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PAID PHOENIX, AZ PERMIT NO. 1714 73rd FEEL AT HOME August 2019 Vol.21 No.2 COMPLIMENTARY WHAT’S INSIDE Community Round-Up..............................6, 19, 22 Run and Hide or Stand Tall .............................1 , 3 Brain Computer Interfaces ..............................1, 5 'I Like You...' ..................................................1, 12 Through The Eyes Of A Poet .............................4 The Sound Of Music ...........................................8 If You Could Offer Hope .....................................9 An Atheist Investigates Jesus ...........................10 Make The Most Of A Small Yard .......................11 3 Reasons You Need To Unplug .......................13 Back To School Rush? ......................................17 Pulling Down Legs ............................................18 Make Your High School Resume Impressive ...18 Astroscience................................ ......................20 Did You Consider Having Your Own Bank? .......21 11MWoHET - Overcoming Peer Pressure ........23 The Ultimate Restaurants - Chutneys ...............26 ‘I Like You...’ Run and Hide or Brain Computer Stand Tall? Interfaces By Dr. Ashish Sachdeva By Gayathri Krithivas By Hari Gottipati Imagine your brain controls an object without you Just a few days ago, I had an office visit with a How many of you have heard ”go back to where you explicitly doing or saying anything. May sound like a patient that impacted me greatly, touched my heart, came from” or a backhanded comment about your and opened my eyes to see kindness in a new and accent in the years you have lived outside India? How Hollywood sci-fi movie for now, but pretty soon you profound way. I've watched this special lady deal many of your kids came home from school after 9/11 are going to operate a device just with brain waves. with Parkinson’s Disease as it slowly and steadily feeling scared? How many of you went and purchased Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) is a has progressed over the past decade. From a young patriotic clothing or flag pins so that you wouldn't be collaboration between a brain and a device where looking sprightly older lady with silvery curly hair mistaken for a terrorist? How many of you felt brain signals can control the external activity. That who always had a mischievous sparkle to her eyes, I isolated at work when hate crimes began to happen? external activity could be a cursor of a computer, have watched her wither away over the last ten years How many of you feel some level of fear and clicking on a link/app on a smartphone or moving a to this ghostly, emaciated elderly woman, slumped discomfort right now in this country that we call prosthetic arm. BCI is an interface which collects in a wheel chair accompanied by her exhausted home? brain signals using sensors and transfers to a nearby looking daughter. Her eyes had a glassy far-away device where these signals can be converted into defeated look to them. She had saliva drooling down Let me begin by saying that this article is not aimed at computer actions. one side of her mouth in a thick stringy pattern. Her discussing immigration of the legal and illegal kind. It is not about visas or work permits or the government's daughter kept trying to clean it as soon as she could How does it work and was miserably failing in her efforts. Her chin policies of whom it allows to enter. It is not about walls was tucked deep into her chest and she looked at me or caps on immigration. It is only about how we react Brain signals- we can speak, move, run, etc. because with a tired upward gaze. I said “Good morning!” and act when we perceive that we may be targeted the brain and muscles of the body can communicate because of the color of our skin, our religion or with each other via the central nervous system. ethnicity. 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By Gayathri Krithivas ... from Page 1 [email protected] The complexity of South Asians assimilating is different from that of other communities like the Koreans, Japanese or the Filipinos who came here as a The founding fathers envisioned a country that was based product of war or of post colonialism. Indians on the other hand came as on the principle that all men are equal under the law of the professionals, and later on as middle class workers in the tech sector. They try their land. Yet, time and time again, we have seen crimes being best to assimilate as quickly as possible, be it changing their accent or their clothing perpetrated on people of color and we hear or experience choices. While they try and assimilate, they still hold dear the customs and instances where we have been made to feel less than another traditions of their motherland. Unlike most other races that immigrated to USA, because of who we are. And today, we are hearing the same Indians predominantly keep their native names and practice their traditions. But refrain coming from the highest level of office targeted when race baiting or hate mongering towards them takes place, as with the towards people of other races. Dotbusters in New Jersey and post September 11, the response from the community was one of fear and seclusion at first and later activism in the form of Merriam Webster defines race baiting as the making of verbal attacks against education and outreach. Many Indian women refused to wear their traditional members of a racial group. While the current baiting is not specifically targeted at clothes or wear their customary bindi thinking that by forgoing an integral part of those of Indian origin, who is to say it won't trigger a backlash from an insecure or their identity somehow will make them look more American. disgruntled bigot? And if it does, how are we going to react as minority group? Lets go back in time to see what we South Asians did when faced with hate crimes. Why do we feel compelled to forgo our identity? What if we stood up for who we are like a group of citizens in New Jersey who, frustrated with the inaction of the police In the mid to late eighties, Indians and Hindus in particular living in New Jersey began to fight back at the Dotbuster gang and drew attention to the hate crimes were the victims of hate crimes by the gang who called themselves “Dotbusters ”. It being perpetrated on their community? By asserting one's identity as one that paralyzed the Indian community as shops were vandalized, homes were looted and enriches the country rather than being ashamed of one's culture we can show the people were assaulted. Then, 9/11 happened and once again the refrain of“go back bullies and the race baiters that the country has its immigrants to thank for its to your country” gained momentum along with hate crimes. Soon after, a “humor ” prosperity. It also sends a message reminding the hate mongers that other than the piece appeared in Time magazine about Indians living in Edison, New Jersey. Take Native Americans, just about everyone else is an immigrant of some sort. a look at this excerpt on how in the name of humor, how a community was made to feel less American. Don't miss the racial epithet leveled against people of Indian It is our unique identity that makes us special. We talk about Irish Beer, Polish origin. Sausage and Cantonese chicken, watch Michael Flatley in admiration, enjoy Celtic music and French fashion. The orthodox Jews don't give up their identity; they are My Own Private India respected for their ability to uphold their faith. The Amish are admired for their By Joel Stein ability to maintain their lifestyle despite modern influences. Why is that the race How the Jersey town named for Thomas Edison became home to the baiters somehow associate South Asians, Latin Americans and African Americans all-American Guindian maintaining their cultural identity as un-American? And why are South Asians in “Eventually, there were enough Indians in Edison to change the culture. At which particular so ready to disavow their cultural identity? point my townsfolk started calling the new Edisonians "dot heads." One kid I knew Ultimately, it is not the color of our skin, the clothes we wear or our accent that in high school drove down an Indian-dense street yelling for its residents to "go makes us American or un-American. It is the dedication we give in improving our home to India." In retrospect, I question just how good our schools were if "dot communities while making a better life for our families that makes us as American heads" was the best racist insult we could come up with for a group of people whose as apple pie or shall I say Apple pie with a hint of cardamom and gulab.