 GB expandable memory
- Air Command
- S Note, Snap Note, Direct Pen Input
- Ultra Power Saving Mode
- 4G Connectivity
- WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
- GPS, NFC (Near Field Communication)
- Bluetooth 4.1
- 3000 mAh Li-ion battery with Adaptive Fast Charging