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Andrei Volkov : Another question often asked, is whether Buddhism supports or denies the notion of free will. As always... Another question often asked, is whether Buddhism supports or denies the notion of free will. As always, the short answer is: it's more complicated than that. What matters most in Buddhism is not the theory itself, but the practical implications of adopting it. In sutras, Buddha often explains what happens to people who view things one way or another. What would happen if we were to absolutely deny free will? Would we even try to improve our condition? Hardly! What would happen if we were to absolutely affirm free will? Would we realize that people sometimes act not because they choose so, but under toxic influence of an emotion? Probably not. Would we understand how our choices are always influenced by the environment, and decide to avoid those influences that are harmful, and to increase exposure to beneficial influences? Unlikely. That's why in Buddhism, we prefer to avoid making blanket statements like there is or there is no free will. We say: there is karma, our future depends on our past AND on decisions made in the present. If this was not so, we would not be able to end the suffering of samsara. On the other hand, we don't make an error of considering the so-called "subject" an independent entity, either. The world is a continuous network of causes/effects, with no rigid boundaries between "inner" and "outer", and it is still up to every single practitioner (an "I") to make choices towards healthier life and cessation of suffering.  With the above in mind, I think I can safely declare: Buddhism is less about choiceless awareness and more about making wise choices: how to act and how to see things. 3 minutes ago - Via Google+ - View - Mark Kaczynski : My neighbor knocked on my door at three in the morning! Can you believe that? Lucky for him I was still... My neighbor knocked on my door at three in the morning! Can you believe that? Lucky for him I was still up playing my drums for my friends.  23 minutes ago - Via Reshared Post - View - Michael O'Neill : http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/kenny-aide-denies-bank-lobby-group-calling-shots-on-budgets-29289664... http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/kenny-aide-denies-bank-lobby-group-calling-shots-on-budgets-29289664.html Kenny aide denies bank lobby group {(IFSC) Clearing House group} calling shots on budgets Michael Brennan Deputy Political Editor – 23 May 2013 TAOISEACH Enda Kenny's chief civil servant has insisted that a lobby group of bankers with "very high level access" is not calling the shots on budgetary decisions. The International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) Clearing House group – which includes AIB, Bank of Ireland and Citigroup – gets to meet in private with government officials four or five times per year. It had 21 of its recommendations, such as providing tax breaks for foreign executives based here, implemented in last year's Budget. Department of the Taoiseach Secretary General Martin Fraser admitted that the "bulk" of the group's recommendations had been adopted in the Finance Act which implemented the Budget. But he said even though the group had very high level access, it was not "all- powerful". "The Clearing House group gets more credit than it deserves for some of these things. It's still up to the Finance Minister to decide what goes into the Finance Act," he said. Mr Fraser told the Oireachtas Finance Committee that the key aim of the IFSC Clearing House group was to promote the creation of financial services jobs – with a target of 10,000 extra jobs by 2016. INFLUENCE However, Labour TD Kevin Humphreys said it appeared that the recommendations of the group were being adopted "lock, stock and barrel". And Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins said the group had unprecedented influence on government policy. The other members of the IFSC Clearing House group include Bank of America, Barclays, KPMG, Deloitte, and Ernst and Young. The relationship between the Government and powerful corporations is under intense scrutiny due to criticism of Ireland as a "tax haven" in the US Senate Mr Fraser said that the country was currently caught in the crossfire with major domestic interests at play in other countries – in a reference to the political pressure in the US to get its multinationals like Apple and Google to pay more tax at home. "We're not a tax haven. We have transparency and we have international tax agreements with 60-odd countries," he said. Mr Fraser acknowledged that he was aware of the criticism of heavy regulation of financial services by former Taoiseach John Bruton, who is an ambassador for the IFSC. But he said the IFSC Clearing House group was not being used to put pressure on the Financial Regulator.  Kenny aide denies bank lobby group calling shots on budgets - Independent.ie TAOISEACH Enda Kenny's chief civil servant has insisted that a lobby group of bankers with "very high level access" is not calling the shots on budgetary decisions. 49 minutes ago - Via Google+ - View - NEW Social Media Agency : Whether or not in favor of Google+, their willingness to innovate and the fact that their servers are... Whether or not in favor of Google+, their willingness to innovate and the fact that their servers are still up means that they’re doing something right. Google+ New Features and Keeping Up | NEW Whether or not in favor of Google+, their willingness to innovate and the fact that their servers are still up means that they’re doing something right. 3 hours ago - Via Google+ - View - myriam manou : Watch the video: Me and a gun - Tori Amos (Xerxes remix) 5am Friday morning Thursday night Far from sleep I'm still up and driving Can't go home obviously So I'll just change direction Cause they'll soon konw where... 3 hours ago - Via Google+ - View - Marc Toovey : On the new Flickr It's been a day or two now since the new Flickr website has been launched and I'm trying... On the new Flickr It's been a day or two now since the new Flickr website has been launched and I'm trying to like it, or at least like it more than the stagnation that it used to be. I have found some things to like about the new website and how it works, so I'll get those covered first - but I'd love to hear what you think too. Finding Good Photos I do have to say the new landing page is better at finding new photos from my list of contacts than before. I never much liked the thumbnail new photos feed or the big whitespace, postcard sized feed you'd get if you used the left/right navigate buttons of the old site. I've already been hitting favourites more on various photos because of this. So this is a good thing. A New Way to Evaluate my Contacts I'm a photo snob and I fully admit it. I want to see beautiful photographs. I do not want to see instagram filtered squares. I don't want to see blurry pictures of some concert. I don't want to see darkly lit photos of every meal someone eats. The new landing page not only lets me discover new great photos, but also lets me see what people on my contacts lists need to "up their game' a bit in the photos they post.  Harsh? Yes, but if it makes me have even more attention and appreciation for the great photographers on my contact list, then so be it. I already have a new workflow for this - surf the home page - star (and comment) on awesome photos, right click and load the contact page for a particularly crappy photo. I'll peruse their photo stream and if it is just picture after picture of really uninspiring stuff, I'll remove them from my contacts list. I know, brutal, but hey, this is how I'll use Flickr. More awesome, less noise. Sidenote on this: perhaps if Flickr did something I suggest below (Cloud Storage tools), more users could designate public / private photos in an easier way - everything uploaded is private, for their storage, but they pick and choose the great photos to share publicly in their photostream. So instead of sixteen shots of a dimly lit dinner plate, we see one decent shot, in someone's stream! :) Photostream Page Can Be Great It's not there yet - feels like an incomplete work. But it's getting there. It is better, visually than the previous design. But it has gaping holes in Flickr's other huge strength: interactivity. Other than starring (favouriting) a photo, you can't do any other interactivity on the photo stream pages - you have to interrupt the stream and jump to the photo's main page. Meanwhile, lookit how Google+ plus handles interaction here - this awesome focus-oriented window that centres and gets large when you type in a new Google+ post, all without leaving the page I was on. Flickr needs to improve this. Less page reloads, more interactivity. That was Flickr's strength. Stuff That Isn't So Good or Downright Sucks My last point above in the positive column wasn't all positive but it leads into this section - the things Flickr has gotten wrong.  Beta Test Beta Test Beta Test When you take an established website and just KABAMM launch an entirely new (but incomplete) new design without any warning, people are going to be pissed off. They are going to feel they're being forced into something different without any say, without any options. Feel like it's forced on them, like it or not.  Besides finding usability and programming problems, any website with more than 10,000 members should launch public betas of their new designs (while keeping the old one) just so people do feel they have choices, have input, aren't being force fed something. I know to my core that if Flickr had launched this new site as a public beta, much like proto.nytimes is happening now, people would have reacted much more positively. Mobile Not There Yet There's still so many problems with Flickr on Mobile. Sure, flashy new 500px like interface but missing a lot: - no way to search your own photostream - this is a MUST HAVE feature. - no landscape mode save for slideshows - the tablet version (on Android) looks exactly like the phone version. Landscape mode really needed here - no organize or manage tools via mobile. - no way (that I could find?) to bulk upload photos via mobile. FlickrPro Flickr handled the entire Pro thing badly - from Mayer's misspeak on Pro Photographers, to any kind of loyalty (other than rudimentary grandfathering of fees) to FlickrPro supporters.  The could still fix this. They could, for eg, offer a photo cloud storage service to FlickrPro members so we could use that 1tb of space better. They could launch new features that would be exclusive to Pro members for a fixed time, like 1/3/6 months. They could pull a 500px and offer Pro members portfolio tools. How about this one: offer a RAW storage / conversion service that lets photographers upload RAW (DNG, whatever) photos to the servers and Flickr converts them to JPGs etc for viewing . sharing. They could opt to keep FlickrPRO as a service with new innovative features, still keep it at $24.95/$44.95 and show loyalty to those who have shown, with their wallets, they support Flickr and have for many years. Busted Bits Even though Flickr hasn't said this is a beta, it sure feels like one. There's still a mix of old with new throughout the website. A lot of stuff seems incomplete. Communities, for eg, is still the old stuff. Managing Groups seems meh. Organize is the old organize system, including the 1998 era standard HTML input boxes for text and titles. Feels like a rough, incomplete beta. This should have been the launch beta, with the original site still up and running. I got a lot more, but this is way, way long already. What do you think? 3 hours ago - Via Reshared Post - View - Constitution Party : THE CONSTITUTION PARTY: UNITING CONSTITUTIONISTS SINCE 1992 By Robert W. Peck Chairman, Constitution... THE CONSTITUTION PARTY: UNITING CONSTITUTIONISTS SINCE 1992 By Robert W. Peck Chairman, Constitution Party of Washington May 22, 2013   An article was recently posted at Independent Political Report featuring comments by Cody Quirk in regard to his effort to, as he puts it, “unify the Constitutionalist parties”. In the May 20 article titled "Cody Quirk: As an Independent" American, Mr. Quirk casts numerous aspersions on the Constitution Party. He makes statements that may cause some to believe that there are actually numerous national political parties of relatively equal strength that all hold the same Biblical and Constitutional values; that an organized effort is underway to unify those parties and that the Constitution Party refuses to take part in his unification effort due, in his words, to its being "petty," "unscrupulous," "sectarian," "incompetent," and made up of individuals who have demonstrated "sneering arrogance and haughty demeanor" and are "wolves in sheep's clothing." It should be noted that Mr. Quirk appears to have discovered the supposedly nefarious nature of the Constitution Party only after its choosing not to participate in his unification efforts.   This is not a rebuttal to Mr. Quirk; neither do I seek a debate, as he is entitled to his opinion. However, since Mr. Quirk's statements have been made public, then the public deserves to know all the facts before forming an opinion.   On February 28 of this year, I was first made aware that something called the "Clarion Call to Unite Committee" (CCTUC) had been formed and was seeking "political unification of all constitutionalist parties," according to a January 6, 2013 article at Independent Political Report. Mr. Quirk appears to head the CCTUC and I am aware of at least one other individual involved in the effort – there may or may not be others. The parties named in the January 6 article for which unification is sought, included the Constitution Party, National Independent American Party (not to be confused with the Constitution Party's Nevada state affiliate by the same name), America First Party and the American Party.   Let's take a quick look at each of the parties that CCTUC seeks to unite, indicating that by "joining forces" they can "turn the tide."   The American Party, formed in 2006, only existed as a single state party in Florida and though the website is still up, they appear to have ceased operations in 2011 and are no longer listed with the Division of Elections.   According to Wikipedia, the America First Party was founded in 2002 and reached its high water mark that same year with 11 candidates nationwide and has never made ballot access in more than three states.   The Independent American Party was formed in 1998 and appears to have never had more than three organized state parties and in 2012 only had ballot access in one state.   In contrast, the Constitution Party, founded in 1992, has state party affiliates in nearly every state. Over the years, the party and its Presidential candidate have achieved ballot access in a minimum of 21 states and as many as 41. Constitution Party state affiliates have put as many as 50 candidates on the ballot in a single state.   I don't mean to speak disparagingly of other political parties. I recognize what an achievement it is to organize and obtain ballot access in even one state. However, to suggest that the Constitution Party and its supporters should put on the line all that they have labored for and built by yielding it up to a merger with these other parties, some of which may not even be actual parties, is ludicrous.   The real issue is this – that the door to the Constitution Party has always been open to any and all who share its commitment to Biblical presuppositions and strict adherence to the plain text of the U.S. Constitution as interpreted according to the original intent of its framers.   Seeing that the Constitution Party was founded well in advance of the other parties that are being proposed for unification, one would be forced to assume that the other parties were formed either because they were not aware of the Constitution Party's existence at the time, or because they hold sufficiently differing views so as to be incompatible with the Constitution Party's platform.   The best statement that I've heard with regard to the CCTUC's desire to unite like-minded, Constitutionally oriented parties, is that of Andrew Zuelke of the Constitution Party of Wisconsin, who commented in that party's May 1, 2013 email campaign:   "I want to remind my fellow constitutionalists that the CCTUC is not breaking any new ground here. Members of the Constitution Party already answered the 'clarion call' to unite back in 1992 when 'a coalition of independent state parties united to form the US Taxpayer’s Party' which later became the Constitution Party. This idea isn’t new."   The fact is that a similar endeavor at unification, which bore substantially the same name, was undertaken several years ago. The Constitution Party's chairman attended a meeting of the "parties" involved – a meeting which he described as consisting of the America First Party and "one or two other tiny groups that put the word Party next to a name." It quickly became apparent to him that the endeavor was merely a distraction and "a total waste of time." The same appearing to be true of the current effort, the Constitution Party National Committee recently voted to abstain from participation in the CCTUC and instead stay focused on its primary tasks of recruiting members, fielding candidates and welcoming any individuals, groups or other parties who want to join their efforts to that of the Constitution Party.   Regarding the Independent American Party, the party that Mr. Quirk has been most focused on unifying with the Constitution Party and which he has now joined, in a Feb 22, 2013 article (you can find it here http://tinyurl.com/agn893m) Mr. Quirk states:   "So far the National IAP has officially expressed interest in working towards a merger of the parties, and, in fact, since the National IAP also wants to cooperate better and work closer with the CP, I am actively helping their party on a few matters of their own while still an official member of the CP."   I have only become aware of the existence of the Independent American Party within the past year or so. As a member of the Constitution Party National Committee, a state party chairman and the immediate past Western Area Co-Chairman, I am not aware of the Independent American Party ever making contact with or seeking interaction with the Constitution Party. Nevertheless, if they share the same goal as the Constitution Party, then I'll repeat that "the door is open – come on in and join us."   However, I find it disturbing that a few months ago I was informed that the IAP was working to obtain ballot access in a state where an organized, active and strong Constitution Party state affiliate already has ballot access. This does not agree with Mr. Quirk's assertion of the IAP wanting to "cooperate better and work closer with the CP."   More recently, I was made privy to an IAP communique which indicated a party building plan that included targeting states to organize in which already have Constitution Party state affiliates. The plan indicated that part of the IAP strategy for obtaining ballot access in those states consisted of courting the support of some existing Constitution Party state leaders.   If these things are true (some of which I've seen with my own eyes), then the IAP would appear to be acting in a very subversive manner and putting its own aggrandizement ahead of the cause of restoring Constitutional governance through working together with a pre-existing, Constitutionally-committed, national political party that already has state affiliates and ballot access. If these indictments against the Independent American Party are false, then I urge the leadership of the IAP to open a dialog with the leaders of the Constitution Party in order to clear the air.   The bottom line when it comes to unification is that the Constitution Party has been seeking to unify God honoring, Constitution upholding patriots since 1992.   The door is open – come on in and join us! -- Robert W. Peck Chairman, Constitution Party of Washington Email: chairman@constitutionpartyofwa.com Blog: bobpeck.wordpress.com Video: vimeo.com/channels/constitutionparty Website: www.constitutionpartyofwa.com 4 hours ago - Via Google+ - View - Leequan H : Still up watching and Commenting on all my social media right now. Gotta find something else to do. Lmao... Still up watching and Commenting on all my social media right now. Gotta find something else to do. Lmao 😂😂😖😖 5 hours ago - Via Google+ - View - Pokemon Trainer Chiharu (Rosa) : hmm should I make a new page ..again what should it be?? oh and is anyone still up or did everyone fall... hmm should I make a new page ..again what should it be?? oh and is anyone still up or did everyone fall victim to the sandman 9 hours ago - Via Google+ - View - Brandon Farmer : I'm bored with nothing to do. Who's still up? I'm bored with nothing to do. Who's still up? 11 hours ago - Via Mobile - View - Downtown LA Breaking News : Spurs, up 2-0 against Memphis, know series is still up for grabs MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Uh-oh, 2-0? 12 hours ago - Via dlvr.it - View - Pokemon Trainer Chiharu (Rosa) : who is still up who is still up 12 hours ago - Via Google+ - View - Oliver Thewalt : Gran Sasso, Solar Neutrinos, and Radioactive Decay Rates permalink:  http://copaseticflow.blogspot.com... Gran Sasso, Solar Neutrinos, and Radioactive Decay Rates permalink:  http://copaseticflow.blogspot.com/2013/05/solar-neutrinos-and-radioactive-decay.html We interrupt your normal coverage of magnetic monopole searches today to bring you something much more cool from well.. the same location!  I was jazzed to find out yesterday that the next monopole project I was going to write about was done at a stunningly pretty location Gran Sasso, Italy. (picture 1) Then, thanks to +Oliver Thewalt I found out about a very interesting study done regarding a possible time dependence of the decay rates of radioactive isotopes.  So much for the pretty location I thought, but the science is incredibly interesting.  Then, while reading up on the research this morning I found out that one of the studies[2] was performed at none other than the very same lab in Gran Sasso.  And we're back to where we started and I get to include a pretty picture with the post!  OK, OK enough with the cool coincidences and the small world of science for today. So, here's what's going on in a nutshell.  Radioactive elements decay in a random fashion, but at a very well defined rate.  In other words, you never know exactly when the next individual atom of the material will decay, but you do know with great certainty how long it will take for half of the material to decay.  For example, the carbon dating process is based on the certainty of the half life of carbon 14[5].  Until recently, the rate of decay was thought to be a constant.  Then, a researcher at Purdue University, Ephraim Fischbach, noticed what looked like a periodic variation in the decay rate of radioactive materials over the course of months and sometimes years.  Additional research revealed that there might be a correlation between this measured variation and the neutrino output from the sun.  For a great summary of the research check out the Stanford backgrounder on the subject [3].  The graph shown in picture 2 is from Fischbach's paper.  It shows the variation in the decay rate of radium 226 with time and correlates the decay rate variation with the variation of the distance between the Earth and the Sun, (shown as a solid line)[6][7]. Gran Sasso You thought I forgot about Gran Sasso didn't you?  They performed an experiment which they believe refutes the relationship found by Fischbach et al.  Here's a quote from the conclusion of their paper[2][2a] "...in clear contradiction with previous experimental results and their interpretation as indication of a novel field (or particle) from the Sun..." The experiment was done at Gran Sasso because conditions there were great.  The laboratory is actually located underground, (under a lot of ground), and well protected from variations in both electromagnetic fields and temperatures (picture 3). The results are still up in the air.  The Fischbach group responded to the Gran Sasso paper[8], and Fischbach believed in the results enough to file for a patent on a solar event detector based on the results in 2008[4], (picture 4). There will be much more on all this to follow.  Physics is fun! Reference: 1.  The latest and greatest from Jenkins, Fischbach, et al. (open access) http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2138 2.  The Gran Sasso null result http://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.physletb.2012.02.083 Bellotti E., Broggini C., Di Carlo G., Laubenstein M. & Menegazzo R. (2012). Search for time dependence of the 137Cs decay constant, Physics Letters B, 710 (1) 114-117. DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.02.083  2.a.  The Gran Sasso paper in open access http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3662 3.  Stanford sums it up http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/sun-082310.html 4.  Fischbach's patent http://www.google.com/patents?id=WTy_AAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&dq=decay%20%22E%20Fischbach%22&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 5.  Carbon dating on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating 6.  Fischbach et al.'s first paper from 2008 (open access) http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3283 7.  The same paper in the journals http://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.astropartphys.2009.05.004 Jenkins J.H., Fischbach E., Buncher J.B., Gruenwald J.T., Krause D.E. & Mattes J.J. (2009). Evidence of correlations between nuclear decay rates and Earth–Sun distance, Astroparticle Physics, 32 (1) 42-46. DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2009.05.004  8.  Response to the Gran Sasso paper (open access) http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2138 #physics   #quantummechanics   #historyofphysics   13 hours ago - Via Reshared Post - View - Rodney Lough Jr. : Here's another Oregon photo, Wizard Island at Dawn, since I'm still up here in Portland. Tomorrow, though... Here's another Oregon photo, Wizard Island at Dawn, since I'm still up here in Portland. Tomorrow, though it's back down to California for the release of my newest photo on Friday. I hope to see some of you there! 15 hours ago - Via Google+ - View - HorribleNight Newswire : Another take, this one from PA Report. Another take, this one from PA Report. The PA Report - Indie issues, Kinect concerns, and E3 yearnings: Ben and Andrew discuss the Xbox One announcements The day we've all been waiting for has now come and gone, and Xbox One is now an official product. Surprisingly, a number of details are still up in the air, and Microsoft themselves seems to be a little unclear on how their internet-connected console will work, and how the used game system will ... 16 hours ago - Via Google+ - View - George Lindemann Jr. : 16 hours ago - Via Google+ - View -