Berharap Keberkahan dan Keselamatan, DPC Gapasdap Merak Gelar Istigasah dan Santuni Anak Yatim

MERAK – DPC Gabungan Pengusaha Angkutan Sungai Danau dan Penyeberangan (Gapasdap) Merak menggelar istigasah dan doa bersama pada Kamis (28/3/2024). Kegiatan itu berkolaborasi bersama BPTD Wilayah VIII Banten, PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry, Indonesian National Ferry Owner Association (INFA), Jasa Raharja Putera Insurance, dan Biro Klasifikasi Indonesia (BKI). Ketua DPC Gapasdap Merak, Togar Napitulu…

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Resmi Nakhodai Karate Do-Gojukai Komda Bali, Bang Togar Siap Bawa Prestasi

BALIPORTALNEWS.COM, DENPASAR - Pasca resmi dilantik sebagai Ketua Karate Do-Gojukai Komisariat Daerah (Komda) Bali periode 2023-2028, Dr. Togar Situmorang mengaku siap untuk menorehkan prestasi mengharumkan nama Provinsi Bali, melalui organisasi aliran bela diri di bawah naungan Federasi Olahraga Karate Indonesia (Forki) tersebut, Jumat (15/9/2023). Pria yang akrab disapa Bang Togar tersebut dilantik secara resmi oleh Sekretaris Jendral (Sekjen) Karate Do-Gojukai Indonesia, Hansi Sihan Hartono, turut disaksikan Ketua Komite Olahraga Nasional Indonesia (KONI) Bali, I Gusti Ngurah Oka Darmawan, bertempat di Ball Room Hotel Puri Ayu, Jalan PB Sudirman, Kota Denpasar. "Ya kami sebagai pengurus baru periode 2023-2028, kedepan akan fokus untuk menjalankan program sesuai agenda rapat kerja daerah. Dari situ nanti akan ada pengembangan, diantaranya masalah atlet, pelatih, demikian juga juri. Kami juga berharap bisa meningkatkan prestasi atlet-atlet kita di Bali kedepannya," ujar Bang Togar, Ketua Karate Do-Gojukai Komda Bali periode 2023-2028. Sementara itu, Ketua Koni Bali, Oka Darmawan menambahkan, pihaknya meyakini di bawah kepengurusan yang baru Karate Do-Gojukai Komda Bali mampu memberikan hasil-hasil yang terbaik, melalui prestasi yang mampu mengharumkan nama Bali. "Ini (pelantikan, red) memang suatu hal yang harus dilakukan, walaupun bisa sah cukup dengan SK (surat keterangan, red) saja, tetapi pelantikan ini kan disaksikan. Semoga pengurus baru ini bisa mengawal, atlet-atlet (karate, red) kita di Bali untuk memberikan hasil yang terbaik kedepannya," pungkas Oka. (aar/bpn) Read the full article

Heard we were listing our weird introjects! I wish I could give a long list like the other systems BUT the majority of our active system by a large margin is 5 of the main 11 characters in a very good but somewhat obscure podcast that ended in 2017. These include (these are descriptions of the characters from their source not things the alters have done since in this body)

Russian low-morals scientist turned medical officer with terrible bedside manner (who, as an alter, is genuinely pretty offended by that trope)

Alcoholic abuser who went to prison and became a chill dude who just wants to smoke a cigarette and eat pizza

Very gay (but not in the sterotypical way) ballistics specialist

CEO and his wife who casually tried to literally unalive the entire human population besides themselves but whose plans were foiled by a harpoon (it's dubious as to whether or not they are together or just work wife situation in canon but they are Very Married here despite their relationship being open)

Everyone who knows this podcast 100% knows who each of them are and everyone else is sitting there like 😦 rn I just know it.

Other highlights of introjects we previously had were:

Sportacus from Lazy Town

MacGyver

Anton LaVey and Togare who was his pet lion

Aslan from the movie version of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (apparently lions make us feel safe I guess idk)

Our current partner's ex who we had an introject of before we met her and who went dormant shortly after we met her. This alter pretty much exclusively came out to play Overwatch and World of Warcraft when we were stressed and yell at anyone who bothered her. Not all video games by the way, just those two.

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Madikeri/Bhagamandala

26th April, 2024

- Madikeri gives me a sense of a freedom of thought. It pushes me to be more, to do more. I feel compelled to read, to write, to draw. A sense of free in the deepest part of my mind.

- Weaving basked for specific function. Was inspired by the shape of a cardamom picking basket.

- Buy Ukumma orchids and many more bulbs

- Cook togare.

- Learn about wildflowers.

- Eat more arrowroot that Ukumma prepared

- Learn about woods

- Document more of ukummas town

- Buy a house beyond the fields where the fields meet forest

- Walking in paddy fields as a form of meditation and cleansing of thoughts

Tattoo idea that I'd like input from Scottish people on, if possible:

A selkie, mid-transition, her teeth bared, with gore coming from her mouth, down her neck, and on her hands (maybe she's holding the decapitated head of a fisherman who attempted to take/keep her pelt). Around her, I want Scotland's national motto:

No one provokes me with impunity

written in the above English translation, the Latin:

Nemo me impune lacessit

in Scots:

Wha duar meddle wi me

or Scottish Gaelic:

Cha togar m' fhearg gun dìoladh

If any Scottish people would mind weighing in, please let me know. I want to acknowledge my Scottish ancestry without disrespecting the people and lore (I know this is retelling the original selkie story).

Rock ’n’ Roll High School

Director Allan Arkush (plus an uncredited Joe Dante) Stars PJ Soles, Dey Young, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard, Ramones USA 1979 Language English 1hr 33mins Colour

‘Oooh baby, fun fun, rock rock rock rock rock ’n’ high school’

This is a cheerfully daft exploitation comedy made under the wing of B-movie king Roger Corman. It’s fun, campy and quick – I don’t think the filmmakers expect you to care about the characters, but do want you to laugh and presumably bop your head along to some songs. It doesn’t have the forensic approach to parody that Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker brought to Airplane!, but more of the gags worked than I expected.

The plot (for what it’s worth) is this: Riff Rendell (PJ Soles) is obsessed with the Ramones, and has written a song she wants to them to play. Her best friend, science nerd Kate Rambeau (Dey Young), has a huge crush on the captain of the football team Tom Roberts (Vincent Van Patten). Tom, despite his notional position at the top of the school social hierarchy, has no luck with girls because of his terrible small talk. Both he and Kate seek the help of Eagleberger (Clint Howard), the school’s entrepreneurial solver of all problems, very much in the lineage of Catch-22’s Milo Minderbinder. And attempting to spoil all the fun is disciplinarian new principal Miss Togar (Mary Woronov). 

I’d always thought of this as ‘the Ramones movie’. You get their songs early on, but they themselves first appear about halfway through to play a gig. By the end (at the gig and elsewhere) they have played at least nine songs by my count, which is a lot (although of course, being the Ramones, the songs are short). They aren’t required to do much acting – I think only Joey has any dialogue. 

Apparently, the producers spent a while trying to get a band to agree to be in the movie, and the Ramones were a far way down the list. That tracks – there’s nothing about Riff’s fandom that feels specific to da brudders and the idea that they would be an easy consensus favourite in any high school seems fairly movie-like. But I’m a fan, so their presence definitely worked for me. 

As does the film as a whole – it was a lot better than I was expecting. Maybe the involvement of Joe Dante, the future director of Gremlins and Small Soldiers, helped. (Character actor Dick Miller, who was in everything Dante directed, pops up here.) For those who like a knowing meta-chuckle, you’ve got Mary Woronov as the anti-rock’n’roll authority figure – back in the 1960s she and Gerard Malanga were the (sometimes whip-wielding) dancers in Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable accompanying the Velvet Underground. 

Surprisingly enjoyable…

(So yes, a 1979 release, but nevertheless part of my Every girl should be given an electric guitar on her 16th birthday series of reviews)

OFF ocs? Maybe?

In whatever scenario these guys would exist, there are 6 Zones (excluding Zone 0, which would make it 7)

Javan is the guardian of Zone 4, a false paradise where a select few of its residents live in lavish while the rest suffer.

Togarmah (or maybe just Togar idk) is the guardian of Zone 5, a military state whose residents are constantly paranoid.

Riphath is the guardian of Zone 6, a place plagued with illness and disease.

I don’t have a name for worm guy but he’s probably like Zacharie and just kind of shows up places to provide some service to Batter

Drew something for Orctober as a practice for inking! Togar’s a fighter weapon master, but he’s recently gotten enough money to put down the sword and become a wizard!

oii jessi, tava olhando um baú de discos antigos do meu pai dos anos 70/80 e vim te mostrar alguns pq vc é a única pessoa da minha idade (que eu conheço né) que gosta de mpb engual eu :)

quando eu vi esse do chico eu dei um gritão, ele gasto assim pq ele é muito antigo e ficou guardado por muitos anos nesse baú, nossa tinha um do nelson gonçalves que eu amo demais, mas a capa tava até desmanchando😭

esse o raul tá tão perfeitinho, os outros não tavam tão conservados, infelizmente

Aiii bea, que raridade!!!!! chorei com esse do Vinicius 😭😭😭😭🙏

Do milton nascimento e do raul eu não conheço muitas músicas, vc tem alguma pra me indicar que você goste?

é ruim, que por mais que a gente cuide direitinho, não dá pra salvar da ação do tempo, infelizmente........

vi no seu outro quote o da maria bethânia que tem explode coração, e tenho que te dizer que eu to escutando muito essa desde ontem e fiquei refletindo como é bom amar sendo brasileira, sabe? Logo em seguida começou a togar heavy love do cazuza e ninguém ama como nós, f0didos brasileiros, sério!!!!!!!

Hyperion’dan Bellarmin’e (Hölderlin)

Hiçbir şeyim yok, bu da benimdir diyebileyim. Sevdiklerim ya uzakta, ya ölmüş, hiçbir ses bana artık onlardan haber getirmiyor.

Yeryüzünde görecek işim kalmadı. Görevime vargücümle sarılmıştım; ben, o yüzden yıkıldım, ama dünya, bu yüzden hemen hiçbir şey kazanmadı.

Şimdi adsız ve yapayalnız geri dönüyor, alabildiğine uzanan yurdumda ölüler ülkesini dolaşırmış gibi geziyorum. Biz Yunanlıları, ormanın av hayvanları gibi keyfince öldüren avcının bıçağı (Yunanistan’ı egemenliği altında tutan Türkler), bana da vurmakta herhal gecikmeyecek.

Fakat sen göklerin güneşi, sen ışıklarını yine de saçıyorsun! Yine de sen yeşeriyorsun kutlu toprak! Irmaklar hep şırıldayarak denizlere dökülüyor, gölgeli ağaçlar öğlenleri hep fısıldaşıyorlar. Baharın sevinç şarkısı bir ninni gibi kalımsız düşüncelerimi uyutuyor. Her yanından yaşam fışkıran dünyanın bolluğu içinde, yoksul varlığım, besinini bulup doyuyor ve kendinden geçiyor.

Ey mutlu doğa! Güzelliğin karşısında gözlerimi kaldırdığımda, bana ne oluyor bilemem, yalnız önünde akıttığım şu gözyaşlarında cennetin bütün tadı var, sevgililerin en başında gelen sevgili!

Havanın nazlı dalgacığı göğsümde oynaştığında tüm varlığım susuyor ve dinliyor. Çoğu zaman, gözlerim göğün ya da o kutsal denizin sonsuz maviliklerinde, kendimden geçtiğimde, ruhuma eş bir ruh sanki bana kollarını uzatıyor ve ben kimsesizlik acısından sıyrılarak tanrısal bir yaşama doğuyorum sanırım.

Her şeyle bir olabilmek; budur tanrıların yaşamı ve insanların mutluluğu.

Canlı olan her şeyle bir olabilmek, haz içinde kendini unutarak doğada yeniden doğmak. İşte sevinçlerin ve düşüncelerin en yükseği; gün ortasının ağır sıcaklığını yitirdiği, gök gürültüsünün sessizleştiği ve kabaran denizlerin başak tarlaları gibi dalgalandığı sonrasız dinlenme yeri, kutsal yücelik.

Canlı olan her şeyle bir olabilmek! Bu sözle erdemlik, kin güden öfkeyi, insan ruhu hükümdarlık asasını bir yana bırakır; uğraşan sanatçının kuralları Urania’nın (Güzellik tanrıçası Aphrodite) önünde hiç olduğu gibi, her zaman birleşik dünyanın görünümü karşısında da tüm düşünceler dağılır ve o şaşmaz yazgı egemenliğini yürütmez olur; varlıkların birliği önünde ölüm ortadan kalkar ve ayrılmazlık ve sonsuz gençlikle Dünya mutlanır ve güzelleşir.

Çoğu zaman bu yükseklikteyim, Bellarmin’im! Ama küçücük bir düşünce beni bulunduğum yükseklikten aşağı yuvarlıyor. Düşünüyor ve kendimi yine eskisi gibi kalımsızların tüm acılarıyla başbaşa buluyorum. Kalbimin sığınağından, o her zaman birleşik dünyadan hiç belirti yok; doğanın kapalı kolları karşısında ben yine onu anlamayan bir yabancı.

Ah, keşke okullarınıza hiç ayak atmamış olsaydım. Gençlik ülkülerine kapılarak bilimden, temiz sevinçlerimde beni destekleyeceğini beklemiş, kuyusunun derinlerine dalmıştım, ama benim her şeyimi yok eden o oldu.

Aranızda iyice akıllandım, çevremdeki şeylerden kendimi ayırt etmeyi iyice öğrendim ve beni saran güzel dünyanın ortasında tek başıma kaldım. Yetiştiğim ve yeşerdiğim doğa bahçesinin dışına atılmışım, öğle güneşiyle kavruluyorum.

Ah, insan, düş kurabildiğince bir Tanrı, düşünebildiğinceyse bir dilenci. Coşkunluk geçtikten sonra o, eline acıyarak sıkıştırdıkları birkaç paraya bakakalan, baba evinden kovulmuş, kusurlu bir çocuk gibi ortadadır.

Hölderlin, Hyperion ya da Yunanistan’da Bir Yalnız Çev.: Melâhat Togar

Mii QR Codes.

Holly the Witch and Magic Man the Magician.

Dragon slayer Baelfire and Gobbo the goblin.

Togar the caveman(I don't have the caveman outfit sadly) and Orion some random character I made.

Vök - Ég bíð þín (I'll Wait for You) - transcript/translation

Second Icelandic Vök song from the Tension EP, this one's about trying to help people who resist help.

Icelandic transcript

Andlega í skýjunum leikandi í rólunum en þú situr fast á jörðinni ofan í pollunum Ég rétti út hjálparhönd Ég lít framhjá því hversu ráðvilltur og fjarlægur

Komdu hærra, komdu hærra, ég bíð þín Ég bíð þín Ég bíð Komdu hærra, komdu hærra, ég bíð þín Ég bíð þín Ég bíð

Dag eftir dag Ég get ekki hjálpað þér þegar þú hefur ekki neina trú á sjálfum þér Ég ber ei bæði tvö Þú togar móti mér í stað þess að hjálpa mér að hjálpa þér

Komdu hærra, komdu hærra, ég bíð þín Ég bíð þín Ég bíð Komdu hærra, komdu hærra, ég bíð þín Ég bíð þín Ég bíð

Komdu hærra, komdu hærra, ég bíð þín Ég bíð þín Ég bíð Komdu hærra, komdu hærra, ég bíð þín Ég bíð þín Ég bíð

English translation

Mentally overjoyed playing on the swings but you stand firm on the ground in the puddles I extend a helping hand I look past how confused and distant

Come higher, come higher, I'll wait for you I'll wait for you I'll wait Come higher, come higher, I'll wait for you I'll wait for you I'll wait

Day after day I can't help you when you have no faith in yourself I can't carry us both You pull the other way instead of helping me help you

Come higher, come higher, I'll wait for you I'll wait for you I'll wait Come higher, come higher, I'll wait for you I'll wait for you I'll wait

Come higher, come higher, I'll wait for you I'll wait for you I'll wait Come higher, come higher, I'll wait for you I'll wait for you I'll wait

Translation notes

The tense of Ég bíð þín is technically simply the present, which is also used when speaking of future intentions; this means it's slightly ambiguous whether the narrator is actually expressing that they will wait as long as it takes or simply that they are waiting, but it would be more usual to use this phrasing for the former, so that's what I went with, even though the verses do suggest a degree of impatience with "you".

The "you" here is male; he is referred to by masculine word forms.

The first line, "Andlega í skýjunum", literally means "Mentally in the clouds", but in English that means being out of touch with reality, whereas in Icelandic it means to be overjoyed. Fun little idiom confusion potential.

The Broken Hearts are Singing

How does it feel to love something that doesn’t love you back? In popular culture, brokenheartedness is often portrayed in a cis-heteronormative relationship—a man longing for a woman to love him back or vice versa. Yet brokenheartedness also emerges through other affective regimes such as belonging towards land, community, or even a nation.

On one hand, national borders are getting intensified, through the criminalization of dissents, the discriminating visa, or the invisibilization of migrants. While at the same time, those who are considered as legitimate citizens in majority are still struggling with everyday violences in the intersection of class, race/ethnicity, or gender. Yet with all the hardships of living, the obligation of a good citizen is to love the country. What are the paradoxes in this love? When loving becomes more and more impossible, are there other ways of loving that allow us or any collective life to thrive?

This project offers a more reparative reading of brokenness. By gathering sonic practices, including jamming and composing, through the works of Julian Abraham “Togar” and other invited artists-collectives, this framework seeks to put brokenheartedness as scenes of possibility amidst the impossible. What kind of resonances emerge from a shared feeling of broken heart? Would it be too much to imagine the possibility of gathering the pieces of shattered hearts so it will beat together? How to tune our ears so we can catch them beating and hear them singing?

The pavilion is calling all the broken hearts to jam the space; to do jamming sessions with music instruments, to fill the space by sitting down, or simply to listen to one another.

Throughout the unfolding of this project within the Indonesia Pavilion at ACC Gwangju, the exhibition space will be used as a place to be together by using brokenness as a shared affect and material condition while finding the necessary alliances, affinities, towards more in the future. The three months period will be divided into three phases;

● Phase 1: Shared belonging in brokenness

In this first phase, various rehearsals (or public programs) will be enacted as a series of attempts to use brokenness as shared affect and material condition. Brokenness is a (re)productive position with the potential that we need each other more than ever.

● Phase 2: Brokenness as a method

In the second phase, more rehearsals will be oriented towards care and collective well-being. To care is to struggle hand in hand with each other. In this phase, more recording and documenting practices will be held as a cumulative gesture towards the future.

● Phase 3: Broken Composition as Manifesto

In the last phase, the documentations from the previous phase will be presented. The Indonesia Pavilion will be closed with a manifesto presented in a public gathering.

Ilusi Duet Prabowo-Ganjar 2024, Mungkinkah ada Peluang?

BALIPORTALNEWS.COM, DENPASAR - Munculnya ilusi publik terkait wacana duet Prabowo Subianto sebagai Bakal Calon Presiden (Bacapres) disandingkan dengan Ganjar Pranowo sebagai Bakal Calon Wakil Presiden (Bacawapres) semakin berhembus kencang, di sisa waktu masa pendaftaran jelang Pemilihan Umum (Pemilu) 2024, dianggap sebagai peluang terbentuknya dua poros koalisi yang mungkin saja bisa terjadi. Terkait adanya isu tersebut, Dr. Togar Situmorang, SH., MH., MAP., C.Med., CLA., selaku Pengamat Politik menilai peluang untuk memenangkan Pilpres 2024 akan lebih besar jika kedua tokoh tersebut bersatu, ketimbang harus masing-masing untuk berhadapan dengan Koalisi Perubahanan, mengusung pasangan Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar (Cak Imin). "Sebagai kader Partai Demokrat yang tergabung dalam Koalisi Indonesia Maju (KIM) alias Koalisi Gemuk, saya sih melihat jika benar kejadian, duet dua tokoh (Probowo-Ganjar, red) tersebut terjadi, bisa jadi sejarah pecah telor soal pemilu langsung dari rakyat," ungkap Togar, Senin (25/9/2023). Lebih lanjut, pria yang akrab disapa Bang Togar tersebut menambahkan, pihaknya meyakini duet Prabowo-Ganjar akan mampu memberikan peluang perolehan suara sebesar 68% pada Pemilu 2024, mengingat kedua bacapres ini masih sangat terbuka untuk berkoalisi, karena keduanya sama-sama belum mendeklarasikan calon wakil presidennya. "Kita yakin, peluangnya diatas 60 persen. Minimal 64 persen menang, waktu jaman SBY (Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, red) menang, itu rasionya 62 persen. Jadi saya kira, kalau Prabowo Capres dan Ganjar Cawapresnya itu bisa mencapai 64 persen," papar Togar yang juga diketahui sebagai Bacaleg DPR RI dari Partai Demokrat nomor urut 7, Dapil III DKI Jakarta. Ia menyatakan, prediksi ini diharapkan bukan hanya sekedar ilusi semata, tetapi benar-benar bisa terwujud di sisa waktu yang tersedia, terlebih elektabilitas pasangan Anies-Cak Imin disebut menguat signifikan. Sehingga, untuk membuka peluang kemenangan maka koalisi Pemerintah harus bersatu. (aar/bpn) Read the full article

Gapasdap Sebut Kenaikan Tarif di Pelabuhan Merak Belum Sesuai HPP

CILEGON – Ketua Dewan Pimpinan Cabang (DPC) Gabungan Pengusaha Angkutan Sungai Danau dan Penyeberangan (Gapasdap) Merak, Togar Napitupulu menilai kenaikan tarif Penyeberangan Pelabuhan Merak masih jauh dari Harga Pokok Penjual (HPP) yang diajukan sebelumnya. Dimana diketahui kenaikan tarif di Pelabuhan Merak yang diberlakukan pada Kamis (3/8/2023) dini hari hanya sebesar 12 persen. “Kenaikan…

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