#Indonesia training provider

[mariacallous]

India’s $13.9 billion aviation industry—projected to cater to over 300 million domestically by 2030—is a ticking time bomb.

This July, in the sweltering heat at the Delhi High Court, additional solicitor general Aishwarya Bhati announced that new rules on pilot duty and rest periods would not be implemented this year after all. Introduced by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in January, the rules were designed specifically to combat pilot fatigue. They were set to take effect in June, but were abruptly retracted. The hearing addressed a writ petition filed by the Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP), seeking clarity on when the new norms would be enforced. The DGCA’s response followed its request to airline companies in April for a tentative implementation timeline.

Concerns over pilot fatigue had been mounting in the months leading up to the announcement of the new Flight Duty Period, Flight Time Limitations, and Prescribed Rest Periods by the DGCA. The urgency deepened in November 2023 when a 37-year-old Air India pilot, Captain Himanil Kumar, collapsed at Delhi Airport while training to fly the airline's Boeing 777 fleet, and later died at the hospital. Kumar was the second Indian pilot to die on duty within three months; in August, Captain Manoj Subramanyam, a 40-year-old IndiGo pilot, suffered a fatal cardiac arrest just minutes before his flight from Nagpur.

These back-to-back tragedies raised alarm in the industry. “Another young Indian pilot passed away today due to a suspected cardiac event,” reportedly tweeted Captain Shakti Lumba, a retired IndiGo VP who is now the president of the Professional Pilots Society in India (His tweet was since deleted.) “If this doesn’t convince the DGCA, civil aviation ministry, and airlines to urgently address the stress, fatigue, and anxiety among pilots, nothing will.”

The DGCA, India’s aviation watchdog, regulates the country’s Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL). At 13 hours of flight duty time, India’s FDTL is already demanding, but after the pandemic slowdown, increased route expansion and pilot shortages have forced many to fly beyond the recommended maximum of 60 hours a week, exacerbating crew exhaustion. The DGCA finally responded to the growing crisis by revising FDTL norms in January 2024.

The new guidelines increased weekly rest periods from 36 to 48 hours and introduced quarterly fatigue reports. Its scheduled implementation on June 1, 2024, was pushed back due to pressure from operators. An airline CEO, speaking anonymously to the Economic Times in January, claimed the proposed regulations would require a 20 percent increase in pilot numbers, which would escalate expenses and lead to huge numbers of flight cancellations. Still, the DGCA held firm on the FDTL implementation deadline till early March. By the end of the month, however, it appeared to have yielded to influence from the airline lobby. A notice on the regulator’s website announced the deadline had been deferred, without providing a reason or setting a new date.

The pilot fatigue problem isn’t unique to India. In January, two pilots for Indonesia-based Batik Air fell asleep for 28 minutes mid-flight, causing their plane to veer off course between Sulawesi and Jakarta. In April, unionized Virgin Atlantic pilots in the UK voted 96 percent in favor of pursuing an industrial action in response to rising fatigue. Earlier, the CEO of Wizz Air UK faced a backlash for urging crew members to push through their fatigue to avoid flight cancellations. In May, senior pilots at Virgin Australia raised safety concerns, claiming rostering systems were pushing them "to the limits.”

But in India, the belief that overwork and fatigue are not just acceptable but essential has become entrenched across industries. The aviation crisis is just the tip of the iceberg; it is the tech industry that is leading the charge. Last year, Infosys cofounder Narayana Murthy suggested that Indian youth should work 70 hours a week for the nation's development. Murthy’s advice came up at the Indian Parliament on the first day of its winter session and found support from a list of influential Indian tech leaders, including Bhavish Aggarwal, founder of India’s first AI unicorn, Ola Krutrim; Ayushmaan Kapoor, cofounder of the AI-powered customer platform Xeno; and even veterans like Sajjan Jindal, CEO and MD of JSW Group, and Vinod Khosla of Sun Microsystems. Almost all of them justified the extended work hours, which far exceed the maximum eight to nine hours per day stipulated by the International Labour Organisation and the Indian Labour Code, as necessary for strengthening India’s economy. “We have to make India an economic superpower that we can all be proud of,” Jindal wrote on X. He cited Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, “who works 14-16 hours everyday,”as a model. In July this year, the Karnataka State IT/ITeS Employee Union said the state government had plans to increase working hours in the sector from the current maximum of 10 hours (including overtime) to a staggering 14 hours a day. As the union planned massive campaigns to oppose the move, the labor minister stated that the push for the proposal had come from the companies.

The airline companies think they have a solution to the fatigue crisis: technology. IndiGo, India’s largest airline, announced it would be an “early adopter” of a wrist-worn fatigue-monitoring device it was developing with French defense and aerospace company Thales Group. The device can provide “detailed insights into demographic data, including routes, pairings, crew profiles, and more, going beyond traditional scheduling-focused biomathematical models,” the airline stated in a press release in September. The airline, which operates 2,000 flights daily and employs over 5,000 pilots, said the device would be rolled out after a proof-of-concept trial. No date for the rollout was announced.

Wearable activity trackers are not new to the aviation industry. IndiGo’s device sounds similar to Actiwatch, a now-discontinued line of research-grade actigraphs from Philips, used to monitor sleep patterns, study circadian rhythms, and track physical activity as part of an airline’s fatigue risk-management system. But they partly rely on performance tests and subjective measures, such as self-reporting, which often results in being targeted by the airlines, says Captain C. S. Randhawa, president of the Federation of Indian Pilots. Safety management systems on the whole tend to be neglected by operators and are viewed as an additional expense, says Captain Amit Singh of the NGO Safety Matters Foundation.

In May 2023, Air India launched safety management software called Coruson, as well as BAM (Boeing Alertness Model), a fatigue-mitigation tool integrated into its rostering system, which is used by airlines to create and manage pilot schedules. Coruson, developed by cloud software company Ideagen, centralizes, analyzes, and reports on safety-related data—such as incidents, hazards, and risk assessments. BAM, developed jointly by Boeing and the software company Jeppesen, predicts and manages pilot fatigue by analyzing flight schedules and performance data. These tools were designed to prevent the creation of fatiguing rosters and pairings, Air India CEO Campbell Wilson noted in an internal message to employees. The carrier also introduced two new digital tools for its crew—the Pilot Sector Report app, to help pilots easily submit information on flight performance, incidents, and observations post-flight; and DocuNet, a digital management system that facilitates the storage, retrieval, and sharing of documents (such as flight manuals, training records, and compliance documents).

Despite these measures, the airline was fined by the DGCA in March this year for violating FDTL limits and fatigue management rules. This May, Air India Express cabin staff called in sick en masse to protest against “mismanagement.” This followed a similar protest from the crew, mostly pilots, at Vistara airlines. Both Air India and Vistara are now owned by one of India’s largest conglomerates, the Tata Group, which took over the former from the Indian government in January 2022.

Twenty-five of those who called in sick at Air India Express were terminated. Others were reportedly served an ultimatum. Those sacked were later reinstated by the airline following an intervention by the chief labour commissioner. Nearly a week before, the regional labor commissioner of Delhi had allegedly written to the Tata group chairman pointing to “blatant violations of labour laws” and insisting the legitimate concerns of the cabin crew be looked into. According to CNBC, Vistara employees said the agitation at their end had to do with recent salary updates, which fixed pilot pay at 40 flight hours—down from 70. Protesting first officers claimed that the new salary structure would result in an almost 57 percent pay cut. Under the new terms they would also have to fly up to 76 hours to earn what they were previously earning at 70 hours.

To placate the pilots and get them back to work, management had assured them that salaries for the “extra working hours” would be credited once Vistara was integrated with Air India. At the time, two Air India pilots unions had written to the chairman of the company, saying that such issues were not isolated but systemic. Burnout was the other related issue, with many pilots complaining of inadequate rest and being pushed to their limits.

Captain Singh, a former senior manager at AirAsia, tells WIRED that such effects significantly increase the risk of accidents, but also adversely affect pilot health in the long run. Tail swaps—rushing between different types of aircraft to take off immediately after disembarking from another—have become more prevalent under the 13-hour rules, and can further contribute to exhaustion, as do hasty acclimatization and, most significantly, landing three, four, or more flights consecutively, which Captain Randhawa described as a “severe energy management challenge.”

In the 2024 “Safety Culture Survey” conducted by Singh’s Safety Matters Foundation in July, 81 percent of 530 respondents, primarily medium- to short-haul pilots, stated that bufferless rosters contribute to their fatigue. As many as 84 percent indicated concerns with the speed and direction of shift rotation. “That’s the problem with the new rostering softwares the operators are introducing,” a pilot from a private airline, who requested anonymity, says. “They’re optimizers designed to make pilots work every second of their 13-hour schedule, leaving no breathing room.” The buffer-deficient timetables push pilots to their limits, so any additional pressure—like unpredictable weather—can easily overwhelm them.

Solving this issue with wrist-worn fatigue-measuring devices is contentious. But that isn’t the only problem. A year since they were hyped up, the buzz around fatigue-management tech has all but fizzled out. There have been no updates from IndiGo about the wrist device. Neither IndiGo nor the Thales Group responded to requests to comment.

[kaitaiga]

Craig Alan Jones - Black Ops OC

GENERAL

Age: 46 (1981)

Birthday: 23 July, 1935 in Adelaide, South Australia

Occupation: SASR Trooper, ASIS Officer

Affiliation: Special Air Service Regiment (SASR)(Formerly), Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS)

Rank: Lieutenant (Formerly)

Face Claim: Mel Gibson

Height: 186cm (6'1)

Hair Colour: Dark Brown

Eye Colour: Blue

Identifying Marks: Scarring on legs, mole on left cheek

Languages: English, Indonesian, Vietnamese (minimal), Russian (minimal)

Song Associated: Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ TOP

AFFILIATES

CIA

Russell Adler

Frank Woods

Alex Mason

Lawrence Sims

Lazar Azoulay

"Bell"

Aleksandra Clarke R. (@alypink)

MI6

Helen Park

New Zealand Army

Koa “Hunter” Nikau ( @islandtarochips )

Other

Abby Mason (@revnah1406)

PERSONALITY AND TRAITS

Myers-Briggs Type: ENTP-A

Generally, Craig is a relaxed but confident, goal-oriented individual.

He isn’t afraid to speak his mind when he has opposing views on a matter. He prides himself on his own experiences that have built said opinions, which may come off as arrogant at times.

Craig has a habit of working alone without noticing, working autonomously to get a job done. He is self-motivated and does what he thinks is best for an outcome.

As a trooper, he learnt to be adaptable and resourceful to any given situation.

SKILLS/SPECIALISATIONS

As an SASR trooper, Craig has to work in a smaller force element, therefore has undergone training in many different areas, including:

Parachuting (HALO/HAHO)

Combat Survival

CQB/CQC

Demolitions

Signaller

SF Weapons Handling (mounted heavy-weapons, sniper, etc)

Urban Combat

BACKSTORY

Craig was born on the 23rd of July, 1935 in Adelaide. Raised just outside of the main city, his father was part of the city council in Bradbury and lived well beyond his means. Craig attended prestigious primary and secondary schools but was always rebellious, preferring to skip going to school to commit petty crimes, tarnishing the family name as he knew that due to his father's status, he could bypass getting in trouble.

Due to this and in addition to not wanting to follow his father’s path of going to university and becoming part of the city council, this lead to many arguments between the two and at 16, he was thrown out of the house and had to fend for himself on the streets. Craig’s father, not wanting to have any association with him anymore, placed a fake obituary in the newspaper to officially cut ties with him.

For two years, Craig changed his identity and worked at a plant nursery before undergoing mandatory national service within the Australian Army at 18. He enjoyed his occupation and the perks that came along with it that he fully enlisted into the Army after his mandatory service finished and later into the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) in 196X. He spent his first brief deployment in Borneo during the Indonesia-Malaysia conflict before shipping out to Nui Dat, Vietnam in 1966 as part of Sabre 1 squadron.

Unbeknownst to his unit whilst in Vietnam, Craig was ordered by ASIS to keep an eye out and investigate any intel that could hint towards any Soviet activity, passing anything he finds onto a CIA contact. This contact was revealed to be Russell Adler. The two become acquainted and would go onto Operation Fracture Jaw alongside Lawrence Sims.

For the remainder of the Vietnam War, Craig and the SASR continued to work closely with MACV-SOG, providing intel and support until 1971 where he returned to Australia. He truely florished in his time spent in the military, from a petty thief to an extraordinary soldier who lead his unit through countless battles, a great leader and mentor.

COLD WAR

Fast forward to 1981, Craig now works under ASIS as an intelligence officer. Due to his knowledge and intel of Perseus from Vietnam, plus his connections to Adler, he joins the crew at the CIA safehouse to help track him down once and for all.

Missions:

Fracture Jaw

Brick in the Wall

Echos of a Cold War

End of the Line

The Final Countdown

Two years later in 1983, Craig married his unnamed wife and thus his son Lachlan Jones was born.

TRIVIA

Craig prefers to wear his R.M Williams boots in the style, 'The Craftsman' in dark tan.

His main choice of attire includes: two button down shirts layered and unbuttoned (inner white and outer dark blue) with a brown leather bomber jacket on top, boot-cut blue jeans and a brown leather belt along with his boots.

Smokes occasionally, likes the brand 'Lucky Strike'.

Drives a red Mitsubishi Starion.

Favourite weapons include: HK MP5, Sterling Submachine Gun, Colt M16A1 and L9A1 Browining Hi-Power.

Frequently visits casinos and likes to gamble.

He prefers his coffee made black with lots of sugar.

[colddweller]

Hello, I'm Emilia. Help me emigrate to safer place.

I'm in a very vulnerable position.

I'm a trans woman from Indonesia looking to emigrate to Canada.

Indonesia doesn't have protection for trans people, and there was a talk last year to restrict trans people even more. My parents somewhat neglected me since I never have higher education and I've never been in job training, they never provide me with anything with the exception of shelter and food. My family don't like trans people, and I'm not sure what will happen if my parents died (the only family member that remotely care about me is my mother, it's a low bar in terms of standards).

I'm medically transitioned (DIY HRT) because of my dysphoria and my body starting to show changes, I'm afraid of people noticing that I'm trans. Indonesia is harsh.

I only ever come out to my friends and girlfriend, also isolated in my own house so I don't have targeted harassment directly. But I've been doxxed in someone's social media post.

If you're not in position to donate, please reblog my crowdfund. Otherwise, thank you for donating. I don't want to be poor in a country when I can be killed at any moment.

Donate below

[felixcloud6288]

Higurashi: Festival Accompanying Chapter 1

We know all the secrets surrounding June 1983, but we don't know everything leading up to that month.

Everything begins at some point likely around the mid 1950s. Before she was Miyo Takano, she was Miyoko Tanashi. She was scared of horror stories, loved collecting the flags that came with her kids meals, and loved her parents very much.

S-Save me r/vexillology!! I'm trying to identify all 19 of the flags Miyoko has collected.

The flags I can identify for sure:

Brazil: near the bottom center

Canada: near the center to the right of Brazil

China: in the top right corner

Denmark: In the top left, above South Korea and partially buried under two other flags

Finland: Above Denmark and slightly covering it up

France: The flag covering up Denmark

Germany: bottom left corner

Greece: Center far right

Japan: Near the center

South Korea: Center far left. Partially covered by the drawer wall

Switzerland: Bottom center, next to Brazil

Turkey: Bottom right corner

United Kingdom: Top Center

United States: Top center. Right above Canada

Meanwhile I think these are also in the pile:

Argentina or Austria: The flag under the Swiss and Brazilian flags. I'm leaning toward Argentina because red is drawn in darker shades

India: The flag at the top right above the US flag and partially covered by the drawer

Italy or Ireland: Flag to the right of Switzerland and above Turkey. I'm leaning more toward it being Italy.

I cannot figure out what the flag between Canada and Greece is. At first, I thought it was the Czech Republic, but the shading on this image doesn't match the Czech colors at all. And it's backward too. There's also a flag in the top right corner that is very hidden. All I can tell is it has white on the bottom. My guess is it might be Indonesia. I was also considering Estonia, but Estonia was under Soviet rule at this time and it was illegal to fly the Estonian flag.

I was really hoping the Mexican and South African flags might be in here.

You're placing a curse on your kid if you tell them god will give them happiness if they're good. You're telling them it is their fault when life happens and things fall apart. And almost as if on cue, Miyoko's life falls apart on the same day her father told her that. The only thing you could say she did wrong was she didn't hear her father when he called out to her.

Mr Tanashi losing his right hand in the train derailment is just twisting the knife. It's not enough that Miyoko's mother died in the accident and that she saw her father die. She's also denied one final headpat before he dies.

I want to try being fair to the social workers working on Miyoko's case. This is the mid 1950s. World War II ended at most a decade ago. Around 4% of Japan's population was killed in the war. Two cities were utterly destroyed, and there's the general economic collapse that comes from long-term military action.

No matter how much they may want to help, resources in this environment are stretched thin. Trying to find and contact a single person with no leads would likely be difficult today. It would be a herculean task in the 1950s.

And it's also this kind of scenario that lets an institution like the one Miyoko was sent to to exist. Those social workers were genuinely clueless about how that orphanage mistreats the children brought to it. They genuinely think they're providing the best possible solution given the situation, and the head of the orphanage knows how to put on a kindly face in front of them.

I genuinely don't know if the panel of the man patting Miyoko's head is real or her imagination. Him giving her even the slightest kindness is so out of character. And Miyoko grew up in the exact opposite of an abusive home. Her instinct when seeing someone raise their hand to her is expecting kindness and being utterly confused when she's hit instead.

I love and hate how that first slap to Miyoko is so perfectly executed. A full page image on the right half of the page spread. You just turn the page and see Miyoko violently slapped across the face. It's as sudden to us as it is to her. And right before it happens, the chapter implied that there is hope for her despite everything that's happened. But that one slap knocks the hope out of her and us.

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[ambuschool]

Personal Statement

I started my career as a monitoring and evaluation associate at NICE Indonesia in 2019. We provide a 5-year grant to 12 CSOs in Indonesia to develop their organizations. During those 5 years, we evaluate their performance annually based on the training and financial interventions provided. Some of the organizations I directly supervised include Yayasan Gerak Bareng, Yayasan Munashoroh Indonesia, and Yayasan Gema Insani.

In addition to the annual reviews I conducted, I also took on side jobs to measure the impact of several organizations. My team and I have measured the impact for Schneider Electric Foundation Indonesia, Yayasan Infra Digital Indonesia, Perkumpulan Ibu Pembelajar Bahagia (Lab Belajar Ibu), Komunitas Happiness Family, and wrote impact reports for the SMK Pusat Keunggulan assistance program in 2023 on behalf of the Directorate of Vocational High Schools, Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia. I attached some files here : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mbhbs0wAkwZtBzbxgJ-1xzdZhXMX3XdJ/view?usp=sharing 

Apart from working in monitoring and evaluation, as a registered nurse in Indonesia, I am also active in several health education initiatives, particularly regarding the impact of the environment on health. My friends and I founded the Emcekaqu Sehat Berdaya Foundation, which campaigns for open defecation-free zones in Pandeglang, Banten. We observed the impact of poor sanitation on children's health, especially given the high stunting rates in the area, and we actively campaign for behavior change to eliminate open defecation. From this work, I had the opportunity to participate in several fellowships related to the environment, such as the Young Water Fellowship in Belgium in 2017, the Young South East Asia Leadership Initiative in Environmental Management in the USA in 2018, and the International One Health Camp in Vietnam in 2019.

Besides my professional life, I experienced a turning point in my personal life when my first daughter died during the delivery process. As a nurse, I know it's not just me but thousands of mothers in Indonesia who have experienced this. Since then, I pledged to contribute to reducing neonatal mortality. I decided to become a breastfeeding counselor, and now I have more than 50 clients, both online and offline.

Pursuing an MPH at the University of Melbourne, I blend my interest in planetary health and maternal and child health. Last semester, I took nutrition policy and politics as my elective because nutrition issues are currently rising in Indonesia, and I wanted a broader perspective beyond health. This semester, I took Planetary Health and Women’s and Global Health as my electives to accommodate my interests. As an Australia Awards Awardee, I know my studies are not just for me but for the greater good of Indonesia.

My grades might not be very good because the first semester of my MPH was the first time I lived abroad with only my family of three. I juggled academic life, being a wife, and being a mother to a 2.5-year-old daughter. Therefore, this semester, I strategized to take courses with shorter durations, so I can better balance my work and life. Thus, being involved in evaluation studies in maternal and child health excites me greatly. Furthermore, 1000 Days Of Fund is one organization I keep an eye on because they address issues holistically, from cadre training to providing growth blankets to parents.

ceritanya bikin personal statement untuk ngelamar jadi research assistant gitu di kampus, hwaa bismillah ya Allah dengan panduan dan pendampinganmu :" laa hawlaa walla quwwata illa billah

[inoppositionflorien]

One of the weirdest things that people mythologize is Operation Condor. Like, the US did some fucked up things in South and Central America, this is undeniable. But Operation Condor was not a US plan. It was Augusto Pinochet's plan, and the US (and possibly France) said "yeah you know what, sure, we know what you're doing, but we'll let you. In fact, we'll let you keep using our networks in panama for whatever you want (even if that's murdering suspected dissidents), and we'll continue to help you train your troops (who we know you intend to use against your own citizens later)". But the plan was very much not a US plan, and everyone who was actually carrying out the things were doing so under local people's orders, it was just US policy to look the other way and whistle inconspicuously while continuing to provide aid.

Further, the Allende Coup in Chile wasn't US-conducted either, it was the far less interesting "we really don't like or trust Allende, so we've been sanctioning Chile about it and talking about how much Chile sucks now to Chileans, and we've thought about coordinating a coup, but then we found out the army was already planning one, so we're just not going to tell Allende that a coup's coming and we're not going to complain if one happens. They (the coup plotters) actually called us and said 'hey want to support our coup it would be super cool' and we said 'well we're not going to give you support, but we're not going to say definitely don't do it' so we'll just see how this plays out."

There are coups that very directly were done by the US. Iran, for instance, had an explicitly US and UK supported coup in 1953, Guatemala had PBSuccess in 1954 (That's the one that United Fruit set off, back when they still could overthrow governments because they had explicit support from their parent country) attempted and failed in Syria in 1956, tried in Indonesia from 1957-59 but got nowhere, and of course tried and failed in Cuba. They later became aware of a coup plot in Brazil and while they didn't actively cause the coup, they provided military support when the Brazilian army called for help after it faltered during the execution. The same happened in Bolivia in 1971. They actually concretely supported and encouraged a coup in Chad in 1982. There was of course the Iran-Contra affair in the 80s, and invaded Grenada after a pro-communist coup in 1983. It's not a short list by any means, but it notably doesn't include a lot of places the US has been accused of doing coups in.

That's about the limits of since declassified documents and publicly available information, but it seems the US actually chilled out a lot after the cold war. There were allegations of involvement in the Hatian '91 coup, but those don't seem to be true because the US helped re-install the president who got coup'd in the first place, which wouldn't be the actions of someone who wanted the government overthrown. (Of course it's possible George HW Bush did it on a whim, lost the election, and then Clinton hurriedly had to clean up that mess, but that seems unlikely)

Interestingly, nearly all of these operations that involved concrete support were conducted under Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford and Reagan. (Barring some of the Cuba ones under Kennedy, who was an obnoxious vaguely-authoritarian populist who was completely spineless whenever he was asked to make a decision that might hurt his domestic popularity, who managed to get lucky enough to be martyred before his terrible ideas could actually start staining his reputation. Then again, the alternative to him was Nixon, so maybe we dodged a bullet. Kennedy certainly didn't, which was probably for the best.) So this actually means there's been an apparently concrete foreign policy difference between Democrats and Republicans for longer than the Republicans have been courting fascists domestically.

But the point is, saying "Operation Condor was the US's fault alone" is a bizarre thing to say that attributes a lot of power to the US that it never really had, and still doesn't have today. It creates the illusion that US foreign policy is both reasonably consistent, even during cold war times, and the illusion that the Regime Change Through Coups policy is actually particularly effective, when the record shows it seems to fail pretty often. Further, while post-coup governments were pretty much uniformly worse and tended to kill a lot of people, and US collaboration with or tacit support of that is something that should be condemned, the fact is, attributing all coups solely to the US ignores how hard the prior governments tended to alienate their own armed forces and the population more generally by being variously ineffective and incompetent. It also mythologizes the CIA as a consistently effective organization that's both incredibly subtle and very powerful, when in practice it has a very hit-and-miss record with actually serving US interests, much less achieving its own objectives.

[yourhotmezz-tea]

THE RAILWAYS MUSEUM AMBARAWA

by : Nurul Fatika Jati

Initially it was a station called Willem I Station. This station was built by the Nedherlandsch Indische Spoorweg Maatschappij (NISM) which was inaugurated on May 21 1873 at the same time as the opening of the Kedungjati-Ambarawa route. 1907. At the beginning of its operation, Willem I Station was used as a means of transporting export commodities and military transportation around Central Java. After being deactivated in 1976, Ambarawa Station was declared a Railway Museum by the Governor of Central Java at that time, Supardjo Rustam. This plan aims to save the remains of the steam locomotive and make it a tourist attraction in Central Java. Ambarawa Station was chosen because Ambarawa has a strong historical background in the struggle for independence, namely the Battle of Ambarawa, apart from that, Ambarawa Station at that time still had ancient technology that could still be operated.

The Ambarawa Museum or Indonesian Railway Museum (IRM) displays a collection of railways from the Dutch East Indies period to pre-Indonesian independence which includes facilities, infrastructure and administrative equipment.

Several collections of heritage railway facilities such as:

21 Steam Locomotives

4 Diesel Locomotives

5 Trains

6 Carriages

Antique Telephone

Telegram Tools

Turntables

To support tourism, PT KAI organizes tourist train transportation. In this museum there are two train services, namely the Ambarawa–Bedono and Ambarawa–Tuntang  tourist trains. The trips are only made regularly on Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays, for other days it can only be done using a rental system. The Ambarawa–Bedono tourist train is a train that uses cog rails. The museum itself then branded this service as the Ambarawa Mountain Railway Tour. The route is from Ambarawa–Jambu–Bedono and back to Ambarawa. The journey to Bedono can only be made by a geared steam locomotive (B25) because none of the diesel locomotives are equipped with gears. In addition, steam train ticket reservations can only be ordered through the rental system. As a result, Bedono and Jambu stations are only open when there are train trips. The Ambarawa–Tuntang tourist train runs regularly using diesel locomotives, but can be rented using either steam or diesel locomotives. For regular trips there is a train schedule that departs at 10.00, 12.00 and 14.00.

Guided tours are available, providing historical insights into the development of railways in Indonesia, the significance of the museum, and details about the locomotives and other exhibits. The museum’s vintage locomotives and scenic surroundings make it a great spot for photography enthusiasts to capture historical and picturesque moments. The museum offers the opportunity to rent the vintage train for special occasions, providing a unique setting for events such as weddings, corporate gatherings, or educational trips.

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There you can also enjoy snacks found along the road to the station. Inside the station there is also a cafe and also a mini train to get around. film theater to find out the history of the formation of the Ambarawa train station and other history of Indonesia. You can rent a traditional clothes as well for new experiences

Thank you for reading my blog, always be happy and have a nice day!

[clarafordahwin]

Helpful context for the US support of Israel (which extends far further than the occasional end-times evangelical)

But Israel’s new role as US watchdog was not just regional. In fact, in the ensuing decades, Israel carried out this role globally: providing arms to dictators and regimes worldwide that the US could not openly support and training military and police forces in repressing uprisings and controlling migration. After 1967, Israel began to establish its own full-scale arms industry. Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, Israel covertly and overtly supported Latin American dictatorships, apartheid South Africa, and the Iranian shah with arms and paramilitary training. At times, it served as a direct conduit for US arms, providing weapons to regimes notorious for their brutality that the US could not support directly. Israel supplied the vast majority of arms imported by the right-wing military government of El Salvador and its paramilitary death squads and gave millions to the Salvadoran regime. Israel acted as major arms supplier to Guatemala’s police force, even as it was “condemned by Amnesty International and other human rights groups for its part in official death squads responsible for the murders of thousands” and to the Somoza regime of Nicaragua, supplying more than 90 percent of its arms as the regime killed tens of thousands. Somoza bombed the slums of Nicaragua “mainly with Israeli-made Arava and West Wind planes.” This pattern was widespread, as Israel also supplied arms to dictatorial regimes in Ecuador, Chile, Paraguay, and Argentina. All these regimes killed and disappeared thousands in their “dirty wars.”

The US also used Israel to supply and train repressive regimes across Africa, including Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia), Malawi, and apartheid South Africa. In South Africa—where the racism of the state had isolated it from most of the world’s countries—the US funneled helicopters through Israel to circumvent the embargo. Israel did the same with South African products, selling them globally. This was in addition to extensive economic and military collaboration between the two states. This same pattern was repeated in Asia, with Israel supplying the regimes of Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, and Taiwan. Israel even sold arms to Iran, including during the hostage crisis, with Ronald Reagan’s covert consent. In short, Israel has supported regimes around the world bent on crushing democratic movements that might pose a challenge to an oppressive status quo—one that both the US and Israel rely on to maintain their global dominance.

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean (2020) Click here to download the free ebook from Haymarket Books

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Bomber B-2 flies through the Arctic Circle going from Iceland to Alaska and vice versa

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 23/08/2023 - 09:00in Military

A B-2 Spirit assigned to the 509ª Bombing Wing, of Whiteman Air Base, flies alongside a KC-46A Pegasus assigned to the 133º Air Refueling Squadron, from Pease Air Base, New Hampshire, during RED FLAG-Alaska 23-3 over Joint Pacific-Alaska Range Complex, Alaska, August 15, 2023. (Photo: U.S. Air Force by 1ª class aviator Andrew Britten)

A U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber flew deep into the Arctic Circle on August 15 on its way from Iceland to Alaska to participate in the Red Flag-Alaska 23-3 training exercise.

The stealth bomber is one of three B-2s deployed as part of a Bombardeiros Task Force rotation in Keflavik, Iceland. An open source flight tracker reported a check-in of the B-2 by radio at parallel 83 north on August 15, placing it above the northernmost island of Canada. A spokesman for the 509ª Bomber Wing at Whiteman Air Base in Montana, which operates America's 20 B-2 bombers, confirmed the information.

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“Although the B-2 starting season and routine training areas do not normally take the aircraft to the Arctic, this training mission provided a welcome opportunity to practice navigation and operation in the challenging environment of the upper north,” said 2º Lt Lindsey Weichel.

The B-2 joined American and allied aircraft for a training mission on the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex, then returned to Iceland. Although the bomber could have gone from Iceland to Alaska without refueling, the refueling planes in flight KC-46 of the 133º Air Refueling Squadron of the New Hampshire National Air Guard helped the stealth jet get there and back without landing, Weichel said. The entire surprise lasted more than 16 hours.

A U.S. Air Force KC-46A Pegasus assigned to the 133º Air Refueling Squadron of Pease Air Base, NH, taxiing on the flight line during RED FLAG-Alaska 23-3 at Elmendorf-Richardson Joint Base, Alaska, on August 15, 2023. (Photo: U.S. Air Force by 1ª class aviator Andrew Britten)

This is not the first time a B-2 has flown north of the Arctic Circle. In 2020, several Spirits traveled from Missouri to train with Norwegian F-35 fighters somewhere on the European side of the Arctic, then flew back thanks to the fuel of the KC-135 tanker planes of the 100ª Air Refueling Wing based at Mildenhall RAF Base.

The U.S. fleet of bombers traveled the world this year, visiting Indonesia, the Baltic, Guam, the Middle East and other intermediate places.

"It seems that everyone likes to have a bomber in their region," said Air Force General Anthony J. Cotton to reporters on August 16 at the annual U.S. Strategic Command deterrent symposium. "This shows our determination to show that the extended deterrence is alive and well when it comes to the United States."

It also demonstrates “the strategic reach” of the bomber fleet, Cotton said, although this reach requires effort. The 509ª Bomber Wing highlighted the work that intelligence, climate, communications and maintenance aviators do behind the scenes to make this happen.

"On the surface, it may seem easy to fly jets and operate in a new environment, but behind the scenes it takes a team working tirelessly hand in hand to hack the mission," said Capt. Andrew Dang, B-2 pilot with the 393º Expeditionary Bombing Squadron, in a press release.

Source: Air Force & Space Magazine

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Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Daytona Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. Uses Canon equipment during his photographic work around the world of aviation.

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The Digital World: What about girls?

Insights from the Report on Girls’ Digital Literacy in the East Asia and Pacific Region

Antonia Mandry, Education Specialist

Today’s world is a digital world. We use technology for work, study, communicating and play. We use Apps such as WhatsApp, Google, and Instagram; but what role does gender play in how we can use technology?

In 2022, an estimated 73 per cent of Asia-Pacific youth aged 15–24 years were using the internet. By 2030, it is estimated that 80 per cent of jobs in Southeast Asia will require basic digital skills. Yet, girls and young women are less likely across the region to choose careers in technology including STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) because they are deemed as “men’s jobs” or “too hard” (Girls Digital Literacy Report, 2023).

Why? Gender norms, lack of knowledge on how to use technology, and access to devices and data can make it more difficult for girls to develop digital skills.

Girls are 1.8 times less likely than boys to own a smartphone. Women are 25 per cent less likely than men to know how to use technology for basic activities. Roughly 27 per cent of girls used the internet on their phones, compared with 46 per cent of boys. While girls and boys often have similar levels of digital literacy at younger ages; girls start to be left behind as they progress through education and, crucially, are less likely to develop advanced digital competences (Girls Digital Literacy Report, 2023).

Contributing factors include lack of access to devices, language barriers, and sociocultural norms which particularly impact girls. Girls, especially girls in rural areas, are lacking the support to develop advanced digital skills, to be ready for a digital future.

What can we do about the Gender Digital Divide?

The Girls Digital Literacy Report issued in April 2023 urges stakeholders including governments and the private sector to address the gender digital divide by supporting the empowerment of girls to develop advanced digital competencies safely and by ensuring both girls and boys have increased access to affordable internet and digital devices. It outlines the need to generate more data on digital skills by gender and to address sociocultural norms that limit girls’ technology-related aspirations and learning opportunities.

The Bangkok Statement 2022 and the Declaration on the Digital Transformation of Education Systems in ASEAN confirm governments' commitment to bridging the digital divide. Furthermore, organizations such as UNICEF are working with partners to provide devices and teacher training to get girls, and boys, the support they need to see the opportunities and the potential for a digital future.

UNICEF has supported partners across the region in addressing these needs. In Philippines, the Learning Passport has been deployed particularly in typhoon-effected areas to make sure that children keep learning and have access to technology to develop digital skills even in times of crisis. In Viet Nam, girls living in rural areas are being supported in schools with Virtual Reality glasses and tablets to learn about science, nature and the world around them. Initiatives in the region have shown children and their parents/caregivers that technology can be used for more! In Indonesia, WhatsApp was used for distance learning during school closures due to COVID-19 prevention measures.

The impact on girls can be meaningful and show a different future. Si, an 11-year-old girl from Ham Rong, a rural community in Vietnam always loved learning subjects like science, technology, engineering, and mathematics but the real-life application of technological innovation provided by the government with UNICEF support is completely new to her.

There is more work to be done. A key priority must be to address the lack of digital access within public education systems, particularly for girls and in rural areas. Supporting girls to learn digital skills by supporting teachers is critical. Teachers are key to combatting gender stereotypes regarding technology in the classroom where they can support the development of digital skills and literacy for girls. Working together, UNICEF and partners, especially the public sector, can overcome the gender digital divide and help girls develop their digital skills.

For girls and boys, the future is a bright one, and a digital one.

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Coding bootcamps is refer as the bootcamps which enable students with little coding proficiency so that they can focus on the most important aspects of coding and can immediately apply their new coding skills to solve problems of real-world. The goal of the many attendees of coding bootcamps is of transition into a career in web development. They do this by normally learning to build applications at a professional level, which basically provides the foundation, that they need primarily to build production-ready applications and demonstrate the skills they have to add real value to a potential employer

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I think maybe the most visibly autistic I've ever done is very recent - for the past couple of years I knew being enthusiastic about flags is a thing (r/vexillology and of course, maybe more importantly r/vexillologycirclejerk) and I found it nice in passing but not more than that.

However, since I am determined to waste a significant portion of my workdays, a couple of weeks ago while browsing a news site I encountered a silly little 5-question flag quiz. Can I recognize flags like Venezuela at a glance, or at least know it's not Djibouti? Generally speaking I know the African flag color scheme, but if it's not an easy multiple-choice question, apparently I'm kind of lost.

Things happened rather quickly and I became very determined to just, always succeed. I need to know all of them. Finally I landed on this quiz: https://flagpedia.net/quiz

Which is rather inclusive (i.e, some flags are of territories controlled by other countries, but still have their own significantly used flag) and is apparently regularly updated with the designs from Wikipedia. I experienced this first hand when the flag for Afghanistan was the old one one day, and the new, Taliban one the next.

Most flag quiz sites will still, in fact, use the 2013-2021 version.

So, 254 flags on the list, an inordinate amount of them sporting the union jack with some random coat of arms like so:

(This is Fiji specifically but I promise you there's a lot of these fuckers)

And every quiz I finished was with several dozen mistakes, due to territories like these, and random islands in the Carribean or Polynesia or off the coast of Africa, or just small countries in Africa and South America and so on where their flags are just not really common knowledge.

But as I said, I became both determined to always succeed and determined to waste company time. So, doing it once or twice every work day, I've started narrowing my incompetence, remembering new and interesting designs (and also looking up what's up with those places - who knew the Comoros even exist, that they have less than 1 million people in population, and that their government bureaucracy is so wildly inefficient it harms the economy in large, tangible percentages?) and developing little ways of memorizing them. If you see a Union Jack design with waves on the coat of arms, it's either the Falkland Islands:

Recognized by the "Desire the right" wording, and I guess there's a sheep too, or it's the Cayman Islands:

With some thing or other that isn't "Desire the right".

Ireland has this widely recognized flag:

But don't mix it up with the Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire):

Ireland is known for being green, and "starts" with green. If it looks like Ireland but doesn't start with green, you know what it is instead.

Just tons and tons of these little tricks, dubbed ezelsbruggetje by the Dutch (Little donkey bridges! Random little tricks of memorization!), so that I can tell places at a glance, confusing or no.

No, don't ask about Monaco and Indonesia or Chad and Romania, I have no answers for you except sometimes I can tell Chad by the shade of blue.

So a week ago my mistakes have been lowered to about 3-5, slightly ambiguous flags like Gabon and Bolivia being responsible for it mainly (and like one last pesky Union Jack island or something), and last week it was lowered to one (fucking Bolivia still), and now it's at 0. I can repeat it and I have a very good chance at doing it completely open ended (provided I have tolerance for spelling mistakes and lack of accents, e.g with Sao Tome).

And there is no point, this is just A Thing I Know Now and it will be Stuck In My Head Forever. I always had reasons to suspect I'm somewhere on the spectrum, with special interests and social maladjustment and so on, but this is maybe the most egregious, forefront example.

Also trains are cool but like, everybody knows that, right?

Oh and if you reached this far, here are some of my favorite flags in no particular order, with no significance attached to the country itself:

Seychelles, the one, the only, the legend.

Morrocco, clean, set apart from the rest of Africa and/or Arabic countries, can be interpreted as occult by those so inclined, has insane harmony with the flag of Israel.

Iran, easily set apart from the somewhat similar but simpler Tajikistani flag by the repeating Takbir along the bands.

New Caledonia, recognized by whatever this thing is (it's a traditional Kanak totem-like structure placed on roofs?)

And honestly there's maybe a few dozen more worth mentioning but I've been putting off my housechores for long enough.

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YSEALI Seeds: SETARA Project – The Equality for Criminal Children

About the Project

SETARA Project stands for “Sekolah Tahanan Penjara Anak” which is an educational platform specifically designed for children who are incarcerated with the aim of enhancing their soft skills and fostering literacy. The project is being conducted in an institution which serves as a detention center for children in the Bengkulu Province of Indonesia. This project is divided into 2 programs. First, the soft skills improvement program through insight and self-motivation, teaching two languages (English and Arabic), and improving moral values through religious activities. Second, fostering literacy through the creation of a library in the children detention center by providing books and training librarians as the administrators of the library.

Why do you care about this specific topic/issue?

This detention center has already rehabilitated 92 children. Most of them are children who committed crimes due to environmental influences and a lack of attention from their closest family. These days, juvenile detention centers are focused on counseling and formal education without focusing on soft skills, moral values and literacy, even though soft skills and literacy are important for their successful reintegration into society following their release. Furthermore, most of these children were expelled from school and deemed as social outcasts. Therefore, it is our aim to advocate for educational equality, ensuring that they receive a comparable education to other children their age.

Why did you decide to start this project?

Our project is the sequel of a project that was completed at a correction facility in Rejang Lebong, Bengkulu, Indonesia in 2018. Essentially, we believe there are four reasons why this project should be continued. Firstly, there is no program related to improving soft skills and literacy at the detention center in the Bengkulu province. Second, the previous project was successful and widely praised by the local governments, so this needs to be continued at the province level with wider objectives. Third, the previous project was held in the public prison, not in the children detention center, so the outcomes are less effective for the children. Lastly, we believe children who are in the children detention center have the right to learn equally.

What are your goals for this project?

Our goal is to support the fight for equality of education and fostering literacy for children in detention centers so that they can compete globally with the help of skills from the classes we provide. The following are the specific goals we aim to achieve based on our activities:

Inspirative Class: Raising inspiration that is hampered in the residents of the children detention center. 

Religion Class: Encouraging the children of the detention center to always be mindful of God as the Lord of nature and the practice of obeying his rules.

Worship Practices Class: Assisting children of the detention center in practicing the pillars of worship required in their religion.

Language Class: Introducing foreign languages to children of the detention center so that they will be able to compete in the global world after serving their detention.

Fostering Literacy: Establishing a library in the children's detention environment as a facility for children to explore more knowledge through books.

How will YSEALI Seeds help you achieve your goals?

To support the children struggling for equal rights, we need funds to buy books and other library equipment to promote literacy. YSEALI Seeds gave us the funding we needed so we could focus on improving their skills and literacy without worrying about the funding. Furthermore, YSEALI Seeds also has equipped us in developing ideas to implement from the project planning stage, enabling the activities we carry out in the children’s detention center to have a significant impact on the development of the children.

What have you accomplished and implement so far?

The SETARA Project was launched on March 8, 2023. Since then, we have carried out several activities. Firstly, we have successfully recruited 10 volunteers and 10 facilitators who will actively participate in all our activities for the year ahead. Secondly, we conducted comprehensive training sessions for all volunteers and facilitators to equip them with the necessary skills and knowledge. Thirdly, we have set up a library by providing books and library equipment, as well as having trained prison officers and children on library management. Fourth, we implemented training classes as part of our soft skill training sessions. These achievements signify the progress made by the SETARA Project as we remain committed to continuing our efforts to create a positive impact on the lives of the children.

What are the most significant lessons learned you’ve experienced so far?

There's nothing like seeing the children smile from ear to ear and letting go of all their burdens. On the other hand, they have a past that doesn't need to be talked about, but they are still children with sincerity in their actions and honesty in their tears. They are great and they are working to be better.

What are the success stories you can share with others who would like to do the same type of activity and/or project like yours?

Our greatest success in implementing this project was when we successfully convinced the authorities at the children’s detention center to allow us to conduct activities with the children. Gaining access to carry out activities within the detention center was not easy, but we managed to do it. Therefore we are able to share knowledge and fulfill the right of education for the children.

Another successful achievement was when the projects we implemented had a positive impact on the children. They regained their enthusiasm for life and education after participating in the inspirative classes we organized. They now have unlimited access to education with the establishment of the library within the facility. Despite being confined, they are free to read books to quench their thirst for knowledge.

These achievements have significantly contributed to the well-being and educational opportunities for the children and we are proud of the positive transformations we have witnessed within the detention center.

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1828: Jules Verne (Histoires de Parfums)

The tallship has just crossed the equator. A junior sailor, newly initiated into the Court of Neptune, descends into the cargo hold. His line-crossing ceremony took place only this morning; his skin is still salty from repeated baptismal drenchings with ocean water. Just for tonight -- as officers and crew celebrate with glasses of port and tankards of rum in their respective mess halls -- he has the run of the place and can go where he likes. Here is where he likes to go.

In the darkness below deck loom crates of lemons, limes, and oranges, barrels of rum and aqua vitae, bundles of Virginia tobacco, and cedar caskets full of spices. The wood -- already fragrant on its own accord -- has been permeated by the scent of nutmeg and black pepper, producing a wholly new and curious fragrance which lifts the sailor's heart. His apprenticeship before the mast has been toilsome and often doubtful. Years from now, skin calloused by work, heart hardened by defeat and sorrow, he may well become as jaded as the toothless, wizened old-timers who barked in laughter at his initiation. But tonight, he belongs to this ship, and it belongs to him. Everything about it -- its crew and cargo, the wide sea upon which it sails -- is beautiful. Curled up in a coil of rope in the full-laden hold, at peace with life's vagaries, he closes his eyes. It comes to him, seconds before sleep descends, that he has never known pure happiness until now. Let the wind and waves rise...

Perfume, like any art form, is a form of storytelling. Every vial of fragrance contains layers upon layers of narrative to be guessed at by the wearer. Sometimes the perfumer's brief provides clues to the plot; other times, it's left to the imagination to interpret all.

1828 is dedicated to the French author Jules Verne, whose fascination with technology and mechanical innovation paved the way for modern science fiction writers such as Philip K. Dick and William Gibson, and has been a primary influence on the steampunk movement. Transportation is a particular fetish of Verne's; submarines (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), transatlantic steamships and cross-continental trains (Around the World in 80 Days), cannon-propelled spaceships (From the Earth to the Moon), and lighter-than-air craft (The Mysterious Island) all symbolize the quickened pace and boundary-breaking spirit of 19th century life.

Oddly, the perfume named in Jules Verne's honor is neither sleek, fast, nor futuristic. Rather, it is a nostalgia piece, an evocation of an era predating that of the great author: the age of tallships, of Horatio Lord Nelson and the Napoleonic Wars.

Up until 1810, Myristica fragrans -- the tree from which nutmeg and its sister spice mace are derived -- grew nowhere else on earth but Banda, a tiny volcanic island chain east of Indonesia. For nearly 200 years, the Dutch occupied Banda, maintaining a complete monopoly of the nutmeg trade worldwide. But once the British Royal Navy managed to wrest control of the island from the Netherlands, transplanted nutmeg trees began to dot the globe.

To the modern-day nose, the scent of nutmeg still evokes quaint colonial comforts. It's a resolutely anachronistic smell -- and although it would seem to have little to do with the ocean, a nutmeg accord properly embedded in a marine composition will "read" like a Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin novel.

But where is Jules Verne's place in all this? It's in the clockworks, the gears, the mechanical accoutrements that set 1828 to humming. The trick that this perfume pulls off -- superbly -- is to place a wonderful piece of old-timey scrimshaw in a spare, minimalist, and thoroughly modern setting so that one can no longer tell what century (the 18th? the 26th?) it hails from.

A breezy citrus top note greets the nose first, paired with the smallest touch of eucalyptus to make it fly. A strong middle section of straightforward wood notes lulls you into thinking that perhaps the liveliest moments are over, but at last a radiant nutmeg accord sets in-- rich, cool, weighty, and smooth. This is a scent both Horatio Hornblower and Captain Nemo could wear. (Heck, throw in Morpheus from The Matrix while you're at it. What is the Nebuchadnezzar, anyway, except a supermodern Nautilus adrift in dystopia?)

When a perfume has the power to set all sorts of mental plotlines into motion, you might as well make yourself the hero: steely-eyed, soft-hearted, and guaranteed a new adventure at every latitude.

First, though, you must hear the call of wind and wave.

Scent Elements: Grapefruit, citrus, mandarin, eucalyptus, pepper, nutmeg, cedar, incense, vetiver, pine