Commuters’ Health Certificate as Social Control during the COVID-19 Pandemic

In Indonesia, a regulation on large-scale social restrictions (“Pembatasan Sosial Berskala Besar” or PSBB) restricted citizens’ activities in the cultural, social, and economic sectors. These large-scale social restrictions also impact Jakarta’s activities from the commuting communities of Central Java, the Yogyakarta Special Region, and East Java Provinces. As a result, these commuters have become accustomed to travelling back to their hometowns every Friday afternoon. On Sundays, they return to Jakarta and arrive in Jakarta on Monday mornings to go to work. This activity is often referred to as “Pulang Jumat Kembali Ahad” (PJKA) or Going Home Every Friday Evening and Returning on Sunday. This paper then aims to examine the experience of PJKA actors during the crisis from the lens of document theory. The function of a health certificate free of COVID-19 is examined similarly to the function of a passport as a condition for entering the country. A sheet of health certificate free of COVID-19 is a derivative of the presidential regulation and the minister of transportation regulation, impacting documentality characteristics.

Bringing Tech, Teens, and Talent Together: Recording Audiobooks for Children with Disabilities

It’s Friday afternoon and, rather than embarking on weekend recreational plans, a group of high school students have arrived at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (LBPH) to get down to work. They filter into the library’s recording studio and two students take their places at the microphones in soundproof recording booths, while others settle in front of the electronic monitoring equipment just outside and follow the text of the children’s book that is being recorded.

Life, Unplugged

A year ago, I wrote about my friend Tiffany Shlain and her genius idea of a Tech Shabbat: every week, from Friday night to Saturday night, her family turns off all screens—cellphones, TVs, computers. As Tiffany recounts in her new book, 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, the idea for riffing on the tradition of the sabbath came during a time of grief. Her father was dying, and it struck Tiffany as obvious that you don't check your texts when you're spending precious moments with a loved one. It has been nearly a decade since Tiffany, her husband, and their two girls (now ages 16 and 10) have been observing Tech Shabbats. Last weekend, my friend Michelle and I decided to give it a try. Michelle planned ahead. On Friday afternoon, she sent preemptive emails warning coworkers that she'd be unplugged for 24 hours. “If you need me, call my landline,” she instructed her closest friends. She printed out directions to a restaurant where she and her husband Jon had reservations that night.

Report: Abstracts from the 2018 Caddo Conference in Idabel, Oklahoma

The 2018 Caddo Conference was held March 8-10, 2018 at the Museum of the Red River in Idabel, Oklahoma. Fifty attendees registered for the conference. The conference began with a reception at the museum on Thursday evening. On Friday, the program included eight papers and presentations covering archaeological work in Texas and Oklahoma and a longer presentation on the rebuilding of the Caddo house at Caddo Mounds State Park in Texas. A poster session was also held on Friday afternoon. Conference attendees were given a tour of the collections housed at the museum, which include a large collection of Caddo vessels and objects from all over the world. Friday ended with dances by the Metro Oklahoma City (OKC) Caddo Culture Club, beginning with the Turkey Dance and a delicious barbecue dinner held at the museum. On Saturday, the eight presentations covered sites in Arkansas and Oklahoma, Spiro iconography, and included a presentation on the Spiro exhibit forthcoming at the Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Just before breaking for lunch on Saturday, Caddo Culture Club and Metro OKC Caddo Culture Club members led a song using the large drum on exhibit in the museum.

One Step Ahead of the Sheriff

This chapter details Edna Phillips' first concert season. On the Friday afternoon of her first concert, Phillips had no choice but to “head down the track without looking left or right, like a racehorse with blinders on.” There was nothing to do but steel herself and go forward. Much to her surprise, she made it through the concert without any gaffes. She didn't come in at a wrong place or get lost or lose count or commit any of the terrible errors she feared she might. While it is never easy for a newcomer in an organization to learn the routine under which it operates, for Phillips it was especially difficult. She did not have the luxury of serving under a first-chair player who might tell her how this or that was done or having any natural allies to mentor her. She had to learn most of the ins and outs of being a Philadelphia Orchestra member on her own.

„Patrzę na zniszczenie, co święci swe dzieło, lecz przecież nic w mym sercu nie poszło na marne” — poetyckie retrospekcje Jana Lechonia

First volume of Jan Lechoń poetry appears in print when he was 13. It surprises its maturity and depth. The young poet reached the common motives of decadent sadness and doubt, but spiritual loneliness, interest of existential themes were not typical for teenager. “Karmazynowy poemat” was received as a literary revelation. Lechoń reaches literary perfection as a young man, so all the adult life he efforts to remain poetic laurel. As a mature creator he glanced at his reflection in the mirror, not only to seek the passage of himself, but also to examine his conscience to settle with the past. At the end of his life, Lechoń was convinced “it is all over”. His poems from this period says about longing for the lost homeland. Inner conflict of poet balancing between memories of his youth and terrifying death wish was his characteristics lifelong feature. Premature maturity and tragic death seemed to be his destiny — each lived year of Lechoń’s life can be considered as a temporary postponement of death heppened to him on New York pavement on tragic Friday afternoon in June 1956.