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Analysis of The Expansion of The Panama Canal Using Simulation Modeling and Artificial Intelligence L. Rabelo, L. Cruz, S. Bhide, O. Joledo, J. Pastrana, P. Xanthopoulos, University Of Central Florida. Winter Simulation Conference, 2014.
This paper presents preliminary analysis of the Panama Canal Expansion from the viewpoint of salinity in» Mehr lesen
the Gatun Lake and the utilization of neural networks. This analysis utilized simulation modeling and
artificial intelligence.
the Gatun Lake and the utilization of neural networks. This analysis utilized simulation modeling and
artificial intelligence.
Increasing rail capacity utilization in port of Hamburg by early provision of information for import containers Ralf Elbert, Fabian Walter, Chair of Management and Logistics, Technische Universität Darmstadt. AnyLogic Conference 2014.
Various actors are involved in hinterland transportation of incoming rail containers along the maritime transport chain. To coordinate each actor's logistics processes, and therefore to improve utilization of existing transport capacity, the early provision of information, e.g. in form of estimated time of arrival (ETA), is inevitable.» Mehr lesen
Agent-Based Simulation for Dual Toll Pricing of Hazardous Material Transportation Sojung Kim, Santosh Mungle, Young-Jun Son, Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference
A dual toll pricing is a conceptual policy in which policy maker imposes toll on both hazardous materials (hazmat) vehicles as well as regular vehicles for using populated road segments to mitigate a risk of hazmat transportation. It intends to separate the hazmat traffic flow from the regular traffic flow via controlling the dual toll. In order to design the dual toll pricing policy on a highly realistic road network environment and detailed human behaviors, an extended Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) framework is employed to mimic human decision behaviors in great detail. The proposed approach is implemented in AnyLogic agent based simulation software with using a traffic data of Albany, NY. Also, search algorithms in OptQuest are used to determine the optimum dual toll pricing policy which results in the minimum risk and travel cost based on the simulation results. The result reveals the effectiveness of the proposed approach in devising a reli-able policy under the realistic road network conditions.» Mehr lesen
RoPax/RoRo: Exploring the Use of Simulation as Decision Support System Mariusz Balaban and Tom Mastaglio
Several challenges of port/terminal and/or ferry company managers pertain to decisions for the justification of investments and concurrent operational tasks of roll-on/roll-off passenger (RoPax) and roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) systems. This paper explores the possible uses of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) techniques as a decision-support aid for a RoPax/RoRo system managers.» Mehr lesen
Modeling and simulation of container terminal logistics systems using Harvard architecture and agent-based computing Bin Li (Department of Economics and Management); Wen-feng Li (School of Logistics Engineering). Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference.
As the highly complex logistics system, container terminal logistics systems play an increasingly important role in modern international logistics, and therefore their scheduling and decision-making process of much significance to the operation and competitiveness of harbors. In this paper, the handling, stacking and transportation in CTLS are regarded as a kind of generalized computing and compared with the working in general computer systems, whereupon the Harvard architecture and AnyLogic agent-based computing paradigm are fused to model the operational processing of CTLS, and the kernel thoughts in computer organization, architecture and operating system are introduced into CTLS to support and evaluate container terminal planning, scheduling and decision-making.» Mehr lesen
Business is a field for experiments. But it's best to run them on simulation models Timofey Popkov.
Modeling allows you to decrease implementation costs and risks while still in the planning stage. It can also be the best way to optimize existing processes.» Mehr lesen
Modelling and Analysing Cargo Screening Processes: a Project Outline Peer-Olaf Siebers, Uwe Aickelin, David Menachof, Galina Sherman, Peter Zimmerman. 2009 INFORMS at University of Warwick, June 25-27, Coventry, U.K.
The efficiency of current cargo screening processes at sea and air ports is unknown as no benchmarks exists against which they could be measured. Some manufacturer benchmarks exist for individual sensors but we have not found any benchmarks that take a holistic view of the screening procedures assessing a combination of sensors and also taking operator variability into account. Just adding up resources and manpower used is not an effective way for assessing systems where human decision-making and operator compliance to rules play a vital role.» Mehr lesen
Optimizing Freight Transportation Policies for Sustainability - A Simulation-Based Investigation of Freight Transportation Policy Planning and Supply Chains Christopher Glazner and Sgouris Sgouridis, MIT Sloan School of Management
Regional freight transportation policy planning is a difficult task, as few policy-planners have adequate tools to aid their understanding of how various policy formulations affect this complex, socio-technical system. In this paper, we develop a proof-of-concept model to simulate the impacts of public policies on freight transportation in a simulated region. We use the techniques of multi-disciplinary system design and optimization to analyze the formulation of regional freight transportation policies and examine the relative effects of policies and exogenous forces on the region in order to provide insight into the policy-planning process. Both single objective and multi-objective analysis is performed to provide policy-planners with a clear understanding of the trade-offs made in policy formulation.» Mehr lesen


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Mail letters to Letters, Santa Fe Reporter, PO Box 2306, Santa Fe, NM 87504, deliver them to 132 E. Marcy St., fax them to 505-988-5348 or email them to the editor.
Sad reading
Your article "Do The Math" makes for truly sad reading. Does anyone else notice the complete lack of creative, critical thinking with which we are meeting the 21st century? The strategies under debate were already old in the age of the pharaohs. I am not a Republican but I share one deep belief with that side of the political spectrum: There are way too many taxes that take far too much of everybody's money.
Quick example: As a baby boomer, I have spent a lifetime paying about one third of my wages into a tax system that has, in turn, taken one third of that tax money for "defense." The rationale was that America had to be ready to fight two major wars on two fronts simultaneously (based, I assume, on the model of World War II). I hope my generation appreciates the irony that when crunch time came, we couldn't fight a middling size war on one front. Not only did "we" botch the Iraq War horribly, but the attempt put our own country into an economic tailspin.
What we need is an entire spectrum of new ideas to address the needs of society. How about a Nobel-level prize for the design of new systems to replace the current bureaucracy?! Bertrand Russell defined liberalism as the political philosophy that attempts to balance individual freedom against the needs of society as a whole. That sounds like an excellent point of departure for redefining the role of our government and the taxes it has spawned.
Alan H Goldstein
Santa Fe
So far, you've published two letters attacking Zane Fischer for dissing Agua Fria.
I read these letters with some puzzlement, because I thought Fischer actually complimented Agua Fria for being real and genuine and the complete opposite of the fake Santa Fe depicted by Travel & Leisure magazine and the Santa Fe Convention and Visitors Bureau.
With the possible exception of the paragraph about Santa Fe's No. 5 ranking for "safety," Fischer is actually lauding the real, messy, imperfect Santa Fe we all live in, as opposed to the fake tourist's paradise depicted in the travel magazines. Even the paragraph on Santa Fe's lack of "safety" makes a point: This isn't Disneyland, folks. You can get hurt here and should be aware of ordinary human risks.
Maybe I am the one misreading Fischer's column, because I love Agua Fria, live only a few blocks away and always drive on it in preference to Cerrillos Road if I can possibly help it. But I don't think my reading is wrong. I would suggest to Fischer: Consider your audience. Don't be too subtle.
Jim Meyer
Santa Fe
Love Agua Fria too
I found Zane Fischer's article "Unfriendly, But Hot" hilarious and honest. I love Agua Fria too, and for me Steven Salemi's response was unnecessarily defensive. Zane's writing is overall refreshing and provocative, and I usually look forward to reading whatever direction his mind has gone off in from week to week. I'd like to see Daddy Needs A Drink more frequently as well.
Vir Kaur Khalsa
Santa Fe
Panini Sandwiches
I look forward to Zane's columns and reviews each week as he is an excellent investigative reporter who says it like it is, writes well and is often very funny.
Salemi's remark about A La Mesa restaurant is so untrue, calling it "garbage," that I have to speak my mind. I have enjoyed dinners at the restaurant many times, and think the food, ambiance and service is very good. I can't imagine what Salemi found that was so distasteful. I have recommended the restaurant to many friends who have given me positive responses.
I have one other comment on the subject of food. In Zane's review of Louie's Corner Café, I see he loved the breakfast panino. So glad someone finally used the word panino correctly. Panino is a word meaning "sandwich" (singular) and panini means "sandwiches" (plural). It drives me bonkers to read menus and signs saying "panini sandwiches," which actually is saying "sandwiches sandwiches." Panino is one sandwich and panini is more than one. Duh.
Carol Wright
Santa Fe
Protest too much
While it is true that men are battered and seldom report it, the majority of abused are still women. Men are raped and do not report that either, but statistically women are usually the targets and men the abusers. While women do take restraining orders, in most states they have to have been hit to do so, and the person who is restrained, in many cases, ignores the order. While no one doubts that the male of the species can be abused, it is usually women who fill the role. Just as while men can be murdered by their spouse, it is usually women who are that statistic.
Mr. Lander seems to indicate that if men only reported abuse, we would find that terrible lying women are beating the bejesus out of men. Methinks he doth protest too much.
Christopher L Segur
Santa Fe
DV Budget Cuts
To Carol Horwitz: Your letter to the editor was mystifying and troubling, especially considering your position.
What is needed is more discussion of this difficult issue, not less, and certainly not a squelching of those voices who might question the non-working party line. If I understand it correctly, your job is to work to prevent violence, not to minimize or excuse the violence perpetrated against men who, by your own statistics, constitute about a quarter of the "reported" victims. Never mind that the verbal violence—that in more than a few cases proceeds the physical violence, while not as evident as the black eye or what have you—actually creates greater and longer-lasting damage.
What is it you would have us "remember" about the Sarah Lovato tragedy? That the patriarchal church was complicit in that situation? That people kill, not guns? That nothing you or your office did, does, will do or proposes to do would have done anything to prevent that tragedy? That the one local group that might have made a difference in the situation, the Young Fathers Project, has been defunded by the Children, Youth and Families Department? [Editor's note: According to a CYFD spokesman, the group was not defunded, but failed to win a contract in a competitive bid].
Especially in these days of budget cuts, if this is the true picture of how you work to "improve" the situation, it seems the police department might be better served by using your salary to put another officer on the street.
Kenneth L Kast
Santa Fe
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lt was meant to be a day hike and a good use of a Saturday. A quick perusal of Day Hikes in the Santa Fe Area reveals eight hours of strenuous traipsing through the woods takes you up the rocky summit of Santa Fe Baldy and back to your car parked at the ski basin. Unfortunately it began to snow, it got dark and you lost the trail. Fortunately your roommate expected you home and called 911.
From that point, an intricate system of organization is put into play that spans several agencies and involves possibly hundreds of people—a veritable lifeline for anyone lost in the area's many hiking destinations, including Santa Fe National Forest's more than 300,000 acres of wilderness.
If you happen to get lost in the Santa Fe area, chances are members of local volunteer search and rescue teams Santa Fe Search and Rescue Group and Atalaya Search & Rescue—two of many organizations throughout the state, including the Santa Fe County Sheriff's posse, mounted on horseback, that may also be dispatched—will come after you. Chances are, they'll find you.
"The vast, vast majority of missions, we are successful in the first 24 hours. In those we're not successful in the first 24 hours, almost always in the next 12," insurance broker and Santa Fe Search and Rescue member Steve Crawford says. "It's an extremely rare situation—I think we've had several years go by that we found 100 percent of our people—when we don't find somebody."
The success rate could be chalked up to an almost militaristic exactitude demanded from the search and rescue protocol, but that would ignore the sheer skill and determination of the searchers and rescuers themselves. It's they who find you cold and desperate in the Vega Triangle—a term coined by rescuers that refers to La Vega Meadow, an area off of the Windsor Trail notorious for trapping hikers—and bring you home.
SFSAR was started in the '90s with approximately 10 people. Now there are 55.
"We do summer searching: hiking; winter searching: snow shoes, backcountry skis; we do litter recovery for immobile people," Paul McClendon, a now retired former SFSAR president, says. The group is also dispatched to search for downed aircraft, once even for pieces of a space shuttle.
Though members vary in age and occupation, a "typical volunteer is someone who likes to hike and loves the outdoors," financial planner and SFSAR President Ellen Marshall says. Some even became members after they themselves were rescued.
In addition to volunteering their time and equipment, members—whom McClendon calls "all type As"—are expected to attend monthly trainings as often as possible.
ASAR is one of two Mountain Rescue Association certified teams in New Mexico. ASAR is called into missions with every other search and rescue group, but specializes in high-angle technical rescue—think cliffs that looked easier on the way up or mine shafts that should never have been gone down. Members take courses in "rigging for rescue" and specialize in "pick-offs," wherein a rescuer rappels to a victim, ties the victim to his/her harness and then lowers the victim to the ground.
ASAR currently has 30 members who, according to John Becker, a family practice physician and president of ASAR who has been with the organization for nine years, "tend to range in age from mid to late 20s to a few people in their 60s." Members are mostly "professionals," but count six St. John's College students in their ranks. Volunteers come and go over the years and their number fluctuates, as has the number of missions.
According to both teams, in years past there averaged approximately 30 search and rescue missions. Now there are more like 15 to 18 a year; the rationale for the decline varies.
Marshall and McClendon of SFSAR are certain that cell phones and their expanding service areas have kept family members apprised of hikers' whereabouts, preventing premature calls to police.
ASAR's Becker isn't sold on crediting increased technology like cell phones and GPS for the decline in rescue calls. He suspects "the population is just spending more time sitting in front of TVs and sitting on their butts. There's less of an emphasis for people [going out into the wilderness] now; they're just entertained at home."
Whatever the reasoning and however longingly discussed, the outcome of fewer lost hikers, hunters, skiers and other wilderness goers is a desirable one. But search and rescue volunteers remain steadfast and stand, ever vigilant, ready if and when you need them.
As always, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure but, when you're lost, 20/20 hindsight won't lead you home. Below is a list of tips compiled from the Santa Fe Search and Rescue Group's website on what to do if you're hopelessly lost.
• Stay put. This is the hardest advice to follow, but it's very difficult to find a moving target.
• Send out emergency signals: three whistle blows or shots.
• If possible, make a fire.
• Stay as warm and dry as you can.
• Make and consume warm or hot liquids as circumstances allow.
• If it's cold or windy, make a very simple shelter. If there is enough snow on the ground, make a snow chair by cutting out blocks with a stick to set up a small, square seating shelter. Pad the floor and seat with pine branches for insulation.


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Two Emporia State graduate students to present zebra mussel research at conference in MexicoApril 17, 2012
Two Emporia State graduate students in the biology department will present findings of their separate research into zebra mussels during the 59th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Association of Naturalists.
Skyler Delmott of Emporia and Benjamin Smith of DeSoto both earned travel awards from the organization to help pay expenses to attend the conference April 19-22 at Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.
Both Delmott and Smith conducted their research under the direction of Dr. David Edds, a biology professor who co-authored their papers.
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Hyperosmolar nonketotic coma occurs in people with diabetes. It is a life-threatening event. Seek medical attention right away if you think you have any symptoms of an impending hyperosmolar nonketotic coma.
Hyperosmolar nonketotic coma is a complication of very high blood glucose levels. Blood glucose often rises to these levels because of an illness or infection.
The body will try to get rid of the extra blood glucose through the urine. The frequency and volume of urination will increase. Unfortunately, this process also washes out other substances in your blood. Some of these substances are important to your brain. Low levels of these substances can lead to seizures, coma, and eventually death.
Risk Factors
The chance of hyperosmolar nonketotic coma is higher in older adults.
Other factors that may increase your chance of hyperosmolar nonketotic coma include having diabetes and:
- Poorly monitored glucose levels
- Infection
- Taking certain medications, such as diuretics, steroids, anticonvulsants, or chemotherapy drugs
- Heart attack
- Stroke
- Kidney failure
- Overactive thyroid gland
- Substance abuse
- Recent surgery
Symptoms that may occur before the hyperosmolar nonketotic coma may include:
- Mental confusion
- Seizures
- Frequent urination
- Nausea or vomiting
- Dry mouth
- Thirst
- Warm, dry skin without sweating
- High fever
- Sleepiness
- Vision loss
- Hallucinations
- Weakness or strange movements on one side of the body with or without seizures
If you arrive at the hospital in a hyperosmolar nonketotic coma, your vital signs will be monitored. The levels of glucose and other substances in your blood will be tested with:
- Blood tests—can also test kidney function
- Urine tests
- Urine, blood, and sputum cultures
An electrocardiogram (EKG) may also be done to check your heart's electrical activity.
You will likely need treatment in the emergency room and/or the intensive care unit at the hospital. Treatment will focus on restoring the correct balance of substances in your blood, including glucose. Treatment may include:
- Fluids and minerals through an IV—to replace substances you lost and improve your urine output.
- Insulin through an IV—to help control your blood glucose levels.
You may need additional treatment, such as antibiotics, if an infection led to the coma.
To help prevent hyperosmolar nonketotic coma:
- Monitor your blood glucose levels regularly. Your doctor can instruct you about how often to check your levels, and what the numbers mean.
- Drink plenty of fluids throughout the day.
- Talk with your doctor about how to manage your blood glucose when you are sick.
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- Reviewer: Kim A. Carmichael, MD, FACP
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Orlistat/Fat Soluble Vitamins
This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking or discontinuing any drug or commencing any course of treatment.
Medical warning:
Moderate. These medicines may cause some risk when taken together. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
Orlistat interferes with the absorption of the fat soluble vitamins.
What might happen:
You might not be able to absorb enough fat soluble vitamins.
What you should do about this interaction:
Tell your doctor you are taking orlistat. He may want you to take additional vitamin supplementation or may advise alternate therapy. If your doctor instructs you to take a vitamin supplement, take it at least 2 hours before or 2 hours after your orlistat.Your healthcare professionals may already be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.
1.Borgstrom B. Mode of action of tetrahydrolipstatin: a derivative of the naturally occurring lipase inhibitor lipstatin. Biochim Biophys Acta 1988 Oct 14;962(3):308-16.
2.Melia AT, Koss-Twardy SG, Zhi J. The effect of orlistat, an inhibitor of dietary fat absorption, on the absorption of vitamins A and E in healthy volunteers. J Clin Pharmacol 1996 Jul;36(7):647-53.
3.Xenical (orlistat) Australian rescribing information. Roche May 30, 2002. 4.Xenical (orlistat) US prescribing information. Roche Laboratories, Inc. July, 2016.
4.McDuffie JR, Calis KA, Booth SL, Uwaifo GI, Yanovski JA. Effects of orlistat on fat-soluble vitamins in obese adolescents. Pharmacotherapy 2002 Jul;22(7):814-22.
5.Alli (orlistat) US prescribing information. GSK Consumer Healthcare May, 2017.


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WEDDINGS: Another Maiden bowled over at Sussex CCC…30-Aug-2012
There might be not be any love lost when Sussex Sharks take on the Hampshire Royals at The PROBIZ County Ground in Saturday's Clydesdale Bank 40 semi-final, but there will be plenty of romance off the pitch with Hove the venue for a full wedding ceremony on the same day.
1839 Hospitality & Events, the catering arm of the County and named after the year the Club was formed, will be hosting the marriage of Jonathan Sharp and Danielle Step of Portslade, and whilst they naturally hope for perfect weather, they'll also be cheering on the Sharks to give a new meaning to something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.
The happy couple will be married in The Boundary Rooms on Saturday afternoon at 3.00pm before making their way across to The Spen Cama Pavilion to enjoy their Wedding Breakfast in The Dining Room. They will also be holding their reception in the historic Long Room in the Pavilion later in the evening.
Sussex County Cricket Club have been hosting Weddings at the ground for the past twelve months, with 15 booked in this calendar year alone.
Danielle Step said of the venue, "I would say we chose the cricket ground because we wanted a more unique venue than a hotel or registry office, and Jonathan loves sports and always follows the cricket. After finding the cricket ground on the list of approved venues and having a tour around the ground we knew we had found our ideal wedding venue.
"We are looking forward to being able to get married so close to the pitch and our guests being able to enjoy the feeling of being at a cricket ground as many of them have never been. I know quite a few of our guests were excited to hear there would be a cricket match on at the same time and I think it makes our wedding truly unique!
"We haven't had to make any drastic changes, the staff at the Club have gone out of their way to ensure our wedding is as close as we imagined it to be and I'm convinced that having the cricket match on will add a great atmosphere to the day. Now we just have to hope Sussex win and it will be the perfect end to a hopefully perfect day."
For more information about Wedding and Celebrations at The PROBIZ, or the facilities that are available for hire 365 days a year at Hove, then please contact a member of the 1839 Hospitality & Events team by calling 0844 264 0202 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com


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Carbamazepine Suspension, (Final Dose Form)
Romidepsin/Strong CYP3A4 Inducers
This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking or discontinuing any drug or commencing any course of treatment.
Medical warning:
Serious. These medicines may interact and cause very harmful effects. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
Some medicines may speed up how quickly your liver processes your cancer medicine.
What might happen:
The amount of your cancer medicine in your blood may decrease and it may not work as well at treating your cancer.
What you should do about this interaction:
Make sure your healthcare professionals (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) know that you are taking these medicines together. Your doctor may want to perform certain laboratory tests more often while you are taking your medicines. Be sure to keep all of your laboratory appointments.Your healthcare professionals may already be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.
1.Istodax (romidepsin) US prescribing information. Celgene Corporation June, 2013.
2.US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Drug Development and Drug Interactions: Table of Substrates, Inhibitors and Inducers. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/DevelopmentResources/D rugInteractionsLabeling/ucm093664.htm. Updated 08/05/2011.


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Florida junior Scottie Wilbekin is going through the growing pains of a first-year starting point guard. There was a clunker against Air Force in which Wilbekin had an assist-to-turnover ratio of 1 to 4.
Florida junior Scottie Wilbekin is going through the growing pains of a first-year starting point guard.
There was a clunker against Air Force in which Wilbekin had an assist-to-turnover ratio of 1 to 4.
But Wilbekin has responded with 16 assists over his last two games, proving that he is more than capable of running UF's offense. The Gainesville native followed up a career-high 10-assist game at Yale with six more assists Wednesday night against Georgia.
Wilbekin said he's seeing the floor better now than he did earlier this season, when he was sharing time with senior Kenny Boynton at the point. He ranks second in the Southeastern Conference in assists at 4.8 per game.
"I think it has a lot to do with slowing my pace down," Wilbekin said. "Whether it's on pick and rolls or just getting into the lane, slowing down so I can see everything easier."
It hasn't been an easy season for Wilbekin, who started the year with a two-game disciplinary suspension and suffered a broken finger on his shooting hand in practice before UF's loss at Arizona in mid-December. Wilbekin still has the finger taped up.
"It hurts a little bit when it gets hit, but I'm hoping to be able to get the tape off soon," Wilbekin said.
Florida coach Billy Donovan has stressed the importance of UF improving its assist-to-turnover ratio since the December losses to Arizona and Kansas State. Wilbekin has been the steadiest on UF's roster, with an assist-to-turnover ratio of close to 3-to-1 (53-to-20). Florida's current assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.3-1 is third-best in the SEC.
The Gators have no players in the top 13 in scoring in the SEC, but three players in the Top 25. Boynton ranks 14th in scoring at 13.3 points per game, Mike Rosario is 18th at 12.3 ppg and Erik Murphy is tied to 22nd at 12 ppg.
"There's a lot of different elements to our team instead of being one-dimensional where we become a team that's just going to pound it inside all of the time or run screening action to get our guards shots," Donovan said. "I think you've got to really rely on each other and play together and utilize each other's strengths and talents on the floor, then you become a lot more difficult to defend."
That unselfishness suits Wilbekin fine. At The Rock School in Gainesville, Wilbekin needed to score. In college, Wilbekin has developed into a pass-first point guard with occasional scoring ability. Wilbekin is averaging 8.2 ppg, which included a career-high 17 points earlier in the season against UCF.
"It just speaks to our chemistry and the selflessness of each player on the team because a lot of players on this team could average a lot of points somewhere else, be the main guy getting shots," Wilbekin said. "But we're trying to do something different here and to do that we all have to pitch in and have balance on the team."
Defensively, Wilbekin has remained just as strong. He held Yale leading scorer Austin Morgan to just three points last Sunday and Georgia leading scorer Kentavious Caldwell-Pope to a season-low 11 points.
"Whenever a team has a standout player who gets the majority of their points and shots, it's always an emphasis to shut him down," said Wilbekin, who deflected credit to his teammates. "The whole team is kind of focused on helping the player who is guarding him."


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Defending against side-channel attacks - Part 2
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Editor's Note: This article was originally presented at ESC Boston 2011.
Part One of this three-part series discussed a basic DPA attack against AES. Many different variations of DPA attacks exist, depending upon the type of algorithm and how it is being implemented. Part Two discusses a DPA attack against AES using EM emissions from the devices.
3.1 Background
As smart mobile devices become ubiquitous, many applications requiring a high degree of security are being ported to the devices. Banking, mobile payments, stock trading, and digital rights management of downloaded content are all examples of applications requiring secure connections and the use of cryptographic keys. As the examples in this section show, however, many mobile devices currently in use do not contain side-channel protections. Hence, these devices are often extremely vulnerable to side-channel attacks, often from data collection occurring several yards away.
3.2 EM collection setup
The equipment used to collect the EM data is shown in Figure 9 below.
The emissions from the devices are captured with standard near field or far field antennas. The signals are sent to an Icom receiver where they are downconverted. The downconverted signals are then sent to the GNU digitizer, and the digitized signals are then processed on a standard workstation with the GNU software radio program and DPAWS software. The hardware for the entire setup can be purchased for under $2000.
3.3 EM analysis of an elliptic curve application on an iPod
The first example is an elliptic curve application running on an iPod. The application was written using an open source cryptographic library. It performs a point multiplication over the NIST curve P-521. The application computed a straightforward point multiplication using the algorithm shown in Figure 10 below.
The emissions from the iPod were collected from several feet away using the far field antenna. The carrier frequency of the signal was 972.177 MHz. The acquisition bandwidth was 200 KHz, and the filtered bandwidth was 140 KHz. A snapshot of the collected data is shown in Figure 11 below.
The double and add are very different operations, and the difference is easy to see directly. The thinner downward spikes are the doubling operations, while the wider downward spikes are the additions. In the straightforward implementation shown in Figure 10, a double can be followed by either another double, or an addition. In contrast, an addition is always followed by a double. Hence, whenever there are two thin spikes in a row the corresponding bit of the secret multiplier is a zero. Similarly, a thin spike followed by a wide spike indicates the corresponding bit of the secret multiplier is a one. By analyzing the pattern of spikes, an attacker could extract the entire secret multiplier using a single trace.


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All-American Lauren Embree earned her 100th career doubles victory, as the UF women's tennis team beat No. 15 Baylor, 7-0.
The top-ranked University of Florida women's tennis team earned the hard-fought doubles point, where senior All-American Lauren Embree earned the 100th career doubles victory, and the Gators defeated No. 15 Baylor, 7-0, on a beautiful Saturday afternoon at Linder Stadium at the Ring Tennis Complex.
"We showed a lot of class today, Baylor's a great team," UF head coach Roland Thornqvist said. "They fight really hard and are more skilled in doubles than I anticipated. I thought we showed quality to get out with the doubles point."
Embree became the 14th different Gator to reach the 100-win plateau for doubles, as she improved her 100-18 in her distinguished collegiate doubles career. Embree also notched her 99th career singles victory with her 6-4, 6-7 (6), 1-0 (10-7) win against 16th-ranked Ema Burgic.
The gusty Gator senior who is known for outlasting her opponent in pressure-filled team competitions, was involved in yet another lengthy match even though the team outcome had already been secured. In what proved to be one of the best and most competitive matches of the day, Embree won the first set after earning a break in the final game. She then found herself receiving, down 5-2 before staging one of her patented comebacks, rallying to win four straight games and taking a 6-5 lead. Burgic held serve and forced a tiebreak, as she had to fight off two match points before holding on her second game-point opportunity.
In the second-set tiebreak, Embree jumped out to a 4-1 lead, but Burgic battled back and with a mini-break on the ninth point and held on her next two trips to the baseline for the 6-5 advantage. Embree's next serve tied the breaker at 6-all, but Burgic broke before holding to force a third set.
Embree again jumped out and took a 3-0 lead before Burgic won three straight points. Embree held for 4-3 and earned a mini-break for a 5-4 lead. She won both of her next two serves and held a 7-4 advantage. Burgic also held her next two serves and after Embree held captured another break, cutting Embree's lead to 8-7. The Gator senior, however, won the final two points to end the match.
Freshman Brianna Morgan was the first Gator off the court, as she posted a decisive 6-1, 6-1 victory over Alex Leatu in 54 minutes. The rookie held at love to begin the match and jumped out to a 2-0 lead. Leatu took Morgan's next serve, but the Gator ripped off the next four games to take the opening set. Leatu held to begin the second set, but that would be her only game, as Morgan rolled through the final six games for the straight-set win and gave Florida a 2-0 lead.
Alexandra Cerconewas the next off the court with her 6-2, 6-2 victory against Jordaan Sanford at the number three position. Cercone earned breaks in the fourth, sixth and eighth games to claim the first set, before racing out to a 5-0 lead in the second as she broke in the final game to capture the win and give Florida a 3-0 lead.
Danielle Collins provided the clinching singles victory, a 6-4, 6-0 decision over Kiah Generette on court four, where she capped the match with a beautifully placed lob for a winner. Collins began the match with a break and rode that to the first set before posting a bagel in the second for the straight-set victory.
Top-ranked Sofie Oyen then downed Megan Horter, 6-4, 6-3, and gave the Gators their fifth point of the match. The Gator junior jumped out to a 3-0 lead, up one break. Horter broke late, but couldn't hold off Oyen, who managed the break to take the first set. The two traded breaks early in the second and Oyen claimed another in the sixth game for the 4-2 lead. She then held in her final two games to close out the match.
Olivia Janowicz needed three sets to earn Florida's sixth point of the dual match, as she emerged with a 6-2, 5-7, 1-0 (10-5) decision over Victoria Kisialeva. After winning a quick first set, Janowicz and her opponent held to begin the second before the next nine games were all breaks, as Kisialeva ended the streak by holding in the 12th game and forcing a third set. Janowicz jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the 10-point third-set super-tiebreak, as Kisialeva roared back to take a 5-4 lead. The Gator junior refocused and won the final six points and earned the one hour and 43 minute victory.
Florida captured the doubles point with victories on courts one and three. The Gator pair of Alexandra Cercone and Brianna Morgan overcame a slow start when they trailed Megan Horter and Alex Leatu, 3-1, and were the first to post a result after claiming seven straight games to en route to the their 8-3 decision in 46 minutes, capped by Cercone holding at love for the win.
On court one, Embree teamed with Sofie Oyen defeated Ema Burgic and Kiah Generette, 8-5, to secure the first team point of the dual match. The Gator pair jumped out to an early 3-1 lead thanks to an early break and that's all it needed as the tandem held serve throughout, earning its second break in the final game where they lost just one point to take the match. Embree fell behind 15-40 on her serve in the 12th game, but the Gators battled back and won three straight points for their first game-point. They had one more after that, before having to fend off a break point, which they did and ended the battle on their third game-point opportunity to take the 7-5 lead. They carried that momentum in the final game for the victory and Embree's milestone win.
Women's basketball: Florida returns to the O'Connell Center on Sunday when the Gators play host to Alabama and seek a return to their winning ways.
Tip-off from the O'Connell Center is scheduled for 1 p.m. and fans who wear pink to the game receive $1 general admission tickets. It's also a FAMILY 4-PACK SUNDAY, where 4 general admission tickets, 4 hot dogs and 4 sodas cost $20.
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The Gators have lost their last five games, four of those by eight points or less, including Thursday evening's 69-64 setback at Missouri. They capped the first half of their Southeastern Conference slate with a 2-6 record.
During UF's current five-game losing streak, the Gators have won the rebounding battle just once (48-41 vs. Tennessee). Overall this year, the team has lost the rebounding battle six times and was even once (at Missouri). Another statistical change has been the team's effort at the free throw line, where the Gators have converted a woeful 53.8 percent (50-93) during the last five games, while sending their opponents to the charity stripe 130 times (that's an average of 26 times per game).
Florida's last meeting against 11 of the 13 other teams from the SEC has been decided by 10 points or less.
Women's golf:Even though the Lady Bulldog Individual Championship was scheduled for two 18-hole round, early morning frost shortened the event to only 18 holes. Nonetheless, senior Mia Piccio claimed the title with a score of 69, only two shots better than second place finisher, Laura Wearn of Furman.
The tournament does not count towards Piccio's season totals as it was only an individual contest, but it continues a string of strong Gator performances that has seen five UF medalist winners prior to today.
The round of 69 for Piccio is her best 18-hole performance for this season. Her lowest round prior to Saturday was two rounds of 70 back at the Cougar Classic in early September.
Along with Piccio, junior Elcin Ulu and sophomore Anna Young were in the field. Ulu was coming off a great performance at the Florida Challenge last week and shot a 75 to finish tied for fifth place. For Young, she shot an 81 to finish tied for 23rd place.


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Hi Will,
And he has got a finger bleeding...thank you so much for the link Venerable Will :wink:Although Venerable Taigu has hit the nail on the head, I'll post an excerpt from Sunryu Suzuki Rosh
Vulnerable Taigu
Hi Will,
And he has got a finger bleeding...thank you so much for the link Venerable Will :wink:Although Venerable Taigu has hit the nail on the head, I'll post an excerpt from Sunryu Suzuki Rosh
Vulnerable Taigu
I have no idea if there is God in Zen, but after 2 going on 3 days of a forum with the Church of the Brethren (whom I work for), I can say there is Zen in God. They have been talking about sexuality and spirtitually. But what I am hearing is compassion, no self (god is neighbor, neighbor is self, self is god, neighbor is god...) causing no harm, and dealing with the fact that all of life is a paradox (life is not a paradox).
Sounds like Zen to me
What is your point with the videos and pictures
Well, perhaps I shouldn't speculate (or conceptualize), but it seems to be that Chugai is attempting to challenge the way we typically "see/think about/preconceive" ideas about brutality and death (thus, "if the mind is open, it is ready for anything" and "it" won't experience strong aversion to the pictures, etc). The (non)idea he is trying to convey is that a truly awakened person is not averse to these things/images. Further, he seems to be suggesting that these images could/should be added to Ekai's lovely list/poem.Originally Posted by Daido
Weeds/Flowers, not two.
How skillful the method of the post seems debatable.
I'll take Basho, instead (but this is only my little preference, which I see as a preference):
As I was plodding along the River Fuji, I saw a small child, hardly three years of age, crying pitifully on the bank, obviously abandoned by his parents. They must have thought this child was unable to ride through the stormy waters of life which run as wild as the rapid river itself, and that he was destined to have a life even shorter than that of the morning dew. The child looked to me as the flowers of bush-clover that scatter at the slightest stir of the autumn wind, and he was so pitiful that I gave him what little food I had with me.
The ancient poet
who pitied monkeys for their cries,
what would he say, if he saw
this child crying in the autumn wind?
How is it indeed that this child has been reduced to this state of utter misery? Is it because of his mother who ignored him, or because of his father who abandoned him? Alas, it seems that this child's suffering has been caused by something far greater and more massive...by what one might call the irresistible will of heaven. If it is so, child, you must raise your voice to heaven, and I must pass on, leaving you behind.
Thank you for clarification. Your opinion is valued. When I look at the pictures you posted I feel and see greed anger and ignorance. I also feel and see generosity compassion and wisdom. Sun faced Buddha moon faced Buddha all in one breath. The question for myself becomes less philosophical and I ask what do I do now? I think I know.
Thanks Chugai
Thanks Alan.r. Forgot to say that
I think it is interesting to see how our (mostly) Judeo-Christian heritage shows through all this God talk, since nobody really asks half as often about Gods and Zen. Which again shows that the main "issue" lies with us, our culture and prejudices and not with the nature of reality itself IMHO.
Just two Unsui cents, feel free to ignore and always add a spoonful of salt
Hans Chudo Mongen
I've heard of sitting while walking, but how can you sit while you're on the internet .. ?? I don't understand ...Originally Posted by chugai
This is true. Everything is sitting. Its just that in the position of doing nothing, its more difficult to hide.
"Respect the gods and Buddhas. Do not rely on them."
Miyamoto Musashi Dokkodo
Not that I find all god concepts worthy of any sort of respect.
I only had to look at one of those posted pictures to know this: To look at the image of a man with his head split open and say that it is anything other than a cause for deep and abiding compassion, and a proof that evil exists in the hearts and minds of man, is a misdirection and, frankly, perversion, of the essence of Zen. The notion of not two and the exhortation to drop the idea of duality is not to say that evil is not evil and good is not good. It is intended to remind the practitioner that one cannot exist without the other. This co-dependant existence is the joining of both sides of the concept into the One. Darkness cannot be without Light, if this is so, then Darkness cannot be divided from Light, indeed can you point to where Darkness empirically ends and Light precisely begins? This is the non-dual aspect of our way, the shining Net of Indra which has individual jewels that reflect the myriad other jewels connected to one another with the unbreakable bonds of co-dependant existence.alan.r nails it -- no duality ... God is either in all or nothing ... no picking or choosing, no attachment, no duality ... so where is God? In his heaven? In your mind? only in one and not the other? God is everywhere at once or nowhere at all ... no picking or choosing, no attachment, no duality ...
Riddle me this Batman --- Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
- Epicurus [341270 B.C.]
Does God, evil,malevolence,ability,omnipotence,willingness. all morals, come from inner space or from outer space? Is it my perception of skanda or a cosmic wavelenghth of duality?
While the Buddha sat meditating beneath a tree, Brahma came and requested him to teach the Dharma. Did Buddha come from his skandas? Did he come from his mother's skandas? Did Brahma come from Buddha's skandas? Did Brahma come from Brahma's skanda's ? Did the Dharma come from Within or Without? Does Brahma come from the God realm or your skanda's?
The hungry ghosts that haunt you? How do you know them?
Not One, Not Two
I find it interesting, as Hans said, about the Judeo-Christian flavor of the conversations about God and so forth. Lately Ive been reading what many consider to be esoteric texts such as the Kybalion and the Corpus Hermeticum, and Ive read many interesting things. For example, the older religions all point to the divinity of Man and the presence of the God within us all and how our thoughts and intentions (our Will) shape and change the physical world around us. These thoughts are not so different from our own Zen tradition. The Buddha exclaimed All beings are the Tathagata, however their delusions keep them from attesting to the fact. There is a passage in the Dhammapada that reads simply, With our thoughts, we make the world. The Buddha was just as much a sage and Master of the reality of this as was Hermes Trismegestus, a potent reminder of his own statement that there were countless Buddhas before me, and shall be countless Buddhas after. Not just a point in fact that many others understood the interconnectedness of all things, but the fact that this very body is the body of the Buddha, this very world is the Lotus Land. We are all Buddhas, just as much as we are all dont know, as Bodhidharma put it.
The rejection of the concept of duality must be taken carefully, like the medicine that it is. The correct amount to heal the sickness, too much is just as bad. The ancients also knew that all things in the world shared the aspect of polarity, but as with Zen, knew that things were circular in that the extremes of any one thing depended entirely on where one stood on that ever continuous circle, and that in fact that circle was a single unbroken Whole.
Need proof? For those whove received Jukai, look at the Bloodline chart you received. The Source is pure circle, which goes first to Shakyamuni Buddha our Master (also represented by a circle), then through all our ancestors, to the Venerable Taigu or Jundo, then to you and from you back to the Source ..in a big circle.
So from that stand point yes, it is not two in that the co-dependant, circular existence of all things is deeply interconnected and from that point of view, there is no difference between a corpse and a flower, but that in no way means that an image of a man with his head crushed is not a vision of brutality and evil. Non Duality is not meant to create people who dont know the difference between good and evil, compassion and harm. A circle, when viewed from a particular vantage can appear to be a single line, and if stretched out far enough, a single point; the two opposing sides of the circle disappear. Not One, but also not Two.
Epicurus never really understood that. He required empirical proof on everything, which at first blush may resemble Buddhas exhortation Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. But Epicurus, standing in his Garden, could have easily overheard those last few lines beginning with But after observation as they were spoken upon the Stoa. As far as I know, none of the 5 Good Emperors of Rome were Epicurian, but all were Stoics, and that philosophy, at the core of which was Compassion and Equality, were just as Buddhist as we Soto Zen practitioners are Stoics.
You know, I am glad you mentioned this. I was going to let this go but I feel I should add something here. I understand that some of us want to make their viewpoint clearly and loudly. That's fine, I think open expression is valued and encouraged here. However, the next time someone decides to post a link to very disturbing and horrific images, I ask that they at least give us a warning. I say this because there are many times my 2-year old sits on my lap while I am on this forum. He does not need to see those images and quite frankly, I don't want to see them either.Originally Posted by JohnsonCM
I agree with the above two posts. When I tried to interpret Chugai's intentions,I mentioned that the skillfulness of the methods seems debatable. To me, it's too extreme and a bit overcooked.
That being said, Johnson, Good and Evil is shaky ground. Evil, especially, sounds is so static sounding, unchanging. Much like trying to define God. Certainly the pictures Chugai posted are cause for concern and compassion. Like Daido mentions, one can see anger, greed, violence, etc, in those photos, but as soon as we start labeling some things as "evil," we limit the world. In Buddhism, we might say that the causes of suffering are evil: delusion, selfishness, hatefulness. But if we do that, if we say these things are evil, then we're pretty much all evil. This is meant to be only a slight disagreement. I see your point and agree in a general way: non-duality and the path we are on is certainly not meant to blunt or dull our moral compass, but to sharpen it and I would say, to make us more open: to not immediatley label "evil" and to not immediately label "good." Some things are morally transparent, clearly wrong, hateful, selfish, but evil?
As soon as we divide the world up, Good and Evil, we stick the universe in place and then we really have our hands full: that act is good, that one evil. How could one possibly figure this all out? For instance, what of the children who are taken by Kony and made to kill their parents, etc. Then later in life, they are killers? Are all their acts evil, or none of them, because someone else made them start on such a path? Or are only a few, the ones they do on their own as adults? To me, it is not evil that is the problem.
The human psyche is a fragile thing, and while bad deeds are done in the world, I think it stems from ignorance not evil.
When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.
-Lao Tzu
It is not that there is good and bad in the world, it is that we see some things as good which in turn creates the bad. We create the fight between good and evil; this fight is in us, too. That is Zazen, letting the fight go. Ideally, if we can let go our views, like Good and Evil, an open, compassionate, freeness will open up and so-called evil will dissipate and there will be no one to worry about trying to be good.
This is true until you remember that good and evil are within us all just as shown by the Yin Yang. Non duality is also the acceptance that these and all things in every possible degree exist in ever heart and every mind. This is an aspect of karma which we have the choice of allowing to control us or not. If the causes of suffering and the three poisons were not evil then why do we have the bodhisattva vows? Why not simply have the vows rewritten to say "eh. Whatever "?
Hi Chris (sorry, I didn't see your name before). I see what you're saying and agree; perhaps we're only having a verbal disagreement about the word "evil." I'm not intelligent enough to figure that one out. I'm only suggesting that, positing it in the way you have above, one form of the trap then becomes this: I'm a bad/evil person and I need to get better and become good.Originally Posted by JohnsonCM
If I take a lamp and shine it toward the wall, a bright spot will appear on the wall. The lamp is our search for truth, for understanding. Too often we assume that the light on the wall is God. But the light is not the goal of the search; it is the result of the search. The more intense the search, the brighter the light on the wall. The brighter the light on the wall, the greater the sense of revelation upon seeing it! Similarly, someone who does not search, who does not bring a lantern with him, sees nothing. What we perceive as God, is the byproduct of our search for God. It may simply be an appreciation of the light, pure and unblemished, not understanding that it comes from us. Sometimes we stand in front of the light and assume that we are the center of the universe. God looks astonishingly like we do! Or we turn to look at our shadow, and assume that all is darkness. If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose; which is to use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty - and in all its flaws. And in so doing better understand the world around us.
~ G'Kar: Babylon 5
Here is the thing, if you took 100 people from every age of man and asked them to define evil you will have a million answers each somewhat different, but with similar underlying themes. This is true of all peoples and all continents. These commonalities are what enabled modern psychology to develop archetypes. Why do you suppose that is? Like our old friend the MU dog, all things have Original nature. Why should Good and Evil be different? The trick is having the proper understanding of it. Which, admittedly, I can't say I have or I would already have actualized the Buddha nature within me..
Hi Chris, I don't know the answer to your question. One thing I thought of: yin yang is not about good and evil. It is about light and dark, or male and female, or high and low, or empty and full. But look at it this way: what is good about light and bad about dark? What good about empty and bad about full or vice versa? Or, the polar thing you posted: what good about + and bad about -? For example, good and evil are not complimentary, whereas male and female are, and therefore good and evil have nothing to do with yin yang; that is my understanding of yin yang, etc, I could be wrong.
Looking at an terrible event and saying "that's evil or that's bad" is totally worthless. Looking at a terrible event and having compassion and saying "what can I do to help?" is much different.
In any case, I don't know. I'm probably way off on all this, and I'm fairly tired from a long day of work, so I'm going to call it quits with posting. I just wanted to let you know I'm bowing out for a time and not just not replying to you. I've enjoyed the discussion.
Much of modern Psychology is Behavioristic or Pharmacological - it doesn't deal much with Archetypes at all.Originally Posted by JohnsonCM
As for evil - all just a terrible misunderstanding, IMHO.
The problem with labelling something as evil is that we stop right there. We don't seek to understand. Why did terrorists fly two airplanes into buildings with thousands of innocent people in them on 9/11? Because they were evil. OK, that explains it.
If we could only see everything clearly, there would be a long chain of causes and effects behind behind these evil acts. Very few people if anyone come to this world naked and just plain evil. So just as strictly speaking there are no enlightened people, only enlightened acts, I don't believe in evil people either. Every evil-doer has probably had moments of kindness in his or her life. Almost all of us are all capable of evil acts. Psychologic experiments have shown this very clearly. Like the one in which an authority told the participant to give their victim electrical chocks until they screamed with pain and even turned silent. Almost everybody did it, just because an authority told them they must do it.
In Zen we practice actualizing Buddha in our lives, but every day people are also trained in the opposite way, in greed, hate and delusion, by parents, society, the army, their boss. What makes someone capable of putting a chainsaw to someone's throat while the victim has his hands tied behind his back? Training. During military training (at least some) you are broken down and then the broken pieces are put together again, but without the empathy that would make you useless as a soldier, a professional killer. Then war perfects the training. The killings and atrocities you are forced to carry out slowly grinds away all remaining traces of empathy. Seeing your comrades die feeds the fear, anger and hate.
So yes, there is evil in the world, but I believe we should always try to see the bigger picture, the karma behind it all. Change what we can, although in the ultimate sense, there is nothing in need of change. Compassion is about wanting to change what we know deep inside is wrong. And compassion is the heart of the Bodhisattva Way in my view.
Zen buddhist practice doesn't turn you into a cold-hearted indifferent bastard. It helps us see and accept things exactly the way they are, without adding all the extra. But it doesn't mean we have to resign. We can and should still endeavor to do good and avoid doing harm. To me, this is vitally important.
Yes, thank you so much. Exactly what I've been trying to say and utterly failing at saying. Again, thank you for these words.Originally Posted by Omoi Otoshi
Pontus, I appreciate the general sentiment of your post and your insight in general. As someone who comes from three generations of combat veterans, and works alongside them everyday, I am taken aback by your statement that the military trains men & women in greed, hate and delusion.
Of course there are criminals, miscreants, and malcontents serving in the armed forces. They're in every profession. The vast majority of veterans I know are quite compassionate, and empathetic. As hard as it is for some people to believe, most vets don't return from war as a psycopaths or curled into the fetal position.
Anyhow, as zen Buddhists let's not kid ourselves. We're a group of individuals, not some religious A-Team.
I second this. Pontus you paint your picture with too broad a brush on this one. Some of these greedy killers are some of the most compassionate are caring individuals I have ever met and worked with. All sides must be considered including things which seem like contradictions.Originally Posted by Shujin
Guys, read a bit closer. Some, not all. I read this as an echo to the Kony reference I made earlier.Originally Posted by Omoi Otoshi
I read it Alan. I still respectfully disagree...with just the opinion not the person
Shujin, Daido, sorry about that!
I come from a family of military officers too and I have served a short time in the army myself. It's not something I regret.
I didn't mean to paint every soldier as evil, not at all. I wouldn't want to live in a country with no military force.
Military training can make people less empathic, but not all people and not all kinds of training. Atrocities are carried out in every war as you know. War does that to (some) people.
Gassho, as well.Originally Posted by Daido
"I am God and you are God and all that groks is God."
Maybe the story of Al Mansoor is appropriate in this topic :Originally Posted by Amelia
From the osho transformation tarot :
When Shibli threw the rose
The first time Shibli's name became known was the time when Mansoor al-Hillaj was being murdered. Many people have been murdered in the past by so called religious people--Jesus was murdered--but there has been never such a murder as happened with al-Hillaj. First his legs were cut off--he was alive--then his hands were cut. Then his tongue was cut, then his eyes were taken out--and he was alive. He was cut in pieces.
And what crime had Mansoor committed? He had said, An'al Hak. It means "I am the Truth, I am God." All the seers of the Upanishads declare this, Aham Brahmasmi--I am Brahma, the Supreme Self." But the Mohammedans could not tolerate it.
Mansoor is one of the greatest Sufis. When they started cutting his hands he looked at the sky, prayed to God and said, "You cannot deceive me! I can see you in everybody present here. You are trying to deceive me? you have come as the murderer? as the enemy? But I tell you, in whatsoever form you come I will recognize you--because I have recognized you within myself. Now there is no possibility of deception."
Shibli was a companion, a friend to al-Hillaj. People are throwing stones and mud in ridicule, and Shibli is standing there. Mansoor is laughing and smiling. Suddenly he starts crying and weeping, because Shibli has thrown a rose at him. Somebody asked, "What is the matter? With stones you laugh--have you gone mad? And Shibli has thrown only a rose flower. Why are you crying and weeping?"
Mansoor said, "People who are throwing stones don't know what they are doing, but this Shibli has to know. For him it will be difficult to get forgiveness from God." He said, "Others will be forgiven because they are acting in ignorance; they cannot help it. In their blindness that's all they can do. But with Shibli--a man who knows! That's why I weep and cry for him. He is the only person who is committing a sin here."
And this statement of Mansoor's changed Shibli completely. He threw the Koran, the scriptures, and he said, "They could not make me understand even this: that all knowledge is useless. Now I will seek the right knowledge." And later on when he was asked, "Why did you throw the flower?" Shibli said, "I was afraid of the crowd--if I don't throw anything, people may think that I belong to Mansoor's group. They may get violent toward me. I threw the flower--just a compromise. Mansoor was right: he wept at my fear, my cowardice. He wept because I was compromising with the crowd." But Shibli understood. The crying of Mansoor became a transformation.
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Mansoor Al-Hallaj was condemned to hang by the neck for shouting in ecstasy Anal-Haq, Anal-Haq (I am the Truth, I am the Truth). The orthodoxy understood this to mean that he was claiming to be God himself, whereas he had proclaimed in his sublime spiritual ecstasy, simply a total annihilation of himself. Mansoor Al-Hallaj climbed the gallows with his head held high, not the least daunted by his imminent death. Nor could his shouts be drowned in the tumult of abuses which were hurled at him; they rose loud and clear and high Anal-Haq, Anal-Haq until his soul departed to the fountainhead of his life on high.
Basheer draws parallel between "Anal Haq" and Aham Brahmasmi the Upanishad mahakavya which means I am Brahman . Basheer uses this term to intend God is found within one's 'self'.
Hiya gunther;
Enjoyed the stories ( and its sentiment) of the execution of Mansoor Al-Hallaj. However, can't help pondering the glaring contradiction; how was he able to hold his head up high and shout when his legs had been severed and his tongue cut out ?? :roll:
I can't see the point in believing in God, or indeed the point in disbelieving. :wink:Originally Posted by JohnsonCM
Well said.Originally Posted by Porpoise
The point is to have a place to anchor self. It's misguided, but that's the intent.Originally Posted by Porpoise
:lol: hahah yeah, I don't know if osho's story is 100% historically correct ... :lol:Originally Posted by Shokai
Today hsuyun.org displayed a quote about Al Hallaj :
So how to see Him?I am He whom I love, and He whom I love is I,
We are two spirits dwelling in one body.
If thou seest me, thou seest Him,
And if thou seest Him, thou seest us both.
- Al Hallaj (he was accused of claiming divinity and was eventually publicly scourged and crucified.)
By sitting zen.
My son's girlfriend has synesthesia- she sees colors associated with numbers and words. She didn't know this was different from how others experience things until she was a teenager, and it's hard for her to explain because its all she's ever known. She doesn't have the experience of non-synesthesia to compare it to.
I was raised in a Christian environment, and its similarly difficult for me to think about how the world and its inhabitants work without that religious frame of reference. What I have been able to do over many years of thinking about religion is to distill some of the lessons of Christianity out of the biblical context, and in the process I have discovered that one does not need God to make these lessons sensible. For instance, treating every other person as if he/she were Jesus is supposed to make Christians kind to everyone (doesn't work for most of them), but taken out of context, the practice still works. Treat everyone as if they were part of one's self (which they are in more ways than one) and you accomplish the same end. I think one of the root lessons of the bible is compassion, and when I stopped getting hung up on the biblical labyrinth, and instead focused on what compassion does for the world, it still made sense to practice it.
I'm getting along fine without a personal savior, and have settled into an agnostic frame of mind. As many others have already written here, it doesn't really matter if there is a supreme being or not. Just be.


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2ND XI: Big win at the Sutton Winson Academy Ground07-Sep-2012
Sussex's Second Eleven finished their season with a huge victory over Ireland A at the Sutton Winson Academy Ground this week in a three-day friendly match.
Having set their visitors a mammoth target of 546 runs to win the match, the Irish were bowled for 261 as Academy prospect Matt Hobden (pictured) took three wickets whilst there were also two wickets apiece for Will Adkin, Will Beer and Michael Rippon.
Sussex had previously declared in their second innings on 271 for 4 with Nitesh Patel making an unbeaten century and both Beer and Joe Gatting hitting half-centuries.
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DUBAI: Nash stars as Sharks open up with victory21-Mar-2013
Sussex Sharks made a winning start to their tour of Dubai this morning as they beat Lancashire Lightning in the opening game of the Emirates Airline Twenty20, at 7he Sevens Stadium in Dubai.
Lancashire won the toss and batted but Sussex drew first blood as early as the opening delivery, Lewis Hatchett yorking Stephen Moore.
Chris Jordan, opening the bowling with a brisk spell on debut for the Sharks, grabbed his first wicket of Steven Croft in only his second over, and returned figures of 3 for 14 in an impressive four over spell.
Lancashire's opener Andrea Agathangelou held the top order together with 42 from 34 balls before Michael Rippon deceived him and Joe Gatting completed his first stumping as a Sussex wicketkeeper.
Regular wickets fell during the middle overs and Jimmy Anyon, making a rare t20 appearance for Sussex, bowled Wayne White for 29 and then had Oliver Newby caught by Chris Nash, with the final ball of his four overs.
Lancashire's efforts to accelerate the run rate backfired as they lost their last four wickets for only eight runs, leaving them at 118 for 9 at the end of their innings.
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Sussex managed to dash over the line with 16 balls to spare and Nash, who finished unbeaten on 76 from 59 balls, a knock which included ten fours, was named Man of the Match for his efforts.
The Sharks now take on the MCC side, which includes Rahul Dravid and Shaun Tait, at the same venue tomorrow as they aim to secure their place in the final later on that day. The match begins at 10.00am local time (6.00am GMT).
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Nitty Gritty Dirt Dash to benefit Emporia's Camp AlexanderSeptember 12, 2012
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Patterned after popular Warrior Dashes, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Dash kicks off at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 22 at Camp Alexander east of Emporia, 1783 Road P5. Entrants will test themselves against an ultimate obstacle course that includes crawling through barb wire trenches, climbing over cargo nets, running up Heartbreak Ridge and obstacles.
Entrants will take off in waves with the first wave starting at 10 a.m. and the final wave at 12:30 p.m.
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Competing in the dash costs just $20 for the event plus a T-shirt or $10 each for either the dash or T-shirt. All T-shirts orders must be received by 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14. All funds raised go to pay scholarships for campers at Camp Alexander.
Entrants must be 14 years or older to compete. Registration forms are available in Emporia at Genesis Health Club, 1007 Commercial St.; Emporia Fitness, 2812 W. 12th Ave.; High Gear Cyclery & Fitness Equipment, 520 Commercial St.; and Ideal Nutrition, 1117½ Commercial St.; on campus at the Student Recreation Center and Center for Student Involvement and online at www.emporia.edu/recsports/events/nitty-gritty.html. Onsite registrations will be accepted the day of the event.
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Two commencement ceremonies planned for Emporia State UniversityDecember 8, 2012
When Emporia State University confers degrees to graduates on Saturday, Dec. 15, a new tradition will begin — separate ceremonies for undergraduate and graduate degrees.
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Graduate commencement will be at 2 p.m., Dec. 15, at Albert Taylor Hall in Plumb Hall on the Emporia State campus. More than 220 students are candidates for doctorate, specialist and master's degrees.
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How To Overstretch Yourself With Groupon – 1000 Gift Hampers Needed Fast!!
While Groupon may be struggling as a company overall losing 43% of it's share price in 2014 the daily deals website still represents a great opportunity for small businesses to market their offers. That is… so long as you know what you are doing!
Groupon is undeniably a great way to promote to large numbers of people. Regrettably one British e-tailor found how just how popular the daily deals site is with almost disastrous consequences.
Alistair Cochrane runs Unique Gift Hampers a fine foods and gifts retailer based in Scotland. Alistair thought that he could use Groupon to kickstart sales. By offering a huge discount of 70 percent he thought that a Groupon campaign could bring in some extra income to the business.
Typically a retro sweets hamper would retail for around £25 but Unique Gift Hampers put together a special deal where they would sell a sweets hamper similar to these ones for a reduced price of £7.50.
Alistair was shocked when over 1500 buyers grabbed the opportunity to take the highly discounted price. It was way more hampers than the business was able to produce and they were forced to employ extra people to handle the huge surge in business. This actually meant that they ended up losing £1 on every order. Ouch!
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Unique Gift Hampers, who have been operating for 4 years said on their blog that they would honor the Groupon offer despite it being an expensive mistake.
"We have been up all night putting together these Sweet Hampers. We will get them shipped but there might be a small delay." they groaned. "We won't be doing such a great offer on Groupon again!!".
"We usually really enjoy putting together interesting hampers and baskets that make great gifts. But this time it turned into a bit of a slog and we are feeling the pain in our pockets as well as suffering from lack of sleep. Despite this Groupon deal being a bad move every single gift box that we send out of our store will be prepared to the same high standards that we have set at Unique Gift Hampers."
"It really was a ill planned marketing promotion." the blog continued. "Everyone is always singing the praised of Groupon but if you are not careful then you can get your fingers burned."
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Groupon have publicly stated that there are no limits to the number of vouchers that can be sold their their deals site.
"We approach each business with a tailored, individual approach based on the prior history of similar deals," they said.
However it's clear that in this case something went wrong.
Daily deals sites such as Groupon offer massive leverage to small businesses, but with the leverage comes risk and you'd better know what you are doing or you could end up with a costly bill.
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Teardown: LED light shrinks size, cost with non-isolated driver
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LED bulb prices are dropping. A year ago you could expect to pay $50 for a Philips dimmable 60W-replacement LED bulb, while today you can go to Best Buy and purchase its house brand 8W, 800 lumens Insignia 60W-replacement bulb for just $17. What has changed in LED bulb design to allow this price drop? Tearing apart the bulb gives us a look into some design trends in LED lighting, such as how the LEDs are placed within the bulb and what driver architecture is used.
The Insignia bulb has a shape similar to the familiar incandescent light, with the addition of three metal heat sink fins, and a plastic bulb instead of glass (Figure 1).
Figure 1
Dimming is an important bulb characteristic for the US market. I used a Lutron Maestro dimming switch, with a programmable dimming control, and did a side-by-side comparison with an incandescent bulb. The Insignia dimmed consistently and smoothly, with a dimming profile similar to the incandescent bulb. You can watch a video of the dimming test here.
The next step was to look inside the bulb and see how the LEDs are mounted. Figure 2 shows the plastic bulb cover removed with a Dremmel tool, exposing the six Cree white LEDs that illuminate the bulb's light mixing chamber that allow an even glow with no pixelation. The metal fins that the LEDs are mounted on serve to both elevate the LEDs and serve as heat sinks.
All of the electronics for this bulb lie beneath the mirror in the base of the bulb, in a separate and encapsulated compartment (More detailed photos are here).
Removing the rubbery potting compound shows that the electronics are mounted on two separate pc boards that nestle together. Figure 3 shows the two pc boards separated and next to the bulb's base.
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LTE, quad-core apps processor wars begin
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NEW YORK--As the Mobile World Congress raises its curtain next week in Barcelona, practically every mobile chip company is rushing to announce new smartphone ICs with the mobile industrys two new must-have" features--quad-core and LTE modem.
Of course, not all quad-cores are equal. LTE modems, too, come in different flavors. Every modem chip is at a different stage in operators certification processes, a hurdle that every chip vendor needs to clear before claiming a design win.
Aside from Qualcomm, which detailed its Snapdragon 600 and 800 during the International Consumer Electronics Show, and Broadcom, which discussed last week what the company claims to be smallest 4G-LTE Advanced modem chip, both Nvidia and Marvell are competing for the markets attention this week.
Nvidia unveiled Tuesday (Feb. 19) Tegra 4i, a new member of the Tegra 4 family. Its an application processor integrated with LTE processor on the same die.
Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts, called it a stunner, due to a number of advanced features integrated in it. The 4i is based on four Cortex-A9 (2.3-GHz) CPUs jointly developed with ARM, featuring a fifth battery saver core. It also comes with 60 GPU cores and a version of the i500 LTE modem optimized for integration.
Nvidia's senior vice president, Phillip Carmack, wrote in his blog on Nvidias website, Tegra 4i will bring super phone capabilities to the mainstream smartphone market, and there will be nothing on the market like it.
Carmack probably isnt just saying that. With Tegra 4i, Nvida is firmly setting its sights on Qualcomm. Nvidias spokesman claims that Tegra 4i is significantly faster yet half the size of its nearest competitor, Qualcomms Snapdragon 800. If true, that sets a new benchmark.
Meanwhile, Marvell rolled out Wednesday an LTE version of the companys quad-core ARM Cortex-A7-based world-mode platform. Compared to Nvidias Tegra 4i (a quad-core CPU based on ARMs most efficient corethe R4 Cortex-A9 CPUplus a fifth battery saver core), Marvells apps processor appears decidedly modest. However, Marvell is emphasizing its own LTE modem, calling it the industrys most advanced modem solution that features support for field-proven five-mode cellular modems, including LTE TDD and FDD, HSPA+, TD-HSPA+ and EDGE.


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Colin Holland, Noted Tech Journalist, Dies at 59
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Colin Holland, a longtime electronics-industry journalist who also played a leading role in organizing the technical programs of several high-profile conferences, died on Thursday in a London hospice after a year-long battle with cancer.
Holland's 35-year career in the business-to-business press was capped with his stint at EE Times publisher UBM Tech, which he joined full time in 2008. His initial responsibilities revolved around Embedded and the DesignLines. In 2011, Holland became content director for the ARM TechCon conference. Early last year, DesignCon and the DESIGN West and East conferences were added to his charter. Holland had told colleagues he considered his work on those events to be the most exciting post he'd ever held.
"In his most recent role as Content Director for our events, Colin had an extraordinary impact on our portfolio of conferences," said Kathy Astromoff, CEO of UBM Tech, Electronics. "His ability to intuit what engineers need to know was unmatched. More importantly, his many friends and colleagues at UBM some of whom go back 30 years with Colin will sorely miss his energy and ironic humor."
Colin Holland at ARM TechCon in October, 2011, in Santa Clara, Calif.
Holland was one of a generation of British-born business-to-business journalists who built upon science educations to facilitate communications between industry and engineering professionals about the technology and business of electronics. His wide-ranging experience included stints at the UK publications Electronic Technology, Electronic Engineering, What's New In Electronics (WNIE), and Electronics Times.
As print gave way to the Web in the early 2000s, he served as online editor-in-chief for Embedded Systems Engineering and editor of Embedded Systems Europe.
Holland came back into the UBM orbit in 2006 when he was tapped for a freelance assignment to help start up EE Times Europe.
"I knew Colin for a long time as we worked on competing print publications in the UK where I quickly learned to respect his integrity and reporting style," said UBM Tech CEO Paul Miller. "I was delighted to have the chance to work with him on the same team when we launched EE Times in Europe and found that we had a great deal in common.
"We quickly became more than boss and employee and would spend much of our time together sharing our mutual passion for English lower league soccer," Miller said. "For me, Colins support for Charlton Athletic said a lot about him as a person. Loyal, supporting his soccer team and his work team with a passion and commitment that went beyond the call of duty, he did not put on, nor suffer, airs and graces and no matter how tough the going got, Colin was always there cheering on the team and bringing a sense of authenticity, reality and a little levity to situations that would have crushed many of us. Colin was just a great guy; honest, funny and caring."