Nusa Ceningan
Nusa Ceningan is small island that is part of Nusa Penida, Bali Province, Indonesia. Administratively, the island is part of the region of Klungkung regency, which is easily reached via the suspension bridge on foot or by bicycle or motorbike.
There is a surf break off Nusa Ceningan which attracts some surfers away from the more crowded breaks on Nusa Lembongan. Otherwise the island offers some scenic roads and paths.
The estuarine channel between Lembongan and Ceningan is home to many seaweed farms and pristine mangrove forrests.
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Ōnusa
An Ōnusa (大幣) or simply nusa (幣) is a wooden wand used in Shinto rituals. It is decorated with many shide (zig-zagging paper streamers). When the shide are attached to a hexagonal or octagonal staff, it can be also called haraegushi (祓串). It is waved left and right during purification rituals.
Ōnusa are not to be confused with hataki, which look somewhat similar.
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Newcastle University Students' Association
The Newcastle University Students' Association (NUSA) represents undergraduate students at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. The organisation is one of four student organisations at the university (the others being UoN Services Ltd, Campus Central (a student guild at the university's Ourimbah campus), NUPSA (represents postgraduate students at University of Newcastle) and NUSport) and focuses on advocacy, political representation and organising as well as providing welfare services and supporting a student based food co-operative.
NUSA publishes the student magazine "Opus" quarterly.
History
NUSA has long been held by the left factions of the National Union of Students of Australia usually by either the National Broad Left or the National Organisation of Labor Students or more often by the two, cooperatively. Both the NBL and NOLS dissolved in the period of late 2005 and early 2006. Despite the Howard Government's Voluntary Student Unionism legislation causing massive cuts to both staffing and service levels at NUSA, it continues to provide independent representation through independent and university funding. NUSA maintains a strong relationship with the other unions on campus such as the CPSU, NTEU and LHMEU by joining with them in many campaigns.
