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2. LISTEN WITH AN OPEN MIND. Take what they say seriously and don’t interrupt or rush the conversa
“You can book a free study room in the Gover nor Marie Bashir Reading Room. Five rooms are available and can fit up to six people. They can be booked up to two weeks in advance with your Library card (which is free to obtain). They can be very popular so make sure you book in advance especially during school holidays and weekends.”
on how to ask the seemingly ‘awkward’
To finish off, I leave you with an important quote from Omar Khayyam: “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
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Welcome back to the 16th issue of the Stag! I hope that through the last few weeks of Term 3 everyone is staying cool, calm and collected, as, despite the limited number of days we have, they are packed full of action.
3.tion...ENCOURAGE ACTION. Ask: “What have you done in the past to manage similar situations?”
Woollahra Library in Double Bay is also running with extended hours during the school holidays and throughout the upcoming exam season:
Monday - Thursday: 9:00am - 9:00pm Friday: 9:00am - 8:00pm
Saturday - Sunday: 10:00am - 5:00pm
With the madness surrounding us, both good and bad, I’ve decided to remind you of an important day that recently passed: R U OK? Day. One of the key parts of this day is to teach individuals when and how to have a conversation that could change a life, leaving them with the skill to possibly assist people in
We have an exciting few weeks however, with Year 11 counting down the minutes until they become the Year 12 class of 2023, our Year 12 class of 2022 entering muck-up week and of course, the schoolwide finals of Reddam Idol.
Cycle tests. Year 10s realising they’re behind on studies after ski camp. Trials. HSC exams are rough ly a month away. There’s a lot for every student to worry about, so why not take your worries to a new environment?
So, to everyone reading this: “Are you okay?”.
1.question:ASKRU OK? Be relaxed, friendly and concerned in your approach...
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“In the study room you can see works on paper from the Gallery’s collection of over 25,000 prints, drawings, photographs and watercolours by Aus tralian and international artists from the 15th cen tury to the present day, as well as sketchbooks, artist books and printing blocks. Many works on paper are rarely exhibited and only for short periods of time. The study room provides public access for individuals and groups to view and research works of art in a quiet and intimate Studyenvironment.”roomsbooked by appointment only.
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Y’all feeling religious? Yeah, me neither. Feeling Christian? Even less so. Feeling like taking an im promptu spin to the desert to look at a massive clay mountain that says “God is love” on it? Ab Andso-bloody-lutely.luckyforus,‘Salvation
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Mountain’ is just that. Way back in 1984, some schmo named Leonard Knight went to Slab City – an off-the-grid commu nity in the Sonoran Desert in California – and de cided to pop the words from “the Sinner’s Prayer” onto a concrete mass he would later erect near the makeshift commune. He worked on it for the next five years, until it collapsed in what he viewed as a sign from God that the structure required rebirth.
He then began working on the current ‘Salvation Mountain’, using adobe clay mixed with straw and discarded “junk” such as windows, tires, and auto mobile parts, as well as several thousand gallons of paint. The completed structure is three stories high and about thirty-three metres wide, and boasts a large cross at the summit.
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next day, study periods wasted on scrolling through Instagram using our own 4G. Why must it hurt us so much? Why must the spin ning wheel of death, like a slap in the face with a bag of wet mice, tell us that it’s loading? Fearing Reddam WiFi should not be a part of daily life.
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Numerous quotes from the Bible have also been included, dressed to the nines with bright colours, flowers, and little hearts. A “Jesus it the way” path stretches up to the top of the mountain, and a cave-like facade mimicking a mountain’s rocky outcrops sports a forest of the world’s most vibrant
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students. The bane of our own existence. Why must there be such a divide between our grades? Sure, year 7s emotionally and physically hurt my soul. Sure, year 10s are the bottom of the rung, the weeds of the high school. But, how do we survive these conditions? In conditions where we passively aggressively squeeze past people block ing hallways? Pushing in the canteen line? Being loud outside rooms with exams?
all, it is a truly beautiful and unique monu ment to the man upstairs. And now I’m off to the desert to find myself. Wish me luck!
Reddam technology. The bane of every teacher’s existence. The projectors. The screens. The com puters. Are we not above 18th century technology? Why must they glitch so? Why must the quality be anything below HD? Why must it be so hard to play a YouTube video with sound above a whisper? How do the teachers live, laugh and love in these condi
Reddam life is a hard-knock life. Times do indeed be tough. I love it.
- Poppy Hartley and Adi Alroy
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Welcome back to the Integration Portfolio’s Culture column. We have a very ethnically and religiously di verse school, and we wish to keep you up to date with upcoming fes tivals, cultural events, and religious Ifholidays.youhave any questions or wish to share an upcoming event, please email me at zoe.littler@reddam Thishouse.com.auweek’sarticle focuses on the cultural significance of moons, so be sure to increase your un derstanding of the importance of moons to different religions by reading
Do not hesitate to share your re ligious or cultural background by writing about an upcoming event to be published in the Stag.
CommonlyTsukimi: known as “moon-view ing”, this Japanese holiday express es gratitude for a successful har vest and hopes for similar rewards in the future. This custom spread to Japan from China following the Tang Dynasty during 618-907 AD. Moon-viewing celebrations often include music, composing offer
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- Zoe Littler
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3. You’ve heard me before, yet you hear me again. Then I die until you call me again. What am I?
September in Korean culture, also known as Hangawi, is a harvest moon festival. It is cel ebrated by making special foods such as songpyeon (rice cake). Tra ditionally it is a time when people in South Korea return to their an cestral hometown. A more modern tradition is gift-giving to friends, family and work associates.
Fun Facts: In accordance with this article’s theme, all educational facts pre sented will be related to Earth’s only permanent natural satellite. Yep, you guessed it! The MOON. Did you know that the surface of the Moon is actually extremely dark? Much unlike the brightly shining celestial body we see nightly. Be lieve it or not, there is water on the Moon! There is ice trapped in dust and minerals on and below the Moon’s surface. It is a fact that the Moon travels 3.8cm away from Earth annually, but it is only specu lation that the moon formed after a rock collided with Earth. Now, it is entirely possible that this is in correct, we may never know in our lifetimes. Personally, this specula tion seems alright with me. Let me
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1. What has six faces but doesn’t have a mouth, has 21 eyes but doesn’t see?
There will be a range of live musical entertainment at the Bondi Pavil lion, hosting multiple performing groups including Rose Bay Second ary School’s Big Band, Bondi Beach Public School recorder and violin ensemble, and the Bondi Beach Public School choir. This festival is all about celebrating and igniting the fun and community spirit
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As a way to ease back into non-re stricting large-scale events, the Festival of the Winds will be ap pearing this year on the 11th of September. From 11 am to 2 pm, Bondi Beach is hosting one of the
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world’s biggest kite festivals, which has been running annually for 40 years. It will allow the community to experience skies filled with vi brant coloured kites bringing the excitement and joy equivalent to the last one.
At the festival, you can expect to see exquisite kites of all different kinds, some even handcrafted! But it doesn’t matter if you’ve dedicat ed your life to this art form or have never even seen a kite, this festival has something for everyone.
Families gathered together, laugh ter in the air and joyous children running around freely. It’s been 3 years since the COVID pandemic hit, yet it seems so strange to have these once natural events become a reality for us again.
- Larissa Rose and Kiera Millin
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Waverley Council has also organ ised entertainment in the form of gallery exhibitions, kite-mak ing workshops, playgrounds, food stalls providing international dish es, professional kite flying displays, and face painting.
I bet if you told Sydney University student John Silk and his friends back in 1978 that their interest in wind energy and fascination with kites would lead to one of the biggest and most loved kite flying festivals in the world, they would have laughed in your face. But that’s exactly how it all started. When the group of wind energy champions decided to run a kite festival on Bondi Beach, the idea
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there for the kites, the atmosphere, the food or just the insta-worthy photos, this festival is well worth a trip down to Bondi Beach to be more involved with this colourful community. I hope to see you down there this Sunday, adding your own creation to the sea of kites with your family and friends, once again filling the air with laughter and joy.
took off, reaching unimaginable heights. Mr Ernie Page, the Mayor at the time, officially opened this festival on the 10th of September, 1978. He declared Bondi Beach’s skies open for the crowd to enjoy. John Silk and his friends formed the Australian Kiteflyers Society (AKS) which allowed professionals to showcase their talent in Bondi.
dog called Roselle led her blind own er down 78 flights of steps and to the home of a friend during the destruction of the towers. In the week after 9/11, church attendance rose 20% in Manhattan, but so did alcohol consumption by 25%. The New York Times wrote an article for each of the 3000 people killed. Ben Sliney was on his first day at work when he made the call to ground all the
in part, because Osama Bin Laden thought the US was weak as it had evacuated Vietnam in the 1970s, fled Mogadishu when 18 servicemen were killed in 1993, and Beirut when 241 servicemen were killed. Bin Laden was right that the US tried to save lives over political machinations. Howev er, this eventually came back to bite him. What Bin Laden didn’t anticipate was an invasion of his country to find just one man.
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Although three of the four planes reached their targets on 9/11, one didn’t. The passengers on Flight 93 revolted after a vote to determine if they would fight. Some believe that the passengers managed to breach the cockpit door to the cabin and that’s why the plane was brought down in a field in Pennsylvania, where all 37 passengers were Akilled.guide
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effort to make rhetoric cool again, today I’m tackling a laconic phrase. Laconic phrase is, to put it simply, the art of the concise. Charac terised by short quick wit, it finds its name from the Ancient Greek region of Laconia. If the name Laconia doesn’t light any bulbs in your skull, then I have one word: Sparta. These majorly militant men (check the alliteration on that one!) are only remembered today because of a subpar action film with well-oiled, semi-nude fight scenes, though they were famous at the time for their historic cat tiness and impressive sass. The most famous -and probably the funniest- example of this is Phillip III of Macedonia’s attempted verbal conquest. He was a brilliant warlord, having just conquered most of Southern Greece, and he set his sights on Sparta. So he sent a message. “Do the Laconians want him to enter their land as a friend or as a foe?” Unfortu nately, I couldn’t find the original wording of this threat, but I like to imagine it filled with the verbal flourishes one would expect of a crazed despotic warlord. Mostly, I imagine this because it makes the Spartan’s response even funnier: “Neither”. Just that word, nothing else. Enraged by this, Phillip sent the messenger back, saying, “If I invade Laco nia, I shall turn you out.” The Spartans, never ones to show fear, sent back one word: “If.” Goosebumps apparently didn’t stop Phillip, who proceeded to invade and devastate the region. But hey, if you have to go, at least do it in style.
September Eleventh:
- Evie Zavos
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- Jo Gilliatt
Yesterday was the 21st anniversary of the deadliest attack on US soil. September 11, 9/112001.unfolded
brutal details of 9/11, there are glimpses of humanity that we can focus on.
is the idea that you could scan your brain and sim ulate this to the point where the simulation would respond in the same way to stimuli that your real brain would. There are two main steps that could be hurdles: the scanning emulation and the simu
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Three years ago scientists were able to implant memories into mouse brains, making them think that they had previously interact ed with a smell they had never been exposed to before. Two years ago scientists created a 230,000 cell simulation of the visual sys tem of a mouse’s brain, which re sponded akin to actual mice when shown photos and movie clips. In the same year, an atlas of the mouse brain was developed which can zoom down to the scale of a single cell. This year, an AI claimed to be conscious and had a friend ly chat with Elon Musk about con sciousness. Our technology is edg ing more and more into the world of sci-fi day by day, leading to the question: are we getting close to the point when we could just up load our minds and live an immor tal
question is how we can compute all of the different influ ences on the brain. Neurons can already be simulated by neural networks, however there is a differ ence between how biological and artificial neurons work. Biological ones either fire or don’t fire, where as artificial neurons have a contin uous value between 0-1 which is the probability of the classification. However, there are many other things that impact brain function and decision making. For example, your gut microbiome influences brain chemistry, anxiety levels and memory functions, which can all be hard to simulate.
sure sign of consciousness? If AI can’t be conscious, then there is no point in mind uploading; it would not be a conscious being, but a highly complex algorithm. And there is also the question of if the simulation of your brain is still you, or if it is more akin to a twin which has led an identical life? These are all questions that philosophers and scientists are still not fully able to answer. For now, mind upload ing is not possible and it may not ever be feasible. But in chasing this dream, we could discover new
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What about simulation? How will we know when AI has gained con sciousness? The Turing Test is al ready used to determine whether or not AI can think like a human (spoiler alert… none have passed yet), but is human-like thinking a
technologies that dispense the need for mind uploading to begin
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A one-day women’s race called ‘La Course’ has re cently surfaced, but some riders have said it was more of an insult than an opportunity. This year’s women’s race, sponsored by the cycling app Zwift, will boast one of the largest prize pools in the his tory of women’s cycling, estimated to be around Things€250,000.were
Regardless of the low numbers of women com peting, riders say the Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift is a game-changer for women’s cycling and will inspire young women and girls around the world watching the event.
Christian Prudhomme, the organiser of the Tour de France, has announced to the Guardian that there will be a women’s race held after the men’s Tour in 2022. More details will be released in October, around when the men’s Tour will be launched.
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There may be only two weeks left, but the fast paced term shows no signs of slowing down yet. Coming up in the next few weeks the Year 12s will be re ceiving feedback on their Trials, before having their final assembly and then the Valedictory next Mon day. This coming Tuesday also marks the finals of the Reddam Idol, where the best and most talented singers in the school will perform and compete in front of the school community and the judges. We encourage everyone to come along for what promis es to be an excellent evening of entertainment.
- Mia
Meanwhile, the Year 10s returned from their weeklong ski camp at Thredbo in the Snowy Mountains. By all accounts it was a massive success, and a won derful time was had by all who attended including the teachers. However last week they returned to the real world and were straight back into the thick of it with their last few weeks of cycle tests and as sessments before the holidays.
- Florence Gatt
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It’s hard to believe that it’s Week 8 already. It’s been a busy, action-packed term, but there’s a light at the end of the tunnel so to speak, with the holidays coming up in two weeks. The last few weeks have seen the Year 11s hard at work with their Yearly Ex ams at the Bondi campus, and the Year 12s have been writing their HSC Trials at the church on the Marketplace, where they’ll return in around four and a half weeks to write the real thing. The last of the Yearlys and Trials happened last Friday, and the students are now waiting in anticipation for their results. We wish them the best of luck.
In 1984 to 1989, there was a Tour de France event that was held for women. It has been highlighted that the upcoming race must learn the lessons from the failure of the past event. The last women’s event had failed because of the economic cost of organising the race with limited media coverage and sponsorship. People are hoping this event makes money because if it doesn’t, it is said it could end up like the Tour in the 80’s and burn out.
very different for female cyclists when US cyclist Marianne Martin won the first women’s Tour de France in 1984 at the age of 26. At her race in Grenoble, France, she said she was more than 30 miles ahead of her herd. Widespread interest in women’s sports was limited when Martin was com peting, but this world looks different now.
One thing becomes apparent through any bit of research, the Nepali are some of the most re silient people in the face of such hardship and it will be such a rewarding experience meeting them and experiencing their culture. The Nepal trip heads off on the 26th of September and students are currently fundrais ing for their Community Initiative that they will complete whilst there. They will be working alongside an all-female farming community to improve infra structure with materials chosen by the community leaders and bought with money raised by the students. Please, if you can, help them out by donating and supporting their project, as the money raised goes directly to the community. To be honest, spend ing your holidays immersed in Nepali culture and meeting the country firsthand isn’t the worst place to be!
first female PM being elected in 2015 and a host of internation ally acclaimed athletes and trail blazers coming from Nepali soil like Mira Rai; women are fight ing for recognition and pushing boundaries as a whole.
With the holidays approaching, some of you may be cozying up to take a long well-deserved break before the storm of Term 4 makes contact. However, a small group of intrepid explorers are spending those few weeks up in the stunning country of Nepal as part of a World Challenge Expe dition, spending 13 days doing things like community initiative, a 3 day mountain hike, and explor ing the bustling city of Kathman
Women in Nepal have historically faced extreme inequality, even through the turn of the 21st cen tury. Whether from healthcare, social treatment, or opportuni ties, Nepal has been a male-dom inated and patriarchal society rooted in traditional values. Even today, laws such as the Citizen ship Act of 2006 reinforce male dominance, with special provi sions and requirements needed for someone to claim citizenship by descent from a woman, that don’t apply to men. These laws create a lot of hurdles for unmar ried women. There remains the prevalence of an early marriage age, where national statistics suggest that 40% of women are married before 18, creating major consequences for career prospects and a precedent that excludes women from autonomy over life choices. Furthermore, violence against women is nor malised in Nepal; In a 2018 study, out of 1,751 violence against women cases, 65% was domestic violence and 37% of survivors are 17-25 years old. In 2014, 91% of women killed in Nepal have been killed by someone they know. 3x more women have HIV/AIDS than men, and the female literacy rate is 46% whilst men have a literacy rate of 71%. While this stark dis parity between women and men is deeply rooted in Nepal, things are starting to change with the
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might have heard, or vaguely remember, the mention of Nepal in relation to their major earth quakes a few years ago, which resulted in the decimation of entire villages, livelihoods and World Heritage sites, which con sequently triggered avalanches on Mount Everest. The country, in many ways, is still recovering from the damage suffered from the 2015 events, and is also faced with new threats: namely climate change. Monsoons form the ba sis for much of Nepal’s farming, providing heavy rains for rice crops and are extremely neces sary as there is a lack of irrigation systems. However, the monsoon season expected this year has not yet arrived. Rain clouds that would normally dump on Ne pal’s southern plains are staying above the Indian Plains, majorly disrupting both ecosystems. The
damage is immeasurable, with entire fields of saplings drying up in the soil, landslides becoming increasingly frequent and so far at least 38 people have died with another 5,398 people displaced.
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Jake Paul, the “professional” boxer, decided to make a music video to promote his diss track against Alis sa Violet, which became one of the most disliked videos and became a meme on YouTube.
Sidney’s boyfriend was rather creepy at times, and we thought that many of the characters were too one-dimensional. Sidney, however, was smarter than the other characters and proved to be more successful in beating Ghostface, making better de cisions compared to the other victims.
The plot of the movie seemed far-fetched, (even though it was based on the murders in Gainsville, Florida in 1990) and the plot twist was fairly pre dictable for people who have watched other horror films. Unlike other films though, the horror in this film was all the way through instead of some hor rors where it is just at the end.
The song has both a questionable soundtrack and a rap with lyrics like “England is my city,” which was heavily criticised by the public. They thought by utilising Spanish in the song it would make it better because of “Despacito”... but they were wrong. The song felt like Jake Paul was on RhymeZone.com and put a bunch of random words together to sound “cool” and “trendy”. The repeated rhythm of the backing track is terrible. It sounds like royalty-free music, which suggests a lack of care for the song even though it was made to make Team 10 sound as big and popular as Pewdiepie.
It’s Everyday Bro:
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In 2017, the year where ‘Despactio’ came out, a questionable masterpiece was released. ‘It’s Every day Bro’ is a song where you either know the lyrics as a “joke” or you don’t know what it is. Where do I even begin?
With its nostalgic elements of being a meme, 0.5/5 is very generous, as there is so much wrong with what Jake Paul created.
For those who love horror and suspense (or don’t) this movie is a good introduction into the horror genre, as even scaredy cats can watch the majori ty of it since the brutality has worn off 25 years af ter release. We recommend this film, and if you like it, continue watching the rest of the series, as the most recent Scream (Scream 5 starring Jenna Orte ga) came out earlier this year.
The movie ‘Scream’ came out in 1996 and centres around the main character Sidney Prescott who’s mother Maureen Prescott died the year before. Set in the town of Woodsboro, people all around Sid ney start getting brutally murdered by someone wearing a ghost face mask near the anniversary of her mothers death. The mystery killer (or killers?) call victims on the phone to initiate the game that will get them killed, using a voice changing device to disguise their voice so they don’t get recognised.
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