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Er Dr Lee Bee Wah, Member of Parliament of Nee Soon GRC, made a passionate call for more support from the government for athletes in light of the recent medals won by local athletes in the Olympic and Paralympics. Ms Lee highlighted four reasons in Parliament on Tuesday which she felt were hampering Singapore from becoming a sporting nation. Govt's …Read More »
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"Message in a bottle" arrived at the right place with no address written
Ever sent a letter that was returned to you because of a wrong address written? Well, that didn't happen to the letter which was received by Rebecca Cathrine Kaadu Ostenfel, the owner of a farm where she lives with her family, her husband and three children. A tourist had earlier spent days at the farm which located near Búðardalur in the west …Read More »
How can a 'common' comic artist survive in Singapore?
How can a 'common' comic artist survive in Singapore? This question comes to mind if one reads the Facebook post of Sonny Liewon Tuesday, 13 September, the famed artist of award-winning graphic book, "The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye". The book that won the Year for Singapore Book Awards 2016 and Singapore Literature Prize 2016 (English Fiction) had its earlier approved $8,000 …Read More »
Theresa Goh's bronze medal paid off her 17 years of training and perseverance
Theresa Goh won her bronze medal after finishing the race in third place in the women's SB4 100m breaststroke final in Rio de Janeiro on Monday (12 September), morning (Singapore time). The 29-year-old athlete finished in 1min 55.55s. With the first place was taken by Sarah Louise Rung of Norway who finished in 1:44.94s, and on the second place was Giulia Ghiretti from Italy with 1:50.58s. …Read More »
Philippines President says the US Special Force has to go from Mindanao
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday that the US Special Forces has to go out of Mindanao, because their presence could rouse trouble in the region. "Those US special forces, they have to go. They have to go. In Mindanao, there are many white people there," the President said in Malacañang while taking the oath of new government officials. …Read More »
Credit cards with free luggage welcome offers in Singapore
By SingSaver.com.sg Are you a savvy shopper, a gourmand, or a fun-loving millenial? The right credit card for you might also come with free luggage. When choosing a credit card, people always told to focus on the card's benefits, not the welcome offers. The best credit card for you should reward you for things you already spend on. But it's hard …Read More »
Award-winning 'Monkey Goes West' returns by popular demand
To bring the Year of the Monkey to a happy climax, W!LD RICE's award-winning Monkey Goes West will be returning for a strictly limited season to the Drama Centre Theatre for the holidays. Monkey Goes West completely sold out its first run in 2014, playing to an audience of more than 15,000 at the newly refurbished Victoria Theatre. It dominated …Read More »
A Better Life, a film about the non-religious, comes to Singapore
Collectively written by: Humanist Society (Singapore) Executive Committee In multi-religious Singapore where religion is seen as a positive force setting the moral tone of society, the non-religious remains an easily misunderstood group. From time to time, freethinkers, atheists and agnostics in Singapore are often asked how they can lead good and meaningful lives in the absence of organised religion. These …Read More »
TOC's FQS on Race Relations – Data Analysis Report
By Gangasudhan The issue of race relations in Singapore rearing its ugly head in recent weeks, starting with a CNA-IPS survey that suggested that racism in Singapore was not serious and now, constitutional changes to the Elected Presidency that would define qualification criteria along race lines. TOC thus decided to embark on its own investigation into race relations through the Five Question Survey (FQS) which aims …Read More »


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Tell me about your band and what kind of previous experience do you have as musicians?
Well, first off… we like to SHRED!!! But mostly, we enjoy the performance! There is nothing that can beat being on stage with your best friends in front of a crowd, doing what we love most! We've all came from metal backgrounds and some have had previous projects that you might be familiar with. Carlos's previous projects include his first band from Brazil, coincidentally called Heaven's Guardian, as well as OUTWORLD which was the reason for him moving to the USA back in 2008. Gabriel has toured with Blackguard in the past and is currently doing some fill in touring for the video game metal band PowerGlove on their headlining North American Tour. All our members are pretty much self taught but we did all do some sort of music during highschool ranging from Jazz to Mariachi, to even Marching Band, haha. (Immortal Guardian)
Why did you pick your band name? How did you form? Why did you decide to play the genre or genres you do?
We needed a band name that was as equally as epic as the music we write and Immortal Guardian is what we came up with after many trials and errors. Gabriel and I started the band in middle school/high school writing music on the computer software "Guitar Pro 5" and have gone through multiple line-up changes because not everybody know what it's like to SHRED! So we found people that knew how to throw down and that eventually evolved into the multi-national touring band we are today. (Cody Gilliland)
What can you tell us about the latest record?
It's heavier, it's faster, it has catchier guitar and vocal melodies, and is an all around a better representation of who we are creatively and technically. We've actually brought some of our older songs that we wrote when we were teenagers that never saw the light of day until this record. So there's definitely some throwbacks in this one that show our evolution in writing style. (never to return, state of emergency) (Cody Gilliland)
It's a continuation of the IG tradition of stellar musicianship and incredible vocals, but we've also placed a higher emphasis on the melding of styles that "Super Metal" was always meant to represent. We explore the boundaries of metal and shred as always, but we also incorporate Latin ballads, jazz interludes, and classical influences over the entire album. We've got something for everyone on this record! (Thad Stevens)
What the kind of album feedbacks are you waiting for?
We're hoping it can stir more interest in the international markets of Europe, Asia, and South America, as we feel that is where our style would do very well. Certainly we'd like people to enjoy the music, but "Age of Revolution" is not a frivolous title. In addition to enjoying the sound of the record, we hope they seriously identify with the lyrical message and hear it as a call to action. (Immortal Guardian)
Are you gonna to make some world tour in the future? Do you think this is available for everybody option to tour around the globe? What do you think band have to do to get such opportunity?
We've been lucky enough to visit Brazil and Russia recently but a more sustained world tour is definitely a goal of ours! We'd love to bring our music to the masses. There are certainly monetary barriers to touring around the world, but it's also surprising just how receptive many nations are to outside acts. There are many government programs, artist communes, etc., who are willing to help fund an expedition. If any bands are wondering what you have to do to get such an opportunity: just try asking! (Thad Stevens)
Do you believe in heavy music scene without money?
Although it doesn't make for the best situation for the artist, I believe that "yes", a heavy scene without money is possible. Just ask any person in a local metal band… Just because their wallets are empty doesn't mean they won't be playing that show at the local bar this weekend. It's something people love to do and money is not going to stop them from doing it. That being said, go support a metal band and buy a record or t-shirt. By the way, did we mention we have a new album coming out available for pre-order? 😉 (Immortal Guardian)
What do you think about online music sharing? Do you ever give your music away for free? Why?
The more our music is being heard the better, unfortunately, it's up to the listener to decide if they want to contribute to the band personally or steam music which doesn't benefit bands as much. I'd rather give away a free CD than someone illegally download my music. Technology makes it a lot harder on bands to make money on their product that we put are heart, souls, and wallets into. (Cody Gilliland)
I think if we were to be most inclined to give our music away for free, it would be at our shows: so come hang out with us! (Thad Stevens)
Who are your musical influences? Have you ever think your band could be so famous as your favorites?
As a bassist, obviously Iron Maiden was and is hugely important to me. I think it's less important that we become as famous, and more important that we inspire people in the same way that we were impacted by our favorite bands. If I can influence any one person in the way that my favorite musicians influenced me, that's more meaningful to me than fame. (Thad Stevens)
As a drummer born in the 90's, i was influenced by a lot of main steam rock/metal like Slipknot and Killswitch Engage that led me to listening to more extreme styles of metal and learning aggressive vocal techniques that you can hear in certain parts throughout this new album. I'd say I bring the more "modern" style into the band, meshing with the "classic metal" style of the other guys. In regards to getting as famous as our favorites, I'd like to believe anything is possible. (Cody Gilliland)
Do you have a formal music education? Do you think it's a Kind of important thing?
It's important to have some understanding of the language of music, insofar as it's necessary to communicate with your bandmates about your ideas in a concise manner. We all speak to each other in terms of key, scales, rhythms, etc. There's a lot more to theory, but this framework is the basis of our communication. More knowledge will never hurt, but as far as requirements, just learn the basics! (Thad Stevens)
We all seem to have some experience in school where we either learned how to read music or learned the basics of music theory. I personally learned a lot, technically and creatively, from marching band, and from writing Guitar Pro MIDI music then learning how to play it afterwards. (Cody Gilliland)
How do you balance your music with other obligations – mate, children, job?
We all have different situations, whether it's girlfriends or jobs that some people would kill to have or be content with, but we all have one goal which is to succeed in doing what we love most and rocking out for the masses for decades to come! (Cody Gilliland)
How do you handle mistakes during a performance? Or you can assure there are no any mistakes during your gigs? Do you get nervous before a performance or a competition?
No musician is 100% flawless in a gig. That's why it's called a performance! For me, the most interesting and enjoyable part of a performance is in these small so-called "mistakes". The mark of a great musician is not necessarily in executing their music flawlessly every time, but in recovering and incorporating the night's idiosyncracies into a true performance of the material, so that every gig is a unique experience! (Thad Stevens)
We're actually cyborgs that import our midi files into our brains, so we never mess up, right Thad? (Cody Gilliland)
Or perhaps it's just a romantic defense mechanism! Nevertheless, with all this in mind, I personally don't tend to get very nervous before any gig, and the lack of nerves helps me play better! (Thad Stevens)
What's next? Thank you!
We are looking forward to the release of our debut full-length album titled "Age of Revolution", set for release September 28, 2018 via M-Theory Audio! We will soon be hitting the road across the US in support of the new record with our brothers from Exmortus. We are also working towards hitting the international markets, returning to the South American and Russian regions where we had great success in previous tours, and also tapping into the Asian/Japanese market. We'll see you on the road soon, but until then you can check us out online at ImmortalGuardian.com! (Immortal Guardian)

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Aberdeen's second hydrogen (H2) refuelling station was officially opened on the 27th February along with the launch of a fleet of 10 H2 fuelled Toyota Mirai cars.
Aberdeen City Council's lead member for H2, Councillor Barney Crockett was joined by Toyota GB President and Managing Director, Paul Van Der Burgh, and Hydrogenics CEO, Filip Smeets, to open the Aberdeen City Hydrogen Energy Storage (ACHES) facility.
The £2.6m ($3.2m) station will serve the city's expanding fleet of cars and vans and will be fully operational mid-March. Funded by Aberdeen City Council, ERDF, Transport Scotland and Nestrans, it was built and will be maintained and operated by Hydrogenics.
Located in Cove, ACHES has four electric recharging points and has the potential to produce 130kg of H2 per day. Enabling fast refueling, H2 is dispensed at 350 bar and 700 bar pressure.
The 10 Toyota Mirai cars will be leased for three years with five going to the National Health Service (NHS), three to the Co-wheels car club, one to Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) and one to Aberdeen City Council. The project is part funded by the UK Government Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) and Transport Scotland.
Councillor Barney Crockett said, "We have a very clear H2 strategy for the future and ACHES adds to the expanding H2 infrastructure in Aberdeen. Maintaining our position as a leading world energy city, the region continues to lead the way and anchor renewable energy to the area.
Nestrans Director, Derick Murray, said, "Aberdeen is already home to Europe's largest H2 fuel cell bus fleet and this is now the city's second H2 refuelling station which really builds on the North East's role as an energy hub."
An international summit on the H2 transport supply chain will be hosted by Aberdeen next month. The H2 Transport Summit will bring together government, industry, local businesses and key influencers from 15th-17th of March.


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White appeared on FOX Sports' The Herd on Wednesday to discuss the UFC's decision to pull the featherweight champ from the upcoming mega-card.
"Conor basically said he didn't want to come to Vegas. Tour was Vegas, Stockton, and New York. He said he didn't want to do it. You can't make everyone happy. One thing no one is exempt from is promoting their fights. … Conor wasn't planning on delivering this weekend and I had to pull him. It's what had to be done."
"Never, ever was this about money," he said, calling the reporters that believed the situation was about money "hacks" simply looking for Internet "clicks."
"Conor needs to clean this up fast or Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar are fighting for the vacant featherweight title."
"I do not think he is [retiring],"
"I'm not mad at Conor. Conor made a decision and made a choice to not fight on this card … The show will roll on. Our relationship isn't damaged at all."
"Yeah, if he called me after this interview we would probably still do it. We're spending $10 million in promotion for UFC 200."
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8 Critical Numbers in Bill and Melinda Gates' Letter to Warren Buffett
Buffett wants to know how the Gates have spent his money – they've done a lot.
Billionaire philanthropist Warren Buffett donated $30 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2006. Buffett recently wrote a letter to the Gates, requesting they update the world as to all the foundation had accomplished in tackling global poverty.
The Gates responded with a letter of their own.
"Of course, philanthropy isn't like business," the letter states. "We don't have sales profits to show you. There's no share price to report. But there are numbers we watch closely to guide our work and measure our progress."
These are those numbers:
122 million children's lives saved since 1990
Bill reports, "More children survived in 2015 than in 2014. More survived in 2014 than in 2013, and so on. If you add it all up, 122 million children under age five have been saved over the past 25 years."
That figure is arrived at by looking at the mortality rate of children under age five in developing countries and comparing the trend line in 1990 and 2000 to the rate it's currently at.
5.9 million children under age five died in 2015, according to the United Nations. Still, thanks to the Gates Foundation and help from donors like Buffett, that rate has fallen sharply – and continues to drop each year.
It is difficult to describe the feeling of improvement within tragedy. As Melinda said, "Every year, this number breaks my heart and gives me hope."
86% of children worldwide have been vaccinated
That rate is the highest in human history and one of the main factors for the declining childhood mortality rate.
According to the World Health Organization, vaccination is the second-most effective method to reduce disease, behind access to clean water. Smallpox is the only disease to be eradicated thus far, but polio is on the ropes and the Gates Foundation has recently refocused global efforts to end malaria for good.
Vaccination has a snowball effect in helping families. According to the letter, in addition to the health of the child, every dollar spent on childhood immunizations saves $44 – money that would be spent/lost later when the child is ill and parents miss work.
The Gates Foundation also helped establish Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which works with governments and businesses to develop vaccines and distribute them to people in need. With funding from the world's wealthier governments, like the US, UK, Norway, Germany, France, and Canada, Gavi has been instrumental in immunizing 580 million children worldwide.
Read More:Gavi Pledges to Reach Syrian Children With Lifesaving Vaccines
1 million infants died on the day they were born
But there is hope. Even in poorer nations like Rwanda, there have been drastic improvements in lowering the infant mortality rate.
The letter states, "From 2008 through 2015, Rwanda, one of the poorest countries in Africa, cut its newborn mortality by 30 percent."
The drop wasn't exactly a scientific breakthrough. A combination of breastfeeding in the first hour of life and exclusively for the first six months, cutting umbilical cords properly and in sanitary conditions, and kangaroo care (mother's holding newborns against their skin, proven to help stabilize heart rate, increase body temperature and improve brain development) have had overwhelmingly positive results.
Nevertheless, much is still unknown about the causes of asphyxia, sepsis, and premature deaths (responsible for more than two-thirds of infant deaths in the first month of life). The Gates Foundations will lead research efforts to gain that knowledge and develop treatments.
45% of deaths of children under 5 are linked to malnutrition
Not to be confused with starvation, people who are malnourished may be taking in enough calories to sustain life, but are not getting the right nutrients. As a result, they are more vulnerable to (potentially fatal) bouts of pneumonia and diarrhea.
According to the World Food Programme, 795 million people – majority of them in developing countries – lack enough food to be deemed healthy. Poor nutrition causes 3.1 million deaths each year in children under the age of 5.
300 million women in the developing world are using modern contraceptives
"When women in developing countries space their births by at least three years, their babies are almost twice as likely to reach their first birthday," the letter states. "Over time, the ability of women to use contraceptives and space their pregnancies will become one of the largest contributors in cutting childhood deaths."
Much like vaccines having long-term benefits, when women can plan pregnancies, they have greater access to education. This helps them establish incomes which, in turn, allows them to raise healthier children.
Again, Melinda nails it: "No country in the last 50 years has emerged from poverty without expanding access to contraceptives."
Read More:Millions of Lives at Risk With Global Gag Rule, Bill and Melinda Gates Say
75 million women are in self-help groups in India
Poorer societies tend to be the ones in which women are the most powerless. Solidarity is the solution.
Among social efforts, the Gates Foundation has worked to, "create community groups in India where sex workers had a place to go and talk about HIV protection."
Modern contraceptives are a huge part (see: the previous section).
Knowledge is power. In societies that overtly limit women's abilities, discussions and sharing wisdom can be a key to social advancement.
1% of people surveyed knew that extreme poverty has been cut in half since 1990
The world is not nearly optimistic enough in its fight to eliminate extreme poverty worldwide.
The letter claims that, though extreme poverty had been halved worldwide, many people believed poverty was actually increasing.
"In significant ways, the world is a better place to live than it has ever been. Global poverty is going down, childhood deaths are dropping, literacy is rising, the status of women and minorities around the world is improving."
We still have a way to go, however. Global Citizen is committed to ending extreme poverty by 2030 – but it's going to take collective action from Global Citizens across the world. Believing the goal is achievable is step one.
Read More:UK Scientists Just Made a Major Breakthrough With the Polio Vaccine
0 – the magic number
Fans of the hip-hop group De La Soul might say three is the magic number. Well, they'd be wrong – it's zero.
That means, "Zero malaria. Zero TB. Zero HIV. Zero malnutrition. Zero preventable deaths. Zero difference between the health of a poor kid and every other kid."
It seems like a hefty goal, but, as the letter states, we're almost there with polio. The disease has proven to be resilient in countries like Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, but it's 99% eradicated worldwide. When it is finally gone for good, efforts can be refocused elsewhere.
It will take time, devotion, and cooperation between individuals, businesses, and governments, not to mention fundraising from people like Buffett. But the value from helping another human being in need cannot be quantified.
"That's the magic of philanthropy," Melinda said in the letter. "It doesn't need a financial return, so it can do things business can't. But the limit of philanthropy is that the money runs out before the need is met. That's why business and government have to play a role if the change is going to last."


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This shot shows not only the bergshrund but the steepness of the slope.
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Actually, the slope seemed to get even steeper above this.
To put it in perspective for you, it was much steeper than the "Old Chute" of Mount Hood. Yikes!!!
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OKI Data Goes Cloud, Mobile, and Secure with Latest New Desktop Printer and MFP
OKI Data Americas today introduced its first office-imaging devices for 2017, the C532dn, a desktop color printer, and the MC573dn, a "smart" color MFP. Both A4 desktop devices, which are available through OKI dealers, print on up to 8.5″ x 14″ media, and are geared for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) for general office and for printing marketing and graphic-arts materials in-house. They're said to feature the cloud- and mobile-connectivity previously only available with much more expensive A3 MFPs that print and scan on up to 11″ x 17″ media.
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- Mobile printing support via Google Cloud Print 2.0 and Apple AirPrint.
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C532dn Desktop Color Printer
The desktop C532dn color printer is said to feature a new print engine and a quiet mode. It's rated at up to 31 (black-and-white)/31 (color) ppm. It uses a black (K) toner cartridge rated to yield up to 7,000 pages, and cyan, yellow, and magenta (CYM) toner cartridges that are each rated to yield up to 6,000 pages. Four imaging drums are also required, and they're each rated to yield up to 30,000 pages. As new features become available, they can automatically be incorporated via the OKI portal. Other features include:
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- Deep Sleep mode for saving energy, and Auto-Off mode, which automatically powers the printer down to less than 0.5 watts of energy usage when not in use.
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For more information and complete specifications, visit OKI here.
MC573dn Smart Desktop Color MFP
The MC573dn smart MFP is essentially the MFP version of the C532dn printer, printing at up to 31 ppm and using the same consumables, but adding copy, fax, and scan, as well as a 7″ customizable touch screen and cloud connectivity.
It features OKI's smart Extendable Platform sXP2 Open architecture platform for incorporating optional cost-control and document-management applications. It also features SENDYS Document Explorer Lite software that enables users to convert scanned documents into various file formats (TXT, TIFF, PNG, JPEG, searchable PDF and PDF/A; OCR is provided), and then distribute and/or upload these converted documents to chosen locations, such as to the SENDYS Document Portal, email recipients, network folders, cloud sites, and document-management systems. There's also optional connectors for Microsoft Office 365, Google Drive, and Dropbox, for scanning to, accessing, and printing documents from accounts at these cloud-based document-storage and sharing Web sites.
As with the C532dn printer, the MC573dn also features:
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- Deep Sleep mode for saving energy and Auto-Off mode, which automatically powers the printer down to less than 0.5W when not in use.
- Toner Save function reduces cost when printing draft or internal documents.
For more information and complete specifications on the MC573dn, visit OKI here.
As noted, both devices support Google Cloud Print 2.0 mobile printing, which features a Local Mode. With conventional Google Cloud Print mobile printing, the Web-connected printer sends the print job to a Google server, which manages print jobs; once the print job is completed, it's deleted from the server.
Google Cloud Print 2.0's Local Mode is more similar to Apple AirPrint mobile printing, and keeps print-traffic in the customer's environment. Printers that support Local Mode manage their own print queues, pushing back on clients (PCs, tablets, smartphones) as needed, and announcing their presence to all clients within the local subnet. They have an HTTP server to provide detailed self-description, and to accept print jobs.
OKI says that target sectors for the new printer and MFP will typically include SMBs, as well as in particular, enterprises with many locations, such as the medical, education, insurance, and finance sectors.
The C532dn and MC573dn extend OKI Data Americas' latest portfolio of color printers and MFPs launched in November 2016: the MC363dn, C332dn, C612 Series and the C712dn.
More Resources
- November 2016: OKI Updates Color-Printer Family with Five New Models for Bringing Color Printing In-House
- October 2016: New OKI Europe 'Smart Printer' Color Printers for Desktop to Enterprise
- September 2016: uniFLOW Embedded Applet for OKI Devices Provides Secure Printing, Cost-Accounting
- September 2016: OKI Data Americas Rolling Out New Solutions for Mobile Printing, Printer, MFP Cost Control, and Scan-and-Capture
- October 2016: New OKI ES5162LP Mono Copier/MFP with Legal-Size Platen is Exclusively for BTA Channel
- September 2015: OKI Expands COREFIDO Five-Year Warranty to More OKI MFPs and Printers


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The Bude Canoe Experience
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It's a hot day in July. I find myself in a university classroom in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, listening as an Achenese elementary school teacher narrates a children's story. As she breaks into song in the middle of the story, the twenty other teachers in the classroom join in. I'm awed by their talents and think about how lucky I feel to be able to experience this.
What was I doing in Banda Aceh in the middle of the summer? This is my account of trying to make some sense of two intense weeks I spent in the capital city of Aceh province in July 2005. The presentation is not a theoretical or empirical one. Rather it is a personal account of how I reacted to the various aspects of this experience while I was in Aceh and after I came back to Philadelphia.
First impressions and some background
My first impression of Banda Aceh is that it reminds me of India, particularly Kerala, and of Taiwan, particularly Green Island -- the coconut trees, the mix of cars, scooters, and motorbikes on the streets, the green rice fields, and the brown faces whizzing by. On the ride from the airport to the hotel, I smile at the pleasant memories of these other places until a woman in the car points out a mass grave – a flat piece of land where the only sign that bodies are buried there is the row of Indonesian flags planted on one side. It is a stark reminder of the primary reason we are in Banda Aceh: the December 26, 2004 earthquake and tsunami that killed over 100,000 people in the region.
My presence in Banda Aceh, along with five other people associated with University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (GSE), is related in part to the dire need for teachers created by the tsunami (around 4,500 new teachers were hired by the government to replace teachers who died in the tsunami). It is also related to a larger goal of reestablishing a teacher-training system that existed in Aceh before the conflict between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian military escalated. We are to teach four workshops: content-area methods courses in literacy, math and science and a theory class covering some of the more prominent Western learning theories. We are working with an international non-governmental agency, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), in collaboration with the local Ministry of Education. The IRC primarily works to provide emergency relief and rehabilitation in post-conflict situations. The IRC has been in Indonesia since 1999, working with people displaced due to ethnic and religious conflict there.
As described in Lesnick & Schultz (this issue), the teacher training program consists of a four-week training program for 100 selected teachers from all over the province Aceh with at least a few years of teaching experience. The classes taught by the GSE team take place during the first two weeks. Professors from two local universities, both of which have teacher training programs, are to teach during the last two weeks. IRC and the Ministry of Education hoped that these teachers would serve as mentors. They are encouraged to work with new teachers at their schools and in their regions. If the teacher training system is revived, these teachers would work at the training centers, providing training and mentoring for new teachers.
The GSE team consisted of two professors (Kathy and Lisa; Lisa, a professor at Swarthmore College, happened to be my advisor when I attended Swarthmore); two instructors who have taught in the GSE teacher certification program (Angie and NancyLee); and two graduate students (me and Joy, a student in the educational policy program). All of the team, except me, is White, middle class, and female. Joy is the only other person who has been to Asia before.
I have to confess that I had never heard of Banda Aceh before the December tsunami and the ensuing tragedy. After the tsunami, while I had some vague idea of where this city was located, I did not have any specific information about the place. I knew that the population was Muslim (although I learned later there is a small population of Hindus and Christians) and that there was talk about how mosques were some of the only structures that survived the 50-foot tsunami waves, leading to all sorts of discussions about the role of religion in this tragedy. The other members of the team and I attempt to have some sense of the sociopolitical history of the area, reading as much as we could before we left for Indonesia.
Aceh is located at the northern tip of the island of Sumatra and is a province of the country of Indonesia. Historically, it was a trading post visited frequently by Arab, Indian, and Chinese merchants and pilgrims. In the 6th century, it was a Buddhist state with Hindu influences. Islam was introduced to Aceh in the 8th century and by the 13th century, Aceh was the first Muslim stronghold in Indonesia. There were frequent clashes with Portuguese colonizers as well as Dutch colonizers, including the 25-year "Achenese War." Although Aceh did finally surrender to the Dutch, the area was never peacefully occupied. After the decolonization of Indonesia, Aceh was incorporated into Indonesia, a move that was in contention then and is still an issue of contention in July 2005. While we are in Aceh, military conflict continues between Free Aceh Movement or GAM (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka) and TNI (the Indonesian military).1
Security Briefing, Disaster Tourism and the Third World
Our second day in Aceh, we have a "security briefing" with Denise, an Australian woman who is the security coordinator for IRC in Aceh. We discuss appropriate clothing for women. I ask her about the local women we had seen not wearing head scarves or long sleeves. Denise tells us that Aceh is 95% Muslim and the rest are Hindu and Christian. When I ask about whether they are considered or consider themselves as Achenese, she says that they are and they do, and that there is not much inter-religious conflict in Aceh.
Denise stresses the need for all of us to be careful about what we wear and how we act. Since teachers are revered and respected highly in Islam, she tells us, there will be expectations about what it means to be professors. We need to be aware of that and respect the respect we will get because of our perceived positions. Denise tells us, "On the surface, you have happy, open, smiling people. However, many people don't know the written Sha'ria laws. People learn the rules like eating with your right hand through their upbringing, so there are debates about whether it's cultural or religious."
During her formal presentation, Denise tells us we should be careful about what we write about our experiences once we go back to the United States and that we should probably check with IRC before publishing things. She suggests that we not take pictures of "interesting" things such as protests. We are to carry our passports at all times in case she needs to evacuate us out of there. Denise tells us that a lot of the information, particularly about GAM, was to give us a context for what many of the teachers might be experiencing, and not necessarily to "scare" us. We are told to be careful to avoid taking sides in the conflict. She mentions that there is a lot of corruption and that we should be careful about what we promise people we would give to them or do for them.
The issue of taking pictures comes up again when we go on a car tour of some of the areas devastated by the earthquake and tsunami. Donny, an Indonesian IRC staff member from Java, and Ayi, an Achenese IRC staff member, are our guides. As we pass scenes of devastation – the sight of the foundations of houses being one of the most striking visual image of what had happened – they talk about how they wanted us to be sensitive when we took photos and not to engage in "disaster tourism." The four of us refrain from taking any pictures during the tour. It's hard to understand how the earthquake and tsunami must have looked, felt, and been experienced. I could recall the numbers from Denise's presentation – a category 9 earthquake, 50-foot waves, 100,000 people killed in a few minutes, 1000s of homes destroyed – but it is hard to make sense of what we were seeing in front of us because it's mostly just empty space or flooded land. I find it hard to imagine homes, people, or entire communities that used to exist here.
Donny and Ayi tell us about how people are starting to rebuild their homes in areas where the government wanted to plant mangroves in order to prevent damage from future tsunamis. Many of these people were fishermen and they didn't know what they would do if they couldn't do that anymore. Donny and Ayi point out some of the flags planted here and there and inform us that people put those flags there in order to indicate that the owner of that land or a family member was still alive. A lot of the times during this conversation, Donny and Ayi would laugh while telling us about the tsunami and the destructive effects it has had. Back at the hotel, Angie speculates that it might be because they didn't want us to feel uncomfortable. Are they worried about how we would perceive such scenes? As I learn in the days to come, there is a definite sense of survival, renewal, and resilience among the Achenese staff at IRC and among the teachers.
The complicated politics of taking pictures comes up again and again. There are many spirited discussions among the six of us from GSE. We hear different advice and sensibilities from people with whom we are working. After a couple of days of workshops, the teachers start bringing their cameras and we are asked to be in pictures with them, which seems a fair bargain since I'm busy taking lots of pictures of them in the four classes, ostensibly as part of the documentation of our trip.
But I worry about how we represent the tragedy of the tsunami without perpetuating stereotypes about the "third world". I cringe as a GSE team member remarks, as we look out of the windows of our air-conditioned, chauffeured mini-van, that she can't tell what's the tsunami and what's the third world. What images do the words "third world" conjure up for my fellow GSE team members? Dirty, crowded streets? Gross bathrooms? Undrinkable water? Scary tropical diseases? I assume that it doesn't conjure up images of thrilling motorcycle rides on smooth, curvy roads, of hot springs where the water's hot enough to cook eggs, or of family and friends, and of delicious food and loud laughter. As they comment over and over again about the number of people who can ride on one motorcycle, their voices betray (to me) concerns about safety, while the same image invokes in me vague, warm memories of getting around the streets of Bangalore, India, on my dad's scooter, nestled safely between my mom and dad.
During the first weekend, we go with the teachers to see one of the "barrack camps" set up for people who have lost their homes. IRC has set up a "child-friendly space" for the young children and we scare many of them as we all swarm to look into a small room, where the children are sitting. Some of the female teachers are crying by the time we get to the barracks after having passed areas of devastation. I wish I could say something to them, desperately wanting to speak Indonesian. Instead I have to be content with giving them looks of sympathy.
As we head out of the barracks and pass homes, I'm very self-conscious about being in a car, looking out at the people. I put my camera away. I'm embarrassed as others in the car take pictures of random people on the street. I feel like we're invading their privacy even though most of them smile at us. The power differential between those of us taking photos and the people in our photos seems particularly stark.
When I come home to Philadelphia, I worry some more about how to represent my experience. I want to capture the sense of hope and resilience expressed so frequently to me and the spirit of creativity and cooperation so clearly evident in our work with the teachers. When I send my family and friends pictures of the trip, I include a long explanation of my experiences there as a way to contextualize the pictures. I'm careful not to include very many pictures of the devastation itself, choosing instead to emphasize the work we did with the teachers.
The issue of representation comes up when we are asked to present briefly at a GSE school meeting in October. The decision is made to show the short movie we had made for the teachers as a good-bye present and it includes pictures of children from the barracks, children whom we didn't work with, children whose names, lives and circumstances we know nothing about. Angie remarks that they look like pictures from a "Save the Children" ad we might see on TV and I agree with her. The pictures are kept in there and I choose not to say anything during the presentation, feeling very uncomfortable about the "show and tell" aspect of the whole thing, which I felt presented an untroubled narrative of our trip, smoothing over the questions and the concerns and the imperfections. However, it is received fairly well by the audience. And I wonder if their stereotypes about "third world" are challenged or supported.
Stories of the tsunami
Our third day in Aceh, we meet up with Iskandar, another Achenese IRC staff member, because we have a meeting with some of the deans from Syiah Kuala University – the local university hosting the program. On our way to the meeting, we meet the director of the graduate program in language education at the University. He tells us that he was a victim of the tsunami and that he lost almost all of his family in the tsunami – his wife and two of his three sons. When NancyLee asks him how he was, he replies that it had been very hard and that it was slowly getting better. He had just come back from a month in the United Kingdom, where he had been speaking about the tsunami, and he said that was a good break. Iskandar tells us later that the professor was living with him because he had lost everything in the tsunami. He says that things didn't really matter because you can always get more but that losing family was horrible. It's hard to know what to say to any of this, so we just listen.
Later that day, Denise does her security briefing again for Kathy and Lisa who arrived later than the rest of us. We tell her about the professor who shared his tsunami story the day before and ask her how we should react to such stories. Denise replies that we needed to view tsunami survivors as survivors, not victims (interestingly, the professor had specifically used the word 'victim' to describe himself). If we thought about survivors as victims, we end up making them victims. We should acknowledge their loss but also spin it positively. We shouldn't show that we're upset because people here don't generally show their grief publicly, she tells us. Later during our visit, Donny, the Indonesian staff member, talks about how the trauma associated with the tsunami is widely viewed as a communal experience, not as an individual experience. He stresses that individualist, clinical psychological approaches to healing are not appropriate in this context.
After classes on another day later that week, we go to see some of the devastated areas and end our trip at an Islamic boarding school where Ayi, the Achenese staff member, teaches English. He also lives there with the students. Ayi is the education officer for the child and youth protection department of IRC. During our first visit to the university classrooms, I had chatted with Ayi as we set up the classrooms. He had shared that he had an Indian friend when he was in Australia for a five-month English course. He told me that Indian movies were very popular in Indonesia and that they watched these movies dubbed in Indonesian. I told him about hearing a Hindi movie song at the markets that morning. We talked about the Hindi movies we had both watched and liked.
Back at the boarding school, as we look out onto a field where a group of boys are playing, Ayi describes fairly matter-of-factly how he had climbed up onto the roofs of several houses in order to escape from the tsunami waves. He tells us that he was very scared. His story catches me off guard –I knew that almost everyone in Banda Aceh had a story to tell about tsunami. Still I have trouble reconciling the fact that this is the same person with whom I had shared easy, amusing chatter about Hindi movies a couple of days ago.
Some of the teachers we work with tell stories of the tsunami in their children's books they are writing in the literacy methods class. Sometimes when teachers were reading their stories, other teachers would get up and walk out of the room. I worry and wonder about these teachers and whether they were okay. And again the limits of my language skills keep me from finding a way to ask them if they are okay. One of the most beautiful books made is written and illustrated by a teacher whose town was devastated by the tsunami. Kathy tells me that he lost over thirty family members. His book starts with the tsunami and narrates what happened since then. He ends with people in the town rebuilding their homes.
Being Indian in Aceh
At a meeting with university administrators, when we meet Nas, the head of the English department, she asks me where I'm from. I tell her that I was born in India but live in the U.S. now. She tells me that Indonesians look very different from each other and that even though she's Achenese, sometimes people think she is Bangladeshi. She adds that unlike what some people might say about people of Aceh, they have always been welcoming of foreigners. When I tell Joy about that comment later, she responds wryly, "Of course, they are welcoming of foreigners, unless you're looking to colonize them."
Before I left for Aceh, I knew that my experiences there would be different than the rest of the GSE team. Still I'm not prepared for the overwhelmingly positive response I get from the teachers and others about my Indian identity. It feels really cool to be Indian in Indonesia. The first day of classes, when Kathy and I share with the teachers the story of our names (before having them share the same with us), I tell the teachers that Chikkatur is the name of a village in India. The teachers react with knowing nods and smiles. Yes, she is Indian. A few times, I am mistaken for being Indonesian; for example, when we're checking in at the hotel, the clerk starts to talk to me in Indonesian! Some of the hotel staff greet me by name as they say good morning.
When we are on our weekend trip to Kleng Meria, where the barracks are, some of the teachers hear my story of immigration to the U.S. from India when I was ten. They ask questions about my experiences and then a teacher declares, "You're family." Some of the teachers call me "younger sister" and another tells me that she would like to adopt me as her daughter—if only she didn't have four daughters already! When I interview one of the teachers with help of one of our translators, she tells me at the end, "She wants to give [you a] message…she hope that this is not the only time that we will meet, maybe someday we will meet again. Even if that's not me, maybe my friend. You will come. She called you "young sister" and if you want to come to my country again, maybe not me, but everybody here will be very happy if you want to come again, thank you."
I'm grateful for their affection and kindness despite the differences in language and religion. It makes me sad to think that they might not get the same welcome, as Muslims, if they came to the U.S. or in many parts of India, including in the homes of some of my Hindu relatives.
The religion question
All of the female teachers who attend the workshops wear veils. When Joy and I wear our "Aceh" shirts, they joke with us that all we need now is the jilbab, the veil. To me, they add that's all I need to become Indonesian. When we tell this to the GSE group at dinner, one person remarks that she doesn't understand why women would want other women to go through that. She catches herself and adds that this is probably just her bias.
Religion is ever present in our experiences in Aceh. I can hear the morning prayer call early in the morning as I lay awake in my hotel room. Our classes are scheduled around prayer times so the teachers have time to pray. There's an arrow in all our hotel rooms, pointing to the direction of Mecca. Many of us have prayer rugs in our rooms as well. We have to wear long sleeved shirts and pants or long skirts. This aspect I start to resent by the end of my trip. Not just because it was so hot but because the men aren't subject to the same rules. They are allowed to wear short-sleeves. I can't help but revert back to my beliefs in individual choice. While I have no way to tell how the teachers understand the issue of veiling (although it's obvious that at least some of them consider it to be crucial parts of their identities and as projecting an image of beauty), it's hard for me to suspend completely my belief that we should be allowed to wear what we want. Veil or no veil, long sleeves or short sleeves should be a choice. I try to console myself by noting that the long sleeves prevent mosquito bites.
While there are both public schools and Islamic boarding schools in Aceh, the public schools are not secular as we might understand the term in the U.S. In our classes, there are frequent references to the Quran. Many times when the teachers came up to share their stories or something else, they would begin with a "Praise to God" greeting. Some of the teachers tell us that there is prayer in their schools. The opening ceremony for the workshops starts and ends with a prayer. Given my personal ambivalence about religious beliefs, it's challenging to try and understand how central religion seems to the experiences of the teachers. I always thought that I could be respectful of people's religious beliefs but still be firm in my belief that (at least in the U.S.) that the public sphere should be separate from religion. The different relationship between religion and the public sphere in Aceh is hard for me to understand as is the fact that people my age are religious enough to pray five times a day. Most of my friends in the U.S. don't pray once a week, let along five times a day. I wish that I had more time to get to know individuals and have more conversations about religion.
We learn from Denise that Aceh is in the process of training new police officers to enforce Sha'ria laws. We wonder if we should allow teachers to make their own groups, in case they want to make single-sex groups. However, this does not turn to be an issue at all. Teachers group themselves in both single-sex and mixed-sex groups and there is a lot of interaction and even teasing between the male and female students. While Denise had warned us that the men might not want to touch us, most of the male teachers shake our hands daily and some even put their arms around us when posing for pictures! Like with the veil and the prayers, I want to ask the teachers about what it means to them to live in a place with Sha'ria laws, but I do not get a chance to do so.
Reactions of the teachers
As frustrating as it is not to be able to talk directly to the teachers, I am grateful that they are generally very cooperative and eager to try out all the activities we proposed to them. Many of them complete assignments with enthusiasm and often do more than we ask for. In the literacy class, when we ask teachers to make small books with children's stories in them, teachers put a lot of effort into producing books with beautiful, colorful illustrations. A teacher suggests that we make copies of all of the books so that each teacher would have about ninety little books to take back to their classrooms. In order to gauge what the teachers thought about the training and what they might have learned from these workshop, I design a survey which is then translated and distributed to the teachers. Almost all of the teachers return the surveys, some even drawing pictures to show us the physical layout of their schools. However, again, the language barrier looms large. We collect the surveys and give them to the IRC staff. They are too busy to translate them before we leave and we never get them back translated. (In August 2006, Kathy informs me that when she went back to Aceh, she found the surveys in a box at the IRC office, untranslated.)
Almost all of the teachers are unfailingly polite and friendly to us and many of them often tease Joy and me, the youngest ones in the group. I often wish that I could sit with the teachers during lunchtime, rather than having lunch in a separate room with the rest of the Penn team. I wish I could understand the conversations they had in their small groups during the workshops and in their dormitories after we left. However, I know that I would only become more frustrated because I wouldn't be able to communicate with the teachers.
I am able to interview one of the teachers with the help of one of our translators and from her answers, it seems like there were concrete things the teachers might be able to take back to their classroom. Azizah, an elementary school teacher in Aceh Besar with fifteen years of experience, tells me that she agreed with the training's stance on having students do hands-on activities. She thinks that if the teacher first teaches them and then they practice, the students "maybe remember it longer and longer. That's much better than just reading the book and do not practice it." She tells me that she did not like teaching science but that she was more excited about teaching it after participating in NancyLee's science workshops. She is particularly excited about having students observe the cycles of the sun and the moon, something the teachers did during the two-week training.
When I ask Azizah about the value of education in general, she tells me, "Education is something that really has great value…to [give] our generation a better life in spiritual and in material. So education is something you [give as] a gift to the [current] generation to make each generation better." She added, once again challenging my stereotypes about Islam, "Based on Islamic rule, education [starts] when we are born [and continues] until we die. The Prophet says that you have to try to get education even if you have to go to China, if it's far away…without education, we can't reach…the after-life. It's more important than money."
Unfortunately, I have no way of gauging if Azizah's enthusiasm and support is the norm among the teachers or the exception.
In whose interests are we doing this work?
When Lisa becomes sick, Joy and I substitute and teach one of the theory classes for her. I make a little speech at the beginning about how we hope to do our best. I'm really uncomfortable about being the expert. Given that most of these teachers have had years of experience, both teaching and just life experiences, who am I to stand up there and teach them about some White, Western guys' theories, theories which might be completely alien to what they know and believe about education, about the world? What right do I have to be standing up there in front of these teachers, spewing out information about American educational theory or the best way to teach writing? It was also partly that I feel wholly underqualified to be teaching any of what I'm teaching. I wish that we had more time built in for them to talk to each other—although there is a lot of small group work where they talk to each other. They have so much they can teach each other and us but most of the teaching (like many other things) seem so one-way.
It also makes me sad and angry when one of the professors (who will be working with the teachers for the two later weeks of their training) asks Lisa if she would talk about a specific theory with the teachers. When Lisa suggests that he could talk to the teachers about it, he replies that it would have more legitimacy coming from her because she's from the U.S. Figuring out how to think about and through such situations is one of the hardest parts about being in Aceh. I often feel like an outsider within the Penn group. The worst part of it has been sitting through conversations where things like "The teachers just can't think" might get said.
After classes one day, there is a discussions about the trouble teachers are having sorting books according to genre. Joy suggests that perhaps they didn't have the same classification schemes as we do. A team member replies that sorting the books was something a 3-year-old White middle class child in the U.S. could do easily. She was careful to add that this doesn't mean the child is smarter than the teachers but that the child had more familiarity with the books. And I think: We have no idea what these teachers are thinking – so much gets lost in translation. I'm frustrated by the way in which this conversation is framed and I walk out of the room. I stand outside, alone, thinking about how one-way the whole trip feels. For the most part, "we," the Americans, lecture and "they," the Achenese, listen. And I can't imagine a world anytime in the near future where it will be any different. I know that part of the problem in this case is the language barrier. It seems hard in practical terms for our translators to tell us every single thing the teachers say in their small group discussions or even when we are having the rare whole class discussion. It is both amazing and disconcerting that the teachers are so willing to sit in these hot classrooms and listen to us and do everything that we ask them to do.
Kathy tells us that the question we should be thinking about as we do this work in Aceh is "In whose interests are we doing this work?" The answer isn't so clear to me. On many levels, our presence in Aceh seems completely preposterous. We are there with no knowledge of the teachers' language or of the contexts in which they are teaching and very little knowledge about their cultural beliefs and knowledge.
The attitudes of some of the American IRC staff members also make me uncomfortable. The education advisor, for example, at a meeting with the university professors, insists that the professors attend at least one session a day when the Penn team is teaching. I'm taken aback by his insistence and his tone of voice. This was after a meeting in which one of the professors, who teaches language methodology, seems appropriately skeptical about our ability to teach these teachers how to teach Indonesian, given that we don't speak or understand any Indonesian!
Another day, he tells us about how when he was working in West Africa, he would carry whistles to schools so that he could use them to trade with the teachers and get their canes and whips in return. He had quite a few whips and canes in his collection at the office, he says, and we all laugh. He adds that the UN really liked his idea and decided to buy a whole bunch of whistles to continue the trading. Listening to his story and to the GSE team's responses, I'm suddenly depressed. I think that it's incredible work that he's doing while at the same time, here's this white American guy coming in to save those poor brown and black folk from themselves. Why is that many of the places where there is a huge international-NGO presence are in Asia or Africa? Why is that it is generally black and brown people who need "rescuing" whether it be from natural disasters or human-made disasters?
No easy answers: Post-trip reflections
After reading about my experiences in Aceh, my friend responds that there is an uncomplicated answer to those questions: the history of colonialism. While I agree that it is the root cause, this answer does not provide me with any easy guidelines about what should be done now. What can we do at the present time so the inequalities and injustice caused by that history starts to lessen or at the very least do not continue to increase? While I have my doubts and frustrations about the nature of the kind of work we were doing in Aceh, my response is not that Americans should do nothing. There are the obvious differences in resources that I cannot ignore, particularly as the stories of famine in Niger dominate the front pages of U.S. newspapers when I return from Aceh. I think about the six young people in Aceh we met through our work who are applying for Fulbrights in order to come and study in the U.S. I can't dismiss easily their hopes and aspirations and I admire their sense of purpose and their dedication to going back to Aceh with the knowledge and skills they hope to attain here in the U.S.
In my more optimistic moments, I believe that the teachers had the best deal. They had the opportunity to listen to what we had to offer and to accept, reject or transform the ideas they heard to their own contexts. They made wonderful children's books for their students and are going back to their schools with a hundred books made by their colleagues. Even better, they had the opportunity and were paid to participate in the training, share ideas and stories with each other and learn from one another. As part of the GSE team, on the other hand, I did not have the same opportunity to learn from the collective and individual wisdom of these teachers. I am incredibly grateful for having the opportunity to have met these amazing teachers and have learned from this experience that it is possible to make connections with people across barriers of language and culture.
For now, the most productive thing I can do is to reflect on my experiences there. If I had to do this again, I would like to think about how these two weeks could have been more of a learning opportunity for those of us going from the U.S. While I felt that the teachers assumed that we, the "professors from Penn," were competent and creative, that assumption did not always feel mutual. What could I, we, have done differently so that the learning and teaching opportunities and the assumptions about competence could have been more mutual?
1However, partly in response to the earthquake and tsunami, new talks between the two parties did led to a peace treaty and in December 2005, Indonesia finally pulled out military troops from Aceh, a key move in ending 26 years of conflict.
Anita Chikkatur is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Education, Culture and Society program at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She taught English at a junior high school in a small town in Japan for two years. Her research interests include student and teacher perspectives on race, gender and sexuality; how meanings of "American" are informed by racial, gendered and class identities; and issues of diversity and difference in educational institutions. She can be reached at: email@example.com.
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National Export Strategy
The National Export Strategy (NES) is a Government Grant facility, which aims to assist existing and new exporters in achieving competitiveness, value addition, export diversification and growth in targeted markets overseas. The government will provide this assistance in sectors which have growth potentials, such as Forestry, Fisheries, Agro-business and Manufacturing.
The Fijian Government will continue to provide assistance to Fijian exporters to overcome barriers to trade, maximize productions, diversify products and secure new markets. This will contribute to increased exports, improved balance of payment position and foreign exchange earnings for the economy.
Companies on the verge of exporting that require assistance for product development can apply for this grant. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that are in the export business or on the verge of exporting are encouraged to consider applying for the grant. Eligibility for assistance will be based on the set criteria for this Scheme.
- Certified Copy of Birth Certificate;
- Detailed Business Plan;
- Recent Tax Returns Lodged with FRCS;
- 2016 and 2017 Audited Accounts;
- Business Registration Certificate;
- Valid Business License;
- Company TIN Letter;
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- Detailed Construction and Local Authority Approval Plan, if applicable.
Applications for the 2018/19 Financial Year closed on 23 November 2018. Invitations for expressions of interest in the programme will be advertised when it re-opens.
Upon receipt of all applications, the Ministry collates and scrutinizes the proposals. Site Inspections and visits are carried out for those who applied for the NES Grant.
The Ministry prepares papers based on the site inspections carried out and the need of those requiring assistance under NES.
The NES Compliance Committee meets to discuss the proposals, the Ministry finalizes NES Committee's decision and key stakeholders are informed of the outcomes.
The NES, over the past 12 years, has assisted 104 projects, with support amounting to over $14 million and this has led to significant increase in export earnings, markets and employment in a majority of the companies that have been supported.


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Munster sign South African forward
Munster's new back-row signing Arno Botha
MUNSTER Rugby and the IRFU have confirmed the one-year signing of South African back row Arno Botha this Thursday.
Twenty six-year-old Botha, currently playing with London Irish, will join the province at the beginning of next season, subject to medical clearance and obtaining a work permit.
Botha, who plays flanker and number eight, played his entire professional career with the Blue Bulls before moving to London in January.
A former South Africa U20s captain, Botha featured for the Springboks on two occasions in 2013.
Botha's arrival this summer will further increase the South African-born representation at Munster which also includes head coach Johann van Graan, defence coach JP Ferreira, back-row forwards CJ Stander, who is an Irish international, and Chris Cloete, centre Jaco Taute, second-row Jean Kleyn as well as Academy players Kenyan Knox and Matt More.
Commenting on the signing, Head Coach Johann van Graan said: "In building our squad for next season I believe Arno will be a great addition to our side, adding further depth and strength to our back row options.
"From my time with the Bulls and South Africa I have first-hand experience of what Arno is capable of. A physical ball carrier and lineout jumper, he leads by example with his work-rate, commitment and physicality, and we look forward to welcoming him to the province."


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Our mission is to eradicate energy poverty and minimize the damage of climate change by breaking down the barriers to solar energy access. Through innovative design and a focus on accessibility we are overcoming the cost and complexity barriers currently limiting global viral deployment of solar thermal technologies in humanitarian, commercial and industrial contexts. All the tools and materials needed to implement solar thermal technologies are already produced and stocked en masse around the world; the world is ready.
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GoSol.org technologies are high power solar concentrators built with off-the-shelf materials available everywhere in the world. To learn more about our technologies, visit http://www.gosol.org.
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"It's been known for some time that chemotherapy following surgery improves survival in patients with CRC, but the optimal timing for the start of treatment was unknown," says James Biagi, the head of the Department of Oncology at Queen's and medical oncologist at Kingston General Hospital. "Our findings indicate that clinicians and health systems managers need to take steps to ensure that the time between surgery and chemotherapy is as short as reasonably possible."
James Biagi has found that a delay between surgery and chemotherapy can lead to a decrease in overal survival and disease-free survival for CRC patients.
The study findings also support the idea that chemotherapy may still have some benefit for patients who cannot start treatment until four or five months after surgery instead of the traditionally recommended three-month window.
This finding was based on a review and analysis of 10 studies involving 15,410 CRC patients.
Postoperative complications and long health care system wait times are the two main reasons chemotherapy is often delayed. The researchers believe cancer-system jurisdictions could turn their attention to wait times to improve the outcomes of cancer patients.
These findings will be presented on June 4 in Chicago at the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2011 Annual Meeting and published in the next edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association.


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All of our motorcycles are Harley-Davidson® Touring and Cruiser models and are regularly maintained and serviced by our good friends at H-D Alba with whom we have a wonderfully close and supportive business relationship. Moreover, as a valued customer of Piemonte Motorcycle Tours you will also enjoy a generous 10% discount off motor-clothes and accessories when you visit H-D Alba as one of our motorcycle tour guests.
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Piemonte Motorcycle Tours has established relationships with carefully selected local businesses and restaurants offering fine cuisine as well as typically wholesome "home-cooked" Italian food as offered by some of the best selected "Trattorias" in the region. Fine wines and regional specialties such as truffles (for which the nearby medieval city of Alba is famous worldwide) can be found in many of the restaurants in this gourmet's paradise.
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Warrant: Man convinces elderly stranger he was his son
Asheville in 2016 saw more incidents of serious violent crime committed than in any year since at least 2011. Here's a by-the-numbers look at the crime rates in Asheville. Bobby Shipman
A 24-year-old man faces charges after he convinced an elderly stranger with dementia he was his son, according to warrants.
Police charged Devontae Dequarius Gaines, of Hendersonville, with obtaining property by false pretenses and exploiting a disabled or elderly person. Warrants state the offense occurred Oct. 24, 2016.
According to warrants, Gaines convinced a 74-year-old man suffering from dementia that the older man helped raise Gaines when he was a child, although the elderly man had never met Gaines before Oct. 24, 2016. Because the elderly man believed in the false relationship, Gaines was able to obtain $300 and another $93 in goods and services in a gas station, according to the warrant.
Asheville Police investigated.
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What does Iakov mean?
Iakov as a boys' name has its root in Hebrew, and the name Iakov means "he who supplants". Iakov is an alternate form of Jacob (Hebrew).
ASSOCIATED WITH supplants (victory)
VARIANT Yakov
OTHER FORMS VIA JACOB Iacopo, Iacovo, Iago, Iakob, Iakobos, Jacko, Jackob, Jaco, Jago, Jake, Jakeb, Jakie, Jakob▼, Jakobe, Jakov, Jakub, YakupCREATIVE FORMS
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Iakov Andy (I.A.), ..
How popular is Iakov?
Iakov is an unusual first name for males. Iakov is also an uncommon last name for both adults and children. (2000 U.S. CENSUS)
Which version is better?
Popular related forms of Iakov (OUTSIDE TOP 2000) are Jacob (#7 VIA LATEST LIST), Jake (#242), Jakeb, Jakie, Jakob (#583), Jakobe (#1119), Jakub (#1884) and Yakov (#1554). Other forms, like Iago, are uncommon. Adoption of these forms of Iakov was well-received among parents 2 decades ago (ADOPTION OF 2.15%) and is now significantly less (ADOPTION 0.89%, DOWN 58.3%), with the version Jakob becoming less in vogue. (TOP 2000 NAMES, 2016)
Similar Names
Iakov is alike in pronunciation to Yaakov and Yacov. Another recommended sound-alike name is Markov. Like Iakov, these names are not commonly used.See names in meaning and etymology.


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By Jocelyn Nash Carlion
I've always admired the Pixar movie studio – not just for the brilliant animation, but for their wonderful storytelling. Pixar films consistently win more critical praise and more awards than any other animation studio not just because of their technical expertise but because of their focus on telling a good story, and telling it well. In my opinion they not only tell better stories than most family films, but better than most Hollywood films, period.
So, even thought it's about a year and a half old, I was delighted to find this list of storytelling tips from senior story artists at Pixar, as compiled and tweeted by former Pixar story artist Emma Coats.
Here's the complete list:
#1: You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.
#2: You gotta keep in mind what's interesting to you as an audience, not what's fun to do as a writer. They can be v. different.
#3: Trying for theme is important, but you won't see what the story is actually about til you're at the end of it. Now rewrite.
#4: Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___.
#5: Simplify. Focus. Combine characters. Hop over detours. You'll feel like you're losing valuable stuff but it sets you free.
#6: What is your character good at, comfortable with? Throw the polar opposite at them. Challenge them. How do they deal?
#7: Come up with your ending before you figure out your middle. Seriously. Endings are hard, get yours working up front.
#8: Finish your story, let go even if it's not perfect. In an ideal world you have both, but move on. Do better next time.
#9: When you're stuck, make a list of what WOULDN'T happen next. Lots of times the material to get you unstuck will show up.
#10: Pull apart the stories you like. What you like in them is a part of you; you've got to recognize it before you can use it.
#11: Putting it on paper lets you start fixing it. If it stays in your head, a perfect idea, you'll never share it with anyone.
#12: Discount the 1st thing that comes to mind. And the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th – get the obvious out of the way. Surprise yourself.
#13: Give your characters opinions. Passive/malleable might seem likable to you as you write, but it's poison to the audience.
#14: Why must you tell THIS story? What's the belief burning within you that your story feeds off of? That's the heart of it.
#15: If you were your character, in this situation, how would you feel? Honesty lends credibility to unbelievable situations.
#16: What are the stakes? Give us reason to root for the character. What happens if they don't succeed? Stack the odds against.
#17: No work is ever wasted. If it's not working, let go and move on – it'll come back around to be useful later.
#18: You have to know yourself: the difference between doing your best & fussing. Story is testing, not refining.
#19: Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.
#20: Exercise: take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How d'you rearrange them into what you DO like?
#21: You gotta identify with your situation/characters, can't just write 'cool'. What would make YOU act that way?
#22: What's the essence of your story? Most economical telling of it? If you know that, you can build out from there.
Not all the tips will apply to you and your writing at this exact moment, but there are enough gems of wisdom on this list that something on it will probably resonate with you. Numbers 8 and 17 really speak to me right now. Which tips speak to you?