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Hukum Memberi dan Menjawab Salam Orang Bukan Islam

Conveying greetings to non-Muslims and replying greetings uttered by them are the issues that affect the sensitivity of Muslims in Malaysia. Since Malaysia is a plural-society nation, there are non-Muslims who are always intermingled with the Muslims and are impressed with some of Muslim cultures. And when this happens, it raises many questions such as is it allowed for Muslims to say “Assalamualaikum” to non-Muslims? Is it obligatory to return greetings given by non-Muslims? How to greet people in a ceremony consisting of Muslims and non-Muslims? Is it permissible to say "Good Morning" or "Good Evening" to non-Muslims? Therefore, this paper will explore the views of Muslim scholars in each of these issues so that readers can clearly understand the Islamic view on this issue. Analytical and critical methods will be utilized when elaborating the view of scholars in this issue. The conclusion of this study is that Muslims are not allowed to greet non-Muslims with the word “Assalamua’laikum”. However, if non-Muslims start to greet with the word “Assalamua’laikum” then Muslims can reply it with the word “Wa'alaikumussalam”. While other greeting of speech other than the remarks of “Assalamu'alaikum” is permissible.

Alice in Business-Land (Presentation Slides)

Good Morning, Good Afternoon or Good Evening; whatever time zone your mind might be in. But no good night, since it is not yet time to sleep. My name is Ravi Kashyap. Till recently, before moving to academia, I used to work in the financial industry and when someone would ask me what I did for a living; I would say I work with models and then if they asked what sort of models I say I work with exotic models. Thankfully I am still working with the same models; even more thankfully, the models I work with are very simple compared to the models that come to the minds of most people when they hear the word model. Perhaps my models are not even the models most people want to work with. The story Alice in Wonderland has three main elements: The First is known as Anthropomorphism (quite a mouthful, right?) all it means is that there are creatures and objects that can talk and have human emotions; secondly some things make sense; some don’t, which is known as literary non-sense. Lastly of course, there is everything else. Similarly, in today’s business world we have Uncertainty, which many people know more about than me; and there are Unintended Consequences, which not many of us know much about. So I will focus on the easier part, which is also my strength and we will talk mostly about Everything Else today. A big part of our lives is uncertainty and our struggle to overcome it. Sergey Bubka is our Icon of Uncertainty: As a refresher, he broke the pole vault world record 35 times. We can think of introducing any innovation into society or any regulatory change as raising the bar. Each time the bar is raised, the spirit of Sergey Bubka, in all of us, will find a way over it. When he was breaking records, most of you were professors in college; not just literally but perhaps in your thoughts and ambitions. I was just a small kid; I still am… So if anything I say bothers you, just ignore it. In Asia, we always overlook the mistakes of the youngest member in the family. I am that person now. I will also ask a lot of questions; but don’t worry; you don’t have to answer it now, because we don’t have enough time. Our attempts at business success start with the study of many subjects: Economics, Marketing, Management, etc. We human beings are the creators of these fields; but they need to operate in a world, which might or not have been created by us. So how can we be sure which of these artificial boundaries are important? An alternate categorization would identify any field by the set of questions it seeks to answers. The answers to the questions posed by any domain can come from the combination of many other disciplines or from anywhere. This search for answers is bounded only by our imagination. So Business-Land can have anything and everything in it, which also makes it a wonderland.

Identity, Place and Non-belonging in Jean Rhys’s Fiction

Place is considered as a distinguishable factor among Jean Rhys’s novels, most concretely represented by three countries: Dominica, England and France. In locating her outsider and outcast heroines in these places of interconnectedness, Rhys’s fiction responds to a time of crisis in the history of Empire. With a much stigmatized white West Indian creole identity, her heroines are unacceptably white in Dominica, and unacceptably “black” in Europe. In Voyage in the Dark, Anna is stranded in a modernist London that was at once racially heterogeneous, cosmopolitan and xenophobic. Her transgressive and mobile identities (racial, sexual, national), are forever making her stranger in the metropole. In Quartet and Good Morning, Midnight, both Marya and Sasha occupy the temporary and liminal spaces of the metropolis of Paris and try to buy themselves an illusion of a respectable identity. Rejected, unhoused, wandering in a state of limbo, their existence becomes mechanical and ghostly. It is this sense of having no identity and no place of belonging resulted from a very specific and traumatic colonial experience that best explains the pervasive tone of loss, melancholy, and paralysis of spirit underlying all of Rhys’s fiction.

Feasibility study of bike sharing in Singapore

This study analysed the feasibility of a bike-sharing programme in Singapore based on a case study in the Jurong Lake district. Data were collected using a two-stage perception survey to gather the public’s general awareness and opinions about bike sharing and followed by estimating the likely take-up rate of bike sharing. The results showed that bike-sharing schemes would be suitable around mass rapid transit stations and low rental costs would encourage bike sharing. Finally, a distance-based mode-choice model was established for four scenarios (morning peak and good weather, morning peak and bad weather, evening peak and good weather and evening peak and bad weather), focusing on walking, bike sharing and taking a bus. Weather could have an obvious impact on the frequency of bike sharing.

“Good Morning, Vietnam!” The discursive construction of nationhood in the War Remnant Museum wall-texts

When the tourism industry is operatively organized by governmental institutions, it seems that the destination is commodified in ways that are ideologically constructed so as to ‘educate’ tourists to perceive them as having a historically different identity. This seems to be what happens when visiting the War Remnant Museum (WRM) in Vietnam. The WRM is a war museum, in Ho Chi Min City, containing exhibits related to the Vietnam and Indochina wars in a series of themed rooms; they include graphic photography accompanied by wall-texts, in English, Vietnamese and Japanese, covering the effects of such chemicals as Agent Orange andother defoliant sprays, the use of napalm and phosphorus bombs and other war atrocities. Since, in some guidebookswritten for an international Western audience,we readthat the Cold War is dealt with by looking at the US with a benevolent eye, there seems to be some dissonance between what the Cold War is, how it is described in guidebooks and what is told about the WRM. The purpose of this study is to analyse the discursive construction of Vietnamese identity through the descriptions of war in the wall-texts found in the WRM. More specifically, this study aims to investigate how the WRM frames Vietnamese identity construction and how this can be inscribed in the tourist experience. This corpus-based methodological approach (WordSmith Tools and WMatrix) is grounded in critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 1989, 1992, 2001, 2006, 2014). What seems to emerge from this investigation is that the Vietnamese war, as depicted by the WRM,isnot simply the other side of the coin. Reality is filtered through anideological lens of political interpretation usedby the Vietnamese which frames discursive processes and strategies that establish the social order and power relations in a useful way in the construction of a strong national identity to be reproduced in WRM wall-texts. Such an analysis can provide useful insights intomultifaceted aspects of the institutional discourse(s) related to the construction of a national identity and at the same time linked to the commodification of war.

A carbon fiber cluster grows in South Carolina

At the June 1 groundbreaking for Teijin’s $600 million carbon fiber plant in Greenwood, S.C., the local high school orchestra serenaded guests. Flags from the U.S. and Japan, Teijin’s home country, flanked the podium. Gov. Henry McMaster told the 75 people sitting under a fan-cooled tent how proud he was “to have a new partner join us.” And the Japanese consul general in Atlanta, Takashi Shinozuka, greeted the crowd with a “Good morning, y’all,” relating that in Japan, “South Carolina is well known as a great place to do business.” Certainly, South Carolina seems like a great place for carbon fiber producers to do business. Just two years before Teijin broke ground, fellow Japanese firm Toray Industries started work on a $1.4 billion plant in Spartanburg. And Solvay, which has been producing carbon fiber in nearby Greenville since 1981, expanded in 2016. Consultants attribute the unusual carbon fiber buildup to

DEVELOPING ENGLISH SPEAKING MATERIALS FOR THE RECEPTIONIST OF GALUH HOTEL

The objectives of this study are: (1) to describe how English speaking materials are developed for the receptionist of Galuh Hotel and (2) to find out the coverage of speaking materials for the receptionists. This study is a Research and Development (R & D). The researcher applied Research & Development based on Kemp’s model (1977) namely (1) Research and Information Collecting (needs analysis) , (2) Planning (stating goals, topics, general purposes, and objectives) , (3) Develop preliminary form of product (listing subject content, selecting teaching/learning activities and evaluation) , (4) Main Product Revision (revision) . The results show that the speaking materials for receptionist of Galuh Hotel consisted of four units entitled (1) Hi...Good Morning, (2) Let Me Introduce…, (3) Please Forgive Me, (4) Thanks for…. In each unit there were four sections: Snapshot , Come and Speak It up, Language Focus and Get These Questions Answered . The materials covered topic, language function, grammar and vocabulary.

Insalata Caprese and a Beautiful Kidney

Insalata Caprese and a Beautiful Kidney

Passion for archive

Good morning everyone. It’s a pleasure to be with you and an honour to be invited to give a keynote at an ASA conference again. The last time was early in September of 2001, when I was just a kid w...

Tongue-tied modernism in Jean Rhys's Paris

ABSTRACTJean Rhys's four early novels, written in Paris and London in the inter-war years, take a self-consciously peripheral position in relation to the high modernist experimentation which surrounded their composition. Rhys deploys the interiority, stream-of-consciousness and linguistic defamiliarisation of her modernist peers, but also challenges their perceived primacy of form, as well as the suitability of modernist aesthetics for representing social and political realities. Rhys's multilingualism is a characteristic of her style, but also a means of considering the apparent unravelling of form in Quartet and Good Morning, Midnight as a productive gesture.

EURIG Annual Meeting 2017. Introduction

Good morning and welcome to you All. We are delighted that the annual conference of the European RDA Interest Group is meeting here this year, today in Florence and tomorrow Fiesole, and we would like to thank the Executive Committee for arranging this venue, and all of the EURIG Members for the decision to come here for this year’s meeting. We are very grateful to Gordon Dunsire and a special thanks to the speakers and the participants coming from overseas. The overall guideline of the program indicates a 'political' first day giving an update on EURIG and RDA governance, a picture of the implementation experiences in Europe (the lightening talks have been arranged in chronological order of RDA implementation date), an update about the plans of RDA to adopt the IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM) conceptual model, an overview of the RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign (3R) Project, and some highlights of translation activities. The second day is devoted on how RDA is an important precondition to take advantage of the application of the linked data model and related technology. In the morning we will have a theoretical session that address the topic from various angles, whereas in the afternoon a selection of workshops have been organised in order to have the opportunity for concrete evidence and discussion about the new environment that BIBFRAME will bring. Again many thanks to you all for being here and please let us know if there is anything we can do for you.

Remarks by Stephen Mathias

Well, thank you, and thank you for the invitation to be here. Good morning, everyone.

Introductory Remarks by Hélène Tigroudja

Good morning, everybody, and welcome to this extraordinary panel on the operationalization of international law, beyond the state, so it is a very ambitious title and it is a very ambitious question, and we are trying to discuss a bit more about the private actors and the role and the place of the private actors in international society, but not only private actors as such but private actors in their relationship with other classical subjects of international law of states across an international organization.

Remarks by Jean-Christopher Dumont

Thank you very much for the invitation. Good morning, everybody. I am based at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which has been working on migration since the 1960s, and I will try to take a different stance on the issue, stepping back and looking at the long-term perspective regarding the global governance of migration.

Barista Memes

Last year during a particularly hard winter I was invited to a (now defunct) private Instagram chat group of femme and trans baristas. We logged on mornings at 6AM to wish one another a good morning and swapped anecdotes of misogyny and appalling customer behaviour in the workplace. I considered this a form of free group therapy. Another coping strategy I used was making memes at work. To ferment is to seethe with agitation or excitement, to work up, or to incite (trouble or disorder). I’m not supposed to ferment at work. My memes are about what I wish I could say to customers but am unable to do because my position in customer service requires amenability and a friendly attitude. My Instagram account becomes a repository for the frustrations and anxieties that arise during a shift. I can post flippant content on the internet without feeling the need to contextualize or provide nuance because I have an audience who shares similar politics and/or work experiences.

Scandalous Women in History

Scandalous Women in History Malerie Willens (bio) After being hired as a beauty technician with Rémy at Saks Fifth Avenue, Kim was given a lab coat the color of a pencil eraser, and told she’d be going by “Kendra.” She wore her long auburn hair pulled back, exposing a creamy, freckled complexion and lippy pout. Over the next several months, magnified beneath the department store’s halogens, she would see approximately three thousand faces at various stages of decay. On her first day of work, she learned the merciful cant of the makeup counter: “Say ‘extracting’ for popping zits and ‘cleaning’ for getting rid of blackheads,” explained Jade, her boss. “Most important: don’t say ‘wrinkle.’ Say ‘fine line.’ And stay positive. If someone’s oily, suggest a product to eliminate shine. ‘Shine’ sounds dewy, not greasy. Watch Dane when he gets here. He’s our star.” Dane arrived forty-five minutes late, looking stunning in cowboy boots. “Good morning, everyone,” he said, although only Kendra and Jade were there. He threw down his bags and slipped into a gray lab coat with a gliding disregard. He restocked the lipstick [End Page 654] display, swinging his chin-length hair from his eyes with shampoo-commercial verve. He moved with willowy precision. It was impossible to imagine him sitting still. Side-work done, he approached Kim. “And you are?” She hesitated. “Kendra.” He didn’t so much shake Kendra’s hand as present her with his. “Is Dane your real name?” she asked. “It is now. Né Douglas: world’s worst name. I don’t go by Doug because I hate diminutives. Dane came to me in a dream. It’s strong and simple, right?” Customers were beginning to buzz around Rémy’s three-hundred- sixty-degree counter, the largest at Saks. “Are you Danish?” Kendra asked. “Hell if I know. I was adopted.” He leaned over the counter to take a customer’s liver-spotted hand in his. Kendra spent the rest of the day watching Dane regale his customers with tales of intrepid ribosomes and their unctuous promises. There was the soothing emulsion, the stalwart pentapeptide, and the light-deflecting pearl. Dane’s spiel made Kendra suddenly self-conscious about the dull, flaky skin around her eyebrows. Under the cover of familiarizing herself with inventory, she scanned the counter for an exfoliant to unearth the fresh bright layer of skin beneath. She felt her face absorb imaginary nutrients, growing stronger and softer. Dane spoke of the most florid, delectable ingredients: heliotrope, Copahu wood, watery violet, oak moss. Sicilian bergamot, Chinese peony, white cedar, and the elusive blue rose. A dash of neroli, a trace of blood orange. According to Dane, no customer ever questioned the origin of Copahu wood or disputed the existence of the blue rose, which did exist, Kendra would later find out, although it was more purple than blue. [End Page 655] Dane made enough on commission that day to pay half a month’s rent. After work he took Kendra to a place he liked—one of the few remaining dives on the Bowery. She asked him if there was anything she should know about the job. She wanted the sort of insider information not in the training manual. “Learn by doing,” he said as he filled their glasses with wine from the carafe. “The trick is not to overthink.” “What about the boss?” “Jade’s joyless but harmless. Poor thing. She thinks her gamine haircut’s chic but she looks like a pinhead.” He took a sip of wine. “Now tell me about Kendra.” She confessed that none of her previous jobs had ever really worked out. It wasn’t that she was lazy, but she’d never understood the fuss about an honest day’s work. She’d tried public relations, ad sales, and dating rich men, all of which demanded a fanatical belief in the product—or the appearance of such—that she’d been unable to supply. So she’d quit them all, on principle. She did not tell Dane that she’d also tried credit-card fraud and shoplifting, beginning with hair mousse at age fifteen. She...

Remarks by Patrick Luna

Good morning. I would like to start by thanking, of course, Monica for the privilege of participating in this panel. I am certainly willing and hopefully able to present an alternative view to those that have been presented by the speakers before me.

La objeción de conciencia en el Derecho Chileno

En 1914 el portentoso –y díscolo compulsivo- Vicente Huidobro, artista principalmente dedicado a la poesía, escribió en uno de sus textos llamado NonServiam:
 “Y he aquí que una buena mañana, después de una noche de preciosos sueños y delicadas pesadillas, el poeta se levanta y grita a la madre Natura: Non serviam. Con toda la fuerza de sus pulmones, un eco traductor y optimista repite en las lejanías: «No te serviré». La madre Natura iba ya a fulminar al joven poeta rebelde, cuando éste, quitándose el sombrero y haciendo un gracioso gesto, exclamó: «Eres una viejecita encantadora». Ese non serviam quedó grabado en una mañana de la historia del mundo. No era un grito caprichoso, no era un acto de rebeldía superficial. Era el resultado de toda una evolución, la suma de múltiples experiencias. El poeta, en plena conciencia de su pasado y de su futuro, lanzaba al mundo la declaración de su independencia frente a la Naturaleza”.

NHKテレビニュース番組「おはよう日本」の継続時間構造と番組編成構造に関する一研究

NHKテレビニュース番組「おはよう日本」の継続時間構造と番組編成構造に関する一研究

Unbinding Genre (Bending Gender): Parody in Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

Mourning becomes Shakespeare, perhaps; celebration too. Romeo and Juliet (1597) and Othello (1604) are tragedies of sweeping passion and rash action where love falters and lovers fall. In her 1988 play entitled Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Ann-Marie MacDonald parodies the two Shakespearean texts and visits the intersections between genre and gender where tragedy modulates into comedy and liminal gender identities fade in and out across permeable genre spaces. The protagonist of the play, Constance Ledbelly, is sucked into the wonderland of her unconscious mind where she outwits her opponents, Iago and Tybalt, and moderates the extremes of her avatars, Desdemona and Juliet. She thus breaks free from her stalking shadow, Night the Professor, and realises that she is the unwitting author of the play. Her unconscious leap onto the stages of mourning becomes a farewell to the night, and a greeting of the morning that becomes the queerness of the postmodernist world—laughing off its past and laughing at its present. The golden pen which Constance finds at the end of her toying with genre, language, and gender is a reward for the author who takes refuge in a world where the fool of court is king of wit, and where the pandemonium of tragedy becomes the playground of parody. The author of this paper studies the alchemy of Constance’s change and MacDonald’s reconsideration of genre and gender through parody, the postmodern philosopher’s stone. He also argues for a politics of identity revisiting the aesthetics of mourning.