Almost two hundred march for Mabo

On June 3, 1992, the High Court handed down its decision in the Mabo case; overturning 200 years of the common law assumption of terra nullius - the idea that Australia belonged to no-one when European settlers arrived.


Eddie Mabo, who had dedicated his life to winning the land rights to his and his ancestors' Torres Strait Island home of Mer, died seven months before the judgment was handed down.


The historic judgment was commemorated in Townsville, where 180 people marched through the streets and celebrated with traditional song and dance on the city's waterfront.


Indigenous academic Gracelyn Smallwood, who gave the welcome to country, said although it was a significant milestone, native title is causing dysfunction in indigenous communities.


She said land councils now work for mining companies and the government and not for the people.


"White lawyers have a lot of control and say on the current legislation, they are the ones getting all the money. Just opinionated native title applicants from each family are getting the money," she told AAP.


"By the time it reaches the grass roots level, in all those poverty-stricken communities, it's like showing a piece of raw steak amongst the pack of hungry wolves and everybody is fighting over the crumbs."


She also said because of the stolen generation, indigenous people are finding it difficult to prove ongoing connection to the land since 1788, as required for a determination.


Chairman of the National Native Title Council, Brian Wyatt, said the current process, where the onus is on the claimants, is far too onerous.


There are currently 450 unresolved claims.


"I think it is unjust that they have to prove who they are," he told AAP.


Mr Wyatt said, however, that after 20 years, Australians are more comfortable with Native Title declarations than they ever have been.


"But it has been quite a stormy ride," he said.


A total of 141 native title declarations have been made, representing 16 per cent of the Australian land mass.


Chairman of the National Native Title Council, Brian Wyatt, said the current process, where the onus is on the claimants, is far too onerous.


There are currently 450 unresolved claims.


"I think it is unjust that they have to prove who they are," he told AAP.


Mr Wyatt said, however, that after 20 years, Australians are more comfortable with Native Title declarations than they ever have been.


"But it has been quite a stormy ride," he said.


A total of 141 native title declarations have been made, representing 16 per cent of the Australian land mass.


Federal Indigenous Affairs minister Jenny Macklin said the Mabo decision was the turning point for reconciliation.

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Eddie Mabo

Eddie Koiki Mabo, c. 29 June 1936 – 21 January 1992 was a Torres Strait Islander who is known for his role in campaigning for Indigenous land rights and for his role in a landmark decision of the High Court of Australia that overturned the legal doctrine of terra nullius ('land belonging to nothing, no one') which characterised Australian law with regards to land and title.
Mabo was named Eddie Koiki Malboy but he changed his surname to Mabo when he was adopted by his maternal uncle, Benny Mabo. He was born on Mer (Murray Island) in the Torres Strait between Australia and Papua New Guinea.




Mabo worked on a number of jobs before becoming a gardener with James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland at the age of 31. The time he spent on the campus had a massive impact on his life. In 1974 this culminated in a discussion he had with Professor Noel Loos and Henry Reynolds, who recalled Mabo's reaction:
"...we were having lunch one day in Reynold's office when Koiki was just speaking about his land back on Mer, or Murray Island. Henry and I realised that in his mind he thought he owned that land, so we sort of glanced at each other, and then had the difficult responsibility of telling him that he didn't own that land, and that it was Crown land. Koiki was surprised, shocked and even...he said and I remember him saying 'No way, it's not theirs, it's ours'".


Land rights advocate


In 1981 a land rights conference was held at James Cook University, and Mabo made a speech to the audience where he spelt out the land inheritance system in Murray Island. The significance of this in terms of Australian common law doctrine was taken note of by one of the attendees, a lawyer, who suggested there should be a test case to claim land rights through the court system.
Of the eventual outcome of that decision a decade later, Henry Reynolds said, "... it was a ten year battle and it was a remarkable saga really."


Mabo's death and legacy


Mabo relaxed by working on his boat or painting watercolours of his island home, however after ten years the strain began to affect his health. On 21 January 1992, Mabo died of cancer at the age of 55.
Five months later, on 3 June 1992, the High Court announced its historic decision, namely overturning the legal doctrine of terra nullius - which is a term applied to the attitude of the British towards land ownership on the continent of Australia.
"...so Justice Moynihan's decision that Mabo wasn't the rightful heir was irrelevant because the decision that came out was that native title existed and it was up to the Aboriginal or Islander people to determine who owned what land." Henry Reynolds.
That decision is now commonly called "Mabo" in Australia and is recognised for its landmark status. Three years after Mabo died, that being the traditional mourning period for the people of Murray Island, a gathering was held in Townsville for a memorial service.
Overnight Mabo's gravesite was attacked by vandals who spray-painted swastikas and the derogatory word "Abo" (Aborigine) on his tombstone and removed a bronze bas-relief portrait of him. His family decided to have his body reburied on Murray Island. On the night of his re-interment, the Islanders performed their traditional ceremony for the burial of a king, a ritual not seen on the island for eighty years.
In 1992, Mabo was posthumously awarded the Australian Human Rights Medal in the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Awards, together with the Reverend Dave Passi, Sam Passi (deceased), James Rice (deceased), Celuia Mapo Salee (deceased) and Barbara Hocking. The award was in recognition "of their long and determined battle to gain justice for their people" and the "work over many years to gain legal recognition for indigenous people's rights".

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Police discover body in bush grave during David Houston investigation

West Australian detectives have exhumed a body from a clandestine grave site in the state's southwest which could be that of missing Perth man David Houston.


WA police on Sunday said a body had been exhumed from the site overnight but no formal identification had yet been made.


A post-mortem examination would be conducted as soon as possible, police said.


Mr Houston, 24, who's been missing for three weeks, is believed to have been bashed to death at the South Fremantle home of his friend Samuel Walker.


Police on Friday arrested 26-year-old Walker - the third person to be charged with Mr Houston's murder.


He appeared in East Perth Magistrates Court on Saturday but proceedings were interrupted by a security-related incident, prompting an evacuation.


Walker is scheduled to appear in court again on June 27, as are 23-year-old Jonathan Robert Lee and his 19-year-old girlfriend Amanda Jane Kelly, who were present in the house when Mr Houston visited and have also been charged as part of the investigation.


Walker is scheduled to appear in court again on June 27, as are 23-year-old Jonathan Robert Lee and his 19-year-old girlfriend Amanda Jane Kelly, who were present in the house when Mr Houston visited and have also been charged as part of the investigation.


It is not known whether Mr Houston knew the couple.


In relation to the court incident yesterday, a 26-year-old male had been charged with improper use of an emergency call service, false statements on the existence of threats and disorderly behaviour in public.

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Golshifteh Farahani

Golshifteh Farahani,: گُلشیفتِه فَراهانی‎, born July 10, 1983) is a Crystal-Simorgh winning Iranian actress and pianist.

Golshifteh Farahani was born on 10 July 1983 in Tehran, the daughter of actor/theater director Behzad Farahani and Fahime Rahiminia and sister of actress Shaghayegh Farahani. She started studying music and playing the piano at age of five. At 12, she entered a music school in Tehran. At 14, Golshifteh was cast as the lead in Dariush Mehrjui's The Pear Tree for which she won the Crystal Roc for Best Actress from the International Section of the 16th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran.
Career


Since then she has acted in 20 films, many of which have received international awards. For Boutique she won the Best Actress award from the 26th Nantes Three Continents Festival (France). In recent years she has acted in movies by some of Iran's best directors: Dariush Mehrjui's controversial film Santouri (The Santoor Player) and Bahman Ghobadi's Half Moon (winner of the Golden Shell at the 2006 San Sebastian Film Festival), the late Rasool Mollagholipoor's M for Mother (Iran's nominee for the 2008 Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language Film category) for which she won the special prize by the jury for the Best Actress from the 37th Roshd International Film Festival which was held in Tehran in 2007 and Asghar Farhadi's "About Elly" (Silver Bear for Best Director from Berlin Film festival and Best film from Tribeca Film festival). Golshifteh is highly involved in environmental activities and has also become the ambassador for fighting tuberculosis in Iran. Subsequent to her involvement in the U.S. film Body of Lies, she reportedly had been prevented by Iranian authorities from leaving Iran, but this was denied by her colleagues and she later appeared at the Body of Lies premiere in the U.S. As her last acting experience in Iran, she appeared in About Elly directed by Asghar Farhadi. The film has been selected at the Tribeca Film Festival and won a Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. She now lives in Paris, France with her husband Amin Mahdavi. In Iran, Golshifteh was part of an underground rock band named "Kooch Neshin" (Nomads) which won the 2nd Tehran Avenue underground rock competition. Since leaving Iran, Golshifteh has been able to continue her music career as well. She has teamed up with another exiled Iranian musician Mohsen Namjoo. Their new album  was released in October 2009. They have also started an international tour with 2 concerts in Italy. Since Golshifteh moved to Paris she has been working with directors Roland Joffe, Hiner Saleem and Marjan Satrapi. She has also been a member of the international jury at the 63rd Locarno Film Festival.
Her upcoming movie is Rumi's Kimia, a film in development which is directed by Dariush Mehrjui starring Golshifteh Farahani and based on a novel.


Exile from Iran

In January 2012, Golshifteh was banned from returning to her homeland after posing nude for a French magazine as a protest against strictures against women in Iranian society. Britain's Daily Telegraph reported that government officials told Farahani, 28, that "Iran does not need any actors or artists. You may offer your artistic services somewhere else." The picture on her Facebook page garnered over 14,000 likes and 1,500 shares, initiating a debate on the role of women in Iranian society. She also appeared topless in a short black-and-white film by Jean-Baptiste Mondino, called Corps et Âmes, or Bodies and Souls.In a past interview with Screen Comment she said, "I don’t consider myself a political activist. I try to say what I have to say through art.” 

Hostage Medair aid workers in Afghanistan freed

KABUL — It was a risky but successful operation: Before dawn Saturday, British and other NATO forces stormed a cave tucked in the mountains and rescued two foreign female aid workers and their two Afghan colleagues being held hostage by Taliban-linked militants.


Helicopters flying under the cover of darkness ferried the rescue team to extreme northeastern Afghanistan, where they suspected the hostages were being held. After confirming that the workers were there, they raided the site, killed several militants and freed the hostages, ending their nearly two-week ordeal.


The rescue occurred shortly after midnight in a remote, forested area reportedly inhabited by smugglers and bandits. The province borders Tajikistan, China and Pakistan. Abdul Maroof Rasekh, spokesman for the Badakhshan governor, said NATO and Afghan forces worked together on the 5½-hour operation, in which five of the captors were killed. There were no immediate reports of injuries among rescue team members.


The coalition led by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said in a statement that a rescue helicopter approached the area — reportedly after tips from Afghan sources — confirmed that the hostages were there, secured the area and carried out the rescue.


The mission reportedly involved U.S. and British special forces troops who had planned and rehearsed the operation, suggesting that they had some intelligence on the location.


Local police were quoted as saying that the captors were members of criminal gangs intent on taking advantage of the area's forbidding terrain and weak security to make money. Coalition officials labeled them part of an armed terrorist group with ties to the Taliban. The hostage takers were reportedly armed with heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47 assault weapons.


The British Foreign Office said in a statement that the rescue was authorized by Prime Minister David Cameron. "We pay tribute to the bravery of the coalition forces, which means that all four aid workers will soon be rejoining their families and loved ones," the Foreign Office said.


Briton Helen Johnston and Kenyan Moragwa Oirere were reportedly being cared for Saturday at the British Embassy in Kabul and the Afghan workers were in the process of returning to their families in Badakhshan.


"We are delighted and hugely relieved by the wonderful news that Helen and all her colleagues have been freed," Johnston's family said in a statement. "We are deeply grateful to everyone involved in her rescue, to those who worked tirelessly on her behalf, and to family and friends for their love, prayers and support over the last 12 days."


Medair said the team was abducted while visiting relief sites providing nutrition, hygiene and health assistance, and expressed relief that the rescue was successful.


"It's a joyful day," said Aurelien Demaurex, Medair's spokesman. "We're incredibly relieved."


Foreign aid workers in Afghanistan are under growing threat as the Taliban steps up attacks before a planned pullout of coalition combat troops by the end of 2014. Two years ago, 10 foreign medical workers, including six Americans returning from a mission to provide eye treatments in remote villages in Badakhshan were killed. Insurgents were blamed for the attack.

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George Zimmer

George Zimmer (born November 21, 1948) is an American entrepreneur, the founder and CEO of the Men's Wearhouse, a men's clothing retailer that has more than 1,300 stores across the U.S. and Canada under the brands Moores, Men's Wearhouse and K&G Superstores.




Born in New York City to a Jewish family. Zimmer attended grade schools in Scarsdale, New York, before studying at Washington University in St. Louis where he received an A.B. in Economics in 1970. Upon graduation, he worked as a substitute teacher before joining his father in the clothing manufacturing business. Later in the early 1970s, he worked as a purchasing agent and salesman in Hong Kong.
[edit]Men's Wearhouse


He opened his first Men's Wearhouse store in 1973 in Houston, Texas.[citation needed] Zimmer narrates and appears in many of his company's television commercials, usually closing with the company slogan "You're going to like the way you look. I guarantee it." He owns 8.7% of Men's Wearhouse, a stake which, as of November 2004, was worth $94 million. On September 14, 2011 George Zimmer received the Kupfer Award by Mays Business school .
Management, Activism and Personal Life


Zimmer's style of corporate management (for example, the company's June 2004 nomination of spiritual guru Deepak Chopra to its board) is peculiar in the view of some, while others perceive his style as cutting-edge.
Zimmer's experience caring for his mother, who died of cancer, led him to support research into the therapeutic use of MDMA, and for his efforts to legalize cannabis (for instance, by making donations equaling $70,500 to support California's Proposition 19 in 2010).

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Removable media

In computer storage, removable media refers to storage media which are designed to be removed from the computer without powering the computer off.

Some types of removable media are designed to be read by removable readers and drives. Examples include:
Optical discs (Blu-ray discs, DVDs, CDs)
Memory cards (CompactFlash card, Secure Digital card, Memory Stick)
Floppy disks / Zip disks
Magnetic tapes
Paper data storage (punched cards, punched tapes)
Some removable media readers and drives are integrated into computers, others are themselves removable.
Removable media may also refer to some removable storage devices, when they are used to transport or store data. Examples include:
USB flash drives
External hard disk drives

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Privacy, Please: This Is Only for the Two of Us

The secrecy was welcome. We weren’t cluttering up anyone else’s feeds on Twitter, and didn’t have to worry about random high school friends seeing and commenting on our exchanges on Facebook. In addition, there were gestures distinct to the app. It let us share information about our locations, and to exchange doodles, to-do lists and virtual nudges — all conveying that “I’m thinking about you.”


The app highlights the best elements of social networking — the warm, fuzzy feeling of being connected to people you care about when you’re physically nowhere near them. And it says it eliminates some of the worst — the worry about who can see the content you’re posting and how they may interpret it.


Apparently, venture capitalists also see the point: The company that developed Pair raised $4.2 million in seed funding from a group of early investors last month.


Pair is arriving as many of us are looking to use the Web and our phones much as we always have, but outside of the very public arenas of the social Web. It’s a natural evolution of social networking, especially as Facebook and Twitter have swelled.


The combination of privacy and intimate sharing has never looked so good — provided that it can be achieved. A handful of start-ups are appealing to users who may be tired of the social spotlight but still enjoy the whimsy of apps.


“We’ve spent the last decade struggling with this,” said Andrea Matwyshyn, an assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. “Companies are trying to figure out the relationship of privacy to users while also trying to provide personalization and customization of their services.”


Even the largest social networking sites sense a rising tide of awareness about the need to protect delicate and personal information that is shared about users online. Last month, Twitter announced that it was introducing a “do not track” feature that lets users keep Twitter from collecting personal information as they move around the Web. The feature isn’t perfect — it works only on third-party sites that agree to acknowledge it.


“People can’t always foresee or understand what could happen to their data,” Professor Matwyshyn said. “But they know they don’t want it ending up in the wrong hands.”


Companies that do figure out how to embed privacy into a social service could gain a business and marketing advantage — positioning themselves as safer spaces to share and exchange information.


“We should encourage Web and mobile services to lead with their privacy practices and let users vote with their feet,” wrote Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist in New York, in a recent blog post. Mr. Wilson is an investor in Duck Duck Go, a search engine that says it doesn’t keep track of a user’s search history.


Gabriel Weinberg, one of the creators of Duck Duck Go, says it has been able to carve out a niche audience despite the dominance of juggernauts like Google and Bing. Last month, the site performed 45 million searches, and Mr. Weinberg predicts that next month the figure will inch toward 50 million.

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