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We met a couple at a dinner party about a year ago, and the four of us instantly hit it off. We were similar enough, yet different enough, that there was great potential for that most elusive of adult relationships -- a new "couple friendship." That's when two couples become friendly not just because there happens to be a work connection, a kid connection, or a friendship between half the couples into which their spouses are dragged kicking and screaming. I'm talking about a real emotional rectangle where all four people actually become instant friends.
A year later, I still think we are truly couple compatible. But there's a roadblock, and I have a pretty good idea what it is.
My wife and I are weird.
Lovably weird, I hope, but still weird, and in a very specific, socially challenged way. In a gender role reversal that may not seem like a big deal but actually is, I am the social director in our marriage. I am the one more motivated to make plans, keep plans, and make follow-up plans. I am, okay, the wife, and Diane is the husband, who can be counted upon when asked to commit to an outing to sigh, "Okay, if we must."
So, in our 20 years together, I've had a lot of discussions that go like this:
Me to another husband: "The four of us ought to get together for dinner sometime soon."
"Okay, I'll have my wife call Diane."
"Um, well, maybe you better have your wife call me."
By the way, I'm not trying to suggest that my wife is antisocial. Quite the opposite. Anyone who knows us will tell you Diane is much more charming than I am and infinitely more interesting. Not only is she an ideal guest, but she gives great thank-you note and even greater handwritten acceptance note, treating even the most casual get-together as though we've been invited to the White House. But until we actually leave the house to go see other people, getting her to commit to socializing can be a struggle.
Sometimes she doesn't want to tear herself away from her writing; sometimes her health problems keep her from wanting to stray too far from home. And she also resists surrendering all the time required to prepare for nights out, which I understand. For me, it takes about 20 minutes, from the start of my shower to the last slouching look in the mirror. For her...well, let's just say this is the one aspect of socializing where she is still very much the wife.
So, you can see the problem. Think of the sheer amount of time and energy all wives need to prepare themselves -- shower, hair, makeup, dress, re-dress, ask how she looks, ignore the answer, go re-dress again, and then enter into a round of accessorizing before a period of self-hypnosis to get to her "happy place." If the wife wasn't the driving force in making the plans, what would keep her going through these arduous rituals, once used only to prepare Egyptian queens for burial?
While there are times I wish Diane would take the lead in our social life, I might have a hard time relinquishing the job. It's a position I've held since teen-hood, when my house was always the one where people congregated (perhaps because we got cable early, and my mom had developed a technique of refrigerator stocking that allowed her to double the snack capacity of each shelf). If I had my way, the home Diane and I live in (and work in) would be a similar kind of adult clubhouse, but it hasn't worked out that way -- which represents, I think, one of the few clear and recognizable compromises I made for love.
Still, I do realize that guys aren't always well suited to be family social directors. While Diane and I both treasure the integral role our couple friendships play in our marriage -- and in some cases, we rely on them more than on family -- I'm much more openly emotional and downright competitive when it comes to their care and feeding. I'm one of those people who treat every friendship with the same intensity that I did when I was a teenager. There's a joke that adulthood is just high school with money, but it's also high school without free time. Many of the friend issues you have in high school get confronted and resolved simply because you see everyone so often. Once you reach the grown-up world of work and family schedules, it's hard to block out the time to nurture a full-fledged friendship. Diane can accept this; I don't want to accept this. It's been especially challenging during the past few years, since most of our friends have kids and we don't. While I know it's stupid to feel this way, I sometimes worry I'm losing the competition for our favorite couples' time to a new group of interlopers, these neighborhood kid-and-carpool buddies.
When I'm feeling friendship-deprived, I take solace by looking through our bowling pictures. Early in our marriage, I decided to find the easiest, cheapest, and least-stressful way to get our closest couple friends together in one place. So we became the first adults ever to rent out the kids' party room at a local bowling alley, where we had pizza and beer and wine served in kiddie party cups. Then we bowled -- pretty badly -- and ended the night with a goofy group photo.
That was 17 years ago, and now these annual bowling photos are a slide show chronicling the sagas of our major couple friendships. There are two longtime friends who were on hiatus from my life when the parties began but are now back. While their first marriages didn't click with mine (okay, one wife had me thrown out of the wedding party) they show up pictured with their new spouses, with whom we'll all live happily ever after. But miraculously, our core group has been bowling and talking together once a year since "Love Shack" was blaring on the sound system. In fact, this year we all got so involved in conversation and catching up that, for the first time, we actually forgot to bowl. Several hours later we looked up, saw that our lanes had been given away and decided we didn't really care. We had spent the time doing something much more important.
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There's still a week to go before the much-anticipated season 12 premiere of "American Idol," but FOX 5's Paul Milliken got a chance to chat with some of the shows' stars in Los Angeles on Tuesday."Idol" host Ryan Seacrest said that viewers can expect to see fireworks with the panel, which includes new judges Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey and Keith Urban."They come from individual sports, and now they're together on a team, and so you're going to get that kind of friction every now and then," said Seacrest.FOX network executives say Carey and Minaj are passionate and have had some fiery exchanges at "Idol" auditions. "Idol" mainstay Randy Jackson completes the judges' panel."American Idol" premieres on Wednesday, January 16 on FOX 5.
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Billy Elliot author attacks council arts cuts
The North East author that penned Billy Elliot has accused Newcastle City Council of attacking the arts for working class people.
Lee Hall spoke out about cutbacks to services including libraries and theatres when he was back in the region to receive an honorary degree from Northumbria University.
The author said that the cuts would affect ordinary people the most.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- It may seem a bit early, but according to the Illinois Department of Public Health, now is the perfect time to consider getting a flu shot.
The influenza vaccine is just starting to arrive at local health departments, pharmacies, and health care clinics around Illinois, and the IDPH as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are recommending everyone 6 months and older get a flu shot as soon as it becomes available.
IDPH Director Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck says it is important to get a seasonal flu shot every year because of the changing flu strains. Additionally, he says the stigma behind the flu shot is completely untrue.
"One of the biggest myths and most common reasons people don't get a flu shot is because they think they get the flu from a flu shot," said Hasbrouck. "The viruses in the flu vaccine are either killed or weakened, so you cannot get the flu from the flu vaccine."
There will be three different flu shots available this year, as well as a nasal spray, including:
* Regular flu shot approved for people ages 6 months and older
* High-dose flu shot approved for people 65 and older
* Intradermal flu shot (smaller needle) approved for people 18 to 64 years old
The nasal spray flu vaccine is approved for health people 2 to 49 years of age who are not pregnant.
More information on the flu vaccine can be found at http://www.idph.state.il.us/flu/index.htm. To find out where you can get a flu shot, go to http://flushot.healthmap.org.


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LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. — Gabrielle and I were at the pharmacy the other day waiting to get our flu shots when I noticed a familiar bottle sitting on the bottom shelf. We were sitting on the bench they reserve for people who are waiting forlornly for their prescriptions, and we'd just had a reasonable amount of fun taking our blood pressure by plunging our arms down that ever-tightening tube they have. But now, with the school day's highlights reviewed, my email checked and nothing interesting on the Facebook feed, we were just waiting and staring in front of us.
And that's when I saw the Sea Breeze.
For those of you unfamiliar with this product, I'd wager to say you didn't have problems with pimples when you were a teen. I can firmly say I did not fall into that category. Instead, I was painfully familiar with this astringent that makes your face feel temporarily feel nice and cool — like it's been kissed by a breeze — because it swipes away any oil that might be naturally occurring there.
My first encounter with it was at my cousin Lisa's house at the age of about 10. I noticed the bottle sitting on her bathroom shelf in large part because of the wistful sailboat it had on the front of it. I instantly loved that boat for some reason — I actually love anything to do with the water, even though I get seasick — and I picked it up off the shelf and asked Lisa what it did.
Now, my cousin Lisa was just about the best cousin you can imagine. She was three important years older than me, but never made me feel too young or extraneous. In fact, she took me everywhere she went and, since she was absolutely beautiful, was admired with every step she took. Being that Lisa lived in the city, while I lived in a suburb considered the country, I always thought she went to feverishly interesting places, whether it was just walking to the corner store to get a Slurpee or to the playground where the bad kids had swung the swings over the top bar over and over so you couldn't use them. Anything and everything was interesting when Lisa was involved, and she indulged me constantly, not even minding when I fell in love with all her boyfriends.


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Top 5 Dead Or Alive: "He's Bringing Something New"
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[Each week, SOHH asks two entertainment personalities to name their Top 5 rappers of all-time. To make things tricky, we've created a "Hall of Fame" of emcees (see right) who are universally respected and therefore may not be mentioned. After Alan Ket named his top picks, R&B singer Aaradhna whips out her fave five.]
OutKast. They are unique. That's why I have to put them on my list.
Lauryn Hill. She knows what she's talking about when it comes to music. She's on my list.
Kendrick Lamar. His lyrics are very interesting. I can kind of connect to some of the stuff he talks about in his music. He's bringing something new.
Talib Kweli. He's great. He's really conscious about what he raps about. I just love his Beautiful Struggle album. That's one of my favorite albums.
Snoop Dogg. I have him on there for the longevity. He's lasted for ages and ages. He can do whatever he wants whether it's a reggae album or changing his name. He can do it all. He's a great rapper.


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Another example is Kinaxis who used the idea of a dating scenario to bring home the points on supply chain management. Here's an example of how Kinaxis puts humor into the use.
The challenge to all you conservative folks out there is to keep an open mind. I'm not suggesting you drop all the traditional stuff, absolutely not. But it's not bad to show folks you're human.
Leading solutions such as GTNexus and Kinaxis are helping to unify supply chain planning and execution, enabling rapid response and coordination across global business networks.
Kinaxis is a Supply Chain and Sales and Operations solution provider that also operate the Supply Chain Expert Community, which is a collaborative forum for subject matter experts to write about various Supply Chain subjects. Some of the most interesting, forward-looking posts come from Dustin Mattison, a prominent Supply Chain blogger who's posted numerous engaging interviews with leaders in the field. For example, check out his most recent interview about the unique advantages millennials stand to bring to Supply Chains.
TORONTO, Canada - Celestica Inc. (NYSE, TSX: CLS), a global leader in the delivery of end-to-end product lifecycle solutions, today announced the winners of its 2013 Total Cost of Ownership (TCOOTM) Supplier Awards. The awards honour suppliers who provide the best TCOO performance to Celestica and its customers by demonstrating excellence in quality, delivery, technology, service, pricing and flexibility.Best IT Technology Partner Award: Kinaxis
Agilent Technologies' 'control tower' - an information hub linking the instrument maker with its suppliers to provide inventory visibility - has helped the company deftly model parts availabiilty, manage order promising, and counteract parts shortages during a natural disaster.
Forty Under 40 recognizes accomplished leaders who are under the age of 40 and also give back to their community. The awards are co-hosted by Ottawa Business Journal and the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce. Megan Paterson, director of human resources for Kinaxis is one of this year's recipients.
During his time at Kinaxis, Westerveld has held myriad positions—everything from sales support to product management. Today, he is part of the company's marketing organization. "My primary role is the creation of demo environments to allow our sales organization to show how our product, RapidResponse, can be used to solve various supply chain problems. I also create marketing collateral and contribute to the 21st Century Supply Chain Blog," he says. "Working at Kinaxis has been a real joy over the past 12 years. There's always something new, always something to learn. Best of all, the people I work with day in and day out are just amazing."
The 21st Century Supply Chain Kinaxis delivers a comprehensive on-demand supply chain offering, which enables manufacturers and brand owners to drive supply chain management. This blog features various members of their team and the occasional guest writer with the purpose of providing insights on supply chain trends and issues affecting the business world.
"We believe this important recognition by Gartner underscores our success in helping clients achieve supply chain excellence through our transformational supply chain solution," said Douglas Colbeth, CEO, Kinaxis. "We differentiate ourselves in the market by offering a planning system of record founded on a single product, supported by a single data model and analytics engine. It is this breakthrough that enables companies to concurrently plan across functions and planning horizons, and facilitate continuous orchestration of their enterprise's operations. We are extremely proud to receive this third-party recognition."
Tan says that the control tower can very quickly predict the revenue impact from any possible deal as well as the company's ability to meet a delivery date before promising it to a customer. "Because of the wide range of products, it was quite a challenge to do this manually in the past within a short time," he says. "The control tower lets you know how much you have on hand and how fast you can get these parts into the factory that produces the product for the final customer."
... Given Agilent's positive experience, would Tan recommend that other companies with complex supply chains consider the use of a control tower to manage inbound supply? He's a firm believer in the concept. For one thing, he says, end-to-end supply chain visibility on a single platform will give companies the ability to manage their supply chains across regions and across time zones. "This will help the company to perform proactive and effective collaboration with suppliers and also enable speed in decision making in the shortest turnaround time," he says. That's key for avoiding unnecessary inventory and expediting costs. But just as importantly, he adds, "it will enable the company to win deals as well as provide customers the best customer experience in terms of delivery responsiveness."
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It's coming! For two weeks in October we are bringing together some of the biggest cycling events on the Sydney calendar – the urban commuting stalwart: National Ride to Work Day; Bicycle NSW's Spring Cycle; and the fun and diversity of the Sydney Bike Film Festival with plenty of other events in between.
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On Saturday, November 19, at 8 a.m., 13 high school students and five adults met in the parking lot of Piccolo's Restaurant on Kinnelon Road. As a truck loaded with over 1,200 frozen turkeys arrived, they piled into cars and caravanned to Father English Center in Paterson to unload the first 500 turkeys.
Seven hours later, they had delivered seven tons—14,000 pounds—of turkey; enough to feed everyone in Yankee Stadium.
The students are volunteers for Turkeys 4U, a nonprofit organization celebrating its tenth year. It was the brainchild of Blake Wheale, a Kinnelon High School freshman back in 2001 who wanted to raise money to help provide turkeys for the poor on Thanksgiving.
Through attorneys , Kinnelon residents with a law practice in Montville, Wheale's idea got support through , an organization with a foundation that helps pay for program expenses. The members of UNICO shop for trimmings, prepare food baskets, and deliver them to families in need through local schools, nurses and churches. The Cashas, who are members of Montville UNICO, have become annual advisors and liaisons for Turkeys 4U.
What makes this program unique is that students run it themselves while adults take a back seat.
"The students are in charge of their own organization," said Larry Casha. "They raise money, deliver food, sign the invoices and have corporate meetings. They learn succession planning through mentoring so when they leave, the people coming in behind are experienced."
Debra Casha said the students start planning their fundraising activities in July.
"We start meeting in July and August. We have four or five meetings. Each of the kids comes up with their own list of people and sends out their own letters. We collect lists when seniors graduate and divide names up among new kids so the list grows.
She said kids speak at churches and collect donations, and put shaker cans out.
Casha said when checks arrive, the students hand them in to Montville UNICO. They are encoded on a matrix, and sent to the foundation, who sends out the IRS letter and deposits the checks. The turkeys are purchased through Menella's Poultry, which includes the trucking. 100 percent goes toward feeding the needy. Any money left over is used to handle emergency requests throughout the year.
Casha said that delivering the turkeys is the fun part. On Saturday, their second stop was Pine Brook Fire House to unload 76 turkeys, with 15 going to the Kinnelon Health Department. The next stop was Market Street Mission for 326 turkeys, and the last 326 were delivered to the Interfaith Food Pantry in Morris Plains.
Casha said that donations were still coming in this year. She said the students raise on average $15,000-$20,000 a year. The number of students has grown over the years, and different high schools have participated. Casha they would like to see more high schools get involved.
To learn more about UNICO, visit their website: http://www.montvilleunico.org.


text: I first came across Alessi, and her subworld of child-like fantasy and sincere kindness, through her fascinating zine, the Brain Bulletin. Since then I have learned that she also has talents in music making. Through a voice as delicate as the guitar she softly plucks and picks, and songwriting that massages the imagination, she creates a world all her own, one worth a vacation to. She stopped by the Porch to chat about such things as her new album, "Notes from the Tree House," out on March 30th, Dr. Seuss, and London, her hometown.


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HILLINGDON Choral Society is taking inspiration from the West End in its summer show on July 5.
The concert, entitled Music from the Musicals, will include a concert version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
The society will also perform melodies from Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, Blood Brothers and Aspects of Love.
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The Undergraduate Neuroscience Conference
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October 18, 2014
Bethel University
Interested in last year's conference? Click here for the downloadable MidBrains 2013 Preliminary Schedule!
The inaugural MidBrains Undergraduate Neuroscience Conference - MidBrains 2007 - was held at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on Saturday, April 28th, 2007. Both the 2008 conference (May 3, 2008) and 2009 conference (May 2, 2009) were also hosted by Macalester College. The conference is a joint effort of the MidBrains Neuroscience Consortium-- a network of faculty from undergraduate neuroscience programs in the upper midwest, and now the conference rotates among the various network institutions. MidBrains 2010 was held at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN on May 1, 2010, and MidBrains 2011 was there as well, on April 30, 2011. The rotation moved to Carleton College for 2012 and 2013, and to the Fall Semester, when it is now permanently scheduled. This annual event provides a forum for undergraduate students in the Midwest to present research findings, to attend research lectures and special panels, and to meet other undergraduate students interested in the neurosciences. Representatives from several major research universities are also present to discuss graduate school opportunities. Students are encouraged to submit abstracts in all fields of the neurosciences and related disciplines!
Hope to see you at Bethel University in October 2014!Abstract Submission opens September 4, 2014 and closes October 3, 2014
Online Registration opens September 4, 2014 and closes October 10, 2014
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Register Online
All attendees are required to register online for MidBrains 2014. Online registration helps us to estimate the number of attendees in advance of the conference and to allocate resources appropriately. There is no registration fee.
Online registration for MidBrains 2014 opens September 4, 2014.
Submit an Abstract Online
In order to present either a poster or a talk at MidBrains 2014, you need to submit an abstract. The abstract should provide a descriptive account of the content of the presentation and should be limited to 200 words. Abstracts will only be accepted from registered attendees, so take a moment to register for the conference before submitting your abstract.
Absrtact Submission for MidBrains 2014 opens on September 4, 2014.
Interested in last year's conference schedule? MidBrains 2014 will be similar... The 2013 Conference Schedule was:
8:00am - Registration (Weitz Center for Creativity)
9:00am - 10:00am - Keynote Address
Concurrent Sessions
10:15 - 11:30am - Graduate School Presentations
11:30am - 12:15pm - Graduate Program Faculty Research Talks
12:15pm - 1:15pm - Lunch
1:30pm - 2:15pm - Graduate Student Research Talks 2:30pm - 3:30pm - Student Research Talks
2:30pm - 4:30pm - Poster Session, Graduate Program Information Tables & Social Further information will be posted here as it becomes available, but you can also contact
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Questions about MidBrains 2014?
Support for the previous MidBrains 2013 Conference was generously provided by:
The University of Iowa
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Carleton College
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Many of these sponsors have already signed on for MidBrains 2014!
2:30pm - 3:30pm - Student Research Talks
2:30pm - 4:30pm - Poster Session, Graduate Program Information Tables & Social
Further information will be posted here as it becomes available, but you can also contact Adam Johnson, Professor of Psychology, Bethel University with any questions about MidBrains or the MidBrains 2014 conference.
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text: The head of the Altoona Firefighters Union expressed concern to city council Wednesday night over their commitment to a grant that would add three firefighters to the department's roster. Bryson Peterman also accused Chief Tim Hileman of violating unfair labor practices for discussing contract negotiation matters. Officials say the negotiations have now gone to arbitration. Hileman tells WRTA News the FEMA SAFER grant, which would add the firefighters to the force, has to comply with both FEMA regulations and the city's ACT 47 recovery plan. Hileman says that's been the hold-up. "This process takes a while to complete," Hileman said. "There are some restrictions that we have to address before we accept the plan...we can't jump right into it." Peterman says adding the firefighters would allow the city to increase staffing at two stations. Hileman says the firefighters would be used to help reduce the department's overtime budget.


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Authorities are investigating a Tuesday morning shooting incident in the Town of Somerset that sent a longtime Washington County Sheriff's deputy to the hospital.
The victim has been identified as Jerry Cusick, 53, of Stillwater.
"Cusick suffered a single shotgun blast to the head, face, neck and shoulder," according to an update from the St. Croix County Sheriff's Office. "He is listed in good condition.
The shooter has been identified as Anthony Cardarelli of White Bear Lake, according to the news release. Cusick was on private property scouting for an upcoming turkey hunt when he was allegedly shot by Cardarelli.
Cusick was able to make his way to a neighbor's home where he was transported by Lakeveiw EMS to Regions Hospital.
"There is no information at this point that Cardarelli intended to shoot a person," St. Croix County Sheriff John Shilts said in a prepared statement. "However, I have great concern over the fact that Cardarelli did not properly identify his intended target prior to shooting."
Cusick is a 28-year veteran of the Washington County Sheriff's Office. As a commander with the sheriff's office, Cusick's duties include heading up the Washington County sheriff's office court security operations and work with the special units division that includes chaplain services and the water, parks and trails unit.
The St. Croix County Sheriff's Office was called at 7:24 a.m. to the 1900 block of 80th Street for a report of a person who had been shot.
Preliminary information indicates that hunters were turkey hunting in the area when one hunter shot another hunter, according to a news release from the St. Croix Sheriff's Office. The incident remains under investigation.
Sheriff Bill Hutton told the Pioneer Press that Cusick had been out scouting a hunting area Tuesday morning when he was shot.
"It's a spot that he hunts," Hutton told the Pioneer Press. "He was just hiking through today. He had no weapon on him, just walking through the area in preparation for an upcoming hunt."


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When the government is not doing its job properly, artists and local urban enthusiasts can help. Artist Juliana Santacruz Herrera must have thought the same.
In Paris she started to repair the potholes in the streets with colorful yarn. Randomly placed in cracks and breaks, her designs result in a colourful addition to the urban lay-out. She draws inspiration from the recent guerrilla knitting trend adopted mostly by women in different cities around the world.
She uses the women's creations to decorate urban objects like pillars, phone booths and bikes. This colourful addition to the streets of Paris must have been a lot of work for the artist, and it's not particularly long lasting; however, it also draws attention to the local government's failings in a constructive way, brightening up the day for thousands of people in a way that asphalt never could.
This and more inspiring projects can be found in the print copy of A smart guide to Utopia or the ebook version.
One thought on "Decorating potholes"
Perhaps they should put polyurethane over these works of art. To encourage positive constructive criticism.
Although it also might encourage more potholes, but what a beautiful street-scape it would be.
Thanks, Juliana Santacruz Herrera that was Smart!


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May 9 - 15, 2011
A library visitor, Dr Hnin Yu Yu Naing, inspects bundles of pay (palm leaf) manuscript at the National Library in Yangon on May 3. Pic: Kaung Htet
LIBRARIANS in Myanmar are in a race against time to conserve the nation's dwindling collection of antique pay (palm leaf) manuscripts, many of which are mouldering in monasteries without proper care.
The manuscripts – consisting mostly of religious texts, literary works such as poems and plays, and historical works written on the dried leaves of pay palm trees – are also under attack by unscrupulous treasure hunters, said the assistant director of the National Library in Yangon.
"In 2003 I went on a field trip to the village of Padein at the foot of the Rakhine mountain range, I heard that a group of men had visited the monastery in the village and asked the head monk to show them the collection of pay manuscripts," she said. "The men said they just wanted to read the manuscripts, but when the monk turned his back they furtively scraped the gold leaf gilding from the ends of the pages."
"These occurrences are common in other areas of the country as well," she said, adding that monks are sometimes persuaded by dealers to trade pay collections for television sets and other goods.
The assistant director explained that the pay are in loose-leaf form and collected in bundles of individual sheets. The text is written on the palm leaf in ink using a stylus. Pay are different from parabeik, which consist of sheets of paper sewn together to create folding manuscripts.
The assistant director said the National Library holds more than 10,000 bundles of pay manuscripts, which have been collected from private donations and monasteries. Large collections have also been donated by the descendents of U Kaung (1821-1903), who worked as a minister, diplomat and author during the time of the last Myanmar kings, and of U Tin (1861-1933), another writer and administrator who had saved large numbers of precious manuscripts.
The National Library's assistant director said that because of the shady practices of some dealers and treasure hunters, it's not always easy for library staff to gain the trust of local residents in villages where collections of palm leaf manuscripts are held.
She said her group of manuscript conservators were confronted by suspicious locals in Shan State during a 1997 trip to save nearly 1000 bundles of pay manuscripts at a monastery in Thar Lay village near Inle Lake.
"We had to insist on getting access to the manuscripts, which were sitting in a cabinet and covered in filth. We had to convince the villagers that we would clean the palm leaves and catalogue the collection. But they watched what we were doing very closely the whole day," she said.
"They finally came to trust us only after we had cleaned the pay and arranged them neatly in the cabinet with camphor [for preservation]."
The manuscripts were left at the monastery, but the collection was catalogued and photographed, and the contents of the collection was published in 2006 in the book Palm Leaf Manuscript Catalogue.
On the same trip, the group of conservators inspected the pay manuscripts at Sulemani Pagoda in Nyaungshwe. Many were broken and covered with dust and bat guano.
However, the Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival was occurring in the area at the time, and in the midst of the celebration the pagoda's trustees were unable to accommodate the group's request to conduct restoration work.
"Another librarian who stopped in Pangtara in 1998 said she found that villagers had been collecting broken pay in baskets and using them as fuel to make fire," she said.
The National Library's assistant director said palm leaf manuscripts are found throughout Myanmar, including Ayeyarwady Region – a monk from a monastery in Dedaye donated 800 pay bundles to the National Library in 2001.
"It's unknown exactly how many palm leaf manuscripts are left in the country because the library is still getting donations from monasteries around the country," she said.
The pilfering of palm leaf manuscripts is nothing new. In the article "The Journey of Myanmar Libraries", published in October 1972 in Pyinnyar Lawka magazine, writer U Than Htut described how British troops occupying Mandalay Palace in 1885 combed through boxes holding pay and parabeik for precious stones.
Eyewitnesses described how, during the search, the manuscripts were strewn about as if they were trash, and many were even burned. The carnage stopped only after complaints were filed with British authorities.
The surviving manuscripts from the Mandalay court were dispersed to the Bernard Free Library in Yangon (which became the National Library in 1952), the king of Thailand's personal collection and the library at the Secretariat for India in London.
The Bernard Free Library, established in 1883, bought palm leaf manuscripts from the families of U Kaung in 1921 and U Tin in 1924. By 1940 the collection totalled 7588 bundles.
U Thaw Kaung, retired chief librarian of the Universities Central Library and author of the 2008 book From the Librarian's Window: Views of Library and Manuscript Studies and Myanmar Literature, said the few remaining pay manuscripts are fast disappearing due to "negligence in preservation".
"Climate and insect bites also cause damage. There are virtually no pay manuscripts or parabeik left that were produced more than 400 years ago," said U Thaw Kaung, who has been working to preserve manuscripts at Yangon University Library and Universities Central Library for 45 years
His preservation and restoration group consists of librarians and experts on Pali language who focus their work on monasteries in Mandalay Region, Shan State and Thaton in Mon State.
"During a trip to Bagan for preservation and restoration work, we found manuscripts left on the floor of a monastery right underneath where the rain was leaking through the roof," he said, adding that such incidents only emphasise the amount of work needed to be done to preserve the manuscripts and educate people about Myanmar's literary heritage.
"The texts of the pay should be published in book form, and should also be preserved in digital form and on microfilm," he said. "It is very important to spread knowledge about these texts, both within Myanmar and abroad."
"It is not enough to conserve bundles of pay. We must also make more field trips to monasteries to find out how many still survive and when they were produced," U Thaw Kaung said.


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Possibility of Captain Worf series?
Saw this link easrlier, apparently Michael Dorn is keen on the idea of a Worf show, so this would be another 24th century prime universe series, be cool to see, but I personally don't think it would happen, and if it did I couldn't see it lasting.
Not going to happen ever… unless its a webcast. Worf is history.
Yeah, I don't see it happening either. Everything has its time, and the time to do this would have been 10-15 years ago. Star Trek Excelsior, Star Trek The Third Generation, Star Trek KLINGON!! and any other pipe-dream spin-offs put forward are 2nd Generation concepts by this point. We're in 3rd Generation ST now, and it's still too early to say what all that means. Though it seems to mean ST moves forward as a 'movie' franchise and TV isn't happening. The market is (presumably) no longer there to support hardware-oriented sci-fi on television.
Not to mention the plain fact that CBS has expressed absolutely no interest in getting a new Trek series off the ground, they simply want to milk every dime they can out of the existing material and collect their cut from Paramount from the movies.
Understandable, given how the last series performed.
Plus the market for TV is now presumably spread so thin, across so many channels and diminished by other forms of electronic media, that 'cult' shows can't really afford to be made anymore especially if the production cost is high. I mean maybe you could do ST for TV in a more limited format, however we 'may' already be passing the point where even producing it in a 10-episodes-per-season format wouldn't be profitable.
It has had its time really and continuous reruns for the next many a year is all I expect to see.
Begs the question though, would people want a series with Captain Michael Dorn at the helm?
I think ENT and the two aborted Galactica spin-offs have both answered that.
Really, I've come to think Galactica was the last of the great space operas for TV. And I'm fine with it remaining that way. Between Star Trek, ST:TNG, and the rebooted Galactica (not to mention more 'cult' shows such as B5, Firefly and Farscape), I suspect the (televised) space opera has run its course.
I'm kinda coming round to the idea that a new weekly series is either a long way off or possibly just now viable right now given the way TV is changing.
Plus, as noted, CBS doesn't seem interested anyway.
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The young Cavaliers led by their star Kyrie Irving has a lot of promise. Kyrie Irving has rejuvenated Cleveland and is creating tons of excitment for not only Cavaliers fans, but NBA fans across the country. Irving is definately the hot topic going into the all star weekend and us Cavaliers fans can only sit back and smile with pride. Lately Irving has taken his game to the next level showcasing why he was picked number 1 overall in 2011. Fortunately the rest of the team is improving drastically as well. Tristan Thompson has been phenomenal since our beloved Anderson Varajao was declared out for the season. TT has been rebounding offensively and defensively alot better then his rookie year and first half of this season. He has been scoring at will offensively and is showing that he deserves a starting spot for the Cavs for years to come.
Mareese Speights has given our bench new life to say the least. His defensive presence has reflected on the whole team and his rebounding has been great. Offensively he finishes under the basket and can hit from mid range at ease. Wayne Ellington has been shooting the ball well coming off the bench nailing key three pointers and consistently hitting from mid range. Our rookie Dion Waiters has been improving as well as Tyler Zeller.
Now as the title of this post suggests I will share with you what the Cavaliers should do next season and for years to come. First off I say we keep Anderson Varajao one more season at least. Let him build up his trade value again so we he can be dealt for picks or possible young talent already in the league. I love Andy but his injuries seem like its the only thing that is consistent about him besides his rebounding. I say keep Daniel Gibson for his three point shooting and veteran leadership. We need a guy like that as a role player. I say we trade C.J Miles. I honestly am not comfortable with his role as a catch and shoot player. He just isn't consistent enough. One game he is decent and the next game he can't buy a basket. If hes missing he'll still keep trying to shoot till Scott benches him. I would rather have another player fit that role then him. I say we keep Ellington and Speights for the long run. There presence has made our team a hell of a lot better since they've arrived.
For the draft I would love to pick up Ben McLemore but unless we get the number one pick overall its looking like he'll be gone off the board before our pick. I would then suggest we go after Otto Porter or Shabazz Muhhammad due to the fact we've been lacking at SF since an unmentionable someone made a decision to take his talents to South Beach. Both those guys "Shabazz and Otto" are great players all around and would fit nicely in Cleveland. I have an upcoming post that will break down both in my perspective so stay tuned.
There is a few free agents I would love to see come to Cleveland. I would love to have Andre Iguodala but I doubt he leaves Denver. I say we go after Kevin Martin, for a second scoring option. He has proven that he can consistenly score and comes nicely off the bench in OKC. If we were to acquire him then I would place him at starter while Waiters continue to develop.
My future drawn out. Feel free to express your opinons. Thanks for reading.
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Irving. 35-38 mins
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Born Jan. 25, 1923, in Logansport, she was the daughter of the late Ora J. and Winnie M. Collins Mackey.
A 1941 graduate of Logansport High School, Mary Ann was a homemaker. She had worked 18 years as a rehabilitation therapist at the Logansport State Hospital.
Mary Ann was a member of the former Ninth Street Christian Church in Logansport. She was active in Silver Striders and was a longtime member of the Cass County Extension Homemakers Club. She enjoyed crafts, playing bingo and traveling.
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She was preceded in death by three brothers, Jack, Jim and Joe Mackey; and one sister, Bettye Lou Bonnell.
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For the next four decades, Tony Auth drew Philadelphia for us. If you think that's easy, you don't understand the art of the cartoon. David Leopold, the curator of the WHYY exhibit—it was originally mounted in 2012 at Doylestown's Michener Art Museum—does, now that he's gone through 10,000 of Auth's cartoons with the artist at his side. "I mostly deal with 20th-century American art," explains Leopold, who lives in Bucks County and has helmed exhibits in New York City, Los Angeles and Europe, among other places. "There's a lot of ambiguity in it, a lot of give. But Tony's work—if you don't understand it in 10 seconds, I've picked the wrong piece. How do you do a show where there's no ambiguity?"
In the end, Leopold based the exhibit (which will run at WHYY through November 8th, with a companion exhibit of Philadelphia-centric cartoons at the Philadelphia History Museum from October 11th through January) on what had been the artist's home for so many years: the newspaper. He had Auth hand-letter, in his distinctive block print, categories the cartoons naturally fell into: Vietnam, Nixon, Economics, Civil Rights, Faith, Guns … Beneath these "headlines" were Auth's takes on each subject across the decades. "You don't read a newspaper straight through," Leopold says. "You might look at the first page, then go to sports, or art. People can interact with the exhibit the way they do a newspaper, according to their interests."
The key to cartooning, like so much of life, is to make it look easy. Auth learned from his early mentor, Conrad, that the labor behind his art should never show—however much work that took. At the Inquirer, Auth was notorious for bypassing his editors, turning instead for critiques of sketches to reporters, photographers, columnists. It's a process he's continued at WHYY.
"We have a young newsroom," says Satullo. "Most of the people there are maybe half Tony's age. It's wonderful to see the joy they have in working together." Whereas plenty of older journalists are cowed or angered by their field's radical technological mutations (hello, Stu Bykofsky!), Auth, as Satullo puts it, "surfs on top of that change and yells 'Cowabunga!'" It's an image Auth really should draw.


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On the Influence Propagation of Web Videos
By Jiajun Liu, Yi Yang, Zi Huang, Yang Yang, and Heng Tao Shen
We propose a novel approach to analyze how a popular video is propagated in the cyberspace, to identify if it originated from a certain sharing-site, and to identify how it reached the current popularity in its propagation. In addition, we also estimate their influences across different websites outside the major hosting website. Web video is gaining significance due to its rich and eye-ball grabbing content. This phenomenon is evidently amplified and accelerated by the advance of Web 2.0. When a video receives some degree of popularity, it tends to appear on various websites including not only video-sharing websites but also news websites, social networks or even Wikipedia. Numerous video-sharing websites have hosted videos that reached a phenomenal level of visibility and popularity in the entire cyberspace. As a result, it is becoming more difficult to determine how the propagation took place - was the video a piece of original work that was intentionally uploaded to its major hosting site by the authors, or did the video originate from some small site then reached the sharing site after already getting a good level of popularity, or did it originate from other places in the cyberspace but the sharing site made it popular. Existing study regarding this flow of influence is lacking. Literature that discuss the problem of estimating a video's influence in the whole cyberspace also remains rare. In this article we introduce a novel framework to identify the propagation of popular videos from its major hosting site's perspective, and to estimate its influence. We define a Unified Virtual Community Space (UVCS) to model the propagation and influence of a video, and devise a novel learning method called Noise-reductive Local-and-Global Learning (NLGL) to effectively estimate a video's origin and influence. Without losing generality, we conduct experiments on annotated dataset collected from a major video sharing site to evaluate the effectiveness of the framework. Surrounding the collected videos and their ranks, some interesting discussions regarding the propagation and influence of videos as well as user behavior are also presented.
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|Rocket Man
"the PC market actually continues to grow at pace with the increase in the distribution of PC hardware"
No sh*t, Sherlock.
Only companies that don't know how to make good games anymore (Epic, I'm looking at you) are pushing those lies.
|Luke Rymarz
Yeah, PC Games are moving towards two completely different sales models: online sales and subscriptions. You've got Steam and you've got WoW (and MMOs), and tracking over the counter sales will not account for this.
Sounds like everyone needs to update their market research paradigm. I mean, Blizzard just announced that they've hit 11 Million subscribers. How could PC Games be dying?
|Brian Pleshek
While I also agree it isn't dying, i do see a huge decrease in the number of PC titles available.
|Steven Boswell
The PC won't die as a gaming platform as long as I can help it. I've never been able to use my PS3's controllers effectively -- they're too small for my hands. I can't aim accurately with those little analog-sticks either. Give me a keyboard and mouse any day. If it wasn't for SingStar, my PS3 would be a glorified movie player.


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Hey All! What a crazy week it's been…again. You all think I'm probably psychotic because all I do is talk about how busy I am. But this week I had 3 tests back to back on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. It was not fun at all. I spent every night studying for a good 4 hours for each test. I am looking forward to a relaxing weekend because I don't have too much homework. It will be nice to catch up on sleep for once as well.
I have been thinking about my summer plans next year, which seems a bit early but I need to figure it out. I think I want to do an internship so I have been looking into the different opportunities that are offered here in Decorah, and in the Twin Cities (where I live when I'm not at Luther). So I stopped by the Career Center earlier this week and they gave me loads of information about how to find internships and how to prepare and submit a good cover letter and resume. They have so many resources on campus, which helps a lot when looking for a career in the future. Luther has a great network with its alumni as well. There is a huge list of alumni that work at different companies/corporations and are willing to talk with you about potential career opportunities. In addition to having all these alumni, Luther also brings in career fairs and different universities with Graduate/Professional programs to the college so the students can get more information about what to do after Luther. In addition, the Career Center also has an online database that has information about internships and jobs that are interviewing/hiring, which also is very helpful because it centralizes all of the information. I found all of this information extremely helpful and it once again affirms that Luther is the choice for me. I am confident that they will help me find an internship for next summer and help me find a career during my senior year. I can tell that the career center really cares about the students here, which gives me a sigh of relief. I can't believe that I am planning my summer out already but the closer I get to being a senior the more experience/field work I want to have so I can hopefully get a job before I graduate.
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Football's post-mortem and the way forward
THE disappointment of the Reggae Boyz's failure to qualify for the Brazil World Cup Finals has affected us all.
It would have been a perfect backdrop had the Boyz qualified for their second World Cup Finals in the vast and beautiful South American nation that shares so much with Jamaica, culturally and otherwise.
But as we agonise over not being numbered among the 32 nations that will jostle for the game's most precious prize between June 12 and July 13, 2014 the time is also ripe for us to reflect on the costly mistakes that unwittingly engineered our downfall.
We have not heard of one just yet, but we are sure that prudent wisdom would dictate a post-mortem of the failed Brazil 2014 crusade. It's important that the country does everything possible to safeguard itself from repeating the errors of the last campaign.
From where we sit, it is clear that all the functioning parts of the football programme failed to click on this occasion and we are left to rue the miserable end result where Jamaica finished at the bottom of the six-nation tournament with five points.
We are convinced there were shortcomings in planning, execution, team selection, tactics, and a wide range of other relevant connections.
The scope of what went wrong, we suspect, is so far-reaching that no one person should shoulder the blame. Therefore, responsibility, we offer, should be borne from a collective point of view.
To avoid a repeat of the pitfalls of the Brazil 2014 campaign, we should set targets and unflinchingly strive to achieve their success. We must have strong systems in place to drive the various programmes.
We must avoid a repeat of the humiliation of the last Caribbean Cup, where as defending champions, we failed to come out of the group phase.
That failure meant our Boyz did not qualify for the CONCACAF Gold Cup, where we missed a glorious opportunity to get vital match practice during the final phase of the World Cup qualifying campaign.
We should not accept ever again our marquis Boyz lying idle on FIFA calendar dates, while our likely opponents are busy sharpening their skills for us. We should, henceforth, optimise every chance we get to build team chemistry.
Sadly, the New Year dawned on us with an air of uncertainty about whether or not we will be able to successfully retain the services of the experienced coach, the German Mr Winfried Schafer.
We have reported that he has in his hands a new contract from the JFF, but is yet to sign. We fear that Mr Schafer may be stalling to weigh his options in a market where his credentials would be attractive to potential employers in far stronger financial positions than ours.
We await with bated breaths his final answer, which should come by mid-January.
With or without Mr Schafer, however, the show must go on. Our Under-20 Reggae Girlz will, in under a week, begin their final quest for a historic World Cup qualification in the Cayman Islands. Both Under-17 and Under-20 men's teams will later this year have their Caribbean elimination play-offs.
For the senior Boyz, they have the CFU Caribbean Cup towards the end of the year. Between now and then, there are four FIFA calendar windows for friendly international games.
For their sake, we hope the Boyz take full advantage.
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Jamaican women on track for glory
The track and field competition opened yesterday and produced overall satisfying results for Jamaica.
All my predictions are on target with qualifications for advancing to round two achieved in all events on the track. The performance of our women's 400 metres athletes was, in my view, the most impressive; although Kimberly Williams did make a most emphatic statement in producing the second best jump in advancing to the triple jump final and Trecia-Kaye Smith, although not surprisingly, also rose to the occasion in that same event despite a long lay-off due to injury.
In my first visit to the track and field mix zone (where journalists get a chance to button-hole the athletes immediately after their races), I sought to get the attention of Novlene Williams-Mills, our national 400 metres champion, after her controlled performance in winning the first round of this event.
I attempted to ask her a question that I know a lot of her strongest fans have been asking for years, but moreso now that she is poised to compete in her third Olympic games. Has she determined the best time to challenge for the lead? Is she ready and confident in the strategy to employ? I wanted to know and asked her thus when I eventually got my question in.
Maybe because she had just responded to a barrage of questions from my other colleagues and would have been understandably weary, whatever the reason, her response was terse following which she abruptly retreated to the Athletes' Village, or wherever it is that they go after their races.
I was a bit disappointed by her response though and did my best to play it down when another journalist with a UK accent wanted to know what was her problem. I prefer to think that she simply found my question a distraction. If by not answering helped her to retain her focus on the semis, then I can live with that.
Later when I read her post-race quotes, I am still left wondering. These quotes published, usually by the main contestants, or winners, are helpful in filling out space when one is trying to beat deadlines in writing and submitting stories, but they don't give much away. Maybe because the questions tend to be so inane, such as: "Are you feeling OK?" "How do you feel going into the next round?" If you are lucky someone asks a probing question on which you can build a story, but it seems to me that probing questions are usually reserved for one-on-one interviews, possibly for scoop purposes.
Although Novlene may have shrugged off my question for reasons best known to her, I still maintain my faith in her 400 metres medal potential.
Who can forget the way in which she handled World Champion Amantle Montsho of Botswana in Shanghai early in the season; also Sanya Richards-Ross at the Jamaica Invitational? Following those performances, however, she again trailed both those runners at subsequent Grand Prix meets, although finishing strongly in the process.
I would think that Novlene and her coach should know the strategy that works best for them, but to us less informed fans her up and down performances do not appear entirely convincing and may be the reason why few sports pundits, besides myself, name her in their medal predictions for these games.
I read where Hubert Lawrence, in his most recent set of predictions published elsewhere, states that "many tip her to intercept the last two World champions, Sanya Richards-Ross and Amantle Monstho, and fast Russian Antonina Krivoshapka". Noticeable, however, although predicting 14 medals for Jamaica (one less than me) he appears reluctant to name her in this category.
As I said in an article published in the Jamaica Observer Olympic supplement recently, "Williams-Mills is in the form of her life and could challenge for a minor medal. I am hesitant about naming her among the medallists, despite her obvious talent and form, she tends to under-perform on the big day when it counts most. However, she again has a great chance to show the world that she is right up there with the very best."
Although the US' Deedee Trotter edged out Rosemarie Whyte in their heat, it was clear to me that Whyte had already covered the field and was coasting home, her place secured. Trotter should not get the better of her when they next meet. Christine Day also gave a good account of herself. Hence, my early prediction that Jamaica should get at least two finalists in this event remains on the cards. Further, assuming that Williams-Mills and her coach have found the formula for taming Monthso, Richard-Ross and Christine Ohuruogu, the bronze, at least should be hers.


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North America's littlest falcon, the American Kestrel packs a predator's fierce intensity into its small body. It's one of the most colorful of all raptors: the male's slate-blue head and wings contrast elegantly with his rusty-red back and tail; the female has the same warm reddish on her wings, back, and tail. Hunting for insects and other small prey in open territory, kestrels perch on wires or poles, or hover facing into the wind, flapping and adjusting their long tails to stay in place. Kestrels are declining in parts of their range; you can help them by putting up nest boxes.
American Kestrels take well to artificial nest boxes. To attract a breeding pair, the box should be put up by early February. Nail it to a tree 10 to 30 feet above the ground away from traffic and loud human activity. Attach a guard to keep predators from raiding eggs and young. Find out more about nest boxes on our Attract Birds pages. You'll find plans for building a nest box of the appropriate size at our NestWatch site.
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