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Why do referees wear stripes
A game is worth watching only when we know that it is being played under the strict observation of a good referee. A referee ensures that there is no duplicity in the game and the players behave themselves. In the beginning there were no referees and disputes were discussed and sorted by the two opposite team captains. This used to put unnecessary stress on the captains. The team captains then started bringing umpires with them who would oversee the game from a neutral perspective. Later on the presence a third party umpire, uninvolved with both teams, became necessary. The game of football in America is played under the cautious and experienced supervision of the referee and his team.
To distinguish the referees from the other players active on the field they are given a uniform that is different. Most referees are spotted wearing a stripe uniform or solid bright colors. They need to wear something that does not clash with the uniform of the playing teams on the field. There is a story behind the stripes worn by referees. The idea of the striped uniform was conceived by Lloyd Olds of Ypsilanti, Michigan. He was himself a referee of a college in Michigan. While playing his part of a referee in the Michigan State-Arizona football match he decided that the referee should not wear solid color tee that matches the color of the teams' garb.
On that day he was wearing a white tee shirt. Unfortunately the color of his official uniform and the color of the Arizona team's uniform was the same. This created confusion and mistakes. Olds went on to design the white and black striped uniform for all referees with the help of a friend who had a sports goods store, George Moe. Olds started wearing the black and white striped uniform himself and soon it became popular with other referees as well.


UH-oh.... must be out on another pub crawl... he's disappeared! I'll have to go search for him on the other drive once we are up at the house. It was two firsts when I drew him. First lion, and first time using a grid.
Simple profile of lion from Pixabay.
Keep at it, Liz. Coming along well.
Do as Nolan suggests & you will bring your lion out of its hiding place, and more into the open. He has something of a human charm to him, Liz.
NOLAN, MEA, & PATRICIA for your comments. I will use the 8B pencil for darker backgrounds next time! What do you think about using black paper, Nolan? Thanks for your advice, Nolan!
Saw your lion drawing, and just had to say well done.
Nina for your lovely comments. I have just seen it now and my apologies for the delay in responding to your message but I have had to put my art on the back burner for awhile but I am getting back into it slowly. I have really missed my art.
He's lovely Liz I have to get back into drawing with my charcoal again, I find it works great for drawing on the sanded papers and saves my using up my pastels too quickly. It is a bit tricky, but like you, I just have to keep on practicing.
You must admit it though... it is fun getting a bit grubby!


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Where to go?: Can Indonesian Twitter users live without the bird app?
Currently the site is still up, but the general fear that the social media site would break down remains among users.
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News source: Especially during the peak of COVID-19 pandemic, Twitter is a source of news that everybody depends on. (Unsplash/Claudio Schwarz)(Unsplash/Claudio Schwarz)
JAKARTA – As former Twitter employees speak up about the possibility of the social platform's collapse, its users talk about the prospect of moving out. Last Friday, Twitter users began crying out,
saying goodbyes and ironically joking around as if it was their final days of seeing each other. For many, the possibility of the prominent social media platform shutting down was either something to be upset or joke about.
On Nov. 18, senior and former employees at Twitter headquarters publicly stated that, due to the lack of employees agreeing to Twitter's new, controversial leader Elon Musk's ultimatum of accepting "hardcore" work, many of those employees have left the social media enterprise. This became one of the factors that led to the predictions that Twitter's operations would break down overnight.
The social platform's doomsday did not come. Currently, the site is still up and running. But the general fear that the beloved (and also hated) social media site, which has generated prominent public discourses and opinions over the last decade, would break down remains among its users. A site reliability engineer also predicted to the MIT Technology Review a week prior that a collapse might happen gradually, giving it six months before more problems surfaced.
Many users are scrambling to look for other social platforms – whichever they deem fit.
"Twitter is part of my life. I don't know where else to go," 23-year-old freelance translator Fadhila Auliyaa Rahma said to The Jakarta Post on Nov. 18.
Others have started posting their Instagram handles so their followers can find them there. Some have already gone onto different platforms, like the previously popular, fandom-oriented Tumblr or the recently rising Mastodon.
"I tried Mastodon back during the [United States] presidential election because Twitter was down at one point," Fadhila said. "But it felt awkward [to use], maybe because I wasn't familiar with its user interface."
For the people: A screenshot of the recently-popular social network Mastodon taken on Thursday shows its promise to present a 'radically different' platform devoid of corporate-funded contents. (Mastodon/Screenshot) (Mastodon/Screenshot)
Other sources of news (and fun)
Elon Musk, Tesla leader and one of the wealthiest people in the world, had been embroiled in drama during Twitter's buyout, initially backing out of his deal to buy the company and now having paid a fortune to become its owner. One of his goals was to apply rules that strengthen "free speech," tweeting that comedy "is now legal on Twitter" and unblocking right-wing figures like former US president Donald Trump, who was suspended from the platform for "incitement of violence".
But Elon's following weeks as Twitter's owner has only led to a spike in racism by nearly 500 percent, identity fraud and misinformation, which have caused division and backlash even from its employees.
And yet, the social platform still stands and remains where news and discourses bloom and boil.
"Twitter is essential for me as a journalist," Judith Aura, a lifestyle reporter at Kumparan Woman, told the Post on Nov. 18.
"Everything that's happening and trending, it's on Twitter. I find out what I want or need to write from Twitter. It keeps me informed about many things, from occurrences around the globe to simple memes which can be useful for my job," she elaborated.
Like Fadhila, Judith has been on Twitter since around 2010, using it initially to connect with her schoolmates and, later on, for "fangirling [and] ranting about everything".
"I haven't ventured out of Twitter and looked for other alternatives, so I don't know how promising sites like Tumblr or Mastodon would be," she said. But as a fangirl, she is familiar with the South Korean idol social app Weverse.
"I'm thinking of using Weverse more to connect with fellow [BTS fans] ARMYs and BTS," she said.
Journalistic needs: Judith Aura, pictured in October at Kumparan's head office, researches newsworthy stories, most of which are sourced from Twitter. (Courtesy of Judith Aura/.)
23-year-old Naya, a private sector employee from South Tangerang, was also aware of the grim news of Twitter and was thinking of other social platforms to interact with her friends.
"Maybe I'll wait for [cofounder and former Twitter CEO] Jack Dorsey's new social media site Bluesky," she said to the Post on Nov. 18. To this day, there is still no announcement when Bluesky will run.
"But if you ask me what platforms I would use if Twitter's gone, I would most probably go to Tumblr because of the huge amount of my fandom's content," she laughed. "I only have an Instagram second account for close friends, so I don't use it that often," Naya added, not liking the picture-based platform that much.
For programmer and data engineer Helmi Aziz Muhammad, he would prefer going to more Discord servers to keep up with anime content. He also would look into Reddit more for news.
"Often, something interesting pops up on my [Reddit] home [timeline]. As long as you join the right subreddit, you can get a lot of news," Helmi said.
A subreddit about everything Indonesia called "r/Indonesia," he said, has more or less similar news that appears on Twitter or Facebook. "Although I don't know if it would still be a good news source if Twitter collapsed."
Asked about the possibility of it going down, Helmi as a software developer, related to the concern of many analysts and former Twitter staff online.
"Elon has fired and made things hard for senior engineers with deep institutional knowledge of Twitter. To replace one developer with another developer is not as easy as replacing one janitor with another because every software works differently," he said. "So, at some point, I think it will collapse."
Replaceable?
Regardless of its doomed nature – if things remain unchanged inside Twitter's headquarters – some users seem hesitant to move out and look for another social platform.
"Twitter is one of the fastest sources of information, where rumors can grow into confirmed viral news," Fadhila said. "Nowadays, people can quickly look for help on Twitter, like looking for a missing person or making a case previously ignored go viral."
She reluctantly said that if her fandom moved out to Mastodon, she would follow them there. On the other hand, Judith would stay on Instagram – her second-most favorite social platform.
"I'd also try to find the best apps to help me look for trends – [I will] need all the help for my daily job as a journo," she said.
Meanwhile, Naya said that Twitter's word-based system made it easy for her to use.
"It's just fun to talk to yourself, stalk people's profiles and look for niche content via keywords – something that we can't do on Instagram," she said.
Fandom heaven: The logo of the United States social network application Tumblr is seen on the screen of a tablet on July 24, 2019. (AFP/Martin Bureau) (AFP/Martin Bureau)
Helmi also championed Twitter's word-based advantage, especially with only 280 characters possible in a tweet.
"It's like being in a park where everyone talks to themselves, with you strolling to find one [narrative] that piques your interests," he analogized. "You can respond to others, talk to yourself, retract your statement, all without the commitment to finish what you started. With that kind of environment, connecting with people automatically becomes easier."
But this kind of system also popularly brings about unfettered hate and mean comments, leading to a general belief that Twitter is "toxic".
"I understand that Twitter is not an ideal place for having arguments, but in the past few years, it has turned into a toxic place," Mira (not her real name), a non-profit employee from Jakarta, told the Post on Nov. 19.
"I'm not even talking about misinformation, hoaxes or fake news; I'm talking about online disinhibition where people easily throw rude and offensive comments and ad hominem to each other," she expressed. "It has become a fertile ground for narcissistic, holier than thou, and those who feel superior above others."
Mira has been using Twitter since 2009 and claimed that it used to be a fun platform to "share information and witty one-liners." Not to mention the friendships she cultivated there that have lasted to this day.
But when she shared articles relating to religious criticism and spoke in support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community, she was barraged by hate from many sides.
"My mention is full of [people calling me] lonte [Indonesian for prostitute], etc. And the writers of the articles I shared also got doxxed [having her personal information shared]," she said.
From that point onward, daily attacks would often appear in her mentions. And with the addition of the right-leaning Elon Musk as its leader, Mira did not mind if Twitter became defunct.
"It sucks with Elon Musk. He's a horrible, horrible human being. I don't think I will miss Twitter if it folds."
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Open Spaces Society symposium for The MERL, 8 September 2021
As part of my Open Spaces Society fellowship for the Museum of English Rural Life, I hosted a symposium on open spaces, commons and trespass on 8 September 2021.
We had a great range of papers, photography, poetry and campaigns highlighted. I'm grateful to all the speakers, participants and Kate Ashbrook, Sarah Hacking, Nichola Finan from OSS and Caroline Gould, Tom and Danielle from the MERL for helping with the event.
Summary of the presentations:
I began with an overview of the Open Spaces Society lantern slide collection, showing how most of the early 20th century slides were taken of landscapes in the south-east of England, and highlighting some of my favourites from the themes of forests, rural idyll and the intrusion of modernity into the countryside.
Ruth Quinn (University of Hull) then followed with a paper about contested ideas of conservation of the rural landscapes in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Saltaire, West Yorkshire. How does heritage preservation deal with working farms and a changing countryside?
Adam Bennett shared his evocative photographs of commons around England. The variety of landscapes, topography, flora and fauna belied any public idea that commons are a homogeneous landscape. Adam's current project, 'Common Ground', can be seen on his website: http://www.adam-bennett.com/#1
Mark Gorman (Newham Heritage) gave the history of the campaign to save Epping Forest in the 1870s. The campaign was distinguished by the working-class involvement, which contrasted with the more middle-class leadership of the Commons Preservation Society. His book about the campaign can be purchased from here: https://www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/books-content/saving-the-peoples-forest
Dave Toft (Hayfield Kinder Trespass) gave a moving performance of his poem about the Kinder Trespass. Plans for the 90th anniversary of the Kinder Trespass will be posted on their website: https://kindertrespass.org.uk/
Chris Chilton (Winter Hill 125 and Bolton Socialist Club) showed us photographs of the commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the Winter Hill Mass Trespass that had occurred on Sunday 5 September 2021. The day was attended by groups from across the region and from all sorts of communities. He noted Kate Ashbrook's call to action, that the commemoration was not just a historical piece but had continued relevance for the campaign for rights of way and public access. https://www.facebook.com/groups/811210656375192/
Keith Sands gave the history of the Range West climbers' trespass of 1991 in Pembrokeshire. He presented new research and contemporary photographs showing the creativity of protest, and a reminder of the long-term impact of military requisitioning of moorland by the MoD. The climbers ironically gave names to particular parts of the routes after phrases or sayings of the police, as an amusing form of resistance. Keith's article about the trespass is in the current issue of Climber magazine: https://twitter.com/sandskeith/status/1427187351411961856
We then had a practical session identifying some of the missing locations in the lantern slides collection. To help, go to: https://images.oss.org.uk/can-you-help-with-our-research/
Open Spaces Society lantern slide, near box hill
Main themes and areas of research emerging from the papers:
1. Why the prominence of forests and trees in the Open Spaces Society lantern slide collection?
The lantern slides are organised in boxes, and there are over a box of slides dedicated to ancient forests and trees. Burnham Beeches in Berkshire feature particularly. It's obvious why the CPS would then be interested in preserving ancient forests, and be interested in ancient oak trees that were distinctive, for example the great trees in the New Forest. But why so many pictures of individual tree trunks, e.g. in the Burnham Beeches and Epping Forest images, when many were not particularly remarkable individually?
2. Flooding and erosion
There was some discussion about whether the early 20th century images could be used to show landscape change in relation to flooding and erosion in riparian landscapes.
3. The significance of locality and regional differences between commons
Adam's photographs and the case studies presented by the speakers showed clearly how no commons are the same. Different landowners and commoners have different ideas of what the commons could be used for. A lord of the manor may not want a common to be regulated or developed because of the cost. Differences of ecology and nature preservation are also significant.
What were other countryside preservation and amenity groups elsewhere in the UK doing while the OSS focused on south-east England?
The impact of military requisition on public access and nature conservation also differs across the country.
Discussion on the chat and further links and reading:
There was a very lively discussion over the chat, with many useful links and further reading to be shared.
The OSS Online Exhibition at The MERL, exploring the history of the Open Spaces Society and the invaluable work it continues to do today: https://merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/online-exhibitions/open-spaces-society/
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/communities/community-projects/commons-re-enchanting-world/
The main exhibition page: https://merl.reading.ac.uk/event/the-commons-re-enchanting-the-world/
Dr Katrina Navickas' blog, Mapping the Lantern Slides, on The MERL website: https://merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/2021/06/open-spaces-society-fellowship-2020-21-mapping-the-lantern-slides/
Felicity McWilliam's blog, Contested Countryside: Commons & the Cold War: https://merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/2020/06/contested-countryside-commons-cold-war/
MERL Blog: merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/2020/01/revealing-archives-open-spaces-society/
Shane Ewan has also written about flooding as a part of urban environmental history: https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/dr-shane-ewen/
The Thames Conservancy Archive at the Berkshire Record Office was recently catalogued for anybody working on the history of rivers.
Hedgerows: https://www.cpre.org.uk/resources/hedge-fund-full-report/
The DEFRA Magic Map: https://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx
Wokingham District Veteran Tree Association https://www.wdvta.org.uk/
Simon Thurley's Monuments Men is a good account of the development of Scheduling (introduced 1882), Matless (Landscape and Englishness) on attitudes to landscape conservation and there was a lead-up pre-war to 1947 act which introduced listing. Go to Historic England website.
Lionel Brett's book 'Landscape in distress' was still bemoaning roadside advertising
Common Ground did a lot of work attempting to make the local, ordinary places 'special' by recognising the huge gulf between national designations and local cultural association and therefore importance. Parish Maps, Apple Days and other celebrations were part of that toolbox. Conservation rather than Preservation made the switch for developers easier.
Nicola Chester's new book 'On Gallows Down', which addresses various aspects of commons and enclosure from a personal and a nature-writing perspective.
https://nicolachester.wordpress.com/on-gallows-down/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14472168-the-hamster-of-hampstead-heath
Dr Keren Jones (Hon Sec of Landscape Institute) has an interesting story on owners v commoners on www.terroirlandscape.net
Ewan Maccoll's 'moving on song' comes to mind in connection with travellers being thrown under the bus:
Relating to rights of access but with swimming water, here's a podcast on the legacy of Waterlog by Roger Deakin.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00051dl
Map of potential lost rights of way which need to be claimed before 1st January 2026: https://dontloseyourway.ramblers.org.uk/
David Matless, Landscape and Englishness (Reaktion Books, 2001): http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781861890979
Marianna Dudley, An Environmental History of the UK Defence Estate 1945 to the Present (Continuum, 2013): https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/an-environmental-history-of-the-uk-defence-estate-1945-to-the-pre
Paul Salveson, Will Yo Come O' Sunday Morning: https://wcml.org.uk/wcml/en/whats-on/events/paul-salveson-talk-will-yo-come-o-sunday-mornin–the-1896-battle-for-winter-hill/
John Withington, Flood, Nature and Culture, published by Reaktion Books, 2013: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo16826611.html
Paul Readman, Storied Ground (2018)
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The Impact of Dialogue
By Yehudit Green
PIJ Vol. 3 No. 3 1996 - The Road Ahead
Vol. 3 No. 3 1996
Yehudit Green
Yehudit Green is a senior researcher at the Institute of Archeology, the Hebrew University, and a founder of the Rapprochement Dialogue Center.
I admit that I chose the movies. Whether it was a conscious choice or a result of unacknowledged masochism I'm not sure, but my husband and I found ourselves at a recent Jerusalem Film Festival having our hearts ripped out by scene after scene of inter-ethnic violence: Hindus against Muslims in Bombay, Serbs against Croats in Serbo-Croatia, Albanians against Macedonians, Protestants against Catholics in Belfast - burning, shooting, stabbing and bombing drowning out the cries of pain and protest of the peacemakers. After I catch my breath, how does this make me feel about us, Israelis and Palestinians who are trying to find ways to lessen the suffering here, to create a livable framework now, as soon as possible, before the pain is unbearable? Are we contributing anything?
One of the creations of the Intifada turmoil was grass-roots dialogue between Palestinians in the occupied territories and Israelis. As I look back, I see it was an avenue for middle-aged participation in the uprising: none of us was political leaders, another approved middle-age stance, but neither were we IDF soldiers or shebab. So we took part by talking, and the talking in small groups led to large-scale non-violent activities, such as the Prayer for Peace uttered by thousands in a church in Beit Sahur or the mass picnic on Mount Gerizim in Nablus.
Eventually we formed an organization, the Rapprochement Dialogue Center. While continuing to organize small dialogue meetings, we wanted to demonstrate in the mass activities that there are a good many people who aren't afraid of each other, who feel they have a common goal that isn't completely expressed by political slogans, but also has a moral basis, and this moral sense is strong on both sides. After all, the movies reminded me that the actual level of violence here is relatively low, although the expectation of violence and fear of harm is extraordinarily high - and here I speak as an Israeli. This expectation of the worst clouds perception of reality, and it is just this sense of reality that we hope to provide in face-to-face meetings.
'The Transformation of Suffering'
There were a lot of very pale faces, stomachaches and cases of motion sickness among the Israelis on the bus to a full-day dialogue in Nablus. This was one of a series of intensive contact workshops, running from a full day to two- or three-day stays in the West Bank, organized on the theme of "The transformation of suffering." We are trying to bring in people from the mental health field, alternative medicine and others who were not politically involved in the past. They are often really scared. Even a documentary filmmaker, who had done a film on Middle East peacemakers, admitted her fantasies of the impending horrors: "After 500 previous bus trips in the Middle East, I was certain this was the one to explode. After 18 months of going all over the West Bank, I imagined we'd be assaulted by furious Palestinians driving us back over the Green Line...." Instead, by lunchtime she found herself in a group wandering with our hosts in the notorious Casbah, eating falafel and chatting about politics and peace with other shoppers.
One Palestinian who stopped to talk identified himself as from a small village near Nablus. Which village? "You probably never heard of it: Beita." A full circle. He had just finished four years in jail as a result of the day trip of the teenagers from Elon Moreh, one of the most dramatic and wrenching incidents of the early Intifada. Two of us in the group had spent many hours in' the military court in Nablus at the time, "witnessing" the proceedings between the settlers and the accused Palestinian boys. For us, it Israelis to Nablus on that day four years later; for him, it was the beginning of a jail term. When he heard what we were doing there, he asked to join . the dialogue in the afternoon. So we are still traveling on the same track, or somehow parallel tracks.
The workshops in Nablus have taken place in one of the women's centers, where there are educational programs for women, and children are treated by speech therapists, and receive other kinds of treatments, massage and healing techniques to overcome traumas of the occupation. Some of these techniques have been brought to Nablus by Israelis, and others by teachers we have imported to train dialogue facilitators: Christopher Titmuss, from the International Buddhist Peace Fellowship; Dr. Paula Green, from the Karuna Institute; and Dr. Louise Diamond, from the Institute for Multitrack Diplomacy. In Beit Sahur, Christopher spent two days at the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement with a group of youth leaders. They've created for themselves an ambitious project to deepen a positive Palestinian identity, increase contact among youth in different areas of the West Bank and Gaza through travel and discussion groups and to instill democratic values. The Beit Sahur youth group is the second generation of our original set of, as I described it, middle-aged Intifada workers. Now we see ourselves more as chaperons of the dialogue, as it takes on new forms with different age groups.
Maybe the "peace of the brave" was more than a sales pitch by Arafat for the Oslo agreements. Are Israelis brave to venture into the West Bank to meet Palestinians? From within, I feel this is a ridiculous description. On the other hand, I know how hard it is to seduce Israelis into coming, even a fraction of those who would stand for hours in a crowded square in Tel Aviv with peace signs. Of course, the whole business of peacemaking is hopping on one foot: we cannot invite equally "brave" Palestinians to us, since they have been officially uninvited to Israel.
Bethlehem - No!
A friend of mine is visiting now, a (Jewish) research physician who is trying to organize a two-day conference on the effect of dioxin in the environment on human health in the Middle East. When he realized that Palestinians would not be able to attend the conference as planned in Beersheba, he agreed that Bethlehem would be the most convenient location for everyone. I was most curious to hear the response of his Israeli colleagues. An immediate no. Much too dangerous, they wouldn't set foot in the Palestinian Autonomy area and he is certainly out of his mind to think they would sleep there. And what is more, they said, any such Palestinians seen to be meeting with Israelis would certainly be putting themselves in great danger. (Of course we were invited to hold the conference in Bethlehem by Palestinians.) Is this real fear, or is it cowardice? Whichever, it is a stark denial of reality and as much an obstacle to peace as our prime minister.
Here are some comments of participants in a recent Rapprochement workshop which may give a sense of the impact of dialogue:
Palestinians:
"These years have been a tragedy for me. However, I am learning how to make use of my suffering. To use it as a path to peace."
"With the closure, our people feel depressed. We gave up everything for peace, but we are still in prison. My will for peace collapsed. However, coming here has helped me to feel that there is hope. It gave me the motivation to continue, because it restored my trust in people."
"During the many years I spent in jail, I struggled constantly not to allow anger and hate to destroy my faith. Now I have a chance to build on that for peace."
"I now understand that to achieve peace is to reach reality. We have both been living a big lie all these years."
Israelis:
"I know now that the purpose of this workshop is not only to make peace, but also to know what peace really is. This gives a tremendous energy."
"It is amazing to be here [in Nablus] and feel the sense of security and warmth and protection. They look after us as their children."
"Though I am immensely frustrated at what is happening now, after two days I have received a big motivation to continue. Peace-building is the most important thing that we can do."
There is an appropriate sneer in Israel to express skepticism about every kind of political activity on the left: dialogues, demonstrations, letters of protest, vigils, solidarity visits, appeals to the court... We are so abundantly self-critical, and impatient with other's efforts, that we can easily become paralyzed. One thing makes me feel easy about our work: coming back on the bus from Nablus, there are no stomachaches, but lots of talk and laughter, sounds out of which peace can emerge.


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Propagating Buddhism
Buddhist and Pali Studies - Silver Jubilee Commemoration Volume of the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka:
Reviewed by Rajah Kuruppu
On the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of its existence, the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka has published in 2007 a commemoration volume appropriately titled Buddhist and Pali Studies.
The volume consists of 34 articles by erudite scholars on Buddhism and related subjects, 13 in English and the balance in Sinhala. This review is confined to the English articles.
A note from the Editors is published in Sinhala as an introduction but an English translation is not provided and would have been useful to the English readers.
This University was established by an Act of Parliament and was ceremonially inaugurated on 22nd August, 1982.
In an article on the scope and focus of the syllabuses of the Buddhist and Pali University, its Senior Prof. of Buddhist Philosophy, Oliver Abeynayake, states that among the objectives of this University, the generation of Buddhist scholars who are capable of propagating Buddhism and fostering Buddhist missionary activities both in Sri Lanka and overseas is emphasised.
The development of the study of Pali, Buddhist culture and Buddhist philosophy is entrusted to this University to elevate such studies to suit the contemporary conditions.
There are two faculties in the University, one for Buddhist studies and the other for language studies. In the Faculty of Buddhist Studies there are facilities for the study of Buddhist Philosophy, Buddhist Culture, Buddhist Art and Architecture, Comparative religion and Philosophy. Facilities to learn Pali, Sanskrit, Sinhala, English and Korean are provided in the Faculty of Languages.
In an article on "A Critical Analysis of the Pali Dathavamsa", the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Ven. Prof. Wegama Piyaratne Thera refers to the origin and development of the concept of relic worship and its expansion in India during the Asokan period and subsequently in Sri Lanka. In fact it is stated that after the arrival of Arahat Mahinda the practice of Relic worship was firmly established in the island.
In his article on "System of Monastic Management as Depicted in the Vinnay Pitaka," Ven. Prof. Gallelle Sumanasiri Thera refers to the management in earning the four basic requisites by monks, namely, food, clothing, shelter and medicine.
According to the Vinaya the right time to eat solid food for monks is from sunrise to sunset and that they should be content with little food, enough to sustain their body in a healthy condition.
In collecting the food they should follow the bee theory (taking honey from the flower without causing harm) and should not be a burden on the community on which they depend.
Much information on the development of Bodhisatva ideal and eight prominent Bodhisatvas in Mahayana are given by Ven. Dr. Ittademaliya indrasara Thera in his article by the same title. The word Bodhisatva in Buddhist texts refers to the being aspiring to be the fully Enlightened one i.e. Samma Sambuddha.
He quotes from many Suttas where reference is made to Bodhisatvas. The Acariya Abbhuta Dhamma Sutta discloses the Buddha's previous life in the Tusita heaven and how the Boddhisatvas acquired extra ordinary characteristics when they were born in the human world.
In his article on "The Suttanipada and the Life of pre-monastic Buddhist Cenobites," Ven. Dr. Pategama Gnanarama Thera examines the place of the Suttanipada in the Pali Canon with reference to its subject matter and refers to the historical evidence to ascertain its antiquity.
The contribution of Ven. Prof. Khammai Dhammasami Thera of the International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University in Yangon, Myanmaar, is a reflection on the development of Buddhist Universities over the last 25 years.
He also refers to the encouragement given to the development of higher Buddhist education by the Buddha Jayanthi inspired development of 1956/57. There was expansion of Buddhist University education not only in the Theravada but also in Mahayana countries.
In these countries there was first the establishment of Departments of Buddhist Studies in prestigious Universities such as Harvard and London in the USA and UK respectively and then the establishment of Buddhist Colleges and Buddhist Universities.
He refers to the developments in the USA, Indonesia, Singapore, France, India and Hungary.Senior Prof. Asanga Tilakaratne in his article "Huan Zang and Fa Hsien of the History and Religion of Sri Lanka" examines the contribution of their accounts for the understanding of the history of Buddhism in the island in particular and the region in general. Fa Hsien had been in India and Sri Lanka for 15 years from 399 to 414 and the last two years was in Sri Lanka to find the vinaya texts of early Buddhist scholars.
Among many other things Fa Hsien had mentioned that at the Maha Vihara 3,000 monks had resided at that time and at the monastery called Chatiya, identified as the Mihintale of today, housed 2,000 monks.
He says that both these travellers describe the festivities associated with the worship of the Tooth Relic, the religious life of the people, both monks and laymen, which was not devoid of popular aspects such as relic worship. There is also much information on the nature of the Sangha.
"Motivation from a Buddhist Perspective" is the title of the contribution of Ven. Bhikkuni Dhammananda, a Ph. D. student. She mentions some of the common motivations such as cetena- volition; manasikara- reflection; chanda- wish; saddha- faith; tanha- craving etc.
The subject is discussed under three areas, namely, motivations as a complex psychological force, Buddhist ethical view on motivation and the Buddhist way of transforming motivation. She concludes that the Noble Eight Fold Path is the means to cultivate motivations not only for virtue but for deliverance from subjective and psychological suffering.
Prof. Daya Edirisinghe deals with the development of Buddhist thought in the Korean peninsula. Buddhism was introduced into this region in the 4th century and he discusses its progress and development concluding his presentation with its contribution to the Buddhist world. Among them is the spread of Buddhism to Japan through Korea.
The late Dr. Padmal de Silva discusses culture and obsessive compulsive disorders, a major anxiety disorder characterised by unwanted, intrusive cognitions which are recurrent and persistent, their diagnosis and treatment.
In her contribution Ms. Dilma Thusari Koggalage deals with mural paintings as a historical source with special reference to temple paintings of the Kandyan tradition. She quotes Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy who has said in his "Medieval Singhalese Art" that the murals at the Degaldoruwa Rajamaha Viharaya are priceless historical documents.
The theme of the murals was Jataka stories and events in the life of the Buddha and she deals with a number of murals of the Kandyan era.Mrs. Sasni Amarasekera's article is on "The difference between Site based and Landscape based Approaches to Cultural Heritage management" while the contribution of R.K.A.N. Rathnasiri is on "Post Colonial Voice in Sri Lankan poetry in English."
The 13 English articles in this publication covers a wide range of Buddhist subjects such as its philosophy, discipline, culture, historical developments as well as art and architecture. They encapsulate a wealth of information on the Dhamma and is presented in a manner that an ordinary reader is able to comprehend. The print is satisfactory, printers being Tharanji Printers of Nawinna, Maharagama.
A serious deficiency is in the proof reading with many errors mostly of a typing nature in several pages of the publication. Those responsible should have paid much more attention to this important aspect.
All in all it is an excellent publication to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka, which has played a leading role in the revival and internationalisation of higher Buddhist education.
'Can you know the pain in my heart?'
Reviewed by Eva Ranaweera
Title: Nim Neti Thunyama
Author: Buddhadasa Galappatty
Buddhi's new book struck a chord of pain in my heart as I read his last poem in the collection which I will translate here for reference and communication with the reader since I mean to select other poems in the book of a similar nature for appraisal.
The difference between the last poem and the selected others being poetic moods and a faced tragedy also involved with poetic moods. The difference is poignant.
The Last Poem
With fragrance of flower you came to me
Like the moon
Why did you think of leaving when in
The Sansara
I am bound to you in mind and body
With no separation?
You taught me the truth according to the laws of nature
No meeting can take place without a farewell
Though you cannot see the tears in my eyes
Running tears are in my heart endlessly running.
Remembrance of twenty years in memory left behind
A farewell causing pain in heart
Leaving an eraseless fragrance with me.
Can you know the pain hurting in my heart?
Mixed in the poetic jargon of, the moon, the fragrance, the flowers, the pain etc. is the realistic tragedy that emerges surfacing 'Can you know the pain hurting in my heart?'
I need not go into harrowing details of the tragedy of his life. The book called Nim Neti Thunyama or Endless Nights as referred to in the book or the Endless Thunyamas contained 34 poems and some of which are similar to the last poem in thought and poetics.
I like to group them as Viraha Gee/Songs of Separation which, in the Sinhala poetry has a place of its own.
The most famous is the verses of pain poured out by the queen waiting for Parakrama Bahu the king in the Parakumba Sirita. It contain the poetic ingredients, the moon, the night, the still waiting, the lamentation but topping it all is the rhythm and the meter the sorrowful music of the Viraha Gee.
In Nim Neti Thunyama which the title has a beautiful yet sorrowful rhythmic quality about it, the Last Poem contains as said earlier the personnel pathos running realistically and the earlier Viraha poems seems to be preparatory yet with a type of suffering of years gone by.
The under stated and never brought to the surface, is the pain of the poet the last being not an imaginative poetic pain but arising out of reality. The other poems are staccato, short lined rhythmless and in the spoken direct language.
The poems I would list as Viraha Gee will Raya Pahan Nowe, Siyalla Newathila, Mamama Wemi, Ege Kaviya, Namal Suwanda, Lumbiniyedi, Mage Wam Urahisa and more, and they echo sorrowful out-pouring from an incident.
For instance in Namal Suwada plucking Namal for her and in juxtaposition another journey under the same Namal tree reminding of the past event but suppressing the joy he got earlier to question Namal fragrance, "Do you not know that I cannot come again to pluck Namal because (the poet) is alone?
The sorrow is not dwelt upon long but suppressed hastily.These verses of short sentences run from line to line hinting at suppressed meaning and an unexplained event which is more meaningful.
The poems are full of Srungara Rasa and the poetic utterances in the spoken language brings them closer to the reader and is easy of reach of many.
Lyrics of Lanka
The English translation of Sinhala lyrical compositions by Swarna Kanthi Rajapakse titled Lyrics of Lanka was launched at the BMICH on May 15, 2008 in the presence of Minister Bandula Gunawardena, Minister of Trade Marketing Development, Co-operatives and Commercial Affairs.
Bandula Padmakumara, Chairman, Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited, Professor Sunil Ariyaratne, Dr. Lakshman Fernando, Dr. Lakshmi de Silva and other distinguished guests.
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Norwegian Cruise Line offers cruises to Bermuda from New York and Boston. The voyages are casual with lots of fun things to do and very few rules. You decide when and where you'll eat, what to wear and everything else. That's how to "cruise like a Norwegian".
Norwegian Cruise Line is known for "freestyle cruising". That means there are multiple choices of places to eat, and there are no fixed dining times or pre-assigned seating. A wide range of staterooms and suites has something to fit every budget. Live entertainment includes Broadway-style shows, comedy clubs, aerial acrobatics, movies, and more.
Watch a short video introduction to Bermuda cruises by Norwegian Cruise Line.
Kids cruise like Norwegians too. Youth programs include Splash Academy (ages 3-12) and Entourage (ages 13-17). Families can choose multi-room suites or interlocking staterooms.
The complete list of Norwegian cruises to Bermuda is below. Click a ship name for more details and photos.
4-day Bermuda cruise on the Norwegian Pearl. Round-trip from Boston (Massachusetts) to Royal Naval Dockyard (Bermuda).
4-day Bermuda cruises on the Norwegian Joy. Round-trip from New York to Royal Naval Dockyard (Bermuda).
• 2022 departures: August 28, October 8.
5-day Bermuda cruises on the Norwegian Joy. Round-trip from New York to Royal Naval Dockyard (Bermuda)(overnight).
• 2022 departures: April 26, September 1, October 3, November 26.
5-day Bermuda cruises on the Norwegian Getaway. Round-trip from New York to Royal Naval Dockyard (Bermuda)(overnight).
• 2022 departures: December 13, December 18.
5-day Bermuda cruise on the Norwegian Gem. Round-trip from New York to Royal Naval Dockyard (Bermuda)(overnight).
• 2022 departure: April 9.
7-day Bermuda cruises on the Norwegian Joy. Round-trip from New York to Royal Naval Dockyard (Bermuda)(2 overnights).
• 2022 departures: May 1, May 8, May 15, May 22, May 29, June 5, June 12, June 19, June 26, July 3, July 10, July 17, July 24, July 31, August 7, August 14, August 21, October 22, October 29, November 5, November 12, November 19.
7-day Bermuda cruises on the Norwegian Pearl. Round-trip from Boston (Massachusetts) to Royal Naval Dockyard (Bermuda)(2 overnights).
• 2022 departures: April 8, April 15, April 22, April 29, May 6, May 13, May 20, May 27, June 3, June 10, June 17, June 24, July 1, July 8, July 15, July 22, July 29, August 5, August 12, August 19, October 28, November 4.
• 2023 departures: February 1, March 26.
• 2023 departures: March 24, March 31, April 7, April 14, April 21, April 28, May 5, May 12, May 19, May 26, June 2, June 9, June 16, June 23, June 30, July 7, July 14, July 21, July 28, August 4, August 11, August 18.
7-day Bermuda cruises on the Norwegian Prima. Round-trip from New York to Norfolk (Virginia) and Royal Naval Dockyard (Bermuda)(2 overnights).
• 2023 departures: April 2, April 9, April 16, April 23, April 30, May 7.
7-day Bermuda cruises on the Norwegian Bliss. Round-trip from New York to Norfolk (Virginia) and Royal Naval Dockyard (Bermuda)(2 overnights).
• 2023 departures: May 21, May 28, June 4, June 11, July 9, July 16, July 30, August 6, August 13.


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Q: Setting multiple UIBarButtonItems fails on device, but not on simulator I'm consistently running into an invalid selector exception when I attempt to set multiple UIBarButtonItems in MonoTouch.
In the simulator, there are no issues at all. Each button I add works correctly. Only when I deploy to a test device (iPhone 3G with iOS 4.2.1 installed) does it throw this error:
-[UINavigationItem setRightBarButtonItems:animated:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0xef7af0
I have tried using the RightBarButtonItems property and the explicit SetRightBarButtonItems method, passing a UIBarButtonItem[] instance in each case.
Maybe the way to get around this is to use a ToolBar with a custom view, but I'd rather just use the API as advertised, especially if it works correctly in the simulator.
Anyone run into this?

A: I assume you're using MonoTouch 5.0 and the latest iOS SDK (5) and Xcode 4.2.
The setRightBarButtonItems:animated: selector is new in iOS5. This means it will work in the simulator, which likely defaults to 5.0. However this won't work in older releases of iOS (e.g. like 4.2.1).
At this stage you have two choices:

*

*avoid iOS5 features; or

*detect, at runtime, which version of iOS is being used and adjust your application to what's available.

A: Check this out: http://osmorphis.blogspot.com/2009/05/multiple-buttons-on-navigation-bar.html
It works if you want to add multiple right buttons for iOS < 5.0

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Peter Harrington, co-owner of Harrington & Hallworth, has described his delight at opening the company's first boutique in central Manchester.
The business, run by Mr Harrington and Alf Hallworth, already operates prestige watch and jewellery stores in the Manchester satellite towns of Wilmslow and Ashton-under-Lyne.
Mr Harrington remembers walking down King's Street in Manchester as a boy and marvelling at the beauty of the Boodles store there. Now, with Boodles re-locating to another position on the same street, Harrington & Hallworth has taken over the corner unit.
"My greatest pleasure is our new store is opposite Boodles, who I have known since I was fifteen years old , taking repairs to Mr Bancroft. If people say the shop is like Boodles of forty years ago, then I have achieved my goal," Mr Harrington says.
The opening was originally held up by delays to Boodles moving to its location, but since then the shop fit has been completed ahead of schedule.
It was far from straightforward due to the exact requirements of Vacheron Constantin, Chopard and Breguet, and the constraints of working within a historic building.
"The shop design is influenced by the listed building status we are in. We used stone , bronze and walnut, this tied in with the building. The Chopard vitrines coordinate with the glass of Breguet, and the walnut, cream and black of Vacheron Constantin , together with their golden bronze metal frames," Mr Harrington explains.
"We are very pleased with the way it has turned out. It's all about balance, brands need a certain amount of space , I hoped nothing would clash. Everything contrast very nicely and importantly it all flows," he adds.
The shop fit was carried out by independent contractor Ward Williams with specialist lighting installed by Parify.
Mr Harrington is confident that there will be a market for the prestigious and expensive watches from Vacheron Constantin, Breguet and Chopard. "Manchester is such a hot spot for watches, but we were not prepared to compromise and we are delighted to of secured three of the finest brands. They each require a high degree of professional handling, and I believe that is why we were given the agencies," he describes.
The boutique will also have what Mr Harrington describes as "a serious jewellery offer." The shop will have its own in house goldsmith and gemologist presenting a collection of world class fine jewellery.


Work on the marketplace spanned from initial conception to implementation of the Employee, Employer and Carrier portals. All work crafted by a core team of two experience designers, including myself.
The marketplace currently operates in California, Colorado, Massachusetts and New York.
To kick off the project, our team conducted a week long design sprint with Fidelity's internal business team, and their technical partner. This process was guided by findings from a multi day deep dive into the competition, stakeholder pains/gains, and terminology of benfits.
Two elements of the product that became increasingly clear were the necessity of quality way-finding, as well as highlighted plan comparisons.
Quality way-finding was crucial in both allowing a user to know where they were in the sign up process (aka how much more time they were going to have to spend signing up), as well as explaining various benefit concepts or explaining how they can affect previous benefit picks.
After seeing the thick packets of information regarding each plan that are traditionally given to employees, it became evident that the product needed to highlight how plans differed, and how they affected the aspects of the users of lives that they conciously followed (prescription costs, cost per paycheck, current doctor, etc.).
After the design sprint, and having tested the full flow Axure prototype with over twenty users, it became clear that the way-finding could be incredibly complicated and confusing without a simple concise flow. We eventually landed on six steps that provided reassuring way-finding for users, while also allowing for enough flexibility for the sometimes circular aspects of the flow to be captured in a single step.
To address the plan selection problem, I focused on researching tangential product comparison tools (auto, jewelry, computer, credit card, home, etc). With this research, a variety of paper prototypes were created, and tested with users.
In the finished product the plan comparison issue is tackled in a horizontal manner, allowing the user to see many plans at once, with the "conscious" differentiating factors called out. To accomplish this, all of the other plan details are included in a "show plan details" accordion. This allows the user access to this information if they would like it, while not overwhelming the user from the start.
In the "tax savings" and "additional benefits" sections the plan types available are dependent on which plans were selected previously, but by containing the ebb and flows within one step we were able to keep a consistent global progress indicator.


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