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Jusuf Wanandi (The Jakarta Post) PREMIUM Jakarta   ● Tue, February 7 2023 Andrew Clark described Richard “Dick” Woolcott as a diplomatic “giant” in his obituary in Foreign Affairs & Security. I think this description fits what most of Dick’s friends in the Asia-Pacific, where he spent most of his many years as Australia’s top diplomat, feel about him. Here, we remember him as the “friend” from Australia who tried very hard to be a “friend” to Southeast Asia. He served as the ambassador to Indonesia and the Philippines, and before that, in other capacities in Singapore and Malaysia. He was also involved in the withdrawal of Australian troops from Vietnam. But his main and most difficult contribution was when Indonesia took over East Timor from the Portuguese and the critical aftermath, which culminated when East Timor became Timor Leste with Australian troops at the helm. to Read Full Story SUBSCRIBE NOW Starting from IDR 55,500/month Unlimited … [Read more...] about Dick Woolcott, Australia’s ‘giant’ diplomat, has left us

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Did you see the “Snow Moon” rise this past weekend while you were out hunting for the “ green comet ?” A stunning sight in clear skies, the monthly rise of the full Moon as its draped in orange hues is one of the highlights of the astronomical month, but there was something rather odd about this one. It was the smallest full Moon of the year. Why the Moon change size? Its orbit of Earth is not perfectly round, but elliptical. So in any given month there is a point when its closest to us and therefore appears largest in our sky ( perigee ), and a point when its farthest, and therefore looks smaller ( apogee ). MORE FROM FORBES Comet Tracker: Exactly Where To See The 'Green Comet' Tonight (But Don't Look Directly At It) By Jamie Carter Perigee and apogee happen every month 14 days apart, but only rarely do they coincide with the phases of the Moon we notice most easily—the full Moon. In … [Read more...] about In Photos: See The Jaw-Dropping ‘Snow Moon’ Rise From Across The World—But Why Was It So Small?

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin FC Barcelona went out of the Europa League quarter-finals on their shield, though the 3-2 scoreline (4-3 on aggregate) in Eintracht Frankfurt's favor doesn't represent a game as close as it suggests. Just as they were a week ago in Germany, the Blaugrana were once more outclassed by a faster, stronger and more intense outfit and lucky not to be 5-0 down at half time. In the second half, they fought better. But any words bandied around such as "disgrace" and "shame" do not apply to Xavi Hernandez's men who are still a work in progress. Don't forget that this is an outfit that were ninth in La Liga when he took over in November, and is now second in an automatic qualifying spot for the Champions League. Until last night, the team had been on a 15-game unbeaten streak and had thrashed the likes of reigning Spanish champions Atletico Madrid, UCL semi-finalists Villarreal, plus Napoli and Galatasaray away in this … [Read more...] about FC Barcelona Lost Eintracht Frankfurt Game Before It Kicked Off — This ‘Disgrace’ Cannot Happen Again

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Marvel Snap has a weird, growing new problem, one that actually has nothing to do with its monetization or potential pay-to-win aspects. What’s happened with Marvel Snap is that in addition to introducing new cards over time, it also introduces new themed locations. And lately, many of those locations seem based around not allowing you to actually…play cards in your deck. The problem is that the more of these new locations exist, the more they can be paired together. And when one of them is a featured location, which can show up in 40% or more of every game, it can create for some truly obnoxious board states where you can barely do anything and if you’re lucky, the game may come down to a single lane. Right now, the current culprit is Plunder Castle, and lane where you can literally not play anything but 6 cost cards. And that means even six costs card that have been reduced to 5 don’t count. So it’s blank lane … [Read more...] about ‘Marvel Snap’ Seems Determined Not To Let Me Play My Cards

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The US Federal Reserve System is living in the past and undoing the future. Chairman Jerome Powell and his colleagues have wielded interest rates like a sledgehammer, hoping to crush inflation the way Paul Volcker did in the 1980s. At this point, however, each additional swing of the sledgehammer hurts our chances of a “soft landing” in 2023 and a habitable planet in 2100. The sledgehammer cannot distinguish between companies that are building a clean, sustainable economy and those that keep us hyper-distracted by devices, hyper-addicted to fossil fuels and hyper-apathetic to inequality. It cannot distinguish between the haves who can weather a recession and the have-nots who will suffer most. Moreover, the Fed’s 2% inflation target is arbitrary. It was invented offhand in 1989 by Don Bash, Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, in response to a law mandating that the country’s central bank have a target. It’s … [Read more...] about Mr. Powell, Drop The Sledgehammer And Start Innovating

NEW YORK — On a brisk recent Sunday, a band of teenagers met on the steps of Central Library in Brooklyn to start the weekly meeting of the Luddite Club, a high school group that promotes a lifestyle of self-liberation from social media and technology. As the dozen teens headed into Prospect Park, they hid away their iPhones — or, in the case of the most devout members, their flip phones, which some had decorated with stickers and nail polish. They marched up a hill toward their usual spot, a dirt mound far from the park’s crowds. Among them was Odille Zexter-Kaiser, a senior at Edward R. Murrow High School, who trudged through leaves in Doc Martens and mismatched wool socks. “It’s a little frowned on if someone doesn’t show up,” Odille said. “We’re here every Sunday, rain or shine, even snow. We don’t keep in touch with each other, so you have to show up.” After the club members gathered logs to form a circle, they sat and withdrew into a bubble of serenity. Some drew in … [Read more...] about “Luddite” teens don’t want your likes

The world leaders need to take immediate action to limit climate change, restore biodiversity, and protect health, according to an editorial published in over 220 leading journals, including The Lancet and the National Medical Journal of India. The editorial is being published ahead of the UN General Assembly, one of the last international meetings taking place before the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, UK in November. It warns that the greatest threat to global public health into the future is the continued failure of world leaders to take adequate action to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius and to restore nature. "The recent examples of extreme weather all over the globe have brought into focus the reality that climate change is," said Peush Sahni, Editor-in-Chief of the National Medical Journal of India, and one of the co-authors of the editorial. "We must act now lest it is too late. We owe it to the future generations," Sahni said. … [Read more...] about Climate action cannot wait for Covid pandemic to end, 220 journals warn

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin "Get together?" The subject line of the e-mail was like every other come-on that hit Jan Koum's in-box in the spring of 2012. He was pounded daily by investors who wanted a piece of his company, WhatsApp. Hatched on his birthday, Feb. 24, 2009, WhatsApp was emerging as a global phenomenon. Some 90 million people were using it to text and send photos for free. No social utility had ever grown as fast. Facebook had only 60 million by its third birthday. And at the time close to half of WhatsApp users were returning daily. Koum looked at the e-mail sender: Mark Zuckerberg. Now, that was a first. The Facebook founder had been using WhatsApp and wanted him over for dinner. Koum stalled, then finally wrote back saying he was traveling soon and dealing with server issues. Zuckerberg suggested they meet before Koum left. Koum forwarded the reply to his cofounder, Brian Acton, and his sole venture backer, Jim Goetz, a partner at … [Read more...] about Inside The Facebook-WhatsApp Megadeal: The Courtship, The Secret Meetings, The $19 Billion Poker Game

Fikri Harish and Yerica Lai (The Jakarta Post) PREMIUM Jakarta   ● Tue, February 7 2023 Despite weeks of speculation that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo would dismiss NasDem ministers from the Cabinet in response to the party’s 2024 electoral posture, no announcement of the sort has come from Merdeka Palace. Analysts say this could be a sign that the President is hedging his bets with regard to opposition figure Anies Baswedan, whom NasDem has backed for the presidency in 2024. On a visit to Surakarta, Central Java, on Sunday, State Secretary Pratikno maintained that while it was the President’s prerogative to reshuffle the Cabinet as he wished, he had no immediate plans to do so. to Read Full Story SUBSCRIBE NOW Starting from IDR 55,500/month Unlimited access to our web and app content e-Post daily digital newspaper No advertisements, no interruptions Privileged access to our events and programs Subscription to our newsletters We accept … [Read more...] about NasDem stays in Cabinet as Jokowi hedges bets

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin There is bad news accelerating in the job market. Well, it is good news for a sustainable economy, but bad news for the short-term economy. What kind of jumbled mess am I talking about? Here is a harsh statement that I have made throughout most of my leadership career: “Technology professionals are common, but the ones that can apply technology to solve a difficult problem are rare and priceless.” Having been first a Chief Information Officer and then a Chief Executive Officer in an operating career spanning 35 years, I have always stood by this statement. But, as you might imagine, the statement plays differently at different times depending on a whole range of externalities that exist at that particular moment in time. In my view, what hasn’t changed in 30 years, is the reality that most people, including business executives, who do not possess computer programming (aka software engineering) or data analysis (aka data … [Read more...] about 40%, 5x, And The End of Free Money