The hostility between Turkey and Israel has resurfaced over recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Meanwhile, in terms of economic relations, trade between the countries has been growing steadily.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan likes to use clear terms: Jerusalem, he said, was a "red line for Muslims." The Turkish president made that statement before Donald Trump announced that the United States would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Erdogan also seems to be willing to back those words with political action. This week, representatives from 57 countries will accept Erdogan's invitation to come to Istanbul for a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The official aim of the meeting: To craft a collective response to Trump's decision.
Kristian Brakel, who heads the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Turkey – a think tank affiliated with Germany's Green party – explained to DW that Erdogan would like to be recognized as the leader of a united Muslim coalition standing in opposition to Trump and Israel: "Erdogan has been pitching himself as the 'savior' of the persecuted and maligned in the Muslim world for some time. That is a pretty easy sell when it comes to Jerusalem, and works especially well in that instance because the subject has a special place in the hearts of many Muslims."
Brakel says that beyond the religious component, domestic policy issues have led Erdogan to use increasingly pointed rhetoric: "Turkey is essentially in a state of permanent election campaigning. The next elections will be held in 2019, and Israel is a great instrument with which to mobilize voters."
Turkish-Israeli relations are complex. Turkey was the first Muslim country to recognize Israeli statehood back in 1948. The years that followed brought a slew of economic agreements. Hatice Karahan, Erdogan's top economic advisor, told DW that economic relations between the countries represented a "win-win situation" for both: "Turkey exports automobiles, iron, steel, electrical devices and plastic to Israel. And in return, it imports Israeli fuel and oil."
To strengthen that relationship, both countries began planning the multi-billion-euro Mediterranean Pipeline Project, known as Med Stream, back in 2008. The longterm goal of the undersea infrastructure project: To create a sophisticated pipeline system to facilitate the exchange of electricity, natural gas, crude oil and water.
Still, while economic relations have continued to gain momentum, skirmishes at the political level have repeatedly caused irritation.
The first diplomatic scandal came at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In a panel discussion on the Gaza situation, Erdogan, seated next to his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres, accused Israel of being a "terrorist state" guilty of "murdering children." In 2010, the Israeli military halted the Mavi Marmara, an aid ship sailing in international waters under Turkish flag, on its way to the Gaza Strip. Nine activists were killed during the military intervention. The result: diplomatic relations were wound down to an absolute minimum, and ambassadors were recalled to their respective capitals.
In 2016, there was once again rapprochement on the diplomatic level. Notwithstanding all of the rhetorical tirades of the past, that fact comes as no surprise to Kristian Brakel: "Despite his sharp rhetoric, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is definitely a political realist. Resuming relations has a lot to do with sober decision making. Ankara's crisis with Russia was a source of great concern. More than 60 percent of the gas that Turkey needs to operate comes from Russia. When it became unclear whether Russia would continue to deliver it, Turkey started looking around the region for new partners. One of them was Israel. One of the key points of discussion between the two was taking advantage of gas fields in the Mediterranean."
Hatice Karahan makes no bones about her own pragmatic approach to relations. The economist is simply looking at the numbers, and she likes what she sees: "Turkish exports to Israel have continued to grow over the last several years. They were at about $2.5 billion (€2.1 billion) in 2016. In the first 10 months of this year Turkish exports to Israel have already gone up another 14 percent." Thus, Israel is one of the 10 most important export markets for Turkish products globally.
In spite of those positive economic developments, the diplomatic skirmishes persist. This weekend it was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who addressed Erdogan with strong words while speaking at a press conference. Netanyahu told reporters: "I am not used to receiving lectures about morality from a leader who bombs Kurdish villagers in his native Turkey, who jails journalists, who helps Iran get around international sanctions."
For Kristian Brakel such rhetoric is simply part of an ongoing political show: "When they each try to lecture one another on democracy, I sometimes get the feeling it is like watching a chicken trying to teach a penguin how to fly. Neither Netanyahu, nor Erdogan have made much of a name for themselves defending democracy or human rights. One sees that neither of them like each other very much. Nevertheless, economic and security policy necessity continue to bring them together."


Founded by Walter Churchill on Christmas Day 1937, Churchill Components, as the company was originally known, was based in Coventry and supplied machined parts such as exhaust values for radial aero-engines to Armstrong-Siddeley.
After being blitzed out of Coventry in 1941, the company re-located to Market Bosworth and following the loss of Walter Churchill during the air defence of Malta in 1942, the company was taken on by his young wife Joyce. Having worked closely with Sir Frank Whittle in the 1930s, the transition to gas turbine work was a natural step and compressor blades became a core product from the mid-40s.
Today, the business is located on the same 32,000 sq. metre site and is firmly rooted in the local community, supporting the annual Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, The Bosworth Arts Festival, Bosworth In Bloom, the Christmas Fair and many other local school, sports and community projects (see Our Community).


Mujahid, Suhaib ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2738-1387 (2018) Determining and Detecting Permission Issues of Wearable Apps. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
Wearable apps are becoming increasingly popular. Nevertheless, to date, very few studies have examined the issues that wearable apps face. Prior studies showed that user reviews contain a plethora of insights that can be used to understand quality issues and help developers build better quality mobile apps.
Therefore, in this thesis, we start by empirically studying user reviews to understand the user complaints about wearable apps. We manually sample and categorize 2,667 reviews from 19 Android wearable apps. Additionally, we examine the replies posted by developers in response to user complaints. This study allows us to determine the type of complaints that developers care about the most and to identify problems that, despite being important to users, do not receive a proper response from developers.
We find that the most frequent complaints are related to Functional Errors, Cost, and Lack of Functionality, whereas the most negatively impacting complaints are related to Installation Problems, Device Compatibility, and Privacy & Ethical Issues. We find that developers mostly reply to complaints related to Privacy & Ethical Issues, Performance Issues, and notification-related issues. Furthermore, we observe that when developers reply, they tend to provide a solution, request more details, or let the user know that they are working on a solution. Our results highlight the issues that users face the most, and the issues to which developers should pay additional attention to due to their negative impact.
Based on these results from the first empirical study, we investigate the most negatively impactful complaints. We observe that mainly two permission problems are a common factor to raise issues that cause these complaints -namely the permission mismatch problem and the problem of superfluous features.
As a result, we propose a technique to detect permission problems in wearable app. To operationalize our technique we developed a tool, called Permlyzer, that automatically detects these two problems from Android APKs. We then perform an empirical study on of 2,724 free wearable apps. Our findings show that the permission mismatches exist in 6.1% of released apps on the app store. Moreover, we find that 19.2% of studded wearable apps contain superfluous features.


text:
chevron-up sitemap chevron-up2 youtube share-alt chevron-down share mail download home alarm search menu link cross play arrow-right google-plus facebook twitter youtube2 wordpress soundcloud podcast video microsite report collection toolkit whatsapp thinkpiece storify
Clear results
Build Real
for Climate Justice
The Art of Advocacy Strategy
Making our activism smart in a new political era
Activist Strategy
Movement Building
Jim ShultzFeb 6, 2017 in Stanford Social Innovation Review
Approx. 7 minutes
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.—Sun Tzu, The Art of War
The election of Donald Trump as President has provoked many reactions in the United States and abroad. One that should give us hope is the explosion of new citizen activism, demonstrated most visibly by the millions who marched in the streets worldwide the day after the inauguration, and the thousands who moved into United States airports a week later in opposition to an executive order banning many Muslim immigrants and refugees. The fierce energy activists invested in campaigning for candidates last year is now funneling into advocacy for issues, such as defending the Affordable Health Care Act, blocking a political assault on the nation's immigrants, and keeping up the urgent battle against climate change.
But what if much of this new energy gets wasted? What if it goes into actions that feel good and seem noble, but make no real difference? Citizen action is one of democracy's most precious resources and never something we can afford to waste—especially now.
For the past 25 years, The Democracy Center has worked with and supported thousands of brave and passionate activists across five continents, including immigrants in California, health campaigners in South Africa, and UNICEF advocates for children around the world. I have witnessed over and over again that what makes people power genuinely effective is when passion and commitment join with something else: smart strategy.
Strategy is our vision of the whole struggle that links together all our actions and tactics. An effective strategy starts where we are, has a clear sense of where we want to go, and gives us a plausible shot of getting there. Strategy is what helps us ensure that all our action does not simply become "the noise before defeat." Yet many activist campaigns fail to take the time to genuinely think in a strategic way. It is simply easier to think about the next action—a protest, a report, a lobbying visit—without seeing it all through a strategic lens.
When I sit down for the first time with a group of activists, one of the first things I tell them is that I don't have a clue what their strategy should be (and that they should beware of any outsider who pretends to). What I do know are three essential strategy questions every group should ask themselves together in a serious way:
1. What do you want?
Deciding what you want sounds simple enough, but in fact it requires some serious analysis. That begins with getting clear about the deeper problem you are trying to fix and what you think that will really take—legal status for undocumented immigrants, leaving fossil fuels in the ground, making college free. But it is also true that these grand solutions are almost never initially within political reach, and organizations need to make strategic choices about what to fight for in the shorter-term.
In the 1980s, I worked as a health care advocate with Consumers Union in California and was deeply involved at the start of what would become the national movement for universal health care. It was clear that big goal was out of reach at the start, so instead the early movement built momentum through a series of winning campaigns for smaller steps toward that goal, including legislation to stop emergency rooms from "dumping" patients who couldn't pay, expanding care for pregnant mothers, and regulations to stop insurance companies from excluding people with pre-existing conditions.
These smaller steps did three important and very strategic things. They helped build momentum (by assembling a powerful coalition of consumers, health workers, labor unions, and others). They weakened the power of our adversaries (the insurance companies in particular). And they achieved real things for real people. All that, joined with similar efforts around the country, laid the groundwork for the approval of Obamacare two decades later.
Unfortunately, today at the national level in the United States, the strategies that matter are going to be more about defending what has been won than about building something new. But I believe the approach to that defense has a lot in common with what it takes to build things. What are the battles today that will help us build power? What will undermine the power of our adversaries? What will make a serious difference in real people's lives? These will continue to be important strategic questions as we move forward.
2. What does the political map look like?
You wouldn't make a move on a chessboard without studying where the pieces are, and you shouldn't set off on an advocacy campaign without looking hard at the political map involved. In The Democracy Center's advocacy workshops, we do that mapping in three steps.
First, we list out of all the important "actors" who will have an impact on what happens. Some are those who have the official authority to act (such as the Mayor or a legislator) and others are the people and groups that could have significant influence on them (such as community organizations, corporations, labor unions, or the media). Then we map all of them on a cross-grid: vertically based on how much power they have (a lot or a little), and horizontally based on where they stand on the issue (supportive, opposed, or somewhere in the middle). Finally, we study that map together to see its implications for strategy: Who has power that you need to get on your side? Who's on your side that needs to become a lot more powerful? Who stands firmly opposed that you need to weaken?
If you look at the successful campaign in his first term to persuade President Obama to block US approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, you can see that mapping in the campaign's strategy. Pipeline opponents saw President Obama as their main target, because he had the power to act without support from Congress. The people who needed to be more powerful were indigenous groups and farmers in the pipeline's path, and grassroots climate activists. The adversary that needed to be weakened was the corporation pushing for the pipeline's construction. Those objectives were reflected in the campaign's actions: putting the President on notice that an important part of his political base was demanding action, mobilizing grassroots action that empowered the groups in opposition, and undermining the corporation by calling out its false facts on issues like job creation.
But again, today the strategic challenge is how to deploy citizen power to defend victories (including on Keystone XL). That still begins with mapping out the politics: Who has the authority to block action at different levels of government? What's the process? Who will have influence? Seeing all that clearly is what will make the actions that follow as effective as possible.
3. What will you do?
Figuring out your advocacy actions is about taking stock of what you think will have a real impact, assessing your capacity to pull things off, and always keeping an eye out for special opportunities. A strong campaign will do all kinds of different things at once.
A decade ago, The Democracy Center team joined with others around the world in a global citizen action campaign that forced the powerful Bechtel Corporation to drop a $50 million lawsuit against the people of Bolivia. Bechtel filed the case in retaliation when the people of the city of Cochabamba (where I live) ousted the company after its failed water privatization scheme led to massive rate increases (the Cochabamba Water Revolt). The campaign hit Bechtel from all sides. Our lawyer friends filed legal petitions. Activists in San Francisco used direct action to shut down the corporation's headquarters. We won a resolution from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors calling on the company to drop the case just as Bechtel was readying to bid on a huge new city contract. We also pummeled the corporation's CEO, Riley Bechtel, with angry emails and negative publicity worldwide. In the end, it was the CEO who dropped the case, no longer willing to pay the price to his or the company's reputation.
In the face of the enormous political challenges we face today, activists for social and economic justice, and for protection of the Earth, need to see tactics like these as diverse pieces of a common strategic whole. Our potential leverage and power comes from not one place but a diversity of them. From the civil and calm to the radical and loud, it will all be necessary, and it will all need to be strategically interconnected.
Democracy without activism is a hollow thing, and now more than ever our activism must be as effective and as strategic as it can be. In the end, effective advocacy strategy is an art, not a science. There is no magic formula that works automatically in every circumstance. In place of such a formula, these questions are a good basis for moving from acting tactically to acting strategically. Abraham Lincoln once said, "Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." Even as we ready for a new season of urgent activism in response to political threats that feel historic, we should not forget to take time to sharpen the axe of our strategies.
The Art of Advocacy
Three Essential Questions for Planning Strategy
From STAND.earth Five Key Lessons from the Immigrant and Refugee Rights Fight
Toolkit Climate Campaign Profiles
Report Beating Goliath
International Climate Policy
contact [at] democracyctr [dot] org
How will we use your data?
We will only use your email address to send you newsletters. You may unsubscribe anytime, at which point we will delete your data.
To ensure functionality, we also store the IP address of the device you used to sign up.
We store your data securely and will never share it with others.
Further details: privacy policy.
See how we're funded
The Democracy Center is a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives.
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 License

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Miami Personal Injury Attorney > Blog > Personal Injury > School Hit With Chicken Nugget Lawsuit
School Hit With Chicken Nugget Lawsuit
For some reason, chicken nuggets have been in the news recently for all the wrong reasons. One man filed a lawsuit against McDonald's after he said he bit into a McNugget and found a bone. The resulting damage to his teeth was extensive. Obviously, McNuggets are not supposed to have bones. In fact, all chicken nuggets should be bone-free regardless of whether or not they come from McDonald's. Even more recently, a 19-year-old student with autism died after he choked on a chicken nugget in school.
The $2 million settlement will compensate the family for the wrongful death of their son. It will also ensure that school district employees receive adequate training for dealing with special needs students.
The boy who died had a severe form of autism that rendered him mostly non-verbal. His condition also rendered him more likely to choke on food than others. In August of 2019, the boy was rushed to the hospital after he began choking on a chicken nugget. The boy was supposed to have an aide assigned to him specifically, but video footage of the incident showed that the aide was attending to someone else while the boy was choking.
What About Sovereign Immunity?
A savvy reader might notice that the damages, in this case, are higher than the damage caps on claims against the government allow. However, this incident involved a disabled student who was not afforded the accommodations required for him to safely be outside of his home. Because it was a violation of disability statutes, the lawsuit was allowed to be filed in federal court where a higher settlement award was ordered. Since the lawsuit claimed that the school district had violated federal protections for children with disabilities, the lawsuit was able to proceed outside the scope of sovereign immunity.
In a situation like this that does not involve a disabled student, the parents could file the claim with the legislature to receive more than the standard caps on claims against the government allow. However, the legislature must agree to the petition. It is unusual to hear of claims against the government being filed with the legislature. Even the parents of the Parkland students who lost their lives are fighting to get a higher settlement than the $350,000 that they would all be forced to split.
Protections for Students With Disabilities
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act brings in provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act and places special requirements on school districts that deal with children that have disabilities. In cases where the school district fails to meet these standards, they can be held accountable under the law.
If your child has been injured at school, call the Miami personal injury attorneys at the office of Alan Goldfarb, P.A. today to schedule a free consultation and learn more about how we can help.
2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/504faq.html
miami.cbslocal.com/2021/03/25/teen-chokes-on-chicken-nugget-gets-2-million/
https://www.goldfarbpa.com/family-of-student-sues-christian-academy-after-pe-mishap/
« A Look at Historic Settlement in George Floyd Case
Nikki Minaj's Mother Files Lawsuit After Hit and Run »


Daniel Sedin and Henrik Sedin of the Vancouver Canucks won the King Clancy Trophy awarded to the player or players who best exemplify leadership qualities on and off the ice and have made a noteworthy humanitarian contribution in their community at the 2018 NHL Awards presented by Hulu at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas on Wednesday.
"I think the NHL and all the teams do such a great job, things that are forgotten during the season," Daniel Sedin said. "For us, coming into Vancouver, from Day One, the big thing has been to be involved in the community. Go out to schools and hospitals and get involved. That's something we take a lot of pride in in Vancouver."
The Sedins and their spouses made a $1.5 million donation to the BC Children's Hospital Foundation in 2010 to help build a children's hospital and expand existing medical services. They have helped the Canucks for Kids Fund raise $42 million since 2000-01, advocated for the literacy promotion programs of the Canucks Family Education Centre, and supported the SPCA.
The 37-year-old twins enabled thousands of children to attend Canucks games and touched the lives of thousands more by visiting elementary schools, meeting with patients and families at BC Children's Hospital and Canuck Place Children's Hospice, and through their work with the Sedin Family Foundation.
It's the second time Henrik Sedin has won the award (2016) and the third time it was awarded to a Canucks player (Trevor Linden, 1997).
"There are stories from visits we do with the team or without the team, personal stories, with a lot of sadness involved," Henrik Sedin said. "Those are tough ones to be a part of. It shows how important the work is that the NHL does around the league."
The Sedins retired from the NHL after 17 seasons with Vancouver.
"[Winning this award] is nothing we thought about when we made the decision to retire, but to be nominated and to win it now is pretty special," Henrik Sedin said. "We know it's the last time we're going to be here, so it's been fun to be around these couple days to see everyone for the last time."
Nashville Predators defenseman P.K Subban, 29, and Minnesota Wild forward Jason Zucker, 26, were the other finalists.
"There are only four nominees, but there are so many players who do so many good things throughout the NHL," Daniel Sedin said. "Not only the teams having to tell them to do stuff, most do things because they want to help out. We have a lot of players in Vancouver who do so many things quietly."


COPPELL, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 2, 2017-- Mannatech, Incorporated (NASDAQ: MTEX), a global health and wellness company committed to transforming lives to make a better world, announced that its Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.125 per share of common stock, payable on Wednesday, June 28, 2017, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Wednesday, June 21, 2017. The dividend reflects a commitment to rewarding shareholders and encouraging long-term investment in Mannatech's common stock.


What began with the famed Warwick New York hotel in 1926 has grown to encompass an entire collection of hotels and resorts – all worthy of the same iconic status. Each locale across the globe offers a harmonious hotel experience echoing the culture, history and charm of the destination at its doorstep. From Europe to the United States to the Middle East to Asia, Africa and beyond, Warwick Hotels and Resorts strives to place guests precisely where needed to live life to its fullest. The result is a hotel stay capable of being measured only in personal adventures and authentic experiences – just as it should be.


text:
Cocteau's Family Melodrama Returns to Theaters
After his baroque fairy tale Beauty and the Beast (1946) but before his dreamlike retelling of a Greek myth with Orpheus (1950), Jean Cocteau made two adaptations of his own plays in 1948, The Eagle with Two Heads and Les Parents terribles. The latter, newly restored and playing at the Quad Cinema in New York through Thursday, is a family melodrama starring Beauty's two leads, Jean Marais, Cocteau's lover and muse, and Josette Day, as Michel and Madeleine. They've fallen in love, and the reaction from both of Michel's parents is sheer panic—but for different reasons. His mother is terrified Madeleine will steal away Michel's love, and his father fears losing his mistress—Madeleine.
Hilarity and tragedy ensue, and as Michael Sragow writes for Film Comment, within a "fleet 105 minutes, Cocteau achieves the soul-rattling black comedy and drama of a Eugene O'Neill epic. . . . We watch the film as if by Cocteau's side, able to discern the characters' fleeting impulses and craftiest machinations. We grow as close to them as to eccentric cousins."
Like Sragow, Glenn Kenny, writing for the New York Times, admires Cocteau's visual style, noting that the renowned critic and theorist André Bazin once proclaimed that, with this film, "the notion of the 'shot' is finally disposed of." Cocteau had achieved what Bazin called "pure cinema." While Kenny says he wouldn't go quite that far, he concurs, "the unobtrusive formal virtuosity on display here—particularly the fluidity of the shooting and cutting (the cinematographer was Michel Kelber, the editor Jacqueline Sadoul)—demonstrates Cocteau's unique command of the medium. The fact that he directed fewer than a dozen films makes this one a very special treasure now."
More from John DeFore (Hollywood Reporter), Eric Monder (Film Journal International), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader), and Alan Scherstuhl (Village Voice).


The best unit at the Cliff Towers is for sale! On the back of the building, close to the pool - this two bedroom/ two bath unit is the one you've been waiting for! You'll be able to move in just in time for summer to take advantage of the beautiful outdoor pool and the spectacular valley views that are just steps away from this first floor unit. Newer carpet, updated kitchen lighting and cabinets, newer sliding door and windows, newer blower- these are just some of the updates that only serve to improve this wonderful opportunity. Clean as a whistle and absolutely move in ready. Be first or be sorry!


text:
You are here: Home › failure to produce › data recovery › CE Design Ltd. v. Cy's Crabhouse North, Inc.
CE Design Ltd. v. Cy's Crabhouse North, Inc.
Court Orders Supplelemtal Expert Report on New Hard Drive Evidence
2010 U. S. Dist. LEXIS 59000 (N.D. Ill. June 11, 2010)
In a case involving an alleged violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) due to the use of an automated fax advertisement service, the Northern District of Illinois ordered the defendant's computer expert to issue a supplemental report after the plaintiff disclosed a previously unproduced hard drive.
Plaintiff CE Design sued under the TCPA after receiving an unsolicited fax advertisement for Cy's Crabhouse via a third-party company, Business to Business Solutions (B2B). During discovery, Cy's Crabhouse requested all documents in CE Design's possession relating to other TCPA suits involving B2B. At issue was a list of fax numbers utilized by B2B to send advertisements.
B2B's sole employee, Caroline Abraham, first asserted that she could not provide the requested fax numbers because they had been maintained by B2B's parent company and she had lost any relevant data in a hard drive crash two years before. Counsel for Cy's Crabhouse later learned, however, that Abraham had produced the requested information to CE Design's counsel pursuant to a show cause order in a separate case involving B2B. Abraham had provided CE Design with backup tape data burned to a DVD, as well as the crashed hard drive. Cy's Crabhouse later received a copy of the DVD but had not been granted access to the hard drive.
Cy's Crabhouse moved to dismiss as sanction for CE Design's discovery violations, including the failure to produce the requested hard drive. Shortly after the motion was filed against it, CE Design produced the missing hard drive.
The court found the failure to disclose the hard drive to be "somewhat more substantial" than the other alleged discovery violations. The court did not, however, find any prejudice to Cy's Crabhouse because the hard drive had eventually been produced. Finding dismissal to be too severe a sanction, the court ordered Cy's Crabhouse to submit a supplemental report from its computer expert based upon a forensic analysis of the hard drive. The court noted that it would assess the costs of the computer expert's new report against CE Design if the hard drive data required material changes to the expert's opinion in the case.
Tags: failure to produce, data recovery
← Genworth Fin. Wealth Mgmt., Inc. v. McMullan
Comrie v. Ipsco, Inc. →


The Textured Weave Shirt Dress has just landed on the Zara website and it's the kind of versatile piece that's sure to feature on social media over the coming months.
There's good weather on the way with Ireland expected to reach 18 degrees later this week and if that's not a reason to get excited for summer style, we don't know what is.
Button detail is big this season and this dress is the perfect way to nail this extremely wearable trend.
We also love the fact that it's a wrap dress as they're so comfortable and easy to style.
It's priced at €39.95 which isn't the bad considering the number of times you'll get to wear it and of course, it's a piece that will stay stylish for many summers to come.
The fact that this dress is belted is another plus as you can adjust it depending on how loose or tight you want to wear it.
The shirt collar adds something a little different too and overall, we think this is an absolute must-have for your summer 2018 holiday.


Definitely the cutest design shop in Iceland and possibly the smallest one in the world, 3,5 m2 , SJOPPAN Design Shop is located at Akureyri´s Art Street. Ring the bell and the owner and designer Almar will appear in the small window, on call for design thirsty shoppers 24–7. Have a look at his colorful Jon Sigurðsson plaques. They´re all the rage.


text:
Review: Mariska Hargitay advocates for sexual assault victims in documentary 'I Am Evidence'
A scene from the documentary " I Am Evidence."
(HBO)
By Katie Walsh
When Mariska Hargitay took on the role of Det. Olivia Benson on the NBC series "Law & Order: SVU," she didn't expect the letters from sexual assault survivors that started pouring in. It became Hargitay's mission, through her Joyful Heart Foundation, to advocate for survivors, including tackling the problem of untested rape kits.
That work is manifested in the documentary "I Am Evidence" — produced by Hargitay, who also serves as an on-screen guide, and directed by Trish Adlesic, a documentarian and former "SVU" producer, and Geeta Gandbhir.
"I Am Evidence" is a searing, lucid film that never shies from tough details, especially when survivors share their attacks in a powerful bearing of witness. The film is also a legal thriller focusing on three American cities — Detroit, Cleveland and Los Angeles — grappling with tens of thousands of untested rape kits. Los Angeles is far behind the other cities in even addressing the issue.
Though "I Am Evidence" processes a tremendous amount of data and information, it's a deeply personal and intimate film. However distressing it may be, it leaves room for hope, showing how rape kits bring justice and presenting instances where law enforcement training has evolved to better serve victims.
Ultimately, it positions the system as the villain, with journalists and filmmakers as necessary allies to expose problems in order to effect change. It couldn't be more timely.
'I Am Evidence'
Playing: Laemmle Playhouse 7, Pasadena
See the most-read stories in Entertainment this hour »
calendar@latimes.com
Katie Walsh


The laughter, me wanting to please?
Even our holding hands and all.
And yet I knew I loved you too?
And pretend we're young again too.
You're mine, I'll love you all my days.
Couple tube courtesy of Crystal Moon .
Music: "The Way We Were (Barbra Steisand)"


Yes I finally own the Naked Palette and like most others who where at the back of the queue after a few days of having this we find our self saying "Why did it take me so long to purchase?!"
Since there are a million swatches online of the colours in this palette thought it would be nicer to show a look with it instead, show it more in action on my eyes as opposed to on my arm.
So first as expected these shadows are buttery, soft and extremely pigmented! Even more than I expected, I had heard all the good reviews but when I seen it for myself I was amazed! My palette included a mini primer potion and also a brush.
I love this so much! So many looks to be made from it.
I know, excited to experiment more!
I still haven't got the Naked palette, silly me! Your eye make up is perf, lovely look!
you need to buy it, you will not regret it!
I know, gutted I took so long to purchase it, worth the hype indeed! Price per shadow is amazing!
all these colours are so nice! I only have the naked basics palette but I want the full size one now I have read this!


Social media marketing management services in Nigeria are professional social media services from AdHang to help entities create and manage social media pages, campaigns and publicity. AdHang will employ its advanced social media marketing management tools and sophisticated technologies to manage entity's social media account: whether businesses, institutions, public figures or events, AdHang has the solutions to achieve numerous social media objectives and goals.
Helping businesses and agencies get active social media account and manage around Africa, social media marketing management services by AdHang is dream come through for Nigeria's companies both private and public enterprise, government agencies, and events' organizers. Everything that is needed to keep your brand going and your name in the public will be done by AdHang's team. Most importantly, AdHang follows international social media marketing management services best practice and standards from beginning, creating campaigns to position and running the sponsored ads.
Good news is that AdHang social media management cost is affordable, as of the time of writing this, the basic cost start from N10, 000 daily to a million naira, depends on the things that your organization or business wants to achieve, duration, industry and target audience location. There are numerous objectives hiring AdHang's social media marketing management service can help your organization accomplish. Objectives such as awareness to let the target audience be aware of something, products or services; enlightening the target audience to foster understanding and effectively engage them; establish the facts or brand; get target audience take action or in case of business increase sales; carry out reminder campaign, in case of business encourage repeat purchase; reinforce benefits, experience or messages, among others.
In assisting your organization to maximize its social media presence there are many professional services AdHang can do in Nigeria for the organization. Depends on the objectives, AdHang can help your organization in creating adverts and managing them; video production, publishing and managing the promotion; fan page creation and designing; exemplify image selection and positioning; info-graph designing and publishing; headline writing and internet banner designs, sales posts creation and promotion, case studies writing and circulation, multiple social media websites account sign ups and their fan page designing; social media categories selections as there are thousands of sites out there; data gathering, analysis and reporting, among other services.
AdHang's social media marketing management services in Nigeria is a game changing opportunity in Nigerian social media marketing, hiring AdHang is going to be a biggest stick against rivals, as AdHang will help your organization to accelerate brands recognition across Nigeria and win audience's attention away from competitors in Nigeria and entire English speaking African countries. For full management details and cost click here.


Whatever way you look at it, £56 is a lot to pay for 60ml of cleanser. One of the things that writing for How To Spend It (HERE) has reminded me is that everyone has different budgets and different skin goals, so £56 won't be out of line for many people. Kat Burki, apart from being a bit of cult among celebs, is taking clean beauty to luxury level and there is absolutely a market for that.
My first impressions of the balm is how loose it is – it's not a solid balm but more a bit of a porridgy looking consistency. It's comprised of camu camu berry, coconut, sunflower, jojoba, rosehip seed, olive, avocado and cranberry seed oils as well as 15% vitamin C. So, we can't doubt its credentials in being skin compatible and friendly. I'm less convinced of the benefits of something like Vitamin C in a wash off product and would need a lot of persuading that it's doing anything if you immediately rinse your face. You could leave it on for longer I suppose. Clean beauty is more about what you leave out than what you put in, but Kat has straddled both levels of excellence by omitting parabens, synthetic fragrances and common beauty chemicals – as well as silicone, alcohol and water. The result is a highly concentrated, cold pressed blend of the list above.
Of course it gives a beautiful cleanse – go twice if you feel like it. The looseness makes it feel more like a cleansing oil as you work it in rather than traditional balm and given how many oils are in it, it doesn't feel particularly oily. So, while my skin felt perfectly clean, it also felt soft and flexible with no tightness or dryness.
If it's in your budget, it's a gorgeous, goodness packed cleanser, HERE.


text:
Opinion/Analysis
Chinese military jets flying over the border November 20, 2021
KIA's 8th Brigade troops ambush SAC troops November 20, 2021
SAC's 142nd LIB troops fire mortars November 20, 2021
KIA/PDF forces clash with SAC's 77th LIB troops November 18, 2021
KIA's 4th Battalion troops clash with SAC troops November 18, 2021
AFTERMATH OF SECOND 21st CENTURY PANGLONG: Opinion on Union Accord and linking non-session clause to ethnic rights of self-determination
Opinion/Analysis June 4, 2017June 6, 2017 Sai Wansai
Hardly has the ink dried in signing the "Union Accord", better known as "Pyidaungsu Accord" in Burmese, optimistic and as well pessimistic views started to surface in the media. And closely related to it is the linking of "non-secession" clause demanded by the government-military-parliament from the ethnic nationalities – 8 signatory Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) and ethnic political parties – and the "rights of self-determination" for the non-Bamar ethnic groups, in the form of self-drawn and adopted constitution for each individual ethnic states.
Let us first look at what the Union Accord has to offer and a bit closer.
Pyidaungsu Accord
37 agreements approved by the Union Peace Conference—21st Century Panglong (UPC-21CP) 2nd session were signed by group leaders and witnesses as a part of the Pyidaungsu Accord.
Part 1 of the Pyidaungsu Accord signed in this conference includes 12 agreements on political sector, 11 on economic sector, 4 on social sector and 10 on land and natural environment sector, altogether 37 agreements.
Going through the Pyidaungsu Accord and its four appendices, one would find almost not much to complain, as most are general terms that every stakeholders might have aimed for and could live with it. According to a keen observer: "To my understanding, the EAOs agreed to sign after the resolution that the khwe Ye twe Ye (secession and fusion) question would be reconsidered at the next UPC-21CP. All that left were almost universally accepted maxims, according to the observer, comparable to 'The sun rises in the east and sets in the west'".
Another urging came from the government's side, who is friendly to the EAOs' side, also urged the EAOs to sign it saying: "Please try to do something for her. She hasn't made first sale of the day yet".
She would have lost face, if she couldn't show anything for all her efforts. But the Framework for Political Dialogue (FPD) and Terms of Reference (TOR) also specifies that there would be a signing of the points agreed at each session.
Still there was a real angst that the signing of Pyidaungsu Accord would not materialized, as Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) and Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) maintained that they would not sign the accord, as they were not allowed to conduct national discussion among their own people of Shan and Arakan respectively, as they were blocked by the government-military decision-makers. And thus the argument was: without inputs and consent from their own people they were not in a position to agree to anything.
The debacle was resolved by agreeing that only the group representative of EAOs, Kwe Htoo Win, would sign and not all 8 EAOs' representatives. Likewise, U Thu Wai, representative for political parties, inked the first part of the Union Accord. But still the produced document lacks a solid consensus in a legal sense, so to speak.
Different interpretation on authenticity of Union Accord and secession issue
Apart from the authentic, or rather the full acceptance of the representative groups involving in the first Union Accord signing is now a controversial issue, as Shan Nationalities League for Democracy's (SNLD) spokesperson Sai Leik came up recently, in VOA report of June 1, with a doubtful remark saying: "Within political parties cluster no agreement was reached. The time was spent quarreling with each other. It is questionable whether just one or two were asked to sign without common agreement among the political parties. If we are going to continue in this pattern, the future Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) path would become less valuable, less trustworthy and see that the peace process could be jeopardized."
State Counselor Office's spokesperson Zaw Htay doesn't seem to have the same opinion, as he wrote in his article titled, "Right of self-determination, commitment and bravery", in DVB of May 31 that during the UPC-21CP, Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) members debated over federalism on non-secession and rights of self-determination issues, the cluster of government (government, parliament and Tatmadaw) and political parties cluster were all in ageement except only a few backing the 8 EAOs' position.
According to him the EAOs only wanted to accept the non-secession clause with a conditional clause, which says "so long as equality, rights of self-determination are practiced there will be no secession".
While there could be disagreement on what Zaw Htay said, particularly where the political parties cluster within the UPDJC, on the full acceptance of the first Union Accord, the non-secession demand of the government is loud and clear.
Zaw Htay closed and summed up his opinion piece stating three points. Firstly, for another convention there is still time of six months left and lots of discussions, negotiations need to be done. Secondly, (EAOs) guarantee non-secession and take (enjoy) rights of self-determination, the commitment (by the government) that would be still there. Thirdly, no need to be downhearted for the first political convention. The following convention would be able to achieve more solid basic principles.
Earlier in an interview with the news media he also said that in order to give the military a sort of guarantee the EAOs and the ethnic political parties should promised that they will not secede.
He pointed out that the military coup in 1962 is due to the belief of the military that federalism could bring dismemberment of the country. But failed to admit that this military undertaking in the form of military coup has been a failure that paved the way for a full blown ethnic rebellion, followed by more human rights violations and accompanying hatred that are still present and become the order of the day in many ethnic states.
On the government non-secession demand the SNLD made a press conference on June 1, at its headquarter, where Party spokesman Sai Nyunt Lwin said: "We never demand secession from the union. We are already there to cooperate," adding, "this is to clearly dispel accusation and rumors that we are not demanding secession."
All this come about as SNLD rejected the non-secession clause demanded by the government to be included in the Union Accord.
Sai Nyunt Lwin made his point by arguing that no such words that could hold back participation of the EAOs that are still negotiating and about to negotiate be used during this period, as this would discourage them from joining the peace conference.
"If we want to secede from the union, we only need to do one thing. We would disregard the treaty signed in 1947. Until we haven't done that, it is normal as it used to be," he stressed as a matter of fact.
Another SNLD party elder, Sai Leik filled in by saying, "To simplify more than this, if we don't want peace and like to secede from the union, we won't form political party and no reason to attend the convention."
But the most hard-hitting response came from Sai Kyaw Nyunt, SNLD's UPDJC representative. He said: "We didn't even make use of our right (to establish our own independent state) and get into this (Union of Burma). Given such condition, do you people still want to prohibit us with non-secession clause?"
He stressed: "This is concerned with the dignity of establishment of the union. This has to do with our Shan dignity. By saying this, it is not meant to secede but the need to respect each others."
The rejection of the EAOs conditional clause by the government could be countered by asking: "If the non-secession promise is not given by the ethnic nationalities, would there be no more federal union?"
Isn't the government demand also a conditional clause?
It would be far more better to accept the fact that the 1948 Union of Burma is formed through voluntary participation of ethnic nationalities' states, together with Burma Proper or Ministerial Burma. In other words, the components that formed the union in 1948 joined to establish a new country as independent, self-administered, separate political entities and no one has the right to dictate or take away their rights of self-determination, including the rights of secession.
After all, it is far more important and wiser move to build trust and mold better understanding, in the ongoing process of peace negotiation, rather than comes up with the blunt demand of eternal fusion and unity first, that has irked and bred more distrust of the government, which the ethnic people considered to be just a Bamar-dominated regime.
21st Annual Kachin Christian Family Camp Attendee: Generation Gap Grows Wider As Young Kachin American Growing Up
Burmese Army Seized KIA's Mai Sak Post, 3 Civilians Injured In Mortar Attacks
Sai Wansai
Maj. Kareng Gam (BGM): Burma Rifles and Kachin Levies Warrior
Chinese military jets flying over the border
KIA's 8th Brigade troops ambush SAC troops
SAC's 142nd LIB troops fire mortars
KIA/PDF forces clash with SAC's 77th LIB troops
February 24, 2022 Lahpai Nang Kai
Reimagining the Electoral Path for Kachin State
January 13, 2021 Lahpai Seng Raw
Kachin-Americans rally outside White House to end persecution in Kachin state
May 12, 2018 Tsa Doi La
Copyright © 2023 by Kachinland News. Theme: DW Focus by DesignWall.


text:
Creative Economy
Three reasons why we need to increase African girls' participation in the sciences
Three reasons why we need to increase African girls' participation in the sciences Technology is a development priority - Increasingly girls' educa...
10 things we learnt from Africa Writes 2016
Africa Writes, our sister festival has come and gone but we still have the experience ringing in our heads. We at WOA have compiled a list of everything we lear...
Profile: Bahati Books: we want to widen access to contemporary African writing
The American academic and literary critic Charles Larson once wrote that 'those who say nothing has come out of Africa have not read the continent's writers'. T...
Review: Eddy Kamuanga's 'Mangbetu' at October Gallery – 'an emerging giant in African art'
For one short month, the October Gallery has become a site of radiantly unabashed colour amidst the definitive grey of the London cityscape with its hosting of...
Review: Waaka the Musical, Shaw Theatre, London
Waaka the musical, which is showing for the next five days in London, has already done well in Nigeria, where its rags to glory, to glory to rags and glory stor...
How African Animations are helping children in Kenya learn about their continent
The animation industry in Kenya and Africa at large is growing fast. Though it may take a while to catch up to the likes of Disney, Dreamworks and Pixar, people...
What's Trending? #010
The 10th edition of What's Trending? promises to be give you an exciting mix of the latest news across the continent and beyond. Jungle book characters b...
4 Days left to Support an African cartoon show for Brazil's Kids
The makers of Bino and Fino want to help tackle Brazil's problems with representing the diversity of the country's population; outside of Africa, Brazil has t...
Nigerian Publishing House Cassava Republic Comes To The UK This April
African Literature in London could be described as having had a snow ball effect, especially during the past few years as events, festivals and platforms dedica...
Progressing women's empowerment at the New African Woman Forum 2016
"When trying to resolve the issue of empowering African Women, any talk of black economic empowerment, economic diversification or industrialisation done in the...


text:
Cultural sensitivity warning
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this page contains content that may be culturally sensitive.
The State Library Website and Catalogue include images, sounds and names of deceased persons. Please also be aware that they also contain images of people which are not yet identified, and some historical images contain nudity.
Some historical materials within our website and catalogue may include language and opinions that today are considered to be inappropriate or even offensive. The State Library does not endorse this language and apologises for any distress caused.
By selecting "Show warnings", please be advised that you will continue to receive subsequent cultural sensitivity warnings before viewing materials on the State Library website that may be considered culturally sensitive. You can opt out at any time.
Continue showing warnings
Don't show warnings
Podcasts Expand Secondary Navigation Menu
Rare Stories from the West
Small towns & regional cities
Left Right Out
Left Right Out Queer Disclosure
Left Right Out exposes the challenging legacy of how LGBTQ stories have been represented by our State's cultural institutions, the State Library of Western Australia, the Western Australian Museum, and the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Left out of the archives altogether, overlooked, undescribed, or actively silenced – LGBTQ history has not been well recorded, preserved, nor exhibited by the State's cultural institutions in the past.
Today, our cultural institutions are grappling with the challenge of making this history visible in collections and exhibitions. Alec Coles, CEO of Western Australian Museum, comments on the role of WA Museum Boola Bardip and continuing consultation taking place with the wider LGBTQ community. Curators from the Art Gallery and State Library are actively addressing these gaps through collection development and public programs.
This podcast brings together interviews with prominent West Australian artists and curators, including Alan Muller and Jo Darbyshire, who discuss the importance of queer history being represented by our cultural institutions. Dax Jagoe, a young trans activist, reflects on what it means for young trans people to see their experiences represented.
In the context of the 2017 referendum for same-sex marriage, this podcast explores a critical moment in the history of LGBTQ rights and the positive steps that cultural institutions are making.
Rare Stories from the West is a State Library of Western Australia podcast series. Through these podcasts, we hope to unearth tales of Western Australia's past and present. Left Right Out: Queer Disclosure is the last of three podcasts produced by Gina Pickering. Part 1 - Walking on Water: Spirit of the Swan Coastal Plain, and Part 2 - On the Frontline: Rare Women of the West are available on SoundCloud and the State Library of Western Australia website.
Podcast created by Gina Pickering - Latitude Creative Services and commissioned by the State Library of Western Australia.
Gina Pickering: Hi, this is Gina Pickering. I've been telling stories about Western Australia since the 1980s.
Over the last 20 years, these yarns have focused on the exceptional cultural aspects of the South West / Noongar Country. In this podcast series, I'll explore three surprising stories through the voices of Aboriginal Elders, artists, curators and historians and how the State Library of Western Australia is responding to the cultural demands of change in our time.
Representation of the LGBTQI+ community in cultural institutions is hitting new highs and new hurdles.
A history of invisibility, conservatism and legislative reform has in many ways shaped queer lives in Australia in the most brutal ways.
Revealing those stories publically exposes a challenging legacy of absence within our libraries, museums and galleries.
The State Library of Western Australia is investing in the LGBTQI+ community to capture its culture and its history, highlighting old tensions and fresh new responses along the way.
Alan Muller: I remember putting a work in an open painting competition at the Fremantle Art Center in 1981. The work was called Wet Dream, and it was a painting of my male partner at the time, naked from neck to knee, pressed up against a wet sheet.
I was shocked that I won that award, because I was quite fearful of actually putting that work in that show.
And that was a real affirmation for me about the power of the arts to cross over those barriers of legislation, and actually say to the audience, we are here. This is who we are.
I'm Alan Muller. I'm a visual artist from Western Australia.
Jo Darbyshire: So museums have a lot of rules and perhaps this is one of the reasons why artists are drawn to working in them, because questioning rules is one of our strengths.
Hi, I'm Jo Darbyshire. I'm a visual artist and a social history curator living in Fremantle, Western Australia.
And in the early 2000s, I was very interested in what artists were doing in museums and how they were working as curators in museums, particularly Joseph Kosuth at the Brooklyn Museum with The Play of the Unmentionable, which he was looking at censorship and also Narelle Jubelin an Australian artist at the Museum of Sydney.
And I realized that in the strategies that they were using from the visual arts were actually incredibly vibrant and could deal with problems that we had in the representation of lesbian and gay people in Australia, in museums, which was an absence of evidence. And the way that they dealt with it was to use metaphor. So I approached the Western Australia Museum as soon as we had gay law reform, which was in February, 2002 with the idea that they have me as an artist in residence and they hesitated. But they agreed as long as I did a master's degree.
Alan Muller: It was really interesting to me that the art gallery bought a work from 1985, called Making Up, which was about a famous drag queen in Perth called Natasha. His real name was Gary Donahue. And I think the fact that that work was collected now, but it was made decades ago, perhaps indicates that gap in cultural institutions collection. But I'm thrilled that they bought that work.
Sue Broomhall: A quality of rights should mean a quality of representation, and anything less is detrimental. So, where visitors come to cultural institutions and they don't see themselves in it, it's a problem.
I'm Professor Sue Broomhall, Historian with the Australian Catholic Museum.
Everybody has a right to be represented, to feel welcome, to feel comfortable, but also to see their stories visualized, and their histories told. Representation and diversity matter for people to be able to role model what it is to have an artistic life, or to contribute to public culture, and to achieve, and to see these being recognized as achievements, with identities that they share. So, it's a fundamental part of role modeling to be able to see people like yourself in cultural institutions.
Alan Muller: But it's more for young people looking at successful artists, knowing that they're gay is about knowing that they too can succeed, that they too can be a well known artist and be who they are. It's very interesting how families have destroyed artwork, destroyed letters, destroyed drawings of family members who were artists that died, because they did not want the public to know that they were gay.
Kate Gregory: I'd love to see more queer histories being represented in the State Library collections. And I'd also love to see more research into our collections to find out and recover the possible queer histories that we actually already have within our collection.
I'm Kate Gregory, Battye Historian with the State library of Western Australia.
Every now and again, we stumble across these materials and there could be letters, there could be photographs. And we just think there's another story here. If only we had more information, if only we could get to the bottom of these stories. We're quite sure that there are queer histories, but they are hidden. They're embedded in our collections. We'd love to see them brought into the light and we'd love to work with the contemporary community to help us to do that.
Jo Darbyshire: I think when I did The Gay Museum, I tried to embed homosexual history into the very walls of the museum. I made a conscious effort to use the walls, not to import panels, and I did this because I wanted the museum to own the history, not to just import it. And I wanted to make the point that homosexual people were always here.
In many ways I think the sector in WA, which is what I can really only speak about, has tried to be a little bit more inclusive of marginalized groups. And perhaps they have been open to collect LGBTQ materials and stories. But truthfully, I think that if there's not an actual lesbian or gay curator on staff, then access to our communities is limited and the curators are so seen to be very reticent to actively collect, or even to interpret this social history.
And I'll give you an example, in 2017 I collected the high vis clothing from a woman that I knew who worked very high up in the mining industry for Andrew Forrest. And I knew the WA Museum would be pretty interested in having items like this which represented women in mining. And I made sure that they knew that the donor was a lesbian, an art lesbian and in fact, she was happy to share this information. So although the museum did acquire the objects, I heard later that unfortunately they just didn't know how to include the term lesbian under their search terms. And it's only if you ask the curator himself that you'd find out this information.
Sue Broomhall: So, there's a question of how responsive a catalogue can be to new questions and new presentations that we might want to make through the materials collected. And, what that means is that they can often act to obstruct and impede discovery of objects, and stories, and collections, because we simply can't use the cataloging tools to find them. So, I think catalogs are perhaps an understudied aspect of some of the challenges in recovering voices and new interpretations in museums. And, that actually a fundamental place we need to start to think how that tool can work for us in developing new frameworks.
Alan Muller: The biggest challenge is about visibility. I think there's the idea that because we've got gay marriage now, then we should just shut up and get on with it.
Dax Jagoe: My name is Dax Jagoe. I'm 26, I use they /them pronouns I'm a agender and pansexual. I definitely consider myself to be a visible trans person. I make sure I am visibly trans to make it more ok for other people to be so in our society and see that everyday.
In these cultural institutions I haven't experienced any sort of representation of what I consider my culture or my identity.
I understand I'm a very small aspect of the community that is becoming a more vocal part but it's no fun to know your history is not out there and the history of people like you is not being recorded well.
Jo Darbyshire: These institutions are very powerful. So for them to leave us out, it hurts. We need to complain, we need to ask for more.
When young people go to these institutions, our cultural institutions, and they don't see themselves represented, they don't see any lesbians, they don't see any young trans people, they don't see any gay people, then I think there's an internalized homophobia.
They don't know their own history and that is what is so sad about leaving it out.
Alec Coles: I suppose it goes back to the whole principle of how we developed the WA Museum Boola Bardip, which was through an extensive engagement process.
So certainly the LGBTQI+ community were involved at various stages along the way, either through individuals or indeed through groups like Gay Pride, for instance. And we had a principle that said, we wouldn't speak for people that can speak for themselves.
This is Alec Coles, CEO of the WA Museum.
I don't want to be trite about it, but if you try and drill down to every single section of the community, there are always going to be omissions. There was certainly no conscious decision to omit any community. I'm sure this is a discussion we will have and agree to have with representatives of that community. And there's every chance we'll include future stories, but I guess it's about how explicit one is about this.
Daxs Jagoe: If there was more trans representation in these cultural institutions it would definitely make a positive difference I think it would allow other people to learn about us without having to directly meet us.
It shouldn't fall to the trans people themselves to be educating people about their cultural history, it should be recorded and maintained.
Sue Broomhall: One of the challenges for presentations in cultural institutions is which identities of an individual come to the fore? A fantastically well known artist might also be gay, is that part of the representation that should take place in the museum? Did that individual feel that their sexual lived experience informed their art in a way that should be part of the public presentation? Or did they see their public achievement in that cultural space independent of their lived experience of sexuality? And, that's the kind of decisions that cultural institutions have to make, ideally with the individual concerned, if they can.
Gina Pickering: The Art Gallery of Western Australia had a public and recorded long table gathering, inviting representatives of the LGBTQI+ community to come along and discuss lived memory around issues including AIDS, the epidemic of the '80s, and making connections with COVID now.
Dunja Rmandic: This is Dunja Rmandic, Acting Curator of International Art at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
In 2019, I started conversations with Pride WA about commemorating the 30th anniversary of the March to Parliament.
And the first idea that I had was to display the work of nationally and internationally renowned artist, David McDiarmid's, and to think about how we do that within our collection displays and to tie in those conversations around those key issues, one with the institutional context but also within our collection and how to extend those stories further.
But another factor that was happening at the same time was COVID, and for me that was really important to think about because 30 years ago, we had another pandemic that the Queer community is very familiar with. And it was interesting that the stigma and the fear was replicated in the mainstream community around this global pandemic.
Dunja Rmandic:
I wanted to achieve with the long table was to invite people from the community to have a voice and to be very candid about their experiences, both as individuals and as a community and to contextualize all of these issues that I wanted to be brought out but also to do it from within an institution. So, to have them to enable them to have a platform, to talk about these things in an institutional context given that it is precisely the institutions which have been silencing the Queer community.
Gina Pickering: Participants came from every walk of life like Indigenous activist Esther Montgomery, Connections' Tim Brown and Mark Reid from the AIDS Council and Brian Greig.
Brian Greig: I remember the Guild President at the time going into LT1 Lecture Theatre 1 to give a quick announcement that there would be a meeting to establish the Murdoch Uni Gay Society and within hours he was reprimanded by the Vice Chancellor for making that political speech and advised never to do that again because it would distress students. That was 84.
Esther Montgomery: In Aboriginal Australia we are oral historians, we don't document. So what we need are people like myself and all the other elders who are alive to tell the stories, to tell the history and to document it because people have passed away, our brothers and sisters, and they were somebody and that's why we need to tell the stories – each and every one of us – and carry it in the spoken word and document it.
Mark Reid: We understood to put a human face on the epidemic allowed people to understand what living with HIV was all about. And it was a tough lesson at times because people really had such naivety and ignorance about what it was to live with HIV. And in those early days we had to live with people dying all the time.
Tim Brown: You get given a family and they are your blood and you are related to them in all these different ways. But in the end, it is your blood that gives you your kinship there. Those of us who identify as different need to find a family somewhere else and that's what we do. We've found this family ….
this is our family. This is our kinship group.
Alan Muller: I think the implications in the past have been brutal, because people grew up with huge issues to do with conflict within themselves, hating themselves. Being told that they were bad, being told that they were the work of the devil, are not the sort of messages which are going to give you a good life. So, it's been up to gay people to really claim their own ground, claim their own lives. A lot of people committed suicide. A lot of people ended up with severe mental illnesses, because the society just gave them terrible messages about who and what they were.
Dunja Rmandic: The kind of silencing that happens institutionally is really does come down to a decision, I think and that can be reversed in exactly the same way just by decision being made.
Jo Darbyshire: It's crucial that we have representations of queer community all through our cultural institutions, not only so that young people can recognize themselves and go, "Hey, that's talking to me," also so that they can learn their history.
Dunja Rmandic: We need to have queer curators, we need to have migrant curators, we need to have female curators with a lot more power because what that does is, that opens up networks for communication, collaboration, conversation, real meaningful structural networks, platforms that are genuinely open to common conversation, not on paper and not as a box ticked.
Sue Broomhall: There are some very exciting developments going on in the representation of LGBTQI+ communities in our museums. But, they are pushing back against an unspoken, often, assumption that heterosexual experience in life is the norm. And, what we have to do is open up and expose the ways in which that is fundamentally embedded in many of our cultural institutions in a number of ways. And, those ways range from the absolutely practical, about how objects are collected, how stories are told, whose voices are listened to, all the way through to how they come out on display. And, ideally, what we want is to push for curation and interpretation to be voiced and created by people who identify with the communities as much as possible.
Kate Gregory: The State Library held a wonderful small exhibition a few years ago now called In Plain Sight. And it was really speculative. We were putting up these beautiful studio portraits and photographs of couples and groups of people in the past. We had a lot of really, really positive feedback about that exhibition. I mean, the images themselves are really beautiful and there's a lot more work to be done, I think, to recover these histories.
Dunja Rmandic: The marriage equality debate time brought into extremely sharp focus, the fact that we did not have the same rights and we are not considered in the same way that other people are, that's it.
Dunja Rmandic: There was a very tangible moment for me.
I was coming into work and // this feeling took over my body, it wasn't anxiety but it was just this, something between rage and anxiety, I guess. And I walked out onto a landing and I saw a colleague of mine who had just recently adopted a child with her husband and I thought, I am not as equal as you are. You and I are not the same. I come to the same workplace, I pay the same taxes, I do the same amount of work, if not more, and you and I are not equal. And that was a real moment for me when I realized that in fact, meritocracy doesn't work when it comes to these issues and being visible is a lot more important.
Theresa Archer: In Plain Sight was an exhibition held by the State Library in 2017 and it was designed to do two things. One, highlight the absence of queer collections in the State Collections held at the State Library. And the other was to challenge people to think about the ways in which heteronormativity really influences the ways that we understand and think about history and the way that we interpret historical artifacts or photos or heritage sites.
Theresa Archer: And so it was just a really slow curatorial process and definitely not the traditional approach to curating an exhibition.Once I got onto a set of studio portraits. Just going through them manually, one at a time, until I found photos that spoke to me.
This photo is one that I really like that was featured in the exhibition. Its two women. It's taken from around 1950, I think from memory, and they're in Northampton and they're holding two rabbits. I love their aesthetic, their dress, their overalls, the ammo strapped around one of their waists, and the way their hands are clasped together on this gun. It's just this weird merger of violence, but also closeness and intimacy.
We're starting to see an increase in the number of collections that are coming in that relate to queer and gender diverse people. There's beginnings of understandings within organizations about the special ways of these collections need to be managed and handled.
Jo Darbyshire: Nothing happens now without that Aboriginal first nation feedback and voice. And that is the level at which we should be asking and getting for our gay and lesbian history as well, because you cannot expect straight people to really understand. I mean, of course we have straight allies, of course, there's lots of heterosexual people who do understand oppression, and do understand a history of fighting in civil liberties. Right. But to actually talk about this particular issue, they should have advisory groups. They should have some people helping them.
Dunja Rmandic: Every generation likes to come in and say, well, we want to do things this way. But really what's harder to do but more important to do is to take that history with you, to know the history that came before you and incorporate it into your history, to slot your issues into that history so that you're not cutting loose that history.
Skip slider
296421PD: Antinuclear demonstration in Fremantle, 1980
BA3025: Annie Goldflam, ca.1999
BA2970: Portrait of Giz Watson outside Parliament House, 21st March, 2012
381652PD: Demonstration supporting Vietnam War conscientious objectors, approximately 1970.
BA3233/4: View over the stage to the crowd at the Black Lives Matter demonstration in Forrest Place, 1 June 2020
State Library of Western Australia podcasts. Through these podcasts we hope to unearth tales of Western Australia's past and present. You can listen to our podcasts on SoundCloud, Spotify and iTunes.
On the Frontline
Rare Women of the West
Rare Stories from the West - Part 2. A podcast exploring the lives of Mary Ann Friend and Fanny Balbuk, who had very different experiences of colonisation. Their stories describe life along the Swan River.
Connections Nightclub posters
This week Dr Kate discusses a significant acquisition of the State Library – 270 posters relating to Connections Nightclub – the longest running LGBT nightclub in the Southern Hemisphere.
gina pickering
This page last updated on 6 December 2021


text:
Open House Performance – Traditional Music
Mr. Tsao will be one of the performers at Saturday's Open House. Come see this outstanding professional before he heads back to NYC!
Mr. Paul Tsao founded the CBA Culture Arts Center in 1999, in order to promote Chinese culture and facilitate Chinese-American cultural exchange. He is one of the most outstanding Chinese traditional musicians. Born to a long lineage of performers, he began learning music from his father when he was a child. He attended the Tianjin Conservatory of Music at the age of 13 and studied under prominent Er-hu masters Zhao Yan-Chen and Ji Gui-Zhen, as well as Wu Bing-Zhang and Liu Ming-Yuan.
Known as a "Master of Chinese Strings," Mr. Tsao is skilled in more than 15 traditional Chinese instruments. His unique playing style is reflected in its elegancy, subtlety, and passion. Ellen Stewart, founder of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, called him the most remarkable "king of instruments and wizard of music." Since moving to the United States in 1994, Mr. Tsao has performed in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Broadway, National Theatre, and Kennedy Hall. He has also toured and lectured across the U.S., cheered by audiences and highly regarded by arts communities wherever he performs.
« Open House – CBA Culture and Arts Center	» Open House Performance – Face Changing


text:
Home Asia Smith adds Maxwell Award to collection of postseason honors
Heisman Trophy winner DeVonta Smith of Alabama added to his collection of postseason honors Thursday night, receiving the Maxwell Award as the college football player of the year.
Smith also won the Walter Camp player of the year and the Biletnikoff Award as the nation's top receiver.
Four other Alabama players received awards during the College Football Awards Show.
Smith won the Maxwell over his teammate, quarterback Mac Jones, and Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence.
Smith became the first wide receiver to win the Maxwell since Michigan's Desmond Howard in 1991. Howard also won the Heisman that year.
The 6-foot-1, 175-pound Smith leads the nation with 105 receptions and 20 touchdown catches. The Associated Press player of the year has 1,641 yards receiving, with an FBS-high 844 coming after the catch.
Other awards handed out Thursday:
— Alabama's Jones won the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback of the Year Award. He threw 36 touchdown passes and four interceptions, completing 77% of his attempts.
— Alabama's Najee Harris, who scored an FBS-leading 24 rushing touchdowns, won the Doak Walker Award as the top running back.
— Offensive lineman Alex Leatherwood became the sixth Alabama player to win the Outland Trophy as the outstanding interior lineman.
— Landon Dickerson of Alabama won the Rimington Trophy as the top center.
— Tulsa linebacker Zaven Collins, the only player in the country with four interceptions and four sacks, won the Chuck Bednarik Award as the top defensive player.
— Free safety Trevon Moehrig, who had two interceptions and broke up nine passes, became the first TCU player to win the Jim Thorpe Award as the top defensive back.
READ Indonesia signs agreement with Sinovac for Covid-19 vaccine
— Florida's Kyle Pitts, who led all tight ends with 12 TD catches, won the John Mackey Award as the top player at his position.
— Miami's Jose Borregales won the Lou Groza Award as the top kicker. A transfer from Florida International, he was 20 of 22 on field goals.
— Pressley Harvin III of Georgia Tech won the Ray Guy Award as the top punter after averaging an ACC-record 48 yards per punt.
— Coastal Carolina's Jamey Chadwell was named Home Depot coach of the year. The Chanticleers won 11 games and were ranked as high as No. 9 in the AP Top 25.
Previous articleHow a taxi drivers' strike sparked 'the worst rioting in Hong Kong since 1967'
Next articleFormer FBI agent on Capitol riot: Do we need 'another Oklahoma City' to get the message?
Devils announce goalie Crawford taking a leave of absence
Argentina moves to restrict nighttime activities as COVID-19 surges
Friend or foe: Kim Jong Un signals that North Korea may enter a new era of foreign relations
Trudeau says Trump incited a violent assault on democracy
Second reported local COVID-19 case who tested 'preliminarily positive' for new B117 strain
Watch live: World Health Organization holds press conference on Covid pandemic
Malaysia PM Muhyiddin to announce new Covid-19 measures as deaths hit daily record
Why the delay? The nations waiting to see how Covid vaccinations unfold
South Korea court rules Japan should compensate WWII sex slaves
Woman who accused Black teen of stealing phone is arrested
Legislation to be introduced setting out serious offences for which TraceTogether data can be used for police probe
'Untrustworthy' Covid vaccines from US and UK banned by Iran
Rashford's message to Man Utd new boy Diallo after following in his footsteps
WHO warns countries are helping Covid thrive through inequitable vaccine distribution
The Victoria's Secret Semi-Annual Sale just got even better with this bonus deal


Blue Thunder is a popular, biodegradable vehicle cleaner that removes exhaust deposits, road film and bug residue. An excellent detergent for older vehicles with faded finishes, Blue Thunder helps restore all types of oxidized paint surfaces. Blue Thunder works well in cold water pressure washing and is a great choice for house washing.


Hey, what up?! I'm Mike Martinez, co-host of Mike and Tricia Mornings for over 20 years now. I am the self-proclaimed "Man of a Thousand Voice," "The Song Ruiner," and El Paso's most loved on-air personality (again, self-proclaimed). My best quality, if you ask me, is my locks of perfectly styled hair. If you ask Tricia, it's my ability to bring laughter to most situations.
Every woman wants to be with a man who's this romantic -- but probably not one this dumb.
You've no doubt noticed the El Paso days are getting longer and gradually warmer.


text:
Q: Does co-prime and irreducibility property holds on field extensions? More specific. Consider the field extension $(L:K)$ and the inclusion of rings $\iota:K[x]\mapsto L[x]$. $Let f(x),g(x)\in K[x]$. Then, I have to proof this:
a)If $gcd(f,g)=1$ in $L[X]$, then $gcd(f,g)=1$ in $K[x]$
b)If $f(x)$ is irreducible in $L[x]$, then is irreducible in $K[x]$
Now, i have some hints for both exercises:
For (a), I have to suppose the opposite, i.e. $\exists\ q(x)\in K[X]$ s.t. $gcd(f,g)=q$ with $q\neq1$ nor unit (about $q$ being not unit I'm not so sure), but I don't see clearly what does this implies and how to proceed.
For (b), the hint is to use (a) in this case: I suppose $f$ is not irreducible in $K[x]$, then $\exists\ g,h\in K[x]$ s.t. $f=g\cdot h$, and the professor told us here that $gcd(f,h)\neq 1$ (here I use (a)'s contraposition), but I'm not sure how to proceed here neither.
In both cases I'm supposed to meet a contradiction somewhere in the process.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange