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Hawaii Beat | Sports
Bourne, Crabb earn AVP awards
Hawaii's Tri Bourne and Taylor Crabb were among the award winners announced by the Association of Volleyball Professionals on Wednesday.
Bourne, an Academy of the Pacific graduate, and partner John Hyden were named Team of the Year. They finished in the top three in all four tournaments they entered, winning the Cincinnati Open and AVP Championships, finishing second at the Manhattan Beach Open and third at the Chicago Open.
Crabb, a Punahou graduate, followed in the footsteps of teammate and older brother Trevor when named Newcomer of the Year. Taylor led the AVP tour in defense with 313 digs in 58 sets for a 5.4 average and teamed with his brother to finish third at the Manhattan Beach Open.
KIRA race for watershed protection
The inaugural Huaka'i Makai, a paddling and swimming event to benefit the Hui O Ko'olaupoko watershed protection project, is scheduled for Saturday at Kailua Bay.
Sponsored by Kanaka Ikaika Racing Association, the event is open to swimmers and SUP, OC-1 and OC-6 paddlers. Registration is from 8 to 9 a.m. with races starting at 9:30.
More information is available at huihawaii.org.
Sandell earns MPSF diving honor
University of Hawaii diver Johan Sandell was named the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation/Turbo Male Athlete of the Week on Wednesday.
Sandell, a freshman from Sweden, won the 1-meter (357.05) and 3-meter (367.05) diving events during a dual meet with Air Force on Friday.
Both marks surpassed the cutoff for NCAA Zone Qualifying.
BYUH volleyball sweeps past Dominican
Kathleen Collette Kalougata had 10 kills and 11 digs and Ying Chun Chen recorded 40 assists and 17 digs as Brigham Young-Hawaii beat Dominican (Calif.) 25-9, 25-19, 25-20 on Wednesday in San Rafael, Calif.
The Seasiders improved to 12-10, 10-4 PacWest, while the Penguins dropped to 6-15, 3-12.
Chaminade ranked No. 9 in West
The Chaminade volleyball team was ranked No. 9 in the first NCAA Division II West Regional rankings, released Wednesday.
The Silverswords are 15-7 overall and 8-6 PacWest.
Western Washington, Alaska Anchorage and Central Washington held the top three spots.
The top eight teams in the final rankings will qualify for the NCAA regionals.
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What we're reading this month: June 2021
The books that U.S. Catholic writers enjoyed this month, including 'Birth of a Movement' and 'In the Event of Contact.'
Emily Sanna and René Ostberg
Birth of a Movement
By Olga M. Segura (Orbis Books, 2021)
Living out our faith should not always be comfortable. If we are truly following Christ, then we will sometimes feel out of place, embarrassed, and deeply insecure.
This is one of the most enduring takeaways from Olga M. Segura's new book, Birth of a Movement—at least to me as a white Catholic reading her words. If we are to truly challenge the world's injustices and work toward the Beloved Community that privileges the world's most vulnerable—as Catholic social teaching, Pope Francis, and the Black Lives Matter movement all teach—then we must be willing to decenter our own experiences and sit in the discomfort that comes with remaking the world.
This book serves as a necessary conversation starter for the Catholic Church's engagement in racial justice and anti-oppression work amid its legacy of racism and white supremacy. Segura provides a historical overview of the Black Lives Matter movement and deftly connects it with Catholic social teaching—including Laudato Si' (On Care for Our Common Home) and liberation theology. Her accessible writing style, connections to her personal experience, and concrete ideas for how the church can better engage in racial justice make this book an important read for Catholics no matter where they are in their anti-oppression work.
Segura paints the picture of a church that gives a voice to those who are often not listened to—young people, Black and brown Catholics, and women—and describes what it would look like if Catholicism prioritized the gifts these groups bring to the table. Underlying her entire book is an important question: Who gets to tell the story of our faith? As long as the answer is the male, mostly white church hierarchy, the church will never be able to create what Segura calls a "more Christ-centered, liberated world."
In the Event of Contact
By Ethel Rohan (Dzanc Books, 2021)
Ethel Rohan's new short story collection, In the Event of Contact, begins with a dedication: "For survivors." Taken with the collection's title, the dedication serves as a request to readers to proceed with compassion as well as an encouragement to anyone put through life's wringer. The characters who populate Rohan's stories, mostly Irish citizens living in their homeland or transplanted to the United States or England, come from a variety of backgrounds and generations, but each carries a heartbreaking vulnerability.
A Dublin-born writer now living in California, Rohan deeply embeds compassion into her work. Her moving 2017 novel, The Weight of Him (St. Martin's Press), tells the story of an obese father who commits to change after losing a son to suicide. What starts as a somewhat ill-conceived weight loss campaign gives way to a journey through grief and regret to renewed love for community, family, and self.
In her newest work, each story's narrator has indeed survived something: the loss of a family member or childhood friend, an abusive relationship, a strained marriage, or a sacrificed dream. In one of my favorites, "The Great Blue Open," a mother who is long used to being taken for granted suffers a health scare that prompts her to finally act on her heart's desire. (Hint: It has to do with her childhood hero, Amelia Earhart.) In the tearjerker "F Is for Something," an elderly priest on the verge of being placed in a nursing home struggles with the consequences of memory loss and desperately seeks one last soul to save, some kind of Hail Mary miracle that might keep him from losing his parish and vocation.
Rohan is not a religious writer, but her work is imbued with the empathy of faith, with pain and heartbreak but not cynicism or despair. Her stories of hard-won resilience are welcome reading in these challenging times.
—René Ostberg
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It's in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior
By C. T. Vivian with Steve Fiffer (NewSouth Books, 2021)
This memoir of civil rights activist C. T. Vivian describes his early life and activism, including his work with figures such as Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis.
St. Joseph, Pray for Us: Meditations and Prayers
By Pope Francis (Paulist Press, 2021)
Through reflections from the apostolic letter Patris Corde (With a Father's Heart) along with images of St. Joseph, Pope Francis seeks to "increase our love for this great saint."
The Diary of Jesus Christ
By Bill Cain, S.J. (Orbis Books, 2021)
Written by an award-winning screenwriter and with a foreword by Father Greg Boyle, this book provides a first-person retelling of Jesus' childhood and ministry and offers a new lens through which to understand the gospel.
This article also appears in the June 2021 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 86, No. 6, page 39). Click here to subscribe to the magazine.
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Emily Sanna is the managing editor of U.S. Catholic.
René Ostberg is a former editorial assistant at U.S. Catholic.
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Omens and Superstitions of Southern India
The Sahavāsis of Mysore are described41 as "immigrants, like the Chitpāvanas. Sahavāsi means co-tenant or associate, and the name is said to have been earned by the community in the following manner. In remote times, a certain Brāhman came upon hidden treasure, but, to his amazement, the contents appeared in his eyes to be all live scorpions. Out of curiosity, he hung one of them outside his house. A little while after, a woman of inferior caste, who was passing by the house, noticed it to be gold, and, upon her questioning him about it, the Brāhman espoused her, and by her means was able to enjoy the treasure. He gave a feast in honour of his acquisition of wealth. He was subsequently outcasted for his mésalliance with the low caste female, while those who ate with him were put under a ban, and thus acquired the nickname." [103]
It is commonly said that the scorpion has great reverence for the name of Ganēsa, because it is supposed that when, on seeing a scorpion, one cries out "Pilliyar annai" (in the name of Ganēsa), the scorpion will suddenly stop; the truth of the matter being that any loud noise arrests the movements of the animal.42
At the temple of Kolaramma at Kolar in Mysore, a pit under the entrance is full of scorpions, and the customary offerings are silver scorpions. The village goddess at Nangavaram in the Trichinopoly district is called Sattāndi Amman, and her idol represents her in the act of weaving a garland of scorpions. It is generally supposed that no scorpion can live in this village, and that the sacred ashes from Sattāndi Amman's shrine are a specific for scorpion stings. People sometimes carry some of the ashes about with them, in case they should be stung.43 At Royachoti in the Cuddapah district, a festival is held on the occasion of the god going hunting. The idol Vīrabudra is carried to a mantapam outside the town, and placed on the ground. Beneath the floor of the mantapam there is a large number of scorpions. Whilst the god is taking his rest, the attendants catch these scorpions, and hold them in their hands without being stung. As long as the god remains in the mantapam, the scorpions do not sting, but, directly he leaves it, they resume their poisonous propensities.44 The peon (attendant) in the zoological laboratory of one of the Madras colleges would put his hand with impunity into a jar of live scorpions, of which he believed that only a pregnant female would sting him with hurt. Lieutenant-Colonel [104]D. D. Cunningham records45 the case of a certain Yōgi (religious mendicant), who was insusceptible to the stings of scorpions, "which would fix their stings so firmly into his fingers that, when he raised and shook his hand about, they remained anchored and dangling by their tails, whilst neither then nor afterwards did he show the slightest sign of pain or inconvenience. The immunity may possibly have been the result of innate idiosyncratic peculiarity in the constitution of the performer, or more probably represented the outcome of artificial exemption acquired at the expense of repeated inoculations with the virus, and corresponding development of its antitoxin."
A sweeper man, who had a mole on his back in shape somewhat resembling a scorpion, believed himself to be immune against scorpion sting, and would confidently insert the poison spine of a live scorpion into his skin. In a letter to a medical officer, a Native wrote, that, when a pregnant woman is stung by a scorpion, the child which is in the womb at the time of such stinging, when delivered, does not suffer from the sting of a scorpion, if ever it is stung during its lifetime. Some families keep in their homes small pots called thēlkodukku undi (scorpion sting vessels), and occasionally drop therein a copper coin, which is supposed to secure immunity against scorpion sting. The Sakuna Pakshi mendicants of Vizagapatam have a remedy for scorpion sting in the root of a plant called thēlla visari (scorpion antidote), which they carry about with them on their rounds. The root should be collected on a new-moon day which falls on a Sunday. On that day, the Sakuna Pakshi bathes, cuts off his loin-cloth, and goes stark-naked to a selected spot, [105]where he gathers the roots. If a supply thereof is required, and the necessary combination of moon and day is not forthcoming, the roots should be collected on a Sunday or Wednesday. In cases of scorpion sting, Dommara medicine-men rub up patent boluses with human milk or juice of the milk-hedge plant (Euphorbia Tirucalli), and apply them to the parts. Among quaint remedies for scorpion sting may be noted, sitting with an iron crowbar in the mouth, and the application of chopped lizard over the puncture. The excrement of lizards fed on scorpions, and the undigested food in the stomach of a freshly killed goat, dried and reduced to powder, are also believed to be effective remedies. There is a belief that scorpions have the power of reviving, even after being completely crushed into pulp. We are, therefore, warned not to rest secure till the animal has actually been cremated.
The whip-scorpion Thelyphonus is believed to be venomous, some Natives stating that it stings like a scorpion, others that it ejects a slimy fluid which burns, and produces blisters. The caudal flagellum of Thelyphonus, of course, possesses no poison apparatus.
When the umbilical cord of a Kondh baby sloughs off, a spider is burnt in the fire, and its ashes are placed in a cocoanut shell, mixed with castor-oil, and applied by means of a fowl's feather to the navel.
The eggs of red ants, boiled in margosa (Melia Azadirachta) oil, are said to be an invaluable remedy for children suffering from asthma.
If a house is infested by mosquitoes, or the furniture and bedding by bugs, the names of a hundred villages or towns should be written on a piece of paper. Care must be taken that all the names end in uru, kōttai, palayam, etc. The paper is fastened to the [106]ceiling or bed-post, and relief from the pests will be instantaneous.46
The Oriya Haddis, on the evening of the tenth day after a death, proceed to some distance from the house, and place food and fruits on a cloth spread on the ground. They then call the dead man by his name, and eagerly wait till some insect settles on the cloth. As soon as this happens, the cloth is folded up, carried home, and shaken over the floor close to the spot where the household gods are kept, so that the insect falls on the sand spread on the floor. A light is then placed on the sanded floor, and covered with a new pot. After some time, the pot is removed, and the sand examined for any marks which may be left on it.
A devil, in the disguise of a dung-beetle of large size, is believed to haunt the house wherein a baby has been newly born, and the impact of the insect against the infant will bring about its instant death.
The following case was brought to my notice by the Chemical Examiner to Government. In Malabar, a young man, apparently in good health, walked home with two other men after a feast, chewing betel. Arriving at his home, he retired to rest, and was found dead in the morning. Blood was described as oozing out of his eyes. It was given out that the cause of death was an insect, which infests betel leaves, and is very poisonous. The belief in death from chewing or swallowing the veththilai or vettila poochi (betel insect) is a very general one, and is so strong that, when a person suffers from giddiness, after chewing betel, he is afraid that he has partaken of the poisonous insect. Native gentlemen take particular care to examine every betel leaf, wipe it with a cloth, and smear chunam (lime) over it, before chewing. [107]The poochi is called by Gundert47 vettila pāmpu or moorkhan (snake), or vettila thēl (scorpion). It has been described48 as "a poisonous creature, which lives adhering to the betel leaf. Its presence cannot be easily detected, and many deaths occur among persons who are in the habit of carelessly chewing betel. The poison passes into the system through the moisture of the mouth, and death ensues within an hour and a half. It generally inhabits the female leaf, i.e., the leaf that opens at night. The following symptoms are seen when a person is affected with the poison:—exhaustion, delirium, copious perspiration, and change of colour of the skin. Treatment:—administer internally the juice of the leaves of a tree called arippēra. Make the patient suck the milk of the breast of a woman, whose baby is more than eighty days old."
A perichæte earthworm was sent to me from Malabar as a specimen of vettila poochi, with a note to the effect that, when it is accidentally chewed, the chief symptom is drawing in of the tongue, and consequent death from suffocation. The antidote was said to be salt and water, and the leaves of the goa (guava) tree. From South Canara, Mr H. Latham sent me a planarian worm, about two inches in length, which is believed to be the vettila poochi. His camp boy told him of a case in which death was said to have resulted from eating one of these animals cooked with some jak fruit.
A few years ago, a scare arose in connection with an insect, which was said to have taken up its abode in imported German glass bangles, which compete with the indigenous industry of the Gāzula bangle-makers. The insect was reported to lie low in the bangle till it [108]was purchased, when it would come out and nip the wearer, after warning her to get her affairs in order before succumbing. A specimen of a broken bangle, from which the insect was said to have burst forth, was sent to me. But the insect was not forthcoming.
As a further example of the way in which the opponents of a new industry avail themselves of the credulity of the Native, I may cite the recent official introduction of the chrome-tanning industry in Madras. In connection therewith, a rumour spread more or less throughout the Presidency that the wearing of chrome-tanned boots or sandals gave rise to leprosy, blood poisoning, and failure of the eyesight. [109]
1 "Manual of the Kurnool District," 1886, 114.
2 Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 1902, xiv., No. 2, 388–91.
3 "Gazetteer of the Nilgiris," 1908, i. 328.
4 Journ. Anthrop. Soc., Bombay, i. 241–2.
5 "Report on the Sea Fisheries of India and Burma," 1873, lxxvi.
7 M. J. Walhouse, "Ind. Ant.," 1876, v. 23.
8 Rev. F. Dahmen, "Anthropos," 1908, iii. 30.
9 "Ind. Ant.," 1876, v. 359.
10 H. J. Stokes, "Ind. Ant.," 1874, iii. 90.
11 J. S. Chandler, Calcutta Review, July, 1903, cxvii. 28.
12 "Totemism," 1887, 33.
13 M. J. Walhouse, Journal Anthrop. Inst., 1874, iv. 376.
14 H. D. Taylor, "Madras Census Report," 1891.
15 Madras Mail, 26th January, 1906.
16 L. K. Anantha Krishna Iyer, "Cochin Tribes and Castes," 1909, i. 22.
18 S. P. Rice, "Occasional Essays on Native South Indian Life," 1901, 211.
19 Journ. Roy. Asiat. Soc., 1884, xvi. 181.
20 Report, Govt. Botanical Gardens, Nīlgiris, 1903.
21 "Gazetteer of Malabar," 1908, i. 163.
22 Letters from Malabar, Translation, Madras, 1862.
23 1862, iii. 464.
24 "Malabar and its Folk," Madras, 2nd ed., 59.
25 C. Karunakara Menon, Calcutta Review, July, 1901.
27 Madras Mail, 22nd July, 1905.
28 Vide, Yule and Burnell, "Hobson-Jobson," ed. 1903, 874–9.
29 Asiatic Journal, ii. 381.
30 Bishop Whitehead, Madras Diocesan Magazine, July, 1906.
31 Rev. F. Dahmen, "Anthropos," 1908, iii. 22.
34 M. Upendra Pai, Madras Christian Coll. Mag., 1895., xiii., No. 1, 29.
35 Mem. Asiat. Soc., Bengal, 1906, i., No. 10.
36 T. K. Gopal Panikkar, "Madras and its Folk," Madras, 2nd ed., 65–6.
37 "Manual of the Cuddapah District," 1875, 293–4.
39 "Gazetteer of the Vizagapatam District," 1907, i. 286.
40 "Manual of the South Canara District," 1895, ii. 242.
41 "Mysore Census Report," 1891, part i. 235.
42 S. K. Sundara Charlu, Indian Review, 1905, vi., No. 6, 421.
43 "Gazetteer of the Trichinopoly District," 1907, i. 283.
44 "Manual of the Cuddapah District," 1875, 288.
45 "Plagues and Pleasures of Life in Bengal," 1907, 196–8.
47 "Malayālam Dictionary," 1872, 983.
48 Kērala Chintamani.


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By College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Being able to identify crop problems early can make the difference between saving a crop and losing it, but high-tech solutions can be costly. An interdisciplinary team of researchers thinks a new approach leveraging existing technology may be part of the solution.
Specifically, NC State researchers in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are launching an inexpensive camera system that can monitor crop stress remotely.
Corn and soybeans are important commodities for North Carolina and the world. Both are eaten fresh, processed into a variety of foodstuffs and turned into animal feed. A lack of water at certain stages stress the plants and can make a significant dent on yields.
Paula Ramos-Giraldo, a computer vision and machine learning expert in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, has spent the past year working on a camera system that costs less than an average smartwatch to track drought stress in corn and soybean fields.
"Our goal, specifically, was to construct a low-cost sensor to track the soil moisture level in the field through plant behavior," Ramos-Giraldo said.
$10M Grant to Advance Cover Crops includes Machine Learning
USDA $10-million grant to improve the sustainability of agriculture through the use of cover crops features cutting-edge tech, such as autonomous data collection and machine learning from ECE.
These low-cost sensors can help researchers studying ways to make agricultural systems more resilient; plant breeders breeding more drought-tolerant varieties; and someday may be able to alert farmers when their fields need to be irrigated.
The StressCam system — constructed from parts that cost about $150 — is based around a Raspberry Pi and leverages its attached camera to capture photos every 15 minutes to watch for wilting. The system is solar-powered, with a back-up battery for cloudy days.
The tiny computer runs a machine learning algorithm on the photos to analyze them for indications of drought stress. Then it sends this information to a web platform for researchers, breeders or farmers, she said.
Both the machine learning algorithm and the web platform were constructed with help from students in the ECE.
During the fall 2019 semester, Ramos-Giraldo worked with Edgar Lobaton, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, to enlist the students in his Neural Networks class to design machine learning algorithms capable of looking at photos of soybean fields and score the severity of drought stress.
Paula Ramos-Giraldo, left; Anna Locke, center; and Edgar Lobaton, right; have worked together to launch an inexpensive camera system to monitor crop stress remotely.
Machine learning algorithms can find patterns in data without being explicitly programmed what important features to look for. Instead, they are "trained" on pre-defined data – in this case 5,000 photos of soybean fields showing different amounts of drought stress annotated by Anna Locke, a U.S. Department of Agriculture- Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) soybean expert in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences.
The class's algorithms were then tested on thousands of other photos taken by the StressCam during the summer of 2019. One of the best algorithms was programmed into the StressCam.
Also during the fall of 2019, Ramos-Giraldo started working with a team of senior Electrical and Computer Engineering students to design a cloud-based web platform to allow farmers, soybean breeders and researchers to manage their StressCams and monitor their fields.
This team included Artem Minin, Nathan Libner, Stephanie Sierra and Manish Goud.
It must have taken us the first three weeks to get our heads wrapped around how we could build a platform to solve the problem that Paula Ramos-Giraldo had. That was one of the really difficult parts of the project because none of us had ever really built such a diverse system with so many different components, technologies, and requirements.
Artem Minin
"It must have taken us the first three weeks to get our heads wrapped around how we could build a platform to solve the problem that Paula Ramos-Giraldo had," said Minin, who will be returning to NC State in the fall to pursue a master's degree in computer engineering. "That was one of the really difficult parts of the project because none of us had ever really built such a diverse system with so many different components, technologies, and requirements."
The web platform allows the users to check that the StressCam is on and not overheating, change the photo scheduling and importantly, look at the past images from the StressCam and the drought stress severity scores. Overall, the platform will save time and increase the precision of drought data collection for plant breeders and researchers studying resiliency.
"Before the pandemic, our group would meet in person once a week, and that's when our best results got created," Minin said. "COVID-19 also added a difficulty that we couldn't test our system like we wanted to. Originally, we planned to have a test site set up at the Sandhill Research Station, but obviously that didn't happen. Instead, Paula set up a test field in her backyard."
Despite all of the COVID-19-related challenges, Minin found working on an agricultural problem very rewarding.
I think one of the coolest things about engineering is applying science and technology to an industry that could benefit from it, because otherwise it's just math on paper. I really enjoyed working in the agricultural industry, and I think there's a lot of applications for technology in agricultural industry that haven't been fully explored yet.
"It is an amazing effort that we made with the ECE department, and will continue," Ramos-Giraldo said. "The most important thing is that the students were so enthusiastic about their results. And on the way we learned a lot of things, not only the students, but us as well. It is amazing the results we can produce when we work together."
The StressCam platform uses IBM's Internet of Things cloud platform at its core. Additionally, IBM sponsored the senior design project and provided technical mentorship from two researchers based at the IBM Innovation Center, on NC State's Centennial Campus.
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How Are God and Christ "One"?
"I told you," Jesus replies, "and yet you do not believe." Jesus had not directly told them that he was the Christ, as he had told the Samaritan woman at the well. Yet he had, in effect, revealed his identity when he explained to them that he was from the realms above and had existed before Abraham.
Jesus then describes his close relationship with his Father, explaining: "I and the Father are one." Since Jesus is on earth and his Father is in heaven, clearly he is not saying that he and his Father are literally, or physically, one. Rather, he means that they are one in purpose, that they are at unity.
"We are stoning you, not for a fine work," they answer, "but for blasphemy, even because you, although being a man, make yourself a god." Since Jesus never claimed to be a god, why do the Jews say this?
Evidently it is because Jesus attributes to himself powers that they believe belong exclusively to God. For example, he just said of the "sheep," "I give them everlasting life," which is something no human can do. The Jews, however, overlook the fact that Jesus acknowledges receiving authority from his Father.
When Jesus says this, the Jews try to seize him. But he escapes, as he did earlier at the Festival of Tabernacles. He leaves Jerusalem and travels across the Jordan River to where John began baptizing nearly four years earlier. This location apparently is not far from the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee, a two-day journey or so from Jerusalem.
Many people come to Jesus at this place and begin to say: "John, indeed, did not perform a single sign, but as many things as John said about this man were all true." Thus many put faith in Jesus here. John 10:22-42; 4:26; 8:23, 58; Matthew 16:20.
▪ By what means does Jesus want people to identify him as the Christ?
▪ How are Jesus and his Father one?
▪ Why, evidently, do the Jews say that Jesus is making himself a god?
▪ How does Jesus' quotation from the Psalms show that he is not claiming to be equal to God?


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the single Some Nights (2012) was taken from the second album of pop band Fun, where the album was also named Some Nights (2012). while he album was released in February 2012, the single was in June 2012. the album's first single was We Are Young, released in September 2011. their previous and first album was named Aim and Ignite (2009). the 3 members of Fun were originally from The Format, Anathallo and Steel Train. while The Format and Anathallo were disbanded, Steel Train still existed until this very day.


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Abramovich allows Shevchenko to return to Milan
Sport » Soccer
Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko's management company has played down the significance of an invitation from AC Milan for the Ukrainian to attend Wednesday's Champions League final in Athens as their guest.
Shevchenko has been linked with a move back to the Italian club, where he spent seven successful years, after failing to live up to expectations in his first season in the Premier League.
"Andriy is not in talks of any kind with AC Milan," said a WMG spokesperson in a statement. "He has a contract with Chelsea and that is the end of the matter.
"AC Milan has invited a whole host of former players to this showpiece match and Andriy is just one of those players. There is nothing else to it and he will decide whether to attend tomorrow."
AC Milan vice president Adriano Galliani said this month that a space would be kept open in the squad for the player should he decide to return to the Italian side, Reuters reports.
Shevchenko himself had insisted that he wants another chance to prove himself, but it appears that neither Mourinho nor the striker seem keen to work with the other. The Portuguese has already been confirmed by the Blues board for next season, leaving Sheva on the outer.
The Sun claim that Abramovich is now open to a Milan return for the Ukrainian, but under no circumstances on loan. They are looking at a cash plus player deal, making sure they recover the £30 million they spent in the summer, or as close to that as possible.
Kakha Kaladze has been one of the many players mentioned. The Athens meet is expected to help iron out the issue, following which Chelsea will meet the player's agent to discuss possibilities.
It is expected that the Blues will up the ante for David Villa - who will complement Drogba better, and who impressed Mourinho during the Champions League quarter-final clash against Valencia - should Shevchenko's departure be confirmed, goal.com reports.
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R&M inks key Lebanon high-speed cabling contract
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R&M (Reichle & De-Massari AG), a leading global producer of future-proof products and systems for communication and data networks, said it has been awarded a high-speed cabling contract by Lebanon's largest mall ABC Verdun.
ABC is the most prominent mall and department store in Lebanon that offers a unique shopping, dining, leisure and entertainment experience.
With a more than 75-year heritage built on the tradition of innovation, the top Lebanese retailer was keen to ensure the very best shopping experience for customers at its newest mall, ABC Verdun.
Located in the heart of Beirut, ABC Verdun is a prime urban retail and entertainment destination spread across around 1.5 million sq ft – with more than 140,000 sq ft of a gross leasable area (GLA) across six levels.
It hosts over 200 stores including a wide selection of international must-have brands, as well as movie theatres, and around 30 restaurants and coffee shops, and several new concept stores.
R&M said the high-speed cabling infrastructure is being implemented in coordination with its Lebanese partner Qbrands.
The network serves as the platform on which critical mall services including internet, point-of-sales systems, CCTV, digital signage, and the Building Management System (BMS) now run.
This prioritization of convenience for its customers prompted the IT team of ABC to shortlist R&M since the cabling vendor has an established reputation for quality and service, said the statement from R&M.
R&M's long-standing presence in the Middle East proved an added benefit to ABC Verdun, it stated.
The installation time was greatly reduced by use of the high-performance field-installable connector which made it possible to connect the FO Field connectors to a fiber cable at the site itself in under a minute. This innovation allowed the costly and time-consuming step of fusion splicing to be skipped, as pigtails, patch cables, and installation cables were directly connected, it added.
Mohammad Sweidan, the regional sales director, Levant, Kuwait & North Africa, at R&M, said: "For the connectivity of its retail stores, the Mall has utilized the very latest Cat. 7 S/FTP cables with Cat. 6A outlets, while the CCTV connectivity is built on high-grade Cat. 6 cabling."
"This copper cabling network connects to a high-speed FO backbone that utilizes OM3 fiber cabling," stated Sweidan.
"R&M's strengths in copper and fiber presented ABC Verdun with the opportunity to fulfill all its cabling requirements – thus simplifying the implementation. Parts of the network is built on R&M's cabling systems, providing a 25-year system warranty which safeguards the Group's investment and ensures its successful operation for years to come," he added.
Antoine Abi Nassif, the general manager of Qbrands, said: "After several years of hard work, we have achieved great success with R&M in Lebanon. It was crucial for us to win this project as ABC Verdun which is one of the most important projects executed in Lebanon in recent years."
"R&M has provided us with its full support in order to fulfill the requirements of the client and the consultant, Khatib & Alami. R&M's products definitely meet the expectations of our client and live up to the well-known Swiss quality," he added.
Source: TradeArabia News Service
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AIJAC applauds Australia's "momentous step" on Holocaust education
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has congratulated the Australian Government following Australia's admission as a full member of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).
Eyal Kaminka of the Yad Vashem Museum on resurgent antisemitism [audio]
Dr. Eyal Kaminka is Director of International School for Holocaust Studies at the Yad Vashem Museum in Israel. He was interviewed by Rafael Epstein on the "Drive" show on 774 ABC Melbourne on 28 May 2019.
Cinefile: Banal No More
Although the film takes Hollywood liberties – a romance between a beautiful doctor, who in reality was a man, and the film's Israeli hero – Kingsley's fictional portrayal of Eichmann is far more realistic than the allegedly non-fiction account by Arendt.
The Last Word: Denial of Evil
One person in that [usenet] group, had confected an identity so as to gather personal data and email addresses. That individual then sent messages to group members that there had never been a Holocaust and that people who claimed to be survivors were part of a conspiracy to extort money, guilt and political advantage from others.
The fallout from Poland's controversial new law on the Holocaust
In recent years, Poland has become one of Israel's best friends in Europe. However, that relationship appears to have been badly fractured with Poland's President Andrzej Duda signing a bill into law on Feb. 6 which calls for prison terms for people blaming Poland as a nation for Holocaust crimes committed by Nazi Germany.
Biblio File: Of Memory and Memorials
Victor Ripp's book, Hell's Traces, published earlier this year, is a travelogue to places that no longer exist and can never be known, to the epitome of the indescribable - the Holocaust.
Knesset committee recognises Armenian Genocide
ISRAELI recognition of the Armenian Genocide came a step closer last week with the Knesset's Education, Culture and Sports Committee endorsing a proposal to officially recognise the tragedy.
Passing of Elie Wiesel
"Elie Wiesel was a remarkable, inspirational thinker, leader and activist, and his passing is a tremendous loss to humanity", Jeremy Jones AM, Director of International and of Community Affairs for the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, said today.
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Joshua Gunn: Hip-hop artist, entrepreneur, council candidate
By Caroline Petrow-Cohen on October 23, 2019
In a music video dropped in May called "What a Wonderful Durham," Joshua Gunn sits at a desk in a high school classroom. Wearing a black windbreaker and a Durham Bulls cap, he raps about his dream for a future Durham.
There are no ICE raids, he says. No one loses a home to gentrification. No food deserts. All religions, races and genders are respected. Everybody has health care. Opportunity abounds.
Five months later, in Durham's city council chambers, Gunn is wearing a navy jacket, crisp white shirt and a red striped tie. A Gunn for City Council button is pinned to his lapel.
He's explaining his dream again, not with rap but with data about crime, poverty and economic development needs. And he's taking aim at three incumbent council members whose shared campaign platform, he says, doesn't serve all of Durham.
"We have a homicide rate that has doubled from 2018 to 2019, we have a crisis of public safety in our community, and I fear that our council lacks the proper perspectives to address those concerns," Gunn said.
Gunn's family has been in Durham, where he grew up, for four generations. After leaving to pursue his music career, Gunn said he found a changed city when he returned in 2013. New condos, apartments and restaurants lined downtown. While some of change was positive, Gunn noticed stark problems with the way the city was growing.
"There was a food scene and a theater scene, and all these amazing new additions to our community," Gunn said. "But on the other side of that, I noticed that people were being displaced and that not all of Durham was being able to participate."
Gunn in "What a Wonderful Durham," his 2019 music video, filmed in a high school classroom.
Gunn quickly got involved, co-founding the annual festival Black August in the Park to "celebrate blackness." He and friends launched the annual Black Market, a gathering for black owned businesses to gain exposure and to network. Gunn is still rapping and works at the Durham Chamber of Commerce, where he is a vice president. He tries to bring new jobs to Durham and help existing businesses expand, he said.
The fourth-place finisher in last month's primary and youngest candidate in the race at age 35, Gunn continues to build his campaign. A campaign disclosure report filed early this month counted only $4,608 in contributions, but he's fundraising.
And Gunn has notched some key endorsements. Current city councilman Mark-Anthony Middleton, not on the ballot this year, supports Gunn. So does former Durham Mayor Bill Bell.
Middleton said he endorsed Gunn because of his intelligence and his ability to bring a wide range of voices to the council. As a young hip hop artist, Gunn can bring a new demographic into the fold, Middleton said.
"He's a generational voice and he pulls from a lot of different areas of experience, from business to activism to the arts community. He's one of those rare candidates that brings so many different elements," Middleton said.
Like Gunn, Middleton is concerned by the nature of the three incumbents' shared platform, called Bull City Together. "From a democratic point of view, when you have three people that are currently sitting on a deliberative body, telegraphing publicly that they've already made up their minds on some things, prior to having any public debate, I think that should give us all pause," he said.
Gunn during one of his Facebook live video "Ask Me Anything" events staged from his Durham home.
In his campaign, Gunn emphasizes the need for more comprehensive economic development, more direct and pragmatic crime prevention, and an affordable housing solution that is linked to accessible jobs.
The Jordan High School and North Carolina A&T grad says he sees an absence of engagement from city council members with the private sector.
"Real estate developers are going to build what's easiest for them if we don't engage with them," Gunn said. And what's easiest are the luxury apartment buildings that seem to be taking over downtown, in lieu of offices and other commercial developments that bring jobs.
To help get Durham's economy on track for everyone who lives here, Gunn favors incentivizing business development downtown. "Downtown is a live, work, play environment," Gunn said, "but work is a very important component of that."
Gunn says his top priorities are the economy and public safety, issues that are closely connected.
Despite a decline in recent years, Durham is experiencing an uptick in violent crime and gun violence. Members of the Durham community are split on how best to approach a solution, candidate forums have made clear.
When Durham Police Chief Cerelyn Davis requested 72 more officers for her department in March, the city council denied her funding. Later, a split council vote denied a compromise that would have funded 18 officers.
The short-term route to improving public safety is to trust Chief Davis and give her what she needs to run her department, Gunn said. As a black man, he understands the complex and sometimes painful relationships between residents and officers. But Davis is focusing on the right ways to train a police force, including using de-escalation techniques, implicit bias training, and crisis response services, he said.
"The reasons behind Chief Davis' request were very logical," Gunn said, given Durham's growth.
Durham's rapid growth has worsened the affordable housing shortage. While Gunn says he supports an initiative to provide affordable housing for Durham's most vulnerable residents, he sees major issues with the city's proposed $95 million dollar affordable housing bond.
Most of these issues can be traced back to a lack of long-term, comprehensive planning, he said.
"The bond overemphasizes downtown," Gunn said, and doesn't do enough to expand jobs where people can afford to live. Many of Durham's jobs that pay above the living wage are located outside of downtown, he said.
Gunn's platform emphasizes policy, but it is also fueled by his desire to expand points of view on city council council.
Gunn said he wants a spot on the council for the Durhamites who do not live in the booming downtown core. That includes people who are facing the impacts of gentrification and poverty, and who are struggling to make progress in a city that is celebrated as being the most progressive in the area.
At top: Joshua Gunn makes a point at Inter-Neighborhood Council's candidates forum at city hall last week. Photo by Cameron Beach – The 9th Street Journal
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This Startup Makes Tiny Battery-Free Bluetooth Tags: Just Won $30 Million AWS, Samsung Funding
"We believe in a future where every item will have a unique digital identity and a digital life"
A startup that has created a battery-free Bluetooth sensor tag the size of a postage stamp has pulled in funding from AWS as well as Samsung's venture capital arm, as excitement grows about the ability of its technology to underpin a low-cost Internet of Things network.
Wiliot already has backing from Qualcomm. It has an R&D hub in Israel and offices in San Diego. It said today it has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round that attracted AWS's Investment Arm, Samsung Venture Investment Corp. and packing materials specialist Avery Dennison.
The funding follows its demonstration of the first-ever sticker-sized Bluetooth sensor tag incorporating an ARM processor, powered solely by energy scavenged from ambient radio frequencies.
Wiliot Chip: "Dramatic" Change to Product Interactions Looming?
A Wiliot chip glued to a simple antenna printed on plastic or paper can authenticate the proximity of a product by transmitting an encrypted serial number along with weight and temperature data from a device the size of a postage stamp, the company said.
The tags can communicate with any Bluetooth-enabled device.
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"We believe that disposable electronics based on battery-free, low-cost systems are the foundation for future IoT systems. We are on the edge of dramatically changing the way products are made, how they are distributed, where and when they are sold, and how they are used and recycled," said Tal Tamir, Wiliot CEO and co-founder.
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"Re-cycling the radiation around us to power sticker-size sensors can enable new ways for consumers to interact with products that were previously not feasible. Products can share when they are picked up, their temperature, or when they need to be replenished. Without batteries or other high-cost components, tags have unlimited power and lifespan, so can be embedded inside of products that were previously unconnected to the Internet of Things," he added.
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Chiranjeevis: The mysterious immortals of Hindu Mythology
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In Hindu mythology, there are said to be a group of immortals or chiranjeevis, (Chiran- Long, and Jeevi- Lived). These eternal beings are born as normal human beings i.e. mortals but in due course of time because of some boon or curse they have become Chiranjeevi. Recently there have been reported sightings of some of these, though there is only little significant material proof. Let's take a look at the mystery…
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Scriptural context
Puranas, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana describe several long lived personalities in the Hindu pantheon. They existed in past ages, Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga, and Dvapara Yuga, and are alive today in our current Kali Yuga. Each represents a different attribute of man, which as long as they live, will exist amongst humanity.
Ashwatthama
Perhaps the most interesting of all the Chiranjeevis, Ashwatthama was a great warrior. He was gifted with a gem on his forehead by Lord Shiva and was said to have divine powers. During the war of Mahabharata, when the battle was almost over, Ashwatthama decided to invoke Brahma-astra against Pandavas. In retaliation, Arjuna invoked the same. However, Lord Krishna asked them to withdraw the weapons as it would have led to a devastating events resulting in total destruction of earth.
Ashwatthama couldn't go back
Arjuna revoked his weapon, however Ashwatthama was unable to do so as he was never taught how to. Out of spite/ helplessness, he directed the weapon towards a singular being which in this case was Uttara, the daughter-in-law of Arjuna and who was pregnant. The weapon led to the death of the unborn child and thus the lineage of Pandavas came to an end. Enraged at this atrocious act, Lord Krishna cursed Ashwatthama.
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Lord Krishna's curse
Lord Sri Krishna removed Ashwatthama's gem and cursed him- "the wound caused by the removal of this gem on his forehead will never heal and will suffer from leprosy, till the end of Kaliyuga". It is believed that in Kaliyuga, his name will be "Suryakanta". Thus, Ashwatthama will be in search of death every moment, and yet he will never die. At the end of Kali Yuga, Ashwatthama is to meet Sri Kalki, the tenth and final avatar of Lord Vishnu.
Bali Chakravarthi
Bali, an asura, grew up under the guidance of his grandfather, Prahlada, who instilled in him a strong sense of righteousness and devotion. Bali later conquered the underworld and the Heaven. The Devas, after their defeat at the hands of Bali, approached Lord Vishnu and entreated him to restore their lordship over Heaven. Vishnu adopted the avatar of Vamana, a small Brahmin boy, and approached Bali to request some land – only as much land as he could cover with three paces.
Bali granted the boon
Despite the warnings of his advisor, Bali granted this boon. Vamana then grew to an immense size, and, with his first pace, traversed the all of the earth and the underworld. With his second pace, he covered Heaven. Seeing that Vamana has no more room for his last step, Bali offered his own head as a stepping-stone. Bali was thus banished to the underworld. Due to his selfless devotion and unwavering dharma, he was granted permission to visit his subjects every year.
After the Ramayana war, and after reigning for several years, the time arrived for Rama to depart to his supreme abode Vaikuntha. Many of Rama's associates, including Sugriva, decided to depart with him. Hanuman, however, requested that he will remain on earth as long as Rama's name was venerated by people.
Hanuman in Mahabharata
Hanuman is also considered to be the brother of Bhima, on the basis of their having the same father, Vayu. During the Pandavas' exile, he appears disguised as a weak and aged monkey to Bhima in order to subdue his arrogance. According to legend, Hanuman is one of the four people to have heard the Bhagwad Gita from Krishna and seen his Vishvarupa (universal) form, the other three being Arjuna, Sanjaya and Barbarika, son of Ghatotkacha.
Citation of Lord Hanumana
A number of religious leaders have claimed to have seen Hanuman over the course of the centuries, notably Madhvacharya (13th century CE), Tulsidas (16th century), Samarth Ramdas (17th century), Raghavendra Swami (17th century) and Swami Ramdas (20th century). Others have also asserted his presence wherever the Ramayana is read.
Kripacharya
Kripacharya is an important character in the Mahabharata. He fought from the Kauravas during the war of Mahabharata and was one of the few surviving characters of post-war period. He later trained Parikshit, the grandson of Arjuna and son of Abhimanyu in the art of warfare. He was known for his impartiality and loyalty for his Kingdom. Lord Krishna granted him immortality.
Vibhishana
A fearless believer in doing the right thing, Vibhishana counseled his elder brother Ravana to send Sita back. Vibhishana was exiled for his pains and he joined Rama, giving him invaluable information against Lanka. Rama crowns him as King of Lanka after Ravana's fall, and also entrusts him with the duty of staying on earth to guide people on the path of Dharma.
Markandaya
The legend related to chiranjeevi Markandeya goes like this - Mrikandu rishi and his wife Marudmati worshipped Shiva and sought from him the boon of begetting a son. Lord Shiva gave them a choice - a gifted son with short life or an ordinary son with long life. Mrikandu chose the former, and was blessed with Markandeya, an exemplary son, destined to die at the age of 12.
Markandeya lived forever
Markandeya grew up to be a great devotee of Shiva. On the day of his destined death, when Yamaraj came to take away Markandeya's life, he sprung his noose around the young sage's neck. By accident the noose landed around the Shivalingam. Shiva emerged in all his fury attacking Yama for his act. After defeating Yama in battle to the point of death, Shiva then revived him, under the condition that the devout youth would live forever.
Parashurama
Parashurama belongs to the Treta yuga, and is the son of a Brahmin father Jamadagni and a Kshatriya mother Renuka. He received an axe after undertaking a terrible penance to please Shiva, from whom he learned the methods of warfare and other skills. He fought back the advancing seas thus saving the lands of Konkan and Malabar. The coastal area of Kerala State along with the Konkan region, are also called Parashurama Kshetra (Parashurama's country).
As per the Kalki Purana
The Kalki Purana states Parashurama will be the martial guru of Sri Kalki, the 10th and final avatar of Lord Vishnu. It is he who instructs Kalki to perform a long penance to Shiva to receive celestial weaponry.
Jambavan
Jambavan, the king of bears, was endowed with incredible strength he had the wisdom of the sages and he was a born leader. He helped Rama fight Ravana and in the Mahabharata, helped restore the Syamanatakmani gem to clear Krishna's name. Both Jambavan and the gem then disappear within the vast depths of Indian mythology. While some claim that the gem is none other than the Kohinoor diamond, Jambavan seems to have withdrawn into the mists to live out his everlasting years in obscurity.
Veda Vyasa
Veda Vyasa was a great sage born in the later stage of Treta Yuga and is said to have lived through the Dvapara Yuga and the current Kali Yuga. The sage like any other immortal is said to have a lifetime of this Manvantara or till the end of this Kali yuga. Veda Vyasa was the writer of Mahabharata and the Puranas and also the one who split the Vedas in four parts.
The Sapt-Chiranjeevi concept
As per a popular Hindu belief, there are only 7 immortals, though I have listed 9 here. Hindu scripture also contains a mantra about the immortals, in which their names are recited for luck and longevity: Ashwathaama Balir Vyasaha Hanumanthra vibeeshanaha Kriba Parasuramas cha Saptaitey Chiranjeevinaha Om Namah Shivay. However it is not clear as to why the names of other immortals are not that celebrated and does not appear in above mantra.
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My haiku collection about my return to Viet Nam in 2015, 35 years after I had left.
In March 2015, I returned to my country of birth, Viet Nam, for the first time since fleeing as a child refugee in April, 1980. It had been almost 35 years, and pretty much everything was different from the way I had remembered it. While the trip was planned to some extent, I did not know what to expect for most of it. For example, just because I knew Aunts, Uncles and cousins awaited to welcome me, there was no telling how we would get along. I also had no idea how I would react to all the natural things in life there, from extreme poverty to bribery. Then there were all kinds of things and experiences I did not know about to even anticipate encountering.


It was in December 1948, when it was approved unanimous the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide at France which became the 260th resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations. What made the leaders of the 41 States create and sign this document in which the term Genocide was legally defined? This document serves as a permanent reminder of the actions made by the Nazis and their leader Adolf Hitler during the Holocaust where more than five million of European Jews were killed. In summary I will explain what were the events that leaded the ordinary Germans kill more than six million Jews in less than five years. To achieve this goal, I will base my arguments on the Double Spiral Degeneration Model provided by Doctor Olson during the spring semester of the Comparative Genocide class.
First we need to clarify what is Anti-Semitism, a term that references the prejudice or hostility against the Jews. Known as the persecution of Jews, Anti-Semitism did not only happen in Germany, it had long been part of the history and tradition of other countries including the United States. However, the level of persecution in Germany changed dramatically after Hitler came to power in 1933.
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3.	Dwork, Deborah, and R. J. Van Pelt. Holocaust: a History. New York: Norton, 2002. Print.
4.	German Jews During The Holocaust, 1939-1945, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website.
5.	Samantha Power, "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (New York: Basic Books, 2002).
6.	Bauer, Yehura. A History of the Holocaust. New York: Franklin Watts, 2001. Print.
7.	Gottfried, Ted, and Stephen Alcorn. Deniers of the Holocaust: Who They Are, What They Do, Why They Do It. Brookfield, CT: Twenty-First Century, 2001. Print.
8.	Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Vintage, 1997. Print.


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Student Profile: Anjali Nadaradjane (Sem 45/Aug 2017)
International Relations Program
Anjali Nadaradjane is a 2017 New Colombo Plan Mobility Grant recipient from Macquarie University. She completed the International Relations Program at Parahyangan Catholic University in Bandung in August-December 2017.
The ACICIS program was unique in the ability to combine studies of International Relations with an internship placement. I was also interested in learning Indonesian, broadening my social and cultural literacy of Indonesia and observing and participating in a different way of life. The ACICIS program seemed like the perfect opportunity as it facilitated me to enter Indonesia and experience the culture.
Q: What classes are you currently enrolled in?
International Political Economy: Offers a multidisciplinary perspective on international economic and power relations. It encompasses topics such as international trade, globalisation, international finance, North-South relations and Multinational Corporations.
Regionalism In Africa: A fascinating course that examines the social, economic, political and security on the African continent including the history of western colonialism in Africa, issues in contemporary Africa such as civil war, economic collapse, seizure of resources and the great political powers in Africa and the future of Africa and regional cooperation.
Indonesian Foreign Policy: Covers the dynamics of Indonesian Foreign Policy from the time of Independence. Some topics include Indonesia's free and active principle, parliamentary democracy, Sukarno and Suharto regimes and the era of reformation which can be framed to understand the challenges of Indonesia's foreign policy in the 21st century.
Security Studies: looking at the concept of security through different dimensions; the globe, the State, society and individuals, security study theories and non-traditional security issues such as health, economic, environmental, human and human security.
Bahasa Indonesian (post-beginner): A class for post-beginner students to learn reading, writing, speaking and listening in Bahasa Indonesian.
Professional Placement Module: Involves the undertaking of an internship for approximately three months and culminates in an evaluation and presentation.
Q: Are you involved in any clubs/societies at the university?
I was involved with UNPAR radio station and attended some LISTRA classes: LISTRA involves traditional dance and music. Since starting my internship, I have unfortunately not been able to keep it up due to conflicting schedules, however I have become involved in a number of extra-curricular activities out of UNPAR. I volunteer a few hours a week teaching English at Interkultural Edukasi Partner to staff members.
On weekends I also volunteer at a village in a children's community centre called Kejar Aurora where I do some English conversation practice with the children and play games with them. I have also arranged with my Bahasa Indonesian teacher to take charge of some English classes at a primary school next month in November.
If I have time, I am planning to also volunteer at a community health centre or legal advocacy organisation if I can squeeze it into my packed week.
Q: How will the International Relations Program influence your future career or study?
I am hoping the program, will strengthen my linguistic and cultural capabilities in the Asia-Pacific region. I would like to commit to becoming more proficient in Indonesian so as to forge greater cross-cultural connections. I am hoping my experiences will help pivot and propel me into an international career in foreign affairs, journalism, international law and/ or diplomacy that may deal with Asian relations with Australia.
Q: How does studying International Relations from an Indonesian perspective differ to International Relations from an Australian perspective?
I find Indonesia teaches International Relations from a surprisingly Eurocentric perspective while my home university incorporates some critical and alternative perspectives. I also find class structures are different. In Australia, I have both lectures and tutorials for each subject whereas classes in Indonesia resemble that of a high school environment like a seminar in a classroom.
Q: What do you like to do in your spare time in Bandung?
While I don't have a lot of it; volunteering my time teaching English and assisting various charities and organisations, trying out new cafes and dishes in Bandung, studying Indonesian, hiking, hanging out with friends, spending time in nature, visiting West Java or exploring Bandung in general. So far, I have visited Saung Angklung Udjo to watch a performance and attend a workshop, Rumah komar Batik to make beautiful Batik, Bandung Zoo, the factory outlets at Cihampelas Walk (CiWalk), Djuanda Forest Park (Taman Hutan Raya Ir. H. Juanda), Paris Van Java and I soon plan to visit the Asia-Africa Museum and Gedung Sate as well as the floating markets in Lembang, in North Bandung.
Q: Are you undertaking an internship while in Indonesia (brief description)?
Yes. I am undertaking an internship with a global research think-tank, Resilience Development Initiative. I am preparing a working paper on Women's Health in Lombok. The topic is fascinating and allows me to extend my interest in public health issues, medicine, health policy and sustainable and human development. The working environment and people are very friendly, flexible and relaxed. At the end of the internship I will publish the working paper and give a presentation to my supervisors. RDI also hosts a number of seminars and talks from other interns, staff members and guest speakers on various issues such as disaster response, the environment, online transportation, social security etc.
Q: What is your favourite food?
Nasi Padang with Beef Rendang, Capcay Goreng and Dadar Kambing. At night, a number of street food stalls and warungs prop up just outside UNPAR on Jalan Ciumbuleuit which serve up delicious meals for comparably cheap prices. Also on the other end of UNPAR is the OBC food Court, which is opened during the daytimes and highly popular among students. It has a variety of foods from Indonesian, to Western to Korean Food and excellent Thai Iced Tea and Coffee!
Q: What is your favourite Indonesian word/phrase:
Selamat makan! Because there is no sincerer love than the love of food!
Q: What places in Indonesia have you visited during your semester so far?
I have visited Yogyakarta, Pangandaran and Bogor. Yogyakarta is truly the spirit of Indonesia. There I visited Merapi and its surroundings and spent a lot of time on Jalan Marlioboro searching for Batik. I have already been to Borobodur and Prambanan on a previous trip. At Bogor, I visited the Presidential Palace and Botanical Gardens and at Pangandaran I visited East and West Pangandaran Beach, the surrounding Fishermen's villages, rice fields and plantations, Pasir Putih (White Sand) Beach and a waterfall and ate lots of fish and lay on the coffee-coloured sand of the beach. If I have time, I plan to visit Jakarta later in the semester as well as Ciwidey, Lembang, Garut and Cianjur if I have time. I may also explore Sumatera later, if I stop by Indonesia in January.
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Right out of the gate is the story, "How We Broke" written by Bracken MacLeod and Paul Michael Anderson, two of my favorite authors. This story is about grown siblings revisiting some painful memories from their past through a project that the sister is conducting through a series of Polaroid pictures taken during a childhood vacation destination. The suspense was delicious — I hung on every word. A very compelling collaborative effort.
"Fade To Null" is Brian Keene's scalpel-edged sharp telling of the horrors of dementia both from the mind of the afflicted and from the experience of family members. Illustrated by Daniele Serra, a favorite artist of mine. What a treat! Very poignant, haunting and beautiful — the artwork is stunning.
"Asperitas" by Kristopher Triana and Chad Stroup was cosmic horror that builds a tremendous amount of tension and drama in a short amount of time. I was impressed with the way these two authors worked together to manipulate my emotions.
Another stand out was "Golden Sun," a novella told through four different character's perspectives and written by four of my most beloved authors, Kristi DeMeester, Michael Wehunt, Damien Angelica Walters and Richard Thomas. The story was so engaging, and thinking back on it now the atmosphere and the feelings come rushing back instantly as if I had just finished it. I discussed the work with Kristi and Michael because I was so excited about this theory that I had about each one of them writing different parts and they both agreed that's how they wrote it but I 100% guessed all of it wrong — so I'd be curious, if you know of these writers and their unique voices, to see if you could guess which ones wrote which part. Message me somewhere if you think you have it (because now I know).
All the stories told in a graphic novella format were delightful, especially the last one with Jack Ketchum and Glenn Chadbourne. "Firedance" had this old timey snake-oil, whiskey voice, western vibe to it that felt authentic and genuine — Ketchum's calling card.
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Boeing Co & apos; s disturbing 737 MAX fleet is expected to be grounded until the end of the year as a result of the latest aviation problem identified by US aviation security regulators, according to people briefed on the issue.
The relapse is expected to at least cause further disturbances to the aircraft in the US and abroad, as approx. 500 aircraft remain idle for months longer than previously expected. But the fallout, according to industry and officials who track the issue, is likely to also increase the ultimate financial cost to the Chicago planner and can bring public confidence in the work of Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration to guarantee MAX's security. 19659003] Overviews of the latest timetable, replacing earlier, expected MAX models would resume flight in the US and many foreign countries in the fall, occurred Thursday. It came a day after the latest air combat problem became public. Unlike flawed software previously associated with an automated flight control feature called MCAS, the latest hazard involves potential hardware-related problems, according to a Boeing official.
During simulator tests of some emergency procedures, FAA pilots revealed a potentially hazardous situation they had not experienced before, according to people informed of the issue. The problem, according to Boeing's official and company airline announcements, is that if a chip inside the aircraft's flight control computer fails, it may cause indefinite movement of a panel on the aircraft's tail and point its nose down. 1
9659005] Boeings 737 MAX evolved to meet the increasing international demand for air travel and became the best-selling aircraft. WSJ's Jason Bellini looks at how the foundation of the fleet after the Ethiopian Airlines crash could have a significant impact on Boeing's future. Photo: Getty
Testing of the emergency procedures to cope with this so-called run stabilizer state, the official said it would take average pilots longer than expected to recognize and counteract the problem.
A Boeing official said the Chicago aircraft maker expects to submit revised software to MCAS and the new separate issue in September.
"We think this can be updated through a software solution," Boeing official said.
But at this point, according to some people informed about the issue, FAA experts remain convinced that a software-only solution is possible. If electronic components have to be replaced, some industry and officials said it could be a delay of approx. four months.
Out of great caution and in order to ensure that new security issues will not grow up once the Plans return to service, the FAA has conducted simulator tests of situations considered to be extremely rare during actual flight, according to the people. informed about the tests. The question that was now in focus was part of a scenario considered distant, it can only be possible to test in a simulator, rather than in an actual aircraft flown by test pilots, these people said.
Boeing's current timeline includes sending the company a final version of all necessary software updates to the FAA shortly by September or October, they also said. Then, the industry and officials will imagine that gaining official FAA approval will take at least two months, agree on the amount of additional pilot training, and the airlines will carry out the necessary maintenance checks and procedures. But even that timeline does not require any more surprises – and that it will not be necessary to replace computer chips in MAX.
Boeing has already experienced a number of schedules and unexpected delays that have plagued the plane's return to service since the spring.
Within the FAA, the new problem has created increased frustration with Boeing, according to one of the people who was briefed on the details. As a result, the Agency has stressed that it has no specific timetable for returning the MAX fleet to service and will not provide the green light until all security issues have been fully investigated and resolved.
Captain Dennis Tajer, spokesman for the association representing pilots
said the newly discovered issue raises questions about whether other problems will be found. "The latest unidentified software problem just amplifies the need to thoroughly discover the critical aircraft safety systems on the aircraft from top to bottom before returning to Max for service," he said.
But pilots also take a financial hit as the grounding pulls on. Pared-back schedules and scuttled routes mean fewer opportunities for pilots to fly and make money. The association representing pilots
has said it plans to seek compensation from Boeing for the $ 9 million a month in lost wages faced by its members along with the legal costs incurred by the association in accordance with government inquiries.
let 24 MAX pilots go and cut off training for 21 new pilots who were expected to start flying MAX this summer. The airline has said it hopes to restore them when MAX returns.
-Alison Pages contributed to this article.
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